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SUMMARY:VeteransWrite meetings
DESCRIPTION:led by Nick Butterfield\, Jeffrey Leonard\, and Amy Meier\nFirst Friday of each Month\, 1pm-4pm\nMLK Library\, contact VeteransWrite@yahoo.com if interested in attending\nAdmission FREE \nPoetry Center San Jose is offering a monthly writing group to veterans of any age\, any military experience and to family members of veterans. All levels of writing experience from beginner to experienced are welcome. \nSmall group setting to a maximum of 12 participants. Emphasis on poetry including prose poems. Format includes examples\, prompts and guidance given by facilitators\, time provided to write individually\, and for participants to read to group and receive group feedback if desired. Goal is to give voice to the experiences of veterans and family members. Subject matter is unrestricted. \nNick Butterfield served for 10 years in USN-R as a Hospital Corpsman. He was activated during Operation Desert Storm\, and has worked in Family Practice as a Nurse Practitioner in a FQHC Community Clinic and with the Health Care for the Homeless Project for last 17 years. Nick has been writing poetry since he was 13 years old and has participated in the Willow Glen Poetry Project and other local venues since 1996. His poems have been in 4 anthologies and 2014 issue of Ceasura with poem entitled “PTSD.” \nJeffrey Leonard served in the U.S. Army between 1966-1968. Drafted out of San Jose State\, he trained as a 11C40\, leaving the service as an E-5. He is a 12th generation descendant of men who have served in every major conflict dating back to pre-Revolutionary America. A survivor of the Vietnam Era\, he is drawn to the stories of the returning soldiers and how their lives unfold after they remove the uniform. Writing–especially poetry–is a powerful tool that Jeffrey uses to express conflicting\, mysterious\, dark\, and difficult thoughts and emotions. He has spent the last 30 years as an Elementary Educator. \nAmy Meier was born in New York City and has lived in the San Jose\, CA area for over 30 years. Amy’s poems have been published in Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Portside\, and Remembering\, An Anthology of Poems Read at Willow Glen Books. She has been a featured reader at Flash Fiction Forum in San Jose\, California\, Stone Griffen Gallery and TEN10 Gallery in Campbell\, CA. In 2015 Amy founded VeteransWrite\, a writing group for veterans and their family members\, currently meeting once a month on the San Jose State University campus\, and performed with this group at the 2016 San Jose Poetry Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veteranswrite-meetings/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200103T190000
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SUMMARY:Vi Ruggiero + Lauren Napier
DESCRIPTION:Join Vic Ruggiero and Lauren Napier as they return to the Beat Museum for an evening of melodies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vi-ruggiero-lauren-napier/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200104T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200104T170000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
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\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-8/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200106T210000
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SUMMARY:Abigail Hing Wen with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the launch of Abigail Hing Wen’s highly anticipated\, romantic\, and layered debut\, Loveboat\, Taipei\, praised as “an intense rush of rebellion and romance” by Stephanie Garber (NYT bestselling author of the Caraval series).  This dazzling\, fun-filled romantic comedy of our dreams is “Fresh as a first kiss” (Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl)\, “a story about finding your place—and your people—where you least expected.” (Kelly Loy Gilbert\, author of Picture Us in the Light) Think Crazy Rich Asians meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. \n“Our cousins have done this program\,” Sophie whispers. “Best kept secret. Zero supervision.” \nAnd just like that\, Ever Wong’s summer takes an unexpected turn. Gone is the strict educational program in Taiwan that Ever was expecting. In its place\, she finds Loveboat: a summer-long free-for-all where hookups abound\, adults turn a blind eye\, snake-blood sake flows abundantly\, and the nightlife runs nonstop. \n\n\n\n\nLike Ever\, the students of Loveboat are all hiding their own secrets and insecurities—and when their lives collide\, it’s guaranteed to be a summer Ever will never forget. \n“Abigail Wen’s LOVEBOAT\, TAIPEI is smart and raucous at the same time\, full of both thoughtful\, cultural learning moments and drama drama drama! I lived vicariously through the characters’ crazy adventures and hope there will be more stories from them in the future.” —Evelyn Skye\, NYT bestselling author of The Crown’s Game \nAbigail Hing Wen holds a BA from Harvard\, a JD from Columbia Law School\, an MFA from the Vermont School of Fine Arts. Loveboat\, Taipei is her first novel. \n Abigail will be in conversation with Sabaa Tahir\, NYT bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. \nCome celebrate with us. We could not be more excited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abigail-hing-wen-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200107T220000
