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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening as we showcase new work from the students of the famed San Francisco Grotto Writing Program. On consecutive Friday evenings fiction and nonfiction writers from Grotto classes will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each. Their instructors (Writers Grotto authors) will be enforcing the time limit! Join us for some wine\, fun\, and a lot of fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-3-minute-reads/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Oakland First Fridays with Fantastic Negrito
DESCRIPTION:Join us at this amazing Oakland First Fridays event as Nomadic Press presents a host of amazing Bay Area writers prior to a performance by the phenomenal Fantastic Negrito as they launch their newest album\, Last Days of Oakland. \nThe lineup: Arisa White\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Kwan Booth\, Cassandra Dallett\, Freddy Gutierrez\, Mk Chavez\, Paul S. Flores\, and two of the Oakland Youth Poet Laureates\, Tova Ricardo\, this year’s Youth Poet Laureate\, and Emma Talamantes\, one of the 2016 finalists. Music by the wonderful Hip Hop for Change! \nEvent details: \nMain FB event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/1015349905221447/ \nWe are thrilled and honored to announce that Fantastic Negrito will be performing to celebrate the launch of their upcoming album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, at our June First Friday street festival. \nFantastic Negrito will be playing a full set at the dusk of dawn (around 8:15). \nPrior to the performance\, the evening will feature Zakiya Harris and interactive art by 1AM SF and spoken word by Nomadic Press (featuring Oakland Youth Poet Laureattes)\, and more! \nMuch of the art and performances will be themed around the title of Fantasic Negrito’s album: THE LAST DAYS OF OAKLAND \nIt means something to be from Oakland. The tiny city that birthed the Hells Angels\, the first sports team in black\, and America’s oldest street dance has always been ground zero for counter culture. It is a place where violent crime\, art\, and swagger converge. It has always been diverse. It has always understood that danger and edge are critical ingredients for art and culture. \nBut Oakland is changing. As its neighbors\, San Francisco and Silicon Valley\, spill over with money\, the economy in Oakland is soaring. Young entrepreneurs and aspiring artists are attracted by the city’s perceived “renaissance.” Oakland is becoming whiter and safer. Now Oakland is ground zero for the national discussion on gentrification. \nFantastic Negrito is an artist who bridges Oakland’s future with its legendary past. He is a wounded veteran of the city once claimed by Black Panthers and hustlers. He is a vital voice in what the New York Times called “the hottest city in America.” His album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, is about the fallout and rebirth that comes in the wake of a seismic shift. It is intensely relevant — the way his city has always been. \nCome out to join the conversation about the changing landscape of our beautiful city. It’s going to take all of us to perserve our city’s diverse personality\, culture\, and richness. Let’s do this. Together. \nABOUT FANTASTIC NEGRITO \nXavier Dphrepaulezz hailed from an orthodox Muslim household as a child. After relocating from rural Massachusetts to Oakland as a teenager in the 1980s\, he quickly moved from strict religion to the music of Funkadelic; by the age of 20 he taught himself to play just about every instrument he came across\, and in the `90s\, he signed a multi-million dollar deal with Interscope Records performing under his first name Xavier. Dphrepaulezz’s life changed drastically when he was involved in a near death car accident resulting in a three-week coma\, followed by intensive physical rehabilitation with his guitar playing hand permanently incapacitated. After a five-year hiatus\, Dphrepaulezz created Fantastic Negrito. Inspired by all American music\, most especially Delta bluesmen such as R.L Burnside and Skip James\, he sought to modernize his compositions by sampling and looping his own live recordings. He told NPR that the name is “a celebration of blackness. The ‘Fantastic’ is self-explanatory; the ‘Negrito’ is a way to open blackness up to everyone\, making it playful and international.” \nUpon winning NPR’s inaugural Tiny Desk Concert Contest\, Fantastic Negrito quickly won over critics with 2015’s self-titled EP. Consequence of Sound wrote of the record “Dphrepaulezz sings like a man compelled by a spiritual force…[his] voice is impassioned\, somewhere between a croon and a scream\,” and the Washington Post praised the EP’s “raw vocals and self-assessing lyrics.” The San Francisco Chronicle noted that “almost overnight\, the singer-songwriter became an international sensation.” \nFind our more about the band at http://www.fantasticnegrito.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-oakland-first-fridays-with-fantastic-negrito/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\n \nFirst Friday: Naked Truth\nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes. Our amazing line-up of talented storytellers will have carte blanche to choose their favorite\, go-to\, killer stories—no constraints of a theme!  Some of your favorite storytellers will be back to share some of their favorite stories\, including Matteson Perry\, Doug Cordell\, & Josh Healey.\n\nWhat is First Friday?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience: \nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Hamel\, Lau\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, June 3rd @ 7:30 pm for a reading w. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, David Lau and Garrett Caples! \nEvent is FREE. \nWine\, Lagunitas beer and snacks will be served. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\,jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\,occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\, Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editions will publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbookBad Opposites (2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College. \nGarrett Caples is the author of the forthcoming Power Ballads(Wave\, 2016)\, as well as earlier poetry collections The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle\, 1999) and Complications (Meritage\, 2007).  He wrote the essay book Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and co-editedIncidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016) and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia(California\, 2013).  He curates the Spotlight Poetry Series for City Lights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamel-lau-caples/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
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/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Cathy Arellano\, Korima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading for Cathy’s new book published by Korima Press “Salvation on Mission Street.” \nBook description:\nThe poetry and prose in the collection explore the deep love instilled in a people for themselves and their homeland even as they battle loss in San Francisco’s Mission District. \nAuthor Bio:\nJust another Mexican lesbian writer from San Francisco’s Mission District\, Cathy Arellano grew up here in the late 1960s to early 80s surrounded by cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, and grandparents on her mother’s side. In 1983\, new owners evicted her mother from the flat they were renting\, and she passed away less than a year later. Arellano returned and taught youth in the neighborhood. “Salvation’s” poems and stories are her creative offering to a people and place she loves. \nReader Bios:\nEstela de la Cruz is a poet who lives in San Francisco. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. She has read at Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada\, Voz Sin Tinta\, Pan Dulce Poets\, Flor y Canto (2015)\, and other Bay Area venues. She was published in Konch Magazine\, and she self-published a small chapbook called For the Hell of it. Her primary objective is to create art. That’s it. \nIngrid Aleja García is a Guatemalan jack of all trades and participant of many sf carnavals\, a Loco Bloco alumni and lover of all arts. Ingrid grew up in SF´s mission district (when taxis wouldn´t dare to enter the neighborhood). She immigrated back to the homeland and worked as a social justice activist & artist. Now she is a proud Visual Designer graduate of CCSF and has taught youth to express themselves through the arts in Guatemala and in San Francisco. \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, and author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press\, 2015). A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee\, she lives\, works\, and writes in the Mission District. There was a time when she did not know Norman Zelaya. \nAndrea Rodriguez: Born and raised in SF\, received her B.A. from UCLA and M.F.A. from USC. Intersecting her worlds of dance\, fitness\, design\, production and technology\, she is a Game Producer for the Zumba Fitness Video Game Franchise\, Music Video Director for the Loco Bloco “From the Bay to Bahia\,” video\, and Theatrical Director for the LA Cumbia Festival. Andrea’s mission is to inspire you to move using dance\, art\, music\, technology and cultura! \nLito Sandoval is President of the Latino Democratic Club. He was a member of the queer Latino comedy troupe Latin Hustle and appeared in the production Full Frontal Rudity. His work has also been seen in the anthology Virgins\, Guerrillas y Locas: Gay Latinos Writing About Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading: Eteraz\, Shreve\, Khong\, Bernard + Mouton
DESCRIPTION:featuring\nAli Eteraz\ncritically acclaimed memoirist\n(Children of Dust)\,\nand author of the novel Native Believer\n“Merciless\, intellectually lacerating\, and brutally funny\, Native Believer is not merely a Gonzo panorama of Muslim America–it’s one of the most incisive novels I’ve ever read on America itself. Here\, sex\, money\, and violence all stake their claims on treacherously shifting identities–and neither love nor god is an escape.”\n–Molly Crabapple\, author of Drawing Blood \nPorter Shreve\nNew York Times notable\nauthor\, teacher\, and essayist\n(The End of the Book\, When The White House Was Ours)\n“Porter Shreve’s The End of the Book is audacious\, affecting and elegiac\, a terrific novel about a century of American letters that hums with the artist’s deep desire to last.” — Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nRachel Khong\n(California Sunday\, The Believer)\nExecutive Editor of Lucky Peach\nand author of the forthcoming novel\nGoodbye\, Vitamin\n“Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you — just like life\, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small\, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately incredibly poignant.”\n—Miranda July\, author of The First Bad Man \nSean Bernard\nauthor of Studies in the Hereafter\nand\nDesert Sonorous\,\nwinner of the 2014 Juniper Prize\n“This collection works by stealth\, like alien lights sweeping over a desert plain. All the wreckage of American life\, Tucson style\, is here on display: the margaritas and air-conditioning\, the lost believers caught in a life most theirs the moment before it slips from their palms. What Sean Bernard does so well\, with his versatile rhythmic style\, is to get you to care about such overheated characters\, all of them aliens.”―Edie Meidav\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Lola\, California \nTommy Mouton\npoet\, fiction writer\n& Steinbeck Fellow\nauthor of What We Do Cherish \nFree Admission\nCash Bar Exotica\nDoors at 5.30\,\nReading at 6.00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-eteraz-shreve-khong-bernard-mouton/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeramy DeCristo
