Upcoming Poetry Readings (events sponsored by Saturday Poets are listed in green)
April 20, 2006, 7:30pm, Ecstatic Thursdays (Ecstatic Monkey Reading Series at Modern Times Bookstore). Peter Orner in celebration of his new novel The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo with Ecstatic Monkey members Amy MacLennan and Kevin Hobson. Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street (between 19th and 20th), San Francisco.
May 9, 2006, 7:00pm Amy MacLennan and Kim Alvarez (followed by an open mike). The Blue Monkey Bar and Taqueria, 1 East San Fernando Street, San José.
May 10, 2006, 8:00pm, Stanford Creative Writing Program presents Li-Young Lee, Mohr Visiting Poet, reading his work, Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center, Stanford University campus, Stanford, free and open to the public, (650/725-1208)
May 12, 2006, 7:30 p.m, Maxine Chernoff and Barbara Jane Reyes, Small Press Traffic, Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, $5-10 sliding scale, http://www.sptraffic.org
May 15, 2006, 8:00 p.m., Seamus Heaney, City Arts & Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, ($18.50)
May 28, 2006, 7:30pm, Jane Hirshfield and Kay Ryan at Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, (510/845-7852)
June 15, 2006, time TBD, Esther Kamkar and others read from Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway in San Francisco. 415.362.8193
June 20, 2006, time TBD, Esther Kamkar and others read from Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora. Kepler's Books and Magazines, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park. (650) 324-4321.
Poetry Readings
of the Past
(drat, you missed
them already!)
June 18th, 2003 at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Angela Howe-Decker, followed by an open microphone.
June 22nd, 2003, at 4:30pm, at Artisan's Art Gallery, 78 East Blithedale, Mill Valley, CA, 415-388-2044. Angela Howe will be among a group of featured readers, as part of the Marin Poetry Center's Summer Traveling Show.
June 28th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Bookworks in Pacific Grove. Amy MacLennan will participate in a reading from the anthology So Luminous the Wildflowers.
July 4th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at The Art and Wine Garden in Boulder Creek, corner of Forest and Pine streets. Amy MacLennan will be featured, followed by an open mic. For more information, call JC at (831)338-3948.
July 15th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Borders Books, 588 San Francisco Blvd, San Rafael, CA, 415-485-3328. Amy MacLennan will be among a group of featured readers, as part of the Marin Poetry Center's Summer Traveling Show.
July 16th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Robert Hoppensteadt, followed by an open microphone. .
July 17th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at the Pacifica Library, 104 Hilton Way (corner of Palmetto), Pacifica, CA 94044, 650 355-5196. Featured reading by Robert Hoppensteadt,.followed by an open microphone. Refreshments.
July 21st, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Willow Glen Books, located at 1330 Lincoln Avenue, San Jose, CA, 408-298-8141. Gene Paré will read.
August 20th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Amy Miller, followed by an open microphone.
September 17th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Amy MacLennan, followed by an open microphone.
October 15th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Gene Paré, followed by an open microphone.
October 29th, 2003, at 7:00pm, at A Clean Well-Lighted Place For Books, 601 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco. Amy Miller will be among the featured poets at the Fourteen Hills reading series sponsored by San Francisco State University. Other readers are Haleh Hatami, Jasmine Kelly, Mukta Sambrani, and Jenny Bitner.
October 30, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. at San Jose State University. Reading by Stuart Dischell
November 7, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. at The Poetry Center (Humanities 512) SFSU campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco. College of Humanities. Poets for Peace reading. Admission to the event is free, but a share of the proceeds from sales of Against Certainty will be donated by the publisher to Survivors International. Poets reading: Stephen Ajay, David Alpaugh, Dan Bellm, Chana Bloch, Ruth Daigon, Lucille Lang Day, Sandra Gilbert, Jane Hirshfield, Lynne Knight, Dawn McGuire, Toni Mirosevich, Ruth Schwartz, Susan Terris and Andrena Zawinski.
November 8th, 2003 at 7.30 p.m. Emmanuel Williams will be featured at a Poetry for Peace reading (Peace Action of San Mateo) to be held at Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo, Beck Hall, 300 E.Inez at N. Ellsworth, San Mateo. Open mike follows.
November 10, 2003, at 8:00pm, Former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins will read in the Lane lecture series at Stanford University in Palo Alto, in the auditorium of the Education building.
November 12, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. at San Jose State University, King Library, 2nd Fl, Rm 225-229. Reading by Li-Young Lee.
November 16, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. at Cody's bookstore on Telegraph Avenue. Reading by Marilyn Hacker
November 16, 2003, 7:00pm, at Linnaea's Cafe, San Luis Obispo, CA. Amy MacLennan will read during the San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival.
November 18th, 2003, at 7:30pm, at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University (Humanities Building 512, 1600 Holloway Ave.). Amy Miller will be one of the featured readers celebrating the publication of Fourteen Hills magazine.
November 19, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Sarah Busse, followed by an open microphone.
November 23, 2003, 2:00pm, Pacifica Poetry Festival, at the Sanchez Concert Hall in Pacifica, CA. Featured readings by Robert Hoppensteadt.and other local poets. Co-sponsored by Pacifica Performances. Reception and book signing afterward.
December 16, 2003, 7:30pm, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, Veterans Memorial Building , Room 23, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA. $3 donation requested.
December 17, 2003, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Gail Clark, followed by an open microphone.
January 8, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Robert Bly, San Jose Museum of Art, 110 South Market Street, San Jose, ($7 - Poetry Center San José members free)
January 9, 2004, 7:00 p.m., David St. John and Northern California poets published in RUNES, Hosted by poet-editors CB Follet and Susan Terris, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera
January 10, 2004, 2 p.m., Kim Addonizio, Molly Fisk, Forest Hamer, Toni Mirosevich, C.J. Sage and Ellen Bass
POETS FOR PEACE, Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia, San Francisco ($5 donation suggested)
January 11, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Kay Ryan and Elena Karina Byrne, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
January 15, 2004, 8:00 p.m., Billy Collins, City Arts & Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco ($18.50)
January 16, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Kim Addonizio, Poets Pulling Prints (with Susan Browne), Center for the Book, 300 DeHaro Street, San Francisco
January 18, 2004, 7:00 p.m. Reading by Kim Addonizio, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael
January 21, 2004, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by David Alpaugh, followed by an open microphone.
