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SUMMARY:Cleave + Liminal
DESCRIPTION:This is a special book release/collaboration between Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers and The Liminal Center. 9 women writers\, represented in anthology Cleave/Liminal\, will read from their work. Issues of the anthology will be available for purchase with all profits going to the Liminal Center for women writing in a shared working environment in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleave-liminal/
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:20170610T080000
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SUMMARY:Bridging: A One-Day Writing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Hedgebrook and SMC MFA in Creative Writing are collaborating to present a one-day writing retreat for women\, trans women\, genderqueer women\, and non-binary people. \nKeynote speaker: \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. Her most recent novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves was short listed for the Man Booker Prize\, winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award and The California Book Award for Fiction. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler’s short story collection Black Glass won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California. She is the co-founder of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award and has served as president of the Clarion Foundation (also known as Clarion San Diego). \nWorkshops\nFrom Artist Statement to Press Kit: A Po-Biz* Workshop\nRaina J. León has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction.  She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\,   She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with the Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale.  She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.  She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.  www.rainaleon.com \n*Poetry Business\n\nStory Development: Plot\, Character and 7 Steps to Authentic Storytelling\nAngie Powers has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College\, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel\, The Blessed. She also has a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) andwas a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She is currently in development on a feature-length comedy Lost in the Middle.  She is a teacher and cofounder at bookwritingworld.com.  Angiepowers.com \n\nFlash Nonfiction: Sharpening Your Story for the Short and Long Haul\nJill Kolongowski is the author of Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me\, forthcoming from Ulysses Press. She is also the managing editor at YesYes Books. Her essays have won Sundog Lit’s First Annual Contest series and the Diana Woods Memorial Prize in Creative Nonfiction at Lunch Ticket magazine. Other essays are published in Profane\, Sweet: A Literary Confection\, Forklift\, Ohio\, Southern Indiana Review\, Fugue\, and elsewhere. Jill was born in Michigan\, but now lives near San Francisco\, where she teaches writing\, hikes\, and watches Chopped marathons. \n\nApplying for Fellowships and Residencies: Writing Personal Statements and Project Proposals\nRashaan Alexis Meneses has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, The International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle\, UK\, and the Jacob K. Javits Program. Her fiction and non-fiction is published in various journals and anthologies\, including Kartika Review\, Puerto Del Sol\, New Letters\, BorderSenses\, Kurungabaa\, The Coachella Review\, Pembroke Magazine\, Doveglion Press\, and the anthology Growing Up Filipino II: More Stories for Young Adults. You can find her at rashaanalexismeneses.com \n\nCost\n$115 until May 6\n$130 after May 6\nLimited partial scholarships available. Email Joanne Furio for an application.\nSpecial accommodations available. Email Joanne Furio. \nCost includes: \n\nFood (three meals\, happy hour\, and evening cake and coffee)\nVegan and gluten-free options available\nNetworking opportunities with Bay Area women writers’ groups\nAn evening keynote by Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, Sister Noon and Black Glass and Hedgebrook alumna\nYour choice of one of four afternoon workshops\n\nFunds raised from the retreat benefit both programs and the newly established Hedgebrook scholarship for a St. Mary’s MFA student. \nONLINE PAYMENT AND REGISTRATION \nIf you have questions please email Joanne Furio or Amy Wheeler.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bridging-a-one-day-writing-retreat/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Thomas Centonella
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centonella presents his new poetry collection\, Almost Human\, winner of the Dorset Prize\, selected by Edward Hirsch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs in a profound love affair\, Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first person protagonists in Almost Human are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella has published three previous books of poetry: American Book Award-winner Terra Firma\, Lights & Mysteries\, and Views from Along the Middle Way. He was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and has taught literature and creative writing at San Francisco State\, UC extension\, the College of Marin\, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program as well as for the Institute on Aging and WritersCorps. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-centonella/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest 2017
