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SUMMARY:October Lyrics & Dirges!
DESCRIPTION:Leticia Hernández-Linares\nAngela Hume\nBonnie Wailee Kwong\nAqueila M. Lewis\nAnne Raeff \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is an award-winning writer and community worker. She has performed her poemsongs throughout the country and in El Salvador. Her work has appeared in Street Art San Francisco\, U.S. Latino Literature Today\, Teatro bajo mi piel\, Huizache\, and Pilgrimage among other publications. A member of the CantoMundo Organizing Committee\, she lives\, writes\, and works in the Mission District of San Francisco.  \nAngela Hume lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). You can learn more about Angela http://angelamhume.tumblr.com/. \nBonnie Wailee Kwong’s first poetry collection is ravel\, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press\, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered several Pushcart nominations. She creates in many mediums and languages: English\, Cantonese\, Mandarin\, Japanese\, ruby\, and javascript. She is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Her website is: www.bonniekwong.info. \nAqueila M. Lewis is an award-winning writer\, Bay Area native and resident of Oakland\, CA. As a multi-talented artist and poet\, she is also well versed in journalism (print and radio) composing\, singing\, poetry/spoken word\, modeling as a plus-model. She also currently holds the titles as Ms. Oakland Plus America 2014 and SF Raw Performing Artist of the Year 2015. Aqueila’s articles have been published in numerous publication and on radio such as 94.1 FM KPFA Radio’s First Voice Media Apprenticeship Program and Full Circle Show\, Sideshow Radio\, After Hours Radio\, All the Rest of US Radio on 89.3 FM KPFB\, National Radio Project Making Contact Storytelling Fellowship\, Sistah’s With Ink Voices Anthology\, Reflections: A Collaboration Between Painting And Literature\, In Her Soul Magazine\, Til Death Do Us Part Lady Warrior Zine and Walking in the Feminine: Stepping in our Shoes Anthology. Aqueila is currently a CounterPulse Communications Fellow\, Liminal Writers-in Residence and creates workshops and circles focused on issues in relation to social justice and community. \nAnne Raeff’s stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica among other places. Her first novel Clara Mondshien’s Melancholia was published in 2002 (MacAdam/Cage). Her short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us won the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She too is a child of immigrants and much of her writing draws on her family’s history as refugees from war and the Holocaust. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Griffin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith alum\, prolific tweeter\, and International Treasure Sarah Maria Griffin joins us for the launch of her debut novel\, Spare and Found Parts. \nSpare & Found Parts tells the story of Nell\, a girl with a ticking mechanical heart\, living with her pet stoat and her genius scientist father in a futuristic Ireland ravaged by an epidemic and enduring a fragile recovery. Nell is lonely\, ambitious\, and anxious about living up to her potential—until she finds a mannequin hand while salvaging at the beach. As she begins to build herself a companion\, the city\, her father\, and her true feelings begin to reveal themselves. A soulful steampunk-dystopian romp with undertones of Station Eleven\, Gold\, Fame Citrus\, and\, of course\, Frankenstein\, Spare and Found Parts will be the highlight of your fall reading list. \nAin’t no party like a Booksmith party\, and ESPECIALLY when it’s one of our own. Join us to launch Griffski in style! \nSarah Maria Griffin is from Dublin\, Ireland\, and received a master’s degree in creative writing from National University of Ireland\, Galway. After moving to San Francisco in 2012\, she began to contribute essays about emigration to The Irish Times\, which developed into Not Lost\, a nonfiction collection published for adults. She has since returned to Dublin\, and lives in a small red brick house by the sea with her husband and cat. You can find her online at www.sarahgriff.com\, on Twitter @griffski\, and on Instagram @sarahgriffski.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-griffin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T203000
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SUMMARY:Rod Smith + Lee Ann Brown
DESCRIPTION:Poets Rod Smith and Lee Ann Brown\, visiting respectively from Washington\, D.C. and New York City\, read their work and converse with the audience. This event is FREE. \nGetting here. \n\nRod Smith is the author of Touché (Wave Books\, 2015)\, What’s the Deal? (Song Cave\, 2010)\, Deed (University of Iowa Press\, 2007)\, In Memory of My Theories (O Books\, 1996) and several others books and chapbooks. He edits the journal Aerial\, publishes Edge Books\, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington\, DC. He has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art & Design\, George Mason University\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art. Smith edited The Selected Letters of Robert Creeley (U. Cal.\, 2014) with Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Ann Brown was born in Japan and raised in Charlotte\, North Carolina. She is the author of Other Archer (Presses Universitaires de Rouen et du Havre\, 2015)\, In the Laurels\, Caught (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Crowns of Charlotte (Carolina Wren Press\, 2013)\, The Sleep That Changed Everything (Wesleyan\, 2003)\, and Polyverse (Sun & Moon Press\, 1999)\, which won the 1996 New American Poetry Competition. In 1989\, Brown founded Tender Buttons Press\, which is dedicated to publishing experimental women’s poetry. She now lives in New York City\, where she teaches at St. John’s University and curates poetry events through Torn Page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rod-smith-lee-ann-brown/
