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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:For the past seven weeks\, every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, we have presented Community Voices: Poets Speak\, where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflected 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 took place in the galleries. The series culminates today with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6-8pm. 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS\, on Thursday August 17th\, 7-9 pm\, in the basement room at Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Meg Elison (The Book of Etta)\, Nancy Jane Moore (The Weave)\, Skye Allen (The Songbird Thief)\, Sunil Patel\, and Sean Craven. With guest MC Allison Mick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-redirections/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Persis Karim is poet\, editor\, and professor of literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo\, Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Red Wheelbarrow\, HeartLodge\, and The New York Times\, as well as other publications. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature and is the founding director of Persian Studies at San Jose State University. Her current project is a collection of poems called “When the World is Harsh\, Find Your Tenderness.” For more information: www.persiskarim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Danya Kukafka w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Danya Kukafka as she introduces her debut novel Girl in Snow. With Danya in conversation will be fellow author Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept With God). Please join us! \nSet in the small suburb of Broomsville\, Colorado\, this addictive thriller begins with the discovery of high school freshman Lucinda Hayes’s dead body near a playground carousel. With the town’s golden girl murdered\, accusations quickly spread\, drawing three outsiders from the shadows. \nOddball Cameron Whitley loved—still loves—Lucinda. Though they’ve hardly ever spoken\, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda’s stalker\, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death\, Cameron’s erratic behavior provides the town ample reason to suspect that he’s the killer. \nJade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from Jade: her babysitting job\, and her best friend. The worst part was Lucinda’s blissful ignorance to the damage she’d wrought. \nOfficer Russ Fletcher doesn’t know Lucinda\, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about\, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner’s son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda’s murder and keep a promise he made long ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danya-kukafka-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T213000
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SUMMARY:Chiara Barzini
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Barzini discusses her new novel\, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake\, with Kate Schatz. \n\nPraise for Chiara Barzini \n“Chiara’s stories are beautiful\, her voice powerful. She writes with a voice that is both tense and open. The effect is surprising\, subversive\, and singular.”—Jhumpa Lahiri \n  \n“Chiara Barzini has written a wild first novel\, full of sex\, violence\, and desperate prayers to the Virgin Mary. This is a brutal and bizarre coming of age story aptly set in one of America’s many crises.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n\n“Chiara Barzini has pulled off that most dazzling balancing act: combining a deliciously entertaining plot with effortlessly elegant prose. She has an extraordinarily keen eye for cultural nuance. Through her alter-ego Eugenia we come to discover a California as wildly foreign to us as it is to her. A brilliant\, sexy\, and unexpected take on the immigrant bildungsroman.”—Taiye Selasi\, author of Ghana Most Go. \n\nAbout Things That Happened Before the Earthquake \n\nWelcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.\nMere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles\, Eugenia\, a typical Italian teenager\, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big\, Hollywood fashion\, she must navigate her huge new public high school\, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members\, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry\, who runs his mother’s movie memorabilia store\, and the bewitching Deva\, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake rocks the foundations not only of Eugenia’s home but of the future she’d been imagining for herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chiara-barzini/
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:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://ow.ly/9k4930emzkn\n$10 online or $10 at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-9/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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