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SUMMARY:Egypt + Holiday Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band together for an early evening\, relaxed community celebration on Sunday and break bread together before the end of 2019. Publisher J. K. Fowler will share a few photos of\, and stories about\, his recent community-funded trip to the Tanta international festival of poetry. \nBring one of your favorite dishes\, a dish that speaks to a favorite book of yours\, or try your hand at an Egyptian dish: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15039/world-cuisine/african/north-african/egyptian \nWine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/egypt-holiday-potluck/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcia Falk & Steven Rood
DESCRIPTION:MARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings\, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English and Hebrew. She will be showing images of the artwork with her poetry at this event. Mark Podwal\, artist and scholar of Jewish culture\, says\, “Inner East is a symbiosis of word and image…Falk’s beautiful visual images are poems in paint that do not merely illustrate her written words but illuminate them.” A Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, she returned there four years later as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Among her many other books are The Days Between: Blessings\, Poems\, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season and The Book of Blessings: New English Prayers for Daily Life\, the Sabbath\, and the New Moon Festival. She is also the author of a classic verse translation of the biblical Song of Songs\, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible\, about which Adrienne Rich said\, “it’s always a thrill when (as rarely happens) the scholar’s mind and the poet’s soul come together.” A translator from Yiddish as well\, she’s published The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda\, poetry of the twentieth century mystic\, Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky\, and With Teeth in the Earth\, poems of the Yiddish modernist Malka Heifetz Tussman. \nSTEVEN ROOD’s debut book of poems is I Say Your Name\, devoted to the memory of both the late\, great poet Jack Gilbert and Rood’s own psychotherapist. For these many years he’s been a member of the writing workshop that Gilbert founded at San Francisco State in 1967\, and he was a primary caregiver of Gilbert’s during his last Alzheimer days.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-falk-steven-rood/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo\, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. \nPoets Laureate on Social Justice–Vallejo\nSunday\, Nov. 24\, 4PM at Alibi Bookshop in Vallejo; Napa County Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson\, former San Mateo Co. Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin\, former Sonoma Co. Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, Richmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton\, and hosted by Ron Reikki\n\nNapa Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson (2017-2021) writes poems; he has also written novels\, short stories\, articles\, personal essays\, stand-up comedy routines\, short films\, and many letters. Jeremy aims to cultivate a rich community of writers\, readers\, and artists\, whether as a participant\, patron\, or planner. He has emceed open mics\, curated readings\, hosted craft-ins\, led workshops\, and cof-founded the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual exchange of hand-made chapbooks.\n\nCaroline Goodwin moved to California in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension\, CA College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies. In fall 2013\, she was appointed San Mateo County’s first Poet Laureate\, and served for three years (2014 – 2016). http://carolinegoodw.com/\n\n\nSonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle‘s (2017-2018) poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press\, 2017) Gold Passage (Trio House Press\, 2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech\, 2015). Her poem “Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts” poem will be featured on 100 buses as part of the San Francisco Beautiful and Poetry Society of America Muni Art 2020 campaign. Her works have been published in Tin House\, San Francisco Examiner\, Fence\, Los Angeles Review of Books\,  Split Rock Review\, Taos Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market\, Women’s Studies and Chicago Quarterly Review. Her biography on Charmian London\, Jack London’s wife will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.\n\n\n\n\nRichmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton is helping develop a literary arts center for the city. He has been a Pushcart nominee and Gregory O’Donoghue Competition winner. His work has appeared in Interbang\, Jacaranda Review\, King Log\, Shades of Contradiction\, The Texas Observer\, Parthenon West\, New Orleans Quarterly\, Journal of Human Architecture\, Quillpuddle\, Opium Magazine\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Oberon\, Written Here\, and Southword. His book\, A Complex Bravery was published by Marick Press. He works as a spatial epidemiologist. \n\n\n\nRon Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press)\, U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press)\, and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)\, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing\, 1917-2017 (MSU Press)\, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press\, Independent Publisher Book Award)\, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press\, Michigan Notable Book)\, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki is contracted for seven upcoming books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Voices: Palestinians Tell Their Stories
