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SUMMARY:Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian\, which might explain why his “poetry” sounds like it does. He has lived in New York\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco\, and would someday like to live in Cranky Corner\, Louisiana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-harris/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother\, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies\, and her lovely\, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub\, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again\, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nMesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five books of fiction\, including A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Books Critics Circle Award; The Keep\, a national bestseller; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus\, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times Magazine and many others. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T080000
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Winter 2017 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Winter 2017 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 8th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Words-n-Punks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of punk rock stories & art! \nReading/discussion hosted by Ben Sizemore\, with:\nMichelle Gonzales\, author of “The Spitboy Rule”\nLynn Breedlove\, author “Godspeed & “Lynn Breedlove’s One Freak Show”\nShawna Kenney & Rich Dolinger\, authors of “Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998” (showing a slideshow of outtake photos & flyers from the book)\nand award-winning journalist A.C. Thompson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-n-punks/
LOCATION:land and sea\, 5428 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171023T190000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #50
DESCRIPTION:OUR 50th EDITION & SHOW!\nWe proudly host this literary reading and salon featuring a curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers\, and musical guest. \nREADERS\nEric Kurhi + Mark Mathias\nKatharine Harer + Katie Simpson\nRuby Spies + Natasha Dennerstein\nShirley Huey + Naomi Helena Quiñonez\nJason Stanczyk + Kathleen Wallace\nRuth Crossman + Fred Dodsworth \nGuest Musician: TBA \nCURATORS\nRaluca Ioanid + David Welper\, guests Amos White\, board \nat THE BELLEVUE CLUB\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGMapBellevueClub\nTickets: http://bit.ly/BAG50tx \nFull bar | Free garage parking | 1 block to public transit\nBART: http://bit.ly/BAGMapBellevueClub \nDoors Open: 7:00 p.m. Show: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7 With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet tickets: http://bit.ly/BAG50tx
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-50/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171023T190000
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SUMMARY:Melinda Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:Melinda Clemmons lives in Oakland. Her stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cimarron Review\, Kindred\, Daphne Magazine\, West Trestle Review\, Eclipse\, 300 Days of Sun\, Cavalier\, and The Monthly. She worked for over twenty years in programs serving children and youth in foster care\, and is now a freelance writer and editor in the child welfare field. She is a frequent contributor to the online child welfare and juvenile justice news site\, The Chronicle of Social Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melinda-clemmons/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Borzutsky
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutsky’s The Performance of Becoming Human\, winner of the 2016 National Book Award\, has been described as “one of contemporary poetry’s most cogent documents of humanity and suffering in the 21st century.” His other books include Lake Michigan\, In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy\, Memories of my Overdevelopment\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translations from Spanish include Raúl Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-borzutsky/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Short Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Four East Bay short-fiction authors appear at Perfectly Queer East Bay Wednesday\, October 25\, 7pm to 8:30pm\, at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland. Kwan Booth\, Helen Klonaris\, Achy Obejas\, and Kamala Puligandla read from their work. Delicious refreshments & thematic door prizes for the prompt! A discussion of writing short fiction follows the readings. Books by the authors will be available. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKwan Booth is an award-winning writer and strategist focused on the intersection of media\, culture\, and technology. He’s the editor of “Black Futurists Speak: New Black Writing” and has had journalism and creative writing published in The Guardian\, Fusion\, “CHORUS: a literary mixtape”\, and “Beyond the Frontier: African American Poets for the 21st Century.” His awards include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. Kwan posts occasional updates\, publications\, and mediocre cell phone photos at Boothism.org. \nHelen Klonaris is a Greek Bahamian writer\, educator\, and energy medicine practitioner. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Let’s Tell This Story Properly\, Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories\, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles\, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind\, among others. In 2014\, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Helen is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices\, published by Trans-Genre Press\, and the author of If I Had the Wings\, a collection of short stories published by Peepal Tree Press. \nAchy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many other authors. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Director of the MFA in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \nKamala Puligandla is the writer of many short autobiographical and biographical fictions\, some of which were definitely shared with her in confidence. She’s not really sorry. Her work has been featured in The Tusk\, The Establishment\, and in Loose Lips\, the anthology of the show Shipwreck SF. She also has a novel manuscript called Zigzags that she would love to give to someone else to care for. Kamala is well-known for being easily bribed by cheese and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos\, use that info as you will. And find her work at thatkamala.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-short-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:This event is also made possible by the following cosponsors: the Campus Committee on Inclusive Excellence; the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action; Collegiate Seminar; the Communications Department; the English Department; and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts \nThe evening will include an introduction by Matthew Zapruder and a reading and preformance from Tyehimba Jess\, followed by a Q/A with Jess and Zapruder. Matthew Zapruder is Associate Professor of English and Poetry Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s. He serves as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books\, the publisher of Jess’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize poetry collection\, Olio. \nTyehimba Jess is the author of leadbelly and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olio. Jess’s Olio\, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, and the 2017 Book Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award\, 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Library Journal called it a “daring collection\, which blends forthright\, musically acute language with portraiture” and Publishers Weekly\, in a starred review\, called it “Encyclopedic\, ingenious\, and abundant” and selected it as one of the five best poetry books of 2016. Jess is the Poetry and Fiction Editor of the African American Review and is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
