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ANNOUNCEMENT SPECIAL NOTICE FERLINGHETTI TRIBUTE ANTHOLOGY Jambu Press / Studio Saraswati seek poems for a tribute anthology to poet, publisher, artist, and insurgent extraordinaire
Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Commemorating his 100th birthday,with blessings from Ferlinghetti himself (whose work has appeared in two previous Anthologies, Poems need not be written in the style of Ferlinghetti, but must embody the impact of Ferlinghetti in some way.
Please visit and support our local venues most of whom have calendars of upcoming events on their own websites. HAPPY BIRTHDAY (CONT.) May 14, 1935, When you know that I have died, From Small Hours of the Night May 18, 1048 ~ born, Omar Khayyám (d. December 4, 1123; Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer.
“What wisom can you find that is greater than kindness. ” - Henri Rousseau May 22, 1845, born.Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist painter and printmaker. Mary Cassatt lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. She often created images May 22, 1895 ~ born, Indian religious leader Jiddu Krishnamurti. "Truth is a pathless land, & you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organisation be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path."
May 24, 1941~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Robert Zimmerman.(Dylan) May 31,1819 ~ Happy Birthday Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
"To states everywhere, GONE BEYOND May 6,1862 ~ Henry David Thoreau, 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. died on this day . "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." May 7, 2007 ~ Our friend Poet Ozzy died at midnight in San Francisco. May 16, 1953 ~ Django Reinhardt died on this day in Fountainebleau, France.age 43. May 21, 1471 German Renaissance May 22, 1885 ~ Victor Hugo dies in Paris. Mourned as a national hero & buried in the Pantheon. "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we love." May 25, 1942 ~Happy Birthday San Francisco poet Bob Booker. May 30,1778 -- France: Philosopher, satirist Voltaire died. Possibly the greatest 18th-century European writer, noted for his wit, satire, & critical capacity. His greatest work is Candide (1759)
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MAY 2019
MON . TUES . WEDS . THURS . FRI . SAT . SUN Please Support our SAN FRANCISCO creative community of artists, authors, poets, musicians, SAN FRANCISCO ART AND POERTRY CALENDAR work in process SUPPORT OUR LOCAL POETS, ARTISTS BOOKSTORES &,GALLERIES! MONDAY Doors open: 6 PM. Show: 7 PM Harrington Galleries 599 Valencia Steet ~ San Francisco Bay Area Generations Show #69 Every First Tuesday June through October The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Enjoy some of the Bay Area’s best poets and musicians share their work in the great outdoors. Free! Tuesday, JUNE 11, 2019 3rd Tuesday, JUNE 18, 2019 THE WORD PARTY WEDNESDAY Wednesday May 29, 2019 SACRED GROUNDS MAY 29-JUNE 13, 2019 SF DOC FEST Thursday, May 30, 2016 He’s back! JOHN WATERS  The Title Says It All!Filthy Punch and Chips Provided! Space is limited! Get your book and tickets now! Free ticket with Purchase of Mr. Know-It-All from The Green Arcade, 1680 Market St., SF Single tickets $10. Phone orders accepted, 12-8pm, M-Sat, Sun 12-7. 415 431 6800 ONGOING
May 23- JUNE 2, 2017 Thursday, May 30 ,2019 It's definitely going to be a special eve and a special 4tet with GARY BROWN on Bass, FRIDAY FILM Friday May 24 thru Thursday May 30, 2019 Saturday May 25, 2019
FRI, MAY 31 AT 6 ~ 9PM Live Worms Gallery CLOSING RECEPTION
- featuring NANCY CALEF, AGNETA FALK, JEFFREY THOMPSON, BOB BRALOVE, RUTH CALI CAPROW, TOM SCHULTZ, There will be live music featuring Bob Bralove and guests. GROUP ART EXHIBITION
4TH Friday May 24,2019 Jazz in the Bookshop features EVERY FRIDAY OPEN MIC
May 04 → May 25,2019 $1.25 : A TICKET FOR THE NEXT GENERATION Saturday, May 25, 2019 1ST Saturday, JUNE 1, 2019 You Are Invited to Come to May 26,,2019 2:30PM – 4PM 7:30PM – 9:30PM The Evangenitals are once again gracing the stage at Bird & Beckett this Memorial Day weekend. This marks the 4th year that B&B has hosted this Folked-up Genre-Bending Good Time Band Sunday, May 26, 2019 FORBIDDEN CITY BURLESQUE Workshops on fan dancing, stage presence and costume designing; and how to add magic to your art will be offered in the afternoon from 2 to 6 pm. Fee is $30 per session. Performance at 8 pm.
