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1 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Strawberry Creek Walk, part of the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, a gentle walk, winds along Strawberry Creek through the University of California campus to downtown Berkeley to the Watershed Festival site; led by Nevada City poet/eco-educator Chris Olander, with poetry readings by poet/biologist Maya Khosla, poets Judy Halebsky, Katherine Hastings, and Bill Vartnaw, nature commentary by Tim Pine, UC Berkeley Environmental Health and Safety; 100 Thousand Poets for Change event presented by Poetry Flash and Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, the Strawberry Creek Walk meets in (and leaves from) the Redwood Grove at the southeast corner of Oxford at Center, near the sculpture of the World Globe as you enter the UC campus, Oxford and Center Streets, University of California at Berkeley, free, 10:00 a.m. (510/525-5476, info@poetryflash.org)
  • 21st Annual Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival features Jane Hirshfield, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Juliana Spahr, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Wes "Scoop" Nisker, John Shoptaw, Vincent Medina on the language of the Ohlone, and more; California Poets in the Schools students read led by poet-teachers John Oliver Simon and Maureen Hurley; more readings by poet/biologist Maya Khosla, poet Judy Halebsky, former Sonoma County Poet Laureates Katherine Hastings and Bill Vartnaw, and Nevada City eco-poet Chris Olander; We Are Nature Open Mic, (to read, enter lottery on site at noon); with hosts Richard Silberg and Kirk Lumpkin and music by The Barry Finnerty Trio; River Village exhibits by literary and environmental organizations; books for sale and signing at the Pegasus Downtown tent; bring your lunch or get it at the Farmers' Market; one block west from Berkeley BART; 100 Thousand Poets for Change event co-sponsored by Poetry Flash, Ecology Center/Berkeley Farmers' Market, Moe's Books; wheelchair accessible, for ASL interpreters request by email by September 23; Berkeley Civic Center Park, Martin Luther King, Jr. Way at Center Street, Berkeley, noon-4:30 (510/525-5476; to table or exhibit, e-mail: info@poetryflash.org)

2 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

3 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents Wulf Losee, plus an open reading, hosted by Jan Dedrick, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
  • WordParty Poetry and Jazz Series returns to a new venue, dinner, drinks, and open mic open to poets and poetry only, three-minute time limit, read your poetry accompanied live by the Nova Jazz Band, special guests to be announced, hosted by Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir, all ages, full menu and bar, PianoFight, 144 Taylor Street, between Turk and Eddy, San Francisco, free admission, RSVP on Event Brite, 7:00-9:00 (thewordparty.com, www.eventbrite.com)

4 OCTOBER 2016 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Pegasus Books Solano presents Jazz Stories, an evening of live jazz and wonderful stories about jazz, hosted by Richard Leiter, every first Tuesday, Pegasus Books on Solano, 1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/525-6888, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents multi-talented artist, performer, and writer Patti Smith, M Train, in conversation with Dan Stone, "On Arts" series benefits 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29 (tickets includes paperback of M Train/tickets and show are Sold Out!), 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)

5 OCTOBER 2016 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Memorial Reading for Ted Greenwald, central figure in the second-generation of the New York School and a major influence on language writing, published over thirty books, wrote daily for over fifty years, featured readers and speakers: Alan Bernheimer, Nathaniel Dorsky, Norman Fischer, Corinne Fitzpatrick, Lyn Hejinian, Jerome Hiler, Laura Moriarty,
Julien Poirier,
Renny Pritikin,
Tom Raworth, and Kit Robinson, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run, in conversation with Dan Stone, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29 (Tickets Sold Out!), 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)

6 OCTOBER 2016 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading and celebration for the new anthology América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets, with editor Jesse Lee Kercheval, and translators Catherine Jagoe, Ron Salutsky, Julia Leverone, Keith Ekiss, and Uruguayan poet Laura Cesarco Eglin, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading with Julia Bloch and erica lewis, a conversation with the poets follows, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:30 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • OMERTAPALOOZA! presents a reading series in celebration of its tenth anniversary featuring Omerta author Herbert Gold interviewed by Hilton Obenzinger on the topic "How I Write, " The Green Arcade Bookstore, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/431-6800, www.thegreenarcade.com )
    EAST:
  • Poetry Night Reading Series features freelance writer and poetry columnist Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Sonoma County Poety Laureate Katherine Hastings, open mic follows with five-minute/two-poem limit, whichever is shorter, hosted by Dr. Andy Jones, Poet Laureate of the City of Davis, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, free, 8:00-10:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)

