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SUMMARY:Lillian Howan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Lillian Howan’s novel The Charm Buyers\, a novel about Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing. Howan’s writings have been published in the Asian American Literary Review\, Café Irreal\, Calyx\, New England Review\, and the anthology Under Western Eyes. She is the editor of legendary playwright Wakako Yamauchi’s collection\, Rosebud and Other Stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lillian-howan/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Poetry of Witness
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Amos White\, Jan Steckel\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Peggy Morrison. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T125000
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry\, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation\, and a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award. She is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS and has served as contributing editor of Drunken Boat. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” She teaches at Diné College and lives in Santa Fe\, NM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle
DESCRIPTION:Reads from her short story collection\, World Gone Missing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
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SUMMARY:Mary Cisper\, Jane Lin\, + Iris Jamahl Dunkle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, October 6th @ 7:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring \nMary Cisper\, Jane Lin and Iris Jamahl Dunkle! \n*Event is FREE* \nLagunitas beer\, wine & snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street \nOakland\, CA 94609 \nhere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \n* Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \n*Lagunitas Brewing Company \n*Clorox Company Foundation \nAmid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds\, Mary Cisper\, poet and sometime visual artist\, lives with her husband in northern New Mexico. Her first poetry collection\, Dark Tussock Moth\, won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press\, 2017).  A former chemist\, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers in search of ultra-low detection limits.  Her poems and reviews have been published in various journals including Denver Quarterly\, ZYZZYVA\, Lana Turner\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Terrain\, Water-Stone Review\, Newfound\, FIELD\, and Omniverse.  She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder.  Of all the places she’s lived\, she misses the Bay Area the most. \nJane Lin is a poet and software engineer for an environmental consulting company in Northern New Mexico. Her debut poetry collection Day of Clean Brightness was published by 3: A Taos Press this year. She received her BA and BS from Stanford University where she studied under Denise Levertov\, and her MFA from New York University where she was a New York Times fellow. Her poem “Signs and Portents” was transformed into an art song by Emmy Award winning composer Glen Roven for his composition “The Santa Fe Songs” for soprano and piano and appears on Talise Trevigne’s album At the Statue of Venus. Other poems have appeared in Cura\, Five Points\, jmww\, New Madrid\, Slant\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, The Harwood Poetry Anthology\, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. For many years she taught creative writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitated the Mesa Public Library Poetry Gathering series. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her second poetry collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, is about the untold history of Sonoma County\, CA\, and was published in November 2015 by Word Tech Editions. Her third collection\, Interrupted Geographies\, will be published by Trio House Press in 2017. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW. and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. She received her B.A. from the George Washington University\, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University\, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-cisper-jane-lin-iris-jamahl-dunkle/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
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SUMMARY:Sim Warkov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, interview\, and Q&A when Sim Warkov visits Claremont. Sim was born in Chicago\, raised in Manitoba\, and educated in New York and Connecticut. Warkov has four books of poetry\, a new one out this year\, Island Dreams (with Margaretta K. Mitchell)\, and three earlier books\, Reaching\, Thin Soils\, and Grandchildren. Host: Glenn Ingersoll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sim-warkov/
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:20171007T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
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/bapc-first-saturday-reading-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
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SUMMARY:Writing the World: From Struggle to Joy
DESCRIPTION:Kathy D’Arcy\, Stephen Connolly\, and Stephen Sexton – will join Afro-Latinx writer\, Raina León\, in the rebellious act of telling their own stories. Each writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. The reading will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Rosemary Graham.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-world-from-struggle-to-joy/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Olstein\, Julie Carr\, + Amanda Nadelberg
DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to be hosting three three three amazing poets! We’ll be celebrating Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr’s new books\, and joining them is Oakland-native\, Amanda Nadelberg\, whose newest book is also still fairly\, well\, new! \nLisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently LATE EMPIRE (October 2017). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, the Hayden Carruth Award\, a Lannan Literary Residency\, an Essay Press chapbook prize\, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, Centrum\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, she currently serves as a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. \nJulie Carr is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta\, 2010)\, RAG(Omnidawn\, 2014)\, and Think Tank (Solid Objects\, 2015). She is also the author of two prose works: Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive\, 2013) and Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta\, 2017). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press\, 2015). A chapbook of prose\, “The Silence that Fills the Future\,” was released as a free pdf from Essay Press: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/ \nCarr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory is due out from Commune Editions in 2018\, as will a mixed-genre work\, Reallife: An Installation. \nCarr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. She regularly collaborates with dance artist K.J. Holmes and is the co-founder of Counterpath Press\, Counterpath Gallery\, and Counterpath Community Garden (www.counterpathpress.org). \nAmanda Nadelberg is the author of three books\, most recently Songs from a Mountain. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-olstein-julie-carr-amanda-nadelberg/
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:20171011T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T203000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Renee Gladman
DESCRIPTION:WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, geographies\, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians; Calamities\, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience\, which won the 2017 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction; and a monograph of ink drawings\, Prose Architectures. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-renee-gladman/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
CREATED:20171010T115700Z
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SUMMARY:A Night in Venice Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Experience Venice without leaving the Bay Area. Hear Christine Evelyn Volker discuss her just-published mystery\, Venetian Blood\, listen to classical music by Vivaldi played by the Town Quartet\, and watch an interrogation scene from the book\, directed by the Masquers Playhouse. Hope you can join us\, and purchase a copy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-in-venice-book-event/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T223000
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CREATED:20171001T001938Z
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY open mic for poetry\, prose\, music and more\nfeaturing singer/songwriter and fiction writer Beth Elliott \n$7 – $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of 10 pieces of Peruvian jewelry.\n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser\, Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve your open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, in advance. \n“If Melissa Etheridge had a hippie big sister who hangs out with Lucinda Williams\, that would be Beth Elliott.” Still on the flower power/Goddess counterculture fringe of the women’s community after decades of making music and many publication credits\, this Renaissance woman’s original songs are full of wit and humor that shine through even the darkest lyrics. She has one self-produced “checkered career retrospective” CD\, “Buried Treasure.” Her work has been included in Linda Zeiser and Trena Machado’s “What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets\,” and in Lynx Canon’s anthology “Dirty Old Women: Erotica by Women of Experience.” Come hear a true (and very entertaining) original at Works In Progress. \nOther wonderful artists will thrill and delight you!! \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving.\nWIP is scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately is not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth United Church of Christ\, 424 Monte Vista Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171016T210000
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SUMMARY:Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian\, which might explain why his “poetry” sounds like it does. He has lived in New York\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco\, and would someday like to live in Cranky Corner\, Louisiana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-harris/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T213000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother\, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies\, and her lovely\, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub\, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again\, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nMesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five books of fiction\, including A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Books Critics Circle Award; The Keep\, a national bestseller; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus\, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times Magazine and many others. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T000000
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Winter 2017 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Winter 2017 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 8th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T190000
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SUMMARY:Words-n-Punks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of punk rock stories & art! \nReading/discussion hosted by Ben Sizemore\, with:\nMichelle Gonzales\, author of “The Spitboy Rule”\nLynn Breedlove\, author “Godspeed & “Lynn Breedlove’s One Freak Show”\nShawna Kenney & Rich Dolinger\, authors of “Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998” (showing a slideshow of outtake photos & flyers from the book)\nand award-winning journalist A.C. Thompson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-n-punks/
LOCATION:land and sea\, 5428 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171023T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171023T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
CREATED:20171022T004415Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T004415Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #50
