San Francisco Art and Poetry Event Calendar

MAY 2008

Weds.May 14, 2008 7:30 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Glen Park San Francisco map	Poetry reading with Elaine Sexton, once a local, here visiting old haunts from her home in New York and reading for friends and passersby. Her second book of poems is just out, and is called Causeway.	SAN FRANCISCO POETS Susan Birkeland City of Love Joie Cook There Are Nights in San Francisco John Dowling The revolution in North Beach Jerry Ferraz Guitarra Leonard Irving Bleak Morning on Jones Street Bill Mercer Vesuvio's North Beach Ronald Sauer The San Francisco Renaissance Ana Elsner North Beach Don Brennan Spirit Walk & Old World Cafes Mark Schwartz All the Critical Mass bicycles confiscated should be: & There was a little alley in San Francisco Vince Storti Walking Woman 1 & Mime Troupe Witness 1 Tony Vaughan After An Evening of Poetry and Wine & Approaching Desire Don Altadena Foghorns bloom, we break upon meaning Richard Hack Boomtown Crepuscule KC Wilder vehicles Allen Cohen Poetry April 23,1941 ~April 30, 2004 The Decline & Fall of San Francisco by Allen Cohen In Memorium Vampyre Mike Dec.3, 1953 ~ Mar. 22, 2008 Poet OZZY Nov. 1940 ~ May 2007 Legends of San Francisco by George W. Caldwell, M.D.(1919) Radio Mystic Babylon Open Mic Poetry Pod cast Archives Each Friday @ 10:30am Poetry Scene Archives radiOM archived audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995), + concerts, talks of Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005 Poetry Flash Dan Brady's Open Mic Guide San Francisco State University Poetry Center Event Calendar: FALL 2007 M E L J E N A r t s - promotes & produces art exhibits & events for North Beach artists. nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art A LITTLE HISTORY In 1955, Poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti brought the Beat Generation to the airwaves. A few years later the FCC questioned whether Pacifica's KPFC broadcast of some of their works was "vulgar, obscene and in bad taste." May 6,1856 Birth of Sigmund Freud, the most influental psychological theorist of 20th-century who had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking. "The great question, which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"...Sigmund Freud May 6,1862 Death of Henry David Thoreau, (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) an American tax resister, anti-war activist, essayist and author, most famous for his book Walden, and his influential treatise (Civil Disobedience), which inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. 105 BC (may 10 ?) Tsai Lun invents paper, China. May 11, 1904 Birth of Salvador Dali, surrealist painter. May 11, 1981 Jamaican singer and revolutionary Bob Marley dies of brain cancer. May 16, 1717 Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), suspected of writing subversive satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille. May 24, 1941 Birth of songwriter and anti-war folk singer Robert Zimmerman. May 25, 1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Emerson died on April 27, 1882 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery beside Henry Thoreau & Hawthorne. May 30, 1967 Jefferson Airplane Big Brother and the Holding Company Quicksilver Messenger Service Tour/Show: HALO @ Winterland Benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization May 31,1819: Birth of Walt Whitman, "To states everywhere, resist much; obey little. more Whitman Poetry
Weds.May 14 to Sun. 18, 2008 MARIN POETRY FESTIVAL ~ FIVE READINGS TO BENEFIT POETRY EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS ~ Sponsored by Marin Poetry Center, Book Passage, Dominican University, Poetry Flash Dates and Venues Weds. 14, 2008-7pm -9 pm Northpoint Coffee House 1250 Bridgeway,Sausalito Sunset Poetry by the Bay, as part of the MARIN POETRY FESTIVAL, presents poet Adam David Miller,Ticket to Exile , a memoir will read from his poetry and prose. Adam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a teacher, writer, poet, editor, publisher, and radio and television producer. an open mike will follow. Thursday, May 15 ~ 7 p.m. ~ Ellery Akers & Tom Centolella ~ Falkirk Cultural Center 1450 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, Calif. Friday, May 16 ~ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ~ New Poets / New Works ~ ArtWorks Downtown Gallery 1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif. Saturday, May 17 ~ Noon to 4 p.m. ~ Poetry Picnic ~ Poets in the Schools & Verso Al Fresco ~ Robin Sweeny Park, Sausalito, Calif. Sunday, May 18 ~ 7:30 p.m. ~ Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Jane Hirshfield ~ Dominican University, 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, Calif. Info: 415.927.0960 - 239 tickets
Thurs., May 15, 2008 7-9 pm Caffe Cappriccio Mason/Chestnut Street San Francisco	Philip Hackett's Poet Gallery Series * presents Poet George Tsongas Classical Guitarist Grant Miller
Thurs.May 15, 2008 7:00 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery Glen Park San Francisco map	David Meltzer with pianist Theo Saunders engagement is postponed! David took a fall last week and will take a little while to get back on his feet. instead, this date will be A TRIBUTE TO DAVID MELTZER Featuring Neeli Cherkovski, Sharon Doubiago, & Micah Ballard reading David's work plus a score of David's friends and admirors-- Poets! bring a poem by David (or find one here)and bring one of your own! Cash donations gratefully accepted for David's medical expenses! visit meltzerville.com and Big Bridge's Meltzer Tribute
