Events List
Jul 2020
LABOR FEST: "I Can't Breathe"
“I Can’t Breath” – Revolutionary Poetry Brigade (Zoom event) July 26 @ 7:00 pm Free Zoom event – Need to join with Zoom The Revolutionary Poetry Brigade will perform their work in the midst of the continuous lynchings of Blacks in the US. The voices of the oppressed will be heard through words and music. Spaces are limited. Please register today for this Zoom event.
From 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
At Labor Fest
Dec 2019
Howard Zinn Book Fair: “Poetry By Any Means Necessary: What is revolutionary poetry and why is it crucial?”
“Poetry By Any Means Necessary: What is revolutionary poetry and why is it crucial?” An RPB Workshop at the Zinn Book Fair. Poets of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade will lead a discussion from their personal writing experiences, and read their poems from the new anthology. Overthrowing Capitalism, Vol. 6: A World Without Wars. In a time of global upheaval, how can radical/activist poets and the poetry of revolution contribute to a world restored from the ashes of the vicious system crushing our planet? POETS: Mahnaz Bahidian, Lisbit Bailey, Scott Bird, Pauline Craig, Diego De Leo, Agneta Falk, Jack Hirschman, Sarah Menefee, Barbara Pasche, Greg Pond, Andrena Zawinski. Host: John Curl
From 10:30 until 12:00
At Howard Zinn Book Fair
Overthrowing Capitalism, Vol. 6: A World Without Wars
OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM anthology Book Launch Reading. POETS: Nina Serrano, Arnoldo García, Julie Rogers, Diego De Leo, Jeanne Powell, Carol Denney Niloufar Talebi, Hilton Obenzinger, Agneta Falk, Lapo Guzzini, Sarah Menefee, Mauro Fortissimo, Maria Cristina Gutiérrez, Genny Lim, Martin Hickel, Karen Melander-Magoon, Lisbit Bailey, Adrian Arias, Pauline Craig, Jack Hirschman Host: Karen Melander-Magoon
From 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
At The Beat Museum
Nov 2019
Overthrowing Capitalism, Vol 6: A World Without Wars
OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM, Vol Six: A WORLD WITHOUT WARS, Book Launch reading. POETS: Mahnaz Badihian, Jim Normington, John Curl, Barbara Paschke, Nellie Wong, Rafael Jesús González, Lynne Barnes, Cathleen Williams, Gregory Pond, Judith Bernhard, Gaylin West, Scott Bird, Victoria Brill, David Volpendesta, Yolanda Catzalco, Hai Pham, Kristina Brown, Doreen Stock, Neeli Cherkovski, Kim Shuck, Jenny Wade, Bob Coleman Host: Jack Hirschman
From 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
At Beat Museum
Dec 2018
The Fifth OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM Anthology BOOK LAUNCH READING
POETS: Lincoln Bergman, William Crossman, Anita Odena Cruz, Romeo Cruz, Carol Denney, Arnoldo Garcia, Lapo Guzzini, Dan Katz, Karen Melander-Magoon, Janice Mirikitani, Alejandro Murguia, Jeanne Powell, Stephen Schur, Nina Serrano, Jenny Wade, Cathleen Williams, Nellie Wong, Marvin X, Andrena Zawinsky, Fady Zouby. Facilitator: Rosemary Manno
From 7pm until 9pm
At The Beat Museum
The Fifth OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM Anthology BOOK LAUNCH READING
POETS: Neeli Cherkovski, Mauro Fortissimo, Jack Hirschman, Genny Lim, Rosemary Manno, Sarah Menefee, Gregory Pond. Facilitator: John Curl
From 2pm until 3pm
At Howard Zinn Book Fair
Nov 2018
The Fifth OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM Anthology BOOK LAUNCH READING
POETS: Robert Anbian, Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Judith Ayn Bernhard, Charles Curtis Blackwell, Kristina Brown, Bob Coleman, Pauline Craig, John Curl, Diego De Leo, Agneta Falk, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, Elias Gutierrez, Martin Hickel, Gary Hicks, devorah major, Barbara Paschke, Giovanni Romano, Angelos Sakkis, Kim Shuck (poet laureate), Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis. Facilitator: Jack Hirschman
From 7pm until 9pm
At The Beat Museum
Mar 2018
Kerouac Alley Street Reading
Featured readers Mahnaz Bahidian and Karen Melander Magoon. Open reading: bring your poetry to read! Free.
From 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm
At Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, on Columbus Ave next to City Lights Books
Revolutionary Poets Brigade Monthly Meeting
RPB planning meeting. Join us and help us organize, as poetry overthrows capitalism.