January 27, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Kim Addonizio, Black Oak Books, 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
January 28, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Kim Addonizio, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
February 1, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Thomas Gunn and David Biespiel, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
February 5, 2004, 12:10 p.m., Maxine Hong Kingston, Morrison Library in Doe Library, UC Berkeley campus
February 12, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Juan Felipe Herrera and Margarita Luna Robles Herrera, Weigand Art Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont
February 18, 2004, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Cameron McKinley , followed by an open microphone.
February 21, 2004, SFSU Poetry Center 50th anniversary reading, Adrienne Rich, Ishmael Reed, Michael McClure, Robin Blaser and Etel Adnan, Knuth Hall - SFSU (Tickets go on sale on January 5)
February 23 - 7:00PM, Marge Piercy, Stanford University Bookstore, White Plaza, Stanford Bookstore Art Alcove
February 25, 7:00 p.m., Carolyn Kizer, Sandra M. Gilbert, Mark Turpin, The Depot Bookstore, 87 Throckmorton, Mill Valley.
February 25, 8:00 p.m., Philip Levine, Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street (between Scott & Pierce), San Francisco.
February 26, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Amy Miller, Robert Hoppensteadt, Amy MacLennan, Emmanuel Williams, Natalie Gore, Morning Brew Coffee Co., 713 Linden Ave., Ste. A, South San Francisco.
March 9, 7:30 p.m., Edward Hirsch & August Kleinzahler, Jewish Community Library, 1835 Ellis Street (between Scott & Pierce), San Francisco.
March 11, 2004, 7:30 p.m., George Keithley, Weigand Art Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont
March 14, 2004, 7:30 p.m., devorah major, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley ($2)
March 17, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by John Rowe, followed by an open microphone.
April 1, 2004, 12:10 p.m., David St. John, Morrison Library in Doe Library, UC Berkeley campus
April 3, 2004, Pleasanton Poetry Festival, all-day event with workshops and readings with poets William Minor, Robert Sward, David Alpaugh, www.pleasantonarts.org
April 3, 2004, 2:00 to 4:00pm, Evelyn Jess-Fulwiler, Florey's Book Co., 2120 Palmetto Ave, Pacifica, CA 94044-2768 Phone: (650) 355-8811.
April 8, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Adrienne Rich, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga ($25 / $30)
April 10, 2004, Rod Clark, Florey's Book Co., 2120 Palmetto Ave, Pacifica, CA 94044-2768 Phone: (650) 355-8811.
April 13, 2004, 5:30 p.m., Dan Bellm, Faculty Lounge, Rothwell Center, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland
April 17, 2004, The SFSU Poetry Center's 50/50 Festival, "50 years of poetry past, 50 years of poetry future," a multi-stage poetry extravaganza, curated by City Lights Books, The Poetry Center, and others, The Unitarian Center, 1187 Franklin at Geary, SF. Featuring Diane di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wanda Coleman, Eileen Myles, Jack Hirschman, Al Robles, devorah major, James Schevill, Cecile Pineda, and David Meltzer.
April 17, 2004, Tom Ekkens, Florey's Book Co., 2120 Palmetto Ave, Pacifica, CA 94044-2768 Phone: (650) 355-8811.
April 19, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Willow Glen Books, San Jose (Reed Magazine release reading)
April 21, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Jacqueline Berger, followed by an open microphone.
April 22, 2004, 7:00pm, Rod Clark, Starbucks Coffee, Pacifica, CA.
April 24, 2004, Paul Strom, Florey's Book Co., 2120 Palmetto Ave, Pacifica, CA 94044-2768 Phone: (650) 355-8811.
April 25, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Café Pomegranate, 221 E. San Fernando, San Jose (Reed Magazine release reading)
April 28, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Kay Ryan, Mahoney Library, Petaluma Campus, Santa Rosa Junior College, 680 Sonoma Mountain Parkway, Petaluma campus
April 30, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Gerald Stern reading from his new memoir, with poet and translator Willis Barnstone, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley ($2)
May 1, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Edinburgh Castle Pub, 950 Geary Street, San Francisco (Ecstatic Monkey Writer's Collective Reading)
May 1, 2004, 7:30 p.m. (door open 7:00 p.m.), Tamim Ansary, Beth Lisick, Justin Chin, Jon Longhi, Diane di Prima, Alejandro Murguia, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Eileen Myles, 826 Valencia Kids, Peter Plate, Dave Eggers, Ishmael Reed, Ananda Esteva, Al Robles, Agneta Falk, Sean San Jose', Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Leslie Scalapino, Jewelle Gomez, Anthony Swofford, Matt Gonzalez, Michelle Tea, Daphne Gottlieb, James Tracy, Thea Hillman, Tim m' West, James Kass, Youth Speaks - City Lights presents an offsite May Day event, MANIFESTO: Coming Out Against Empire at CELLSpace, 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco, $10.00 (tickets at the door)
May 11, 2004, 8:00 p.m., Gary Snyder in conversation Garrison Keillor, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco ($20/$25)
May 19, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Bernard Gershenson, followed by an open microphone.
May 20-22, 2004 in La Conner, Washington. Skagit River Poetry Festival. Founded in 1998, the festival will feature appearances by 25 regional poets and 7 nationally-known headliners.
