Neeli Cherkovski, Richard Loranger, Joan Gelfand, more

5 NOVEMBER 2019 — tuesday

Book release party and reading with contributing poets and prose writers to celebrate great weather for MEDIA's new anthology, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea, featuring Neeli Cherkovski, Joan Gelfand, Matthew Hupert, Deborah Kennedy, Mira Martin-Parker, Richard Loranger, and SB Stokes, plus a brief open mic, hosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod, Bird & Beckett Books & Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, free, 7:00-9:00 (birdbeckett.com)