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SUMMARY:Bill Nye the Science Guy: Everything All at Once
DESCRIPTION:Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. In Everything All at Once\, Bill Nye will help you find yours. With his call to arms he wants you to examine every detail of the most difficult problems that look unsolvable that is\, until you find the solution. Bill shows you how to develop critical thinking skills and create change\, using his everything all at once approach that leaves no stone unturned. \nWhether addressing climate change\, the future of our society as a whole\, personal success\, or stripping away the mystery of fire walking\, there are certain strategies that get results: looking at the world with relentless curiosity\, being driven by a desire for a better future\, and being willing to take the actions needed to make change happen. Moving through the lessons he learned as a full-time engineer at Boeing\, a stand-up comedian\, CEO of The Planetary Society\, and of course\, as Bill Nye The Science Guy\, we’ll learn how to tackle big problems the Bill Nye way. \nWe have the power to make real change. Join him in dare we say it changing the world. \nImportant signing details coming soon. Tickets on sale at this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-nye-the-science-guy-everything-all-at-once/
LOCATION:The UC Theatre Taub Family Music Hall\, 2036 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. \nsingleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Cave Canem\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. Her work has been anthologized widely and appeared on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building. Coordinator for the Lunch Poems reading series at the University of California–Berkeley\, singleton has taught at Saint Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and New Mexico State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge translator James Brook
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge\, translated and edited by James Brook (PM Press). \nVictor Serge (1890-1947) played many parts\, as he recounted in his indelible Memoirs of a Revolutionary. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels\, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik activist in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky’s; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely\, Boris Pilnyak\, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico . . . \nLike Serge’s extraordinary novels\, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule. Many of the poems were written during the “immense shipwreck” of Stalin’s ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd\, Orenburg\, Paris\, Marseille\, the Caribbean\, and Mexico\, Serge composed elegies for the fallen — as well as tributes to the living who\, like him\, endured prison\, exile\, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century. \n“Victor Serge was a major novelist\, a revolutionary\, and a historical witness\, so it is perhaps not surprising that his poetry has been overlooked. But his poetry is for real. It is as grounded in specifics as you might expect from a fighter in some of the twentieth century’s great struggles\, and as visionary as you’d hope from a disciple of Rimbaud and a friend to the Surrealists. Reading it is like coming upon an unsuspected corridor in the house of literature. James Brook’s lucid translation does it full justice.”\n–Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \nJames Brook is a poet whose translations include works by Guy Debord\, Henri Michaux\, Gellu Naum\, and Benjamin Péret. He is the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (with Iain Boal) and Reclaiming San Francisco (with Chris Carlsson and Nancy J. Peters). The New York Times named his translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman a Notable Book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victor-serge-translator-james-brook/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Novelist Jac Jemc & "Snap Judgement's" Eliza Smith
DESCRIPTION:Jac Jemc will read from her new novel THE GRIP OF IT (FSG Originals) and discuss with Eliza Smith. \nTHE GRIP OF IT by Jac Jemc weaves the tale of a troubled married couple looking for a new start in an old home full of secrets.\n“The Grip of It is a stunning\, smart\, genuinely creepy page-turner that I couldn’t put down. It’s got depth\, thrills\, twists\, and great writing. I’d recommend this novel to anyone. One of the few haunted house stories that sticks the landing.”\n— Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, Borne and City of Saints & Madmen \nJac Jemc is the author of The Grip of It newly released from FSG Originals in August 2017. Her first novel\, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, and her collection of stories\, A Different Bed Every Time (Dzanc Books) was named one of Amazon’s best story collections of 2014. She edits nonfiction for Hobart. \nEliza Smith is a producer at WNYC’s Snap Judgment. In addition to producing nonfiction stories\, she is also the fiction editor and adapts work by writers like Manuel Gonzalez\, Amelia Gray\, and Kelly Link into radio plays. Sometimes\, she’ll freelance for publications like The Organist and The Litography Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novelist-jac-jemc-snap-judgements-eliza-smith/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T213000
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Barry
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Days Without End\, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award (his second) and just released in paperback. \n“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent\, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making\, the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.”–Kazuo Ishiguro \n“For its exhilarating use of language alone\, Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End stood out among the year’s novels. Epic in conception but comparatively brief in its extent\, this brutal\, beautiful book also features the year’s most beguiling narrator … A great American novel which happens to have been written by an Irishman.”–The Times Literary Supplement \nSebastian Barry is an award-winning novelist\, poet\, and playwright. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty\, Annie Dunne\, A Long Long Way\, The Secret Scripture\, On Canaan’s Side\, and The Temporary Gentleman. Born in Dublin in 1955\, he lives in Wicklow with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sebastian-barry/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170915T190000
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SUMMARY:THERE 16
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley novelist Shanthi Sekaran\, Oakland author and Stegner Fellow Ben Hoffman\, local author Eanlai Cronin and music TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-16/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Adrienne Raphel + Alex Walton
