Calendar Northern California

Updated March 15, 2010

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1 MARCH 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Featured poetry reading by Jeanne Lupton and Jose Luis Guiterrez, open mic follows, hosted by Kit Kennedy, Gallery Café, 1200 Mason, at Washington, SF, sign up for open 6:30, reading 7:00 sharp (415/296-9932, www.authorsden.com/kitkennedy)
• Poetry Express presents Richard Loranger, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (poetryexpress @ gmail.com)
• Berkeley Arts & Letters presents a philosophical conversation by Mark Vernon, Plato’s Podcasts: The Ancients’ Guide to Modern Living, and Astra Taylor, Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $15/$12 advance, Hillside members half price, 7:30 (800-838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com)
NORTH:
• UUCSR Writers meeting with work-in-progress presentations and feedback, open to all levels and genres of writing, membership at UUCSR not required, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, 4:00-6:00 (707/568-5381, uucsrwriters.blogspot.com)

2 MARCH 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Poet Sharon Doubiago reads from her memoir, My Father’s Love: Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, SF, 7:30 (415/931-3633)
• A slide presentation and talk by Annice Jacoby, editor of Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, on women artists in the Mission District, David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, at Oxford, Berkeley, $5, noon-12:45 (rsvp: http://olli.berkeley.edu/lecture-series/2009-10/mission-muralismo.html)
SOUTH:
• Poetry First! Open mic with featured readers, Art Object Gallery, 591 North 5th Street, San Jose, free, 7:30 (www.pcsj.org)

3 MARCH 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Tony Dushane reads from his debut novel Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• Lone Mountain Readings, MFA in Writing Program presents poet Jacqueline Lyons, The Way They Say Yes Here, Xavier Room, Fromm Hall, corner of Golden Gate Avenue and Parker Avenue, University of San Francisco main campus, 2130 Fulton Street, SF, free, 7:30 (415/422-6066)
• City Arts & Lectures presents senior analyst for CNN Worldwide and author Jeffrey Toobin in conversation with Christopher Edley, Jr., Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, SF, $20, 8:00 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
• Poetry Center presents a series of programs on The Poetics of Healing, with special guest philosopher and author Alphonso Lingis, curated by Eleni Stecopoulos, venues and times to be announced, SF, see website for details (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
• Ralph Metzner reads from Birth of a Psychedelic Culture, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
• Getting Published support group meeting features poet and memoirist Janelle Moon discussing her eleven books, publishing, foreign rights, and agents, hosted by Clive Matson, 472 44th Street, Oakland, free, 7:00 (www.matsonpoet.com)
EAST:
• The Not Yet Dead Poets Society presents a poetry reading by historian/poet Peter Neil Carroll, Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem, The Main Gallery, 1018 Main Street, Redwood City, 7:00 (650/701-1018)
• Bistro 33 Poetry Night presents John Boe, open mic follows, hosted by Andy Jones and produced by Brad Henderson, Bistro 33, 226 F Street, at Third, Davis, free, new time 8:00 (530/756-4556, aojones –at- ucdavis.edu)
• Swan Scythe Press tenth anniversary celebration, a reading by founding editor and poet Sandra McPherson and managing editor, poet James DenBoer, plus readings by other Swan Scythe poets, music, refreshments, Central Library, Sacramento Room, 828 I Street, Sacramento, after 6:00, street parking is free, event 6:00-7:30 (916/264-2700)

4 MARCH 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Center presents a series of programs on The Poetics of Healing, with special guest philosopher and author Alphonso Lingis, curated by Eleni Stecopoulos, venues and times to be announced, SF, see website for details (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
• Lunch Poems presents Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, Native Guard, in a special off site location, The Alphonse Berber Gallery, 2546 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, free, 12:10-12:50
• Berkeley Institute of the Environment presents Black Nature: A Symposium on the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African American Poets, edited by Camille T. Dungy, with a poetry reading by Ed Roberson, Natasha Trethewey, Al Young, hosted by Camille Dungy, The Alphonse Berber Gallery, 2546 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, 7:00 (http://bie.berkeley.edu/blacknature)
• Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein present their book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
• Poetry reading by Rose Black, Winter Light, Richard Silberg, Deconstruction of the Blues, and Mark Taksa, Temple Sinai, 28th Street at Webster, one block west of Broadway, two blocks east of Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:30 (Phil Rubin, 510/547-8080, www.oaklandsinai.org)

