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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker
DESCRIPTION:In La Ronde a Park Avenue woman puts a price on her brutish husband’s head. Tells her Jersey girlfriend to ask her connected brother for help. The brother talks to his accountant and lover\, who talks to her other lover\, a movie producer who tells his glam wife back in L.A.\, who tells her personal trainer while getting a massage. The personal trainer mentions it to his boyfriend who is in money trouble. The boyfriend hypes the price on the husband’s head to get the loan shark off his back\, after the guy breaks his leg. The loan shark flies to New York to hire a hit man cheap. Is out-foxed by hit man’s hot sister. Back to the husband with a price on his head. \nTownsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries\, foreign places\, violence and strong women. A novella in noir\, La Ronde\, was published by Truth Serum Press in June 2015. Some seventy short stories have been published in literary journals and included in nine anthologies. He won first place in the SLO NightWriters contest\, second place in Our Storiescontest\, and two nominations for the PEN/O.Henry Award. Four stories were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood. He is currently developing a screenplay based on La Ronde and a series of linked stories based on original collage works of Beverly Mills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/townsend-walker/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s First Solo Show in Five Years Comes to The Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco in the Form of an Exhibition & Book Launch \nPlease join us at The Dryansky Gallery for the opening reception of “Close Enough for the Angels” on Thursday\, May 19\, 2016\, from 7-9 pm! Artist Paul Madonna will be in attendance. \nHaving recently ended his popular and enduring “All Over Coffee” series after 12 years and a total of 726 strips and two books\, Madonna has completed “Close Enough for the Angels”\, an illustrated novel that looks toRaymond Chandler and Haruki Murakami as inspirations; the drawings in the book will not “illustrate” the text per-se\, but rather—influenced by 19th Century woodcut artist Utagawa Hiroshige—tell their part of the story in graphic terms in the style Madonna is well known for; the exhibit will consist of all new work\, including framed originals from the book\, text panels on the wall\, and a limited edition of fifty hand-bound copies of the book produced by the artist. \nClose Enough for the Angels—an exhibition of original drawings and limited edition book launch—opens May 19 from 7-9pm and runs through July 14 at The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street in San Francisco \nFor more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/close-enough-for-the-angels \nAbout Paul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the series “All Over Coffee” (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2015)\, and the author of two books\, “All Over Coffee” (City Lights Bookstore 2007)\, and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011)\, which won the 2011 NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for The Rumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. For more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/paul-madonna-bio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna/
LOCATION:The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BI the way
DESCRIPTION:“Bisexuals? WTF? Do they really even exist?” The answer is yes\, and they’ll be taking E.M. Wolfman books by storm with readings on the topic of loving more than one gender…or at least sorta wantin’ ta…well\, you know. Our readers for this evening are Mk Chavez\, Ruth Crossman\, J de Salvo\, Keeley Ann Finn\, Kelly Klein\, Colleen McKee\, and Jan Steckel. The evening will be hosted by the “just plain ol’ gay” and always fabulous Vernon Keeve III. We hope to see you there for a great reading at a great local bookstore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bi-the-way/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime SANCTUARY
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime SANCTUARY — our first East Bay event! — at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 19th 2016\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Ali Eteraz (Native Believer)\, Paul Corman-Roberts (We Shoot Typewriters)\, Alexandra Naughton (American Mary)\, Edmund Zagorin (The Face of Our Town)\, and Tanya Rey. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sanctuary/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yaghoub Yadali: Rituals of Restlessness
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland (in partnership with the Center for the Art of Translation) welcomes Yaghoub Yadali to the store to discuss and sign his newly translated work\, Rituals of Restlessness\, on Thursday\, May 19th at 7:00pm. \nEngineer Kamran Khosravi wants to die in a car accident. His professional life in the Iranian hinterlands is full of bureaucratic drudgery\, protecting dams\, for example\, from looters. His wife Fariba can no longer stand it\, and has left him to rejoin her family in Isfahan. She is anxious for him to choose a life with her\, or to let her go and persist with things as they are\, but Kamran’s issues run deeper than anybody imagines. He has lost all feeling for his wife\, and his plans for a car accident are escapist\, not suicidal. He is having an affair with a married country girl\, and thoughts of her lead him to foolish distraction. Most recently\, he has found a day laborer who matches his approximate build and hair color\, and his intentions