Seattle-based poetry powerhouse Wave Books celebrates new titles with the ultimate sample platter, readings by an intoxicating group of poets each doing something distinct and impressive: Garrett Caples (who edits the poetry division of City Lights Books, and whose collection of essays, Retrievals, was featured in our Fall Arts Guide), Anthony McCann (Thing Music), Hoa Nguyen (Red Juice, which consists of poems published roughly 1998-2008, previously available only in limited-run chapbooks and out-of-print books), Cedar Sigo (Language Arts), and Rachel Zucker (The Pedestrians). Whether you take your poetry with gobs of conversational aside or as an intensely focused balancing act — and especially if you like it when these two are accomplished in tandem — you are sure to enjoy this evening, which brings the poets into town from far and wide (Nguyen is based in Toronto, Zucker in New York, and McCann in Los Angeles) and is hosted by Wave Books Editor at Large Matthew Zapruder.
Wave Books reading starts at 7 p.m at City Lights, 261 Columbus Ave., S.F. Free; call 362-8193 or visit citylights.com. Evan Karp
415-362-8193
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