MICHAEL McCLURE

Michael McClure reads from Persian Pony in B.C. October 18/19

Michael McClure’s poetry collection, Persian Pony, has just been published by Ekstasis Editions. He’s in British Columbia this week for a reading and performance.

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, October 18, 2017
7:30pm
Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre
515 Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC Canada
FREE EVENT — more info

Poetry and Jazz Performance

Saturday, October 21, 2017
7:30pm
w/musicians Carol Ann Sokoloff & Patrick Boyle
The Roxy Theatre, 2657 Quadra St
Victoria, BC Canada
info & tickets: EkstasisEditions.com

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MEPHISTOS book launch and events – October/November 2016

Group Spirit with Toni Basil & Michael McClure

Related Exhibition Bruce Conner, Part of Bruce Conner: I AM/I AM NOT

Thursday, October 27th, 7p.m.

SFMOMA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St, San Francisco, CA 94103
details & tickets:
https://www.sfmoma.org/event/group-spirit-toni-basil-and-michael-mcclure/

AND onward…

Mephistos and Other Poems

Celebrating the release of his book of new poetry

Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 pm

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE
261 Columbus at Broadway
San Francisco, CA
free event, details: http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100617090&fa=events

Tuesday, December 6th, 7:30
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Michael McClure and George Brooks

Come to the Bay Area Book Festival…

MICHAEL McCLURE &
GEORGE BROOKS on sax

FREE CONCERT – POETRY & JAZZ

Sunday, June 7, 2015

12 pm – 12:50 pm
The Brower Center, in Goldman Theatre
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

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Michael McClure + Diane di Prima + Ouroboros

MICHAEL McCLURE + DIANE di PRIMA + OUROBOROS

Sunday • November 16, 2014 • 2pm

La Commune Cafe and Bookstore
4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland

A reading by legendary poets Michael McClure & Diane di Prima

Music by Ouroboros, a free-improv quartet with
Sheldon Brown: tenor saxophone, clarinet, and bass clarinet
Clark Coolidge: drums
Andrew Joron: theremin
Joseph Noble: flute, alto flute, soprano and alto saxophones

A fundraiser for Oakland Omni Collective and La Commune Bookstore
Free admission & donations

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MICHAEL McCLURE: FREE VERSE


photo by Garrett Caples

May 1, 2014, 7pm

Walker Art Center
Walker Cinema

Free tickets available
at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk from 6 pm

Join us for a May Day extravaganza as poet Michael McClure unleashes a mighty roar! A central figure of the Beat Generation, he has enchanted audiences through his poetry, plays, and performances for nearly six decades and has collaborated with artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, and Ray Manzarek. McClure’s

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GHOST TANTRAS
Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 7:30pm

Berkeley, CA: Moe’s Books

Please join Moe’s for Michael McClure’s East Bay book party,
celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the publication of his Ghost Tantras!

McClure will read from the new edition,
just published in the City Lights/Grey Fox Series.

Moe’s is located at 2476 Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.

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GHOST TANTRAS
published by City Lights

Originally self-published in 1964 and long out of print, Ghost Tantras is one of McClure’s signature works, a book mostly written in “beast language.” A mix of lyrical, guttural and laryngeal sound, lion roars, and a touch of detonated dada, this is one of his best-known but least available books, a deep well from which decades of poetry have drawn.

McClure’s inspiration has always been the animal consciousness that still lives in mankind, and

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GHOST TANTRAS
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013, 7:00 pm

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Bookstore

City Lights will host Michael McClure
celebrating the publication of his Ghost Tantras!

City Lights is located at 261 Columbus Avenue @ Broadway
in San Francisco’s North Beach.

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YOU are cordially invited to the

Opening Party and Screening

BERKELEY VIDEO AND FILM FESTIVAL

EAST BAY MEDIA CENTER
1939 Addison Street
(downtown Berkeley, near the Berkeley Rep)
Friday Oct 25th, 2013
PARTY starts at 6:15 pm

RSVP: (to ensure there’ll be plentiful wine and munchies)

SCREENING starts at 7:15 pm

PURCHASE TICKETS EARLY

Seating is limited in this lovely, intimate theatre
www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org
510-843-3699

ABSTRACT ALCHEMIST OF FLESH, a 55-minute documentary of the poetry and life and adventures with

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Rob Wasserman • Michael McClure • Jay Lane

New Music!

Thursday, September 12th, 2013 • 8:00 p.m.