Thurs. May 15, 2008 7:15 pm Bibliohead Books 334 Gough @ Hayes San Francisco map	Feature: Revolutionary poet DEE ALLEN a Francisco-based poetry writer/spoken word performer. Active as both since the early 1990s. Been doing the creative writing thing since childhood. It wasn't until my early 20s that I decided to do something with this gift. Written work [typed or handdrawn] appeared in numberous underground zines/newsletters, from Flipside to Modesto Anarcho to The Burning Spear. Won 3rd Place & an Editor's Choice award in a 1995 poetry competition sponsored by Maryland-based National Library of Poetry.Performed spoken word, even as an opening act for or alongside underground musical groups, from False Sacrament to the Cro-Mags to Resistant Culture. Poems cover mostly anti-authoritarian political,philosophical and personal frames-of-mind. followed by Open Mic hosted by Don Brennan
Sun. 18th. at 5pm on Channel 29 Stephen Kopel is the guest on Pen Women Writers with host Eileen Malone.
Mon., May 19, 2008 7 - 9 pm CAFFE GRECO 423 Columbus bet.Vallejo/Green St. San Francisco	POETRY, JAZZ & ART with Poets Bob Booker, Charles Curtis Blackwell & Will Dodger & Special Guest “The King of Bebop” ~ The Bishop Norman Williamson Alto Sax Jazz Painting by Hayley Stevens Everyone is Invited! * A Philip Hackett Poet Gallery Series *Event
Tues., May 20, 2008 7 pm Tosca Cafe, 242 Columbus, across from City Lights San Francisco	Nan A. Talese, Tosca Cafe, and City Lights present a reception and bookrelease party celebrating the release of Notes on a Life published by Nan A. Talese Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years.
Thurs., May 22, 2008 7 pm Live Worms Gallery Grant Ave. North Beach San Francisco	*** FANNY RENOIR SHOW *** starring FRANK HOLMES and THE KENTUCKY TWISTERS plus ART ANTIQUES AND REFRESHMENTS ARTISTS SHERI O'DONNEL and MARSHA BELLAVANCE and DORAL CONRAD as Elvis Presley! HOOTENANNY SHINDIG ! $2.00 cover
Thurs., May 22, 2008 7 pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus Ave @ Broadway San Francisco	Jonah Raskin discussing The Radical Jack London Writings on War and Revolution published by University of California Press
Fri.,May 23, 2008 7 - 9 pm CAFFE CAPPRICCIO Mason @ Chestnut San Francisco	Philip Hackett's Poet Gallery Series * presents *The Joe Shakarchi Show* Joe Shakarchi has been part of the San Francisco poetry scene since 1982 and his writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Poetry Flash, The Berkeley Poetry Review, and North Beach Journal. His new new CD titled SUNRISE IN THE WEST is a groundbreaking fusion of poetry and world music.
Sun., May 25,2008 5 pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus Ave. @Broadway San Francisco	Tau By Philip Lamantia Journey to the End By John Hoffman mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the long-lost "Six Gallery" poems by legendary hipster John Hoffman. This is the latest installment of the Pocket Poets Series and two long-lost books from the classic Beat period.
Sun.May 25, 2008 2:00 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Record 653 Chenery San Francisco map	Poet contributors reading celebrates the Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology: 1996 to 2005, edited by Geri Digiorno and Bill Vartnaw
Weds. May 27, 2008 7 pm KEANE'S 3300 CLUB 3300 Mission St. @ 29th St. San Francisco	Poetry at the 33 presents a reading by poet Ed Mycue. followed by long open mic w/ MC Nancy Keane 6:30pm sign up you must be 21 and up
Wed., May 28, 2008 7:30 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery (in Glen Park) San Francisco	Phil Cousineau, award-winning author and filmmaker,presents his new book, Stoking the Creative Fire: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and the Imagination. Based on twenty years of teaching, Cousineau offers a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises drawn from historical and contemporary figures, artists of all kinds, and from his own experience, to inspire readers on ways to live a passionate and creative life. "Creativity is as natural as breathing. To create is to grow, which in turn makes us feel vitally alive."
ANNOUNCEMENT On Thursday ., May 29, 2008 at the Arts Club of Chicago, native son Gary Snyder will receive a lifetime achievement award as the winner of the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the nation’s largest literary awards. made the announcement today. The prize will be presented at an evening ceremony "In announcing the award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, said: 'Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself. His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.' .
Thurs. May 29, 2008 7:30 pm Bird & Beckett Books &Record 653 Chenery Glen Park San Francisco map	Poet Ron Johnson A solo reading wherein the poet grapples with his epic work,32 years in the making, entitled: "White Ghost Dance" Dedicated, a la Ti-Jean K.: To America! Whatever that is...
Philip Hackett"s Poet's Gallery Series Poets, Artists and Musicians are invited to Contact Philip, if you are interested in participating in the Poet's Gallery Series of Events. Send a CD with three Poems, and/or 3 songs and a an 8X10 Black/White Glossy to: Philip Hackett, P.O. BOX 330168, S.F., CA 94133, plus an SASE if you wish your material back. Thank you, Philip Hackett, Poet/Producer, The Poet's Gallery
JUNE 2008
June 1, 2008 11am - 3pm Sutro Heights Park San Francisco map	The Poetry Hotel presents 3RD ANNUAL POETS WITH TREES READING Share your words among people, birds, trees, and, one hopes, with the sun. Bring poems of your own or poems by your favorite poets. Multiple reading stations. Bring your own lunch, and an additional goodie to share. Readings finish, clean up and disperse by 3pm
Wed.June 4, 2008 Old First Concerts 1751 Sacramento St.,@ Van Ness Avenue San Francisco	Far Out Friends is a celebration of new song premieres with poet Gary Snyder and composers Fred Firth, Allaudin Mathieu, Robert Morris, and Roy Whelden, to honor Gary Snyder's publishing career, with contralto Karen Clark, Galax Quartet featuring David Wilson and Cynthia Freivogel, violins; Roy Whelden, viola da gamba; and David Morris, cello, Old First Concerts $15/$12 seniors 65 and over/$12 students with ID, 8:00 (415/474-1608,
June 11, 2008 7 pm North Beach Branch 2000 Mason St. @ Columbus San Francisco	. *Mystical Path: Poet/musician Clara Hsu and Poet/artist Bill Mercer read current work as well as from their recently released CD.

