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SUMMARY:Janet Dawson + Wendy Hornsby
DESCRIPTION:Meet mystery mavens Janet Dawson and Wendy Hornsby\, who will discuss their work and read from their newest novels. \nJanet Dawson is well known to local readers as the author of eleven novels featuring Oakland private investigator Jeri Howard. She was the winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest for best first private eye novel and has been nominated for the Shamus\, Macavity and Anthony Awards. Her latest novel is Death Deals a Hand\, the second in her California Zephyr mystery series. \nEdgar Award-winning author Wendy Hornsby has written ten mystery novels and many\, many short stories. Until her recent retirement\, she also taught ancient and Medieval history at Long Beach City College. Her latest mystery featuring filmmaker Maggie MacGowen is called Disturbing the Dark. \nLocation: 1st Floor Reading Area\nBooks will be available for purchase from Laurel Bookstore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-dawson-wendy-hornsby/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2016: \nApril 2\, May 7\, June 4 \n3:00 – 5:00 PM\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA \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) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Scotton: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
DESCRIPTION:Timely and timeless\, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small\, Southern town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man’s view of human cruelty and compassion. \nAfter seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident\, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin’s grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia\, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The events of this fateful summer will affect the entire town of Medgar\, Kentucky. \nChristopher Scotton is an experienced public speaker\, seminar leader\, online marketer and technology entrepreneur. After a stint as a venture capitalist\, he joined his third start-up\, a computer-aided design (CAD) software company\, where he is currently President and CEO. Scotton is a recognized expert and frequent speaker on search engine marketing\, search engine optimization\, social media marketing and online lead generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-scotton-the-secret-wisdom-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Everybody’s Improper Maps to San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:It’s a book tour! Three NYC poets\, Mark Gurarie\, Alex Crowley and Keara Driscoll are on tour in support of the publication of Gurarie’s Everybody’s Automat and Crowley’s Improper Maps. This trio is joined by local poets Charlie Getter and Miguel Pereira. Learn more about the readers below: \nOriginally of Cleveland\, Ohio\, Mark Gurarie currently splits time between Brooklyn\, New York and Northampton\, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the New School’s MFA program\, and is the author of Everybody’s Automat (The Operating System\, 2016)\, his debut collection. His poems and prose have appeared in Pelt\, Paper Darts\, Sink Review\, Everyday Genius\, The Rumpus\, The Literary Review\, Coldfront\, Publishers Weekly\, Lyre Lyre and elsewhere. In 2012\, the New School published Pop :: Song\, the 2011 winner of its Poetry Chapbook Competition. He co-curates the Mental Marginalia Poetry Reading Series in Brooklyn\, serves as the Printed Matter Editor at Boog City and lends bass guitar and occasional vocals to psych-punk band\, Galapagos Now!. In addition\, he is an adjunct instructor teaching online for George Washington University\, a book reviewer and free-lance copywriter. \nAlex Crowley is a reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and a cofounder of Brooklyn’s Mental Marginalia reading series. He was the recipient of the first annual Paul Violi Award from the New School\, and is the author of the chapbook Improper Maps (The Operating System\, 2016). Poems and reviews have appeared in Phantom Limb\, TLR\, Forklift Ohio\, BORT Quarterly\, DIAGRAM\, Handsome\, HARIBO\, and elsewhere. He is the guitarist/vocalist for the band Warmth and you can find him on Twitter @a_p_crowley. \nKeara Driscoll‘s poems have appeared in the Argos Books anthology Why I am Not a Painter\, Big Bell\, and Forklift\, Ohio. She holds an MFA in poetry from The New School\, and likes to make people drink wine with her. She was born in Queens and she will die in Queens.\nFind her on Twitter. \nCharlie Getter can’t spell\, except big words\, like forsythia or ragamuffin\, he’s left handed\, but only when he’s sleeping\, he’s been known to be known for something\, whatever that is\, well no one knows… \nTransplant local poet Miguel Pereira is a military brat who came to San Francisco after graduating from Princeton University with a BA in Creative Writing. A founding father of the 16th and Mission weekly gathering\, he has been publishing and reading locally since last century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everybodys-improper-maps-to-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spokespeople: Ch-ch-ch-changes
DESCRIPTION:Hi Spokesfans\, \nPHEW. We took a break after our Big Anniversary Show in January but now we’re back (did you miss us?) with more tales from your local living room. Please join us at House of Duke on Saturday\, April 2nd for stories of ch-ch-ch-changes! Bring your stories of all of life’s changes\, from quitting your first job to changing your first diaper. \nAs always\, new storytellers are welcome and encouraged. Feel free to interpret the theme as literally or figuratively as you wish. Email stories@spokesppl.org to sign up. Stories must be true\, told without notes\, and be about 10 minutes in length. \nDoors at 7:00 pm\, first storyteller at 7:30 pm\nFree admission (donations encouraged!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spokespeople-ch-ch-ch-changes/
LOCATION:House of Duke\, 3133 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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