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SUMMARY:Hot Boxx Girls by Darwin Bell
DESCRIPTION:September 5\, 6pm-9pm\nOpening Reception \nA free public celebration of the third Aunt Charlie’s art exhibition\, featuring the work of Darwin Bell. \nRecently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly\, Darwin Bell has captures the queens of the Hot Boxx Girls befriending and befamilying adoring crowds every weekend at Aunt Charlie’s.\n—\nDarwin Bell has lived in San Francisco for almost 30 years and sees the city as his photographic canvas. Specializing in colors and compositions\, he takes the big picture and narrows it down to abstracts and ideas. Darwin was recently named “Best Street Photographer” by SF Weekly.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-boxx-girls-by-darwin-bell/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Billheimer
DESCRIPTION:John Billheimer joins us to discuss his new book\, Hitchcock and the Censors. \nAbout Hitchcock and the Censors\n \nThroughout his career\, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo\, undue violence\, toilet humor\, religious disrespect\, and all forms of indecency\, real or imagined. From 1934 to 1968\, the Motion Picture Production Code Office controlled the content and final cut on all films made and distributed in the United States. Code officials protected sensitive ears from standard four-letter words\, as well as a few five-letter words like tramp and six-letter words like cripes. They also scrubbed “excessively lustful” kissing from the screen and ensured that no criminal went unpunished. \nDuring their review of Hitchcock’s films\, the censors demanded an average of 22.5 changes\, ranging from the mundane to the mind-boggling\, on each of his American films. Code reviewers dictated the ending of Rebecca (1940)\, absolved Cary Grant of guilt in Suspicion (1941)\, edited Cole Porter’s lyrics in Stage Fright (1950)\, decided which shades should be drawn in Rear Window (1954)\, and shortened the shower scene in Psycho (1960). \nIn Hitchcock and the Censors\, author John Billheimer traces the forces that led to the Production Code and describes Hitchcock’s interactions with code officials on a film-by-film basis as he fought to protect his creations\, bargaining with code reviewers and sidestepping censorship to produce a lifetime of memorable films. Despite the often-arbitrary decisions of the code board\, Hitchcock still managed to push the boundaries of sex and violence permitted in films by charming — and occasionally tricking — the censors and by swapping off bits of dialogue\, plot points\, and individual shots (some of which had been deliberately inserted as trading chips) to protect cherished scenes and images. By examining Hitchcock’s priorities in dealing with the censors\, this work highlights the director’s theories of suspense as well as his magician-like touch when negotiating with code officials. \n\nPraise for Hitchcock and the Censors \n“Here is a book that should have (and could have) been written years ago. Kudos\, then\, to Billheimer for slogging through the paper trail of correspondence between the British Board of Film Censors and Motion Picture Production Code Office (better known as the Breen Office) and Alfred Hitchcock regarding the content of his many provocative films. Each movie has a history all its own\, and while passing reference has been made to censorship in other studies of Hitchcock\, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. No more be said: this is by definition an important piece of work.” — Leonard Maltin \n“A meticulous deep dive into the sweaty tango between Hitchcock and the Code. Amazing to witness how arbitrary and stringent the rules were and the resulting sacrifices movies had to make. Hitchcock rose to the challenge and made the debates part of his expression — but what a bloody tiresome waste of his time.” — Darren Aronofsky
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-billheimer/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler as Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nBottle Grove \npublished by Bloomsbury Books \n\n\n\n\nA razor-sharp tale of two couples\, two marriages\, a bar\, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-selling\, award-winning novelist. \nThis is a story about two marriages. Or is it? It begins with a wedding\, held in the small San Francisco forest of Bottle Grove–bestowed by a wealthy patron for the public good\, back when people did such things. Here is a cross section of lives\, a stretch of urban green where ritzy guests\, lustful teenagers\, drunken revelers\, and forest creatures all wait for the sun to go down. The girl in the corner slugging vodka from a cough-syrup bottle is Padgett–she’s keeping something secreted in the woods. The couple at the altar are the Nickels–the bride is emphatic about changing her name\, as there is plenty about her old life she is ready to forget. \nSet in San Francisco as the tech-boom is exploding\, Bottle Grove is a sexy\, skewering dark comedy about two unions–one forged of love and the other of greed–and about the forces that can drive couples together\, into dependence\, and then into sinister\, even supernatural realms. Add one ominous shape-shifter to the mix\, and you get a delightful and strange spectacle: a story of scheming and yearning and foibles and love and what we end up doing for it–and everyone has a secret. Looming over it all is the income disparity between San Francisco’s tech community and . . . everyone else. \nWhat has been said about Bottle Grove: \n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, this taut novel sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year” \n“A hilarious tale about unlikely couples set during the San Francisco dot-com explosion. . . . Handler cleverly exposes the sinister sides of his protagonists as they clamor for what they think they deserve. Readers expecting Handler’s trademark humor and bite won’t be disappointed.” –  Publishers Weekly \n“A drunkenly humorous blend of alcohol\, entrepreneurial ambitions\, and a dash of cheating . . . [Handler’s] quickwitted\, timely characters and offbeat but perceptive one-liners make for an intoxicating delight. . . . Funny\, irreverent\, and clever.” –  Booklist \n“This witty book is\, like San Francisco itself\, simultaneously glossy and grimy\, hi-tech and low-life. Daniel Handler is one of the quickest minds around\, and he is clearly having a grand time here\, taking the reader down a drunken path that is both dreamy and as fast-paced as a screwball comedy.” –  Emma Straub\, New York Times bestselling author of MODERN LOVERS and THE VACATIONERS \n“Bottle Grove is a cozy bar\, a haunted forest\, and a spellbinding new novel by a master of contemporary fiction. With his sly sense of humor and surpassing wisdom about the wildness that exists just below the surface of our lives\, Daniel Handler has created an entrancing and very modern story that doubles as a folklore for our time. It’s one of those rare novels that you really don’t want to end\, and you’re in luck\, because you can read it again.” –  Tom Drury\, author of PACIFIC \n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize \n“Superb\, written with an unflinching eye for comedy and horror.” –  New York Times Book Review on WE ARE PIRATES \n“This impossible-to-put-down novel is a dare. Step in\, be swept away.” –  The Agony Column\, NPR\, on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“A fascinating\, profane book . . . All the Dirty Parts is a shockingly original novel–readers might be reminded of Philip Roth’s famously raunchy Portnoy’s Complaint . . . It deserves to be read widely\, and not just by adults–it’s one of the most realistic depictions of the sex lives of young people to come around in a long time.” –  Los Angeles Times on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“An irreverent\, intimate glimpse inside adolescent desire\, sexual identity\, and emotional discovery.” –  Buzzfeed\, “Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Fall” on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS \n“[A] dark and whimsical novel . . . Yes\, we are pirates\, but we’re chained on barren land. Has that theme ever been explored in such a weird mixture of impish wit and tender sympathy?” –  Washington Post on WE ARE PIRATES \n“The language is what’s sensuous here\, and Handler often dips his toe into Joyce–never a full descent into the Irishman’s decadence\, but the two are kinsmen in how fast their prose moves\, at the speed of rushing blood.” –  San Francisco Chronicle on ALL THE DIRTY PARTS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-as-daniel-handler/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT 3rd Birthday Party (and Reading)
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate with us as we cap our 3rd year (and enter our 4th) as the East Bay’s creative writing center/workspace. This is also our 3rd event at Novel Brewing\, the most literary brewery in California. \nSample Novel Brewing’s finest beers and ales on tap. Soak in their friendly\, neighborhood atmosphere. Socialize with our writing community. Eat cake!\n​\nAnd enjoy some short readings by Left Margin instructors: Zubair Ahmed\, Katharine Dion\, Rachel Richardson\, and Laleh Khadivi.\n​\nZubair Ahmed was born and raised in Bangladesh. He and his family immigrated to the U.S in 2005 after winning the DV Lottery. He is the author of Ashulia\, a chapbook\, and City of Rivers\, the third book in the McSweeney’s Poetry Series. He lives in Oakland\, where he works as a software engineer.\n​\nKatharine Dion is the author of the novel The Dependents\, which has been translated into four languages. The San Francisco Chronicle called the novel “a gorgeously meditative debut about how unfully we live our lives or know ourselves and our loved ones.”\n​\nLaleh Khadivi’s novels include The Age of Orphans\, The Walking\, and A Good Country. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco and was the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize.\n​\nRachel Richardson is co-founder and co-director of Left Margin LIT. She is also the author of two books of poems\, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-3rd-birthday-party-and-reading/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski and Jim Dunn\, reading and in conversation\nThursday\, September 5 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University \nThe Poetry Center’s Fall 2019 season opens with readings followed by a conversation with the audience by San Francisco poet\, biographer\, and literary chronicler of the Beat Movement\, Neeli Cherkovski\, together with Boston poet Jim Dunn on a rare visit to San Francisco. We welcome both for their first reading for The Poetry Center. This event is free and open to the public. \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles and attended Los Angeles State College (now Cal State Los Angeles). He is the author of many books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, The Crow and I (2015)\, and Elegy for My Beat Generation (2018). Forthcoming is Coolidge and Cherkovski in Conversation (with Clark Coolidge). He is the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski)\, Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr)\, and Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (with Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell). He has also published bilingual editions in Austria\, Mexico\, Italy\, and Greece. A facsimile edition of one of his notebooks was published by Viviani Edizione in Verona\, Italy. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Cherkovski received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJim Dunn is a poet and author of Soft Launch (Bootstrap\, 2008)\, Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer\, 2004)\, and Insects In Sex (Falling Angel Press\, 1995). His work has appeared in several publications\, including spoKe\, Polis\, Bright Pink Mosquito\, The Process\, eoagh\, Gerry Mulligan\, Cafe Review\, and The Battersea Review. He edited the poet John Wieners’ journal\, A New Book From Rome\, with Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press. Along with Kevin Gallagher\, he also edited an extensive feature on six Massachusetts poets\, for Jacket 2 magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neeli-cherkovski-and-jim-dunn-reading-and-in-conversation/
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:Mike Isaac w/Casey Newton / SF Launch for Super Pumped
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac for the San Francisco launch ofSuper Pumped: The Battle for Uber. With Mike in conversation is Casey Newton (The Interface). Please join us! \nIn June 2017\, Travis Kalanick\, the hard-charging CEO of Uber\, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation giant. Uber had catapulted to the top of the tech world\, yet for many came to symbolize everything wrong with Silicon Valley. \nAward-winning New York Times technology correspondent Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber\, set against an era of rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley. Backed by billions in venture capital dollars and led by a brash and ambitious founder\, Uber promised to revolutionize the way we move people and goods through the world. A near instant “unicorn\,” Uber seemed poised to take its place next to Amazon\, Apple\, and Google as a technology giant. \nWhat followed would become a corporate cautionary tale about the perils of startup culture and a vivid example of how blind worship of startup founders can go wildly wrong. Isaac recounts Uber’s pitched battles with taxi unions and drivers\, the company’s toxic internal culture\, and the bare-knuckle tactics it devised to overcome obstacles in its quest for dominance. With billions of dollars in the balance\, Isaac shows how venture capitalists asserted their power and seized control of the startup as it fought its way toward its fateful IPO. \nMike Isaac has been covering Uber for years. Based on hundreds of interviews with current and former Uber employees\, along with previously unpublished documents\, Super Pumped is a page-turning story of ambition and deception\, obscene wealth\, and bad behavior that explores how blistering technological and financial innovation culminated in one of the most catastrophic twelve-month periods in American corporate history. \n\n\n\nMike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times whose Uber coverage won the Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about Uber\, Facebook\, and other Silicon Valley giants for the Times\, and appears often on CNBC and MSNBC. He lives in San Francisco. \nCasey Newton‘s bio is forthcoming. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-isaac-w-casey-newton-sf-launch-for-super-pumped/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190906T190000
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SUMMARY:System Reboot: Rosenthal / Witte / Armendinger / Greyja / Sáenz
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the launch of Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte’s collaborative chapbook\, ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’\, and Brent Armendinger’s ‘Street Gloss’\, both out now from The Operating System! They will be joined by fellow OS creators Jacq Greyja and Erick Sáenz. Snacks and beverages will be provided. \nSarah Rosenthal is the author of several books and chapbooks including ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’ (The Operating System\, 2019; a collaboration with Valerie Witte) ‘Lizard’ (Chax\, 2016)\, and ‘Manhatten’ (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). She edited ‘A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area’ (Dalkey Archive\, 2010). She has done grant-supported writing residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, Soul Mountain\, Ragdale\, New York Mills\, Hambidge\, and This Will Take Time\, and has been a Headlands Center Affiliate Artist. She lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach\, develops curricula for the Center for the Collaborative Classroom\, and serves on the California Book Awards jury. More at sarahrosenthal.net. \nValerie Witte is the author of ‘a game of correspondence’ (Black Radish Books\, 2015) and three chapbooks\, most recently ‘The Grass Is Greener When the Sun Is Yellow’ (The Operating System\, 2019)\, a collaboration with Sarah Rosenthal. She is a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School\, and for eight years\, she helped produce many innovative books by women as a member of Kelsey Street Press. In her daytime hours\, she edits education books in Portland\, OR. Read more at valeriewitte.com. \nBrent Armendinger’s new book is ‘Street