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26 MAY 2012 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Fourth Saturdays Poetry & Prose presents Brent Calderwood and reader to be announced, hosted by Jeanne Lupton, open mic follows, refreshments, Frank Bette Center for the Arts, 1601 Paru Street, Alameda, 7:00-9:00 (www.frankbettecenter.org)
  • Poetry reading by Jan Dederick and John Rowe, open mic follows, Florey's Book Company, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:00-9:30 (650/355-8811, sherrirose-walker @ hotmail.com)
  • La Pena presents the Harlem Poetic Rebellion: A Salon for the People, an evening of poetry, movement, and music celebrating traditions of dissent, swank, and Queer Black Aesthetics, La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $12 advance, $15 at door, 8:00 (510/849-2568, lapena.org)
  • Poetry Discussion Group meets, bring a favorite poem by you or someone else, Meeting Room, El Sobrante Library, 4191 Appian Way, El Sobrante, 3:00-4:00 (510/374-3991, eweiss @ ccclib.org)
  • Saturday Night Special, monthly East Bay Open Mic presents featured poets, with hosts Hollie Hardy and Tomas Moniz, three-to-five minute open mic spots, Nick's Lounge, 3218 Adeline Street, Berkeley, 7:00-9:30 (510/652-6425)
    NORTH:
  • Redwood Writers presents an open mic with featured readers, SoCo Coffee, 1015 4th Street, Santa Rosa, sign up 5:30, reading 6:00-8:00 (house @ bbooks.com, lindareid100 @ sbcglobal.net)
    SOUTH:
  • Porter Gulch Review Reading and Art Show, with live music, refreshments, and free copies of the 27th edition of Porter Gulch Review, Cabrillo College Horticulture Center, 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos, 6:00 (831/479-6345, PGR @ cabrillo.edu)
  • Community Reading Series presents an open reading for poetry and prose, with featured reader Richard Sullivan, hosted by Jean Walton Wolff, 3050 Porter Street, Soquel, free, 2:00 (jww95010 @ aol.com)
    EAST:
  • Spit Fresh Poetry open mic, hosted by Pierre Butler, Downstairs Art Studio, The Arts Building, 808 Lincoln Way, Auburn, sign up 6:30, reading 7:00-10:00 (916/346-0955, gorillapoet @ hotmail.com, thehandsthatspeak @ hotmail.com, www.eskimopie.net/calendar.htm)

27 MAY 2012 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Ina Coolbrith Circle presents a featured poetry reading, open reading follows, refreshments, Lafayette-Orinda Presbyterian Church, 49 Knox Drive, Lafayette, 2:00 (www.coolpoetry.org)
  • Each month, Walker Brents explores a topic; this month: Hannah Arendt, the mid-twentieth century political philosopher who wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Life of the Mind, Bird & Beckett Books, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 2:30 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
  • The World Affairs Council Book Club discusses The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert Moss, Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 11:00 am (415/776-1111, booksinc.net)

28 MAY 2012 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents an open mic night with featured readers, with hosts Jim Barnard, Nance Wogan, Odilia Galvan Rodriguez, and Jan Dederick, mention the reading for a ten percent meal discount, Priya Restaurant, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00 (poetryexpress @ gmail.com)
  • Poet's Gallery presents open mic night, Caffe Greco, 423 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30-9:30

29 MAY 2012 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Lights Bookstore and Litquake's Epicenter Reading Series present an evening of reading and music in celebration of Edith Piaf, with Carolyn Burke, No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf, with musical accompaniment by Betty Roi, Tosca Café, 242 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/986-9651, toscacafesf.com)
  • Featured poetry reading by Jeanne Powell, and open mic, 21 and over, courtesy pub grub, Keane's 3300 Club, 3300 Mission Street, at 29th Street, San Francisco, free, sign up 6:30, reading 7:00 (415/826-6886, www.3300club.com)

30 MAY 2012 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • HAVOQ presents a monthly queer prisoner pen-pal letter-writing night to help break isolation for incarcerated members of communities, Modern Times Bookstore, 2919 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00 (www.mtbs.com)
  • Social critic Jerry Mander, director of the International Forum on Globalization, discusses The Capitalism Papers: Six Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System, on the environmental and social problems of capitalism, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-4921, www.citylights.com)
  • Joan Frank, In Envy Country, reads from her new novel, Make It Stay, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:30 (415/864-8688, www.booksmith.com)
  • Ryan George Kittleman reads from his debut novel The Great Peace, Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/776-1111, booksinc.net)
  • Freelance and pulp fiction writer Will Viharo and Scott Fulks read and sign copies of their first novel It Came From Hanger 18, Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, 7:00 (510/522-2226, booksinc.net)
    SOUTH:
  • Marty Brounstein reads from his debut novel Two Among the Righteous Few: A Story of Courage in the Holocaust, Books Inc., 301 Castro Street, Mountain View 7:00 (650/428-1234, booksinc.net)
  • The Rubber Chicken presents a poetry slam and open mic, East Village Coffee Lounge, 498 Washington Street, Monterey, free, sign up 7:30, show 8:00 (www.eastvillagecoffeelounge.com/entertainment.html)
    EAST:
  • Mahogany Slam with Khiry, all ages, Queen Sheba Restaurant, 1704 Broadway at 17th Street, Sacramento, $5, 9:00-11:00 (malikspeaks @ aol.com)

31 MAY 2012 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights, presents Father's Day: A Journey Into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son, Books Inc., 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/776-1111, booksinc.net)
  • Poetry Flash presents a reading by Carol V. Davis, Between Storms, and Grace Grafton, Whimsey, Reticence and Laud, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com; wheelchair accessible, ASL interpreters for the deaf and hearing impaired may be requested a week in advance by email, editor@poetryflash.org)
  • An evening of song and verse celebrating Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, by poet and fiction writer Barry Gifford, with musician and author Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete, member of the band Richmond Fontaine, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-4921, www.citylights.com)
  • Thursday at Readers Poetry Series presents John Landry and Peter Sherburn-Zimmer, food and drink sales benefit San Francisco Public Library, Readers Café, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/771-1011, www.readerscafe.org)
  • Lewis Buzbee reads from and celebrates the launch of his new Young Adult novel Bridge of Time, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/931-3633, booksinc.net)
    EAST:
  • Poetry Unplugged presents an open mic before and after featured readers, hosted by Joe Montoya, Luna's Café and Juice Bar, 1414 16th Street, Sacramento, $2 or one drink minimum, 8:00 (916/441-3931, www.lunascafe.com)

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