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Bay Area calendars for Poetry, Art and Literature Events
Poetry Flash
SF Station
SF Arts
The Poet's One-Page Guide
San Francisco's Open Mic Poetry Scene.

Bay Area IndymediaSF
Peace & Justice Calendar of bay area events and details of how to participate in upcoming civic actions
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VENUES
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The Beat Goes On!

Adobe Books
3130 24th Street
San Francisco
415 864-3936
Open In-Store Shopping
Mon-Fri 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sat-Sun 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
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Alley Cat Bookstore and Gallery
Fri,Sat,Sun. 11 am to 7pm city-mandated 20% Capacity
3036 24th Street SF
415-824-1761
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The Beat Museum
open every day.10am–7pm
540 Broadway @ Columbus Ave,S. F.
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Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery St.
bet. Diamond and Castro,S.F.
(415) 586-3733
Open to walk-in trade and browsing
Tues.to Sun. 12pm to 6pm
+great jazz most weekends
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The Booksmith
1727 Haight.
online events
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Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street, S F
(415) 781-7532
online events
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Book Passage
1 Ferry Building,S F
(415) 835-1020
open weekends
online events
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The Brava Theater
Women in the Arts
2781 24th Street, SF
Online events
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Browser Bookstore
2195 Fillmore St,SF
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Clarion Music Center
2 Waverly Place,SF
415-391-1317

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City Lights Booksellers
261 Columbus Avenue,SF
(415) 362-8193
Now Open Every Day,
from12–8pm

Green Apple Books
506 Clement St., SF
both locations
In-Store every day
10am to 9pm

Browse Books
Green Apple Books/ 9th Ave ~1231 9th Ave SF
open every day
10am to 8pm
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The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
@GoughSF
online shopping
curbside pick-available
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Forest Books
1748 Buchanan Mall,SF
(415) 563-8302

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The Poetry Center (SFSU)

Red Poppy Arthouse
2698 Folsom St
San Francisco

(415) 826.2402

San Francisco Poetry Readings

Sacred Grounds
San Francisco's longest running open mic (1972)

MUSEUMS & ART CENTERS
In San Francisco

De YOUNG Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea GardenDr.
Golden Gate Park San Francisco

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The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco
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Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St.
San Francisco
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Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St.
San Francisco
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Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco
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SFMOMA
Modern Art Museum
151 Third Street
San Francisco
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California Academy of Sciences
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Conservatory of Flowers
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
SOMArts ~*~
Museum of Craft and Design
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Exploratorium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WORK IN PROGESS

APRIL 2021
NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

2021 is the 23rd Anniversary of SFHEART.COM
and
the 16th Anniversary of the
San Francisco Art and Poetry Calendar.

ANNOUNCEMENT
I am on Hiatus and not available to post
our usual Daily Event Notices at this time.
Heart to Heart = Love in ActionI hope you will find this Art and Poetry Digest helpful and invite you to continue supporting
our San Francisco local artists and poets
and the many venues that make it
possible for them to do
what they love.

Nicole Savage, Editor, www.sfheart.com
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POEM OF THE DAY
Check back daily for a new poetic
offering from assorted local poets or
view the archive of previous day's poems.
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SAN FRANCISCO MAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY
Welcome Our New SF Poet Laureate
TONGO EISEN-MARTIN

While the library is closed
due to the COVID-19 pandemic
VIRTUAL PROGRAMS are NOW AVAILABLE:
Visit the event calendar o learn more.

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SF Public Library Main Branch Library
First Floor to Reopen May 3


Meet Us Quickly: Painting for Justice from Prison"
See the work of twelve artists incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, the site of one of the nation's most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks. The works are presented with accompanying statements written by each artist, allowing these incarcerated men to speak for themselves and share their vision and perspectives in their own words


Diamond Dave and Jorge Molina
DAVE WHITAKER
AND THE THREE GENERATION RAINBOW

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April 18, 1925
~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ BOB KAUFMAN ~

Bob Kaufman photo by Jean Carlisle
(photo: Bob Kaufman @ Jean Carlisle)

Poet Bob Kaufman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1959, along with poets Allen Ginsberg, John Kelly, A. D. Winans, and William Margolis, he was a founder of Beatitude Magazine.
.Read an excellent biography of Bob Kaufman
by A.D. Winans

Kaufman by Photogragher Jean Carlisle
(photo: Kaufman 1985 @ Jean Carlisle

"Bob Kaufman, the "black Rimbaud" of Beat
San Francisco, passed away in his sleep Sunday morn January 12, 1986, passed on in a dream of Halley's Comet leaving our visibility. In the mosaic of the micro-environments of this penninsular city, his very presence would percolate events and cluster conversation. Bolts of insight and humor charging his public atmosphere, electric beat and dancer of his word that went out to the everyday lives, to stir us all. North Beach was his book, its streets his paper, to do his poems in person. For thirty years Bob was the beat Ulysses of North Beach in his dynamic trails and stops, those ports of call, portals of horn, that generated a poetic geography."
© Kush,excerpt from The Duende of Bob
Kaufman,
Third Railrom, issue 6, 1987

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Heart to Heart = Love in ActionApril 23, 1941 ~ April 30, 2004
Allen Cohen

ALLEN COHEN BIOGRAPHY
Allen Cohen before he came to San Francisco

Allen Cohen was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1941. His search for his lifes true motive led him to San Francisco in the early 60s.,where in 1966, he co-founded and edited the legendary "San Francisco Oracle," a psychedelic, rainbow-hued underground newspaper published in the Haight-Ashbury.
The first issue of San Francisco Oracle was released Sept. 9, 1966 by Allen who at that time was working at the Psychedelic Shop, co-owned by Ron Thelin.
Allen also helped originate rites of passage like the Human-Be-In in San Francisco.

With his gifts of a visionary mind, a compassionate heart and the sincere belief that Peace, Love and Justice could be achieved through organized non violent effort rather than violent confrontation and armed only with his pen and his words, Allen Cohen inspired his generation...Nicole Savage


Poet Allen Cohen
was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to San Franciso in the early '60's. H Cohen died of Liver Cancer April 30, 2004, at the age of 64.
Also visit http://www.allencohen.us/ for more information about his work and wonderful photos, media and generously shared by Ann Cohen.

earth child
EARTH CHILD

War is not

SAN FRANCISCO POETS

Susan Birkelandstar 1961 ~ 2006
City of Love
Tony Vaughanstar1947 ~ 2008
After An Evening of Poetry
and Wine & Approaching Desire
George Tsongas star
(1927 - Jan. 2010)
The City is a Dream
John Dowling star
(Aug. 7, 1956 -. Dec.16, 2012)
The Revolution in North Beach
Joie Cookstar
(Nov. 4, 1951 ~ Feb. 24, 2013)
There Are Nights in San Francisco
Micheline
Don Brennan star
(Sept. 27, 1935- Mar. 18, 2013)
Spirit Walk &
Old World Cafes
Vince Storti star
June 9, 1944 ~March 2017
Walking Woman 1 &
Mime Troupe Witness 1
Peter Sherburn-Zimmerstar
Dec.1944)~ Feb.2019
Broadway Queen &
what may a poem be?
Ronald Sauerstar
The San Francisco Renaissance
Rebecca (an acrostic poem)
Don Altadena star
Foghorns bloom,
we break upon meaning
Jerry Ferrazstar
Guitara
Richard Hack star
Three poems
Rosemary Manno
What the Beatniks Saw
in North Beach & Ode To Michelangelo Park at Twilight
Bill Mercerstar
Vesuvio's North Beach
Jane Rades star
My Adopted City
Mark Schwartz star
All the Critical Mass bicycles
confiscated should be: &
There was a little alley
in San Francisco
Kim Shuckstar
On Columbus
Mike Aguzinstar
420 and a Vision & Cheer
Mia Kirsi Stageberg star
Angels of San Francisco

IN MEMORIAM

peace signALLEN COHEN Poetry
April 23,1941~April 30, 2004
The Decline & Fall of San Francisco
by Allen Cohen
Dan Harrington (Dec 12 2012)
Offering For A Friend by Jerry Ferraz and Enchantment by Peter Sherburn Zimmer

* John Ross (1938-2011)
* Victor Martinez (1954-2011)
* Carlos Ramirez (1938-2013)
by Jorge Argueta
Jehanah Wedgewood
(1941- Nov, 2010)
George Tsongas
(1927 - January 2010)
Patricia Carr Lamerdin
(Aug. 15, 1926 - Nov. 9, 2009
Bill Witherup
Mar. 24, 1935- June 3, 2009
Harold Norse
July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
by Neeli Cherkovski
Vampyre Mike
Dec. 3, 1953 - Mar. 22, 2008
Poet OZZY
Nov. 1940 - May 2007

The Cool Grey City of Love
by George Sterling
Legends of San Francisco

A LITTLE HISTORY

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 13, 1967
posterShow: Joyful Alternative
Kenneth Patchen
Lew Welch
Lenore Kandel
@ California Hall poster Artist:
John H. Myers

April 15, 1967
Vietnam War protest as 100,000 people marched from Second and Market to Kezar Stadium at Golden Gate Park. Vietnam veteran David Duncan gave the keynote speech.

