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SUMMARY:POETS! Featured Readers + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! Every 1st Thursday\, featured readers followed by a community open mic\, hosted by Michael Koch & Jerry Ferraz
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/poets-open-mic_2026-12-03/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Taurean Horn Poets: Jack Crimmins\, Melissa Eleftherion & Bill Vartnaw
DESCRIPTION:Jack 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.” \nMelissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer\, a librarian\, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn\, she is the author of four poetry collections: field guide to autobiography (The Operating System\, 2018)\, gutter rainbows (Querencia Press\, 2024)\, Suture (Cooper Dillon\, 2026) & Malocchia (White Stag\, 2026) as well as twelve chapbooks including abject sutures (above/ground press\, 2024). Her work has been widely published\, & recently appeared/is forthcoming in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, DIAGRAM\, & Sixth Finch. Melissa served as Poet Laureate for the City of Ukiah (2021-2024)\, and lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library and curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com. \nSonoma County Poet Laureate Emeritus Bill Vartnaw has been the publisher of Taurean Horn Press for 50+ years. Author of two books & 4 poetry chapbooks. After moving back to Petaluma from SF\, he worked with Petaluma Poetry Walk\, founded by Geri Digiorno\, for 25 years.  His latest\, The Nile & The Milky Way\, is on sharpgiving.com.
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/taurean-horn-poets_2026-12-10/
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 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_2026-12-14/
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CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
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