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SUMMARY:15th Annual Berkeley Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate poets who make things happen in our communities and to honor Naomi Helena Quiñonez with a Lifetime Achievement Award \nHost\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez \nInvocation of the Muse\nJohn Oliver Simon \nReaders\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLeticia Hernández-Linares\nCassandra Dallett\nTiff Dressen\nNancy Aidé González\nJuba Kalamka\nMarguerite Munoz\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nRené Vaz\nShelley Wong \nMilvia Street readers\nYoussef Ahalla\nJalyce Fairley\nFungai Gora\nJulian Mithra\nJulie Southworth \nCo-directed by MK Chavez and Sharon Coleman\nSponsored by the City of Berkeley and Berkeley City College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/15th-annual-berkeley-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Berkeley City College\, 2050 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck + Jennifer Barone featuring at La Palabra Musical
DESCRIPTION:La Palabra Musical (The Musical Word)\, hosted by Avotcja! \nFeatured poets: Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate!)\, Jennifer Barone\, Kirk Lumpkin\, and N-Side the Healer reading from their latest work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-jennifer-barone-featuring-at-la-palabra-musical/
LOCATION:Cesar E. Chavez Oakland Public Library\, 3301 East 12th Street\, Suite 271\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Grant Jarrett: The Half-Life of Remorse
DESCRIPTION:In The Half-Life of Remorse\, three life-scarred people are brought together to confront each other thirty years after the brutal crime that shattered their lives. \nWhen two vagrants meet on the streets of Muncie\, Indiana\, they are both unaware that their paths crossed years before. Chic\, crude and uneducated\, is convinced that Sam is nothing more than a harmless lunatic\, and Sam\, emotionally scarred and psychologically traumatized by events long past\, regards Chic as just another denizen of the street. But Chic has spent his adult life trying to purge his soul of the brutal crime he committed as a teenager?the same botched burglary that resulted in the deaths of Sam’s wife and son. Meanwhile\, Sam’s daughter Claire is still unable to give up hope that her father might someday reappear. When these three lives converge\, the puzzle of the past gradually falls together\, but redemption commands a high price\, and what is revealed will test the limits of love and challenge the human capacity for forgiveness. \nGrant Jarrett lived in Manhattan for twenty years before moving to Marin County\, CA\, where he now works as a writer\, ghostwriter\, editor\, musician\, and occasional songwriter. His publishing credits include numerous magazine articles\, essays\, short stories\, and More Towels\, his coming-of-age memoir about life on the road. His debut novel\, Ways of Leaving\, won the Best New Fiction category in the 2014 International Book Awards. The House That Made Me\, his 2016 anthology about the meaning of home\, was chosen as an Elle “Trust Us” book. Jarrett is an avid cyclist\, skier\, and surf skier.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grant-jarrett-the-half-life-of-remorse/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Zevin: Young Jane Young
DESCRIPTION:Aviva Grossman\, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida\, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss–and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light\, the beloved congressman doesn’t take the fall. But Aviva does\, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed\, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line\, anathema to politics. \nShe sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. This time\, she tries to be smarter about her life and strives to raise her daughter\, Ruby\, to be strong and confident. But when\, at the urging of others\, Aviva decides to run for public office herself\, that long-ago mistake trails her via the Internet and catches up–an inescapable scarlet A. In the digital age\, the past is never\, ever\, truly past. And it’s only a matter of time until Ruby finds out who her mother was and is forced to reconcile that person with the one she knows. \nYoung Jane Young is a smart\, funny\, and moving novel about what it means to be a woman of any age\, and captures not just the mood of our recent highly charged political season\, but also the double standards alive and well in every aspect of life for women. \nGabrielle Zevin is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. Her eighth novel\, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry\, spent more than four months on the New York Times Bestseller list\, reached #1 on the National Indie Bestseller list\, and has been a bestseller all around the world. She has also written books for children and young adults\, including the award-winning Elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-zevin-young-jane-young/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170826T213000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Confessional" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Reveal your skeletons and air your dirty laundry this month at Saturday Night Special! We want to hear your dirty secrets and burning confessions\, that thing you did\, that you shouldn’t have done. Come share your sins\, real or imagined\, yours or someone else’s. Our theme this month is: Confession. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur August features are: Vernon Keeve III and Joel Landmine\n— \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! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, August 26th\, 2017\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 \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 \nVernon Keeve III is a writer from Fredericksburg\, Virginia\, and a California-made educator. He currently teaches high school English and history in Oakland\, and has a book Southern Migrant Mixtape in its final stages of publication with Nomadic Press–look for it in the Fall. \nJoel Landmine’s work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Yeah\, Well…\, his first collection of poems\, is available from Punk Hostage Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-confessional-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Florey's
