| Wed., Dec. 31, 2008 Embarcadero & Mission San Francisco |
 FREE San Francisco New Years Eve 2008 Fireworks Show (Embarcadero)Ring in 2009 with 200,000 fellow bundled-up San Franciscans for a waterfront fireworks tradition Every year the city of San Francisco hosts a free alcohol-free New Years Eve celebration for 200,000 people on The Embarcadero near Mission street for a spectacular midnight fireworks display on the waterfront. 11:59 To ring in 2009, a 20-minute fireworks show will launch from barges located 1,000 feet out in the bay just south of the Ferry Building near Pier 14 at Mission Street and The Embarcadero . Although the fireworks set off near Pier 14 and the Ferry Building, the city says the best viewing is Crissy Field, Aquatic Park, the Embarcadero, Fisherman’s Wharf and Pier 39. |
SAN FRANCISCO POETS Allen Cohen Poetry Poetry Flash
M E L J E N A r t s - promotes & produces art exhibits & events for North Beach artists.
A Little History Jan. 6, 1832 ~ born in Strasbourg, France, artist Gustave Dore Doré worked primarily with wood and steel engraving. In the forty year period from 1860-1900 a new Doré illustrated edition was published every eight days!
Jan. 12, 1876 ~ born, author Jack London in Fresno, Ca, Jan. 13, 1941~ Great Irish novelist James Joyce dies in Zürich, Switzerland. Jan. 14, 1977 ~ Amorous novelist Anais Nin is amorous nomour. Jan. 19, 1809 ~ born, Edgar Allan Poe in Boston, Poet, literary critic, macabre Jan. 19, 1943 ~ born, Janis Joplin of Big Brother & the Holding Company. Jan. 20,1920 ~ born, Italian surrealist film master Federico Fellini in Rimini, Italy Jan. 22,1788 ~ born, Romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron)in London, England. Jan. 21,1950 ~ Novelist/activist Eric Blair (George Orwell) dies at age 46. Jan. 23, 1756 ~ born with great rhythm Wolfgang A. Mozart Jan. 23, 1988 ~ Royalist surrealist painter Salvador Dali dies in Figueras, Spain. Jan 25, 1874 ~ born, poet.Somerset Maugham, Jan. 28,1873 ~ born, French sexual liberationist writer (Sidonie-Gabrielle) Colette in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Francis Jan. 28,1912 ~ born, American abstract artist Jackson Pollock Jan.30,1948 ~ Gandhi, the political & spiritual leader of the Indian independence movement, assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic. Jan. 31, 1915 ~ born, Thomas Merton in Prades, Pyrenees-Orientales, France. |
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| BART: The special New Year’s Eve Flash Pass costs just $6 and gets you unlimited rides on BART from 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008 to 3am Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. FREE: SF Muni: Free rides on all Muni lines & routes (including cable cars) from 8pm NYE until 6am New Years Day. |
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We wish everyone a very Happy New Year of good health, true friends, good times, peace and love, and may you all receive the supportive appreciation you so richly deserve for sharing your poetry, art and music.  David Meltzer, Q.R.Hand, Bob Booker, H.D.Moe, Jack Hirschman, Agneta Falk, Cameron McHenry, Rosemary Manno   George Long, Vince Storti, Richard Hack, Ronald Sauer and Rebecca Peters, Bill Mercer, Stephen Kopal, Peter Sherburn-Zimmer, Will Dodger   Jessica Loos, John Dowling, Blake Moore, Dan Harrington, Kirk Lumpkin, Jane Radis, and Walter Brents and Ali Mongol   Ann Sexton, Neeli Cherkovski, Sharon Doubiago, Jane Hirshfield, George Tsongas, Nancy Wakeman Jack Foley, Clive Matson, Domenic   Tony Long, Jennifer Barone, Ed McCue, Jeanne Powell, Jeanne Lipton, Geri Digiorno. Charlie Getter, Kathy Evans, momo and Jessica .   Mark Schwartz, Steve “Kush” Kushner and Armour Garland, Phil Deal, Sheri O'Donnell, Ed Brooks, Jerry Ferraz.and Ramu   Diamond Dave, Clara Hsu, Bob Brennen, Ferlinghetti, Charles Curtis Blackwell, Roger Strobel, devorah major, Diane di Prima,Chaba Polony   Kristine Brown, Jeff Grossman, Bernie Fox, Carl Weiner, Joie Cook, James Cha and Fanny Renoir, Ana Elsner, Philip Hackett, Carlos Remirez. Best wishes for the New Year to Jesse Redpond, Jean Carlisle, Torrey Nommesen, Richard 'Lucky' Perri, Sean O'Donnell, Ned Millet, Stewart, the portrait King, Kevin Brown, Katherine Snyder,and Bobby Coleman. *~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~*~~* These names represent just some of the many wonderful creative people who live in San Francisco and the Bay area. Happy New Year to you all and a special thanks to all the people everywhere who support and encourage the local artists, poets and musicians in their own communities. |