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SUMMARY:Slam Jam! live at The Marsh Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Slam Jam is a monthly series featuring a rotating lineup of some of the SF Bay Area’s most radical poets accompanied by the Noise All-Stars\, a band of 5 or 6 of the baddest musicians performing original music and poetry\, with cheap drinks & ample table seating. ADA accessible and only 1/2 block from Downtown Berkeley BART station! \nThis month’s featured poets are:\nDee Allen: an African-Italian performance poet currently based in Oakland\, California. Allen is author of 3 books (Boneyard\, Unwritten Law and Stormwater) and 14 anthology appearances (Poets 11: 2014\, Rise and Your Golden Sun Still Shines & more). \nSamuel Getachew\, @youthpoetlaureate: a 17-year-old spoken word poet and writer from Oakland\, California. His poetry has garnered over a million cumulative views online and he has been published in The New York Times & more. He and his work has been featured by the East Bay Express\, National Public Radio (NPR)\, KQED\, KTVU News\, Voice of America\, and more. Samuel is the 2017\, 2018\, and 2019 Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam Grand Champion and the 2018 Oakland Youth Vice Poet Laureate\, and a 2019 YoungArts Winner in Spoken Word. He is currently serving as the 2019 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. He was a part of the team that represented the Bay Area at the Brave New Voices (BNV) Festival\, the largest youth poetry competition in the world\, in 2017\, where he and his team were ranked within the top 8 in the world. \nTony Aldorando: Puerto Rican American writer\, Tony The Poet has authored poetry\, short stories\, one act plays & songs. His works have been enjoyed by audiences around the globe. \nMaw Shein Win: a Burmese-American poet\, editor\, educator & former punk rock drummer who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nthemarsh.org\nsanfrancisconoise.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slam-jam-live-at-the-marsh-berkeley/
LOCATION:The Marsh Cabaret Bar\, 2120 Allston Way \, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Aaron Cohen / Move On Up
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Cohen \ndiscusses the subject of his new book \nMove On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power \npublished by the University of Chicago Press \n  \nCurtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago’s place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans\, soul music in its heyday from the 1960s to the 1980s was more than just a series of hits: it was a marker and a source of black empowerment. In Move On Up\, Aaron Cohen tells the remarkable story of the explosion of soul music in Chicago. Together\, soul music and black-owned businesses thrived. Record producers and song-writers broadcast optimism for black America’s future through their sophisticated\, jazz-inspired productions for the Dells and many others. Curtis Mayfield boldly sang of uplift with unmistakable grooves like “We’re a Winner” and “I Plan to Stay a Believer.” Musicians like Phil Cohran and the Pharaohs used their music to voice Afrocentric philosophies that challenged racism and segregation\, while Maurice White of Earth\, Wind\, and Fire and Chaka Khan created music that inspired black consciousness. Soul music also accompanied the rise of African American advertisers and the campaign of Chicago’s first black mayor\, Harold Washington\, in 1983. This empowerment was set in stark relief by the social unrest roiling in Chicago and across the nation: as Chicago’s homegrown record labels produced rising stars singing songs of progress and freedom\, Chicago’s black middle class faced limited economic opportunities and deep-seated segregation\, all against a backdrop of nationwide deindustrialization. \nDrawing on more than one hundred interviews and a music critic’s passion for the unmistakable Chicago soul sound\, Cohen shows us how soul music became the voice of inspiration and change for a city in turmoil. \nAaron Cohen is the author of Aretha Franklin’s ‘Amazing Grace‘ (Bloomsbury). He teaches humanities\, journalism and English composition at City Colleges of Chicago and received a Public Scholar fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2016. Cohen’s articles have appeared in The Chicago Tribune\, DownBeat\, Washington Post and The Nation and he is the two-time recipient of the Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music writing from the American Society of Composers\, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-cohen-move-on-up/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200107T210000
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SUMMARY:Tara Sim with Kat Cho
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to invite you to celebrate the launch of Scavenge the Stars\, Tara Sim’s gender-swapped retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo that is packed with high-stakes adventure\, romance\, and dueling identities\, \n“A rags-to-riches story with the promise of revenge… Captivating.”―Kirkus Reviews \nWhen Amaya rescues a mysterious stranger from drowning\, she fears her rash actions have earned her a longer sentence on the debtor ship where she’s been held captive for years. Instead\, the man she saved offers her unimaginable riches and a new identity\, setting Amaya on a perilous course through the coastal city-state of Moray\, where old-world opulence and desperate gamblers collide. Amaya wants one thing: revenge against the man who ruined her family and stole the life she once had. But the more entangled she becomes in this game of deception – and as her path intertwines with the son of the man she’s plotting to bring down – the more she uncovers about the truth of her past. And the more she realizes she must trust no one? \n\n\n\n\nKat Cho\, author of Wicked Fox\, an addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul\, will be joining Tara on stage. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tara-sim-with-kat-cho/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:NewYearPoetBash! Freedman/AD/Heinemann/Samuels/Robinson/Townsend
