This week in San Francisco!
Monday 9/26: Susan Gangel and Kit Kennedy headline 3300 Club’s FREE poetry reading at 7PM. Bottom of the Hill free concert night features blues band Prizehog and local punk act Deep Teens at 9PM (21+).
Tuesday 9/27: Will Boast, Andrew Foster Altschul and Maggie Shipstead celebrate their latest releases at Viracocha tonight. Live music and readings, accompanied by birthday festivities for one of the authors! 9PM, FREE.
Wednesday 9/28: Elbo Room hosts a Muni Diaries readers’ reunion with highlight performers from past shows and an open mic opportunity-with a $50 prize for best story. Signup at 6:30, show 7-9PM $5, one FREE drink. Also tonight, the SF Main Library hosts historian Trina Robbins, reading from her Drawing For Their Rights: Women Cartoonists. 6:30-7:30pm FREE
Thursday 9/29: City Lights has poets Micah Ballard (Waifs and Strays) and Wilma Cole (Where Shadows Will) in conversation and reading from their latest work as part of the City Lights Spotlight Poetry Series. 7PM FREE. A release party for Lunatic Fringe, an account of the Bay Area’s lesbian werewolf community, comes to El Rio. 7PM, FREE.
Friday 9/30: Banned by the Bay hosts the One Night Book Stand book swap at Heart. Come with your favorite book off the ALA-Challenged book list for wine and subversive conversation (and free giveaways). 7-10PM FREE.
Saturday 10/1: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is back for 3 days of SF’s most excellent free concerts of the year.
Sunday, 10/2: The Booksmith‘s afternoon of readings features NYC poets Jane Ormerod, Mary Mackey and Brant Lyon and authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi discussing Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. 1-4 PM FREE.