Gloss’\, a hybrid work of site-specific poetry and experimental translation\, featuring Argentinian writers Alejandro Méndez\, Mercedes Roffé\, Fabián Casas\, Néstor Perlongher\, and Diana Bellessi\, and drawings by Alpe Romero (The Operating System\, 2019). Brent is also the author of ‘The Ghost in Us Was Multiplying’ (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry. He teaches creative writing at Pitzer College and lives in Los Angeles. His website is brentarmendinger.com. \nJacq Greyja is the author of ‘Greater Grave’ (The Operating System\, 2018). Work has recently appeared in HOLD: A Journal\, Dream Pop\, Linden Avenue Literary\, Peach Mag\, Bettering American Poetry: Volume II\, and elsewhere. They are an MFA candidate and William Dickey Fellow in Poetry at SFSU. More @ greyja.com \nErick Sáenz is a latinx poet and teacher from Los Angeles. He is the founding editor of Lilac Press\, a small DIY imprint. He was previously a contributing editor for the online journal Cheers from the Wasteland. In addition to self-publishing several chapbooks and zines\, his writing can be found online. ‘Susurros a mi padre’ was released by The Operating System in 2018. He is currently working on his second book and watching too much baseball.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/system-reboot-rosenthal-witte-armendinger-greyja-saenz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Vivian Ho / Those Who Wander: America's Lost Street Kids
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith hosts the launch for former San Francisco Chronicle criminal justice reporter Vivian Ho‘s debut book\, Those Who Wander: America’s Lost Street Kids. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: Booksmith will donate 100% of proceeds from purchases of Those Who Wander to the Homeless Youth Alliance. \n\nAbout the book\, from the publisher: \nIn 2015\, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture population. Soon this community of runaways and transients became vulnerable scapegoats of a modern witch hunt. The supposedly progressive residents of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury\, only two generations removed from the Summer of Love\, now feared all of society’s outcasts as threats. \nIn Those Who Wander\, Vivian Ho delves deep into a rising subculture that’s changing the very fabric of her city and all of urban America. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics\, she gives voices to these young people — victims of abuse\, failed foster care\, mental illness\, and drug addiction. She also doesn’t ignore the threat they pose to themselves and to others as a dangerous dark side emerges. With alarming urgency\, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth. \n\nVivian Ho is an award-winning journalist who has written for the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Guardian\, Topic\, and the Boston Globe. Raised in New England\, she currently lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Gabrielle Canon. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Those Who Wander\, order below and put your request in the comments field; to request a signed copy of any of Colin’s books\, do the same via this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-vivian-ho-those-who-wander-americas-lost-street-kids/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Last Hoisan Poets
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim\, Nellie Wong\, and Flo Oy Wong return to CHSA! These three monumentally influential women artists and poets all trace their roots to China’s Toisan villages\, home of the Hoisan-wa (a.k.a. Toisanese/Taishanese) Chinese dialect. They will do a special poetry reading in English and Hoisan-wa\, to pay homage to their mother language which is at risk of fading from collective memory. \nTickets include entry to event and CHSA galleries. Seating is limited—reserve your tickets soon. RSVP on Eventbrite. \n—– \nAbout the poets \nGenny Lim is a second generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco. She served as a former San Francisco Arts Commissioner and San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. Her award-winning play Paper Angels has been produced throughout the U.S.\, in Canada and China. Lim is author of five poetry collections\, Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels\, KRA!\, La Morte Del Tempo\, and co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, winner of the American Book Award. Lim has collaborated with jazz legends Max Roach and Herbie Lewis and Bay Area musicians\, Broun Fellinis\, Francis Wong\, Jon Jang and Anthony Brown. She has also collaborated with Lenora Lee Dance on the texts of its recent on-site immersive performances\, Within These Walls and Dreams of Flight\, at the Chinese Immigration Detention Station on Angel Island. \nFlo Oy Wong\, artist\, poet\, and educator\, is a first generation Chinese American born and raised in Oakland Chinatown. Her work as a visual artist and poet explore issues of social justice. She focuses on family\, community\, and history of Chinese in America through her immigrant parents\, bringing to light the lives of the invisible\, unrecognized\, and underrepresented. As an artist\, she has received many awards and has shown locally and internationally. In 2013\, The Luggage Store Gallery displayed her 75th birthday show\, The Whole Pie\, and she collaborated on a musical with Marcus Shelby\, Gwah Gai\, about her husband Edward Kow Wong who grew up in Augusta\, Georgia during segregation. Featured on KQED’s SPARK and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, her