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:Vinod Narayan + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Vinod Narayan is a Poet from India and made the SF Bay Area his home since 2002. He started writing poetry in 2004 and have been continuing it since then both writing and performing them at events in the Bay Area. Vinod is also a Blogger\, Video Podcaster and a Content Management Professional regularly blogging on poetry\, movie reviews\, articles and opinions on life and things that matter to life. Vinod’s poetry range from personal poems to poems that address the theme of humanity\, love\, peace and surrealism. He also actively pens Haikus and Flash Fiction and converts poems to video poems on Youtube. For last two years he has taken up a 30 day challenge on the poetry month of April where he pens a new poem every day. This year he took up two projects\, Penning a new poem every day as well as translating a poem by an international poet to his native language Malayalam. This has sparked his interest in translations. He has two collections of Poetry “Remembering Dad” and “Precious Wombs to Priceless Tombs”. He is currently working on his third collection of poetry “Capturing Reflections”. He lives in Niles\, Fremont with his wife and two kids and runs his Content Company ‘PenPositive’ creating and managing content for companies He believes in the power of the Pen and quotes “The power of the pen is not in the color of the ink it spills; but the power of the word it spells.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vinod-narayan-open-mic/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T190000
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SUMMARY:October Cante Jondo Poetry Series
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as we continue to celebrate the deep songs inside of us! We also will be celebrating the birthday of Amalia Alvarez! \nFeaturing:\nAmalia Alvarez\nAlicia Franco\nThea Matthews\nNaomi Quiñonez\nwith flamenco guitar by Gopal Slavonic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/october-cante-jondo-poetry-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T193000
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SUMMARY:Pedestrian Prose #1 w/ Purnell + Zink
DESCRIPTION:Pedestrian Press is proud to present: alliteration! Just kidding. It’s our new reading series. Looking around the East Bay literary scene\, we’ve noticed a vacuum for short stories and creative non-fiction. Pedestrian Prose is our attempt to fill it\, with two featured authors reading one complete short story\, novel chapter or excerpt\, or essay. For our inaugural reading\, we’re proud to feature Laura Zink and Brontez Purnell\, two great East Bay fiction writers\, and to give you a chance to hear a complete story or chapter from each. Please join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pedestrian-prose-1-w-purnell-zink/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Randall Mann + Adrienne Su
DESCRIPTION:Randall Mann’s most recent book of poems is Straight Razor. Richard Rayner of the Los Angeles Times calls it “Bawdy yet elegant poems depicting the debaucheries and traumas of growing up amid San Francisco’s gay scene…Craft and bravura mix well…Mann shows himself [Thom Gunn’s] apt pupil.” His two previous collections are Breakfast with Thom Gunn and Complaint in the Garden. His new collection\, Proprietary\, will be published in summer 2017. \nAdrienne Su’s most recent book of poems is Living Quarters. Cate Marvin says\, “Su’s approach is risky in its sheer honesty and fierce by way of simplicity.” Her previous collections are The Middle Kingdom\, Sanctuary\, and Having None of It. Her work has been anthologized in The New American Poets\, The Pushcart Prize XXIV\, and Asian-American Poetry: The Next Generation\, and her honors\, along with her Pushcart Prize\, include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center and The Frost Place. She teaches at Dickinson College in Carlisle\, Pennsylvania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-randall-mann-adrienne-su/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161020T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161020T220000
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SUMMARY:DNA Hymn East Bay Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:*DNA Hymn’s East Bay Book Launch w/ Maya Chinchilla\, Tha Hood AlKemist\, Crystal Azul Barr & Vanessa Rochelle Lewis! Performer bios coming soon! *Annah Anti-Palindrome’s debute book\, DNA Hymn\, is a collection of poems about rural\, working-class\, queer/femme\, JewWitch\, survivor identity. Pieces of this book will be performed through live\, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal\, kitchen utensils\, gas-masks\, raw eggs\, blood pressure cuffs\, found objects\, her body (mostly her throat)\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dna-hymn-east-bay-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161021T190000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto Fellow Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an amazing night of readings from the 2016 Grotto Fellows \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nCaleb Leisure received his MFA in Fiction from New York University. In 2011 he was named a NYC Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction\, and in 2014 he won the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize. He works for a small winery in Sonoma County and is at work on his first novel. He lives in Oakland. \nMarissa Ortega-Welch is a freelance radio producer in Oakland\, California. Her stories have aired on NPR’s Latino USA\, KQED\, and KPFA. She is currently the health reporter for KALW Public Radio. She’s also worked for years as a teacher and naturalist and is drawn to stories about the environment\, youth\, and informal economies. \nLisa Marie Rollins is playwright\, poet and freelance director. Most recently she directed a reading of Tearrance Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton (Playwrights Foundation) and is co-Director of Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment (Crowded Fire). She is the director of All Atheists are Muslim by Zahra Noorbakhsh and was co-producer of