DESCRIPTION:Have you also been dreaming about being at an Adrienne Raphel and Alex Walton reading? Then promise not to wake up until September 15th\, cause this reading’s gonna be amazing! \nAdrienne Raphel is the author of What Was It For (Rescue Press\, 2017). Her poetry and essays appear in the New Yorker online\, the Paris Review Daily\, the New Republic\, the Poetry Foundation\, and Lana Turner Journal\, among other publications. Born in New Jersey and raised in Vermont\, Raphel holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a PhD candidate at Harvard. She currently lives in New York. \nAlex Walton is currently a PhD student at UC Berkeley. He was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Some recent work is available in I\, The Claudius App\, and the PEN America Poetry Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-adrienne-raphel-and-alex-walton/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170916T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170916T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets Allison Cobb + Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:What if we told you two poets who put out two of our favorite books of 2016 were gonna read together?! Would you be like\, “Oh\, sweet\, Allison Cobb and Arisa White must be reading at Wolfman.” Would you be like\, “I’m down.” Would you be like\, “That reading is gonna be so good!” Cause you should\, be like\, that. And\, there may be special guests… \nAllison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Green-Wood(Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); and Born2(Chax Press). The poet Carolyn Forché calls After We All Died“inventive\, visionary\, hard-thought\, and impossible to put down.” \nCobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she co-curates The Switch reading\, art\, and performance series. \nCobb’s work combines historical and scientific research\, essay\, and poetry to address issues of landscape\, politics\, and ecology. She was a 2015 finalist for the National Poetry Series; a 2015 Djerassi Resident Artist; a 2014 Playa Resident Artist; received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission; and was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened\, was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award. “Fish Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wifewas a winner of Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a member of the board of directors for Nomadic Press. Arisa is the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, which is a series of poetic collaborations with QPOC artists\, community organizations\, and businesses that spotlight the narratives and experiences of queer people of color. arisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-allison-cobb-arisa-white/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170918T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T210000
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SUMMARY:Lenore Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Lenore Weiss is enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Program at San Francisco State University. Her poetry has been published in many journals including WovenTales\, Midwood Press\, Maple Leaf Review\, Kindred\, San Francisco Peace and Hope\, Cactus Heart\, Ghost Town\, Poetica\, Carbon Culture\, BlinkInk\, The Portland Review\, La Más Tequila Review\, Digital Americana\, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Nimrod International Journal\, Copper Nickel\, The Reform Jewish Quarterly\, Feminist Studies in Religion\, and Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. Her books include Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island (West End Press\, 2012) and Two Places (Kelsay Books\, 2014). Her blog resides at www.lenoreweiss.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lenore-weiss/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
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SUMMARY:Patty Yumi Cottrell
DESCRIPTION:Patty Yumi Cottrell was born in South Korea. Ed Park describes her novel\, Sorry To Disturb the Peace\, as “a sort of Korean-American noir\, lean and wry and darkly compelling\,” and Danielle Dutton calls it “a beguiling debut: absurdly funny\, surprisingly beautiful\, and ultimately sad….” Cottrell’s work has appeared in BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, and Black Warrior Review. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-yumi-cottrell-2/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Korkeakivi
DESCRIPTION:Anne Korkeakivi shares her critically-acclaimed new novel\, Shining Sea. An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades\, Shining Sea draws readers into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father. This event will feature a musical performance by critically-acclaimed troubadour Rachel Garlin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-korkeakivi/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #28
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.)\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-28/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dave Holt
DESCRIPTION:Dave Holt\, relocated to the Bay Area from Toronto\, Canada\, his place of birth\, to follow his dream of becoming a successful songwriter. He is English/Irish and Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian from his mother’s side and he volunteered to serve the American Indian community in California for several years. Dave graduated from S.F. State University’s Creative Writing program (M.A.\, 1995). He is a winner of several poetry prizes including the Thomas Merton Foundation’s Poetry of the Sacred prize and a Literary/Cultural Arts award for his book Voyages to Ancestral Islands. In 2016\, he was published in Red Indian Road West\, an anthology of Native American Poetry from California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-holt/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T200000
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SUMMARY:Santiago Gamboa
