Sean Labrador y Manzano – Litseen

Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse

November 16 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Family Sacrifices: Book Talk with Dr. Russell Jeung

November 17 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Joyce E. Young at Poetry Express Nov 18

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Racket #36 : SOUND

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
East Bay Release for Disasterama! at Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft

November 18 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Andrew McAfee

November 18 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Ingrid Rojas Contreras

November 19 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Savannah Shange

November 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Big Familia Book Launch

November 19 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske

November 20 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

QUIET LIGHTNING 50: litquake @ the conservatory of flowers

October 23, 2013

C4 YOURSELF, Playlists

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QUIET LIGHTNING: city lights in kerouac alley

October 3, 2013

Blitzine, C4 YOURSELF

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CONVERSATIONS AT THE WARTIME CAFE: a marathon of readings for a decade of war

CONVERSATIONS AT THE WARTIME CAFE: a marathon of readings for a decade of war

November 5, 2011

[youtube_video width=399 height=233]Wartime[/youtube_video]

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THURSDAY, 11/3: lunch poems, granta, conversations at the wartime dna lounge

THURSDAY, 11/3: lunch poems, granta, conversations at the wartime dna lounge

October 31, 2011

Featured Event, Week in Preview

One of the best Bay Area series? Lunch Poems. 8 times a year and this Thursday is one of them: Clayton Eshleman will read from…

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QUIET LIGHTNING: the sudden interpenetration of a plethora of contexts

QUIET LIGHTNING: the sudden interpenetration of a plethora of contexts

Event Review, Scene, Statement

(Evan Karp) If you weren’t at Quiet Lightning‘s recent show at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, and you haven’t seen the photos yet, do…

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MFA PROGRAMS: mixing it up

MFA PROGRAMS: mixing it up

Event Review, Scene, Statement

(Charles Kruger) Recently Sean Labrador y Manzano, a 2007 graduate of the Mills College MFA program in Creative Writing and McSweeney’s columnist (Conversations At The…

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Jami Atteberg: All This Could Be Yours
The NYT-bestselling author of seven books of fiction including "The Middlesteins" and "All Grown Up", Jami Attenberg returns to Booksmith to read from her new novel, "All This Could Be Yours." Set in New Orleans, the book follows a largely dysfunctional family coming to terms with the near-death of their abusive father. In conversation with […]
Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
The Latinx poetry reading series and open mic, hosted every third Thursday by Josiah Luis Alderete, features a full set by Philadelphia Poet Laureate Raquel Silas Rivera, along with 10 open mic slots. Says Alderete: "Through poesia the reading series has created a genuine decolonized space of resistance that is a very powerful and necessary […]
Racquel Salas Rivera and Carina Schorske
The Center for the Art of Translation presents Philadelphia poet laureate Raquel Salas Rivera ("while they sleep (under the bed is another country)") and writer and translator Carina del Valle Schorske ("No Es Nada: Notes from the Other Island") for a discussion about Latinx poetics and what it means to be a Puerto Rican poet […]