W. Kamau Bell’s “Ending Racism in About and Hour”. She was Poet in Residence at June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley\, a CALLALOO Journal London Writing Workshop Fellow and an alumni in Poetry of VONA Writing Workshop. Her writing is published in Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out\, River\, Blood\, Corn Literary Journal\, Line/Break\, As/Us Literary Journal\, The Pacific Review and others. Currently\, she is finishing her new manuscript of poems\, Compass for which she received the 2016 Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award from SF Foundation. She is an Adjunct Professor at SFSU in Race and Resistance Studies. Lisa Marie is a 2015-16 member of Just Theater Play Lab and Artist-in-Residence at BRAVA Theater for Women in San Francisco. @thirdrootprod \nKaitlin Solimine’s debut novel\, Empire of Glass\, is forthcoming in Summer 2017 (Ig Publishing). Raised in New England\, she has considered China a second home for two decades. She has received the Yenching scholarship\, Fulbright Fellowship\, and Bread Loaf’s Donald E. Axinn Scholarship. A graduate of Harvard University and the MFA program at UC-San Diego\, she has published fiction and non-fiction in National Geographic News\, The Wall Street Journal\, Guernica Magazine\, Kartika Review\, China Daily\, and numerous anthologies. She recently returned from living in Singapore and now resides in San Francisco where she is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights to the wider public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-fellow-reading/
LOCATION:The Grotto\, 490 2nd Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ari Banias + Margaret Ross
DESCRIPTION:Come see why CAConrad says\, “Ari Banias is one of the best living poets\, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.” Or why Maggie Nelson gushes\, ““I’m so impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias’ Anybody. It’s discursive\, straight-talking\, and thinky\, then ghostlike\, elliptical\, and mischievous. It takes its time\, then rushes; it’s quiet\, then bold; it’s steeped in sociality\, then ringing with solitude. I happily recognize its arrival\, even if I know (as does Banias\, quoting Berlant) that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.” \nMargaret Ross’ A Timeshare unearths the corporeal in the most desolate reaches of corporate speech: Futures exchange; Human resources; Personal life. Lush and visceral\, A Timeshare knows that questions and crises of individual existence are inextricably bound to shared experience and its deft music carries from the closest closet to outer space\, touching the concrete through the metaphysical. \nThis will be a very special evening of poetry! \nAri Banias has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford. His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The Offing\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, as part of the exhibition Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects\, and in a chapbook\, What’s Personal is Being Here With All Of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Ari lives and works in Berkeley. Anybody is his first book. \nMargaret Ross‘s first book\, A Timeshare\, came out last fall. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, The New Republic and The New Yorker and have been recognized by fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford\, where she is currently a Stegner Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias-margaret-ross/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Party for HOUSE A
DESCRIPTION:Happy / over the moon / grateful to invite you to celebrate the publication of my first book\, HOUSE A (Omnidawn Publishing)\, selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. \nThere will be a reading\, a projector with images\, some form of favorite childhood snacks\, adult drinks\, and of course books for sale! Tell your friends! \nHOUSE A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home and vice versa? Through an assemblage of oblique letters to Mao\, incantations of “dream-geometry\,” and image-text experiments\, the book seeks to render the immersive/obscured feeling of a childhood household where the haunting of history blurs with a constellation of sheltering figures\, patterns\, and shadows. With evocative and intellectual precision\, HOUSE A maps a new poetics of American Home\, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement. \nbook // www.jenniferscheng.com/house-a\npoems // http://conjunctions.com/webcon/cheng13.htm\ninterview // http://theconversant.org/?p=10571
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-party-for-house-a/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161022T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T170000
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SUMMARY:Jack Spicer chapbook release
DESCRIPTION:SPECT books will be releasing a chapbook of an unncollected piece of Jack Spicer prose titled “The Wasp. Featured reading by Daniel Benjamin who wrote an afterward for the text. \nAND \nOmnidawn publishing will be releasing a new book of poetry entitled “The Field” by Robert Andrew Perez. He will be reading from the book!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jack-spicer-chapbook-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gerald Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Gerald Fleming’s new book of prose poems (Hanging Loose Press\, Brooklyn)—titled\, simply\, One\, pushes the tensile strength of the English language. Frederick Barthelme has called the work in this new volume “dizzying and wonderful\, pretzelesque\,” and for Fleming the book is the culmination of two years’ work using a language “constrained\, but somehow liberated in that constraint.” Of his last book\, The Choreographer (Sixteen Rivers Press)\, the poet Terence Winch said\, “Fleming’s world is a universe of his own making\, defined by a poet’s sense of language and a novelist’s take on story. Readers will have a blast traveling through this wondrous place.” \nGerald Fleming’s most recent books are Night of Pure Breathing\, prose poems (Hanging Loose Press)\, and Swimmer Climbing onto Shore\, poetry (Sixteen Rivers Press). Fleming taught in San Francisco’s public schools for thirty-seven years and has written three books for teachers\, including Rain\, Steam\, and Speed (Jossey-Bass/Wiley). From 1995 to 2000\, he edited and published the literary magazine Barnabe Mountain Review. In 2013\, with his brother and sister—glass artists Bernie Fleming and Michaela Fleming—he launched the limited-edition magazine One (More) Glass.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerald-fleming/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T220000
