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Sunday, April 13th — 2:00 pm
PEN Oakland Writers
A reading by six writers, all officers or Board members of PEN Oakland: Â Floyd Salas, Claire Ortalda, Sharon Doubiago, Kirk Lumpkin, Judith Cody and John Curl. About PEN Oakland: PEN Oakland (the “blue collar PEN”) was founded in 1989 to promote emerging multi-cultural literature and to educate about the nature of that work. Â PEN Oakland…
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In Oakland: Friday, April 11 at 8 pm
Amerarcana Release Reading No. 2
An East Bay launch party for the new, fifth, issue of our lovely literary magazine, Amerarcana, will take place with readings by contributors Micah Ballard, Steve Dickison, Marina Lazzara, Jackson Meazle and John Sakkis at on Friday, April 11th, 8 pm, at the Public School — 2141 Broadway, near 19th Street BART station. Nick Whittington will host, and…
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Monday, April 7th – 7:00 pm
POETS! hosted by Jerry Ferraz
Featured readers: José Luis Gutiérrez & Erica Goss — open mic follows
Erica Goss is a former editor of Caesura, the journal of literature and art put out by Poetry Center San Jose. She taught high school poetry for five years, has lead art and writing camps for young people, and currently teaches poetry workshops for adults. In 2012, she began writing a column on video poetry…
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Sunday, April 6th — 4:30-6:30 pm
Vocalist Bobbe Norris
with the Larry Dunlap Trio
Seward McCain, bass
Jim Zimmerman, drums
Pianist Larry Dunlap and vocalist Bobbe Norris have been performing together since the late 1970s, married since about the same time. Born in San Francisco, she was singing at shopping center openings and like by the age of twelve. She was sitting in at Bop City in the 1950s while still a teen and,…
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Saturday, April 5th – 7 p.m.
Amerarcana No. 5:
A Bird & Beckett Review
release reading and celebration!
Join us Saturday night, April 5th, to celebrate the fifth edition of our annual literary magazine, Amerarcana.  On hand for the reading will be contributors Duncan McNaughton, Richard O. Moore, Julien Poirier, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux and Sarah Heady, joining editor and designer Nicholas James Whittington and cover artist Jack Whittington. Amerarcana is really Nick’s baby, and we’re…
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Sunday, March 30th — 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Heshima Duo
Bassist Heshima Mark Williams is a San Francisco native whose playing springs from thirty years’ experience of the Bay Area’s rich musical heritage. Â Heshima studied under the tutelage of the first African-American classical bassist in the Boston Symphony, Dr. Ortiz Walton. Â He has toured with trombonist Julian Priester; trumpeter Eddie Henderson; saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Sonny…
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