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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061233
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join MPC in welcoming Marin’s new Poet Laureate\, Rebecca Foust\, and showing appreciation for our outgoing Poet Laureate\, Prartho Sereno\, before the Third Thursday event on May 18. Doors will open at Falkirk at 6:00 p.m. for a champagne and cake reception followed by brief remarks by both poets at 6:30.\n\n\nRebecca Foust has published five prizewinning books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Huffington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the Constance Rooke Prize for Creative Nonfiction and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \n\n\n\n\nPrartho Sereno is the author of three poetry collections and has taught poetry to both children and adults. A graduate of Bowling Green University and Syracuse University\, Sereno has worked as a counseling psychologist\, college mediation instructor\, illustrator\, cook\, farmer and songwriter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061233
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SUMMARY:Sustainability Made Simple: An Evening of Learning and Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Sustainability Co-Op hosts a night of idea sharing to encourage\, recognize and celebrate the shift towards shaping a sustainable future. Signed copies of Sustainability Made Simple will be available for purchase. Refreshments from local\, sustainable companies will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sustainability-made-simple-an-evening-of-learning-and-ideas/
LOCATION:Third Plateau\, 209 Kearny Street\, 3rd Fl\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T210000
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SUMMARY:Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful Things Project presents Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension\, a photographic collaboration with Nye’ Lyn Tho. For the Natural Heir series\, Nye’ replaces the subject’s hair with beautiful plant life that represents African and African American cultures. However\, in The Arisa White Extension\, the models’ hair will be graphically altered with images inspired by poems from White’s You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. The five participating models\, who are queer and trans black women\, include: Janet Halfin\, health education specialist for TransVision\, Tri-City Health Center; Zakiya Harris\, cultural architect\, artist\, and founder of Hack the Hood; UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Kerby Lynch; ecotherapist and Oricha priest J. Phoenix Smith\, founder of EcoSoul; and visual artist and educator Orlonda Uffre. The evening includes the unveiling of the photographic portraits\, a poetry reading\, and a Q& A. Funded by the Akonadi Foundation\, Beloved Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natural-heir-the-arisa-white-extension-exhibition/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061233
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SUMMARY:Granta's Best Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Lauren Groff\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Anthony Marra from Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists to the store on Thursday\, May 18th at 7:00 pm. \nEvery ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists was announced on April 26th.\nThe last Best of Young American Novelists issue was published in 2007 and featured  an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nLauren Groff\, born in New York in 1978\, is the author of four books\, including The Monsters of Templeton\, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Her most recent novel\, Fates and Furies\, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.\nHer work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Atlantic and Tin House\, among others. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida. \nPhoto Credit- Megan Brown \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a mental health advocate\, essayist and the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She won the 2016 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for her book of essays\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Her work has appeared in Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Believer and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Marra\, born in Washington DC\, is the author of the collection of stories The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. His first novel\, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, won the inaugural National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and is currently the Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grantas-best-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Worlds of João Gilberto Noll: Adam Morris + Scott Esposito
DESCRIPTION:Called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine\, author João Gilberto Noll made a splash in the United States last year with the novel Quiet Creature on the Corner\, named a “Best Book of 2016” by World Literature Today and praised in Literary Hub\, the Kenyon Review\, Electric Literature\, and The Rumpus. \nNow\, Two Lines Press is very proud to announce a launch event at longtime Bay Area publishing mecca City Lights Booksellers to celebrate the release of the follow-up to Quiet Creature\, Noll’s career-defining novel Atlantic Hotel.\nTwo Lines Press’s Scott Esposito will be in conversation with author and Portuguese translator Adam Morris\, who has brought both Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel into English. \nCompared to David Lynch\, César Aira\, the Dadists\, and the Situationists\, Noll creates strange\, surprising books that question our basic assumptions about identity\, while delivering madcap plots that revolve around modern-day flâneurs. His innovative stories and difficult-to-pin-down sentences have been met enthusiastically by experimental American authors like Matt Bell\, Brian Evenson\, and Lance Olsen. \nJoin us at City Lights Booksellers on May 18 for a reading from Atlantic Hotel\, along with an intriguing conversation delving into modern-day Brazil\, Noll’s influences (including Clarice Lispector)\, his mysterious protagonists\, and the challenges of translating his labyrinthine\, twisty sentences into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-worlds-of-joao-gilberto-noll-adam-morris-scott-esposito/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Release Party - Issue 23.2
