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SUMMARY:Robert Hass + David Koehn
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 1st for a reading and conversation with Robert Hass & David Koehn to benefit Omnidawn.\n\nRobert Hass​’s​ books of poetry include Time and Materials\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood\, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise\, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz’s poetry\, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and\, most recently\, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984\, and Now and Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns\, 1997-2000. From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife\, the poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nDavid Koehn’s first full length manuscript\, Twine\, now available from Bauhan Publishing\, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David’s poetry and translations were previously collected in two chapbooks\, Tunic\, (speCt! books 2013) a small collection of some translations of Catullus\, and Coil (University of Alaska\, 1998)\, winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. Omnidawn just released Compendium\, a collection of Donald Justice’s take on prosody. David’s second full-length collection\, Scatterplot\, is due out from Omnidawn in 2020. David’s writing has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines including Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rhino\, Volt\, Carolina Quarterly\, New York Quarterly\, Diagram\, McSweeney’s\, The Greensboro Review\, and many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-david-koehn/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Play: Exhibit + Reading
DESCRIPTION:The AfroSurreal Writers and the Kiss My Black Arts Collective will open Let’s Play: Intuition\, Imagination\, and Black Creativity on Fri.\, June 2 at Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank Ogawa Plaza). \n\n\n\nThis exhibit features more than a dozen Black writers and artists\, with digital and audio projections of their work\, and follows a year of readings/workshops\, cleanings and plantings along Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue. The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity. \nReaders include women from  Serenity House and the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop’s reading series on Intuition and Creativity\, as well as writers/artists Jacqueline Bishop\, Renee Alexander Craft\, Rachel Eliza Griffiths\, Jewelle Gomez\, Victor LaValle\, James Lee\, Kyla Marshell\, Sharan Strange\,  Sheree Renée Thomas\, and Dawnie Walton\, and artwork from the Members of the Kiss My Black Arts Collective\, who will create a mural inside the gallery based on their outdoor mural at San Pablo and Market.  \n  \n\nAbout the Kiss My Black Arts Collective: The Kiss My Black Arts Collective exists to help artists take your creativity to the next level Economically. Together\, they create social economics through Mural projects\, workshops and art exhibitions\, while encouraging participation and collaboration amongst their members\, local artists\, and community leaders through democratic controlled enterprises.  About the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop: The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop amplifies the voices of emerging and established writers and artists of color who create surreal\, futurist\, speculative fiction\, fantasy\, science fiction\, horror\, dystopian\, apocalyptic\, weird\, or absurdist literature and art\, centered in perspectives of people of color. About Serenity House: Serenity House was originally established as a recovery program for women suffering from addiction. Today\, we provide services for women who have been raped or molested as children\, suffer from addiction\, homelessness\, mental health\, and/or emotional issues caused by trauma.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/play-exhibit-reading/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:2017 Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear. \nAs a festival sponsor\, the Center will be participating in panels and events\, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet Center staff and purchase Two Lines Press publications at our booth. \nStay tuned for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T170000
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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-13/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:3 Blues-y Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Intimate wordy emotive acoustic singer-songwriter and poet bookstore show! Starring: \nBanty Hen (Ester Kang) — Ukulele and voice. Clarion\, drowning\, knock-you-out-and-leave-you-for-dead beautiful. Like driving down the 1 in the fog. You’ve never heard a voice or songwriting quite like this. \nAndrea Passwater — Poet from Alabama\, by way of Taiwan\, will do a short reading that might make you cry. Like reading your great aunt’s teenage diary. Her poems are better than most blues singers at singing the blues. \nRosie Cima — Guitar and voice. Singer songwriter no.2\, with more gravel\, has lots of new stuff for this show\, not all of it sad. Been meditating a lot lately\, and listening to a lot of Nina Simone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-blues-y-ladies/
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:Courtney Maum
