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SUMMARY:One Book One Marin 2017
DESCRIPTION:From Anthony Marra\, the author of National Book Award longlist selection and New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, comes The Tsar of Love and Techno\, a collection of dazzling\, poignant\, and lyrical interwoven stories about family\, sacrifice\, the legacy of war\, and the redemptive power of art. \nThis stunning\, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs\, deep underneath Leningrad\, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recounts their stories and those of their grandmothers\, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce\, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose\, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present\, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013)\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award longlist selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland\, California. \nPopular across the United States and throughout the world\, One Book programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city or county. The city\, county and college libraries of Marin\, and community partners Book Passage and the Institute for Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California collaborate to bring Marin County readers stimulating programming and events related to the book throughout a three-month period\, February – April\, each year. All events are free and open to the public. \nThe Launch party at Book Passage kicks off the celebration and introduces the author and programming events that take place during the months of February\, March and April. Most events take place at city and community libraries throughout Marin and are geared around themes of the novel. The One Book One Marin program will conclude with a special event in Spring 2017 (Date TBA) at Dominican University’s Angelico Hall\, featuring Anthony Marra and KQED host Michael Krasny in conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-book-one-marin-2017/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T210000
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SUMMARY:Laurie Frankel w/ Kristin Clark
DESCRIPTION:Discussing Frankel’s novel\, This Is How it Always Is\, inspired by her Modern Love column for the New York Times\, “From He to She in First Grade.” \n“Well-plotted\, well-researched\, and unflaggingly interesting…As thought-provoking a domestic novel as we have seen this year.”–Kirkus (starred review) \n“A lively and fascinating story of a thoroughly modern family and the giant\, multifaceted love that binds them. . . .Sparkles with wit and wisdom.”– Maria Semple
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-frankel-w-kristin-clark/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
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SUMMARY:Ottessa Moshfegh
DESCRIPTION:Winner of The Paris Review‘s Plimpton Prize for some of her first stories\, and of the PEN Hemingway Prize for her debut novel Eileen\, Ottessa Moshfegh reads from Homesick for Another World\, her first collection—one of which has already won an O. Henry Prize. \nIn the judges’ citation for the Plimpton Prize\, Jeffrey Eugenides wrote: “What distinguishes Ottessa Moshfegh’s writing is that unnamable quality that makes a new writer’s voice\, against all odds and the deadening surround of lyrical postures\, sound unique.” \nJoin us for a reading\, conversation\, and book signing! \nOttessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from Boston. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize for her stories in The Paris Review and granted a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. Her first book\, McGlue\, a novella\, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. Her novel Eileen won the PEN/Hemingway Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ottessa-moshfegh/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20161223T034817Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Pinsky + Murray Dewart
DESCRIPTION:Robert Pinsky and Murray Dewart discuss Poems About Sculpture and At the Foundling Hospital: Poems \nPegasus Books Downtown welcomes former poet laureate ROBERT PINSKY and sculptor MURRAY DEWART and for a discussion of their book Poems About Sculpture. Edited by Dewart and with a foreward by Pinsky\, Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Mr. Pinsky will also discuss his latest poetry collection\, At the Foundling Hospital. \nROBERT PINSKY \nRobert Pinsky is the author of several books of poetry\, including Gulf Music\, Jersey Rain\, The Want Bone\, and The Figured Wheel. His bestselling translation of The Inferno of Dante sets a modern standard. He was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, the PEN/Voelcker Award\, the Korean Manhae Prize\, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. \nMURRAY DEWART \nMurray Dewart is an internationally recognized sculptor who has built large public sculptures in China\, Israel\, and across the United States. He has work in more than thirty permanent collections\, among them the Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum\, Harvard University’s Fogg Art Museum\, and the Museum of San Marco University in Lima\, Peru.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-pinsky-murray-dewart/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T125000
