Wednesday 11/9: Juliana Spahr (That Winter the Wolf Came) reads at St. Mary’s College in Moraga. Free, 7:30 p.m., Hagerty Lounge, St. Mary’s College.
Eleni Stecopoulos (Visceral Poetics), Jeanne Heuving (The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics), and Susan Thackrey. Free, 7:30 p.m., Moes Books.
Thursday 11/10: Journalist Frances Dinkelspiel, cofounder of the news site Berkeleyside, reads at at UC Berkeley’s Morrison Library as part of the Story Hour prose reading series. Free, 6 p.m., Morrison Library, UC Berkeley.
Maggie Nelson, director of the MFA for the School of Critical Studies at Cal Arts and National Book Critics Circle award winner, reads for the MFA Reading Series at the University of San Francisco. Free, 7:45 p.m., Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall FR 125, at USF.
Friday 11/11: California College of the Arts hosts a yreading by Yaa Gyasi. Free, 4:30 p.m., Writer’s Studio, CCA Campus in San Francisco.
The Dada World Fair presents DADA to CACA and BEYOND. Judging from the pitch, the emphasis here is on BEYOND. From the website: “This event is participatory, immersive and, depending upon your limitations, physically and emotionally, VERY INTENSE AND DEMANDING.” Over two dozen artists are involved. Read some of the details (such as they are) here. $25, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., etc. Location Undisclosed. Interested parties are advised to click here and scroll down to November 11th for ticket information and further instructions.
Saturday 11/12: Want more Dada? Attend the Dada Bordello tonight, for free. But you have to stop by City Lights Bookstore to obtain a ticket, as no reservations are taken by phone or Internet. The event is described as “a kind of mini-Dada Ball following in the footsteps of Cabaret Voltaire.” Participants will include Conspiracy of Beards, Poetics of Narrative, Will Alexander, Baruch, Luciano Chessa, Cara Rose DeFabio, Jack Foley, Helen Wendy Loo, Slow Poisoner, Allison Lovejoy, Ledoh, and Stoo Odom. Free, scheduling details available at City Lights, Odd Fellows Hall.
Writers With Drinks presents Hanna Pittard (Listen to Me, Reunion), Elaine Kahn (Women in Public), and Gwynn O’Gara (Snake Woman Poems, Winter at Green Haven). $5–$20 (no one turned away), 7:30 p.m., The Make-Out Room.
Sunday 11/13: Poetry Flash presents Karen Brennan (Monsters) and Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr. (Series | India). Free, 3 p.m., diesel, a bookstore.
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Kurt Schweigman, and John Twaddle read for the Gears Turning poetry series. Free, 4 p.m., Modern Times Bookstore.
Monday 11/14: Poet Alice Notley makes one of her rare San Francisco appearances, reading the entirety of her book-length poem, The Descent of Alette. This event occurs over two days, 11/14 and 11/15. $10 ($5 low income) per night, 7 p.m., The Lab.
Perfectly Queer Reading Series presents Non-Fiction November with Michael Helquist, Chivvis Moore, and Wilfredo Pascual. Free, 7 p.m., Dog Eared Books Castro.
Tuesday 11/15: Aichlee Bushnell (Objects of Attention) and Solmaz Sharif (Look) . Free, 5:30 p.m., Mills Hall Living Room at Mills College.
Poet and translator Alan Bernheimer reads from his translation of surrealist Philippe Soupalt’s Lost Profiles. Free, 7 p.m., diesel, a bookstore.
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This week’s theatre recommendation is Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale presented by Ragged Wing Ensemble at The Flight Deck in Oakland. Although not of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, The Winter’s Tale is a favorite among actors. Along with King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest, this tale of an elderly king driven mad by sexual jealousy explores the experience of aging. Ragged Wing Ensemble uses the tiny space, a sparse cast, and limited resources to deliver a powerful experience, primal and tribal. For further information, click 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, Ellery Akers. Read an interview here.
And here’s some video of one of last week’s SF notables, Paul Corman-Roberts.
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