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SUMMARY:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n7:00 pm Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured video: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974
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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:Nancy Au\, Alexandra Mattraw\, Tiff Dresson\, Tomas Moniz Readings
DESCRIPTION:NANCY AU’s essays and stories appear in many journals including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Foglifter\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at CSU Stanislaus\, and is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize\, and has won Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her full-length collection\, Spider Love Song & Other Stories\, is longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. www.peascarrots.com \nALEXANDRA MATTRAW is a Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, Volt\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nTIFF DRESSEN lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and released his debut novel\, Big Familia. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award and was awarded the 2018 SPACE Ryder Farm residency in NY. He was longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Hemingway Prize for Debut Novel. He has stuff on the internet but loves penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-au-alexandra-mattraw-tiff-dresson-tomas-moniz-readings/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anders Carlson-Wee and Maria Gillam
DESCRIPTION:Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of The Low Passions\, published by W.W. Norton in 2019. His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, BuzzFeed\, Ploughshares\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Sun\, Best New Poets\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Camargo Foundation\, Bread Loaf\, Sewanee\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference\, he is the winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Cincinnati. \nMaria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP\, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers\, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book All That Lies Between Us. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College\, editor of the Paterson Literary Review\, and has been appointed a Bartle Professor at Binghamton University-SUNY\, and Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing. She has published 23 books including Paterson Light and Shadow and What Blooms in Winter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anders-carlson-wee-and-maria-gillam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Paul Lisicky / Later: My Life at the Edge of the World with Ryan Van Meter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Paul Lisicky back to the store for his new book\, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World. Please join us! \nWhen Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s\, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time\, known for its values of inclusion\, acceptance\, and art. In this idyllic haven\, Lisicky searches for love and connection and comes into his own as he finds a sense of belonging. At the same time\, the center of this community is consumed by the AIDS crisis\, and the very structure of town life is being rewired out of necessity: What might this utopia look like during a time of dystopia? \nLater dramatizes a spectacular yet ravaged place and a unique era when more fully becoming one’s self collided with the realization that ongoingness couldn’t be taken for granted\, and staying alive from moment to moment exacted absolute attention. Following the success of his acclaimed memoir\, The Narrow Door\, Lisicky fearlessly explores the body\, queerness\, love\, illness\, and belonging in this masterful\, ingenious new book. \n\nPaul Lisicky is the author of five books\, including The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts\, among others. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Later\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-lisicky-later-my-life-at-the-edge-of-the-world/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two): with Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n1:00 pm Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974 \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\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-am-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing-poetry-and-protest-a-day-in-honor-of-audre-lorde-and-pat-parker-part-two-with-arisa-white-leila-weefur-and-angela-hume/
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:Chris Carlsson at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes\, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories \nfrom Pluto Press \nSan Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city’s most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love\, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. \nHidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology\, labour\, transit and dissent\, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco’s history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries\, secret music and poetry venues\, forgotten terrorist bombings\, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area’s long prehistory as well\, examining the region’s geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything\, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. \nFrom the perspective of the students and secretaries\, longshoremen and waitresses\, San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked\, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today\, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing\, everyday