June 2, 2004. at 9:00pm. The Berkeley Poetry Slam presents performance poets competing for cash, hosted by Charles Ellik and dani eurynome, The Starry Plough, 3101 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, $7/$5 students with ID, 8:30, all ages before 9:00, sign up 7:30 (510/ 841-2082, www.daniland.com/slam)
June 3, 2004, 7:30 p.m. Ecstatic Monkey Literary Promotions presents a Writers Collective Reading, Mama Buzz Cafe, 2318 Telegraph, Oakland (www.ecstaticmonkey.com)
June 4, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Ellen Bass and Robert Sward, San Francisco Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco, Free (and free signed letterpress broadsides by Felicia Rice of Moving Parts Press will be available), for more information call 415-565-0545 or visit http://www.sfcb.org/php/event.php3?id=t2-060404-evt
June 6, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Jack Foley, Susan Terris, et al, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley (So Luminous the Wildflowers anthology reading, $2, 510-845-7852)
June 16, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Stephen Sadler, followed by an open microphone. This will be a special event, complete with a cake and door prizes, to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of our reading series!
June 18, 2004, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (open mike 8:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.), South San Francisco Cultural Arts Commission Poetry Night, featuring Angela Howe, Robert Hoppensteadt, Amy MacLennan, Emmanuel Williams, Elizabeth Nisperos, and Bethellen Levitan (MC: Leigh Radtke), Municipal Services Building/Atrium, 33 Arroyo Drive, South San Francisco.
June 20, 2004, 2:00 p.m., Poetry for Father's Day, Dan Bellm, Thomas Centolella, Katharine Harer, Aurora Levins Morales, Reginald Lockett, devorah major, Elizabeth Rosner, and Rich Yurman, Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, www.mtbs.com
June 22, 2004, 7:00 p.m., Robert Bly, this Booksmith event will take place at the Park Branch Library, 1833 Page Street, San Francisco
June 23, 2004, 7:00 p.m., David St. John, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco (415-362-8193, www.citylights.com)
June 25 to June 27, 2004, NDNU/Foothill Writers Conference (click for details)
June 27, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Kim Addonizio, Dorothy Barresi, and Susan
Browne, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley ($2)July 9, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Black Oak Books, 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
July 13, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Kim Addonizio and Susan Browne, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3 donation requested
July 14, 2004, 5:30 p.m., Lynn Ruth Miller reads from her family memoir along with poet and fiction writer Lisa Ortiz, wine and light hors d'oeuvres, Monticello Inn Library, 127 Ellis Street, SF, (415/394-0661)
July 16, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Squaw Valley Benefit Poetry Reading with Robert Hass, Sharon Olds, Cornelius Eady, C.D. Wright, and Dean Young, USF Presentation Theater, 2350 Turk (at Masonic), San Francisco, $15-$20, 415-422-2434
July 21, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Maggie Morley, followed by an open microphone.
July 24, 2004, Bay Area Poetry Marathon: Stefani Barber, Laynie Brown, Mary Burger, Del Ray Cross, Steve Dickison at 12:30-2:10; Robert Glück, Yedda Morrison, Jocelyn Saidenberg at 2:20-3:40; Opal Palmer Adisa, Dodie Bellamy, Gillian Conoley at 7:00-8:20; Edward Foster, Kathleen Fraser, Leslie Scalapino at 8:30-9:30, The Lab, 2648 16th Street near Mission, SF, $4-$15 sliding scale
August 5-20, 2004, Cafe Show Art Exhibit and Performance Event to benefit SomArts Cultural Center, SomArts Bay Gallery, 934 Brannan Street (at 9th Street), San Francisco - August 5: 5:00 p.m. Opening Reception Phillip T. Nails (host/poet) with music and poetry - August 7: noon-4:00 p.m. Amy MacLennan (poet), Mikl (poet) with music and performance - August 14: noon-4:00 p.m. music and performance - August 20: 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Closing Reception with music and performance - http://www.artworksf.com/events/cafe04.html
August 15, 2004, at 4:00pm. William Landis, Maggie Morley, et al. will appear in a poetry reading at Sight & Insight Gallery, 616 Throckmorton, Mill Valley. 415-388-4331
August 18, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Esther Kamkar, followed by an open microphone.
August 19, 2004, ArtSFest CONNECT, Amy MacLennan (poetry), Peter Metcalf (cello), Deborah Crooks (folk singer), Bedtime Story (folk/rock), 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., SomArts Gallery, 934 Brannan (at 9th St.), San Francisco
August 21, 2004, Bay Area Poetry Marathon: Jim Behrle, Sean Finney, Joanna Fuhrman, Roxi Hamilton, Rodney Koeneke at 12:30-2:10; Hazel McClure, Rusty Morrison, Mike Sikkema, Brian Teare, Elizabeth Treadwell at 2:20-3:40; Norma Cole, Gloria Frym, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian at 7:00-8:20; Brenda Hillman, Michael Palmer, Bin Ramke at 8:30-9:50, 21 Grand, 449 23rd Street, Oakland, $4-$15 sliding scale
September10, 2004, 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Kim Addonizio, Cheryl Dumesnil and Susan Browne, Varnish Fine Art, art gallery and wine bar, 77 Natoma Street, San Francisco, (you must be twenty-one), 415-222-6131
September 11, 2004, Poets Against the War Monterey Bay Reading, Ellen Bass, Susan Browne, Diana Garcia, Ilya Kaminsky, Dorianne Laux, Nathaniel Mackey, Morton Marcus, Maude Meehan, Joseph Millar, Amber Coverdale Sumrall, Robert Sward, Gary Young, Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, 7:00 p.m. $3 donation requested,
http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/events/040911.htmlSeptember 15, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Susan Browne, followed by an open microphone.
September16, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Tom Centolella, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael
September 16th, 2004, 7:30pm. The Markstyle Center, in association with the City of Menlo Park Recreation Department, presents poets Jym Marks, Jon Eckels, Reggie Lockett, and Tanee McIntosh at the Menlo Park Recreation Center, 701 Laurel St. (across the parking lot from the library), Menlo Park, CA 94025.
