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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nFeaturing: \nAida Ndiaye (CH510 Young Author) – born in Oakland with parents from Senegal\, West Africa\, Aida is a 4th grader who loves writing and telling stories. She wrote her first book when she was 9 years old about her allergies. \nmore young authors TBA soon! \nPlus: \nKids open mic! \nTiny bookmaking and arts activities for families \nCostume box \nFresh tunes spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-storyteller-series/
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:Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
DESCRIPTION:TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic\, much-admired\, hermetic\, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture. A critical figure in the history of postwar American culture\, Tosh Berman’s father\, Wallace Berman\, was known as the “father of assemblage art\,” and was the creator of the legendary mail-art publication Semina. Wallace Berman and his wife\, famed beauty and artist’s muse Shirley Berman\, raised Tosh between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and their home life was a heady atmosphere of art\, music\, and literature\, with local and international luminaries regularly passing through. \nTosh Berman is a writer\, poet\, and publisher of TamTam Books. As a publisher\, he focused on post-war French figures such as Boris Vian\, Guy Debord\, Serge Gainsbourg and French gangster Jacques Mesrine\, as well as publishing Sparks (Ron Mael & Russell Mael) and Lun*na Menoh. His previous book Sparks-Tastic (2013) is a combination of travel journal and thoughts on the band Sparks. His book of poems The Plum in Mr. Blum’s Pudding (2014) came out through Penny-Ante Editions. He authored the introduction to Wallace Berman: American Aleph from the Michael Kohn Gallery in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Friday Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:TEEN POETRY OPEN MIC (7-9pm) \nBring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Samuel Getachew! \nFeaturing special guest performance by: \nRISE Next Gen Voices – an Oakland-based a cappella group for young singers (ages 14-18) led by Lisa Forkish\, renowned a cappella arranger and director of Vocal Rush. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm. First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. Must be 19 years or younger. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-friday-teen-poetry-open-mic/
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:Elena Schneider & Caitlin Rosenthal - - The Occupation of Havana & Accounting for Slavery
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Elena Schneider and Caitlin Rosenthal to discuss their new new books The Occupation of Havana and Accounting for Slavery\, on Friday\, February 1st at 7pm. \nThe Occupation of Havana offers a nuanced and poignantly human account of the British capture and Spanish recovery of this coveted Caribbean city. The book explores both the interconnected histories of the British and Spanish empires and the crucial role played by free people of color and the enslaved in the creation and defense of Havana. Tragically\, these men and women would watch their promise of freedom and greater rights vanish in the face of massive slave importation and increased sugar production upon Cuba’s return to Spanish rule. By linking imperial negotiations with events in Cuba and their consequences\, Elena Schneider sheds new light on the relationship between slavery and empire at the dawn of the Age of Revolutions. \nAccounting for Slavery is a unique contribution to the decades-long effort to understand New World slavery’s complex relationship with capitalism. Through careful analysis of plantation records\, Caitlin Rosenthal explores the development of quantitative management practices on West Indian and Southern plantations. She shows how planter-capitalists built sophisticated organizational structures and even practiced an early form of scientific management. They subjected enslaved people to experiments\, such as allocating and reallocating labor from crop to crop\, planning meals and lodging\, and carefully recording daily productivity. The incentive strategies they crafted offered rewards but also threatened brutal punishment. \n  \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nElena Schneider is a historian of Latin America and the Atlantic World. Her teaching focuses on Cuba and