Posts by Eric
Sunday, March 9th – 10-11am
SF Lives Livestream
Journalist Denise Sullivan
in conversation with
poet Dee Allen
Independent reporter Denise Sullivan brings the SF Lives series to Bird & Beckett for a Sunday morning livestream. This month’s guest is Dee Allen, launching his 10th volume of poetry, The Mansion: Liberated Zones Inside The Controlled Inner City (Gnashing Teeth Publishing).”Named in honour of his first real home in the Bay Area, The Mansion covers…
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Saturday, March 8th – 7:30pm
The Zen of Glenn
colleagues probe the influence of a fallen hero
Francis Wong, saxophone. Erika Oba, flute, piccolo, piano, melodica. Chris Trinidad, bass, synth. Carrie Jahde, drums. Helen Palma, vocals. $25 cover charge; byob. For a reservation, call the shop at 415-586-3733. “Zen of Glenn” is a new CD recording of the works of the late composer and activist Glenn Horiuchi (1955-2000), featuring arrangements by longtime…
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Friday, March 7th – 8:30-10pm
The James Mahone Quartet
Eat at home. Go out late. Stay out late. Enjoy the James Mahone Quartet! It’s the Friday late set at Bird & Beckett! James Mahone, tenor sax. Grant Levin, piano. Sam Bevan, bass. Michael (Mike) Mitchell, drums. Take a piano trio and do it one better! Nothing epitomizes jazz like the tenor saxophone! We love…
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Friday, March 7th – 6-8pm
The Brian Andres Trio
Jazz in its essence! The piano trio is the traditional heart of the art form. If you don’t grasp that yet, you surely will over the course of the evening! Three musical minds, long experienced in developing their ideas, skills and technique, listening to each other, conversing in a common language without words on topics…
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Thursday, March 6th – 7pm
Poet Beau Beausoleil reads from War News II
open mic follows
Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist (Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here) based in San Francisco. He is the author of 15 chapbooks of poetry. His most recent titles are the Killing of George Floyd, Poems for Ukraine, and War News I. Michael Koch hosts. An open mic will follow, conducted by Jerry Ferraz.
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Wednesday, March 5th – 7pm
City Bird
Patrick Dunagan reads the title poem
from his City Lights volume of the same name
Patrick James Dunagan commences at 7pm to read aloud from “City Bird”—the long title poem from his new book from City Lights—and doesn’t quit till the whole thing’s been aired. Bring a pigfoot and a bottle of beer, a box of wine, or whatever keeps your gears turning, and head on out to Bird &…
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