BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.16.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20160101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170504T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170504T125000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20161018T003131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T003131Z
UID:23878-1493899800-1493902200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170504T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170504T180000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170118T063026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T063026Z
UID:24748-1493917200-1493920800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Story Hour in the Library Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-in-the-library-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170504T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170418T103120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170418T103120Z
UID:26143-1493924400-1493931600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile #8\na revival of the Cafe Babar and Paradise Lounge reading series \nfeaturing\nJon Longhi\nDawn Oberg\nand “Honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine \nwith open mic Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Richard Loranger \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n7pm sharp\nfree of charge \nThe Octopus Literary Salon is proud to present Babar in Exile\, a quarterly commemoration and revival of the high energy San Francisco reading series of the 1990’s\, Café Babar and Paradise Lounge. Our eighth installment marks the first anniversary of this series. We are excited to feature two former and very active participants of Babar and Paradise\, Jon Longhi\, whose writing has been compared to Terry Southern\, Charles Bukowski\, and Hunter S. Thompson\, and Dawn Oberg\, a versatile musician who is currently writing and recording songs from and for the Dystopia. As well we welcome “honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine\, who will turn your day inside-out and lay it on the table. So come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170504T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170504T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T123156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T123156Z
UID:26570-1493924400-1493931600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patricia Lockwood to the store to discuss and sign her memoir\, Priestdaddy\, on Thursday\, May 4th at 7:00 pm. \nFather Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met–a man who lounges in boxer shorts\, loves action movies\, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972”.  His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory\, their two worlds collide.\nIn Priestdaddy\, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence–from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested\, to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group–with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory\, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband\, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws\, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. \nLockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime\, from the comic to the deeply serious\, exploring issues of belief\, belonging\, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining\, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing\, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition. \nPatricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne\, Indiana\, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections\, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, Slate\, and the London Review of Books. Lockwood lives in Lawrence\, Kansas. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 4\, 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/patricia-lockwood/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170505T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T190000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170423T191211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T005459Z
UID:26323-1494005400-1494010800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Duncan McNaughton + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Readings by two poets in our Reading Room\, programmed by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. \nDuncan McNaughton has lived in and around the Bay Area since 1973 and established the Poetics Program at New College of California with Louis Patler. His recent books include Tiny Windows and Altoon’s Frog. \nNorma Cole is a poet living in the sanctuary city of San Francisco whose books include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Her new translation of Jean Daive’s White Decimal is forthcoming in 2017. \nProgrammer Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of Universal Fall Precautions and over a dozen small books. She coedits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/duncan-mcnaughton-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive":MAILTO:bampfa@berkeley.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170505T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170426T205901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T005630Z
