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(Nicole McFeely)

Featured Event: Tuesday, June 28th

Tuesday is a pretty overlooked day. Sandwiched in between the most disliked day of the week, Monday, and its ever-welcomed midway point, Tuesdays can seem pretty dull. However, the three events occurring Tuesday, June 28th might change that. What’s so great about this Tuesday’s events besides the voices involved? Well, they’re all free. That’s right. That means, if your wallet is as light as mine these days, you can spend all that extra money you’ll now have on a taco. Maybe even a cheap pint for later. Wow. Thanks, for looking out, Tuesday.

First up, at lunchtime, is Youth Speaks: Words & Voices. Don’t know about Youth Speaks? Check this out (or just show up). In the evening, choose between two very different events. The first, Found in Translation, is a book club meeting held each month to discuss some of the best new fiction from around the world. This month’s selection, “Never Any End to Paris” is a unique blend of fact and fiction written by one of Barcelona’s most renowned authors, Enrique Vila-Matas. Though prior knowledge of the book is bound to help, newcomers are always welcome! The second event, Writing w/o Walls, is the debut of a reading series that likes to party. Phil Genaldo, Gina Goldblatt, and Jeff Von Ward invite you to join six featured readers in some “drunken limb flailing” which they promise will bring the audience closer. Snuggle up, but keep an eye out for elbows, would ya? Read the rest of this entry »

(Evan Karp)

An old 16^th& Mission regular moved to New Zealand 5 months ago, wrote new poems there and memorized them, came back last week to the corner excited to perform them. “16^th & Mission is over,” said his best friend and poetry cohort, though there were easily 150 people there to celebrate the 8^th anniversary of weekly congregations. Old-timers reemerged for the event; newcomers brought their own understanding to the circle. Some of the best poets did not perform and the aforementioned cohort screamed a brilliant new poem into a wall of indifferent sound. The corner can be frustrating, but is far from dead. Read the rest of this entry »

(Evan Karp)

We were trying on different hats and stealing glances at ourselves when the readings began at Goorin Bros. hat shop in North Beach, part of Litquake’s Epicenter series that featured Out of Our poetry magazine this month. Editor Sarah Page smiled as her husband Steven Gray read his poem about a frustrated couple on the first day of spring, jackhammers outside their window not blue jays [here for videos]. Then it was onto the 45, crushed against commuters in Chinatown through the Stockton St Tunnel, into the bustling cool of Thursday evening in Union Square and West up Post St to Café Royale, where two dozen veteran literati plopped down on plush sofas and shared a living room experience at the five-plus year-old InsideStoryTime reading series [here for videos]. No sooner had April Sinclair finished her tale about moving to Woodacre, in chase of the small town feel found in childhood viewings of the Andy Griffith Show, and only to be one of four black residents there, some of us hopped in cars and drove over to Fivepoints Arthouse to celebrate the release of Jesús Ángel García’s transmedia novel badbadbad. Read the rest of this entry »