Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford and Willy Vlautin

31 MAY 2012 — thursday

An evening of song and verse celebrating Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems, by poet and fiction writer Barry Gifford, with musician and author Willy Vlautin, Lean on Pete, member of the band Richmond Fontaine, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, at Broadway, San Francisco, 7:00 (415/362-4921, www.citylights.com)