UID:26450-1494010800-1494019800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays w/ Shideh Etaat + Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Shideh Etaat and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, with music by Phillip Michael Hermans. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Red wine and coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. An excerpt from her novel can be found in Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans\, and she has published short stories in The Delmarva Review\, Amazon’s online journal\, Day One\, and Foglifter. She is a 2011 Breadloaf Work Study Scholar and a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Iranian Jews\, and other strange and wonderful things. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, and Guernica\, and anthologized in Guernica Annual (Haymarket Books)\, Wise Latinas (Nebraska U. Press) and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans (Dalkey Archive Press). She is the 2014 recipient of the San Francisco Foundation’s Mary Tanenbaum award for non-fiction. She has received scholarships and support from Hedgebrook\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Artist Residency Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She has a column called Book Spine at KQED. Her debut novel\, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, is forthcoming from Doubleday in 2018. \nPhillip Michael Hermans is a musician who uses computers and instruments to make music and sound for films\, video games\, theater production\, animation\, dance troupe production\, chamber ensembles and anyone or anything else that may be interested. He enjoys performing\, teaching\, talking and writing about music as well. His website isphilliphermans.com\, his blog is plhermans.wordpress.coom. He wants you to be sure to drink plenty of fluids and be nice to each other.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-w-shideh-etaat-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170505T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170426T205722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T205722Z
UID:26448-1494012600-1494018000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Homegoing: An Evening with Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi returns to Berkeley to discuss and sign copies of her extraordinary debut novel. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the paperback launch of Homegoing. \n“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nWinner of the NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize\nA New York Times Notable Book\nA Washington Post Notable Book\nOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR\, Time\, Oprah.com\, Harper’s Bazaar\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, Elle\, Paste\, Entertainment Weekly\, the Skimm\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, BuzzFeed \n**Free to attend. Seats are on a first-come basis.** \nAbout the Book: \nGhana\, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages\, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village\, imprisoned in the very same castle\, and sold into slavery. \nHomegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi\, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation. \nAuthor Bio: \nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homegoing-an-evening-with-yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170505T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170425T012855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T005707Z
UID:26294-1494012600-1494019800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay\, + Lorraine Lupo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 5th @ 7:30 pm\, for the release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s occident\, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!\n\nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\, occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.\n\n최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley\, where they study literature and philosophy\, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2016 chapbook contest\, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal\, The Felt\, Omniverse\, and Apogee’s print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.\n\nLorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin\, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland\, Ca.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-olivia-blythe-hamel-%ec%b5%9c-lindsay-and-lorraine-lupo/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170506T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170506T150000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170418T104015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T011201Z
UID:26149-1494075600-1494082800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Pittsburghers by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:It’s no surprise that Pittsburghers (a.k.a. yinzers) feel at home in the Bay Area. With ample bridges\, a jaw-dropping skyline\, a top-notch food scene\, and Steelers-friendly sports bars to show off black-and-gold pride\, San Francisco has everything a Pittsburgh native needs to survive. \nJoin us as we celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers – Laura Davis\, Molly Prosser\, Turi Fesler Steffen\, and Laura Vrcek! \nEnjoy books for sale\, light refreshments\, and the emcee skills of Pittsburgh-at-heart Hannah Rothstein. \nWhether you’re a homesick ‘burgher or a yinzer groupie\, this afternoon will have you longing for those three rivers and that glorious “dahntahn.” \nREADERS: \nLaura E. Davis grew up on California Avenue and earned a bachelor’s from California University of Pennsylvania. While she may have been destined to move to San Francisco\, she first earned an MFA from Chatham University. Both sides of her family have lived in Southwestern Pennsylvania for over 100 years. \nLaura misses sandwiches with fries on them. \nMolly Prosser swapped the wilds of the Allegheny Forest for the traffic of Silicon Valley. She edits copy for eBay and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University. Her work has appeared in various publications and on the Prosody radio show (90.5 WESA Pittsburgh). Her poetry collection Rubbernecking is available from Word Poetry. \nMolly misses random Rick Sebak sightings. \nTuri Fesler Steffen was born in Alaska\, but her experience spans beyond halibut fishing. She has her MFA from Pitt\, where she was the editor of Hot Metal Bridge. And you may have seen her at readings around the Bay\, including Shipwreck and Voz sin Tinta. Last year\, deciding she yearned for the ‘Burgh\, Turi moved to Pittsburg\, California. \nTuri misses salads with french fries. \nLaura Vrcek has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University and works as a ghostwriter for Bay Area tech executives. Her nonfiction work has appeared on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog\, The Orange Dot\, and Perspectives\, a storytelling segment on KQED\, NPR’s San Francisco affiliate. \nLaura misses Pennsylvania’s summer thunderstorms. \nEMCEE: \nHannah Rothstein (@HRothsteinArt) is the author of Yoga for Bros and an artist whose work has been featured in TIME\, The Guardian\, Vogue Italia\, and more. Besides shamelessly namedropping\, Hannah enjoys painting\, punning\, and reminiscing about the wonderful year she spent in Pittsburgh. \nHannah misses church-lady-crafted\, kraut pierogis. \nImage by Molly Cockcroft\, http://missmoco.co.uk/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pittsburghers-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170506T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170506T153000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170502T004326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T004326Z