5 MARCH 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Book Swap, special author guest hosts, bring a book you loved but can part with, you must be twenty-one, food and wine, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, SF, $20-$25, 6:30-9:30 (415/863-8688, tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com)
• Poetry & Pizza presents a reading by Eliot Schain, Westering Angels, and Luke Warm Water, Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets, benefits the California Indian Storytellers Association, Escape from New York Pizza, 333 Bush Street, at Montgomery, SF, $10 donation, less for students and seniors, pizza is all-you-can-eat, 7:30 (popizza.white.prohosting.com)
• Poetry Center presents a series of programs on The Poetics of Healing, with special guest philosopher and author Alphonso Lingis, curated by Eleni Stecopoulos, venues and times to be announced, SF, see website for details (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
• Berkeley Institute of the Environment presents Black Nature Symposium on the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African American Poets, edited by Camille T. Dungy, with hosts C.S. Giscombe, Robert Hass, and Camille Dungy, panelists discussing the anthology are Carolyn Finney, Harryette Mullen, Ed Roberson, Carl Phillips, Evie Shockley, Al Young, reception follows, The Lipman Room, Eighth Floor, Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley, panel 2:00-4:30 (http://bie.berkeley.edu/blacknature)
• Black Nature Symposium on the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African American Poets, edited by Camille T. Dungy, presents an evening poetry reading by Harryette Mullen, Evie Shockley, Carl Phillips, hosted by C.S. Giscombe, The Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Third Floor 315, University of California, Berkeley, 7:00 (http://bie.berkeley.edu/blacknature)
• Studio One Reading Series presents Lily Brown and Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Studio One, 365 45th Street, MacArthur BART, Oakland, donation, 7:30 (workingforthecity.blogspot.com)

6 MARCH 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Babylon Salon reading features poet and prose writer Michelle Tea and others, Cantina SF, basement level, 580 Sutter Street, SF, free admission, cash bar, 7:00 (415/398-0195, www.cantinasf.com, www.babylonsalon.com)
• Small Press Traffic presents an evening with poet Harryette Mullen on bodies, Timken Hall, California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, $8-$15, 7:30 (www.sptraffic.org)
• Poetry Center presents a series of programs on The Poetics of Healing, with special guest philosopher and author Alphonso Lingis, curated by Eleni Stecopoulos, venues and times to be announced, SF, see website for details (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry)
• THIS PREVIOUSLY LISTED EVENT IS NOW BEING HELD FOR TWO DAYS ONLY, MARCH 4 & 5: Berkeley Institute of the Environment presents Black Nature: A Symposium on the First Anthology of Nature Writing by African-American Poets, edited by Camille T. Dungy, March 4-6, Maude Fife Room, University of California, Berkeley (http://bie.berkeley.edu/blacknature)
SOUTH:
• WOW! Women On Writing presents Voices Now: A Morning of Readings and Refreshment, features award-winning authors, fiction writer Dorothy Bryant and poet/playwright Genny Lim, open reading follows, Student and Community Center, Building 6, Rooms 6202-6204, Skyline College, 3300 College Drive, San Bruno, free, 9:00 a.m.-noon (650/738-4100, www.skylinecollege.edu)
• In Celebration of the Muse 28th annual reading of poetry, short fiction, and short nonfiction by twenty Santa Cruz County women writers, Angie Boissevain, Joan Zimmerman, Lisa Allen Ortiz, Rosie King, Jo-Ann Birch, Farnaz Fatemi, Maggie Paul, Hermie Medley, Julie Murphy, Adela Najarro, Ellen Treen, Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméris, Kate Aver Avraham, Alta Ifland, Killarney Clary, Susan Freeman, Micah Perks, Barbara Bloom, Julia Alter-Canvin, presented by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and Dena Taylor, a benefit for Poetry Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Crocker Theater, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, $16 advance/$18 door/$8 Cabrillo College student activity card, credit cards not accepted at the door, cash and checks only, 7:30 (box office: 831/479-6331, www.poetrysantacruz.org, www.cabrillostage.com/directions.html)

7 MARCH 2010---sunday:
EAST:
• Readings at Ravenswood presents poetry by Forrest Hamer and devorah major, open mic follows, refreshments available, hosted by Livermore Poet Laureate Cher Wollard, Ravenswood Historic Site, 2657 Arroyo Road, Livermore, $5/students with ID free, 2:00-4:00 (925/824-4824, cherw @ livermorelit.com, www.livermorelit.com)

8 MARCH 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Express presents Andrena Zawinski, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (poetryexpress -at- gmail.com)
SOUTH:
• Second Monday of the Month poetry reading features contributors to The Call: An Anthology of Women’s Writing, published by Calder Lowe, with Cynthia Benson, Carolyn Dille, Jean Emerson, Blanca Espinosa, B.L.P. Simmons, and Mary Lou Taylor, open mic follows, Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota, San Jose, 7:00 (408/808-3045, 408/266-1361)
EAST:
• Poetry reading by Jim Powell, Substrate, and Heidy Steidlmayer, open mic follows, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/979-9706, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org)

9 MARCH 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Lit & Lunch presents Alison Anderson on JMG Le Clézio and Muriel Barbery, “The Translator as Overachiever: A Nobel Winner and a Runaway Bestseller,” bring your lunch, 111 Minna Gallery, Minna Street at 2nd Street, near Montgomery BART, SF, free, 12:30-1:30 (catranslation.org)
• Poetry reading in honor of International Women’s Day, with poets Pricilla Lee, devorah major, Janice Mirikitani, Nina Serrano, and Michelle Tea, hosted by San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, at Grove, SF, free, 6:00-8:00 (415/557-4595)
• Poet Sharon Doubiago reads from My Father’s Love, Portrait of the Poet as a Young Girl, her memoir, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• Second Tuesday Poetry presents a featured reading and book party for Aífe Murray, discussing her new book, Maid as Muse: How Servants Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life & Language, open mic for poetry follows, poems influenced by Emily Dickinson or with an Irish theme in honor of the poet’s Irish maid are especially welcome, hosted by Catherine Taylor, The Albany Library, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720)
SOUTH:
• Center for Literary Arts presents novelist Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio, Mt. Pleasant High School, San Jose, free, 3:00 (408/924-4600, www.litart.org)
• Center for Literary Arts presents a reading and book signing by novelist Daniel Alarcon, Lost City Radio, Martin Luther King Jr. Library, Room 225-229, 150 E. San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 7:00 (408/924-4600, www.litart.org)
• Poetry Santa Cruz presents a poetry reading by Cecilia Woloch and Jeff Tagami, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3, 7:30 (831/423-0900, www.poetrysantacruz.org)
• Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium Reading Series presents featured poets, East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington Street, Monterey, $5, 7:00

11 MARCH 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Narrative Magazine presents an evening with award-winning fiction writers James Salter and Ann Beattie, and introducing Narrative30Below author Anthony Marra, evening begins with a Patron’s Dinner and Cocktails, at a private home on Telegraph Hill, SF, $300 (includes readings also), 5:30-7:30, followed by a reading, wine and dessert, Golden Gate Room, Building A, Fort Mason Center, SF, $45 reading only, 8:00 (rsvp: 917/597-0557, www.narrativemagazine.com/night)
• Poetry Rocks The Randall with Dan Richman, Jennifer Futernick, Cesar Love, Jennifer Barone, Daniel Heffez, saxaphone, and Leo Suarez, cello, with emcee Stephen Kopel, Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, SF, free, 7:00 (415/554-9600)
• City Arts & Lectures presents Dave Eggers, discussing Zeitoun, his nonfiction book on the aftermath of Katrina, with Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, SF, $20, 8:00 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Nin Andrews, Southern Comfort, and Sally Ashton, Some Odd Afternoon and Her Name is Juanita, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
• Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Sam Keen, In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred, on the state of religion, FCCB/First Congregational Church, Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley, $15/$12 advance, 7:30 (800-838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com)
SOUTH:
• Reading by poet Cecilia Woloch, Carpathia, and novelist Kate Evans, Complementary Colors, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Second Floor Meeting Rooms, San Jose State University, San Jose, free, 4:00 (kate.evans @ sjsu.edu)