Weds.May 14, 2008
7:30 pm
Bird & Beckett Books
& Records
653 Chenery
Glen Park
San Francisco map

Poetry reading with Elaine Sexton, once a local, here visiting old haunts from her home in New York and reading for friends and passersby. Her second book of poems is just out, and is called Causeway.

SAN FRANCISCO POETS

Susan Birkeland
City of Love
Joie Cook
There Are Nights in San Francisco
John Dowling
The revolution in North Beach
Jerry Ferraz
Guitarra
Leonard Irving
Bleak Morning on Jones Street
Bill Mercer
Vesuvio's North Beach
Ronald Sauer
The San Francisco Renaissance
Ana Elsner
North Beach
Don Brennan
Spirit Walk &
Old World Cafes
Mark Schwartz
All the Critical Mass bicycles confiscated should be: &
There was a little alley
in San Francisco
Vince Storti
Walking Woman 1 &
Mime Troupe Witness 1
Tony Vaughan
After An Evening of Poetry and Wine &
Approaching Desire
Don Altadena
Foghorns bloom,
we break upon meaning
Richard Hack
Boomtown Crepuscule
KC Wilder
vehicles

Allen Cohen Poetry
April 23,1941 ~April 30, 2004
The Decline & Fall of San Francisco by Allen Cohen

In Memorium
Vampyre Mike Dec.3, 1953 ~ Mar. 22, 2008
Poet OZZY Nov. 1940 ~ May 2007

Legends of San Francisco by George W. Caldwell, M.D.(1919)

Radio
Mystic Babylon Open Mic Poetry Pod cast Archives

Each Friday @ 10:30am
Poetry Scene Archives

radiOM archived audio recordings from KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995),
+ concerts, talks of Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005

Poetry Flash
Dan Brady's Open Mic Guide
San Francisco State University Poetry Center Event Calendar: FALL 2007

M E L J E N A r t s - promotes & produces art exhibits & events for North Beach artists.

nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art

A LITTLE HISTORY

In 1955, Poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti brought the Beat Generation to the airwaves. A few years later the FCC questioned whether Pacifica's KPFC broadcast of some of their works was "vulgar, obscene and in bad taste."

May 6,1856
Birth of Sigmund Freud, the most influental psychological theorist of 20th-century who had an enormous influence on art, literature, and social thinking.
"The great question, which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"...Sigmund Freud

May 6,1862
Death of Henry David Thoreau, (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) an American tax resister, anti-war activist, essayist and author, most famous for his book Walden, and his influential treatise (Civil Disobedience), which inspired Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

105 BC (may 10 ?)
Tsai Lun invents paper, China.

May 11, 1904
Birth of Salvador Dali, surrealist painter.

May 11, 1981
Jamaican singer and revolutionary Bob Marley dies of brain cancer.

May 16, 1717
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), suspected of writing subversive satire, is imprisoned for the first time in the Bastille.

May 24, 1941
Birth of songwriter and anti-war folk singer Robert Zimmerman.

May 25, 1803
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Emerson died on April 27, 1882 and was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery beside Henry Thoreau & Hawthorne.

May 30, 1967
Jefferson Airplane
Big Brother and the Holding Company
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Tour/Show: HALO
@ Winterland
Benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization

May 31,1819:
Birth of Walt Whitman,
"To states everywhere, resist much; obey little.

Whitman quote
more Whitman Poetry

Weds.May 14 to Sun. 18, 2008

MARIN POETRY FESTIVAL ~ FIVE READINGS TO BENEFIT POETRY EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS ~ Sponsored by Marin Poetry Center, Book Passage, Dominican University, Poetry Flash
Dates and Venues

Weds. 14, 2008-7pm -9 pm Northpoint Coffee House
1250 Bridgeway,Sausalito
Sunset Poetry by the Bay, as part of the MARIN POETRY FESTIVAL, presents poet Adam David Miller,Ticket to Exile , a memoir will read from his poetry and prose. Adam David Miller has worked in northern California for four decades as a teacher, writer, poet, editor, publisher, and radio and television producer. an open mike will follow.
Thursday, May 15 ~ 7 p.m. ~ Ellery Akers & Tom Centolella ~ Falkirk Cultural Center 1450 Mission Avenue, San Rafael, Calif.
Friday, May 16 ~ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ~ New Poets / New Works ~ ArtWorks Downtown Gallery 1337 Fourth Street, San Rafael, Calif.
Saturday, May 17 ~ Noon to 4 p.m. ~ Poetry Picnic ~ Poets in the Schools & Verso Al Fresco ~ Robin Sweeny Park, Sausalito, Calif.
Sunday, May 18 ~ 7:30 p.m. ~ Robert Bly, Eavan Boland, Jane Hirshfield ~ Dominican University, 50 Acacia Avenue, San Rafael, Calif.
Info: 415.927.0960 - 239 tickets

Thurs., May 15, 2008
7-9 pm
Caffe Cappriccio
Mason/Chestnut Street
San Francisco

Philip Hackett's Poet Gallery Series * presents
Poet George Tsongas
Classical Guitarist Grant Miller

Thurs.May 15, 2008
7:00 pm
Bird & Beckett Books
& Records
653 Chenery
Glen Park
San Francisco map

David Meltzer with pianist Theo Saunders engagement is postponed!

