653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
[email protected]

Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!

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But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Thursday, March 21st at 7 p.m.
POETS! H. D. Moe & Cesar Love
Jerry Ferraz, M.C.
open mic follows

H. D. Moe (born 16 Nov. 1937) is considered one of the most important of the “baby beat” poets, with over 30 books of poetry to his credit.  Living in Berkeley, California, Moe has served as editor and publisher of Beatitude Press, Embassy Hall Press and Deserted X Press, and as editor of the Berkeley…

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Sunday, March 17th, 4:30 to 6:30 pm:
“Interstellar Space: John Coltrane’s
Universal Music and Spirituality”
Percussionist Anthony Brown, Ph.D.
and colleagues – concert/panel discussion

which way west? Sunday concert series. All ages welcome! No cover charge, but your generous donations make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Sunday, March 17th, 4:30 pm- Interstellar Space: John Coltrane’s Universal Music and Spirituality Dr. Anthony Brown–multiple percussion and Dr. Leonard Brown–saxophone, with Richard Grieg–bagpipes and poet Genny Lim, will present…

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Sunday, March 17th, at 2 pm:
Poets Roxane Beth Johnson, Robin Ekiss & Xochi Candelaria

Roxane Beth Johnson’s first book of poetry, Jubilee (Anhinga, 2006), was the winner of the 2005 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Philip Levine was the judge. Her second book, Black Crow Dress, will be hot off the press from Alice James Books. She has won an AWP Prize in Poetry and a Pushcart Prize, 2007….

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Sunday, March 10th, at 4:30 pm:
Betty Wong’s Musical Celebration of the Year of the Snake

Betty Wong hosts a musical celebration of the Chinese New Year with a cavalcade of music from  Asia and North & South America, featuring faculty and friends of San Francisco’s Community Music Center (CMC). Classical and folkloric pieces from a number of traditions will be featured on the first half of the program, with a…

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Sunday, March 10th, at 2 pm:
Retrofitting Babel – An Informal Talk about Translation and Translators

Carlos Suarez addresses a few salient issues of translation: How to make a mess and influence literary history without getting caught. The at times amusing troubles poetry translators get into, and how they survive them. The uses of mirrors and echoes to fake a translation, and other tricks of the trade. The dictionary as cemetery…

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Thursday, April 18th, 7:00 p.m.
poets Virginia Barrett & Bobby Coleman
+ open mic

Jerry Ferraz hosts our once-a-month, third-Thursday poetry session, usually featuring one or two strong local poets followed by one of the most intriguing open mics around. This month, Virginia Barrett and Bobby Coleman are our featured poets. Two poets sensitive & righteous at once, comfortable in their own skins and confident in the play of words…

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jazz in the bookshop
Third Fridays 5:30 to 8:00 pm
The Scott Foster Quartet

live jazz in the bookshop every friday Beginning this July, guitarist Scott Foster leads a quartet of his own in Bird & Beckett’s third-Friday-of-the-month slot… 5:30 to 8:00 pm… no cover charge, but your donations at the shows and your tax-deductible contributions to the Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project make it possible for us to pay the musicians. Bring a…

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Jon Frank Quintet – Sunday, Apr. 14 at 4:30

Terry Rodriguez, piano, and Ron Crotty, bass, join drummer Jon Frank, with Joe De Andreis on tenor sax and Noah Frank on trumpet… straight ahead jazz, traversing the territory characterized by the modes and changes of Bill Evans, Miles Davis and the modern masters of the music. Bassist Ron Crotty’s career started with the first Dave…

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Happy Birthday, Sam!

Friday, April 12th, apres le jazz, beginning at 8:30 pm… Come to a celebration for Samuel Beckett’s birthday (born April 13, 1906 in Foxrock, Ireland…died December 22, 1989 in Paris)! Scott Baker, Val Fachman and some of the good thespians from PUS Theatre Company will take the stage with a few gems they’ve polished up for their…

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Bring me the head of Charles Bukowski!
Linda King delivers the goods
Sunday, March 3rd at 2 pm

Linda King has sculpted from life the heads of many great beat and post-beat literary figures familiar to us here on the west coast… her lover Charles Bukowski as well as Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Micheline, Norse, Winans and more. Buk’s head is in the window at Bird & Beckett for the next few weeks… Linda just brought it this…

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