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SUMMARY:Liz Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:“My mission is to be a voice for the life the seas and the people who are working to save it\, to inspire and empower others to join the effort to save our seas and forge a sustainable future. I write and speak about ocean conservation and the traits we need to be effective stewards of our seas and our planet—among others\, courage\, an engaged hope\, and our capacity to work together to implement solutions.” – Liz Cunningham
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-cunningham/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Clarvoe
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Clarvoe is the author of Invisible Tender and Counter-Amores. She has received the Poets Out Loud Prize\, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and the Rome Prize in Literature\, as well as a Dakin Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers Conference and a residency from the James Merrill House. She has taught at Kenyon College for twenty-five years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-clarvoe/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170304T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170304T170000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170304T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170304T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Charif Shanahan
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Bay Area launch of Charif Shanahan’s first full-length poetry collection\, Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing. Readings by Ellen Bass\, Grady Chambers\, Matthew Siegel\, Arisa White\, and of course\, Charif Shanahan. Music by Azuah! Book signing to follow readings and music. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine\, light snacks\, and Red Bay Coffee will be made available. \nHope to see you there! \nMore about the book: \nInto Each Room We Enter without Knowing: poems by Charif Shanahan \nWinner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award\, selected by Allison Joseph. \nForthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press in February 2017.\nAvailable for pre-order at Southern Illinois University Press and on Amazon. \nPraise for Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing: \n“Charif Shanahan’s Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing is a heroic first collection where an alert dialogue beckons us\, and we risk entering. Here in these pages the politics of color is highly personal; in a time of bleaching creams and psychological erasures\, where there’s an attempt to diminish the African\, this poet confronts himself and family head-on\, and in doing so\, through wit and an astute sense of history\, his poetry dares to affect the reader. These poems cross borders in the blood and through an imagination that challenges us. Each trope is made of feeling. We need Shanahan’s voice in this time of reckoning with ourselves as a complex nation\, where each of us may understand implicitly when a speaker asks\, ‘What pattern of occasion will free him?’”—Yusef Komunyakaa\, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of Water Clocks
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-charif-shanahan/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170307T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T183000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170131T074007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T074007Z
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SUMMARY:Kirill Medvedev
DESCRIPTION:Kirill Medvedev is one of the most exciting\, unpredictable voices on the Russian literary scene today. Widely published and acclaimed as a poet\, Medvedev is also an activist for labor and a member of the Russian Socialist movement “Vepered” [Forward]. His small press\, The Free Marxist Publishing House [SMI] has recently released his translations of Pasolini\, Eagleton\, and Goddard\, as well as numerous books at the intersection of literature\, art and politics. It’s No Good\, Medvedev’s first collection of work in English translation\, was released in spring 2016 by Ugly Duckling Presse
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirill-medvedev/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170308T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170308T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170131T075327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T051135Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Thi Bui
DESCRIPTION:Debut author Thi Bui discusses her intimate and poignant graphic memoir portraying one family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the book launch of one of 2017’s most anticipated graphic novel releases. \nAbout the Book \nThis beautifully illustrated and emotional story is an evocative memoir about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish of immigration and the lasting effects that displacement has on a child and her family\, Bui documents the story of her family’s daring escape after the fall of South Vietnam in the 1970s\, and the difficulties they faced building new lives for themselves. \nAt the heart of Bui’s story is a universal struggle: While adjusting to life as a first-time mother\, she ultimately discovers what it means to be a parent—the endless sacrifices\, the unnoticed gestures\, and the depths of unspoken love. Despite how impossible it seems to take on the simultaneous roles of both parent and child\, Bui pushes through. With haunting\, poetic writing and breathtaking art\, she examines the strength of family\, the importance of identity\, and the meaning of home. \nIn what Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen calls “a book to break your heart and heal it\,” The Best We Could Do brings to life Thi Bui’s journey of understanding\, and provides inspiration to all of those who search for a better future while longing for a simpler past. \nPRAISE \n“A powerful and intimate look at the modern immigrant experience in America.”\n— ICv2 \nThi Bui’s stark\, compelling memoir is about an ordinary family\, but her story delivers the painful truth that most Vietnamese of the 20th century know in an utterly personal fashion—that history is found in the marrow of one’s bones\, ready to be passed on through blood\, through generations\, through feelings. A book to break your heart and heal it.\n— Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-thi-bui/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170315T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170315T200000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
