653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood

1-415-586-3733
[email protected]

Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tuesday to Sunday
noon to six

 

Live Streams every weekend!

Refresh your browser to catch a show in progress!
Visit our Facebook page or YouTube channel!
But nothing beats being in the room with the music & the musicians!

Sunday, September 13 – 2-4pm
In-Store Book Signing
Poet Neeli Cherkovski will be here
chatting one-on-one with individuals
about his career and his three latest books

Neeli Cherkovski will hang out on the bookshop’s stage to chat with you one-on-one, at a polite social distance, fully masked, for five minutes or so at a time, about his re-released Bukowski bio, his book of conversations with the legendary poet & drummer Clark Coolidge and his own latest poetry collection, Hang on to the Yangtze River (Lithic Press, 2020).

Neeli is an internationally respected poet, author of more that twenty books, who has traveled widely, having given readings in Mexico, Italy and a number of other countries. Translations of several of his books have been brought out by presses in several countries.  His papers are at The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.  He is now completing a new edition of his essential collection of “memoir-esque” essays on twelve key poets, Whitman’s Wild Children.  He has a thousand stories from a storied life in poetry.

Third Mind Books of Ann Arbor, MI has noted that “As our recent research on Cherkovski has shown us, he was a key participant in the San Francisco poetry scene of the mid-1970s and with Thomas Rain Crowe and others revitalized the literary scene in San Francisco to create ‘The Second San Francisco Renaissance.’ ”

He also has an array of nice fountain pens and he knows how to wield them, so buy a book and beseech him for an inscription!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can also stay home and take in the proceedings on
YouTube      or      Facebook

Call us at 415-586-3733 if you want to reserve a book for Neeli to inscribe

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The Independent Musicians Alliance

Gigging musicians! You have nothing to lose but your lack of a collective voice to achieve fair wages for your work!
The IMA can be a conduit for you, if you join in to make it work.

https://www.independentmusiciansalliance.org/

Read more here - Andy Gilbert's Feb 25 article about the IMA from KQED's site

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