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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-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170402T170000
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Hat Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:This is a fundraiser for Beast Crawl 2017. \nWear your most amazing hat! Bowler\, princess\, fez\, sailor\, sexy-30’s-feather\, baseball\, cowboy\, pork pie\, witch\, church lady\, viking\, ten gallon\, beer can\, Beach Blanket Babylon\, Burning-Man-extra-furry-glow-stick-fun-time. Yes. Do it. \nSunday\nApril 2\, 2017\n5:00 PM \nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\n(between 23rd & 24th St)\n\nAll ages! \nWin fabulous raffle prizes donated by local businesses! \nHat Party sponsored by Telegraph Beer Garden\nSuggested donation $5 \n10% of sales at Telegraph are donated to the Beast! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s free annual literary festival\, featuring over 150 poets\, writers and performance artists in a single night\, spread out over three hours and 40 local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. \nBeast Crawl 2017 is Saturday\, September 2\, in Uptown Oakland!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-hat-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T190000
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SUMMARY:Founder's Night: Mark States + Chris Chandler
DESCRIPTION:Founders Night – Mark States returns to feature! Chris Chandler Co-features!\nThis session will be held at Monkey House so as to accommodate more people. 1638 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA 94703\nNote: No food. Beverages OK.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/founders-night-mark-states-chris-chandler/
LOCATION:Monkey House\, 1638 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:When April Showers Come...
DESCRIPTION:Featured: Rafael Jesús González\, MK Chavez\, James Cagney\, and Rose Black. An Open Mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-april-showers-come/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170404T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T203000
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SUMMARY:Michael DeForge
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael DeForge for a live reading and book signing as he introduces the world to Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story\, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work\, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism\, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. He will be in conversation with Ryan Sands. \n* in Conjunction with Comix Experience’s Graphic-Novel-of-the-monthclub \n— \nMichael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa\, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has been nominated for\, or won\, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His previous graphic novels with Drawn & Quarterly are Ant Colony\, Big Kids\, and First Year Healthy. This March he releases Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. \nRyan Sands is a writer and zinemaker living in San Francisco. Along with his wife\, Ryan runs the publishing house Youth in Decline\, which publishes the award-wining monograph quarterly Frontier\, as well as graphic novels by unique creators from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-deforge/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170404T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T220000
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SUMMARY:Bassem Youssef
DESCRIPTION:Dubbed the “Jon Stewart of Egypt\,” political satirist Bassem Youssef returns to Berkeley with his incisive wit and astute commentary. Named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time\, the cardiac surgeon-turned television personality created the hilarious\, controversial\, and wildly popular Egyptian television program Al Bernameg (The Show)\, the first political satire show in the Middle East. “Satire brings awareness and breaks down taboos\,” Youssef told Rolling Stone magazine\, and in his talk\, he riffs on propaganda\, politics\, and the media\, in both the Middle East and in his adopted home\, the US.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bassem-youssef/
LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall\, UC Berkeley\, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:devorah major
DESCRIPTION:devorah major served as San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate from 2002 to 2006. In addition to her four poetry books including where river meets ocean\, street smarts (winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Excellence Award)\, she has published four poetry chapbooks\, two novels including An Open Weave (winner of the ALA Black Caucus First Novel Award)\, and two biographies for young adults. In 2016\, City Lights Publishing will release her new poetry collection and then we became. major’s poetry has been recorded on four CDs and she performs nationally and internationally with and without musicians. She is Poet-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums and a Senior Adjunct Professor in Diversity Studies at California College for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devorah-major/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meredith May
