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1 SEPTEMBER 2017 — friday

2 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Beast Crawl features more than 200 writers in a single night, in dozens of events, spread out over four hours and numerous local galleries, bars, restaurants, cafés, performance spaces, and storefronts, each leg lasts one hour, with a half hour break between legs, chose one reading per leg, all over downtown Oakland, free, 5:00-9:00; after party 9:30-2:00 a.m. (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 1 presents Milvia Street/Poetry Flash reading by Milvia Street: Art and Literary Journal, featuring contributors Lisa Jacquline Graves, Nichelle Pete, Anna-Marie Ross, hosted by Sharon Coleman, followed by Poetry Flash, featuring poets Sharon Coleman, Tiffany Higgins, with Poetry Flash Associate Editor and poet Richard Silberg, hosted by editor Joyce Jenkins, E.M. Wolfman Bookstore, 410 13th Street, Oakland, free, 5:00-6:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 1 presents "Bay Area Generations" reading by Tongo Eisen-Martin and Avotcja, Anna Avery and Hugh Behm-Steinberg, Nahid Fattahi and Andrew O. Dugas, host Amos White, Stork Club, 2330 Telegraph Avenue; "Pandemonium Press: A Wicked Presence" reading by Rafael Jesús González, James Cagney, John Oliver Simon, host Leila Rae, Spice Monkey, 1628 Webster Street; "Word Performances" readings by Delores Churchill, Alvin Orloff, Todd Siegel, Cybele Zufolo, Cee Reiss, host Cybele Zufolo Siegel, The Punchdown Wine Bar, 1737 Broadway; Milvia Street/Poetry Flash readings, Milvia Street: Art and Literary Journal reading by Lisa Jacquline Graves, Nichelle Pete, Anna-Marie Ross, host Sharon Coleman, followed by Poetry Flash reading by Sharon Coleman, Tiffany Higgins, Richard Silberg, host Joyce Jenkins, E.M. Wolfman Bookstore, 410 13th Street; "Kay DeMartini Presents: Exposed!" reading by Doug Cordell and Allison Landa, host Kay DeMartini, Oakland Complex, 420 14th Street; Scarlet Tanager Books: Writing That Soars reading by Richard Michael Levine, Kurt Schweigman, Judy Wells, Andrena Zawinski, host Lucille Lang Day, Sweet Bar Bakery, 2355 Broadway Avenue; Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review/"St. Mary's College: Get to Know Your MFA's" readings, Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review reading by Heather June Gibbons, Margaret Spilman, Danielle Truppi, host Keith Donnell Jr., followed by "St. Mary's College: Get to Know Your MFA's" reading by Sheila Davies Sumner, Robert Andrew Perez, Ani Tascian, Meg Hurtado Bloom, host Kelsay Elizabeth Myers, Kingston 11, 2772 Telegraph Avenue; East Bey Review: This is the Epicenter 2 reading by Michael Sakoda, Abe Becker, Marléne Zadig, Rebecca Chekouras, Zephir O'Meara, Christina Gardner, host Krista Varela, The Golden Bull, 412 14th Street; Nomatic Press: Resist reading by Sonya Renee Taylor, Denise Jolly, Vanessa Rochelle Lewis, Casandra Dallett, Joyce Lee, Azuah, Nazelah L. Jamison, Awaken Café, 1429 Broadway Avenue; Red Light Lit reading by Riss Rosado, Lara Coley, Christine No, Kristina Ten, Miah Jeffra, host Jennifer Lewis, Era Art Bar, 19 Grand Avenue; "Kundiman: Rise & Split" reading by Cathy Linh Che, Chris Santiago, Grace Jahng Lee, Emily Yamauchi, host Mg Roberts, Bel Poblador, Oaklandish, 1444 Broadway Avenue; "Poetry Express"/Poets Reading the News readings by "Poetry Express" reading by Gary Turchin, Elizabeth Alford, host Bruce Bagnell, followed by Poets Reading