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SUMMARY:Raphael Cohen + Jonathan Moody
DESCRIPTION:Raphael Cohen is a writer-performer committed to poetry for social change. His debut book of poems is Scrutinizing Lines(2007). His new chapbook\, Rebel Elegant\, is a single long poem on Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf\, a rising star for the Denver Nuggets basketball team\, who was suspended by the NBA when he refused to stand for the national anthem\, citing his Muslim conscience and the U.S.’s history of racial and economic oppression. Cohen has performed widely across the U.S. and in Canada\, taught\, facilitated training at various youth empowerment groups and founded and directed Play at the Margins Press\, an independent publishing and event production initiative. \nJonathan Moody’s new book of poems\, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, is Olympic Butter Gold; Pleiades says\, “Jonathan Moody’s second full-length collection of poems…overflows with music\, image\, and pop culture. The speaker is a natural storyteller\, fusing lyric and narrative with a voice that walks the line between youth and experience\, playfulness and seriousness.” A Cave Canem graduate fellow\, he is also author of the collection The Doomy Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-cohen-jonathan-moody/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
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SUMMARY:Sasaki\, Share\, Banias\, + Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Present Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine. \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \nWho reads poetry? We know that poets do\, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer\, Poetry Magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here\,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years\, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers\, journalists\, musicians\, and artists\, as well as doctors and soldiers\, an iron-worker\, an anthropologist\, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces\, which are in turns surprising\, provocative\, touching\, and funny. \nWho Reads Poetry offers a truly unique and broad selection of perspectives and reflections\, proving that poetry can be read by everyone. No matter what you’re seeking\, you can find it within the lines of a poem. \nFred Sasaki edits Poetry magazine’s prose feature “The View from Here\,” from which the essays in this book are gathered. He is the art director of Poetry magazine and a gallery curator at the Poetry Foundation. He authored Real Life Emails\, a book of deluded emails\, and the zine series FRED SASAKI’S AND FRED SASAKI’S FOUR-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU. In 2004 he founded Chicago Printers Ball\, an annual celebration of poetry and printmaking. He is also cofounder of the Homeroom 101 pop and subculture show. \nDon Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. Among his twelve books are Wishbone\, Union\, and Bunting’s Persia; he also edited a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems\, named a Book of the Year by the Times of London and the New Statesman. Miguel Hernández\, his book of translations\, was awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán. Other books of his include Seneca in English\, Squandermania\, and The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Share received a VIDA “VIDO” Award for his contributions to American literature and literary community. \nAri Banias is the author of Anybody\, a debut collection of poetry\, published by W.W. Norton in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2014 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2012 Campbell Corner Prize. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Banias lives in Berkeley. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990 and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. His first poetry collection Unaccompanied\, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. He lives in San Rafael.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasaki-share-banias-zamora/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Multiple Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:ASAP Offsite!\n8 pm doors\, 8:30 pm readings\n@ Wolfman No More Cops Free Health Care New Life Bookstore or Wolfman/New Life\, 644 40th St.\, Oakland \nw readings by Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young \nRight off of MacArthur Bart stop \nPoets Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/multiple-poets-reading/
LOCATION:MacArthur Annex\, 644 40th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T213000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special Halloween Reading + Costume Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join Saturday Night Special for our 7th Annual Halloween Reading & Costume Contest! \nOur theme this year is: NIGHT CIRCUS\nInspired by the 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern (written for NaNoWriMo; see book description following bios below.) Think Victorian; think noir; think black and white with a red scarf; think sexy\, or macabe; think fascinator hat; thing top hat; think burlesque; think lion tamer; think lion. Think fortune teller\, contortionist\, carnie. Think freak show. If you must\, think clown. Or just wear a mask– But really\, you can dress up as anything. We will have prizes for the best costumes. \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 October features are: Abe Becker and Kwan Booth\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: The list is often full by 7:05pm) \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. Dance! \nAfter the reading and costume contest\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, October 28th\, 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!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-halloween-reading-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T163000
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SUMMARY:Erika Mailman from The Murderer's Maid
