Posts by Eric
Sunday, March 19th – 4:30-6:30 pm
which way west?
Jami Cassady reads from the Joan Anderson letter
70 years on… Having met Neal Cassady in December 1946 in NYC, Jack Kerouac says so long to Neal on March 4, 1947, and Neal returns in a tear to Denver. By March 7, Neal has written a letter to Jack from Denver, the “Great Sex Letter,” astonishing and thrilling Jack with its energy &…
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Sunday, March 19th – 2pm
Late 20th Century Poems & Other Writings
of Papasquiaro, Panero & Ferrer LerÃn
–Arturo Mantecón, poet and translator, joined by poet Gilberto RodrÃguez, with musicians Dylan Morgan and Arturo Balderrama
Poet Arturo Mantecón presents a reading from the work of three late 20th century Spanish language poets/writers — Francisco Ferrer LerÃn, Leopoldo MarÃa Panero and Mario Santiago Papasquiaro.  Mantecón is joined on the program by Gilberto Rodriguez, who will declaim poems of Panero, and by musicians Dylan Morgan and Arturo Balderrama. Mantecón’s translations include poems…
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Saturday, March 18th – 7:30-10pm
Sandor Moss y su mecanica
jazz club! when lights are low… every Saturday night
Cuban style son with timba and folkloric strains cooked up by percussionist Sandor Moss y su mecanica…Â From Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba — Fito Reinoso, tres & vocals “El Niche” Romero, trumpet & vocals From Havana, Cuba –Â Vladimir Cepeda, congas From Bolivia — Gabriel Navia, bass From Nicaragua —Â Sandor Moss, drumset A proud Mariel,…
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Friday, March 17th – 5:30-8 pm
1967 Redux: Scott Foster Quartet
jazz and bebop in the bookshop every Friday since 2002
Time to revisit some music released in that fabled year, 1967! Lincoln Adler, sax Scott Foster, guitar Mike Bordelon, bass Dan Foltz, drums Unbelievably wonderful jazz guaranteed
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Thursday, March 16th – 7-9 pm
ARCANA BOIL!
ARCANA BOIL! – Concert and Reading in celebration of the Shuffle Boil Special Issue of AMERARCANA – featuring Hafez Modirzadeh, David Boyce, Marshall Trammell. The latest issue of AMERARCANA is guest edited by poets Steve Dickison and the late, great David Meltzer, erstwhile editors of SHUFFLE BOIL: A Magazine of Poets and Music, and consists…
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Sunday, March 12th – 7:30-9:30 pm
The Seducers
Classic, Outlaw & Honky Tonk Music by legends of the Bay Area country scene  Joe Goldmark, pedal steel guitar Mitch Polzak, lead guitar and vocal Hank Maninger, bass guitar and vocal Kenny Owen, drums
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