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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T190000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special Halloween Reading + Costume Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join Saturday Night Special for our 7th Annual Halloween Reading & Costume Contest! \nOur theme this year is: NIGHT CIRCUS\nInspired by the 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern (written for NaNoWriMo; see book description following bios below.) Think Victorian; think noir; think black and white with a red scarf; think sexy\, or macabe; think fascinator hat; thing top hat; think burlesque; think lion tamer; think lion. Think fortune teller\, contortionist\, carnie. Think freak show. If you must\, think clown. Or just wear a mask– But really\, you can dress up as anything. We will have prizes for the best costumes. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur October features are: Abe Becker and Kwan Booth\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: The list is often full by 7:05pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading and costume contest\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, October 28th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-halloween-reading-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
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SUMMARY:Erika Mailman from The Murderer's Maid
DESCRIPTION:Join the Oakland launch party for The Murderer’s Maid at East Bay Booksellers\, and have a bloody cupcake on us! \nIn 1889\, Bridget joins the Borden household as their maid\, but something evil is brewing beneath the house’s genteel surface. In 2016\, Brooke hides from her dangerous past and avoids making friends. But what if it’s time to stop running? \nDescribed by Kirkus Reviews as “complex and riveting\,” The Murderer’s Maid brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erika-mailman-from-the-murderers-maid/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Yellow Pear Press":MAILTO:marketing@yellowpearpress.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Día de la Muetros / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-dia-de-la-muetros-day-of-the-dead/
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:20171102T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T125000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
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SUMMARY:Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents\, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley\, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, and New York University. Her debut collection LOOK was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 PEN Open Book Award. Sharif has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171022T025823Z
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Michelle Gillett
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Gillett’s debut book of poems\, Coming About\, was selected for publication before her death from lung cancer in 2016. Daniel Tobin says of it\, “…Gillett’s insight is Rilkean in its wisdom.…In these fiercely honest poems\, knowledge of the fragility of things before ‘the ever-declining light’ keeps pace with a faith that knows always ‘some effect of the light keeps the dusk unfinished\,’ staving off the absolute dark. Coming About is a brave and beautiful book by a poet greatly gifted both in her humanity and her craft.” Born in 1948\, she lived in Stockbridge\, Massachusetts and was active in the arts and literary communities of the Berkshires. \nThe readers for the event will be:\nErin Gillett\, her daughter\, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a Masters degree in Architecture and works as an architectural designer and consultant. \nSarah Miller\, author of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn and numerous essays. \nRobert Thomas\, author of Bridge\, fiction\, and the poetry collections Door to Door\, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize\, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa\, and Dragging the Lake. He’s won a Pushcart Prize and received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nCarolyn West\, poet and storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-tribute-to-michelle-gillett/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171022T041734Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Day + Sophia Dahlin
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited for this one! One of our favorite east bay poets\, Jean Day\, recently put out another amazing book\, “Daydream” (Litmus Press)\, and is going to be reading with one of our newly re-acquainted east bay favorites\, Sophia Dahlin. Come celebrate Day’s new book and Dahlin’s return home to the bay after years of living\, well\, not here! \nJean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Daydream is just out from Litmus Press. Recent poems can also be seen in Chicago Review\, The Delineator\,Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French)–as well as in herTriumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions. Earlier works includeEarly Bird (O’Clock\, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books\, and her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, including\, most recently\, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by UC Press. \nSophia Dahlin is a writer and dilettante who has washed up again on Oakland’s mild sidewalks. Last time she lived here she ran a talk series called Poem Talks//Butterfly Dissection Sessions and went to all of your readings. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, BOMB\, the Awl\, the Recluse\, and Where Eagles Dare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-sophia-dahlin/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171104T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171104T170000
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010) and My Daughter La Chola (2013). He serves on the poetry editorial team for Fence magazine and as contributing editor to The Volta. He is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk-2/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170929T232750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024251Z
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff + Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Camera is Maxine Chernoff’s 16th book of poems. Her previous book\, Here\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth poetry collection\, Peace\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, Lovers in the Used World\, and Tall Stranger\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014\, and was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly. She co-translated (with Domenic Stansberry) Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto\, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love (Molotov Editions\, 2016). Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University since 1994 and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-chernoff-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171020T023541Z
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SUMMARY:Live! w/ Dr. Dawn McGuire
DESCRIPTION:Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire will be in conversation with Tom Donahoe and read selections from her latest poetry collection “American Dream With Exit Wound\,” which is inspired by her work with post 9/11 veterans. Produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\, Live! from the Library is free and open to the public.   RSVPs are encouraged and can be made online at www.wclibrary.org/live or by phone at 925.935.5395. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-w-dr-dawn-mcguire/
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library\, 1644 North Broadway\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94596\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Walnut Creek Library Foundation":MAILTO:info@wclibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171022T030032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T030032Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Kolodny + Carolyne Wright