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Meredith May to the store to discuss and sign I\, Who Would Not Die\, on Thursday\, April 6th at 7:00 pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend! As a special treat\, John Steven Morgan will be playing piano as part of the event. \nKhorramshahr\, Iran\, May 1982–It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century\, and Najah\, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript\, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier\, Zahed\, who was ordered to kill him. Instead\, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life. \nThis is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching\, essential\, and astonishing. It’s a war story\, a love story\, and page-turner of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction\, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly\, it is a story that must be told\, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless\, barbaric wars.\nLittle has been written of the Iran-Iraq war\, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century\, one fought with chemical weapons\, ballistic missiles\, and cadres of child soldiers.\nThe numbers involved are staggering:\n-All told\, it claimed 700\,000 lives–200\,000 Iraqis\, and 500\,000 Iranians.\n-Young men of military service age–eighteen and above in Iraq\, fifteen and above in Iran–died in the greatest numbers.\n-80\,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed\, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.\n-The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war.\nRarely does this kind of reportage succeed so powerfully as literature. More rarely still does such searingly brilliant literature fit to stand beside Remarque\, Hemingway\, and O’Brien and emerge from behind “enemy” lines.\nZahed\, a child\, and Najah\, a young restaurateur\, are rare men\, not just survivors\, but masterful\, wondrously gifted storytellers. Written with award-winning journalist Meredith May\, this is literature of a very high order\, set down with passion\, urgency\, and consummate skill. This story is an affirmation that\, in the end\, it is our humanity that transcends politics and borders and saves us all. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle\, where her 2004 narrative series on a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170406T220000
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SUMMARY:Outburst
DESCRIPTION:Outburst is a politically tinged reading and screening event celebrating the right to free expression and assembly. This will be our first event of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of events. Join us at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore for an evening of readings from local poets\, a healthy smattering of visual art\, a mysterious master of ceremonies and surprise guest star Emma Goldman. It’s goona be a hoot\, we’re all gonna yell\, then be very quiet\, and then go home and feel like we got out there and did something. \nPoets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin with Peck the Town Crier\nEvan Kennedy\nStephanie Young \nVisual artists:\nCaleb Duarte\nTheodore J.H. Hulsker\nJennie Ottinger\nAngela Willetts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/outburst/
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:The Oracle Speaks: Dreams from the Dreamers
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with House/Full of Blackwomen this spring. \nWe are hosting two writing workshops\, one for black girls 8-12 and another for black girls 13-18\, which will culminate in a reading and book release on April 7: THE ORACLE SPEAKS:\nDREAMS FROM THE DREAMERS. \nThe night will feature readings from our youth and women dreamers participating in House/Full’s Ritual Rest—a durational performance ritual for black women to sleep\, rest and dream intentionally over the period of seven continuous days and nights. \nHouse/Full will also be installing a multi-media and performance-based exhibit here at 2301 Telegraph that will be open to the public from March 26 to April 8. \nHouse/Full of Blackwomen is a performance ritual that addresses the displacement\, well being\, and sex-trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland performed as a series of episodes throughout Oakland through 2018. To find out more about House/Full\, and all the events for Black Women Dreamin visit http://housefullofblackwomen.com/\n—\nThere are still spot available in our spring break workshop: \nBlack Girls Dreaming Spring Writing Camp (Ages 8-12) \nMonday\, April 3 – Thursday April 6\n9:30am-12:00pm\nSnacks Provided \nRegister at chapter510.org/students
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-oracle-speaks-dreams-from-the-dreamers/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Siel Ju\, Brynn Saito\, + Andrew Lam
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Siel Ju to the store to discuss and sign her novel-in-stories\, Cake Time on Friday\, April 7th at 7:00 pm. Joining her in conversation will be fellow Red Hen Press poets\, Brynn Saito and Andrew Lam\, both finalists for California Book awards . \nDaring yet aimless\, smart but slightly strange\, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices\, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In How Not to Have an Abortion\, the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In Easy Target\, the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later\, in Glow\, she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover’s secret daughter. Ultimately\, this unflinching novel-in-stories grapples with urgent\, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices\, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world\, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self. \nSiel Ju is a Korean-American writer who grew up in Kenya and now lives in Los Angeles. Her novel-in-stories\, Cake Time\, was the winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit and Might Club. Her stories and poems have appeard in ZYZZYVA\, The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week)\, The Los Angeles Review\, and Denver Quarterly\, among others. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is the editor of Flash Flash Click\, a weekly email lit zine for fast fiction. \nBrynn Saito is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award. Her work has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and Pleiades. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship\, the Poets 11 award from the San Francisco Public Library\, and the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Recently\, Brynn served as the Kundiman Writer-in-Residence at Sierra Nevada College. Born and raised in Fresno\, CA\, Brynn currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Birds of Paradise Lost\, finalist for the California Book Award\, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, The Chicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. He lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 7\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/siel-ju-brynn-saito-andrew-lam/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:April at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for April with Thea Matthews\, Meghan Elison\, Norma Liliana Valdez\, and Lluvia de Milagros Carrasco. There will be a dynamic reading\, a Q&A session\, AND Gluten Free Double Dare Chocolate Cake from James and the Giant Cupcake in celebration of Raina León’s 36th birthday.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-at-cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170409T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Martha Rhodes + Bruce Willard
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 9th at 3pm featuring Martha Rhodes and Bruce Willard. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \n  \nMartha Rhodes’s new book of poems is The Thin Wall. Susan Wheeler says\, “The Thin Wall—between care and resentment\, protectiveness and rage\, betrayal and abandonment–marks the furious\, vital poems in Martha Rhodes’s fifth collection…Martha Rhodes has long been one of our finest poets\, and now she has written her best and most moving book.” Her previous collections are At the Gate\, Perfect Disappearance\, Mother Quiet\, and The Beds. She directs the summer Conference on Poetry at the Frost Place and is the director of Four Way Books in New York City. \nPhoto Credit- Rachel Eliza Griffiths \nBruce Willard’s new book of poems is Violent Blues. Juan Felipe Herrera says\, “Willard plays the notes in-between—the awakenings\, loves and losses\, the slippages between two blurred bodies of life\, of sending and receiving­ that is the ‘ununderstandable\,’ perhaps like Thelonius Monk’s fractured piano\, the one that flames in the center of being\, meaning\, and enlightenment.” His earlier collection is Holding Ground. He spends his time in Maine\, Colorado\, and California and runs several clothing businesses. \n  \nCopies of The Thin Wall and Violent Blues will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2017 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-martha-rhodes-bruce-willard/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mills MFA Alumni Reading
DESCRIPTION:MFA Alumni Reading featuring Christine Hyung Oak-Lee and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-mfa-alumni-reading/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170411T210000
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170412T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170412T193000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Douglas Kearney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170412T210000
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome contributors of Oakland Noir to the store to celebrate this new release on Wednesday\, April 12th at 7:00 pm. The participants for this evening include editors Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller and authors Dorothy Lazard\, Nick Petrulakis\, and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder . \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJerry Thompson is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the co-author of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nEddie Muller\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nDorothy Lazard grew up in West Oakland and was an early fan of the library. She has worked at the Oakland Main Library since 1983 and is now the reference librarian of the Main Library’s Oakland History Room. \n  \nNick Petrulakis is a bookseller and self-taught mixologist –  what could be a more natural pairing? Inspired by books\, characters\, settings\, and authors\, he uses all of these elements for inspiration when creating a new drink. Check out his blog\, Drinks with Nick to see his latest cocktails. \n  \nKeri Miki-Lani Schroeder is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland. A fan of all things odd\, experimental\, or transgressive\, Schroeder creates artist books and dark short fiction. After earning an MFA in book art and creative writing from Mills College in 2015\, Schroeder now works for Flying Fish Press\, an independent publisher of limited-edition artists’ books\, and teaches book art workshops and classes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yrsa Daley-Ward