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Touch\, on Sunday\, June 4th at 3:00 pm. \nSloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”)\, and global fashion\, lifestyle\, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated\, and with unemployment\, college costs\, and food prices all on the rise\, having children is an extravagant indulgence.\nSo it’s no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference\, celebrating the voluntarily childless. Not far into her contract\, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion\, empathy\, and “in-personism” again. She’s struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employer’s mission and that her closest personal relationship is with her self-driving car when her partner\, the French “neo-sensualist” Roman Bellard\, reveals that he is about to publish an op-ed on the death of penetrative sex–a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral. Despite the risks to her professional reputation\, Sloane is nevertheless convinced that her instincts are the right ones\, and goes on a quest to defend real life human interaction\, while finally allowing in the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.\nA poignant and amusing call to arms that showcases her signature biting wit and keen eye\, celebrated novelist Courtney Maum’s new book is a moving investigation into what it means to be an individual in a globalized world. \nCourtney Maum is the author of the novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and the chapbook Notes from Mexico. Her short fiction\, book reviews\, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times\, Tin House\, Electric Literature\, and Buzzfeed\, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life\, she has been a trend forecaster\, a fashion publicist\, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M-A-C cosmetics from her home in Litchfield County\, CT.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-maum/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Diana Aehegma\, Claudia Cortese\, + Steffi Drewes
DESCRIPTION:Diana Aehegma grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii\, and lives in Oakland\, CA. She earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, where she won the Ann Fields Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Monday Night\, the Tinfish Press anthology Jack London is Dead\, The Press at CSU Fresno anthology Shadowed: Unheard Voices\, the Featherboard Writing Series / Aggregate Space Gallery chapbook Crossing Paths\, and at Bang Out SF\, among other venues. \nClaudia Cortese’s first book\, Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press\, 2016) explores the privilege and pathology\, trauma and brattiness of suburban girlhood. Cortese’s poems and stories have appeared in Blackbird\, Black Warrior Review\, Crazyhorse\, Gulf Coast\, Kenyon Review\, and The Offing\, among others\, and she writes reviews for Muzzle Magazine. The daughter of Neapolitan immigrants\, Cortese grew up in Ohio and lives in New Jersey. She also lives at claudia-cortese.com \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press\, 2016) and the poetry chapbooks Magnetic Forest\, Cartography Askew\, and History of Drawing Circles. Her poems have appeared in various journals and in the anthology It’s night in San Francisco but it’s sunny in Oakland (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2014). She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center and The Wassaic Project in New York. Currently\, she works as a freelance writer and editor in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diana-aehegma-claudia-cortese-and-steffi-drewes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beat Poetry: The Revolutionary Letters of Diane DiPrima
DESCRIPTION:Twice a month Mel Ash (http://www.melash.com/about_mel_ash.php) leads visitors in a very authentic Beat Poetry experience with a featured writer of the Beat Generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-poetry-the-revolutionary-letters-of-diane-diprima/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An evening of poetry w/ Hass\, Manuel\, + Hood
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Robert Hass\, Douglas Manuel\, and Charles Hood to the store to discuss and sign their latest works on Wednesday\, June 7th at 7:00 pm. \nIn addition to his magisterial poetry\, Robert Hass is beloved for his incisive\, meditative criticism. A Little Book on Form takes up the central contradiction between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about\, map\, and explain poetry in rigorous formal terms\, but the more intuitive\, creative aspects of a poet’s work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting parts of form are those expressive\, essential gestures inside it\, how can we come to a better understanding of form as passion\, as art?\nA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic. In suggestive\, informal notes\, Hass breaks the idea of a poem down to its barest building blocks\, from the one line haiku to the villanelle and sonnet. His approach singularly employs postmodern perspectives on shape\, thought\, feeling\, content\, and movement\, calling on Catullus and Allen Ginsberg\, Issa and Czeslaw Milosz. Begun as a project for students of poetry\, Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse\, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language.\nA Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our most enduring mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets\, who writes prose every bit as zestful\, penetrating\, and sure-footed as his poetry. \nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry  received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nA brave\, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race\, masculinity\, religion\, and class\, Testify\, in a very personal way\, confronts some of the most critical issues in today’s society.\nA book of elegiac ambivalence\, Testify’s speaker often finds himself trapped between received binaries: black and white\, ghetto and suburban\, atheism and Catholicism. In many ways\, this work is a bildungsroman detailing the maturation of a black man raised in the crack-laden 1980s\, with hip-hop\, jazz\, and blues as its soundtrack. Rendered with keen attention to the economic decline of the Midwest due to the departure of the automotive industry\, this book portrays the speaker wrestling with his city’s demise\, family relationships\, interracial love\, and notions of black masculinity. Never letting anyone\, including the speaker\, off the hook\, Testify refuses sentimentality and didacticism and dwells in a space of uncertainty\, where meaning and identity are messy\, complicated\, and multivalent. \nDouglas Manuel was born in Anderson\, Indiana. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University where he was the Managing Editor of Booth a Journal. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. He was a recipient of the Chris McCarthy Scholarship for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and has been Poetry Editor for Gold Line Press as well as one of the Managing Editors of Ricochet Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rhino\, North American Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, New Orleans Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Many Mountains Moving\, and elsewhere. \nBrimming with natural history and bright flashes of language\, the poems in Partially Excited States take us from Paleolithic caves to modern movie theaters\, and along the way we fix time machines with Tom Hanks\, enter a Rousseau painting\, and collect diamonds from the moons of Neptune. \nCharles Hood is a writer of poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction\, a photographer\, and an artist. His many books include Mouth\, South x South\, Rio de Dios: 13 Histories of the Los Angeles River\, The Half-Life of Salt: Voices of the Enola Gay\, and Red Sky\, Red Water: Powell on the Colorado. A longtime animal spotter\, he has seen more than six hundred mammal species and more than five thousand species of wild birds. In his global travels\, he has trekked to the South Pole\, been lost in a Tibetan whiteout\, and recovered from bubonic plague. He lives in Palmdale\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-poetry-w-hass-manuel-hood/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Moon Drop presents Prince
DESCRIPTION:Moon Drop is a quarterly reading series first Wednesdays.\nEach reading will have a theme\, June 7th being The Beautiful One’s Birthday will be a tribute to Prince.\nWith readings about or inspired by Prince’s life and music\, featured readers will include Cassandra Dallett\, Jenee Darden\, Ingrid Keir\, Joel Landmine\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Tomas Moniz\, Airial Clark\, James Cagney and Amber Flame. There willl also be seven open mic spots. Show up early and get your name on the list!!!!!!!!!!\nWe will feature purple everything!!\nLet’s Work!!!\nCassandra Dallett and Kelechi Ubozoh
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moon-drop-presents-prince/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: Kintu
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi to the store to discuss and sign Kintu\, on Thursday\, June 8th at 7:00 pm. She will be in conversation with DIESEL bookseller Aaron Bady\, who also wrote the introduction. \nFirst published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim\, Kintu is a modern classic\, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections\, the novel begins in 1750\, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the Buganda Kingdom. Along the way\, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation\, Makumbi weaves together the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi-kintu/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Thad Carhart reads from his delightful memoir\, Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in France\, just out in paperback. \n\n\n\n\n“While bringing alive this redolent Gallic chapter of his boyhood (baguettes from the boulangerie; inkwells and laborious handwriting exercises at school)\, Mr. Carhart also resurrects the mood and mores of a particular window in time: the 1950s of Ike and Elvis’s America\, and postwar France. . . . Like the castle\, his memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences\, styles and whims.”–The New York Times \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor a young American boy in the 1950s\, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic\, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn\, weekend visits to nearby Paris\, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the chateau itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings\, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult\, he began to appreciate its influence on French style\, taste\, art\, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the chateau’s history\, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot\, the head of the chateau’s restoration\, who becomes Carhart’s guide to the hidden Fontainebleau. \nWhat emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm\, precise prose\, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France\, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s\, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast chateau of Fontainebleau and its village\, built\, piece by piece\, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life\, for armchair travelers\, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again. \nThe son of an air force officer\, Thad Carhart grew up in a variety of places\, including Washington\, D.C.; Fontainebleau\, France; Minneapolis; Amherst\, Massachusetts; and Tokyo. After graduating from Yale\, he worked for the State Department as an interpreter. He is also the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Across the Endless River\, a historical novel. He lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cleave + Liminal