12 MARCH 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Small Press Traffic, the SFSU Poetry Center, Kino21, and ATA present a screening and discussion of Immortal Cupboard: in Search of Lorine Niedecker, with filmmaker Cathy Cook, and a lecture on ecopoetics by poet Jonathan Skinner, “Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape,” Artist’s Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, SF, $8-$15, 7:30 (www.sfsu.edu/~poetry, www.sptraffic.org)
• Last Word presents a poetry reading by Judy Wells and Kit Kennedy, plus open mic, co-hosted by Dale Jensen, Diana Q., good food, Nefeli Caffe, 1854 Euclid Avenue, near Hearst, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (510/841-6374)
• Poetry Saloon, bring your poems to share, with Clive Matson, 472 44th Street, Oakland, free, potluck 6:00, reading 7:30, dancing 10:00 (www.matsonpoet.com)

13 MARCH 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Small Press Traffic presents an evening with Ronaldo Wilson on bodies, a reading and discussion of The Visible Black Body: An Interventionist’s Reflection, Timken Hall, California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, $8-$15, 7:30 (www.sptraffic.org)
• Writers with Drinks presents writers Jerry Stahl, Permanent Midnight, Dylan Landis, Normal People Don’t Live Like This, Michael Shea, The Extra, hostess Charlie Jane Anders, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, between Mission and Valencia, SF, $5-$10 sliding scale, 7:30-9:30 (www.writerswithdrinks.com)
• Poetry & Prose reading by Julia Vinograd and Avotcja Jiltonilro, open mic follows with host Jeanne Lupton, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 7:00 (510/523-6957, www.frankbettecenter.org)

14 MARCH 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical presents A Celebration of Women & The Word, with Mamacoatl, Genny Lim, Ekua Omosupe, Leslie Simon, Arlene Biala, Kaylah Marin, Sandra Garcia Rivera, and Phavia Kujichagulia, hosted by Avotcja, Rebecca’s Books, 3268 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-6:30 (510/852-4768, www.avotcja.com)
• Valona Deli presents “second Sunday” reading by poets and translators Tony Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, open mic follows with host Connie Post, Terry Henry Trio plays jazz after the poetry, Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona, Crockett, 4:00-6:00 (510/787-2022)

15 MARCH 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Benefit Reading for the International Poetry Library of San Francisco, by Marc Pinate, Matthew Zapruder, and Camille Dungy, raffle between readings, forty percent of all wine and beer sales go to the library, Bin 38 Wine Bar, 3232 Scott Street, SF, admission $10/$5 with a book of poetry, 7:00 (408/480-1828, www.iplsf.org)
• Poetry Express presents Donna M. Lane, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (poetryexpress @ gmail.com)

16 MARCH 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• An evening with Dennis Cooper, Mark Gluth, and James Greer, celebrating Little House On The Bowery Series, a fiction book series, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried, on the twentieth anniversary of his Vietnam War novel’s publication, FCCB/First Congregational Church, Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley, $15/$12 advance, 7:30 (800-838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com)
• Contemporary Writers Series presents novelist Vendela Vida, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, 5:30-7:00 (www.mills.edu)

17 MARCH 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• City Arts & Lectures presents Archbishop Desmond Tutu and The Rev. Mpho Tutu, Made for Goodness, Davies Symphony Hall, Van Ness Avenue, SF, $20/$30, 8:00 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)
• A reading by poet, photographer, filmmaker Brandon Downing, Lake Antiquity: Poems 1996-2008, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com, www.brandondowning.org)
NORTH:
• Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333 presents a reading by Neeli Cherkovski, From the Canyon Outward, and poet, painter, and translator Agneta Falk, Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7:00-10:00 (415/331-8272, poetnews @ sonic.net, www.studio333.info)

18 MARCH 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Rocks The Randall with Marvin R. Hiemstra, Jennifer Hasegawa, Kit Kennedy and Al Averbach, klipschutz and Ian “Bone” Cootes, guitar, with emcee Stephen Kopel, Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, SF, free, 7:00 (415/554-9600)
• New Lit Gen: Read It, Write It, Teach It, Small Press Distribution and City Lights celebrate Small Press Month, Laura Moriarty hosts The Poetry Trading Post, trade a poem or story for a free book, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• Poetry Flash presents a Canarium Books event, with poetry readings by John Beer, The Wasteland and Other Poems; Paul Killibrew, Flowers; and Ish Klein, UNION! (see book review, Mostly Books, this Web site), Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Michelle Bitting, Good Friday Kiss, and Jay Leeming, Dynamite on a China Plate, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael, 7:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
• Writers Forum presents a workshop and talk with novelist Jean Heglund, author of Into the Forest, Petaluma Community Center, 320 North McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, $15 at the door, 7:00-9:00 (www.thewritespot.us)
• Third Thursday Poetry Reading, featured reader and open mic, CityART Gallery, 284 Main Street, Point Arena, Mendocino County, free, 7:30 (707/882-3616, (707) 882-3114)