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SUMMARY:Melissa Febos
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Melissa Febos to the store to discuss and sign her memoir Abandon Me\, on Wednesday\, March 15th at 7:00 pm. \nIn this dazzling new work\, Melissa Febos captures the intense bonds of love and the need for connection — with family\, lovers\, and oneself. First\, her birth father\, who left her with only an inheritance of addiction and Native American blood\, its meaning a mystery. As Febos tentatively reconnects\, she sees how both these lineages manifest in her own life\, marked by compulsion and an instinct for self-erasure. Meanwhile\, she remains closely tied to the sea captain who raised her\, his parenting ardent but intermittent as his work took him away for months at a time. Woven throughout is the hypnotic story of an all-consuming\, long-distance love affair with a woman\, marked equally by worship and withdrawal. In visceral\, erotic prose\, Febos captures their mutual abandonment to passion and obsession — and the terror and exhilaration of losing herself in another.\nAt once a fearlessly vulnerable memoir and an incisive investigation of art\, love\, and identity\, Abandon Me draws on childhood stories\, religion\, psychology\, mythology\, popular culture\, and the intimacies of one writer’s life to reveal intellectual and emotional truths that feel startlingly universal. \nMelissa Febos is the author of the memoir Whip Smart. Portions from Abandon Me have won prizes from Prairie Schooner\, Story Quarterly\, and the Center for Women Writers\, and twice earned notice in the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. Febos serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts\, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Monmouth University and on the M.F.A. faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-febos/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170316T210000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit
DESCRIPTION:In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me\, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced\, misogynistic violence\, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon\, the gender binary\, the recent history of rape jokes\, and much more. In characteristic style\, Solnit mixes humor\, keen analysis\, and sharp insight in The Mother of All Questions: Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions. \nJoining her in conversation is Jeff Chang\, author of the recent must-read collection We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation — a wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. \nPlease join us for an unforgettable night of provocative thought and conversation! \nWriter\, historian\, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of sixteen books about environment\, landscape\, community\, art\, politics\, hope\, and memory\, including the national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me\, Hope in the Dark\, The Faraway Nearby\, A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim\, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school\, she is a contributing editor to Harper’s. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, and the arts. His second critically-acclaimed book was re-released in paperback earlier this year under the title Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America. He co-founded Culture Str/ke and ColorLines and serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. Chang was named by The Utne Reader one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and\, in 2016\, YBCA named him as one of its 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170320T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T000000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170320T012616Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press: Spring Equinox 2017 Fundraiser
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-spring-equinox-2017-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170320T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T203000
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SUMMARY:The Sweetwater Sessions: Tyson Amir
DESCRIPTION:Tyson Amir is an author\, musician\, educator\, community organizer\, and freedom fighter born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the spirit of The Dragon\, George Lester Jackson\, he endeavors to utilize any and all resources at his disposal as weapons to bring about the eventual liberation of his people. Tyson has been engaged in movement work since the late 1990s. In the music world he’s an accomplished artist\, his last album Purpose earned two top 5 singles as well as critical acclaim from major hip hop publications. And now Tyson is releasing Black Boy Poems\, his debut work as an author. Black Boy Poems is a powerful\, timely\, and revolutionary body of literature. A much needed social commentary that seeks to inspire his people towards liberation.\nYou can find out more about Tyson Amir at www.BlackBoyPoems.com \nAbout The Sweetwater Sessions\nThis multi-sensory\, multi-media series of creative arts practice engagements gives voice to the dramatic collaborative process between Artist\, Spirit\, tradition and community in the design of freedom narratives for contemporary culture. With an aim to intersect and possibly disrupt social constructs\, “The Sweetwater Sessions” allow for a deeper exploration of femininity and liquidity in the creation of a lush identity celebrating Black people and Blackness. Ashara Ekundayo\, Curator & Host