DESCRIPTION:This is a special book release/collaboration between Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers and The Liminal Center. 9 women writers\, represented in anthology Cleave/Liminal\, will read from their work. Issues of the anthology will be available for purchase with all profits going to the Liminal Center for women writing in a shared working environment in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleave-liminal/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bridging: A One-Day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Hedgebrook and SMC MFA in Creative Writing are collaborating to present a one-day writing retreat for women\, trans women\, genderqueer women\, and non-binary people. \nKeynote speaker: \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was short listed for the Man Booker Prize\, winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award and The California Book Award for Fiction. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award and has served as president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). \nWorkshops\nFrom Artist Statement to Press Kit: A Po-Biz* Workshop\nRaina J. León has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\,   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 the 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.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.  www.rainaleon.com \n*Poetry Business\n\nStory Development: Plot\, Character and 7 Steps to Authentic Storytelling\nAngie Powers has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College\, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel\, The Blessed. She also has a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) andwas a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She is currently in development on a feature-length comedy Lost in the Middle.  She is a teacher and cofounder at bookwritingworld.com.  Angiepowers.com \n\nFlash Nonfiction: Sharpening Your Story for the Short and Long Haul\nJill Kolongowski is the author of Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me\, forthcoming from Ulysses Press. She is also the managing editor at YesYes Books. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket magazine. Other essays are published in Profane\, Sweet: A Literary Confection\, Forklift\, Ohio\, Southern Indiana Review\, Fugue\, and elsewhere. Jill was born in Michigan\, but now lives near San Francisco\, where she teaches writing\, hikes\, and watches Chopped marathons. \n\nApplying for Fellowships and Residencies: Writing Personal Statements and Project Proposals\nRashaan Alexis Meneses has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, The International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle\, UK\, and the Jacob K. Javits Program. Her fiction and non-fiction is published in various journals and anthologies\, including Kartika Review\, Puerto Del Sol\, New Letters\, BorderSenses\, Kurungabaa\, The Coachella Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Doveglion Press\, and the anthology Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. You can find her at rashaanalexismeneses.com \n\nCost\n$115 until May 6\n$130 after May 6\nLimited partial scholarships available. Email Joanne Furio for an application.\nSpecial accommodations available. Email Joanne Furio. \nCost includes: \n\nFood (three meals\, happy hour\, and evening cake and coffee)\nVegan and gluten-free options available\nNetworking opportunities with Bay Area women writers’ groups\nAn evening keynote by Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, Sister Noon and Black Glass and Hedgebrook alumna\nYour choice of one of four afternoon workshops\n\nFunds raised from the retreat benefit both programs and the newly established Hedgebrook scholarship for a St. Mary’s MFA student. \nONLINE PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION \nIf you have questions please email Joanne Furio or Amy Wheeler.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bridging-a-one-day-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Thomas Centonella
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centonella presents his new poetry collection\, Almost Human\, winner of the Dorset Prize\, selected by Edward Hirsch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs in a profound love affair\, Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first person protagonists in Almost Human are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella has published three previous books of poetry: American Book Award-winner Terra Firma\, Lights & Mysteries\, and Views from Along the Middle Way. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has taught literature and creative writing at San Francisco State\, UC extension\, the College of Marin\, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program as well as for the Institute on Aging and WritersCorps. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-centonella/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170617T180000
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CREATED:20170606T015125Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest 2017
DESCRIPTION:👽 :: Q U E E R S : I N : S P A C E :: 👽 \nJoin us on Saturday\, June 17th\, as we celebrate independent publishing and the Bay Area’s diverse queer histories. Admission is FREE\, the event is FAMILY FRIENDLY\, and is also ACCESSIBLE. The fest runs from 11 AM – 6 PM! \n  \n🌞 FEATURING 🌞\n– ZINE LIBRARY\n– MAKE YOUR OWN ZINE WORKSHOP\n– ZINE READINGS\n– 40 TABLERS \n  \n🌠 TABLERS 🌠\nAlexis Jimenez\nAnand Vedawala\nBreena Nuñez\nCabronas Healing\nCameron Simmons\nCenter for Sex and Culture\nChulita Vinyl Club\nChris Mancinas\nDating Between the Lines\nDarcy Crash Distro\nThe Degenderettes\nDiscantbelife Press\nElliott Sky Case\nEnola Dismay\nFoglifter\nGlamboyant Zine\nThe Grand Newsstand\nIvy Atoms\nLindsay Rodriguez\nLisa Sy\nMaia Kobabe\nMarie Njoku-Obi\nMixed Race Queer and Feminist Zine\nMixed Rice Zines\nNia King\nNiko Nada\nPatrick Woolf\nQueer Fat Crafts for Ghosts and Cuties\nRadical Queereans\nRoxana Dhada\nSe’mana Thompson\nSilver Sprocket Bicycle Club\nSarah Grace Gladstone\nSonia Nickles\nSouth Bay DIY Zine Collective\nTYFN Zine\, Megalodude & Queen Sen Sen\nVanessa Hernandez\nViolet Zitola\nXicanx Crybaby\nZerena Diaz \n  \n🚀 TRANSPORTATION 🚀\nThe East Bay Community Space is located at 507 55th St in Oakland\, right in the middle of Ashby\, MacArthur\, and Rockridge BART stations! There is limited street parking! No bikes allowed inside the Space! For more transit information\, please visit http://511.org/ \n  \n🌛 ACCESSIBILITY 🌜\nEBCS is fully ADA compliant. There is a lift to both levels of the mezzanine areas. Each of the six gender-neutral bathroom stalls is wheelchair accessible. Only service animals are allowed in the Space. THIS WILL BE A SCENT-FREE EVENT! For more information on how to be