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SUMMARY:David Weisberg discusses and signs "The American Plan"
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes David Weisberg to the store to discuss and sign The American Plan\, on Thursday\, May 11th at 7:00 pm. This will be his West coast launch and all are welcome to attend. \nA daring and disturbing tale of survival set in Cuba and South Florida during the 1950s and early 60’s\, embracing both the breadth of historical fiction and the intimate intensity of a psychological suspense novel\, The American Plan is a vertiginous ride through the mid-century American psyche. \nCopies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-weisberg-discusses-and-signs-the-american-plan/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Laura McBride
DESCRIPTION:Laura McBride\n\n\n\n\nreads from her new novel\, ‘Round Midnight\, a story that follows the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas\, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. \n“Gorgeous\, engrossing\, moving\, and at times wickedly funny\, this brilliant novel pulled me in and didn’t let me go until the shattering final sentence. This is the novel you need to read right now.”–Joanna Rakoff\, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nSpanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today\, ‘Round Midnight is the story of four women–one who falls in love\, one who gets lucky\, one whose heart is broken\, and one who chooses happiness–whose lives change at the Midnight Room. \nJune Stein and her husband open the El Capitan casino in the 1950s\, and rocket to success after hiring a charismatic black singer to anchor their nightclub. Their fast-paced lifestyle runs aground as racial tensions mount. \nHonorata leaves the Philippines as a mail order bride to a Chicago businessman\, then hits a jackpot at the Midnight Room when he takes her on a weekend trip to Las Vegas. \nEngracia\, a Mexican immigrant whose lucky find at the Midnight Room leads to heartbreak\, becomes enmeshed in Honorata’s secret when she opens her employer’s door to that Chicago businessman–and his gun. \nLast is Coral\, an African-American teacher who struggles with her own mysterious past. A favor for Honorata takes her to the Midnight Room\, where she hits a jackpot of another kind. \nMining the rich territory of motherhood and community\, ‘Round Midnight is a story that mirrors the social transformation of our nation. Full of passion\, heartbreak\, heroism\, longing\, and suspense\, it honors the reality of women’s lives. \nLaura McBride is also the author of the novel We Are Called to Rise. She lives in Las Vegas and teaches composition at the College of Southern Nevada. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-mcbride/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Ariel Gore + Sara Marinelli
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Ariel Gore and Sara Marinelli\, with 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: \nAriel Gore is the editor & publisher of the Alternative Press Award-winning magazine Hip Mama and the author of eight books. Her latest\, The End of Eve\, chronicles her years spent caring for her dying mother. The memoir has been called “Terms of Endearment meets Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. She curates Hazel Reading Series\, and all-women literary salon. \nNkechi is a singer-songwriter whose evocative voice explores a wide range of music territory\, including acoustic soul\, folk rock and pop in a signature inspirational and lyrical sound called soul rock. Nkechi’s rich vocal textures and knack for improvisation make live performances a dynamic one-of-a-kind experience. She delivers conscious messages through verse\, rhyme and melody and has been blessed with an amazing roster of musicians who together form Nkechi Live! Band (NLB) the performing platform for her original soul rock music. NLB has performed at music venues and festivals on the west and east coasts. Nkechi is also a painter and performing actor in film and theater. The website for her creative happenings is http://www.nkechi.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-ariel-gore-sara-marinelli/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260627T123802
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SUMMARY:THERE 15
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 15 – Friday\, May 12 \, 2017 – award-winning East Bay author Cecile Barlier\, local author Katie Moulton\, and another writer 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-15/
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:20170513T133000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260627T123802
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T064741Z
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SUMMARY:"Say her name!": Writing the poetry of witness
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay\, Patricia Smith\, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection\, creative response\, and action. You will also read the news and be guided in the spiritual and humanizing practice necessary to write poetry of witness. At the end of the workshop\, those who are ready\, will be encouraged to record and submit their poems to Black Poets Speak Out or Voluble. This workshop is open to writers of all backgrounds and stripes\, and at any stage of their process. \nAbout the instructor\, poet Raina J. León: \nRaina J. León\, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, Cave Canem\, Macondo\, and CantoMundo\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. 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 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. Raina is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nReserving a Space: You may reserve a space by purchasing a ticket on a sliding scale\, $5-10\, first-come-first-serve. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. There are 15 five dollar tix available\, and 15 ten dollar tix available. The class caps at 30\, so reserve your space now! \nLocation: Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609. TAC studio can be accessed via wide ramps and also features a wide bathroom equipped with multiple handrails.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/say-her-name-writing-the-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #24
