Wednesday 3/2: Pandemonium Press presents it usual First Wednesday event, this month featuring Lucille Lang-Day, Paul Corman-Roberts, Tony Press, and Missy Church. Free, 6:45 p.m., Spice Monkey.
Thursday 3/3: Ned Buskirk hosts “You’re Going To Die: Poetry, Prose, & Everything Goes…” at The Lost Church. This is something different: a 100% open mic event with no features, “…but only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying, to embrace our losses & mortality, to grieve, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE.” A unique community endeavor. $10, 7:30 p.m., The Lost Church. (Note: Ned invites you to contact him via the FB event page if you cannot afford the entry fee.)
Friday 3/4: Justice Morrighan has curated a remarkable lineup in honor of International Women’s Day: “On Fire! Women of a Different Beat.” Featured: E. K. Keith, MK Chavez, Daphne Gottlieb, Kim Shuck, Natasha Dennerstein, Anna Wolfe, and Valerie Ibarra. Free, 7 p.m., The Beat Museum.
Saturday 3/5: Babylon Salon’s Spring Reading ought to knock your socks off. Featured: Pam Uschuk (Blood Flower), Matthew Zapruder (Sun Bear), Grant Faulkner (Fissure; 100 Word Story), William Pitt Root (Strange Angels: New Poems), Julia Scott (New York Times Magazine, Drivel), and Barbara Roether (This Earth You’ll Come Back To). Free, 6:30 p.m., Cantina.
Alley Cat Books presents three novelists: Michelle Adelman (Piece of Mind), Matt Bell (Scrapper), and Ruth Galm (Into The Valley). Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books.
Sunday 3/6: Adobe Books Collective presents a poetry reading featuring Raina J. Leon, Nicolas Cuzzi, Jessica Wickens, and Simon Neely. Free, 3 p.m., Adobe Books.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is a MOVIE! Quiet Lightning presents its second film, Water Under The Bridge: An Experimental Portrait of San Francisco, by Katie Wheeler-Dubin and Mila Puccini. Bay Area literary mavens are well aware that keeping up with the scene means keeping up with Quiet Lightning and their always surprising advances. For further information, click here.
For coverage of the Bay Area film scene, visit the only recently established but surely soon to be fabulous FlickStorm.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Nick Johnson. Read an interview here.
And here’s recent video of SF Notable Liz Green reading “A Letter to my Dildo.” Need I say more?
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