DESCRIPTION:Stories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny’s\, in partnership with Mothers on the March\, is putting together an events for Palestinian identified folk to come tell their stories. Participant list tbd! \nThis event is a part of our ongoing series related to Israel and Palestine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/palestinian-voices-palestinians-tell-their-stories/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:#we - a talk and reading series of queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the sixth installment of #we\, a talk and reading series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, followed by a reading of their creative work. \nFor our sixth event\, trans poet Natasha Dennerstein will give a talk titled “Rebel\, rebel\, you’ve torn your dress”\, along with reading from Seahorse\, her Nomadic Press chapbook about her years of trans prostitution and transition in a harsher time of the 1980s; and Pushcart-nominated writer and queer disability activist Hilary Brown will give a talk titled “I’m a Mover and a Shaker: Thoughts From an Epileptiqueer”\, and will read a variety of relevant work. \nWe try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible (rest room in the restaurant next door)\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we \na talk and reading series of queer perspectives \nfeaturing \nNatasha Dennerstein\nand Hilary Brown \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She worked as a psychiatric nurse which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She collaborated on a book with visual artist Kaye Freeman Turn and Face the Strange (2019). She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nHilary Brown is a Pushcart-nominated writer and queer disability activist living in Oakland\, California. Their chapbook\, When She Woke She Was an Open Field (Headmistress Press)\, was a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Queerly\, APT\, The Ocotillo Review\, The South Carolina Review\, and A Disabled Woman’s Reader. They enjoy reading their work around the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-a-talk-and-reading-series-of-queer-perspectives-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Obsession
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the last SNS of the year! The last (fifth!) Saturday of November\, right after Thanksgiving\, we’re celebrating OBSESSION. Every writer is obsessed with something: love\, loss\, longing\, the past\, the future\, the end of the world\, your mother\, my sister\, owls\, spiders\, scissors\, salt\, bones\, little red wagons\, the perfect pun. You know what yours is; you don’t need me to tell you. Write it down. And again. And again. Then come share. \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nNovember features Giavanna Ortiz de Candia & Norman Zelaya \nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia is a Bay Area born and bred writer\, musician and photographer. In 2011\, at age 22\, Giavanna wrote David Jacobs\, who was serving a nine year sentence for white collar crimes. Giavanna and David corresponded for two years\, engaging in topics of art\, music\, literature\, and how to live a life without compromise. A Story That Could Be True is an accumulation of these letters and includes illustrations\, cards\, lyrics-tablature\, cooking recipes\, and photographs. \nGiavanna and David lived together for two years after his release in Brooklyn\, New York and Oakland\, California. He is currently in Federal Prison\, and Giavanna is finishing what the pair began. \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, November 30\, 2019\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy\nGuest Hosted by: Abe Becker \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS forthcoming
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-obsession/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joan Baranow & Joan Aleshire
DESCRIPTION:This reading will feature a festive book launch for JOAN BARANOW’s new book of poems\, In the Next Life. Alicia Suskin Ostriker says\, “The lilt and love\, the trust and thrust\, the pain and gain of these poems\, is simply marvelous. In the Next Life reminds me of what I often forget—that poetry can be radiant.” Her previous collection is Living Apart. With her husband David Watts she produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine. Her feature-length documentary The Time We Have draws an intimate portrait of a young woman facing terminal illness.\nJOAN ALESHIRE’s new memoir in poems is Days of Our Lives. Reginald Dwayne Betts says\, “Most poets choose: navigate the personal or navigate the public. In Days of Our Lives\, Aleshire abandons the choice. Instead\, opts for the gospel that is all the ways our private turns at living are never as private as we imagine. As if\, all of it\, our love and the nation’s loss\, hang by the thinnest of wires.” She’s published five previous collections and is working on a novel. She lives in Vermont and is the founder of SAGE\, an organization that supports sustainable agricultural education and the arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-baranow-joan-aleshire/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Enduring Struggle\, Enduring Spirits