DESCRIPTION:👽 :: Q U E E R S : I N : S P A C E :: 👽 \nJoin us on Saturday\, June 17th\, as we celebrate independent publishing and the Bay Area’s diverse queer histories. Admission is FREE\, the event is FAMILY FRIENDLY\, and is also ACCESSIBLE. The fest runs from 11 AM – 6 PM! \n  \n🌞 FEATURING 🌞\n– ZINE LIBRARY\n– MAKE YOUR OWN ZINE WORKSHOP\n– ZINE READINGS\n– 40 TABLERS \n  \n🌠 TABLERS 🌠\nAlexis Jimenez\nAnand Vedawala\nBreena Nuñez\nCabronas Healing\nCameron Simmons\nCenter for Sex and Culture\nChulita Vinyl Club\nChris Mancinas\nDating Between the Lines\nDarcy Crash Distro\nThe Degenderettes\nDiscantbelife Press\nElliott Sky Case\nEnola Dismay\nFoglifter\nGlamboyant Zine\nThe Grand Newsstand\nIvy Atoms\nLindsay Rodriguez\nLisa Sy\nMaia Kobabe\nMarie Njoku-Obi\nMixed Race Queer and Feminist Zine\nMixed Rice Zines\nNia King\nNiko Nada\nPatrick Woolf\nQueer Fat Crafts for Ghosts and Cuties\nRadical Queereans\nRoxana Dhada\nSe’mana Thompson\nSilver Sprocket Bicycle Club\nSarah Grace Gladstone\nSonia Nickles\nSouth Bay DIY Zine Collective\nTYFN Zine\, Megalodude & Queen Sen Sen\nVanessa Hernandez\nViolet Zitola\nXicanx Crybaby\nZerena Diaz \n  \n🚀 TRANSPORTATION 🚀\nThe East Bay Community Space is located at 507 55th St in Oakland\, right in the middle of Ashby\, MacArthur\, and Rockridge BART stations! There is limited street parking! No bikes allowed inside the Space! For more transit information\, please visit http://511.org/ \n  \n🌛 ACCESSIBILITY 🌜\nEBCS is fully ADA compliant. There is a lift to both levels of the mezzanine areas. Each of the six gender-neutral bathroom stalls is wheelchair accessible. Only service animals are allowed in the Space. THIS WILL BE A SCENT-FREE EVENT! For more information on how to be scent-free\, visit:http://thinkagaintraining.com/about/fragrance-free/#forparticipants \n  \n☄️ SAFETY ☄️\nBAQZF is a safe space and we won’t tolerate ANY BULLSHIT. This means no discrimination based on gender identity or presentation\, race\, class\, body\, ability\, religion\, or sexuality. No racism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, ableism of any kind will be tolerated. RESPECT the space\, the artists\, their property\, and their work. If at any time you feel unsafe during the event\, grab one of our volunteers\, and we’ll handle the situation. There will be no alcohol allowed on the premises. \n  \n✨ BAQZF MISSION STATEMENT ✨\nThe goal of the Bay Area Queer Zine Fest (BAQZF) is to showcase and promote the DIY publishing scene of the Bay\, while highlighting its diverse queer histories. We aim to illustrate these histories by bringing marginalized voices to the forefront of the fest – specifically those of people of color\, femmes\, disabled folks\, and trans folks. Our mission is clear: we are queer and love zines. This fest is for and by queer people. \n  \n🖖 #arajoforever
URL:https://litseen.com/event/baqzf/
LOCATION:East Bay Community Space\, 507 55th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MK Chavez: Guest Poet @Claremont
DESCRIPTION:MK Chavez reads her poems\, followed by an interview and discussion. Pick up a free chapbook of MK Chavez poems at any BPL branch!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-guest-poet-claremont/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T130000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press Summer Solstice 2017 Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press continues to burst at the seams with programming and publications\, and we need your continued support to keep the doors open and our programming and publication schedule as robust as they currently are. \nFrom June 5-June 20 (Summer Solstice)\, we will be raising money to help Nomadic Press cover its general operating costs and publication printing costs. Our goal for this Solstice is $10\,000\, and we need your help to get there. \nDonate what you can below. If things are tight for you at the moment\, even $5 will help. For those that find themselves in a slightly better position\, consider giving $100\, $500\, or $1\,000. As always\, your donations are tax deductible and every single dollar goes directly toward the continuation of everything bi-coastal Nomadic Press does\, results that you can actually attend and hold in your hand. \nWe will be giving weekly updates on our progress. Please share this short campaign far and wide and cast your support today! Thank you for your continued support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-summer-solstice-2017-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170620T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170620T210000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #25
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \n\nCommunity\, Fruitvale Literary\, Ale Industries\, Nomadic Press\, Fruitvale Beer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-25/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Brontez Purnell at Pegasus Books Downtown for the launch of his debut novel\, Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \nAuthor Bio \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). \nHe was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Naomi Klein presents her new book No is Not Enough
DESCRIPTION:NAOMI KLEIN presents her new book No Is Not Enough\nTuesday\, June 20\, 7:30PM\nat First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW \nJoin us for a discussion of resistance in the Trump era with internationally acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Naomi Klein. \nDonald Trump’s takeover of the White House is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. His reckless agenda — including a corporate coup in government\, aggressive scapegoating and warmongering\, and sweeping aside climate science to set off a fossil fuel frenzy — will generate waves of disasters and shocks to the economy\, national security\, and the environment. \nAcclaimed journalist\, activist\, and bestselling author Naomi Klein has spent two decades studying political shocks\, climate change\, and brand bullies. From this unique perspective\, she argues that Trump is not an aberration but a logical extension of the worst\, most dangerous trends of the past half-century — the very conditions that have unleashed a rising tide of white nationalism the world over. It is not enough\, she tells us\, to merely resist\, to say no. Our historical moment demands more: a credible and inspiring yes\, a roadmap to reclaiming the populist ground from those who would divide us — one that sets a bold course for winning the fair and caring world we want and need. \nThis timely\, urgent book from one of our most influential thinkers offers a bracing positive shock of its own\, helping us understand just how we got here\, and how we can\, collectively\, come together and heal. \nBook signing to follow. Copies of No Is Not Enough will be available for purchase at the event. A discounted ticket/book bundle is also available in advance. \n— \nTickets on sale at this link. \nSponsored by Booksmith\, The Nation\, The Leap\, The Intercept and Haymarket Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/naomi-klein/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170621T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170621T213000