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| Sat., Jan. 3, 2009 8:15 pm Noe Valley Ministry 1021 Sanchez St.@ corner of 23rd St. San Francisco map |
Noe Valley Music Series presents Ramblin' Jack Elliott The legendary troubadour returns to start the new concert year. $22 (door); $20 advance tickets |
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| Jan. 3, 1892 ~ born, J. R.R. Tolkien, author of Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world". .J. R.R. Tolkien |
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| Sun. Jan. 4, 2009 4:30 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery @ Diamond San Francisco |
 Jazz musicians pay tribute to Henry Irvin who passed away shortly after Thanksgiving
Playing guitar, piano or the Hammond B3, Henry Irvin played the Bay Area clubs since the 1960's. He enjoyed playing his blue guitar with his friends at Bird and Beckett for many years and will be sorely missed by all of them as well as his many fans. We hope you can join us for this sure-to-be-sooo-cool and loving tribute to a great musician and wonderful man. |
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| Mon., Jan.5, 2009 7 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery @ Diamond San Francisco |
  Join us for a book release party for Sharon Doubiago's Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poemspublished by University of Pittsburg Press (2008) Please visit website for more information about Sharon Doubiago and her new book |
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| Mon. Jan 5, 2009 6:30-8:30 pm Excelsior Branch Library 4400 Mission St.@Cotter San Francisco map |
First Monday Movies at Excelsior Featuring: Spellbound (1945, 111 mins.) - Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental hospital. When the new chief of staff, the mysterious Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) turns out to be a paranoid amnesiac impostor, Constance joins him on the run determined to recover his true identity and cure him. Spellbound features a famous dream sequence by Salvador Dali. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Free |
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| Jan. 8, 1972 ~Jan. 8, 1972 ~ Kenneth Patchen, American rebel poet, and artist,
was a forerunner of Concrete Poetry, poetry to jazz, Although he suffered much pain for many years of his life due to a severe spinal injury, he managed to write more than forty books of poetry, prose and drama. He died on this day at the age of 61. Patchen: Man of Anger & Light by Henry Miller Tribute page for Patchen Kenneth Patchen Homepage |
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| Sat. Jan 10, 2009 1-4 pm San Francisco Main Library 100 Larkin San Francisco |
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: A Tribute to Jack Spicer. Bay Area authors Kevin Killian, Lewis Ellingham, D.A. Powell, Robert Gluck, Leslie Scalapino, Lisa Robertson and many others pay tribute to this influential writer. A book sale of the new anthology, "My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer" follows the event. Free | |||
Jan. 12, 1986 ~ Beat poet Bob Kaufman died in San Francisco, CA.(emphysema) |
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| Tues. Jan 13, 2009 7:30 pm Books & Bookshelves 99 Sanchez Street San Francisco |
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| Tues. Jan. 13, 2008 7 pm - 9 pm Park Branch Library 1833 Page St. (near Cole) San Francisco |
On the Page: Off the Page Open mic: written, spoken word and song hosted by Diamond Dave Whitaker, a local hero and beloved member of the San Francisco poetry scene. He is supportive of many poetry events in our city including the popular The Poem under the Dome, an annual event held in City Hall which will be celebrating its 4th Anniversary later this year. A political activist since first coming to San Francisco at the age of 19, Diamond Dave continues to fan the flame for Peace, Love and Justice. He has hosted this poetry reading in the Haight district on the second Tues. of each month for many years. To know him is to love him. |
