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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:This special event\, hosted by Lean Frog & Mother’s Hen Publications\, will both inform and entertain you about the birth of the San Francisco Bay Area haiku movement of the 1950s. Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, Gary Snyder\, and others\, through their avid interest in Zen Buddhism\, adapted this unique Japanese form to the new free-verse of the American poetic voice. Jack Kerouac would call them “Western Haiku” in his Scattered Poems\, published by City Lights Books. \nFeaturing: \nan invocation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker\nMC Louis Cuneo\nBob Booker\nTobey Kaplan\nJeanne Lupton\nClive Matson\nFlorence Miller\nAmos White \nand other special guests w/ music by Lucho on sax and Toku Woo on guitar\nLean Frog was founded by Louis Cuneo in 1978 as a monthly newsletter to encourage others in the haiku spirit\, and to write their own haiku by forming an understanding of Zen Buddhism and “The Way” through informal workshops conducted by Lean Frog in Oakland and Berkeley\, California. \nThis will also be a book release party and book signing for Haiku Revisited\, Volume 2. \nLawrence Ferlinghetti\, in reviewing the original Haiku Revisited in 1975\, said “They are true haiku worth revisiting over and over…”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RAG: Official Zine Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Rag Zine\, a fine (and not so fine) Art and Lit Zine\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon on April 29th\, celebrating two years in print and the great milestone of reaching issue #5! This is the first public event for Rag Zine and it’s sure to be a monumental evening of vulnerability unveiling an intricate and intimate zine about the human condition. \nIssue #5 will be available for sale\, hot and fresh off the printers (and screen printer)\, and there will be food and drink for purchase with music to follow. \nThis is not an exhaustive list of readers but the following talented writers and performers will be sharing their work with us throughout the evening and there are more names to come! \nIsobel O’Hare\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nStacia Biltekoff\nLaura Close\nFred Dodsworth\nDarius Sohei\nFreeman Ng\nRj Equality Ingram \nWith a special guest appearance by Rudra Chakrabarti singing some Urdu Sufi poetry halfway through the set. \nThis is a Public event. Invite your friends! \nhttps://oaklandoctopus.org/rag-zine-5-launch-7pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rag-official-zine-launch-party/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:For Franco Beltrametti w/ Joanne Kyger\, Duncan McNaughton\, + more
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Franco Beltrametti\, From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995\, ed. Stefan Hyner + a screening of Claudio Tettamanti’s short film “Ultime cose (d’après CHOSES qui voyagent)” (1995) \nFriday APRIL 29 @ The Green Arcade 7:00 pm\, 1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\, free co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade \nJoin us for a celebratory reading of the poetry of Swiss-Italian poet/artist/world traveler Franco Beltrametti (1937–1995) by Bay Area poet friends and German poet Stefan Hyner\, editor of Beltrametti’s From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995 (Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Blackberry Books\, 2016). We’ll also screen a brief film featuring Franco Beltrametti in conversation\, made by Claudio Tettamanti\, shortly before the poet’s unexpected death in 1995. \n“From ‘a crowded place called future’ Franco Beltrametti arrives\, once again\, with subtle eloquence to surprise us with his unexpected nuances and turns. These poems give us his presence in the USofA\, calling up poets and ancestors of every sort; and show us the transparency and modesty of his world: ‘I am my only visitor.’ But one with many friends — ‘boot tracks in and out’ — and the muse always under his roof of the moment.” —Joanne Kyger \n“You are the poet.” —John Cage
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-franco-beltrametti-w-joanne-kyger-duncan-mcnaughton-more/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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