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.
I 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.

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.

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

DAVE WHITAKER
AND THE THREE GENERATION RAINBOW
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April 18, 1925
~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ BOB KAUFMAN ~

(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

(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

April 23, 1941 ~ April 30, 2004

ALLEN COHEN 
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

Allen died of Liver Cancer April 30, 2004, age 64.
Also visit http://www.allencohen.us/ for more information about his work and wonderful photos, media generously shared by Ann Cohen.