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11 JULY 2018 — wednesday

12 JULY 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Bindery hosts an evening of art, design, and music in celebration of Katrina McHugh's Pop Charts: 100 Iconic Song Lyrics Visualized, live music performance by Laura Weinbach of Foxtails Brigade, The Bindery, 1727 Haight Street, San Francisco, $12 general, $42 general plus book and drink, 7:00 (www.popcharts.brownpapertickets.com/?cookie_header=1)

13 JULY 2018 — friday

14 JULY 2018 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry reading by Geoff Geiger and a 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)
  • Rumi's Caravan Returns to Oakland to inspire through the beauty of spoken word, presenters create an improvised poetic conversation by weaving together poem by Rumi, Hafez, Machado, Rilke, Yeats, and others from cultural and spiritual traditions across the world, with musical accompaniment, featuring a Sufi dancer, Chelsea Rose, recitations by Doug Von Koss, Larry Robinson, Barry Spector, Maya Spector, Kay Christa, Carol Fitzgerald, Carol Bowers Foote, with musical performances by Christine Tulis, and Suellen Prismost, Oakland Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, Oakland, $15 online, $30 door, a benefit for the Middle East Children Alliance, 7:00 (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3371248?cookie_header=1)

15 JULY 2018 — sunday

16 JULY 2018 — monday

17 JULY 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present "Tuesdays at North Beach," a weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent, hosted by Friends' Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman, this week features Alejandro Murguía and Brenda Quintanilla, North Beach Public Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:30-8:00 (Byron Spooner, 415/626-7500, sfpl.org)

18 JULY 2018 — wednesday

19 JULY 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Seattle poets Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton, from their new book, The Last Mosaic, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, (www.moesbooks.com)
    NORTH:
  • Marlene Cullen's Writer's Forum presents "Heading Down the Research Rabbit Hole: Layering Fiction and Non-Fiction Without Losing the Plot," with British American freelance journalist Frances Rivetti, Fog Valley Crush, who shares her tips and tools for managing research, scene setting, and how to avoid online procrastination, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street, Petaluma, free, 6:30-8:30 (www.thewritespot.us/forum.php)

20 JULY 2018 — friday

21 JULY 2018 — saturday

22 JULY 2018 — sunday

23 JULY 2018 — monday

24 JULY 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present "Tuesdays at North Beach," a weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent, hosted by Friends' Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman, this week features Toshi Washizu and Sharon Doubiago, North Beach Public Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:30-8:00 (Byron Spooner, 415/626-7500, sfpl.org)

25 JULY 2018 — wednesday

26 JULY 2018 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by translator and poet William O'Daly, from Book of Twilight his new book of Neruda translations, just nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Translation, and Peter Weltner, The Return of What's Been Lost, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

27 JULY 2018 — friday

28 JULY 2018 — saturday

29 JULY 2018 — sunday

30 JULY 2018 — monday

31 JULY 2018 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present "Tuesdays at North Beach," a weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent, hosted by Friends' Poet-in-Residence Jack Hirschman, this week features Robert Anbian and Michael Koch, North Beach Public Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 6:30-8:00 (Byron Spooner, 415/626-7500, sfpl.org)

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