Wednesday 8/3: Poet Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Belonging). Free, 7 p.m., Books, Inc. Berkeley.
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present readers who submitted to the city wide poetry contest, Poets 11, curated by Poet-in-Residence, Jack Hirschman. Winning poets will be published in an anthology at the end of the year, and receive honorariums. In the meantime, every submitting poet is invited to read at one of eleven local branch libraries based in their San Francisco neighborhoods. Tonight, the readings will be held at the Mission Branch. Is there a secret poet in your neighborhood? Free, 6:30 p.m., Mission Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, Presidio Room.
Thursday 8/4: Thursdays at Readers presents Julie Rogers and “artivist” Adrian Arias. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore in Fort Mason.
Curators James Warner, Ransom Stephens, and Yanina Gotsulsky present InsideStorytime—Forbiddance, featuring S.G. Browne (Less Than Hero), Na’amen Tilahun (The Root), and Rahul Kankia (Enter Title Here). Free, 6:30 p.m., Martuni’s.
Saturday 8/6: Featherboard Writing Series presents Della Watson, John Sakkis, and Megan Breiseth, celebrating a group chapbook release. Also featuring a site-specific acoustic installation with minimalist sculptures by Kate Lee Short. Free, 6 p.m., Aggregate Space Gallery.
Sunday 8/7: Poetry Flash presents Judy Halebsky and Nina Lindsay. Free, 3 p.m., Diesel, A Bookstore.
Monday 8/8: Perfectly Queer presents Award-Winning Authors for August, featuring Willy Wilkinson (Born on the Edge of Race and Gender), and Vincent Meis (Deluge). Free, 7 p.m., Dog Eared Books Castro.
Tuesday 8/9: The Bazaar Café presents Tuesdays in August , hosted by Tracey Knapp, with Siamak Vossoughi, Peter Kline, and Yaccaira Salvatierra.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Arje Shaw’s play, The Gathering, about a Holocaust survivor’s angry reaction to President Ronald Reagan’s controversial visit to the German military cemetery in Bitburg, where many members of the SS are buried. This production is notable because it stars the playwright himself in a lead role, which was first created by the great Theodore Bikel and later performed on Broadway by Hal Linden. Not a great play, with a tendency to be formulaic, but an interesting bit of history worth remembering in this election year, and well performed. As Faulkner famously said, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” Click here for a review and a link further information.
For 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, Leora Fridman. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Alia Volz.
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