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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-3/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Harpham: Happiness
DESCRIPTION:Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather\, a world-roaming California girl\, and Brian\, an intellectual\, homebody writer\, kind and slyly funny\, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends\, full stop\, when Heather becomes pregnant—Brian is sure he loves her\, only he doesn’t want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone\, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie’s arrival\, Heather’s bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her\, “Get dressed\, your baby is in trouble.” \nThis is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood – alone\, heartsick\, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled “like sliced apples and salted pretzels” but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie’s condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. \nThe grace and humor that ripple through Heather Harpham’s writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed\, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written\, Happiness radiates in many directions–new\, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful\, inscrutable world; deep\, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately it’s a story about love and happiness\, in their many crooked configurations. \nHeather Harpham has written six solo plays\, including BURNING which toured nationally. Her fiction\, essays and reviews have appeared in MORE Magazine and Water~Stone Review. Harpham is the recipient of the Brenda Ueland Prose Prize\, a Marin Arts Council Independent Artist Grant and a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and SUNY Purchase and lives along the Hudson River with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-harpham-happiness/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Rogers + Steven Gray
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/julie-rogers-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170808T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170808T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T095900
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Dennis Noren and Anshu S. Johri.  \nAnshu Johri authors poems\, short stories and plays in English and Hindi. She has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State University. Her work in English has appeared in Dukool\, Vine leaves Literary Journal\, Calliope\, Creation and Criticism\, Caesura\, Storizen and an anthology Desi Girls published by Hope Road Publishing U.K. She has appeared and recited her poetry at local radio stations in Berkeley (KPFA @94.1FM) and San Jose (KKUP@91.5). She has organized several poetry and literary events through local non-profit organizations located in the Bay Area. She is also a founder of a group called “Suncatchers” with her kids\, and performs “poetry and musical interpretation of poetry” at Alzheimer’s centers and various senior centers located in the South Bay. Her published books in Hindi include Khule Prishtha (Bare Pages\, poems\, 1990)\, Shesh Phir (More Later\, short stories\, 2004)\, Boond ka Dwandwa (Dilemma of a Raindrop\, poems\, 2014) and Adrishya Kinara (Invisible Shores\, stories\, 2015). Her Audiobook of Hindi fiction Adrishya Kinara is now available at Audible\, Itunes and CDbaby. Her poems and stories have appeared in reputed Hindi literary journals of the world. She was a guest speaker at a discourse on “New Feminism and New Responses” among other writers from different languages\, organized by the Sahitya Academy of India\, a highly reputed literary organization of India in Bangalore in June 2015. Besides writing her other interests are theatre\, painting and music. She can be contacted at anshu@udgam.com. \nDennis Noren is an enthusiastic participant in the poetry community of the South Bay. He is on the Poetry Center San José Advisory Board and organizes the Center’s activity at the Edwin Markham House at History Park. Dennis was one of five winners of the 2012 Poetry on the Move contest and first prize winner of the 2010 Tokutomi Haiku Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Forest Leo: The Gentlemen
DESCRIPTION:A funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally summons the Devil—the polite “Gentleman” of the title—who appears at one of the society parties Savage hates. The two hit it off\, but when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \nNewly in love with Vivien\, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures. \nForrest Leo was born in 1990 on a homestead in remote Alaska\, where he grew up without running water and took a dogsled to school. He holds a BFA in drama from New York University\, and has worked as a carpenter\, and a photographer\, and in a cubicle. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forest-leo-the-gentlemen/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Claire Cameron w/ Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Claire Cameron discusses her new novel\, The Last Neanderthal\, with The Millions’ Lydia Kiesling. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-cameron-w-lydia-kiesling/
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:Daniel H. Wilson presents The Clockwork Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Daniel H. Wilson\,New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse\, as he turns his pen to a new kind of thriller in The Clockwork Dynasty — join us! \nPresent day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll\, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake\, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined\, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… \nRussia\, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin\, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time\, possessed with uncanny power\, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society\, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. \nThe Clockwork Dynasty expertly draws on Wilson’s robotics and science background\, combining unforgettable characters with visionary technology in a richly-imagined and heart-pounding tale that will have you rooting for the avtomats and wondering how many of them are still living among us…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-h-wilson-presents-the-clockwork-dynasty/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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