From 7:00 pm until 9:00 pm
At The Beat Museum
Feb 2018
Kerouac Alley Readings
The first in a monthly series of Street Readings from the RPB. Featured + Open Reading • Featured Poets: Pauline Craig & John Curl. Bring your poetry to read! Free.
From 1:00 pm until 2:00 pm
At Kerouac Alley, San Francisco
Jan 2018
Revolutionary Poets Brigade monthly meeting
Join us in our regular monthly meeting and plot the cultural revolution with us. Always free.
From 7:00 pm until 8:30 pm
At The Beat Museum
Nov 2017
Howard Zinn Book Fair
Revolutionary Poets Who Changed the World. Handle these poems with care: they are fully armed. This is not genteel poetry for coffee tables and drawing rooms, but poems built for action, for demonstrations and uprisings, rebellions and street corners, verses for storming the halls of power. Poets in the new anthology Overthrowing Capitalism, Volume 4, published by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, will read some of their favorite revolutionary poems, plus their own poem from the new anthology. Tentative lineup of poets includes Mahnaz Badihian, Lisbit Bailey, Judith Ayn Bernhard, John Curl, Agneta Falk, Martin Hickel, Jack Hirschman, Sarah Menefee, Barbara Paschke, Gregory Pond.
From 10 am until 6 pm
At Mission Campus City College of San Francisco
Overthrowing Capitalism 4 Book Launch
Poets read from 4th Volume of Overthrowing Capitalism, just published by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade, with new poetry of struggle, healing, and revolution from around the world
From 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm
At The Beat Museum
Oct 2017
Regular Meeting Revolutionary Poets Brigade
Join us for discussion of political issues & help plan events!
From 7 pm until 9 pm
At The Beat Museum
Jul 2017
RPB STREET POETRY READINGS
The RPB will read Poetry alongside our banner at the Ferry Building South Entrance. All welcome to read and listen. Hope you join us.
From 11 am until 12:30 pm
At San Francisco Ferry Terminal, South Entrance
Against Deportations & Racism: Not our Brothers & Sisters!
Over 30 Poets: Part of Labor Fest
From 6:30 until 9:00
At The Beat Museum
May 2017
POETS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST FASCISM!
JOIN US IN AN EVENING OF FREE ENTERTAINMENT BY SOME OF THE BAY AREA'S FINEST ARTISTS/ACTIVISTS FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: * CHRISTINA GUITERREZ of the Frisco 5 Hunger Strikers * MAURO FORTISSIMO pianist who places pianos on cliffs in fishiing boats and on the streets of the Tenderloin * ALEJANDRO MURGUIA, POET LAUREATE OF SAN FRANCISCO, author, educator, and founder of Mission Cultural Center. * JACK HIRSCHMAN, EMERITUS POET LAUREATE OF SAN FRANCISCO, internationally acclaimed poet and legendary social justice activist * ALFREDO GOMEZ, beloved community performance artist, guitarist/vocalist ALSO PERFORMING: CHITO CUELLAR ROSEMARY MANNO MARRISA THOMPSON TOSHI WASHIZU DAVID KUBRIN DOTTIE PAYNE SARAH MENEFEE FRANCISCO ORREGO THIS IS FREE EVENT CELEBRATIMG OUT CREATIVITY AND SOLIDARITY IN OUR STAND AGAINST RASCISM ANTI-IMMIGRANT AND ANTI-MUSLIM BIGOTRY. ALL ARE WELCOME HERE!!
From 6:30 pm until 9:00 pm
At Alley Cat Books
Apr 2017
Regular Meeting of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade
Join us for political discussions & planning for our next events.
At The Beat Museum
FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE HOMELESS
Please join us in a California speaking tour of front line leaders in the movement to end homelessness in America. Proceeds from the Tour will benefit the People’s Tribune, in order to finance papers for homeless and other writers to distribute so they can tell their stories.
From 7 pm until 9 pm
At The Luggage Store Gallery
Feb 2017
TUESDAYS AT NORTH BEACH
Diego De Leo followed by
From 6:30 pm until 8 pm
At San Franciso North Beach Public Library
Regular Meeting of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade
General discussion of past events -- future plans & things as we see them.
From 7 pm until 9 pm
At The Beat Museum
Dec 2015
Nov 2015
Nov. 7/2015 event
Overthrowing Capitalism 2015: Beyond Endless War, Racist Police, Sexist Elites
From 2pm until 8:30pm
Oct 2015
Dec 2014
PEN Oakland Literary Awards
Dubbed by The New York Times as “The Blue-Collar PEN,” the board of PEN Oakland has announced the 2014 winners of the Josephine Miles Literary Awards.
From 1.00 pm until 5.00 pm
At Oakland Public Library, Rockridge Branch