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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Europa Grace\, M.I.\, Miyuki\, and Gabriel Christian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #94
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month with host Marin County Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust\, and teen writers from ForWords Literacy Lab. \nForWords provides instruction and resources to help students develop the ability to write\, speak\, and read effectively and publish their work in print\, video and digital media. \nForWords works with students to foster self-awareness\, confidence\, personal voice and pride in community and culture. \nForWords provides professional development for teachers and direct assistance to our students by partnering with the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California\, Berkeley and is staffed and advised by an exceptional community of writers\, educators\, artists and digital media experts. \nRebecca Foust’s five books of poetry include Paradise Drive\, reviewed in theTimes Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Recent Recognitions include the CP Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, American Literary Review’s Fiction Prize\, and the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize as well as fellowships from MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and The Frost Place. Foust is Poet Laureate of Marin County and writes a weekly column for Women’s Voices for Change\, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/arts-culture/poetry. \nTime allowing\, we will have our open mic following the reading. Our West End Village restaurant neighbors kindly offer a discount on the evening of the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-94/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Your Art Will Save Your Life launch at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 25\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the launch of YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE with Beth Pickens and Tammy Johnson! \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nBeth Pickens reminds us that art makes us want to be alive. It lets us know that we are not alone in this world no matter how isolated we feel. And in this oppressive political climate\, art is more important now than ever. \nWritten in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and drawing from Pickens’s extensive background in art fundraising and consulting\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE empowers emerging and established artists alike to balance activism and financial concerns while nurturing their own creative processes. \nFrom exercises designed to quiet inner critics to advice on navigating institutional funding\, Pickens helps artists create foundations for healthy and sustainable expression no matter the medium. Reminding us art has always been a tool of the resistance\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE provides simple yet powerful lessons on how to keep creating at a time\nwhen art is more necessary than ever. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nTammy Johnson is a dancer\, writer\, and equity analyst living in Oakland\, California. As a highly visible and effective community organizer in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, she directed campaigns on economic justice\, electoral reform and public education. Johnson’s gift for strategy development and ability to nurture strong relationships with groups on the ground led to a decade at Race Forward. She is also a principal partner of Art/Work Practice\, a firm that advances cultural strategies with a through an equity-based approach. For over a decade Johnson and Etang Inyang performed as the award-winning Egyptian Bellydance duet\, Raks Africa\, and co-directed Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image program. She is currently the director the Northern African Berber inspired culture production company\, Project Aiwa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-art-will-save-your-life-launch-at-wolfman-books/
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:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Sally Kohn
DESCRIPTION:Sally Kohn is currently a CNN political commentator and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Kohn was previously a Fox News contributor\, and she has been a frequent guest on MSNBC. She writes regularly for media outlets including the Washington Post\, the New York Times\, New York Magazine\, Refinery29\, Marie Claire\, Cosmopolitan\, Yahoo\, Salon\, Time and many more. She also works as a communications consultant and was previously a campaign strategist for the Center for Community Change\, a fellow at the Ford Foundation\, and a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders\, as well as a fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian task Force Policy Institute. \nOne of the leading progressive voices in America\, Sally Kohn\, is out to understand the epidemic of incivility and hate that has overcome our country. Often a beacon of rationality in the firebrand of today’s political discourse\, Kohn’s ]patient approach to commentary has often been a bridge over intractable divides\, whether it be on Fox News\, CNN\, The Washington Post\, or in her own life\, where she has been both victim and perpetrator of bullying and partisan resentment. \n“Sick of the anger\, division and hate in our world? Sally Kohn’s book is uplifting\, funny\, and full of inspiring solutions.” —Van Jones
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-sally-kohn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dana Levin and Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Dana Levin and Dean Rader read from their latest poetry collections\, Banana Palace and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry. \n\nAbout Dana Levin \n\nDana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \n\nAbout Dean Rader \n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-levin-and-dean-rader/
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:The Others: A Dramatic Reading by Matthew Rohrer & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a performance of Matthew Rohrer’s novel in verse\, The Others\, featuring guest readers including Daniel Handler and Arisa White. Please join us! \nA gripping\, eerie\, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes\, we follow an entry-level publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories\, science fiction adventures\, Victorian hashish eating\, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. \n— \nMatthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books\, 2015)\, Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books\, 2011)\, A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2009)\, Rise Up (Wave Books\, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press\, 2004)\, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press\, 2001)\, and co-author\, with Joshua Beckman\, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press\, 2002)\, and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book\, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at NYU. \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\, dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collectionYou’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-others-a-dramatic-reading-by-matthew-rohrer-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brynn Saito
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine\, Poetry Northwest\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Saito is the Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brynn-saito/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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