Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
POETS Froude Denrow Morse
Richard Froude Jennifer Denrow Jesse Morse POETS! Monday, May 23rd, 7:00 pm Three poets, passing through — two out of Denver, one headed that way… Richard Froude — born in London, raised in Bristol — lives now in Denver. He is the author of The History of Zero, The Margaret Thatcher Trilogy, and FABRIC, brand…
Read MoreMother’s Day di Prima
Happy Mothers Day! Here’s a wonderful clip of the mother of all poets, and mother of five beautiful children, Diane di Prima… a reading at The Band’s Last Waltz, Thanksgiving Day, November 1976, Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco. click here!
Read Moreruth weiss
an original beat… ruth weiss w/trio at bird & beckett friday night may 6th at 8:30 pm poetry and jazz… a book release celebration! can’t stop the beat: the life and words of a beat poet ruth weiss was born in germany as the nazis came to power; her family fled to austria in 1933. …
Read MoreBaseball Poets
Writers Step Up to the Plate! After a tough homestand against the Braves, the Giants have a travel day on Monday, so we’ll use the pause in the schedule for a literary take on America’s favorite pastime… Monday, Apr. 25, 7 pm: Come out to our celebration of the unfolding baseball season, as five writers…
Read Morejazz in the bookshop
Jazz bookends the weekend The Chuck Peterson Quintet on Friday, 4/22, 5:30 to 8:00 pm Also known as the “230 Jones Street Local 6 Literary Jazz Band,†Chuck’s quintet plays a whole lot of beautiful straight-ahead jazz, in a classic West Coast mode. Dorothy Lefkovits joins the band for a few tunes on every set……
Read MoreLiving to spite the devil
here on the roof of hell… Thursday, April 14th, 7:00 pm Bird & Beckett Political Book Discussion Group This Month’s subject of discussion: All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis Have a yen to hash out the cynical and self-serving machinations of the powerful? C’mon down! In its monthly meeting,…
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