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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander
DESCRIPTION:Forrest Gander is a writer and translator of international renown whose most recent titles include the novel\, The Trace\, the translations Alice Iris Red Horse: Poems of Gozo\, and Then Come Back: The Lost Neruda. His poetry collection Core Samples from the World was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, and Whiting Foundations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20170131T040105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T040105Z
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SUMMARY:Patricia Minger
DESCRIPTION:Local author Patricia Minger shares her dazzling debut novel\, The Magic Flute. Patricia spent over 25 years singing with the Lamplighters Music Theater of San Francisco and other Bay Area musical groups\, and her artistic flair translates beautifully in The Magic Flute\, an intimate exploration of the world of grand opera.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-minger/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Alameda\, 1344 Park Street\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Wade
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Wade\, PhD discusses her revelatory work\, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus. Lisa will be in conversation with Peggy Orenstein\, author of the bestselling book Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. \nThe hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing\, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. \nOffering invaluable insights for parents\, educators\, and students\, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality\, the evolution of higher education\, and the unfinished feminist revolution. Using new research\, she maps out a punishing emotional landscape marked by unequal pleasures\, competition for status\, and sexual violence. She discovers that the most privileged students tend to like hookup culture the most\, and she considers its effects on racial and sexual minorities\, students who opt out\, and those who participate ambivalently. \nAccessible and open-minded\, compassionate and brutally honest\, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here\, asking not How do we go back? but Where do we go from here?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-wade/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust:  Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber + Blane Bachelor
DESCRIPTION:Happy New Year Wanderlusters! \nWith San Francisco’s exhilarating and well-attended Women’s March swirling in our recent memory\, we can’t think of a better time to introduce you to three fantastic women writers: Janis Cooke Newman\, Jess Silber and Blane Bachelor. Their bios will soon be on our Facebook page. Come give them a warm WW welcome. \nReadings start promptly at 7pm but you know we’ll be in the Library Bar at 6pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-janis-cooke-newman-jess-silber-blane-bachelor/
LOCATION:Weekday Wanderlust\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T210000
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SUMMARY:Charles Alexander + Susan Thackrey
DESCRIPTION:Poets Charles Alexander and Susan Thackrey read new work and converse with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nCharles Alexander is a poet\, bookmaker\, and founder/director of Chax Press\, author of 5 full-length books of poetry and 11 chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. His most recent books of poetry are Pushing Water\, published by Cuneiform Press\, and the chapbooks Some Sentences Look for Some Periods\, a chapbook\, and Two Pushing Waters\, both from Little Red Leaves Textile Series. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, University of Arizona\, and elsewhere\, and currently is Poet & Designer in Residence at the University of Houston-Victoria\, where he directs the MFA Creative Writing Program and manages the UHV Center for the Arts. He is a past recipient of the Arizona Arts Award\, and has participated in the TAMAAS Poetry Translation Project in Paris. In January 2016 served as a faculty member for US Poets in Mexico. He lives in Victoria\, Texas\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \nSusan Thackrey\, a poet who lives and works in San Francisco\, began to compose poetry at the age of three. She was an inaugurating student in the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco in 1980\, and studied with Robert Duncan and Diane di Prima over a number of years.Thackrey has given invitational lectures on Charles Olson\, Robert Duncan\, and George Oppen\, including as a keynote speaker at the George Oppen Conference in Buffalo\, and most recently on Duncan’s The H.D. Book for The Poetry Center. Since reading Homer In Greek over a five year period with Robert Duncan and some of her poet contemporaries\, an important and lively part of her life in poetry has included variously focused and long-lived reading groups with other poets. She has earned her livelihood in various ways\, including as co-founder and co-director of the art gallery Thackrey and Robertson in San Francisco\, and for a number of years as a Jungian analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There she has taught\, spoken and published\, focusing especially on art\, recently publishing a talk and essay on Jung’s paintings for The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge). Her poems have appeared in a number of journals\, and her books include Andalusia (Chax)\, Empty Gate (Listening Chamber)\, and George Oppen: A Radical Practice (O Books and The San Francisco Poetry Center).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-alexander-susan-thackrey/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T213000
