Here, from Joyce Jenkins, information about the San Francisco Bookfest and
the reading series Joyce has organized. Information about other Bookfest
events will follow.
Note: Admission tickets are $3.00 if purchased at a Bay Area book store.
Junction Press, at Booth 182, wants to sell you books. For members of this
list Junction will refund the $3.00 with any book purchase on site.



Allen Ginsberg Poetry Cafe
at the
10th Annual San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival
—Schedule—
The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Cafe will be located at the end of the
HerbstPavillion (near Cowell Theater), at Fort Mason Center, Marina and
BuchananStreets, San Francisco.

Tickets to the entire Book Festival are $5 at the door or $3 in advance
atBay Area bookstores. Admission is free for 18 years and under. Call
(415)487-4550 for more information, or check out the San Francisco Bay Area
BookCouncil's Web site at www.sfbook.org. For more information about the
Allen GinsbergPoetry Cafe, call Poetry Flash at (510)525-5476,
www.poetryflash.org.

The Poetry Flash Literary Resource Cornerwill be located right next to the
Allen Ginsberg Poetry Cafe. It willfeature information about literary
events and magazines, and include displays from The Poetry Center/American
Poetry Archives, California Poetsin the Schools, Kearny Street Workshop,
Haight AshburyLiterary Review, Taurean Horn Press, Floating
IslandPublications, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Awards.

Saturday, October 16

11:00: syllogism2 magazine contributor's reading with Will Alexander,
StandardSchaefer, Elizabeth Robinson, Avery Burns, and Opal Palmer Adisa.

Noon: "A Communityof Words Panel: How to be a Featured Reader":
ACalifornia Poets & Writers, Inc. panel explores how writers can set
upreadings and workshops for themselves and others, moderated by Karen
Clark, Poets & Writers, withpanelists Suzanne Lummis (poet and Director of
the LA Poetry Festival),Richard Silberg (Poetry Flash @ Cody's Books),
Samantha Schoech (Events & Promotions Coordinator, A CleanWell-Lighted
Place for Books), Kirk Lumpkin (Cafe International and EcologyCenter).

1:00-1:30: Irish Arts Foundation presentsIrish poets Frank Holt and Joe
Ruane, with Irish-American poet Nancy Keene(coordinator of the 3300 Club
reading series in SF), with host ConnorHoward.

1:30-2:00: WritersCorps Reading with youthparticipants.

2:00: Rachel Bagby, author ofDivine Daughters: Liberating the Power and
Passion of Women'sVoices, performs.

3:00: California Poetry Series/The RoundhousePress reading with poets
Suzanne Lummis, author of InDanger, Dan Bellm, author of One Hand on
theWheel. Book signing follows at the Poetry Flash LiteraryResource Corner
right next to the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Cafe.

4:00: The Alchemy of theWord: Voices From the Edge–San Francisco Poets, a
poetry performance CD from Awaa-te, with host,poet-contributor/producer Bob
Booker, readings by poet-contributors JorgeArgueta, author of Las frutas
del centro y otrossabores–Fruit From the Center and Other Flavors, Brett
Bevell, Will Dodger, Craig Easley, Jane 69, S.F. Slam champRussell Gonzaga,
and Gail Mitchell.

5:00: National Writers Union, Local 3,presents a reading by writers Ben
Clarke, Paula Naomi Friedman, Adam DavidMiller, Margot Pimienta Pepper,
Alice Rogoff, Marcy Sheiner, and AlfonsoTexidor.




Sunday, October 17

11:00: California Poets in the Schoolsreading by poet-teachers John Fox,
Tureeda Mikell, Tobey Kaplan, SusanTerence, with their K–12 students from
across the Bay Area. They will demonstrate some of the funcreative writing
techniques they use in the classroom.

Noon: Kearny Street Workshop Press reading,with poets and spoken word
artists Dennis Somera, Dan Wu, Tony Robles, andAmy Yuen.

1:00–1:15: Junction Press reading withSan Francisco poet Stephen Vincent,
author of Walking.

1:15–1:45: Performance poetry withJack & Adelle Foley (Jack Foley is the
well-known host of KPFA radio's "Cover-to-Cover." He is the author of
Adrift, Gershwin, Dead/Requiem,and the forthcoming O Powerful Western
Star,a book of critical essays about poetry, among many other books.

1:45–2:00: Manic D Press Reading withdynamic spoken word/slam poet Tarin
Towers, Sorry We're Close.

1:30 on: Simultaneous book signing of the PENOakland Book Award winner,
Here I Am: Contemporary JewishStories from Around the World, with
co-editors Marsha Lee Berman and Elaine Marcus Starkman, at theFlash
Literary Resource Corner next to theAllen Ginsberg Poetry Cafe.

2:00: The Poetry Center/SFSU presents six BayArea Iranian American poets
and fiction writers: Persis M. Karim, MaryamOvissi, Zara Houshmand,
Katayoon Zandvakili, Sanaz Niaein, and Shadi Ziaei,contributors to A World
Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by IranianAmericans, a new
anthology (George Braziller). The anthology is edited by Ms. Karim,a poet
who teaches English at San Jose State University, and Mohammad
MehdiKhorrami, Persian poet and professor at New York University. The
anthologyincludes representative voices from an Iranian American community
that today numbers over a million.
   
3:00: Members of the Bay Area's—San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose—Poetry
Slam teams, acclaimedwinners of the National Poetry Slam 1999 in Chicago.

4:00: New College of California WritingPrograms reading with Mexican poet
Juvenal Acosta with fellow facultymembers, poets Neeli Cherkovski, Michael
Price, and Judy Grahn, withgraduate students from New College.



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