Open Mic: Fiestas Fridas Edition
2017-07-23 15:00 - 17:00 UTC | Adobe Books, 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
All topics, all styles, all skill levels welcome! Come in at 2:30 to sign up.

Fateme Banishoeib
2017-07-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Adobe Books, 3130 24th St., San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Adobe welcomes poet Fateme Banishoeib reading from her new book.
The Whisper is a lyrical engagement with the intimacy and audacity of being human and it reminds of what it is to hide from the world, and in doing so become hidden to our own selves. It speaks of leadership of self first before the leadership of others.
Fateme is a strategic leadership consultant. She defines herself many and multitudes. She gives talks on leadership and human-centered business. Her book of poetry called The Whisper, charts the journey of leadership of self before the leadership of others

Bay Area Poetry Marathon
2017-07-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Guest curator: Chloe Veylit.
Readers: Brandon Brown, Kazumi Chin, Vanessa Flores, Nick Johnson, Joseph Lease, Michelle Lin, Carrie Murphy, and Denise Newman.

Elaine Brown
2017-07-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Himalayan Flavors, 1585 University Ave, Berkeley, CA, 94703, United States
Elaine Brown – “E Spoken”
I have been writing ever since my Mother and siblings taught me how to hold a pen. I grew up listening to the stories my Grandmother and Mother would tell me about my family and their struggles wondering how I could change things. So, history and writing became my passion. I have been writing Free Style Poetry for almost 30 years combining past and present issues that affect our daily lives; motivating people to change their mindsets.

Bay Area Generations #47
2017-07-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
OUR NEXT SHOW: Bay Area Generations Edition #47 on July 24

BAY AREA GENERATIONS #47
July in San Francisco, California at Hotel Rex

Guest Curator: Eileen Malone
Bay Area Generations Curators: TBD
READERS TBA
MUSICAL GUEST TBA

Get tickets
BAY AREA GENERATIONS, EDITION #47
Monday, July 24, 2017
at Hotel Rex, 562 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA
*On Street Parking * Full bar and refreshments * Walkable from Powell Street BART Station
6:30 p.m. – Writers Mixer at the bar
7:00 p.m. – Doors open to Public
7:30 p.m. – Show Starts
Suggested donation $7.00 (admission), $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook
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Bay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors, poets, writers, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show, monthly.
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Standing O Storytelling Graduate Showcase
2017-07-24 19:00 - 21:30 | SAFEhouse Arts, 1 Grove St., San Francisco , CA, 94103, United States
Standing O Storytelling Workshop Showcase
Join Standing O Storytelling’s brand new crop of storytellers as they step onstage to tell their own true stories – without notes – as part of our storytelling workshop graduation show. These brave tellers signed up a mere 6 weeks ago to learn the craft of story with Dixiem and have vowed to tell their tale onstage for you.
This is One Night Only and this intimate venue will sell out fast, so buy your tickets in advance.
Tickets:
$10 in advance (buy online)
$15 at the door (if available)
Featuring Stories by:
– Jeff Hanson

– Gene Alston
– Christina Olsen
– Amy Butcher
– Alan Marwill

– Kristen Krauss
– Gil Stancourt
– Lokesh Rai
Hosted by Bawdy Storytelling /Bona Fide story maven Dixie De La Tou

A Bunch of Bad Hombres: Immigrant Writers Respond to Trump
2017-07-25 18:00 - 20:00 | SF Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, 94102, United States
More details coming soon.

Bob Anbian + Randy Fingland
2017-07-25 18:30 - 20:30 | North Beach, SF Public Library, 850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94133, United States
Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman, Diane di Prima, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program, Poets 11.
The series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence, Jack Hirschman.
Interested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.

Anita Cruz + Chris Carosi
2017-07-25 18:30 - 20:30 | North Beach, SF Public Library, 850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94133, United States
Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work!
Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman, Diane di Prima, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program, Poets 11.
The series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence, Jack Hirschman.
Interested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.