DESCRIPTION:OUR 50th EDITION & SHOW!\nWe proudly host this literary reading and salon featuring a curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers\, and musical guest. \nREADERS\nEric Kurhi + Mark Mathias\nKatharine Harer + Katie Simpson\nRuby Spies + Natasha Dennerstein\nShirley Huey + Naomi Helena Quiñonez\nJason Stanczyk + Kathleen Wallace\nRuth Crossman + Fred Dodsworth \nGuest Musician: TBA \nCURATORS\nRaluca Ioanid + David Welper\, guests Amos White\, board \nat THE BELLEVUE CLUB\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGMapBellevueClub\nTickets: http://bit.ly/BAG50tx \nFull bar | Free garage parking | 1 block to public transit\nBART: http://bit.ly/BAGMapBellevueClub \nDoors Open: 7:00 p.m. Show: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7 With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet tickets: http://bit.ly/BAG50tx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-50/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171023T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171023T210000
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SUMMARY:Melinda Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:Melinda Clemmons lives in Oakland. Her stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cimarron Review\, Kindred\, Daphne Magazine\, West Trestle Review\, Eclipse\, 300 Days of Sun\, Cavalier\, and The Monthly. She worked for over twenty years in programs serving children and youth in foster care\, and is now a freelance writer and editor in the child welfare field. She is a frequent contributor to the online child welfare and juvenile justice news site\, The Chronicle of Social Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melinda-clemmons/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
CREATED:20170816T003135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003231Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Borzutsky
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutsky’s The Performance of Becoming Human\, winner of the 2016 National Book Award\, has been described as “one of contemporary poetry’s most cogent documents of humanity and suffering in the 21st century.” His other books include Lake Michigan\, In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy\, Memories of my Overdevelopment\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translations from Spanish include Raúl Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-borzutsky/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T203000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Short Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Four East Bay short-fiction authors appear at Perfectly Queer East Bay Wednesday\, October 25\, 7pm to 8:30pm\, at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland. Kwan Booth\, Helen Klonaris\, Achy Obejas\, and Kamala Puligandla read from their work. Delicious refreshments & thematic door prizes for the prompt! A discussion of writing short fiction follows the readings. Books by the authors will be available. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKwan Booth is an award-winning writer and strategist focused on the intersection of media\, culture\, and technology. He’s the editor of “Black Futurists Speak: New Black Writing” and has had journalism and creative writing published in The Guardian\, Fusion\, “CHORUS: a literary mixtape”\, and “Beyond the Frontier: African American Poets for the 21st Century.” His awards include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. Kwan posts occasional updates\, publications\, and mediocre cell phone photos at Boothism.org. \nHelen Klonaris is a Greek Bahamian writer\, educator\, and energy medicine practitioner. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Let’s Tell This Story Properly\, Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories\, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles\, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind\, among others. In 2014\, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Helen is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices\, published by Trans-Genre Press\, and the author of If I Had the Wings\, a collection of short stories published by Peepal Tree Press. \nAchy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many other authors. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Director of the MFA in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \nKamala Puligandla is the writer of many short autobiographical and biographical fictions\, some of which were definitely shared with her in confidence. She’s not really sorry. Her work has been featured in The Tusk\, The Establishment\, and in Loose Lips\, the anthology of the show Shipwreck SF. She also has a novel manuscript called Zigzags that she would love to give to someone else to care for. Kamala is well-known for being easily bribed by cheese and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos\, use that info as you will. And find her work at thatkamala.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-short-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:This event is also made possible by the following cosponsors: the Campus Committee on Inclusive Excellence; the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action; Collegiate Seminar; the Communications Department; the English Department; and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts \nThe evening will include an introduction by Matthew Zapruder and a reading and preformance from Tyehimba Jess\, followed by a Q/A with Jess and Zapruder. Matthew Zapruder is Associate Professor of English and Poetry Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s. He serves as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books\, the publisher of Jess’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize poetry collection\, Olio. \nTyehimba Jess is the author of leadbelly and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olio. Jess’s Olio\, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, and the 2017 Book Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award\, 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Library Journal called it a “daring collection\, which blends forthright\, musically acute language with portraiture” and Publishers Weekly\, in a starred review\, called it “Encyclopedic\, ingenious\, and abundant” and selected it as one of the five best poetry books of 2016. Jess is the Poetry and Fiction Editor of the African American Review and is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
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SUMMARY:Raphael Cohen + Jonathan Moody