the Caribbean\, comparative colonialism and slavery\, and the Black Atlantic. Professor Schneider’s research explores the ways that war\, trade\, and slavery integrated the Atlantic world across regional and what would later become national boundaries. \nCaitlin Rosenthal is a historian of 18th and 19th century U.S. history. Her research focuses on the development of management practices\, especially those based on data analysis. She seeks to blend qualitative and quantitative methods and to combine insights from business history\, economic history\, and labor history. Before coming to Berkeley\, she was the Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School\, and before that she worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Her work is motivated by the hope that more complete histories of management can help us to explore deep political and ethical questions\, many of which continue to face modern businesspeople. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, February 1\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elena-schneider-caitlin-rosenthal-the-occupation-of-havana-accounting-for-slavery/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kristen Tracy with Daniel Handler / Half-Hazard
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is pleased to host Kristen Tracy for her first book of poems\, Half-Hazard\, winner of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award from the Poetry Foundation. Joining Kristen in conversation is Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n  \nHalf-Hazard is a book of near misses\, would-be tragedies\, and luck. As Kristen Tracy writes in the title poem\, “Dangers here. Perils there. It’ll go how it goes.” The collection follows Tracy’s wide curiosity\, from her growing up in a small Mormon farming community to her exodus out into the forbidden world\, where she finds snakes\, car accidents\, adulterers\, meteors\, and death-marked mice. These wry\, observant narratives are accompanied by a ringing lyricism and Tracy’s own knack at noticing what’s so funny about trouble and her natural impulse to want to put all the broken things back together. Full of wrong turns\, false loves\, quashed beliefs\, and a menagerie of animals\, Half-Hazardintroduces a vibrant new voice in American poetry\, one of resilience\, faith\, and joy. \n  \n\n  \nKristen Tracy is a poet and acclaimed author of more than a dozen novels for young readers. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, Prairie Schooner\, and the Threepenny Review\, among other magazines. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. \n  \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\,Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Half-Hazard\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-tracy-with-daniel-handler-half-hazard/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n(PAST) SPECIAL POETALK READING EVENT:\n\nSaturday\, November 11\, 2017\, 3:00-5:00 PM\n\nat the TAREA HALL PITTMAN SOUTH BRANCH\, BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY\,\n1901 Russell St.\, Berkeley (a short walk from Ashby BART station).\n\nThe event featured readings from POETALK contributors (2016-Summer2017 Edition)\, including:\nELIZABETH ALFORD\, AL AVERBACH\, JAN DEDERICK\, STEPHEN KOPEL\,\nJEANNE LUPTON\, BRITT PETER\, LISA SMALL\, GARY TURCHIN.\n\nThere was also an OPEN MIC.\n\nThis FREE event was open to the public and not sponsored by the Berkeley Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime\, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson\, Truong Tran\, Max Shanley and Alanna Rae. Sponsored by Fourteen Hills. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist who has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Columbia University\, Callaloo\, and San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared or is upcoming in The Associated Press\, The Atlantic\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, Medium\, and The Best American Poetry blog\, among other places. Her poetry appears widely online and in journals\, including poets.org\, The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, RHINO\, Columbia Journal\, Yemassee\, Eleven Eleven\, and New American Writing. Her full-length poetry book Running to Stand Still is forthcoming from Omnidawn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-presents-kimberly-reyes/
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:City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas.
