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SUMMARY:Socialist Realism | Trisha Low\, Jane Gregory & Brandon Brown
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the launch of SOCIALIST REALISM (Emily Books/Coffee House\, 2019)! \nTRISHA LOW will read\, with special guests JANE GREGORY & BRANDON BROWN. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/socialist-realism-trisha-low-jane-gregory-brandon-brown/
LOCATION:moe’s books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190827T200000
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SUMMARY:E.R. Ramzipoor:The Ventriloquists
DESCRIPTION:E.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer\, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/e-r-ramzipoorthe-ventriloquists/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Bekeley\, 94 704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190828T180000
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our August book at the July Book Club meeting on 7/31\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on 8/1 while supplies last. \nOur August Book Club Pick:\nTHE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON \nFiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre\, of gorgeous tableaus\, biting satire\, roguish comedy\, and brilliant\, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. \nWith a startling range of styles\, subjects\, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish)\, THE COMPLETE STORIES captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life. \n“This definitive collection of Carrington’s short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. A stunning achievement.”—Jeff VanderMeer \n“Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being…Her work bristles with a fierce\, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power.”—Angela Carter \n“Her delirious fantasy reveals to us a little of the secret magic of her paintings.”—Luis Buñuel \n“Carrington’s stories are optimistic and nihilistic\, beautiful and grotesque\, tender and cruel. She never contented herself with something simple or trite\, a philosophy of life that can be shortened and simplified and put in a fortune cookie.”—Sheila Heti \n“Her stories are vivid\, funny and surprisingly fresh…[combining] satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion\, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude.”—The New York Times
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT 3rd Birthday Party (and Reading)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with us as we cap our 3rd year (and enter our 4th) as the East Bay’s creative writing center/workspace. This is also our 3rd event at Novel Brewing\, the most literary brewery in California. \nSample Novel Brewing’s finest beers and ales on tap. Soak in their friendly\, neighborhood atmosphere. Socialize with our writing community. Eat cake!\n​\nAnd enjoy some short readings by Left Margin instructors: Zubair Ahmed\, Katharine Dion\, Rachel Richardson\, and Laleh Khadivi.\n​\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Bangladesh. He and his family immigrated to the U.S in 2005 after winning the DV Lottery. He is the author of Ashulia\, a chapbook\, and City of Rivers\, the third book in the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in Oakland\, where he works as a software engineer.\n​\nKatharine Dion is the author of the novel The Dependents\, which has been translated into four languages. The San Francisco Chronicle called the novel “a gorgeously meditative debut about how unfully we live our lives or know ourselves and our loved ones.”\n​\nLaleh Khadivi’s novels include The Age of Orphans\, The Walking\, and A Good Country. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize.\n​\nRachel Richardson is co-founder and co-director of Left Margin LIT. She is also the author of two books of poems\, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-3rd-birthday-party-and-reading/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
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SUMMARY:Marika Lindholm - - We Got This
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Marika Lindholm and more (tba) to celebrate the publication of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit\, Heart\, and Humor\, on Thursday\, September 12th at 7pm. \nWe Got This celebrates the 15 million solo moms who parent on their own in the United States. A compelling\, moving\, and humorous compilation of essays\, poems\, and inspirational quotes by moms raising kids on their own\, this book gives voice to women who–despite their differences in age\, race\, culture\, sexual orientation\, economic circumstance\, and route to single motherhood–are bound together in a conscious coalition that is strong\, proud\, and dedicated to their children. We Got This reminds solo moms that they are powerful and important–and that there’s a whole community of women out there who understand what they are going through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marika-lindholm-we-got-this/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T110000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island\n\nSunday\, Sept 15\, 2019\, 11a – 4pm\nYouth readings\nA literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale\nNeighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nMusic + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nLive painting by ArtSpan\nBeer courtesy Lagunitas\nRSVP / SUBMIT\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Quiet Lightning \nNow in its 10th year\, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression. Its flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a completely blind selection process and different curators for every show\, for which there are