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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak DéLana R.A. Dameron
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nDéLana R.A. Dameron \nDéLana R.A. Dameron is a writer and arts and culture administrator living in Brooklyn\, NY. Dameron is the author of Weary Kingdom (2017) and her debut collection How God Ends Us was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-delana-r-a-dameron/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Briscoe: The Lost Poems of Cangjie
DESCRIPTION:John Briscoe’s The Lost Poems of Cangjie\, published by RiskPress\, are translations of recently discovered poems of the Chinese historical figure Cangjie\, storied inventor of the Chinese system of writing during the reign of The Yellow Emperor\, Huangdi\, in the 27th century BCE\, approximately 4700 years ago. \n(Some scholars do not believe there was a Yellow Emperor\, just as they once believed there was no Xia dynasty. Evidence unearthed in the city of Yanshi in 1959\, however\, proved the existence of the Xia\, which ruled after the time of the Yellow Emperor from approximately 2100 to 1800 BCE. The discoveries of Cangjie’s poems may prove the existence of the Yellow Emperor.) \nJohn Briscoe’s Crush: Wine and California from the Padres to Paris was one of four finalists for the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award\, and will be published by the University of Nevada Press this fall. His essay The Judgment of Paris\, lavishly praised by California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia\, ran in Catamaran Literary Reader last year and is a nominee for both the Pushcart and Best American Essay awards. He has practiced law in San Francisco for 45 years\, tried and argued cases in the United States Supreme Court and the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in The Hague\, was Special Adviser to the United Nations for the environmental aftermath of the Gulf War\, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-briscoe-the-lost-poems-of-cangjie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions + Nomadic Press
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions and Nomadic Press come together for this epic reading!\n\nThursday\, July 13\, 2017\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\n6PM\nChildren’s Room on 2nd Floor*\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera\n \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \n*The Latino Room will be under construction in July so that month we have moved you to the children’s room which is on the 2nd floor. You were there once before many years ago. When you come into the SFPL\, walk past the info desk and there is a staircase on the right. Go up those stairs and you are there. Also the elevators on the right will take you to 2 – but only the elevators on the right.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-nomadic-press/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dashiell Hammett w/ Don Herron
DESCRIPTION:Join us next Thursday July 18th at the Tenderloin Museum for a discussion of the Tenderloin’s preeminent author Dashiell Hammett\, and a screening of pre-code adaptations of his most famous novels. \nDescribed by The New York Times as one of Hammett’s “pre-eminent appreciators”\, Don Herron\, will lead a discussion about Hammett’s work in conjunction with a screening of selections from Hammett’s pre-code film The Maltese Falcon (1931)\, along with The Thin Man (1934) screened in its entirety. Providing historical reference for both films\, Don Herron will discuss Hammett’s relationship with the Tenderloin before the screening. \nThe Maltese Falcon is the most recognizable novel written by Hammett while he was living in the Tenderloin between 1920-1929. The original film adaptation of The Maltese Falcon (1931) was produced pre-code. Later releases of the film were notably revised catering to a sanitized version following the production code of the 1940s. For decades thereafter\, unedited versions of the film were not available in the United States. \nThe Thin Man was Dashiell Hammett’s final novel (1934). Adapted for film the same year and nominated for an Academy Award\, The Thin Man was later translated into a popular television series (1950). \nDon Herron has been leading The Dashiell Hammett tour since 1977 — that’s 40 years on the mean streets. Herron’s Dashiell Hammett Tour Book is currently in it’s fourth edition\, and his guidebook\, The Literary World of San Francisco\, was released by City Lights. Herron’s Dashiell Hammett’s tour is the longest lived literary tour covering the Tenderloin. \nReception at 6pm\, program at 6:30pm. $10 includes lecture & screening. \nTickets: //www.eventbrite.com/e/dashiell-hammett-with-don-herron-tickets-35799288636
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dashiell-hammett-with-don-herron/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-july/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in The Marina for an evening of lyrical prose with local poets Erin Rodoni\, reading from Body\, In Good Light; and Gillian Wegener\, reading from This Sweet Haphazard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit at Aqus