DESCRIPTION:Come and share the joy of writing\, reading\, and poetry!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Florey's Book Co.":MAILTO:FloreysBookCo@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170827T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170827T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash tribute to "Heaven Was Detroit" w/ M.L. Liebler + Greil Marcus
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts a special installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 27th at 3pm. Editor M.L. Liebler and contributor Greil Marcus will be here to discuss Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nHeaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip Hop and Beyond is the first of its kind to capture the full spectrum of Detroit popular music from the early 1900s to the twenty-first century. Readers will find in this unique and stimulating anthology new essays\, and a few classics\, by widely known and respected music writers\, critics\, and recording artists who weigh in on their careers and experiences in the Detroit music scene\, from rock to jazz and everything in between. With a foreword by the acclaimed rock writer Dave Marsh and iconic photos by Leni Sinclair\, the book features such well-known writers as Greil Marcus\, Jaan Uhelszki\, Al Young\, Susan Whitall\, Gary Graff\, John Sinclair\, and many others.\nDivided into nine sections\, the book moves chronologically through the early days of jazz in Detroit\, to the rock ‘n’ roll of the 1960s\, and up to today’s electronica scene\, with so many groundbreaking moments in between. This collection of cohesive essays includes Motown’s connection to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement through its side label\, Black Forum Records; Lester Bangs’s exemplary piece on Alice Cooper; the story behind the emergence of rap legend Eminem; and Craig Maki’s enlightening history on “hillbilly rock” – just to name a few. With a rich musical tradition to rival Nashville\, Detroit serves as the inspiration\, backdrop\, and playground for some of the most influential music artists of the past century.\nHeaven Was Detroit captures the essence of the Detroit music scene: the grit\, the spark\, the desire to tell a story set to the rhythm of the city. Fans of any music genre will find something that speaks to them in the pages of this collection. \nM. L. Liebler is an award-winning poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. He is the author of several books of poetry\, including I Want to Be Once\, and editor of the anthology Working Words: Punching the Clock and Kicking Out the Jams. He is also co-editor of Bob Seger’s House and Other Stories. Liebler has taught at Wayne State University since 1980. \nGreil Marcus’s books include Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock ‘n’ Roll Music\, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century\, and The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs. He teaches at Berkeley and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-tribute-to-heaven-was-detroit-w-m-l-liebler-greil-marcus/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T200000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #10: BIRTH
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly reading series returns with a bevy of writers talking about BIRTH. \nIs it pregnancy? Metamorphosis? A staggering change in life? Well\, we’ll find out. \nOur readers: KAR A. Johnson\, Miah Jeffra\, Mike Hsu\, Jennifer Lewis and Shideh Etaat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-10-birth/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T210000
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SUMMARY:Georgette Howington
DESCRIPTION:Georgette Howington is a closet poet and short story writer who came out three years ago. Her poems are published in Iodine\, Sleet and Poeming Pigeons\, among others. Several poems won Honorable Mentions at the North American Women’s Music Festival and Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest in 2016. As a naturalist and horticulturist\, her niche is Backyard Habitat and secondary-cavity nesters. She is a County Coordinator and Assistant State Program Director for the California Bluebird Recovery Program and an activist in the conservation community in the SF Bay Area for over 30 years. Georgette is also a published garden and environmental writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/georgette-howington/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Robert Currier - Marin Shakespeare Company
DESCRIPTION:“A Labour of Love” \nJoin Marin Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Robert Currier and Marin Shakespeare actors as they discuss the complex wordplay and sly wit of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost\, playing through September 24 at Dominican University’s Forest Meadows Amphitheater. \nClick here to purchase tickets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-currier-marin-shakespeare-company/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone\, host of the WordParty poetry and jazz series and author of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food and love” will be reading from new work along with poet James Cagney\, reading from his latest. Hosted by Jack Hirschman and the North Beach Library. \nvisit: www.jenniferbarone.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Singing Ship Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Noe Valley Author Rebecca Winterer discusses her debut novel\, The Singing Ship\, in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell Tuesday\, August 29\, 7 p.m. at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Pursell is the organizer of the North Bay reading series Why There Are Words. The Singing Ship\, “a novel about traversing boundaries\,” is set in Winterer’s native Australia. It won the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize. It is the story of two sisters who fight an unorthodox battle for truth after an attack in the Australian Outback. Free admission\, champagne\, and cake. An author signing follows the discussion. www.facebook.com/events/124981894791558
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-singing-ship-book-launch/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Magariel
