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SUMMARY:David Larsen w/ Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation and DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet and translator David Larsen to the store to discuss his translation of 10th-century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion. He will be in conversation with Stephen Sparks. \nNames of the Lion is a thesaurus\, a word list\, a bestiary with only one beast. It was written as a virtuoso display of philological learning by a man who considered himself the greatest living authority on the Arabic language\, and was so considered by others. At the time of Ibn Khālawayh’s life and work\, the study of the Arabic language had reached a mature phase\, but although the works of Ibn Khālawayh are steeped in this tradition\, they depart from received models. His longest and most innovative text\, The Book of “Not in the Arabic Language\,” is organized aphoristically into short chapters. Each chapter begins with the phrase “In the Arabic language\, there is no X\, except for…” followed by all the exceptions to the stated rule. Names of the Lion is a chapter from this work\, which begins: “In all the speech of the Arabs and all books of Arabic philology put together\, there are no names for the lion besides what I have written for you.” Hundreds of words for lion then follow. Ibn Khālawayh produced word-lists on other subjects (names of the wind\, of the sword\, of honey\, etc). It was a well-established genre of linguistic scholarship\, and it’s not clear that lions were a particular obsession with Ibn Khālawayh. However\, the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) was endemic to Syria\, and a real-life scourge of the pastoral economy\, and no one who encounters a lion in the wild ever forgets it. \nIs Names of the Lion a work of literature? If by “literature” you mean an intentional work of poetry or artistic prose\, then it’s not. But that’s a narrow definition: “Pleasure reading” is a much broader category than that\, at least for the seekers and dreamers and students of the world. Formally\, the text will be familiar to everyone. It is a list\, and there is abundant precedent for the list as a poetic form. In our day\, the list poem is a standard exercise of Creative Writing because it never fails to yield interesting results. So even though Ibn Khālawayh had no conception of Names of the Lion as a work of poetry\, to enjoy it as one is practically irresistable. You could call it Ibn Khālawayh’s answer to poetry\, even his vengeful attack on it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-larsen-w-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents
DESCRIPTION:SPD Presents is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.\n~*~ \nMAYA SIMONE loves witches and zines and really wants to know your hot take on Avril Lavigne’s “sk8er boi.” She is a rising senior at Penn in Philadelphia and is so excited to leave soon. Shen she is not doing student things\, she maintains a grave garden in a cemetery. She hopes in the future to work in the literary community and live in a small town with her family of three dogs. \nEDDIE HOPELY is a writer and researcher now living in Oakland. \nLAUREN LEVIN is the author of The BraidD (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming Justice Peace/Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170810T190000
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SUMMARY:Yalie Kamara
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Yalie Kamara to the store to discuss and sign her chapbook\, When the Living Sing\, on Thursday\, August 10th at 7:00 pm. \n“When The Living Sing is a stunning and lush collection\, teeming with bright music. Here\, the mouth is a doorway and a dirge to what beckons and consumes the speaker’s tongue declaring\, ‘I become a lyre bird mimicking their sound\, unsure of what grief means in the hyphen of my African and American throat.’ Here\, the ‘pulpy lava bullet’ of the Malombo Fruit tethers memory to family in Sierra Leone and Oakland\, California. Here\, the elegy is housed in the sanctuary of praise by traversing the distances woven with slices of Krio\, Black death\, and always finding joy amidst sorrow. Yalie Kamara is a poet with a gorgeous and wild imagination that conjures the ‘opal hue of God’s touch’ and the ‘blueberry gauze of nightfall.’ I never wanted the chapbook to end.” —Tiana Clark\, author of Equilibrium \nYalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American and native of Oakland\, California. Prior to becoming an MFA candidate at Indiana University\, she worked in the service of youth and adults all over the state of California in the areas of educational access\, nonprofit management\,and community-based art facilitation. She holds Bachelors of Arts degrees in Languages and Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a Masters of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College. Among her publications\, Yalie’s work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Entropy Mag. She is a Callaloo Fellow\, is a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yalie-kamara/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170813T150000
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Christine Evelyn Volker to the store to discuss and sign\, Venetian Blood\, on Sunday\, August 13th\, at 3:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nA captivating tapestry of murder\, betrayal and family\, Venetian Blood is the story of one woman’s brave quest for the truth—before it’s too late. \nIt’s 1992 when Anna Lucia Lottol visits Venice to see an old friend and escape her failing\, childless marriage. Instead of finding serenity however\, Anna encounters a frightening world where she becomes a ruthless detective’s murder suspect. Dragged into the police station\, she lies about being in Venice the night before. Terrified of foreign justice\, she lies too\, about knowing the dead man—a money launderer from Venice who had made threats after he’d seduced her at financial conference in Milan. Anna\, talented in mathematics and physics\, working in anti-money laundering for the US Treasury Department\, struggles to make sense of an irrational city filled with illusions. With murders of long ago spiraling into the present-day and police working overtime to uncover her lies\, how can Anna find a way to clear her