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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-24/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T203000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Schelling + Jaime de Angulo
DESCRIPTION:This is the Bay Area book launch for: \nTracks Along the West Coast:Jaime de Angulo & the Pacific Coast \nMore than an immersive tale of the picaresque life of cowboy linguist\, doctor\, ethnographer\, and author Jaime de Angulo— the Old Coyote of Big Sur—but an exploration of the persecuted Native Californian cultures and languages that had thrived for millennia and endured into his day.\nJaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work\, his writings\, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself\, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific coast. His poetry and prose uniquely represented the bohemian sensibility of the twenties\, thirties and forties\, and he was known for his reworkings of coyote tales and shamanic mysticism. So vivid was his writing that Ezra Pound called him “the American Ovid\,” and William Carlos Williams claimed that de Angulo was “one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered.”\nIn each retelling\, through each storyteller\, stories are continually revivified\, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast\, weaving together the story of a life with the story of the land and the people\, languages\, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied. \nAndrew Schelling is a poet\, essay writer\, and translator. He works on land use issues in the American West\, and teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder\, Colorado. In India\, he teaches at Deer Park Institute in the Himalayan foothills. \nRecent titles include Love and the Turning Seasons and The Real People of Wind & Rain
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-schelling-jaime-de-angulo/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges celebrates Work on Wednesday May 17 from 7:30-9pm with a reading at Pegasus Books\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue. \nCome hear \nAnna Rodas \nDawn McGuire \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nHeather Bourbeau \nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman\,  hosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with refreshments and bookstore cats!!! \nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her academic research has explored the social realities of war\, violence\, and poverty.  And her poetry is an attempt to bring to the page the many voices left out of books. \nDawn McGuire is a neurologist-poet and the author of four poetry collections\, most recently American Dream with Exit Wound. She has received numerous prizes\, including the Indie Book Award in Poetry and the Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” Her work appears in Zyzzyva\, Nimrod International\, Narrative and numerous other literary magazines\, and has been featured in a New Yorker podcast selected by Poetry Editor\, Paul Muldoon.  \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States.  His latest book of poems titled “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes\,” is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Cleaver\, Duende\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, Open City\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her first collection of poetry\, Daily Palm Castings\, profiles people in overlooked professions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Beautiful Things Project presents Natural Heir: The Arisa White Extension\, a photographic collaboration with Nye’ Lyn Tho. For the Natural Heir series\, Nye’ replaces the subject’s hair with beautiful plant life that represents African and African American cultures. However\, in The Arisa White Extension\, the models’ hair will be graphically altered with images inspired by poems from White’s You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened. The five participating models\, who are queer and trans black women\, include: Janet Halfin\, health education specialist for TransVision\, Tri-City Health Center; Zakiya Harris\, cultural architect\, artist\, and founder of Hack the Hood; UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Kerby Lynch; ecotherapist and Oricha priest J. Phoenix Smith\, founder of EcoSoul; and visual artist and educator Orlonda Uffre. The evening includes the unveiling of the photographic portraits\, a poetry reading\, and a Q& A. Funded by the Akonadi Foundation\, Beloved Community Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natural-heir-the-arisa-white-extension-exhibition/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170518T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