work is currently being taught in the Art in Action 8th grade Art and the American Experience curriculum. As a poet\, she has been published by the Blue Collar Review\, Oakland Chinatown EBALDC\, and a South Bay on-line literary magazine. In 2018\, she published her first book of art and poetry\, Dreaming of Glistening Pomelos\, to celebrate her 80th birthday. She is currently working on a sexual trauma chapbook I Don’t Cry Anymore co-edited by Kathy Skaggs and Ann Muto\, to be published in 2020. \nOakland Chinatown-born\, Nellie Wong has published four books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Her poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Two pieces are installed at public sites in San Francisco. She’s co-featured in the documentary film Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\, and among her recognitions\, a building at Oakland High School is named after her. She’s traveled to China in the First American Women Writers Tour with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen and Paule Marshall\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-last-hoisan-poets/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Historical Society of America":MAILTO:info@chsa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190908T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190908T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190830T210057Z
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SUMMARY:Re/Search Celebrates The Release Of Issue 19: Underground Living
DESCRIPTION:Re/Search celebrates the release of Issue 19: UNDERGROUND LIVING with V. Vale and Rudy Rucker. \nV. Vale has traversed the major global underground movements of the past century (including Beatniks\, Hippies\, Punk\, Industrial\, kitsch\, retro-styles\, surrealism\, situationism\, queer\, incredibly strange films and music\, performance art\, feminism\, zines—and more). Along the way\, he documented it all\, taking over 100\,000 photos. Here\, for the first time in book form\, are 80 “personal” images of underground living\, selected from the depths of Vale’s vast photographic archive. UNDERGROUND LIVING Includes more than 75 color photos featuring the early Ramones shows\, Henry Rollins\, Lydia Lunch\, John Waters\, Genesis P-Orridge\, William S. Burroughs\, J.G. Ballard\, Andy Warhol\, Allen Ginsberg\, Kathy Acker\, Survival Research Labs\, and many more! \nRudy Rucker is a mathematician\, computer scientist\, science fiction author\, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction\, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy\, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. His most recent book is “Million Mile Roadtrip” published by Nightshade Books. He wrote the inroduction for Re?Seaerch 19 UNDERGROUND LIVING.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/re-search-celebrates-the-release-of-issue-19-underground-living/
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:20190909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190909T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190830T210946Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T210946Z
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SUMMARY:APAture 2019: Living as an Artist Panel
DESCRIPTION:Join Kearny Street Workshop for a panel on the experiences of living as a professional artist\, featuring Weston Teruya\, Terisa Siagatonu\, and DJ Umami\, and moderated by Jason Bayani! \nFree and open to the public with priority given to artists participating in APAture 2019: DECLARE. \nWeston Teruya was born and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai‘i and currently resides in Oakland\, California. As an artist\, he has exhibited at the Mills College Art Museum (Oakland)\, Commons Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i\, Mānoa (Honolulu)\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Southern Exposure\, Chinese Culture Center\, and Kearny Street Workshop (San Francisco)\, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum (New York)\, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery (Tokyo)\, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta)\, and the Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto). He has received public art commissions from the Alameda County and San Francisco Arts Commissions. \nTerisa Siagatonu is an award-winning touring poet\, teaching artist\, and community activist born and rooted in the Bay Area. Her voice in the poetry world as a queer\, Sāmoan woman has granted her opportunities to perform in places such as the White House (Obama administration)\, the UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris\, the Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane\, Australia\, and the SF Women’s March. One of the most memorable moments in her career was receiving President Obama’s Champion of Change Award for her activism as a poet/organizer in her Pacific Islander community. With numerous viral poetry videos garnering over millions of views collectively\, Terisa’s writing/teaching blends the personal\, cultural\, and political in a way that calls for healing\, courage\, justice\, and truth. A 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 List Honoree\, Terisa’s work has been published in Poetry Magazine and has been featured on Button Poetry\, CNN\, NBCNews\, NPR\, KQED\, Huffington Post\, Everyday Feminism\, The Guardian\, and Buzzfeed. \nBay Area born DJ Umami – a rotating DJ for the Golden State Warriors\, Nike\, Q102.1fm (Bay Area)\, and female group Peaches Crew. She is known to rock the party outside of The Oracle Arena at Golden State Warrior post-season games. These parties have been broadcasted on ESPN\, CSN\, and ABC. She has open for acts such as Metro Boomin\, John Legend\, Big Boi\, Just Blaze\, Tuxedo\, Talib Kweli\, DJ Maseo (De La Soul)\, Tokimonsta\, Holy Ghost\, Chromeo\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apature-2019-living-as-an-artist-panel/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190910T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190910T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190429T211750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190707T190844Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake at Jessie Square
