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SUMMARY:VeteransWrite featuring Alan Quale
DESCRIPTION:VeteransWrite featuring Alan Quale\nA special edition of our monthly VeteransWrite program\nFriday\, May 5\, 2017\, 1:00pm \nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library\, room 390 \n150 E. San Fernando Street at Fourth Street\ndowntown San José\nAdmission FREE \nAlan Quale is a retired journalist\, having worked as a newspaper reporter\, copy editor\, page designer and news editor\, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010 he published his first novel titled My Dakota\, the story of his early life on the Great Plains. He recently published his second novel titled Replacements\, which is based on his experiences as a supply sergeant for an infantry company in which more than 83 percent of the men were either killed or wounded during the Vietnam War. Born in Montana\, Quale holds a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota. When he’s not writing\, he enjoys hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he and his wife have a cabin. Alan Quale will give his book Replacements free to participants. \nADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Email to veteranswrite@yahoo.com\, with your name\, branch of service and dates of service\, email address or phone number. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veteranswrite-featuring-alan-quale/
LOCATION:Dr. MLK Jr. Library SJSU\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose\, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Duncan McNaughton + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Readings by two poets in our Reading Room\, programmed by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. \nDuncan McNaughton has lived in and around the Bay Area since 1973 and established the Poetics Program at New College of California with Louis Patler. His recent books include Tiny Windows and Altoon’s Frog. \nNorma Cole is a poet living in the sanctuary city of San Francisco whose books include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Her new translation of Jean Daive’s White Decimal is forthcoming in 2017. \nProgrammer Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of Universal Fall Precautions and over a dozen small books. She coedits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/duncan-mcnaughton-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive":MAILTO:bampfa@berkeley.edu
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SUMMARY:Drop Leaf Press: Taitano + Shanley
DESCRIPTION:We’re back! Drop Leaf Press returns with a reading at Alley CatBooks to celebrate the release of two poetry chapbooks: Lehua Taitano’s SONOMA and Maxwell Shanley’s forthcoming chapbook (TBA). Each book is hand-bound and includes cover art and lettering by illustrator and designer Mary Lundquist. They’ll be joined by two readers: Clarissa Mendiola and a special guest. Please gather with us for an evening of libations\, snacks\, and poetry. Books are $9; cash or card accepted. \nGet it early: Buy SONOMA at Alley Cat Books (SF)\, Diesel\, A Bookstore (Oakland)\, or purchase our titles from the Drop Leaf Press online store:http://dropleafpress.com/store \nNote: Maxwell Shanley’s chapbook (TBA) is headed to the printers. We’ll announce when it’s available in our shop/in stores. Pics to come! \nABOUT THE READERS: \nLEHUA M. TAITANO\, a native Chamoru from Yigo\, Guåhan (Guam)\, is a queer poet\, writer\, and artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (TinFish Press\, 2013) and a chapbook of short fiction\, appalachiapacific\, which won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award. Her poetry\, essays\, and Pushcart Prize- nominated fiction have appeared in Poetry\, Narrative Witness\, Oxalis\, Witness\, Storyboard\, and The Yellow Medicine Review\, among many others. She has served as an APAture Featured Literary Artist (Kearny Street Workshop) and as a contributing Kuwentuhan poet (The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University). Taitano currently serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Literary\, and Interdisciplinary Studies Conference. \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University. His work from his forthcoming chapbook (TBA\, Drop Leaf Press\, 2017) has previously appeared in New American Writing and Slipstream. \nCLARISSA MENDIOLA: As a Chamoru woman raised on the mainland\, home is straddling the International Date Line\, where it is today and tomorrow simultaneously. Clarissa’s work attempts to describe that place\, however disorienting. Her work can be found in As Us\, Literary Hub\, Omniverse\, and The Offending Adam. Clarissa has an MFA in Writing from California College of Arts\, was a 2011 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence\, and teaches creative writing summer camps for junior high school students. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. \nDANIEL SUÁREZ is the son of Cuban immigrants. He currently lives in Chicago\, Illinois and is a Substitute Teacher. His poems can be found in the Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO\, Eleven Eleven\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and other print and online journals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drop-leaf-press-taitano-shanley/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Laura Kipnis
DESCRIPTION:Writer and feminist Laura Kipnis will discuss her latest book: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. A professor at Northwestern University\, Kipnis is known for her spirited\, sometimes provocative interrogations of contemporary gender and sexual politics. Previous books include Men\, An Ongoing Investigation\, The Female Thing\, and Against Love: A Polemic. \nHer new book emerged from the experience of finding herself the target of a Title IX complaint — and subsequent tribunal — that turned out to be a thinly veiled attempt to censor her for an essay. While Kipnis’s own professional standing hung briefly in the balance\, of wider concern was an unchallenged threat to academic freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kipnis/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays w/ Shideh Etaat + Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Shideh Etaat and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, with music by Phillip Michael Hermans. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Red wine and coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. An excerpt from her novel can be found in Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans\, and she has published short stories in The Delmarva Review\, Amazon’s online journal\, Day One\, and Foglifter. She is a 2011 Breadloaf Work Study Scholar and a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Iranian Jews\, and other strange and wonderful things. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, and anthologized in Guernica Annual (Haymarket Books)\, Wise Latinas (Nebraska U. Press) and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans (Dalkey Archive Press). She is the 2014 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Mary Tanenbaum award for non-fiction. She has received scholarships and support from Hedgebrook\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Artist Residency Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nPhillip Michael Hermans is a musician who uses computers and instruments to make music and sound for films\, video games\, theater production\, animation\, dance troupe production\, chamber ensembles and anyone or anything else that may be interested. He enjoys performing\, teaching\, talking and writing about music as well. His website isphilliphermans.com\, his blog is plhermans.wordpress.coom. He wants you to be sure to drink plenty of fluids and be nice to each other.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-w-shideh-etaat-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:National Endowment for the Arts Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Join us on May 5th for a fundraiser and postcard writing party to benefit The National Endowment for the Arts. A portion of our profits will be donated to the NEA and postcards will be provided to write to your representatives! We will also have readings by NEA fellows R.O. Kwon\, Maxine Chernoff\, Javier Zamora and Monica Sok as well as music by Rachel Fannan and Evan Lanam. Complimentary beverages will be provided by Boulevard Brewing Company!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-endowment-for-the-arts-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Homegoing: An Evening with Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi returns to Berkeley to discuss and sign copies of her extraordinary debut novel. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the paperback launch of Homegoing. \n“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nWinner of the NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize\nA New York Times Notable Book\nA Washington Post Notable Book\nOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR\, Time\, Oprah.com\, Harper’s Bazaar\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, Elle\, Paste\, Entertainment Weekly\, the Skimm\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, BuzzFeed \n**Free to attend. Seats are on a first-come basis.** \nAbout the Book: \nGhana\, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages\, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village\, imprisoned in the very same castle\, and sold into slavery. \nHomegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi\, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation. \nAuthor Bio: \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. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homegoing-an-evening-with-yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay\, + Lorraine Lupo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 5th @ 7:30 pm\, for the release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s occident\, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!\n\nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\, occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.\n\n최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley\, where they study literature and philosophy\, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2016 chapbook contest\, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal\, The Felt\, Omniverse\, and Apogee’s print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.\n\nLorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin\, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland\, Ca.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-olivia-blythe-hamel-%ec%b5%9c-lindsay-and-lorraine-lupo/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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