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SUMMARY:James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes James Sherry to the store to discuss and sign his latest poetry collection\, Entangled Bank on Thursday\, February 23rd at 7:00 pm. Joining him in conversation will be local poet Sara Larsen.\n“Entangled Bank opens with a set of five line poems dedicated to the ‘beauty’ of various poets\, a nuanced and generous version of Joseph Kaplan’s infamous Kill List\, and concludes with a wrenchingly honest prose piece on Sherry’s correspondence with the late poet Stacy Doris on the limits of empathy. Between these gestures toward a troubled yet significant human connection\, Sherry places poems in a variety of styles\, as if styles were species in an ecosystem\, a veritable ‘entangled bank’. Often he writes with scathing wit on the degradation of the environment and the fraudulence of the financial system. One line admonishes\, ‘Wake up\, this is about you.’ And it is. You’re going to want it.” — Rae Armantrout \nJames Sherry is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and prose\, including Oops! Environmental Poetics. He is publisher of Roof Books and started the Segue Foundation\, Inc.\, a multi arts producer\, in 1977 in New York City. \nSara Larsen is a poet living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous book is All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous\, and her chapbooks include Riot Cops en Route to Troy\, Merry Hell\, and The Hallucinated\, among others. Sara has performed her work widely\, including at The Berkeley Art Museum\, Grace Cathedral\, LitQuake\, and at Multifarious Array in NYC. Over the course of two years\, she and David Brazil published more than 60 issues of the seminal literary zine Try Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-sherry/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Smokler
DESCRIPTION:From the fictional towns of Hill Valley\, CA\, and Shermer\, IL\, to the beautiful landscapes of the Goondocks in Astoria and the time of your life dirty dancing resort still alive and well in Lake Lure\, NC\, ’80s teen movies left their mark not just on movie screen and in the hearts of fans\, but on the landscape of America itself. Like few other eras in movie history\, the ’80s teen movies has endured and gotten better with time. In Brat Pack America\, Kevin Smokler gives virtual tours of your favorite movies while also picking apart why these locations are so important to these movies. \nIncluding interviews with actors\, writers\, and directors of the era\, and chock full of interesting facts about your favorite ’80s movies\, this book is a must for any fan. Smokler went to Goonies Day in Astoria\, OR\, took a Lost Boys tour of Santa Cruz\, CA\, and deeply explored every nook and cranny of the movies we all know and love\, and it shows. \nKevin Smokler is the author of the essay collection Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School\, which the Atlantic Wire called “truly enjoyable\,” and the editor of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times\, a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2005. His writing on pop culture has appeared in the LA Times\, Salon\, BuzzFeed\, Vulture\, the San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. In 2013\, he was BookRiot’s first ever Writer-in-Residence. He can be found on twitter at @weegee. He lives in San Francisco with his wife\, cat\, and most of MTV’s first year on vinyl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-smokler-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rachel Aspen
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nGeneration Revolution:  On the Front Line\nBetween Tradition and Change in the Middle East \nfrom Other Press \nIn 2011 during the Arab Spring\, the government of Egypt transformed\nfrom a dictatorship to a democratic presidency. The chaos that\nresulted during this time erupted from a decade of social and\npolitical unrest among the Egyptian people. GENERATION REVOLUTION is\nthe story of the millennial generation in Egypt during the Arab\nSpring\, from the perspective of several different young men and women\nwhose different views explore the way Egypt has been shaped before\,\nduring\, and after the 2011 end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. \nAspden spent years in Egypt during the beginning of unrest in 2003 and\nmoved back again during the years following post-revolution in 2011.\nAspden offers a window into the world of the Middle East during the\nArab Spring\, before\, during\, and after Egypt’s chaotic overthrow of\ntheir President Mubarak and his successor\, the democratically elected\nMuslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.\nThrough Aspden’s curious and unbiased gaze\, readers hear the Egyptian\nvoices of Amr\, an atheist university-educated software engineer\, Amal\,\na fiercely independent young woman who lives on her own in Cairo which\nis practically unheard of\, Ayman\, a devout Muslim teenager who chooses\nto follow ultraconservative Salafi Islam to the surprise of his\nmiddle-class parents\, and Mazen\, a fan of TV preacher Amr Khaled who\nfinds himself on the front lines during the revolution. With these\nperspectives along with others’\, readers learn that from atheists to\nultra-religious\, from conservative young men to liberal young women\,\nthe growing generation of Egypt is vastly different\, struggling to\nfind a place for various voices during chaotic government upheaval.