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| Weds. Jan 14, 2009 7pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco |
 Novelist Stacey D’Erasmo reads from her third book ' The Sky Below Free', a luminous novel crafted in meticulous detail with shimmering language.Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and A Seahorse Year, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The San Francisco Chronicle and Newsday, and won both a Lambda Literary Award and a Ferro-Grumley Award. Her essays, features, and reviews have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and Ploughshares. |
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| Thurs. Jan 15, 2009 7pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco |
Robert Tindall moderates a discussion with Ralph Metzner, Dale Pendell, and others, exploring the ideas in Tindall’s book Encompassing the Amazon: Ayahuasca, Vegitalismo, and Cultural Survival, Free | |||
| Jan. 17, 1993 ~ Beat poet, Gregory Corso, died after a lengthy struggle with cancer. | ||||
| Thurs. Jan 18 2009 4:30- 6:30 Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery @ Diamond San Francisco |
A Healing Evening of Poetry, Jazz & The Fire of WordSong with poet/multi-percussionist Avotcja & Modupue, the Bay Area Blues Hall Of Fame Jazz Group of The Year for 2005 featuring Sandy Poindexter, violin; Jon Jang, piano; Eugene Warren, bass; Ian Dogole, multi-percussion, Free just one block from Glen Park BART directions & map |
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| Tues. Jan. 20, 2009 7pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus Avenue San Francisco |
ROOTS of ROMANTICISM on the occasion of the release of Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three The University of California Book of Romantic & Postromantic Poetry Edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson Poets Jerome Rothenberg, and Michael McClure celebrate their literary friendship, discuss the roots of romanticism, and read from selected romantic poetry, |
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| Wed, Jan.21, 2009 6- 8 pm Caffe' Capriccio 2200 Mason St. San Francisco |
Philip Hackett Poets Gallery presents Poet Daniel Goldberg and Musician Bill Appledorf |
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| Jan 23,1910 ~ born, Gypsy jazz musician, bon-vivant Django Reinhardt in Belguim | ||||
| Wed, Jan.23, 2009 3- 5 pm Bao Necci Danilo Bakery 516 Green St San Francisco |
Philip Hackett Poets Gallery presents Poets Kristen Jensen & Ellie Pepper Musician Ellie Pepper |
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| Sun. Jan.5, 2009 4:30 pm Bird & Beckett Books & Records 653 Chenery @ Diamond San Francisco directions and map wheelchair accessible |
 Bird and Beckett presentsFrom 3-4pm - Author Alex Hatch will discusses her book. Cracks in the Asphalt, Community Gardens of San Francisco, a new book featuring descriptions of 30 gardens in the city, as well as maps to help you find these welcome sanctuaries by Kim Beeman and photographs by Stacey J. Miller. then at 4:30 -6:30 pm The Bird & Beckett Cultural Legacy Project presents Which Way West? A Passage to India Jazz - vocalist Vivek Anand with Prasant Radhakrishnan (sax), Bishu Chatterjee (bass), and Ralph Granich (drums) (donations are encouraged to compensate the performers) |
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| Sun., Jan. 25, 2009, 5 pm City Lights Books 261 Columbus San Francisco |
  Special Reading at City Lights with Beverley Brahic and Idris AndersonPoet and translator Beverley Brahic reads from Against Gravity, and from recent translations of the work of Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida and Francis Ponge, with poet Idris Anderson |
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TONY VAUGHAN
The State Museums of Berlin ~ Through January 18, 2009 
The Test of Time: Highlights in American Art
The longest running open mic for Poetry Readings in San Francisco
Hosted by
Martin Hickel 
Public organ concerts on the Legion's magnificent 
Free admission to 
Free admission Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Gallery: First Tuesdays (SOMA)
Free admission to