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! So let’s combine two poetry readings into one! And have a new year poetry extravaganza! Poets include Lewis Freedman\, Clay A.D.\, Caspar Heinemann\, Lisa Samuels\, Elizabeth Robinson\, and Jamie Townsend. \nLewis Freedman is a writer of unsized transgressions. Texts bound and circulating under this name include Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye)\, Residual Synonyms for the Name of God (Ugly Duckling)\, and Hold the Blue Orb\, Baby (Well Greased). Another text\, I Want Something Other than Time\, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. \nCaspar Heinemann is an artist\, writer and poet based in London. His solo exhibitions have been presented at Outpost Gallery\, Norwich; Almanac\, London; and KevinSpace\, Vienna. Recent group exhibitions have been held at Georg Kargl Fine Arts\,Vienna; ICA\, London; Cabinet\, London; and PDX Contemporary\, Portland. Heinemann participated in the 2019 Bergen Assembly\, and has recently read at Camden Arts Centre\, Sussex Poetry Festival and Tate Modern. His first poetry collection ‘Novelty Theory’ was published in 2019 by The 87 Press. \nClay AD was born on the edge of genetically modified cornfield and a haunted suburb in Indianapolis\, Indiana. Now based in Berlin they flirt with concepts of illness\, ecology\, death\, science fiction\, somatic transformation\, the urgency of diy aesthetics and the politics and negotiations of care under capitalism. AD’s interdisciplinary practice is a constellation of collective work\, writing prose and poetry\, playing music\, offering bodywork\, dance\, and collage. Their first novel\, “Metabolize\, If Able” is available through Arcadia Missa Press UK and was named a finalist in the 31st Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Sci-Fi\, Fantasy and Horror. They are currently developing a somatic audio practice guide to navigate gender dysphoria which will be available online for free through Heavy Heavy Breathing in February 2020. \nLisa Samuels is a transnational poet who also works with sound\, film\, and art installations. She is the author of many books of poetry\, memoir\, and prose\, recently Symphony for Human Transport (Shearsman 2017)\, Foreign Native (Black Radish 2018)\, and The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (Chax 2019). She also publishes essays in creative theory and edits and curates work in poetics. A citizen of Aotearoa/New Zealand\, where she is Professor of English at the University of Auckland\, Lisa is visiting the Bay Area in transit from a lucky sabbatical in Montreal and Antwerp. \nElizabeth Robinson is the author of several books\, including the National Poetry Series winner Pure Descent and the Fence Modern Poets Prize for Apprehend. On Ghosts was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for poetry in 2013. Robinson’s creative nonfiction has recently appeared in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. With Jennifer Phelps\, she is the co-editor of Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press in 2019. \nJamie Townsend is a genderqueer poet\, publisher\, and editor living in Oakland\, California. They are half responsible for Elderly\, a publishing experiment and persistent hub of ebullience and disgust. They are the author of several chapbooks including\, most recently\, Pyramid Song (above/ground press; 2018) as well as the full-length collection SHADE (Elis Press; 2015). They are the editor of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat; 2019)\, and an essay on the history of the New Narrative magazine Soup was published in The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books; 2017).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/newyearpoetbash-freedman-ad-heinemann-samuels-robinson-townsend/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200108T210000
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SUMMARY:EJ Koh: The Magical Language of Others
DESCRIPTION:E.J. Koh discusses her new memoir The Magical Language of Others. \nPraise for The Magical Language of Others \n“The Magical Language of Others is an exquisite\, challenging\, and stunning memoir. E. J. Koh intricately melds her personal story with a broader view of Korean history. Through these pages\, you are asked to experience one family’s heartbreak\, trauma\, and complex love for each other. This memoir will pierce you.”–Crystal Hana Kim\, If You Leave Me \n“A coming-of-age story\, a family story\, and a meditation on language and translation\, with an emotional range to match.”–Caitlin Horrocks\, The Vexations \nAbout The Magical Language of Others \nAfter living in America for over a decade\, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work\, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight\, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love–letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. \nThe letters lay bare the impact of her mother’s departure\, as Eun Ji gets to know the woman who raised her and left her behind. Eun Ji is a student\, a traveler\, a dancer\, a poet\, and a daughter coming to terms not only with her parents’ prolonged absence\, but her family’s history: her grandmother’s Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon\, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre. Where\, Koh asks\, do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words–in Korean\, Japanese\, English\, or any language–to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? \nThe Magical Language of Others is a fearless and poetic mind grappling with forgiveness\, reconciliation\, legacy\, and intergenerational trauma–conjuring an epic saga and love story between mothers and daughters spanning four generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ej-koh-the-magical-language-of-others/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T210000
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night!
