Notable San Francisco: 3/19-3/25

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This week in San Francisco

Monday 3/19: Booksmith launches an original release, San Francisco and the Bay Area: the Haight Ashbury Edition. Snacks, readings, and history. 7:30 pm.

Tuesday 3/20: Viracocha hosts poet Susan Browne followed by an open mic celebrating Women’s History Month. Bring your nearest and dearest woman-written and/or inspired poems. 8pm, suggested $5 donation. Words Without Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to literature in translation, presents Guatemalan short story author Eduardo Halfon at Modern Times. Free, 7pm.

Wednesday 3/21: Bart Schneider reads from a new, locally-based novel, Nameless Dame: Murder on the Russian River, a “vision of a world where everyone, high and low, criminal and otherwise, is susceptible to the clarion call of poetry.” Free, 7pm Green Apple.

Thursday 3/22: Terry Ehret, Gerald Fleming and Laura Moriarty read at the Meridian Gallery in celebration of Irish American poets for the Crossroads Festival. Free, 7pm.

Friday 3/23: The Queer Open Mic moves to Borderlands Books tonight, featuring Jacks McNamara and Sean Patrick Mulroy. Free, 7:30.

Saturday 3/24: Lovely people at Mozilla host an in-depth Firefox clinic. Free, with food! 11am-4pm, drop in.

Sunday 3/25: Follow a discussion on the controversies surrounding Heidegger with jazz by 2 Franks at Bird and Beckett. Free, 2:30 and 4:30pm.

Emmy Komada is a translator and assistant editor at Two Lines Press, part of the Center for the Art of Translation. She likes languages, and reading, and trying to read in various languages. More from this author →