DESCRIPTION:ENDURING STRUGGLE\, ENDURING SPIRITS: Remembering Steve Abbott and Karl Tierney on World AIDS Day \nLocation: Latino/Hispanic meeting room\, Lower Level\, San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 \nSteve Abbott and Karl Tierney were two gifted Bay Area writers connected in life by gay literary circles and connected in death by the scorched earth of AIDS. Now two posthumous books celebrate their enduring spirits. Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader brings together a cross-section of artistic work spanning three decades of poetry\, fiction\, collage\, comics\, essays\, and autobiography. Have You Seen This Man? The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney is a time capsule of San Francisco in the ’80s and ’90s that morphs from observation to humor to hunger to fear\, each poem carrying a razor-sharp wit. Join the editors of both books\, Jamie Townsend and Jim Cory\, along with special guest Alysia Abbott\, at a special World AIDS Day event made possible by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center\, Nightboat Books\, Sibling Rivalry Press\, and\, with his trademark kindness\, the late Kevin Killian\, who organized this event in one of his last acts of generosity. Find more information about the writers and editors below: \nSTEVE ABBOTT was a poet\, critic\, editor\, novelist\, and artist based in San Francisco. Abbott edited the Bay Area periodical Poetry Flash and the influential SOUP Magazine. Abbott was a frequent contributor to The Advocate\, The Sentinel\, and The Bay Area Reporter. With Bruce Boone\, he organized the historic Left/Write conference in 1981. He was also a single father and many of his poems reflect on his relationship with his daughter\, Alysia\, who in 2013 published the acclaimed memoir\, Fairyland. Abbott died of AIDS in 1992. \nKARL TIERNEY was born in Westfield\, Massachusetts\, in 1956 and grew up in Connecticut and Louisiana. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Emory University in 1980 and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas in 1983. That same year\, he moved to San Francisco where he dedicated himself to poetry. He was twice a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award\, a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, and a 1992 fellow at Yaddo. Though unpublished in book form during his lifetime\, his poems appeared in many of the best literary magazines of the period. He published more than 50 poems in magazines and anthologies before his death. In December of 1994 he became sick with AIDS and took his own life in October of 1995. \nJAMIE TOWNSEND is a genderqueer poet\, publisher\, and editor living in Oakland\, California. They are half responsible for Elderly\, a publishing experiment and persistent hub of ebullience and disgust. They are the author of several chapbooks including\, most recently\, Pyramid Song (above/ground press; 2018) as well as the full-length collection SHADE (Elis Press; 2015). An essay on the history of the New Narrative magazine SOUP was published in The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books; 2017). \nJIM CORY’S most recent publications are Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir (The Moron Channel\, 2018) and 25 Short Poems (Moonstone Press\, 2016). He has edited poetry selections by contemporary American poets including James Broughton (Packing Up for Paradise\, Black Sparrow Press\, 1998) and Jonathan Williams (Jubilant Thicket\, Copper Canyon Press\, 2005). He lives in Philadelphia. \nALYSIA ABBOTT is the author of Fairyland\, A Memoir of My Father\, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury\, the only child of gay poet and writer\, Steve Abbott. As a journalist and critic\, she’s written for The New York Times\, Real Simple\, Vogue\, Marie Claire\, OUT\, Slate\, Salon\, TheAtlantic.com\, TriQuarterly and Psychology Today\, among other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University and was a contributing producer at WNYC Radio. \n—\nEVENT COVER PHOTO: March 8\, 1988—Activists in support of the ARC/AIDS Vigil block the entrance to the old Federal Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center before their arrest. The AIDS/ARC Vigils of 1985-1995 remain the longest running act of civil disobedience in San Francisco. Credit: Rick Gerharter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enduring-struggle-enduring-spirits/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Scarlett Sabet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new collection of poetry \nCamille \nScarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ\, Tatler\, Constellation Magazine\, The Violet Book and Dazed and Confused. Her poetry readings have been broadcast on the BBC\, London Live\, and London’s Soho Radio. She wrote\, directed and starred in her poetic short film “Burning” which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection “Rocking Underground” was launched with a reading at the Chelsea Arts Club in November 2014. Her second collection “The Lock And The Key” was launched with a reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris in July 2016. In October 2016 GQ online released a video of Scarlett performing her poem Feathers at Leighton House to celebrate National Poetry Day. In January 2017 Scarlett was interviewed and gave a reading for the radio program “Van Morrison And Me” hosted by journalist John McCarthy for the BBC World Service\, also featuring Sir Van Morrison\, Brian Keenan and novelist Ian Rankin.  