DESCRIPTION:City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.\nSaturday\, February 2nd\, 8:00-9:00pm\, San Francisco\, CA: SF Library\, Main Branch\nhttps://www.nightofideassf.com/\n  \nWhat is the “Poetic City” of San Francisco? The City at our feet\, the City behind us\, the one in our heads\, the one breathing down our necks? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? \nPoems\, songs\, anti-poems\, and more from an inspired crew of local artists and writers including: Julien Poirier\, Ash Tré Philips\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Robert Andrew Perez\, Ava Koohbor\, Lisa Gray-Garcia\, Josiah Luís Alderete\, Thea Matthews\, Jack Hirschman\, and Flavia Mora. \nJoin us on February 2nd\, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library\, SFMOMA\, and the French Consulate in SF unite to present a seven-hour marathon of debate\, performance\, readings\, screenings\, and music featuring big thinkers from SF and beyond as we envision the “city of the future.”  This event is free and open to all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-lights-presents-the-poetic-city-at-the-night-of-ideas/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What If: The Fiction of the Future
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nFantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future\, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films and TV shows such as Children of Men\, Blade Runner 2049\, Black Mirror\, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring\, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism\, or can it alter our destiny? Discussing these questions and more will be Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night)\, and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\, in conversation with Nilgun Bayraktar\, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nNilgun Bayraktar\nNilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Film & Media Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant… Read More →\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nCharlie Jane Anders\nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her SF and fantasy debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the 2017 Nebula Awards for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Elison\nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nSaturday February 2\, 2019 8:00pm – 9:00pm\nSan Francisco Public Library\, main branch\, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-if-the-fiction-of-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Thomson / Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon with David Thomson\, the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, for his new book Sleeping with Strangers: How the Movies Shaped Desire. Please join us! \nFilm can make us want things we can not have. But\, while sometimes rapturous\, the interaction of onscreen beauty and private desire speaks to a crisis in American culture\, one that pits delusions of male supremacy against feminist awakening and the spirit of gay resistance. Combining criticism\, his encyclopedic knowledge of film history\, and memoir\, David Thomson examines how film has found the fault lines in traditional masculinity and helped to point the way past it toward a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be a person desiring others. Ranging from advertising to pornography\, Rudolph Valentino to Moonlight\, Rock Hudson to Call Me By Your Name\, Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant to Phantom Thread\, Thomson shows us the art and the artists we love under a new light. He illuminates the way in which film as art\, entertainment\, and business has been a polite cover for a kind of erotic séance. And he makes us see how the way we watch our movies is a kind of training for how we try to live. \n  \n\n  \nDavid Thomson is the author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film\, Moments That Made the Movies\, and the pioneering novel Suspects\, which was peopled with characters from film. Author photo by Lucy Gray. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Sleeping with Strangers\, and/or any of David’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-thomson-sleeping-with-strangers-how-the-movies-shaped-desire/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, Kim Shuck reading new poetry with E.K. Keith
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \ncelebrating their recent books of poetry \nClouds Running In – by Kim Shuck – from Taurean Horn Press \n“‘You will know the poets by the dirt under our nails\,’ writes Kim Shuck in CLOUDS RUNNING IN\, a spirited\, witty\, moving book of poetry that sings the mystical connections in everyday life. Shuck’s vivid imagery balances dark moods and self-deprecating humor. Drawing on her Cherokee and Polish roots\, Shuck offers us the bittersweet music of lyrically expressed memory and the generational trauma of the Native American holocaust\, lived in nerve and bone.”— Linda Rodriguez \nOrdinary Villains – by EK Keith – from Nomadic Press \nThe world is full of good people who do bad things—drunk drivers\, dumpster divers\, absent lovers\, astronauts\, waitstaff\, aunts and uncles\, and people who have cell phones. Is that you? If you’ve ever secretly enjoyed the effects of climate change or thrown away your recycling—even though you worry about the future—you might find a funhouse mirror in Ordinary Villains. \nKim Shuck is a silly protein. She has been writing  since before she could write and arting longer than that. Raised in and by San Francisco\, Shuck takes each sidewalk square personally. She is the poet of two full length collections of poems\, soon to be three\, maybe four. She is also author of  one narrative in prose vignettes. In June of 2017 Kim was named the 7th poet laureate of San Francisco. \nE. K. Keith is a Latinx poet who calls San Francisco home\, but her hometown is Houston where she learned to write in the sprawl. She performs her poems on the street corner and takes the mic at coffee shops\, bars\, and radio