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SUMMARY:Unholy Trinity: A Lovecraft Triptych
DESCRIPTION:Thursday – Saturday @ 8PM\, until November 2 \nInspired by the supernatural fiction of HP Lovecraft\, an early 20th century writer known for creating his own mythos\, Unholy Trinity is San Francisco writer/director Stuart Bousel’s adaptation and staging of “The Dunwich Horror\,” “Nyarlathotep\,” and “The Dreams in the Witch House.” Celebrate the Halloween season with these unholy works of classic horror. \nFeaturing Adrian Deane\, Ellen Dunphy\, Kyle Goldman\, Tirumari Jothi\, Brian Martin\, Kyle McReddie\, Sarah Negron\, & Ron Talbot. \n  \n this event repeats Thurs-Sat\, 8pm\, until November 2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unholy-trinity-a-lovecraft-triptych/
LOCATION:EXIT Theatre\, 156 Eddy Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Gibson & Lisa Rappoport
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Gibson is the poet laureate of Connecticut and has been short-listed for the National Book Award. Her lyrical and meditative poems celebrate the “sometimes painful\, sometimes joyful experience of unfolding Consciousness.” Her books include Signs\, Long Walks in the Afternoon (which was a Lamont Poetry Selection)\, The Vigil\, Earth Elegy: New and Selected Poems\, One Body\, Second Nature\, Broken Cup\, and the most recently\, Not Hearing the Wood Thrush. \nGibson’s honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, Connecticut Commission on the Arts grants\, a Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Teaching Fellowship\, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship\, and residencies at Yaddo. She is the recipient of a Melville Kane Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry\, and two Pushcart Prizes. Gibson has taught and held writer-in-residence positions at many universities and colleges\, including American University\, Elon College\, Trinity College\, and Reed University. She is professor emerita at the University of Connecticut and lives in Connecticut. \nLisa Rappoport is a poet and fine letterpress printer based in the Bay Area. Her witty\, playful\, acerbic poems often explore the complex and conflicting emotions of contemporary life. Her newest book\, Penumbra\, was recently published by Longship Press. Photo credit: Bobbe Besold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-gibson-lisa-rappoport/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops - Litquake 2019
DESCRIPTION:LOGIC MAGAZINE: print/ops – Litquake 2019\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\nprint/ops : a roundtable about technology \nwith Jim Fingal and friends \nWhen developing software systems\, engineers typically seek to automate repetitive tasks to reduce toil — defined as tasks that are manual\, repetitive\, tactical\, devoid of enduring value\, and that scale linearly as a system grows. That works great in the electronic world software systems — but how does this idea apply to the world of small magazines and publishers where we have physical objects to produce and somehow get to people? \nLogic Magazine hosts a round-table of small publishers who get into the nitty-gritty details of the hacks\, kludges\, and workarounds we’ve put into place in our digital systems to enable small groups of people to produce and distribute physical print objects AT SCALE. (Or not so much.)\nLearn more about the magazine\, and read their manifesto\, at logicmag.io.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/logic-magazine-print-ops-litquake-2019/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH
DESCRIPTION:MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER presents UNFOLLOW: A MEMOIR OF LOVING AND LEAVING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nHillside Club\, 2286 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters\, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley\, and The Aspen Institute co-present an evening with Megan Phelps-Roper for her debut book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. \nAt the age of five\, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka\, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family\, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy. As Phelps-Roper grew up\, she saw that church members were close companions and accomplished debaters\, applying the logic of predestination and the language of the King James Bible to everyday life with aplomb – which\, as the church’s Twitter spokeswoman\, she learned to do with great skill. Soon\, however\, dialogue on Twitter caused her to begin doubting the church’s leaders and message: If humans were sinful and fallible\, how could the church itself be so confident about its beliefs? As she digitally jousted with critics\, she started to wonder if sometimes they had a point – and then she began exchanging messages with a man who would help change her life. \nA gripping memoir of escaping extremism and falling in love\, Unfollow relates Phelps-Roper’s moral awakening\, her departure from the church\, and how she exchanged the absolutes she grew up with for new forms of warmth and community. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection\, Phelps-Roper’s life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization. \nYou can watch Megan’s TED talk here. \n——————- \nMegan Phelps-Roper is a writer and activist. She left the Westboro Baptist Church in November 2012 and is now an educator on topics related to extremism and communication across ideological lines. She lives in South Dakota. \nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-phelps-roper-presents-unfollow-a-memoir-of-loving-and-leaving-the-westboro-baptist-church/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Mesha Maren and M. Randal O'Wain
DESCRIPTION:M. Randal O’Wain and Mesha Maren discuss their new works\, Meander Belt: Family\, Loss and Coming of Age in the Working Class South and Sugar Run. \nAbout Meander Belt \nIn Meander Belt M. Randal O’Wain offers a reflection on how a working-class boy from Memphis\, Tennessee\, came to fall in love with language\, reading\, writing\, and the larger world outside of the American South. This memoir examines what it means for the son of a carpenter to value mental rather than physical labor and what this does to his relationship with his family\, whose livelihood and sensibility are decidedly blue collar. Straining the father-son bond further\, O’Wain leaves home to find a life outside Memphis\, roaming from place to place\, finding odd jobs\, and touring with his band. From memory and observation\, O’Wain assembles a subtle and spare portrait of his roots\, family\, and ultimately discovers that his working-class upbringing is not so antithetical to the man he has become. \nAbout Sugar Run \n“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut\, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \nIn 1989\, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later\, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop\, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains\, she heads south in search of someone she left behind\, as a way of finally making amends. There\, she meets and falls in love with Miranda\, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past—and with a town and a family that refuses to forget\, or to change? \nSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia\, Mesha Maren’s Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a break for another life\, the use and treachery of makeshift families\, and how\, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made\, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mesha-maren-and-m-randal-owain/