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SUMMARY:Granta's Best Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Lauren Groff\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Anthony Marra from Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists to the store on Thursday\, May 18th at 7:00 pm. \nEvery ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists was announced on April 26th.\nThe last Best of Young American Novelists issue was published in 2007 and featured  an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nLauren Groff\, born in New York in 1978\, is the author of four books\, including The Monsters of Templeton\, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers. Her most recent novel\, Fates and Furies\, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.\nHer work has appeared in the New Yorker\, the Atlantic and Tin House\, among others. She lives in Gainesville\, Florida. \nPhoto Credit- Megan Brown \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is a mental health advocate\, essayist and the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She won the 2016 Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize for her book of essays\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Her work has appeared in Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Believer and Lenny. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \n  \nAnthony Marra\, born in Washington DC\, is the author of the collection of stories The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the 2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Family Foundation Award. His first novel\, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, won the inaugural National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, and is currently the Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grantas-best-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T213000
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SUMMARY:Dawn McQuire + David Watts
DESCRIPTION:Dawn McGuire’s new book of poems is American Dream with Exit Wound. Carol Muske-Dukes says\, “McGuire is inspired by her work with post 9/11 vets\, by her brain research as a neurologist and her immersion in myth. You will take your life in your hands as you read these super-charged poems—and you will…’come to’ with an exit wound…” Both a neuro-scientist and a poet\, she has published three collections\, including The Aphasia Café\, which won the 2013 Indie Book Award for Poetry. Born in the Appalachian region of Kentucky\, her graduate education was both in Theology and Medicine. \nDavid Watts is both a physician and a poet. His new book of poems is Having and Keeping. Al Young says\, “Watts’ quiet poems couple with their subjects in an intimacy so strong\, you can smell their crackle and spark. When it comes to singing the uncontrollable messiness of family life\, growing pain and growth; the stickiness of love life\, the clumsiness of loss\, the pleasures of cranky togetherness\, this little book takes the cake.” His literary credits include seven books of poetry\, two collections of short stories\, a mystery novel\, a bestselling western and essays. He has received numerous awards in academics\, literature\, and television production.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dawn-mcquire-david-watts/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays Presents: Denise Benavides + Trey "Drow Flow" Amos
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Shideh Etaat and Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, with music by Phillip Michael Hermans. \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: \nDenise Benavides is an Oakland based queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and radical educator sharing her work with urgency—using the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a Bachelor’s of Arts in English from Mills College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nTrey “Drow Flow” Amos is a poetic emcee originally from Nashville\, Tn by way of Chicago. He is a nationally recognized performer and teaching artist. He has shared stages with artists and public figures such as Talib Kweli\, Dr. Cornel West\, Saul Williams\, Lemon\, Mick Jenkins and more. Trey is currently working as a Poet Mentor Fellow at Youth Speaks\, Inc. \nMusical Guest Meaghan Owens is an Americana Roots performer with three critically acclaimed albums: “No Whiskey in a Good Girl’s River”; “Gun Shy of a Kiss” and the recent “Bounty on my Heart.” She has been a whirlwind nomad for the past two years with stops in Maui\, Colorado and currently\, a brief stint in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-presents-denise-benavides-tret-drow-flow-amos/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing Print Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, May 19th\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing will be holding a release party for the latest print edition of MARY Journal! \nJoin us from 7pm – 9pm at Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, California for a night of celebration and literary readings. \nFeatured readers include Matthew Zapruder\, Arisa White\, Brontez Purnell\, Meg Elison\, Cesca Waterfield\, Emily Vizzo\, and Nicoleta Leontiades. Dramatic readings of MARY Journal published works by Genre Editors: Katie Walker\, Jennifer Burnside\, and Paola Vergara.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-print-issue-release-party/
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:20170519T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T233000
DTSTAMP:20260627T123802
CREATED:20170514T022139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T022139Z
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SUMMARY:Gina Gold's Sex Worker Confidential + Cinnamon Maxxine Late Show