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Magariel discusses his new book\, One of the Boys. \n\nPraise for One of the Boys \n“Brilliant\, urgent\, darkly funny\, heartbreaking—a tour de force with startling new things to say about class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and family.  Daniel Magariel is an exciting new presence in American writing.” (George Saunders\, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo) \n“Precise and coiled and urgent. Magariel is able–as few writers can–to say so much in so little. A propulsive and intense debut.” (Hanya Yanagihara\, author of A Little Life) \n“With a charismatic\, macho\, drug-addicted dad\, the young narrator pays an awful price to be One of the Boys in the riveting debut novel by Daniel Magariel. Move over Great Santini\, this patriarch is rendered with such artful love\, you’ll be haunted by his presence long after you close this graceful and heartbreaking book.” (Mary Karr\, author of Lit and The Liar’s Club) \n\nAbout One of the Boys \nThe three of them—a twelve-year-old boy\, his older brother\, their father—have won the war: the father’s term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque\, eager to begin again\, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school\, join basketball teams\, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home\, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps—the dead-eyed absentmindedness\, the late night noises\, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters—become worrisome\, and the boys find themselves watching their father change\, grow erratic\, then dangerous. \n\nSet in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world\, One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender\, moving and beautiful\, Daniel Magariel’s masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted\, but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals\, One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-magariel/
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:20170830T200000
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SUMMARY:An Expensive Hoax: Environmental Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana\, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” —Donald J. Trump\, Jan. 29\, 2014  \nAnd with that tweet\, the would-be President of the United States declared war on the environment. Donald Trump has also opined that climate change was invented by the Chinese to hurt U.S. manufacturing\, tweeted that wind power is dangerous for our health\, deregulated mining waste disposal\, forced the EPA to delete mentions of global warming on its website\, and taken aim at national monuments\, with an eye toward stripping them of their protected status. \nAnd that’s only in the first six months of his presidency. Where will this lead? What can writers and activists do to stem the tide of anti-environmental actions?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-expensive-hoax-environmental-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Tallent discusses his new novel\, My Absolute Darling. \n\nPraise for My Absolute Darling \n“There are books we like well enough to recommend\, but there are a very few— To Kill a Mockingbird\, Catch-22\, The Things They Carried— that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling\, by Gabriel Tallent. Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation\, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the pages of a novel since Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. This book is ugly\, beautiful\, horrifying\, and uplifting.” —Stephen King \n“I read My Absolute Darling in one sitting\, well past midnight\, despite an early-morning flight: the book is that impossible to put down. Gabriel Tallent depicts Turtle’s battle for her independence–body\, mind\, and soul–with brutal honesty and overwhelming tenderness. The result is a heartrending debut that will shock\, then shake\, then inspire you.” —Celeste Ng\, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time\, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension\, so much insight\, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail\, I simply could not stop reading.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment \n\nAbout My Absolute Darling \nTurtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. \nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well. \nShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent/
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:20170831T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T203000
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CREATED:20170824T051754Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:featuring: Cecil Giscombe \nRobert Hass \nLyn Hejinian \nGeoffrey G. O’Brien \nJohn Shoptaw \nand giovani singleton.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-annual-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim + Nellie Wong
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is the SFJAZZ poet laureate. She has performed in poetry and music collaborations with the late jazz legends Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Fred Ho\, and with Bay Area musicians John Santos\, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She has also been featured at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia and Italy. Her award-winning play Paper Angels aired on PBS’ American Playhouse in 1985 and was reprised in 2010 at San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square\, receiving the San Francisco Fringe Festival’s Best Site-Specific Award. Lim’s performance piece with drummer Marshall Trammell\, Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at Safe House this last April to sold-out houses and will be performed at next year’s SF Jazz Poetry Festival at the SFJazz Center. Lim is author of four poetry collections: Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels and KRA!\, and she is co-author of the seminal Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. \nNellie Wong is the author of four books of poetry: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Most recently she edited Talking Back: Voices of Color (Red Letter Press\, 2015)\, a collection of essays and interviews advancing the views of a multiracial\, intergenerational mix of 30 black\, Latina/o\, Indigenous\, Asian Pacific American\, Palestinian and LGBTQ community organizers. The first-born daughter of Chinese immigrants in Oakland\, Wong is active with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and has worked as a secretary and administrative assistant and affirmative action analyst. She was a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council for University Professional and Technical Employees. Wong has taught at Mills College and University of Minnesota. Wong has traveled with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen\, Paule Marshall and other delegates on the first U.S. Women Writers Tour to China\, and has read throughout the U.S. and in Australia and Cuba. Her work has been translated into Spanish\, Chinese\, French and Italian. She’s featured with Mitsuye Yamada in the documentary film\, Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets\, by Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-nellie-wong/