Michelle Richmond
2017-07-25 19:30 - 21:00 | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
Booksmith is elated to host a launch party for the one and only Michelle Richmond, reading from her new novel The Marriage Pact. Join us!
Newlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice, once a singer in a well-known rock band, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact.
The goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .
Never mention The Pact to anyone.

Alice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties, the sense of community, their widening social circle of like-minded couples.
And then one of them breaks the rules.
The young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact, membership, like marriage, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule.
For Jake and Alice, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.

Perfectly Queer-East Bay: YOU Are the Author!
2017-07-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Nomadic Press: Uptown, 2301 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
If you are a queer-identified author and would like to read at our event, write us at: PerfectlyQueerSF@gmail.com
You will have 5 minutes to talk about your work and read. The number of total readers is limited, so we will take those who respond first.

Barry Kraft: Shakespeare Celebration
2017-07-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Book Passage Marin, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. , Corte Madera, CA, 94925, United States
Join Barry Kraft for a celebration of all things Shakespeare! Kraft has acted in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, playing more than 100 roles in 86 full productions. He spent 28 seasons as an actor and dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Andrew Sean Greer
2017-07-26 19:30 - 21:00 | The Booksmith, 1644 Haight St, San Francisco , CA, 94117, United States
Booksmith hosts one of our absolute favorite writers, Andrew Sean Greer, for the launch of his new novel Less. Please join us!
Arthur Less, a mid-list novelist, is approaching his 50th birthday, and he needs to grow up. But first he needs to get out: Arthur’s much younger, exceedingly beautiful ex-boyfriend is getting married, and the last thing Arthur wants to do is attend the wedding. So he accepts every half-baked literary invitation that’s recently come his way, slaps together his frequent flier miles, leaves San Francisco, and takes a trip around the world.
His travels take him to Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Morocco, Vietnam, India, and Japan. Along the way, he finds love, despair, adventure, and plenty of misadventure, is forced to come to terms with the fleeting of youth and the realities of life—in often quite hilarious ways.

Samantha Hunt
2017-07-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection, The Dark Dark with Clara Sankey.
Praise for Samantha Hunt
“Samantha Hunt is astonishing. Her every sentence electrifies. Her characters demand our closest attention. Her new book contains everything that I want in a novel. If I could long-distance mesmerize you, dear reader, into picking up this book and buying it and reading it at once, believe me: I would.”—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble, Magic for Beginners
“I’m speechless. Mr. Splitfoot is so inventive, so new; I haven’t read anything like it in years. On the surface it’s about false spirituality and the most demented road trip across New York State ever attempted, but it’s also about the horrible ties that bind us and the small acts of redemption that make life almost okay. On top of that, it’s a thrilling page-turner. I couldn’t stop reading it.”—Gary Shteyngart, author of Little Failure, Super Sad True Love Story
“Mr. Splitfoot is lyrical, echoing, deeply strange, with a quality of sustained hallucination. It is the best book on communicating with the dead since William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley, but it swaps out that novel’s cynicism for a more life-affirming sense of uncertainty.”—Luc Sante, author of Low Life

About The Dark Dark
From the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories, The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge―girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

Strange things happen all around us all the time, but is it best to acknowledge or to turn away from moments when the weird pokes its way into our ordinary lives?

In these marvelously inventive stories, Samantha Hunt imagines numerous ways in which lives might be altered by the otherworldly. An FBI agent falls in love with a robot built for a suicide mission. A young woman unintentionally cheats on her husband when she is transformed, nightly, into a deer. Two strangers become lovers and find themselves somehow responsible for the resurrection of a dog. A woman tries to start her life anew after the loss of a child but cannot help riddling that new life with lies. Thirteen pregnant teenagers develop a strange relationship with the Founding Fathers of American history. A lonely woman’s fertility treatments become the stuff of science fiction.