DESCRIPTION:This evening the Opening Night of the 10th Biennial Sex Worker Festival\, we present two fantastic shows! \n8PM – 10PM Gina Gold’s TMI: Sex Worker Confidential and \n10:15 PM Cinnamon Maxxine\, Fierce Solid Gold Warrior Diva \nMore about:\nGina Gold’s TMI: Sex Worker Confidential\nAn incredible evening of drama\, comedy and insight as sex workers tell true\, personal stories about their experience in the exotic dance\, escort\, porn industries and more\, hosted by former phone sex operator and stripper Gina Gold. \nSoul food buffet\, Sex Worker Festival Opening Party with full bar\, music and more.\n\nMore on Gina Gold at Sex Worker Fest Opening Night\nThe Festival opens with this topical edition of Gina Gold’s storytelling series. Join us for this evocative theme as sex workers educate and seduce you. Learn our skills and tricks as we survive and build community with others who are also targets in these harrowing times. Then stick around for a whole night of fun\, humor and further destruction of stereotypes at this Sex Worker Festival opening event\, with full bar plus $10 extra for Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Buffet (the best soul food buffet in the bay (greens\, fish\, chicken\, Louisiana ‘tata salad\, the works!) followed by a provocative Late Show with Cinnamon Maxxine and much more. \nMore on Cinnamon Maxxine: \nCinnamon Maxxine\, Fierce Solid Gold Warrior Diva \nThe Sex Worker Festival’s opening night presents peformer and\, activist Cinnamon Maxxine\, presenting work that spans genres of burlesque and performance art. Heady and sexy\, angry and juicy\, bold and intimate\, Cinnamon\, a self-identified “naked brown\, fat\, curvy\, queer\, big booty\, space perv\, fierce solid gold warrior diva” explores expectations and challenges boundaries of politics of gender\, size\, art and race. Join us for this Sex Worker Festival opening night with full bar\, Geoffrey’s Inner Circle Soul Food Buffet and much more. Come early for Gina Gold’s “Sex Worker Confidential” story telling. \n“I’m tired of the fact that pale skin\, blond hair\, and straight bodies (as in size)\, are seen as the most desirable and therefore worth more and than mine. It’s bullshit\,” says Cinnamon. \nMaxxine’s performances are always a surprise and always offer a new insights in the intersection of politics and aesthetics–Heady and sexy\, angry and juicy\, bold and intimate\, Cinnamon\, a self-identified “naked brown\, fat\, curvy\, queer\, big booty\, space perv\, fierce solid gold warrior diva” explores expectations and challenges boundaries of politics of gender\, size\, art and race. \nHer unabashed courage is one of the backbones of our community. Queer porn fans know her as a super hot diva\, an outstanding favorite who you can always count for super intense\, hot scenes. Political whores look to her for guidance. Her performance is a meld of raw eroticism\, burlesque and performance art. \nA dedicated artist Maxine scales the terrain of taboo topics and representations: “Even still in the queer porn\, queer sex worker\, and queer adult work communities where everyone wants to talk about inclusion. fat people and black people are still less included than white people thin people. They’re less popular. ” \nRead more in an interview by Chris Hall “Q&A With Cinnamon Maxxine: A Fat Black Sex Worker Speaks Out” https://the-orbit.net/literateperversions/cinnamon-maxxine/ \nCinnamon will also be part of Wednesday May 24\, evening panel on Sex Worker and Mental Health at the Women’s Building\, hosted by Laure McElroy. \nSex Worker Fest Opening Night Party with full bar\, music and soul food buffet. Party! \nTickets $10-40 (includes both May 19 shows) Sliding Scale/NOTAFLOF/ \n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ \nGina Gold is a humorist\, filmmaker and stage artist. She grew up in a New York neighborhood thinking “oy vey” was something all black people said. Inspired by comedians like Carol Burnett and Lewis CK\, Gina boldly pokes fun at her own idiosyncrasies as a Jewish African-American Bay Area native who is really from Queens. At the age of thirteen Gina attended The American Academy Of Dramatic Arts and later wrote her own one woman shows before venturing into filmmaking. She launched her own show on a New York cable access channel. Calling it “The Gina Gold Show\,” she filled the airtime with comedic\, sometimes surreal\, Saturday Night Live-style sketches and short films. After telling a story called Hands Up on NPR’s radio show Snap Judgment\, Gina fell in love with storytelling and started her own series called TMI (Too Much Information ) which she currently produces. TMI features a rotating cast of storytellers giving an unadulterated\, often hardcore look at life. She is also on tour in a show called You’re Funny But You Don’t Look Jewish\, a touring stand up comedy show with some very funny African American\, Indian\, Italian American and Vietnamese Jewish comedians.Also visit The Gina Gold Show http://theginagoldshow.com/ \nCinnamon Maxxine is a Bay Area original. Born and raised in Oakland\, Cinnamon Maxxine is determined to be an advocate for those who are typically left under-represented. From people of color to people of size to people with invisible disabilities and trauma. Cinnamon Maxxine seeks to give those communities a voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-golds-sex-worker-confidential-cinnamon-maxxine-late-show/
LOCATION:Geoffrey’s Inner Circle\, 410 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland Book Festival 2017
