Calendar Northern California

Updated September 8, 2010

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1 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by Susan Browne, Zephyr, and Sharon Coleman, contributing editor of Poetry Flash, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/649-1320)
• Jack and Adelle Foley read their poetry and premiere their choral version of Jack Foley’s “On Reaching 70,” open reading follows, Borders Books, The Alameda Towne Centre, 2245 South Shore Center, Alameda, 7:00 (510/522-6442)

3 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
SOUTH:
• Waverly Writers presents an All Open Poetry Reading, Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado Avenue, near Greer, Palo Alto, 7:30-10:00 (650/424-9877)

4 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
NORTH:
• Point Reyes Books presents a reception with music by pianist Agnes Von Burkleo, and a poetry reading to benefit West Marin Review, with poets Robert Hass and Brenda Hillman, no-host bar and refreshments, Toby’s Feed Barn, one block west of Point Reyes Books, 11315 State Route 1, Point Reyes Station, $20, reception 6:30, reading 7:30 (415/663-1542, tickets at Point Reyes Books, or www.ptreyesbooks.com)

5 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Phil Cousineau presents Word Catcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 2:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)
NORTH:
• Poetry Azul Reading Series presents featured readers Armando Garcia-Davila, Toni Wilkes, Nancy Dougherty, Greg Randall, Vilma Ginzberg, and Ed Coletti accompanied by David Farrell, Ed Coletti hosts for the final time, Café Azul, 521 4th Street, Santa Rosa, free, 2:00 (707/573-5935)

6 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Featured poetry reading by Stephen Kopel and Nancy Wakeman, 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 reading by Clara Hsu and Bill Mercer, open mic follows, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 7:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by J.P. Dancing Bear and C.J. Sage, Crossroads for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)

7 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading by Zara Raab, Mahnaz Badihian, Kim Nunes, Renata Santerre, Ethel Mays, and Bruce Sams, hosted by Ethel Mays, 3300 Club, 3300 Mission Street, SF, 7:00 (415/826-6886, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)

8 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
EAST:
• Sixteen Rivers press poetry reading features Stella Beratis, Molly Fisk, Jeff Knorr, Julia B. Levine, and Jane Mead, all contributors to the new anthology The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Sacramento Room, Sacramento Public Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, free, 7:00 (415/273-1303, www.sixteenrivers.org)

9 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Antonia Juhasz discusses her book The Tyranny of Oil: The World’s Most Powerful Industry and What We Must Do To Stop It, onstage interview with Allegra Fortunata follows, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 7:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)
• Lone Mountain Readings presented by the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program features novelist and two-time Oscar-winning documentary and feature film writer-producer-director Bill Guttentag, Boulevard, a novel, and Law & Order: Crime & Punishment, Q&A follows, Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall, Golden Gate Avenue at Parker Avenue, University of San Francisco main campus, 2130 Fulton Street, SF, free, 7:45 (415/422-6066, www.usfca.edu/mfaw)
• Contributors reading and launch of the new Bay Area literary journal Lo-Ball, Issue 2, Fall 2010, hosted by co-editors D.A. Powell and T.J. DiFrancesco, readers include Rachel Loden, Matthew Siegel, Peter Kline, Camille Dungy, Kristen Tracy, Randall Mann, Luke Sykors, Kristin Hatch, Brittany Perham, and Derek Mong, wine and nibbles, Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary & Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com)
NORTH:
• Why There Are Words Literary Reading Series presents a reading on the theme of “Body Language,” with novelist Elaine Beale, Another Life Altogether, novelist Katie Crouch, Men and Dogs, memoirist Rachel Howard, The Lost Night, fiction and creative nonfiction writer Junse Kim, novelist, poet, essayist Elizabeth Rosner, and craft beer culture writer and editor K.M. Weaver, curated by Peg Alford Pursell, Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, $5, 7:00 (Studio 333 415/331-8272, whytherearewords @ gmail.com, whytherearewords.wordpress.com)
• Sufi poet and writer Tamam Kahn presents Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad, seventy poems in a prose narrative, Copperfield’s Books, 138 North Main Street, Sebastopol, 7:00 (707/829-0429, copperfieldsbooks.com)

