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1 APRIL 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Photographer and filmmaker Christopher Felver talks about his new book, Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits, featuring photos of contemporary Native American poets and writers, Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 2:00 (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1028587901)

2 APRIL 2018 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reading featuring writer-translators Lindsay Turner and Jeff Nagy, and poet Connie Scozzaro, whose book, Marnie, is forthcoming in fall 2018, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.moesbooks.com)
    SOUTH:
  • 2018 SJSU Legacy of Poetry Festival: Poetry of Migration and Disapora poetry reading and conversation with poet Javier Zamora, born in El Salvador, author of Unaccompanied, Steinbeck Center, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 4:00 (www.legacyofpoetry.com)

3 APRIL 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet and novelist Sesshu Foster reads from City of the Future, a collection of poetry and prose on gentrification, modernization, and globalization, and Max Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges: Letters Between Cervantes and the Emperor of China, A Pseudo-Fiction, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)
  • San Francisco poet Clara Hsu reads from her translation of Lao-Tzu's Tao-Te Ching, joining her is poet Greg Pond, and Guqin master David Wong, Latino Hispanic Community Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 6:00 (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1031726201)

4 APRIL 2018 — wednesday

5 APRIL 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Barbara Tomash, PRE-, and Jennifer S. Cheng, House A, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Poet and writer Henri Cole reads from his poetic portrait of Paris, Orphic Paris, combining prose poetry, diary, and memoir, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)
  • World Literature Book Club discusses poet Kenneth Patchen's anti-war novel, The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Paley Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 6:00 (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1031397301)
  • SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim presents the 2018 SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: Wordology, April 5-8, featuring poets Al Young, Arlene Biala, and Royal Kent, musician Brittany Biala with Copus Multimedia, Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, $15, 7:00 (866/920-5299, www.sfjazz.org/calendar/?month=4.2018&series=10456)
  • Townsend Walker reads from and discusses his new collection, 3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies and other stories, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)

6 APRIL 2018 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • An evening of readings, recordings, and music celebrating the life and work of British poet, writer, artist, teacher, and publisher Tom Raworth (1938-2017), featuring contributions by Bruce Ackley (soprano saxophone), Andy Berlin, Alan Bernheimer, Miles Champion, Norma Cole, Clark Coolidge, Jean Day, Steve Dickison, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Stephen Emerson, Rita degli Esposti, Merrill Gilfillan, Lyn Hejinian, Fanny Howe, Alastair Johnston, Duncan McNaughton, Jim Nisbet, Armando Pajalich, Gian Antonio Pozzi, Kit Robinson, David Southern, and Stephen Vincent, hosted by the University of California Department of English and the Poetry Project at San Francisco State University, The Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Room 315, University of California, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 7:00 (events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/townsend.html?event_ID=116314&date=2018-04-06)
  • SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim presents the 2018 SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: Wordology, April 5-8, with a reading by Genny Lim with poets Paul Flores and Tongo Eisen-Martin, featuring the jazz/hip-hop trio Broun Fellinis, Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, $15, 7:00 (866/920-5299, www.sfjazz.org/calendar/?month=4.2018&series=10456)
  • Curtis White reads from his new novel Lacking Character, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.ebbooksellers.com/events)

7 APRIL 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Three on a Match Reading Series presents short story writer Peter Cherches, Autobiography Without Words, with poet Kim Addonizio, Mortal Trash and Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life, and poet, satirist, and social activist Paul Fericano, The Hollywood Catechism, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 3:00 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
  • SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim presents the 2018 SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: Wordology, April 5-8, with poets Aya De Leon, Tony Robles, and QR Hand, featuring the jazz/hip-hop trio Broun Fellinis, Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, $15, 7:00 (www.sfjazz.org/calendar/?month=4.2018&series=10456)

8 APRIL 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Lara Gularte, Kissing the Bee and Mary Mackey, Travelers With No Ticket Home, wheelchair accessible, East Bay Booksellers (formerly Diesel), 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, ebbooksellers.com)
  • Poetry and music with Joseph Maviglia, Critics who Know Jack: Urban Myths, Media and Rock & Roll, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 2:00-4:00 (www.birdbeckett.com)
  • SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim presents the 2018 SFJAZZ Poetry Festival: Wordology, April 5-8, with a reading by Genny Lim and poet Ishmael Reed, featuring musical artists hip hop legend Equipto, percussionist Marshall Trammell, and jazz saxophonist Francis Wong, Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ Center, 201 Franklin Street, San Francisco, $15, 3:00 (www.sfjazz.org/calendar/?month=4.2018&series=10456)

