Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Thursday, August 27th – 7 pm
POETS David Meltzer & Julie Rogers
with Zan Stewart, sax
CD Launch Party
w/guest poets Christopher Luna &
Toni Partington, from Vancouver, WA
CD LAUNCH PARTY! Two Tone Poetry & Jazz David Meltzer & Julie Rogers Zan Stewart on saxophone with special guest poets from afar / long-time friends Christopher Luna (Clark County, WA Poet Laureate) Toni Partington  indomitable beats, zensters, seers, latter day philosophes: luminous souls in jazzland David Meltzer and Julie Rogers have just released their new CD, Two…
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Sunday, July 26th – 4:30-6:30 pm
Celebrate Avotcja’s 74th birthday
with Modúpue!
Avotcja—one of our very favorite musicians and culture warriors, and a bona fide jazz legend—kicks off Bird & Beckett’s Sunday music series in January every year in performance with her band, Modúpue.  And we were proud to host her here just a few months ago to receive an award from the Jazz Journalists Association —…
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Sunday, June 21st – 2 pm
A Celebration for
Poet Neeli Cherkovski’s
The Crow & I
with honored guest Diane di Prima
Neeli Cherkovski’s newest volume of poetry, The Crow and I (R.L. Crow Publications, 2015) — following two works from the same publisher: Leaning Against Time (2004, PEN Award winner) and From the Canyon Outward (2009) — “again opens the window to the self as (Cherkovski) takes us deeper into his search for time, reason, redemption and love.” Joining Neeli…
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Monday, June 1st – 7-9 pm
POETS!
Dan Liberthson
+ poetry of David Hallstrom
followed by an open mic
Dan Liberthson crafts poems from his thoughts on family, animals, baseball… all the things that tease his curious mind.  A storyteller as well as a wordsmith, his belief in the power and utility of narrative and language never flags.  He has several collections to his name, the latest being Morning, and Begin Again (self-published, 2012). David…
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Wednesday, May 20th – 7 pm
Murmurations Reading Series
Poets Tiff Dressen & Nico Peck
Come to the 2nd installment of Murmurations reading series (Avery Burns’ occasional series at Bird & Beckett) for an evening of Delphic proportions. What does that mean? Here are two poets wholly engaged with the idea “Know thyself”. Each explores this terrain thru the lens of the contemporary lyric adding to its potential and continued…
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Monday, May 4th – 7 pm
POETS! 1st & 3rd Mondays
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz
Jorge Argueta and Jerry Ferraz share the featured slots on tonight’s reading — which coincidentally is Jerry’s birthday! Jerry has been hosting our reading series for more than a dozen years, and was on the first bill of poets we ever presented here. Â He’s a native son of the city, and has been wandering the…
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