This week in San Francisco-free museum days, poetry days, and Lit Quake kicks off towards the end of the week.
Monday 10/3: Bird and Becket Books hosts Poets! with Peter Sherburn-Zimmer, Bill Mercer and Clara Hsu. MC’d by San Francisco native poet Jerry Ferraz, the night ends with an open mic Bird and Beckett 7PM FREE. ZYZZYVA celebrates the release of its most recent issue with readings by issue contributors at City Lights, also 7PM, also FREE.
Tuesday 10/4: Free first Tuesdays-get out to the De Young, Legion of Honor, MOMA, YBCA (and others). John Lithgow reads from his memoir at the Booksmith ( 7:30 $12). And The Green Arcade hosts the west coast release for Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times with authors on hand for excerpts and discussion. FREE 7PM.
Wednesday 10/5: Go the Fuck to Sleep comes to San Francisco with a reading by author Adam Mansbach at City Lights 7PM FREE (not for kids!). The SF Main Library hosts the Poetry World Series Play Off with dueling poets (Robin Ekiss, Troy Jollimore, Ada Limón, Dean Rader, Melissa Stein, Matthew Zapruder) write (and speak) off the cuff using themes pitched by audience members as inspiration. Hosted by Daniel Handler and Michael Krasny 7PM FREE.
Thursday 10/6: Thaddeus Russell reads from A Renegade History of the United States, his look at some of our most critical and celebrated freedoms as attributable to the vision and labor of drunkards, prostitutes, pirates, and others from the ‘lowest orders of society.’ 7:30 FREE Booksmith.
Friday 10/7: First TGIF of the month brings us First Fridays on 24th with street performers, street food, and other awesomeness in the streets of the Mission, and the Oakland Art Murmur (6-9 PM). Both FREE. Christopher L. Weber reads from his biography of James W.C. Pennington, American to the Backbone, “a richly detailed, wide-ranging biography of a modestly neglected black religious leader who was born a slave.” 7PM FREE Green Apple Books.
Saturday 10/8 Litquake kicks off its first full evening with Barely Published Authors (Make-Out Room), Cross-Border Diatribes (Mission Cultural Center), and Thomas McGuane In Conversation With Jack Boulware (The Delancey Street Screening Room). All FREE.
Sunday 10/9: The Contemporary Jewish Museum’s lecture series hosts Ayelet Waldman and Robin Levi Levi, authors of Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, a volume of stories by currently and formerly incarcerated women 2:30 Free with museum admission.