David took a fall last week and will take a little while to get back on his feet.
instead, this date will be
A TRIBUTE TO DAVID MELTZER Featuring
Neeli Cherkovski, Sharon Doubiago, & Micah Ballard reading David's work plus a score of David's friends and admirors-- Poets! bring a poem by David (or find one here)and bring one of your own!
Cash donations gratefully accepted for David's medical expenses! visit meltzerville.com and Big Bridge's Meltzer Tribute

Thurs. May 15, 2008
7:15 pm
Bibliohead Books
334 Gough @ Hayes
San Francisco map

Feature: Revolutionary poet DEE ALLEN
a Francisco-based poetry writer/spoken word
performer. Active as both since the early 1990s. Been doing the creative writing thing since childhood. It wasn't until my early 20s that I decided to do something with this gift. Written work
[typed or handdrawn] appeared in numberous underground zines/newsletters, from Flipside to Modesto Anarcho to The Burning Spear. Won 3rd Place & an Editor's Choice award in a 1995 poetry competition sponsored by Maryland-based National Library of Poetry.Performed spoken word, even as an opening act for or alongside
underground musical groups, from False Sacrament to the Cro-Mags to Resistant Culture. Poems cover mostly anti-authoritarian political,philosophical and personal frames-of-mind.
followed by Open Mic hosted by Don Brennan

Sun. 18th. at 5pm on Channel 29 Stephen Kopel is the guest on Pen Women Writers with host Eileen Malone.

Mon., May 19, 2008
7 - 9 pm
CAFFE GRECO
423 Columbus bet.Vallejo/Green St.
San Francisco

POETRY, JAZZ & ART with
Poets Bob Booker, Charles Curtis Blackwell & Will Dodger &
Special Guest
“The King of Bebop” ~ The Bishop Norman Williamson Alto Sax
Jazz Painting by Hayley Stevens
Everyone is Invited!
* A Philip Hackett Poet Gallery Series *Event

Tues., May 20, 2008
7 pm
Tosca Cafe,
242 Columbus, across from City Lights
San Francisco

Nan A. Talese, Tosca Cafe, and City Lights present
a reception and bookrelease party celebrating the release of
Notes on a Life published by Nan A. Talese
Eleanor Coppola shares her extraordinary life as an artist, filmmaker, wife, and mother in a book that captures the glamour and grit of Hollywood and reveals the private tragedies and joys that tested and strengthened her over the past twenty years.

Thurs., May 22, 2008
7 pm
Live Worms Gallery
Grant Ave.
North Beach
San Francisco

***** FANNY RENOIR SHOW *****
starring FRANK HOLMES and THE KENTUCKY TWISTERS
plus ART ANTIQUES AND REFRESHMENTS
ARTISTS SHERI O'DONNEL and MARSHA BELLAVANCE and DORAL CONRAD as Elvis Presley!
HOOTENANNY SHINDIG ! $2.00 cover

Thurs., May 22, 2008
7 pm
City Lights Books
261 Columbus Ave
@ Broadway
San Francisco

Jonah Raskin discussing The Radical Jack London Writings on War and Revolution published by University of California Press

Fri.,May 23, 2008
7 - 9 pm
CAFFE CAPPRICCIO
Mason @ Chestnut
San Francisco

Philip Hackett's Poet Gallery Series * presents
***The Joe Shakarchi Show***
Joe Shakarchi has been part of the San Francisco poetry scene since 1982 and his writing has appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle, Poetry Flash, The Berkeley Poetry Review, and North Beach Journal. His new new CD titled SUNRISE IN THE WEST is a groundbreaking fusion of poetry and world music.

Sun., May 25,2008
5 pm
City Lights Books
261 Columbus Ave.
@Broadway
San Francisco

Tau By Philip Lamantia
Journey to the End By John Hoffman
mystical poems by Philip Lamantia and the long-lost "Six Gallery" poems by legendary hipster John Hoffman.
This is the latest installment of the Pocket Poets Series and two long-lost books from the classic Beat period.

Sun.May 25, 2008
2:00 pm
Bird & Beckett Books & Record
653 Chenery
San Francisco map

Poet contributors reading celebrates the Petaluma Poetry Walk 10-Year Anthology: 1996 to 2005, edited by Geri Digiorno and Bill Vartnaw

Weds. May 27, 2008
7 pm
KEANE'S 3300 CLUB
3300 Mission St.
@ 29th St.
San Francisco

Poetry at the 33 presents a reading by poet Ed Mycue.
followed by long open mic w/ MC Nancy Keane 6:30pm sign up
you must be 21 and up

Wed., May 28, 2008
7:30 pm
Bird & Beckett Books & Records
653 Chenery (in Glen Park)
San Francisco

Phil Cousineau, award-winning author and filmmaker,presents his new book, Stoking the Creative Fire: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and the Imagination. Based on twenty years of teaching, Cousineau offers a multitude of stories, ideas, and exercises drawn from historical and contemporary figures, artists of all kinds, and from his own experience, to inspire readers on ways to live a passionate and creative life.
"Creativity is as natural as breathing. To create is to grow, which in turn makes us feel vitally alive."

ANNOUNCEMENT
On Thursday ., May 29, 2008 at the Arts Club of Chicago, native son Gary Snyder will receive a lifetime achievement award as the winner of the 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Established in 1986 and presented annually by the Poetry Foundation, the award is one of the most prestigious given to American poets, and at $100,000 it is one of the nation’s largest literary awards. made the announcement today. The prize will be presented at an evening ceremony
"In announcing the award, Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine and chair of the selection committee, said: 'Gary Snyder is in essence a contemporary devotional poet, though he is not devoted to any one god or way of being so much as to Being itself. His poetry is a testament to the sacredness of the natural world and our relation to it, and a prophecy of what we stand to lose if we forget that relation.' .

