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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T200000
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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:20260405T183128
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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:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20170816T001235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001235Z
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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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20170926T014636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002913Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20171208T030733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T030733Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20171208T025820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025820Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20171208T022616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022616Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180201T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180201T125000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180205T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180307T000000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20180206T050149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T050149Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180217T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180217T150000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20180206T044611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T044611Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180220T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180220T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20180219T071511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T071511Z
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie presents: HearSay! with local poets Mg Roberts\, Zack Anderson\, and Aniqa Tasnim
DESCRIPTION:A2 Cafe\, Oakland Campus\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for poetry and (free) pie. Humble Pie presents HearSay! featuring local poets and Writing & Literature majors\, Zack Anderson and Aniqa Tasnim. \nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collections\, Anemal\, Uter Meck (Black Radish 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga 2014). Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh(forthcoming from Nightboat Books); an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She is a Kelsey Street Press member\, Northern California Kundiman co-chair and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-presents-hearsay-with-local-poets-mg-roberts-zack-anderson-and-aniqa-tasnim/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180221T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20180219T072428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T072428Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Alan Felsenthal with Dylan Furcall
DESCRIPTION:Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together\, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan’s writing has appeared in BOMB\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Critical Quarterly\, Fence\, jubilat\, and Harper’s. Lowly\, published by Ugly Duckling Presse\, is his first collection of poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-alan-felsenthal-with-dylan-furcall/
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:20180221T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T183128
CREATED:20180219T020848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T020848Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Aquinas McNally
DESCRIPTION:Robert Aquinas McNally\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age \nfrom University of Nebraska Press \nOn a cold\, rainy dawn in late November 1872\, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73\, one of the nation’s costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples\, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. \nAlthough little known today\, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California\, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. \nThe war did not end with the last shot fired\, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history\, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt\, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma\, where they found peace even more lethal than war. \nThe Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a “peace policy” toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. \nRobert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord\, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books\, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins\, Whales\, and Men \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Robert McNally:\n\n“McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background.”—Bradley A. Scott\, Foreword Reviews\n“An excellent addition to Robert McNally’s body of work.”—Tombstone Epitaph\n“From the opening scene to the end\, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve\, truly deserving to be called a page-turner. Here is ethnohistory at its best\, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls\, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image \n“Robert McNally’s page-turning The Modoc War is one of the finest books ever written on this tragic history.”—Benjamin Madley\, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe\, 1846–1873\n“Robert McNally’s history of the Modoc War\, convincingly told from engrossing start to finish\, tells the story of an American tragedy\, but not without powerfully illustrating the nobility and endurance of the people who suffered it.”—Greg Sarris\, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n“Well paced\, with vividly drawn characters and exciting\, dramatic prose\, Robert Aquinas McNally’s narrative history of the Modoc War is the most thoroughly researched and historically accurate account of that tragedy to date. A tour de force of historical storytelling\, The Modoc War is an insightful exploration of one of America’s most important but forgotten Indian wars.”—Boyd Cothran\, author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-aquinas-mcnally/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Morgan Jerkins
DESCRIPTION:MORGAN JERKINS presents This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America\nWednesday\, February 21\, 2018\, 7:30PM\nat the Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St. in Berkeley\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW \n​Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today — perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be” — to live as\, to exist as — a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n—\n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” — Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick\n— \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others. \nImportant signing details coming soon. Tickets on sale at this link. \nRSVP at this link: not required\, but\, as always\, greatly appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-morgan-jerkins/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: February Love
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate love and whatever else at Lyrics & Dirges with five fabulous readers: Fisayo Adeyeye\, Candace Eros Díaz\, Jacqueline Doyle\, Gillian Hamel & Nancy Huang. Free with refreshments and bookstore cats. Hosted and curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman and Lark Omura. \nblckfsh / bird enthusiast / benign boy / fisayo adeyeye has works published in souvenir lit journal / nailed magazine / the birds we piled loosely / and he is the author of cradles (nomadic press 2017) \nCandace Eros Díaz is a queer Xicana writer based in Oakland\, CA. She is a current Emerging Arts Professionals fellow and has previously held fellowships at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Lambda Literary\, and The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She co-curates the San Francisco reading series Babylon Salon and is the Coordinator for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California where she earned a dual-concentration Masters in Fine Art in creative nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She can be found at candaceerosdiaz.com. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. She has new flash in Wigleaf\, Midway Journal\, and matchbook\, and new creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Superstition Review. Find her online atwww.jacquelinedoyle.com. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel is the author of occident (Called Back Books\, 2017). Her work has appeared in Public Pool\, The Elephants\, VOLT\, jubilat\, Dusie\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. She is a senior poetry editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. \nNancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from Voices/VONA and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-february-love/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang\, "Favorite Daughter\," with Aurielle Marie
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter-with-aurielle-marie/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dear Diary Zine Fest Pre-Party!
DESCRIPTION:Oh my goodness\, it is almost time for the Bay Area’s only PERZINE FEST! We are celebrating by hosting a zine reading the night before the fest! \nOut-of-town and local zinestresses will be reading select works from their *super popular* zines. Come hangout with Enola Dismay\, Alex Wrekk\, Angela Roberts\, Neelybat Chestnut and the rest of the Dear Diary Zine Fest crew. All exhibitors\, attendees\, and zine fans are welcome to come mingle and trade zines. \nIt’s gonna be a fun event\, so don’t miss it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-diary-zine-fest-pre-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: Shades of Gray
DESCRIPTION:February is the sluttiest month. Our theme is “shades of grey.” You know what to do. You’re welcome 😉 \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 fab February features are: Cassandra Dallett and Mimi Gonzalez\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: 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 \nSaturday\, February 24th\, 2018\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!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS coming soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-shades-of-gray/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #54
DESCRIPTION:*Free on-street parking after 6pm\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar\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\nGet Tickets! RSVP Today!\nCall for Submissions to Show #54 – Bay Area Generations. \nSee the BAG #54 Show – FaceBook \nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series\nthat features notable authors\, poets\, writers\,\nplaywrights and musicians in a monthly\npaired reading show.\nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati\nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-54/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate African-American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Professor of African-American Literature at Mills College Dr. Ajuan Mance discusses nearly-lost works by Black authors in the United States prior to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Come hear voices from the past as we celebrate Black History Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-african-american-literature/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Ismail Muhammad
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-tongo-eisen-martin-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman
DESCRIPTION:Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz\, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson’s accompanying black-and-white scratchboard drawings.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nMatilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. \nRabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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