Sweetwater Music Hall

19 Corte Madera Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941
Limited Seating • Box Office 415-388-1100

“Rob Wasserman was performing with Lou Reed — I was knocked out. Soon Rob and I were writing songs together, sometimes at Bob Weir’s place with Rob’s genius-drummer friend, Jay Lane. Now the 3 of us are linking up again at the Sweetwater.”
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PERFORMANCE:

Gorge Brooks, saxophone
Michael McClure, poetry
Rob Wasserman, bass

Jazz and Poetry performance

Friday, July 26, 2013

2 sets: 6:30 pm & 7:45 pm

deYoung Museum of San Francisco

currently showing: Richard Diebenkorn, The Berkeley Years, 1953–1966

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1st ANNUAL
SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ POETRY FESTIVAL

AL YOUNG with bass
MICHAEL McCLURE
with GEORGE BROOKS on sax

SFJAZZ Laureate ISHMAEL REED
with piano

Saturday, JUNE 8, 2013
2 shows, 7:30 & 9:00

SFJAZZ Center, Joe Henderson Lab
201 Franklin St, San Francisco

Limited seating!

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THE BIG MIX
at Sweetwater Music Hall
Mill Valley, CA

November 14, 2012

What do you get if you take Beat icon Michael McClure (who penned Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz”), add Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Ray Manzarek (Doors keyboardist), stir in jazz/Indian fusion saxophonist and composer George Brooks (Etta James, Summit, Bombay Jazz), infuse with legendary bassist Kai Eckhardt (John McGlaughlin, Garaj Mahal, Zeitgeist), and shake it all up with drummer Jay Lane (Primus, Bob Weir & Ratdog)?

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Released August 14, 2012!

MICHAEL McCLURE & RAY MANZAREK

THE PIANO POEMS:
LIVE FROM SAN FRANCISCO

A collaboration between Ray Manzarek and Michael McClure, this live performance, recorded at an old church, features both new and older poems, with McClure’s words and Manzarek’s jazz piano.

On a cold, foggy night in San Francisco after a great Japanese meal, Manzarek and I stepped onto the stage and there were sparks of consciousness – the stage was on fire with poems and

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The JazzSchool of Berkeley
Is Offering a Rare Workshop by

GEORGE BROOKS
&
MICHAEL Mc CLURE

Jazz & Poetry: The Craft of Collaboration

SATURDAY, JULY 7th, 2012, 3:15 pm
The JazzSchool – 2087 Addison St. Berkeley, CA

This workshop offers an opportunity for musicians and poets to explore the long, rich history of music and spoken word with the guidance of Beat poet / playwright Michael McClure and saxophonist/composer George Brooks.

They will perform examples from their work together

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If you happen to be in Los Angeles next week . . .

MICHAEL McCLURE
reading with
MICHAEL C. FORD

October 20, 2011, Thursday, 7:30 PM

BEYOND BAROQUE Literary/Arts Center
www.beyondbaroque.org
681 Venice Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 822-3006
Admission $7, students/seniors/children $5,
members FREE

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BIG MIX:
RAY MANZAREK, MICHAEL McCLURE
GEORGE BROOKS, KAI ECKHARDT
& JAY LANE

Dharma Boogie at its Best!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 8:00 pm
YOSHI’S JAZZ CLUB
510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA
$20
www.yoshis.com

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BIG MIX:
RAY MANZAREK, MICHAEL McCLURE
GEORGE BROOKS, KAI ECKHARDT
& JAY LANE

Dharma Boogie at its Best!

THROCKMORTON THEATRE
Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 8:00pm
142 Throckmorton Ave. Mill Valley, CA
$24 – $27

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“FLY-BY FROM THE REALMS OF BURNING GOLD”

DIANE DI PRIMA and MICHAEL McCLURE read/exchange their poems

Sunday, August 7, 2011 / 3:00 pm
MYTHOS FINE ART
1747 Solano Ave. Berkeley, CA 94707
free event
www.mythosfineart.com
510-528-4291

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The Foundation of the Sacred Stream presents:

MICHAEL McCLURE and
saxophonist GEORGE BROOKS

Jazz, Poetry and deepening of consciousness!

Saturday, August 13, 2011, 8:00 pm
In a private home, St. Francis Woods near Glen Park, San Francisco
$40 Contribution
Reception after the concert, wine and dessert included

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Two seminal poets and dear friends spend an evening reading
OUT LOUD and OUTSPOKEN!