Thurs. May 29, 2008
7:30 pm
Bird & Beckett Books &Record
653 Chenery
Glen Park
San Francisco map

Poet Ron Johnson
A solo reading wherein the poet grapples with his epic work,32 years in the making, entitled: "White Ghost Dance"
Dedicated, a la Ti-Jean K.: To America! Whatever that is...

Philip Hackett"s Poet's Gallery Series
Poets, Artists and Musicians are invited to Contact Philip, if you are interested in participating in the Poet's Gallery Series of Events.
Send a CD with three Poems, and/or 3 songs and a an 8X10 Black/White Glossy to:
Philip Hackett, P.O. BOX 330168, S.F., CA 94133, plus an SASE if you wish your material back.
Thank you, Philip Hackett, Poet/Producer, The Poet's Gallery

JUNE 2008

June 1, 2008
11am - 3pm
Sutro Heights Park
San Francisco map

The Poetry Hotel presents 3RD ANNUAL POETS WITH TREES READING
Share your words among people, birds, trees, and, one hopes, with the sun.
Bring poems of your own or poems by your favorite poets.
Multiple reading stations. Bring your own lunch, and an additional goodie to share.
Readings finish, clean up and disperse by 3pm

Wed.June 4, 2008
Old First Concerts
1751 Sacramento St.,@ Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco

Far Out Friends is a celebration of new song premieres with poet Gary Snyder and composers Fred Firth, Allaudin Mathieu, Robert Morris, and Roy Whelden, to honor Gary Snyder's publishing career, with contralto Karen Clark, Galax Quartet featuring David Wilson and Cynthia Freivogel, violins; Roy Whelden, viola da gamba; and David Morris, cello, Old First Concerts
$15/$12 seniors 65 and over/$12 students with ID, 8:00 (415/474-1608,

June 11, 2008
7 pm
North Beach Branch
2000 Mason St. @ Columbus
San Francisco

. *Mystical Path: Poet/musician Clara Hsu and Poet/artist Bill Mercer read current work as well as from their recently released CD.

May 3rd – May 18th, 2008 • Fridays, May 9th and 16th at 8PM
Saturdays, May 3rd, 10th, and 17th at 8PM
Sundays, May 4th, 11th, and 18th at 2:30PM

Alva Sound Art Studio presents Morningstar Ranch, a play by Nicholas Alva, with original music by Nicholas Alva, Ramon Sender, Alicia Bay Laurel, Joe Dolce, Brian Skinner, Mira Alfasa, Tanya Boone-Alva, Kelly Ann Walton, Wilder Bentley and Lou Gottlieb.
Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park, 5409 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park, CA 94931,
phone: (707) 588-3400,
$16 general admission. Student and group rates available.
Reservations/advance sale are recommended as seating is limited.

