Books
Saturday, March 16 – 2:00-3:30 pm
Book event – High Voltage Women:
Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light
by Ellie Belew
High Voltage Women: Breaking Barriers at Seattle City Light (Red Letter Press, 2019), by Ellie Belew, documents a great victory for women in the trades and for women’s rights. One of the first women Electrical Trainees at Seattle City Light, Megan Cornish, will speak at the event.
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Tonight! Thursday, April 26th – 7:00-8:30 pm
Riverside poet Nikia Chaney book launch
Poet Nikia Chaney reads from us mouth (forthcoming from University of Hell Press, 2018). She is the current Inlandia Literary Laureate (2016-2018) and is the author of two chapbooks, Sis Fuss (2012, Orange Monkey Publishing) and ladies, please (2012, Dancing Girl Press). Nikia is Inlandia poet laureate, founding editor of shufpoetry, an online journal for…
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Sunday, April 8th – 2:00 pm
Joseph Maviglia – mostly words without music, and some with
essayist, poet, singer/songwriter
Canadian poet, guitarist and songwriter Joseph Maviglia’s visit to Bird & Beckett has been four years in the making! His collection, Critics Who Know Jack (Urban Myths, Media and Rock and Roll) was published in Guernica Editions’ “Essential Essays” series in 2014 when the conversation started. Now, he’ll read a bit from the book, do…
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Thursday, March 29th – 7-9pm
Treyf Pesach
Hilton Obenzinger
with Don Alberts, Chris Amberger and Noel Jewkes
A Reading, A Party & Some Jazz
Blasphemy is holy—and exciting, outrageous literature in Hilton Obenzinger’s new book Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). Join Hilton, and jazz musicians Don Alberts, Chris Amberger and Noel Jewkes, at Bird & Beckett on Thursday. March 29th for an evening of poetry and treyf that’s un-kosher for Passover or any other time! Novelist Paul Auster declares that this collection of…
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POETS! every 1st & 3rd Monday
Monday, March 5th – 7-9 pm
A Reading for Al-Mutanabbi Street
An open mic follows
Jessica Loos, organizer and m.c.
March 5th, 2018, at 7 pm, Bird & Beckett Books in San Francisco will join with others around the world to host a poetry reading in observance of the 11th anniversary of the bombing of Baghdad’s Al Mutanabbi Street. Featured readers will be followed by an open mic, in which all who wish to participate will…
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Ongoing in Galley Ex Libris
Time Landscape: Paintings and a reading by J Grabowski
Time Landscape is J Grabowski’s first release of writing coupled with drawings – reflecting his day to day notebook process that he has continued for over a decade; making work on the go, wherever he is; bringing the studio to the place. The book was written while walking to and from work over the past few…
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