DESCRIPTION:Come join us July 13 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Brian Boldt\, Frances Lefkowitz and Lorelle Saxena (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Brian Boldt edited and published the environmental and political poetry journal Green Fuse. His first collection of poetrywas One Never Knows\, Do One? from Running Wolf Press. His recent chapbook is Staying In and Other Poems. He has taught writing classes on both coasts and lives with his wife Sarah in Santa Rosa. \n* Frances Lefkowitz is the author of the memoir\, To Have Not\, about growing up poor in 1970s San Francisco\, and currently at work on a memoir about fear\, risk\, and surfing. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in dozens of literary and commercial magazines\, and awards include a CalHumanities Community Stories Grant\, and Notable Mentions twice for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She is Founder/Director and Chief Bottle Washer for the Community Memoir Project\, which brings free memoir-writing workshops to public libraries. She is about to be priced out of Petaluma\, so catch her while you can. \n* Lorelle Saxena loves boots\, bicycling\, and beet greens. The weekends she loves best are spent working in the garden and the kitchen with her husband Adam\, their little son Kamal\, and their dog Belly. Lorelle was voted “Best Acupuncturist in Sonoma County” five years in a row in the North Bay Bohemian’s annual Reader Poll. Her work focuses on empowering patients to overcome health challenges through self-reflection\, acupuncture\, and subtle lifestyle shifts. Her training includes rotations at the San Diego Memorial Hospice\, the UCSD Owen Clinic for HIV and AIDS patient care\, and a free clinic for low-income senior citizens. Lorelle’s practice is grounded in empathy\, a keen interest in all things human\, and an intention to raise the standard for healthcare everywhere. Her writing revolves around the shared human experience and finding the beautiful and extraordinary in everyday life. Her proudest accomplishment is being a nice person most of the time. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-at-aqus/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Portents
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on July 13th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors read from their works\, exploring the theme of Portents. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit\, are always welcome. \nElizabeth Block is the author of the books\, A Gesture Through Time (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2006) and Celluloid Salutations (BlazeVOX\, 2014). She is the recipient of a Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fiction Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation among other awards\, residencies\, and fellowships. A Gesture Through Time was sought for feature film development by VOX 3 Films. She is also the author\, director\, and producer of the published play “Exposing We” (based on the Japanese rope play photography of David Levinthal)\, and many short works of fiction\, poetry\, essays\, TV spec scripts\, and screenplays. Penguin Signet Classics commissioned to write a new (feminist) foreword to The Confessions of St. Augustine. Her most recent reviews were published in the SF Chronicle and The Brooklyn Rail (May 2017). Also a distributed filmmaker\, her short films have screened internationally in festivals\, museums\, art house cinemas\, film archives\, and curated tours. Elizabeth is currently working on both short and feature-length screenplays about the complexities and detritus of biracial/interracial A.R.T. \nLois Roma-Deeley’s fourth collection of poems\, The Short List of Certainties (Franciscan University Press\, 2017)\, won the 2016 Jacopone da Todi Book Prize and will be published by Franciscan University Press in 2017. She is the author of High Notes (Benu Press 2010)\, her third collection\, which was a 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Her first and second collections are Rules of Hunger (Star Cloud Press\, 2004) and northSight (Singularity Press\, 2006). She has published poems in numerous anthologies\, including Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity Anthology\, Villanelles (Random House/​Everyman’s Library\, Pocket Poets Series and others. Her poems has been featured in numerous literary journals including Spillway\, Juked\, Bellingham Review\, Water~Stone\, and many others. Lois Roma-Deeley has worked as poetry editor of a national magazine for more than 10 years\, served as a judge for local\, state and national creative writing contests and has taught creative courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. She was named the U.S. Professor of the Year\, Community College\, by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and CASE\, 2012. She is a recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts 2016 Artist Research & Development Grant. \nJulia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer\, published by St. Martin’s Press on June 6th\, and Cutting Teeth (St. Martin’s Press\, 2014). Her work has been published in The New York Times\, Buzzfeed\, Glamour\, The Millions\, Poets & Writers\, and other publications\, and she has been profiled in The Observer and The Economist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop (SSWW) in 2002\, which has grown into a creative home to 4\,000 writers in NYC\, Los Angeles\, and online. SSWW was named “Best Writing Classes” by The Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, Brooklyn Magazine\, the L Magazine; and “Best MFA-Alternative” by Poets & Writers. She lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. \nCary Groner’s debut novel\, Exiles\, was published by Spiegel & Grau / Random House in 2011\, and went on to become a Chicago Tribune “best book” of that year. His short stories have won numerous awards\, including the Glimmer Train Fiction Open\, and have appeared there and in other venues that include American Fiction\, Mississippi Review\, Salamander\, Southern California Review\, Sycamore Review\, Tampa Review\, and Zymbol. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona in 2009 and now teaches at the Writing Salon in Berkeley. \nDavid Hicks grew up in New York\, moved to Colorado in his thirties\, and is now a professor at Regis University in Denver\, where he co-directs the Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. He has published stories in such fine journals as Glimmer Train\, Colorado Review\, and Saranac Review. White Plains (Conundrum Press\, 2017)\, his first novel\, has been called “a gorgeous and unforgettable debut” by Kathy Fish\, “an extraordinary novel” by David Lazar\, and “a captivating debut” by Leni Zumas. Hicks\, who also plays saxophone for a rock band called the Plagiarists\, lives with his wife Cynthia in Colorado\, and his two grown children live nearby. \nSusanna Solomon is the author of Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls\, (HD Media Press\, 2013) and a second collection\, More Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls (Susanna Van Leuven\, 2016). Her stories have been published in the Point Reyes Light\, The MacGuffin Literary Review\, Meat for Tea – the Valley Review\, Foliate Oak Magazine\, in the Redwood Anthology (five times) and online in the Mill Valley Literary Review and Harlot’s Sauce Radio. She is an electrical engineer and has operated her own business for sixteen years. She gets her inspiration from actual sheriff’s calls in the Point Reyes Light and makes up wild and wacky stories. Lately she’s been writing ghost stories set in Paris. \nKendra Tanacea holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. Her collection of poetry\, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees (Lost Horse Press\, 2017)\, was a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry\, and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. Her second book\, Garbage Heart\, was a semifinalist for The Elixir Press 17th Annual Poetry Award and the Two Sylvias’ 2016 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize. Kendra’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review\, Poet Lore\, 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, and The Coachella Review\, among others. In March 2017\, Garrison Keillor read two of her poems on his radio show\, The Writer’s Almanac.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-portents/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gabe Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Hudson discusses his new novel\, Gork\, The Teenage Dragon. \nGork isn’t like the other dragons at WarWings Military Academy. He has a gigantic heart\, two-inch horns\, and an occasional problem with fainting. His nickname is Weak Sauce and his Will to Power ranking is Snacklicious—the lowest in his class. But he is determined not to let any of this hold him back as he embarks on the most important mission of his life: tonight\, on the eve of his high school graduation\, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. If she says yes\, they’ll go off to conquer a foreign planet together. If she says no\, Gork becomes a slave.\nVying with Jocks\, Nerds\, Mutants\, and Multi-Dimensioners to find his mate\, Gork encounters an unforgettable cast of friends and foes\, including Dr. Terrible\, the mad scientist; Fribby\, a robot dragon obsessed with death; and Metheldra\, a healer specializing in acupuncture with swords. But finally it is Gork’s biggest perceived weakness\, his huge heart\, that will guide him through his epic quest and help him reach his ultimate destination: planet Earth.\nA love story\, a fantasy\, and a coming-of-age story\, Gork the Teenage Dragon is a wildly comic\, beautifully imagined\, and deeply heartfelt debut novel that shows us just how human a dragon can be
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-hudson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Jaina
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit returns to The Octopus Literary Salon with Nick Jaina! Join us for an evening of live music\, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featured readers include Allyson Darling\, Ryanausitn Dennis\, Christine No\, and Amos White. \n$10 at the door. \nNick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland\, Oregon. He has recorded many albums and composed music for ballet and film. His book Get It While You Can is an Oregon Book Award finalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-jaina/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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