Celebration of the Life of David Meltzer

10 APRIL 2017 — monday

Bird & Beckett Books & Records presents, "Celebration of the Life of Poet David Meltzer," featuring poetry readings by Micah Ballard, Waifs and Strays; Garrett Caples, Power Ballads; experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge, This Time We Are Both; Diane di Prima, The Poetry Deal; Patrick James Dunagan, There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn't Talk: A GUSTONBOOK; Marina Lazzara; Duncan McNaughton, Tiny Windows; Julie Rogers, Street Warp; Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Universal Fall Precautions; and fiction writer Suzanne Kleid, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, Glen Park neighborhood, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:30 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)