PAR Calendar: July 24-July 30

Sunday, July 24

Reading for Headlands Summer Open House featuring: Steve Gilmartin, Genine Lentine, Brian Teare, Emily Weinstein & Maw Shein Win.

1:00-2:00pm

Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito.

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Roads of Bread: Eugene Ruggles Tribute Reading by Jack & Adele Foley, Clive Matson, Doreen Stock, Delia Moon, Carl Macki & more.

2:30pm

Bird & Beckett Books and Records, 653 Chenery Street, San Francisco.

Monday, July 25

Canessa Park Reading Series presents: Poetry & Conversation with Kit Robinson in conversation with Avery Burns (audience questions welcomed).

7:00pm doors; 7:30pm reading

Canessa Park Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, $6.

Tuesday, July 26

Marin Poetry Center’s Summer Traveling Show presents a reading hosted by Kirsten Neff: featuring Joan Baranow, Maggie Morely, Carol Sheldon, Alice Palmer Thomas, Diane K. Martin & Sim Warkov.

7:00pm

Mill Valley Library, 375 Throckmorton, Mill Valley.

Wednesday, July 27

“Cover to Cover” with Jack Foley: a tribute to Miss Teal Joy.

3:00pm
KPFA 94.1 FM

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Writing Teachers Write presents six Squaw Valley Community of Writers poets: Joan Baranow, Living Apart, Judy Bebelaar, Claire Blotter, Christina Hutchins, The Stranger Dissolves, L.A. Jones, Meryl Natchez, Jade Suit, and Zara Raab, The Book of Gretel, limited open reading follows.

5:30pm

Expressions Gallery, 2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, across the street from Ashby BART, (510/644-4930, www.expressionsgallery.org).

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Open Mic plus Bill Mercer & Clara Hsu with new poetry & music with the theme “Two Tongues of Gaia,” poems of nature.

7:00pm

Sacred Grounds, 2095 Hayes Street, SF.

Thursday, July 28

Thursdays at Readers featuring Aja Duncan & Genny Lim at Readers Cafe (run by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library).

6:30pm

Building C, South End, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco.

Friday, July 29

Berkeley Arts Festival presents an intimate evening of jazz-poetry improvisation with UpSurge! featuring Raymond Nat Turner and Zigi Lowenberg.

8:00pm

2133 University Avenue, between Shattuck and Oxford, Berkeley.

Saturday, July 30

Condensery #13 featuring Brandon Brown & Jocelyn Saidenberg.

7:00pm

the speakeasy, 604 54th Street, Oakland.

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Bay Area Poetry Marathon featuring Maxine Chernoff, Shira Dentz, Owen Hill, Andrew Kenower, Kevin Killian, Cole Krawitz, Dean Rader, Elizabeth Robinson & Matt Shears.

7:00pm

The Lab, 2948 16th Street (one block from 16th Street Mission BART Stop), SF.