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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 15\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-6/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series\, moderated by Kim Shuck\, takes place on Thursdays at 6 p.m. in the Main Library. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-2/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly bilingual poetry night created by Marguerite Munoz and Renee Voz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: A Streetcar Named Desire
DESCRIPTION:Sexual tension\, heavy drinking\, sensitive characters\, intolerable heat\, and it all ends in madness? Yep\, sounds like Shipwreck. Join us for the GOAT: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. \nNOTE: Second Thursday because of your inevitable July 4th vacation plans. Featured writers TBA. Tickets on sale now! \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Bindery (1727 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable.\n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Katrina McHugh / Pop Charts (with live music by Laura Weinbach)
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts an evening of art\, design and music as we celebrate the launch of Pop Charts: 100 Iconic Song Lyrics Visualized a collection of art prints by local artist and authorKatrina McHugh\, paired with a live music performance byLaura Weinbach of Foxtails Brigade. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event — advance tickets are available at a discount. \n  \n  \nTest your musical knowledge with this fun compilation\, filled with 100 beautifully designed infographics\, that pays homage to the songs we can’t get out of our heads — inspired by lyrics from artists such as Madonna\, Fleetwood Mac\, Paul Simon\, Prince\, TLC\, Bob Dylan\, Weezer\, and more. \n  \nThroughout our lives\, a vast catalog of random popular song lyrics swirls around in our collective subconscious\, a hodgepodge language of inconsistent metaphors and cultural references tying us together. In Pop Charts: 100 Iconic Song Lyrics Visualized\, artist Katrina McHugh presents a visual exploration of 100 songs we can’t get out of our heads — from David Bowie’s Space Oddity to the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage and Beyoncé’s Run the World. Playful and poetic\, the lyrics are dissected and diagrammed in a way that allows us to see old favorites in a new light. This book is for those who enjoy testing their obscure lyric knowledge. Song name and artist can be found on the back of each page. \n  \n\n  \nKatrina McHugh is a local artist\, creative director and co-founder of the female-led branding and strategy studio\, Flight Design Co. She graduated from University of California\, Santa Barbara where she majored in Creative Studies with an emphasis in Book Arts. She lives and works in San Francisco where she consistently tries to push herself out of her comfort zone (most recently with very humble attempts at salsa dancing). She wore an eye-patch as a child and enjoys moderate length walks on Ocean Beach with her tiny terrier\, Francine. \n  \nThe Hollywood Hills-born daughter of a horror filmmaker and sister of a cult comedian\, Laura Weinbach grew up in a household that embraced eccentricity. Her next-door neighbors were circus contortionists with emus and fang-toothed monkeys as pets and her childhood activities included snail hunting and spying on celebrity neighbors like Slash\, Ice-T\, and Larry from Perfect Strangers. Front-girl for Foxtails Brigade\, a local Bay Area band\, she is known for her trademark voice\, classical guitar intricacies\, and lyrical imagery. Laura will be performing solo at this event. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 6:30\, event begins at 7pm.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Celebrates FIVE Years!
