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SUMMARY:Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate! A Valentine's Party at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Red wine\, chocolate\, & words of love! Join Odd Mondays for its Valentine’s party Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate!\, Monday\, February 11\, from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Authors Jennifer Barone Poetry\, Rebekah Eppley\, and Peg Alford Pursell read about love\, illustrator Carmen Cortez prepares love bitters\, Michael’s Chocolates will have Valentine’s chocolates for sampling and sales\, and there’ll be free red wine for all! No-host dinner nearby at 5:30pm\, Haystack Restaurant\, 3881 24th St. \nHere’s more about the participants!\nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: SAPOROSO – POEMS OF ITALIAN FOOD & LOVE. She is the host of the monthly WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and has been a featured poet at LitQuake\, SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, and more. She won the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach\, where she resides\, and has been published in literary journals such as the Marin Poetry Center Anthology\, CCSF’s Forum\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit:jenniferbarone.wordpress.com \nMaria del Carmen Cortez (Carmen) is an Herbalist\, Permaculturalist\, and Medicine Maker. Her passions are gardening\, growing her own medicine\, and creating art. She was born in Purepero\, in the state of Michoacan\, Mexico\, with an extended family of storytellers who also instilled in her a love of plant medicine. She grew up as a migrant farm worker in the San Joaquin Valley and currently lives in Oakland. \nRebekah Eppley holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University\, a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a BFA in Writing\, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College. She published a chapter in an oral history collection\, Nine Lives\, Uncovering the Wealth of Life Stories Within our Nursing Homes and her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines such as the Santa Clara Review\, Watchword Press\, and Lodestar Quarterly. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, Carmen Cortez\, and works as a librarian at the Dimond Branch of the Oakland Public Library. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of SHOW HER A FLOWER\, A BIRD\, A SHADOW\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction\, and selected for the annual “5 over 50” feature in Poets & Writers Magazine (2017). A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST\, a collection of stories\, will be published by Dzanc Books July 2019. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Joyland magazine\, Connotation Press\, and Permafrost. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and the founder and director of WTAW Press\, an independent publisher of exceptional literary books. Learn more at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael’s Chocolates is a San Francisco-based chocolatier\, which makes small-batch handcrafted chocolates and confections. They proudly feature their Good Food Awards 2018 Winner\, Lemon Burst Bonbon Collection\, and also offer special Seasonal Collections\, in addition to popular items such as Salted Caramels and Old Potrero Rye Whiskey Bonbons. www.michaelschocolates.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-bitters-chocolate-a-valentines-party-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Radio Free Vermont
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben\, on Monday February 11th at 7pm. \nAs the host of Radio Free Vermont–“underground\, underpowered\, and underfoot”–seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an “undisclosed and double-secret location.” With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson\, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont\, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now\, he and his radio show must remain untraceable\, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen\, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. \nIn Radio Free Vermont\, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that’s become more popular than ever–seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry\, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare\, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of ‘Ethan Allen Day’ and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty\, biting\, and terrifyingly timely\, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben’s fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement. \n  \n\n\n\n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, February 11\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-diesel-readers-book-group-radio-free-vermont/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Hyesoon\, Don Mee Choi\, Forrest Gander\, and Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of  Death\, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest Gander and Brenda Hillman will also treat us to a reading of their poems and translations. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Autobiography of Death \nThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of Death (New Directions)\, consists of forty-nine poems\, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history\, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death\, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death\, Kim’s most compelling work to date\, at once reenacts trauma and narrates death—how we die and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors\, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten\, bombed\, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm\,” a poem about individual pain\, illness\, and meditation. \n\nAbout Kim Hyesoon \nKim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets of South Korea. Along with several female poets of the 1980s and 1990s\, Kim has developed a new terrain of poetry that has been described as “combative\, visceral\, subversive\, innovative\, and ontologically feminine\,” and which continues to flourish. \nAbout Don Mee Choi \nDon Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War(Wave Books\, 2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books\, 2010) and has translated the work of several contemporary Korean women poets\, such as Ch’oe Sŭng-ja\, Kim Hyesoon\, and Yi Yŏn-ju. Her translations include Anxiety of Words (Zephyr Press\, 2008)\, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers(Action Books\, 2008)\, All the Garbage of the World\, Unite! (Action Books\, 2011)\, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books\, 2014)\, and I’m OK\, I’m Pig (Bloodaxe Books\, 2014). \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He is the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was a NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nAbout Brenda Hillman \nBrenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry\, all published by Wesleyan University Press\, the most recent of which is Practical Water (2009). With Patricia Dienstfrey\, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood(Wesleyan\, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College\, where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry.
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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:Roger McNamee: This Is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:The warnings are coming from inside the house. \nMark Zuckerberg\, Sheryl Sandberg\, and Roger McNamee are denizens of the same enchanted world: Silicon Valley’s inner circle. And they used to all be on the same page\, each playing their part growing Facebook into an internet phenomenon— until it hit unprecedented reach and influence. Then they weren’t on the same page any more. \nMcNamee was an early and enthusiastic adopter of Facebook\, as both a musician and an investor. But he grew disenchanted as he watched the negatives pile up: privacy issues. Screen addiction. Disinformation and political manipulation. Even spying. Digging into the technology and psychology involved\, he grew more alarmed at “business models that drive companies to maximize attention at all costs”. \nNow Roger McNamee has teamed with others from the tech world to challenge our new normal – to persuade us that internet titans Facebook and Google present an urgent existential threat to users and society. Does his new book Zucked make a persuasive case? \nJoin us for an evening of This Is Now with Angie Coiro to find out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roger-mcnamee-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Vandana Shiva and Vijaya Nagarajan: Women\, Ritual\, Ecology in India
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nVANDANA SHIVA + VIJAYA NAGARAJAN\nWomen\, Ritual\, Ecology in India \nadvance tickets: $12: :: T: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s Books\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books Mrs. Dalloway’s $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nVandana Shiva is an Indian scholar\, environmental activist\, food sovereignty advocate\, and alter-globalization author. Currently based in Delhi\, she has authored more than twenty books\, Including Who Really Feeds the World?\, The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology and Making Peace with the Earth. She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization (along with Jerry Mander\, Edward Goldsmith\, Ralph Nader\, Jeremy Rifkin) and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices\, as evidenced by her interview in the book Vedic Ecology. She received the Right Livelihood Award in 1993\, an honor known as an “Alternative Nobel Prize”. \nVijaya Nagarajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theology/Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. \nEvery day millions of Tamil women in southeast India wake up before dawn to create the kolam\, a ritual design made of rice flour\, on the thresholds of homes. This thousand year-old ritual welcomes and honors the goddesses Lakshmi and Bhudevi. Propelled by a lifelong interest and deeply informed research\, Nagarajan provides a poetic and surprising entry into the layered complexities of Hindu culture. Braiding Tamil women’s voices and the author’s own stories\, Feeding a Thousand Souls offers different knowledge traditions–beauty\, history\, gender\, literature\, religion\, anthropology\, mathematics\, and ecology. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vandana-shiva-and-vijaya-nagarajan-women-ritual-ecology-in-india/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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