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SUMMARY:First Friday: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler returns to emcee this year’s series\, where baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing.  You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program.\nEmcee:\nDaniel Handler is the author of five novels\, including We Are Pirates. As Lemony Snicket\, he’s responsible for too many books for children\, including the relatively new series All the Wrong Questions. \nJudges:\nSusan Terris is the editor of Spillway and the author of fourteen chapbooks\, three artists’ books\, and six books of poetry\, including Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk 2013) and Memos (Omnidawn 2015). Her publications include Best American Poetry\, FIELD\, Pushcart Prize XXXI\, Ploughshares\, and The Southern Review. \nMill Valley resident Brian Murphy is the author of six books\, including San Francisco Giants: 50 Years. He was a sportswriter for 15 years at the LA Times\, Santa Rosa Press Democrat\, SF Examiner\, and SF Chronicle before joining KNBR\, where he’s hosted the popular “Murph and Mac” show since 2004. \nPlayers:\nGeorge Higgins is the author of There\, There (White Violet Press 2013). He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College\, where he was a Holden Fellow\, and is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Fugue\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Poetry Flash\, and Salamander\, among others. \nPeter Kline teaches at USF and Stanford. His first book\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. A former Stegner Fellow\, he’s also received fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in The Antioch Review\, Five Points\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. \nDanusha Laméris’s book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Poetry Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New Letters\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. \nDr. Raina J. León is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. Her books include Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (February 2016). She’s a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College. \nMeryl Natchez’s most recent book is a bilingual volume: Poems from the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova\, Mandelstam and Gumilev. She’s co-translator of Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems\, and her collection Jade Suit was published in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Pinch\, Atlanta Review\, Lyric\, Moth\, and elsewhere. \nMatthew Siegel’s Blood Work won the 2015 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Taylor Jacob Pate: Becoming the Virgin
DESCRIPTION:Start your weekend off right with a First Friday event to remember. Join us as Nomadic Press supports Action Books‘ release of Taylor Jacob Pate‘s new book\, Becoming the Virgin. \nCome for readings by Taylor Jacob Pate\, Blake Lee Pate\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez\, and Alexandra Naughton\, and stay for the company in our soon-to-be additional home at 2301 Telegraph in Uptown\, Oakland. Music by the ever-so-talented Azuah. \nDonations will be called for throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Wine will be available. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/taylor-jacob-pate-becoming-the-virgin/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:N+1 Issue 25 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of N+1 Issue 25\, featuring readings by Anna Wiener\, Moira Weigel\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/n1-issue-25-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hume\, Rahimtoola\, Weeks\, + Burger
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 6th @ 7:30 pm\nfor a reading and release party for\nAngela Hume’s Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016)\nfeat. readings by Angela Hume\, Samia Rahimtoola\, and Maya Weeks\, plus paintings by Mary Burger! \n\nAngela Hume lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). Her poems appear in Macaroni Necklace\, Dusie\, Armed Cell\,Little Red Leaves\, and RealPoetik\, among others. She has essays published or forthcoming in Contemporary Literature\,ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Evental Aesthetics. You can learn more about Angela here. \n\nSamia Rahimtoola is a poet and critic living in Oakland.\n\nMaya Weeks is a wannabe oceanographer and trash aficionado from the central coast of California. She is the author of Panic Train (Mondo Bummer\, 2013) and How To Be On the Outside of Every Inside/How To Be Inside Every Outside (these signals press\, 2016). She is currently working on a project about the gendered violence of marine debris. Catch her on Twitter @looseuterus.\n\nMary Burger is an artist and writer living in Oakland. Her visual work uses biomorphic and geometric patterns to explore spatial experience and the intersections between natural and cultural adaptations\, drawing on practices of literature\, philosophy\, and environmental history. Mary posts interviews with artists at the blog Articiple. Her art is online atMaryburger.com\, and some recent writing is at Elderly Magazine (elderlymag.tumblr.com.) She exhibits work frequently at the Compound Studio Artist Gallery and other locations in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hume-rahimtoola-weeks-burger/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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