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:Caleb Woods / Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Caleb Woods for his first book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry. Please join us! \nHarnessing Darkness traces the struggle of living with mental illness. Through sections aptly titled Birth\, Life\, Death\, and Rebirth\, Caleb Woods gives readers the experience of what it’s like to live in the mind of someone who struggles with a roller coaster of emotions on a daily basis. Caleb chooses to open the doors of his mind\, allowing you to see not only the dark\, but the light. Caleb lets each nightmare\, depressed thought\, and abundance of anxieties come to the surface with harrowing and hopeful poems about the struggles of living with mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. Experience loss\, pain\, heartbreak\, and hope with Harnessing Darkness. \n\nCaleb Woods began writing at a young age\, first to cope with bullying at school and later to soothe his depressing thoughts. Growing up in the small town of Pisgah\, Alabama\, he was surrounded by religion and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile his faith with his sexual orientation. Caleb was told he would spend an eternity in hell for being gay – and he believed it. He was first officially diagnosed with PTSD in high school after his closest friend died unexpectedly. He moved away to college but ignored his symptoms and didn’t seek help for his mental illness. After years of suffering silently\, he began to accept his sexual orientation and eventually met his now husband\, Luke. Despite a happy marriage\, Caleb continued to suffer with symptoms of PTSD. At their peak\, the night terrors and panic attacks finally drove him to seek professional help. His doctor quickly confirmed that PTSD was the diagnosis and it wasn’t something to be taken lightly. Today\, Caleb receives treatment for PTSD\, panic disorder\, and depression by attending reoccurring therapy sessions. Throughout these years\, Caleb wrote poetry about his specific struggles surrounding mental illness and growing up gay in the Bible Belt. In his debut book\, Harnessing Darkness: Expressing Mental Illness Through Poetry\, he reveals his most personal thoughts – some dark\, some light\, some suffering\, some uplifting\, but all existential. Currently\, Caleb lives with his husband in Birmingham\, Alabama. He is a full-time writer\, author\, and poet who enjoys reading\, traveling\, playing board games\, and collecting pop culture memorabilia. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all ages event. The Bindery bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Harnessing Darkness\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caleb-woods-harnessing-darkness-expressing-mental-illness-through-poetry/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Prerna Lal
DESCRIPTION:Prerna Lal\n\n\n\n\nlaunching Unsung America: Immigrant Trailblazers and Our Fight for Freedom. Please join us for a most timely discussion. \n“Deeply insightful and intentionally detailed–Prerna Lal has conceived a text that breaks down the inner workings of the United States immigration system and the impact it has had on the lives of countless immigrants and families. Lal lays out a timeline both old and new\, that vividly chronicles the birth and impact of certain policies\, views\, and opinions within the realm of immigration policy.”–Juan Escalante \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of Unsung America by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFar too often\, immigrants are demonized and scapegoated\, when they should be celebrated as heroes and revolutionaries. This book strings together both triumphant and painful stories of immigrants who blazed trails and broke barriers in their fight for American citizenship and fundamental human rights. \nThese are ordinary people who have used their own stories on the fight for citizenship to illustrate their triumphs and trials as immigrants in a new land. Each uses a different strategy and tactics; what works for one does not work for another. They all have one thing in common\, however—a desire for racial and social justice. \n  \nPrerna Lal is a naturalized United States citizen\, born and raised in Fiji Islands with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Lal is an Indo-Fijian attorney\, based in the Bay Area\, and founder of DreamActivist\, an online advocacy network led by undocumented youth. Through the use of social media\, Lal has been credited for organising an online network to stop the deportations of undocumented youth and they are well known as one of the pivotal figures and leaders of the DREAM Act movement. A clinical law professor\, Lal is a frequent writer on immigration\, racial justice\, sexual orientation\, and how these forces intersect. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prerna-lal/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-12/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ZADIE SMITH
DESCRIPTION:ZADIE SMITH\nWednesday\, October 16\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nZadie Smith is known for her emotionally rich stories\, superb dialogue\, and unique perspective on contemporary culture. Smith wrote her widely acclaimed debut novel White Teeth during her final year at Cambridge before going on to cement her reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation with Swing Time\, The Autograph Man\, On Beauty\, and NW. Grand Union\, her debut short-story collection\, moves across genres and perspectives\, from the historic to the vividly current to the slyly dystopian\, offering a sharply alert collection about time and place\, identity and rebirth\, the persistent legacies that haunt our present selves\, and the uncanny futures that rush up to meet us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zadie-smith/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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