September 18, 2004, Sonoma County Book Fair, over sixty authors including poets Jane Hirshfield, Lynn Watson, Tom Sharp, Gail Mitchell, Q.R. Hand, Jr., Dan Bellm, Truong Tran, Susan Browne, Buddha's Dogs, Kate Gale, Richard Beban, Carolyn Wing Greenlee, Jim Lyle, Stephen Kessler, Old Courthouse Square, downtown Santa Rosa, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (707-527-5412, www.sonomacountybookfair.org)
September 19, 2004, Reading and catered reception for Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye with poets Deema Shehabi and Fady Joudah, cellist Matthew Ownen and more, Middle East Children's Alliance, 901 Parker Street, Berkeley, $50 benefits medical relief for Palestinian children, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. (510-548-0542, www.mecaforpeace.org)
September 19, 2004, Amy MacLennan and contributors to the Big Ugly Review, Issue Release Party, The Club Deluxe, 1511 Haight Street at Ashbury, San Francisco, 6:30 p.m., (you must be 21 to attend), www.biguglyreview.com
September 19, 2004, Naomi Shihab Nye, Berkeley, reception and fundraising reading at the Benefit for the Middle East Children's Alliance 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.., contact Penny Rossenwasser 510-548-0542
September 19, 2004, Petaluma Poetry Walk: Susan Herron Sibbet, Lynn Lyman Trombetta read at Deaf Dog Coffee, 134 Petaluma Blvd., N., at 12:00 noon, Francesca Bell and Adam David Miller read at Volpi's Ristorante & Bar, 122 Washington, at 1:00, Frank X. Gaspar and Dorianne Laux read at The Apple Box (The Mill), 6 Petaluma Blvd. N., at 2:00, Kim Addonizio and Susan Browne read at the Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., at 3:00, Richard Beban and Kate Gale read at Copperfield's Books, 140 Kentucky Street, 4:00, CB Follett, Susan Terris and Amber Thomas
read at The Phoenix Theater, 201 Washington Street, at 5:00, and the finale features G.P. Skratz, Summer Brenner, Bob Ernst, reading and performing with musician Andy Dinsmoor, and Geri Digiorno, Nancy Keene at Zebulon's Lounge, 21 Fourth Street, (you must be twenty-one), at 6:00, all in Petaluma, free, noon-8:00 (707/763-4271)September 22, 2004, 7:30 p.m. Diane di Prima, Lone Mountain/MFA in Writing Series, University of San Francisco, Lone Mountain, Room 148, 2800 Turk Blvd., San Francisco, 415-422-6066
September 23, 2004, 7:00 p.m., The Best American Poetry 2004 reading, Jane Hirshfield, Lyn Hejinian, Jennifer Scappettone, Kari Edwards and Rae Armantrout, A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco.
September 25, 4:30 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Julia Vose McClung, Gloria North, Dossie Easton, Franceye Smith (Marin Poetry Center Traveling Show), BookBeat Cafe, 69 Bolinas Road, Fairfax
September 27, 2004, Robert Hoppensteadt, Amy MacLennan, Amy Miller, Sacramento Poetry Center, Sacramento Ballet, 1631 K Street (17th and K), Sacramento, 7:30 p.m.
September 28, 2004, 6:30 p.m. Diane di Prima and Jo Kaufman, Poetry at the 33, 3300 Club, 3300 Mission Street at 29th Street, San Francisco, 415-826-6886, www.3300club.com
October 2, 2004, noon - 5:00 p.m. Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Robert Hass, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Pattiann Rogers, Generations, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, George Keithley, The Starry Messenger, Lucille Lang Day, Peter Warshall, Chris Olander, Susan Sibbet, Blake Moore, Claire Blotter, Lorenzo Baca, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Kirk Lumpkin, Dennis Fritzinger, Civic Center Park on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, Poetry Flash: 510-525-5476.
October 9-17, 2004, Litquake, outrageous line-ups of local literary talent taking place all over San Francisco, http://www.litquake.org
October 10, 2004, Small Press Distribution fundraiser featuring poets Diane di Prima, Justin Chin, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Janice Mirikitani, Lyn Hejinian, with poet Forrest Hamer as emcee, St. John's Presbyterian Church, 2727 College Avenue, Berkeley, $35, 4:00 p.m. (510-524-1668x305, www.spdbooks.org)
October 14, 2004, 7:30 p.m., Michael McClure, Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael
October 20, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Steve Arntson, followed by an open microphone.
October 20, 2004, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Diane di Prima, David Meltzer, devorah major, Michael Rothenberg, Jack and Adelle Foley, Michael C. Ford, Gerald Nicosia, A.D. Winans, Jayne Lyn Stahl, Neeli Cherkovski, Philomene Long, RD Armstrong, Engaged: Poets for Democracy & Core Freedoms, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Public Library, 100 Larkin, San Francisco, ladyjaynestahl@yahoo.com.
October 22-- A Night of Words and Images in celebration of Poesy Magazine, issue 26. Gerald Nicosia, Kirk Glaser, Klipschutz and Lisa Ortiz will read followed by an open mike at Wired Wash Cafe, 135 Laurel Street, Santa Cruz. http://www.geocities.com/poesyinc
October 23, 2004, Benefit Poetry Reading with Jane Hirshfield for Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, 1601 Shoreline Highway, Muir Beach, dessert reception, book signing and reading, call early to reserve, $50 (reading only, $20), 7:30 p.m., 415-383-3134
October 25, 2004, Gary Snyder, City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m. (415-362-8193)
October 26, 2004, Gary Snyder, Black Oak Books, 1491 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., 510-486-0698
October 27, 2004, Heather McHugh, Kresge Auditorium, Stanford campus, 8:00 p.m.
October 30, 2004, at 7:00 pm. The Caselli Street Poets Cooperative will read at Moon News Bookstore, 315 Main Street, Half Moon Bay, on Saturday, Featured poets are: Nina Schuyler, Gene Alexander, Laura Oliver, Rebekah Eppley and Bethellen Levitan. Moon News: (650) 726-8610
November 9, 2004, Ishmael Reed, Kresge Auditorium, Stanford campus, 8:00 p.m.