DESCRIPTION:Join the Oakland launch party for The Murderer’s Maid at East Bay Booksellers\, and have a bloody cupcake on us! \nIn 1889\, Bridget joins the Borden household as their maid\, but something evil is brewing beneath the house’s genteel surface. In 2016\, Brooke hides from her dangerous past and avoids making friends. But what if it’s time to stop running? \nDescribed by Kirkus Reviews as “complex and riveting\,” The Murderer’s Maid brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erika-mailman-from-the-murderers-maid/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Yellow Pear Press":MAILTO:marketing@yellowpearpress.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Día de la Muetros / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-dia-de-la-muetros-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T121000
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SUMMARY:Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents\, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley\, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, and New York University. Her debut collection LOOK was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 PEN Open Book Award. Sharif has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Michelle Gillett
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Gillett’s debut book of poems\, Coming About\, was selected for publication before her death from lung cancer in 2016. Daniel Tobin says of it\, “…Gillett’s insight is Rilkean in its wisdom.…In these fiercely honest poems\, knowledge of the fragility of things before ‘the ever-declining light’ keeps pace with a faith that knows always ‘some effect of the light keeps the dusk unfinished\,’ staving off the absolute dark. Coming About is a brave and beautiful book by a poet greatly gifted both in her humanity and her craft.” Born in 1948\, she lived in Stockbridge\, Massachusetts and was active in the arts and literary communities of the Berkshires. \nThe readers for the event will be:\nErin Gillett\, her daughter\, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a Masters degree in Architecture and works as an architectural designer and consultant. \nSarah Miller\, author of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn and numerous essays. \nRobert Thomas\, author of Bridge\, fiction\, and the poetry collections Door to Door\, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize\, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa\, and Dragging the Lake. He’s won a Pushcart Prize and received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nCarolyn West\, poet and storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-tribute-to-michelle-gillett/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171103T190000
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SUMMARY:Jean Day + Sophia Dahlin
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited for this one! One of our favorite east bay poets\, Jean Day\, recently put out another amazing book\, “Daydream” (Litmus Press)\, and is going to be reading with one of our newly re-acquainted east bay favorites\, Sophia Dahlin. Come celebrate Day’s new book and Dahlin’s return home to the bay after years of living\, well\, not here! \nJean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Daydream is just out from Litmus Press. Recent poems can also be seen in Chicago Review\, The Delineator\,Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French)–as well as in herTriumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions. Earlier works includeEarly Bird (O’Clock\, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books\, and her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, including\, most recently\, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by UC Press. \nSophia Dahlin is a writer and dilettante who has washed up again on Oakland’s mild sidewalks. Last time she lived here she ran a talk series called Poem Talks//Butterfly Dissection Sessions and went to all of your readings. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, BOMB\, the Awl\, the Recluse\, and Where Eagles Dare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-sophia-dahlin/
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:20171104T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001134Z
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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-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170825T004502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004502Z
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010) and My Daughter La Chola (2013). He serves on the poetry editorial team for Fence magazine and as contributing editor to The Volta. He is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk-2/
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:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170929T232750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024251Z
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff + Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Camera is Maxine Chernoff’s 16th book of poems. Her previous book\, Here\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth poetry collection\, Peace\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, Lovers in the Used World\, and Tall Stranger\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014\, and was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly. She co-translated (with Domenic Stansberry) Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto\, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love (Molotov Editions\, 2016). Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University since 1994 and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-chernoff-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20171020T023541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023541Z
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SUMMARY:Live! w/ Dr. Dawn McGuire
DESCRIPTION:Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire will be in conversation with Tom Donahoe and read selections from her latest poetry collection “American Dream With Exit Wound\,” which is inspired by her work with post 9/11 veterans. Produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\, Live! from the Library is free and open to the public.   RSVPs are encouraged and can be made online at www.wclibrary.org/live or by phone at 925.935.5395. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-w-dr-dawn-mcguire/
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library\, 1644 North Broadway\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94596\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Walnut Creek Library Foundation":MAILTO:info@wclibrary.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20171022T030032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T030032Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Kolodny + Carolyne Wright