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SUMMARY:June Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges invites you to a reading featuring 5 East Bay writers on Wednesday 21 June at 7:30pm at Pegasus Bookstore\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue\, downtown Berkeley. \n\nCharif Shanahan \nNancy Patrice Davenport \nAndré Le Mont Wilson \nAndrew J. Thomas \nNick Johnson \n\nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman.   Hosted by Sharon Coleman \n\nFree refreshments and a bookstore cat!!!  Bring a date! \n\nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, A Public Space\, and Prairie Schooner\, which awarded him the Edward Stanley Poetry Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and the Starworks Foundation. Currently\, he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \n  \nNancy Patrice Davenport was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Oakland\, California. She has proudly raised a son as a single mother. Nancy has been writing professionally since 2011.  Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies\, [including The Burning Grape\, Mountain Gazette\, The Bicycle Review\, Oakland Review\, Lilliput Review\, Blue Fifth Review\, RED FEZ\, Poetry Quarterly\, Full of Crow\, The Lake\, Yellow Chair Review\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Blue Mountain Review\, OTATA\, and The Naked Bulb]. Nancy’s chapbook\, LA BRIZNA\, was published in May 2014; this year she had a broadsheet published and available by Country Valley Press. Her poems have been translated into German and Spanish. Nancy had a Best of Net nomination this year for her JUNE 2 RETROGRADE MINDFULNESS poem. \n\nWhenever André Le Mont Wilson is asked for his bio\, he always tells the same story. He was born in Los Angeles to parents who were both poets. When they died in 2012 eleven weeks apart\, he began to write his own poetry. He later branched out into storytelling and has performed at many events throughout the West Coast. Last month\, Haiku Anthology: Observations and Insight published a collection of his haiku. In November\, The New Engagement will publish his free verse. Wilson lives in the East Bay with his partner and their Chihuahua. \n\nAndrew J. Thomas has no classic training in the art of the written word\, other than years of heartbreak and a love of whiskey. He is a founding member of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival and enjoys participating and supporting literary events in the Bay Area. He hopes his poems make you cry. \n\nNick Johnson was born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland but now calls Oakland home. He received his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. His book music for mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. He enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash Presents Cal Freeman + Janet Hamill
DESCRIPTION:Cal Freeman’s latest book of poems is Brother of Leaving. Alan Michael Parker says\, “Cal Freeman’s a poet who measures the world and constructs\, at angles\, a whole shining city\, a self-portrait he calls Detroit. With a bardic poignancy Brother of Leaving hums the sorrowful anthem of capitalism and its discontents. Pretty as a trash fire\, and sad as a mirror\, these are poems to remember.” He is the author of the chapbook Heard Among the Windbreak\, and his second full-length collection\, Fight Songs\, is forthcoming in the fall. \nJanet Hamill’s new book of poems is Knock. Patti Smith says\, “Janet Hamill’s Knock is intensely visual and invigorating…This is an ambitious work\, rich with unexpected juxtapositions—Casanova and the Huns\, Rothko and Goat’s Head Soup. A bounteous world into which we’re drawn by one of our true poets.” Among her six published books of poetry and fiction are Nostalgia of the Infinite\, Lost Ceilings\, Body of Water\, and The Eternal Café. Widely published in literary journals\, her work has been anthologized in Up Late: American Poetry Since 1970\, Bowery Women Poems\, and elsewhere. A strong proponent of spoken word\, she’s read at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church\, CBGB’s Gallery\, Seatle’s Bumbershoot Festival\, Patti Smith’s Meltdown Festival in London\, and many other festivals and venues. In collaboration with the band Lost Ceilings she’s released two CDs of spoken word and music\, Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-cal-freeman-and-janet-hamill/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170623T190000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Alton + Margaret Spilman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an excellent Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jenny Alton and Margaret Spilman. Emceed and curated by Reńe Vaz and music by Nkechi. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nJennifer Alton received her MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in Lumen\, Entropy\, and Vertebrae\, was a semi-finalist in Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction contest\, and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer\, you can find her at jennyalton.wordpress.com. \nMargaret Spilman was born in West Virginia\, raised in Kansas\, and is currently living in the Bay Area. She is a recent recipient of an MFA from San Francisco State University and was Fiction Editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She was one of six writers chosen to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2014. Her story “Muscle Memory” won the James Kirkwood Literary Prize. She has been most recently published in Indicia\, The Rattling Wall\, The New Flash Fiction Review\, and sParkle & bLink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-alton-margaret-spilman/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic Season 1 Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:The First Season Publication is finally here and we want to celebrate with you! \nAs an outgrowth of the series we sent out an open call for submissions based on the films screened. From that grew the Black Aesthetic: Season One publication. A short anthology that combines personal essay’s\, poetic criticism\, and mixed media into print. \nCome join us for a evening of music videos and readings from the publication\, bring your friends! \nThe Black Aesthetic was created order showcase rare\, unknown\, and influential films that highlight the creativity and generative imagination of black filmmakers. Over the course of 8 weeks we will used this film series to bring together a community of film buffs\, students\, community organizers\, and local citizens to discuss the importance of preserving these films\, to document the contemporary struggles that these films run parallel to\, and to experience the joy of the black imaginative force. \nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/ \nPre-Order Link:\nhttps://squareup.com/market/em-wolfman-books/item/black-aesthetic-magazine?t=modal-em\nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-aesthetic-season-1-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170624T190000
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Death
DESCRIPTION:Lineup\nSusannah Carlson\nCassandra Dallet\nNancy Davenport\nLucille Lang Day\nRoy Mash\nAndrew Sano\nNorma Smith\nSandra Wassilie\nLaura Zink \nMusic by Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City and Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-death/
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:20170624T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170624T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170604T220629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020303Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Family" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\nOur June features are: Rebecca Gaydos and Tomas Moniz.\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: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm).\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!\nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm. \nBring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!). \n21+ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-family-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170625T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170625T160000
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CREATED:20170604T232923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020505Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Andrena Zawinski + Cathleen Calbert
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 25th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Andrena Zawinski and Cathleen Calbert. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews! \nAndrena Zawinski’s new book of poems is Landings. Rebecca Foust says\, “These poignant\, plainspoken poems span lifetimes and continents\, chronicling a childhood in Pennsylvania when Coal (or Steel) was King and furnaces glowed the night skies red and an adulthood in California where stunning natural beauty paints a chiaroscuro with the daily news…Part paean and elegy to what was\, part lyric and dirge to what is. Landings asks the question of what remains—where we land—after great loss.” Her two previous full-length collections are Something About\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, winner of a Kenneth Patchen competition. She has been a Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon\, and she also edited Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. \nCathleen Calbert’s new book of poems is The Afflicted Girls\, winner of the Vernice Quebodeaux “Pathways” Prize for Women. Thomas Lux calls it “a book filled with powerful voices. The poems are lush and textured\, subtle yet fierce…Cathleen Calbert is a poet who has learned her trade\, and her music is sure and original.” Her previous collections are Lessons in Space\, Bad Judgment\, and Sleeping with a Famous Poet. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such publications as The New Republic and The New York Times\, and her honors include a The Nation Discovery Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-andrena-zawinski-and-cathleen-calbert/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170626T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170622T013615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T013615Z
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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johanna-ely/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170626T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170615T000858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170624T003717Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #46
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations Show #46\nLiterary & Poetry Reading\nMonday\, June 26th\, 2017 \nA curated selection of\nSan Francisco Bay Area poets\,\nwriters & storytellers!\nREADERS\nPeter Bullen + Hollie Hardy\nAlexandra Naughton + Keeley Ann Finn\nDaniel Ari + Britt Peter\nEric Kurhi + Josey Rose Duncan\nLenore Weiss + Margaret Spillman\nNatasha Dennerstein + René Vaz\nCaeser Kent + Bronwyn Emery \nSPECIAL MUSIC GUEST\nGia\, of The Open Minds \nCURATORS\nJoel Landmine (Guest)\nSandra Wassilie + Thea Matthews (Board) \nat The Bellevue Club in Oakland\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA.\n(on Lake Merritt)\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/pjv7KpvvWv62 \n**Free Parking in garage\n**Full bar + refreshments\n**Minutes from BART (19th St): http://bit.ly/2i8VgW9 \nDoors & Bar: 6:30 p.m.\nShow: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7. With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet Tickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 250 notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nTickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT\nWebsite: http://www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nBay Area Generations * literary reading * authors * poets * writers * playwrights\nmusic * poetry * reading * storytelling * short stories * plays * memoir * flash fiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-show-46/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T064500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T204500