1st Monday 7:00-8:30 Gallery Cafe 1200 Mason @ Washington St. (415) 775-0261 San Francisco map	All Poets Welcome Reading Series presents featured readers followed by an open mike, For information, contact host and organizer Kit Kennedy Food and a wide drink selection available	WEB LINKS Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg performing William Blake Baudelaire William Blake Archive Richard Brautigan Don Brennan William Burroughs John Cage Howard Hart by Armour Garland Ira Cohen Gregory Corso Robert Creeley T. S. Eliot Fifteen Poems by Jack Hirschman YOUKNOWOMSAYIN Jack Hirschman 13 YouTube videos Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman by Jack Hirschman & Matt Gonzalez Bob Kaufman Beatitude 9/11/02-- Bob Kaufman Final Portraits Krishnamurti LIGHT BUILDING MIND by Kush (excerpt) Robert Lax Robert Lax poetry Philip Lamantia Michael McClure Micheal McClure & Ray Manzarek David Meltzer A Tribute to David Meltzer THE ART / THE VEIL:Meltzer Jack Micheline Jack Micheline Beatitude 4/9/03- HD MOE Blake Moore Gerald Nicosia Charles Olson - I, Maximus of Gloucester, youtube Kenneth Patchen — Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959 Kenneth Patchen Home Page Painted and Silkscreened Poems by Kenneth Patchen Documentary of Ezra Pound youtube Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI, read by the poet. Kenneth Rexroth Rexroth in the Anachist Encyclopedia Life of Rumi Fanny Renoir Tony Seldon Ben Shahn Gary Snyder North Beach Alba by Gary Synder George Tsongas North Beach Poet Lew Welch Philip Whalen a chapbook Mark Other Place by Phillip Whalen ~~~ Ancient Greek Philosophers Athanasius Kircher Society Bartleby great books and classic poetry online Bibliomania Free Online Literature/ 2000 Classic Texts The Library of Congress Electronic Text Center Eserver Poetry Collection original & classic verse ~~~ Academy of Beat Poets American Museum of Beat Art Beat Page Beat Generation: The People Beat Generation Resources Page Beat SuperNova Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature THE GREAT BEAT GROUP PHOTO Cosmic Baseball Association How Beat Happened Lit Kicks Decade of Bebop, Beatniks & Painting by Arthur Monroe-1998 Naropa U. Internet Archive Neon Alley Unspeakable Visions: Beat Generation/Bohemian Dialectic Worchel Institute for study of Beat & BohemianLiterature Why the Beats Still Matter Women of the Beat Generation ~~~ Fusion Anomaly (oddity) International SurreaLists Art Representative Poetry Online Light and Dust Anthology Neurotic Poets An Open Letter to America Poetry Foundation The Physik Garden Project Gutenberg UBUWEB Aspen web version - multimedia magazine in a box Wenaus favorite poems ~~~ Susan Cervantes's murals Pecita Eyes Murals ee cummings paintings Phil Deal poet, artist, musician, inventor M.C. Escher Gallery Hermann Hesse Paintings Drawings Larry Keenan photographer George Long artist, musician Torrey Nommesen's fractal art Visionary artist Ned Millett Richard 'Lucky' Perri' San Francisco Artist Literary stamps Art Crimes Writing on the Wall Women in the Arts National Museum Women in Art video Women are Art - Corot video ~~~ Writer Beware: warnings about literary fraud and other schemes that target writers ~~~ zines Left Curve Jack Jacket magazine Big Bridge #12 Poetry Bay The Atlantic Online In A Dark Time...The Eye Begins To See Poetry / Nature Monthly online Publication sanfranciscoartmagazine.com ZYZZYVA* journal of west coast writers & artists more poetry at sfheart.com Poetry a few of my favorites by Dorothy Parker, Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam,Shakespeare, and ee cummings The Desiderata Love Quotes eclectic snipets of prose and poetry. Excerpts From "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran "On Love" "On Beauty" "On Giving" "On Work" "On Children" "On Freedom" "On Crime and Punishment" Song of Love by Kahlil Gibran
2nd Monday It's a Grind Coffee House 1800 Polk Street San Francisco	Word Dancing, featured poets followed by an open mike. hosted by Jeanne Powell contact: 415-928-8904
Every Tuesday 7pm Sharp-9pm Amnesia, 853 Valencia (bet 19th & 20th) 415. 970-0012 San Francisco	San Francisco's newest open mic in one of the city's hottest nightclubs. Come down to Amnesia in the Mission district for Red Light Open Mic with your host Phillip T. Nails Featured performance starts at 7pm Those who sign up on the open get a max of 7 minutes to perform. Poetry, music, comedy, and comedian welcome.
1st Tuesday each Month 8:30 -12 pm Club Deluxe 1511 Haight Street @ Ashbury San Francisco map	Jazz Jam and Poetry Reading. 8:30 sign up Open to all who want a true San Francisco experience...the marriage of jazz and poetry once again at this true SF institution. open mic. Hosts: Jennifer, Ingrid and Daniel all are welcome ...bring your words, voices, or instruments Jennifer Barone bio flyer
2nd Tuesday 7:00 pm Park Branch Library 1833 Page St. @Cole San Francisco map	On the Page: Off the Page open mic: written, spoken word and song Hosted by Diamond Dave Whitaker, beloved fixture in the poetry scene came to San Francisco in 1957. *dmndv@hotmail.com*
Last Tuesday each month 7 pm KEANE'S 3300 CLUB 3300 Mission St.@ 29th St. San Francisco	Featured Poets: followed by long open mic w/ MC Nancy Keane 6:30pm sign up Nancy Keane is also the editor of these two must-have books.Poetry at the 33 Review Volume III and Poetry at the 33 Review Volume IV Keane's 3300 Club is a venue well-known for presenting quality poetry and visual art to the community for many years. 415-333-3494
First Wednesday 6:00 - 7:30 pm Mechanics’Institute Room 405 57 Post Street (near Market St), San Francisco	Mechanix Poets Moderated by Yves Moralex Please bring a poem on topic to read and share Dessert served. FREE TO ALL Phone: (415) 393-0119 x192 The Mechanics Institute also sponsors the Cinema Lit Film Series
Every Wednesday 7:30-10 pm Sacred Grounds Cafe 2095 Hayes Street 387-3859 San Francisco map	The longest running open mic for Poetry Readings in San Francisco open mic hosted by Jehanna Wedgewood SIGN UP:7:00 p.m. Each sign-up gets 10 minutes or two songs.
1st and 3rd Weds. North Point Coffee Company 1230 Bridgeway Sausalito next to Paradise Bay restaurant map	Hosted by Martin Hickel For more information: email
2nd and 4th Wed. 6 - 8pm, Redhill Books, 401 Cortland Ave, 648-5331 San Francisco map	Serious: Poetry open mic Hosts: Sierra Logan and Don Brennan
Each Thursday 7 pm Bazaar Cafe 5927 California St. bet/ 21st / 22nd Ave. (415) 831-5620 San Francisco map	Original acoustic music songs and poetry open mic hosted by Robin Galante The Bazaar Cafe is a cozy and friendly place. They serve delicious food, beer and wine and have a lovely garden to enjoy.
1st & 3rd Thursday 7~9 pm Bird and Beckett 653 Chenery San Francisco map (415)586- 3733	Bird and Beckett Poetry Reading Series hosted by Jerry Ferraz The attentiveness of the audience, the graciousness of Eric the owner, and the great selection of books and records (new and used) all add to the warm ambiance of this popular Glen Park neighborhood book store .
Third Thursday bibliohead bookstore 7:30 pm. 334 Gough St. @ Hayes San Francisco map	bibliohead Bookstore presents an open mic each month. Open mic (5 minutes) will begin at 7:15 pm, featured reader at 7:30 for 20 minutes, back to open until the end at 8:30. If the clock runs out and you miss your turn, you'll be first on the sign up list for the following month. Bring your best, tell your truth, poetry works. Hosted by Don Brennan
First Friday (April through October) 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Main Library Steps 100 Larkin Street San Francisco	Step Book Sale Friends of the Library holds a monthly step sale April through October on the Larkin Street steps of the Main Library every first Friday of the month (weather permitting) between April and October. All books are $1 or less at these sales.
1st Friday 7:30 pm Escape from New York Pizza 333 Bush, @ Montgomery San Francisco	POETS AND PIZZA featured Poets ~ no open mic $5. Donations go to a small organization, usually a non-profit or publishing house, of the poets' choice. Make a donation, hear some poems and the pizza is FREE!
Every Friday 5:30 pm - 8 pm Bird and Beckett 653 Chenery San Francisco map (415)586- 3733	Live jazz every Friday evening The music starts at 5:30 pm and runs 'till 8:00 pm. Bring a few bucks for the band!!! A neighborhood tradition since 2002
Every Friday Cafe International 8 pm 508 Haight St. @ Fillmore San Francisco	Cafe International:open mic: For Poets and musicians, sign up 7:45 Hosted by Tyren McElwee and Wiseproof
Every Friday Mechanics’Institute, 57 Post Street (near Market St), San Francisco Mechanics’ Café opens at 6:00 pm Program begins at 6:30 pm.	CINEMALIT: an ongoing feast of classic American and international films at the Mechanics' Institute nine months a year, The CinemaLit Film Series is open to members and the public. A salon style discussion follows the film. Admission: Tickets available at the door. MIL members: free ; Public suggested donation $10 For more information and reservations: Call (415) 393-0100 or email Reservations are required - Limited seating
2nd Saturdays 4 pm Faithful Fools Series 234 Hyde St San Francisco map	open mic + features Host: Ramu Aki Ramu Aki is a poet writer, and artist. He provides insight and vision to the ways that the arts bring life to the world and the work of the Fools.
Every Saturday and Sunday 4 pm Florence Gould Theater LEGION OF HONOR Lincoln Park San Francisco Map	Public organ concerts on the Legion's magnificent 1924 Skinner pipe organ are presented on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 pm. The organ concert program has recently expanded its repertoire with music ranging from Bach to Gershwin to musical thunderstorms, Sousa marches, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the great film music of Hollywood Calendar of recitals
Every Sunday and the evening of the Full Moon 3 to 5 pm Red Hill Books 401 Cortland Avenue San Francisco map	Always on a Sunday and every full moon you can find great live music at Red Hill. Search the shelves or sit down with a cup of wine, a neighborly cheeseplate of delectables, let the kids browse the board books, and enjoy your Sunday afternoon with some of the best music by the best musicians San Francisco has to offer. On the evening of the full moon we put a bunch of great books on sale and invite you to a fabulous free concert.
Last Sunday each month 4:30 to 6:30 pm Bird and Beckett 653 Chenery San Francisco map (415)586- 3733	Walker Brent, masterful storyteller, is a cornucopia of literary fact and fiction. As a geographer of the entire range of human cultural output, his monthly talks on topics diverse & fascinating are not to be missed. Listen to Audio samples Here
Please help support the S.F.Heart web site