name\, identify the killer and keep her job? She teams up with her old friend\, and together they attempt to pry clues from uncooperative characters—some even denying what Anna has seen or heard. Bewildered\, she can’t tell if they are hiding something or if she is losing touch with reality. As she resists the charms of an Italian banker\, she must ask herself\, “Who is friend\, who is foe?” Anna—nearly killed by an unseen attacker\, beset by haunting dreams\, racing to unlock secrets—unleashes a force bent on destroying her. As the mystery turns personal\, will Anna save herself? Will she vanquish both her enemies and her darkest fears? \nCapturing the delicate beauty of Venice\, the novel is a dark love poem to the city whose sinuous canals it traces. Suspenseful and evocative\, this multi-layered work is an intimate portrayal of a woman’s perilous voyage of self-discovery. The reader is plunged into Venice’s tangled web of alleys and canals\, but soon realizes that the connections do not stop at the shores of the Adriatic. The fates of creatures far away\, the tales of people without a voice\, reverberate through the pages. \nChristine Evelyn Volker was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. After studying for her undergraduate degree from University at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature\, and securing an MLS\, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She retooled herself with an MBA in Finance from UC Berkeley and worked in corporate and international lending. Her career brought her to live in Milan and London. An intrepid traveler\, she is writing full time\, thanks to the support of her husband\, Stephan\, a public interest environmental lawyer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katharine Harer + Judy Bebelaar
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a poetry reading by Katharine Harer Jazz and Other Hot Subjects\, and BAWP poet Judy Bebelaar\, Walking Across the Pacific\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-harer-judy-bebelaar/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
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-27/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lucky Seventh Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate our seventh year of presenting the diverse voices of the East Bay!!! The theme is luck! We’re popping bottles of champagn and serving special treats. It’s all on us. Come hear seven extraordinary readers: \nVernon Keeve III\nJulie Thi Underhill\nArisa White\nJulian Mithra\nThea Matthews\nJoshua Escobar\nLark Omura \nHosted and curated by the sparkling duo: Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucky-seventh-anniversary/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mejia + Natalie Enright
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another talent-filled Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jessica Mejia and Natalie Enright\, with musical guest TBD. Emceed by Paul Corman-Roberts and curated by René Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nJessica Mejia is a scholar and poet based in San Francisco. She is finishing her MA in comparative literature at San Francisco State University with a focus on 20th Century Literature of the Americas\, and was selected by the California Pre-Doctoral Program as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year. She is an active performer and organizer for the Flor y Canto Literary Festival in the Mission. Her poetry explores the transformative nature of the family unit\, music as an element trauma and healing\, and the Salvadoran diaspora. She hopes one day to teach Latin American and U.S. poetry in any and every department possible\, all the while sharing her love of scholarship and the priceless experience of finding one’s local literary community. \nNatalie Enright is a poet in San Francisco\, originally from Kenya\, Africa. She writes and has published poetry in English\, French\, and Swahili. She is finishing her Master of Library and Information Science degree at San Jose State University with the goal of becoming a public children’s librarian. She currently volunteers at the Fisher Children’s Center in the Main library\, downtown San Francisco\, as a reading partner and provides homework help for grade school kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-mejia-natalie-enright/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Reading in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus
DESCRIPTION:Steve Arntson Presents:\nAn Evening in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus (or\, What You Wanted All Along) \nBay Area writers and artists gather to create some good frickin energy. \nThe Lineup: Toreadah Mikell – Nazelah Jamison – Richard Loranger – Victor James Smith – Julian Mithra – Alison Luterman – Tom Stolmar – James Cagney – Allie Marini – Christine No \nAnd jazz with Karen Sudjian on voice and Jim Davidson on keyboards. \nHosted by the road demon himself\, Steve Arntson \nRefreshments will be served \nFree of charge \nPlease do stop by for a levitational experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-support-of-the-rehabilitation-of-venus/
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\, 1939 Addison St\,\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett
DESCRIPTION:Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowicz
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rex Renee Leonowicz to the store to perform from when there is no one and there is everyone\, on Wednesday\, August 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: The multimedia performance acts as a touring funeral party\, using drag\, poetry\, music\, and visual art/digital media to create a kind of live memorial/archive that animates the book and brings its story to life to chart the personal\, political\, and cultural moments that are living\, dying\, and rebirthing in the book. Rex will perform poems from the book and drag versions of songs that influence the text. A video collage of drawings\, art maps\, and photos will stream in the background\, along with a soundtrack of music that influenced the work. The point of the music\, visual art\, maps\, and ephemera interspliced is to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, and triumph present in the work\, as well as to show evidence of communities that often are invisible or displaced. Part history lesson\, part