A rich gathering of poets will celebrate the work of Bob Kaufman, collected in a new volume from City Lights Books, edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell, with a forward by devorah major. Lawrence Ferlinghetti said of Kaufman, “He was an original voice. No one else talked like him. No one else…

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available James Mahone Quartet James Mahone, saxophone Eddie Mendenhall, piano Giulio Xavier Cetto, bass Hamir Atwal, drums Two sets of jazz standards by four of the Bay Area’s very best! James Mahone got his start as a founding member of the legendary Los Angeles jazz combo called Black Note, alongside…

$20 suggested donation/sliding scale available. Talk about your San Francisco jazz… On the fourth Friday of each month, our weekly jazz in the bookshop series features The 230 Jones Street, Local 6 Literary Jazz Band — in direct line of descent from the Chuck Peterson Trio, which started the whole “jazz in the bookshop” thing…

Eveline Kanes is a poet and literary translator . Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals. Her book translations range from biography and fiction, to history, poetry and sociology. Her chap book, A Coin Worn Thin, appeared in 2015. Her current work is under submission. Susan Dambroff is a poet, performer, and teacher. Her…

Amy Glynn is an award-winning poet and essayist whose work appears widely in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry. Her first poetry collection, A Modern Herbal, was published in 2013 by Measure Press; her second, Romance Language, is forthcoming in early 2020. She has received the Carolyn Kizer Award from Poetry Northwest, the SPUR…

From ancient times on, each generation spins its own visionary accountings out of threads of events only the universal psyche has ever fully embodied in memory. Whether in times of cultural evolution or devolution, fairy tales entertain, disturb, and edify, existing as offerings for us to contemplate, even as the ages roll on. Each fairy…

Be sure you’re on our email list, and keep an eye on this website! Friday, Jan. 3 we’re right back at it with Maestro Myron Cohen on the pots beating out a rhythm with el pianista Keith-0 Saunders et le bassiste extraordinaire Ollie le Dudek. Get down here at 5:30 with a fistful of dollars…

Mourning the death of the poet… celebrating the life of the poet Friends read for street peddler, artist and poet Steve Dalachinsky, a legendary figure of the New York loft world who died of a brain hemorrhage September 15th, 2019, two weeks shy of his 73rd birthday, the day after his vibrant reading at an…

$20 suggested donation; any amount appreciated The Hard Bop Collective Daniel Casares, tenor sax; Jordan Samuels, guitar; Tomoko Funaki, bass; Austin Lee Harris, drums. Swingin’ and boppin’ since 2011 for San Francisco’s party set!

$20 cover charge; sliding scale available Forged by six-string electric bassist Michael Wilcox, this trio with saxophonist Sheldon Brown and drummer Bryan Bowman continues in the tradition of Sonny Rollins’ early explorations of the tenor sax/bass/drums format. As a trio, they explore a wide variety of music that’s interested them over the years, from Brazilian…