November 11, 2004, CANCELLED Wanda Coleman reads from The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors, published by David R. Godine, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m. (415-362-8193)
November 12, 2004, Poets Pulling Prints, readings by poets Christina Hutchins and Alice Templeton, signed broadsides of their work are available, 7:00 p.m., Center for the Book, 300 De Haro Street, San Francisco, 415-565-0545
November 12, 2004, Diane di Prima's 70th birthday with a reading including Neeli Cherkovski, Michael McClure, Jack and Adelle Foley, Lenore Kandel, and Kush; Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joanne Kyger, David
Meltzer and devorah major will send works to be read, benefits Excelsior Branch Library Renovation, Ocean Avenue Presbyterian Church, 32 Ocean Avenue at Mission, SF, $10-$25 sliding scale, 7:30 p.m. (reservations: 415-437-4859)
November 13, 2004, Writers With Drinks: Kim Stanley Robinson, Vendela Vida, Annalee Newitz, Myriam Gurba, Wendy O-Matik, Ryan Stout, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m. http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/
November 14, 2004, Marie Ponsot and Catherine Barnett, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, 7:30 p.m. (510-845-7852)
November 15, 2004, 8:00 p.m., Paul Muldoon and Kay Ryan, introduced by Robert Hass, City Arts and Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, $18
November 15, 2004, W.S. Merwin, San Jose State University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms, 7:30 p.m., http://www.litart.org
November 15, 2004, W.S. DiPiero, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m.
November 16, 2004, Anne Waldman, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m.
November 17, 2004, Independent Press Spotlight: The Believer & Apogee Press with Dean Young, Truong Tran and Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m., $5-15 (sliding scale), 415-626-2787, www.theintersection.org
November 17, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Lisa Ortiz, followed by an open microphone.
November 21, 2004, 2:00-4:00pm, 9th Annual Pacifica Poetry Festival sponsored by Pacifica Performances, Sanchez Concert Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd, Pacifica, CA 94044. Featured: Robert Hoppensteadt, Anna Boothe, Rod Clark, Joan Pasch, Paul Strom, Emmanuel Williams.
November 22, 2004, Cathy Barber, Emmanuel Williams, Jennifer Swanton Brown, John Fox, and Sara Furrer, California Poets in the Schools Poetry Reading and Concert, 6:30 p.m., Books Inc., 1375 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame, contact Cathy Barber at 650-572-9040 for information
December 2, 2004, Billy Collins, Lunch Poems series, Zellerbach Playhouse, U.C. Berkeley, 12:10 p.m. 510-642-0137,
http://lunchpoems.berkeley.eduDecember 10, 2004, Sandra McPherson, Five Figs, 803 Second Street, Suite 307, Davis, 6:30 p.m., $10 (benefit for KXPR), RSVP to Pam at 530-756-3500
December 15, 2004,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Jeanne Watson, followed by an open microphone.
December 16, 2004, 7:00 - 9:00pm, at Morning Brew Coffee Co. (www.morningbrewcoffee.com), Poetry by Judith Lynn Kalinin, Holiday Music by Eric Black and Kelly Callahan (www.ericandkelly.org), Artwork on Display by Voula Sideris, Open Mike follows Featured Poets, FREE
January 12, 2005, Amy MacLennan, Monticello Inn Reading Series, Monticello Inn Library, 127 Ellis Street (Ellis and Powell), San Francisco, 5:30 p.m.
January 13, 2005, 7:30 p.m., Amy MacLennan, Dodie Bellamy and Farnoosh Seiffodini, StartSoma Gallery, 672 South Van Ness (at 18th), (Ecstatic Monkey Writer's Collective Reading)
January 16, 2005, 4:00?6:30 p.m., Robert Hass and other poets in The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley's Poetry Walk, sponsored by the Heyday Institute and the Berkeley Arts Council, Thrust Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison Street, Berkeley, free admission (suggested donation $5.00), (510) 549-3564, ext. 316
January 19, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Susan Terris, followed by an open microphone.
January 24, 2005, C. K. Williams, Kresge Auditorium, Stanford campus, 8:00 p.m.
January 26, 2005, Amy Miller, Monticello Inn Reading Series, Monticello Inn Library, 127 Ellis Street (Ellis and Powell), San Francisco, 5:30p.m.
January 27, 2005, W.S. Robert Bly, San Jose State University, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 2nd Floor Meeting Rooms, 7:30 p.m., http://www.litart.org, (There will be an admission charge. Ticket information to be announced.)
January 30, 2005, Stellasue Lee, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, 7:30 p.m. (510-845-7852)
February 4, 2005, Jack and Adelle Foley followed by an open mike, Waverley Writers, Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado, Palo Alto, 7:30
p.m. -10:00 p.m., 650-424-9877February 5, 2005, 8:00 p.m. Sekou Sundiata, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Lively Arts, $38/$34 (adult), $19/$17 (Stanford student), join the artist for a free discussion following the performance
February 11, 2005, Lisa Ortiz, ART21, 539 Alma St., Palo Alto, 7:30 p.m.
February 16, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by William Landis, followed by an open microphone.
February 24, 2005, Adrienne Rich, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 7:00 p.m., 415-927-0960
March 4, 2005, Kim Addonizio, Joyce Jenkins, and Richard Silberg, Poetry & Pizza (benefit for Poetry Flash), Escape From New York Pizza, 333 Bush Street, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m., $5 (free pizza)
March 4, 2005, Lola Haskins followed by an open mike, Waverley Writers, Friends Meeting House, 957 Colorado, Palo Alto, 7:30 p.m. -10:00 p.m., 650-424-9877
March 5, 2005, Robert Hass, Bharati Mukherjee, Chester Aaron, Mark Blaise, Mark Danner and Carol Snow, Saint Mary's College Master of Fine Arts Program presents The Third Annual Party to Benefit The MFA Scholarship Fund, The Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 210 Post Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
March 8, 2005, Lola Haskins and Frank X. Gaspar, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3 donation suggested, 7:30 p.m., http://www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/events/050308.html
March 13, 2005, 7:30 p.m., Sandra Gilbert and Chana Bloch, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2 (510-845-7852)
March 16, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Kurt Lipschutz , followed by an open microphone.