Magic intrudes. Technology betrays and disappoints. Infidelities lead us beyond the usual conflict. Our bodies change, reproduce, decay, and surprise. With her characteristic unguarded gaze and offbeat humor, Hunt has conjured stories that urge an understanding of youth and mortality, magnification and loss, and hold out the hope that we can know one another more deeply or at least stand side by side to observe the mystery of the world.

Literary Pachanga
2017-07-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley , CA, 94704, United States
Literary Pachanga showcases three Chicano authors and a singer-songwriter
Pegasus Books celebrates Mexican American Literature with a Literary Pachanga for the community on Wednesday, July 26. Chicano writers Alan Chazaro, Sara Campos, Christine Granados and Northern California singer/songwriter Alyssa Granados will perform from their collective works. The event is free and open to the public.
Alan Chazaro is a first-generation Chicano with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area and Veracruz. His poetry has been featured in the Intro Journals Project from the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and has also appeared or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Review, Huizache, BorderSenses, Pilgrimage Magazine, and other publications. He continues to teach high school in California, and likes to doodle while travelling new cities.
http://agchazaro.wixsite.com/poetry
Sara Campos has published fiction, poetry and nonfiction articles in numerous publications including, St. Anne’s Review, Rio Grande Review, Literary Mama, 580-Split, Colorlines, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the recipient of the Letras Latinas Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Foundation grant, residencies with Hedgebrook, the Anderson Center and fellowships with Macondo and VONA. She co-directs the New American Story Project, an online storytelling project on unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-campos-83571218/
Christine Granados has been a Spur Award finalist and received Sandra Cisneros’ literary prize the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award in 2006 for her first book of fiction Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, published by the University of Arizona Press and her stories have been in many anthologies. She will read from and discuss her second book, a novella and short stories about strong Mexican American women who live along the border, titled Fight Like a Man and Other Stories We Tell Our Children.
http://christinegranados.com
Alyssa Granados’ diverse catalog of guitar styles come from a range of influences spanning from folk to dub. She is half of the Electronic Funk duo Dreamers Paradise out of Boise, ID.
https://soundcloud.com/cadence_boise

Community Voices: Poets Speak Indigo Moor
2017-07-27 17:00 - 17:30 | Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets, along with Arisa White and James Cagney, on Thursday, August 17, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission.
Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.
Community Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White, poet, writer & educator.
Indigo Moor
Current Poet Laureate of Sacramento, Indigo Moor is the author of three books of poetry: Tap-Root (Main Street Rag, 2006), Through the Stonecutter’s Window (Northwestern University Press, 2010), and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers (Main Street Rag, July 2017). His stage play, Live! at the Excelsior, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award and has been optioned for a full-length film. Indigo is the Artist in Residence for 916 ink and on the advisory board for the Sacramento Poetry Center.

My Heart Hemmed In Happy Hour
2017-07-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Center for the Art of Translation office, 582 Market St #700, San Francisco, CA, 94104, United States
Join us for happy hour at the CAT and Two Lines offices to celebrate the release of My Heart Hemmed In, our third book by Marie NDiaye. Stop by after work for a drink and a snack and hear readings from the book by Two Lines staff.
Translated from the French by Jordan Stump, My Heart Hemmed In tells the story of Nadia and her husband Ange, two middle-aged schoolteachers who slowly realize they’re despised by everyone in their community. When a wound mysteriously appears on Ange’s stomach, Nadia desperately tries to save her husband’s life. This leads Nadia on an adventure that propels her out of her small world and into a reality that is deeply troubling and at the same time all-too-familiar.