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-sweetwater-sessions-tyson-amir/
LOCATION:Omi Gallery\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170320T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170320T203000
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SUMMARY:Sam Bercholz
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all heard the stories of someone who has had a near-death experience. They’ve gone toward that white light\, seen a vision of heaven\, and have lived to tell the tale. But what about someone who took a journey in the opposite direction\, not to the heavenly realms\, but to the terrifying depths of hell? \nHere\, Sam Bercholz\, the visionary founder of Shambhala Publications and influential figure in disseminating Buddhist teachings and Eastern wisdom in the West\, tells his story. After a sextuple coronary bypass surgery\, Bercholz experienced a vision of the underworld\, a place of unending suffering where human souls go to meet their karmic retribution. We see tyrants and mass-murderers\, the selfish and careless\, the abusive and power-hungry—all who once thought they were getting ahead on earth now faced with the hard truths of the consequences of their actions in this fiery realm. \nBercholz relayed his story to the renowned Tibetan artist Pema Namdol Thaye\, and the result—as you’ll see in the pages here—is truly astounding. Part Dante’s Inferno\, part Tibetan Book of the Dead\, part Hellboy\, the images graphically transport the reader and viewer into the horrifying world Bercholz describes. These paintings are complex\, unforgettable\, and truly unique\, and several prestigious art institutions have already signed for special exhibitions of this work. \nThe book has already been optioned for film by Stuart MacDonald of Emerald Entertainment\, and tickets for a New York City event at The Rubin Museum\, featuring the author in conversation with the actor Steve Buscemi\, sold out within weeks of going on sale. Praise has been received from writer George Saunders (“A dark thrill to read.”)\, author and activist Matthieu Ricard (“A fascinating and deeply thought-provoking testimony\, powerfully illustrated.”) and Tibetan art expert Robert Beer (“A courageous and subjective account.”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-bercholz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T210000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #22
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only  Christine No. \nFeatured lineup of writers include: Jamey Genna\, C. Anne Gardner\, Gina Goldblatt\, Tureeda Mikell\, Jason Ridler\, Ayo Kensu Ra\, Rene Vaz\, Jenee Darden\, Norma Smith\, Anna Davidson\, Jessica Mejia\, Brenda Usher-Carpino\, Jose Vadi  and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: Melissa Jones! \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-22/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170321T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170321T213000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Camille Paglia
DESCRIPTION:From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism — from motherhood to Madonna\, football to Friedan\, stilettos to Steinem. \nWhen Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae\, she established herself as a smart\, fearless\, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now\, for the first time\, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume: Free Women\, Free Men. Whether she’s declaring Madonna the future of feminism\, asking if men are obsolete\, calling for equal opportunity for American women years before the founding of N.O.W.\, or urging all women to love football\, Paglia can always be counted on to get a discussion started. The rock-solid intellectual foundation beneath her fiery words assures her timeless relevance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-camille-paglia/
LOCATION:The Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170322T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T200000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170117T103725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T104423Z
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SUMMARY:Graham Foust
DESCRIPTION:Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Graham Foust.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graham-foust/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170322T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170322T210000
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CREATED:20170320T021228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T021228Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Queer Speculative Fiction
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-speculative-fiction/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T210000
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SUMMARY:Kirsty Murray
