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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Hour in the Library Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-in-the-library-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cotton Reading of 'Pictures From Home'
DESCRIPTION:Join SFMOMA at 6 p.m. in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 (by the Richard Serra Sculpture) for a reading by independent curator Charlotte Cotton from Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home to celebrate the republication of this acclaimed work. This is a pre-event reading. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlotte-cotton-reading-of-pictures-from-home/
LOCATION:SFMOMA\, 151 Third Street \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Allardice
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street\, Thursday May 4th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kevin Allardice\, reading from and discussing his book Family\, Genus\, Species. \n  \nAt a sprawling urban farm in the hills above Berkeley\, a woman’s attempt to give a birthday present to her four-year-old nephew erupts into an epic quest\, increasingly nightmarish and violent\, to survive our deepest cultural chasms. A wickedly funny satire of parenting and privilege\, sex and politics\, set in the shadow of civil unrest. \n  \n“Kevin Allardice harnesses his great powers of description and ingenious sense of narrative for this viciously funny satire\, Family Genus Species. Laurence Sterne would have been proud to call Mr. Allardice a descendent.” – Michael Kimball\, author of Big Ray\, Us and Dear Everybody. \n  \n“With poignant wit\, Kevin Allardice draws us into this backyard fairytale and social satire. Vee is a memorable protagonist\, quirky and brave and tender. Fast-paced and suspenseful\, FAMILY\, GENUS\, SPECIES is compelling and utterly original.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \n  \nKevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint\, 2014) . He was born in Oakland\, California\, and was a Henry Hoyns fellow in fiction at the University of Virginia\, where he received his MFA in 2010. His short stories\, winner of the of the Donald Barthelme Prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, have appeared in The Santa Monica Review\, The Florida Review\, Gulf Coast\, The North American Review\, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-allardice/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile #8\na revival of the Cafe Babar and Paradise Lounge reading series \nfeaturing\nJon Longhi\nDawn Oberg\nand “Honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine \nwith open mic Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Richard Loranger \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n7pm sharp\nfree of charge \nThe Octopus Literary Salon is proud to present Babar in Exile\, a quarterly commemoration and revival of the high energy San Francisco reading series of the 1990’s\, Café Babar and Paradise Lounge. Our eighth installment marks the first anniversary of this series. We are excited to feature two former and very active participants of Babar and Paradise\, Jon Longhi\, whose writing has been compared to Terry Southern\, Charles Bukowski\, and Hunter S. Thompson\, and Dawn Oberg\, a versatile musician who is currently writing and recording songs from and for the Dystopia. As well we welcome “honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine\, who will turn your day inside-out and lay it on the table. So come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - May Edition
DESCRIPTION:May is approaching\, and Hazel Reading Series is blooming with its wonderful line-up of writers. Join us at The Mission Cultural Center for our May edition. \nFeaturing:\nGuest Reader: Natasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Snorkel\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review and Foglifter. Her collections Anatomize (2015) and Triptych Caliform (2016) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her recent chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \nJennifer Barone nominated by Ingrid Keir \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.comfor more. \nAlexandra Mattraw nominated by Sarah Rosenthal \nAlexandra Mattraw is a poet and educator whose Celtic maternal great grandparents settled in Oakland and its vicinity in the early 1900s. Her full length book\, small siren\, emerges from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society in 2018. Alexandra’s various collections have previously been named finalists at 1913 Press\, Colorado Review\, Nightboat Books\, and elsewhere. She is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm\, which is forthcoming in mid May from Dancing Girl Press. You can find her poems and criticism in places including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters & Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, The Volta\, and VOLT. A Bay Area Correspondent School member and co-founder of Artists for Sustained & United Resistance (ASUR)\, Alexandra also curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its sixth year: http://loneglen.wordpress.com/. She hopes you will join her and several other poets at Octopus Salon on May 16th to celebrate “A Poetry of Ritual.” \nJenny irizary nominated by Lisa Gray \nJenny Irizary is currently working on a memoir about growing up along the Russian River. Her work has been published in Sick Lit\, Squalorly\, District Lit\, Communion\, Lavender Review\, and other journals. Her poem\, “If You Want Any More Proof She’s Not Puerto Rican\,” was the winner of Green Briar Review’s 2016 poetry contest. \nThe Poetician nominated by Thea Matthews\n(Bio to follow soon) \nStacy Carlson nominated by LJ Moore\n(Bio to follow soon) \nNo one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-may-edition/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liana Steinmetz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/liana-steinmetz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
DESCRIPTION:Spring is the season for transformations\, so it’s about time Shipwreck made a lady of itself. Join us forPygmalion\, George Bernard Shaw’s musings on class\, gender\, and why the English language makes no goddamn sense. Maybe we can make some rain fall in the plains (if you know what we’re saying [we don’t]). \n  \nFeatured writers: Ivan Hernandez\, Jennie Kendrick\,Alan Leggitt\, Na’amen Tilahun\, April winner India Sabater\, and more TBA. \n  \n  \nSeating is limited and seats do sell out. Tickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason. Tickets on sale now. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-bernard-shaws-pygmalion/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patricia Lockwood to the store to discuss and sign her memoir\, Priestdaddy\, on Thursday\, May 4th at 7:00 pm. \nFather Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met–a man who lounges in boxer shorts\, loves action movies\, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972”.  His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory\, their two worlds collide.\nIn Priestdaddy\, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence–from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested\, to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group–with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory\, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband\, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws\, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. \nLockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime\, from the comic to the deeply serious\, exploring issues of belief\, belonging\, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining\, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing\, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition. \nPatricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne\, Indiana\, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections\, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, Slate\, and the London Review of Books. Lockwood lives in Lawrence\, Kansas. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 4\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-lockwood/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi w/ Jeff Chang
DESCRIPTION:“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Gyasi’s highly acclaimed debut novel\,  Homegoing\, begins with the story of two half-sisters\, separated by forces beyond their control: one sold into slavery\, the other married to a British slaver. Written with tremendous sweep and power\, Homegoing traces the generations of family who follow\, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history\, each life indelibly drawn\, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day. Homegoing was named ‘Debut Novel of the Year’ by NPR and ‘2016 Notable Book’ by The New York Times. \nJeff Chang is a journalist\, a music critic\, Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University\, and the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-w-jeff-chang/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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