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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Kao: The Dancing Girl & The Turtle
DESCRIPTION:A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of this powerful new novel. \nThis elegant novel breaks barriers with its brutally honest account of the courtesan culture in 1930s Shanghai. In a searing portrayal of women as commodities\, Song Anyi\, a rebellious young woman\, is thwarted by her conventional family\, the social mores of the day and the war with the Japanese that is about to engulf China. \nThe Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954\, collectively entitled The Shanghai Quartet. \n*Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event \nWHAT: Book Talk and Signing with Author Karen Kao on The Dancing Girl & the Turtle\nWHEN: Saturday\, April 22\, 2017 from 1:00pm-2:30pm\nWHERE: The Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\n*Light Refreshments will be provided. \nRSVP: On Eventbrite– tickets purchased for the event also include admission to the museum exhibit: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion \n*$3 parking is available at the Golden Gateway Parking Garage (250 Clay Street) from 9am-10pm on weekends with validation stamp provided at the front desk of CHSA \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren Kao was born in Los Angeles\, California\, USA on 21 September 1959 to Chinese immigrants who settled in the United States in the 1950s. She attended Catholic primary school in Montebello and an all-girls secondary school\, Ramona Convent.\nKaren obtained her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California Irvine in 1981\, graduating with honors. This was the phase in her life when Karen crossed paths with Charles Wright (U.S. Poet Laureate 2014-2015)\, her teacher\, and Yusef Komunyakaa (Pulitzer Prize winning poet)\, her friend. \nRather than pursue her dream of writing\, Karen followed her father’s advice and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated in 1984\, again with honors\, and immediately began practicing law in the Washington\, DC office of a Boston-based law firm. She fell in love with a Dutchman and abandoned her career as a fledging US lawyer to move with him to Amsterdam in 1989.\nUnfazed by the new language\, culture and legal system\, Karen launched a second career. She returned to school to obtain her Dutch law degree from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden\, while training on the job at a firm in Utrecht. Karen eventually became a partner and head of the corporate law department at an Amsterdam-based law firm. Her métier was cross-border mergers and acquisitions\, a field of law that requires hard-nosed negotiating skills and an ability to survive on very little sleep. \nIn 2011\, she abandoned the law\, embarking on a third career: a return to her love of writing and the stories she heard as a child of Old Shanghai. She has since taken fiction workshops from Lan Samantha Chang at the Paris Writers Workshop (2014) and Yiyun Li at the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2016).\nKaren holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands. She is married with two children and lives in Amsterdam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-kao-the-dancing-girl-the-turtle/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Sussman: Creativity + Writing
DESCRIPTION:You’ve stalled out on your writing. Or perhaps everything you’ve written feels like a retelling of the same story. Maybe you’re tired of your literary voice. How do you find the kind of creative energy that will take your writing in a new direction? Guided by New York Times bestselling novelist Ellen Sussman (French Lessons)\, in this three-hour seminar the focus will be on pushing your writing in new directions. A stronger voice? Braver characters? More exciting drama? It may be time to break the rules in your writing. We’ll grapple with structure\, character\, style\, and plot. We’ll blast through the boundaries of how we usually do things and explore new paths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-sussman-creativity-and-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Sixteen Rivers Press poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener for an evening of reading and discussion. \nThe first section of Body\, in Good Light opens with the words\, “Between any two points\, there is a love story”: points on a compass\, points in time\, between lovers and strangers\, mother and child. Throughout this debut collection\, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \nErin Rodoni was born and raised in the small coastal community of Point Reyes\, California. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Rodoni holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Gillian Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. The second poem in the book\, “Chorus\,” establishes the multiple tensions that exist between person and place\, tensions that come under the scrutiny of a shrewd\, wry\, endlessly inventive eye. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook\, Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2008). Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007\, and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener\, a junior high teacher\, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto\, where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of the Modesto- Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gala celebrating 35 years of SF Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Marines’ Memorial Club on April 22 to celebrate 35 years of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Festivities inlcude passed hors d’oeuvres\, Freemark Abbey wine tasting\, 3-course dinner\, live and silent auction and more. Black tie optional\, dramatic accessories encouraged. \nEvery dollar raised will support San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ‘Hamlet’ and its vital arts-education programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gala-celebrating-35-years-of-sf-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amy S. Peele
DESCRIPTION:In Cut\, a well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous. \nWhile the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution\, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon\, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend\, Jackie\, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami\, San Francisco\, and Chicago—a sometimes fun\, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives. \nAmy S. Peele was born and raised in the Chicago area\, where she graduated from South Chicago School of Nursing. She discovered her passion for organ donation and transplantation when she started as a transplant coordinator at University of Chicago\, and has since enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in transplantation in both Illinois and California. Peele has lived and worked in the San Francisco area since 1985 and has been writing creatively for over fifteen years. In addition to killing people in her murder mysteries\, she enjoys meditating\, yoga\, swimming\, and pursuing her spirituality by studying the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-s-peele/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: Al Young + Dan Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Author of more than 22 books of poetry\, fiction and essays\, Al Young’s many honors include Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and NEA Fellowships. Active on writing and music scenes since his Detroit teens\, he has sung and played folk and blues guitar with rock legend Felix Pappalardi\, performed with Frank Zappa saxophonist Ian Underwood\, the avant-garde singer Jeanne Lee and pianist Ran Blake\, Tuck & Patti\, drummer Omar Clay\, Italian trumpet star Paolo Fresu in Milano\, French singing idol Joe Dassin\, pianist Kenny Cox\, bassist Marian Hayden\, and with David Murray at Yoshi’s. A two-time Grammy nominee for album liner notes\, his credits include George Benson’s Breezin’ album\, and all of Verve’s Jazz for Lovers series. As California poet laureate (2005-2008)\, Young tours the Golden State with gifted\, soulful bassist-guitarist Dan Robbins; their collaboration and friendship deepens. AlYoung.org \nDan Robbins has played and recorded in settings ranging from solo\, duo\, trio\, etc. to big band and orchestra\, and is known for driving\, creative\, harmonically and melodically rich background and lead parts on bass. He doubles on both acoustic bass\, and four\, five\, six\, and seven-string electric bass\, in styles ranging from solo jazz chord-melody arrangements\, to hard-swinging jazz double bass accompaniment\, acoustic and electric funk\, Brazilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Carribean\, rock\, R&B\, blues\, tango\, Indian\, and fusion styles\, as well as arco (played with the bow) classical and comtemporary interpretations of composed music. He is also known to employ looping and effects to create the impression of a “one man band”. \nHe brings a fiery improvisational spirit and energy to all the projects he is involved with.  Currently co-leading the funk trio Wasabi\, he also has an ongoing duo project with distinguished California Poet Laureate Al Young\, and plays bass for the Hristo Vitchev Quartet\, Idiot Fish 3\, Joe DeRose & Amici\, Primary Colors\, Vandivier\, and also does solo concerts.  He also teaches privately\, and for the Monterey Jazz Festival and San Jose Jazz Society.  His career has taken him to Europe and Asia\, and he also freelances in studios and venues in the Bay Area and beyond.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-al-young-dan-robbins/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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