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate FIVE YEARS of literary fun at our July Get Lit with Melissa Eleftherion\, Manjula Martin & Hilary Zaid on Thursday\, July 12; 7pm at Aqus Café in Petaluma \nSomething different for this event: we won’t have our traditional open mic this time around. Instead\, we’ve invited some alumni readers to share a few short readings in lieu of the regular open mic.\nWe also have a ukulele band performing a few songs for us! \nPlease come out\, support our readers\, Aqus Café\, our musicians and our fun community at this FREE event. \n~~~~~\n+ Melissa Eleftherion is a writer\, librarian\, and a visual artist. She grew up in Brooklyn\, dropped out of high school\, and went on to earn an MFA in Poetry from Mills College and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System\, 2018)\, & six chapbooks: huminsect (dancing girl press\, 2013)\, prism maps (Dusie\, 2014)\, Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press\, 2015)\, the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all\, 2017)\, green glass asterisms (poems-for-all\, 2017) & little ditch (above/ground press\, 2018). Founder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange for San Francisco State University\, Melissa now lives in Mendocino County where she manages the Ukiah Library\, teaches creative writing\, & curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com. \n+ Manjula Martin is editor of the anthology Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster\, 2017). She is managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story and her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, Pacific Standard\, Aeon Magazine\, Hazlitt Magazine\, and The Awl. She lives in San Francisco and Camp Meeker. \n+ A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Hilary Zaid is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review. She is the author of a novel\, PAPER IS WHITE. Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, says: “Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco\, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel\, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do. Zaid is fierce\, a rebel with a cause\, and her breathtaking leaps of imagination make new worlds possible.” \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a FREE quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
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LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:WHY THERE ARE WORDS PRESENTS 7 ACCLAIMED AUTHORS
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on July 12\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when seven acclaimed authors take the stage to present their works. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door (cash or check made payable to Studio 333). Cash bar. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street. \nMari Coates holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and has published her stories in small literary journals. She is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, where she developed and completed her first novel\, now titled The Pelton Papers. She very much loved being part of the inaugural Why There Are Words and is happy to be back. She lives in San Francisco\, where\, before embarking on fiction writing\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. \nHelen Fremont’s memoir After Long Silence (Delta\, 2000) was a national bestseller\, and a Featured Alternate of the Book-of-the-Month Club.  Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including The O. Henry Awards\, Ploughshares\, and The Harvard Review. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, she was a teaching Fellow at Bread Loaf in 1999\, and a teaching Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2001. From 1999 to 2008 she was a Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University. She lives in Boston with her wife and works as a public defender. \nMarjorie Hudson is the author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (Press 53\, 2011)\, a short story collection that received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Distinguished First Fiction. She is also author of Searching for Virginia Dare (Press 53\, 2007)\, a Blue Highways exploration of the fate of the first English child born in America. Her essay “Dear Joni” will be published in June 2018 in the anthology Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives\, from McFarland & Co. She has received fellowships from the Hemingway Foundation\, the Ucross Foundation\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers. She teaches creative writing through her own Kitchen Table Workshops\, and she has just completed an epic novel about a mythical field in the rural South. \nNancy Koerbel’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Redactions\, One\, and The Pittsburgh Poetry Review. A former recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, she lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, where she teaches legal and business writing\, works as a copyeditor for a large tech company\, and coordinates the Pittsburgh branch of Why There are Words. \nKaren Llagas’s first collection of poetry\, Archipelago Dust\, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, she lives in San Francisco and works as a freelance translator & lecturer at UC Berkeley. \nAlison Moore is the author of four books\, Riders on the Orphan Train (Roadworthy Press\, 2012) completed through a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts\, a collection of short stories entitled The Middle of Elsewhere (University of Arkansas Press\, 2006)\, a novel\, Synonym for Love (Penguin/Plume\, 1996)\, and a collection of short stories\, Small Spaces between Emergencies (Mercury House\, 1993)\, one of the Notable Books of 1993 chosen by The American Library Association. She is the Coordinator for Why There Are Words-Austin\, and lives in Austin\, Texas\, when she’s not on the road. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and a former Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona\, she has developed educational outreach programs for the National Orphan Train Museum\, and for ArtsReach\, a Native American literacy project in Southern Arizona. Since 1999\, after leaving a tenure-track job\, she has been an itinerant performer with singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster. Together\, they perform a multi-media program called Riders on the Orphan Train in museums and libraries in the West. \nAmelie Prusik is the author of the novel Light Sister\, Dark Sister(Random House\, 1994) and has published short fiction in The North American Review\, America West\, Bosque\, Lantern Journal\, and The Copenhagen Review. Her chapbook\, Octavia Street was published in 2017 by WTAW Press. Her poetry has appeared in Antaeus and Intro 8. A graduate of the Warren Wilson Program For Writers\, she and teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\,now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Otessa Moshfegh: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION \nFrom one of our boldest\, most celebrated new literary voices\, a novel about a young woman’s efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes \nOur narrator should be happy\, shouldn’t she? She’s young\, thin\, pretty\, a recent Columbia graduate\, works an easy job at a hip art gallery\, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for\, like the rest of her needs\, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart\, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents\, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her\, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend\, Reva. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? \nMy Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world\, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable\, even necessary\, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny\, merciless and compassionate\, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Eileen\, her first novel\, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize\, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Granta\, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Plimpton Discovery Prize\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/otessa-moshfegh-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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