DESCRIPTION:It’s open mic night at Simple Pleasures! Join us for an evening of music and story-telling at our favorite neighborhood cafe. Sign up is at 7pm\, and each performer gets about 10 minutes to speak\, sing\, or strum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Simple Pleasures Cafe\, 3434 Balboa St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200109T210000
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SUMMARY:Swerve Book Launch and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Local award-winning author\, Ellery Akers\, will be launching her new book\, Swerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance on Thursday\, January 9th\, 2020 at Moe’s Books. She will be reading various poems from her book. Details are listed below: \nSwerve: Environmentalism\, Feminism\, and Resistance \nSwerve Book Launch and Reading\nThursday\, January 9th\, 2020\n7:30 – 9 pm \nMoe’s Books\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\nBerkeley\, CA 94704 \nhttp://elleryakers.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swerve-book-launch-and-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
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SUMMARY:Kiersten White\, Chosen
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes bestselling author Kiersten White who will share her new book\, Chosen. Nina continues to learn how to use her slayer powers against enemies old and new in this second novel in the New York Times bestselling series set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. \nNow that Nina has turned the Watcher’s Castle into a utopia for hurt and lonely demons\, she’s still waiting for the utopia part to kick in. With her sister Artemis gone and only a few people remaining at the castle–including her still-distant mother–Nina has her hands full. Plus\, though she gained back her Slayer powers from Leo\, they’re not feeling quite right after being held by the seriously evil succubus Eve\, a.k.a. fake Watcher’s Council member and Leo’s mom. \nAnd while Nina is dealing with the darkness inside\, there’s also a new threat on the outside\, portended by an odd triangle symbol that seems to be popping up everywhere\, in connection with Sean’s demon drug ring as well as someone a bit closer to home. Because one near-apocalypse just isn’t enough\, right? \nThe darkness always finds you. And once again\, it’s coming for the Slayer. \nKiersten White is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for teens and young readers\, including And I Darken\, Now I Rise\, Bright We Burn\, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein\, and Slayer. She lives with her family near the ocean in San Diego\, where she perpetually lurks in the shadows. Visit Kiersten online at KierstenWhite.com and follow @KierstenWhite on Twitter. \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. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 8th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kiersten-white-chosen/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T210000
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SUMMARY:CB Follett and Joseph Zaccardi
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Connection reading series presents CB Follett and Joseph Zaccardi\, hosted by Terry Lucas\, Marin County Poet Laureate\, open mic to follow\, light refreshments\, The Fireside Room\, 240 Channing Way\, San Rafael\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (www.terrylucas.com/schedule.html)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cb-follett-and-joseph-zaccardi/
LOCATION:The Fireside Room\, 240 Channing Way\, San Rafael
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191230T165054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T165054Z
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SUMMARY:3rd Year Celebration Featuring Tony Aldarondo
DESCRIPTION:It’s going down!\nJan 10th @ Cafe Leila\n7-9:30 pm\nMy Word turns 3\nKicking off the season is no other than Tony Aldarondo & live recording remix of Every Knee with Poet E Spoken!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3rd-year-celebration-featuring-tony-aldarondo/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191230T163826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T163826Z
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:2020 is here! Join us at Manny’s for the decade’s first poetry night! \nCome to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nJanuary 10th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there! \n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night-2/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T160000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191124T212326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T212355Z
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SUMMARY:Kiersten White with Katy Rose Pool
DESCRIPTION:Into every generation a slayer is born… and being the Chosen one isn’t always easy \n\n\n\n\nDo you miss having Buffy the Vampire Slayer in your life? We have the solution. We’re thrilled to be celebrating Chosen\, New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White’s fabulous second novel set in the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which Nina continues to learn how to use her slayer powers against enemies old and new. \nNow that Nina has turned the Watcher’s Castle into a utopia for hurt and lonely demons\, she’s still waiting for the utopia part to kick in. With her sister Artemis gone and only a few people remaining at the castle—including her still-distant mother—Nina has her hands full. Plus\, though she gained back her Slayer powers from Leo\, they’re not feeling quite right after being held by the seriously evil succubus Eve\, a.k.a. fake Watcher’s Council member and Leo’s mom. And while Nina is dealing with the darkness inside\, there’s also a new threat on the outside\, portended by an odd triangle symbol that seems to be popping up everywhere\, in connection with Sean’s demon drug ring as well as someone a bit closer to home. Because one near-apocalypse just isn’t enough\, right? The darkness always finds you. And once again\, it’s coming for the Slayer. \n\n\n\n\nKiersten White has authored many books including the And I Darken trilogy\, the Paranormalcy trilogy\, Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scarytales\, The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein\, and Slayer\, \nKaty Rose Pool\, author of There Will Come a Darkness will be joining Kiersten on stage. \nDon’t miss this chance to fall back into the Buffyverse with Kiersten White.