In December 2017 Scarlett’s poems were exhibited alongside acclaimed photographer Jim Marshall’s work for the Peace and Light exhibition at The Troubadour in London. Scarlett has read at KGB\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Berl’s bookshop in New York\, Aspects Literary Festival\, No Alibi’s bookshop in Belfast\, The Troubadour in London\, the William Morris Gallery\, the World’s End Bookshop\, Burberry\, The Groucho Club\, and Atlantis Bookshop. Van Morrison commenting on Scarlett’s poetry says: “”What strikes me about Scarlett’s work it that it’s very cutting edge and it’s making poetry interesting again. I love both the intensity and the spiritual aspect she conveys.” \nAn interview with Scarlet on HUNGER TV \nInterview with Paul Gorman at Leighton House Museum\, London \nScarlett reading at The Troubador
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scarlett-sabet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Daniel Ari\, Colby Cotton\, Caroline Goodwin\, and Ari Moskowitz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nDaniel Ari serves as poet laureate of Richmond\, California and produced the city’s first anthology of poetry. His own book One Way to Ask (Norfolk Press\, 2016) combines poems in a new 17-line form called queron with illustrations created and curated in collaboration with 67 artists including Roz Chast\, R. Crumb\, Henrik Drescher and Wayne White. The book won the Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for design. His writings have appeared in Poet’s Market\, Writer’s Digest\, McSweeney’s\, Defenestration\, the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest\, The Wayfarer\, and many other venues over the last 30 years. He is currently transitioning into a new life as a guide. \nColby Cotton is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, and the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, his work appears or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review\, Cincinnati Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Colorado Review\, among others. He lives in Oakland\, CA. \nCaroline Goodwin moved to the Bay Area in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies; from 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. \nIn 2018\, Ari Moskowitz worked the graveyard shift full-time at Hotel Zeppelin in Union Square. He spent his nights talking to sex workers\, tech workers\, addicts\, poets\, the homeless\, film producers\, the police\, EMTs\, Katie Couric\, André 3000\, Jeff Gutt\, and Chris Taylor. He earned $17.53/hour after a raise. He’s working on a novel. Ari holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from SFSU\, where he was the Editor of Fourteen Hills. His writing has recently appeared in American Literary Review\, The Pinch\, and Red Light Lit. He’s been supported by a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as well as a grant from the Creative Capacity Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-14/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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SUMMARY:Beasts of Bourbon II
DESCRIPTION:Beasts of Bourbon returns with a stellar lineup of kick ass writers poets and musicians to close out the New Year with it’s second edition featuring Kim Shuck\, James Cagney\, Cassandra Dallett\, Juba Kalamka\, Alexandra Naughton and Red O’ Hare with musical guests Oddly Even (featuring Ashley Macachor and Calvin Sturges.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beasts-of-bourbon-ii/
LOCATION:The Legionnaire Saloon\, 2272 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191120T045034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T045034Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #37: Holiday
DESCRIPTION:The holidays are a tinsel covered monster\, roughly entangled in twinkling lights\, half-choked on a nutcracker doll. The kind of slavering nog-soaked beast that comes around once a year just to lift a leg on your “More Like Holi-Daze” door mat before knocking down the door and eating your children. \nTo stave off this beast with a literary pole\, we’re gathering some of our very favorite writers to address the subject of HOLIDAY (we leave off the ‘s’ in case anyone just wants to talk about vacationing on a sun-soaked isle) in it’s tattered\, gift-wrapped glory. \nThere will be beer. There might be nog. Hell\, we might go all out and get some cookies. \nBe there. \nThe Readers (so far): \nJoe Wadlington\nMicheal Foulk\nVernon Keeve III\nJoel Tomfohr\nSerena Chan\nJulia Halprin Johnson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-37-holiday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191124T171121Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release for STENCILS and Celebration of the Life and Art of David King