9 APRIL 2018 — monday

    SOUTH:
  • 2018 SJSU Legacy of Poetry Festival: Poetry of Migration and Disapora Painted Poems Workshop with former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, Jabber-Walking, San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, $30/$15 students, five scholarships available to full-time students, 2:30 (www.legacyofpoetry.com)
  • 2018 SJSU Legacy of Poetry Festival: Poetry of Migration and Disapora poetry reading and conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera, in conversation with Alan Soldofsky, poet and SJSU Director of Creative Writing, Steinbeck Center, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rooms225/229, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 7:00-8:00 (www.legacyofpoetry.com)

10 APRIL 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • University of San Francisco's MFA reading series presents the Emerging Writers Festival with nonfiction writer Elizabeth Greenwood, Playing Dead: A Journey through the World of Death Fraud, and poet Phillip B. Williams, Thief in the Interior, Fromm Hall, Maraschi Room, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, free, 7:45-9:30 (www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing/reading-series)
  • "Speaking in Song," a conversation about translation with poet Robert Hass, Pura López Colomé, and Dan Bellm, celebrating the publication of Speaking in Song by Pura López Colomé, one of Mexico's foremost poets and translator of HD, Seamus Heaney, Robert Hass, and Breyten Breytenbach, translated from the Spanish by poet and translator Dan Bellm, 330 Wheeler Hall, University of Berkeley campus, Berkeley, free, 4:30-5:30 (www.events.berkeley.edu)
  • "Speaking in Song" poetry reading featuring Mexican poet and translator Pura López Colomé, celebrating the publication of Speaking in Song, translated from the Spanish by poet and translator Dan Bellm, who will also be reading, many of the poems have been set to music by composers from Mexico, the US, and the United Kingdom, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, University of Berkeley campus, Berkeley, free, 6:30-8:00 (www.events.berkeley.edu)
  • Maw Shein Win celebrates the release of her new collection of poetry, Invisible Gifts: Poems, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3116)

11 APRIL 2018 — wednesday

12 APRIL 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Kathleen Belew discusses the topic of her new book Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:30 (www.citylights.com)
  • Award-winning author and explorer James Michael Dorsey discusses his new travelogue, Baboons for Lunch: And Other Sordid Adventures, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)
  • Singers perform poetry in song form with live piano arrangements. Art-song arrangements featuring the work of such historic poets as James Agee, Thomas Hardy, Richard Strauss, and many more, Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 6:00 (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1030994101)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry reading and conversation with poet Peter Balakian and SJSU president Mary Papazian, Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, $20 general admission/$10 students, 7:00-8:30 (www.legacyofpoetry.com/festival)
  • Poetry reading by award-winning students, faculty, staff, and alumni of San Jose State University, as well as San Jose community poets, celebrating the poetry of migration and diaspora, lobby, Hammer Theatre Café, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose, free, 5:00 (www.legacyofpoetry.com/festival

13 APRIL 2018 — friday

    NORTH:
  • Caspar Henderson discusses his new book A New Map of Wonders: A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels, Point Reyes Books, 11315 CA-1, Point Reyes Station, free, 7:00 (www.ptreyesbooks.com/events)
    EAST:
  • Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reads from her newest work, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, on the persistence of the national gun crisis, Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street, Sacramento, 7:00, (http://timetestedbooks.blogspot.com/)

14 APRIL 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • An evening of French translations by Paris-based translator Chris Clarke, poet, translator, and visual artist Norma Cole, and Mexico City-based translator Kit Schluter, co-editor of O'clock Press, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.moesbooks.com)
  • Book release party for Mark Eisner's biography of Pablo Neruda Neruda: The Poet's Calling, featuring poet and visual artist Adrian Arias, poet Jennifer Barone, novelist Cristina Garcia, Ingrid Kei, translator William O'Daly, novelist Carolina De Robertis, and poet and editor Michael Warr, Red Poppy Art House, 2698 Folsom Street, San Francisco, 7:00-9:30 (www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3162)
  • Poetry reading by Bonnie Kwong and poet to be announced, followed by an open mic, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, 7:00 (510/523-6957, www.frankbettecenter.org)