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club proudly presents award-winning author Kirsty Murray in celebration of the story collection\, Eat the Sky\, Drink the Ocean. \nBe transported into dystopian cities and alternate universes. Hang out with unicorns\, cyborgs and pixies.  Learn how to waltz in outer space. Be amazed and beguiled by a fairy tale with an unexpected twist\, a futuristic take on a TV cooking show\, and a playscript with tentacles. In other words\, get ready for a wild ride! \nThis anthology is a groundbreaking collection of speculative fiction by twenty of India and Australia’s most talented writers and illustrators. I co-edited the book along with Indian authors Anita Roy and Payal Dhar and the collaborative process was both intense and richly rewarding. The collection includes 73 pages of graphically illustrated short stories\, ten prose stories and a playscript that I co-wrote with Manjula Padmanabhan. \nContributors include: Samhita Arni\, Kuzhali Manickavel\, Manjula Padmanabhan\, Vandana Singh\, Payal Dhar\, Anita Roy\, Annie Zaidi\, Penni Russon\, Kate Constable\, Isobelle Carmody\, Justine Larbalestier\, Alyssa Brugman\, Kirsty Murray\, Margo Lanagan\, Priya Kuriyan\, Prabha Mallya\, Amruta Pail\, Lily Mae Martin\, Nicki Greenberg and Mandy Ord.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kirsty-murray/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T213000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170324T010522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T010522Z
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SUMMARY:Just Breathe: Kala Storytelling Night
DESCRIPTION:ACTION: JOIN THIS STORY CIRCLE FOR A NIGHT OF HUMOR AND POLITICS \nAre you politically burned out? Do you spend too many evenings scrolling on your phone and feel overwhelmed by the onslaught of political news? Join us for a night of music and live storytelling where you can sit\, relax and just breathe. Kala’s amazing line-up of Bay Area storytellers will have the floor to share humor\, compassion and connection in their experiences dealing with the changes in our country right now. \nStorytellers include comedian Dhaya Lakshminarayanan\, comedian and Second City veteran Rachel Hamilton\, Moth performer Daniel Ari\, NPR storyteller Scott Sanders\, and author Emily Meg Weinstein! Music by: Lexa Welsh Emcees: Artists Christy Chan & Maria Finn. \nRSVP here. This is a benefit for the ACLU. $10 suggested donation taken at the door\, no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/just-breathe-kala-storytelling-night/
LOCATION:Kala Art Institute\, 2990 San Pablo Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170323T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170323T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170201T031017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T031017Z
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SUMMARY:Elif Batuman + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Ever since her bestselling collection of essays\, The Possessed\, was published in 2010\, her quirky but highly literary vision of life\, literature and language has made readers take notice. A staff writer now for The New Yorker\, she has developed a cult-like following\, and with the publication of The Idiot\, her career reaches an irrepressible crescendo. \nThe Idiot takes a kind of story that we all think we know well\, and turns it completely on its head. Batuman’s novel reminds us that to be American means to be from elsewhere. Our heroine\, Selin\, is the daughter of Turkish immigrants who have made deep sacrifices so that their daughter may be able to experience all the privileges of the American way of life\, in particular\, when it comes to her education at Harvard. But the weight of that expectation does not sit lightly. “This book is a bold\, unforgettable\, un-put- downable read by a new master stylist\,” Mary Karr wrote\, “Not since Don Quixote has a quest for love gone so hilariously and poignantly awry.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elif-batuman-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170324T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T210000
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: Emji Spero + Shelley Wong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Emji Speero and Shelley Wong\, with music by Blowdryer Punk Soul (with Jennifer Blowdryer & Michelle Gonazales). \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nEmji Spero is a performance artist and writer living in Oakland\, California. They are an editor at Timeless\, Infinite Light and the author of almost any shit will do. They are currently working on Exhaustion: A Retching\, a dry lyric essay that documents the affective weight of the accumulated\, subthreshold violences\, which daily permeate a body in transition. Code-switching between poetry and essay\, Spero explores Jose Muñoz’s notion that “utopia exists in the quotidian.” \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a poetry chapbook recently published by Diode Editions. She is a Kundiman fellow and lives in Oakland. (https://californiawong.wordpress.com/)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-emji-spero-shelley-wong/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170324T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T210000
DTSTAMP:20260626T164316
CREATED:20170201T031143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T031143Z
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SUMMARY:Omnidawn Reading
DESCRIPTION:More info coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omnidawn-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:PADC Community Nite
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the values of diversity and inclusion at PADC’s 7th annual Community Night featuring our sellout lineup: Headliner Mingus Amungus\, led by Piedmont resident Miles Perkins\, builds on the complex bebop\, funk and classical rhythms of virtuoso bass player and composer Charles Mingus and adds their own modern twist. They are joined by Together We Slam\, a group of Piedmont high school and middle school students performing a provocative set of written word pieces on how we view and experience differences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/padc-community-nite/