Books & Brews Event #3
2017-07-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Pour Taproom, 110 Cooper St Suite 100B, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, United States
Lit-Hops: Your Favorite New Book + A Beer To Match! Event #3 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series.
Some things just go well together: Barack and Michelle, peanut butter and jelly…plus books and beer, of course! But which beer to pair with which book? Bookshop Santa Cruz and Pour Taproom have you covered with our third event in our summer series. This ticketed event comes with one free book of your choosing (from our selection) and an amazing discount off of your entire drinking tab from our wonderful friends at Pour Taproom!
Bookshop will be presenting a selection of some of our favorite summer reads. Match yourself up with a book that perfectly suits your taste, then taste the beer that the masters at Pour have expertly paired with it. For $16 plus tax you will get: A voucher to exchange for any book at the event, the chance to match beers with books yourself, as well as a discount of 20% off of your food and drinks at Pour during the event. Every word will be heightened by each flavorful sip, giving you the perfectly balanced experience that will keep you turning pages and reaching for your glass.
$16 (+tax) Ticketed Event Includes: 1 Free Book + 20% off Your Drinks! Non-Ticketed Attendees still welcome!
While you wander the many taps, you can suggest favorite books of your own to pair with a beer, as well as cheer for pairings you enjoy. If one book and beer won’t quench your thirst then make it a flight’s worth of pages, and try a wide selection of bookish beers! That’s the beauty of Pour Taproom–you can explore a world of options from sour to strong to sweet, from beer to mead to wine.
Our booksellers will present a list of over a dozen books, to be revealed that night on July 27th. A perfect event for book groups looking for their late summer reads! There will be 50 total ticket packages available for purchase.
Bottoms up!

Ian Stansel
2017-07-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Ian Stansel discusses his new novel, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo.

Praise for The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo
“A taut and powerful modern Western. I picked up The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo and did not put it down again until I had read the last, moving sentence. Follow Lena on horseback as she pursues a killer through the wilds of Northern California, and in the end you will find yourself someplace unexpected. One of the most compelling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Eowyn Ivey, author of the To the Bright Edge of the World and the Pulitzer finalist The Snow Child

“Although set in the twentieth-first century, this fine novel has a mythic power and resonance. Ian Stansel is a gifted young writer who starts his novel at a gallop and never lets up until the story’s final reckoning.”—Ron Rash, author of Serena, Above the Waterfall

“Ian Stansel’s debut novel is so rich in evocative detail and gripping incident that I thought at several moments I was riding fast next to its sharply drawn characters across rough ground. Like All the Pretty Horses before it, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo inks an indelible portrait of a hard, gorgeous world that is both timeless and in deep, momentous flux. I’m grateful to Mr. Stansel for having written it.”—Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome and The Evening Road

About The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo
A contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud, a woman on horseback trailing her husband’s killer, and the inescapable ties of home and family
When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother’s wife, Lena, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hopes of catching Silas for one final showdown. Stansel follows the chase and shares the story of the brothers’ rise from hardscrabble childhood to their reign as the region’s preeminent horse trainers, tracking the tense sibling rivalry that ultimately leads to the elder’s death.

A fully realized tale that challenges notions of the modern West, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo will satisfy fans of Kent Haruf, Larry McMurtry, Molly Gloss, and Smith Henderson, and establish Stansel as a new voice in this grand tradition.

Guqin, Wong, + Hsu
2017-07-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Clarion Music Performing Arts Center, 816 Sacramento St., San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
An Elegant Tea Gathering
Guqin is a scholarly Chinese musical instrument that traditionally accompanied poetry. In ancient China poets and musicians would often come together for an “elegant gathering.” Of course fine tea will be served in such an occasion.
David Wong (guqin master and director of Tranquil Resonance Studio) together with Clara Hsu, poet, will present an evening of elegant gathering featuring guqin music set to the poetry and translations of William Blake and Lao-Tzu’s Tao-te Ching. Alan Yip and George Hokkanen will perform on the erhu (two-stringed fiddle), guzheng and guqin (both zithers) and Gongfu tea will be served by Kenneth Cannata.
Clara Hsu’s translation of Lao-Tzu’s Tao-te Ching and Infusions will be available for sale. An exhibition of Chinese brush paintings and calligraphy may be viewed at the adjoining Galeria Clarion.

