What is poetry? What is the poet’s role? Is there a future for this ancient art? Does poetry constitute an ideology? Poet Neeli Cherkovski will talk on these and other issues in a provocative evening in Glen Park.

The Jazz Philanthropists Union presents… Erik Jekabson, trumpet Kasey Knudsen, saxophone Keith Saunders, piano John Wiitala, bass David Flores, drums

Al Molina, trumpet; Jerry Logas, reeds, flute & vocal; Larry Chinn, piano; Dean Reilly, bass; Vince Lateano, drums. Bop & swing from five solid senders. The long-running Friday after work jazz party at Bird & Beckett has never paused since it started 17 years ago! Contribute what you can to help us pay the musicians!

Three Heads Gone is a collaboration among three poets long associated in the San Francisco swirl of words & music & art. A serial poem, they call it… a Two Way Mirror Book hot off the press. Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. During…

Ukulele Jam Fundraiser for Bird & Beckett Books and Records Bring your uke and come on out to strum, jam, and just enjoy ukulele music! All levels are welcome. Play at your own level and sing along. Or just come and listen to everyone else! Aloha Uke Squad is accepting song requests, from the community,…

A Night Horn Press celebration… On April 1st, poet and Night Horn Press publisher Robert Anbian joins poet Michael Koch to recite verse and celebrate Night Horn’s most recent release, Koch’s poetry collection Street Theology.  The featured readers will be followed by the usual Monday open mic.    

with Kirk Harwood, drums Takezo Takeda, guitar

The Mythological Tao: A Convocation of Image and Meaning. A consideration of primordial writings, and their ways of interpreting present-day consciousness. I see it as an element of a trilogy, incorporating Chinese, Vedic, and Sufic flavorings.  

Saturday, March 30th 7:30 – 10:00 PM What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Dmitri Matheny, flugelhorn Ken French, piano Ron Belcher bass Greg Wyser-Pratte drums Flugelhorn master Dmitri Matheny has been lauded as “one of the most emotionally expressive improvisers of his generation” (International Review of Music). An honors graduate of Berklee College of Music, Dmitri…

The Grant Levin Quartet featuring Noel Jewkes Noel Jewkes, reeds Grant Levin, piano Kash Killion, bass Mark Lee, drums every Friday after work