April 19, 1960 ~ Richard
posterBrautigan gave a poetry reading with Andrew Hoyem at the Coffee Gallery, 1353 Grant, in San Francisco's North Beach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GALLERIES

LIVE WORMS GALLERY
1345 Grant Avenue,SF
Friday April 16, at 2 PM
TEXTural Art Exhibition

April 16 - May 20. 2021
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CITYART
Cooperative Gallery
828 Valencia Street, SF

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SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN ARTISTS
647 Irving St.,SF
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ART CHANGES LIVES
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
you can, too.
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)
offers Art for sale online
at this time
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FILMS

Some San Francisco Movie Theaters due to the Coronavirus, are not open while others listed have Virtual Screening Rooms
BALBOA THEATRE
VOGUE THEATER
ROXIE THEATER
Moving pictures since 1909. An arthouse in 1976. Nonprofit since 2008. The Roxie brings you the best/coolest/weirdest/rarest/ thought-provoking movies of the past, present and future!
Roxie Virtual Theatre
Kabuki 8 - Japantown
Embarcadero Center Cinema
Fort Mason Flix
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San Francisco Public Library
KANOPLY has free Films for
users with a library card.
YOUTUBE (Free Full Movies)

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SAN FRANCISCO POET
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We Remember Magnolia

Trip down memory lane.
In deed. Last year’s magnolia.
Time machines march on.
View the past. Only.
Scanning for answers.
For suggestions.
If any are disclosed or uncovered.
The machine never talks “future.”
Only scans backward.
Without any updates.
And the time machine memory
only blurs the velvet picture
in any future re-scan backward
because the most recent past
is the foggiest of what was
(having no historical certainty
validated by memory because
those mists seem more real
than today’s blindered confusions
we stumble in right now).
Magnolia once white darkens.
But we remember how it was.

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Selected Poetry by Edward Mycue]

 

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California Poets in the Schools
Since 1964, CPITS has become one of the largest writers-in-the-schools programs in the nation, serving students K-12 in districts both urban and rural. California Poets in the Schools empowers students of all ages throughout California to express their creativity, imagination, and intellectual curiosity through writing, performing and publishing their own poetry.
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THE RANDALL MUSEUM
Natural History Museum,
Science Museum & Arts Center
(closed at this time)

LOVE IN ACTION

these special programs are excellent example of Love in ActionThese special programs are
LOVE IN ACTION

826 VALENCIA
826 Valencia the Writing Center
828 mission statement
 Since opening in 2006, this nonprofit organization has enlisted help from hundreds of qualified volunteer tutors eager to teach students in the area.


The Imagine Bus

ART CHANGES LIVES
you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)
offers Art for sale online
at this time.
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Children’s Creativity Museum
Exploratorium
For All Ages.
Online experiences.
Fun with Science.
Ignite Curiosity.
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      Poets: Here Now and There Then, Beats and Otherwise, Artist Friends, Odds and Ends

POETS
Jennifer Barone
Charles Curtis Blackwell artist poet
 
Charles is (.mini documentary of the
painter Charles Curtis Blackwell)
 Bob Booker Ambush Review
Bob Booker @ The 8th Annual Beat
Museum Poetry Festival (youtube)
 
