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SUMMARY:David Presti: Mind Beyond Brain
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Apr 18\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe Basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nMind Beyond Brain is about expanding an empirical science of mind and consciousness. One way forward in developing an expanded science of mind is to take seriously empirical data for phenomena that are not accounted for within the current explanatory framework – the anomalies within contemporary science. The discussion in this book is placed in the context of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and science – specifically neuroscience\, psychology\, and physics – a conversation that has evolved substantially over the last 35 years. Despite many developments that have arisen from this conversation\, an important aspect that has not thus far been much appreciated is the engagement of complementary worldviews – one wherein mind is a relatively late evolutionary addition\, and another wherein mind and world are far more deeply and interdependently related. \nDavid Presti teaches neurobiology\, psychology\, and cognitive science at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he has been on the faculty for 28 years. For ten years he worked in the clinical treatment of substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. And for the last 15 years he has been teaching neuroscience and dialoguing about science with Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in India\, Nepal\, and Bhutan. He is author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016) and Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism\, Science\, and the Paranormal (2018).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-presti-mind-beyond-brain/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Hampton\n\n\n\n\nPresents Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 18\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Nathaniel Rich / Losing Earth: A Recent History
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Nathaniel Rich for his new book Losing Earth: A Recent History\, based on the New York Times Magazine special issue “Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change\,” also currently in development as a TV series by Apple and Anonymous Content. Join us for the one Bay Area chance to see the author present the most urgent story of our times\, brilliantly reframed and beautifully told\, live and in person. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nBy 1979\, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change — including how to stop it. Over the next decade\, a handful of scientists\, politicians\, and strategists\, led by two unlikely heroes\, risked their careers in a desperate\, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story\, and ours. \n  \nThe New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade\, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon — the subject of news coverage\, editorials\, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age\, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. \n  \nNow expanded into book form\, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer\, more intimate terms. It reveals\, in previously unreported detail\, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day\, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past\, our future\, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth\, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here\, and how we must go forward. \n  \n\nNathaniel Rich is the author of the novels King Zeno\, Odds Against Tomorrow\, and The Mayor’s Tongue. He is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New Orleans. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: \n–  Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n–  Signing and additional details coming soon. \n–  This event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n–  If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Losing Earth\, and/or any of Nat’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n–  RSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-nathaniel-rich-losing-earth-a-recent-history/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets Joseph Noble and Todd Melicker
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, Apr 22\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nTodd Melicker regularly communes with the fog of San Francisco’s Outer Richmond. His most recent book is this the body / if hovers is just out from lyric& Press.rendezvous\, his first book\, was published by Rescue Press in 2013 as the winner of the second annual Black Box Prize. He is the author of the chapbooks the immaculate autopsy (Achiote Press) and king & queen (LRL Editions). His work can also be found in VOLT\, jubilat\, Verse\, and Tupelo Quarterly. \nJoseph Noble’s poetry has appeared in Hambone\, OR\, New American Writing\, Five Fingers Review\, The New Review of Literature\, Eleven Eleven\, and other journals. Three of his essays on the poet George Oppen have appeared in Talisman\, Aufgabe\, and Sagetrieb. He has published three books of poetry\, An Ives Set (2006\, lyric& Press)\, Antiphonal Airs (Skylight Press\, 2013)\, and Within Hearing (2018\, lyric& Press) and a chapbook\, Homage to the Gods (Berkeley Neo-Baroque\, 2012). He also plays flutes and saxophones in the quartet Ouroboros (https://ouroborosquartet.bandcamp.com)\, the trio Ornithos Loom (https://ornithosloom.bandcamp.com)\, the woodwind trio Echo’s Bones\, and the duo Chamber Cloud\, and played in the now defunct band Cloud Shepherd (http://cloud-shepherd.bandcamp.com). His website is: http://www.josephnoble
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-joseph-noble-and-todd-melicker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dirty Old Women Read Erotica