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CREATED:20161223T035932Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Thompson + Hunter
DESCRIPTION:Interweaving poetry and fiction\, words and silence\, poet Ruth Thompson and fiction writer Sandra Hunter perform in the Poetry Flash series at Moe’s Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-thompson-hunter/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170203T200000
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SUMMARY:a reading in translation: Sho Sugita + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Once called “the Marinetti of Japan” by David Burliuk\, Hirato Renkichi produced a unique brand of Futurism from the late 1910s and early 1920s through poetry\, criticism\, and guerrilla performance. Contributing to the earliest productions of Japanese avant-garde poetry\, his aggressive experimentation with speed\, spatialization\, and performability would later influence what became a lively community of Dadaist and Surrealist writers in pre-war Japan. Spiral Staircase is the forst definitve volume of Renkichi’s poems to appear in English.Sho Sugita lives in Matsumoto\, Japan. His recent poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in VOLT\, Poems by Sunday\, Chicago Review\, 6×6\, Lana Turner\, Paperbag\, A Perimeter\, and Asymptote. \n\nBorn Kawahata Seiichi on December 9th 1893 in Osaka\, Hirato Renkichi attended Sophia University in Tokyo for three years before dropping out and attending Gyosei Gakko to study Italian. He started writing poetry in 1912\, first publishing in Banso under the guidance of Kawaji Ryuko. Although he worked at Hochi Shimbun News and Chuo Geijutsu Art Publishing\, he suffered from a pulmonary disease\, often failing to make ends meet for his family. He\npassed away on July 20\, 1922 in Tokyo\, at the age of 29.\nNorma Cole is a poet and translator who lives and works in the sanctuary city of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-translation-sho-sugita-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170203T210000
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SUMMARY:Nina Lindsay + Rosa Lane
DESCRIPTION:Nina Lindsay is the author of Because (2016) and Today’s Special Dish (2007) both from Sixteen Rivers Press. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner\, the Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry International\, the Colorado Review\, Fence\, and other journals\, and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize.  Lindsay lives in Oakland and works for the Oakland Public Library.  \nRosa Lane is author of Tiller North\, winner of the 2014 Sixteen Rivers Press Poetry Competition released in April 2016\, and Roots and Reckonings\, a chapbook. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has won several awards and appeared in Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, Ploughshares\, and elsewhere. Rosa has taught at Berkeley City College\, Ashland University (Ohio)\, and Southeast University (Nanjing\, China). She currently lives in Berkeley with her partner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lindsay-rosa-lane/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170204T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T170000
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CREATED:20161223T022555Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC: First Saturday + Contest Winners
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-staurday-contest/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T210000
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CREATED:20161129T055728Z
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SUMMARY:Writers Not Writing
DESCRIPTION:Local literary lights share other talents \nYoussef Alaoui ~ instrumental music \nJudy Clement Wall ~ house artist \nSharon Coleman ~ dance\, with choreography by Hilary Snyder \nPaul Corman-Roberts ~ drums \nJamey Genna ~ singing or acting \nSarah Kobrinsky ~ dance \nCharles Kruger ~ magic \nLisa Martinovic ~ singing \nColleen McKee and Ruth Crossman ~ singing duet \nDeborah Steinberg ~ singing \nSandra Wassilie ~ acting
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-not-writing/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T210000
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CREATED:20170114T061648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T032503Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Hook
