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SUMMARY:POETS! Angie Minkin & Heather Saunders Estes + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Angie 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. \nFrom rolling the dice\, sliding down chutes\, climbing the ladders of memory\, or shooting free throws for the departed\, Angie Minkin’s Lineage Songs takes us on a journey where the poet speaks of love and kinship in the shadow of roosters who lack alarm clocks and any decent sense of timing. We zigzag from inner to outer world\, consider dreams of “prowling jaguars and river-drinking deer” and dance through an examined life as the poems question the status quo of what we believe\, war\, how we live with ourselves\, and\, finally\, how we reclaim our own loving presence and ancestry in this complicated world. \nMichael Koch and Jerry Ferraz are your hosts and m.c.s \nNo charge to attend or read. Donations appreciated to help us compensate the featured poets. \nPOETS! Every 1st Thursday\, featured readers followed by a community open mic.
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/poets-open-mic_2026-11-05/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Danny Rosen & J Grabowski w/ Starry Skemes: A Two-Way Mirror Book Party & Concert
DESCRIPTION:Two-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. \nEach morning Danny Rosen pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita\, Colorado. Early on he learned to swing a hammer and that changed everything. He has been a poet\, publisher\, teacher\, geologist\, astronomer\, and carpenter. In the middle of his journey he found himself running an astronomical observatory in the heart of the Namib Desert under the southern sky where he cultivated an optimistic outlook based on his familiarity with big space and deep time. He is the author of Suspended Erosion (2024)\, The Tuscan Journals & Other Poems (2022)\, Primate Poems (2016)\, Ghosts of Giant Kudu (2013)\, and That Curve (2006). He founded Lithic Press in 2007 and has run Lithic Bookstore since its opening in 2015. An inveterate rock hanger\, he has collaborated with beavers on a variety of landscape installations. \nJ Grabowski is an artist from New York whose practice explores drawing\, writing\, painting\, sculpture\, movement\, and music. He cofounded PUSH Press\, the Heliopolis Project (2010-2015)\, POMPEI and Turtle Records. Previous publications include Time Landscape (Bird & Beckett\, 2017). \nJ.Lee is a San Francisco is a San Francisco multi instrumentalist\, songwriter\, improviser\, modular synthesist and visual artist. He is a member of the indie psych rock band Starry Skemes and the experimental rock band Warm Spell. He has formerly played with the Rabbles\, Static Faction and Aerosol Species. jleeartsandmusic.com
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/rosen_grabowski_starry-skemes/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event,Live Music,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poets: Kim Shuck hosts featured readers TBA + open mic
DESCRIPTION:Kim 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.  \nKim embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco\, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile\, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale’s. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand\, keys\, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times. \nKim\, whose poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage\, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco\, served as San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate\, from 2017-2021. In 2019\, she was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. Among her many books and chapbooks\, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In\, one in a long line of poetry collections\,was published in 2024\, and her book of essays Noodle\, Rant\, Tangent was published in 2022.  \nIn her term as Poet Laureate\, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples’ heritage. \nKim is assisted by Brett Benson\, a heroic volunteer who keeps the Zoom going. When he’s not doing that\, he’s a high school teacher down the Peninsula apiece\, and runs an open mic at Le Promenade opposite the Balboa Theater in the Outer Richmond District. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 \nMeeting ID: 843 5026 5713\nPasscode: 244211
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/virtual-poets_2026-11-09/
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CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project":MAILTO:eric@birdbeckett.com
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SUMMARY:Poet Kim Shuck: A reading
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Kim Shuck from three new books: \nNovember Dance Shirt: a new collection of Kim’s poems written in November 2023. \nAmerican Indian Stories by Zitkala-Ša\, re-release\, with an intro and new essay by Kim. More on Zitkala-Ša here (Wikipedia). \nThis Music: Record of a Poet Becoming\, Janice Gould’s last and posthumous book which Kim helped to edit. This reading will include poems\, prose poems and prose written by Indigenous women from the early 20th century through the present day. This work tracks concerns and conditions for Native women\, including joy and whimsy. \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nKim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco\, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile\, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale’s. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand\, keys\, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times. \nKim\, whose poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage\, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco\, served as San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate\, from 2017-2021. In 2019\, she was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. Among her many books and chapbooks\, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In\, one in a long line of poetry collections\,was published in 2024\, and her book of essays Noodle\, Rant\, Tangent was published in 2022. \nIn her term as Poet Laureate\, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples’ heritage.
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/kim-shuck_2026-11-17/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poets: Kim Shuck hosts an all open mic reading
DESCRIPTION:Kim 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.  \nKim embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco\, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile\, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale’s. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand\, keys\, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times. \nKim\, whose poetry draws on her multiethnic background which includes Polish and Cherokee heritage\, and her experiences as a lifelong resident of San Francisco\, served as San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate\, from 2017-2021. In 2019\, she was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets\, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. Among her many books and chapbooks\, Pick a Garnet to Sleep In\, one in a long line of poetry collections\,was published in 2024\, and her book of essays Noodle\, Rant\, Tangent was published in 2022.  \nIn her term as Poet Laureate\, she hosted scores of free poetry and art workshops for all ages at neighborhood libraries and schools and worked closely with San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Arts Commission to launch major citywide initiatives to honor Native American Indigenous Peoples’ heritage. \nKim is assisted by Brett Benson\, a heroic volunteer who keeps the Zoom going. When he’s not doing that\, he’s a high school teacher down the Peninsula apiece\, and runs an open mic at Le Promenade opposite the Balboa Theater in the Outer Richmond District. \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84350265713?pwd=eE84V3BYdWxiSFBHNHhmdUt1WTUzdz09 \nMeeting ID: 843 5026 5713\nPasscode: 244211
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/virtual-poets_2026-11-23/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project":MAILTO:eric@birdbeckett.com
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