DESCRIPTION:Susan Kolodny’s new book of poems is Preserve. Robert Thomas says\, “Susan Kolodny’s moving new collection begins with her arrival in Botswana and tells the story of a journey that transforms her understanding of herself and her own culture…Kolodny is unsentimental about the challenges that game preserves face…and the book itself becomes a Preserve she creates to save a world whose survival is at risk.” Her first collection is After the Firestorm. She’s also a psychoanalyst and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and its Inhibition. \nCarolyne Wright’s new book of poems is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems. David Axelrod says\, “The language of Carolyne Wright’s poems is as rich\, diverse\, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world\, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens\, their history\, turmoil\, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage.” Author of numerous previous collections\, including A Change of Maps\, she is co-editor of Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace\, a groundbreaking anthology. She is also a translator who has published five books of translation from both Spanish and Bengali. In addition\, she has published a book of essays\, and has received a Fulbright and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Seattle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-kolodny-carolyne-wright/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170816T003326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003326Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include Address\, Meteoric Flowers\, Turneresque\, The Human Abstract\, and Second Law. She is also the editor of Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She taught poetry at Mills College from 1995 to 2002. In 2015 she joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-willis/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T220000
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CREATED:20171022T005559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T005559Z
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SUMMARY:Nan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poetry\, Rope Bridge and Unfinished City\, and her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Tikkun\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines and anthologies. Her awards and honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award\, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nan-cohen/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171025T011423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011423Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: "Queer Femme Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Gr Keer hosts an evening of “Queer Femme Poetry” with readers Vanessa Rochelle Lewis\, Maya Chinchilla\, Rona Luo\, and Crystal Azul Barr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-femme-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170929T232858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024707Z
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SUMMARY:Hilton Obenzinger
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for Hilton Obenzinger’s new book\, Treyf Pesach: \nBlasphemy is holy—and exciting\, outrageous literature in Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book “strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth.” This collection of poems presents radical departures from traditional rituals\, formats and conventions: alternative Passover Seders\, Yom Kippur liturgy\, Thanksgiving prayers\, psalms and other poems in the form of proclamations\, resolutions\, jazz improvisations\, incantations\, rants\, orations\, comic monologues\, oil spills\, life spills\, songs\, visions\, undocumented documents\, borders\, suns\, farewells\, minutes of meetings\, talk-stories\, and all accompanied by provocative drawings of Treyf Passover Seder plates by artist Charles Steckler. In this book the symbolic plate is arrayed with treyf (un-kosher food) and the story of the Exodus with untypical meanings\, whiskey instead of wine\, recounting the continual slavery of wars and military occupations. The poems in Treyf Pesach have taken place over the course of years and various occasions\, from vicious aggressions\, to absurd walls\, to smallpox blankets\, to oil spouting across the Gulf\, and more\, all framed by the first months of the Trump regime. Some have been read out loud at Seders\, Yom Kippur services\, Thanksgiving Day benedictions\, Sunday fellowships\, and other ceremonies. But those are the exceptions. For the most part Treyf Pesach has been placed under arrest and shoved across the borders of respectability. Hilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism\, and is the recipient of the American Book Award. According to poet Diane di Prima\, “he is the American Jonathan Swift.” \nHilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism. His books include This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem\, which received the American Book Award\, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain and the Holy Land Mania\, New York on Fire\, a*hole: a novel\, and the oral history Running through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg. Recently\, he has published his autobiographical novel Busy Dying and How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Born in Brooklyn\, he graduated Columbia University in 1969\, taught elementary school on the Yurok Indian reservation\, nursery school in San Francisco\, ran an offset press at a community print shop in San Francisco’s Mission District\, worked as a commercial writer for business and industry\, and taught writing\, literature and American Studies at Stanford University. He is currently Associate Director of the Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilton-obenzinger/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170816T004252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T004252Z
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Selz
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. Her debut memoir Unstill Life\, published by W.W. Norton in 2014\, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and was listed as one of the best books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, MORE Magazine\, the L.A. Times\, and Newsday. She writes art criticism for Art Papers\, Hyperallergic\, and the Huffington Post. Selz is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction and was a New York Moth Story Slam Winner. Selz is currently writing the biography of the artist\, Sam Francis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-selz/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170825T004627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004627Z
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SUMMARY:Black Took Collective
DESCRIPTION:Co-Founded in 1999 by Duriel E. Harris\, Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Cave Canem\, a retreat for African American Poets\, Black Took Collective is a group of younger Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms\, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race\, gender\, and sexuality. Their manifesto\, “Call for Dissonance\,” appears in FENCE\, Fall/Winter 2002 and A Best of Fence Anthology: The First Nine Years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-took-collective/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171022T011825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T011825Z
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SUMMARY:THERE 18
DESCRIPTION:featuring a quartet of local authors: Joey Garcia\, fiction writer Elizabeth James\,  essayist Jane Anne Staw\, and Shelley Blanton-Stroud\, plus music TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-18/
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:20171118T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171118T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171111T074828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171111T074828Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sin Against the Race\, a novel