\nAspden writes from the front lines of this new generation\, sharing\ntheir stories and harbouring their own doubts\, resentments\, and hope\nfor what is to come. \nRachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006\, at\nthe age of 26. She now works at the Guardian\, and also writes on a\nfreelance basis for the New Statesman\, Observer\, Prospect and Think\nmagazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo in 2003-4 and worked as an editor\nand reporter on the English-language Cairo Times. Since then\, from her\nUK base\, she has travelled to and reported from across the region and\nthe wider Muslim world: Yemen\, the UAE\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Syria\,\nJordan\, the Palestinian territories\, Egypt\, Morocco\, Sudan\, Pakistan\nand north India. In 2010\, she was awarded a year-long travelling\nfellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research\nactivists working to fight extremism within Islam.Following the Arab\nspring uprisings in 2011\, she moved back to Egypt to research this book.\nShe is currently based in London and reports for the Guardian. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-aspen/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy: A Toast to Sylvia Plath
DESCRIPTION:This month Literary Speakeasy pays tribute to one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century –Sylvia Plath. Please join us as we raise a glass and celebrate the words of this iconic poet. Five Bay Area powerhouses will be on hand to read the poems of Sylvia Plath as well as their own original work. Our poets for the evening include Annah Anti-Palindrome\, Christian Gullette\, Robert Andrew Perez\, July Westhale\, and Maw Shein Win. Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is absolutely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also\, everyone in attendance will get a FREE raffle ticket for their chance to win the secret Speakeasy prize at the conclusion of the show. Please come out and celebrate Sylvia Plath with an evening of beautiful words and fantastic martinis! \nAnnah Anti-Palindrome is a queer/working-class/hard- femme/JewWitch sound-artist & writer currently living in the SF bay area. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow\, a staff writer for Everyday Feminism\, and a member of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press collective. Annah’s first book\, DNA Hymn\, is a collection of poems about rural\, working-class\, queer-femme survivor identity. Annah’s poems are performed through live\, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal\, kitchen utensils\, gas-masks\, raw eggs\, blood pressure cuffs\, found objects\, her body (mostly my throat)\, and more! For more info about her\, see www.annahantipalindrome. com. \nChristian Gullette’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New England Review\, Smartish Pace\, Meridian\, Colorado Review\, and Cimarron Review. He was recently a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Prize. Currently Christian is a doctoral candidate in Swedish literature and language at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is a poetry editor for the Cortland Review. \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor and book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print and online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review\, Vinyl and The Cortland Review. His First collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. \nJuly Westhale is a poet and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of the chapbook The Cavalcade\, (Finishing Line Press)\, and the children’s book\, Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press\, 2017). She has poems in Cimarron\, burntdistrict\, and Quarterly West\, among others. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post\, Autostraddle\, The Establistment\, and have been nominated for Best American Essays. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Sewanee\, Dickinson House\, Tin House and Bread Loaf. www.julywesthale.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nJames J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” published year by Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco\, which brings together poets\, writers\, and musicians for a night of performance and martinis. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies\, including Assaracus\, The Cortland Review\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-a-toast-to-sylvia-plath/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hank Lazer + Andrew Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell present recent work\, then engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume #34 and Talisman #42. In 2015\, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English. \nAndrew Maxwell‘s recent collections include Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling\, 2015)\, Peeping Mot (Apogee\, 2013) and the ongoing Beggars of Life\, a collaboration with artist Nathan Gelgud. Increasingly interested in short-form literature\, much of Maxwell’s current work is epigrammatic in nature. A selection of his aphorisms is currently on display as an LED scroll in the installation THIS KNOWN WORLD at MOCA Los Angeles\, and Conversion Table\, a collection of small remarks without propositional attitudes\, was issued in September on Mindmade Books. He runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi in Los Angeles\, where he also hosts a weekly radio show of international roots music on KXLU 88.9FM\, “The Dream of Harry Lime.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hank-lazer-andrew-maxwell/
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:Daphne Merkin