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Santiago Gamboa to the store to read and sign\, Return to the Dark Valley\, on Wednesday\, September 27th at 7:00 pm. \nSantiago Gamboa is one of Colombia’s most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño\, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic\, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable\, his characters unforgettable\, and his style influential. \nManuela Beltrán\, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano\, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son\, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios\, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Rimbaud\, the precocious\, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration; and\, Juana and the consul\, central characters in Gamboa’s Night Prayers\, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt and need. These characters animate Gamboa’s richly imagined portrait of a hostile\, turbulent world where liberation is found in perpetual movement and determined exploration. \n\n\n\n\nSantiago Gamboa was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. His debut novel\, Páginas de vuelta (1995)\, established him as one of the most innovative voices in Colombian literature. He has since published seven novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism appears regularly in El Tiempo (Colombia) and Cromos\, and he is a regular contributor to Radio France International. Previously Colombia’s cultural attaché in New Delhi\, he has lived in Rome and Paris\, and currently lives in Calí\, Colombia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santiago-gamboa/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Queer Realities
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Richard Loranger presents local LGBTQ authors Tim Donnelly\, Nazelah Jamison\, and Julian Mithra
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-realities/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime Frazzle
DESCRIPTION:Readings from Janice Shapiro (Bummer)\, Ho Lin (China Girl)\, Norman Antonio Zelaya (Orlando)\, Caroline Smadja\, and Amanda Coggin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-frazzle/
LOCATION:Farley’s East\, 33 Grand Avenue\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T213000
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SUMMARY:Bone: An Evening w/ Yrsa Daley-Ward
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward presents bone\, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart\, life\, and the inner self. \nABOUT BONE \nBone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. \nThe poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence—so clear and pared-down\, they become universal. \nFrom navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire\, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman\, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss\, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love\, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonate to the core of what it means to be human. \n“You will come away bruised.\nYou will come away bruised\nbut this will give you poetry.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bone-an-evening-w-yrsa-daley-ward/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Pushcart Prize-nominated writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton shares her much-buzzed debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom. Evelyn 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. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T213000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Impermanent" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic\, we are exploring the fragililty of everything—the fleating nature of life\, love\, and rent control\, of sunsets\, egg shells\, and dandelion fluff. Join us! Take to the page and embrace “impermanence.” Then bring us your creation. \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 September features are: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis and Zephir O’Meara\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\, September 30th\, 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 \nVANESSA ROCHELLE LEWIS is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is the former Senior Editor for Everyday Feminism and Black Girl Dangerous\, has taught at California Community Colleges for over 7 years\, and has performed in a wide variety of theatre projects\, cabarets\, and literary events all over the West Coast. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate Facebook statuses about romance. \nZEPHIR O’MEARA\, a Bay Area native\, has writing in Transfer\, Oakland Review\, Be About it\, Naked Bulb Anthology\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, and East Bay Review. Is he working on a secret project or two? Maybe. And yes\, I’m sorry to say\, he is just the type to subvert a perfectly good bio blurb whenever the opportunity arises. He thought he’d just joke around and hide behind a few words but then he realized something: This is him (me). This is more me\, these frivolous words on this screen\, then you’ll get out of the real me (him) in person. Or maybe not. But will you even try? The ball’s in your court.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-impermanent-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lillian Howan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Lillian Howan’s novel The Charm Buyers\, a novel about Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing. Howan’s writings have been published in the Asian American Literary Review\, Café Irreal\, Calyx\, New England Review\, and the anthology Under Western Eyes. She is the editor of legendary playwright Wakako Yamauchi’s collection\, Rosebud and Other Stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lillian-howan/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Poetry of Witness
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Amos White\, Jan Steckel\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Peggy Morrison. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-poetry-of-witness/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170816T001902Z
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry\, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation\, and a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award. She is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS and has served as contributing editor of Drunken Boat. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” She teaches at Diné College and lives in Santa Fe\, NM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000
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CREATED:20170621T234624Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle
DESCRIPTION:Reads from her short story collection\, World Gone Missing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111128