DESCRIPTION:Donna George Storey’s goal is to change the world one sexy story at a time. She is the author of Amorous Woman\, an erotic novel based on her own experiences living in Japan.  Her adults-only tales have appeared in nearly two hundred publications including Dirty Old Women: Erotica by Women of Experience\, Penthouse\, and Ageless Erotica. She will read from her work-in-progress\, a short story collection of her greatest hits\, each accompanied by an essay on the craft of erotica writing and a meditation on the ways our society’s myths about sexuality keep us all from realizing our potential for pleasure. \nChris Orr is a founding member of the Elderotica writing group in the East Bay. Her specialty is short fiction with humor and hotness. She appears from time to time in Oakland Magazine with “around town” pieces. Back in the 70s\, Chris had a blast publishing Plexus\, a newspaper\, created by a collective of radical feminists. \nAs always\, we start with an open mic that’s open to all. Featured readings begin at 8 pm at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster at 21st St.\, Oakland. This event is free\, inclusive and accessible!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirty-old-women-read-erotica/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:PIERRE JARAWAN at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Internationally-acclaimed writer Pierre Jarawan shares his astounding debut novel\, The Storyteller. \nSamir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home\, Germany\, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets\, love\, and friendship\, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures portrayed in the media and shows an intimate truth of what it means to come from a country torn apart by civil war. With this beautiful and suspenseful story\, full of images\, Jarawan proves to be a masterful storyteller himself. \nPierre Jarawan is the son of a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s love of telling imaginative bedtime stories\, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet\, received the City of Munich literary scholarship (the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller\, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper AZ. His debut novel The Storyteller was a Spiegel bestseller in Germany\, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show DWDD\, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pierre-jarawan-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 24\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Returns to read from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel The American Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:Jane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of Yeah No and My Enemies\, both from The Song Cave\, as well as several chapbooks. Her work has been most recently published or reviewed in The Believer\, Omniverse\, and The New York Times. She is co-editor and co-founder (with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press\, and she works for Small Press Distribution. \nGRADUATE STUDENT READING SERIES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Foust & Nicholas Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust’s book Paradise Drive  won the 2015 Press 53 Prize for Poetry\, and was widely reviewed in such venues as the Times Literary Supplement\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, Huffington Post\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, and Hudson Review.  Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize\, God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Small Press Distribution\, 2010)\, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry\, and Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card\, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years\, 2008 and 2009. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize\, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, Sewanee and the Frost Place.  She is Marin County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change. \nNicholas Friedman’s debut book\, Petty Theft (Criterion Books\, 2018)\, is the winner of the The New Criterion Poetry Prize. B. H. Fairchild called Petty Theft a “brilliant\, beautifully crafted first book” by a poet “who remembers the art of poetry\, practices it superbly\, and so\, like Keats\, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses’\,” and Charles Martin called it “a first book of exceptional achievement.” His poems have appeared in The New York Times\, POETRY\, Yale Review\, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-foust-nicholas-friedman/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 28\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-3/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM
DESCRIPTION:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with pioneering DIY artist\, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco for her new memoir\, No Walls and the Recurring Dream\, in which she recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom\, combining personal expression\, the power of music\, feminism\, political activism\, storytelling\, philanthropy\, entrepreneurship\, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank\, honest\, passionate\, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman’s eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. \nAni’s coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence — from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station\, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals\, to releasing her first album at the age of 18\, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label\, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages\, as in life\, she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations\, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist\, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams. \n—\nAni DiFranco is a Grammy-winning musical artist and feminist icon recognized for her poetry and songwriting which pierces social convention and challenges the status quo\, as well as for her social activism and political engagement. One of the first artists to create her own label in 1990\, she is the mother of the DIY movement and has sold over 5.5 million albums on her own Righteous Babe Records\, and recently released her twentieth studio album. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger\,” her music has embraced many genres and collaborators ranging from Bob Dylan to Chuck D to Prince. She lives in New Orleans. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details: Ani will be pre-signing 300 books for us. The first 300 people with tickets will get a signed book. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ani-difranco-presents-no-walls-and-the-recurring-dream/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - -The World Could Be Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Norman Fishcher to discuss his new new book The World Could Be Otherwise\, on Tuesday\, April 30th at 7pm. \nAn imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times\, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”–qualities that lead to kindness\, wisdom\, and an awakened life. \nIn frightening times\, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination\, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden\, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching\, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas\, or “six perfections”—generosity\, ethical conduct\, patience\, joyful effort\, meditation\, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships\, ethics\, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings\, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His numerous books include What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong\, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-the-world-could-be-otherwise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley 2050
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley 2050\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, May 1\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate change is a pressing and urgent global issue and a challenge that needs planet and human focused solutions. Join UC Berkeley’s Director of Sustainability and UC Berkeley’s Executive Director\, Center for Environmental Public Policy\, for a lively discussion highlighting policy and implementation action happening in the state\, bay area cities\, and the UC system to reduce carbon emissions. \nThe state has signed into law numerous policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emission from buildings\, industrial processes\, vehicles\, agricultural and solid waste management\, electric power and fossil fuel production and freight transport.  Those policies are continuously evolving to reflect change in technology\, markets and public opinion In similar suit\, UC Berkeley and the UC system have pledged to be carbon neutral from building and fleet energy use by 2025 and from transportation and other sources by 2050. The presenters will cover what is underway in green building\, energy efficiency\, clean electricity\, resource management\, and behavior-based programs\, and how these can help meet these ambitious but achievable goals. \nKira Stoll was the 2016 recipient of The Sustainability Champion Award at this year’s California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. Kira was celebrated for recognizing the critical role staff play in transforming campus operations as well as providing leadership for UC system-wide initiatives. At the campus level\, Kira spearheaded a solar energy procurement project to bring 1MW of photovoltaic energy to campus\, through a collaborative RFQ with 19 other public agencies.  She has also worked diligently to improve alternative transportation options on campus as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions from operations. In her system-wide role as co-chair of the Climate Change Working Group and representative to the UC Global Climate Leadership Council\, Kira has advocated for staff engagement and climate action planning that has driven progress towards UC’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2025. \nDavid Wooley is a Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Public Policy. He has over 30 years’ experience with electric power regulation\, climate policy and Clean Air Act implementation.  David is also Of Counsel at the Oakland firm of Keyes & Fox LLP\, a law practice focused on distributed energy resources and is a consultant to the Energy Foundation.  Previously\, David served as an Assistant Attorney General in NY\, taught energy and environmental law at Pace University Law School and was a founder of and Executive Director of the Pace Energy Project.  Later he directed the American Wind Energy Association’s Northeast Policy Project\, served as Counsel to the Clean Air Task Force and as Vice President for Domestic Policy Initiatives at the Energy Foundation in San Francisco.  David is co-author of West Group’s Clean Air Act Handbook (2017).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-2050/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nPoets and audience will gather upstairs at More Moe’s one hour before the reading. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190501T210000
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SUMMARY:May Day: One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Andrena Zawinski\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Lenore Weiss\, Dennis Bernstein. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-one-big-union/
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:20190502T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190502T125000
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190502T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190502T213000
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SUMMARY:Tony Perrottet: Cuba Libre! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nTONY PERROTTET\nCUBA LIBRE! Che\, Fidel\, and the Improbable Revolution that Changed World History \nAdvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nMost people are familiar with the basics of the Cuban Revolution of 1956-1959. It was led by two of the twentieth century’s most charismatic figures\, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Their movement successfully overthrew the island nation’s US-backed dictator\, Fulgencio Batista\, and has remained to this day an intense socialist provocation to the massive imperial capitalist country only ninety miles north of Cuba. \nTony Perrottet unravels the human drama behind history’s most improbable revolution: a scruffy handful of self-taught revolutionaries-many of them kids just out of college\, literature majors and art students\, including a number of extraordinary young women-who defeated 40\,000 professional soldiers to overthrow the dictatorship of Batista. Cuba Libre!’s deep dive into the revolution reveals fascinating details. He describes how Fidel’s highly organized lover Celia Sanchez kept the male guerrillas disciplined\, and he portrays a few of the North American volunteers who joined the Cuban rebels. He gained access to private letters\, diaries\, videos\, and other documents no other historian has seen. Perrottet has used these as well as countless interviews to describe the years of guerrilla fighting throughout the Sierra Maestra mountains\, the final victory march into Havana\, the gradual building of a socialist state\, and\nthe accompanying Cold War tensions. \n“Perrottet takes us far beyond the basic facts of the Cuban Revolution to the juicy details that remind us that history is deeply human.” – Chris Ryan\, NY Times bestselling author \nTony Perrottet\, author of five previous books\, is a regular guest on the History Channel. \nSteve Wasserman is Executive Director of Heyday Books. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-perrottet-cuba-libre-che-fidel-and-the-improbable-revolution/