UID:26476-1494081000-1494084600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:"Kill the Ampaya!" The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most  also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.” — Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \n“It may be that as this baseball season begins\, no book related to the game is more necessary than this one. The great bonus is that ‘Kill The Ampaya!’ is also great fun. An extraordinary collection.” — Bill Littlefield\, WBUR/NPR “Only a Game” \nOakland’s Dick Cluster will introduce Kill the Ampaya!: the Best of Latin American Baseball Fiction\, his newly published selection and translations of stories by writers from Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, Mexico\, Nicaragua\, Puerto Rico\, and Venezuela.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya-the-best-latin-american-baseball-fiction/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library Temescal branch\,  5205 Telegraph Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170506T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20161223T022957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T022957Z
UID:24315-1494082800-1494090000@litseen.com
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-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170507T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170426T205521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T205521Z
UID:26446-1494169200-1494176400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170508T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170508T223000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170426T205344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T010915Z
UID:26444-1494268200-1494282600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Battle of the Brains 2017: A Pub Quiz in Support of SPD
DESCRIPTION:~ YOU’RE INVITED! ~ \nMonday\, 8th May\, 2017\nDoors at 6:30\nEvent at 7 \n*Will you and your friends win bragging rights to become the BRAINIEST GANG IN THE BAY AREA* \n*Can you dethrone last year’s champions – Alan Bernheimer’s team\, the BFFs of Small Press Distribution?* \n*Are you looking forward to more brain-bending questions such as the 2016 classic\, “What is a LEMNISCATE?” (clue: it is not a lemon riding a skateboard)*\n\n~*~ \nJoin us at this classic pub quiz\, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table\, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary\, some not). \nWho can sport the nerdiest glasses? Who will be quickest to turn in their answer sheet? Who will snag all the pitchers of beer (we’re looking at you\, booksellers)? I can’t wait to find out what 2017’s Battle will bring. Can you? \nHOW IT WORKS: Each team captain gathers 8 people for your team. Each team will need to raise $500 prior to the event to get in. Of course\, each team member could just put in $65 or so\, but to lower that cost you can crowdsource donations for each team by creating a team page at our ~Crowdrise~. \nhttps://www.crowdrise.com/BATTLEOFTHEBRAINS2017 \nWant to be a ♥ TEAM CAPTAIN?\nLooking to join a TEAM? \nemail trisha@spdbooks.org and she can help. \nCome for canapes\, drinks\, lots of friendly competition. Stay for prizes – one for the team that raises the most money and\, of course\, one for the winner of the pub quiz itself!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/battle-of-the-brains-2017-a-pub-quiz-in-support-of-spd/
LOCATION:Lake Merritt Sailboat House\, 568 Bellevue Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170509T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170509T200000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T123444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T123444Z
UID:26572-1494356400-1494360000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Edan Lepucki
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Edan Lepucki back to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Woman No. 17\, on Tuesday\, May 9th at 7:00 pm. Edan will be in conversation with Lydia Kiesling\, editor at The Millions. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend! \nHigh in the Hollywood Hills\, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children\, she’s going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she’s ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad\, S arrives\, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back\, care for Lady’s toddler\, Devin\, and keep a watchful eye on her older\, teenage son\, Seth. S performs her day job beautifully\, quickly drawing the entire family into her orbit\, and becoming a confidante for Lady\, but in the heat of the summer\, S’s connection to Lady’s older son takes a disturbing\, and possibly destructive\, turn. As Lady and S move closer to one another\, the glossy veneer of Lady’s privileged life begins to crack\, threatening to expose old secrets that she has been keeping from her family. Meanwhile\, S is protecting secrets of her own\, about her real motivation for taking the job. S and Lady are both playing a careful game\, and every move they make endangers the things they hold most dear.\nDarkly comic\, twisty and tense\, this mesmerizing new novel proves Edan Lepucki to be one of the most talented and exciting voices of her generation. \nEdan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel California as well as the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me. A contributing editor and staff writer at The Millions\, she has also published fiction and nonfiction in McSweeney’s\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The Cut\, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. \nLydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions. Her writing has appeared in a variety of outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker Page-Turner\, The Guardian\, and Slate\, and she was recognized in Best American Essays 2016. Her novel\, The Golden State\, is forthcoming from Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux’s MCD imprint. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 9\, 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/edan-lepucki/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170425T012046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012047Z