grow increasingly dark\, along with his nihilistic outlook. Rituals of Restlessness won the 2004 Golshiri Foundation Award for the best novel of the year and was named one of the ten best novels of the decade by the Press Critics Award in Iran. However\, in 2007 Yaghoub Yadali was sentenced to one year in prison for having depicted an adulterous affair in the novel. Rituals of Restlessness and his short story collection Sketches in the Garden have been banned from publication and reprint in Iran. \nYaghoub Yadali\, a fiction writer from Iran\, has directed for television and worked for Roshd Magazine as the editor of the film section. In addition to Rituals of Restlessness and Sketches in the Garden\, he is the author of the short story collection Probablity of Merriment and Mooning. His short stories\, articles\, and essays are published in Iran\, Turkey\, and the US. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa\, Harvard University\, and City of Asylum in Pittsburgh\, PA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaghoub-yadali-rituals-of-restlessness/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Hernandez + Tiffany Midge
DESCRIPTION:David Hernandez’s most recent book of poetry\, Hoodwinked (Sarabande Books\, 2011)\, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Dear\, Sincerely—his new collection—is forthcoming Spring 2016 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. His other books include Always Danger (SIU Press\, 2006)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series\, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press\, 2003). David’s awards include an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in FIELD\, The Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Best American Poetry 2013. He is also the author of two YA novels\, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch\, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches creative writing at California State University\, Long Beach and at California State University\, Fullerton. He lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. \nTiffany Midge is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry for The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press)\, and the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award for Outlaws\, Renegades and Saints; Diary of a Mixed-up Halfbreed (Greenfield Review Press). Her work has appeared in North American Review\, Florida Review\, South Dakota Review\, Shenandoah\, and the online journals No Tell Motel and Drunken Boat. Tiffany has published creative nonfiction in The Butter\, and Sovereign Bodies\, and her essays received Pushcart Prize nominations from The Raven Chronicles and Yellow Medicine Review. An enrolled Standing Rock Sioux\, she holds an MFA from University of Idaho and is Poet Laureate of Moscow\, Idaho. Tiffany is writing the Great American (Indian) Novel about contemporary\, urban Native life\, Sex\, Lies\, and Frybread\, a Dramedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hernandez-tiffany-midge/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Rachel Richardson\, Tess Taylor + Kimberly Grey
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Grey\, Rachel Richardson\, and Tess Taylor read poems from their new collections. \n\nAbout Kimberly Grey’s The Opposite of Light: \n  \nA revealing scrutiny of contemporary marriage; winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.\nCan the notion of Romantic love withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems\, Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness\, order\, and symmetry in matrimony\, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age―its weightless\, distracting\, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves: familiar but strange\, predetermined but new. There is “a drop of blue light\,” she writes. “But no high-tech way / to say you’re mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancient bodies.” \n  \n“In The Opposite of Light the rapid momentum of invention plays against extremities of feeling\, system meeting sensation: “We keep inventing/ newfangled ways to be in the world” gives way to “No way to love each other/ but with these ancient bodies.” These poems are serious in their play\, love poems in a world of interlocking technologies and language\, tender buttons with a lot to say.  — Ken Fields \n  \nAbout Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave: \n  \nIn Rachel Richardson’s second collection of poems\, she juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary life. Hundred-Year Wave launches stories of marriage and motherhood over the currents of a nearly mythological ancestry: women and men who built their possessions out of iron and flour and whalebone and wool. If reaching back into the past is akin to plumbing a depth\, then Richardson exhibits the rare abilities of craft to build\, from our language\, vessels light enough to travel on that element\, but sturdy enough to weather the storms we are likely to find there. \n  \n“Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath. The poet knits each poem with such care—stitch by stitch\, loop by loop\, word after word into an effortless collection of quiet yet haunting music lush with texture and feeling. Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/in the vast expanse of lostness.'” –Victoria Chang \n  \nAbout Tess Taylor’s Work and Days: \n  \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. \n  \n“Our moment’s Georgic.” –Stephen Burt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-richardson-tess-taylor-kimberly-grey/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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