March 17, 2005, Amy MacLennan , Pacifica Library, 104 Hilton Way (corner of Palmetto), Pacifica, 7:00 p.m., 650-355-5196
March 31, 2005, W.S. Merwin and Adrienne Rich (introductions by Robert Hass), benefit for Copper Canyon Press, The First Unitarian Universalist Center, 1187 Franklin at Geary, San Francisco, $16 (advanced tickets available at A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books, 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 415-441-6670), http://www.coppercanyonpress.org
April 2, 2005, Billy Collins, Fox Theatre, Redwood City, 8:00 p.m., tickets $25-40, Villa Montalvo Literary Arts Series, http://www.villamontalvo.org/litseries.html
April 2, 2005, Jack London Writers' Conference, Crowne Plaza, 1177 Airport Blvd., Burlingame, for more information: http://www.sfpeninsulawriters.com/conference/jlmain.html
April 7, 2005, 7:30pm, in the Wiegand Art Gallery on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, California. Gene Pare and other members of Saturday Poets will read as part of the NDNU Creative Writers' Series. For further information about these events, please contact the English Department at (650) 508-3708 (mwolterbeek@ndnu.edu).
April 7, 2005, Kay Ryan, Benefit for Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Street, San Rafael, 7:30 p.m., 415-484-3328
April 11-15, 2005, University of San Francisco Poetry Festival 2005, http://www.usfca.edu/poetryfestival2005
April 13, 2005, Jane Hirshfield, Larkspur Café Theatre, 500 Magnolia Avenue (at Ward Street), Larkspur, 7:00 p.m., benefit for the Larkspur Children's Library, 415-927-5005
April 20, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Joyce Jenkins, followed by an open microphone.
May 8, 2005, Al Young, Sweetie's, 475 Francisco (between Mason and Powell) San Francisco 7:30 p.m., 415-433-2343
May 15, 2005, Sharon Fain and Ellery Akers, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, 7:30 p.m., 510-845-7852
May 15, 2005, Robert Bly, sponsored by Marin Poetry Center and Book Passage, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, 415-927-0960, advanced seating reservations are available at Book Passage for a
donation to the Marin Poetry Center of $5 for members, $10 for non-members, and free with a new membership of $25, 7:00 p.m.May 17, 2005, Donald Hall, The Booksmith, 1644 Haight Street, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m.
May 18, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Geri Doran, followed by an open microphone.
May 19, 2005, Ilya Kaminsky, Joyce Jenkins, C. Dale Young, Polia Barskova, Poets for Peace, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room, San Francisco, 6:00 p.m.
May 22, 2005, D. Nurkse and Jerry Ratch with artist Sherry Karver, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, 7:30 p.m., 510-845-7852
May 24, 2005, D. Nurske and David Swanger, The Attic, 931 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3, 7:30 p.m.,
www.baymoon.com/~poetrysantacruz/eventsJune 5, 2005, Maxine Chernoff, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Truong Tran, Gillian Conoley, Apogee Press Poetry Reading, Diesel, 5433 College Avenue, Oakland, 2:00 p.m., 510-653-9965
June 10, 2005, Patrick Daly, ART21, 539 Alma St., Palo Alto, 7:30 p.m., followed by open mic.
June 12, 2005, Martha Rhodes, Robert Thomas, and Dan Tobin, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, $2, 7:30 p.m., 510-845-7852
June 14, 2005, Maxine Chernoff and Gillian Conoley, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m., 415-362-8193
June 14, 2005, Martha Rhodes, Daniel Tobin and Robert Thomas, Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, $3, 7:30 p.m.
June 15, 2005,at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Len Anderson , followed by an open microphone.
June 28, 2005, Borders Books, 588 San Francisco Blvd., San Rafael, CA, 415-485-3328, William Landis, Amy MacLennan, Maggie Tuteur, Stuart Chappell and Claire Baker as part of the Marin Poetry Center's Summer Traveling Show, 7:30 p.m.
July 8, 2005 (and every Thursday), 7:00pm, Haywire Writers' Workshop. The Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth Street (4th and C), Ashland, OR. For more information, call 541-482-7742.
July 10th, 2005, at 4:00pm, at The Valona Deli, 1323 Pomona Street, just over the Carquinez bridge in Crockett, CA. Featured readings by Angela Howe-Decker and Amy Miller, followed by live jazz from the Terry Henry Trio. For more info, call David Alpaugh at (925) 682-0457.
July 16, 2005, 7:00 pm, Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon with Opal Palmer Adisa, Brandon Brown, Sean Cole, Jewelle Gomez, David Hadbawnik, David Larsen, Laura Mullen, and Bin Ramke, The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, $3-$5 sliding scale, 415-864-8855, baypoetrymarathon@juno.com
July 17, 2005, at 3:00pm, Ellaraine Lockie and Patricia Wellingham-Jones, 100 North Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA (Corner of Ygnacio Valley Road & Wiget Lane). Open Mic follows featured poets. Cover charge $5, $2 students. Light refreshments provided. Call (925) 212 9447 for more details or visit www.PrimoPoets.com
July 20, 2005, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Carol Frith and Laverne Frith, followed by an open microphone.
July 22, 2005, Squaw Valley Benefit Poetry Reading with Lucille Clifton, Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds and Kevin Young, USF Presentation Theater, 2350 Turk (at Masonic), San Francisco, 7:30 p.m., $15-$20, 877-537-8073 / squawpoet@ureach.com
July 28, 2005 (and every Thursday), 7:00pm, Haywire Writers' Workshop. The Unitarian Center, 87 Fourth Street (4th and C), Ashland, OR. For more information, call 541-482-7742.