1st Monday
7:00-8:30
Gallery Cafe
1200 Mason
@ Washington St.
(415) 775-0261
San Francisco map

All Poets Welcome Reading Series presents featured readers followed by an open mike,
For information, contact host and organizer Kit Kennedy
Food and a wide drink selection available

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William Blake Archive
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Light and Dust Anthology
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ee cummings  paintings
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Big Bridge #12
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ZYZZYVA journal of west coast writers & artists

more poetry at sfheart.com
Poetry a few of my favorites by Dorothy Parker, Kahlil Gibran, Omar Khayyam,Shakespeare, and
ee cummings
The Desiderata
Love Quotes eclectic snipets of prose and poetry.

Excerpts From "The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran
"On Love"
"On Beauty"
"On Giving"
"On Work"
"On Children"
"On Freedom"
"On Crime and Punishment"
Song of Love by Kahlil Gibran

2nd Monday
It's a Grind Coffee
House
1800 Polk Street
San Francisco

Word Dancing, featured poets followed by an open mike.
hosted by Jeanne Powell contact: 415-928-8904

Every Tuesday
7pm Sharp-9pm
Amnesia,
853 Valencia
(bet 19th & 20th)
415. 970-0012
San Francisco

San Francisco's newest open mic in one of the city's hottest nightclubs. Come down to Amnesia in the Mission district for Red Light Open Mic with your host Phillip T. Nails
Featured performance starts at 7pm
Those who sign up on the open get a max of 7 minutes to perform.
Poetry, music, comedy, and comedian welcome.

1st Tuesday each Month
8:30 -12 pm
Club Deluxe
1511 Haight Street
@ Ashbury
San Francisco map

Jazz Jam and Poetry Reading.
8:30 sign up
Open to all who want a true San Francisco experience...the marriage of jazz and poetry once again at this true SF institution. open mic. Hosts: Jennifer, Ingrid and Daniel
all are welcome ...bring your words, voices, or instruments Jennifer Barone bio flyer

2nd Tuesday
7:00 pm
Park Branch Library
1833 Page St.
@Cole
San Francisco map

On the Page: Off the Page
open mic: written, spoken word and song Hosted by Diamond Dave Whitaker,
beloved fixture in the poetry scene came to San Francisco in 1957. dmndv@hotmail.com

Last Tuesday each month
7 pm
KEANE'S 3300 CLUB
3300 Mission St.@ 29th St.
San Francisco

Featured Poets: followed by long open mic w/ MC Nancy Keane 6:30pm sign up
Nancy Keane is also the editor of these two must-have books.Poetry at the 33 Review Volume III and Poetry at the 33 Review Volume IV
Keane's 3300 Club is a venue well-known for presenting quality poetry and visual art to the community for many years. 415-333-3494

First Wednesday
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Mechanics’Institute
Room 405
57 Post Street (near Market St),
San Francisco

Mechanix Poets
Moderated by Yves Moralex Please bring a poem on topic to read and share Dessert served. FREE TO ALL
Phone: (415) 393-0119 x192
The Mechanics Institute also sponsors the Cinema Lit Film Series

Every Wednesday
7:30-10 pm
Sacred Grounds Cafe
2095 Hayes Street
387-3859
San Francisco map

The longest running open mic for Poetry Readings in San Francisco
open mic hosted by Jehanna Wedgewood
SIGN UP:7:00 p.m.
Each sign-up gets 10 minutes or two songs.