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen Hills Press is proud to announce the release party for issue 23.2! Join us for wine\, snacks\, and readings by the following contributors: \nJEN SULLIVAN BRYCH has published most recently in sPARKLE + bLINK and The Bygone Bureau. Past publications include The Rumpus\, The Los Angeles Timesand Wired. Her plays have also been read and performed in various Bay Area theaters. She’s currently working on a novel and advising Forum\, CCSF’s literary magazine. \nSYLVIA CHAN is a poet from Hayward\, California. She teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona and serves as contributing editor for Entropy. Her debut collection\, We Remain Traditional\, is forthcoming from the Center for Literary Publishing in 2018. She will be in conversation with CHET WIENER\, who selected Chan as the winner of the 2017 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, TONGO EISEN-MARTIN is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest book of poems titled Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nTIFFANY HIGGINS is the author of The Apparition at Fort Bragg (2016)\, an e-chapbook\, winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s contest\, selected by Camille Dungy; And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet (2009)\, Carolina Wren Poetry Prize winner; and Tail of the Whale\, translations from Alice Sant’Anna’s Portuguese (Toad Press\, 2016). \nLORRAINE LUPO is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, and the Art Book Review\, among others. She edits the poetry/art series Periodic Postcards and lives in Oakland\, California. \nANDREW MURPHY lives in San Francisco\, where he currently teaches English at San Francisco State University and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-release-party-issue-23-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace O'Brian
DESCRIPTION:In the luminous poems contained in The Moon Reminded Me\, Ellen Grace O’Brian manages to braid contemporary moments of everyday life with ancient spiritual teachings–the sight of a hummingbird’s red throat\, bread on the table\, a couple’s quarrel\, a mother’s advice–become doorways into the divine mystical heart. The Moon Reminded Me\, subtly laced with Sanskrit\, gives us an insight into a poet who bridges two worlds eloquently enough to take us along with her. Sandhya\, the numinous time for stepping into the temple\, suddenly becomes this moment\, now. \nYogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) with headquarters in San Jose\, California\, serving seeking souls since 1981. CSE is a meditation center in the spiritual tradition of Kriya Yoga that serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking Self- and God-realization. \nKhaled Hosseini\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns\, has written And the Mountains Echoed\, a new novel about how we love\, how we take care of one another\, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters\, cousins and caretakers\, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture\, wound\, betray\, honor\, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us\, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos the story expands gradually outward\, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. \nKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency\, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace-obrian/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings at Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library\nThird Thursday of Every Month\nThursday\, May 18\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nFeature: Dennis Richardson\nopen mic evening \nWillow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public \nBio to come.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-at-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry + Music: Brian Laidlaw + Ken Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Brian Laidlaw is a troubadour-poet from San Francisco. He studied Creative Writing at Stanford and earned his MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have been published widely in journals including New American Writing\, The Iowa Review\, Quarter After Eight\, Agni\, and many others. Paper Darts Press released his acclaimed hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium\, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook as the liner notes. His first full-length book of poems\, The Stuntman\, was published in 2015 by Milkweed Editions; a follow-up called The Mirrormaker is under contract as well. He tours to festivals\, colleges\, and arts venues around the country\, both solo and with his folk band The Family Trade. \nKen Waldman has drawn on his 30 years in Alaska to produce poems\, stories\, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his. Nine CDs mix Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Eight books include six poetry collections\, a memoir\, and a children’s book. Since 1995 he’s performed at some of the nation’s leading concert series\, festivals\, universities\, and clubs. Of note are two CDs. Some Favorites\, contains tracks from Waldman’s first seven CDs. The double- CD\, All Originals\, All Traditionals consists of one CD with a five-piece band playing Waldman’s originals\, and a second CD of Waldman and friends playing traditional tunes to Alaska-set poetry\, and includes a ten-minute treatment of Waldman’s 1996 plane crash near Nome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-music-brian-laidlaw-ken-waldman/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dawn McQuire + David Watts
DESCRIPTION:Dawn McGuire’s new book of poems is American Dream with Exit Wound. Carol Muske-Dukes says\, “McGuire is inspired by her work with post 9/11 vets\, by her brain research as a neurologist and her immersion in myth. You will take your life in your hands as you read these super-charged poems—and you will…’come to’ with an exit wound…” Both a neuro-scientist and a poet\, she has published three collections\, including The Aphasia Café\, which won the 2013 Indie Book Award for Poetry. Born in the Appalachian region of Kentucky\, her graduate education was both in Theology and Medicine. \nDavid Watts is both a physician and a poet. His new book of poems is Having and Keeping. Al Young says\, “Watts’ quiet poems couple with their subjects in an intimacy so strong\, you can smell their crackle and spark. When it comes to singing the uncontrollable messiness of family life\, growing pain and growth; the stickiness of love life\, the clumsiness of loss\, the pleasures of cranky togetherness\, this little book takes the cake.” His literary credits include seven books of poetry\, two collections of short stories\, a mystery novel\, a bestselling western and essays. He has received numerous awards in academics\, literature\, and television production.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dawn-mcquire-david-watts/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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