Arts & Entertainment Here's the Full Inaugural Poem 'The Hill We Climb,' By California Poet Amanda Gorman 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest ever inaugural poet and the country's first ever Youth Poet Laureate, wowed the inaugural crowd and earned immediate accolades from Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey after delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb"
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Trailer For This Maya Angelou Documentary That Premieres Tonight On KQED A documentary that's been on the festival circuit but hasn't yet premiered to the general public, Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise might, as the New York Times points out, "seem redundant to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/20: Juanita More At Wo Hing General Store FOOD/CLUB: Wo Hing General Store's Felix Torricer (Wo Hing) and the legendary Juanita More are teaming up for Sunday Tea with Juanita & Fe, featuring Juanita More on the decks and a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/8: Ferlinghetti Reading & Film Screening POETRY/FILM: Peter Coyote will be at Meridian Gallery tonight reading poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, followed by a screening of Ferlinghetti, the 2009 documentary by Christopher Felver, which is "an incisive, sharply wrought
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 4/27: 'Hit So Hard' Rock Documentary FILM: The new documentary, Hit So Hard, which opens tonight at the Roxie, tells the true story of the "hell-and-back" life of Patty Schemel, the openly gay, hard-hitting drummer of Courtney Love's band
Arts & Entertainment Noted Poet Adrienne Rich Has Died One of the foremost poets and thinkers of the 20th century, Adrienne Rich, has died, SF Chronicle book editor John McMurtrie reports via Twitter. In addition to winning loads of awards for her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 11/6: 'Wall Street' Sequel, Zodiac Death Valley, Poetry at City Lights FILM: Bad Movie Night kicks off its "Belated '80s Sequels" series with Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, A.V. Club notes, "The first time around, Wall Street felt like a warning
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/5: Go the F**k to Sleep, Poetry World Series, Penny Arcade READING: Author Adam Mansbach will be at City Lights performing a complete reading of Go the F**k to Sleep, a kids book that's just for adults. (It's a phrase that SFist finds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 8/22: Katya Back in the USSR, Sheila McClear 'Last of the Live Nude Girls', Mister Heavenly CABARET: Countess Katya Smirnoff-Skyy is at the Rrazz Room tonight and tomorrow night performing her "voyage into the Beatles song book,"Back in the USSR, which is described as "Abby Road meets the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 7/25: Thurston Moore, Poetry at Green Apple, Geoffrey B. West MUSIC: It's your lucky day -- tickets are still available to see Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, who's promoting his fourth solo album, Demolished Thoughts, which was produced by Beck Hansen. Also on the
Arts & Entertainment 'The Gray Side of The Moon' Infuses S.F. With Merry Old Land of Oz L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has inspired some of the greatest forms of entertainment over the last 100 years. Let's see, there's this bizarre yet mildly racist silent
SF News SF Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima Gives Inaugural Address Tonight by Amy Crocker Did you know San Francisco had a Poet Laureate? You should. SFist has mentioned her before. Our Laureate, Diane DiPrima, is in charge of putting the spirit of our fair
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight by Amy Crocker FASHION: The finals of "Fashion Feud," a local competition in the Project Runway style will be held tonight. Designers Julia Meeks, Gail B. Shrive, and Alexandria Von Bromssen will be
Arts & Entertainment Video of Diane DiPrima Reading a Poem in the 70s San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane DiPrima -- who is co-hosting the San Francisco International Poetry Festival that kicks off tonight with a party on Jack Kerouac Alley in North Beach -- provides us
Arts & Entertainment Attention Poetry Fans: The San Francisco Int'l Poetry Festival Starts Tomorrow Like a comet, or a certain Venetian art fair, the San Francisco International Poetry Festival only comes around every two years, and the second biennial fest kicks off tomorrow with a party in
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Rock veterans Tortoise, who defy categorization, are promoting the release of their first album in five years, Beacons of Ancestorship. Fellow Chicagoans and Thrill Jockey labelmates, Pit er Pat, open. 8 p.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Raunchy rockabilly fave Reverand Horton Heat will heat up the Great American tonight with Danish psychobilly band The Nekromantix, who describe themselves as "Elvis meets the Wolfman." 7 p.m. // Great American
Arts & Entertainment 7x7 Correspondent Tries to Get Garrison Keillor To Admit He's a Perv Leilani Labong, conducting an interview for the most recent 7x7, tried her damndest to get Garrison Keillor (who was just at City Arts & Lectures on Saturday) to admit that his new collection
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Check out the original Inglorious Bastards by Italian director Enzo Castellari, which inspired the partial premise of Tarantino's upcoming version. Incidentally, Tarantino is a very bad speller. The original remains perhaps the
Arts & Entertainment Kay Ryan, U.S Poet Laureate, at City Arts & Lectures Tonight Were you aware that we have a Poet Laureate? Well, we do, and even though poetry doesn't sell so well these days, it's still out there and can provide a calming break from
SF News Silicon Valley Looking for First-Ever Poet Laureate In an attempt to compete culturally with more richly textured areas of California (i.e., San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Buttonwillow), San Jose is looking to land its first poet laureate. According to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Poetry Corner: <i>Black Woman</i> SFist reader Emily Alexander sent us this brilliant poem she found on Bart car. In related news, Wilton Antonio McGlory is now SFist's unofficial poet laureate.
Arts & Entertainment How Now Brown Cow: Poets 11 Accepting Submissions Are you a poet? Do you know it? (Ouch.) Well, Poets Eleven, a citywide poetry contest showcasing prose created by residents of each of San Francisco's 11 districts, above, is now accepting submissions.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight READING: Idiolexicon Poetry Series brings together different types of poets -- from slam to experimental, hip-hop and academia -- having them share a stage. Tonight, the lineup includes performances by poets Stephen Meads
Arts & Entertainment Poems By Jodie Foster Those wacky comedic troupe kids over at SPF7 honor two-time Oscar-winning Yalie and secretly Sapphic actress/director Jodie Foster with "poetic poetry poems" as performed by a spot-on Foster look-alike. (Good Lord, that