DESCRIPTION:Post-punk icon\, Joy Division and New Order founding member\, and “gleefully profane” (Entertainment Weekly) storyteller Peter Hook returns to the JCCSF for a conversation on the ’80s music scene and the rise of New Order. On the eve of their U.S. tour\, following the tragic suicide of lead singer Ian Curtis\, Peter Hook and Joy Division’s remaining members resurrected themselves into New Order\, which would become one of the most influential bands of the 1980s. Their distinctive sound – a fusion of post-punk and ground-breaking electronica –inspired the dance music revolution. The band scaled the heights of success with huge hits including “Bizarre Love Triangle\,” “Perfect Kiss” and “Blue Monday\,” the biggest-selling 12-inch single of all time. On our stage and in his new memoir\, Substance: Inside New Order\, Peter chronicles the band’s rapid rise and the internal tensions that caused them to split.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-hook/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20170131T042242Z
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SUMMARY:Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win + Daniel Riddle Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Open House! Swing by the for a chance to meet the current 2016-2017 Workroom Artist Program cohort\, learn more about the artist program and their work\, and enjoy readings by Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win\, and Daniel Riddle Rodriguez\, as well as music by The Open Minds. \nRed Bay Coffee and red wine available. Donations will be called for throughout the night\, as will sign ups for the next program cohort (limited to 10 people).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arisa-white-maw-shein-win-daniel-riddle-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170204T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T000000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20170131T043403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170204T041529Z
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SUMMARY:Nepotism Night
DESCRIPTION:The return of Nepotism Night! We have another stellar lineup for you:\nPam Benjamin\nRohan DaCosta\nSecret Emchy Society\nJoe Loya\nLouise Nalbandian\nTarin Towers
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nepotism-night/
LOCATION:The Candy Kitchen\, 2807 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170205T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20161223T033812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033812Z
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure
DESCRIPTION:A landmark work of bio-romanticism\, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet Michael McClure\, reflecting his interests in mammal consciousness and ecological survival. The title sequence stems from McClure’s ongoing “grafting” experiment\, growing new poems from fragments of previously ones. Some Fringes is a series of haiku-like nature poems\, while the seventeen-part Rose Breaths derives from the poet’s practice of meditation. The freestanding poems grouped under the title Being pay homage to many of McClure’s collaborators and fellow travelers like Bruce Conner\, Terry Riley\, and Dave Haselwood. The book climaxes with Song Heavy\, recounting McClure’s recent encounter with a beached whale in Rockport\, Massachusetts\, and recalling his classic For the Death of 100 Whales\, which he read at the Six Gallery in 1955\, the inaugural moment of American eco-poetics. \nMichael McClure is an award-winning American poet\, playwright\, songwriter\, and novelist. After moving from Kansas to San Francisco as a young man\, he was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg’s landmark poem Howl. A key figure of the Beat Generation\, McClure is immortalized as Pat McLear in Jack Kerouac’s novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the sixties counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. McClure remains active as a poet\, essayist\, and playwright and lives with his second wife\, Amy\, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170205T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170205T203000
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Hollander:  a Memorial Tribute
DESCRIPTION:Poets\, writers\, and friends gather in homage to poet\, editor\, and essayist Benjamin Hollander (1952–2016)\, reading from his work and remembering him. This event is free and open to the public. \nParticipants include George Albon\, Charles Alexander\, Todd Baron\, Arthur Bierman\, William Cirocco\, Norma Cole\, Chris Daniels\, Steve Dickison\, Elise Ficarra\, Susan Gevirtz\, Jack Hirschman\, David Lau\, Duncan McNaughton\, Sarah Menefee\, Laura Moriarty\, Murat Nemet-Nejat\, Michael Palmer\, Julien Poirier\, John Sakkis\, Len Shneyder\, Richard B. Simon\, Susan Thackrey\, Siamak Vossoughi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benjamin-hollander-a-memorial-tribute/
LOCATION:The Unitarian Center\, 1187 Franklin Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T130352
CREATED:20170114T062226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T032808Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Formant