DESCRIPTION:  \nOakland Book Festival \nFree and open to the public \nRead. Debate. Celebrate. \n  \nOakland Book Festival  \nSunday\, May 21\, 2017\, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nOakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \n  \nOne day – Seven Hours – 100 Writers – 50 Events \nThe Oakland Book Festival hosts over 100 novelists\, poets\, historians\, philosophers\, journalists\, editors\, and activists at City Hall\, engaging event goers in panels\, interviews\, and open debate. This year’s Festival will feature Angela Davis\, Judith Butler\, Danielle Allen\, Jeff Chang\, Arlie Hochschild\, Sheryl Oring\, Mistah F.A.B\, Wendy Brown\, Ishmael Reed\, Laura Albert and Anthony Marra (among many others). \n  \nChildren’s Area – Music – Booksellers – Food \nThe outdoor portion of the festival\, on Frank Ogawa Plaza\, includes a dedicated children’s area with performances from Children’s Fairyland\, “favorite-stories” read by librarians from the Oakland Public Library\, and book-making projects courtesy of Chapter 510. Oakland Youth Poet Laureate will be announced on the amphitheater at 1:00pm. \n  \nThere will be live music on the amphitheater all day. Booksellers\, magazine publishers and local literary organizations will have booths on the plaza; food trucks will provide nourishment. \n  \nAnd don’t miss … \n  \nKeynote Address  \nWhen: Saturday\, May 20\, 2017\, 5:00pm \nWhere: Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \nThe Oakland Book Festival 2017 will kick off with a keynote address on “Equality” by Danielle Allen at 5pm on Saturday May 20th in Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall. This event is free and open to the public. \n  \nOpening night Party \nWhen: Saturday May 20\, 6:30pm \nWhere: Starline Social Club\, 2236 M.L.K. Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nThe Starline Social Club will host a gala reception for the OBF from 6:30-8pm. This is an opportunity for you to meet the novelists\, journalists\, philosophers\, poets\, artists\, and editors participating this year\, from Danielle Allen to Sheryl Oring to Mistah F.A.B.\, privately and in person\, over the Starline’s delicious cocktails and food—all while supporting the Oakland Book Festival’s present and future efforts! \nPlease purchase tickets for the OBF gala here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/975549984/2017-oakland-book-festival?ref=project_share \n  \nThe event at the Starline will continue with a general admission party starting at 8pm. There will be mercifully few readings\, many musical performances\, and non-stop dancing from 8pm-2am. \n  \nSocial Media Information: \n  \nWebsite  \nhttp://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/ \n  \nFacebook \nWe hope you will tag us on Facebook (Oakland Book Festival) \nThe Festival event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/268851293569074/ \nThe Festival Facebook page: http://bit.ly/obf-event \n  \nTwitter and Instragm \nOn Twitter\, find us @oaklandbookfest \n Instagram @oaklandbookfestival.  \nFor any posts on the day of the Festival\, please tag them #oaklandbookfestival.  \n  \nKickstarter \nhttp://kck.st/2qthU3p \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-book-festival-2017/
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaze\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet\, musician and old friend Clark Coolidge in celebration of two new releases\, Selected Poems 1962-1985 (Barrytown/Station Hill Press) and The Circus (Flow Press). \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
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SUMMARY:Madison Smartt Bell
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel\, Behind the Moon\, on Tuesday\, May 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nWhen Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert\, she finds herself the target of unwanted\, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear\, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave\, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed\, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans.\nMarko\, her attacker\, tries to cover his tracks\, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Jamal\, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town\, is one of his prime targets. He defies Marko\, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence.\nMeanwhile\, Marissa\, who gave Julie up for adoption fifteen years earlier when she became pregnant as an adolescent\, is following an instinct that leads her back to the daughter she once abandoned. With the aid of Jamal and a local Native American hitman/shaman\, she attempts to draw Julie back to consciousness. \nMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution\, including All Souls’ Rising\, which was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson\, Maryland\, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004. In addition to many books of fiction and non-fiction\, he has published essays and reviews in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, and The Village Voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-smartt-bell/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Gettleman
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Gettleman\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist\, will discuss his memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent and yet most beautiful places in the world\, Love\, Africa: A Memoir of Romance\, War\, and Survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-gettleman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