LOCATION:Impact Hub Oakland\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets at Wolfman: Garnett\, Poppick\, Crawford\, + Ross
DESCRIPTION:Callie Garnett! Daniel Poppick! Marisa Crawford! So exciting! Poets at Wolfman! Saturday night! All three poets have new books! All three are from Brooklyn! And their first names all have six letters in them! What?! It’s fate! Come down to the bookstore and say what up to your destiny! Who knows\, we might even add a local poet to the mix! And stop using exclamation marks! Maybe! Eventually! \nOh wait! We did add a local poet! It’s Margaret Ross! She’s the author of A TIMESHARE\, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She lives in Berkeley and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallie Garnett is the author of the chapbook Hallelujah\, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, a collaboration with illustrator Tallulah Pomeroy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude\, Public Books\, Jubilat\, and The Literateur. She lives in Brooklyn and works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. \nDaniel Poppick’s first book of poetry\, The Police\, is out this year from Omnidawn. His work has recently appeared in BOMB\, Granta\, the New Republic\, Hyperallergic\, and Fence. He lives in Brooklyn\, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. \nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (Switchback\, forthcoming 2017) and The Haunted House (Switchback\, 2010)\, and the chapbooks 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples\, 2013) and Big Brown Bag (Gazing Grain\, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and other publications\, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia\, 2016). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website WEIRD SISTER. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-at-wolfman-garnett-poppick-crawford-ross/
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:Saturday Night Special: Get Off My Lawn
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, we invite you to explore our theme: “Get off my lawn.” Because kids today\, am I right? And none of us is getting any younger. But also because tresspassing and guns and violence. Or childhood summers and sprinklers. And those pesky garden gnomes. You decide. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur March features are: QR Hand & Paul Corman-Roberts\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 25th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-get-off-my-lawn/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Swan Day Feminist Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers falls on SWAN day! Support Women Artists Now! Wear anything with swans on it!!! \nFeaturing:\nGinger Cuervas\nEmily Butterfly\nAqueila M. Lewis\nSteffi Drewes\nLeslie Absher\nNana K. Twumasi\nNatalie Devora\nSara McAulay\nKathryn Kruse\nAi Ebashi\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nMarguerite Munoz \nGinger Cuervas \nArt3mis//\nMother\, Emcee\, Painter\nAfro Borinquen\, carrying on the spirit of my grandmothers\nHija del sol y la agua\nThe Projects raised me\nHeart full of Brooklyn\nFeet planted in Oakland \nEmily Butterfly is an interstellar story teller who lives to delight children with her magically unique form of puppetry\, storytelling and song. She has had the honor of creating shows and performing for thousands and thousands of preschoolers and elementary school students and feels blessed to have the abilities to create her own puppet friends\, write and perform inspirational tales. Her voice has dazzled ears through her voice over career with Free Range Graphics and Cartoon Network and a three year stint as the producer and hostess of a children’s radio program.Her wide vocal range\, uniquely magical ideas and intuitive approach to entertaining young children has bloomed her into a very successful edutainer.\nShe loves the stage and aspires to delight and inspire millions with her magic.\nwww.emilybutterfly.com \nNana K. Twumasi lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. An alum of California College of the Arts MFA Program in Writing\, her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Sou’Wester Journal\, Ballyhoo Stories\, and Eleven Eleven. She is the co-editor of Monday Night\, a journal of new literature. \nSara McAulay grew up in Virginia and did time in New Jersey\, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review\, Black Warrior Review\, California Quarterly\, The Literary Review\, Lodestar Quarterly\, North American Review\, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA\, among others. She edited the online journal Tattoo Highway from 1998 – 2013. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay. She is now retired\, a state that suits her very\, very well. Ten years ago she took up the sport of dog agility. Weekends often find her pretending to be much younger and much less politically engaged than she really is\, chasing after her two fast Australian Shepherd dogs. Sara has two grandchildren in Portland OR\, and a step-granddaughter in college in Hawaii. In 2014\, after 21 years together\, she and her partner made honest women of each other at last. \nAi Ebashi is a writer-translator-illustrator who is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Originally from Japan\, she has spent the majority of her adult-life living in various parts of the United States as well as in Istanbul\, Turkey\, where she received her MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist\, translator/interpreter\, children’s book author\, yoga instructor and olive cracker (volunteer.) In 2015\, she decided to settle down in the Bay Area and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is currently a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Her playwriting credits include One Day(Breach Once More\, Fringe\,) Puppet Show (GreenHouse Festival\, SFSU Fringe-Goes-Long\,) The Pursuit of Happiness (SFSU Fringe) Reversi and Reincarnation (Berkeley Rep School of Theater\,) and her publications include Öykü Denizi (National Geographic) and Colors\, translations of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poetry (New American Writing.) \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula. Their first book\, The Easy Body\, is due to be published this spring by Oakland press Timeless Infinite Light. They live in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-day-feminist-showcase/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stories of Stranded Deportees