no introductions or banter. The shows are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people at each show. All participating artists are paid and the shows are free to attend. We’ve now produced 126 shows\, featuring 1\,200+ readings by 900+ different authors in 80+ venues and 100+ books. Quiet Lightning also maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nAbout California State Parks \nThe mission of CA State Parks is to provide for the health\, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity\, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources\, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation. \nAbout Kearny Street Workshop \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nAbout ArtSpan \nArtSpan believes in the power of art to enrich lives. For 20-plus years we’ve championed an inclusive art experience and provided diverse audiences with an authentic connection to local art and artists. We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy\, while bolstering the next generation of artists and encouraging the public to engage in preserving and furthering our vibrant art community. \nWith crucial support from SOMArts Cultural Center \nSOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with the space\, mentorship and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions\, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination. \n\nimage: Angel Island by Evan Karp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2019/
LOCATION:Ayala Cove\, Angel Island\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Chuck Poling's "Growing Up Bernal"
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-polings-growing-up-bernal/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Diesel Readers Book Group - - Future Home of the Living God
DESCRIPTION:East Bay Booksellers invites you to The Diesel Readers Book Group’s discussion of Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich\, on Monday September 16th at 7pm. \nLouise Erdrich\, the New York Times bestselling\, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House\, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. \nThe world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself\, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards\, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker\, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted\, open-minded Minneapolis liberals\, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar\, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. \nThough she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy\, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother\, Mary Potts\, an Ojibwe living on the reservation\, to understand both her and her baby’s origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings\, society around her begins to disintegrate\, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. \nThere are rumors of martial law\, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry\, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents\, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. \nA chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient\, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on female agency\, self-determination\, biology\, and natural rights that speaks to the troubling changes of our time. \n  \n\n** The Diesel Readers is an ongoing group\, and is open to all. ** \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 16\, 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/the-diesel-readers-book-group-future-home-of-the-living-god/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah M. Broom -- The Yellow House
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sarah Broom to discuss her expansive yet probing biography The Yellow House on Wednesday\, September 18th at 7pm. \nIn 1961\, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant–the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed\, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died\, six months after Sarah’s birth\, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child. \nA book of great ambition\, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy\, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts\, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives\, guided deftly by one of its native daughters\, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan\, pride\, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the “Big Easy” of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised\, The Yellow Houseis a brilliant memoir of place\, class\, race\, the seeping rot of inequality\, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative\, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity\, authority\, and power. \nAbout the Author \nSarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Oxford American\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian\, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 18\, 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/sarah-m-broom-the-yellow-house/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190920T180000
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SUMMARY:SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE
DESCRIPTION:SALMAN RUSHDIE presents QUICHOTTE\nFriday\, September 20\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents world-renowned storyteller and internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses) as he presents an electrifying\, modernized classic that fractures and reforms our conception of love in a whirlwind journey across present-day America. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, will be available in advance here soon. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nInspired by the Cervantes classic\, Sam DuChamp\, mediocre writer of spy thrillers\, creates Quichotte\, a courtly\, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho\, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand\, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile\, his creator\, in a midlife crisis\, has equally urgent challenges of his own. \nJust as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time\, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work\, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. \n——————- \nSalman Rushdie is the author of thirteen previous novels: —Luka and the Fire of Life\, Grimus\, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker)\, Shame\, The Satanic Verses\, Haroun and the Sea of Stories\, The Moor’s Last Sigh\, The Ground Beneath Her Feet\, Fury\, Shalimar the Clown\, The Enchantress of Florence\, Two Years\, Eight Months\, and Twenty-Eight Nights\, and The Golden House — and one collection of short stories: East\, West. He has also published four works of nonfiction — Joseph Anton\, The Jaguar Smile\, Imaginary Homelands\, and Step Across This Line — and coedited two anthologies\, Mirrorwork and Best American Short Stories 2008. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. A former president of PEN American Center\, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \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/salman-rushdie-presents-quichotte/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fruchey and Jan Steckel at Expressions Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Reading featuring Zeitgeist Press poets Jan Steckel and Deborah Fruchey at Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave. in Berkeley – Open Mic to follow! \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. She works as a medical editor and lives in Oakland\, California. \nDeborah Fruchey tried to write her first book at the age of 8. Her first novel was chosen as a Best Book by the American Bookseller’s Association. Her poetry book Armadillo was released by Cyborg Productions in 2014. Her latest is a volume of flash fiction called Priestess of Secrets. She is the editor of an upcoming anthology in tribute to Julia Vinograd\, from Zeitgeist Press\, and also editor of a volume of Vampyre Mike Kassel’s unpublished work\, due in November 2019 from Last Laugh Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fruchey-and-jan-steckel-at-expressions-gallery/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190921T120000
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SUMMARY:Oakland Peace Festival: Peace
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the inaugural Oakland Peace Festival organized by Nomadic Press and hosted at the Oakland Peace Center. It’ll be a daytime celebration of all that is Oakland and peaceful through music\, art\, writing\, food\, guest speakers\, and community building. All are welcome\, and this is a kid-friendly event. \nThe festival will take place on three Saturdays: July 27 (theme: Justice)\, August 24 (theme: Equity)\, and will culminate on September 21 (theme: Peace)\, which is International Day of Peace. \nOutside in the parking lot (free) just off of Fairmount Avenue\, there will be food and arts/crafts vendors\, a Poet’s Corner with a 5-hour open mic\, a new mural by Gremlin1114\, beer by Ale Industries\, and iced coffee by Nomadic Coffee. \nInside in the sanctuary ($10 GA / $20 VIP): \n11:30–12:30 PM: DJ XCairocitosX\n12:30–1:15 PM: Poetry by Gondola Perpetua (Terry Taplin)\, Jevohn Tyler Newsome\, Madi Dangerously\, Joyce E. Young\, Asantewaa Bee Boykin\n1:15–2:30 PM: Guest speakers\, Sandhya Jha and Yvette Felarca\n2:45–3:15 PM: Music by Azuah\n3:30–4:30 PM: Music by Imerald Brown Music \nLanterns will be hung throughout the sanctuary as part of a three-month celebration of lights and peace and separate lanterns will be available for folks to hang with individually written messages of peace on them for a small donation of $10. \nThis event is organized by Nomadic Press with support from a large and loving community\, both old and new. All proceeds will go toward the production of this\, and future\, festivals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-peace-festival-peace/
LOCATION:Oakland Peace Center\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T183000
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SUMMARY:Meet Author E.R. Ramzipoor
DESCRIPTION:Join author E.R. Ramzipoor for a reading of her debut novel\, The Ventriloquists. Publishers Weekly calls her book a “magnetic debut… Sprawling and ambitious\, with crisp pacing and fully realized characters\, this will fascinate anyone looking for an unusual\, enthralling war story.” Kirkus Reviews touts her novel as one “that will have special resonance for today’s resisters.” \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore. \nThe Ventriloquists is set in Brussels\, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper\, Le Soir\, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene’s world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist\, Marc Aubrion\, who draws her into a secret network that publishes dissident underground newspapers.The Nazis track down Aubrion’s team and give them an impossible choice: turn the resistance newspapers into a Nazi propaganda bomb that will sway public opinion against the Allies\, or be killed. Faced with no decision at all\, Aubrion has a brilliant idea. While pretending to do the Nazis’ bidding\, they will instead publish a fake edition of Le Soir that pokes fun at Hitler and Stalin — daring to laugh in the face of their oppressors.   The ventriloquists have agreed to die for a joke\, and they have only eighteen days to tell it. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters and stunning historical detail\, E.R. Ramzipoor’s dazzling debut novel illuminates the extraordinary acts of courage by ordinary people forgotten by time. It is a moving and powerful ode to the importance of the written word and to the unlikely heroes who went to extreme lengths to orchestrate the most stunning feat of journalism in modern history. \nE.R. Ramzipoor is a writer based in California. She also works as a content marketer\, writing about cybercrime and online fraud. She studied political science at UC Berkeley\, where she researched underground literature in resistance movements and discovered the forgotten story of Faux Soir. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s and The Ventriloquists is her first novel. She lives with her partner and a terrier mix named Lada.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-e-r-ramzipoor/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Nancy Au -- Spider Love Song and Other Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Au’s debut collection is rich with scents\, sounds\, imaginative leaps\, and unexpected angles of vision. These seventeen stories present the challenges facing characters whose inner and outer lives often do not align\, whose spirits attempt flight despite dashed hopes and lean circumstances. Marginalized by race\, age\, and sexuality\, they endeavor to create new worlds that honor their identities and their Chinese heritage. SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES treads the fault line that forms between lovers\, families\, friends\, cultures—exposing injuries and vulnerabilities\, but also the strength and courage necessary to recast resentment and anger into wonder and power. Au’s lyrical style\, humor\, and tender attention to her characters’ fancies and failings make this powerful debut a delight to read. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest. \n  \nPraise for SPIDER LOVE SONG AND OTHER STORIES: \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the\nhuman heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\,\nthrilling and unforgettable.”    —Carolina De Robertis\, author of CANTORAS \n“Foxes\, turtles\, ducks\, oysters\, fish\, badgers\, beetles\, damselflies\, bees: all manner of creatures scratch\, swim\, thrum\, and shimmer through these tender and fantastic stories. Characters struggle with the entanglements of the living and the dead\, like the “spiders’ webs [that] can wind around anything that doesn’t pay attention\,” while they long to be out in the world that both compels and terrifies. I was spellbound by Au’s unique vision and language that pay attention to the many wild\, rich worlds that hold us.”  —Peg Alford Pursell\, author of A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-nancy-au-spider-love-song-and-other-stories/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:J.D. Moyer - - The Guardian
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome J. D. Moyer to celebrate the publication of his new novel\, The Guardian\, on Thursday\, September 26th at 7pm. \nIn the year 2737\, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano\, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem\, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter\, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village\, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation. Tem gets caught up in the battle against Umana\, the tentacle-enhanced ‘Squid Woman’\, while protecting a secret that could change the course of humanity and civilization. The Guardian\, the sequel to the The Sky Woman\, is a story of colliding worlds and the contested repopulation of a wild Earth. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners\, and exciting\, original voices. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJ.D. Moyer lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife\, daughter\, and mystery-breed dog. He writes science fiction\, produces electronic music in two groups (Jondi & Spesh and Momu)\, runs a record label (Loöq Records)\, and blogs at jdmoyer.com. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, September 26\, 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/j-d-moyer-the-guardian/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL in conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents THE (BURNING) CASE FOR A GREEN NEW DEAL\nin conversation with the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, CLARA JEFFERY.\nThursday\, September 26\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland\nTickets are available here! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents #1 international and New York Times bestselling author Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything) as she makes the case for a Green New Deal\, explaining how bold climate action can be a blueprint for a just and thriving society. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Advance sales are highly recommended. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nOn Fire shows why Naomi Klein was described by the New Yorker as the most influential figure on the American left and why leading environmentalist Bill McKibben calls her the intellectual godmother of the Green New Deal — which just happens to be the most important idea in the world right now. \nFor more than a decade\, the acclaimed journalist and ground-breaking thinker has documented the movement of the climate crisis from future threat to a burning emergency. She has been among the first to make the case for what is now called the Green New Deal — a vision for transforming our economies to battle climate breakdown and rampant inequality at the same time. In our era of rising seas and rising hate\, she argues that only this kind of bold\, roots-up action has a chance of rousing us to fight for our lives while there is still time. \nThese long-form essays\, based on her extensive research and reporting\, show Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical\, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political challenge but as a spiritual and imaginative one as well. Delving into the clash between ecological time and our culture of perpetual now; the soaring history of rapid human change in the face of grave threats; rising white supremacy and fortressed borders as a form of climate barbarism and more\, this is a rousing call to transformation — and a dire warning about what awaits if we fail to act.