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SUMMARY:Mary Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Mary Gordon reads from her new novel\, There Your Heart Lies\, a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War\, the lessons she learned\, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. \n“An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong character portrait holding together its disparate parts.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 23\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMarian cut herself off from her wealthy\, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War–an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties\, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia\, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian’s secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco’s war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer\, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years–personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s millennial generation\, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship. \nMarian’s story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain\, to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core\, this novel\, which explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history and passed down through the generations\, is especially relevant in our own time. Its call to arms–a call to speak honestly about evil when it is before us\, and equally about goodness–will linger long with its readers. \nMary Gordon is the author of seven novels\, including Final Payments\, Pearl\, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction\, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction\, including The Stories of Mary Gordon\, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors\, including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-gordon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
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CREATED:20170524T122335Z
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SUMMARY:Find Yourself Reading
DESCRIPTION:Find Yourself is an art exhibit that ponders the parallels between a revealing phrase in story-telling and a common occurrence while reading: “one finds oneself…” Artist/author Chris Kerr combines endpapers\, sentences by various writers\, and playful\, austere sculptures (using books he unwittingly found himself purchasing a second time) in order to guide viewers in contemplation of how we use statements like “I found myself [doing this]” or “she finds herself [thinking that].” The opening party on June 9 (7:00-9:30 PM) includes a find-myself-themed poetry reading at 8:00 PM by Genine Lentine\, Cedar Sigo\, and Stephanie Young!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/find-yourself-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T204500
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event\, which is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers)\, occurs on Wednesday\, May 24th at 6:45 p.m. Come join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-open-mic/
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:20170524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T190000
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell + Robert Thomas Reading
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning local authors Peg Alford Pursell and Robert Thomas will be stopping by our store to read excerpts from their works!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell-robert-thomas-reading/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
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CREATED:20170502T004222Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Sea Change Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Julian Shendelman\, Mya Byrne\, + Daniel Riddle Rodgriguez read from their works.\nMusic by Mya Byrne.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-sea-change-story-hour/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T200000
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with East Bay author Lucy Jane Bledsoe Thursday\, May 25\, 7-8 p.m. at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway\, in Oakland. Bledsoe will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Bledsoe’s newest novel\, A Thin Bright Line\, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. The New York Times says Bledsoe’s book “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE\, on Thursday May 25th\, 7-9 pm\, at Ale Industries\, 3096 E. 10th Street\, Oakland\, will feature Micheline Aharaonian Marcom (A Brief History of Yes)\, Brynn Saito (Power Made Us Swoon)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-defiance/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170525T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
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CREATED:20170501T130734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T130734Z
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SUMMARY:Ada Calhoun + T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Ada Calhoun & T.J. Stiles in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nabout Calhoun’s essay collection\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. \n“This unflinchingly honest\, astutely balanced probe of a most perplexing institution asks all the right questions. It sets up a conversation with the reader\, who is challenged to reflect at each point\, choosing between ‘No\, that’s not me’ and ‘How did she know that?’ Most of the time\, she knows.”–Phillip Lopate\, author of The Art of the Personal Essay \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 25\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hear plenty about whether or not to get married\, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Cliches around marriage–eternal bliss\, domestic harmony\, soul mates–leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes\, you might miss being single. \nIn Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, Ada Calhoun\, acclaimed for her provocative essays in the New York Times Modern Love and Lives columns\, presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage\, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates\, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest. \nCalhoun’s funny\, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity\, existential anxiety\, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave\, tough\, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. What a burden–Calhoun calls marriage–and what a gift. \nAda Calhoun has written for the New York Times\, New York magazine\, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-calhoun-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170525T213000