UID:26310-1494444600-1494451800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro reads from Hourglass: Time\, Memory\, Marriage\, the novelist’s most intimate and powerful work to date: a piercing\, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory\, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds\, and about the accretion\, over time\, of both sorrow and love. \n“Reading this book was like skating across a perfect piece of ice and then slowly noticing the cracks. Dark\, cold water shows through. We can’t see the depths. Be careful\, Shapiro warns\, be careful\, but still she skates on in the fading light with remarkable beauty and grace.”–Jenny Offill
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T200000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170509T000602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T000602Z
UID:26774-1494529200-1494532800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:David Weisberg discusses and signs "The American Plan"
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes David Weisberg to the store to discuss and sign The American Plan\, on Thursday\, May 11th at 7:00 pm. This will be his West coast launch and all are welcome to attend. \nA daring and disturbing tale of survival set in Cuba and South Florida during the 1950s and early 60’s\, embracing both the breadth of historical fiction and the intimate intensity of a psychological suspense novel\, The American Plan is a vertiginous ride through the mid-century American psyche. \nCopies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-weisberg-discusses-and-signs-the-american-plan/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T130432Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T130432Z
UID:26589-1494531000-1494538200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Laura McBride
DESCRIPTION:Laura McBride\n\n\n\n\nreads from her new novel\, ‘Round Midnight\, a story that follows the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas\, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. \n“Gorgeous\, engrossing\, moving\, and at times wickedly funny\, this brilliant novel pulled me in and didn’t let me go until the shattering final sentence. This is the novel you need to read right now.”–Joanna Rakoff\, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nSpanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today\, ‘Round Midnight is the story of four women–one who falls in love\, one who gets lucky\, one whose heart is broken\, and one who chooses happiness–whose lives change at the Midnight Room. \nJune Stein and her husband open the El Capitan casino in the 1950s\, and rocket to success after hiring a charismatic black singer to anchor their nightclub. Their fast-paced lifestyle runs aground as racial tensions mount. \nHonorata leaves the Philippines as a mail order bride to a Chicago businessman\, then hits a jackpot at the Midnight Room when he takes her on a weekend trip to Las Vegas. \nEngracia\, a Mexican immigrant whose lucky find at the Midnight Room leads to heartbreak\, becomes enmeshed in Honorata’s secret when she opens her employer’s door to that Chicago businessman–and his gun. \nLast is Coral\, an African-American teacher who struggles with her own mysterious past. A favor for Honorata takes her to the Midnight Room\, where she hits a jackpot of another kind. \nMining the rich territory of motherhood and community\, ‘Round Midnight is a story that mirrors the social transformation of our nation. Full of passion\, heartbreak\, heroism\, longing\, and suspense\, it honors the reality of women’s lives. \nLaura McBride is also the author of the novel We Are Called to Rise. She lives in Las Vegas and teaches composition at the College of Southern Nevada. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-mcbride/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170430T022319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T022319Z
UID:26519-1494615600-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Ariel Gore + Sara Marinelli
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Ariel Gore and Sara Marinelli\, with music by Nkechi. \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: \nAriel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest\, The End of Eve\, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. She curates Hazel Reading Series\, and all-women literary salon. \nNkechi is a singer-songwriter whose evocative voice explores a wide range of music territory\, including acoustic soul\, folk rock and pop in a signature inspirational and lyrical sound called soul rock. Nkechi’s rich vocal textures and knack for improvisation make live performances a dynamic one-of-a-kind experience. She delivers conscious messages through verse\, rhyme and melody and has been blessed with an amazing roster of musicians who together form Nkechi Live! Band (NLB) the performing platform for her original soul rock music. NLB has performed at music venues and festivals on the west and east coasts. Nkechi is also a painter and performing actor in film and theater. The website for her creative happenings is http://www.nkechi.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-ariel-gore-sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170504T002206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T002206Z
UID:26677-1494615600-1494622800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:THERE 15
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 15 – Friday\, May 12 \, 2017 – award-winning East Bay author Cecile Barlier\, local author Katie Moulton\, and another writer TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-15/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170410T020256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T064741Z