DESCRIPTION:The monthly collaboration between Litquake: San Francisco’s Literary Festival and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival features an array of Bay Area poets and musicians.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-at-jessie-square-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190730T020453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190730T020453Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Steinberg
DESCRIPTION:reading from her debut novel \nMachine \npublished by Graywolf Press \nSusan Steinberg’s first novel\, Machine\, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book\, Spectacle\, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers—both locals and wealthy out-of-towners—during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular\, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate\, she pieces together the details of this tragedy\, as well as the breakdown of her own family\, and learns that no one\, not even she\, is blameless. \nA daring stylist\, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender\, class\, privilege\, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel—relentless and bold—that only Susan Steinberg could have written. \n\n\nSusan Steinberg is the author of Spectacle\, Hydroplane\, and The End of Free Love. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship\, a National Magazine Award\, and a Pushcart Prize. She teaches at the University of San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about MACHINE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n“With simple\, lyrical language\, Steinberg presents a mystery of privilege and youth that deftly captures the unadulterated gear quaking deep behind a teenagers invincible front.”—Booklist\n\n\n\n“What makes [Machine] so thrilling is Steinberg’s artistry with form; she fractures narrative into its fundamental parts. Steinberg writes prose with a poet’s sense of meter and line\, and a velocity recalling the novels of Joan Didion. The result is a dizzying work that perfectly evokes the feeling of spinning out of control.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Steinberg writes in small\, interconnected\, and poetic fragments. . . . Heartbreaking\, eerie\, and acutely observant.”—Kirkus\, starred review\n\n\n\n“Susan Steinberg takes everything you loved about her short story collections (Spectacle\, anyone?) and brings them to this new tragedy: a hazy summer night in which one girl drowned. The voice of the story—sometimes singular\, sometimes with other echoes—will guide and haunt you as it tries to make sense of what happened.”—Literary Hub\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-steinberg/
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:20190911T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190730T021107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190730T021107Z
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SUMMARY:Jairus Grove in conversation with David Goldberg
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of \nSavage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World \nby Jairus Grove \nfrom Duke University Press \nJairus Victor Grove contends that we live in a world made by war. In Savage Ecology he offers an ecological theory of geopolitics that argues that contemporary global crises are better understood when considered within the larger history of international politics. Infusing international relations with the theoretical interventions of fields ranging from new materialism to political theory\, Grove shows how political violence is the principal force behind climate change\, mass extinction\, slavery\, genocide\, extractive capitalism\, and other catastrophes. Grove analyzes a variety of subjects—from improvised explosive devices and drones to artificial intelligence and brain science—to outline how geopolitics is the violent pursuit of a way of living that comes at the expense of others. Pointing out that much of the damage being done to the earth and its inhabitants stems from colonialism\, Grove suggests that the Anthropocene may be better described by the term Eurocene. The key to changing the planet’s trajectory\, Grove proposes\, begins by acknowledging both the earth-shaping force of geopolitical violence and the demands apocalypses make for fashioning new ways of living. \nJairus Victor Grove is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Hawai’i Research Center for Future Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. \nVisit: http://jairusgrove.com/ \nWhat has been said about the work of Jairus Grove: \n\n\n“In Savage Ecology Jairus Victor Grove gives us a weirdly hopeful eco-pessimism. ‘We broke the planet\,’ he writes\, and ‘now it is our planet.’ Agree or not\, the breadth of his archive (neuro-torture\, algorithmic warfare\, drone strikes\, and cybernetic nation-building) and audacity of his thinking (biopolitics is now ‘almost quaint\,’ he says\, given the geopolitics of the Anthropocene) are simply exhilarating. Your thinking cannot survive this book unchanged. Fortunately\, Grove says\, ‘the end of the world is never the end of everything’ (though it may well be the end of us).” — Bonnie Honig\, author of Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair \n“What Beck did for risk society\, Hardt and Negri for empire\, and Barad for technoscience\, Jairus Victor Grove does brilliantly for global violence\, delivering an ecology of warfare that is not only a corrosive critique of the three horsemen of our now daily apocalypse—geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and cybernetics—but a creative strategy for sustaining life now and thereafter. Grove is a philosopher with a hammer\, writer with a stiletto\, and artist with a spray can.” — James Der Derian\, Michael Hintze Chair of International Security Studies\, the University of Sydney
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jairus-grove-in-conversation-with-david-goldberg/
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:20190912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190830T211556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T211556Z
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SUMMARY:QTPOC at Strut presents Noche de Poetas
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of queer latino poetry! Free\, part of QTPOC at Strut \nMore info to come! \nQTPOC at Strut is every Thursday\ntesting and services from 5pm to 6:30pm\nPoetry show from 7pm to 8pm\nalways free! \nquestions about the show email Baruch at bporrashernandez@sfaf.org \nThis event is being held at Strut (470 Castro St) at the third floor lobby.\nText QTPOC to 474747 if you have any questions about our Thursday nights! \nAccessibility: There are no stairs to enter the lobby level at Strut from the street level. The building has three floors\, and there is a stairwell with handrails and a wheelchair accessible elevator. There are 26 steps from the lobby to the 2nd floor and 48 steps from the lobby to the 3rd floor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/qtpoc-at-strut-presents-noche-de-poetas/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Strut":MAILTO:info@sfaf.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190726T160027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T160027Z
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and special guests for a poem jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Join us! \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-4/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190726T151907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190726T151907Z
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SUMMARY:Hauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines
DESCRIPTION:SEPTEMBER 12\, 2019\nHauntings: Celebrating Two Lines 31 & 25 Years of Two Lines\n\nTBD \n\n\n\nCelebrate 25 years of Two Lines and the latest issue with us! \nMore details coming soon. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hauntings-celebrating-two-lines-31-25-years-of-two-lines/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190729T182353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T182353Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic. \nThu\, September 12\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-30/
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:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190729T191107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T191107Z
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SUMMARY:Marika Lindholm - - We Got This
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Marika Lindholm and more (tba) to celebrate the publication of We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit\, Heart\, and Humor\, on Thursday\, September 12th at 7pm. \nWe Got This celebrates the 15 million solo moms who parent on their own in the United States. A compelling\, moving\, and humorous compilation of essays\, poems\, and inspirational quotes by moms raising kids on their own\, this book gives voice to women who–despite their differences in age\, race\, culture\, sexual orientation\, economic circumstance\, and route to single motherhood–are bound together in a conscious coalition that is strong\, proud\, and dedicated to their children. We Got This reminds solo moms that they are powerful and important–and that there’s a whole community of women out there who understand what they are going through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marika-lindholm-we-got-this/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190730T021251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190730T021311Z
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SUMMARY:Dobby Gibson & Matthew Zapruder reading new poetry