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kiersten-white-with-katy-rose-pool/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191124T184920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T152619Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release: 10 Books\, 1 Night\, 10 New Nomadic Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Help us bring in 2020 right. 10 books\, 10 new Nomadic Press authors\, 1 night. Join us as we celebrate (and release) new books by: \nHugh Behm-Steinberg (Animal Children)\nJordan Boyd (Shadow Burn)\nAndrew Demcak (Cryptopedia)\nZach Goldberg (XV)\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett (Twice Shy)\nDazié Grego-Sykes (Black Faggotry)\nYume Kim (Reserve the Right)\nAlan Pelaez Lopez (To Love and Mourn in the Age of Displacement)\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee (A Heart Full of Hallways)\nTahtahme Xero (Apricity) \nThere will be live music\, welcome-to-the-Nomadic-fam readings by Mk Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nazelah Jamison\, and more\, gnosh\, drinks (alcoholic and non)\, and a book signing to follow readings by each of the new authors. \nIt’s going to be a night washed with levity and deep dives\, connection and weaving together. Bring family\, friends\, bring yourself. \nDonations will be collected to help offset costs\, and as always no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-10-books-1-night-10-new-nomadic-press-authors/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191230T163628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T163628Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Queer Zine Fest Zine Reading
DESCRIPTION:This is a night of zine readings from Bay Area Queer Zine Fest peeps on the eve of the fest. Come hear us vocalize pieces from our works. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-queer-zine-fest-zine-reading/
LOCATION:410 13th St\, Oakland\, CA 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200113T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191217T052659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191217T052917Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "What Are You Working on?"
DESCRIPTION:One question an author is always asked at events or in chance encounters is what are you working on\, and one thing an author always needs is beta readers\, people to tell them what they think about what they’re working on. Odd Mondays for January 13 presents three novelists who’ll read from novels in progress: Michael Alenyikov\, Nishant Batsha\, and Rebecca Winterer. The audience is invited to be beta listeners and\, after listening\, give them constructive feedback on their work. 6:30pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission\, free refreshments. Previous books by the authors will be available for sales and signing. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMICHAEL ALENYIKOV’s novel IVAN & MISHA won the Northern California Book Award for Fiction and was a Finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. He was the recipient of the 2013 Gina Berriault Award and a MacDowell Artists Colony Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Georgia Review\, Foglifter\, Catamaran Literary Reader\, Descant\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, The Forge\, James White Review\, the Gay & Lesbian Review and was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A New York City native and longtime San Francisco resident\, he has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has in addition worked as a bookstore clerk\, a Boston cabbie\, and an interactive media writer. http://www.michaelalenyikov.com \nNISHANT BATSHA is a writer of fiction and histories. His writing has previously appeared in Narrative\, TriQuarterly\, and The Believer\, among others\, and has been supported by the organizations such as the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Prelinger Library. He is currently revising his debut novel. https://www.nishantbatsha.com \nREBECCA WINTERER is the author of THE SINGING SHIP\, awarded the Del Sol Press 2016 First Novel Prize and selected as a finalist for the Black Lawrence Press 2016 Big Moose Prize. She’s received fellowships at the Millay Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, and Yaddo; and has had a story published by Puerto del Sol. She holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Raised in Queensland\, Australia\, she now lives in San Francisco\, California with her husband. https://rebeccawinterer.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-what-are-you-working-on/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191120T040812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T040812Z
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SUMMARY:Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic and the new black\, both winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; semiautomatic was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.  Her publications include as well the critical study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry and poems and essays appearing recently and forthcoming in The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, Obsidian\, The Black Scholar\, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion\, The New Emily Dickinson Studies\, New Literary History\, and the PoetryNow podcast series.  Among her honors are the Stephen Henderson Award\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is Professor of English at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Edgehill Mansion in Dominican University\, 50 Acacia Ave.\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T203000