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170616T124636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170616T124636Z
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Reading
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-reading/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T203000
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CREATED:20170619T112802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T112802Z
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza!
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents its annual celebration of Queer pride >>Pride Poetry Palooza!<< with amazing LGBTQ poets MK Chavez\, Thea Matthews\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, David Welper\, Arisa White\, and Shelley Wong Wednesday\, June 28\, 7-8:30pm at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland. Baruch leads a discussion of writing Queer poetry after the readings. Book signing\, door prizes\, and free donuts–the poetic fuel of the gods! As-you-will door donation helps keep the doors open at Nomadic Press: Uptown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170621T003202Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T003202Z
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SUMMARY:Truong Tran + Farah Amezcua
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an excellent Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Truong Tran and Farah Amezcua. Emceed and curated by Reńe Vaz and music by TBD. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nFarah Amezcua is going through it\, but at least she has at least one good friend. She has no cats but she imagines that she wants one. Her veins are filled with marinara sauce and her hair smells like hookah. She currently lives with a spider\, a snake\, and a piece of trash. Get ready. \nTruong Tran is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. His books include Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, The Book of Perceptions\, Within The Margins\, Four Letter words\, I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar and the Children’s book Going Home Coming Home. His works have been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. He has been twelve years a lecturer at SFSU and is currently The Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College where he teaches writing workshops at the intersection of poetry and the visual arts. His Latest body of exploration entitled “The Book of Others” will be forthcoming in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truong-tran-farah-amezcua/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170701T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170701T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170511T040841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170511T040841Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday Readings
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2017:\n \nJune 3\, July 1\, August 5\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-readings/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170703T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170703T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170622T013726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T013726Z
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SUMMARY:Connie Post
DESCRIPTION:Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared dozens of journals\, including Calyx\, Comstock Review\,Cold Mountain Review Slipstream\,Spillway Spoon River Poetry Review\, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. She has written seven books of poetry. Her first full length Book “Floodwater” (Glass Lyre Press 2014) won the Lyrebird Award. Her other awards include the Caesura Award and the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/connie-post/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170706T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170620T224454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T122750Z
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SUMMARY:Wayne + Rick's Big Oakland Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman and Rick May celebrate the publication of their new books Friday\, July 7\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland with friends Natasha Dennerstein and Hilary Zaid. Goodman’s new novel Better Angels is a retelling for modern readers of the first known American Gay novel\, Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor\, published in 1869. May’s new book is the paperback edition of his short-story collection Inhuman Beings: Monsters\, Myths\, & Science Fiction. Dennerstein reads from her two latest books\, Seahorse and Triptych Caliform\, and Zaid reads from her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars. Free refreshments\, door prizes\, and party favors! Signing by all four authors follows the readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-ricks-big-oakland-publication-party/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170709T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170622T015051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T015051Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cohen + Mary Pacifico Curtis
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a musical and literary performance by poet\, novelist\, and editor Diane Frank and poet Ellaraine Locke\, Tripping with the Top Down\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-cohen-mary-pacifico-curtis/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170709T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170619T135437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T011328Z