DESCRIPTION:Daphne Merkin reads from This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression. \n\n\n\n“Belongs on the shelf with William Styron’s Darkness\, Visible and Andrew Solomon’sThe Noonday Demon. It brings a stunningly perceptive voice to the forefront of the conversation about depression\, one that is both reassuring and revelatory.”–Carol Gilligan\, author of In a Different Voice \n“D. W. Winnicott wrote that depression is the fog over the battlefield. In this extraordinarily lucid and moving book\, Daphne Merkin illuminates the dark and desperate battle that depression can be. This is a book for all those who know nothing about depression and for those who know too much. “–Adam Phillips \n\n\n\nA gifted and audacious writer confronts her lifelong battle with depression and her search for release. This Close to Happy is the rare\, vividly personal account of what it feels like to suffer from clinical depression\, written from a woman’s perspective and informed by an acute understanding of the implications of this disease over a lifetime. Taking off from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine\,  Merkin casts her eye back to her beginnings to try to sort out the root causes of her affliction. She recounts the travails of growing up in a large\, affluent family where there was a paucity of love and of basics such as food and clothing despite the presence of a chauffeur and a cook. She goes on to recount her early hospitalization for depression in poignant detail\, as well as her complex relationship with her mercurial\, withholding mother. Along the way Merkin also discusses her early\, redemptive love of reading and gradual emergence as a writer. She eventually marries\, has a child\, and suffers severe postpartum depression\, for which she is again hospitalized. Merkin also discusses her visits to various therapists and psychopharmocologists\, which enables her to probe the causes of depression and its various treatments. The book ends in the present\, where the writer has learned how to navigate her depression\, if not “cure” it\, after a third hospitalization in the wake of her mother’s death.\n\n\n\n\nDaphne Merkin\, a former staff writer for The New Yorker\, is a regular contributor to Elle. Her writing frequently appears in The New York Times\, Bookforum\, Departures\, Travel + Leisure\, W\, Vogue\, Tablet\, and other publications. Merkin has taught writing at the 92nd Street Y\, Marymount\, and Hunter College. Her previous books include Enchantment\, a novel\, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for best novel on a Jewish theme\, and two essay collections\, Dreaming of Hitler and The Fame Lunches; the latter was one of The New York Times Book Review s Hundred Notable Books of the Year. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daphne-merkin/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meg Elison
DESCRIPTION:About The Book of Etta \nIn the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. \nEtta comes from Nowhere\, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is\, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred\, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms\, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders\, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate. \nWhen slavers seize those she loves\, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There\, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will\, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny. \nAbout the Author \nMeg Elison is the author of THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE\, a post-apocalyptic feminist speculative novel\, Tiptree recommendation\, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. Her sequel\, THE BOOK OF ETTA\, will be published in early 2017. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, The Establishment\, The Mary Sue\, Tor.com\, Compelling Science Fiction\, Motherboard\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-elison/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Zaniello
DESCRIPTION:Film and cultural studies professor Tom Zaniello discussses California’s Lamson Murder Mystery: The Depression Era Case That Divided Santa Clara County. On Memorial Day 1933\, Stanford executive David Lamson found his wife\, Allene\, dead in their Palo Alto home. The only suspect\, he became the face of California’s most sensational murder trial of the century. After a judge sentenced him to hang at San Quentin\, a team of Stanford colleagues stepped in to form the Lamson Defense Committee. The group included poets Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis\, as well as the Sherlock Holmes of Berkeley\, criminologist E.O. Heinrich. They managed to overturn the verdict and incite a series of heated retrials that gripped and divided the community. Was Lamson the victim of aggressive prosecutors\, or was he a master of deception whose connections helped him get away with murder? Author and Stanford alum Tom Zaniello meticulously examines the details of a notorious case with a lingering legacy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-zaniello/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Calder G. Lorenz
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us! \nHell\, if I stay in San Francisco\, I’ll end up worse than dead\, I’ll end up working just so that I can afford to be broke. I’ll end up like the men who stood in line to build the Golden Gate Bridge\, only to fall from the heavens\, replaced by the next man in line\, just another asshole caught in a net\, suspended there\, broken back and all\, dangling\, hung out halfway to hell. \nThe voice above belongs to a young man who will cross every barrier he’d promised himself was un-crossable. He will have fistfights\, soul fights. He will relapse. He will try to go home. He will try his best to ruin his life and the question is this: will he succeed?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calder-g-lorenz/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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