Poetry Reading
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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,"…
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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…
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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 Lucille Lang Day & Lisa Rosenberg
Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFree, donations welcome -
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 -
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