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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door
DESCRIPTION:Porchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September \n2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have \nfive minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, as chosen by a \nrandom audience member\, receives $50 in cold\, hard\, United States greenbacks\, a bag of \nhot nuts\, and a pound of coffee from local roaster\nNomadic Ground\n  \nStorytelling has never been this potentially lucrative or fun!* \n\nOpen Door is back!\nHosted by Arline Klatte and Michael O’Brien \nThe second Tuesday of the month at The Hemlock Tavern \n\n  \n*Except on various occasions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows. \nCome celebrate! Activities include: \n> A listening/screening party \n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Margaret McCarthy\, Matt Leibel\, Miah Jeffra\, AshleyRose Sanchez\, Matt Carney\, Roberto F. Santiago\, Rayan Mustafa\, Kristina Ten\, Linette Escobar\, Riss Rosado\, John Panzer\, Danielle Bero\, Abe Becker\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Paul Corman-Roberts: performer links and bios can be found here. \n> An open mic: sign up to read/perform during an improv set by Turk & Divis (more info soon) \nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available! \n> more info + to pre-order < \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 6:30\, show at 7pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/turk-divis-quiet-lightning-album-release-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, and Joshua Trujillo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nAlexandra Mattraw launches her new book small siren with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer  \n \nAbout small siren: \nsmall siren believes the inanimate is alive. Here\, a speaker navigates music rendered from a terrain of fracture\, where emergency and becoming intertwine.  A family’s narrative threads and unthreads through the book\, as do the ethics of projection. What confrontations arise where people and objects are involuntarily constructed through a mutual process of projection? Truth is slippery but so is the ground. Here\, she listens for appendages of herself in nature and in the cities she encounters\, where she ritualistically attempts to distinguish between beauty and disaster. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018  from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is.  His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nNorman Fischer’s new book\, On a Train at Night\, was published in March 2018 by Presse Universite de Rouen et Havre\, in France. This book-length serial poem explores consciousness\, meaning\, and what can’t be said or written of. June 1 is also the scheduled publication date of Untitled Series:Life As It Is (Talisman Press)\, also a serial poem in short fragments that describes the hidden\, underlying\, linguistic shape of ordinary daily events. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nWhat has been said about small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’  She makes it real.” \n—Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n-Gillian Conoley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-norman-fischer/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad
DESCRIPTION:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes beloved and best-selling author Laurie R. King back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes\, Island of the Mad. \nMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.” \nA June summer’s evening\, on the Sussex Downs\, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend’s beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks–with a bloody murder\, a terrible loss\, and startling revelations about Holmes–Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad\, and yet\, she can’t say no. \nThe Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another\, yet she seemed to be improving–or at least\, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family’s jewels with her\, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse\, perhaps? \nThe trail leads Russell and Holmes through a lunatic asylum’s stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon\, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini’s Blackshirts\, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman\, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano\, playing with ideas…\nLAURIE R. KING is the award-winning\, bestselling author of fourteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, and many acclaimed stand-alone novels such as Folly\, Touchstone\, The Bones of Paris\, and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \nIsland of the Mad: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)\nBy Laurie R. King \n$28.00 \nISBN: 9780804177962 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Bantam – June 12th\, 2018 \nIsland of Mad—GET IT SIGNED!\n$28.00 \nSKU: S9780804177962 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Island of Madsigned at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Monday\, June 11th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-r-king-island-of-the-mad/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! It’s coming that time again…the most wanderlust time of the year. Weekday DONderlust. Mark your calendar for Tuesday JUNE 12. It’s our LAST event before our summer hiatus. We will celebrate great travel writing\, readings\, summer\, our fantastic community\, and of course the birthday of our own Don George. Champagne toasts and funny Don stories are welcome. Don has invited three of his besties\, who happen to be extraordinary writers\, too. Please come to welcome Larry Habegger\, Amanda Jones\, and Jeff Greenwald. There will be stories. There will be laughter. There will be giveaways. This is is Donderlust. Readings start at 7pm but we will be at the bar by 6 pm at the Mystic Hotel (417 Stockton). See you then.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-4/
LOCATION:mystic hotel\, 417 Stockton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED with features: ASHA and Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour
DESCRIPTION:at 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 \nAn Artist\, Educator\, and Revolutionary\, Asha is an 8th grade teacher in San Jose at Monroe Middle school. She is an international poet\, striving to use art to create radical change. Recently on the cover of Content Magazine\, a feature at many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area\, as well as active speaker\, emcee and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights including both years of the Women’s March and The March For Our Lives\, Asha consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries. \nJoseph Jason Santiago LaCour is a poet\, artist\, and emcee from the MIdwest now living in Santa Cruz. Born 40 years ago into a Filipino and French Creole fiasco\, he has been writing and reciting for more than half his life. In contrast\, he has struggled as a young parent–working countless jobs (mostly technology-related) only honing his artistic skills on the side as a means of escape from the rigors of commitment. That storm has passed. Today\, his beautiful daughters are grown. He has true love in his life. And he feels compelled to share his art\, his heart\, with you. As a member of The Legendary Collective and co-curator of The Santa Cruz Word Church\, a well-attended\, weekly poetry event at The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, he is consciously working to contribute to a strong community of poets and writers in the Bay Area and Central Coast. His first and greatest ever self-published\, feature-length book\, LEDDITGO: a recollection of poem\, verses and visualshas been printed and is available in Bookshop Santa Cruz. He is also releasing an album of songs via CD or download both available through his website www.josephjasonsantiagolacour.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-with-features-asha-and-joseph-jason-santiago-lacour/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Jennings on humor and the media