the News reading by Arisa White, Moira Roth, Jenna Spagnolo, Elle Aviv Newton, hosts Elle Aviv Newton and Jenna Spagnolo, Itani Ramen, 1736 Telegraph Avenue; "Turtle Island to Abya Yala" reading by Nizhoni Ellenwood, Tria Blu Wakpa, Naomi Quiñonez, Hablo Rodriquez-Williams, Maya Chinchilla, host Moon Flower, Creative Growth Arts Center, 355 24th Street, all in downtown Oakland, free, 5:00-6:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl : Leg 2 presents "Small Press Distrubution: The Oak" reading with writer and educator Leora Fridman, poet and performance artist Ivy Johnson, Amy Berkowitz, Tender Points, editor and poet Lindsey Boldt, hosted by East Bay writer Johnny T. Hernandez, Econo Jam Records, 2519 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, free, 6:30-7:30 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 2 presents Leg 2 Open Mic, hosted by Rivet Journal and Red Bridge Press, with Deborah K. Steinberg and Lindsay Merbaum, sign up thirty minutes prior, three-minute limit, Laurel Book Store, 1423 Broadway; "Kearney St. Workshop and Asian Ameican Art Museaum: Interdisciplinary Writers Lab" reading by Shelley Wong, Lark Omura, Matt Nelson, Derrick Carr, Vida Kuang, host Jason Bayani, Farley's East, 33 Grand Avenue; "Small Press Distrubution: The Oak" reading by Leora Fridman, Ivy Johnson, Amy Berkowitz, Lindsey Boldt, host Johnny T. Hernandez, Econo Jam Records, 2519 Telegraph Avenue; "Be About It: Beelzebub About it" reading with Rhea 'Alex' Smith, A. Razor, Ham Coquette, Mike Bushnell, host Alexandra Naughton, Darling's Elixirs,1635 Broadway; "Saturday Night Special" reading by Peter Thomas Bullen, Terron "Kwesi" Wilkerson, G. Macias Gusman, Lisa Martinovic, Dillie Dauley, host Hollie Hardy, Telegraph Beer Garden, 2318 Telegraph Avenue; "StorySlam Oakland: Truth & Consequences" reading by Gina Gold, Justin Lockwood, Josh Cereghino, Mosa Maxwell-Smith, Lauren Chouinard, Abdul Kenyatta, host Julie Soller, The Layover Lounge, 1517 Franklin Street; "Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Showcase 2017: Finalist Performance and New Laureate Announcement" reading by Lucy Flattery-Vickness, Miles de Rosa, Lilah Mottley, Lizette Navarro, Euna Bonovich, and others, host Peggy Simmons, Chapter 510 & The Department of Make Believe, 2301 Telegraph Avenue; "Perfectly Queer East Bay" reading by Anand Vedawala, Anna Pulley, Gar McVey-Russell, hosts Rick May and Wayne Goodman, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street; "Naked Bulb Press: Sixth Sense" reading by Bill Gainer, Steve Goldberg, Laura A. Zink, Kwan Booth, Iwalani Venerable, Andrew. J. Thomas, William Taylor Jr., host Missy Church, Agave Uptown, 2135 Franklin Street; "Big Bridge: Bridge Beyond the Universe" reading by Maxine Chernoff, Nick Johnson, Nicia De'Lovely, Fisayo Adeyeye, Clement Tsang, Karen Penley, host Youssef Alaoui, Woods Bar & Brewery, 1701 Telegraph Avenue; "Skinless: New and Raw Writing" reading by Keith Gaboury, Richard Lorenger, Matthew Sherling, Daryl Llamas, Indiana Pehlivanova, SB Stokes, host SB Stokes, The Uptown Nightclub, 1928 Telegraph Avenue; "Literary Speakeasy: Drunk on Words" reading by Annah Anti-Palindrome, Alia Volz, Kay Nilsson, host James J. Siegel, The Miranda, 1739 Broadway Avenue, all in downtown Oakland; free, 6:30-7:30 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 3 presents Manic D Press: KAPOW! and Your Golden Sun Still Shines readings, KAPOW! reading by poet Juliette Torrez, author James