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:Michael Mazza
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mazza discusses his new novel\, That Crazy Perfect Someday. \nThe year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world’s wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky\, cars drive themselves\, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long\, UCSD marine biology grad\, champion surfer\, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave\, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame\, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike\, she’s intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father\, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower\, learns that his beloved supercarrier\, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is to be sunk\, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri’s personal life comes undone via social media\, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen\, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic\, brutal\, and at times funny\, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly\, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney\, Key West\, and Manila\, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope\, yearning and family bonds\, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mazza/
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:20170902T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170812T002405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170812T002405Z
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SUMMARY:Ripped from the Headlines! Poets Reading the News at Beast Crawl
DESCRIPTION:With a news cycle like ours\, we need poetry. Come hear poetic reflections on the news from legendary writers Arisa White & Moira Roth\, along with the editors of Poets Reading the News\, Jenna Spagnolo and Elle Aviv Newton\, at Oakland’s Beast Crawl. \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over three hours and thirty-eight local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nPOETS READING THE NEWS is the world’s only newspaper written entirely by poets. We publish work from around the world online atwww.poetsreadingthenews.com and host an events series in Oakland\, California. \nARISA WHITE\, author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, Black Pearl\, and Hurrah’s Nest\, is a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She can be found online at arisawhite.com. \nMOIRA ROTH is an art historian\, writer\, and playwright. She has published extensively including Difference/Indifference: Musings on Postmodernism\, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. She has a “News from the cafe” series on Poets Reading the News.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ripped-from-the-headlines-poets-reading-the-news-at-beast-crawl/
LOCATION:Itani Ramen\, 1736 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T233000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170808T112731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170808T112731Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017
DESCRIPTION:BEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nEach leg of The Beast lasts one hour\, and offers a dozen different readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. \n\nCrawl maps\, curators\, readers\, and venues are all searchable on our website: beastcrawl.weebly.com. \nPrinted crawl maps will be available on the day of the festival at all the Leg 1 events\, and at the Beast Crawl Information Table in front of The Legionnaire Saloon. \nEveryone is invited to the Leg 4 After Parties (marked with stars on the crawl map) starting at 9pm at The Legionnaire Saloon (drinks\, dancing\, 21+) and Telegraph Beer Garden (food\, drinks\, all ages). \nEvery city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \nBeast Crawl Literary Festival\nSaturday\, September 2\, 2017\n5pm – 9pm readings\n9:30pm – 2am afterparty\nUptown Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017/
LOCATION:Uptown Oakland\, Oakland
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170902T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170902T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170718T040048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170718T040048Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Presents: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series regularly held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2017 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival at the Telegraph Beer Garden: \nPeter Thomas\, Hollie Hardy\, Kwesi Wilkerson\, G Macias Gusman\, Lisa Martinovic\, and musical guest Dillie Dauley \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nSaturday\, Sept. 2\, 2017\nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th) \nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic events and photos from past events! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s annual free literary festival featuring more than 200 writers in a single night\, in dozens of events\, spread out over four hours and thirty-seven local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, performance spaces\, and storefronts. \nFind out more about Beast Crawl Lit Fest at beastcrawl.weebly.com \nBIOS: \nPETER THOMAS BULLEN is confused about bios. Do you discuss pivotal moments in your life\, assuming there were pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your heartbreaking lack of pivotal moments\, or do you discuss your phobias\, your first girlfriend Phoebe\, or something else beginning with p\, like your own name? Or do you list literary credits? If you list literary credits\, then mine come down to sPARKLE & bLINK\, Eleven Eleven\, LA Review of Books\, Red Light Lit\, Sweet Wolverine\, and Oakland Review. Plus I have a chapbook out from Nomadic Press titled Wallflower\, which I am shy and excited about. \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Annual Poetry Center Book Award. She teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute and Berkeley City College\, hosts Saturday Night Special\, An East Bay Open