\n​\nWith dispatches from the ghostly Great Barrier Reef to the smoke-choked skies of the Pacific Northwest\, to post-hurricane Puerto Rico\, to a Vatican waking up to the case for radical change\, Klein paints a vivid picture of both social and ecological breakdown — as well as the people and movements rising to turn humanity’s greatest disaster into our greatest opportunity. \n——————- \nNaomi Klein is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap. Author photo by Suzanne DeChillo for The New York Times. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery.\n​\nAbout Mother Jones: Mother Jones is a reader-supported investigative news organization recently honored as Magazine of the Year by our peers in the industry. Our nonprofit newsroom goes deep on the biggest stories of the moment\, from politics and criminal and racial justice to education\, climate change\, and food/agriculture. We reach more than 10 million people each month via our website\, social-media presence\, videos\, podcasts\, email newsletters\, and print magazine. Our fellowship program is one of the premier training grounds for emerging investigative storytellers. Founded in 1976\, Mother Jones is America’s longest-established investigative news organization. We are based in San Francisco and have bureaus in Washington\, DC\, and New York. We are independent (no corporate owners) and are accountable only to you\, our readers. Our mission is to deliver hard-hitting reporting that inspires change and combats “alternative facts.” \n​This event is co-presented by The Leap\, Sunrise Movement\, and The Intercept. \n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \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/naomi-klein-presents-the-burning-case-for-a-green-new-deal-in-conversation-with-the-editor-in-chief-of-mother-jones-clara-jeffery/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton
DESCRIPTION:September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton\nKathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books\, 2018)\, which Indigo Moor called\, “a wondrous example of how to loop a mesmerizing arc through a body of work\,” and Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press\, 2013)\, which Jean Hegland called an “excellent collection” that “offers many succinct glimpses of deeply lived lives.” Her poems appear in Southwest Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, Naugatuck River Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ekphrasis\, cahoodaloodaling\, Forgotten Women\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. She has been the winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, and Maria W. Faust poetry prizes\, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. She is Associate Director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, and she teaches at Skyline College and The Writing Salon in San Francisco. In 2018-19 she is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. www.kathleenmcclung.com \nGrace Marie Grafton’s newest book\, Lens(Unsolicited Press\, 2019)\, features poems inspired by the art of California. She has published six additional collections\, including Jester\, (Hip Pocket Press\, 2013)\, Whimsy\, Reticence\, and Laud: Unruly Sonnets (Poetic Matrix Press\, 2012)\, and Other Clues (RAW ArT PRESS\, 2010). Her poems have won first prize in the Soul Making Keats contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, as well as awards from the Bellingham Review and The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve California Arts Council grants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \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/kathleen-mcclung-grace-marie-grafton/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Boyer:The Undying
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, Oct 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Avenue\, Berkeley \nWebsite \n“The Undying is a startling\, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health\, art and science\, language and literature\, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ‘the ideological regime of cancer\,’ Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself.” \n—Sally Rooney\, author of Normal People \nAnne Boyer is a poet and essayist who lives in Kansas City. Her honors include the 2018 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, a 2018 Whiting Award in nonfiction/poetry\, and the 2018-2019 Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in poetry at Cambridge University. She is the author of several collections of poetry\, including the 2016 CLMP Firecracker Award-winning Garments Against Women and a book of fables\, essays\, and ephemera titled A Handbook of Disappointed Fate. Her memoir The Undying: Pain\, Vulnerability\, Mortality\, Medicine\, Art\, Time\, Dreams\, Data\, Exhaustion\, Cancer\, and Care will be published by FSG this fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-boyerthe-undying/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191001T213000
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SUMMARY:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.