 Neeli Cherkovski
 Ana Elsner poem for George Tsongas
  Ferlinghetti
 Auto/Biographical Sketch of Jack Hirschman by Matt Gonzalez
 Clare Hsu ~poet/ president of ClarionMusic, Performing Arts Center
 Diamond Dave, S. F. Rabble Rouser and Revolutionary Rebel By Hugh Dander
 Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
 Q R Hand
 Phil Deal poet, artist, musician, inventor
 Fifteen Poems Jack Hirschman
 devorah major
 David Meltzer
 A Tribute to David Meltzer
 THE ART / THE VEIL:Meltzer
 Ed MyCue
 Diane di Prima
 Diane di Prima Lunch Poems - video
 Gary Snyder
Kim Shuck -S.F. Poet Laureate
 George Tsongas North Beach Poet
 Cara Vida
Mel C. Thompson
Cara Vida
A.D.Winans Fansite
 Antonin Artaud mad as hell
 Anais Nin
 Baudelaire -Les Fleurs du mal
 William Blake Archive
 Ira Cohen
 Ira Cohen youtube videos
 Robert Creeley
 ee cummings  paintings
 Hermann Hesse and Paintings
 Krishnamurti
 Robert Lax
 Robert Lax poetry
 Pablo Neruda   poems
 Charles Olson reads 'Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27
 Ezra Pound's "Cantos," section LXXXI
  read by the poet
Shig Murao: The Enigmatic Soul of City Lights and the San Francisco
BJ PAPA Interview by Catz Forsman.
 
 
 
 
 

BEATS    gone/ gone/ gone beyond
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg performs William Blake
Richard Brautigan
Richard Brautigan poems
 
Charles Bukowski
William Burroughs
William Burroughs Reality Studio
Howard Hart by Armour Garland
Kenneth Rexroth Archive
(David Meltzer, Summer 1969)
Jack Hirschman Remembers:
Kenneth Rexroth and the Beats
Interview with Kenneth Rexroth
Gregory Corso
Herbert E. Huncke
Kirby Doyle links:
obituary, & announcement of memorial readingS F Chronicle, 05.14.03
Kirby Doyle page
Hammond Guthrie's Third Page
"The Birth of Digger Batman" by Kirby Doyle,as published in The Digger Papers
Remembrances of Kirby Doyle
by McClure, Peter Coyote,Tisa Walden, Philomene Long and John Thomas, and Claude Hayward.
Jack Kerouac
Bob Kaufman (1925-1986)
Philip Lamantia
 
In memory of Jack Micheline Poet-
by Jack Hirschman
Harold Norse July 6, 1916 - June 8, 2009
Charles Olson
Jack Spicer
 
Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen chapbook
Mark Other Place by Phillip Whalen
Academy of Beat Poets
American Museum of Beat Art
The Beat Generation:
Beat SuperNova
Cultural Chronology of Early Beat Generation Literature
Cosmic Baseball Association
How Beat Happened
Lit Kicks
 
Naropa U. Internet Archive
Harry Redl : Portraits of Beat Generation
Beat Generation literary journal
Beatdom
Kenneth Patchen links
Kenneth Patchen;
Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
A Letter to God by Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen:Journal of Albion Moonlight (1941)
 
Kenneth Patchen -- In Order To
 
Kenneth Patchen – Reads His Poetry with the Chamber Jazz Sextet
As I Opened the Window
 
Kenneth Patchen - Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?-
Kenneth Patchen Reads With Jazz In Canada.-
 
Beautiful You Are (Poem by Kenneth Patchen)
kenneth patchen poems
kenneth patchen youtube
Harry Smith Archives (1923-1991)
M.C. Escher Gallery
 
Vincent van Gogh Gallery
Vincent van Gogh Letters
 
Literary stamps
Art Crimes Writing on the Wall
Art Daily
Women in the Arts National Museum
Women Painters Index: 1893 Expo
Women in Art video
Women are Art - Corot video
Women of the Beat Generation
The Golda Foundation presents Vali Myers, a Memoir
Project Gutenberg
Poetry through the Ages
Poetry Foundation
*UBUWEB*
*Aspen web version - multimedia magazine in a box
 
surrealist.com ~ A history of surrealism, surreal art, and the artists involved in the surrealist art movement. A definitive history of the surrealist movement.
 
ODDS & ENDS
International SurreaLists Art
the ART STORY Modern Art Insight (new)
A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times
Fusion Anomaly objects that were found, mixed and compiled by Atomjack
Light and Dust Anthology
Institute for study of Bohemian Literature
Open Culture
the best free cultural and education media on the web
Arts and Letters
Neurotic Poets
Political Writings of George Orwell
Essays, newspaper columns, letters and editorials.
George Orwell complete works,photos
Oscar Wilde
For the Love of Beauty!
On The Edge The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting
Literary Ladies Guide
Inspiration for Readers and Writers from Classic Women Authors

 

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