CREATED:20170929T223246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T003114Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Cisper\, Jane Lin\, + Iris Jamahl Dunkle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, October 6th @ 7:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring \nMary Cisper\, Jane Lin and Iris Jamahl Dunkle! \n*Event is FREE* \nLagunitas beer\, wine & snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street \nOakland\, CA 94609 \nhere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \n* Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \n*Lagunitas Brewing Company \n*Clorox Company Foundation \nAmid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds\, Mary Cisper\, poet and sometime visual artist\, lives with her husband in northern New Mexico. Her first poetry collection\, Dark Tussock Moth\, won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press\, 2017).  A former chemist\, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers in search of ultra-low detection limits.  Her poems and reviews have been published in various journals including Denver Quarterly\, ZYZZYVA\, Lana Turner\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Terrain\, Water-Stone Review\, Newfound\, FIELD\, and Omniverse.  She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder.  Of all the places she’s lived\, she misses the Bay Area the most. \nJane Lin is a poet and software engineer for an environmental consulting company in Northern New Mexico. Her debut poetry collection Day of Clean Brightness was published by 3: A Taos Press this year. She received her BA and BS from Stanford University where she studied under Denise Levertov\, and her MFA from New York University where she was a New York Times fellow. Her poem “Signs and Portents” was transformed into an art song by Emmy Award winning composer Glen Roven for his composition “The Santa Fe Songs” for soprano and piano and appears on Talise Trevigne’s album At the Statue of Venus. Other poems have appeared in Cura\, Five Points\, jmww\, New Madrid\, Slant\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, The Harwood Poetry Anthology\, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. For many years she taught creative writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitated the Mesa Public Library Poetry Gathering series. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her second poetry collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, is about the untold history of Sonoma County\, CA\, and was published in November 2015 by Word Tech Editions. Her third collection\, Interrupted Geographies\, will be published by Trio House Press in 2017. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW. and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. She received her B.A. from the George Washington University\, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University\, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-cisper-jane-lin-iris-jamahl-dunkle/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111128
CREATED:20170902T053107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T053107Z
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SUMMARY:Sim Warkov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, interview\, and Q&A when Sim Warkov visits Claremont. Sim was born in Chicago\, raised in Manitoba\, and educated in New York and Connecticut. Warkov has four books of poetry\, a new one out this year\, Island Dreams (with Margaretta K. Mitchell)\, and three earlier books\, Reaching\, Thin Soils\, and Grandchildren. Host: Glenn Ingersoll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sim-warkov/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111128
CREATED:20170816T001033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001033Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T111128
CREATED:20170816T003952Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the World: From Struggle to Joy
DESCRIPTION:Kathy D’Arcy\, Stephen Connolly\, and Stephen Sexton – will join Afro-Latinx writer\, Raina León\, in the rebellious act of telling their own stories. Each writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. The reading will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Rosemary Graham.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-world-from-struggle-to-joy/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000
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CREATED:20170817T051602Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Olstein\, Julie Carr\, + Amanda Nadelberg
DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to be hosting three three three amazing poets! We’ll be celebrating Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr’s new books\, and joining them is Oakland-native\, Amanda Nadelberg\, whose newest book is also still fairly\, well\, new! \nLisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently LATE EMPIRE (October 2017). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, the Hayden Carruth Award\, a Lannan Literary Residency\, an Essay Press chapbook prize\, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, Centrum\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, she currently serves as a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. \nJulie Carr is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta\, 2010)\, RAG(Omnidawn\, 2014)\, and Think Tank (Solid Objects\, 2015). She is also the author of two prose works: Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive\, 2013) and Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta\, 2017). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press\, 2015). A chapbook of prose\, “The Silence that Fills the Future\,” was released as a free pdf from Essay Press: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/ \nCarr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory is due out from Commune Editions in 2018\, as will a mixed-genre work\, Reallife: An Installation. \nCarr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. She regularly collaborates with dance artist K.J. Holmes and is the co-founder of Counterpath Press\, Counterpath Gallery\, and Counterpath Community Garden (www.counterpathpress.org). \nAmanda Nadelberg is the author of three books\, most recently Songs from a Mountain. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-olstein-julie-carr-amanda-nadelberg/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T203000
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CREATED:20170824T052315Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Renee Gladman
DESCRIPTION:WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, geographies\, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians; Calamities\, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience\, which won the 2017 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction; and a monograph of ink drawings\, Prose Architectures. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-renee-gladman/
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:20171013T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
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CREATED:20171010T115700Z
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SUMMARY:A Night in Venice Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Experience Venice without leaving the Bay Area. Hear Christine Evelyn Volker discuss her just-published mystery\, Venetian Blood\, listen to classical music by Vivaldi played by the Town Quartet\, and watch an interrogation scene from the book\, directed by the Masquers Playhouse. Hope you can join us\, and purchase a copy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-in-venice-book-event/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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