stations. Her work appears online and in magazines on all three coasts and places beyond\, and ORDINARY VILLAINS is her first book of poetry. E.K. organizes Poems Under the Dome\, San Francisco’s annual open mic celebration of Poetry Month inside City Hall. Her work as a public school librarian creates opportunities for her to make the world a better place every day. \nPraise for Ordinary Villains: \n“Against a dystopic nationalism come early\, E. K. Keith’s poetry is a tyrant’s headquarters on fire. She seems to know all of the hidden tunnels of language. With incredible musical beauty to her poems\, she reveals the mind behind a blues chord’s anger\, and the omniscience of those who know its progression. A muralist in canyons of love and family\, an elder playing with matches in the company lobby; Keith’s poetry has unfathomable grace. She is your big sister’s insight and true rebel guidance. Keith knows the circuit breakers in the jungle and will lead you out.” \n– Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes \n“Keith has that rare and precious combination of a loving heart\, a scalpel sharp grasp of politics and a trickster’s sense of humor. E. K. is a first draft pick for the list of people you’d want with you come the zombie apocalypse. Read the book and find out why.” \n– Kim Shuck\, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco \n“Ordinary Villains is the stunning debut collection by E. K. Keith. Welcome to E. K.’s America: you might recognize it. It is an America that is poisoning itself; an America that is forcing young girls to hate their bodies; an America at war with itself and others; an America that believes in a dream that has become a nightmare for most. Many of these poems are rough in their language but sound vaguely familiar. Why? Because they have the ring of truth about them\, a sound that is recognizable anywhere and by anyone. In the world of I\, a married man curses at his date at the bar\, another man kills himself with heroin and tortures his family\, a girl tortures herself to be attractive and everyone follows the American dream—drunk—burning fossil fuel up and down the highways. These are musical but plain-speaking poems that concern themselves with ordinary lives as they are being lived in the 21st century and are peopled with ordinary\, flawed sinners: people like you and me. These pieces are chanted like spells and they weave their magic on the reader: once you read them you will never forget them.” \n– Natasha Dennerstein\, author of Seahorse and About a Girl
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-of-san-francisco-kim-shuck-reading-new-poetry-with-e-k-keith/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Vincent Katz & Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm at The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-vincent-katz-jane-gregory/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nPaul Hoover & Joseph Lease read\nat Alley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-hoover-joseph-lease/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tess Brown-Lavoie\, Leena Joshi\, Victoria Ruiz and others!
DESCRIPTION:Come out for a night of poetry! \nTess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence\, RI. Lite Year\, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series\, is her first book. Tess cofounded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011\, and is President of the National Young Farmers Coalition. \nLeena Joshi’s writing and art practice explore the relationship between the changing self and its environment through negotiations of genre and medium\, with a focus on feminist\, anti-colonial\, and immigrant ideation. Her written work has appeared in The Felt\, Monday\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. She is an MFA candidate in Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. www.leenajoshi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-brown-lavoie-leena-joshi-victoria-ruiz-and-others/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales this month will benefit the library of Thurgood Marshall High School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTAMP:20260408T130957
CREATED:20190103T084343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T084343Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Treadwell\, Charles Alexander\, and Karen Randall
DESCRIPTION:Elzabeth Treadwell’s Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys is just out from Dusie. Her other books include LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books\, 2004)\, Wardolly (Chax\, 2008)\, and Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie\, 2012). A selection from her earlier collections of poetry is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). Materials from her current projects sometimes appear at instagram.com/vivian_rialto and Penny exists in another iteration at pennymarvel.tumblr.com. \nCharles Alexander is an artist\, poet\, bookmaker\, and the founder/director of Chax Press. He is the author of six full-length books of poetry and thirteen chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, and author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. Alexander’s most recent book of poetry is AT the Edge OF the Sea (Singing Horse Press 2018). Two Pushing Waters is his most recent chapbook\, from Little Red Leaves. He gave lectures and readings for US Poets in Mexico in 2016. In 2019 he will be a featured participant at the American Poetry Conference at The 7th International Conference of Chinese/American Poetry and Poetics in Wuhan\, China. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, the University of Arizona\, the University of Houston-Victoria\, and elsewhere. Currently at work on Collected Essays and a new book of poetry\, he lives in Tucson\, Arizona\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \n  \nKaren Pava Randall is the proprietrix of Propolis Press and resides in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is in San Francisco to participate in the Codex Book Fair <http://www.codexfoundation.org> where she is showcasing two interactive book sculptures: The Leyden Jar Project <http://propolispress.com/theleydenjarproject/home> with poems by Cole Swensen and The Apothecary of Amulets with poems by Laynie Browne.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-treadwell-charles-alexander-and-karen-randall/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T210000