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SUMMARY:Don Bogen + Joseph Di Prisco
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, July 9th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Don Bogen and Joseph Di Prisco. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-don-bogen-and-joseph-di-prisco/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170710T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170622T013844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T013844Z
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SUMMARY:Nadine Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:Nadine Lockhart received her MA and MFA from Arizona State University. She is currently working toward her PhD; for which she received the Lattie and Elva Coor Fellowship for Building Communities toward her research on the ability of poetry to transform into continued relevancy through hybridity and cultural relativism. This is serious stuff. Lockhart is an editorial assistant for Poetry Flash\, a Berkeley-based literary review and calendar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nadine-lockhart/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170711T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T200000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170712T030436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T030436Z
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SUMMARY:Publication Party! Shani Raviv discusses and signs "Being Ana"
DESCRIPTION:Shani Raviv is a struggling adolescent living in an eccentric female household in Johannesburg\, South Africa. At fourteen\, influenced by her clique\, she gets hooked on dieting. Over the next decade\, she tries to find self-worth in sex\, happiness in drugs and alcohol\, comfort in cutting\, and above all\, salvation in starving. A spiritual epiphany one night awakens her to the fearful realization that she has lost her sense of self to anorexia (Ana)— and has to decide whether to surrender and risk losing Ana to go in search of nourishment and her true self in a sober world. \nBeing Ana is an exploration into the soul and psyche of a young woman wrestling with anorexia’s demons—one that not only exposes the real horrors of a day in the life of an anorexic girl but also reveals the courage it takes to stop fighting and find healing. \nShani Raviv is a published writer\, writing coach\, copywriter/content producer\, and speaker who was born and raised in South Africa. She disputes the belief that an anorexic mindset is a life sentence and considers herself fully recovered. She lives in the Bay Area with her son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/publication-party-shani-raviv-discusses-and-signs-being-ana/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170619T141633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T011639Z
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Brownrigg w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:discussing Brownrigg’s new novel\, Pages for Her\, the story of two women\, Flannery and Anne\, each at a personal turning point\, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. \n“Brownrigg . . . approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity\, capturing the nuances in the women’s relationships to the people they love–as mother\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, wife\, or lover–and the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . . Brownrigg considers motherhood\, romance\, identity\, and the changes brought by time in this tender\, insightful novel.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwenty years after their brief but passionate affair\, chronicled in Brownrigg’s earlier novel\, Pages for You\, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne\, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love–then left her heartbroken. \nHaving long ago put their love behind them\, they live now on opposite coasts. Anne has been in a deep\, childless partnership with a fellow scholar\, Jasper\, who recently left her. Flannery\, to her own surprise\, married a charismatic artist named Charles\, with whom she has a young daughter. Submerged by her husband’s demands and personality and her adjustment to motherhood\, Flannery has lost sight of her self and her work. When the two women meet at a conference\, they find that the passion and understanding between them has endured\, though it has been hidden. In rediscovering each other\, they are able to rediscover themselves. \nPages for Her is an exhilarating\, passionate work that explores marriage\, sexuality\, and the transformative power of love over time. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels– Morality Tale\, The Delivery Room\, winner of the Northern California Book Award\, Pages for You\, winner of the Lambda Award\, and The Metaphysical Touch–and a collection of stories\, Ten Women Who Shook the World. She lives in Berkeley. \nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, Schoolgirls and\, most recently\, Girls & Sex.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sylvia-brownrigg-in-conversation-with-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170713T213000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170713T230000
DTSTAMP:20260627T213442
CREATED:20170709T123053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T123053Z
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SUMMARY:Nick Jaina
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit returns to The Octopus Literary Salon with Nick Jaina! Join us for an evening of live music\, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featured readers include Allyson Darling\, Ryanausitn Dennis\, Christine No\, and Amos White. \n$10 at the door. \nNick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland\, Oregon. He has recorded many albums and composed music for ballet and film. His book Get It While You Can is an Oregon Book Award finalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-jaina/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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