Dan Richman, scheduled as the featured poet tonight, cannot attend due to illness. Dan is a wry and philosophical poet, also a playwright, novelist, essayist and performer, of good humor and great insight. He read on our first bill of poets back in 1999 or so, and has continued to write all along, taking in the terrain on which San Francisco is built, the birds circling in its skies and wading in the bayshore wetlands, and the people who inhabit the streets and trails, going about their business day to day. We’ll look forward to his return to the mic when he’s better and his schedule allows.

Time spent in his company is time well spent.

Tonight’s reading is all open mic, with Michael Koch, m.c.