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SUMMARY:Roastmeal: The Rage Issue Release
DESCRIPTION:Friends! Join us in opening the hellmouth and getting super aggro this October with the epic release of ROASTMEAL: The Rage Issue! This blistering 11th issue of Oatmeal Magazine is so hot and messy with rage it’ll burn through your eyeballs into your heart and deep down in your gut\, and we’ll all be better for it. It’s beautiful and fierce and ugly and important and full of love and strength and vulnerable writing\, and we can’t wait to share it with you all. \n*Also* this might be our last issue ever\, so we extra-hope you’ll come hang out and get mad AF with a bunch of wonderful people who appreciate all your rage and feelings! There will be amazing readings AND we are so lucky and excited that SPELLLING and collander are gonna be playing all their dreamy\, dreamy sounds. Come dance!! It’ll be the best night. \ndoors at 7 // readings at 7:30 // music at ~8:45 \nmore details below! \n* * * READINGS * * * \nANGEL DOMINGUEZ is a Latinx\, Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast. He is the author of Black Lavender Milk (Timeless Infinite Light\, 2015)\, an experimental lyric-novel that functions as an extended meditation on writing in relation to the body; time\, loss\, ancestry\, ritual and dreaming. His work can be found in FENCE\, The Berkeley Poetry Review\, Macaroni Necklace #5\, Elderly 18\, Open House Poetry\, spiralorb.com and more. He was the co-founding editor of Tract/Trace: an investigative journal\, senior editor of The Bombay Gin\, and presently curates “Mi Vida Locx” with Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Elana Chavez. Along with Hannah Kezema\, he co-founded the performance art collaborative: Dream Tigers. Find him on twitter: @dandelionglitch \nJOSÉ VADI is an award-winning writer and film producer based in Oakland\, California. The recipient of the Shenson Performing Arts Award\, his work has been featured by the PBS NewsHour\, The Daily Beast\, Colorlines\, The Huffington Post\, Jupiter 88\, and Catapult. \nTARA MARSDEN lives and writes in Oakland. She moonlights as a bookseller (don’t ask her about her day job). Her Slaughterhouse Five-themed smut can be found in the anthology Loose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck\, recently published by Grand Central. You can read her non-smut writing in Eleven Eleven\, Boing Boing\, and The Establishment. \nELIZABETH FREEMAN lives in Oakland\, sells books for a living in Berkeley\, watches Murder She Wrote and hangs out with her elderly cat a lot. She is @eafreem on twitter with lots of feelings & words & minute by minute narration of terrible tv shows. \nWith a world as fleeting as it is\, AKANDE X is merely attempting to write everything down before it is gone. He loves Toni Morrison\, Nietzsche\, and Richard Wright. \nMELINDA NOACK is woman writer\, writer of womanly things based in Oakland. She helped create Lacuna\, the “world’s most public library\,” for the Bay Area Book Festival\, co-coordinates local writing group\, If I Told Napoleon\, and has been a featured reader at Nomadic Press\, Liminal\, and The Hundy. Friends and mild acquaintances are reminded of her when they see nachos\, kettle corn\, and dreadful book titles. She likes three-part lists. \nCLAIRE STRINGER is an illustrator and bookseller living in Oakland. She has eaten oatmeal most mornings since co-founding Oatmeal Magazine in 2011\, and recently started illustrating for The Rumpus’ Funny Women column. Sometimes she posts her art on her tumblr\, www.clairestrings.com \n+ even more! \n—- — — — —\n* * * MUSIC! * * * \n~*~*~ collander ~*~*~\nqueer sick experimental pop\nsoundcloud.com/collander \n~*~*~ SPELLLING ~*~*~\nconjurings\nsoundcloud.com/spellling \n—- —- — — —\n+ snacks and drinks! maybe this time we will actually have a vat of oatmeal?? who knows. \n—– — – — – –\naccess info:\npls come scent free! chemical products make some people very sick\, so no perfumes\, essential oils\, fragranced products\, detergents\, etc. we also ask folks to please avoid smoking at this event and avoid wearing clothes with cigarette smoke. (we will try our best to remove immediate scents in the bookstore\, but we are not able to guarantee the event as fully scent-free because it’s located next to a beauty salon\, and sometimes the smell of aerosol or perm solution comes through the vents; we also won’t be able to check folks at the door.) here’s a helpful scent-free guide! http://www.anapsid.org/cnd/files/how2bscentfree.pdf \nthe bookstore is wheelchair accessible\, however its bathroom is not (it’s upstairs). there are accessible bathrooms at golden lotus a few doors down and also at the tribune tavern across the street\, and we’ll make sure that folks can use them the night of the event. please feel free to reach out to claire or any of the event people to let us know if there’s any additional information/accommodations you need! \nWe can’t wait to see you all so soon! \nLove and rage\,\nThe Oatmeal Family
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roastmeal-the-rage-issue-release/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161022T213000
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SUMMARY:André Alexis