7 OCTOBER 2016 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins, author of Horoscopes for the Dead, and other collections of poetry, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29, 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)

8 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Sixteen Rivers Press annual Fundraiser and Garden Party, an afternoon of wine, hor d'oeuvres and readings by poets Ellen Bass and W.S. Di Piero, at a private home, 2801 Claremont Blvd., Berkeley, tickets available beginning September 1, $25/$50/$75/$100, purchase online at Brown Paper Tickets, 3:00-6:00 (brownpapertickets.com, www.sixteenrivers.org)

9 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Señal Chapbook Series poets Florencia Castellano (Argentina), Luis Felipe Fabre (Mexico), and Pablo Katchadjian (Argentina), with translators John Pluecker, Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal, and Rebekah Smith, co-sponsored by The Poetry Center, Small Press Traffic, and the Señal Series with Ugly Ducking Presse, Artists' Television Access (ATA), 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, $10/$5 low income/free to SFSU students and Poetry Center and/or Small Press Traffic members, 5:00-7:00 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Martha Collins, Admit One: An American Scrapbook, and Rosa Lane, Tiller North, request ASL interpreters one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 3:00 (510/653-9965, dieselbookstore.com)
  • Rattle Reading Series features poets Brendan Constantine, John Guzlowski, and Raquel Reyes-Lopez, always an open mic, bring a poem or two, ample parking, coffee shop on site, Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 1010 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada-Flintridge, free, 5:00 (www.flintridgebooks.com)

10 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents a featured reader, plus an open reading, hosted by Jim Barnard, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

11 OCTOBER 2016 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry at the Albany Library features a reading by Martha Collins Admit One: An American Scrapbook, followed by discussion with Albany Poet Laureate Rebecca Black and audience questions, and open mic, hosted by Catherine Taylor, Albany Library, Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, free, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720, albanylibrary.wordpress.com)

12 OCTOBER 2016 — wednesday

13 OCTOBER 2016 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Are Men Necessary?, in conversation with Judson True, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29, 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Lenore Weiss, Mortal, and Therése Halscheid, Frozen Latitudes, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • OMERTAPALOOZA! presents a reading series in celebration of its tenthanniversary featuring Omerta authors Denise Newman, Les Gottesman, and Ellen Teicher, The Green Arcade Bookstore, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/431-6800, www.thegreenarcade.com )
  • The Poetry Circle monthly participation-based reading, bring original work or poems from any person, period, or place, Claremont Branch Library, 2940 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, free, 6:30 (510/981-6820, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/events/poetry-circle)

14 OCTOBER 2016 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Omnidawn Publishers Fall Reading features poets and writers Molly Bendall, Elena Karina Byrne, Jennifer S. Cheng, Rebecca Gaydos, Martha Ronk, John Wilkinson, Norma Cole, and Robert Andrew Perez celebrating their new Omnidawn books, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)

15 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Clearly Meant reading series presents poet, essayist, and translator Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes and The Unfollowing, in a reading followed by an interview and discussion, Berkeley Public Library, Claremont Branch, 2940 Benvenue Avenue, Berkeley, free, 2:00-3:00 (510/981-6280, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org)

16 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

17 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents a featured reader, plus an open reading, hosted by Bruce Bagnell, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

18 OCTOBER 2016 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Filmaker, writer, composer, and author Trinh T. Minh-ha reads from and discusses her new book, Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared,

19 OCTOBER 2016 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Holloway Series in Poetry features poet Tonya Foster, who will also give a "Mixed Blood" talk, University of California campus, Hearst Field Annex, Room D37, off Bancroft Way, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