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SUMMARY:A William S Burroughs Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:with Steven Taylor\, Peter Hale\, Peter Carlaftes\, and V Vale \ncelebrating the release of \nDon’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg \nEdited by Stephen Taylor \nPublished by Three Rooms Press \nIn DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS\, the fathers of the Beat movement converse about deeply intimate and personal history while gathered at Burroughs’ house in Lawrence\, Kansas. The conversation includes discussion of: \n\nDavid Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch\nShamanism\, including a detailed description of the shamanic exorcism of the demon Burroughs believes forced him to kill his common-law wife in 1951\nLiterary associates\, influences\, techniques\, and insights\nPunk rock’s contributions to counterculture lore\n\nWith the current political landscape mirroring many aspects of the early Beat period\, DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS is particularly timely. Interest in both authors’ work is on the rise. Many consider these legendary icons’ perspectives to particularly prophetic. \nDON’T HIDE THE MADNESS features a newly-commissioned illustration of Burroughs and Ginsberg by celebrated artist R. Crumb on the cover\, as well as 17 rare photos by Ginsberg\, many taken during the session. \nWilliam S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas\, including Naked Lunch\, Junky\, and Queer\, as well as six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. In 1991\, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch for the screen in a film starring Peter Weller\, Judy Davis\, Roy Scheider\, and Ian Holm. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians\, and made many appearances as himself in films. \nAmerican poet\, philosopher\, and photographer Allen Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism\, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture\, such as his views on drugs\, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation\, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Among his many published poetry collections\, he is best known for Howl and Other Poems\, Kaddish and Other Poems\, and Collected Poems\, 1947-1997. \nSteven Taylor is a poet\, musician\, songwriter\, and ethnomusicologist. He has published two books of poems and a musical ethnography\, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground . He has composed music for the theater\, film\, radio drama\, and installations and made more than a dozen records with various artists His articles\, reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in various anthologies and zines. From 1976-1996 he collaborated on music and poetry works with Allen Ginsberg\, and has been a member of the seminal underground rock band The Fugs since 1984. He has also toured and recorded with Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, and the New York hardcore band False Prophets. From 1990-2008 he was on the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is senior editor at Reality Sandwich. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-william-s-burroughs-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark & Vincent Katz
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\nTom Clark & Vincent Katz\nat The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-tom-clark-vincent-katz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T213000
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CREATED:20190130T000722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000722Z
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SUMMARY:a YesYes Books Tour reading featuring Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams
DESCRIPTION:7:30pm\na YesYes Books Tour reading\nfeaturing Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams\nat Studio One Arts Center\n365 45th Street\nOakland\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-yesyes-books-tour-reading-featuring-aricka-foreman-jay-deshpande-taryn-schwilling-phillip-b-williams/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T200000
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CREATED:20190130T001100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T001100Z
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SUMMARY:Featherboard Reading Series presents Sara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski
DESCRIPTION:5:45pm doors; 6:15pm reading\nFeatherboard Reading Series presents\nSara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski\nat Aggregate Space Gallery\n801 West Grand Avenue (enter on West Street)\nOakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/featherboard-reading-series-presents-sara-larsen-danny-thanh-nguyen-ju-lian-talamantez-brolaski/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T203000
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CREATED:20190131T231258Z
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SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-cedar-sigo-with-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T210000
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT Reading at Novel Brewing in Oakland