process of making history together. \nChris Carlsson\, co-director of the “history from below” project Shaping San Francisco\, is a writer\, publisher\, editor\, photographer\, public speaker\, and occasional professor. He was one of the founders in 1981 of the seminal and infamous underground San Francisco magazine Processed World. In 1992 Carlsson co-founded Critical Mass in San Francisco\, which both led to a local bicycling boom and helped to incubate transformative urban movements in hundreds of cities\, large and small\, worldwide. In 1995 work began on “Shaping San Francisco;” since then the project has morphed into an incomparable archive of San Francisco history at Foundsf.org\, award-winning bicycle and walking tours\, and more than a decade of Public Talks covering history\, politics\, ecology\, art\, and more (see shapingsf.org). Beginning in Spring 2020\, Carlsson hosts “City Front” Bay Cruises leaving from Pier 40.\nCarlsson has written three books\, the most recent being Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes\, Unsung Heroes\, and Radical Histories (Pluto Press: 2020). His 2004 novel is set in a future “post-economic” San Francisco (After the Deluge\, Full Enjoyments Books: 2004)\, and his groundbreaking look at class and work in Nowtopia (AK Press: 2008) which uniquely examined how hard and pleasantly we work when we’re not at our official jobs. He has also edited six books including three “Reclaiming San Francisco” collections with the venerable City Lights Books. He redesigned and co-authored an expanded Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay after which he joined the board of the Mission Creek Conservancy; he is on the board of the San Francisco Community Land Trust\, and also serves as an advisor to the Shipyard Trust for the Arts at Hunter’s Point. He has given hundreds of public presentations based on Shaping San Francisco\, Critical Mass\, Nowtopia\, Vanished Waters\, and his “Reclaiming San Francisco” history anthologies since the late 1990s\, and has appeared dozens of times in radio\, television and on the internet. \nvisit: http://www.chriscarlsson.com/ \nPraise for Hidden San Francisco \nSan Francisco is long overdue for a history like this! Smart and accessible\, this is a book that everyone who has left a piece of their heart in the city needs to read. Its vibrant stories of the past are invaluable tools for charting a sustainable\, inclusive future’ —Barbara Berglund Sokolov\, historian at Presidio Trust \n‘The history of San Francisco I’ve been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past\, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in the region’s remaking.’ —Sean Burns\, author of ‘Archie Green: The Making of a Working Class Hero’ (University of Illinois Press\, 2011) \n‘Brings erudition\, curiosity and passionate progressivism to a remarkably wide range of subjects – from the city’s profaned natural glories\, to little-known episodes in its labor history\, to a Homeric list of people\, organizations and movements that have tried to throw a spoke in the grinding cogs of various incarnations of The Establishment.’ —Gary Kamiya \n‘Every city needs and deserves a Chris Carlsson. San Francisco is fortunate to have him and Hidden San Francisco not just because history from below is worth remembering\, but more importantly because it is full of possibilities we should never forget for the present and future of The City’ —Jon Christensen\, adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, the Department of History\, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \n‘Few people know the streets of San Francisco as well as Chris Carlsson. Sadly\, gentrification is fast ripping the heart out of a city that generations of artists\, immigrants\, and working-class radicals have made into a unique and wondrous place. This book\, thus\, can be read as an obituary for his beloved home or\, perhaps\, a call to arms to renew the city again’ —Peter Cole\, Professor of History\, Western Illinois University \n‘Unlike your conventional guide books telling you where to shop\, eat\, and be entertained\, this is a dissenter’s guidebook that invites you into a holistic view of the City – bringing to life the stories of everyone from the hot politicians and their corporate paymasters to the streetcar conductors\, secretaries\, and construction workers who built the city and keep it running’ —Peter Booth Wiley\, publisher and author \n‘Scores of sparkling vignettes – from Mission Rock to the Haight\, Balmy Alley to Telegraph Hill – illuminate the city with the torch of social criticism and the sharp lens of a local sage. This is history from below at its best and a guidebook through the byways of collective memory’ —Richard Walker\, author of ‘Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area’ (PM Press\, 2018). \n‘An original\, vivid people’s history of the nation’s ‘Left Coast City’. Photos\, maps\, and self-guided tours of over one hundred of the most important and iconic historic places and spaces bring to life the authors’ beautifully crafted and well-informed San Francisco stories’ —Bill Issel \n‘With the city awash these days with more and more newcomers\, Hidden San Francisco is more vital than ever for keeping us all connected to the wild\, weird\, and radical histories that make this place so special. Dig into it\, it’s full of gold’ —Susan Stryker\, director of ‘Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria’
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-carlsson-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-4/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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