July 30, 2005, Susan Gubernat, Shelley Nameroff, Dorothy Gilbert and Cathy Barber, A Cuppa Tea, 3200 College Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 7:00 p.m., open mic, 650-572-9040
July 31, 2005, Jackie Berger, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 7:30 p.m.
August 4, 2005, 7pm. Amy Schrader, Litsa Dremousis, Katie Flynn, Amy Miller, and Hugh Steinberg at the Cranky Literary Journal issue celebration. Pegasus Books Downtown, 2349 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley.
August 17, 2005, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Toni Mirosevich, followed by an open microphone.
August 26, 2005, Dorsetta Hale presented by Markstyle Production Society, The Menlo Park Recreation Center, 700 Alma Street, Menlo Park (behind the Menlo Park Library), 7:30 p.m. (open mike at 8:15 p.m.), caribbeancarmel@yahoo.com
August 27 & 28, 2005, 11am - 5pm. The Saturday Poets will exhibit chapbooks and mini-books at SF Zine Fest. Cellspace, 2050 Bryant (between 18th & 19th), San Francisco. Free admission.
September 3, 2005, Pinta Tu Propio Mundo: Daisy Zamora, devorah major, Janice Mirikitani and Melissa Lozano hosted by Leticia Hernández, Galería de la Raza, 2857 24th Street at Bryant, San Francisco, $6-$12
sliding scale/members free, 8:00 p.m., 415-826-8009, www.galeriadelaraza.orgSeptember 5, 2005, Amy MacLennan, Reginald Lockett, Jack & Adele Foley, Kirk Lumpkin, Adam David Miller, Teresa LeYung Ryan, Mark States, Lucille Lang Day, Avotcja, Cesar Cruz and many others, Art & Soul Festival's Oakland Literature Expo, downtown Oakland at 12th Street BART station, 1:15p - 5:45p, http://www.artandsouloakland.com/main/arts.htm
September 7, 2005, 7pm. Amy Miller at Not Yet Dead Poets Society. Main Gallery, 1018 Main St. (NW corner of Middlefield and Main), Redwood City, CA. Open mic follows.
September 8, 2005, Petaluma Poetry Walk, 12:00 noon - 7:00 p.m. Maria M. Benet, Gerald Fleming, Martin Hickel, Kim Addonizio, Sharon Doubiago, Dorianne Laux, Diane di Prima, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Geri Digiorno, Jane Hilberry, Joseph Millar, Kate Braverman, David Bromige, Don Emblen, Joyce Jenkins, Jonah Raskin, Avotcja, Q.R. Hand, Jr., Arundo, G.P. Skratz, Summer Brenner, Bob Ernst.
September12, 2005, Dan Bellm, Ilya Kaminsky and Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, 3200 California Street (at Presidio), San Francisco, 7:30 p.m.
September 13, 2005, Poets for Peace poetry reading: Dan Bellm, John Burgess, Ilya Kaminsky, Alicia Ostricker and Meredith Stricker, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., 510-649-1320
September 14, 2005, 5:30pm. Charlene Akers, Robert Hoppensteadt, Esther Kamkar, Amy MacLennan, Amy Miller, Lisa Ortiz, and Gene Pare at the Monticello Inn Library, 127 Ellis St. (at Ellis & Powell), San Francisco. Complimentary wine!
September 16, 2005, Geri Digornio, Dorianne Laux, and Joseph Millar, The Depot Bookstore & Cafe, 87 Throckmorton, Mill Valley, 7:00 p.m., 415-383-2665
September 19, 2005, Opal Palmer Adisa, Poetry Center San José, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rooms 225 & 229, San Jose, CA, 7:30 p.m.
September 21, 2005, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Nellie Wong, followed by an open microphone.
September 22, 2005, Chana Bloch, Mrs. Dumpty, Richard Silberg, Temple Sinai, 2808 Summit between 28 and 29th), Oakland, donation, 7:00 p.m.
September 24, 2005, Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Valley Life Sciences Lawn, UC Berkeley Campus, 12:00 noon - 5:00 p.m. (http://www.poetryflash.org)
September 28, 2005, Robert Pinsky, City Arts & Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m. ($18.00)
September 28th, 2005, 7:00 pm, klipshutz and Sharon Doubiago at the San Francisco North Beach Public Library, 2000 Mason Street (at Greenwich off Columbus), phone contact is 274-0270.
September 29, 2005, Amy MacLennan, Up Close, Let Loose: Traveling Poets Reading Series, Arts Council of Kern, 2000 K Street, Bakersfield, 7:00 p.m.
September 29, 2005, Toni Mirosevich and Matthew Shenoda, Somewhere Else, Modern Times Bookstore, 888 Valencia, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m
October 1, 2005, Rafael Jesús González, Poetry Center San José, Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, Rooms 225 & 229, San Jose, 4:00 p.m.
October 4, 2005, Geri Doran and Rebecca Black, Stanford University, the Terrace Room, Bldg. 460, Margaret Jacks Hall, 7:30 p.m.
October 13th through Sunday, October 16th, 2005. OTHER WORDS San Francisco International Poetry Festival will bring together fifteen poets from a diversity of ten nations: Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Iraq, Sweden, Switzerland and the U.S.A. The poets will read their own poetry in its original language (as is the practice at international poetry festivals worldwide). Free. For more information about the festival and the poets please go to the festival website.
October 14, 2005, Litquake: Word/Play: A Night of Poetry and Music brings the two lyrically-inclined disciplines together for a singular night of poetry with musical accompaniment, Juvenal Acosta, Justin Chin, Gillian Conoley, Sean Finney, Robert Hass, Kay Ryan, Colm Ó Riain and Pireeni Sundaralingam, The Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez Street (at 24th Street), 7:00 p.m., $5-$10 sliding scale
October 15, 2005, Litquake: Doctor Atomic Poetry Reading with Brenda Hillman, Bill Berkson, Robert Haas, Leslie Scalapino, Lyn Hejinian & others, Berkeley Art Museum Theater, 510-642-7784, 3:00 p.m.