DESCRIPTION:Jeramy DeCristo is a black Bay Area-based artist and writer working in sound\, text\, image\, structure and movement. The conceptual dimensions of his work\, whether art installation or poetry\, emerge largely from thinking and rethinking blackness as a profoundly radical aesthetic form and material; specifically he thinks through the formal\, material and epistemological worlds made possible in and through black music. He also makes music under his own name and the pseudonym OKeh. DeCristo is currently a University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Literature Department at UC San Diego where he is working on a book about black experimental music\, entitled Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity. He obtained his PhD from the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz in 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeramy-decristo/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:León\, Peters\, Gelman\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Raina J. León\, PhD is a CantoMundo fellow\, a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016). She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\nhttp://www.rainaleon.com/poems.html \nAnnelyse Gelman is a California Arts Scholar\, the inaugural poet-in-residence at UCSD’s Brain Observatory\, and recipient of the 2013 Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, and elsewhere\, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (2014)\, shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award.\nwww.annelysegelman.com. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the northwest regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened.\narisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leon-peters-gelman-white/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jensen Beach + Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:Colin Winnette talks with Jensen Beach about his short story collection\, Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf Press). \n\nPraise for Jensen Beach: \n\n“The shocking accident in the first story of Swallowed by the Cold centers this collection like a knife. Jensen Beach understands the deep uneasiness of men and women\, and in his stories lie surprises—mortal surprises\, among others—that are revealed in vivid episodes of quiet harm. This book held me fast.”—Ron Carlson \n\n“Jensen Beach is a master of linguistic restraint\, a writer whose precision\, empathy\, and relentless honesty form the spine of this extraordinary work of fiction. Taken individually\, these stories are works of art. It’s when the collection is viewed as a whole\, however\, that an intricate fictional latticework emerges. Each story here is the progenitor of the next\, each life therein a quiet catastrophe\, each character both victim and witness\, bound to every other character in those unknowable ways that bind us all together. This is not just a book\, but a world.”—Jack Livings\, author of The Dog \n\n“Swallowed by the Cold moved me enormously. Jensen Beach renders his characters in a way that is both unsettling and deeply complex\, and he imbues the Swedish landscape that surrounds them with a layered personality. This is a wonderful book—graceful and assured\, spare and compassionate—and Jensen Beach is a fiercely talented writer.”—Molly Antopol \n\n\nAbout Swallowed by the Cold: \n\nThe intricate\, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s extraordinarily poised story collection are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years.\nIn “Swallowed by the Cold\,” people are besieged and haunted by disasters both personal and national: a fatal cycling accident\, a drowned mother\, a fire on a ferry\, a mysterious arson\, the assassination of the Swedish foreign minister\, and\, decades earlier\, the Soviet bombing of Stockholm. In these stories\, a drunken\, lonely woman is convinced that her new neighbor is the daughter of her dead lover; a one-armed tennis player and a motherless girl reckon with death amid a rainstorm; and happening upon a car crash\, a young woman is unaccountably drawn to the victim\, even as he slides into a coma and her marriage falls into jeopardy.\nAgain and again\, Beach’s protagonists find themselves unable to express their innermost feelings to those they are closest to\, but at the same time they are drawn to confide in strangers. In its confidence and subtle precision\, Beach’s prose evokes their reticence but is supple enough to reveal deeper passions and intense longing. Shot through with loss and the regret of missed opportunities\, “Swallowed by the Cold” is a searching and crystalline book by a startlingly talented young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jensen-beach-colin-winnette/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bonnie Thomas: Sun on the Rind • Chantal Guillemin: Truchas: Closer to Heaven • Gail Peterson: Swimming the Sky • Kimberly Saterfield:Voices from the Field. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Russ Franklin w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi\, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray. Sandeep lives a nomadic life staying at different hotels across America with his mother and her hotel consulting firm. After not seeing them for many years\, Van Ray shows up broke with his pregnant astronaut ex-wife in tow\, claiming to have discovered a big secret that will change their lives. Sandeep must juggle his father’s scientific search\, his mother’s failing business\, and the tension of having family all together for the first time in decades. \nRuss Franklin has degrees in math\, physics\, and literature\, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American\, Alaska Quarterly Review\,Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russ-franklin-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel\, Homegoing\, at this book launch party. \n\nPraise for Homegoing: \n\n“A marvelous novel.” — Publishers Weekly *starred review* \n\n“Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized\, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters\, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans\, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly virtuous victims.  Sin comes in all forms\, from selling people to abandoning children.  I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible.  I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates\, National Book Award winning author of Between the World and Me \n\n“Homegoing is a remarkable feat—a novel at once epic and intimate\, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles\, hopes\, and fears. A tremendous debut.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment \n\n\nAbout Homegoing: \n\nA riveting\, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race\, history\, ancestry\, love\, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. \n  \nTwo half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi\, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America\, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America\, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures–with outstanding economy and force– the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-book-launch/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Passages on the Lake 27
DESCRIPTION:Oakland’s premiere literary showcase kicks off summer early with some seriously hot performance writers including Maw Shein Win\, Kira Lynne Allen\, Jenee Darden\, Riss Rosado and a tribute to musical poetry duo Beach Head.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/passages-on-the-lake-27/
LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, 1800 Madison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ruth Thompson + Jayne Benjulian
DESCRIPTION:About Ruth Thompson’s Crazing: Beginning where “The White Queen” (Woman With Crows) ends\, in the loss of “memory\, cleverness\, concentration” and the hope of “light through the cracks\,” this new book by poet Ruth Thompson explores aging\, loss\, and the “delamination” of the earth whose body she shares. “We are blown here out of sight of ourselves\,” she writes\, “staggering and dismayed.” Yet dissolution resolves in expansion\, laughter\, joy – “seeing\, in this dire wind\, what there is to worship.” \n\nAbout Jayne Benjulian’s Five Sextillion Atoms: In poems of formal compression\, tautness\, acuity of imagery and epigrammatic exactitude\, we encounter loving mother\, father who betrays\, cruel stepmother\, followed by motherhood peeled of its idyllic fantasies. Nuanced and gripping\, Five Sextillion Atoms is the debut of a skilled portraitist and satirist. \nNotable for the way in which it combines stories of family history with larger matters of public history\, Five Sextillion Atoms encapsulates the inner world of the child and the adult who carries an icy wound. \nRuth Thompson grew up in California and received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Indiana University. She has been an English professor\, librarian\, college dean\, and yoga teacher in Los Angeles. She now lives in Hilo\, Hawai’i\, where she teaches writing\, meditation\, and yoga. Her poems have won the New Millennium Writings Poetry Award and the Harpur Palate Milton Kessler Memorial Prize\, among others. Woman with Crows is her second book of poetry\, and was a finalist for the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s To The Lighthouse Prize in 2010. Her chapbook\, Here Along Cazenovia Creek\, was the basis for a collaborative performance of poetry and dance with Japanese dancer Shizuno Nasu. Her most recent book is Crazing. \nJayne Benjulian’s work appears in Agni\, Barrow Street\, Women’s Review of Books\, Poet Lore\, Nimrod International\, Ms.\, Poetry Daily and elsewhere. She has been an Ossabaw Island Project Fellow; a teaching fellow at Emory University\, where she earned an MA; a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Theater at San Francisco State University; and a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Lyon\, France. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Jayne grew up near Jones Beach and in Westchester\, NY.  As a child\, she left letters to herself under her mattress\, intending to read them years later and see who she had been. She served as chief speechwriter at Apple\, investigator for the public defender in King County\, Washington\, and director of new play development at Magic Theater. She now lives in the Berkshires. Five Sextillion Atoms is her first collection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-thompson-jayne-benjulian/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Cohen + Hodges
