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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.
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GONE BEYOND April 3, 2000 -- April. 5, 1997 April 5, 2003 ~ Kirby Doyle (70), San Francisco Beat poet and writer, died in Laquana Honda in San Francisco. The sun is now (October 25, 1881-April 8,1973)
April 10,1931~ Lebanese born American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystic poet, & artist. Author of The Prophet., Kahlil Gibran died in New York. "The man who hears Seven poems from The Phophet, beginning with Love. April 10, 1999 ~ Mary Jane Rathbun (77), aka Brownie Mary, died. She and Dennis Peron had earlier published "Brownie Mary's Marijuana Cookbook and Dennis Peron's Recipe for Social Change."(Women's Month) April 11, 1977, Poet, surrealist, libertarian, screenwriter Jacques Prévert died on this day. He worshiped freedom & glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt. Participated with the surrealists, but refused to join the Communist Party with Andre Breton, Paroles, his first published work appeared late in 1945. He was born in 1900. Jacques Prévert (wikipedia) April 12, 1989 April 12, 1975 ~ Black American April 13, 1986 ~ French author and philosopher/feminist Simone de Beauvoir died on this day
of pneumonia in Paris, aged 78. Born and educated in Paris, Simone de Beauvoir knew by the age of 15 that April 23, 1941 ~ April 30, 2004 April 25, 2011 ` IRA COHEN departed this eathly llife. Many artists have been greatly influenced by Ira Cohen, world traveler, multi media artist, poet, photographer, filmmaker, and President of The Akashic Record. April 26, 2011~ Phoebe Snow, singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her chart-topping 1975 hit "Poetry Man."crossed over on this day. Poetry Man (youtube) Obit April 29, 2008 ~ Albert
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APRIL 2019
MON . TUES . WEDS . THURS . FRI . SAT . SUN You are invited to peruse this helpful digest of San Francisco Art and and Poetry information. Please Support our SAN FRANCISCO creative community of artists, authors, poets, musicians, ANNOUNCEMENT work in progress 1ST AND 3RD MONDAY POETS! ONGOING Now through April 27, 2019 In honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 100th birthday Bransten Gallery is hosting a solo exhibition presenting Tuesday, April 30, 2019, FOUCAULT IN CALIFORNIA 3rd Tuesday, MAY 20, 2019 THE WORD PARTY Tuesday, MAY 14, 2019 Wednesday April 24, 2019 SACRED GROUNDS Wednesday, April 24, 2019 ED BOK LEE reading from his THURSDAY Thursday,April 25, 2019 TONGO EISEN MARTIN:
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND POETS: Arian Arias, Mahnaz Badihian, Lynne Barnes, Jennifer Barone, Virginia Barrett, Judith Thursday, April 25,2019 PETER DUFFY Thursday April 25, 2019 The Co-Evolution of AI and Humans Thursday, MAY 2, 2019 At The Inkwell: Poetry Night
OPEN MIC
1ST Saturday MAY 4, 2019 You Are Invited to Come to FIRST SATURDAY each month: ONGOING LACEY BRYANT - THE SLOW TAROT COMING SOON! May 04 → May 25,2019 $1.25 : A TICKET FOR THE NEXT GENERATION COMING SOON! Saturday, MAY 6, 2019 OPENING RECEPTION FOR PERFORMING POLITICAL EDUCATION: FIGHTING FORMATIONS Indexical Moment/um,the launch of a visual archive of codes, symbols, and images that signify safety and community welcoming, in the tradition of quilts from the Underground Railroad, and including performances by poet Tongo Eisen-Martin, with music by Marshall Trammell, electronic musician Sharmi Basu, and accordionist Umesh Mallery. |
SAN FRANCISCO POETS
Susan Birkeland IN MEMORIAM
Jehanah Wedgewood The Cool Grey City of Love April 1, 1841 ~ Brook Farm, history's most famous utopian community, is founded near West Roxbury, Massachusetts. It's primary appeal was to young Bostonians who shrink from the materialism of American life, & the community was a refuge for dozens of transcendentalists, including Ralph Waldo Emerson & Nathanial Hawthorne.web of AmericanTranscendentalism April 2, 1960 ~ During this month, while drunk, Beatster Jack Kerouac falls & injures his elbow in New York's Penn Station. Still later, in May, while drunk in the Bowery, he falls again & injures his head; Kerouac experiences first bout of delirium tremens. April 5, 1998 ~ Ray Piecuch, a cowboy poet from New Hampshire, completed his year long 3,500 mile ride across country on his horse, Bo, with a champagne celebration at Baker Beach. April 13, 1962 ~ Rachel Carson's book indicting the pesticide industry, Silent Spring, is published. "The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind — that, & anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. "...Rachel Carson April 13, 1967 ` April 15, 1967 April 20, 1841 -- First detective story, Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue") published. April 20, 1887 -- Oscar Wilde today writes: "Every great man nowadays has his disciples, & it is usually Judas who writes the biography."
