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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi
DESCRIPTION:Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book\n\nAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation \nby William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba \npublished by AK Press \n\nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nZoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, and Verso\, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program\, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic\, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture. \nVisit http://www.zoesamudzi.com \nWilliam C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian\, MTV\, and Pitchfork\, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College\, where he’s a contributing editor covering race\, class\, and immigration. \nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well
DESCRIPTION:Joel Selvin\, Fare Thee Well\nThursday\, June 21\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes music journalist and bestselling author Joel Selvin for a discussion and signing of his new book\, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of The Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. \nFARE THEE WELL is a tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995. The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \nJOEL SELVIN is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \nThis event will be free at Bookshop Santa Cruz with open seating. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins.  \nFare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip (Hardcover)\nBy Joel Selvin\, Pamela Turley (With) \n$27.00 \nISBN: 9780306903052 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Da Capo Press – June 19th\, 2018 \nFare Thee Well–GET IT SIGNED!\n$27.00 \nSKU: S780306903052 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend the event\, you can still have a copy of Fare Thee Well signed for you at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store after they have been signed. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday\, June 19th. 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/joel-selvin-fare-thee-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Story is the Thing
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 21st for our quarterly reading series – Story is the Thing – that highlights established authors and stars on the rise. This evening\, we’ll showcase a dynamic and diverse group of seven writers reading on the theme “Kindness”: Dinika Amaral\, Idris Anderson\, Tristen Chang\, Betsy Franco\, Carrie La Seur\, Elaine Castillo\, and Peg Alford Pursell. \n“We are real only in moments of kindness” -cited by Meave Brennan in her author’s note from “The Long-Winded Lady.” \nReading starts at 7:30 pm. Light refreshments and conversation at 7:00 pm. \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, The Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she is working on an unlinked story collection and a novel. \nIdris Anderson’s second collection of poems Doubtful Soundwas selected by Sherod Santos for the Hollis Summers Prize of Ohio UP\, and was just published in March 2018. Her first collection of poems Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee was selected by Harold Bloom for the May Swenson Poetry Award. She has won a Pushcart Prize (2010) and the New York Yeats Society Poetry Prize. She has published poems in AGNI Crab Orchard Review\, The Hudson Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Paris Review\, Plume\, Southern Review\, and other journals. \nTristen Chang grew up in Woodland\, California\, and received her MA in English from UC Davis. Her work has appeared in various journals and she was twice a finalist for Glimmer Train’s short story award. Recently\, she won first place in Six Fold’s fiction contest and was awarded the Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction. She now lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing. \nBetsy Franco is an award winning author of over eighty books\, including her novel Naked\, her YA\, Metamorphosis Junior Year\, and her picture books and poetry collections. She wrote the screenplay for Naked\, which has been optioned for a film\, and she was screenwriting mentor for Metamorphosis\, featured at the Mill Valley Film Festival and the basis of a sold-out play. She loves working with teens and is inspired by her creative sons\, James\, Tom\, and Dave. \nCarrie La Seur practices energy and environmental law on behalf of farmers\, ranchers\, and Native Americans\, and is a seventh generation Montanan. In 2016 she helped found The House of Books\, a co-op bookstore in downtown Billings\, MT. In 2006\, Carrie founded the legal nonprofit Plains Justice\, which provides public interest energy and environmental legal services in the northern plains states and played a key role in halting several new coal plants\, enacting clean energy reforms\, and launching the Keystone XL pipeline campaign. Her writing has appeared in Grist\, the Guardian\, Harvard Law and Policy Review\, Huffington Post\, Mother Jones\, Rumpus and Salon. \nElaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley\, and received her MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths\, University of London. She lives in Milpitas\, California. America is Not the Heart is her first novel. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, a collection of fiction and hybrid prose with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson\, and others\, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine’s second annual 5 over 50\, December 2017. Her second book\, A Girl Goes into the Forest\, is forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2019. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-is-the-thing-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! \n  \nMortal Trash by Kim Addonizio \n  \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. \n  \n  \n  \nKim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry.  Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and  Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and other honors.  Her writing has appeared in New York Times\, Poetry\, The Sun\, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online \n. \n  \n\n  \n4:30 Movie by Donna Masini \n  \nIn poems that are by turns intimate and wild\, provocative and tender\, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss\, global violence\, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit\, grief\, fury\, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise\, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor\, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room\, part childhood\, part underground depths where the self is a bit player\, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief\, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run. \n  \n  \nDonna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize\, a Pushcart Prize\, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nDouble Portrait by Brittany Perham \n  \nEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved\, child and parent\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? With musicality\, grit\, and humor\, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak\, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience\, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic\, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion. \n  \n  \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143128465\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 21st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780393334166\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st\, 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393335255\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781593766252\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Soft Skull Press – September 15th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393328448\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st\, 2006\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$14.00\nISBN: 9781602352391\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Parlor Press – November 3rd\, 2011
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-an-evening-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel White
DESCRIPTION:presents Vigilance is No Orchard\, an experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-white/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling 'JACKPOT!'
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING\nStorytelling is about building a connection. So is sex. \nFor the past 11 years\, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex\, kink\, body image\, gender and more to build community and bring people together. We do regular live storytelling events in two cities\, but that’s just one way to enjoy Bawdy. Our podcast and YouTube channel are great ways to get your Bawdy fix\, too. \nOur live events feature an eclectic mix of authors\, poets\, comedians and actors – along with real people just like you – sharing their adventures in ten minutes or less\, with no notes. This is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Storytellers submit their material online and are chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure. Dixie curates submitted stories\, then works with experienced and first-time storytellers to create a one-of-a-kind evening for each and every Bawdy. Her coaching superpowers tease out surprisingly powerful stories of sex\, kink or gender. Then at showtime\, Dixie coaches the audience\, too – creating an emotionally supportive\, unintimidating\, and sex-positive atmosphere that’s unique\, engaging and fun. Add connecting games (like the ever-popular Bang-O) and you have a show that’ll be your new favorite social event EVER. \nCome see what LA Weekly calls “The Moth for pervs” and meet new\, open-minded people. Before you know it\, you’ll be wanting to share your stories\, too. \nABOUT DIXIE DE LA TOUR \nDixie has earned the title of America’s premier sexual folklorist. Once called “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, she is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. In addition to being the founder\, curator\, and host of the long-running Bawdy Storytelling series\, Dixie is also an accomplished storytelling coach and offers workshops for anyone who wants to communicate better and inspire others\, no matter what the subject matter. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s own stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast. She is based in San Francisco and hosts live shows across the United States. \nAWARDS \n\nBest Storytelling Show (SFist)\nBest of San Francisco (SF Weekly)\nBest of Los Angeles (LA Weekly)\nBest Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian)\nTop Ten Sex Podcast (Esquire Magazine)\n\nCONNECT \nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling? Let us know! Or check us out on social media: \n\nBawdy Storytelling’s official website\n/r/bawdy for you Redditors\nInstagram\nThe Facebooks
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-jackpot/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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