Wednesday 5/11: Kate Tempest (The Bricks that Built the Houses) reads on the west side of town. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Thursday 5/12: The Local Poets Series at of the San Francisco Main Library’s General Collections and Humanities Center presents Barbara Jane Reyes (To Love as Aswang, Diwata), Robin Tremblay-McGaw (Dear Reader), and Eleni Stecopoulos (Armies of Compassion, Autoimmunity). Free, 6 p.m., San Francisco Public Library.
Genny Lim and Michael Warr are featured at Readers on Thursdays. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore in Fort Mason.
Adobe Books Collective and Arts Cooperative presents MacDowell Colony Fellow and current artist in residence aboard the SS Vallejo at the Vara Artists Residence Program, Jodie Hollander (The Humane Society). Free, 7 p.m., Adobe Books Collective.
Friday 5/13: Noah Warren (The Destroyer in the Glass), a winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, reads at Green Apple. Free, 7:30 p.m., Green Apple Books on the Park.
Saturday 5/14: Bird and Beckett hosts the San Francisco launch party for the anthology Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, with readings by Neeli Cherkovski, Tim Donnelly, Sharon Doubiago, Patrick James Dunagan, Bill Mohr, Paul Vangelisti and Maw Shein Win. 2 p.m., Bird and Beckett.
Sunday 5/15: The 35th Annual Northern California Book Awards will presents its honors and awards with readings and remarks by the winners. Free, 1 p.m., San Francisco Public Library.
Tuesday 5/17: Plein Air Editions presents Four Poets from Bootstrap Press: Rebecca Eland, Jason Morris, Ava Koohbor, and Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moe’s Books.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Anne Boleyn at Marin Theatre Company. Howard Breton’s play imagines the ghost of Henry VIII’s doomed bride to be haunting the court of James the First, decades later, as James prepares to commission a new translation of the Bible. Royalty, sex, religion, and a ghost: all the ingredients of the plummiest of British histrionics, and a great deal of fun for an excellent company of actors. Read a review here. Find further information 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, José Vadi. Read an interview here.
And here’s some older video of one of last week’s SF notables, Brenda Hillman.
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