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T210000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop: a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, lead by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill. Get your copy and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III (more TBD) and live music by Azuah Melara at 7pm. Emceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. FREE! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T210000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop (a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, led by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill). \nGrab your copy of the anthology and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III\, James Cagney\, Darius Simpson\, Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, the authors published in the anthology (Samuel Getachew\, Nicos Hubbard-Riley\, Julian Khalil Allen\, Elijah I. Hynson\, Damion Evans\, and Charles Hall)\, and live music by Azuah Melara starting at 7 PM. \nBoots Riley will speak at the beginning of the event about the importance of Black Joy. \nEmceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. DJ XCAIROCITOSX will weave together sounds and Two Mamacita’s pop-up kitchen will be on site. Tiny book making on the theme of “Joy” will be happening throughout the evening. On-site photography by Robbie Sweeny and Rohan DaCosta. Oh\, and did we also mention it is Oakland First Fridays?! \nThis event is FREE and open to all! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release-2/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190503T213000
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series featuring Terry Taplin\, William "Endlesswill" Davis\, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 3rd\, featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, and Caroline O’Connor Thomas!\nPlease join us on Friday\, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, \nand Caroline O’Connor Thomas! \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nTerry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, Co-Editor of Baest\, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \nWilliam “Endlesswill” Davis\, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough\, NC\, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples\, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance\, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness\, introspection\, and connection as a community. William is a publisher\, graphic design artist\, basketball coach\, and radio host\, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland\, California.  Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split\, Tin House\, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag\, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com \nPosted by Casey at 9:09 PM No comments: 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-featuring-terry-taplin-william-endlesswill-davis-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T190000
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CREATED:20190429T212428Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:May 4-5\, 2019\, 10am – 7pm both days \nGet ready to come face-to-face with 250+ amazing authors at the 5th Anniversary Bay Area Book Festival\, the most dynamic ever! \nThe Festival will fill downtown Berkeley with a literary extravaganza that offers pleasure to anyone who has ever loved a book. \nMeet national book award winners\, NY Times top 10 authors\, international writers\, YA and children’s book legends\, and a diverse cross-section of the of what the literary world has to offer. \nKeynote speakers include Anand Giridharadas (“Winners Take All”) in conversation with Robert Reich\, moderated by Kat Taylor. In addition to a wide breadth of programming\, explore tracks diving into immigration\, modern slavery\, motherhood\, the environment\, and prison reform. \nThe free outdoor fair features booksellers and independent authors\, reading lounges\, fine local eats\, free books\, and entertainment for all ages. \n#baybookfest #baybookfest2019 @baybookfest \nFree to $15. \nPresented by Bay Area Book Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-book-festival-2/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park\, 2151 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T170000
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \nMay 4\, June 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\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-open-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T210000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press showcase
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press showcases four writers and a musician\, every first Saturday of the month\, at their new space at the Oakland Peace Center\, red wine and coffee\, Nomadic Press\, 111 Fairmount Avenue\, Oakland\, $10-$15\, no one turned away for lack of funds\, 7:00 (www.facebook.com/pg/NomadicPress/events)\n\nEVENT PAGE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-showcase/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190329T094952Z
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 7\, 7:30 pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Solano \nPeople love hearing jazz…and hearing about it. Musicians like Miles Davis\, Charlie Parker and Buddy Rich were original\, colorful characters artists who said and did astonishing things. Fortunately their colleagues cared enough to document these moments in stories and pictures and we now have a rich repository of photos and anecdotes about these artists\, and about the American songwriters and composers who created the raw material of jazz. \nJazz Stories is a performance of the songs of jazz from its most creative periods intensified with illuminating\, funny and touching true stories of the time. \nCome hear music and jazz stories you probably have never heard…but will never forget. Hosted by Richard Leiter. \nThe first Tuesday of every month at Pegasus Books Solano.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jazz-stories-live-jazz-wonderful-stories-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190507T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190507T213000
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SUMMARY:The Saint Mary’s College of California MFA in Creative Writing : Graduate Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join the SMC MFA program on May 7\, 2019\, at the SMC campus in Moraga\, for a night of electrifying readings from our very own MFA candidates. The evening’s stellar authors include: Emily Alexander\, Michael DuBon\, Jordan Galerkin\, and Joanne Weber. \n  \nThe event will be hosted on campus at De La Salle Hall in Hagerty Lounge. Doors open at 8:00pm; readings begin at 8:15. The event will include delectable treats and adult beverages. \n  \nEmily Alexander is a writer\, a novice baker\, and a part-time jogger. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Hobart Pulp\, Crab Creek Review\, and Glass. \n  \nMichael DuBon is a first-generation Nevada native of Guatemalan descent. He is a MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College of California\, graduating in May. His poetry has appeared in The Meadow. He is currently working on his memoir: The DuBonicles: A Guide to Exile. \n  \nJordan Galerkin writes short fiction & is currently working on a novel. She hopes to sell all the books so her pets can live their best lives. \n  \nJoanne Weber writes essays and children’s stories. When she’s not reading\, she likes to hike and bake bread. \n  \nThe Graduate Student Reading Series is hosted by the GSR Committee: Victoria Billings\, Michael DuBon\, Zoë Loos\, and Terry Taplin. \n  \nThe SMC MFA in Creative Writing offers students a campus environment that feels like a writing retreat within the bustling Bay Area. We have a stellar faculty that includes Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Lysley Tenorio and Matthew Zapruder\, as well excellent Visiting Writers. Our two-year program combines a studio writing workshop component with an analytical component\, offering concentrations in creative nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry. For more information visit www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-creative-writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-saint-marys-college-of-california-mfa-in-creative-writing-graduate-student-reading/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190508T200000
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SUMMARY:Alison Hart at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our May author Alison Hart will discuss her novel Mostly White\,  and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nAlison Hart studied theater at New York University and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies as a mixed-race African American\, Passamaquoddy Native American\, Irish\, Scottish\, and English woman of color. \nShe was recently introduced by best selling\, award winning author Isabel Allende at Book Passage in Corte Madera. Isabel’s response to Mostly White: “So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first lines.” \nHart’s poetry collection Temp Words was published by Cosmo Press in 2015\, and her poems appear in Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016) and elsewhere. She lives in Alameda\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alison-hart-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190509T213000
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SUMMARY:Foucault in California: David Wade in Conversation with James Penner
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nJoin David Wade and University of Puerto Rico Rio Pedras professor James Penner for a night of philosophy and discussion of the late Simeon Wade’s last book\, Foucault in California.  \n  \n \nAbout the book \nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.’” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers.\nSimeon Wade (1940-2017) \n \nIn all parts of his multi-dimensional life in Southern California\, teaching at Claremont Graduate School\, Otis College of Art and Design\, and Samra Acupuncture School and practicing as a psychiatric nurse at the Ventura County Psychiatric Ward\, Simeon stressed the teachings and practices of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze\, even living his life in a Deleuzian revolutionary framework.\nDavid Wade (born 1951) \n \nSimeon Wade was the life long mentor of his youngest brother David in all things from Foucault and Deleuze to yoga and acupuncture. David took his own “Death Valley Trip” with Simeon in 1977. In his other life\, David is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School and practiced as a business trial lawyer for 42 years in cities very large (NY\, LA) and very small (Eugene).\nJames Penner \n \nDr. James Penner is the author/editor of Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years (Park Street Press\, 2014) and Pinks\, Pansies\, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press\, 2011). He is also a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. He will be reviewing Simeon Wade’s Foucault in California (Heyday Books\, 2019) for LARB in April of 2019. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 9\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california-david-wade-in-conversation-with-james-penner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by John Garry\, hosted by Jim Barnard\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by John Garry\, hosted by Jim Barnard\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-john-garry-hosted-by-jim-barnard-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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