scent-free\, visit:http://thinkagaintraining.com/about/fragrance-free/#forparticipants \n  \n☄️ SAFETY ☄️\nBAQZF is a safe space and we won’t tolerate ANY BULLSHIT. This means no discrimination based on gender identity or presentation\, race\, class\, body\, ability\, religion\, or sexuality. No racism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism of any kind will be tolerated. RESPECT the space\, the artists\, their property\, and their work. If at any time you feel unsafe during the event\, grab one of our volunteers\, and we’ll handle the situation. There will be no alcohol allowed on the premises. \n  \n✨ BAQZF MISSION STATEMENT ✨\nThe goal of the Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF) is to showcase and promote the DIY publishing scene of the Bay\, while highlighting its diverse queer histories. We aim to illustrate these histories by bringing marginalized voices to the forefront of the fest – specifically those of people of color\, femmes\, disabled folks\, and trans folks. Our mission is clear: we are queer and love zines. This fest is for and by queer people. \n  \n🖖 #arajoforever
URL:https://litseen.com/event/baqzf/
LOCATION:East Bay Community Space\, 507 55th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170524T122520Z
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SUMMARY:MK Chavez: Guest Poet @Claremont
DESCRIPTION:MK Chavez reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. Pick up a free chapbook of MK Chavez poems at any BPL branch!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-guest-poet-claremont/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T162529
CREATED:20170515T233120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020005Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Summer Solstice 2017 Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press continues to burst at the seams with programming and publications\, and we need your continued support to keep the doors open and our programming and publication schedule as robust as they currently are. \nFrom June 5-June 20 (Summer Solstice)\, we will be raising money to help Nomadic Press cover its general operating costs and publication printing costs. Our goal for this Solstice is $10\,000\, and we need your help to get there. \nDonate what you can below. If things are tight for you at the moment\, even $5 will help. For those that find themselves in a slightly better position\, consider giving $100\, $500\, or $1\,000. As always\, your donations are tax deductible and every single dollar goes directly toward the continuation of everything bi-coastal Nomadic Press does\, results that you can actually attend and hold in your hand. \nWe will be giving weekly updates on our progress. Please share this short campaign far and wide and cast your support today! Thank you for your continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-summer-solstice-2017-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T162529
CREATED:20170430T023212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010235Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #25
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. \n\nCommunity\, Fruitvale Literary\, Ale Industries\, Nomadic Press\, Fruitvale Beer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-25/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T213000
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CREATED:20170505T002059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T002059Z
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Brontez Purnell at Pegasus Books Downtown for the launch of his debut novel\, Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \nAuthor Bio \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). \nHe was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T213000
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CREATED:20170527T002130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T002937Z
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SUMMARY:Naomi Klein presents her new book No is Not Enough
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents her new book No Is Not Enough\nTuesday\, June 20\, 7:30PM\nat First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW \nJoin us for a discussion of resistance in the Trump era with internationally acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Naomi Klein. \nDonald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda — including a corporate coup in government\, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering\, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy — will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy\, national security\, and the environment. \nAcclaimed journalist\, activist\, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks\, climate change\, and brand bullies. From this unique perspective\, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst\, most dangerous trends of the past half-century — the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough\, she tells us\, to merely resist\, to say no. Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring yes\, a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us — one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need. \nThis timely\, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own\, helping us understand just how we got here\, and how we can\, collectively\, come together and heal. \nBook signing to follow. Copies of No Is Not Enough will be available for purchase at the event. A discounted ticket/book bundle is also available in advance. \n— \nTickets on sale at this link. \nSponsored by Booksmith\, The Nation\, The Leap\, The Intercept and Haymarket Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170621T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170621T213000
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CREATED:20170615T014805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T014805Z
