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22 APRIL 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Earth Day celebration hosted by Kirk Lumpkin presents contributing poets reading their work from the anthology Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, featuring poet and the anthology's co-editor Kurt Schweigman, Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets, poet and the anthology's co-editor Lucille Lang Day, Dreaming of Sunflowers: Museum Poems, Stephen Meadows, Releasing the Days, Linda Noel, and Kim Shuck, Clouds Running; musician Mignon Geli performs on the native wood flute, Berkeley Public Library, Central Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, Berkeley, free, 2:00-4:00 (more info, contact Isobel: 510/981-6150, www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org)
    NORTH:
  • Sixteen Rivers Press presents a poetry reading by Gillian Wegener reading from her new book, This Sweet Haphazard, and Erin Rodoni reading from her new book, Body, In Good Light, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, free, 4:00 (415/927-0960, www.bookpassage.com)

23 APRIL 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Bird & Beckett presents Poetry Extravaganza to honor French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), featuring a reading by poet Neeli Cherkovski, The Crow and I, poet and translator Art Beck (Dennis Dybeck), Aspects of Robinson, and poet and essayist Aaron Shurin, King of Shadows, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, Glen Park neighborhood, San Francisco, free, 2:00-4:00 (415/586-3733, www.birdbeckett.com)
  • West Marin Review, Volume 7, showcasing the work of writers and artists, features a reading by poet Claire Blotter, Moment in the Moment House, nonfiction writer Elaine Elinson, Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, painter, photographer, publisher, and author Kathleen Goodwin, Visions of Marin, poet and Bay Area-based consultant Anuja Mendiratta, poet Larry Ruth, fiction writer Vicki DeArmon, and classical and jazz pianist Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman, Diesel, A Bookstore, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, free, 3:00-4:00 (510/653-9965, www.westmarinreview.org, www.dieselbookstore.com)

24 APRIL 2017 — monday

    EAST:
  • A National Poetry Month reading of Ekphrasis poetry inspired by visual art, featuring April Ossmann and Camille Norton, open mic, hosted by Tim Kahl, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 7:30 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.com)

25 APRIL 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Oakland Noir, a new California noir quotient, crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books, celebrates their latest addition to the anthology with a reading of new stories by poet and fiction writer Kim Addonizio, Nick Petrulakis, Jamie DeWolf, and Joe Loya,moderated by and much more, moderated by noir novelist Eddie Muller, The Distance, and violinist, playwright, and poet Jerry Thompson, co-author of Black Artists in Oakland, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Barbara Paschke and Neeli Cherekovski, curated by Jack Hirschman, North Beach Branch Library, 850 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 6:30 (415/522-8602, www.friendssfpl.org/events/tuesdays-at-north-beach.html)
  • Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel, In This Grave Hour, Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Arts, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/704-8222, www.mrsdalloways.com/events/jacqueline-winspear-0)
    SOUTH:
  • Poetry Santa Cruz presents The Four Laureates Reading, featuring Gary Young, Pleasure, David Swanger, Wayne College of Beauty, Ellen Bass, Like a Beggar, and Robert Sward, New & Selected Poems, 1957-2011, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3 donation, 7:30 (831/423-0900, www.bookshopsantacruz.com)

26 APRIL 2017 — wednesday

27 APRIL 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • David Shapiro reads from and celebrates his new poetry collection, In Memory of an Angel, packed with art history, architecture, literature, and Jewish identity themes, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Deema K. Shehabi, author of an email collaboration, DIASPOR/RENGA, with the poet Marilyn Hacker, and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Walter & Salt, 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 the Poetry Center Book Award Reading, poet Orlando White, LETTERRS, receiving the Poetry Center Book Award, award judge and poet Patrick James Dunagan, THE DUNCAN ERA: One Reader's Cosmology, also appears, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu)

28 APRIL 2017 — friday

29 APRIL 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • SF Swagslam open mic and poetry slam every last Saturday of the month, all ages welcome, Two Jacks Nik's Place, 401 Haight Street, San Francisco, free, event runs 5:00-8:00, sign up at 5:30, show 6:00 (415/431-6290, www.twojacksniksplace.com)
    SOUTH:
  • Coastside Poetry presents Poetry at Florey's for the sixth anniversary of this wonderful series, featuring a reading by poet Lisa Rizzo, Always a Blue House, and host and poet Sherri Rose-Walker, open mic follows, Florey's Book Company, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, free, 7:30 (650/355-8811, floreysbooks.blogspot.com)
    EAST:
  • Sacramento Poetry Center Writers' Conference 2017, featuring Indigo Moor, Poet Laureate of Sacramento; and poets Iris Dunkle, Kathleen Winter, Marsha de la O, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Paul Hoover, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, $40/$30 members, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 (916/240-1897, www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org)

30 APRIL 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Two Jacks Denim presents "In the Tradition of the Two Jacks: Kerouac & London: Guts, Grit & Glory Poetry Night" featuring readings by Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellows Edgar Kunz, Kai Carlson-Wee, RAIL, co-director of poetry film Riding the Highline, and Grady Chambers, his work has appeared in New Ohio Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Two Jacks Denim, 2355 Broadway Avenue, Oakland, free, 5:00 (510/788-5832, www.facebook.com/events/1413463852030344)

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