DESCRIPTION:Jimi Hendrix\, Janis Joplin\, Brian Jones\, Jim Morrison\, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan\, Peter Ham—all of them iconic rock stars\, all of them dead at age twenty-seven. How could a group of great musicians all die at the same age? All evidence points to the deaths being unrelated\, but were they really? \nGantry Elliot is a relic of rock and roll era still writing for Rolling Stone magazine—covering “classic” rock and roll and struggling for relevance in the age of hip-hop and electronic dance music. Even though he’s an encyclopedia of music trivia\, Gantry can’t compete with the new kids on the block and is now reduced to watching the clock tick down on his once dynamic career. But Gantry’s vast knowledge may be the only thing that can unravel the Myth of 27. \nWhen anonymous packages start showing up at his office and then his home\, Gantry initially shrugs them off as another Myth of 27 conspiracy nerd trying to get attention. As the clues became more intimate\, more personal\, more sinister\, he realizes this is not a game: someone knows the truth\, and the truth may put Gantry’s life in serious danger. \nAptly called\, “The Da Vinci Code for rock and roll fans\,” author Chris Formant has written a terrific debut novel that creatively and deftly takes readers on a dangerous cold case hunt to uncover the mystery behind these deaths. Truth or fiction\, lies or conspiracy\, Bright Midnight will keep you guessing until its final chorus. \nFrom his early garage band days\, to a seat on the Board of Trustees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, Chris Formant has been a student of rock and roll his whole life. As an executive in a leading global company\, running a multi-billion dollar business\, Formant is the unlikeliest of authors of a murder mystery. But the continued unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of our most iconic rock legends led Formant to first speculate and then re-imagine what would happen if cutting edge technology were applied to these famous cold cases.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-formant/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Andy Ross
DESCRIPTION:Left Coast Writers® Salon featuring Andy Ross\, literary agent and founder of the Andy Ross Literary Agency.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-andy-ross/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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CREATED:20170131T044418Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at The Stud Bar
DESCRIPTION:A literary mixtape performed live once by the authors and published as sPARKLE & bLINK 82\, free for the first 100 people \nSIDE A \nJoe Wadlington » Heather Bourbeau » Peter Bullen » Stephen Guai-Wu » MK Chavez » Rae Liberto » AshleyRose Sanchez » Miah Jeffra » Siamak Vossoughi » Adam Moskowitz » Peter Max Lawrence » Paul Corman-Roberts \nRAFFLE FOR THE STUD + TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER \nSIDE B \nPaul Corman-Roberts » Kyrsten Bean » Ingrid Keir » Kate Folk » Sage Curtis » Laura Zink » Kate Seifert » Kathryn Reeve » Cassandra Dallett » Paul Corman-Roberts » Isabella Borgeson\n\nfeaturing art by Irene Nelson \ncurated by Josey Rose + Christine No
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-stud-bar/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Rafael Jesús Gonzalez
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús González. An open mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rafael-jesus-gonzalez/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170114T063153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170120T033045Z
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SUMMARY:Tim Z. Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Tim Z. Hernandez celebrating the release of \nAll They Will Call You \nfrom University of Arizona Press \nwith special guests: Margi Dunlap\, Connie Ann Mart\, and Lance Canales \nAll They Will Call You is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history\,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers\, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government. Outraged that media reports omitted only the names of the Mexican passengers\, American folk icon Woody Guthrie penned a poem that went on to become one of the most important protest songs of the twentieth century\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee).” It was an attempt to restore the dignity of the anonymous lives whose unidentified remains were buried in an unmarked mass grave in California’s Central Valley. For nearly seven decades\, the song’s message would be carried on by the greatest artists of our time\, including Pete Seeger\, Dolly Parton\, Bruce Springsteen\, Bob Dylan\, and Joan Baez\, yet the question posed in Guthrie’s lyrics\, “Who are these friends all scattered like dry leaves?” would remain unanswered—until now. \nTim Z. Hernandez will be joined by Margi Dunlap and Connie Ann Mart\, two women directly related to the song and the incident\, as well as Lance Canales\, a musician who helped secure a long-overdue memorial for the Mexican victims of the crash. \nCombining years of painstaking investigative research and masterful storytelling\, award-winning author Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a captivating narrative from testimony\, historical records\, and eyewitness accounts\, reconstructing the incident and the lives behind the legendary song. This singularly original account pushes narrative boundaries\, while challenging perceptions of what it means to be an immigrant in America\, but more importantly\, it renders intimate portraits of the individual souls who\, despite social status\, race\, or nationality\, shared a common fate one frigid morning in January 1948. \nTim Z. Hernandez was born and raised in California’s San Joaquin Valley. An award-winning poet\, novelist\, and