20 OCTOBER 2016 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • OMERTAPALOOZA! presents a reading series in celebration of its tenth anniversary featuring Omerta poets Sharon Doubiago and Jack Hirschman, The Green Arcade Bookstore, 1680 Market Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/431-6800, www.thegreenarcade.com )
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Adrienne Su, Living Quarters, and Randall Mann, Straight Razor, request ASL interpreters one week in advance at editor@poetryflash.org, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading with Rod Smith, Touché, and Lee Ann Brown, Other Archer, a conversation with the poets follows, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:30 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
    NORTH:
  • Marin Poetry Center presents a reading by poet Michelle Bitting, The Couple Who Fell to Earth, and poet Ewa Chrusciel, who has three books in Polis and two books in English, Contraband of Hoopoe, light refreshments, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, $5/$3 members, students free, 7:30 (415/388-4033, www.marinpoetrycenter.org)
  • Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Improv Reading Series features Bill Churchill, hosted by blake more, reading begins with live jazz by local musicians and an open mic with jazz improv, 215 Main Pub, 215 Main Street, Point Arena, free, 7:30 (707/884-9189, blake@snakelyone.com, www.facebook.com/215main)
  • Writers Forum presents a workshop with Natasha Yim, children's author, freelance writer, and playwright, bring paper and pen, Petaluma Community Center, 320 No. McDowell Blvd., Petaluma, $15 at the door, 6:30-8:30 (www.thewritespot.us)
    EAST:
  • Poetry Night Reading Series features poet Don Thompson, open mic follows with five-minute/two-poem limit, whichever is shorter, hosted by Dr. Andy Jones, Poet Laureate of the City of Davis, John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 1st Street, Davis, free, 8:00-10:00 (www.poetryindavis.com)

21 OCTOBER 2016 — friday

22 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Oral historian Alan Wieder talks about American Icon Studs Terkel and reads from his book, Studs Terkel; Politrics, Culture, But Mostly Conversation, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
    NORTH:
  • WordTemple presents a special evening, "From France to Tibet," poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa reads from her new memoir, Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging, and poet and translator Dan Bellm, reading from his new translation, The Song of the Dead/Le chant des morts, by Pierre Revardy, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, 282 S. High Street, Sebastopol, free, 7:00 (www.wordtemple.com)

23 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

24 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Bay Area Generations presents writers of different generations in pairs through its submission-based reading series, submissions for this reading are open until October 1, see guidelines on their website, full bar, Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, $7, admission with chapbook of readers $10, doors open 7:00, show 7:30 (Hotel Rex: 415/433-4434, bayareagenerations.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures presents New Yorker staff writer, humorist, and chronicler of culture, Calvin Trillin, and Michael Krasny, Let There Be Laughter: A Treasury of Great Jewish Humor and What It All Means, in conversation with Steven Winn, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29, 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • Poetry Express presents an open reading on the writing prompt "Stacking Rocks"; Prompt Nights "the group nominates a work which then is eligible for publication in our online magazine at the end of the year," hosted by Liz Alford, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)
    NORTH:
  • Humboldt State University English Department presents writer and historian Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: How Alexander Von Humboldt Revolutionized Our World, Van Duzer Theater, Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata, free, 7:00 (707/826-3321, www2.humboldt.edu/events)

25 OCTOBER 2016 — tuesday

26 OCTOBER 2016 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Jonathan Lethem, MacArthur Fellow and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, reads from and discusses his latest novel A Gambler's Anatomy, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • Molotov Editions launches its inaugural publishing season: Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Domenic Stansberry reads from his erotically charged The White Devil; Robert Mailer Anderson, author of Boonville, a searing comic novel set in Mendocino County, shares his new play, brief readings, Q and A, book signing, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, 7:00 (www.molotoveditions.com)
    NORTH:
  • The Larkspur Book Club Pioneers discuss The Tsar of Love and Techno, by Anthony Marra, Diesel, A Bookstore, 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle, Larkspur, all welcome, 7:00-8:00 (415/785-8177,
  • Get Lit presents readers Dani Burlison, Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories, essays which appeared in her McSweeney's Internet Tendency column, and Lady Parts; Jacqueline Doyle, her flash fiction collection The Missing Girl is forthcoming; and Megan Turner, short open mic follows, wine, beverages, appetizers, desserts for sale at the bar, Corkscrew Wine Bar, 100 Petaluma Blvd North, Suite 103, Petaluma, 7:00-9:00 ( https://www.facebook.com/events/1680044115553877/)