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 12th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges. \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! Poetry Flash has begun a Kickstarter campaign. Click here to learn more about helping them so they can better serve and support the literary communities of the West Coast and beyond. \nJoin us for the official book launch of Susan Cohen’s second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, winner of the 2015 Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. Stephen Dunn says\, “Her descriptions constitute what I want to call intelligence—someone in the act of getting the world right\, making it ours as well as hers.” A former contributing writer for the Washington Post Magazine\, she was also a professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. \nCatherine Abbey Hodges’s debut book of poems is Instead of Sadness\, winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Paulann Petersen says\, “Catherine Abbey Hodges offers us—inside each musical line\, within each vibrant trope—a luminous wisdom. Each poem gives us a world ‘replenished like a well // in blues and greens and wings.’” She is also author of the chapbook All the While\, and she is professor of English at Porterville College in central California. \nCopies of each book will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-cohen-hodges/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards \nFICTION\nGold: Lucia Berlin\, A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\nSilver: Ernest J. Finney\, Elevation 6040\, Texas Review Press\n\nNONFICTION\nGold: Jill Leovy\, Ghettoside\, Spiegel & Grau\nSilver: Steve Silberman\, Neurotribes\, Avery Publishing\n\nYOUNG ADULT\nGold: Neal Shusterman\, Challenger Deep\, Harper Teen\nSilver: Andrew Smith\, The Alex Crow\, Dutton Books for Young Readers\n\nFIRST FICTION\nGold: Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\, Grove Press; First Edition\n\nJUVENILE\nGold: Alex Gino\, George\, Scholastic Press\n\nPOETRY\nGold: Beth Murray\, Cancer Angel\, Belladonna Publishing\n\nCALIFORNIANA\nGold: Tom Killion\, California’s Wild Edge\, Heyday\n\nCONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING\nGold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers\, Edited by James Karman\, Stanford University Press\n\nImportant Upcoming Dates \n#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition\nAwards Ceremony: June 13\, 2016 \n#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-book-awards/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Panel
DESCRIPTION:Annual Pride Poetry Panel features MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nico Peck and James J. Siegel Monday\, June 13\, 7-8pm at Books Inc. Castro. Celebrate Queer pride\, these fabulous poets\, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro! Door prizes at 7pm. Champagne and chocolates. A free event open to all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-panel/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Return to Butternut Lake with local author Mary McNear!
DESCRIPTION:Local author and New York Times bestseller Mary McNear returns to Butternut Lake with the fourth novel of her popular series. Space Between Sisters uncovers the complicated bond between two sisters during one memorable summer season. 10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building\, a community space for women in San Francisco\, http://womensbuilding.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-butternut-lake-with-local-author-mary-mcnear/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Sonoma County CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Kara would be so excited to see your face at the Sonoma County launch of her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, out on Split Lip Press 6/15. No open mic this time\, but she will be joined by some fabulous readers\, including Ms. Dani Burlison\, who will be reading from her new zine Lady Parts\, Shirin Bridges\, Guy Biederman\, Leilani Clark\, Jessica Dur\, and Tricia McWorter. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-sonoma-county-chapbook-launch-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks\,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were. \nGrady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel\,Horrorstör\, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio. \n  \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad\, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\,Slate\, Salon\, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow\, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grady-hendrix-w-katie-crouch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Readers: \nJuliana Spahr \nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nRochelle Spencer \nJoy Elán \nRené Vazquez \nKay Nillson \nHosted and Curated by MK Chavez \nLyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ArtSpan Mixer: Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning + Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the third annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! This Artist Mixer invites writers from Quiet Lightning to view Modern Eden’s exhibition\, Portraits of Friends\, and to write from its inspiration. The writers then share their literary creations by reading to an audience equipped with sketch books to react with drawings…! \nAll are weclome to join! ArtSpan will provide sketch books and drawing materials. \nQuiet Lighting Guest Curator: Tess Taylor \nWriters/Readings: Keith Ekiss\, Katie Peterson\, Dean Rader\, Brynn Saito\, and Tess Taylor \nFeatured Modern Eden Art Exhibition: \nPortraits of Friends: The ever-popular annual portrait show – Nearly 50 top contemporary artists interpret this theme to create portraits of their friends\, fans\, and/or acquaintances. \nParticipant Biographies: \nKeith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio forthcoming from Tavern Books in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio is recently out from The Bitter Oleander Press. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University where he teaches courses on poetry\, poetry and film\, fiction\, and the essay. \nKatie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry\, This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts\, the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is back in her native California after years in Boston and lives in El Cerrito with her husband\, the photographer and filmmaker Young Suh\, with whom she collaborates. She teaches at the University of California at Davis. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, and Tess Taylor named his Landscape Portrait Figure Form one of the Best Books of Poetry of the year in The Barnes & Noble Review. He is also the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Rader writes regularly for The Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle and is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Two collections of poetry are forthcoming\, including a book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). \nBrynn Saito is the author of Power Made Us Swoon (Red Hen Press\, 2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Brynn is a recipient of the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and winner of the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Brynn lives in Los Altos and teaches and works in San Francisco. \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. An avid gardener and cook\, she dropped out of Amherst College in her twenties to become a translator and chef’s assistant at L’Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito\, CA. \nWith ice cold beer\, courtesy of Lagunitas! \nMore about the exhibition\, Portraits of Friends:http://www.moderneden.com/pages/portraits-of-friends \nPhotos + vids from previous ArtSpan + Quiet Lightning mixers:\n• 2015: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-superhero/\n• 2014: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-fairy-tales/ \nArtwork Image: Archer Dougherty\, Every Person Sees Themselves\, 2016\, Oil on wood\, 18 x 24 in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artspan-mixer-art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Flynn Berry: Under the Harrow
DESCRIPTION:When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside\, she expects to find her waiting at the station\, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house\, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. \nStunned and adrift\, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police\, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets she unravels\, she is under the harrow—distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession\, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. \nA riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters\, the distortions of grief\, and the terrifying power of the past\, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nFlynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers\, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flynn-berry-under-the-harrow/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Series #3
DESCRIPTION:Candace Eros Diaz | Louise Mathias | The Bayonettes | Kamikaze Palm Tree \nCurated by Sara Mumolo\nhttp://www.proartsgallery.org/event/hybrid-series-3/ \nPro Arts Gallery is excited to announce the third of its Hybrid Series events—blurring the traditional boundaries between artistic disciplines. \nCandace Eros Diaz is the recipient of a 2015-2016 Steinbeck Fellowship out of The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She is a former San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellow\, and will be a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow this summer. She is the Coordinator of Admissions and Student Services for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency and her work has appeared in MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She is currently at work on a historical creative nonfiction novel about her women ancestors. She lives in Oakland\, CA and can be found at www.candaceerosdiaz.com. \nLouise Mathias is the author of two books of poems\, Lark Apprentice\, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize\, and The Traps (Four Way Books)\, as well as a chapbook Above All Else\, the Trembling Resembles a Forest\, chosen by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook competition. Raised in England and Los Angeles\, for the last seven years she has lived in Joshua Tree\, California\, where she drives around the Mojave taking photos and writing poems about wildflowers\, desolation\, sex and trash. \nThe Bayonettes are a raw rock trio from the Bay Area. Check out their magic HERE: https://thebayonettes.bandcamp.com/ \nKamikaze Palm Tree is a two-person art experiment from Oakland. Check out their sound HERE: https://kamikazepalmtree.bandcamp.com/ \n*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers\, Inc.\nBeverage sponsor: Ordinaire Wine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hybrid-series-3/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Bloom: Reading #50
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nMembers of MIXED WRITES\, a group of mixed race women writers\, will honor Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice—the most light-filled day of the year\, by reading work on the theme of fathers and inner light. \nWe will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom\, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele\, Maria T. Allocco\, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams). \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nMARIA T. ALLOCCO is a South Korean and Italian Voices of Our Nation alum and was an Academy of American Poets Prize winner by age twenty. Her pieces have been featured on KPFA andMutiny Radio\, and performed for SOMArts\, LitQuake\, Kearny Street Workshop\, The Intersection For The Arts\, and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Her work has been published inThe Lantern Review\, Fusion Magazine\, Monday Night\, Sparkle and Blink\, and in the new book Pariahs: Writing From Outside The Margins. She’s a co-founder of the bay area’s first mixed race meditation group\, and teaches yoga to ‘at-risk’ youth. Find her at: writetoheal.us \nJACKIE GRAVES believes in the transformative power of words. She is currently working on a memoir of healing that celebrates family\, spirituality\, and sisterhood. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including residencies at the Julia and David White Artist Colony\, Jentel Artist Residence Program\, Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and Soapstone\, a Writing Retreat for Women. She received theCity of Oakland Spoken Word Fellowship\, the Ardella Mills Prize for Fiction\, and was a finalist in the Poets & Writers California Voices Contest. She teaches English at Laney College. \nAUDREY T. WILLIAMS is an Oakland-based writer. She is a VONA alum\, and working towards an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at CCA. Audrey is currently writing the manuscript for “Chutney and Chitlins\,” a mixed-race family memoir that makes use of hybrid creative nonfiction using narratives and images. The book begins with stories from her African-American father as he joined thenewly integrated US Marines in the late 1950’s (possibly the first African American US Marine sent to US embassy duty in Rangoon\, Burma). In Burma\, he mets Audrey’s mother\, whose heritage is a mixture of European and South Asian ancestry (Anglo-Indian-Burmese). Her website:audreyTwilliams.com. \nABOUT THE BLOOM\nThe Bloom is a literary series featuring Bay Area writers\, where a past reader curates five readers around a theme. It’s an entertaining evening of diverse voices and personal style\, bridging narratives and communities. It was founded by Margaret Bacon\, Tara Dorabji\, and Jason Wyman in the summer of 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bloom-reading-50/
LOCATION:Mercury Cafe\, 201 Octavia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joe Clifford Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Downtown hosts the launch party for December Boys – a new thriller by local author Joe Clifford  \nJay Porter\, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire\, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse\, Jay meets Nicki\, a young college intern\, who tips him off to a possible scandal – first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks. He learns that long-time family nemeses\, Adam and Michael Lombardi\, may have a stake in the scheme. Is Jay’s mission to help these kids a legitimate crusade? Or is his thirst for revenge driven by the guilt he feels over his own junkie brother’s death? These questions conspire to tear apart tranquility and drive a wedge between Jay and his wife Jenny. With help from new friend Nicki\, and a couple of old friends\, Jay finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind\, putting everything – and everyone he loves – at risk in pursuit of the truth. \nJoe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. He also produces Lip Service West\, a “gritty\, real\, raw” reading series in Oakland\, CA. Joe is the author of three books: Choice Cuts\, Wake the Undertaker\, and Junkie Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-clifford-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reek bell + Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading! Entry is FREE and open to the public. Donations welcome. Qilombo is wheelchair accessible. \nJai Arun Ravine is a writer\, dancer and graphic designer currently living in Philadelphia. As a mixed race\, mixed gender and mixed genre artist\, their work arises from the simultaneity of text and body and takes the form of video\, performance\, comics and handmade books. Jai’s first full-length book\, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS\, re-imagines immigration history and attempts to transform cultural inheritances of silence. Their short film TOM/TRANS/THAI approaches the silence around female-to-male (FTM) transgender identity in the Thai context and has screened internationally. THE ROMANCE OF SIAM (Timeless\, Infinite Light) is their second book. jaiarunravine.com \nReek bell is a queer mixed-media artist based in Oakland\, from South Jersey. Her work reflects experiences within blackness\, resistance\, friendship\, and exhaustion. A poet since third grade\, she embraces melancholy\, values intimacy\, magic\, and militancy. twitter.com/reekokay \nCantíl is a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about Cantíl\nhere: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reek-bell-jai-arun-ravine/
LOCATION:Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Zoe Zolbrod w/ Brian Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell\, she wasn’t sure what to expect\, or what to say. In a kaleidoscopic series of experiences\, Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another\, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia\, meets and marries her husband\, and gives birth to her children. She traces the development of her sexuality\, her relationships with men\, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research\, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman’s reckoning with a past she can’t always explain\, and a life lived in search for the right words. \nZoe Zolbrod’s work has appeared in Salon\, The Nervous Breakdown\, The Weeklings\, and The Rumpus\, where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston\, Illinois\, with her husband and children. \nBrian Hurley is Books Editor at The Rumpus\, Curator of the Critical Hit Awards at Electric Literature’s blog The Outlet\, and Co-Editor of Fiction Advocate. \nCopies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-zolbrod-w-brian-hurley/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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