performer\, he is the recipient of the American Book Award for poetry\, the Colorado Book Award for poetry\, the Premio Aztlán Prize for fiction\, and the International Latino Book Award for historical fiction. His books and research have been featured in the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, CNN\, Public Radio International\, and National Public Radio. Hernandez holds a BA from Naropa University and an MFA from Bennington College. Hernandez makes his home in El Paso\, where he is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso’s MFA Program in Creative Writing. You can find more information at his website\, www.timzhernandez.com \nMargi Dunlap is a resident of Pilot Hill\, California\, where she retired after 34 years working in immigrant rights and immigration law. She is the niece of Martin Hoffman\, the musician who is credited with turning Woody Guthrie’s poem\, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportee)” into the popular protest song that later went on to be recorded by music icons such as Pete Seeger\, Bruce Springsteen\, Joan Baez\, and many others. \nConnie Ann Mart is a resident of West Marin County\, California\, where she makes her living as controller for West Marin Senior Services. She is the niece of pilot Frank Atkinson\, who perished in the 1948 plane wreck at Los Gatos Canyon. \nLance Canales\, a musician who collaborated with Hernandez on creating a new arrangement of the song that now includes the names of the Mexican victims. \nWhat has been said of Tim Z. Hernandez work:\n“Tim Z. Hernandez is the real thing. This epic\, tragic story is finally being told\, and it is in the best possible hands.”—Luis Alberto Urrea \n“An important and moving book\, exploring the theme of identity and loss and disenfranchisement—topics that have never been more urgent than they are now. Hernandez has illuminated the present with this original and riveting examination of the past.”—Susan Orlean \n“There’s something miraculous about the storytelling feat Tim Z. Hernandez has pulled off in All They Will Call You. With great compassion and patience\, he has immersed himself in a long-forgotten episode of California history\, and uncovered a multilayered epic of love\, injustice\, and family fortitude\, stretching across generations and borders. This is an intelligent\, empathic\, and deeply moving work.”—Héctor Tobar \n“In his lyrics to ‘Plane Wreck at Los Gatos\,’ my father\, Woody Guthrie\, asked a simple question\, ‘Who are these friends?’ and finally someone has answered that question. It was unknown if their stories would ever come to light\, or if they would simply remain ghosts without names\, as if they had no lives at all—as if they didn’t count. Through Hernandez’s amazing work\, I now know who these people were\, their lives\, their loves\, and their journeys. All They Will Call You is a heart-wrenching read for anyone who cares\, and the names—now etched in stone in a far-off graveyard—have become friends who will travel with me as long as I am walking.”—Arlo Guthrie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-z-hernandez/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Tuesday\, February 7th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Sarah Schulman\, reading from and discussing her book Conflict is Not Abuse. \n  \nFrom intimate relationships to global politics\, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse\, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep\, brave\, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism\, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning. Rooting the problem of escalation in negative group relationships\, Schulman illuminates the ways cliques\, communities\, families\, and religious\, racial\, and national groups bond through the refusal to change their self-concept. She illustrates how Supremacy behavior and Traumatized behavior resemble each other\, through a shared inability to tolerate difference. \n  \nThis important and sure to be controversial book illuminates such contemporary and historical issues of personal\, racial\, and geo-political difference as tools of escalation towards injustice\, exclusion\, and punishment\, whether the objects of dehumanization are other individuals in our families or communities\, people with HIV\, African Americans\, or Palestinians. Conflict Is Not Abuse is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame\, cruelty\, and scapegoating\, and how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the “other” to achieve their goals. \n  \nSarah Schulman is a novelist\, nonfiction writer\, playwright\, screenwriter\, journalist and AIDS historian\, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow\, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York\, College of Staten Island. Her novels published by Arsenal include Rat Bohemia\, Empathy\, After Delores\, and The Mere Future. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Veronica Chambers