19 MARCH 2010---friday:
NORTH:
• Mendocino Coast Poets Reading Series presents David Smith-Ferri, open reading, Mendocino Hotel Conference and Media Building, in the garden behind the Hotel, 45080 Main Street, Mendocino, 7:00 (dbaker @ mcn.org)
SOUTH:
• Wired Poets Open Reading, refreshments available, Mill Gallery, 131 Front Street, Santa Cruz, 7:00-9:00

20 MARCH 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• Small Press Traffic presents poet and writer of performance scores Bruce Andrews and poet and inter-genre writer Leslie Scalapino on bodies, Timken Hall, California College of Arts, 1111 8th Street, SF, $8-$15, 7:30 (www.sptraffic.org)
• Live Poets’ Gathering, drop-in workshop to nurture your own poetry, children ten and older welcome with an adult, with published poet Sally Love Saunders, refreshments, Cultural Integration Fellowship, 2650 Fulton Avenue, at 3rd, SF, free, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 (www.snowcrest.net/spindler/sallylovesaunders)
• 84th Annual Poets’ Dinner/Contest presents winners of their poetry contest in a special luncheon with guest speaker, poet Connie Post, winners to be announced at this event, you may attend the event without entering the contest, but you must be present at this luncheon to win, contest deadline was January 20 (see Calls for Submissions for details); guest speaker is poet Connie Post, no host cocktails, Francesco’s, Airport Room, 8520 Pardee Drive, Oakland, $28 advance/$29 at door as available, 11:30 a.m.-4:00 (for a luncheon ticket, fish, chicken, or eggplant, mail $28 check payable to Poets’ Dinner to: Richard Angilly, 1515 Poplar Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805)
NORTH:
• Mendocino Coast Poets Reading Series presents David Smith-Ferri, open mic follows, Mendocino Hotel Conference and Media Building, in the garden behind the Hotel, 45080 Main Street, Mendocino, 7:00 (dbaker @ mcn.org)
EAST:
• Underground Books Poetry Series presents featured readers plus open mic with host Terry Moore, Underground Books, 2814 35th Street, next to Guild Theater, Sacramento, $3, 7:00 (916/737-3333)

21 MARCH 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Soul-Making Literary Competition Annual Awards Reading, presents prizes in Young Adult Poetry, Young Adult Prose, Flash Fiction, Prose Poem, Memoir, Poetry, Short Story, Novel Excerpt, Intercultural Essay, Humor, Literary Nonfiction, Environmental Futures Writing, hosted by Eileen Malone, National League of American Pen Women, event will be taped as a special to be shown on Access San Francisco Channel 29, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin, at Grove, SF, free, reception follows, reading 1:00 (www.SoulMakingContest.us)
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Janet Holmes, The ms of m y kin (sic), editor of Ahsahta Press, with James Laughlin Award and Northern California Book Award-winner Rusty Morrison, the true keeps calm biding its story, co-publisher of Omnidawn, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
NORTH:
• Healdsburg Literary Guild’s Third Sunday Salon presents featured reader, open mic precedes the feature, Healdsburg City Hall, 401 Grove Street, Healdsburg, sign up 1:30, reading 2:00-4:00 (healdsburgliteraryguild @ gmail.com)
SOUTH:
• Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader Lisa Allen Ortiz, Santa Cruz Main Library, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, free, 2:00 (831/464-8983, www.poetrysantacruz.org)

22 MARCH 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Express presents Debra Grace Khattab, plus open reading, mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (poetryexpress @ gmail.com)

23 MARCH 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Co-author Damian Platt discusses Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• City Lights Books presents a wine and cheese reception for Sam Lipsyte’s new novel, The Ask, Tosca Café, 242 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:30 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