mixtape\, part memorial\, part celebration\, the project blends genres to honor and illuminate resistance movements\, our heroes\, our experiences\, failures & successes in solidarity\, art\, and community love. \nABOUT THE BOOK: when there is no one and there is everyone is a full-length collection of poetry and illustrations set for release in Summer 2017 by Magic Helicopter Press. The collection is experienced as a collage-like mixtape of techniques\, influences\, pop references\, and city cultures that explores the messiness of identity\, relationship\, and resistance in an unjust world. Its biggest concern is with landscapes of public and private space\, specifically how gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out on the intimate geographies of bodies\, minds\, and cities Beyond this\, it’s a celebration of friendship\, freakdom\, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: Rex Renee Leonowicz is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other. S/he holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Mills College and a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowicz/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents Dispatches From Lesbian America
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents readings by Joan Annsfire\, Xequina Maria Berber\, and Giovanna Capone from the anthology DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA on Wednesday\, August 23\, 7pm at the Nomadic Press: Uptown performance space\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland. Free refreshments and door prizes. A discussion of the anthology and book signing will follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/137277350195017 \nINFORMATION ON THE READERS: \nJOAN ANNSFIRE is a writer\, poet\, and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley. Her piece in Dispatches From Lesbian America is non-fiction\, based on her experience working at the San Francisco Water Department in the early Eighties. \nJoan’s memoir pieces have appeared most recently online in Identity Envy\, Read These Lips\, Aunt Lute Press\, and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. She has also been published in Lavender Review\, Sinister Wisdom\, The 13th Moon\, Bridges\, The Evergreen Chronicles\, and The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly\, among other publications. \nHer poetry is in an upcoming anthology\, 11/9: The Fall of American Democracy\, as well as Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival\, and The Times They Were A- Changing. Headmistress Press published a chapbook of her poems\, Distant Music. \nIn her blog\, “Lavenderjoan\, somewhere under the rainbow\,” the personal and the political meet. \nXEQUINA MARIA BERBER is a storyteller\, writer\, artist\, former law librarian\, and now elementary school librarian. She came out during early middlessence and makes up for lost Gay time through her creative endeavors: short stories and comic strips celebrating Lesbian personalities and themes. She also rewrites songs to honor Dyke culture\, which are then performed for the community with her drag king partner “Johnny Magnolia.” \nShe is the author of two books\, Santora: The Good Daughter\, a Latina novel\, under the psuedonym Resurrección Cruz\, and The Mermaid Girl\, a tween and teen book\, published under her first name\, by Bedazzled Ink. She is also one of the editors of Dispatches From Lesbian America. A collection of her lesbian short stories and memoir\, The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis\, is due to come out this year. Many of her stories were inspired by her girlfriend’s life. \nXequina is also an artist and paints traditional Mexican retablos (miracle stories) and santos\, as well as themes of Mexican Magical Realism. She has degrees in literature\, art\, Women’s Spirituality\, and Library and Information Science. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two bad cats. \nGIOVANNA CAPONE is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in Mt. Vernon\, New York\, whose strong Neapolitan influence still resonates in her life. \nHer work has appeared widely in various publications\, including Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent; Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry; Avanti Opolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; Queer View Mirror 2\, Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction; What I Want From You: An Anthology of East Bay Lesbian Poets; and Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays. \nMost recently Giovanna edited the collection Words on Fire! An Anthology of Teen Voices as part of her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. \nGiovanna’s first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna See Women’s Performance Project\, in their first Dyke Drama Festival. She is also a mixed media collage artist and has exhibited her visual art in venues throughout the Bay Area.\nShe lives in Oakland\, where for many years she has taught poetry writing workshops to children and teens through California Poets in the Schools. Find out more at www.giovannacapone.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-presents-dispatches-from-lesbian-america/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowitch Book Release/Funeral Party/Fundraiser: Oakland #2
DESCRIPTION:Join Rex Renee Leonowitch and Denise Benavides for a night of poetry\, drag\, music\, art\, feels\, and hype to celebrate the release of Rex’s new book of poetry and illustrations\, When There Is No One And There Is Everyone\, available for preorder here: http://magichelicopterpress.com/wtne.html \nThe event will feature readings and performances and be a funeral party using drag\, music\, poetry\, and visual art/digital media to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, triumph\, and fabulosity present in the work and life. \nIt’s also a fundraiser for Rex\, who is a poor trans disabled working artist who funded their book tour mostly by themselves and who is continuing their education in performance/theatre in the Fall in NYC and needs financial support for housing\, life expenses\, and tuition costs. \nREX RENEE LEONOWICZ is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other.\nhttp://www.rexylafemme.tumblr.com/ \nDENISE BENAVIDES is a performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. 