April 20, 2002 My own and others contributions to the protests held against the upcoming War in Irag. HAPPY BIRTHDAY April 1, 1949 ~ Gill Scott-Heron April 2, 1945 ~ born Anne Waldman in Millville, is a poet, performance artist, literary theorist, feminist, and cultural activist, has channeled her passions and experiences into poetry, urging us toward civic and political responsibility. Waldman, with Ginsberg, founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado (now Naropa University), and she remains a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and the Director of Naropa's famous Summer Writing Program.
April 4, 1928 ~ born in St. Louis, Missouri, Maya Angelou, /poet, journalist, an actor of screen and stage, a director, a civil rights activist, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a professor..Maya Angelou (wikipedia) April 6, 1931 ~ Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) BE HERE NOW
April. 8. 563 BC ~ born in Kapalivastu, India, Gautama Siddhartha, (Buddha) spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism. April. 8. 563 BC ~ born in Kapalivastu, India, Gautama Siddhartha, (Buddha) spiritual teacher who founded Buddhism. The thought manifests as the word; April 9, 1821~ born, Charles-Pierre Baudelaire in Paris, France April 11, 1944 ~born, Csaba Antal Polony, passed away peacefully at his home on March 9, 2014. April 15, 1452 ~ Leonardo da Vinci. was born on this day.. Leonardo
April 16, 1844, born, Anatole France, poet, journalist, and novelist in Paris. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.~Anatole France April 18, 1925
Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire, 1953 by Joan Miro |
Chicago Seven radical who founded the Yippie movement. In 1967, Hoffman tossed dollar bills onto the floor of the American Stock Exchange to disrupt business. It worked. Near-riot in the mad $cramble for free buckaroonies. Since that incident, the stock exchange gallery has been enclosed the with bulletproof glass.
she would be a famous writer and she was one of first women permitted to complete study program at the École Normale Supérieure. She had a lifelong friendship with Sartre . Simone de Beauvoir was buried next to Sartre at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
Hofmann
Ayn Bernhard, Bob Booker, Kristina Brown, Stephen Canright, John Curl, Agneta Falk, Steven Gray, Martin Hickel, Jack Hirschman, Jessica Loos, Rosemary Manno, Sarah Menefee, Barbara Paschke, Kim Shuck and Lisbit Bailey (Host)
7:00 pm signup - show's over at 11pm- Feature & Open Mic ~ Original material Only
ALLEN COHEN Poetry
Show: Joyful Alternative
April 19, 1960 .
April 3, 1783 ~ born, 
April 7,1770 -April 23, 1850 ~ born, William Wordsworth, major English Romantic poet who helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature. 
April 7, 1915~ Eleanora Fagan, born to become
de Vinci was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, botanist, musician mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, and writer. He has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man.
April 15, 1898 ~ born, Blues vocalist great Bessie Smith in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
April 20, 1893 -- the great Catalan artist, sculptor, prolific printmaker, and bon-vivant, 
MONTHLY ART EVENTS FIRST THURSDAY each month FIRST FRIDAY IN NORTH BEACH FIRST SATURDAY each month: |
MUSEUMS ART CHANGES LIVES, you can, too. |
CANESSA GALLERY |
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| by Jacques Prevert Oh, I wish so much you would remember |
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THE WORLD IS A BUTTERFLY'S WING
by Allen Cohen An awareness arises Decoding Spring There is an intelligence The code says, "I will flower- I will breathe C02. I will provide I will breathe out Oxygen They will help spread Through this giving in the hidden world of my seed The World is a Butterfly's Wing |
THE BIG BLACK SUCKING HOLE
by Allen Cohen It goes against my nature |
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Traveling Bohemians The prophetic tribe of the ardent eyes |
Destruction At my side the Demon writhes forever, Knowing my love of Art, he snares my senses, He leads me thus, far from the sight of God, And into my bewildered eyes he throws |
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The stars of midnight shall be dear
by William Wordsworth, Poems (1815) |
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LOVE IN ACTION
826 VALENCIA |
ART CHANGES LIVES Children's Creativity Museum THE RANDALL MUSEUM |
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