GEARS TURNING May 31,1819
"KUSH" Cloud House will be at 49 Ryerson Street, in New York City on May 31, 2019,to reclaim from memory Whitman's poem, |
SAN FRANCISCO POETS
Susan Birkeland IN MEMORIAM
Jehanah Wedgewood The Cool Grey City of Love A LITTLE HISTORY May 1, 1543 -- Copernicus circulates "The Little Commentary," showing the heliocentricity of the Solar System. The Churches and the populace did not take kindly to the idea that Mankind is not the center of the Universe. 466 years latter, many right wingers still find this idea unacceptable May 1, 1650 -- The Diggers at Iver issue their declaration In 1966 a faction of the San Francisco Mime Troupe formed a Diggers group in the hippie community in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. A strongly anti-establishment group, they handed out free food in Golden Gate Park. May 1, 1850 May 3, 1936 -- Baseball's Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets three hits. May 3, 1966 ~ Culture Symposium at SF State College: Ron Davis, director May 3,1966 May 4, 1953 ~ British novelist visonary Aldous Huxley (age 58) takes mescaline, May 5, 1926 ~ Sinclair Lewis When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis May 7, 1824 ~ Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed for first time. Beethoven conducts in his last public appearance. May 7, 1971 May 12, 1963 -- Bob Dylan May 12, 1972 May 14, 1912 --Edgar Rice Burroughs, (Sept. 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) May 14,1969May 14,1969 NOT PEOPLE'S PARK May 15, 1870, Julia Ward Howe, suffragist, abolitionist and author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” proposed Mother's Day as a peace holiday. May 16, 1893 ~ May 22, 1846 -- Adolphe Sax gets patent for inventing the Saxophone. HAPPY BIRTHDAY May 1, 1830 -- Mother Jones (Mary Harris), is born in Cork, Ireland. "I live in the United States, May 1, 1923, born, American novelist, Joseph Heller. Best known for Catch-22, a novel about US servicemen during World War II. The title entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. May 6,1856 ~ Sigmund Freud, influential Austrian neurologist and psychological theorist of 20th-century. He founded the discipline of psychoanalysis. May 8, 1861 ~ Rabindranath Tagore's Birthday~Prolific playwright, novelist, musician and poet, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature (1861-1941) May 8, 1930 ~ Born in San Francisco, Zen anarchist and one of the earliest of the Beat May 8, 1928, Dick ( Richard William) McBride, American beat poet, playwright and novelist ~ worked at City Lights Books & Publishers from 1954-1969. May 11, 1904 ~ Salvador Dali was born on this day. Salvadore Dali Dali videos
May 13, 1950 ~ Steveland Morris Hardaway was born prematurely and "Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it." ~ Stevie Wonder May 14,1265 ( Mid-May to mid-June)- Italian poet Dante (1265-1321). At the age of 9 he met eight-year-old Beatrice Portinari, who became in effect his Muse, and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems. Although he wrote concerning romance, politics, and literature, he is best known for "The Divine Comedy". Mere hours after finishing the Paradiso,Dante, 56,died Ravenna of malaria in May1321 "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neurality."
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Roque Dalton, was born in El Salvador. He was the son of one of the Dalton boys of Kansas, a notorious American outlaw family, who escaped to El Salvador. 
Henri Rousseau (May 21, 1844 - September 2, 1910), French Post-Impressionist Painter, born in town of Laval in the North of France. Rousseau 's family came from the working class. For much of his life, Henri worked as a tax collector - He always drew, but in 1893,
of the social and private lives of women, with particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children. 
May 22, 1914 born ~ 
artist Albrect Dürer was trained as a goldsmith in his fathers workshop until he was apprenticed to the Nuremberg painter, Michael Wolgemut, at the age of fifteen. Dürer became one of the greatest oil painters of the Northern Renaissance, equally famous for his exquisite watercolors, engravings and woodcut prints. 
May 30, 1960 ~ poet, writer, Boris Pasternak, was a Nobel prize-winner (1958), the author of Doctor Zhivago Pasternak died age 70 of lung cancer, in the Soviet Union.
The Renowned environmental artist Christo sets out to realize the FloatingPiers, a wide golden walkway floating across a scenic Italian alpine lake.
7:00 pm signup - show's over at 11pm- Feature & Open Mic ~ Original material Only
ALLEN COHEN Poetry
his first psychedelic trip. Huxley wrote "Brave New World", which warned of a mindless, materialistic existence a modernized society could produce.
declines the 1926 Pulitzer, declaring that all such prizes tend to make writers "safe, polite, obedient and sterile." However, he does accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.Sinclair Lewis was the first American novelist so honored, His last best work was It Can't Happen Here, a speculative novel about the election of a Fascist as US President.
walks out of TV dress rehearsals for "The Ed Sullivan Show." CBS censors tell Dylan he cannot perform his "Talking John Birch Society Blues." When told the tune may be libelous, Dylan refuses to appear on the show.
Poets, Gary Snyder has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". He is all that as well as an essayist, travel writer, translator, award winner and educator, (U.C. Davis) for many years. 
May 11, ~Happy Birthday! 
May 12, 1828 ~ English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
gift for music, first with a church choir in Detroit, Michigan, and later with a bevy of instruments, including the harmonica, piano and drums, all of which he taught himself before age 10. Berry Gordy signed him to a record deal and In 1962, the newly renamed Little Stevie Wonder, released his debut album, Little Stevie Wonder the 12 Year Old Genius.
MONTHLY ART EVENTS ONGOING May 9 ~ Sunday June 2, 2019 GROUP ART EXHIBITION FIRST FRIDAY IN NORTH BEACH FIRST THURSDAY each month
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