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CREATED:20191124T193521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T193521Z
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SUMMARY:Zyzzyva celebrates their Bay Area Issue
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Oscar Villalon with Meg Hurtado Bloom\, Rita Bullwinkel\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Chia-Chia Lin\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Paul Wilner \nZYZZYVA’s latest volume—the Bay Area Issue—features new writing and poetry from the East Bay to San Francisco\, from the North Bay to the Peninsula. Join them for a lively reading featuring six of the contributors to Issue No. 117: Meg Hurtado Bloom\, Rita Bullwinkel\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Chia-Chia Lin\, Kevin Simmonds\, and Paul Wilner. Emceed by ZYZZYVA Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. \nMeg Hurtado Bloom received her MFA in Creative Writing from St Mary’s College of California. Her writing has appeared in Calamity\, Lumen\, Split Lip\, Yellow Chair Review\, The Volta\, the Columbia Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. \nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award\, and is currently being translated into Italian and Greek. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras’s first novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday)\, is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. \nChia-Chia Lin is the author of The Unpassing (FSG)\, a finalist for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review\, NewYorker.com\, The New York Times\, and elsewhere. \nKevin Simmonds’s books include the poetry collection Bend to It (Salmon Poetry) and Mad for Meat (Salmon Poetry). His work has been published in American Scholar\, FIELD\, Poetry\, and elsewhere. \nPaul Wilner is a poet\, critic\, freelance journalist\, and member of the National Book Critics Circle\, and a frequent contributor to ZYZZYVA. \nZYZZYVA was founded in 1985 in San Francisco with the goal of publishing a superb literary journal featuring West Coast poets\, writers\, and artists from a wide range of backgrounds. Since then\, the journal has evolved into a nationally distributed\, widely acclaimed publication also showcasing contributors from across the country and even from around the world. 2020 marks ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-celebrates-their-bay-area-issue/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
CREATED:20191231T203727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191231T203808Z
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SUMMARY:David Talbot reads from his near-death\, new life memoir\, Between Heaven and Hell
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed writer\, bestselling author\, and founder of Salon magazine\, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over 25 years with books like the New York Times bestsellers Brothers\, The Devil’s Chessboard\, and nationally recognized Season of the Witch. Now for the first time\, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke\, a year that turned his life upside down\, and ultimately\, saved him.\n\nIn short chapters that had their genesis on Facebook\, Talbot recounts a year of recovery\, upheaval\, and transformation following the stroke that almost killed him. He also reflects on the pace of the stress-filled career that brought him to this precipice\, in his mid-60s\, while he was still trying to navigate his way through considerable Hollywood challenges in attempting to bring his books to the screen. As the hard-charging CEO and editor-in-chief of Salon\, he championed progressive investigative journalism at a time when the industry was heading toward a financial abyss. “I believed then that Salon was worth dying for. We were caught up in history’s hurricane\,” he writes. “My stroke did not just change my life\,” he writes. “It saved my life.”\n\nBy necessity\, he slowed down\, he lost a lot of weight\, and he pared his existence down to the essentials and became focused on what really matters. He made his peace with death and learned to “live each moment like it’s your last.” These are the sort of sentiments upon which countless self-help books are constructed\, but Talbot demonstrates the conviction of someone who has been there and back and now knows what is really at stake.\nIn his signature voice and with powerful storytelling\, Talbot examines the physical\, emotional\, and psychological impact his stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers readers insider stories on the wild early days of Internet journalism\, insights into the new tech culture\, the down and dirty of Hollywood\, and much more. This is an illuminating\, often humorous\, portrait of how a health crisis can truly shift one’s perspective on life and purpose. \n\n\n\n\n\n“A deeply affecting examination of mortality\, ambition\, and the priorities of a man who dodged death to live better days.”\n—Dave Eggers\, bestselling author of The Circle\, Zeitoun\, and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius“What makes this book so special is the complete absence of resentment and self-pity. This is a story beyond catharsis—it’s a rebirth\, a celebration\, a hallucinatory and joyous examination of the aftermath of illness with love and gratitude infused on every page.”\n—Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-talbot-reads-from-his-near-death-new-life-memoir/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T164759Z
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SUMMARY:T.J. Mitchell & Judy Melinek: First Cut
