Wednesday 4/13: If the South Bay is foreign territory to you, tonight might be a good night to check out the Center for Literary Arts at San Jose State, where the Steinbeck Center will present readings by this year’s Steinbeck fellows, Candace Eros Diaz, Jennie Lin, and Gabriel Thompson. Free, 7 p.m., Center for Literary Arts.
Thursday 4/14: Continuing the theme of “life beyond San Francisco and the East Bay,” tonight you could drive over the Golden Gate Bridge into Sausalito for Why There Are Words, featuring A.E. Conran, Kathleen Winter, Stefan Kiesbye, Allie Marini, Nayoma Munaweera, Barbara Roether, and Kate M. Zeigler, who will read work on “Rhyme or Reason.” $10, 7 p.m., Studio 333 in Sausalito.
Friday 4/15: Anne Waldman, a poet and cultural activist, who, among many other accomplishments, founded the legendary Poetry Project at St. Mark’s and cofounded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg, will read tonight at California College of the Arts as part of the Graduate Studies Lecture Series. Free, 6 p.m., CCA.
Saturday 4/16: Jon Sindell’s popular Rolling Writers Series presents an unusual format tonight, described as a “freaky Saturday criss-cross: writers pair up to read each other’s work, songwriters cover each other’s songs.” Tonight’s pairs are: Michael Crabtree + Nancy Hall, Andrew Demcak + Rick May, Fred Dodsworth + John Panzer, Jacqueline Doyle + Stephen D. Gutierrez, Peg Alford Purcell + Olga Zilberbourg. Free, 6:30 p.m., Rolling-Out Café.
Tonight debuts a new series, “Reading Next to Kilns,” organized by Vince Montague and Maw Sein Win at Red Brick Studio in the heart of the Mission. Featuring Miriam Bird Greenberg, Cara Stimpson, Amos White, and Kenneth Wong. Free, 7 p.m., Red Brick Studio.
Sunday 4/17: Poetry Flash presents Drew Dillhunt (Leaf is All) and Angele Hume (Middle Time). Free, 3 p.m., Pegasus Books Downtown.
Monday 4/18: Maw Sein Win features at Poetry Express in Berkeley. Free, 7 p.m., Himalyan Flavors.
Tuesday 4/19: Classic San Francisco venue, Top Of The Mark, hosts the Beat Museum presenting Charles Curtis Blackwell and Vincent Kobelt, plus music by the All Star Revue. Poetry + Jazz + a famous view! Free, 6:30 p.m., Top Of The Mark.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Birdheart at Z Space Below. Commissioned by the celebrated New York based non-profit multimedia production company, Vision Into Art, Birdheart is a puppet performance by Julian Couch and Saskia Lane. Reviewer Christine Okon describes this piece as “magical and intriguing” and reports that it “helps you believe that an ordinary brown paper bag can dance, fly and have a soul…” To read Okon’s review, click here. For further information, click here.
For more extensive coverage of the Bay Area theatre scene, visit TheatreStorm.
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Evan Karp presents video of this week’s featured local author, Frances Richard. To read an interview, click here.
And here’s some older video of one of last week’s SF Notables, Clara Hsu.
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