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SUMMARY:Mary Jo Bang
DESCRIPTION:Mary Jo Bang is the author of eight books of poems—including A Doll For Throwing\, Louise in Love\, The Last Two Seconds\, and Elegy\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award—and a translation of Dante’s Inferno\, illustrated by Henrik Drescher. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy of Berlin. She teaches creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis.
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LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Marcus Books Oakland
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LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Noir: Nighthawks
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Jon Sindell\, Sara McAulay\, Robert Pesich\, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
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LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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