Tracy, specializing in cities, hidden histories, and social movments, fiction writer Jon Longhi, slam and spoken word poet Cas McGee, Tarin Towers Sorry, We're Close, Your Golden Sun Still Shines reading by editor and author Denise Sullivan, singer-songwriter, performer, and producer Peter Case, performance poet Dee Allen, columnist and taxi driver Kelly Dessaint, hosted by publisher, editor, and janitor Jennifer Joseph, Drexl Bar, 382 19th Street, all in downtown Oakland, free, 8:00-9:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 3 presents Leg 3 Open Mic, hosted by Matthew DeCoster, sign up thirty minutes prior, three-minute limit, The Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph Avenue; Manic D Press: KAPOW! and Your Golden Sun Still Shines readings, KAPOW! reading by Juliette Torrez, James Tracy, Jon Longhi, Cas McGee, Tarin Towers, Your Golden Sun Still Shines reading by Denise Sullivan, Peter Case, Dee Allen, Kelly Dessaint, host Jennifer Joseph, Drexl Bar, 382 19th Street; Foglifter: We'll show You Monstrous reading by Nancy Au, Carson Beker, MK Chavez, Kim Freeman, Danny Thanh Nguyen, Milo Gallagher, host Foglifter Press, Club BNB, 2120 Broadway; "LIMINAL: Boundaries" reading Lyndsey Ellis, Liz Green, Elise Hunter, Liza Kuney, Bonnie Wai Lee Kwong, Raina J. León, Ginger Murray, Norma Smith, Kelechi Ubozoh, Lenore Weiss, host Gina Goldblatt, The Good Hop Bottle Shop, 2421 Telegraph Avenue; "Sunday Stories Writing Group: Brown People Don't Read?" reading by Blanca Torres-Aldana, Scott Russell Duncan, Jenny Irizary, Aya de Leon, Roger Porter, host Lisa D. Gray, Agave Uptown (AU), 2135 Franklin Street; "Elderotica:Dirty Old Women Read Sexy Stories" reading by Charli Allen, Lynx Canon, Stella Fosse, Rose K. Mark, Jan Steckel, host Lynx Canon, Feelmore 510/Feelmore Adult Gallery, 1703 Telegraph Avenue; "Bay Area Trans Writer's Workshop" reading by Reece Muldrow, Avren Keating, Mason Jairo Olaya-Smith, Jasper Jay, host Natasha Dennerstein, Bar 355, 355 19th Street; "Tourettes Without Regrets" reading by Alexandria Love, Duke The Bossman, Rachel Lark, Josh Healey, Frak, Kaila Love, SYzYgY, host Jamie DeWolf, Starline Social Club, 645 W. Grand Avenue; "¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?" reading by Eloisa Bravo, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, René Vaz, Amanda Muñiz, Javier Zamora, host Baruch Porras Hernandez, The New Parkway Theatre, 474 24th Street; "Rolling Writers: Rolling through the Ages" reading by Rebecca Foust, Roy Mash, Colleen McKee, Mindela Ruby, Jon Sindell, Sandra Wassilie, host Jon Sindell, The Hatch, 402 15th Street; SWILL" reading by Holly West, Joe Clifford, Joshua A. Hattam, Renee Asher Pickup, Sarah M. Chen, Sean Craven, host Rob Pierce, Radio Bar, 435 13th Avenue; "Write from the Gut!" reading by Classic Cars West, 411 26th Street; "Mixer 3.0 Presents BARDO for National Suicide Awareness Month" reading by Joanna Anabo, Loria Mendoza, Julie Thi Underhill, Anne Cormia, Matt Carney, host Sean Labrador y Manzano, Nomadic Uptown, 2301 Telegraph Avenue, all in downtown Oakland; free, 8:00-9:00 (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)
  • Beast Crawl: Leg 4, After Parties: The Beast howls into the night with two after parties, The Legionnaire Saloon, 2272 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, and an all ages after party, The Telegraph, 2318 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, 9:00-midnight (415/706-9128, beastcrawl.weebly.com)