UID:25909-1494682200-1494691200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:"Say her name!": Writing the poetry of witness
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay\, Patricia Smith\, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection\, creative response\, and action. You will also read the news and be guided in the spiritual and humanizing practice necessary to write poetry of witness. At the end of the workshop\, those who are ready\, will be encouraged to record and submit their poems to Black Poets Speak Out or Voluble. This workshop is open to writers of all backgrounds and stripes\, and at any stage of their process. \nAbout the instructor\, poet Raina J. León: \nRaina J. León\, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, Cave Canem\, Macondo\, and CantoMundo\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate(2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of LatinX arts. Raina is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nReserving a Space: You may reserve a space by purchasing a ticket on a sliding scale\, $5-10\, first-come-first-serve. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. There are 15 five dollar tix available\, and 15 ten dollar tix available. The class caps at 30\, so reserve your space now! \nLocation: Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609. TAC studio can be accessed via wide ramps and also features a wide bathroom equipped with multiple handrails.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/say-her-name-writing-the-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170422T011019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T011019Z
UID:26136-1494702000-1494709200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170425T012214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012214Z
UID:26306-1494961200-1494968400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:GET LIT #24
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 NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \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-24/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T203000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170504T053036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T011348Z
UID:26695-1495049400-1495053000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Andrew Schelling + Jaime de Angulo
DESCRIPTION:This is the Bay Area book launch for: \nTracks Along the West Coast:Jaime de Angulo & the Pacific Coast \nMore than an immersive tale of the picaresque life of cowboy linguist\, doctor\, ethnographer\, and author Jaime de Angulo— the Old Coyote of Big Sur—but an exploration of the persecuted Native Californian cultures and languages that had thrived for millennia and endured into his day.\nJaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work\, his writings\, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself\, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific coast. His poetry and prose uniquely represented the bohemian sensibility of the twenties\, thirties and forties\, and he was known for his reworkings of coyote tales and shamanic mysticism. So vivid was his writing that Ezra Pound called him “the American Ovid\,” and William Carlos Williams claimed that de Angulo was “one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered.”\nIn each retelling\, through each storyteller\, stories are continually revivified\, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast\, weaving together the story of a life with the story of the land and the people\, languages\, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied. \nAndrew Schelling is a poet\, essay writer\, and translator. He works on land use issues in the American West\, and teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder\, Colorado. In India\, he teaches at Deer Park Institute in the Himalayan foothills. \nRecent titles include Love and the Turning Seasons and The Real People of Wind & Rain
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-schelling-jaime-de-angulo/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T131045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170517T013301Z
UID:26593-1495049400-1495056600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges celebrates Work on Wednesday May 17 from 7:30-9pm with a reading at Pegasus Books\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue. \nCome hear \nAnna Rodas \nDawn McGuire \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nHeather Bourbeau \nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman\,  hosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with refreshments and bookstore cats!!! \nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her academic research has explored the social realities of war\, violence\, and poverty.  And her poetry is an attempt to bring to the page the many voices left out of books. \nDawn McGuire is a neurologist-poet and the author of four poetry collections\, most recently American Dream with Exit Wound. She has received numerous prizes\, including the Indie Book Award in Poetry and the Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” Her work appears in Zyzzyva\, Nimrod International\, Narrative and numerous other literary magazines\, and has been featured in a New Yorker podcast selected by Poetry Editor\, Paul Muldoon.  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States.  His latest book of poems titled “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes\,” is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Cleaver\, Duende\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, Open City\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her first collection of poetry\, Daily Palm Castings\, profiles people in overlooked professions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170509T000736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T000736Z