DESCRIPTION:Praise for André Alexis: \n“A novel about a pack of talking dogs\, you say? The very idea will most likely breed thoughts of insufferable whimsy\, like those paintings of mutts playing poker\, or of more or less effective satire\, in the vein of Animal Farm. It’s a grand thing\, then\, that this spry novel by Canadian André Alexis spends its 160 pages repeatedly defying expectations … I’m far from being a dog person\, but as a book person I loved this smart\, exuberant fantasy from start to finish.” – — Jonathan Gibbs\, The Guardian\, on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“Over the course of this novel\, slim yet epic in scope\, Alexis chronicles the fates of these strangely afflicted beasts\, shifting from thought experiment to comic parable to something more delicate\, laden with detail\, discovery and emotional nuance.” — The Globe & Mail on Fifteen Dogs \n\n“A remarkable book. Insightful\, wildly original and beautiful. Buy it.” — Mark Medley\, Books Editor at The Globe & Mail\, on Fifteen Dogs \nAbout The Hidden Keys: \nParkdale’s Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute\, and it is there that Tancred Palmieri\, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes\, meets Willow Azarian\, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away\, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and help her solve the puzzle. \n  \nA Japanese screen\, a painting that plays music\, a bottle of aquavit\, a framed poem and a model of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater: Tancred is lured in to this beguiling quest\, and even though Willow dies before the puzzle is solved\, he presses on. \n  \nAs he tracks down the treasure\, he must enlist the help of Alexander von Wurfel\, conceptual artist and taxidermist to the wealthy\, and fend off Willow’s heroin dealers\, a young albino named ‘Nigger’ Colby and his sidekick\, Sigismund ‘Freud’ Luxemburg\, a clubfooted psychopath\, both of whom are eager to get their hands on this supposed pot of gold. And he must mislead Detective Daniel Mandelshtam\, his most adored friend. \n  \nInspired by a reading of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island\, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honorable\, what it means to be faithful and what it means to sin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-alexis/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express Prompt Night reading
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents an open reading on the writing prompt “Stacking Rocks”; Prompt Nights “the group nominates a work which then is eligible for publication in our online magazine at the end of the year\,” hosted by Liz Alford
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-prompt-night-reading/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161024T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161024T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
CREATED:20160929T015546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T015546Z
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SUMMARY:Elliot Weinberger + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Eliot Weinberger: \n“One remains in silent amazement: How does he find these stories? How does he know everything?” —Die Zeit \n\n“His essays are dense collages of magical facts that make me ecstatic every time I read them.” —Sam Anderson\, The New York Times \n\n“As is often the case with brilliant writers\, an Eliot Weinberger sentence cannot be mistaken for that of anyone else.” —Will Heyward\, Australian Book Review \n\n“The brilliant net of details that Weinberger casts and recasts in his various inventive approaches to form is precisely what constitutes a superlative poetic imagination. And it’s what holds the essays—and us—trembling and raging and hallucinating together.” —Forrest Gander \n\n“Our personal favorite for the Nobel Prize.” —Rolling Stone (Germany)\n. \nAbout The Ghosts of Birds: \nThe Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay\, An Elemental Thing\, which pulls the reader into a “vortex for the entire universe” (Boston Review). Here\, Weinberger chronicles a nineteenth-century journey down the Colorado River\, records the dreams of people named Chang\, and shares other factually verifiable discoveries that seem too fabulous to possibly be true. The second section collects Weinberger’s essays on a wide range of subjects some of which have been published in Harper’s\, New York Review of Books\, and London Review of Books including his notorious review of George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points and writings about Mongolian art and poetry\, different versions of the Buddha\, American Indophilia (There is a line\, however jagged\, from pseudo-Hinduism to Malcolm X )\, Bela Balazs\, Herbert Read\, and Charles Reznikoff. This collection proves once again that Weinberger is “one of the bravest and sharpest minds in the United States” (Javier Marias).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elliot-weinberger-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
CREATED:20160922T000306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T000306Z
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SUMMARY:Helen Klonaris + Amir Rabiyah
DESCRIPTION:Helen Klonaris is a queer Greek Bahamian writer living in the Bay Area where she teaches creative writing and mythology. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including The Caribbean Writer\, SX Salon\, Tongues of the Ocean\, HLFQ\, Poui\, ProudFlesh\, and Calyx\, and several anthologies\, including Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles\, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. Her debut short story collection\, The Lovers\, is forthcoming with Peepal Tree Press. \nAmir Rabiyah is a mixed-race\, queer\, trans\, and disabled poet\, performer and community educator. Amir’s work has been published in Mizna\, Sukoon\, The Cream City Review\, Enizagam\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and more. They live in San Diego with their partner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-klonaris-amir-rabiyah/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
CREATED:20161017T233949Z
