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SUMMARY:Benavides\, Baltrónica-Gomez\, Dunitz-Johnson\, + Cyd Nova
DESCRIPTION:Denise Benavides\nDenise Benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry\, riot girl. \nJess Baltrónica-Gomez\nBalitronica is a performance artist\, cyborg poet\, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe\, Edith Frampton\, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco\, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason\, Herani Hache\, RJ Muna\, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled\, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring as a member of the International performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. \nCyd Nova\nCyd Nova is a mouthy slut and celebrator of all hos’. He has been part of the St James Infirmary family\, a clinic for folks who have been involved in the sex trade in San Francisco\, for 8 years and this month is leaving to return back to his roots of hustling and writing gossipy zines. He is the co-director of Bonus Hole Boys – the first gay hardcore website featuring FTM men. His writing has appeared on the Rumpus\, Policy Mic\, Tits and Sass\, Visual AIDS and in the books Coming Out Like a Porn Star and The Collection: The New Transgender Vanguard. Currently he is working on a series of comics based on the more comically intense moments of life. You can check out his writing at cydnova.wordpress.com \nAriel Dunitz-Johnson\nAriel is a San Francisco based illustrator who trained at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her illustrations focus primarily on pen and ink work\, specializing in portraiture. She was recently awarded San Francisco Beautiful’s Muni Art Winner with her portrait project\, SWAY: Contemporary Queer Portraiture. Through Muni Art\, her work was shown on buses around San Francisco during the fall/winter of 2015. Ariel has been freelancing for nearly a decade\, having shows of her personal work whenever she can. She finds inspiration everywhere\, from the architectural lines of the urban landscape\, the many faces in everyday life\, to sticks\, stones and other natural objects that she collects. When she’s not busy drawing\, she’s usually shopping at farmer’s markets\, cooking for her partner\, or playing with her Boston Terriers\, Harley and Levi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benavides-baltronica-gomez-dunitz-johnson-cyd-nova/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Clark + Wendy Barker
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Clark reads new poems and from his Self-Portrait with Expletives\, winner of the Pleiades Prize;  Wendy Barker presents two new collections\, One Blackbird at a Time\, which won the 2015 John Ciardi Prize\,  and  From the Moon\, Earth is Blue (Wings Press\, 2015). She will also read from  Far Out: Poems of the ’60s\, an anthology co-edited with Dave Parsons (Wings Press\, 2016). \n\n\nFollowed by open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-clark-wendy-barker/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Antonia Hayes + Sophie Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Antonia Hayes talks about her debut novel\, Relativity\, with Sophie Cunningham. \nPraise for Relativity: \n“Relativity is wonderful\, a beautifully written\, heartbreaking novel that I feel certain will find the huge audience it deserves.” — SJ Watson\, author of Before I Go to Sleep \n“Original\, compassionate\, cleverly plotted\, and genuinely difficult to put down. The premise is compelling and the plot twists and turns without ever feeling forced. This novel is an intelligent\, honest and compassionate look at people and relationships under stress: the shocking revelation [in it] is tempered with real insight as to how such things happen.” — Graeme Simsion\, author of The Rosie Project \n“Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy\, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair\, honest and remarkably non-judgemental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.” — Christos Tsiolkas\, author of The Slap \n“A charming and fresh debut placing a family’s secrets in the great expanse of the universe.” — Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Relativity: \nA beautifully written\, heartbreaking (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past\, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it\, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned.\nTwelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe\, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy\, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney\, Australia. Claire\, a former professional ballerina\, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan\, but he’s becoming increasingly curious about his father’s absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented\, vulnerable son and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill\, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy\, her tightly-held world is split open.\nThousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia\, Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart\, but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire\, he unleashes long-suppressed forces that like gravity pull the three together again\, testing the limits of love and forgiveness.\nTold from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents\, “Relativity” is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds\, irreversible acts\, the limits of science\, and the magnitude of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/antonia-hayes-sophie-cunningham/
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:MariNaomi: Turning Japanese
DESCRIPTION:MariNaomi presents Turning Japanese\, an illustrated memoir that chronicles her experiences working at illegal hostess bars from San Jose to Tokyo. The story begins in 1995\, when 22-year-old Mari has just moved from her hometown in Mill Valley to San Jose and soon finds employment at a hostess bar for Japanese expats. There she becomes determined to learn Japanese and connect with the culture that had eluded her since childhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22\, the Eisner-nominated Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories\, and her self-published Estrus Comics. Her work has appeared in over sixty print anthologies\, and has been featured on such websites as The Rumpus\, The Weeklings\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast\, Truth-out\, XOJane\, Buzzfeed\, Bitch Media\, and more. She is also the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the LGBTQ Cartoonists Database.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-turning-japanese/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Milvia Street Journal Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents the newest issue of Berkeley City College’s art and literary journal: Milvia Street \nMilvia Street art and literary journal first came out in 1989 from Vista Community College.  We’re celebrating the newest issue with a reading by Diana Arnold\, Paul Elias Taylor\, Lark Omura\, Raymond Richard\, Patricia France\, and others. \nAlso joining the evening will be writers featured in Forum: San Francisco City College’s art and literary journal. \n—– \nMilvia Street Art and Literary Journal\, first published in 1989\, has featured creative work by Berkeley City College students–many who have gone on to university writing or art programs–recent alumni\, faculty and staff. It is a student edited and produced publication that in 1996 won national first place in the Literary Magazine competition of the Community College Humanities Association\, and since then has placed in the top three. \nEstablished in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family.  \nCopies of both journals will be for sale at the event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/milvia-street-journal-release-party/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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