UID:26771-1495132200-1495141200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful Things Project presents Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension\, a photographic collaboration with Nye’ Lyn Tho. For the Natural Heir series\, Nye’ replaces the subject’s hair with beautiful plant life that represents African and African American cultures. However\, in The Arisa White Extension\, the models’ hair will be graphically altered with images inspired by poems from White’s You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. The five participating models\, who are queer and trans black women\, include: Janet Halfin\, health education specialist for TransVision\, Tri-City Health Center; Zakiya Harris\, cultural architect\, artist\, and founder of Hack the Hood; UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Kerby Lynch; ecotherapist and Oricha priest J. Phoenix Smith\, founder of EcoSoul; and visual artist and educator Orlonda Uffre. The evening includes the unveiling of the photographic portraits\, a poetry reading\, and a Q& A. Funded by the Akonadi Foundation\, Beloved Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natural-heir-the-arisa-white-extension-exhibition/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T124033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T124033Z
UID:26574-1495134000-1495137600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Granta's Best Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Lauren Groff\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Anthony Marra from Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists to the store on Thursday\, May 18th at 7:00 pm. \nEvery ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists was announced on April 26th.\nThe last Best of Young American Novelists issue was published in 2007 and featured  an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nLauren Groff\, born in New York in 1978\, is the author of four books\, including The Monsters of Templeton\, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Her most recent novel\, Fates and Furies\, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.\nHer work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Atlantic and Tin House\, among others. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida. \nPhoto Credit- Megan Brown \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a mental health advocate\, essayist and the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She won the 2016 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for her book of essays\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Her work has appeared in Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Believer and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Marra\, born in Washington DC\, is the author of the collection of stories The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. His first novel\, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, won the inaugural National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and is currently the Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grantas-best-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T213000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170501T130141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T130141Z
UID:26587-1495135800-1495143000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Dawn McQuire + David Watts
DESCRIPTION:Dawn McGuire’s new book of poems is American Dream with Exit Wound. Carol Muske-Dukes says\, “McGuire is inspired by her work with post 9/11 vets\, by her brain research as a neurologist and her immersion in myth. You will take your life in your hands as you read these super-charged poems—and you will…’come to’ with an exit wound…” Both a neuro-scientist and a poet\, she has published three collections\, including The Aphasia Café\, which won the 2013 Indie Book Award for Poetry. Born in the Appalachian region of Kentucky\, her graduate education was both in Theology and Medicine. \nDavid Watts is both a physician and a poet. His new book of poems is Having and Keeping. Al Young says\, “Watts’ quiet poems couple with their subjects in an intimacy so strong\, you can smell their crackle and spark. When it comes to singing the uncontrollable messiness of family life\, growing pain and growth; the stickiness of love life\, the clumsiness of loss\, the pleasures of cranky togetherness\, this little book takes the cake.” His literary credits include seven books of poetry\, two collections of short stories\, a mystery novel\, a bestselling western and essays. He has received numerous awards in academics\, literature\, and television production.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dawn-mcquire-david-watts/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170430T022709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T022718Z
UID:26521-1495220400-1495227600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Denise Benavides + Trey "Drow Flow" Amos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Shideh Etaat and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, with music by Phillip Michael Hermans. \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: \nDenise Benavides is an Oakland based queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and radical educator sharing her work with urgency—using the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor’s of Arts in English from Mills College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nTrey “Drow Flow” Amos is a poetic emcee originally from Nashville\, Tn by way of Chicago. He is a nationally recognized performer and teaching artist. He has shared stages with artists and public figures such as Talib Kweli\, Dr. Cornel West\, Saul Williams\, Lemon\, Mick Jenkins and more. Trey is currently working as a Poet Mentor Fellow at Youth Speaks\, Inc. \nMusical Guest Meaghan Owens is an Americana Roots performer with three critically acclaimed albums: “No Whiskey in a Good Girl’s River”; “Gun Shy of a Kiss” and the recent “Bounty on my Heart.” She has been a whirlwind nomad for the past two years with stops in Maui\, Colorado and currently\, a brief stint in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-denise-benavides-tret-drow-flow-amos/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170513T005914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T005914Z
