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SUMMARY:Kelsey St. Press 45th Anniversary Celebration: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center joins Kelsey St. Press for a public celebration of the press’s 45th Anniversary\, with readings by poets Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\, Ching-In Chen\, and Andrea Abi-Karam. Kelsey Street Press was founded in 1974 to address the marginalization of women writers by small press and mainstream publishers. Forty-five years later\, the press\, still located in the East Bay\, remains true to its commitment to bring out a wide range of voices\, including the gifted work of trans and genderqueer authors. Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, in their third-floor loft space\, this event is co-sponsored by Kelsey St. Press and The Poetry Center\, and is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Free and open to the public. \nMei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing\, grew up in Massachusetts\, and lives in northern New Mexico. She has published twelve books of poetry\, including five books with Kelsey St Press. Recent works include I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems and A Lit Cloud\, a collaboration with artist Kiki Smith. Her latest book\, A Treatise on Stars\, is forthcoming from New Directions\, along with a new edition of Empathy. \nChing-In Chen is author of The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi/Red Hen Press\, 2009)\, recombinant (Kelsey Street Press\, 2017; 2018 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry)\, to make black paper sing (speCt! Books\, 2019)\, and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs). Chen is also co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press\, 2011; AK Press 2016) and Here Is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press\, 2009). Born of Chinese immigrants\, they have received fellowships from Kundiman\, Lambda\, Watering Hole\, Callaloo\, Can Serrat\, Storyknife\, and Imagining America and are a member of Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation. A community organizer\, they have worked in Asian American communities in San Francisco\, Oakland\, Riverside and Boston. In Autumn 2019\, they join the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell as an assistant professor. More at chinginchen.com \nAndrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg\, writing on the art of killing bros\, the intricacies of cyborg bodies\, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook\, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions\, 2016; download the PDF)\, attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Andrea’s first book\, EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press\, 2019)\, is a poetic critique of the U.S. military’s role in the War on Terror. They toured with Sister Spit 2018 and live in New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nKelsey St. Press
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelsey-st-press-45th-anniversary-celebration-mei-mei-berssenbrugge-ching-in-chen-andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2019 Michael Rubin Book Award Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:Join Fourteen Hills press to celebrate OPPRESSORFACE\, the 2019 Michael Rubin Book Award winning book of poetry written by Rob Hendricks.\nThere will be drinks\, food\, a prize drawing. and a reading by Rob Hendricks.\nOther readers include: Truong Tran\, Vanessa Marie Hamill\, Steven Kennedy\, Jens Mikkelsen\, London Pinkney\, and Izabella Santana. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2019-michael-rubin-book-award-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrical Opposition: Unplugged
DESCRIPTION:You’re cordially invited to join us for an intimate showcase of socially-conscious\, acoustic hip-hop music. \nBased in Bay Area\, CA\, Lyrical Opposition creates safe platforms that foster lyrical expression for hip-hop artists\, spoken word poets\, and other artistic talents through gatherings\, icebreakers\, freestyles\, cyphers\, artist development workshops\, panel discussions\, training and fellowship. \nDecember 13\, 2019 Delaplane will host a live acoustic performance by Bay Area based rapper\, poet\, and performer Fego Navarro and Dela Paz\, in an intimate setting. \nLimited seating available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrical-opposition-unplugged/
LOCATION:483 14th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Fire Thieves in the Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Kim Shuck\, San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston\, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. \nThe SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established\, mid-career and new poets working\, producing\, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez\, playwright\, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows\, Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel\, Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; and Ramona Webb\, artist in word\, movement\, and culture change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-fire-thieves-in-the-gallery/
LOCATION:San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries\, 401 Van Ness Ave\, Ste 126\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer: Dead Astronauts
DESCRIPTION:Jeff VanderMeer joins us to discuss his new novel\, Dead Astronauts. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead \n“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell\, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing\, one fixed destiny\, but as either peaceful or catastrophic\, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates–for these are our children\, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created.” —Wai Chee Dimock\, The New York Times Book Review \n“The conceptual elements in VanderMeer’s fiction are so striking that the firmness with which he cinches them to his characters’ lives is often overlooked . . . Borne is VanderMeer’s trans-species rumination on the theme of parenting . . . [Borne] insists that to live in an age of gods and sorcerers is to know that you\, a mere person\, might be crushed by indifferent forces at a moment’s notice\, then quickly forgotten.” —Laura Miller\, The New Yorker \nAbout Dead Astronauts \nA messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish\, centuries old\, who hides a secret\, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past\, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. \nJeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where\, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company\, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future\, the fate of Earth—all the Earths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-dead-astronauts/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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