10 SEPTEMBER 2010---friday:
CENTRAL:
• Last Word presents a poetry reading by Andrena Zawinski, Stewart Florsheim, and Diane Frank, accompanied by cellist Erik Levins, 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)
• Contributors reading and celebration for The Walrus, Mills College’s literary and art journal, edited by Hannah Carroll and MK Chavez, featuring readers Meg Day, Tomas Moniz, Sharon Coleman, Ed Nitri, Katrina Gaines, Tim Donnelly, Nicole Griffen, William Taylor, Jr., and Stephen Ratcliffe, Actual Café, 6334 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland, free, 7:00 (alittlebrownsparrow @ yahoo.com)

11 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• 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)
• Take Back Gandhi’s 9/11 Nonviolence is the 104th Anniversary of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s declaration of the Non-Violent Direct Action Doctrine of Satyagraha, South Africa, September 11, 1906; with poets, musicians, speakers, dancers, including Wavy Gravy, Diamond Dave Whitaker, Arnie Pasman, Ava Bird, Stoney Burke, Bob Meola, and India Cooke, Gandhi Statue behind the San Francisco Ferry Building, The Embarcadero, foot of Market Street, 6:00-7:30 (510/845-5481, pazmopa @ yahoo.com)
• Babylon Salon presents a featured reading, Catina SF, 580 Sutter Street, SF, free, doors open 7:00, reading 7:30 sharp (415/398-0195, www.babylonsalon.com)
• Writers with Drinks features Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn, The Wheel of Time; Bonnie Burton, StarWars.com, Girls Against Girls; Kirsten Imani Kasai, Ice Song; Shailja Patel, Migritude; hostess Charlie Jane Anders, The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, between Mission and Valencia, SF, $5-$10 sliding scale, proceeds benefit StrangeHorizons.com, 7:30-9:30 (www.writerswithdrinks.com)   
• Legendary science fiction author William Gibson discusses his new novel at a Q&A and signs Zero History, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 1:00 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
• Poetry & Prose reading by Rose Mark and Larry Beresford, open mic follows with host Jeanne Lupton, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 7:00 (510/523-6957, www.frankbettecenter.org)
NORTH:
• Book release party and reading for poet and writer Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s new novel, Dead Love, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, 4:00-6:00 (415/482-0550, reboundbookstore.com)
SOUTH:
• A New Cadence Poetry Series presents Eric Gudas, Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 7:30 (jamaugh @ cabrillo.edu)

12 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Poetry reading by A.D. Winans, Love – Zero, Art Beck, Annie Menebroker, and Bill Gainer, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 2:00-4:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Eric Gudas, Best Western and Other Poems, and Jacqueline Berger, The Gift That Arrives Broken, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 5:00 -note special time! (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
• The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical series presents poet/educator Daphne Muse and multi-media poet/musician Javier Pacheco, open mic, hosted by Avotcja, The Other Change of Hobbit, 3264 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-5:30 (510/848-0413, www.avotcja.com)
• Valona Deli presents “second Sunday” poetry reading by Molly Fisk, The More Difficult Beauty, and Gail Entrekin, 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)

13 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane di Prima and Maria Mazziotti Gillan in a poetry reading, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 7:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)

14 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Angie Chau reads from her new fiction, Quiet As They Come, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• Second Tuesday Poetry presents an anthology reading for The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, with contributors Richard Silberg, Alice Jones, Susan Kolodny, Priscilla Lee, and Eliot Schain, open mic follows, hosted by Catherine Taylor, The Albany Library, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720)
NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading by Kenneth Dickinson, Marvin R. Hiemstra, Lonner Holden, Lynda Beigel, Elizabeth Underwood, and Martin Hickel, hosted by Barbara Martin, Stinson Beach Library, 3521 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, 7:00 (415/868-0252, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
• Center Literary Café presents a reading by Sonoma County Poet Laureate Gwynn O’Gara, she also leads a writing game of “poetry poker,” bring a poem, paper, pencil, and obsessions, open mic for prose or poetry follows, light refreshments, Healdsburg Senior Center, 133 Matheson Street, Healdsburg, donation, 7:00-9:00 (707/696-1111, centerliterarycafe @ gmail.com) 
SOUTH:
• Poetry Santa Cruz presents a poetry reading by C.J. Sage, J.P. Dancing Bear, and co-reader to be announced, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3, 7:30 (831/423-0900, www.poetrysantacruz.org)

