Carolyne Wright’s new book is entitled This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems (Lost Horse Press, 2017).  Her ground-breaking anthology, Raising Lilly Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace (Lost Horse Press, 2015), received ten Pushcart Prize nominations and was a finalist in the Foreword Review’s Book of the Year Awards. She has nine earlier poetry volumes, five books of poetry in…

Bird & Beckett hosts a monthly jam session with the inaugural class of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s brand new jazz BMUS (Bachelor of Music) degree program. The session is open to high school and college students who want to take the stage. This is the present and future of jazz! Come down to…

The art of the duo… The last two months of the Grant Levin residency at Bird & Beckett that started in June are underway! In November, we continue it with a duo on the 2nd Tuesday, a trio on the 3rd, a quartet on the 4th. Tonight it’s bassist Joe McKinley making the music with Grant. Joe…

Dave Tidball (clarinet, bass clarinet) Jim Dukey (clarinet, bass clarinet) Dick Mathias (clarinet, bass clarinet) Charlie Keagle (clarinet) Here we go again! With this concert, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet will no doubt present an array of new music, plenty of it conceived and arranged very recently indeed. They’re known to go off on tangents, very productively. Bebop to polytonal…

Klipschutz hosts… Three on a Match! The New, Improved Reading Series… featuring Paul Fericano • His poetry and prose have appeared in publications and media outlets in the U.S. and abroad since 1971, including Miramar, The Realist, Mother Jones, The New York Quarterly, Saturday Night Live, The Wormwood Review, Krokodil (Moscow) and Charlie Hebdo (Paris)….

A jazz legend, the drummer Danny Spencer leads a quintet featuring Noel Jewkes on sax, David Udolf on piano and Carla Kaufman on bass, with vocalist Sherri Roberts singing some favorites. Danny came out of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Detroit in 1964 and had already acquired a huge reputation and vast experience when he came…

An extended Friday night jazz party gets our 16th year of Friday nights off to a fabulous start… two groups will share the stage for the evening, starting with the Adam Gay Quartet at 5:30 and continuing in alternating short sets until 9:30 pm with Sandra Aran’s latin dance band, Ritmojito! Come early and stay…

Julie Rogers and Gene Berson met in 2011 at City Lights, the night of David Meltzer’s launch for his book, “When I Was A Poet”, #60 in the Pocket Poet Series. It was a big deal. Julie read too, first up. Afterward, Gene stood in line to get his book signed. He approached and congratulated…

Joe Goldmark, pedal steel, leads a country music supergroup, tonight with special guest vocalist Lynne Maes of Nashville Honeymoon joining Hank Maninger on lead guitar and vocals, Tim Wagar on bass and Kenny Owen, the Haiku Cowboy, on drums. You’ll undoubtedly hear some classic duets lodged in the American soul by George Jones & Tammy Wynette,…