DESCRIPTION:Lives and Voices Not Heard—Stories of Stranded Deportees: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Experiences Facing Deportation\nFeaturing Readings by Nghiep Lam and Eddy Zheng\nPanel to follow with lawyer and social justice advocate.\nOrganized with Bonnie Kwong\nSunday March 26th\n4pm \nListen to excerpts from journals kept while incarcerated and through the deportation process\, as well as a panel discussion about the reality of the prison to deportation pipeline in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities in Oakland. \nEddy Zheng is the Co-Director for the Oakland based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC.) APSC provides support to Asians and Pacific Islander prisoners and educates the broader community about the growing number of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States being imprisoned\, detained\, and deported. Eddy spent 21 year of his life in prison for crimes he had committed at the age of 16. Since his return to the free world\, Eddy has dedicated his life to serving the youth and communities of the greater Bay Area. Eddy is the subject of the award winning documentary\, “Breathin’ The Eddy Zheng Story.” \nNghiep “Ke” Lam is the Reentry Coordinator of Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)\, based in Oakland\, California. Ke and his parents fled Vietnam in 1978 and was rescued to Hong Kong Refugee Camp. Two years later he and his brother and parents were issued visas to enter America. At the age of 17\, Ke committed a crime that lead to his imprisonment for 23 years. Ke was active in social justice work on the inside and continues to do so upon returning home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stories-of-stranded-deportees/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fresh & Best: Farid Matuk & Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Farid Matuk and Tonya Foster to the store on Monday\, March 27th at 7pm as part of a Special Edition FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \nFarid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and\, most recently\, of the chapbook My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta). He serves on the editorial team at Fence\, on the board of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing\, and on the MFA faculty at the University of Arizona. With the support of a New Works Grant from the Headlands Center for the Arts\, Matuk is currently at work on two books of poems that in their distinct ways consider the question with which Orlando Patterson’s ended 1982’s Slavery and Social Death: “must we challenge our conception of freedom and the value we place upon it?” \nTonya Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and coedited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. Foster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-best-farid-matuk-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk’s books of poetry include My Daughter La Chola and This Isa Nice Neighborhood\, recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award\, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award\, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. His essays can be found in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde\, The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind\, and others. His translations from Spanish have appeared widely\, and he serves as a poetry editor for FENCE. The recipient of Ford and Fulbright fellowships\, Matuk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Katherine Hastings + G.P. Kratz
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Hastings’s new book of poems is Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar. Annie Finch says\, “Katherine Hastings’ poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature\, literature\, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.” Her two previous full-length collections are Nighthawks and Cloud Fire. A former poet laureate of Sonoma County\, she is the curator of WordTemple Poetry Series and host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM. \nG. P. Skratz’s new book of poems is Sundae Missile: the Mass of the Church of the Center that will not Hold\, a homophonic translation of the “pre-Vatican Council Latin version” of the Roman Catholic Mass. Andrei Codrescu says\, “Until they ever improve the wine and put some jam in the wafers\, Catholics will have to be content with GP Skratz’ sound translation of the Mass. It doesn’t beat Bach but it would work for Sinatra.” His previous publications are The Gates of Disappearance and Fun\, and Everything Else\, co-authored with the late poet Darrell Gray\, with drawings by Dave Morice and photographs by Shelly Vogel. With a long history as a poet-performer\, he is probably most noted for his production of “The Actualist Conventions” with Darrell Gray\, Jim Nisbet\, and David Schein. He currently performs poetry and music with Arundo and “twisted roots” music with Smooth Toad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-katherine-hastings-g-p-kratz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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