Wednesday 9/2: It’s the first Wednesday of the month, which means Pandemonium Press is in the Loft at Spice Monkey. This month’s featured readers are Rebecca Foust, Jon Sindell, David Shaddock, and Deborah Dashow Ruth. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey.
Thursday 9/3: If you are in Berkeley at lunchtime, the Doe Library offers something unusual with Lunch Time: A Noontime Poetry Series, hosted by Professor Robert Haas. Today’s kick off event for the Fall features distinguished faculty from a wide range of disciplines reading favorite poems. Free, 12:10 p.m., UC Berkeley.
You’re Going To Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes is reincarnated in a new location after lamented closing of Viracocha. Featuring Brett Hunter, Jason Whitacre, Nadia Lucia, Chelsea Coleman, and John Elliott. Plus open mic. $10, 7:30 p.m. The Lost Church.
Friday 9/4: Margin Magazine (the online magazine dedicated to marginalized girls and people who fall outside the gender binary everywhere) celebrates its launch with an open mic. Free, 6 p.m., E. M. Wolfman.
North Beach’s Beat Museum announces tonight’s reading thusly: “Ye culture vultures of refined disposition, you’re not going to want to miss this one.” Looking at the lineup, we’re inclined to agree. Featuring Cara Vida, Michael Koch, and Alejandro Murguía. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum.
Sunday 9/6: SF Zine Fest 2015 at Golden Gate Park will feature guest of honor print-comic artist Madeleine Flores. Exhibitors include over 140 small-press and DIY creators. Free, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Golden Gate Park.
Monday 9/7: Quiet Lightning strikes among the Redwoods at Samuel P. Taylor State Park. Lauren Traeto and Charlie Getter curated this show featuring Ken Knabb, MK Chavez, Xiaojuan Shu, Chelsea Kirk, Jennifer Lewis, Claude Convers, Laura Joakimson, Lisa Piazza, Clara Hsu, John Haggerty, Prartho Sereno, Javier Huerta, Joseph Bodie, and Julia Sills! Free, 2 p.m., Samuel P. Taylor State Park.
Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora) is the feature at the Odd Monday Series. Free, 7 p.m. (no host supper at 5:30 p.m.), Folio Books.
Tuesday 9/8: Radar’s Queer Reading Series at the Library will feature Nomy Lamm, Carolyn Ho, Diego Gómez, and Daphne Gottleib. Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public Library.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Shotgun Players’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, a contemporary retelling of the classic tale of Eurydice’s untimely death and Orpheus’s descent into Hell to bring her back to the land of the living. This production is distinguished as much by its visual poetry as by Ruhl’s well-wrought language. Megan Trout’s striking performance as Eurydice is as much a dance performance as it is spoken. Superb sound design, original music, an outstandingly creative set all come together to make this a memorable production. To read a review, click here. For further information, click here.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Click here to read an interview.
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