Michael McClure and Jerome Rothenberg

Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE

261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
phone: (415) 362-8193

Jerome Rothenberg celebrates the release of
three new books:

For Gematria Complete (from Marick Press)
For Concealments & Caprichos (from Black Widow Press)
For Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems (from Junction Press)

Michael McClure celebrates two recent books:

Of Indigo

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Huffington Post Interview

Michael McClure was recently interviewed by Anis Shivani for The Huffington Post.
Read the interview here.

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MICHAEL McCLURE: Reading & Signing

Thursday, February 24, 2011, 7:00 pm

DIESEL BOOKSTORE
5433 College Avenue, Oakland, CA 94618
510-653-9965
Get more details on Diesel Bookstore’s website.

Michael McClure will be reading from – and signing –
the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems.

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Poet MICHAEL McCLURE
in Vancouver, BC

Friday, February 11, 2011

McClure’s Vancouver appearance comes on the occasion of the publication of
Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems (U. of California Press), which
follows closely the 2010 publication of Mysteriosos and Other Poems (New
Directions). Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, a fifty-five minute documentary film
of Michael McClure, with cameos of Dennis Hopper, Ray Manzarek, and Allen
Ginsberg, is soon to be released.

Michael McClure will be making two

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MICHAEL McCLURE
Reading in Victoria, BC, February 8-9, 2011

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MICHAEL McCLURE
Reading at MOE’S BOOKS

Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 7:30 P.M.
2476 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley CA 94704
phone: 510-849-2087

Download the flyer for this event.

Michael McClure will be reading from
the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems.

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Michael McClure
Reading at City Lights Bookstore

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7:00 P.M.
261 Columbus Avenue at Broadway,
San Francisco, CA 94133
phone: (415) 362-8193

Michael McClure will be reading from
the newly-published book, Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems.

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Mysteriosos Reviews

Two recent reviews of Michael McClure’s new poetry collection, Mysteriosos and Other Poems:

Poet and critic Barbara Berman’s review, “Like Mercury Over a Wall of Garnets,” appears at The Rumpus.

The Beat Studies Association recently published Tom Pynn’s review of Mysteriosos.

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Upcoming Events in the UK

Michael McClure will headline the Ledbury Poetry Festival on opening day (Friday, July 2, 2010), with a talk and a reading.

On July 3rd there will be screenings of the Michael McClure bio documentary Abstract Alchemist, a film about Gary Snyder and another about Frank O’Hara, all by Colin Still. Michael McClure will introduce the films.

On July 8th, Michael McClure will give a reading in London at the London Review Book Shop, where

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New Directions and Moe’s invite you to a reception and reading
to celebrate the publication of

MYSTERIOSOS and Other Poems

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Pre-reading reception at 7pm, reading at 7:30
Moe’s Books
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley (510) 849-2087

At the age of 22 Michael McClure gave his first poetry reading at the legendary Six Gallery event in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl . Today McClure is more active than ever, writing and performing his poetry at

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Mysteriosos Readings & Events

The first reading of Michael McClure’s new poetry collection, Mysteriosos, will take place for the Grolier Poetry Bookshop at the Pierre Menard Art Gallery in Harvard Square on Sunday, April 11.

The second event will be a performance with Ray Manzarek at the Jazzmouth Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday, April 24. Ray and Michael will present Mysteriosos and Michael will do signings.

City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco will host a reading and

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Michael McClure Reading,
Workshop & Lecture

Rainer Valley Cultural Center
3515 S. Alaska St., Seattle, WA

Lecture: March 12, 2010 / 7:30 pm
Workshop: March 13, 2010 / 1-4 pm
Reading: March 13, 2010 / 7:30 pm

For more information, or to register, please visit splab.org.

Download the press release for this event.

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LESLIE SCALAPINO
&
AMY EVANS McCLURE

Reading at Moe’s Books
7:30 pm • Tuesday • 23 February 2010
2476 Telegraph Avenue • Berkeley CA 94704 • 510-849-2087
FREE EVENT

View the .pdf announcement for this event, which includes more details.

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An Evening of Romantic Poetry
with
Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg, Leslie Scalapino

City Lights Books
261 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 / 7:00 p.m.

