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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Devereaux Baker + Stephen Shur
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devereaux-baker-stephen-shur/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Publication Party! Shani Raviv discusses and signs "Being Ana"
DESCRIPTION:Shani Raviv is a struggling adolescent living in an eccentric female household in Johannesburg\, South Africa. At fourteen\, influenced by her clique\, she gets hooked on dieting. Over the next decade\, she tries to find self-worth in sex\, happiness in drugs and alcohol\, comfort in cutting\, and above all\, salvation in starving. A spiritual epiphany one night awakens her to the fearful realization that she has lost her sense of self to anorexia (Ana)— and has to decide whether to surrender and risk losing Ana to go in search of nourishment and her true self in a sober world. \nBeing Ana is an exploration into the soul and psyche of a young woman wrestling with anorexia’s demons—one that not only exposes the real horrors of a day in the life of an anorexic girl but also reveals the courage it takes to stop fighting and find healing. \nShani Raviv is a published writer\, writing coach\, copywriter/content producer\, and speaker who was born and raised in South Africa. She disputes the belief that an anorexic mindset is a life sentence and considers herself fully recovered. She lives in the Bay Area with her son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/publication-party-shani-raviv-discusses-and-signs-being-ana/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Deena Metzger
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps never before in the history of humankind has the disparity between Indigenous mind and Western mind been more on the pulse of what we must pay attention to in order to insure our survival. In A Rain of Night Birds\, Deena Metzger has written a novel in which two people\, who are from each side of this polarity\, begin a loving relationship. Sandra Birdswell is a student of climatology with an uncanny ability to sense weather events. Her mother\, who died in childbirth\, is a mystery to her. Her father\, John\, formerly a Reservation doctor\, faithfully raises her despite his limitations and obligations. She first meets Terrence\, a Native man and a professor of climatology\, at her university classes. Years later\, they are drawn together by the powerful forces of their love\, for the Earth\, for each other\, and their mutual need to seek out the broken links of their family histories. When the UN report on climate change is released in 2007\, the reality of the effects of the Anthropocene era sends a shockwave through both their lives. Their relationship to each other and to the elementals they are so intimate with lightning\, thunder\, rain\, mountain brings them deeply and violently into a quest to live their lives in ways that disengage from colonial mind\, the same mind that brought devastation to the Native peoples\, and now brings all of humanity to the brink of extinction. Through their love of and deeply felt intuitive connection to the Earth\, they each go to the brink of death to find their truth\, to gain strength and wisdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deena-metzger/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T210000
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Robert Perry and Joel Katz\ncelebrating the release of a book of English/Dutch poetry\nOpen reading follows the featured reading. \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance\nJoin the event on Facebook! \nJoel Thomas Katz has worked in Silicon Valley as a business software specialist. His poems have appeared in Sand Hill Review\, The Montserrat Review\, Disquieting Muses Quarterly\, Spillway and Red Wheelbarrow. His chapbook Away was published by Mayapple Press in 2008\, and his online poetry blog can be enjoyed at katz-poempair.blogspot.com. \nRobert Perry is a poet\, graphic designer\, and book artist who recently established Dutch Poet Press where he designs and publishes books of poetry and art as print and electronic books\, letterpress editions\, and artist books. In 2015\, the press published The Comfort of Potatoes by poet Janice Dabney and along with iets anders | something else\, later this year will release a collection of his own poetry\, The Art of Painting. \nAvailable for sale: iets anders | something else vertaling van gedichten | translation of poems Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer by Joel Katz and Robert Perry Dutch Poet Press\, 2017 \nUpcoming at Well-RED:\nAugust 8: Dennis Noren;\nSeptember 12: Parthenia Hicks and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian;\nOctober 10: Erica Goss and Adrian Matejka\nNovember 14: Caesura 2017 book release and reading\nDecember 12: Red Wheelbarrow release party and celebration of Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Anna Redsand: A Creative Non-Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Anna Redsand will read from her memoir\, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond. “From Navajo dwellings in New Mexico to Scandinavia to the evangelical Midwest\, Anna Redsand’s beautiful\, heroic story is for anyone who has ever felt outcast from a community they love\, and tossed into the desert of doubt and despair. Here you will find spiritual hope embodied\, and the promise that\, no matter where we are lost\, it is possible to find our way home to new communities of faith\, compassion\, healing and belonging.” ~ John T. Price\, author of Daddy Longlegs: The Natural Education of a Father
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-redsand-a-creative-non-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Bredie
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Nicholas Bredie in celebration of his debut novel Not Constantinople. Join us!\nThe story centers around Fred and Virginia\, two American expats living in Istanbul and working at the university who come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks. Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them\, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbul because the pay is good\, and with the property in limbo he can ignore the rent\, not to mention the paper-writing racket he starts with the Greek patriarch\, selling term papers to his own university students. \nBetween get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists\, Fred watches the transformation of his neighborhood from a place with a kind of sad romance to a generic megalopolis\, gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-bredie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Brownrigg w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:discussing Brownrigg’s new novel\, Pages for Her\, the story of two women\, Flannery and Anne\, each at a personal turning point\, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. \n“Brownrigg . . . approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity\, capturing the nuances in the women’s relationships to the people they love–as mother\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, wife\, or lover–and the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . . Brownrigg considers motherhood\, romance\, identity\, and the changes brought by time in this tender\, insightful novel.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwenty years after their brief but passionate affair\, chronicled in Brownrigg’s earlier novel\, Pages for You\, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne\, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love–then left her heartbroken. \nHaving long ago put their love behind them\, they live now on opposite coasts. Anne has been in a deep\, childless partnership with a fellow scholar\, Jasper\, who recently left her. Flannery\, to her own surprise\, married a charismatic artist named Charles\, with whom she has a young daughter. Submerged by her husband’s demands and personality and her adjustment to motherhood\, Flannery has lost sight of her self and her work. When the two women meet at a conference\, they find that the passion and understanding between them has endured\, though it has been hidden. In rediscovering each other\, they are able to rediscover themselves. \nPages for Her is an exhilarating\, passionate work that explores marriage\, sexuality\, and the transformative power of love over time. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels– Morality Tale\, The Delivery Room\, winner of the Northern California Book Award\, Pages for You\, winner of the Lambda Award\, and The Metaphysical Touch–and a collection of stories\, Ten Women Who Shook the World. She lives in Berkeley. \nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, Schoolgirls and\, most recently\, Girls & Sex.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sylvia-brownrigg-in-conversation-with-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:POETRY SANTA CRUZ featuring: \nEllen Grace O’Brian\, Kevin Opstedal\, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman\, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County\, and generally hold monthly meetings at Bookshop Santa Cruz on the second Tuesday of the month. Visit www.poetrysantacruz.org or contact Len Anderson for more information about the poets featured this month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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