Wednesday 6/17: Radar Productions and The Luggage Store present day #3 of the Queerfail Festival, featuring Jackie Wang, Maggie Nelson, CA Conrad, and Christopher Soto. Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public Library Koret Auditorium.
Book release for Mapmaking, a book of poems about maps and things. Featuring music and poems by Ash Clayton, Roberto Martinez, Alex Cruse, and Martin Pinol. Free, 7 p.m., E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore.
Thursday 6/18: Poetry Flash presents two celebrated Bay area poets reading from new books: Ivan Argüelles (Duo Poemata: Ilion–a Transcription & Altertumswissenschaft) and Neeli Cherkovski (The Crow and I). Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books.
Friday 6/19: Sandra Wassilie, co-founder of the reading series Bay Area Generations and former poetry editor of Fourteen Hills presents “a night of poetical explorations into fluid, memoried, and haunting territories.” Free, 7 p.m., Nomadic Press, Oakland.
Saturday 6/20: Community activist, newspaper man, book designer, Beast Crawl organizer, and short story writer Fred Dodsworth is joined by poet Cassandra Dallett (Wet Reckless) at Nomadic Press. Music by Joakim Drescher. Free, 7 p.m., Nomadic Press, Oakland.
Multiple writers will read work on the theme of “childhood” as Jon Sindell hosts another edition of Rolling Writers. Featuring Peg Alford Pursell, Peter Bullen, Charles Kruger (that’s yours truly), Frances Lefkowitz, Candy Shue, Kristina Ten, and Olga Zilberbourg along with musicians Michael Crabtree and Steven Kacsmar. Free, 6:30 p.m., Rolling-Out Cafe.
Sunday 6/21: Radar Productions and The Luggage Store present day #6 of the Queerfail Festival, with “a lineup of your favorite failure enthusiasts,” featuring Virgie Tovar, Jezebel Delilah X, Laurie Weeks, Myriam Gurba, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Ali Liebegott, Ivan Coyote, Carole + Mitzi, and Nicole Kidman is Fucking Gorgeous. Free, 7:30 p.m., Jack Kerouac Alley, adjacent to City Lights Bookstore.
Monday 6/22: Bay Area Generations presents its 23rd edition featuring paired readers of different generations: Laila Al-Sissi + Atta Argthandiwal, John Oliver Simon + Tai Rockett, Mary Loughran + Alison Montcrieff, Miz Red O’Hare + Paul Corman-Roberts, Richard Silberg + Sharon Coleman. Plus musical performance by Matthew Goodheart. $7 ($10 with souvenir chapbook), 7 p.m., Berkeley City Club.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is the Bay area premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Choir Boy at Marin Theatre Company. McCraney is an award winning playwright and actor who, among other distinctions, is a MacArthur Fellow. The Choir Boy received its world premiere at the famed Royal Court Theatre in London, and has been enthusiastically reviewed in multiple venues. For information, click here.
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Evan Karp is taking a short break from his series of videos with local authors, usually featured in this space. They will be back soon.