In the spirit of an experimental and visionary romanticism that links closely with the experimental modernisms of where we are right now, McClure, Rothenberg and Scalapino will read from and discuss the works of acknowledged Romantics and postromantics like Blake, Shelley, Goethe, Hugo, Whitman, Dickinson, and Rimbaud, as well as poems of their

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Magnolia Editions and Rena Bransten Gallery are pleased to announce
a book preview with Hung Liu and Michael McClure
of their new collaborative artist’s book:

DEER BOY

at Rena Bransten Gallery on Thursday, November 12, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm.

The event will feature a reading at 7 pm by Michael McClure of his poem, “Deer Boy,” composed especially for this publication.

Please don’t miss the chance to encounter this handsome book, to meet the artists behind the project,

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Saxophonist George Brooks
& Poet Michael McClure

Premiere Newly Commissioned Jazz-Poetry Work,
“Double Moiré”

Sunday May 3, 2009 / 4:30pm

at the Jazzschool
2087 Addison St,
Berkeley, CA 94704

510-845-5373
admission $15.00

Scott Amendola – Drums
Chris Lopes — Bass

Light environment by Alessandro Moruzzi

The premiere of “Double Moiré” has been made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum.

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Michael McClure Will Give a Reading

at the Book Launch and Reading for

Poems for the Millennium, Volume 3:
The University of California Book of
Romantic and Postromantic Poetry

edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Jeffrey C. Robinson

December 29, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Books Inc, San Francisco

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The Holloway Series in Poetry at UC Berkeley Presents:

MICHAEL McCLURE

with Elizabeth Marie Young

Tuesday, October 14

at 6:30 p.m.
in the Maude Fife Room of Wheeler Hall
Holloway Series in Poetry website

MICHAEL McCLURE is a Bay Area countercultural icon whose numerous works include Dark Brown, Ghost Tantras (which he famously read to the lions at the San Francisco Zoo), the play The Beard, albums with Ray Manzarek, one-time pianist with the Doors, and with Terry Riley,

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MICHAEL McCLURE
in CHICAGO

POETRY READING
at 7:00 p.m.
OCTOBER 11, 2008

The Beat Generation Symposium
October 10-11, 2008
Columbia College, Chicago
All events are in the Film Row Theater
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“REBEL ROAR:
THE SOUND OF MICHAEL McCLURE”

Friday, SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Berkeley Video & Film Festival ’08
LANDMARK SHATTUCK CINEMA
2230 SHATTUCK AVENUE · DOWNTOWN BERKELEY

Box Office: 510.464.5980
Festival Information: 510.843.3699
www.berkeleyvideofilmfest.org

Screenings Start at 7:30pm Friday

The global premiere of “REBEL ROAR: The Sound of Michael McClure,” a short art documentary of the poet and playwright, is produced by Kurt Hemmer and Tom Knoff. “Rebel Roar” advances the cause of Beat and Hip and is an antidote to

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Please join

MICHAEL McCLURE & JOHN BRANDI

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
7:30 pm
MOE’S BOOKS
2476 Telegraph Avenue

Berkeley CA 94704
510-849-2087
www.moesbooks.com

JOHN BRANDI is a poet, writer, artist, and author of thirty-eight books of poetry and nonfiction. He will read from his new book, FACING HIGH WATER. From the Himalayas, Angkor Wat, the barrios of Old Havana, the highlands of Chiapas, and the streets of New York, Brandi’s poems lead us toward rapport with the natural world and

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BIG MIX:

Michael McClure, Ray Manzarek,
George Brooks, Rob Wasserman, & Jay Lane

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
2 shows – 8pm & 10pm

YOSHI’S San Francisco
1330 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415.655.5575

Original Beat icon Michael McClure, who penned Janis Joplin’s immortal “Mercedes Benz,” and Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who created one of rock’s most memorable instrumental lines (think “Light My Fire”), join forces with saxophonist George Brooks (Summit,

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McClure and Rowan

MICHAEL McCLURE and LOU ROWAN

Thursday · MARCH 6, 2008 · 7:30 p.m.
THE BEAT MUSEUM
540 Broadway, near Columbus
San Francisco
info: 800-537-6822

LOU ROWAN, editor of the stunning review GOLDEN HANDCUFFS, reads from
MY LAST DAYS, his freshly published, fabulous, and scurrilous autobiography of Superman.

Poet & playwright MICHAEL McCLURE reads from new manuscripts of MYSTERIOSOS, and MUSHROOM MOUNTAINS; and growls beast language poems from GHOST TANTRAS.

* * * light, life, grahhrr… * * *

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