DESCRIPTION:Susan Kolodny’s new book of poems is Preserve. Robert Thomas says\, “Susan Kolodny’s moving new collection begins with her arrival in Botswana and tells the story of a journey that transforms her understanding of herself and her own culture…Kolodny is unsentimental about the challenges that game preserves face…and the book itself becomes a Preserve she creates to save a world whose survival is at risk.” Her first collection is After the Firestorm. She’s also a psychoanalyst and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and its Inhibition. \nCarolyne Wright’s new book of poems is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems. David Axelrod says\, “The language of Carolyne Wright’s poems is as rich\, diverse\, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world\, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens\, their history\, turmoil\, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage.” Author of numerous previous collections\, including A Change of Maps\, she is co-editor of Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace\, a groundbreaking anthology. She is also a translator who has published five books of translation from both Spanish and Bengali. In addition\, she has published a book of essays\, and has received a Fulbright and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Seattle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-kolodny-carolyne-wright/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170816T003326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003326Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include Address\, Meteoric Flowers\, Turneresque\, The Human Abstract\, and Second Law. She is also the editor of Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She taught poetry at Mills College from 1995 to 2002. In 2015 she joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-willis/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20171022T005559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T005559Z
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SUMMARY:Nan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poetry\, Rope Bridge and Unfinished City\, and her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Tikkun\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines and anthologies. Her awards and honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award\, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nan-cohen/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20171025T011423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011423Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: "Queer Femme Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Gr Keer hosts an evening of “Queer Femme Poetry” with readers Vanessa Rochelle Lewis\, Maya Chinchilla\, Rona Luo\, and Crystal Azul Barr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-femme-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170929T232858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024707Z
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SUMMARY:Hilton Obenzinger
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for Hilton Obenzinger’s new book\, Treyf Pesach: \nBlasphemy is holy—and exciting\, outrageous literature in Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book “strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth.” This collection of poems presents radical departures from traditional rituals\, formats and conventions: alternative Passover Seders\, Yom Kippur liturgy\, Thanksgiving prayers\, psalms and other poems in the form of proclamations\, resolutions\, jazz improvisations\, incantations\, rants\, orations\, comic monologues\, oil spills\, life spills\, songs\, visions\, undocumented documents\, borders\, suns\, farewells\, minutes of meetings\, talk-stories\, and all accompanied by provocative drawings of Treyf Passover Seder plates by artist Charles Steckler. In this book the symbolic plate is arrayed with treyf (un-kosher food) and the story of the Exodus with untypical meanings\, whiskey instead of wine\, recounting the continual slavery of wars and military occupations. The poems in Treyf Pesach have taken place over the course of years and various occasions\, from vicious aggressions\, to absurd walls\, to smallpox blankets\, to oil spouting across the Gulf\, and more\, all framed by the first months of the Trump regime. Some have been read out loud at Seders\, Yom Kippur services\, Thanksgiving Day benedictions\, Sunday fellowships\, and other ceremonies. But those are the exceptions. For the most part Treyf Pesach has been placed under arrest and shoved across the borders of respectability. Hilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism\, and is the recipient of the American Book Award. According to poet Diane di Prima\, “he is the American Jonathan Swift.” \nHilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism. His books include This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem\, which received the American Book Award\, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain and the Holy Land Mania\, New York on Fire\, a*hole: a novel\, and the oral history Running through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg. Recently\, he has published his autobiographical novel Busy Dying and How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Born in Brooklyn\, he graduated Columbia University in 1969\, taught elementary school on the Yurok Indian reservation\, nursery school in San Francisco\, ran an offset press at a community print shop in San Francisco’s Mission District\, worked as a commercial writer for business and industry\, and taught writing\, literature and American Studies at Stanford University. He is currently Associate Director of the Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilton-obenzinger/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170816T004252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T004252Z
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Selz
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. Her debut memoir Unstill Life\, published by W.W. Norton in 2014\, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and was listed as one of the best books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, MORE Magazine\, the L.A. Times\, and Newsday. She writes art criticism for Art Papers\, Hyperallergic\, and the Huffington Post. Selz is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction and was a New York Moth Story Slam Winner. Selz is currently writing the biography of the artist\, Sam Francis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-selz/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20170825T004627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004627Z
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SUMMARY:Black Took Collective
DESCRIPTION:Co-Founded in 1999 by Duriel E. Harris\, Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Cave Canem\, a retreat for African American Poets\, Black Took Collective is a group of younger Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms\, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race\, gender\, and sexuality. Their manifesto\, “Call for Dissonance\,” appears in FENCE\, Fall/Winter 2002 and A Best of Fence Anthology: The First Nine Years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-took-collective/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T053739
CREATED:20171022T011825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T011825Z
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SUMMARY:THERE 18
DESCRIPTION:featuring a quartet of local authors: Joey Garcia\, fiction writer Elizabeth James\,  essayist Jane Anne Staw\, and Shelley Blanton-Stroud\, plus music TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-18/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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