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 from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the winter of 2016 by Kórima Press. For more information please visit www.denisebenavides.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowitch-book-releasefuneral-partyfundraiser-oakland-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Melba Joyce Boyd\, M.L. Liebler\, + Brian Jabas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, editor\, and professor Melba Joyce Boyd’s book\, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press\, is a tribute to Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with whom she worked as an editor at Broadside Press and whose authorized biographer she became. Randall was poet laureate of Detroit\, a civil rights activist\, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Two of his poems\, one for the four little girls killed in the Alabama church bombing in Birmingham\, one for the assassination of President Kennedy\, were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965. Randall published them as broadsides\, so the press\, publishing chapbooks that opened out the work of African American writers into the canon of American literature\, was born. Boyd’s book\, connecting politics and art with the wider struggles of black America in that era\, is also a dialogue between poets and includes extensive interviews. She\, herself\, has published six books of poetry\, edited an anthology of Detroit poetry\, written scholarly books\, and produced and directed a documentary film on Randall and the press. \nM.L. Liebler is a celebrated poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. Most recent of his many books of poetry is I Want to Be Once; others include The Moon a Box and Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1985-2000. He’s edited many books\, ranging across labor politics\, music\, and poetry\, and his brand new one is Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\, with a wide range of contributors\, including Greil Marcus and Al Young. \nBrian Jabas Smith’s debut book of fiction is Spent Saints & Other Stories. Jim Daniels says\, “In these fine stories\, Brian Smith’s direct\, natural\, story-telling voice rocks with the authority and grit of someone who’s been there and come back to tell the tale.” Smith is an award-winning journalist\, first as a staff writer and columnist for the Phoenix New Times and then as an editor for the Detroit Metro Times. His earlier career was as a songwriter who fronted rock’n’roll bands. He’s written for many performers\, including Alice Cooper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-melba-joyce-boyd-m-l-liebler-brian-jabas-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231256
CREATED:20170722T003418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T003418Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno. Currently\, she teaches and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, andA Public Space. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \nEmily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes\, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize at Tupelo Press. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Apogee\, The Literary Review\, and elsewhere. For her poetry\, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition\, The Home School in Miami\, Aspen Words\, New York University\, the University of Chicago\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins\, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T163000
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CREATED:20170817T043251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T043251Z
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SUMMARY:15th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate poets who make things happen in our communities and to honor Naomi Helena Quiñonez with a Lifetime Achievement Award \nHost\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez \nInvocation of the Muse\nJohn Oliver Simon \nReaders\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLeticia Hernández-Linares\nCassandra Dallett\nTiff Dressen\nNancy Aidé González\nJuba Kalamka\nMarguerite Munoz\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nRené Vaz\nShelley Wong \nMilvia Street readers\nYoussef Ahalla\nJalyce Fairley\nFungai Gora\nJulian Mithra\nJulie Southworth \nCo-directed by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman\nSponsored by the City of Berkeley and Berkeley City College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/15th-annual-berkeley-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T170000
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CREATED:20170718T041431Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck + Jennifer Barone featuring at La Palabra Musical
DESCRIPTION:La Palabra Musical (The Musical Word)\, hosted by Avotcja! \nFeatured poets: Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate!)\, Jennifer Barone\, Kirk Lumpkin\, and N-Side the Healer reading from their latest work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-jennifer-barone-featuring-at-la-palabra-musical/
LOCATION:Cesar E. Chavez Oakland Public Library\, 3301 East 12th Street\, Suite 271\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170826T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231256
CREATED:20170815T115330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T115330Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Confessional" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Reveal your skeletons and air your dirty laundry this month at Saturday Night Special! We want to hear your dirty secrets and burning confessions\, that thing you did\, that you shouldn’t have done. Come share your sins\, real or imagined\, yours or someone else’s. Our theme this month is: Confession. \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 August features are: Vernon Keeve III and Joel Landmine\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\, August 26th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \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 \nVernon Keeve III is a writer from Fredericksburg\, Virginia\, and a California-made educator. He currently teaches high school English and history in Oakland\, and has a book Southern Migrant Mixtape in its final stages of publication with Nomadic Press–look for it in the Fall. \nJoel Landmine’s work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Yeah\, Well…\, his first collection of poems\, is available from Punk Hostage Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-confessional-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170827T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170827T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231256
