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SUMMARY:The Writing Life Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Emerging Writers Festival: Writing Life Panel. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a panel. Writers Cortney Lamar Charleston\, Vanessa Hua\, Patricia Park\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise will discuss their experiences in the writing industry and participate in a Q&A session. \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-writing-life-panel/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Beat Poetry w/ Larry Beckett
DESCRIPTION:This is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s\, reconsidered as literature: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s lyrical cityscapes\, Jack Kerouac’s blues and haikus\, Allen Ginsberg’s saxophone prophecies\, Gregory Corso’s obsessive odes\, John Wieners’ true confessions\, Michael McClure’s physical hymns\, Philip Lamantia’s surreal passions\, Gary Snyder’s work songs\, Philip Whalen’s loose sutras\, Lew Welch’s hermit visions\, David Meltzer’s improvisations and discoveries\, and Bob Kaufman’s jazz meditations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-poetry-w-larry-beckett/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #85
DESCRIPTION:Calling all geeks! We have sci fi/fantasy writers in the house again! Join us in welcoming Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne. \nLoren Rhoads is the author of The Dangerous Type\, Kill By Numbers\, and No More Heroes: the In the Wake of the Templars trilogy. She’s the co-author of the As Above\, So Below series with Brian Thomas. In her secret life\, she’s a cemetery aficionado. Her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die will be out in October. You can keep an eye on her atlorenrhoads.com. \nS.G. Browne is the author of Less Than Hero\, Big Egos\, Lucky Bastard\, Fated\, and Breathers\, as well as the short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel and the heartwarming holiday novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus. He lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about his writing at www.sgbrowne.com. \nWe will have light refreshments\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before the reading! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-85/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival: Hua\, Sax\, and Scalise
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night two will feature Vanessa Hua\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise. \nVanessa Hua is the author of the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities\, which received the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists’ Association. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Washington Post\, and ZYZZYVA. \nSam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin\, 2017)\, winner of The National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, and The Michener Center where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion and his poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, and POETRY. \nMike Scalise is the author of the memoir The Brand New Catastrophe (Sarabande Books\, 2017)\, which received the Christopher Doheny Award from the Center for Fiction. He has received fellowships Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, the Ucross Foundation\, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Paris Review Daily\, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park-2/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace
DESCRIPTION:The times we live in require us to develop a literacy of the heart – a deeper quality of listening\, discerning\, and connecting heart to heart and soul to soul. Literature itself\, both poetry and prose\, plays a timeless role in awakening our hearts to deeper truths we may otherwise miss. \nAuthor Khaled Hosseini and Poet Ellen Grace O’Brian will talk about the ways reading\, writing\, and listening can bring forth profound questions\, surprising graces\, and the palpable presence of radical hope. Khaled will read selections from “And the Mountains Echoed\,” and Ellen will read from her recently released award-winning book of poems\, “The Moon Reminded Me.” \nPlease join us for this special evening as one of our favorite novelists introduces us to one of his favorite poets! \nYogacharya Rev. Ellen Grace O’Brian is a poet\, teacher\, writer\, and spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose\, California. Khaled Hosseini is the award winning author of “Kite Runner”\, “And the Mountains Echoed” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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