3 SEPTEMBER 2017 — sunday

4 SEPTEMBER 2017 — monday

    EAST:
  • Labor of Love reading by Patricia L. Nichol and Jennifer Pickering, hosted by Wendy Williams, Sacramento Poetry Center, 1719 25th Street, Sacramento, 6:00-8:00 (www.sacramentopoetrycenter.org)

5 SEPTEMBER 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Anita Cruz and Chris Carosi, 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)

6 SEPTEMBER 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Pandemonium Press presents a poetry reading by Terry Lucas, Dharma Rain, MK Chavez, Dear Animal, Bruce Bagnell, The Self-Evolution Spa, and Mary Mackey, The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams, with guitar by Barry Ebner, open mic, food and drink available, The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster Street, Oakland, free, 7:00-9:00 (open mic sign up: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com)

7 SEPTEMBER 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • The Lunch Poems series presents the Annual Kickoff Reading, hosted by Geoffrey G. O'Brien, featuring distinguished faculty and staff from a wide rance of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem, including Adam A. Hillier, Khalid Kadir, Marco Lindsey, Kathy Mendonca, Claudia Polsky, Sidalia Reel, Elizabeth Wilcox, and Tarek Zohdi, Morrison Library (101 Doe Library), University of California campus, Berkeley, free and open to the public, 12:10-12:50 (lunchpoems.berkeley.edu)

8 SEPTEMBER 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today presents a reading by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, BAMPFA admission free for UC Berkeley students, 6:00 (510/642-0808, communalpresence.com, bampfa.org)

9 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday

10 SEPTEMBER 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • Book release party and reading for Saporoso - poems of Italian Food & Love by Jennifer Barone, with drawings by Lam Khong, food, wine, music, and tasty poems read by Italian-American poet/artist Jennifer Barone, plus Ingrid Keir, Adrian Arias, Norma Smith, and more, Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th Street, San Francisco, free, 6:00-8:00 (www.featherpress.org)

11 SEPTEMBER 2017 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents reading by Tureeda Mikell, open reading follows, need a prompt for the open reading? "Lower Case," hosted by Jim, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

12 SEPTEMBER 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry at the Albany Library features "The Moon is Almost Full: Chana Bloch's final poems," an open reading by her family, longtime friend and colleague Chana Kronfeld, her poetry group member Dan Bellm, and others, celebrating Chana Bloch by sharing their words or reading their favorite Chana Bloch poem, copies of her posthumously published book, The Moon Is Almost Full, will be available at the event, hosted by Catherine Taylor, second Tuesdays, Albany Library, Edith Stone Room, 1247 Marin Avenue, Albany, free, 7:00-9:00 (510/526-3720, albanylibrary.wordpress.com)
  • Rafael Jesús González will be named the first official Poet Laureate of the City of Berkeley at the Berkeley City Council meeting, everyone welcome to show support for this exciting project, Berkeley City Hall, City Council Chambers, 2134 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Berkeley, 6:00 (City Clerk Department: 510/981-6900, www.cityofberkeley.info)
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Sarah Page and Tony Robles, 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)