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SUMMARY:June Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges invites you to a reading featuring 5 East Bay writers on Wednesday 21 June at 7:30pm at Pegasus Bookstore\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue\, downtown Berkeley. \n\nCharif Shanahan \nNancy Patrice Davenport \nAndré Le Mont Wilson \nAndrew J. Thomas \nNick Johnson \n\nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman.   Hosted by Sharon Coleman \n\nFree refreshments and a bookstore cat!!!  Bring a date! \n\nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, A Public Space\, and Prairie Schooner\, which awarded him the Edward Stanley Poetry Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and the Starworks Foundation. Currently\, he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \n  \nNancy Patrice Davenport was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Oakland\, California. She has proudly raised a son as a single mother. Nancy has been writing professionally since 2011.  Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies\, [including The Burning Grape\, Mountain Gazette\, The Bicycle Review\, Oakland Review\, Lilliput Review\, Blue Fifth Review\, RED FEZ\, Poetry Quarterly\, Full of Crow\, The Lake\, Yellow Chair Review\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Blue Mountain Review\, OTATA\, and The Naked Bulb]. Nancy’s chapbook\, LA BRIZNA\, was published in May 2014; this year she had a broadsheet published and available by Country Valley Press. Her poems have been translated into German and Spanish. Nancy had a Best of Net nomination this year for her JUNE 2 RETROGRADE MINDFULNESS poem. \n\nWhenever André Le Mont Wilson is asked for his bio\, he always tells the same story. He was born in Los Angeles to parents who were both poets. When they died in 2012 eleven weeks apart\, he began to write his own poetry. He later branched out into storytelling and has performed at many events throughout the West Coast. Last month\, Haiku Anthology: Observations and Insight published a collection of his haiku. In November\, The New Engagement will publish his free verse. Wilson lives in the East Bay with his partner and their Chihuahua. \n\nAndrew J. Thomas has no classic training in the art of the written word\, other than years of heartbreak and a love of whiskey. He is a founding member of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival and enjoys participating and supporting literary events in the Bay Area. He hopes his poems make you cry. \n\nNick Johnson was born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland but now calls Oakland home. He received his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. His book music for mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. He enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash Presents Cal Freeman + Janet Hamill
DESCRIPTION:Cal Freeman’s latest book of poems is Brother of Leaving. Alan Michael Parker says\, “Cal Freeman’s a poet who measures the world and constructs\, at angles\, a whole shining city\, a self-portrait he calls Detroit. With a bardic poignancy Brother of Leaving hums the sorrowful anthem of capitalism and its discontents. Pretty as a trash fire\, and sad as a mirror\, these are poems to remember.” He is the author of the chapbook Heard Among the Windbreak\, and his second full-length collection\, Fight Songs\, is forthcoming in the fall. \nJanet Hamill’s new book of poems is Knock. Patti Smith says\, “Janet Hamill’s Knock is intensely visual and invigorating…This is an ambitious work\, rich with unexpected juxtapositions—Casanova and the Huns\, Rothko and Goat’s Head Soup. A bounteous world into which we’re drawn by one of our true poets.” Among her six published books of poetry and fiction are Nostalgia of the Infinite\, Lost Ceilings\, Body of Water\, and The Eternal Café. Widely published in literary journals\, her work has been anthologized in Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970\, Bowery Women Poems\, and elsewhere. A strong proponent of spoken word\, she’s read at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church\, CBGB’s Gallery\, Seatle’s Bumbershoot Festival\, Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in London\, and many other festivals and venues. In collaboration with the band Lost Ceilings she’s released two CDs of spoken word and music\, Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-cal-freeman-and-janet-hamill/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170623T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170623T210000
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CREATED:20170621T003041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T003041Z
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SUMMARY:Jenny Alton + Margaret Spilman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an excellent Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jenny Alton and Margaret Spilman. Emceed and curated by Reńe Vaz and 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: \nJennifer Alton received her MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in Lumen\, Entropy\, and Vertebrae\, was a semi-finalist in Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction contest\, and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer\, you can find her at jennyalton.wordpress.com. \nMargaret Spilman was born in West Virginia\, raised in Kansas\, and is currently living in the Bay Area. She is a recent recipient of an MFA from San Francisco State University and was Fiction Editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She was one of six writers chosen to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2014. Her story “Muscle Memory” won the James Kirkwood Literary Prize. She has been most recently published in Indicia\, The Rattling Wall\, The New Flash Fiction Review\, and sParkle & bLink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-alton-margaret-spilman/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170623T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170623T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T162529
CREATED:20170621T123546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T123546Z