DESCRIPTION:Ken Jennings grew up in Seoul\, South Korea\, where he became a daily devotee of the quiz show Jeopardy! In 2004\, he successfully auditioned for a spot on the show and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac\, about his Jeopardy! adventures\, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller\, as were his follow-up books Maphead and Because I Said So! He is also the author of Planet Funny. Jennings lives in Seattle with his wife Mindy and two children. \nFrom John Stewart to Donald Trump\, Chaucer to Sumerian Tablets\, fart jokes to Cable TV “zingers\,” Ken Jennings lends his signature wit and whizzing\, encyclopedic perspective to the history of humor and how it came to dominate our modern world. Today\, an unprecedented number of people get their news from comedy shows. Newspapers race to find the catchiest headline with an avidity that forgets the need to inform. In our democracy\, showmanship has replaced good-nature debate. Jennings looks at the foundations of these current manifestations and what this says for where we might be headed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-jennings-on-humor-and-the-media/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nJennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us on Tuesday June 12th to celebrate the release of their new collections\, Moon: Letters\, Poems\, Maps and Sheep Machine. \n\nPraise for Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems \n  \n“What are the secret aspects of a book\, which cannot be spoken of and that unfold in ways that nobody can describe to us in advance? In a world where ‘boundaries are slipping\,’ what modes of metamorphosis now become possible? Can radical change be read as a ‘map of the body in motion’? I am interested in Cheng’s idea of story as the place where we come to ‘forget something\, as much as remember.’ This is a formulation that precipitates the artifacts and deities of the book: ‘the logic of dust cloud\, spiral.’ Everything that’s left behind. If reading is a form of pilgrimage\, then Cheng gives us its charnel ground events\, animal conversions\, guiding figures and elemental life. ‘I want to mark a new map for a body opening\,’ she writes\, and then she does.” —Bhanu Kapil \n  \n“…What distinguishes this study of the Self in proximity to Other and to the World is the way Cheng refuses to tell stories and instead\, insists on asking them. With curiosity and attention\, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art\, asking as making. In the tradition of Fanny Howe’s poetics of bewilderment\, Cheng gives us a poetics of possibility.” —Jennifer Tseng \n\nAbout Moon: selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards:  \n  \nMixing fable and fact\, extraordinary and ordinary\, Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid collection\, MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, explores the feminine monstrous as it draws on various Chinese mythologies about women\, particularly that of Chang’E (the Lady in the Moon)\, uncovering the shadow stories of our myths — with the belief that there is always an underbelly. MOON explores bewilderment and shelter\, destruction and construction\, unthreading as it rethreads\, shedding as it collects. \n\nPraise for Sheep Machine \n\n“The unglamorous labor of ‘logging’ footage is\, like childbirth\, often seen as a necessary torment best forgotten once its productive work is done . . . Vi Khi Nao empowers this deceptively objective art of time-coded naming with a wild heart\, a deep ethics\, and the slant-philosophical poetics that returns me continuously to her gorgeous\, necessary (and frankly addictive) work.” —Anna Moschovakis \n  \n“Vi Khi Nao’s poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton’s Sheep Machine is a visceral companion to an optical theatre of ordinary and extraordinary images that rub off the burning edge of consciousness . . . This is hallucinatingly generative work.” —Dong Li \n  \nAbout Sheep Machine \n  \nSHEEP MACHINE is a textual inscape\, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical violence and visceral fear coalesce into a kind of science prosody\, a post-human panorama whose beauty liesr in the ruins of reality it depicts. Influenced by Leslie Thornton’s film of sheep feeding in a field as a conveyor belt of cable cars ascend and return from a mountain in the Swiss Alps\, Vi Khi Nao takes perception into tumultuous terrains\, into a pastoral-celestial void in which temporality is transcended\, progress is a bourgeois invention\, and god is a liability for our life spent in hunger and grazing. Vi Khi Nao’s SHEEP MACHINE is grace said at the ontological last supper. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFISH IN EXILE (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy VI Khi Nao\n$16.95\nISBN: 9781566894494\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Coffee House Press – November 1st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Vi Khi Nao: \n“Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell\, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures.” –Carole Maso \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOUSE A (OMNIDAWN 1ST/2ND BOOK CONTEST) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer S. Cheng\n$17.95\nISBN: 9781632430236\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Omnidawn – October 4th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHouse A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home\, and vice versa?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-s-cheng-and-vi-khi-nao/
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:Darnell L. Moore: Coming of Age Black & Free in America
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present \nDARNELL L. MOORE\n“No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”\nHosted by Greg Bridges \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12 : : T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit \nWhat happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected\, heavily policed\, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live\, love\, and grow up? Where should they turn when history rejects their very existence? Darnell explores these questions in NO ASHES IN THE FIRE. When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old\, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school\, harassed him because they assumed he was gay\, and poured gasoline on him. He barely escaped with his life. On many other occasions there were terrifying confrontations\, including some within his family… \nThree decades later\, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist\, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives\, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. No Ashes in the Fire is his compelling account of how that bullied\, frightened teenager not only survived\, but found such a unique calling. An editor-at-large at the content distributor Urban One\, and a columnist at Logo\, Darnell L. Mooore describes his bold\, candid memoir as “snapshots of my life” molded by forces of “brutality\, poverty\, and self-hatred.” \nDarnell L. Moore (born in 1976 in Camden\, NJ) is an American writer and activist whose work is characterized by anti-racist\, feminist\, queer\, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. His essays\, social commentary\, poetry and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues\, including The Feminist Wire\, Ebony Magazine\, and The Huffington Post.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/darnell-l-moore-coming-of-age-black-free-in-america/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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