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SUMMARY:Avotcja & Modúpue: afro-latin jazz and poetry
DESCRIPTION:AVOTCJA’s poetry is music and Avotcja’s music is poetry. Both are as hot as fire and as soothing as snow flakes. And in both she brings the best of her talent in Spanish and English. Listen to her. Read her. Enjoy her. Celebrate her.”\n• Camincha – Peruvian Poet/Novelist; & Pacifica Poet Laureate\, 2017-2021. \nPoet / 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. \nModúpue was named best jazz group of the year twice\, in 2005 and again in 2010\, by the Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame. Avotcja herself was named a “Jazz Hero” by the Jazz Journalists Association. Her radio shows on KPFA – Bebop\, Cubop & the Musical Truth (Tuesdays\, 8-10pm)\, and KPOO – La Verdad Musical (Fridays\, noon-3pm)\, have been soul satisfying for decades\, expressing the boundless joy she always finds in the music. As for her poetry\, no one taps deeper wells of humanity than Avotcja! We love her more than we can express. \nRead here what Linda Tillery\, Chuy Varela\, Camincha\, Greg Landau\, Leslie Simon\, Ishmael Reed\, Lady Bianca\, Elaine Cohen\, Julian Carroll and Melanie Berzon have had to say in praise of Avotcja! \nThe cover charge for the quintet tonight is $25 cash or venmo\, payable at the door. College and high school students – $10. Grade school and younger\, free. No one turned away for lack of funds. Wheelchair accessible. Bring your own beverages\, but please eat out or at home before or after the show. Lots of good restaurants in the neighborhood\, cafes\, and grocers!
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/avotcja-modupue_2027-01-03/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Poetry Reading
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SUMMARY:Poets Lucille Lang Day & Lisa Rosenberg
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URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/poets-lucille-lang-day-lisa-rosenberg/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project":MAILTO:eric@birdbeckett.com
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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_2027-01-07/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading
ORGANIZER;CN="Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project":MAILTO:eric@birdbeckett.com
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SUMMARY:Tate Swindell/Thomas Antonic on Allen Ginsberg/William Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:The 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 recording of Allen Ginsberg 1980 Graz\, Austria poetry event with Peter Orlofsky and musician Steven Taylor dubbed “America: Give A Shit\,” now a 2026 double lp release on Swindell’s Unrequited Records label\, and Antonic’s recently published book\, The Three Wives of Queer William S. Burroughs (Beatdom\, 2026). \n(L-R) Taylor/Ginsberg/Orlofsky – photo by Saul Shapiro \nTate and Thomas have lately been presenting programs focused on the Ginsberg lp in Budapest\, Vienna\, Prague and Graz. Thomas was last heard at Bird & Beckett in January 2022 presenting his previous book\, Amongst Nazis: William S. Burroughs in Vienna 1936/37. Tate is well known to San Francisco beats\, baby beats and post beats for his production of cultural materials — books\, lps\, readings\, concerts — derived from his archive explorations and personal contacts with the likes of Harold Norse\, Gregory Corso\, Neeli Cherkovski and countless others through the past couple of decades. \n 
URL:https://birdbeckett.com/event/tate-swindell-thomas-antonic-on-allen-ginsberg-william-burroughs/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books & Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry Reading,Talks / Interviews
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