DESCRIPTION:This event had been planned for some time as a launch party for David King’s long-overdue monograph featuring his iconic stencil-only designs. Sadly\, David passed away recently but friends\, family and colleagues decided to continue on with the launch event but to also make it a celebration of the life and work of David King. \n\nThe new book STENCILS starts with his legendary logo for the UK band Crass and continues to the present day. Both the artist’s process and finished output are on display in this revealing collection\, from the covered-in-layers-of-paint stencils themselves to the drawings and designs outlining the thought process and ultimately the final art. Many of these works used multiple stencils and colors to create one-off finished pieces that you’re likely to find only within the pages of this book. \n\n\n\nDavid King grew up in post-war London and attended art school there between 1964 and 1967. He worked as an art director for a decade thereafter\, but left the commercial art world as he became more involved in creating music and confrontational graphics. He moved to New York and was commissioned to do graphics for clubs like Danceteria\, Peppermint Lounge and also for The Museum of Modern Art. He joined the band Arsenal around this time. Eventually the band relocated to San Francisco\, touring the west coast extensively\, changing its name to Sleeping Dogs and then finally Brain Rust. In the early 1990s\, King attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Since that time\, David has made short films\, continued with his logo design for bands and record labels and has published a number of photo books. He still was making stencils until the time of his death.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-for-stencils-and-celebration-of-the-life-and-art-of-david-king/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191001T201512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T201512Z
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SUMMARY:The Bushwick Book Club Oakland - - There\, There
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome The Bushwick Book Club Oakland on Sunday\, November 3rd\, from 6:30-8 pm (doors at 6). \n**Please Note** This event will take place after the store’s regular Sunday hours (10 am-6 pm). Attendees of the event are welcome to shop before or after but we will not be open to regular browsing in order to minimize disruption to the performances. \n\n\n\nThe Bushwick Book Club was started in 2009 by Brooklyn based singer-songwriter\, Susan Hwang.  At every Bushwick Book Club performance\, a book is selected\, and a collection of local musicians read the book and write songs inspired by them.  Over the past decade\, branches of the book club have sprouted all over the world\, in cities such as Portland\, LA\, Seattle\, Malmo\, Sweden\, Santa Barbara\, New Orleans\, Greenville\, SC and Toronto\, Canada. \n​Now\, Oakland\, CA has its very own Bushwick Book Club!  BBC Oakland specifically selects literature written by authors of color and members of LGBTQ communities. Each season a book is chosen and group of select singer-songwriters and composers read the book\, write a song inspired by it\, and perform their pieces for an audience of enthusiastic book people.  Bushwick Book Club Oakland selects books that take up issues of race\, gender\, class\, and mental health giving a place for artists of these communities to share their voices to an audience of similar representation and allies. Audience members are welcomed to read the book ahead of time for added fun. \nFor more information click here. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThere There lives and breathes its setting — the streets and neighborhoods of Oakland — and is a full-throated voicing of the urban Native American experience(s). A brutal history has made for a painful present that is as complex as the people living it. The characters in There There are angry\, funny\, heartbroken\, and their stories are woven together by having been silenced — their tongues and heads removed in past lives unseen in the present. What of their futures? \n— Brad \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, November 3\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bushwick-book-club-oakland-there-there/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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SUMMARY:Second Stutter Annual Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Solomon Rino \nwith readings by George Albon\, Laura Moriarty\, Joseph Lease\, and Norma Cole \nSecond Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal that publishes annually. It’s focus is on contemporary English language poetry and translation. The editions are produced with letterpress printed covers and handmade endpapers. The covers for volume one and two were printed at Jack W. Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press at 300 Broadway\, and volume three at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The editions are limited and largely distributed through readings\, university lectures\, and other poets. Second Stutter has published Will Alexander\, Gillian Conoley\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Laura Moriarty\, G.C. Waldrep\, Rosmarie Waldrop\, Joseph Lease\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Eleni Sikelianos\, Donna de la Perriere\, Manuel Vazquez Montalban (trans.\, me)\, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (trans.\, Arturo Mantecon)\, Victoria Xardel (trans.\, Norma Cole)\, Jean Daive (trans.\, me)\, and Paul Celan (trans.\, Ian Fairley)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-stutter-annual-release-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20190930T192102Z
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SUMMARY:Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name