Mic\, and is a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. Her website is: www.holliehardy.com \nTERRON “KWESI” WILKERSON started writing poetry during his time abroad in Ghana\, West Africa. It began as a personal keepsake and evolved into his first book\, Pieces of My Soul\, Vol. 1. Kwesi now performs at venues throughout the Bay Area\, most recently during an event at Twitter Headquarters. Stay connected by following @KwesiDreams on social media. And find out more at KwesiDreams.com! \nG. MACIAS GUSMAN lives in Oakland California writing prose poems to the factories\, mountains\, and ditches that enslave many a good women/ men and the bars they escape too. He’s had work published in a few tight rags and has performed around the Bay Area. G. Macias is still discovering himself and his voice. \nLISA MARTINOVIC has performed on stages from LitQuake to Lollapalooza. Her work appears in publications as diverse as the San Francisco Chronicle and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. Lisa feeds her beast by writing: slam poetry\, flash fiction\, gritty memoir\, and essays about neuroplasticity and addiction. Yeah\, her beast is voracious. \nMusical Guest: \nDILLIE DAULEY has been playing Folk Punk Americana on ukulele and viola for twelve years. She toured the country with her former band Ghost Town Gospel\, and is currently performing with Vagabondage. She is constantly working on writing new music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-presents-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170622T062055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170623T022601Z
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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s new story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. With language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.\nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170905T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170622T001710Z
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nat Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House \n2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel \nEvent #6 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nOur last bookish beer-bash of the season! Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Beer Thirty. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 90 seconds\, and we’ll have a timer. Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Beer Thirty will generously offer 20% off all purchases (including retail) to attendees on the date of this event. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book to participate in this event.*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-2/
LOCATION:Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House\, 2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170505T001450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T001450Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder w/ Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Matthew Zapruder \n“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.”—The Boston Review \n\n“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.”—The New York Times \n\n“With dynamic\, logically complex sentences\, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.”—BOMB \n\nAbout Why Poetry \nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \n  \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry–and poetry alone–can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \n  \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, -possess the origin of all poems\, – without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \n  \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-w-natalie-baszile/
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:20170907T125000
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CREATED:20170816T001739Z
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SUMMARY:Series Kick-off
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Geoffrey G. O’Brien\, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: \nAssociate Director Adam A. Hillier (Undergraduate Admissions)\, Khalid Kadir (International and Area Studies)\, Marco Lindsey (Haas School of Business)\, Kathy Mendonca(Human Resources)\, Claudia Polsky (Law)\, Sidalia Reel(Staff Diversity Initiative)\, Elizabeth Wilcox (Human Resources)\, and Tarek Zohdi (Mechanical Engineering).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T200000
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CREATED:20170505T004147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T004147Z
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SUMMARY:Nancy Pearl
DESCRIPTION:George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. George grew up in a warm and loving family—his father an orthodontist\, his mother a stay-at-home mom—while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two famous psychologists\, who viewed her more as an in-house experiment than a child to love. \nOver the course of their marriage\, nothing has changed—George is happy; Lizzie remains…unfulfilled. When a shameful secret from Lizzie’s past resurfaces\, she’ll need to face her fears in order to accept the true nature of the relationship she and George have built over a decade together. \nWith pitch-perfect prose and compassion and humor to spare\, George and Lizzie is an intimate story of new and past loves\, the scars of childhood\, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moments. \nNancy Pearl is known as “America’s Librarian.” She speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences\, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on KUOW FM in Seattle\, as well as KWGS in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Public Radio. Born and raised in Detroit\, she received her master’s degree in library science in 1967 from the University of Michigan. She also received an MA in history from Oklahoma State University in 1977. Among her many honors and awards are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. She also hosts a monthly television show\, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-pearl/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170817T115054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T115054Z
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent: My Absolute Darling
