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SUMMARY:Embodied Writing Workshop: Movement\, Writing + Tea
DESCRIPTION:with Jennifer Barone (innerlotusyoga.com) and Ingrid Keir (featherpress.org) \nDid you know the body has a story to tell? Using breath\, movement and meditation techniques from Yoga\, Kundalini\, Qi Gong and more\, we will bring awareness to our body and practice writing from a place of deep listening\, allowing our stories to rise through a series of writing exercises and movement. For writers and yogis of all levels. Stay after to mingle and enjoy The Center SF’s beautiful tea room and a variety of herbal teas. \nPlease bring:\n• Stretchy yoga / workout clothing to wear for comfort\n• Mats and props are available\, but feel free to bring your own mat\n• a notebook and pen to write with \nDesigned for: writers who want to move more and yogis who want to try creative writing\, all levels welcome.\nNot reccommended for: those with serious injuries\, or who may find it hard to sit on the floor. \n$35. Early Bird Rate if registered by April 26th\n$45. after April 26th and at the door \nRegister on EventBrite\, see link below. Or visit http://www.thecentersf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/embodied-writing-workshop-movement-writing-tea/
LOCATION:The Center SF\, 548 Fillmore Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
DESCRIPTION:Cutthroat\, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works\, as powerful\, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively\, the pieces in this anthology trumpet a stirring call to action on today’s most crucial issues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truth-to-power-writers-respond-to-the-rhetoric-of-hate-and-fear/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Adam Giannelli\, Ben Hoffman\, and Edgar Kunz\nMusic by Dana Kletter\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. \nBen Hoffman’s fiction has received the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and been published by American Short Fiction\, Granta\, The Missouri Review\, Zoetrope\, and others. He lives in Oakland and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nDana Kletter is a writer and musician\, the only Wallace Stegner fellow/Jones Lecturer in Fiction (to date) with a gold record. Her work has appeared in The Sun\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Phoenix\, and Independent\, and on Mammoth\, Hannibal\, Interscope\, and Rykodisc Records. \nEdgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets\, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, Vanderbilt University\, Stanford University\, and\, most recently\, the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear in AGNI\, Narrative\, New England Review\, Best New Poets\, and other places. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-5/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages\, David D. Levine + Robyn Bennis
DESCRIPTION:** It’s Debut Novel Drink Night!** \nHelp us raise funds for the American Bookbinders Museum by sampling a cocktail concocted just for this event! \nDoors and bar open at 5:30PM\nEvent begins at 6:30PM \n$10 at the door benefits the American Bookbinders Museum\nno one turned away for lack of funds / cash or Square\nAll proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEach author will read a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books – please feel free to bring your own books from home. \nAll proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEllen Klages: Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines\, both online and in print\, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Black Gate\, Eclipse\, and Firebirds Rising. Her story\, “Basement Magic\,” won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award\, she is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop. Her first novel\, The Green Glass Sea\, about two misfit eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during WWII\, while their parents are creating the atomic bomb\, came out in October 2006. Her second novel\, White Sands\, Red Menace\, was published in 2008\, also from Viking. A collection of her short fiction\, Portable Childhoods\, came out from Tachyon Publications in 2007. \nHer brand-new new collection\, Wicked Wonders\, also from Tachyon\, will be available for sale at this event. \nIn addition to her writing\, she serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and was somewhat notorious as the past auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions at Wiscon. When she’s not writing fiction\, she sells old toys and magazines on eBay\, and collects lead civilians. \nDavid D. Levine: Levine’s debut novel\, a Regency interplanetary airship adventure novel titled Arabella of Mars\, will be available at this event. His “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story\, his story “Nucleon” won the James White Award\, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Campbell\, Sturgeon\, and Locus. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Realms of Fantasy\, Tor.com\, numerous anthologies and websites\, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies\, as well as his collection Space Magic from Wheatland Press\, which won the Endeavour Award for the best SF or Fantasy book by a Pacific Northwest writer. A contributor to George R. R. Martin’s bestselling shared-world series Wild Cards\, Levine is also a member of Book View Cafe\, a writer-owned publishing cooperative\, and Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc.\, a nonprofit organization which produces OryCon. He has narrated podcasts for Escape Pod\, PodCastle\, and StarShipSofa and the audiobook of Space Magic\, and his video production “Dr. Talon’s Letter to the Editor” was a finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station\, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. \nRobyn Bennis: Bennis is a scientist living in Mountain View\, California\, where she works in biotech but dreams of airships. She has done research and development involving human gene expression\, neural connectomics\, cancer diagnostics\, rapid flu testing\, gene synthesis\, genome sequencing\, being so preoccupied with whether she could that she never stopped to think if she should\, and systems integration. Her apartment is within sight of Hangar One at Moffett Airfield\, which was once the West Coast home to one of America’s largest airships\, the USS Macon. Her debut novel\, The Guns Above\, will be available at this event. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Moderated by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Jeffrey Ford\, Lev Grossman\, Brian & Wendy Froud\, Samuel R. Delaney\, Cory Doctorow\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Nalo Hopkinson. We hope you will join us! \nThe American Bookbinders Museum’s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley\, off 5th Street\, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission\, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street — just turn down 5th Street\, cross Mission and Howard\, and turn left onto Clementina. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th Street due to construction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages-david-d-levine-robyn-bennis/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Dark & The Surreal: Etgar Keret + Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION: \n\nEtgar Keret will discuss selections from his vast body of short stories\, focusing on “dark matter”: the absurdist humor and surreal thematic elements found in the extraordinary and mundane elements of daily life.  He will be joined in conversation by the local New York Times-bestselling author\, Ayelet Waldman\, in an exploration of his work\, and how it reflects and refracts the world we currently inhabit. \n A book signing will follow the program. A selection of Keret’s books will be available for sale. \nUnderwritten by Brian and Caroline Lurie with support from the Haas Senior Fund\, Larry and Deborah Stadtner and The Peleh Fund\, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom. \nABOUT ETGAR KERET \n“If Kafka has the power to smash through the frozen sea of our souls\, Keret perhaps can infiltrate our gray matter\, adding synapses where none existed before.” —San Francisco Chronicle \nInternationally acclaimed for his short stories\, Etgar Keret is hailed as the voice of young Israel and is one of its most radical and extraordinary writers. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages\, Keret’s stories fuse the banal with the surreal\, and offer a window on a surreal world that is both dark and comic. Keret’s books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in over thirty languages. His books include The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God\, Missing Kissinger\, The Nimrod flipout\, The Girl on the Fridge\, and Suddenly a Knock on the Door\, which became an instant #1 bestseller in Israel. Keret is also the author of a memoir\, The Seven Good Years\, in which he contemplates moments of his life against a backdrop of constant conflict\, casting an absurd light on both the monumental and mundane. \nKeret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times\, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters\, and has been awarded the Prime Minister`s Prize and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize. More than forty short movies have been based on his stories\, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998). Keret’s stories have even inspired Polish architect Jakub Szczesny to build in Warsaw the narrowest house in the world (38 inches wide). The house was named after Keret\, who will be using the house for several years. \nAs a filmmaker\, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays\, including Skin Deep (1996)\, which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Wrist Cutters\, featuring Tom Waits\, was based on Keret’s story Kneller’s Happy Campers. Jellyfish\, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen\, won the coveted Camera d’Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. The animated feature film $9.99\, based on several of Keret’s stories\, marries the tradition of Jewish self-flagellating humor with uncanny absurdity. Keret currently teaches at Ben Guryon University. \nABOUT AYELET WALDMAN \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children. \nAdvance Price: \n$15 Members / $20 Public / $10 Kids (17 & Under) \nDay-of Price: $25 (Members & Public)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-dark-the-surreal-etgar-keret-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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