27 OCTOBER 2016 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading with Geneva Chao and Mg Roberts, a conversation with the poets follows, Humanities Building, Room 512, Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00-8:30 (415/338-2227, poetry.sfsu.edu)
  • Foglifter Press, a queer literary arts organization, launch event for its issue two publication, Foglifter 1.2, with readers Michael Alenyikov, Shideh Etatt, Gabrielle Glancy, Jewelle Gomez, Amir Rabiyah, and Cedar Sigo, Dog Eared Books, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, free/donation of $15 includes a copy of the publication, 7:00 (foglifter.journal@gmail.com, www.foglifterpress.com)
  • City Arts & Lectures a live broadcast with W. Kamau Bell featuring political comedy, cultural conversation, and special guests, co-presented with KALW, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29, 6:45, doors open at 6:00 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • Tibetan translator and scholar Anne Carolyn Klein talks about her latest book, Strand of Jewels: My Teachers' Essential Guidance on Dzogchen, wheelchair accessible, Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/849-2087, www.moesbooks.com)
  • The Holloway Series in Poetry features poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist Gary Snyder, the "Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology," University of California campus, Hearst Field Annex, Room D37, off Bancroft Way, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 6:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

28 OCTOBER 2016 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Kids' Pajama Party welcomes illustrator Eda Kaban to read a bedtime story from Even Superheroes Have Bad Days, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 6:00-6:30 (510/653-9965, www.dieselbookstore.com)
  • Breathe Between the Beats, A Night of Beat Poetry and the Zen of Haiku with haiku poet Amos White and guest poets Clive Matson, Jack Foley, Mary Holman, and Andrew O. Dugas, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00-9:00 (www.kerouac.com)

29 OCTOBER 2016 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • City Arts & Lectures presents comedian and writer Abbi Jacobson, Carry This Book, in conversation with Carrie Brownstein, Nourse Theater, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, $29 (tickets Sold Out!), 7:30 (415/563-2463, www.cityarts.net)
  • World Poetry Movement reading with the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, featuring poets Jorge Argueta, Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Judith Ayn Bernhard, Lidija Canovic, Neeli Cherkovski, Pauline Craig, John Curl, Diego DeLeo, Agneta Falk, Francisco Herrera, Jack Hirschman, Rosemary Manno, Sarah Menefee, Shirin Sadeghi, Toshi Washizu, Cathleen Wllliams, co-sponsored by the Juana Briones Cultural Committee, The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (www.kerouac.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Florey's Book Company presents their last Poetry at Florey's event of the season (resuming again in January 2017), featuring award-winning poets Rebecca Foust and Melissa Stein, followed by a poetry open mic (three-minute limit), hosted by Sherri Rose-Walker, bring snacks, drinks, paper cups, plates, or utensils to share, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:30-9:30 (650/355-8811, www.floreysbooks.blogspot.com)

30 OCTOBER 2016 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Before Columbus Foundation presents the thirty-seventh annual American Book Awards, a writers' award given by other writers, the 2016 winners are Laura Da' for Tributaries (University of Arizona), Susan Muaddi Darraj for Curious Land: Stories from Home (University of Massachusetts), Deepa Iyer for We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press), Mat Johnson for Loving Day (Spiegel & Grau), John Keene for Counternarratives (New Directions), William J. Maxwell for F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature (Princeton University), Lauret Savoy for Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (Counterpoint), Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette for The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Lawrence Hill Books), Jesús Salvador Treviño for Return to Arroyo Grande (Arte Público), Nick Turse for Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa (Haymarket Books), Ray Young Bear for Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear (Open Road Integrated Media); Lifetime Achievement: Louise Meriwether; Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award: Lyra Monteiro and Nancy Isenberg; Andrew Hope Award: Chiitaanibah Johnson, Joe Henderson Lab at SF Jazz Center, 201 Franklin Street, at Fell, San Francisco, open to the public, 2:00-5:00 (www.sfjazz.org)
  • San Francisco poet and fiction writer Jewelle Gomez reads from The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition just released by City Lights, Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia, San Francisco, 3:00 (408/824-8203, www.borderlands-books.com)

31 OCTOBER 2016 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents Maverick Night, an open reading on the writing prompt "Formal Night (your poem within a poetry form)"; "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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