CREATED:20170621T123348Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash tribute to "Heaven Was Detroit" w/ M.L. Liebler + Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts a special installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 27th at 3pm. Editor M.L. Liebler and contributor Greil Marcus will be here to discuss Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays\, and a few classics\, by widely known and respected music writers\, critics\, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene\, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair\, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus\, Jaan Uhelszki\, Al Young\, Susan Whitall\, Gary Graff\, John Sinclair\, and many others.\nDivided into nine sections\, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit\, to the rock ‘n’ roll of the 1960s\, and up to today’s electronica scene\, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label\, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs’s exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki’s enlightening history on “hillbilly rock” – just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville\, Detroit serves as the inspiration\, backdrop\, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.\nHeaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit\, the spark\, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection. \nM. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including I Want to Be Once\, and editor of the anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. He is also co-editor of Bob Seger’s House and Other Stories. Liebler has taught at Wayne State University since 1980. \nGreil Marcus’s books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music\, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-tribute-to-heaven-was-detroit-w-m-l-liebler-greil-marcus/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T231256
CREATED:20170815T112343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T112343Z
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #48
DESCRIPTION:Guest Curator: John Rowe\nBay Area Generations Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Amos White \nREADERS \nTBA \nMUSICAL GUEST \nTBA \nGet tickets! \n  \nBAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #48\nMonday\, August 28\, 2017\nat The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\n*Garage and on street parking\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* Walkable from 19th st. BART\n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook\nRSVP Today!\nCall for Submissions to Show #48   BAG #48 Show on FaceBook \nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show\, monthly.\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-48/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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CREATED:20170622T014222Z
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SUMMARY:Georgette Howington
DESCRIPTION:Georgette Howington is a closet poet and short story writer who came out three years ago. Her poems are published in Iodine\, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons\, among others. Several poems won Honorable Mentions at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest in 2016. As a naturalist and horticulturist\, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years. Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgette-howington/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T203000
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CREATED:20170824T051754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004150Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:featuring: Cecil Giscombe \nRobert Hass \nLyn Hejinian \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien \nJohn Shoptaw \nand giovani singleton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-annual-faculty-reading/
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:20170902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T180000
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CREATED:20170812T002405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170812T002405Z
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SUMMARY:Ripped from the Headlines! Poets Reading the News at Beast Crawl
DESCRIPTION:With a news cycle like ours\, we need poetry. Come hear poetic reflections on the news from legendary writers Arisa White & Moira Roth\, along with the editors of Poets Reading the News\, Jenna Spagnolo and Elle Aviv Newton\, at Oakland’s Beast Crawl. \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over three hours and thirty-eight local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nPOETS READING THE NEWS is the world’s only newspaper written entirely by poets. We publish work from around the world online atwww.poetsreadingthenews.com and host an events series in Oakland\, California. \nARISA WHITE\, author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, Black Pearl\, and Hurrah’s Nest\, is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She can be found online at arisawhite.com. \nMOIRA ROTH is an art historian\, writer\, and playwright. She has published extensively including Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism\, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. She has a “News from the cafe” series on Poets Reading the News.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ripped-from-the-headlines-poets-reading-the-news-at-beast-crawl/
LOCATION:Itani Ramen\, 1736 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017
DESCRIPTION:BEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nEach leg of The Beast lasts one hour\, and offers a dozen different readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. \n\nCrawl maps\, curators\, readers\, and venues are all searchable on our website: beastcrawl.weebly.com. \nPrinted crawl maps will be available on the day of the festival at all the Leg 1 events\, and at the Beast Crawl Information Table in front of The Legionnaire Saloon. \nEveryone is invited to the Leg 4 After Parties (marked with stars on the crawl map) starting at 9pm at The Legionnaire Saloon (drinks\, dancing\, 21+) and Telegraph Beer Garden (food\, drinks\, all ages). \nEvery city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \nBeast Crawl Literary Festival\nSaturday\, September 2\, 2017\n5pm – 9pm readings\n9:30pm – 2am afterparty\nUptown Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017/