15 APRIL 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Adventurer Wendy Hinman shares her new book, Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)
  • Catherine Kautsky discusses her recent book Debussy's Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque, on music and the history of Paris in the nineteenth century, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (www.moesbooks.com)
  • Revisiting Poetry Flash: The 45th Anniversary Celebration of Berkeley's literary review, calendar, and presenter, with Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Maxine Hong Kingston, Fred Marchant, Dean Rader, and giovanni singleton (showing images from her new visual poetry book, American Letters: Works On Paper), refreshments, Art House Gallery and Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $20-$50 sliding scale at the door, 3:00-5:30 (Poetry Flash: 510/525-5476, Art House: 510/472-3170)
  • Britt-Marie's Second Sunday Poetry Series features Kathleen Winter, Greg Mahrer, and Margaret Stawowy, hosted by Barb Reynolds, Britt-Marie's Wine Bar and Restaurant, 1369 Solano Avenue, Albany, 3:30 (brittmariesolano.com)
    NORTH:
  • 15th Annual Favorite Poem Community Reading in celebration of National Poetry Month, hosted by poet Jodi Hottel, modeled on readings initiated by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, refreshments, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, free, 2:00 (707/525-8203; Sebastopol Center for the Arts: 707/829-4797)

16 APRIL 2018 — monday

17 APRIL 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Oshman Family JCC presents an evening with Jonathan Weisman, Semitism: Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump, Oshman Family JCC, Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, free, 8:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)

18 APRIL 2018 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading with Steve Dalachinsky, Neeli Cherkovski, and Clark Coolidge, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:00 (www.birdbeckett.com)
  • Talk Story: a writing workshop with Lauren Ito, Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (oaklandoctopus.org)

19 APRIL 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • In celebration of National Poetry Month, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal presents "A Carnival of Poems," featuring poets Jennifer Barone, Cesar Love, Gail Mitchell, Gerardo Pacheco, Alice Rogoff, Maurisa Thompson, Andrena Zawinski, Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 6:00 (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1030994601)
  • Alexander Chee discusses his stunning first collection of essays, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)
  • Poetry reading featuring San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, Rabbit Stories and Smuggling Cherokee, and poet and movement worker Tongo Eisen-Martin, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, who has just been short-listed for the International Griffin Poetry Prize 2018, Library and Chess Room, Mechanics' Institute, 57 Post Street, San Francisco, $15/free to poets and readers of Poetry Flash, see web link, 6:30 (www.milibrary.org/events/san-francisco-poet-laureate-kim-shuck-poet-tongo-eisen-martin-apr-19-2018)
  • Critically-acclaimed novelist Jessica Levine reads from Nothing Forgotten, Books Inc., 1491 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)
  • Opening night for a new stage adaptation of the Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)
  • Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery To Die But Once, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 12:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center Third Thursdays series presents an Adults Only Night of Erotic Poetry, with Los Angeles photographer, editor and author Alexis Rhone Fancher, Enter Here, and acclaimed poet D.A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, Falkirk Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, free, 7:30-9:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org/events.php)
    SOUTH:
  • Third Thursday: 9th Annual Poetry Invitational, a reading by former Santa Clara County Poet Laureates Arlene Biala and David Perez, and other Bay Area poets, featuring poems inspired by art at the San Jose Museum of Art, live music presented by Content Magazine to follow, hosted by Mighty Mike McGee, current Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County, San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, $5/free to members and Content subscribers, 7:00-10:00 (sjmusart.org/event/third-thursday-9th-annual-poetry-invitational)
  • SJSU alum and poet Carmen Giménez Smith reads from her recent poetry collections, Milk and Filth (2013) and Cruel Futures (2018), conversation to follow, Steinbeck Center, Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 4:00 (www.legacyofpoetry.com/festival)
  • Christina Lauren, a.k.a. the New York Times best-selling writing duo Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, share their first novel for adults, Love and Other Words, Books Inc., 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)

20 APRIL 2018 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Critically-acclaimed novelist Tayari Jones reads from her newest, An American Marriage, Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, free, 7:00 (www.booksinc.net/events)
  • William T. Vollmann reads from and discusses his new book, No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies, East Bay Booksellers, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.ebbooksellers.com/events)
  • A new stage play adaptation of Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)

21 APRIL 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Naked Bulb Lit Open Mic, Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 6:30 (oaklandoctopus.org)
  • Two Poets Laureate, a poetry conversation with readings by San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and Berkeley Poet Laureate Rafael Jesús González, hosted by Kirk Lumpkin, Berkeley Public Library, Central Branch, Third Floor Community Meeting Room, 2090 Kittredge Street, at Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 2:00-4:00 (510/981-6100, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org)
  • A new stage play adaptation of Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)

