I Dream a World

I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn.
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind--
Of such I dream, my world!

   ~   Langston hughes (1902-1967)

~*~

Epitaph on a Tyrant
by W. H. Auden

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable
Senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children
died in the streets.

~*~

THE MORE LOVING ONE
by W.H. Auden

Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.

How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us we could not return?
If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.

Admirer as I think I am
Of stars that do not give a damn,
I cannot, now I see them, say
I missed one terribly all day.

Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.

 

Top

 

 

Apostrophe To Man

(On reflecting that the world
is ready to go to war again)

Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build
bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade;
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young; exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest,
be all but overcome, be photographed;
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market;
Breed, crowd, encroach,
expand, expunge yourself, die out,
Homo called sapiens.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

Top

 

MONTHLY ART EVENTS

FEBRUARY
ONGOING ART EXHIBITION

CANESSA GALLERY
708 Montgomery Street • San Francisco

Canessa Gallery presents
Lee Adair painting
ROCKS TREES WATERS SKIES
Paintings by Lee Adair
Gallery Hours
Wednesdays 2-5pm and by appointment

FEBRUARY
ONGOING ART EXHIBITION
SFLIVE WORMS GALLERY
1345 Grant Avenue ~ San Francisco

DEBRA WALKER, RICHARD LOUIS PERRI,THOMASINA DeMAIO, NANCY CALEF

FIRST THURSDAY each month
Visit SFADA.com for a full list of galleries, exhibitions, and SDFA EVENTS throughout
We look forward to seeing you
in our galleries. FIRST THURSDAY
~*~*~*~*~*~*~

FIRST FRIDAY IN NORTH BEACH

FIRST SATURDAY each month:
(Dogpatch, Potrero, Mission)
~*~
MINNESOTA PROJECT GALLERIES
1275 Minnesota St. and 1150 25th St.
and select other SFADA member galleries present special opportunities to connect with artists or learn more about current exhibitions. Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Check back often as these events are continually updated!

Love in Action Gift for ALL this SummerSan Francisco Museums for All offers opportunities to experience art and educational enrichment at more than 15 museums and cultural centers by providing free entry to residents participating in public benefit programs offered by the Human Services Agency.

In San Francisco
California Academy of Sciences
Children’s Creativity Museum
de Young Museum
Exploratorium
~*~*~*~*~
MUSEUMS
Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin St. ~ San Francisco
~*~
Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission St.
San Francisco
~*~
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco
~*~
De Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr.
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco
~*~
The Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue
San Francisco map
~*~
SFMOMA
Modern Art Museum
151 Third Street
San Francisco
~*~
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street
San Francisco
~*~
SF Opera ~ SF Ballet
SF Symphony
~*~

GALLERIES

CANESSA GALLERY
708 Montgomery St, SF
~*~
CITYART
Cooperative Gallery
828 Valencia Street, SF
~*~
DOLBY CHADWICK GALLERY
210 Post Street, SF

EDEN FINE ART GALLERY
223 Jefferson St, SF
(415) 908-1007
~*~
FAR OUT GALLERY
3004 Taraval St @ 40th Ave.
San Francisco
~*~
FORT MASON CAMPUS
2 Marina Boulevard, Pier 2, SF
Directions
Exhibitions -Public Events
~*~
SFLIVE WORMS
1345 Grant Avenue ~ San Francisco
~*~
GREY CITY GALLERY (facebook)
250 Columbus #202
Saroyan Place
North Beach ~ San Francisco
North Beach First Friday.
www.artbyashcroft.com
~*~
SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN ARTISTS
647 Irving St.,SF
~*~*~*~*~*~*~

 

ART CHANGES LIVES, you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
3245 Sixteenth St ~SF, (map)
~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Top

 

 

 

moviewatchers
Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

***RADIO ONLINE***  

EVERY FRIDAY~ Noon to 3pm
www.KPOO.com or 89.5FM in San Francisco
LA VERDAD MUSICAL (THE MUSICAL TRUTH)
AVOTCJA (pronounced Avacha)
playing the best of African, Caribbean,Jazz, Bomba ,
Plena & Latin dance.