LOCATION:Uptown Oakland\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170902T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T193000
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CREATED:20170718T040048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T040048Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Presents: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series regularly held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2017 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival at the Telegraph Beer Garden: \nPeter Thomas\, Hollie Hardy\, Kwesi Wilkerson\, G Macias Gusman\, Lisa Martinovic\, and musical guest Dillie Dauley \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nSaturday\, Sept. 2\, 2017\nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th) \nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic events and photos from past events! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nFind out more about Beast Crawl Lit Fest at beastcrawl.weebly.com \nBIOS: \nPETER THOMAS BULLEN is confused about bios. Do you discuss pivotal moments in your life\, assuming there were pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your heartbreaking lack of pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your phobias\, your first girlfriend Phoebe\, or something else beginning with p\, like your own name? Or do you list literary credits? If you list literary credits\, then mine come down to sPARKLE & bLINK\, Eleven Eleven\, LA Review of Books\, Red Light Lit\, Sweet Wolverine\, and Oakland Review. Plus I have a chapbook out from Nomadic Press titled Wallflower\, which I am shy and excited about. \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute and Berkeley City College\, hosts Saturday Night Special\, An East Bay Open Mic\, and is a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Her website is: www.holliehardy.com \nTERRON “KWESI” WILKERSON started writing poetry during his time abroad in Ghana\, West Africa. It began as a personal keepsake and evolved into his first book\, Pieces of My Soul\, Vol. 1. Kwesi now performs at venues throughout the Bay Area\, most recently during an event at Twitter Headquarters. Stay connected by following @KwesiDreams on social media. And find out more at KwesiDreams.com! \nG. MACIAS GUSMAN lives in Oakland California writing prose poems to the factories\, mountains\, and ditches that enslave many a good women/ men and the bars they escape too. He’s had work published in a few tight rags and has performed around the Bay Area. G. Macias is still discovering himself and his voice. \nLISA MARTINOVIC has performed on stages from LitQuake to Lollapalooza. Her work appears in publications as diverse as the San Francisco Chronicle and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Lisa feeds her beast by writing: slam poetry\, flash fiction\, gritty memoir\, and essays about neuroplasticity and addiction. Yeah\, her beast is voracious. \nMusical Guest: \nDILLIE DAULEY has been playing Folk Punk Americana on ukulele and viola for twelve years. She toured the country with her former band Ghost Town Gospel\, and is currently performing with Vagabondage. She is constantly working on writing new music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-presents-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Series Kick-off
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Geoffrey G. O’Brien\, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: \nAssociate Director Adam A. Hillier (Undergraduate Admissions)\, Khalid Kadir (International and Area Studies)\, Marco Lindsey (Haas School of Business)\, Kathy Mendonca(Human Resources)\, Claudia Polsky (Law)\, Sidalia Reel(Staff Diversity Initiative)\, Elizabeth Wilcox (Human Resources)\, and Tarek Zohdi (Mechanical Engineering).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T213000
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CREATED:20170816T003711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003711Z
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SUMMARY:Why Poetry? How Form?
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass is the author of numerous collections of poetry\, including The Apple Trees at Olema\, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, andField Guide. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. As Poet Laureate he founded the program River of Words\, now a part of Saint Mary’s College’s own Center for Environmental Literacy. He is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his most recent collection of essays is A Little Book on Form. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bear and Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. He is also the author of three other collections of poetry\, American Linden\, The Pajamaist\, and Come On All You Ghosts. The Pajamaist was selected as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Come On All You Ghosts was a New York Times Notable Book of the year\, and was also selected as the 2010 Booklist Editors’ Choice for poetry\, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers poetry book of the year. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-poetry-how-form/
LOCATION:Le Fevre Theater\, 1928 St. Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Paul Ebenkamp is author of Parallel Realism (Despite Editions\, 2017) and The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2015); is co-editor of Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Robert Hass\, Counterpoint\, 2014) and Richard O. Moore’s Particulars of Place: New Poems (with Brenda Hillman and Garrett Caples\, Omnidawn\, 2015); curates the Woolsey Heights reading series with Andrew Kenower; and with strings and devices makes music as Position. \nLara Durback is a poet who has lived in Oakland\, CA for 12 years. \nAngel Dominguez is a Latinx Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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