1st and 3rd Weds.
North Point Coffee Company
1230 Bridgeway
Sausalito
next to Paradise Bay restaurant map

Hosted by Martin Hickel

For more information: email

2nd and 4th Wed.
6 - 8pm,
Redhill Books,
401 Cortland Ave,
648-5331
San Francisco map

Serious:
Poetry open mic
Hosts: Sierra Logan and Don Brennan

Each Thursday
7 pm
Bazaar Cafe
5927 California St.
bet/ 21st / 22nd Ave.
(415) 831-5620
San Francisco map

Original acoustic music songs and poetry
open mic hosted by Robin Galante
The Bazaar Cafe is a cozy and friendly place. They serve delicious food, beer and wine and have a lovely garden to enjoy.

1st & 3rd Thursday
7~9 pm
Bird and Beckett
653 Chenery
San Francisco map
(415)586- 3733

Bird and Beckett Poetry Reading Series
hosted by Jerry Ferraz
The attentiveness of the audience, the graciousness of Eric the owner, and the great selection of books and records (new and used) all add to the warm ambiance of this popular Glen Park neighborhood book store .

Third Thursday
bibliohead bookstore
7:30 pm.
334 Gough St.
@ Hayes
San Francisco map

bibliohead Bookstore presents an open mic each month. Open mic (5 minutes) will begin at 7:15 pm, featured reader at 7:30 for 20 minutes, back to open until the end at 8:30. If the clock runs out and you miss your turn, you'll be first on the sign up list for the following month. Bring your best, tell your truth, poetry works. Hosted by Don Brennan

First Friday
(April through October)
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Main Library Steps
100 Larkin Street
San Francisco

Step Book Sale
Friends of the Library holds a monthly step sale April through October on the Larkin Street steps of the Main Library every first Friday of the month (weather permitting) between April and October. All books are $1 or less at these sales.

1st Friday
7:30 pm
Escape from New York Pizza
333 Bush, @ Montgomery
San Francisco

POETS AND PIZZA
featured Poets ~ no open mic
$5. Donations go to a small organization, usually a non-profit or publishing house, of the poets' choice. Make a donation, hear some poems and the pizza is FREE!

Every Friday
5:30 pm - 8 pm
Bird and Beckett
653 Chenery
San Francisco map
(415)586- 3733

Live jazz every Friday evening
The music starts at 5:30 pm and runs 'till 8:00 pm. Bring a few bucks for the band!!!
A neighborhood tradition since 2002

Every Friday
Cafe International
8 pm
508 Haight St. @ Fillmore
San Francisco

Cafe International:open mic: For Poets and musicians, sign up 7:45
Hosted by Tyren McElwee and Wiseproof

Every Friday
Mechanics’Institute,
57 Post Street (near Market St),
San Francisco
Mechanics’ Café opens at 6:00 pm
Program begins at 6:30 pm.

CINEMALIT: an ongoing feast of classic American and international films at the Mechanics' Institute nine months a year, The CinemaLit Film Series is open to members and the public.
A salon style discussion follows the film.
Admission: Tickets available at the door. MIL members: free ; Public suggested donation $10
For more information and reservations: Call (415) 393-0100 or email
Reservations are required - Limited seating

2nd Saturdays
4 pm
Faithful Fools Series
234 Hyde St
San Francisco map

open mic + features
Host: Ramu Aki
Ramu Aki is a poet writer, and artist. He provides insight and vision to the ways that the arts bring life to the world and the work of the Fools.

Every Saturday and Sunday
4 pm
Florence Gould Theater
LEGION OF HONOR
Lincoln Park
San Francisco Map

Public organ concerts on the Legion's magnificent 1924 Skinner pipe organ are presented on Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 pm. The organ concert program has recently expanded its repertoire with music ranging from Bach to Gershwin to musical thunderstorms, Sousa marches, Gilbert and Sullivan, and the great film music of Hollywood Calendar of recitals

Every Sunday and the evening of the Full Moon
3 to 5 pm
Red Hill Books
401 Cortland Avenue
San Francisco map

Always on a Sunday and every full moon you can find great live music at Red Hill. Search the shelves or sit down with a cup of wine, a neighborly cheeseplate of delectables, let the kids browse the board books, and enjoy your Sunday afternoon with some of the best music by the best musicians San Francisco has to offer. On the evening of the full moon we put a bunch of great books on sale and invite you to a fabulous free concert.

Last Sunday each month
4:30 to 6:30 pm
Bird and Beckett
653 Chenery
San Francisco map
(415)586- 3733

Walker Brent, masterful storyteller, is a cornucopia of literary fact and fiction. As a geographer of the entire range of human cultural output, his monthly talks on topics diverse & fascinating are not to be missed.

Listen to Audio samples Here

Please help support the S.F.Heart web site

San Francisco Poetry and Art Events

ONGOING EVENTS WEB LINKS San Francisco POETS

MAY 2008

ONGOING EVENTS

Web site created by S.F.Heart©1997 - 2006 all rights reserved.
All products and company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

San Francisco Poetry and Art Events

ONGOING EVENTS WEB LINKS San Francisco POETS

MAY 2008

ONGOING EVENTS

Web site created by S.F.Heart©1997 - 2006 all rights reserved. All products and company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Web site created by S.F.Heart©1997 - 2006 all rights reserved.
All products and company names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.