Wednesday 8/10: Poets 11 continues its series of neighborhood readings, curated by Jack Hirschman. Free, 6:30 p.m., San Francisco Public Library, Ocean View Branch.
Passages on the Lake #29 features El Cerrito Poet Laureate Maw Shein Win, New South poetry winner Xan Roberti, Litseen contributors Steven Gray and Jamey Genna, musical guest Sebastian Poznansky, and the Literary Tarot Reader Meg Hayertz. Free, 7 p.m., The Terrace Room.
Thursday 8/11: Nancy Au (The Birds & The Beasts), Janice Lee (The Sky Isn’t Blue), Richard Loranger (Sudden Windows), Sue Mell, Jesse Prado, and Natasha Sajé (Red Under the Skin) read at Why There Are Words in Sausalito. $10, 7:15, Studio 333.
Thursdays at Readers presents Mahnaz Badihian and Jennifer Barone. Free, 6:30 p.m., Readers Bookstore at Fort Mason.
Friday 8/12: Red Light Lit is part of PianoFight’s Summer of Lust (A Festival), with featured performers to include: Lara Coley, Kathy Duby, Juliana Delgado Lopera, Terence Leclere, Loria Mendoza, Monique Mero, Dirk Peterson, Gabby Poccia, Katie Wheeler-Dubin, and Carolina De Robertis. If you are not yet familiar with PianoFight, this is a venue well worth checking out. $12-$15, 7 p.m., PianoFight.
Nomadic Press presents Frederick Speers and Jessica Mejía. Free, 7 p.m., Nomadic Press.
Saturday 8/13: Lone Glen gives us a “Summer Night of Evan and Miles Karp” featuring Quiet Lightning founder Evan Karp and his brother Miles (former bassist with the jam band Suex Effect ) performing as Turk & Divis, which they describe as “an intersection where chance, rhythm, and processed repetition collide with modified fragments of language.” Free, 8 p.m., Lone Glen, Oakland.
Sunday 8/14: The Gears Turning Poetry Series at Modern Times Bookstore features Charles Curtis Blackwell, Nina Serrano, and Leticia Hernández-Linares. Free, 4 p.m., Modern Times Bookstore Collective
Tuesday 8/16: The Great American Music Hall is the venue for the official launch party for music journalist Joel Selvin’s Altamont, presented by Green Apple Books. Anyone interested in the history of San Francisco in the late 60s (and really, who isn’t?) will be interested in this. Free, 7 p.m., The Great American Music Hall.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is The Thrush & The Woodpecker: a Revenge Play by Steve Yockey, presented as a “rolling world premiere” (in collaboration along with other theatre companies) by Custom Made Theatre. Yockey’s extraordinary play is, on one level, a conventional family drama in which a mother and son confront one another in a moment of crisis. But with the arrival of a stranger from the mother’s distant past, the piece takes a surreal, supernatural, and increasingly horrifying tumble into a strange and terrible alternative world. Three extraordinary actors bring this gem to life. Read a review and find further information here.
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, Tessa Michaela. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Tsering Wangbo Dhompa.
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