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SUMMARY:A Poetic Exploratory w/ Dick Brown
DESCRIPTION:What is a poem?\nOur time together will be an exploratory of the poem: its origins and evolution\, its purposes\, its forms and surprises\, and\, above all\, its great powers and pleasures. \nWe will explore how a poem is constructed to gain its specific reason for being. \nSince poems are often questions more than answers\, open discussion will be highly valued. \n(Handouts will be made available) \nBring a favorite poem to share. \nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. \nDick attended the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference several times.  He a founder of the Marin Poet Laureate Program and the monthly poetry reading for the Marin Board of Supervisors. \nHe is the organizer of the biannual Real Men Write Poetry event.
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LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Elevate Reading w/ Park\, Stein\, Chavez\, + Orth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special event at Artist Television Access with four of the latest ELEVATE residents! ELEVATE is a collaboration between Real Time and Space and Small Press Traffic to provide studio space and performance opportunities to experimental writers.\n_________________\nNOVEMBER 12\, 2017\na reading & performance with\nthe four recent ELEVATE residents: Steve Orth\, MK Chavez\, Suzanne Stein and Julian Francis Park \nat ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94107 \nevent admission suggested donation of $6-12 \nJULIAN FRANCIS PARK has poems in Blind Field (forthcoming)\, Entropy\, HOLD (forthcoming)\, Horny Poetry Review (forthcoming)\, and Writing w/o Walls\, narrative excerpted in Queen Mob’s Tea House\, reviews in Jacket2 and Tripwire\, and a chapter\, “On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation\,” in Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Julian does intake for Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic\, and facilitates a free\, weekly writing workshop with the Bay Area Public School at the Omni Commons. Julian also works on Omni’s newsletter\, The Commoner. Tweets @jfpark3 \nSUZANNE STEIN’s publications include The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Hole in Space. With Steve Benson\, she is the author of Do Your Own Damn Laundry\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011-2012. She is the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nOakland-based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis (2016\, Nomadic Press) a full-collection of her work\, Dear Animal\, was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Chavez’s work has been published widely in print and online. Her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself In The Ruins\, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Award. \nSTEVE ORTH is from Kansas City\, MO and has lived in the Bay Area since 2000. With Lindsey Boldt\, he began publishing small books\, under the moniker Summer BF Press\, which published many classics such as Typing Wild Speech by Dana Ward\, The Truth About Ted by Bruce Boone\, and many others. Steve also edited Where Eagles Dare Magazine and curated Hybrid Moments Reading Series. He was a founding member of the short lived\, but memorable\, La Commune Books & Café\, a collectively owned bookstore in Oakland\, CA. Steve is also a writer\, and his latest\, Cyborg Legs (OMG! Press\, 2015) is a fable involving grocery stores.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elevate-reading-w-park-stein-chavez-orth/
LOCATION:Small Press Traffic\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with David Sedaris\, author of previous bestsellers Naked  and Me Talk Pretty One Day and regular National Public Radio contributor\, at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts for One Night Only on November 12 at 7:00pm.  This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting.  As always\, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections\, as well as a Q&A session and post-show books signing.  This event follows the release of his newest book\, Theft By Finding Diaries (1977 – 2002)\, which comes out on May 30\, 2017. Get your tickets today at DavidSedarisOnTour.com!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Center for the Performing Arts\, 255\, Almaden Blvd\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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