13 SEPTEMBER 2017 — wednesday

14 SEPTEMBER 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poet, activist, and community organizer Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from and performs from his new book, Heaven Is All Goodbyes, Pocket Poets Series No. 61, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 8:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Erica Goss, Night Court, and Gillian Wegener, This Sweet Haphazard, 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 and conversation with Martha Ronk, Ocular Proof, and Paul Vangelisti, Solitude, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu)
  • San Francisco Poet Laureate celebration announces the brand new laureate, Kim Shuck, she will read her poetry and deliver her Inaugural Address to present her plans as poet laureate, a book sale follows the event, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, at Grove, San Francisco, reception: 5:00, program 6:00 (415/557-4277, sfpl.org)
  • The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading by giovanni singleton, AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper, this year's Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics, followed by a reception with refreshments in the English Department Lounge, Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, Third Floor, University of California campus, Berkeley, free and open to the public, reading 6:30, reception 7:30 (hollowayreadingseries.wordpress.com)

15 SEPTEMBER 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • A poetry reading by Jerry Ratch, author of thirteen books of poetry, and Ralph Dranow, A New Life, open mic follows, refreshments, Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:00-9:00 (510/644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org)

16 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry at Florey's Book Company presents a reading by the new Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, Lisa Rosenberg, and Nan Cohen, an open mic limited to three-minute spots starts the event, potluck refreshments, Florey's Book Company, 2120 Palmetto Avenue, Pacifica, 7:30-9:30 (650/355-8811)

17 SEPTEMBER 2017 — sunday

    CENTRAL:
  • "Once and Future Planet: Plants, Water, and People," a meditation on the environment, immigration, corporatization, and the future of our relationship to the planet and each other with Red Hen Press nonfiction author Florencia Ramirez, essayist Pope Brock, and novelist Karen Gettert Shoemaker, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 5:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
    NORTH:
  • The 22nd Annual Petaluma Poetry Walk presents a full-day of readings in a walk from venue to venue in downtown Petaluma: 11:00 a.m.: Gregory Mahrer, A Provisional Map of the Lost Continent, Erin Rodoni, Body, in Good Light, and former Modesto poet laureate Gillian Wegener, This Sweet Haphazard, Seed Bank, 199 Petaluma Blvd. North, at Washington; Noon: Beatriz Lagos, The Great Petaluma Mill, Gwynn O'Gara, Snake Woman Poems, Bill Vartnaw, Postcards, Riverfront Art Gallery, 132 Petaluma Blvd. North; 1:00: Geri Digiorno, Rosetta Mary, Gregory W. Randall, A Cartography of Selves, Tom Sharp, Spectacles: A Sampler of Poems and Prose, Cultivate, 5 Petaluma Blvd., South, suite D; 2:00: wandering poet-printer-yogi, Richard Denner a.k.a. Jampa Dorje, potter and writer of epics, Daniel Michael McKenzie, translator and poet, Pat Nolan, North Bay Cafe, 25 Petaluma Blvd, South; 3:00: Terry Ehret, Night Sky, Sonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle, There's a Ghost in this Machine of Air, Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street; 4:00: Celebration of poet David Bro mige (1933-2009) and his poems, The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street; 5:00: Sandra Anfang, Looking Glass Heart, Katherine Hastings, Shakespear & Stein Walk Into a Bar, Maya R. Khosla, Song of the Forest After Fire, Petaluma Historical Museum, 20 4th Street; 6:00: Raphael Block, Strings of Shining Silence: Earth-Love Poems, guitarist David Field, Ed Coletti, The Problem with Breathing, musician Justin Coletti, poet and prose writer David Madgalene, bass player Steve Shain, composer and multi-instrumentalist Kirk Charles Heydt, harpist and singer/songwriter Susan T. Mashlyama, Aqus Café, Foundry Whart, 189 H Street (this venue is far from the other venues, prepare for a longer walk or drive to this one); Petaluma, free, 11:00 a.m.-7:00 (petalumapoetrywalk.org)

18 SEPTEMBER 2017 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents reading by Lenore Weiss, open reading follows, need a prompt for the open reading? Use some English words that are not common anymore, such as "jargogles," "apricity," "monsterful," hosted by Bruce, Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

19 SEPTEMBER 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Jeanne Powell and Clyde Always, 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)
  • Karen Tei Yamashita celebrates the release of her new work of experimental fiction, Letters to Memory, an excursion through the Japanese internment, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