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SUMMARY:Nina Serrano + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11 (www.friendssfpl.org/Poets11). \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact friend’s Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-serrano-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
CREATED:20160901T230105Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Olen Butler
DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler shares his powerful new novel\, Perfume River. From one of America s most important writers\, Perfume River is an exquisite novel that examines family ties and the legacy of the Vietnam War through the portrait of a single North Florida family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-olen-butler/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T210000
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CREATED:20161019T000228Z
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SUMMARY:Gina Berriault Award Reading ft. Suzanne Rivecca
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the winner of the 2016 Gina Berriault Award: Suzanne Rivecca. Rivecca’s short story collection\, Death is Not an Option (W.W. Norton & Company 2010)\, has been lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “ferociously intelligent.” \nThe Gina Berriault Award was inaugurated by Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the eponymous writer\, a former SFSU professor who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to helping young writers. \nSuzanne Rivecca was raised in West Michigan. Her first book\, Death is Not an Option\, was a finalist for The Story Prize\, the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. NPR said of the collection that: “[Rivecca’s] talent allows her to impressively flex the muscle of fiction\, making us keep our attention where it belongs—on these bracing stories promising a fine career.” Rivecca is the recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writing fellowships from Stanford University\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her short stories have received two Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gina-berriault-award-reading-ft-suzanne-rivecca/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T213000
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author Jonathan Lethem returns with A Gambler’s Anatomy\, a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who’s convinced he’s psychic—or is it just a brain tumor? Bruno Alexander has traveled the world winning fortune and fame with his mysterious\, even uncanny talent. But when a dark blot begins to distort his vision\, he must return to California for the experimental surgery that might save his life. Amidst the pseudo-radical chaos of the Berkeley scene and a succession of femme fatales and scheming false friends\, Bruno must come to terms with the fact that his luck may have finally run out. \nJonathan Lethem is the New York Times bestselling author of nine novels\, including Dissident Gardens\, The Fortress of Solitude\, and Motherless Brooklyn; three short story collections; and two essay collections\, including The Ecstasy of Influence\, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\, Lethem’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Esquire\, and The New York Times\, among other publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-lethem/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161025T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
CREATED:20161018T232318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T232318Z
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SUMMARY:Ibram X. Kendi
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Stamped from the Beginning: \n“Ibram Kendi is an important new voice in African American intellectual and social history. This book\, an intellectual history of racist ideas\, promises to break important new ground for scholarly and general audiences interested in the construction of racism in America.” —Peniel E. Joseph\, author of Stokely: A Life and Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour \n\n“Both a penetrating treatise and a wonderfully accessible work of intellectual history\, Stamped from the Beginning reveals the heritage of ideas behind the modern dialectic of race-denial and race-obsession. By historicizing our entrenched logic of racial difference\, Kendi shows why “I don’t see color” and other professions of post-racialism remain inexorable alibis for white supremacy. Stamped from the Beginning has done the cause of anti-racism a great service.” —Russell Rickford\, Assistant Professor\, Cornell University\, and author of We Are an African People: Independent Education\, Black Power\, and the Radical Imagination \n\n“Richly sourced and engaging\, Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning is a highly accessible yet provocative study that seeks to complicate our understanding of racist ideas and the forces that produce them.” —Yohuru Williams\, Professor of History and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences\, Fairfield University \n\nAbout Stamped from the Beginning: \nAmericans like to insist that we are living in a postracial\, color-blind society. In fact\, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in “Stamped from the Beginning\,” racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history\, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.\nIn this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative\, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. “Stamped from the Beginning” uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson\, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti prison activist Angela Davis\, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading proslavery and procivil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.\nAs Kendi provocatively illustrates\, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation’s racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed\, they can also be discredited. In shedding much needed light on the murky history of racist ideas\, “Stamped from the Beginning” offers us the tools we need to expose them and in the process\, gives us reason to hope.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ibram-x-kendi/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T200000