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the publication of Sin Against the Race\, a new novel by Oakland-based writer Gar McVey-Russell. \nSin Against the Race follows the coming out journey of Alfonso Rutherford Berry III\, son of a city councilman and grandson of the state’s first African American legislator. During his journey\, Alfonso makes new friends\, finds love\, and discovers his own voice. Written in taut prose steeped in history and current events–and seasoned with the blues–Sin Against the Race follows the coming-of-age journey of a young black gay man as he progresses from an invisible councilman’s son to a formidable presence in his community. \nThe author will read from the book\, take questions\, and sign copies. Come and mingle in a haze of jazz and the delicious wine\, beer\, and food offered by Octopus Literary Salon. \nAbout the author: Gar began writing early in life\, but thought he wanted to be an astronomer. (He also thought he was straight. Go figure.) \nAt UCLA\, he co-created a left-leaning paper called Free Association. He also wrote commentaries for The Daily Bruin and feature articles for the LGBTQ newsmagazine Ten Percent\, for which he received an award. \nHe began fiction writing in the early 90s. His work has appeared in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993)\, and other publications. \nGar is married and lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-sin-against-the-race-a-novel/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="gamr books":MAILTO:gamrbooks@thegarspot.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171022T010013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T010013Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAYERS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. The readers will be Zubair Ahmed (City of Rivers)\, Sean Taylor (Your Smallest Bones)\, Ammi Keller\, Nancy Au\, and Teck Sway-Bien.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-layers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170816T001235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001235Z
UID:28313-1512226800-1512234000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170926T014636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002913Z
UID:28923-1512586800-1512594000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170816T002121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T002121Z
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171208T023948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023948Z
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171208T030733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T030733Z
UID:29448-1512673200-1512680400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Collectivity\, Intersectionality & Possibility: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Nomadic Press for a night of poetry\, book readings and conversation on the themes of collectivity\, intersectionality and possibility. We will be considering the role and experience of the individual in the collective; what intersectionality can mean for us today; and where we can possibly go from here. \nHow is the inflection of gender\, race\, class\, sexuality and religion relevant to our feminisms and resistance efforts? \nWhat does it mean to represent? Can anyone? Should anyone? Who never gets a chance? \nThere will be readings from an unpublished anthology of essays by women of color including Odelia Younge and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan\, as well as poetry\, prose and conversation with Amber Butts. \nBring energy\, critique\, questions and good vibes. Its sure to be an enriching night. \nInformation about the performers: \nDelia Younge is a San Francisco-based educator\, writer\, researcher\, spiritualist\, and builder residing in San Francisco. Her research focuses on black male youth identity\, transgressions\, and resistance\, within spatial theory\, critical youth studies\, and radical black feminist theory. Her previous work has focused on black women collectives and historical memory. She believes that knowing is about forgetting what you have been taught to be true\, and building anew. She is driven by the principle of doing well by those she loves and for who her research speaks to and helps provide a platform for. Delia is an editor at Blaqueerflow and many of her writings can be found on her personal blog on journeys\, love and the durability of faith at www.footprintsinair.wordpress.com. \nSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a Muslim writer and spoken-word poet from Britain. She is interested in race\, gender\, Islamophobia\, the construction of Muslims in Britain\, intersectional feminism and knowledge production. She writes on these topics at her popular blog: www.thebrownhijabi.comand in her poetry which can be found on YouTube. \nAmber Butts is a writer\, educator and tenants rights organizer from Oakland\, CA. Her work has appeared in Blaqueerflow\, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Radio and 6×8 Press. She is currently at work on an afro-futurist novel focused on themes of intergenerational trauma\, imagination\, Black survival and environmental racism. Amber’s writing challenges multiple systems of oppression through the use of queer and womanist frameworks. She works to amplify the stories of poor Black folks\, with an emphasis on mamas\, children and elders. She believes in asking big and small questions that lead to tangible expressions of freedom and liberation. \nProverbs\, a New York City native\, is a preacher\, poet\, educator\, and Emmy-award-winning media producer. She is passionate about ending male sexual violence against women and children\, the arts\, and being Black af. Proverbs lives and loves in Oakland with her hubby\, Brandon\, and can be found on the media of social: Lyvonne Proverbs Picou
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collectivity-intersectionality-possibility-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171208T025820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025820Z
UID:29444-1513364400-1513371600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:THERE 19
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 15\, 2017 –  featuring award-winning\, best-selling local author Tom Barbash\, the very funny Pamela Weymouth\, searing memoirist Dr. Vanessa Grubbs\, and musical guests TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-19/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20171208T022616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022616Z
UID:29429-1513623600-1513630800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #52
DESCRIPTION:*Free off street parking in garage\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 pm  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$7.00 (admission)\n$10.00 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-52/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180201T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180201T125000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20170816T002301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T002301Z
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania and three chapbooks\, Tolbert is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. S/he is currently studying to be an EMT and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. Tolbert was recently named Tucson’s Poet Laureate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180205T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180307T000000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20180206T050149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T050149Z
UID:29896-1517817600-1520380800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-2/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180217T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T160621
CREATED:20180206T044611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T044611Z
UID:29533-1518876000-1518879600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Richard Silberg
DESCRIPTION:Richard Silberg reads his poetry then sits for an interview and discussion. Silberg is an editor of Poetry Flash; he has published six books. A free chapbook of Silberg’s poems is available at the library — please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-silberg/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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