Diamond Dave
Common Thread Collective
~*~ 2nd Saturdays 8-10pm ~*~on
www.MutinyRadio.fm
OPEN MIC w/ co-host Global Val
Commom Thread Collective

Dave Whitaker and the Three Generation Rainbow

FILMS
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Tue,Feb 21, 2020 ~
7 PM - 9PM
The Alliance Française of San Francisco
1345 Bush Street ~ San Francisco map

Tuesday French Movie Night:
The theater doors open 15 minutes before the movie starts.
You are welcome to wait in the library if you arrive before then..
one Tuesday each month we organize a screening of a Francophone movie
with English subtitles. See you there!
ONCE A MONTH FILM SERIES
~*~*~*~*~*~

DeafMovies.org
(aka the Deaf Cinema List),a collection of films in ASL & other Sign Languages.
Thanks to John Lubostky who researched and compiled this DeafMovies list!
♥~*~♥

starFILM
(Ongoing Current Calendar Links)

Please give your SUPPORT to our independent Theaters

Balboa Theatre
~*~
Vogue Theater
~*~
Castro Theatre
~*~
Roxie Theater
~*~
Lee Neighborhood Theaters
Four Star   Marina  Presidio
~*~
OPERA PLAZA CINEMA
~*~
Embarcadero Center Cinema
~*~
Alamo Drafthouse

San Francisco Film Society
~*~
Silent Film Festival
~*~
Cinemalit
~*~
Bamfa
(UC Berkeley Art Museum
♥~*~♥

ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES 
at SAN FRANCISCO LIBRARY
♥~*~♥

Top

 

 


The Prisoners Literature Project
The Prisoners Literature Project
Volunteer With Us
~*~


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. We train and coordinate a multicultural network of published poets, who bring their passion and craft to public and private schools, juvenile halls, hospitals, libraries and other community settings.
~*~

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.
Volunteer now »

 


The Imagine Bus
The Imagine Bus
bringing arts education
where it's needed most
~*~

ART CHANGES LIVES
you can, too.
Creativity Explored ~
(where art changes lives)
3245 Sixteenth St ~
San Francisco (map)


Children's Creativity Museum
221 Fourth Street
San Francisco
Children’s Creativity Museum is a non-profit organization that offers is a hands-on, multimedia arts and technology experience for kids.
~*~

THE RANDALL MUSEUM
Natural History Museum, Science Museum & Arts Center Open Tues. through Sat. ~ 10 am – 5 pm

Top

 

 

~ WEB LINKS~                                                                                                                                                        ♥´¯) ¸.♥´¯)¸.♥´¯)    (¸♥´ (¸.♥´ (¸♥´ (¸.♥´¯`•.✿◠‿◠✿¸¸.♥ Enjoy!
      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
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
Decade of Bebop, Beatniks & Painting
Arthur Monroe1998
Naropa U. Internet Archive
Harry Redl : Portraits of Beat Generation
Beat Generation/Bohemian Dialectic
Why the Beats Still Matter
Kenneth Patchen links
Kenneth Patchen;
Poetry and Jazz days, 1957–1959
Kenneth Patchen Home Page
A Letter to God by Kenneth Patchen
Shig Murao: The Enigmatic Soul of City Lights and the San Francisco
BJ PAPA Interview by Catz Forsman.
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
Transcendental Biographies:
The effect of the Transcendental Planet in the lives of historical, cultural and artistic personalities
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
A Book Lover's San Francisco - The New York Times(2005)

Top

AUTHOR APPEARANCES . POETRY . OPEN MIC . LITERATURE . LITERARY ARTS . BOOK READING /SIGNING . FILM . ART - PHOTOGRAPHY . PERFORMANCE . DANCE GALLERY .
RECEPTION . FESTIVAL. SAN FRANCISCO . HISTORY . MUSEUMS.ENVIRONMENT . ECOLOGY . ACTIVISM . NATURE . HUMANITIES . PHILOSOPHY . PEACE AND LOVE IN ACTION

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