Michael McClure and David Meltzer

3 JUNE 2012 — sunday

Poets Read Poets benefit features a reading by Michael McClure and David Meltzer in support of "The Painted Word" exhibition, extended through July 14, and including over eighty works of art by writers and poets of the San Francisco Renaissance: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, William Saroyan, Henry Miller, Robert Duncan, Jess, Kenneth Patchen, William S. Burroughs, and more, event features live jazz by the tbd-A Quartet, wine and refreshments, Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street, San Francisco, $50, 5:30-8:30 (415/398-7229, www.meridiangallery.org)