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SUMMARY:Patrick Hoffman
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patrick Hoffman to the store to discuss and sign his new thriller\, Every Man a Menace\, on Wednesday\, October 26th at 7:00pm. \nPatrick Hoffman burst onto the crime fiction scene with The White Van\, a bank heist thriller set in the back streets of San Francisco and a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. Now he returns with his second novel\, Every Man a Menace\, the inside story of a ruthless ecstasy-smuggling ring.\nSan Francisco is about to receive the biggest delivery of MDMA to hit the West Coast in years. Raymond Gaspar\, just out of prison\, is sent to the city to check in on the increasingly erratic dealer expected to take care of distribution. In Miami\, the man responsible for getting the drugs across the Pacific has just met the girl of his dreams\, a woman who can’t seem to keep her story straight\, and thousands of miles away in Bangkok\, someone farther up the supply chain is about to make a phone call that will put all their lives at risk. Stretching from the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia to the Golden Gate of San Francisco\, Every Man a Menace offers an unflinching account of the making\, moving\, and selling of the drug known as Mollypure\, happiness sold by the brick\, brought to market by bloodshed and betrayal. \nPatrick Hoffman is a writer and private investigator based in Brooklyn. His first novel\, The White Van\, was a finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and was named a Wall Street Journal best book of the year. He was born in San Francisco and worked there as an investigator\, both privately and at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-hoffman/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T193647
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SUMMARY:Francine Prose
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed bestselling author weaves an ingenious\, darkly humorous\, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical. \nMister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the kind of family favorite that survives far past its prime. Margot\, who plays the chimp’s lawyer\, knows the production is dreadful\, and bemoans the failure of her acting career. She’s settled into the drudgery of playing a humiliating part—until the day she receives a mysterious letter from an anonymous admirer . . . and later\, in the middle of a performance\, has a shocking encounter with Adam\, the twelve-year-old who plays the title role. \nFrancine Prose’s effervescent comedy is told from the viewpoints of wildly unreliable\, seemingly disparate characters whose lives become deeply connected as the madcap narrative unfolds. There is Adam\, whose looming adolescence informs his interpretation of his role; Edward\, a young audience member who is candidly unimpressed with the play; Lakshmi\, the musical’s costume designer\, who imagines herself the hero of her own production; Ray\, the author of the novel on which the musical is based\, who witnesses one of the most awkward first dates in literature; and even the eponymous Mister Monkey\, the Monkey God himself. \nFrancine Prose is the author of twenty-one works of fiction\, including the New York Times bestselling novel\, Lovers at the Chameleon Club: Paris\, 1932; A Changed Man\, which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and Blue Angel\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include Anne Frank: The Book\, the Life\, the Afterlife\, and the New York Times bestseller Reading like a Writer. She is a former president of PEN American Center\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prose lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/francine-prose/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T213000
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CREATED:20160901T230321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T230321Z
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SUMMARY:Brit Benett
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Mothers: \n“Brit Bennett is the real thing. The Mothers is a stellar novel — moving\, thoughtful. Stunning. I couldn’t put it down. I’m so excited to have this brilliant new voice in the world.”  –Jacqueline Woodson\, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming  and Another Brooklyn \n“Brit Bennett’s masterful debut is brimming with unforgettable scenes and the sort of keenly-observed\, precise language that makes you look at your own relationships anew. Told with the wisdom of a seasoned\, compassionate storyteller\, The Mothers is a novel about community\, friendship\, grief and growth. The two women at the center of this novel are characters you will find yourself thinking about long after you’ve turned the last page– they pull you in close and never let you go. Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature.” –Angela Flournoy\, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner House\n \n“Brit Bennett’s The Mothers is an engaging and assured debut novel of depth\, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman\, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society.” —Chigozie Obioma\, author of The Fishermen \n\n“Conveys the complexities and challenges of young love with refreshing honesty and beautiful sentences. I cared about Brit Bennett’s characters\, and the choices they made\, and couldn’t stop reading this remarkable debut.” –Vendela Vida\, author of The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty \n\nAbout The Mothers: \nA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice\, “The Mothers “is a surprising story about young love\, a big secret in a small community and the things that ultimately haunt us most.\nSet within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret.\n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.”\nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance and the subsequent cover-up will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.\nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, “The Mothers “asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-benett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161026T213000