DESCRIPTION:Critically-acclaimed author Veronica Chambers discusses her tribute to Michelle Obama\, The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own. Joining Veronica for this panel will be Los Angeles Times reporter Julie Makinen\, and Senior Director of Content Partnerships and Business Development at Getty Images Elodie Mailliet. \nAbout The Meaning of Michelle: Michelle Obama is unlike any other First Lady in American History. From her first moments on the public stage\, she has challenged traditional American notions about what it means to be beautiful\, to be strong\, to be fashion-conscious\, to be healthy\, to be First Mom\, to be a caretaker and hostess\, and to be partner to the most powerful man in the world. What is remarkable is that\, at 52\, she is just getting started. \nWhile many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a fashion perspective\, no book has fully explored what she means to our culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that\, while offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. In addition to a tribute to Michelle Obama\, this book is also a rollicking\, lively dinner party conversation about race\, class\, marriage\, creativity\, womanhood and what it means to be American today. \nContributors include: Ava DuVernay\, Veronica Chambers\, Benilde Little\, Damon Young\, Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran\, Brittney Cooper\, Ylonda Gault Caviness\, Chirlane McCray\, Cathi Hanauer\, Tiffany Dufu\, Tanisha Ford\, Marcus Samuelsson\, Sarah Lewis\, Karen Hill Anton\, Rebecca Carroll\, Phillipa Soo\, and Roxane Gay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-chambers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Launch Party with Meredith Jaeger
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Meredith Jaeger for a Launch Party celebrating her stunning debut novel\, The Dressmaker’s Dowry. For readers of Lucinda Riley\, Sarah Jio\, or Susan Meissner\, this gripping historical debut novel tells the story of two women: one\, an immigrant seamstress who disappears from San Francisco’s gritty streets in 1876\, and the other\, a young woman in present day who must delve into the secrets of her husband’s wealthy family only to discover that she and the missing dressmaker might be connected in unexpected ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-with-meredith-jaeger/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170114T073746Z
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SUMMARY:Suzun Lucia Lamaina
DESCRIPTION:A social documentary photographic essay about former members of the Black Panther Party. Ms. Lamaina spent five years traveling throughout the United States photographing former Party members. The contemporary portraits and stories reflect their time in the Party and how their individual legacies have progressed. \nPublished in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party. These Panthers\, who dedicated their lives to community service and were known as “Rank and File” members\, are long overdue for recognition in serving the people–body and soul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzun-lucia-lamaina/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brandon Brown
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Brown’s books include THE GOOD LIFE (Big Lucks Books\, 2016)\, TOP 40 (Roof Books\, 2014)\, FLOWERING MALL (Roof Books\, 2012)\, THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS (Displaced Press\, 2011)\, and THE POEMS OF GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS (Krupskaya\, 2011)\, and many chapbooks\, including Tooth Fairy (2008) and Memoirs of my Nervous Illness (Cy Press\, 2006). Since 1998\, he has lived in the Bay Area\, where he has programmed literary events\, edited small press materials under the imprint OMG!\, and written about art and culture for Art Practical and Open Space\, the blog and magazine of the SFMOMA. He is a co-editor at Krupskaya\, organizes with the Bay Area Public School\, and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brandon-brown/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170114T073138Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Atkins w/ Stan Yogi
DESCRIPTION:Fred Korematsu Speaks Up \nLaura Atkins and Stan Yogi chronicle the real-life story of Fred Korematsu and his fight for justice when his family is forced into internment by the U.S. government during WWII.\nAbout Fred Korematsu Speaks Up \nFred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio\, playing tennis\, and hanging around with his friends—just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred\, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go. He knew that what the government was doing was unfair. And when he got put in jail for resisting\, he knew he couldn’t give up. \nInspired by the award-winning book for adults Wherever There’s a Fight\, the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to real-life heroes and heroines of social progress. The story of Fred Korematsu’s fight against discrimination explores the life of one courageous person who made the United States a fairer place for all Americans\, and it encourages all of us to speak up for justice.\nAdvance Praise \n“Atkins and Yogi raise good questions…that will inspire a new generation of activists. This first book in the Fighting for Justice series is a must-read for all civics classrooms.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Brilliant.”—Elizabeth Partridge\, award-winning author of Marching for Freedom: Walk Together\, Children\, and Don’t You Grow Weary
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-atkins-w-stan-yogi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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