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SUMMARY:Dan Bellm + Ann Pellertier
DESCRIPTION:Dan Bellm’s new book is Deep Well. Alicia Ostriker says\, “With a touch on the keys of language as light as the air we breathe\, Dan Bellm traces his mother’s death\, and abides her continuing presence…Deep Well is a book of the purest poetry I have read in a long time. I am grateful for it.” He’s published three previous collections\, including Practice\, which won the 2009 California Book Award. He’s also a translator\, whose books include Speaking in Song by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue by Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca\, and The Song of the Dead by French poet Pierre Reverdy. His honors include a prize from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. \nAnn Pelletier’s debut full-length book of poems is Letter That Never. Carol Snow says\, “With each of these ‘imagined autobiographies’—unnamed\, evocative\, formally inventive—Ann Pelletier seeks\, seeks to offer\, a haunting solace at the edge of forgetting and being forgotten.” Raised in upstate New York; Madrid\, Spain; and New Hampshire\, she has been published in The Antioch Review\, New American Writing\, Volt\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bellm-ann-pellertier/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170526T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170526T210000
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: MG Roberts + Melissa Eleftherion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by MG Roberts and Melissa Eleftherion\, with musical guest Heather Jovanelli \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: \nBorn in Subic Bay\, Philippines\, Mg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat\, Cream City Review\, the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies\, Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. She co-edited the anthology Nests and Strangers: On Asian Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press) along with Timothy Yu and is currently co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMelissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. She is the author of huminsec\, prism map\, Pigtail Dut\, the leaves the leave\, green glass asterism\, and several other chapbooks. Her first full-length collection\, field guide to autobiography\, is hot off the presses from H_NGM_ Books. ecent work is forthcoming in Glass\, Italian-Americana Review\, & Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel. ounder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange\, Melissa lives in Mendocino County where she works as a Teen Librarian\, teaches creative writing\, & curates the LOBA Reading Series at the Ukiah Library. More of her work can be found @ www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-mg-roberts-melissa-eleftherion/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170527T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170527T150000
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CREATED:20170519T024936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015014Z
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SUMMARY:STANZA: summer throwback fundraiser party
DESCRIPTION:It’s a literary party-slash-fundraiser for STANZA–hosted by the delectable Temescal Brewery in Oakland. If you don’t like fun then you’ll at least like the beer. \nThe magic letter is ‘B’:\n– Bake sale: brownies and bites made especially for you by a local book nerd. Perhaps even madelines if we’re feeling Proust-y.\n– Bike wash: does your ride need some extra shine? We’ll wax on about Bolaño without waxing off your paint.\n– Brews: Temescal Brewery is giving us proceeds from their charity brew of the day! Drink up–we can tell you’re thirsty.\n– Book matchmaking: kissing booths aren’t quite our cup of espresso\, but you *can* sit down with our experts and get matched with the book of your dreams. Hurry up loves\, your unread lit is waiting.\n– Booksigning: got unautographed books on your shelf? Gosh\, we love opportunities to practice writing our own names. Bring us any book by any author: we’ll totally sign it for you.\n– Borges’ Gamble: one lucky guy/gal wins a copy of their very own book from Borges’ never-before-seen Library of Babel! *swoon* \n—\nFUNDRAISER GOALS:\n$1\,200 pays for our set design costs\n$1\,600 pays for our set design costs and gives our performing artists a stipend so they don’t have to work for free\n$2\,000 pays for our set design costs\, gives our performing artists a stipend\, and gets us a premier venue near BART! \n—\nABOUT STANZA:\nSTANZA lies somewhere at the intersection of poetry and immersive theatre. There is no stage. No set order. No assigned seats.\nWriters perform series of evocative poems simultaneously in separate rooms. You are free to roam the entire building in search of voices.\nEnter each room fearlessly: they are designed to throw you head-first into the world of the poem. \nSITE: www.stanzapoetrysf.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stanza-summer-throwback-fundraiser-party/
LOCATION:Temescal Brewery\, 4115 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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