Posts Tagged ‘poetry’
Sunday, October 5th – 2pm
Taurean Horn 40th Anniversary Reading
Taurean Horn Press 40th Anniversary Reading — Publisher Bill Vartnaw and a roster of fine poets celebrate one of California’s key small presses.  Poets Q. R. Hand, Gail Mitchell, Jeanne Powell, Kim Shuck will be joined by other alumni of the press to be announced.
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Tuesday, Sept. 23rd – 7:00 pm
Poets Maria Mazziotti Gillan
and Jan Beatty
Maria Mazziotti Gillan, in California from her home back east for the Petaluma Poetry Walk, recently published a new volume of poems called The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets.  She is a recipient of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs), the 2011 Barnes…
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Sunday, Sept. 21 – 2 pm
Poets Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet
+ Robert Thomas
Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s The Greenhouse, published this month by Bull City Press, won the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Contest.  Judge David Baker praised The Greenhouse “for its interplay of restlessness and patience, its mapping of an interiority both shared and dearly personal, and its lyric and maternal primacy. Primacy is the circumstance, yet doubleness is the story, the double birth…
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Thursday, Sept. 18 — 7:00 pm
Nancy Morejón, Cuban writer,
in a farewell reading and
70th birthday celebration!
Nancy Morejón is a highly regarded Cuban poet, essayist and literary critic, past president of the Writers’ Section of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC).  Her work has been translated into numerous languages.  In 2001, she was winner of the National Literature Prize in Cuba. She’s been in the Bay Area for the…
Read MoreAugust 29, 30 and 31… jazz trifecta!
Live music from the Bird & Beckett bandstand three nights a week, EVERY week! Fridays, it’s “jazz in the bookshop” from 5:30 to 8:00 pm. Saturdays, “jazz club” from 8 to 11. Sundays, our “which way west?” concert series from 4:30 to 6:30 pm — mostly jazz, plus a few other things to broaden our…
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Monday, August 18th – 7:00 pm
POETS! Ayo Khensu-Ra
with saxophonist Ra-Ta
open mic follows, Jerry Ferraz m.c.
A voice in poetry like Ayo’s does not come along often.  Attend to it and see what you find there.  Ayo’s father, Ra-Ta, will ride along on saxophone.  “some kind of poetic musical endeavor…” says Ayo… “or musical poetic endeavor…whatever. Me reading, my dad playing etc. Come on down, invite a friend, have a drink…
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