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the fall MFA in Writing Faculty Reading featuring the work of: \nLaleh Khadivi\, author of the novels The Age of Orphans and The Walking. Honors include the Whiting Award\, Barnes and Noble Discover New Writers Award\, NEA Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. \nDave Madden\, author of the story collection\, If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy\, a nonfiction book. Bernard DeVoto Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Tennessee Williams Scholar in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. \nD.A. Powell\, author of the poetry collections Cocktails and Chronic\, both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry\, and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, winner of the  2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Recipient of Kingsley Tufts Prize\, the Pushcart Prize\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nSusan Steinberg\, author of the short story collections The End of Free Love\, Hydroplane\, and Spectacle. Recipient of a United States Artists Ziporyn Fellowship in Literature and a Pushcart Prize. \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161027T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000
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CREATED:20160901T230742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160901T230742Z
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SUMMARY:Gary Snyder
DESCRIPTION:George Stanley (born 1947) is a Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years and later a resident of British Columbia. \nHe has published several books of poetry. One of his best-known poems is “Veracruz”. In 2006 he won the Shelley Memorial Award. \nStanley considers T. S. Eliot\, Robert Lowell\, and Charles Olson important influences on his poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-snyder/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T203000
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CREATED:20161018T004501Z
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SUMMARY:Geneva Chao + Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Genève/Geneva Chao has a B.A. In French Translation and Literature from Barnard College and an MA/MFA from San Francisco State University’s Creative Writing program. Her poems and translations have been published in Boxkite\, Can We Have Our Ball Back?\, (Satellite) Telephone\, n/a literary journal\, New American Writing\, DIAGRAM\, the L.A. Telephone Book\, and others. Her book one of us is wave one of us is shore (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions\, 2016) was also a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. Her translations of Gérard Cartier’s Tristran and Nicolas Tardy’s (with François Luong) Encrusted on the Living have appeared from [lx] press\, where she is an editor. She has twice been a Tamaas resident for work on the intersectionality of language/poetry and dance/the body. Her book Hillary Is Dreaming is forthcoming from Make Now Books.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet\, and multimedia artist. She’s currently co-editing an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color entitled Responses\, New writing\, Flesh. She is a Kelsey Street Press member and the Northern California Kundiman Co-chair. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband. Her second poetry collection Anemal\, Uter Meck is forthcoming in 2017 from Black Radish Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geneva-chao-mg-roberts/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161027T210000
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CREATED:20161018T001854Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates our last event of 2016 with special guest readers Dani Burlison\, Jacqueline Doyle and Megan Turner! Come cozy up with a glass of wine and listen to these storytellers! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n—–\n+ Dani Burlison is the author of “Dendrophilia and Other Social Taboos: True Stories\,” a collection of essays which first appeared in her McSweeney’s Internet Tendency column of the same name and “Lady Parts\,” which will be available soon from Pioneers Press. She has been a staff writer at a Bay Area alt-weekly\, a book reviewer for Los Angeles Review and a regular contributor at Chicago Tribune\, KQED Arts and The Rumpus. Her writing can also be found at WIRED\, Vice\, Utne\, Ploughshares\, Hip Mama Magazine\, Spirituality & Health Magazine\, Shareable\, Prick of the Spindle and more. She is an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Lit Camp and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference and has upcoming work in various online and print publications. Dani is currently finishing a collection of short stories and is working on her first novel. \n+ Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl (winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition) is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press. She has published flash in Quarter After Eight\, [PANK]\, Monkeybicycle\, Sweet\, Café Irreal\, The Pinch\, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence (White Pine Press\, 2016)\, and many online journals. She lives in the East Bay with her husband\, the writer Stephen D. Gutierrez\, and their son. \n+ Megan Turner graduated from the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. Her work has appeared in Rio Grande Review\, Spark\, Witness\, Grasslimb\, Atticus Review\, and others. Originally from Baltimore\, she grew up in Columbia\, Maryland and Harrogate\, England. She now lives and works in the Bay Area. For more information\, please visit: www.MeganRTurner.com. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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