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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n\n November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\nRelated
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LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Janice Lee and Brenda Iijima\, reading from their works
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series\, supported by a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, continues with the second event in our premier program. Prolific essayist\, fiction writer\, and editor Janice Lee\, visiting from Portland\, Oregon\, will be joined by poet\, editor\, and publisher Brenda Iijima\, visiting from Brooklyn\, New York\, each reading from their own works. This event also marks The Poetry Center’s first-time collaboration with local landmark Alley Cat Books\, currently one of the very best bookstores and cultural centers — featuring its remarkable\, community-currated gallery and among the best-selected shelves of books — in the Bay Area. This event is free and open to the public. Please note our afternoon start-time! \nJanice Lee is a Korean-American writer\, artist\, and editor. She is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take\, slowness\, interspecies communication\, the apocalypse\, and asks the question\, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy\, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms\, Contributing Editor at Fanzine\, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland\, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University. \nBrenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the intersections and mutations of poetry\, research movement\, animal studies\, ecological sociology and submerged histories. She is the author of seven full-length collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks and artist’s books. Her most recent book\, Remembering Animals was published by Nightboat Books in 2016. She is also the editor of the eco language reader (Nightboat Books and PP@YYL). She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, located in Brooklyn\, NY. Currently she is working on the collected works of Charley Shively that include his luminous and radical Fag Rag essays\, poems\, ephemera\, photos and letters. She is also researching the phenomena of extinction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJanice Lee\nreading and in conversation with Brenda Iijima\nThursday NOV 29\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-824-1761\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Alley Cat Books
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LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Winter Reading \nSaturday\, Dec 1\, 2018\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing \n— \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities\, and the novel\, A River of Stars\, which O\, The Oprah Magazine calls “a marvel” and The Economist says is “delightful.” For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and in fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. She lives in the Bay Area with her family. \nBeth Winegarner‘s new book\, Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa\, examines bands and fans in the restless region and how they manage to keep their communities alive in times of struggle. Her previous book\, The Columbine Effect\, reveals how Slayer\, Satanism and Grand Theft Auto can be a healthy part of growing up. Winegarner is a veteran Bay Area journalist who has contributed to San Francisco Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, SF Weekly and the San Francisco Examiner\, as well as national publications including the New Yorker\, The Guardian\, Mother Jones and Wired. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.  \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the new poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize\, and published by the University of Utah Press. She’s also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her work has appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in San Francisco. More about her work can be found here. \nSara Mumolo is the author of Mortar (Omnidawn\, 2013) and the Associate Director for theMFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of CA. She created and curated theStudio One Reading Series in Oakland\, CA from 2007-2012\, and Cannibal Books published her chapbook\, March\, in 2011. Poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Lana Turner\, The Offending Adam\, PEN Poetry Series\, Volta\, and Volt\,among others. She has received residencies to Vermont Studio Center\, Caldera Center for the Arts\, and has served as a curatorial resident at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland\, CA. Her next book Day Counter is forthcoming in 2019 from Omnidawn. \nChristine O’Brien grew up in New York and Beverly Hills and teaches at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her work has appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile. Her memoir Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing\, which Booklist calls “compelling” and a “page turner\,” and Lit Hub lists as one of ten memoirs to look for in the fall of 2018\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press on November 13\, 2018. \n____________________\n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
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LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JOURNAL RELEASE: NOMADIC JOURNAL 2018: COVENANT
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2018: Covenant! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
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LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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