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23 AUGUST 2016 — tuesday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry Writing with instructor, poet Sharon Coleman, MA, MFA, at Berkeley City College is an inclusive and diverse multilevel class—with a different reading list and emphasis for each level, an excellent way to jump start your writing or prepare for transferring to a BA or MFA program—the program has launched many writers, class visits by published poets; if you haven't taken at class in the Peralta district, go to the college and ask for a student ambassador to help you—bypass the English 1A pre-rec by filling out a Pre-rec Waiver form; class name: English 91, 92, 93, 94, sign up right away, students can sign up a week after class begins on August 23, Tuesday evenings, $138 for seventeen weeks, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street, Berkeley, half block from BART and buses, 6:30-9:20 (if you need help to sign up, email: scoleman@peralta.edu, www.berkeleycitycollege.edu)
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NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show features Francesca Bell, Greg Mahrer, True Heitz, Susan Zemer, Angelika Quirk, and Christina Hutchins, hosted by Meryl Natchez, Fairfax Library, 2097 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Fairfax, free, 7:00 (415/453-8151, events@marinpoetrycenter.org, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
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24 AUGUST 2016 — wednesday

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25 AUGUST 2016 — thursday

CENTRAL:
• Thursday at Readers Poetry Series presents Anita Cruz and John Landry, curated by Jack Hirschman, Readers Bookstore, Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, off Marina Blvd. at Buchanan Street, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/626-7500, katherine.jardine@frieendssfpl.org, www.friendssfpl.org)
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NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show features Jodi L. Hottel, Diana Lang, Kathleen McClung, Stephanie Moore, and Sara Tolchin, hosted by Calvin Ahlgren, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, free, 7:00 (415/485-3326, events@marinpoetrycenter.org, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
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26 AUGUST 2016 — friday

CENTRAL:
• Closing reception for the exhibition, "A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer" on view August 2-31, a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art, photography, poetry, and critiques, featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui, installations by the Undercover collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii, art by Kate Akimbo, painting by Annice Jacoby, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza, Art Hazelwood, Veronica Solis, Ronnie Goodman, and poems by Jack Hirschman, Alejandro Murguía, Alessandra Bava, Tony Robles, Norman Zelaya, Cesar Love, Virginia Barrett, Michael Koch, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others, closing reception features live printing with master graphic community artists incuding Patrick Piazza, Txutuo Perez, Art Hazelwood, and more, this gathering will also include a participatory performance event offering five minutes on a "Soapbox," Alley Cat Books & Gallery, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, 6:00-9:00 (information: 415/824-1761, or jordan@alleycatbookshop.com)
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27 AUGUST 2016 — saturday

CENTRAL:
• "Editing Literary Arts Journals" with poet and Poetry Flash contributing editor Sharon Coleman, MA, MFA, at Berkeley City College, learn the processes for creating a literary arts journal or zine or anthology; look at selection criteria for literature and art, sequencing, articulating and advocating opinions, copyediting, organizational structures, group dynamics, copyright law, dealing with writers and artists, journal design, typography, writing press releases, promotion, distribution, collaboration, event planning, fund raising, grant writing, and more, sign up now for English 120 (42405) with Sharon Coleman, students can sign up a week after class begins on August 27, meets two Saturdays a month, Berkeley City College, 2050 Center Street, Berkeley, half block from BART and buses, 10:00 a.m.-noon (if you need help to sign up, email: scoleman@peralta.edu, www.berkeleycitycollege.edu)
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• Poetry reading by Marvin R. Heimstra and Philip Zimmerman, aka Zebulon, open mic with a three-minute limit follows, Florey's Book Company, 2129 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:30-9:30 (650/355-8811, floreysbooks.blogspot.com)
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EAST:
• Poetry Workshop Celebratory Reading and Open Mic, hosted by Rhony Bhopla, bring your favorite poem to share, refreshments, Valley Hi-North Laguna Library, 7400 Imagination Parkway, Sacramento, 2:00-4:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
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28 AUGUST 2016 — sunday

EAST:
• "To Get It Right," a reading celebrating the legacy of the late poet Annie Menebroker, co-sponsored by the Sacramento Poetry Center, with participants Kathryn Hohlwein, Doc Kennedy, Neeli Cherkovski, Bill Gainer, Mary Zeppa, Martha Ann Blackman, Laverne and Carol Frith, Stan Zumbiel, Mikey and Eva West, Proxy Moon, and more, California Stage, 2509 R Street, Sacramento, 5:30-8:30 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
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29 AUGUST 2016 — monday

CENTRAL:
• Poetry Express presents Maverick Night, an open reading on the writing prompt "Favorite Poet and your imitation"; "the group nominates a work which then is eligible for publication in our online magazine at the end of the year," Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
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• Bay Area Generations presents writers of different generations in pairs, through its submission-based reading series, this event Kim Shuck with Bill Vartnaw, D. Jayne McPherson and Clive Matson, Aliya Charney and Ellen Woods, Chris Warren Smith and Gary Turchin, Roopa Ramamoorthi and Sharon Metzler Dow, musical guest Gi Markito, guest curator Jamey Genna, full bar, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, $7, admission with chapbook of readers $10, doors open 7:00, show 7:30 (bayareagenerations.com)
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EAST:
• Benefit poetry reading for the Wellspring Women's Center with Jeff Knorr, Sean King, and the Straight Out Scribes, hosted by Dennis Hock, Wellspring Women's Center, 3414 4th Avenue, Sacramento, 7:00 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)
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30 AUGUST 2016 — tuesday

NORTH:
• Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show features Joan Baranow, Claire Blotter, Melanie Maier, Gabrielle Rilleau, Charlotte Schmid, and Rhodes Young, hosted by Jean Hawkins Sublett, Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, free, 7:00 (415/388-4033, events@marinpoetrycenter.org, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
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31 AUGUST 2016 — wednesday

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