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic Season 1 Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:The First Season Publication is finally here and we want to celebrate with you! \nAs an outgrowth of the series we sent out an open call for submissions based on the films screened. From that grew the Black Aesthetic: Season One publication. A short anthology that combines personal essay’s\, poetic criticism\, and mixed media into print. \nCome join us for a evening of music videos and readings from the publication\, bring your friends! \nThe Black Aesthetic was created order showcase rare\, unknown\, and influential films that highlight the creativity and generative imagination of black filmmakers. Over the course of 8 weeks we will used this film series to bring together a community of film buffs\, students\, community organizers\, and local citizens to discuss the importance of preserving these films\, to document the contemporary struggles that these films run parallel to\, and to experience the joy of the black imaginative force. \nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/ \nPre-Order Link:\nhttps://squareup.com/market/em-wolfman-books/item/black-aesthetic-magazine?t=modal-em\nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-aesthetic-season-1-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170624T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170624T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T162529
CREATED:20170201T050528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T015812Z
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Death
DESCRIPTION:Lineup\nSusannah Carlson\nCassandra Dallet\nNancy Davenport\nLucille Lang Day\nRoy Mash\nAndrew Sano\nNorma Smith\nSandra Wassilie\nLaura Zink \nMusic by Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City and Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-death/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170624T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T162529
CREATED:20170604T220629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020303Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Family" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\nOur June features are: Rebecca Gaydos and Tomas Moniz.\nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.\nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself!\nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm. \nBring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!). \n21+ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-family-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170625T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170625T160000
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CREATED:20170604T232923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020505Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Andrena Zawinski + Cathleen Calbert
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 25th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Andrena Zawinski and Cathleen Calbert. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews! \nAndrena Zawinski’s new book of poems is Landings. Rebecca Foust says\, “These poignant\, plainspoken poems span lifetimes and continents\, chronicling a childhood in Pennsylvania when Coal (or Steel) was King and furnaces glowed the night skies red and an adulthood in California where stunning natural beauty paints a chiaroscuro with the daily news…Part paean and elegy to what was\, part lyric and dirge to what is. Landings asks the question of what remains—where we land—after great loss.” Her two previous full-length collections are Something About\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, winner of a Kenneth Patchen competition. She has been a Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon\, and she also edited Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. \nCathleen Calbert’s new book of poems is The Afflicted Girls\, winner of the Vernice Quebodeaux “Pathways” Prize for Women. Thomas Lux calls it “a book filled with powerful voices. The poems are lush and textured\, subtle yet fierce…Cathleen Calbert is a poet who has learned her trade\, and her music is sure and original.” Her previous collections are Lessons in Space\, Bad Judgment\, and Sleeping with a Famous Poet. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such publications as The New Republic and The New York Times\, and her honors include a The Nation Discovery Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
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LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #46
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations Show #46\nLiterary & Poetry Reading\nMonday\, June 26th\, 2017 \nA curated selection of\nSan Francisco Bay Area poets\,\nwriters & storytellers!\nREADERS\nPeter Bullen + Hollie Hardy\nAlexandra Naughton + Keeley Ann Finn\nDaniel Ari + Britt Peter\nEric Kurhi + Josey Rose Duncan\nLenore Weiss + Margaret Spillman\nNatasha Dennerstein + René Vaz\nCaeser Kent + Bronwyn Emery \nSPECIAL MUSIC GUEST\nGia\, of The Open Minds \nCURATORS\nJoel Landmine (Guest)\nSandra Wassilie + Thea Matthews (Board) \nat The Bellevue Club in Oakland\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA.\n(on Lake Merritt)\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/pjv7KpvvWv62 \n**Free Parking in garage\n**Full bar + refreshments\n**Minutes from BART (19th St): http://bit.ly/2i8VgW9 \nDoors & Bar: 6:30 p.m.\nShow: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7. With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet Tickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 250 notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nTickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT\nWebsite: http://www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nBay Area Generations * literary reading * authors * poets * writers * playwrights\nmusic * poetry * reading * storytelling * short stories * plays * memoir * flash fiction
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LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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