DESCRIPTION:Jazz Stories: Live Jazz. Wonderful Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, October 1\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus 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-5/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T170000
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SUMMARY:Jericho Brown
DESCRIPTION:Jericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown’s first book\, Please (2008)\, won the American Book Award. His second book\, The New Testament (2014)\, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019). He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jericho-brown/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poetry at Pegasus: Poets Laureate on Social Justice\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, October 3\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFive Poets Laureate share poems around a theme of social justice. Featuring: \n–D.L. Lang\, Vallejo Poet Laureate 2017-2019 \n–Indigo Moor\, Sacramento Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Rafael Jesús González\, Berkeley Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Cynthia Patton\, Livermore Poet Laureate 2017-present \n–Julia Connor\, Sacramento Poet Laureate 2005-2009 \n–and host Ron Riekki\, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 3\, 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/poetry-at-pegasus-poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T210000
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SUMMARY:Mike Jay: Mescaline: A global history of the first psychedelic
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, Oct 04\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement of the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \n MIKE JAY is an author and cultural historian who has written widely on the history of drugs. His books include High Society: mind-altering drugs in history and culture and his latest\, Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic. He is based in London\, UK. More at mikejay.net \nMescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic explores its mind-altering effects across cultures from the ancient Americas to western modernity. From pre-Inca temple cults in the Andes to indigenous peyote use in Mexico\, the Native American Church to the experiences of William James\, Walter Benjamin and Hunter S. Thompson\, it is an enthralling narrative of mescaline’s many lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-jay-mescaline-a-global-history-of-the-first-psychedelic/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T213000
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SUMMARY:Patricia Smith in conversation with Ajuan Mance
DESCRIPTION:Patricia Smith in conversation with Ajuan Mance\nFriday\, October 4\, 2019 | 7:30 pm | Lisser Hall\nPlease join us for this special event\, presented by We Are the Voices\, made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. Poet Patricia Smith will give a reading followed by a conversation with Mills faculty\, scholar\, and visual artist Ajuan Mance. \nA master of poetic forms\, Patricia Smith’s poetry fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies. She is the award-winning author of eight critically acclaimed books of poetry\, most recently Incendiary Art\, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, NAACP Image Award\, Los Angeles Times Book Prize\, and a finalist for the Pulitzer. Smith is a Guggenheim fellow and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam\, the most successful poet in the competition’s history. She is a professor at the College of Staten Island and teaches widely\, including at the VONA summer workshop.\nLaleh Khadivi\, photo by Ed Ntiri\nLaleh Khadivi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-smith-in-conversation-with-ajuan-mance/
LOCATION:Lisser Hall\, Kapiolani Rd\, Oakland\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191004T213000
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SUMMARY:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy
DESCRIPTION:Matt Maiocco\, Brad Mangin & Brian Murphy\n\n\n\n\npresent Letters to 87: Fans Remember the Legacy of Dwight Clark\, a coffee table book featuring heartfelt letters from fans of the San Francisco 49ers hero\, with essays by Edward J. DeBartolo Jr.\, Ronnie Lott\, Joe Montana\, Brian Murphy\, and Kelly Clark. Letters to 87 also offers rare photos from Michael Zagaris\, Brad Mangin\, and John Storey. \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Letters to 87 by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 4\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nFootball fans will always remember “The Catch” as the moment a dynasty was born. When Dwight Clark received the touchdown pass that sent the 49ers to their first Super Bowl in 1982\, an indelible moment was etched into the history of the NFL. Later\, as Clark battled ALS\, he and sportswriter Matt Maiocco put out a call to fans\, asking them to share their memories of this moment. The letters that Clark and Maiocco received tell the story of how the man who wore number 87 brought together a city and a franchise through his sincerity\, his loyalty\, and his spirit for life and the game. \nAll royalties will go the the Golden Heart Fund\, a nonprofit arm of the 49ers that helps support former 49er players. Find out more at www.lettersto87.com. \nMatt Maiocco\, beat reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area\, has covered the San Francisco 49ers for over a decade. Brad Mangin is a photographer who\, since 1987\, has captured the biggest stars in professional sports. Brian Murphy is half of KNBR’s « Murph and Mac » sports report. He’s written six books\, three of which celebrate the World Series Champions SF Giants. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-maiocco-brad-mangin-brian-murphy/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T150000
DTSTAMP:20260414T180045
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Lucille Lang Day
DESCRIPTION:Lucille Lang Day reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. \nLucille Lang Day was born in Oakland\, where she still lives. Day has several books of poetry\, including The Curvature of Blue\, Infinities\, and Becoming an Ancestor. She has also written children’s books and a memoir\, and has edited anthologies\, most lately Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California. \nA free chapbook of Day’s poems is available from all the BPL branches. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-lucille-lang-day/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T180000