ARC Youth Fest 2017
2017-07-29 11:00 - 17:00 | Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaze, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
ARC Youth Fest is the only outdoor summer art festival put on for youth by youth artists. Artists range from 13 to 24 years old.
ARC Youth Fest takes place on Saturday, July 29th in front of Oakland’s City Hall. From 11AM to 5PM some of the hottest aspiring and emerging artists will perform and showcase their work.

Music, DJs and MCs, dance, visual arts, fashion, culinary arts, film/TV production, health/wellness and fitness, including a Kids Zone and more.FEATURES:
Catch the Turf Inc dance battle, iVisionary music competition, two fashion shows, free makeovers and haircuts, free food samples and much more! We will have live performances by last year’s youth stars, along with emerging artists Neah Rose and Mani Draper and band. Last year we also featured IAMSU and Netta Brielle.
PARTNERS:
This year, our partners include City of Oakland Parks and Recs, Clorox, EOYDC, Flight Deck, Trap Art, Oakland Tech Fashion Art and Design Academy and more.
Admission is free to students or bring donated food items for free entry.
For more info, go to www.arcyouthfest.com.
#sooaklandweekend #foryouthbyyouth #arcyouthfest

Cipactli release party
2017-07-29 14:00 - 17:00 | Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join us to celebrate the release of a new volume of Cipactli, SF State’s Latinx studies literary journal! Readers TBA.

Bay Area Poetry Marathon
2017-07-29 19:00 - 21:00 | Alley Cat Books, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
* Saturday, July 29
____ Guest curators: Simon Craft & Raul Ruiz ____
Readers: Jennifer Cheng * Lorraine Lupo * Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
and more

Saturday Night Special, A "Freedom" Open Mic
2017-07-29 19:00 - 21:30 | Nick’s Lounge, 3218 Adeline St., Berkeley, CA, 94703, United States
In the patriotic month of July, in honor of our 6th Anniversary, Saturday Night Special is celebrating “freedom.” Freedom of self expression, stories about freedom, poems about liberty lost, a lack of supervision, a pet named Freedom you once loved, a pot-bellied pig, perhaps? Put on your party hat and bring us your true, personal, political, confessional, hilarious, surreal, and/or fictional accounts of FREEDOM.
As always, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems, stories, comedic sketches, songs, or dances, on our optional theme (or any topic).
Our July features are: Bronwyn Emery and René Vaz
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First come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm)
Each reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.
PLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS, we turn on the disco lights! So, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself!
After the reading, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm
Saturday, July 29th, 2017
7 – 9:30 pm
Nick’s Lounge (21+)
3218 Adeline Street, Berkeley, CA
1 block south of Ashby BART
Between Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way
FREE!
But bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
Hosted by Hollie Hardy
Please help out by liking our FB page, where you can also find more details and photos from past events:
https://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
BIOS
Bronwyn Emery is the founder and facilitator of To Live and Write in Alameda, a writing community that exists on Facebook and IRL. She is a former columnist and Our Town editor at the Tracy Press, and ghostwriter for self-help gurus. She has mentored new writers since 2002 and is currently a writing coach, developmental editor, novelist, and co-host of the monthly Story Slam at Books, Inc. Alameda.
René Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. His book, “The Planet of the Dead”, is forthcoming from Nomadic Press.

July 2017 Poetry at Florey's
2017-07-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Florey’s Book Co., 2120 Palmetto Ave., Pacifica, CA, 94044, United States
Featured poets, followed by an open mic. Share your poems, or just listen.

Poetry & Place Reading
2017-07-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Arlington Clubhouse, 1120 Arlington Blvd 94530, El Cerrito, CA, 94530, United States
Our Summer Poetry & Place reading will be on 6/30 featuring Robert Hass & Michelle Lin. All ages open mic. Hope to see you at the Arlington Clubhouse!