DESCRIPTION:Mimi Lok discusses her new book\, Last Of Her Name\, with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Last Of Her Name \n“Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and deeply felt debut that affirms all that is great about short fiction. Lok’s collection brings startling intimacy to her characters\, all of them struggling with dislocation and belonging. “Woman in the Closet\,” has to be considered a new classic. I can’t think of a collection that better speaks to this moment of global movement and collective rupture from homes and history\, and the struggle to find meaning despite it all.”— DAVE EGGERS\, author of The Parade \n“What a basket of jewels! Each of these stories is elegant\, poignant and multi-faceted. A true pleasure.”— GISH JEN\, author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim \n“A truly beautiful and wide ranging collection. There is love\, longing\, grief\, displacement\, endurance. And from the gut punch of the opening story to the wonderful novella that anchors the book\, not a word is wasted. So many lines spoke directly in my ear: “Night after night they sleep\, but rarely at the same time. Without knowing it they take turns watching each other.” A book to stay up with\, a book that will make you not want to sleep..”— PETER ORNER\, author of Maggie Brown & Others \nAbout Last Of Her Name \nLAST OF HER NAME is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, LAST OF HER NAME features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nIn the novella “The Woman In The Closet\,” a homeless woman finds refuge in the unlikeliest of places\, while in “Motet”\, a teenage girl navigates art and emotional allegiances with her ex-opera singer stepmother. In “The Wrong Dave\,” a soon-to-be-married architect takes up a covert correspondence with a grief-stricken woman who may or may not be writing to the right person. “Wedding Night” centers on an unconventional romance threatened by societal mores. The title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, LAST OF HER NAME offers a unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mimi-lok-last-of-her-name/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers / The Captain and the Glory
DESCRIPTION:When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time\, a new leader vows to step forward. Though he has no experience\, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law\, and though he has often remarked he doesn’t much like boats\, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Until one day a famous pirate appears on the horizon. \n\n\n\nDave Eggers is the author of twelve books\, including The Parade; The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France’s Prix Médicis Étranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The Guardian\, the New Yorker\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and the Best American Essays. He is the founder of McSweeney’s\, an independent publishing company\, and cofounder of Voice of Witness\, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. He is the cofounder of 826 National\, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers with locations around the country\, and of ScholarMarch\, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Northern California with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-the-captain-and-the-glory/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191124T184620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T184620Z
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you went to a party with someone older than 70 who was not your grandma? Let’s celebrate 2019 together! \nPlease join us for the evening and meet people of all generations. If you’ve been to one of our intergenerational events or have never heard of us\, it doesn’t matter\, because ALL are welcome! The event is FREE\, but younger adults\, please consider BYOB/F to share with others. Invite your friends\, co-workers\, neighbors\, and partners! \nCome hear about what MLMS does in your community and learn about ways to get involved next year. We offer a memoir making program where every volunteer is matched with an older adult and they work together over the course of 3-4 months to create a memoir for the senior author. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191024T152827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T152827Z
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SUMMARY:Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington
DESCRIPTION:Charlton D. McIlwain in conversation with E. David Ellington \ndiscussing Charlton D. McIlwain’s new book \nBlack Software: The Internet\, Racial Justice\, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter \npublished by Oxford University Press \n \nActivists\, pundits\, politicians\, and the press frequently proclaim today’s digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book\, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact\, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers\, entrepreneurs\, hobbyists\, journalists\, and activists. But this is a history that is virtually unknown even in our current age of Google\, Facebook\, Twitter\, and Black Lives Matter. \nBeginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s\, McIlwain\, for the first time\, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans\, computing technology\, and the Internet. In turn\, he argues that the forgotten figures who worked to make black politics central to the Internet’s birth and evolution paved the way for today’s explosion of racial justice activism. From the 1960s to present\, the book examines how computing technology has been used to neutralize the threat that black people pose to the existing racial order\, but also how black people seized these new computing tools to build community\, wealth\, and wage a war for racial justice.Through archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history\, Black Software centralizes African Americans’ role in the Internet’s creation and evolution\, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United States and across the globe. \nCharlton D. McIlwain is Vice Provost of Faculty Engagement & Development at New York University\, and Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at NYU’s Steinhardt School. He is also the Founder of the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies\, and the co-author of Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns\, winner of the 2012 APSA Ralph Bunche Award. \nE. David Ellington is Founder & Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society (SVBS). SVBS is a global\, invite-only\, private\, member-driven ecosystem supporting blockchain and cryptocurrency related projects across industries and for social impact. SVBS members are active investors primarily in technology. They collectively represent more than $1.5 Trillion in investment capital.  The SVBS mission is three words: “Fund the Revolution.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlton-d-mcilwain-in-conversation-with-e-david-ellington/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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SUMMARY:Michael Frank: What is Missing
DESCRIPTION:Michael Frank discusses his new novel What Is Missing with Lindsey Crittenden. \nPraise for What Is Missing \n“Michael Frank’s masterful and psychologically acute first novel—which leads us with equal confidence through the light-saturated streets of Florence and the hushed and polished halls of Upper East Side New York—asks the most urgent questions about biology and nurture\, about filial and parental love\, and about what we’re willing to suffer to find out who we are. This is a wise and necessary book\, one I’ve been recommending ardently to everyone I know. ” —Julie Orringer\, author of The Flight Portfolio \n“This sophisticated erotic triangle of a novel is by turns sensuous and harrowing\, driven by a point of view roulette masterfully played. For a reader unfamiliar with the experience of assisted reproduction\, Michael Frank’s novel is an eye-opener. The ethics-testing extremes here left me thinking about the dire need to balance power between women and men long after I sped to the last page.” —Rachel Howard\, author of The Risk of Us \n“The novel is filled with trenchant moments of sweetness and betrayal\, as well as a stunning reveal of the harrowing gauntlet infertile women go through to conceive. This is an intricate and dynamic examination of familial ties: both what strengthens them and what can tear them apart.” — Publisher’s Weekly \nAbout What Is Missing \nCostanza Ansaldo\, a half-Italian and half-American translator\, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband\, an eminent writer\, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth\, and there she meets\, first\, Andrew Weissman\, an acutely sensitive seventeen-year-old\, and\, soon afterward\, his father\, Henry Weissman\, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in—as it happens—reproductive medicine. \nWith three lives each marked by heartbreak and absence—of a child\, a parent\, a partner\, or a clear sense of identity—What is Missing offers Costanza\, Andrew\, and Henry the opportunity to make themselves whole when the triangle resumes three months later in New York\, where the relationships among them turn and tighten with combustive effects that cut to the core of what it means to be a father\, a son\, and—for Costanza—a potential mother.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-frank-what-is-missing/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T125000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191023T082409Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Margaret Ross
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare. Her poems and translations appear in The New Republic\, The Paris Review\, and POETRY. Her honors include a Fulbright arts grant\, a VSC/Luce Chinese Poetry & Translation Fellowship\, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. She currently teaches at Stanford University where she is a Jones Lecturer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-margaret-ross/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191120T040332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T040332Z
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:A night for teens recite their original work. Teens from local high schools will perform: “A mic for your poem\, your breath\, and your soul. A space for your comrades\, your thoughts to unroll. Bring paper or not\, or perform on the spot\, we’re all here to listen to the words that you brought.” \nContact Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes (mflasherduz@gmail.com) or Erin Rodoni (erin_rodoni@hotmail.com) to sign up to perform an original work of poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191124T164948Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Kline and Susan Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:Peter Kline discusses his new poetry collection Mirrorforms with Susan Steinberg. \nPraise for Mirrorforms \nIn Mirrorforms\, Peter Kline has invented and perfected a new poetic form; in and through its strict and tricky confines\, he takes the reader on remarkably diverse journeys. From a sexy Godhunger out of Donne (“Is there a place for me / deep in a secret pocket / of