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24 APRIL 2017 — monday
EAST:- A National Poetry Month reading of Ekphrasis poetry inspired by visual art, featuring April Ossmann and Camille Norton, open mic, hosted by Tim Kahl, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
25 APRIL 2017 — tuesday
CENTRAL:- Oakland Noir, a new California noir quotient, crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books, celebrates their latest addition to the anthology with a reading of new stories by poet and fiction writer Kim Addonizio, Nick Petrulakis, Jamie DeWolf, and Joe Loya,moderated by and much more, moderated by noir novelist Eddie Muller, The Distance, and violinist, playwright, and poet Jerry Thompson, co-author of Black Artists in Oakland, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
- Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Barbara Paschke and Neeli Cherekovski, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
- Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel, In This Grave Hour, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/jacqueline-winspear-0)
SOUTH:- Poetry Santa Cruz presents The Four Laureates Reading, featuring Gary Young, Pleasure, David Swanger, Wayne College of Beauty, Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar, and Robert Sward, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2011, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3 donation, 7:30 (831/423-0900, www.bookshopsantacruz.com)
26 APRIL 2017 — wednesday
CENTRAL:- Musician and poet Damon Krukowski discusses his new book, The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
- Perfectly Queer East Bay reading series celebrates National Poetry Month with guest curator and poet Roberto F. Santiago, Angel Park, with poetry readings by Denise Benavides, Split; Robert Andrew Perez, The Field; and Shelley Wong, Rare Birds, free refreshments, door prizes for early arrival, Nomadic Press: Uptown, 2301 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, online tickets, 7:15 (347/844-0481, tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-national-poetry-month-tickets-33593402772?aff=erelexpmlt, www.nomadicpress.org/oaklandevents)
27 APRIL 2017 — thursday
CENTRAL:- David Shapiro reads from and celebrates his new poetry collection, In Memory of an Angel, packed with art history, architecture, literature, and Jewish identity themes, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
- Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Deema K. Shehabi, author of an email collaboration, DIASPOR/RENGA, with the poet Marilyn Hacker, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Walter & Salt, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
- The SFSU Poetry Center presents the Poetry Center Book Award Reading, poet Orlando White, LETTERRS, receiving the Poetry Center Book Award, award judge and poet Patrick James Dunagan, THE DUNCAN ERA: One Reader's Cosmology, also appears, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu)
28 APRIL 2017 — friday
29 APRIL 2017 — saturday
CENTRAL:- SF Swagslam open mic and poetry slam every last Saturday of the month, all ages welcome, Two Jacks Nik's Place, 401 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, event runs 5:00-8:00, sign up at 5:30, show 6:00 (415/431-6290, www.twojacksniksplace.com)
SOUTH:- Coastside Poetry presents Poetry at Florey's for the sixth anniversary of this wonderful series, featuring a reading by poet Lisa Rizzo, Always a Blue House, and host and poet Sherri Rose-Walker, open mic follows, Florey's Book Company, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, free, 7:30 (650/355-8811, floreysbooks.blogspot.com)
EAST:- Sacramento Poetry Center Writers' Conference 2017, featuring Indigo Moor, Poet Laureate of Sacramento; and poets Iris Dunkle, Kathleen Winter, Marsha de la O, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Paul Hoover, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, $40/$30 members, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org)
30 APRIL 2017 — sunday
CENTRAL:- Two Jacks Denim presents "In the Tradition of the Two Jacks: Kerouac & London: Guts, Grit & Glory Poetry Night" featuring readings by Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellows Edgar Kunz, Kai Carlson-Wee, RAIL, co-director of poetry film Riding the Highline, and Grady Chambers, his work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Two Jacks Denim, 2355 Broadway Avenue, Oakland, free, 5:00 (510/788-5832, www.facebook.com/events/1413463852030344)
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