Howell, Millar, + Laux
2017-07-30 15:00 - 16:00 | DIESEL, A Bookstore, 5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA, 94618, United States
DIESEL, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday, July 30th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Christopher Howell, Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux.
Christopher Howell’s new book of poems is Love’s Last Number. Laura Kasischke says, “In these gemlike meditations on love and time and the human condition—and so much more—Christopher Howell’s vision is nearly mystical, his music almost entirely uncanny…There is a distance in this tone that is all about clarity, and a proximity that is all about intimacy, humility.” He has published ten collections, most recently Gaze and Dreamless and Possible, a volume of new and selected poems. His honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Washington State Book Awards, and three Pushcart Prizes.
Joseph Millar’s new book of poems is Kingdom. Marie Howe says, “If this is a kingdom then Joe Millar may be one of the kings. He’s lived enough to be both man and woman now, and he’s learned to sing so sweet a song it might be rising from the broken branches and the bones of the lost horses, or the desert stars, or the scars of the middleweight boxers who finally went home.” He’s published three previous books of poems, most recently Blue Rust, and he’s won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Joseph Millar and Dorianne Laux will be reading from their new chapbook of poems about music, Duet, as well as from their own books.
Dorianne Laux’s fifth book of poems is The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Prize. Alan Shapiro says, “The Book of Men could just as easily have been called The Book of Empathy, or The Book of Negative Capability, or The Book of Intimate Awareness of Who We Are and How We Got To Be This Way. Whether she is writing about men or women, the powerful or the powerless, the present day or the past, Laux observes, evokes and meditates with profound compassion and understanding for the delicate complexities of the human heart.” Her previous collections are Awake, What We Carry, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Smoke, and Facts About the Moon, which won the Oregon Book Award. Among her other honors are a Pushcart Prize, two appearances in Best American Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Bona Fide Storytelling
2017-07-30 19:00 - 22:00 | StageWerx, 466 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Bawdy Storytelling
Organizer of Bona Fide Storytelling (7/30, SF)

Organizer Facebook Profile BawdyStorytelling
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Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) is America’s Original Sex+Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their bona fide sexual exploits, live onstage. This award-winning performance series is currently monthly in San Francisco and Los Angeles, & expanding to new cities every day. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of authors, sex educators, poets, comedians and actors – along with real people just like YOU who have submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure.
Wanna get Bawdy? Contact Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com

Tim Taranto
2017-07-31 19:00 - 21:00 | Green Apple Books, 506 Clement St, San Francisco , CA, 94118, United States
Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Monday, July 31st at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Tim Taranto, reading from and discussing his book Ars Botanica.

Written as letters to his unborn child, Tim Taranto’s Ars Botanica describes the infinite pleasures of falling in love — the small discoveries of each other’s otherness, the crush of desire, the frightening closeness — and the terrifying impossibility of losing someone. Through examinations of the ways in which various cultures and religions carry grief, Taranto discovers the emotional instincts that shape his own mourning. He seeks solace in the natural elements of our world, divining meaning from the Iowa fields that stretch around him, the stones he collects, the plants he discovers on walks through the woods. His letters, then, are the honest wanderings of someone earnestly seeking meaning and belonging, ultimately resulting in a field guide for love, grief, and celebrating life. At times astonishingly personal and even painful, Ars Botanica is also playfully funny, a rich hybrid of memoir, poetry, and illustration that delightfully defies categorization.

Tim Taranto is a writer, visual artist, and poet from New York. His work has been featured in Buzzfeed, FSG’s Works in Progress, Harper’s, The Iowa Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Paris Review Daily, The Rumpus, and The Saint Ann’s Review. Tim is a graduate of Cornell University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Heather Bourbeau + James Tracy
2017-08-01 18:30 - 20:30 | North Beach, SF Public Library, 850 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, CA, 94133, United States
