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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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