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Gabriel Tallent for a book talk and signing of his new book\, My Absolute Darling\, A Novel. A brilliant and immersive\, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl’s heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since th e death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.\n\nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well.\n\nWith remarkably striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nGabriel Tallent was born in New Mexico and raised on the Mendocino coast by two mothers. He received his BA from Willamette University\, and after graduation spent two seasons leading youth trail crews in the backcountry of the Pacific Northwest. Tallent lives in Salt Lake City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent-my-absolute-darling/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T093914
CREATED:20170621T232410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T232410Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Sloan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Robin Sloan (bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) celebrates the release of his new novel\, Sourdough. \n\nPraise for Robin Sloan \n“A real tour de force [and] a beautiful fable…The reader is swept along by Sloan’s enthusiasm.” ―George Saunders \n\n“A book about passion–for books\, for history\, for the future…There is nothing about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore that I didn’t love.” ―Cory Doctorow \n\n“In a time when actual books are filling up tag-sale dollar boxes\, along with VHS tapes and old beepers\, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore reminds us that there is an intimate\, adventurous joy in the palpable papery things called novels\, and in the warm little secret societies we used to call ‘bookstores.’ Robin Sloan’s novel is delightfully funny\, provocative\, deft\, and even thrilling. And for reasons more than just nostalgia\, I could not stop turning these actual pages.” ―John Hodgman \n\nAbout Sourdough \nLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity\, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night\, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then\, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop\, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture\, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive\, they tell her―feed it daily\, play it music\, and learn to bake with it. \n  \nLois is no baker\, but she could use a roommate\, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon\, not only is she eating her own homemade bread\, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market\, and a whole new world opens up. \n  \nWhen Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets\, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then\, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people\, exactly? \n  \nLeavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation\, while taking on even more satisfying challenges\, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-sloan-book-launch/
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:20170907T213000
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SUMMARY:Why Poetry? How Form?
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass is the author of numerous collections of poetry\, including The Apple Trees at Olema\, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, andField Guide. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. As Poet Laureate he founded the program River of Words\, now a part of Saint Mary’s College’s own Center for Environmental Literacy. He is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his most recent collection of essays is A Little Book on Form. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bear and Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. He is also the author of three other collections of poetry\, American Linden\, The Pajamaist\, and Come On All You Ghosts. The Pajamaist was selected as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Come On All You Ghosts was a New York Times Notable Book of the year\, and was also selected as the 2010 Booklist Editors’ Choice for poetry\, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers poetry book of the year. An Associate Professor in the MFA at Saint Mary’s\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-poetry-how-form/
LOCATION:Le Fevre Theater\, 1928 St. Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94556\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170908T203000
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SUMMARY:Robert Pesich: Model Organism book release + reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with a community leader in both the practice and presentation of poetry. Doors open 6:30pm; reading begins 7pm. \nRobert Pesich is the editor and publisher at Swan Scythe Press (swanscythepress.com)\, president of Poetry Center San José (pcsj.org) and coordinator for The Well-RED Reading Series at Works/San José. Recent work has appeared in 7×7\, The Bitter Oleander\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Sand Hill Review and sPARKLE + bLINK. He has received poetry fellowships from Arts Council Silicon Valley\, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and was thrice a Djerassi Resident Artist Fellow. Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize\, he was awarded the Littoral Press Poetry Prize in 2009. Author of Burned Kilim (Dragonfly Press) his collection of poetry Model Organism has just been published by Five Oaks Press. He works as a lab manager and research associate for Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research and for Stanford University School of Medicine\, Dept. of Infectious Diseases. He was born and raised in San José. \nPoet Sandra McPherson says about the book: \n“An altar of monitors” describes Robert Pesich’s curiousness and embracing perspicacity. His insights are both scientific and heartbreaking; poems that know “the blues” also illuminate the world with a light of many colors. When there is an I\, it’s a poet-scientist able to identify even physiologically with the prey of a red-tailed hawk or a hummingbird loose in the Biology building. Pesich is our Miroslav Holub; his Nude Mouse is Elizabeth Bishop’s armadillo. This collection advances our consciousness and smartens up Twenty-first Century poetry’s aesthetic.” \nSee more at www.robertpesich.com and www.five-oaks-press.com/2017/06/13/model-organism-robert-pesich/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-pesich-model-organism-book-release-reading/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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