DESCRIPTION:Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell discuss their new novel\, First Cut. \nPraise for First Cut \n“Scalpel sharp. First Cut allows a peek into the autopsy room through the eyes of a pro.”—Kathy Reichs \n“Who better to deliver a genuinely compelling mystery than real-life medical examiners? Fans of CSI and Forensic Files will devour this well plotted story.”—Karin Slaughter \n“All the charm\, gruesome detail and surprising empathy that made Working Stiff such a delight brought back in a novel. An impressive opener to a series that deserves to run and run.”—Alex Marwood\, author of The Wicked Girls and The Killer Next Door \nAbout First Cut \nA hard-nosed medical examiner. A suspicious case. An underworld plot only she saw coming. \nSan Francisco’s newest medical examiner\, Dr. Jessie Teska\, has made a chilling discovery. A suspected overdose case contains hints of something more sinister: a drug lord’s attempt at a murderous cover-up. But as Jessie digs deeper\, she faces unexpected pushback from her superiors–and pressure to stay in her lane\, close the case and move on. \nFor Jessie\, San Francisco was supposed to be a fresh start\, a chance to escape her troublesome past in Los Angeles. Instead she finds herself overworked and underpaid\, working in a dingy morgue and living under the fog in a cramped converted cable car. Now\, despite warnings from her colleagues and threats from her boss\, she is determined to find the truth. \nAs more bodies land on her autopsy table\, Jessie uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to a plot involving opioid traffickers and San Francisco’s shifting terrain of tech start-ups. Autopsy means “see for yourself\,” and Jessie Teska won’t stop until she has seen it all–even if it means the next corpse on the slab could be her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/t-j-mitchell-judy-melinek-first-cut/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T201524
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Bay: with Kim Shuck and friends
DESCRIPTION:poetry and discussion exploring the pathways language takes through land\, water\, and air. \nPoetry is all around us. Hidden in the trauma and joys of a life lived in full witness of the events of the last few centuries on a penisula haunted by languages lost but reclaimed\, hidden\, yet in plain sight. \nLocal poets read from new and old works. What does it mean to stand as witness to lost histories? How does one heal great traumas and offer new pathways to loving each other in nature?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mapping-the-bay-with-kim-shuck-and-friends/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T210000
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey: Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel Topics of Conversation with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Topics of Conversation \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling cliches and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.”-–Karen Russell\, author of Orange World \n“A pleasingly unsentimental novel about attraction and repulsion and the fluid line between the two.  Popkey writes about these emotional eddies with such thrilling detachment you’ll wonder why you ever worried about love at all.”–Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.”–Ben Marcus\, author of Notes from the Fog \nAbout Topics of Conversation \nMiranda Popkey’s first novel is about desire\, disgust\, motherhood\, loneliness\, art\, pain\, feminism\, anger\, envy\, guilt–written in language that sizzles with intelligence and eroticism. The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women–the stories they tell each other\, and the stories they tell themselves\, about shame and love\, infidelity and self-sabotage–and careens through twenty years in the life of an unnamed narrator hungry for experience and bent on upending her life. Edgy\, wry\, shot through with rage and despair\, Topics of Conversation introduces an audacious and immensely gifted new novelist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-popkey-topics-of-conversation/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T210000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T203000
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SUMMARY:Claire Rudy Foster / Shine of the Ever
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Claire Rudy Foster (I’ve Never Done This Before) for their new book\, Shine of the Ever. Please join us! \nShine of the Ever is a literary mix tape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. By turns tender and punk-tough\, fierce and loving\, this collection of short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love\, screwing up and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. \n\n“The characters in Foster’s fiction are all achingly lonely and the victims of human error\, yes—but they’re also miracles of endurance whose devastations\, large and small\, illuminate the better parts of ourselves.” – Benjamin Percy\, author of The Dead Lands \n“Shine of the Ever is a compassionate ode to a Pixies-infused era. With its mix of fear and fearlessness\, it deftly portrays love on the fringes.” – Foreword Reviews \n\nClaire Rudy Foster is a queer\, trans writer from Portland\, Oregon. Their work on sex\, identity\, relationships\, and recovery appears in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and McSweeney’s\, among others. Foster is the author of I’ve Never Done This Before (978-0998072708\, Sept. 2016). Their essays and fiction have been recognized for excellence\, including four nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Foster holds an MFA in creative writing and teaches writing workshops in Portland. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Shine of the Ever\, email events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-rudy-foster-shine-of-the-ever/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200116T203000
