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SUMMARY:Gary Snyder
DESCRIPTION:George Stanley (born 1947) is a Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years and later a resident of British Columbia. \nHe has published several books of poetry. One of his best-known poems is “Veracruz”. In 2006 he won the Shelley Memorial Award. \nStanley considers T. S. Eliot\, Robert Lowell\, and Charles Olson important influences on his poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-snyder/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Geneva Chao + Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Genève/Geneva Chao has a B.A. In French Translation and Literature from Barnard College and an MA/MFA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program. Her poems and translations have been published in Boxkite\, Can We Have Our Ball Back?\, (Satellite) Telephone\, n/a literary journal\, New American Writing\, DIAGRAM\, the L.A. Telephone Book\, and others. Her book one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions\, 2016) was also a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Her translations of Gérard Cartier’s Tristran and Nicolas Tardy’s (with François Luong) Encrusted on the Living have appeared from [lx] press\, where she is an editor. She has twice been a Tamaas resident for work on the intersectionality of language/poetry and dance/the body. Her book Hillary Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Make Now Books.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet\, and multimedia artist. She’s currently co-editing an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color entitled Responses\, New writing\, Flesh. She is a Kelsey Street Press member and the Northern California Kundiman Co-chair. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband. Her second poetry collection Anemal\, Uter Meck is forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geneva-chao-mg-roberts/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison\, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner! Come cozy up with a glass of wine and listen to these storytellers! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n—–\n+ Dani Burlison is the author of “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name and “Lady Parts\,” which will be available soon from Pioneers Press. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts and The Rumpus. Her writing can also be found at WIRED\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama Magazine\, Spirituality & Health Magazine\, Shareable\, Prick of the Spindle and more. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Lit Camp and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and has upcoming work in various online and print publications. Dani is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel. \n+ Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published flash in Quarter After Eight\, [PANK]\, Monkeybicycle\, Sweet\, Café Irreal\, The Pinch\, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pine Press\, 2016)\, and many online journals. She lives in the East Bay with her husband\, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez\, and their son. \n+ Megan Turner graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Her work has appeared in Rio Grande Review\, Spark\, Witness\, Grasslimb\, Atticus Review\, and others. Originally from Baltimore\, she grew up in Columbia\, Maryland and Harrogate\, England. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. For more information\, please visit: www.MeganRTurner.com. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Hoffman follows up his sensational debutThe White Van with Every Man A Menace\, the inside story of an increasingly ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring. San Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Fresh from prison\, Raymond Gaspar follows his imprisoned boss’s orders to check on their once-reliable buyers and distributors\, but quickly finds himself caught in a web of backstabbing and deceit. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\,Every Man A Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Molly—happiness sold by the brick and paid for with bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick will be in conversation with Oscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named aWall Street Journal Best Book of the Year. He was born in San Francisco and lived there for half his life\, working as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman-w-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Lisa Graley
DESCRIPTION:Co-winners of the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Jungle Around Us: Stories and The Current That Carries: Stories talk and read from their respective works. \n“Anne Raeff’s exquisite stories are remarkable for their combination of intimacy and reverence for the mysteries and private griefs her characters fold their lives around. Seldom have I read work so confident in the power of what s left unspoken and in the deep eloquence of gesture. . . .A haunting and breathtakingly beautiful book.”–Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You on The Jungle Around Us \nStrongly reminiscent of the stories of Annie Proulx: all these lives at—or near—the end of the road reluctantly offering up their secrets.”—Ron Carlson on The Current That Carries \nThe Jungle Around Us: “You’ll see how beautiful it is in the morning—jungle all around us\,” says one of the characters in Raeff’s story collection\, referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also provide solace. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical and real\, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam. Raeff examines how war and violence\, like the jungle\, seep into our lives\, even when we are no longer in danger and long after the war is over. \nWhile struggling with fear\, danger\, and displacement\, the characters of The Jungle around Us form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the Amazon\, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race and war during the Columbia University riots of 1968. A young girl confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously murdered. In Paraguay\, two adult sisters confront their loneliness while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff’s stories are about embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear. \nAnne Raeff teaches English and history at East Palo Alto Academy. Her stories and essays have appeared in the New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica. Her first novel is Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia. \nThe Current That Carries: This collection bristles and hums with the rugged resilience one encounters in southern and Appalachian fiction\, where ghosts of loved ones and livestock alike haunt an underworld of lonely trails. Set in West Virginia\, the stories take up residence with rural characters who defend their mailboxes against teenagers\, bathe and feed their bedridden elders\, and circle the inflated orbs of love and desire in high school gymnasiums. Whole lifetimes flare in an instant as characters scramble to sift through the past’s wreckage to find some small miracle in the present. \nIf there is nostalgia\, it’s for a South without billboards\, talk shows\, and children with iPods dangling from their ears. It’s for a South where you can go pick a ripe tomato to slice for the mayonnaise on your sandwich because you found time to plant a garden. And if there’s grace\, it is in the careful wading through a shifting current to reach possibilities snagged at the bottom of a trotline. \nIn lean\, muscular prose\, Graley pays homage to the daily chores that make up a lifetime. With delicate precision\, she renders the boundaries\, as thin as the blade of a shovel\, between fear and courage\, rejection and compassion. \nLisa Graley is an assistant professor of English and humanities at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the author of the poetry volume Box of Blue Horses. . Her stories have appeared in Glimmer Train\, the Georgia Review\, and the McNeese Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-lisa-graley/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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