DESCRIPTION:We’re partnering with Novel Brewing Company\, the most literary brewery in the East Bay\, to celebrate the sublime tandem of books and beer! \nLeft Margin instructors and friends Shanthi Sekaran\, Porter Shreve\, Faith Adiele\, David Roderick\, and Melanie Abrams will read from their work. We’ll also have a table there so you can learn more about our programs\, events\, classes\, and work space for writers. \nWe’ve already sampled Novel’s winter lineup of beers\, including BOOK THIEF IPA\, DUST JACKET IPA\, and THE POET\, which is super-sour (of course). Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe what happens on your palate when you order a whole flight. \nThere’s also a BOOK SWAP! You can bring in as many books as you like\, and the ones that don’t find a new home will go into Novel’s book stash earmarked for their Little Lending Library. The swap begins at 7:00 pm and the rules are: (1) add your book(s) to the cart with an index card that has your name\, and a bit of why the book is a great read. (2) What’s the best part? If someone takes your book home to read\, you get $1 off your next pint! \nCome one\, come all. It’s going to be an epic event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading-at-novel-brewing-in-oakland/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20190103T082303Z
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her new essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for The Collected Schizophrenias \n\n“This mesmerizing collection of essays has achieved the rarest of rarities—a meaningful and expansive language for a subject that has been long bound by both deep revulsion and intense fascination.”—Jenny Zhang \n\n“A brilliant guide to the complexities of thinking about illness\, and mental illness\, in particular. It will bring hope to others searching to understand their own diagnoses.”—Meghan O’Rourke \n\n“A masterful braiding of the achingly personal and the incisively researched. . . . This book is a vital\, illuminating window onto the world we all already live in\, but find all too easy to ignore.”—Alexandra Kleeman \n\n“You won’t find any pity-baiting\, sensationalism\, or false positivity here; Wang is so candidly aware that I’d trust her over my own diary.”—Tony Tulathimutte \n\n“Esmé Weijun Wang offers us an all-access pass to her beautiful\, unquiet mind. . . Rarely has a book about living with mental illness felt so immediate\, raw\, and powerful.”—Dani Shapiro \n\nAbout The Collected Schizophrenias \n\nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \n  \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-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:Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000
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CREATED:20190130T233005Z
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SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party
DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20190104T031714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T031714Z
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SUMMARY:Pam Houston\, Deep Creek
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir\, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\, which tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch\, dared herself to dig in and care for it\, to work hard enough to pay for it\, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’ \nAt 31 years old\, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection\, Cowboys Are My Weakness\, Pam Houston had “no job\, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct\, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede\, Colorado. It was more than she could afford\, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet\, twenty-five years later\, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. \nIn its chapters\, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property\, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors\, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses\, sheep\, chickens\, Irish wolfhounds\, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance\, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery. \nEncompassing Houston’s childhood\, her adventures\, and her details of everyday life at the ranch\, Deep Creek is\, above all\, a testament. In holding on to her ranch\, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents\, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story. “I know\,” she explains\, “that when I claimed these 120 acres they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.” \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accessibility requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.comby February 5th. \nPam Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound\, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat\, and A Little More About Me\, a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Awards\, The 2013 Pushcart Prize\, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction\, the Evil Companions Literary Award\, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers\, is a professor of English at UC–Davis\, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ low-residency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-houston-deep-creek/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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CREATED:20190101T053416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T053416Z
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SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION
DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Analicia Sotelo
DESCRIPTION:Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7\, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art \nTHURSDAY\nFebruary 7\, 2019\n7PM \nSan José\, Museum of Art\n110 S. Market Street\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Assistant Professor of Spanish Vanessa Fernandez – plus a book sale and signing. \nAnalicia Sotelo’s debut poetry collection Virgin is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. At every step\, these poems seduce with history\, folklore\, and sensory detail—grilled meat\, golden habañeros\, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power\, deceit\, relationships\, and ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/analicia-sotelo/
LOCATION:San Jose Museum of Art\, 110 Market St\, San José\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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