October 19th, 2005, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Robert Pesich, followed by an open microphone.
October 22, 2005, Daniel Y. Harris, Ruth Daigon, John Amen, Ilya Kaminsky, Rachel Dacus, and David Alpaugh, Valencia Books, 569 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 7:00 p.m.
October 26, 2005, Quincy Troupe, City Arts & Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m. ($18.00)
November 1, 2005, Independent Press Spotlight: Parthenon West Review and Five Fingers Review, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare and Tehea Robie, Intersection for the Arts, 446 Valencia Street (near16th Street), San Francisco, 7:30 p.m., $5-$15/sliding scale
November 2, 2005, 7:00 pm, Amy MacLennan , The Main Gallery, 1018 Main Street (NW corner off of Middlefield Road just around the corner from the library), Redwood City, CA., Not-Yet-Dead Poets' Society.
November 3, 2005, Galway Kinnell, Poetry Center San José, Le Petit Trianon Theatre, 72 North Fifth Street, San Jose, CA. 7:00 p.m. (0-$10 admission, sliding scale, no one turned away)
November 9, 2005, 8:00pm, JCCSF presents Robert Haas and Jane Hirschfield, 3200 California St. at Presidio Ave., San Francisco, CA. Tickets: Members $12 / Public $15 / Students $10 Box Office: (415) 292-1233.
November 10, 2005, Mary Oliver, City Arts & Lectures, Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 8:00 p.m. ($18.00)
November 16, 2005, at 7:00pm at Il Piccolo Cafe, : Favorite Poem Night and Poetry Book Swap, The first part of our evening will be The Saturday Poets version of Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project. Bring in a favorite poem written by another poet, and read it for our crowd. Please limit your reading time in this segment to three minutes (even if it's Beowulf in Anglo Saxon). After the break, we will have our usual open micrphone. Also, bring a poetry book to donate, and take one home.
December 5, 2005, California Poets in the Schools Fundraiser, Jennifer Brown, Emmanuel Williams and Cathy Barber, Books, Inc., 1375 Burlingame Avenue, Burlingame, 6:00 p.m.
December 8, 2005, Poets for Peace poetry reading, featuring poets Ilya Kaminsky, C.B. Follet, Jeffrey Levine, Elline Lipkin, Susan Terris, and fiction writers Michelle Richmond and Katherine Towler, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., 510-649-1320
December 21st, 2005, at 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Amber Flora Thomas, followed by an open microphone.
January 13, 2006, Runes reading with David Alpaugh, Dan Bellm, Chana Block, Ruth Daigon, CB Follett, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Janet Jennings, Bonnie Kwong, Bob McNally, Stephanie Mendel, John Oliver Simon, David St. John, Susan Terris, Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista, Corte Madera, 415-927-0960, 7:00 p.m..
January 18, 2006, 7:00pm, at Il Piccolo Cafe, 1219 Broadway in Burlingame, CA. Featured reading by Robin Ekiss, followed by an open microphone. This is the last in the series. Don't miss it!
January 23, 2006, Paul Muldoon, Jean and Bill Lane Lecture Series, Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University, 8:00 p.m.
February 6, 2006, All Poems Welcome Reading presents featured readersSharon Doubiago, Joyce Jenkins, and Richard Silberg (openmike follows), Gallery Cafe, 1200 Mason at Washington, San Francisco,
415-823-1263, 7:00 p.m.February 9, 2006, Poets for Peace reading featuring Margaret Kaufman,Ilya Kaminsky, Jeffrey Levine and Robert Thomas, Pegasus Books, 2349 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, 510-649-1320, 7:30 p.m.
February 9, 2006, Toni Mirosevich and Amber Flora Thomas, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, HUM 512, San Francisco, 4:30p
February 10, 2006, WordTemple poetry reading with David St. John and Jane Hirshfield, Copperfield's Books, Montgomery Village, 2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, khastings@wordtemple.com, 7:00 p.m.
February 24, 2006, Gillian Conoley and Jane Sprague, Small Press Traffic, Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, 7:30 p.m., $5-10 sliding scale, http://www.sptraffic.org
February 26, 2006, Sarah Arvio and W.S. di Piero, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., $2, 510-845-7852
March 5, 2006, 7:00pm at CLUB WAZIEMA, 543 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA. GOETRY and the BONE BOX POETS present Truong Tran, L.J. Moore, Matt Rohrer, Jacob I. Evans and Trista Tabaldo. Open mic to follow.
March 24, 2006, WordTemple poetry reading with Paul Hoover and Ilya Kaminsky, Copperfield's Books, Montgomery Village, 2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, khastings@wordtemple.com, 7:00 p.m.
March 30, 2006, Jack Hirschman and Etel Adnan, The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, HUM 512, San Francisco, 4:30p
April 1, 2006, Billy Collins, Amador Theater, Amador Valley High School, 1155 Santa Rita Road, Pleasanton, $25/$30/$35, 925-931-5361, www.civicartstickets.org, 8:00 p.m.
April 7, 2006, WordTemple poetry reading with Molly Fisk and Aaron Shurin, Copperfield's Books, Montgomery Village, 2316 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa, khastings@wordtemple.com, 7:00 p.m.
April 7, 2006, Montalvo Arts Center presents a reading by Gary Snyder, Fox Theatre, Redwood City, $20-$45, www.montavoarts.org, 8:00 p.m.
March 19, 2006, Kurt Brown, Future Ship and Geoff Brock, Cody's Books, 2454 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., $2, 510-845-7852
April 7, 2006, Gary Snyder, Fox Theatre, Redwood City, 8:00 p.m., $20-$45, http://www.montavoarts.org