15 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Lyrics & Dirges, curated by MK Chavez, Sharon Coleman, and Tomas Moniz, features a reading by Alena Hairston, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Cyrus Armajani, Linda King, Roger Porter, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/649-1320, pegasusbookstore.com)
• Creative Writing reading series presents a reading by novelist Joshua Braff, Peep Show, Soda Activity Center, Saint Mary’s College, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga, free, 7:30 (www.stmarys-ca.edu)
NORTH:
• Sunset Poetry by the Bay at Studio 333 presents a anthology reading celebrating The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed, Gillian Conoley, Stefanie Marlis, and Zara Raab, Studio 333 Art Gallery, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito, 7:00-9:00 (415/331-8272, poetnews @ sonic.net, www.studio333.info)
SOUTH:
• Center for Literary Arts West Coast Writers Series presents a reading by fiction writer Eric Puchner, Model Home, book signing follows, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rooms 225/229, 150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 7:00 (www.litart.org)

16 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Project Censored, with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, celebrates Censored 2011, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• San Francisco Zen Center’s Expert’s Mind series presents a performance of Martin Moran’s one-person play, The Tricky Part, based on his memoir, winner of the 2005 LAMBDA Belles Lettres Award, Q&A follows, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak Street, SF, $20/$15 SFZC members/$10 students and seniors, 7:30-9:30 (www.sfzc.org)
• Poetry reading by Matthew Zapruder, the 2010-2011 Holloway Poet, Maude Fife Room, Third Floor, Wheeler Hall, University of California Berkeley campus, free, 6:30 (holloway.english.berkeley.edu)
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Alison Luterman, See How We Almost Fly, and Susan Browne, Zephyr, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Third Thursday Poetry Reading presents featured poet, open mic precedes the reading, CityART Gallery, 284 Main Street, Point Arena, Mendocino County, free, 7:30 (707/882-3616)
SOUTH:
• Third Thursday of the Month poetry reading presents Dennis Noren, open mic follows, Willow Glen Library, 1157 Minnesota Avenue, San Jose, 7:00 (408/808-3045, or 408/266-1361)
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents a Brown Bag Poetry reading hosted by Mary Zeppa and Lawrence Dinkins, bring your favorite poems, preferably by a poet other than yourself, Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento, noon (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)
• Escritores del Nuevo Sol/Writers of the New Sun present a Mexican Independence Day reading by poet and novelist Michael Luis Medrano, Born in the Cavity of Sunsets, poems, La Raza Galeria Posada, 1022-1024 22nd Street, midtown Sacramento, free/donation, 7:00 (916/451-1372)

18 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
CENTRAL:
• 17th annual Dancing Poetry Festival presents twelve poetic dance works, prize-winning poems set to music and choreographed by art dance groups and solo artists, featuring guest dancers and poets, presented by Artists Embassy International and Natica and Richard Angilly’s Poetic Dance Theater Company, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Museum Theater, SF, $15/$12 seniors/$8 youth, noon-4:00 (for reservations, e-mail: dancingpoetry @ aol.com, or call 415/681-0618, 510/235-0361; information: www.dancingpoetry.com)