24 MARCH 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Bay Area Writing Project presents Writing Teachers Write, featured readers and open reading, one drink minimum, Nomad Café, 6500 Shattuck, at 65th Street, Oakland, 5:00-6:30 (Judy Bebelaar, 510/845-5430, jbebelaar @ pacbell.net)
• Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Harry Kreisler, Political Awakenings: Conversations with History, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $15/$12 advance, Hillside members half price, 7:30 (800-838-3006, www.brownpapertickets.com)

25 MARCH 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Peter Nathaniel Malae reads from his debut novel, What We Are, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
• Poetry Flash presents Los Angeles poet Laurel Ann Bogen, Washing the Language, and Susan Kelly-DeWitt, The Fortunate Islands, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Writers Read presents poet Lydia Rand, open mic follows, refreshments, Art Center Ukiah, 201 S. State Street, corner of Church and State, Ukiah, donation, 7:00 (707/463-6989, www.artcenterukiah.org, www.coloredhorse.com)

26 MARCH 2010---friday:
NORTH:
• Mendocino Coast Writers Conference presents SOUNDINGS, lecture and reading on creating atmosphere in writing, with novelist Molly Dwyer, Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, Fort Bragg Library Community Room, 499 Laurel Street, Fort Bragg, free, 7:00 (707/964-2020, www.fortbragglibrary.org, www.mcwc.org/Soundings.html, www.mollydwyer.com)
EAST:
• Anthology reading featuring contributors to The Call: An Anthology of Women’s Writing, with Calder Lowe, Parthenia M. Hicks, Kathie Isaac-Luke, Lara Gularte, and Anne Gelhaus, book signing and Q&A follow, Tamarack Hall, Library, Columbia College, 11600 Columbia College Drive, Sonora, 4:30-6:00 (209/588-5179, greeneb @ yosemite.edu)

27 MARCH 2010---saturday:
NORTH:
• Mendocino Coast Writers Conference workshop, “Story Stalking: Synchronicity,” with novelist Molly Dwyer, Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein, Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens Meeting Room, Mendocino, limited to fifteen, $30, 10:00 a.m.-noon (to register: leave a message at 707/937-9983, e-mail director @ mcwc.org)

28 MARCH 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical features poet/dramatist Milta Ortiz and Frank Williams, “The Chairman of Poetry,” open mic, hosted by Avotcja, Rebecca’s Books, 3268 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-5:30 (510/852-4768, www.avotcja.com)
• Hear Me Out! Reading by student poets from the Writer Coach Connection poetry workshop program in the Albany schools, this is a celebratory fund raising event, guests will be invited to make a donation, refreshments, Thousand Oaks Baptist Church, 1821 Catalina Avenue, Berkeley, free, 4:00-6:00 (www.writercoachconnection.org)
• Muchas Voices/Una Vision, Many Voices/One Vision, a poetry reading by more than thirty Bay Area poets to benefit the Haiti relief efforts of Doctors Without Borders/Médicins Sans Frontieres, with special guest reader San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima, Roberto Vargas gives a poetic invocation either in person or video, co-hosts: Nina Serrano and Francisco X. Alarcón, La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $10, no one turned away for lack of funds, 7:00-9:30 (510/849-2568, www.lapena.org)
EAST:
• Ina Coolbrith Circle meeting, speaker, open poetry reading, and social hour, Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Drive, Lafayette, 2:00 (www.coolpoetry.org)

29 MARCH 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry Express presents theme open reading night, “goddesses and queens,” mention the event for ten-percent meal discount, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00 (poetryexpress @ gmail.com)
EAST:
• Benefit for Autism Poetry Reading features poets Rebecca Foust, Dark Card, Julie Bruck, The End of Travel, and Geoff Neill, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/979-9706, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org)

30 MARCH 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Contemporary Writers Series presents the Chana Bloch Reading of Writers in Translation, with poet translator, critic Ammiel Alcalay, translator of Sarajevo Blues by the Bosnia poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic and Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing by Shimon Ballas, among other works, Mills Hall Living Room, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, 5:30-7:00 (www.mills.edu)

31 MARCH 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• City Arts & Lectures presents Rich Cohen, Israel is Real, in conversation with Michael Krasny, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, SF, $20, 8:00 (415/392-4400, www.cityarts.net)