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SUMMARY:RADAR: Gabriel García Román\, Ajuan M. Mance\, Mira Gonzalez\, + Faith Adiele
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: APRIL QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nTuesday\, April 12\, 2016\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\n5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nGabriel García Román\nGabriel Garcia Roman was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico in 1973 and raised in Chicago. He received his B.A. from The City College of New York where he studied studio art. Garcia is a photo-based artist and craftsman. As an artist\, he is constantly looking for ways to counteract the flatness that’s inherent to the medium of photography: weaving\, folding\, cutting\, interlacing prints or collaging are all different attempts at realizing that goal. Photography allows him to explore aspects of his identity and decode the world he lives in. Queer. Mexican. American. Immigrant. Secular. Catholic. Urban Apartment dweller. Country nomad. Queer Icons\, his most recent body of work\, looks at the\nQTPoC community\, a disenfranchised community and turns them into heavenly beings. The work has been written up by media outlets like\, Fusion\, Huffington Post\, NPR and The Advocate\, to name a few. He currently lives and works in New York City. \nAjuan M. Mance\nA lifelong artist\, Ajuan Mance works in acrylic on paper and canvas\, ink on paper and\, for the 1001 Black Men project\, ink on paper and digital media. She began writing and illustrating the autobiographical comic series Gender Studies in 2014. Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area\, as well as at the University of Oregon\, the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago\, IL\, and the Reinhardt-Fisher Gallery in Trenton\, NJ. Her work has appeared in a number of publications\, including\, most recently\, Cog\, Transition\, and Mission at Tenth. A professor of English at Mills College in Oakland\, Ajuan art work is partly inspired by her teaching and research in U.S. Black literature and history. A 19th-century African American literature specialist\, she holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Look for a full-color version of Ajuan’s “Requiem for a Hot Comb” in the upcoming Alphabet anthology\, from Prism Comics\, out this spring. \nMira Gonzalez\nMira Gonzalez is a writer from Los Angeles\, CA. She is the author of two books. Her first book was nominated for The Believer Poetry Award and The Goodreads Choice Award. She lost the latter to the guy who wrote Lord of The Rings\, who is dead. Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in Nylon\, VICE\, The Guardian\, Thought Catalog\, Hobart\, Muumuu House and others. \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele is author of the memoirs\, THE NIGERIAN-NORDIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO LADY PROBLEMS and MEETING FAITH\, which won the PEN Open Book Award. She is also writer/narrator/subject of MY JOURNEY HOME\, a PBS documentary about her mixed family\, and editor of COMING OF AGE AROUND THE WORLD: A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY. She lives in Oakland\, where she runs an African Book Club at Octopus Literary Salon\, and teaches at VONA/Voices: Summer Workshops for Writers of Color\, California College of the Arts\, and The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-gabriel-garcia-roman-ajuan-m-mance-mira-gonzalez-faith-adiele/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:wordWIND Chorus
DESCRIPTION:q. r. hand\, jr. (voice and poetry)\, moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about forty years ago. Originally published in the 1968 classic\, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro American Writing\, edited by Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Larry Neal\, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press\, he is the author of three poetry books\, i speak to the poet in man (jukebox press)\,how sweet it is (Zeitgeist Press) and whose really blues: new & selected poems (Taurean Horn Press). \nLewis Jordan (saxophone and poetry) is producer of Music at Large (an interdisciplinary music and arts project). He focuses on creative structures for improvisation\, and his interest continues to be meeting and working with performers who delve into their deeper resources for modes of expression that honor their traditions while speaking to the urgency of the present. \nBrian Auerbach (voice and poetry) has published as a music journalist\, poet and photographer. He works as a communications and technology manager at a San Francisco-based university\, while pursuing writing and the visual arts. \nReginald Lockett passed away in 2008. wordWind chorus continues to perform his work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordwind-chorus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christina Hutchins + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Christina Hutchins (Tender the Maker) & Tess Taylor (Work and Days): New Poetry Collections \nFollowed by open mic. \nContact Reference Desk at 526-3720.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christina-hutchins-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Crane w/ Eden Lepucki
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Crane in conversation with Eden Lepucki\, introduced by Matthew Zapruder \ncelebrating the release of Elizabeth Crane’s new novel \nThe History of Great Things \nfrom Harper-Perennial \nA witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nIn two beautifully counterpoised narratives\, two women—mother and daughter—try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each other.The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois\, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star\, and her daughter\, Elizabeth\, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent\, always larger-than-life mother. In a tour de force of storytelling and human empathy\, Elizabeth chronicles the events of her mother’s life\, and in turn Lois recounts her daughter’s story—pulling back the curtain on lifelong secrets\, challenging and interrupting each other\, defending their own behavior\, brandishing or swallowing their pride\, and\, ultimately\, coming to understand each other in a way that feels both extraordinary and universal. \nThe History of Great Things is a novel about a mother and daughter who are intimately connected and not connected enough; it will make readers laugh and cry and wonder how we become the adults we always knew we should—even if we’re not always adults our parents understand. \nElizabeth Crane is the author of the novel We Only Know So Much\, and three collections of short stories: When the Messenger is Hot\, All this Heavenly Glory\, andYou Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award\, and her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. A feature film adaptation of We Only Know So Much will be released in 2016. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me originally published by Flatmancrooked\, and recently re-released by Nouvella Press.  The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014. \nMatthew Zapruder is a poet\, editor\, translator\, and professor in the MFA program at the University of California\, Riverside-Palm Desert and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. His poetry has been published by Copper Canyon Press and his work has also appeared in The Boston Review\, The Believer\, Fence\, Bomb\, McSweeney’s\, Jubilat\, Conduit\, Harvard Review and many others. Together with Joshua Beckman he is co-editor of Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-crane-w-eden-lepucki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s first day\, April 12\, will include readings from Abeer Hoque\, Lucas Mann\, and Sara Michas-Martin. \nAbeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She is the author of three books: Olive Witch\, a memoir; The Lovers and the Leavers\, a collection of linked stories\, photographs\, and poems; and The Long Way Home\, a coffee table book of travel photographs and poems. Her photographs have been featured in two solo exhibitions. Hoque has a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumna of the University of San Francisco’s MFA Program in writing. \nLucas Mann is the author of Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere\, a 2013 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and Lord Fear: A Memoir\, named one of the best books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. His essays and stories have appeared in Gawker\, BuzzFeed\, TriQuarterly\,New South\, Wigleaf\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently an assistant professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. \nSara Michas-Martin is the author of Gray Matter\, which received the 2014 Poets Out Loud Prize. Other awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers Conferences. Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, Best New Poets\, Denver Quarterly\, Harvard Review\, Threepenny Review\, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Michigan\, Goddard College\, Stanford\, and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-1/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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