UID:26800-1495220400-1495227600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing Print Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 19th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! \nJoin us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, California for a night of celebration and literary readings. \nFeatured readers include Matthew Zapruder\, Arisa White\, Brontez Purnell\, Meg Elison\, Cesca Waterfield\, Emily Vizzo\, and Nicoleta Leontiades. Dramatic readings of MARY Journal published works by Genre Editors: Katie Walker\, Jennifer Burnside\, and Paola Vergara.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-print-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T233000
DTSTAMP:20260622T135748
CREATED:20170514T022139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T022139Z
UID:26879-1495224000-1495236600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Gina Gold's Sex Worker Confidential + Cinnamon Maxxine Late Show
DESCRIPTION:This evening the Opening Night of the 10th Biennial Sex Worker Festival\, we present two fantastic shows! \n8PM – 10PM Gina Gold’s TMI: Sex Worker Confidential and \n10:15 PM Cinnamon Maxxine\, Fierce Solid Gold Warrior Diva \nMore about:\nGina Gold’s TMI: Sex Worker Confidential\nAn incredible evening of drama\, comedy and insight as sex workers tell true\, personal stories about their experience in the exotic dance\, escort\, porn industries and more\, hosted by former phone sex operator and stripper Gina Gold. \nSoul food buffet\, Sex Worker Festival Opening Party with full bar\, music and more.\n\nMore on Gina Gold at Sex Worker Fest Opening Night\nThe Festival opens with this topical edition of Gina Gold’s storytelling series. Join us for this evocative theme as sex workers educate and seduce you. Learn our skills and tricks as we survive and build community with others who are also targets in these harrowing times. Then stick around for a whole night of fun\, humor and further destruction of stereotypes at this Sex Worker Festival opening event\, with full bar plus $10 extra for Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Buffet (the best soul food buffet in the bay (greens\, fish\, chicken\, Louisiana ‘tata salad\, the works!) followed by a provocative Late Show with Cinnamon Maxxine and much more. \nMore on Cinnamon Maxxine: \nCinnamon Maxxine\, Fierce Solid Gold Warrior Diva \nThe Sex Worker Festival’s opening night presents peformer and\, activist Cinnamon Maxxine\, presenting work that spans genres of burlesque and performance art. Heady and sexy\, angry and juicy\, bold and intimate\, Cinnamon\, a self-identified “naked brown\, fat\, curvy\, queer\, big booty\, space perv\, fierce solid gold warrior diva” explores expectations and challenges boundaries of politics of gender\, size\, art and race. Join us for this Sex Worker Festival opening night with full bar\, Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Soul Food Buffet and much more. Come early for Gina Gold’s “Sex Worker Confidential” story telling. \n“I’m tired of the fact that pale skin\, blond hair\, and straight bodies (as in size)\, are seen as the most desirable and therefore worth more and than mine. It’s bullshit\,” says Cinnamon. \nMaxxine’s performances are always a surprise and always offer a new insights in the intersection of politics and aesthetics–Heady and sexy\, angry and juicy\, bold and intimate\, Cinnamon\, a self-identified “naked brown\, fat\, curvy\, queer\, big booty\, space perv\, fierce solid gold warrior diva” explores expectations and challenges boundaries of politics of gender\, size\, art and race. \nHer unabashed courage is one of the backbones of our community. Queer porn fans know her as a super hot diva\, an outstanding favorite who you can always count for super intense\, hot scenes. Political whores look to her for guidance. Her performance is a meld of raw eroticism\, burlesque and performance art. \nA dedicated artist Maxine scales the terrain of taboo topics and representations: “Even still in the queer porn\, queer sex worker\, and queer adult work communities where everyone wants to talk about inclusion. fat people and black people are still less included than white people thin people. They’re less popular. ” \nRead more in an interview by Chris Hall “Q&A With Cinnamon Maxxine: A Fat Black Sex Worker Speaks Out” https://the-orbit.net/literateperversions/cinnamon-maxxine/ \nCinnamon will also be part of Wednesday May 24\, evening panel on Sex Worker and Mental Health at the Women’s Building\, hosted by Laure McElroy. \nSex Worker Fest Opening Night Party with full bar\, music and soul food buffet. Party! \nTickets $10-40 (includes both May 19 shows) Sliding Scale/NOTAFLOF/ \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nGina Gold is a humorist\, filmmaker and stage artist. She grew up in a New York neighborhood thinking “oy vey” was something all black people said. Inspired by comedians like Carol Burnett and Lewis CK\, Gina boldly pokes fun at her own idiosyncrasies as a Jewish African-American Bay Area native who is really from Queens. At the age of thirteen Gina attended The American Academy Of Dramatic Arts and later wrote her own one woman shows before venturing into filmmaking. She launched her own show on a New York cable access channel. Calling it “The Gina Gold Show\,” she filled the airtime with comedic\, sometimes surreal\, Saturday Night Live-style sketches and short films. After telling a story called Hands Up on NPR’s radio show Snap Judgment\, Gina fell in love with storytelling and started her own series called TMI (Too Much Information ) which she currently produces. TMI features a rotating cast of storytellers giving an unadulterated\, often hardcore look at life. She is also on tour in a show called You’re Funny But You Don’t Look Jewish\, a touring stand up comedy show with some very funny African American\, Indian\, Italian American and Vietnamese Jewish comedians.Also visit The Gina Gold Show http://theginagoldshow.com/ \nCinnamon Maxxine is a Bay Area original. Born and raised in Oakland\, Cinnamon Maxxine is determined to be an advocate for those who are typically left under-represented. From people of color to people of size to people with invisible disabilities and trauma. Cinnamon Maxxine seeks to give those communities a voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-golds-sex-worker-confidential-cinnamon-maxxine-late-show/
LOCATION:Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\, 410 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR