Wednesday 8/5: Pandemonium Press presents a Hiroshima/Nagasaki Remembrance curated by Leila Rae and featuring Nanette Bradley Deetz, Rafael Jesús González, Jerimiah Jeffra, and Janell Moon with guitar performance by Hao Tran. Open mic follows. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey.
Thursday 8/6: Shipwreck, the fan fiction literary contest, takes on Jaws. This edition ought to have some bite! Competitors’ pieces will be blind-read by highly literate thespian Baruch Porras-Hernandez, and the audience will vote for a winner before the perpetuators are revealed. The winner returns next month to defend the title. This month’s hackers are Alan Leggitt, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Whitney Miller, Joe Wadlington, Gabriel Cubbage, and Alitzah Oros. Just when you thought it was safe to go back… $10 advance/$12 at the door, 7 p.m., The Booksmith.
Friday 8/7: Haiku mavens Andy Dugas (aka Haiku Andy, author of the novel Sleepwalking In Paradise) and Amos White (award-winning Haiku poet and author of The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter) perform with singer/songwriter John Miller at Nomadic Press, Fruitvale’s fruitful literary cornucopia. Free (donations kindly requested), 7 p.m., Nomadic Press.
Saturday 8/8: Featherboard Writing Series presents readers as part of a gallery show at Aggregate Space. Performing against the backdrop of the show Limen by artist Amy Rathbone are Kevin Killian, Hazel White, and the gallery’s current writer-in-residence Cristiana Kyung-Hye Baik. Free, 5:45 p.m., Aggregate Space Gallery.
Popular literary performance venue Jared’s Pottery has relocated shop and factory to the City of Richmond, where they will be holding their first reading at the new location, featuring Terry Lucas, Tayve Neese, and Sarah Kobrinsky. Free, 7 p.m., Jared’s Pottery.
Bay Area Poetry Marathon presents an Eighth of the Eighth Summer Event, guest-curated by Zoe Tuck, and featuring Elana Chavez, Madison Davis, Rob Halpern, Geraldine Kim, Tessa Micaela, Monica Mody, Maisha Quint, and Cosmo Spinosa. Free, 7 p.m., Artists’ Television Access.
Sunday 8/9: Summer is for day tripping, and the East Bay town of Crockett, down by Carquinez Bay, is a nice destination to go hear readings by poets Kevin Patrick Sullivan and Patrice Vecchione, down a pint, and participate in the open mic that follows. Then stay to hear the Henry Jazz Trio. Free, 4 p.m., Valona Deli.
Monday 8/10: Quiet Lightning hosts a celebration to launch their publication of Marcus Lund‘s The Sacred Text of Rosa Who Is Great. $10 (includes book), 6:30 p.m., SOMArts.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Marin Shakespeare’s Don Quixote, directed by Lesley Schisgall Currier and starring one of the Bay Area’s most accomplished actors, Ron Campbell, whose physical theatre and mask work skills have been honed by seasons as lead clown with Cirque de Soleil. This production is the U.S. premiere of an adaptation by Canadian playwrights Peter Anderson and Colin Heath. Don Quixote opens on Friday, August 7th. For further information click here.
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Evan Karp presents this week’s featured author, Kate Folk. Click here to read an interview.
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