19 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• Translator Laura Ruberto reads from Ma la vita e fatta cosi/Such is Life, a southern Italy immigration memoir written by her grandmother, Bird & Beckett Bookstore, 653 Chenery Street, SF, 7:00 (415/586-3733, www.bird-beckett.com)
NORTH:
• Fifteenth Petaluma Poetry Walk: 11:00 a.m.: Terry Ehret hosts a Sixteen Rivers Press poetry reading by Gwynn O’Gara, Toni Wilkes, Margaret Kaufman at Petaluma Art Center, 230 Lakeville Street, at D Street; Noon: Susan Bono hosts Eileen Malone, Mimi Albert, Kit Kennedy, Smooth Toad with G.P. Skratz, Bob Ernst and Hal Hughes at Jungle Vibes, 136 Petaluma Boulevard North; 1:00: Martin Hickel hosts Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Sharon Doubiago at Apple Box, 224 B Street; 2:00: Susan Bono hosts Amber Tamblyn, Ed Mycue, and Luke Warm Water at Apple Box; 3:00: Gerald Fleming hosts Wanda Coleman and Austin Straus at Copperfield’s Books, 140 Kentucky Street; 4:00: Delia Moon hosts a reading for Eugene Ruggles’s posthumous The Road of Bread: Collected Works, Michelle Baynes, Benjamin Ruggles, Geri Digiorno, Sharon Doubiago, Will Holst, and Carl Macki at Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street; 5:00: Bill Vartnaw hosts Doren Robbins, Pablo Rosales, Joan R. Brady at Pelican Art Gallery, 143 Petaluma Boulevard North; 6:00: Carl Macki hosts Daniel Michael McKenzie, Geoffrey Todd Lake, Vincent Carrella at Aqus, 189 H Street, at 2nd Street; 7:00: Gerald Nicosia hosts ruth weiss, Joanna McClure, Latif Harris, F.A. Nettelbeck, H.D. Moe, and La Tigresa, entire event 11:00 a.m.-8:00 (707/763-4271, www.petalumapoetrywalk.org)
• Healdsburg Literary Guild’s Third Sunday Salon presents featured writer, open mic for short works of literary intent follows, Affronti’s, 235 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg, open mic sign up 2:00, reading 2:30-4:30 (healdsburgliteraryguild @ gmail.com)
SOUTH:
• Poet/Speak Open Reading with featured reader Eleanor Carolan, Santa Cruz Main Library, 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, free, 2:00 (831/464-8983, www.poetrysantacruz.org)

20 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
CENTRAL:
• Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by Bob Hicok, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission, San Rafael, 7:30 (www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents a contributors reading for the 2010 Calaveras Station Literary Journal, Crossroads for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)

21 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Peter Lewis reads from his Babe Stern mystery, Dead in the Dregs, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• Reading by award-winning poet Bob Hicok, Words for Empty and Words for Full, BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal, SF, 7:00 (415/564-8080, www.bookshopwestportal.com)

22 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Cedar Sigo reads from his new poetry collection exploring queer identity and urban mysticism, Stranger in Town, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading by Rafaella Del Bourgo, Clive Matson, Ian Moore, Deborah Ruth, Lenore Weiss, and Kathy Evans, hosted by Alyse Rall, Frank Bette Art Center, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, 7:00 (510/523-6957, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)

23 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Idiolexicon Poetry Series presents Lee Ann Roripaugh, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year, Kaya Oakes, Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture, Cynthia Weyuker performs on postmodern musical saw, Rancho Parnassus, 132 6th Street, SF, free, 7:00 (www.idiolexicon.com)
• Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Bob Hicok, with three current and former Stegner Fellows, Matthew Siegel, Keetje Kuipers, and Sara Michas-Martin, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
SOUTH:
• Center for Literary Arts presents a reading by poet Anne Jennings Paris, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Fifth Floor, Schiro Room, 150 East San Fernando Street, San Jose, free, 7:00 (www.litart.org)
EAST:
• Contributors poetry reading for the new Sonora Writers Group anthology Second Saturday, with Blanche Abrams, Calder Lowe, Marylin Martin, and Jim Mori, refreshments, Mi Wuk Community Center & Lending Library, 24411 Sierra Park Road, Mi Wuk, free, 3:00-4:30 (marylinmartin @ mlode.com)

25 SEPTEMBER 2010---saturday:
NORTH:
• Sonoma County Book Festival features dozens of authors and exhibitors, Poetry Stage features Katherine Hastings, Iris Dunkle, Janine Canan, Margaret Kaufman, Rebecca Foust, Keith Ekiss, Robin Ekiss, Bart Rawlinson, Thomas Centolella, Gregory Randall, Michael Rothenberg, Joyce Jenkins, Richard Silberg, Melissa Stein, and Molly Fisk, Author presentations include writers, novelists, or biographers Abraham Verghese, Yiyun Li, Tamim Ansary, Joyce Maynard, Buzzy Martin, Dr. Nancy Kay, Elif Batuman, Carol Sklenicka, Kathyrn Ma, Joan Frank, Anita Barrows, Alta Ifland, Stephen Kessler, Chester Aaron, and Joe Quirk, also children and young adult authors and stages, see website for exhibit info, Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, free, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 (707/537-8783, www.socobookfest.org)
• Hand to Mouth/Words Spoken Out series presents Marin County Poet Laureate CB Follett and Robert A. McNally, open mic follows, refreshments, Rebound Bookstore, 1611 4th Street, San Rafael, donation, 4:00-6:00 (415/482-0550, reboundbookstore.com, reboundbookstore @ aol.com)
SOUTH:
• A New Cadence Poetry Series presents Mark Statman and Joseph Lease, Felix Kulpa Gallery, 107 Elm Street, Santa Cruz, 7:30 (jamaugh @ cabrillo.edu)

26 SEPTEMBER 2010---sunday:
CENTRAL:
• The Music of the Word/La Palabra Musical series presents Filipino artists and writers including Edwin Lozada, Tony Robles, Barbara Jane Reyes, AnnaBele Udo and Oscar Peñaranda, and poet/dancer/actress Chokwadi, open mic, hosted by Avotcja, The Other Change of Hobbit, 3264 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 3:30-5:30 (510/848-0413, www.avotcja.com)

27 SEPTEMBER 2010---monday:
EAST:
• Sacramento Poetry Center presents a reading by Mark Statman and Kurt Brown, Crossroads for the Arts, 1719 25th Street, at R Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (sacramentopoetrycenter.blogspot.com)

28 SEPTEMBER 2010---tuesday:
CENTRAL:
• Gender-bending author and activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, who is leaving the Bay Area this fall, presents a special  preview reading from “The End of San Francisco,” memoir-in-progress, Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, at 20th Street, SF, refreshments 6:30, reading 7:00 (415/282-9246, www.moderntimesbookstore.com)
• Poetry reading by Lucille Lang Day and Alice Rogoff, open mic follows, 3300 Club, 3300 Mission Street, SF, 7:00 (415/826-6886, 3300club.com)
NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading by Joan Gelfand, Claudia Chapline, Gregory W. Randall, Toni L. Wilkes, Rhodes Young, and Rebecca Foust, hosted by Paula Weinberger, Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton, Mill Valley, 7:00 (415/388-4033, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)

29 SEPTEMBER 2010---wednesday:
CENTRAL:
• Daniel Ellsberg discuses the work of the late historian Howard Zinn to celebrate Zinn’s posthumous book, The Bomb, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• Creative Writing reading series presents a poetry reading by Joanna Klink, Raptus, Soda Activity Center, Saint Mary’s College, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road, Moraga, free, 7:30 (www.stmarys-ca.edu)
SOUTH:
• Center for Literary Arts presents a poetry slam competition hosted by “Mighty” Mike McGee, Morris Dailey Auditorium, San Jose State University, San Jose, free, 7:00 (www.litart.org)

30 SEPTEMBER 2010---thursday:
CENTRAL:
• Eric Drooker delivers a slide lecture on his new HOWL: A Graphic Novel, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, SF, 7:00 (www.citylights.com)
• A poetry reading by Harryette Mullen, Maude Fife Room, Third Floor, Wheeler Hall, University of California Berkeley campus, free, 6:30 (holloway.english.berkeley.edu)
• Poetry Flash presents a panel as part of the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, with poet and nature essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming, Rope, nature writer Julia Whitty,  Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean, and others, Moe’s Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
NORTH:
• Writers Read presents featured reader Bill Bradd, open mic follows, refreshments, Art Center Ukiah, Corner Gallery, 201 S. State Street, at Church, Ukiah, donation, 7:00 (707/463-6989, www.coloredhorse.com, www.artcenterukiah.org)
SOUTH:
• Center for Literary Arts presents a spoken word workshop with “Mighty” Mike McGee, Student Union, Guadalupe Room, San Jose State University, San Jose, free, 4:00 (www.litart.org)