22 APRIL 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet Jacqueline Berger reads from The Day You Miss Your Exit, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 2:00-3:30 (www.birdbeckett.com)
  • A new stage play adaptation of Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)

23 APRIL 2018 — monday

    SOUTH:
  • Poetry reading and conversation with California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia, 99 Poems: New and Selected, and California Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young, Martin Luther King Jr. Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 4:00 (www.legacyofpoetry.com/festival)

24 APRIL 2018 — tuesday

    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library collaborate to present a reading of four outstanding Copper Canyon Press poets with new collections: Dana Levin, Banana Palace, Dean Rader Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry, Melissa Stein Terrible Blooms, and Javier Zamora Unaccompanied, Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 7:00-9:00 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org/events.php)

25 APRIL 2018 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reads from Loaded: A Disarming History o the Second Amendent, on the persistence of our national gun crisis, hosted by Joanna Manqueros, St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, $15 at door/$12 advance, 7:30 (800-838-3006, https://kpfa.org/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz, brownpapertickets.com)

26 APRIL 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Yang Huang reads from her short story collection My Old Faithful, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Maw Shein Win, Invisible Gifts, and Arisa White, You're the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

27 APRIL 2018 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by Amanda Nadelberg, Songs from a Mountain, David Lau, and Emily Liebowitz, National Park, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (www.moesbooks.com)
  • In celebration of Poets in the Schools, Richmond's Three Poet Laureates introduce the winners of the Richmond Writes Competition, this year the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission challenged students to write on the subject of change, Kaleidoscope Coffee, 109 Park Place, Point Richmond, 7:00 (www.cafesociety.coffee/events)
    NORTH:
  • National Book Award-winning author Richard Powers reads from and discusses his new novel, The Overstory, called "beyond special" by environmentalist Bill McKibben, Benicia Public Library, 150 East L Street, Benicia, free and open to the public, 7:00 (707/746-4340, www.benicialibrary.org)

28 APRIL 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • The fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival is one of the West Coast's premier celebrations of writers, readers and the written world; nearly 500 authors and exhibitors-from around the world come together for the two-day event with tens of thousands of book enthusiasts in Berkeley for presentations, panels, keynotes, films, performances, participatory activities, exhibits, and a lively outdoor fair; visit local publisher exhibits including Manic D Press, Aunt Lute Books, many others; literary programs range from science fiction, history, mysteries, memoir, poetry, food writing, children's literature and more, with special tracks this year on women, Native storytelling and youth literature; literary sessions take place in venues throughout the downtown area and on outdoor stages, downtown Berkeley, events range from free to $15, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 (www.baybookfest.org)
  • Georgeanne Brennan presents Windows on Provence: Musings on the Food, Wine, and Culture of the South of France, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley; to reserve your seat, purchase a copy of Windows on Provence speak to a bookseller, 3:00 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
  • Artists' Television Access and San Francisco Public Library present a collection of short films from the 1960s including Richard O. Moore's USA Poetry: Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the program also features films by Alan Kondo and Stuart O'Brien, Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 11:00 a.m. (www.sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1031608401)
  • A new stage play adaptation of Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)
    NORTH:
  • A group reading by women poets whose work appears in editor Katherine Hastings's anthology Know Me Here: An Anthology of Poetry by Women, The Sitting Room Library, 2025 Curtis Drive, Penngrove, free, 2:00 (www.sittingroom.org)

29 APRIL 2018 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The fourth annual Bay Area Book Festival is one of the West Coast's premier celebrations of writers, readers and the written world; nearly 500 authors and exhibitors-from around the world come together for the two-day event with tens of thousands of book enthusiasts in Berkeley for presentations, panels, keynotes, films, performances, participatory activities, exhibits, and a lively outdoor fair; visit local publisher exhibits including Manic D Press, Aunt Lute Books, many others; literary programs range from science fiction, history, mysteries, memoir, poetry, food writing, children's literature and more, with special tracks this year on women, Native storytelling and youth literature; literary sessions take place in venues throughout the downtown area and on outdoor stages, downtown Berkeley, events range from free to $15, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 (www.baybookfest.org)
  • A new stage play adaptation of Persian twelfth century Sufi poet Attar's poem The Conference of the Birds, adapted and translated by poet and translator Sholeh Wolpé and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, a new translation by Sholeh Wolpé of The Conference of the Birds has just been published by Norton, Inferno Theatre, 1635 Alcatraz Avenue, Berkeley, $12, 8:00 (www.infernotheatre.org)

30 APRIL 2018 — monday


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