your black leather jacket / to pass eternity?”) to wordplay worthy of Stevens (“Whatever // ––whiffles your whirligig / ––pips you ––pops your Bud/  ––puts pepper in your pud…”). From dramatic Monologues (Shapeshifter\, Narcissist\, Catcaller) through various Studies\, to a beautiful and moving series of elegiac Votives\, these mirrors reflect — and reflect upon— loneliness and estrangement; vulnerability and kink: a wide spectrum of the shadings of our emotions. One of the speakers tells us\, “I’ve been a courtesan / to an immense Amen.” Amen to that\, and to seeing\, someday soon\, Kline’s funhousing “Mirrorform” take its rightful place in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry & Poetics. -Moira Egan \nWith laser focus and a fixed stare\, Peter Kline’s Mirrorforms shows us how brevity can reflect an expansive emotional spectrum\, marrying wit and pathos in the most unexpected ways. Risky and formally inventive\, playful yet rigorous\, these poems work like mirrors facing one another; they give a sense of the infinite—the endless joys\, losses\, and mysteries that make our world.-Bruce Snider \nAbout Mirrorforms \nPeter Kline’s Mirrorforms is a daring\, experimental collection of poems in which language reaches its most pressurized state. Kline has invented a new poetic form\, the mirrorform\, which he uses with musical verve to essentialize thought and intensify feeling.  The result is that these poems achieve jewel-like precision: each darkly glinting facet reveals the nuances and ambiguities of longing\, transgression\, and faith. These poems are sharply ironic\, darkly funny\, and ferocious\, and mark out a unique place in contemporary American poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-kline-and-susan-steinberg/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
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SUMMARY:Wherever There's a Fight: 10th Anniversary Reading
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the 10th Anniversary Edition of Wherever There’s a Fight\, Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi’s sweeping story of the social movements and activists who have changed California and made ripples beyond. \nElaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines\, which was banned by the Marcos regime. \nStan Yogi is the coauthor\, with with Laura Atkins\, of the children’s book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books\, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. \nPresented by Eastwind Books and the Oakland Asian Cultural Center \nEvent is wheelchair accessible. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wherever-theres-a-fight-10th-anniversary-reading/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20190930T200505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T150146Z
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 6th | 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests.\n \nPultizer Prize-winning journalist and author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen\, Jose Antonio Vargas is one of the most well-known undocumented immigrants in the U.S. He will address migration versus immigration and examine what it means to be American. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens November 18th. \nAdults and high school students only. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, December 6\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Adult \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191120T033430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T033430Z
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 2
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nNINA SERRANO\nARNOLDO GARCIA\nJULIE ROGERS\nDIEGO DE LEO\nJEANNE POWELL\nCAROL DENNEY\nNILOUFAR TALEBI\nHILTON OBENZINGER\nAGNETA FALK\nLAPO GUZZINI\nSARAH MENEFEE\nMAURO FORTISSIMO\nMARIA CRISTINA GUTIERREZ\nGENNY LIM\nMARTIN HICKEL\nLISBIT BAILEY\nADRIAN ARIAS\nPAULINE CRAIG\nKAREN MELANDER MAGOON\nJACK HIRSCHMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191124T183225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T183225Z
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Come to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nDecember 6th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there! \n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191124T194850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T194850Z
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SUMMARY:East Bay Alternative Book & Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:2019 marks the 10th year of EBABZ! This year\, we’re “Renewing Our Vows” with a gaudy\, affectionate\, wedding-themed fest. Whether you’re tabling\, volunteering or browsing\, we hope you can make it out to enjoy a fun\, festive day of zines!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/east-bay-alternative-book-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Omni Commons\, 4799 Shattuck Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191207T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T023854
CREATED:20191120T033813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T033813Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition Open Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY 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)\n\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 \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-open-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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