20 SEPTEMBER 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Lyrics & Dirges monthly reading series presents Sara Campos, Maya Chinchilla, Leticia Hernández-Linares, Adela Najarro, and León Salvatierra, with guest host Harold Terezón, hosted and curated by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman, refreshments, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • Brontez Purnell reads from his new novel, Since I Laid My Burden Down: An Uninhibited Exploration of Growing Up Gay in 1980s Alabama, with a special appearance by The Younger Lovers, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents a Tribute to Margaret Randall, writer, poet, feminist, photographer, and international activist, with Alejandro Murguía, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, $18 door/advance tickets $15 from independent bookstores in Berkeley or brownpapertickets.com, 7:30 (510/967-4495, https://kpfa.org/events/category/kpfa-benefits)

21 SEPTEMBER 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Reception and book signing celebrating Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema and Its Techniques, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)
  • The SFSU Poetry Center presents a poetry reading and conversation with Douglas Kearney Patter, and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, The Easy Body, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu)
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Brittany Perham, Double Portrait, and Matthew Siegel, Blood Work, 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)
    NORTH:
  • Third Thursday Poetry & Jazz Improv Reading Series features Ida Egli, 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, 7:00 (707/884-9189, blake@snakelyone.com, www.facebook.com/215Main)

22 SEPTEMBER 2017 — friday

    CENTRAL:
  • The New Talkies, live film narration by Jaime Cortez, Tongo-Eisen-Martin, Douglas Kearney, Nicole McJamerson, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, Konrad Steiner, Jennifer Tamayo, Anuj Vaidya, and Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal,
  • Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today presents a reading by Jocelyn Saidenberg and Robert Glück, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, BAMPFA admission free for UC Berkeley students, 6:00 (510/642-0808, communalpresence.com, bampfa.org)
  • A poetry reading by British poet Clive Wilmer, from Urban Pastorals, his sequence of prose poems about the England of the poet's childhood, and ideas of John Ruskin, paradise, and the ideal society, limited seating, Holton Studio Frame-Makers, 2100 Fifth Street, at Addison, Berkeley, 7:30 (510/450-0350, www.holtonframes.com)

23 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday

24 SEPTEMBER 2017 — sunday

25 SEPTEMBER 2017 — monday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Express presents reading by Dave Holt, open reading follows, need a prompt for the open reading? "Outer Limits," hosted by J.D., Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Avenue, Berkeley, 7:00-9:00 (PoetryExpress@gmail.com, poetryexpressberkeley.blogspot.com)

26 SEPTEMBER 2017 — tuesday

    CENTRAL:
  • Tuesdays at North Beach, a weekly poetry series celebrating international poets and showcasing local talent, presents a reading by Kristina Brown and Stephen Kessler, 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)
  • Poet Matthew Zapruder in conversation with Oscar Villalon, managing editor of ZYZZYVA literary journal, celebrating the release of Why Poetry, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

27 SEPTEMBER 2017 — wednesday

    CENTRAL:
  • An evening with celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward reading from Bone, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart, life, and inner self, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • Josh Weil reads from his new novel, The Age of Perpetual Light, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

28 SEPTEMBER 2017 — thursday

    CENTRAL:
  • Poetry Flash presents a poetry reading by Thomas Centolella, Almost Human, and Susan Gubernat, The Zoo at Night, 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 and conversation with Camille T. Dungy, Trophic Cascade, and Javier Zamora, Unaccompanied, The Poetry Center, HUM 512, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/338-2227, www.sfsu.edu)
  • Celebrating the release of Heaven is All Goodbyes, the much-awaited second book by Tongo Eisen-Martin, Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, free, 7:30 (510/649-1320, www.pegasusbookstore.com)
  • Zoe Quinn discusses Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, free, 7:00 (415/362-8193, www.citylights.com)

29 SEPTEMBER 2017 — friday

30 SEPTEMBER 2017 — saturday


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