DESCRIPTION:Yrsa Daley-Ward contemplates her role in the world in which she lives and loves\, reading pieces from Alice Walker and other writers. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members\, and opens with a reading by Oakland writer\, Christian Johnson. \nDUENDE\nWednesday\, April 12 • 7PM\nhttp://matatu.eventbrite.com/ \n__________\nYrsa Daley-Ward was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England\, and is of mixed West African and West Indian heritage. After moving to London\, Yrsa began a full-time career in modeling and acting\, visible on runways and magazine covers in Angola\, Cameroon\, Nigeria and South Africa. In 2013\, her first collection of stories ‘On Snakes and Other Stories\,’ was published while living between Cape Town and Johannesburg\, followed up with Yrsa’s widely acclaimed\, ‘Bone.’ \n__________\nBorn in Oakland\, California\, Christian Johnson is a writer\, image maker\, and film curator. His work aims to create multi-layered revolutionary images of the black body in motion. Johnson is one half of the brain trust behind last years Black Atheistic film series\, and as the artist in residence at E.M. Wolfman he is in preproduction on the short film “A Moment of Truth + Sin.” A forthcoming book of essays on last years film series entitled “Black Asthetic Season 1” will be released later this year. \n__________\nThe Kenyan matatu\, the Thai tuk-tuk\, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation\, rooted in local community and global diasporas\, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next. \nMATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts\, and supported by KQED\, East Bay Express\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yrsa-daley-ward/
LOCATION:DUENDE\, 468 19th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. \nIn this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town\, while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, keenly observed portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran’s forthcoming novel\, Lucky Boy\, has been praised as “richly layered” and “superbly crafted”. Due for release in January 2017\, the novel tells the story of a young undocumented Mexican woman who finds her fate unexpectedly entwined with that of a Berkeley couple. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, came out in 2009. Sekaran now lives in Berkeley and teaches writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:A Sixteen Rivers Press Launch Celebration with Poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener\n\n\n\n\nreading from new collections\, Body\, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 13\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Erin Rodoni’s Body\, in Good Light: \nThroughout this debut collection\, Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a  caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \n“Here is a book that journeys out into the world\, and also inward\, into the mysteries of private life\, of the body\, where ‘bliss\, like a memory\, can be unearthed by scent.’ I love how the wisdom enters the moment of passion in these poems\, where we see ourselves living here\, on this earth\, ‘believing // in these bodies.’ This is a marvelous debut.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Dancing In Odessa \nErin Rodoni’s work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Born and raised in Point Reyes\, Rodoni currently lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Gillian Wegener’s This Sweet Haphazard: \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \n“Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems— rivers\, bees\, the Old Mill Café\, forest fires\, churches\, Neville Bros. Service\, the ghosts of Humboldt County…and most importantly\, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative\, Wegener charts past and present\, interior and exterior\, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave.”—Dean Rader\, author of Works & Days \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance. Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener lives in Modesto where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto. \nAbout Sixteen Rivers Press: \nSixteen Rivers Press is poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Bay Area poets. The press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Laura Hinton + Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Laura Hinton’s new book of poems is Ubermütter’s Death Dance. Elizabeth Frost asks\, “How do we survive grief—let alone write it? Shattered by the inexplicable death of her only child at 32\, Laura Hinton miraculously gives us this lacerating work of witness\, “am I still a mother?” she asks\, refusing any answer…I feel privileged to read—to be—in these words.” She is a scholar\, editor\, literary critic\, and multi-media poet. Among her many scholarly books is the edited collection Jayne Cortez\, Adrienne Rich\, and the Feminist Superhero: Voice\, Vision\, Politics and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women’s Poetics. Her previous book of poems is Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub). She maintains a blog on hybrid poetics\, “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com). Her readings are performances\, often including dance.\nAngela Hume’s new full-length book of poems is Middle Time. Eveyn Reilly says\, “Mid-stream\, mid-era\, mid-construction of the notion of an Anthropocene extending into a multitude of future absences\, Hume is writing poetry that is both symptom and diagnosis. Querying vocabularies of mitigation\, of damage\, of ‘rage’s junk effects\,’ these intelligent\, visually and sonically acute fragments set forth an almost impossible lyric of a ‘possible earth capsizing toward you’ or\, rather\, us.” Widely published in literary journals\, she is also the author of the chapbooks Melos\, The Middle\, and Second Story of Your Body.\nFor more on Poetry Flash events\, see Poetryflash.