BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20150101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160501T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160501T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T063659
CREATED:20160420T000538Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T000538Z
UID:21702-1462114800-1462118400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Willis Barnstone + Tony Barnstone
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flashon Sunday\, May 1st at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nWillis Barnstone’s new book of poems is Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He is a translator\, memoirist\, editor\, and Biblical and Gnostic scholar as well as a poet; a man who has authored and edited some seventy books. Recent books of poems include Moonbook and Sunbook andStickball on 88th Street; among his scriptural works and translations are The Other Bible and The New Covenant Commonly Called the New Testament. He has been four times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize\, and in 2015 he was awarded the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Northern California Book Reviewers at the Northern California Book Awards. \nWillis’s son\, Tony Barnstone’s new book of poems is Pulp Sonnets. Dorianne Laux says\, “Tony Barnstone takes a walk on the wild side\, the darkest dark of the wild side\, and stabs us with his manic sonnets of gore\, tossing up the meat we call human before taking it down with his forked tongue.” His recent collections include Tongue of War\, winner of the John Ciardi Prize\, and The Golem of Los Angeles\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award for Poetry. Translator\, editor\, and fiction writer\, too\, he has published seventeen books and a music CD. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Pablo Neruda Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-willis-barnstone-tony-barnstone/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160501T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160501T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T063659
CREATED:20160420T001012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T001012Z
UID:21703-1462114800-1462122000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction: Barbash\, Howard\, Scheeres\, Zeff + More
DESCRIPTION:Stranger Than Fiction is the Edinburgh Castle Pub’s new reading series\, co-produced by Alan Black and Frances Stroh. The next edition\, on Sunday\, May 1\, from 3-5pm\, presents new work from Tom Barbash\, Rachel Howard\, Julia Scheeres\, and Maury Zeff\, alongside hosts Black and Stroh. \nTOM BARBASH is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance\, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me\, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House\, Story magazine\, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. \nRACHEL HOWARD’S fiction and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast\, the Hudson Review\, ZYZZYVA\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker Online. Her memoir The Lost Night\, about her father’s unsolved murder\, was described as “enthralling” by the New York Times. She runs the acclaimed reading series Yuba Lit in the Sierra Foothills. \nJULIA SCHEERES is the author of the memoir JESUS LAND\, which was a New York Times and London Times bestseller. She is also the author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown\, which was recently optioned by a famous actor who wants to play Jim Jones (and whose name she can’t yet reveal). \nMAURY ZEFF’S fiction and plays have been published in American Fiction 2012\, Southern California Review\, the Best of PlayGround 2014\, and elsewhere. He has won a PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award and three PlayGround People’s Choice Awards. His play\, I Wanna Be So Dated\, about striving teenagers\, helicopter parents\, artistic expression\, and the Ramones\, premiered in March at the Vermont State Drama Festival. He has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and was a San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Fellow. \nFRANCES STROH is the author of BEER MONEY: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss (out May 3 from HarperCollins)\, which chronicles her coming of age in the midst of the Stroh’s Beer family’s decline coupled with the unraveling of Detroit. Publisher’s Weekly described BEER MONEY as “A compelling memoir that vividly portrays the aching permanence of loss and the palpability of hope that accompanies starting over.” \nALAN BLACK works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-barbash-howard-scheeres-zeff-more/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160501T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160501T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T063659
CREATED:20160420T001255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T001255Z
UID:21708-1462129200-1462136400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Nina Lindsay + Rosa Land
DESCRIPTION:Because is a book that reminds us why it matters that we are here\, living our complicated lives\, our days crowded with houses\, buses\, work\, cafes\, bakeries\, fear and singing\, brief joy and “rapturous dust.” These subtle and surprising poems are deeply engaged with the present\, reminding us of how we are enmeshed with the particularities of existence: wisteria and neighbors\, children breaking sticks\, rats and trash\, a skunk galloping over the lawn and an ant on the doorframe\, and so many riddles we can never know the answer to in our “cake-like houses.” Musing and wondering\, grieving and praising\, these poems dwell in both the inner and outer worlds\, in the mysteries of our daily actions and our dreaming selves. \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \nTiller North takes us behind the walls of a fishing village in coastal Maine. With her insider’s voice\, Rosa Lane breaks the code of silence in her telling: secrets embedded within class\, sexual identity\, familial relationships\, death\, and rebirth. “I once said I would not look back\,” Lane tells us toward the end of the book\, but how grateful we are that she has\, opening a world for us where she learned to listen not just for the cry of the loon\, but also the rhythms of boats in water\, bamboo flutes\, the “rusty jaw” of the mailbox\, June bugs that “bomb / the porch light with spiny legs\,” and all the sounds that accompany Maine’s harsh winters and lush summers. But we don’t just hear this world: Lane makes us see it\, with one stunning image after another. \nRosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lindsay-rosa-land/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR