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SUMMARY:Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-jo-bang/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon\, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center In Common Writers Series will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. For our second program in the series\, renowned novelist and essayist Kiese Laymon is joined by San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free and open to the public. \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, traveling to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. He’ll read and join Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, then the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\nreading from their works\nThursday DEC 6\n*6:30 door; readings 7:00pm sharp @ Marcus Books\n3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (one block west of MacArthur BART)\, Oakland\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-date-in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Marcus Books Oakland
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LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Noir: Nighthawks
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Jon Sindell\, Sara McAulay\, Robert Pesich\, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s new book \nWhite Dancing Elephants \nfrom Dzanc Books \nIn luminous\, vivid\, searingly honest prose\, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning\, bold\, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best friend’s husband\, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for. In three different stories\, three artists struggle to push courageous works into the world\, while a woman with an incurable disease competes with her engineer husband’s beautiful android. \nCombining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood\, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros\, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. White Dancing Elephants is the winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry forthcoming in Natural Bridge\, Quiddity\, apt magazine\, Hobart and more. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. She received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize\, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship\, and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received four Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \nLouise Aronson is a geriatrician\, writer\, educator\, and professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers\, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine\, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award\, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award\, as well as numerous awards for her teaching\, educational research and writing. She is the author of the PEN America debut fiction award finalist\, A History of the Present Illness\, and the forthcoming non-fiction Elderhood: Redefining Medicine\, Life\, and Old Age in America. Her articles\, essays and stories appear regularly in literary and medical journals\, newspapers and blogs\, including the New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, JAMA\, Narrative Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and the Lancet. \nPRAISE FOR WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans—gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.”\n—Jamie Ford\, author of House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”\n—Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.”\n—Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“From the first page\, I was swept away by the riveting undertow of Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s inventive and spellbinding stories\, each moment cast in powerfully intelligent prose. White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable debut; we are so lucky to hold this book in our hands.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.”\n—Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.”\n—Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a master of literary stealth. Seduced by her luminous\, intimate voice\, I was unprepared for the shattering force of her honesty and insight. Authentic\, fearless and wholly original\, White Dancing Elephants is a knockout collection.”\n—Jillian Medoff\, author of This Could Hurt \n“Filled with dark music\, nuance\, and intelligence\, White Dancing Elephants takes readers on a thrilling journey. In sharp takes\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar unfolds the complexities of race and gender\, tragedy and eros. This unforgettable collection will hold its readers captive to the very last page.”\n—Diana Abu-Jaber\, author of Life Without a Recipe \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s stories reveal a rare sensitivity to the strange and complicated acrobatics of the human heart. These are astonishing\, urgent portraits of people trying to see the world for what it is and what it might be.”\n—Emily Geminder\, author of Dead Girls and Other Stories \n“White Dancing Elephants dazzles from the start.  There are so many wonderful stories in this collection that center on female characters of color in all sorts of situations.  Readers are treated to deep characters\, mesmerizing language\, and a story that propels forward across a city and the landscape of a mind effortlessly.  This is a new gifted voice in contemporary literature and we are so lucky to have it!”\n—Victoria Chang\, American Book Award-winning author of Barbie Chang \n“The stories in White Dancing Elephants show impressive dexterity and range. The prose can be rich and intricate one moment\, then shifts registers into sharp humor; the characterization is many-dimensional; Bhuvaneswar’s ability to take on larger topics\, such as Bhopal\, and to locate and intensify their complexity within individuals is amazingly fine.”\n—Peter Rock\, Alex-award winning author of My Abandonment \n“Bhuvaneswar’s stories are as insightful as they are ineffable and as devastating as they are delightful. As I read these important and hilarious tales about the lives of queer people of color\, I kept asking myself\, ‘You can do this in writing?’”\n—Emma Eisenberg\, GLAAD-nominated journalist and author of The Third Rainbow Girl \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s deft and poignant stories bring the whole damned world into clearer focus. A pure pleasure to read\, White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable book that will stay with me for a long time.”\n—Skip Horack\, author of The Other Josep \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-in-conversation-with-louise-aronson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday December 6th\, 7-9 pm\, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\, and others. lapsarians n. (lap-?ser-?-?n) Believers in the Fall. Origin: Latin lapsus\, a fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-lapsarians/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/would-you-be-caught-dead-in-that-outfit/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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