DESCRIPTION:Raphael Cohen is a writer-performer committed to poetry for social change. His debut book of poems is Scrutinizing Lines(2007). His new chapbook\, Rebel Elegant\, is a single long poem on Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf\, a rising star for the Denver Nuggets basketball team\, who was suspended by the NBA when he refused to stand for the national anthem\, citing his Muslim conscience and the U.S.’s history of racial and economic oppression. Cohen has performed widely across the U.S. and in Canada\, taught\, facilitated training at various youth empowerment groups and founded and directed Play at the Margins Press\, an independent publishing and event production initiative. \nJonathan Moody’s new book of poems\, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, is Olympic Butter Gold; Pleiades says\, “Jonathan Moody’s second full-length collection of poems…overflows with music\, image\, and pop culture. The speaker is a natural storyteller\, fusing lyric and narrative with a voice that walks the line between youth and experience\, playfulness and seriousness.” A Cave Canem graduate fellow\, he is also author of the collection The Doomy Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-cohen-jonathan-moody/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
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SUMMARY:Sasaki\, Share\, Banias\, + Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Present Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine. \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \nWho reads poetry? We know that poets do\, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer\, Poetry Magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here\,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years\, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers\, journalists\, musicians\, and artists\, as well as doctors and soldiers\, an iron-worker\, an anthropologist\, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces\, which are in turns surprising\, provocative\, touching\, and funny. \nWho Reads Poetry offers a truly unique and broad selection of perspectives and reflections\, proving that poetry can be read by everyone. No matter what you’re seeking\, you can find it within the lines of a poem. \nFred Sasaki edits Poetry magazine’s prose feature “The View from Here\,” from which the essays in this book are gathered. He is the art director of Poetry magazine and a gallery curator at the Poetry Foundation. He authored Real Life Emails\, a book of deluded emails\, and the zine series FRED SASAKI’S AND FRED SASAKI’S FOUR-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU. In 2004 he founded Chicago Printers Ball\, an annual celebration of poetry and printmaking. He is also cofounder of the Homeroom 101 pop and subculture show. \nDon Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. Among his twelve books are Wishbone\, Union\, and Bunting’s Persia; he also edited a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems\, named a Book of the Year by the Times of London and the New Statesman. Miguel Hernández\, his book of translations\, was awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán. Other books of his include Seneca in English\, Squandermania\, and The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Share received a VIDA “VIDO” Award for his contributions to American literature and literary community. \nAri Banias is the author of Anybody\, a debut collection of poetry\, published by W.W. Norton in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2014 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2012 Campbell Corner Prize. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Banias lives in Berkeley. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990 and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. His first poetry collection Unaccompanied\, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. He lives in San Rafael.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasaki-share-banias-zamora/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171027T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T220000
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CREATED:20171022T041541Z
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SUMMARY:Multiple Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:ASAP Offsite!\n8 pm doors\, 8:30 pm readings\n@ Wolfman No More Cops Free Health Care New Life Bookstore or Wolfman/New Life\, 644 40th St.\, Oakland \nw readings by Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young \nRight off of MacArthur Bart stop \nPoets Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/multiple-poets-reading/
LOCATION:MacArthur Annex\, 644 40th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201902
CREATED:20171022T011329Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special Halloween Reading + Costume Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join Saturday Night Special for our 7th Annual Halloween Reading & Costume Contest! \nOur theme this year is: NIGHT CIRCUS\nInspired by the 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern (written for NaNoWriMo; see book description following bios below.) Think Victorian; think noir; think black and white with a red scarf; think sexy\, or macabe; think fascinator hat; thing top hat; think burlesque; think lion tamer; think lion. Think fortune teller\, contortionist\, carnie. Think freak show. If you must\, think clown. Or just wear a mask– But really\, you can dress up as anything. We will have prizes for the best costumes. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur October features are: Abe Becker and Kwan Booth\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: The list is often full by 7:05pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading and costume contest\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, October 28th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-halloween-reading-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T163000
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SUMMARY:Erika Mailman from The Murderer's Maid
DESCRIPTION:Join the Oakland launch party for The Murderer’s Maid at East Bay Booksellers\, and have a bloody cupcake on us! \nIn 1889\, Bridget joins the Borden household as their maid\, but something evil is brewing beneath the house’s genteel surface. In 2016\, Brooke hides from her dangerous past and avoids making friends. But what if it’s time to stop running? \nDescribed by Kirkus Reviews as “complex and riveting\,” The Murderer’s Maid brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erika-mailman-from-the-murderers-maid/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Yellow Pear Press":MAILTO:marketing@yellowpearpress.com
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