Friday to Wednesday at Bird & Beckett

March 31, 2011

Poets Monday night… and, then, the night train to Lisbon…arriving Wednesday…   MONDAY (4/4) – 7:00 to 9:00 pm POETS! Hosted by Jerry Ferraz Jason Morris and Patrick James Dunagan Patrick James Dunagan‘s new book is There Are People Who Say That Painters Shouldn’t Talk:  A GUSTONBOOK, just published by the Post-Apollo Press. His work…

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POETS! David Gitin

March 7, 2011

Poet David Gitin reads from“the journey home” Sunday, March 13th 2 pm Gitin came of age in Buffalo, NY — where he came to know such giants in American poetry as Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, John Wieners, Robert Kelly and Diane Wakoski.  He traveled out to San Francisco in the late ’60s……

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POETS! Foust, Rader, Stein

March 4, 2011

3 poets – 1 reading Sunday Mar. 6, 2pm Rebecca Foust – Dean Rader – Melissa Stein                     fresh voices, award winners all, speaking with assurance & grace…  

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POETS! Rockpile

January 28, 2011

Rockpile Revisited Sunday, January 30, at 2:00 pm, the poets’ roadshow known as Rockpile rolls into Bird & Beckett.  David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg spent several months crisscrossing the country in 2009 with numerous forays out in 2010, converging with poets and musicians in a couple dozen localities, making art from their moment-to-moment experiences.

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Walker Brents III on Goethe’s Faust

January 19, 2011

Faust’s Deal with the Devil – Sun. 2:30pm On the fourth Sunday of each month, Walker Brents III plumbs the depths of subjects literary, mythological and historical…  always a fascinating excursion into the realm of human imagination… Through the years, Walker has gained a loyal audience for his monthly talks at Bird & Beckett… for…

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