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1969\, Small Press Distribution (SPD) of Berkeley celebrates 50 years as the nation’s only literary nonprofit book distributor. SPD is honored to distribute and advocate for over 400 independent publishers\, bridging connections between underserved readers and a broad coalition of essential but underrepresented authors. In conjunction with our community partners at the Berkeley Art Center\, it is our great pleasure to celebrate our 50th anniversary by honoring the vibrant Bay Area literary community\, as well as the advocates\, readers\, and writers who have sustained and inspired SPD for decades. \n  \nSPD will honor three local literary luminaries who we believe have made significant\, invaluable contributions to Bay Area literary culture over the last decade. Samantha Giles\, winner of the 2019 California Book Award Gold Medal in Poetry\, served as the executive director of Small Press Traffic\, stewarding innovation in San Francisco literature through events\, workshops\, and community advocacy. Owen Hill is a novelist\, editor\, and the co-curator of events at radical\, independent store Moe’s Books in Berkeley\, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year. J.K. Fowler is a writer and the founder and executive director of Nomadic Press\, a community-focused literary and arts non-profit with operations in Oakland\, CA\, Des Moines\, IA\, and Brooklyn\, NY. We are proud to have worked in such close proximity to these wonderful writers and organizers over the years.  \n  \nOn Saturday\, October 5th\, we invite you to join us for SPD Presents: Small Press Distribution’s 50th Anniversary Reading & Celebration! The event will be held at the Berkeley Art Center and will feature readings from our honored guests\, followed by a community reception and celebration. Doors open at 3pm.  The BAC is located at 1275 Walnut Street in North Berkeley; the event is free and open to the public. For more information\, visit: bit.ly/SPDPresents.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents-small-press-distributions-50th-anniversary-reading-celebration/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191005T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T180045
CREATED:20190826T135801Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release: this is my body
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce the release of this is my body\, an anthology of written works by women of color exploring their relationship with their bodies in the world they exist in. Each piece is accompanied by a powerful stage performance bringing the words from the page to life. \nJoin us at Nomadic Press for the release on Saturday\, October 5\, from 7–9 PM and help us celebrate these fierce women and their stories. \nBooks will be sold at the event. Wine and gnosh will be provided. Free and open to anyone to attend. Donations will be called for during the event\, but of course\, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-this-is-my-body/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T180045
CREATED:20190823T005348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190823T005506Z
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 2019 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T180045
CREATED:20190825T191351Z
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SUMMARY:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín
DESCRIPTION:How to Cure a Ghost: Poems with Fariha Róisín\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 9\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFahira Róisín shares poems from her new collection\, How to Cure a Ghost. \nFollowing in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I\, Fariha Róisín’s poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young\, queer\, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously\, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother\, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks\, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.\n \nPRAISE\n “When I first encountered Fariha’s writing\, I let out a sigh of relief. Was it refreshing? Yes. But there was something more. Her words allow us to feel visible. Fariha’s writing has the power to heal and transform. She pulls you into her stories until you’re at the edge of your seat\, emphatically rooting for her subjects.” \n— Rupi Kuar \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nFariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer\, editor\, and podcaster based in Brooklyn. Her writing often explores Muslim identity\, race\, pop culture\, and film. It also examines the intersection of queerness and being a femme of color while navigating a white world. She has written for The New York Times\, Al Jazeera\, The Guardian\, Vice\, Fusion\, Village Voice and others. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, October 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/how-to-cure-a-ghost-poems-with-fariha-roisin/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191012T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T180045
CREATED:20191016T034031Z
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SUMMARY:Beth Elliott
DESCRIPTION:6:30 PM potluck\, 7:30 PM show. Singer-songwriter and author Beth Elliott featured at Works in Progress Women’s Open Mic\, a WOMEN-ONLY event. Open Mic for poetry\, prose\, music and more. Plymouth United Church of Christ\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, CA. $7-10 admission buys raffle ticket for one of ten prizes. \nThe event is scent-free\, and the meal and performance space are wheelchair-accessible. Unfortunately\, the bathroom\, while on the same floor as the meal and performance space\, is not fully accessible. \nAll women\, cis and trans\, are welcome. If you would like to perform\, please contact the host Linda Zeiser WELL IN ADVANCE at ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com or (510) 701-1022‬ to reserve your 5- to 10-minute open-mic slot. \nA shadowy figure of lesbian culture\, third-generation Bay Area native BETH ELLIOTT continues to write\, make music\, engage in feminist activism\, and pursue her Goddess visions in a way true to her counterculture roots. Though she shares responsibility for some early milestones in lesbian freedom\, she ended up a women’s community outlier at a young age. She credits this with pushing herself to explore her individual creativity\, calling it a simple “lack of adult supervision.” Her songs delight with their wit\, even the darker ones. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-elliott/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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