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SUMMARY:Miranda Popkey\, Topics of Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Santa Cruz native Miranda Popkey for a reading and signing of her searing new novel\, Topics of Conversation. \nFor readers of Rachel Cusk\, Lydia Davis\, and Jenny Offill—a compact tour de force about sex\, violence\, and self-loathing from a ferociously talented new voice in fiction. \nTopics of Conversation follows an unnamed female narrator from her first summer post-college to her years as a single mother in California’s Central Valley\, always hungry for experience and hell bent on upending her life. The narrative unfolds in a series of conversations between women—the stories they tell one another; the stories they tell themselves—circling questions of desire\, disgust\, anger\, envy\, guilt\, and despair. Topics of Conversation is a searing look at what it means to come of age\, to grow up\, and to love as a woman in this world. “There’s always someone\, or so I’d been led to believe: on business or in the dog house or out on the proverbial prowl\,” pronounces Miranda’s narrator. “That was the danger of being a woman.” At the center of her striking debut is this: what kinds of bad behavior are we still willing to permit?   \n“An intimate evisceration of our narrow imaginings of female sexuality\, a brilliantly structured character study\, and a book that repeatedly asks how women can fully trust their own desires when they’ve grown up steeped in the wrong stories. Its narrator is as skeptical of her own self-delusive fictions as she is of the stifling clichés and shallow fantasies about women’s interior lives perpetuated by the wider culture.” —Karen Russell \n“Penetrating\, brutal\, a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction” —Ben Marcus \nMIRANDA POPKEY was born in Santa Cruz\, California in 1987. She graduated with a BA in Humanities from Yale in 2009 and with an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018. She has written for\, among other outlets\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker‘s Page-Turner blog\, the Paris Review Daily\, The Hairpin\, The Awl\, GQ\, and New York magazine’s The Cut. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 15th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miranda-popkey-topics-of-conversation-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Bernard joins us to discuss his novel\, Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe. \nAbout Meditations on Love & Catastrophe at The Liars’ Cafe \nA challenging and innovative exploration of narrative\, emotion\, and the possibilities of language\, part dream vision\, part prose poem\, part series of dialogues about love\, nature\, politics\, the nature of good and evil\, and the meaning of human life. \nAbout the Author \nChristopher Bernard is a writer living in San Francisco. He is the founder\, a principal and co-editor (with Ho Lin) of the literary and arts webzine Caveat Lector and contributes regularly to the monthly online magazine Synchronized Chaos. His books include the novels A Spy in the Ruins and Voyage to a Phantom City; two books of stories\, In the American Night and Dangerous Stories for Boys; The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs; Chien Lunatique (poems); and numerous plays\, including most recently The Beast and Mr. James. His work has appeared in several anthologies and many periodicals\, including cultural and arts journalism in the New York Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere\, and poetry and fiction in literary reviews in the U.S. and U.K. He has also written plays that have been produced and radio broadcast\, in part or complete\, in the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry films have been screened in San Francisco and his poetry and fiction have been nominated for the Puschcart Prize and Best of the Web. His diaries and journals are being compiled under the title “Voyage Around My Life.” His autobiographical essay appeared in Contemporary Authors\, Volume 180 (Gale Group). In 2019\, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He is also a photographer and composer; an excerpt from his opera “Nachtstück: An Opera on the Death of Anton Webern\,” has been radio broadcast (KPFA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wile & Wing Poetry Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:A poetry reading hosted by author and songwriter Kimi Sugioka.\n\nAuthor and songwriter Kimi Sugioka is a mesmerizing—and folkloric—figure in the Bay Area literary community. She is described as maternal\, witchy\, and passionate by Anne Waldman\, author of Trickster Feminism. For decades\, Sugioka has been involved in the Bay Area’s literary community\, and was a former curator of the legendary Café Babar poetry series of the 1990s. Now\, Sugioka says\, poetry readings are more significant than ever in a shifting San Francisco: “the [literary] community subsists on artistic freedom—and it is still free. There are multiple poetry readings every night and they don’t cost anything. They cut across class\, race and culture\, and engender the expression of diverse voices that share the paradoxical wit\, wisdom\, terror and joy of our times.” \nOn December 17\, the Tenderloin Museum will have the privilege of hosting the book launch for Wile & Wing\, Sugioka’s latest series of poems which explore themes of Invisible borders\, personal boundaries\, and social justice. In classic “Babarian” fashion\, Sugioka will also be joined by authors Natasha Dennerstein and Susan Dambroff\, where they will each read book excerpts and original poems. \nAbout the poets: \nKimi Sugioka \nBorn in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina and raised in Berkeley\, California\, Kimi Sugioka is a poet\, songwriter\, and educator. She performs her work frequently throughout the Bay Area. She has worked in public education for decades\, and earned her BA from San Francisco State University and MFA from the Naropa Institute in Boulder\, Colorado. \nNatasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writers’ Retreat. \nSusan Dambroff \nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer\, and teacher drawn to the detailed placement of words and the alchemy of timing and sequence. She has published the chapbook\,“Conversations with Trees.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wile-wing-poetry-book-launch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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