Poetry Reading
Events
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POETS! Angie Minkin & Heather Saunders Estes + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesAngie Minkin and Heather Saunders Estes both have new poetry collections out: LineageSongs and Crosswinds, respectively. Come hear their poems, and bring one of your own for the open mic to follow. From rolling the dice, sliding down chutes, climbing the ladders of memory, or shooting free throws for the departed, Angie Minkin's Lineage Songs takes…
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Danny Rosen & J Grabowski w/ Starry Skemes: A Two-Way Mirror Book Party & Concert
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesTwo-Way Mirror books celebrates the release of its latest books: Danny Rosen's A Love Poem Called War and J Grabowski's POMPEI: or The Notes Are In The World, with music by J Lee's Starry Skemes. Publisher Marina Lazzara hosts. Each morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East…
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Virtual Poets: Kim Shuck hosts featured readers TBA + open mic
ZoomKim Shuck conducts the twice-monthly Virtual Poets series, with featured readers followed by an open mic on the 2nd Monday of each month and an all-open mic session on the 4th Monday of each month. Kim embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San…
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Poet Kim Shuck: A reading
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesReadings by Kim Shuck from three new books: November Dance Shirt: a new collection of Kim's poems written in November 2023. American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša, re-release, with an intro and new essay by Kim. More on Zitkala-Ša here (Wikipedia). This Music: Record of a Poet Becoming, Janice Gould's last and posthumous book which Kim…
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Virtual Poets: Kim Shuck hosts an all open mic reading
ZoomKim Shuck conducts the twice-monthly Virtual Poets series, with featured readers followed by an open mic on the 2nd Monday of each month and an all-open mic session on the 4th Monday of each month. Kim embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San…
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
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Taurean Horn Poets: Jack Crimmins, Melissa Eleftherion & Bill Vartnaw
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesJack Crimmins is the Sonoma County-based author of seven poetry collections, including his latest trilogy, "The Light in California" (Taurean Horn Press). In her introduction to his first book, "Kit Fox Blues," Diane di Prima wrote, "Jack Crimmins weaves together the music of the city streets and the urgent, fragile sounds of wilderness." Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer,…
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Virtual Poets: Kim Shuck hosts featured readers TBA + open mic
ZoomKim Shuck conducts the twice-monthly Virtual Poets series, with featured readers followed by an open mic on the 2nd Monday of each month and an all-open mic session on the 4th Monday of each month. Kim embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San…
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Avotcja & Modúpue: afro-latin jazz and poetry
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPoet / Playwright / Essayist / Fiction Writer / Multi-Percussionist / Photographer / Teacher, Avotcja is a Bay Area icon and is renowned for her group Modúpue. At Bird & Beckett tonight, Modúpue will be a quintet with Avotcja joined by violinist Sandi Poindexter, saxophonist Francis Wong, bassist Heshima Mark Williams and talking drum master Baba Ken Okolulo.
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
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Tate Swindell/Thomas Antonic on Allen Ginsberg/William Burroughs
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesThe well-oiled machine that is the road show of two intrepid archive divers, San Francisco's Tate Swindell and Vienna's Thomas Antonic, reaches Tate's home base with a program built around the Allen Ginsberg's 1980 Graz, Austria poetry event with Peter Orlofsky and musician Steven Taylor "America: Give A Shit," a 2026 double lp release on Swindell's Unrequited Records label, and Antonic's forthcoming book, The Three Wives of William Burroughs.
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
Free, donations welcome -
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
Free, donations welcome -
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
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A celebration of poet Ronald Sauer – POETS! First Thursdays featured poets plus open mic
Poet Ronald Sauer's poetry volume Ascent of the Mount Obvious celebrated; an open mic follows. Screenshot
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
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POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesPOETS! Every 1st Thursday, featured readers followed by a community open mic, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
Free