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-laura-hinton-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck + Jose Luis Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck\, and Jose Luis Gutierrez will read at 7 pm on Friday\, April 14th\, at Nefeli Caffe\, 1854 Euclid Avenue\, a little north of Hearst\, in Berkeley\, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading. \nThis reading is also a celebration of the latest issue of Ambush Review. \nSharon Coleman’s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks\, that came out from Paper Press in 2016. Her most recent publications appear in Your Impossible Voice\, White Stag\, and Ambush Review. \nKim Shuck is a poet\, regalia maker and educator. Shuck is author of four solo books\, many works that have appeared in anthologies and literary journals\, and thousands of irritable postings on social media. She holds an MFA in Fine Art /textiles from San Francisco State University\, has won awards including a bay area Local Hero Award and a first book award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and she is fascinated by shiny objects. Kim’s latest book is Clouds Running In which was published by Taurean Horn Press. \nJosé Luis Gutiérrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio\, Scythe\, Margie\, Poemeleon\, DMQ\, The Cortland Review\, Jetfuel\, Caliban and the anthologies Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent and is forthcoming in Metonym\, Xavier Review and Kestrel\, among others. His first poetry collection\, A World Less Away\, was published in 2016. \nBob Booker is a longtime contributor to the San Francisco-Bay Area poetry scene as a poet\, editor\, teacher\, performer and promoter: Co-editor of Tunnel Road\, Leanfrog\, A North American Haiku Publication\, Awaa-te Publications\, and Ambush Review; Co-Producer of “The Alchemy of the Word – Live at Venue 9”\, and Founder/Producer of the Poet’s Stage for the North Beach Festival\, 1996-2000. He is also the author of several collections of poetry\, including “First Poems & Other Things\,” “Moonlight on Paper\, Selected Haiku\,” “A Congenial Ear\,” “Sketching the Void” and “Fragments of a Dream\,” from No Press Publications. He presently conducts a poetry workshop for the elderly in Oakland and is the Event Coordinator for The Beat Museum\, North Beach\, SF. In his own words: “My whole approach to poetry is to transcend the words and get closer to the music.” \nThe Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe\, a cafe/restaurant that serves dinners\, tapas\, coffee drinks\, beer\, wine\, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-sharon-coleman-kim-shuck-jose-luis-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Nefeli Cafe\, 1854 Euclid Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Death & Taxes: A Comedy Show
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate tax day with jokes about the only things more taboo than sex – death and money! Featuring hilarious comedians Aja Glasco\, Alexandria Love\, Warhol Kaufman\, Mary Bushee\, Sean McKenzie\, Alejandro Ochoa\,Arjun Banerjee Jade Theriault\, Wendy M. Lewis\, & Annette Mullaney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/death-taxes-a-comedy-show/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Sponge: Cheena Marle Lo\, Angela Hume + Jacob Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Its the one-year anniversary of Sponge! We’re celebrating by having some great poets come out\, some of whom will be leaving the Bay Area\, heardbreaking but full of excitment. Just like Spring! Maybe we’ll even have some elderflower liqueur. \nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. \nAngela Hume has been a poet in Oakland for 11 years. But now she’s leaving town\, and having so many feelings! Angela is the author of the chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). \nJacob Kahn is a poet originally from the Rocky Mountains. He lives in Oakland\, CA\, where he works at E.M. Wolfman Books and teaches at an elementary school. A poetic guidebook\, ‘A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants’ (2015)\, is out from Wolfman Books. Other recent work can be found in Elderly\, Open House\, and Spork.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sponge-cheena-marle-lo-angela-hume-jacob-kahn/
LOCATION:976 21st st\, 976 21st st\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-b-h-fairchild/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Morgan Parker to the store to discuss and sign There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé on Tuesday\, April 18th at 7:00 pm. \nThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance\, depression\, isolation\, exoticism\, racism\, femininity\, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism\, examining and confronting modern media\, consumption\, feminism\, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate\, folding in references from jazz standards\, visual art\, personal family history\, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies\, stories\, and histories of the past\, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present\, and actively probing toward a new self\, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow\, of vulnerability and posturing\, of desire and disgust\, of tragedy and excellence. \nMorgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies\, including Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, Morgan lives in Brooklyn\, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One\, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing\, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #23 (Music by Turk and Divis)
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: K.R. Morrison\, Evan Karp\, Kate Ambash\, Alex Ivey\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia\, Josey Duncan\, Preeti Vangani\, James Warner\, Garrett Murphy\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Charlie Getter\, Andrew J. Thomas\, Kelechi Marie and more TBA \nMusical Guest: Turk and Divis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-23-music-by-turk-and-divis/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series of Poetry presents a reading with Morgan Parker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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