MICHAEL McCLURE

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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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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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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