Notable San Francisco: 3/4–3/10
Wednesday 3/4: Alameda Island Poets present Sharon Coleman and Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. Coleman has been a huge influence on the East Bay poetry…
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Charles Kruger
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Charles Kruger is a Bay area arts practitioner known as "The Storming Bohemian." He tries to do as much as he can.
Notable San Francisco: 2/25–3/3
Wednesday 2/25: Books, Inc. presents the intriguing pair of novelist Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snickett) and poet Matthew Zapruder, under the heading “Poets and Pirates”. Handler will read from his new novel,…
Notable San Francisco: 2/18–2/24
Wednesday 2/18: The English Department at UC Berkeley hosts The Holloway Series in Poetry. The Spring semester kicks off with Claudia Rankine. Free, 6:30 p.m., Maude Fife Room/Wheeler Hall at UC…
Notable San Francisco: 2/11–2/17
Wednesday 2/11: Lone Mountain Readings at the University of San Francisco presents novelist Kathryn Ma. Ma’s novel The Year She Left Us was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice and named…
Notable San Francisco: 2/4–2/10
Wednesday 2/4: Peter Kline hosts Brendan Isaac Jones, Dean Rader, and Melissa Stein at the Bazaar Writers Saloon. Brendan Isaac Jones is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University; Dean…
Notable San Francisco: 1/28–2/03
Wednesday 1/28: Peter Richardson, author of No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of The Grateful Dead, in conversation with Paul Liberatore. Co-sponsored by Amoeba Music. Free, 7 p.m., Book Passage…
The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg's The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
Return to the Year Broken Free
I wish I could explain to you, to myself, the effect this language has upon me, but I can only say it makes my skin crawl. In a good way.
Of Course They’re Staring
The poems in The Book of Frank capture moments, and they don’t explain themselves. But, cumulatively, they invoke a sense of what it is like to be almost supernaturally sensitive,…
The Last Book I Loved: Sick City
In classic noir fashion, Sick City opens with a death. Jeffrey, a male prostitute junkie, goes to wake up his lover and sugar daddy (a retired Los Angeles cop with…