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFather’s Day – by Matthew Zapruder \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nand \nLittle Glass Planet – by Dobby Gibson \nfrom Graywolf Press \nabout Father’s Day: \nThe poems in Matthew Zapruder’s fifth collection ask\, how can one be a good father\, partner\, and citizen in the early twenty-first century? Zapruder deftly improvises upon language and lyricism as he passionately engages with these questions during turbulent\, uncertain times. Whether interrogating the personalities of the Supreme Court\, watching a child grow off into a distance\, or tweaking poetry critics and hipsters alike\, Zapruder maintains a deeply generous sense of humor alongside a rich vein of love and moral urgency. The poems in Father’s Day harbor a radical belief in the power of wonder and awe to sustain the human project while guiding it forward. \nabout Little Glass Planet: \nLittle Glass Planet exults in the strangeness of the known and unknowable world. In poems set as far afield as Mumbai and Marfa\, Texas\, Gibson maps disparate landscapes\, both terrestrial and subliminal\, to reveal the drama of the quotidian. Aphoristic\, allusive\, and collaged\, these poems mine our various human languages to help us understand what we might mean when we speak to each other—as lovers\, as family\, as strangers. Little Glass Planet uses lyric broadcast to foreshorten the perceived distances between us\, opening borders and pointing toward a sense of collectivity. “This is my love letter to the world\,” Gibson writes\, “someone call us a sitter. / We’re going to be here a while.” \nElegiac\, funny\, and candid\, Little Glass Planet is a kind of manual for paying attention to a world that is increasingly engineered to distract us from our own humanity. It’s a book that points toward hope\, offering the possibilities of a “we” that only the open frequency of poetry can create\, possibilities that are indistinguishable from love. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Come On All You Ghosts\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, and Sun Bear\, 2014\, as well as Why Poetry\, a book of prose\, from Ecco Press/Harper Collins in August 2017. He cotranslated\, with historian Radu Ioanid\, Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu’s final collection\, Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems (Coffee House\, 2008). He has received numerous honors for his work\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a William Carlos Williams Award\, and others. In 2000\, he co-founded Verse Press\, and is now editor at large at Wave Book\, where he edits contemporary poetry\, prose\, and translations. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he is an Associate Professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nDobby Gibson is the author of Little Glass Planet; Polar\, which won the Alice James Award; Skirmish; and It Becomes You. His poetry has appeared in Fence\, New England Review\, and Ploughshares\, among others. He lives in St. Paul.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dobby-gibson-matthew-zapruder-reading-new-poetry/
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:20190912T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190912T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190729T203919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T203919Z
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SUMMARY:Sharon Marcus and David Henkin
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Marcus discusses her new book\, The Drama of Celebrity\, with David Henkin. \nAbout The Drama of Celebrity \nA bold new account of how celebrity works \nWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? \nIn this fascinating and deeply researched book\, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead\, journalists\, the public\, and celebrities themselves all compete\, passionately and expertly\, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. \nDrawing on scrapbooks\, personal diaries\, and vintage fan mail\, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots\, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs\, bad-boy poets\, and actors such as the “divine” Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)\, as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin\, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius\, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era’s most innovative media and technologies: the popular press\, commercial photography\, and speedy new forms of travel. \nWhether you love celebrity culture or hate it\, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-marcus-and-david-henkin/
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:20190913T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190913T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190726T145016Z
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SUMMARY:Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Photographer B.A. Van Sise discusses his new book\, Children of Grass: A Portrait of American Poetry. Also featuring readings by poets Jane Hirshfield and Dorianne Laux. \nPraise for Children of Grass \n“In Children of Grass\, books fly around Alicia Ostriker like birds\, Vijay Seshadri stands on a ladder propped against the air itself\, and Mark Doty is growing from the forest floor. B.A. Van Sise’s photographs of contemporary poets\, paired with their poems\, are inspired\, playful\, and absolutely gorgeous. The word for what this book is\, what this book gives me\, is pleasure.” —Maggie Smith\, author of Good Bones \n“Van Sise’s imaginative\, creative\, and humorous eye reveals the ‘person’ of the poet and deeper meanings of their poems in ways that sometimes startle\, but always feel truthful. That is the purpose of photography and poetry.” —David Hume Kennerly\, Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief White House photographer \n“Why do we desperately need books like this? At least for me\, it’s because we occasionally need to be reminded that there are still mysteries out there\, questions that have no answers. It is nice to be re-introduced to wonder.” —Arun Venugopal\, WNYC \nAbout Children of Grass \nWith this fascinating synthesis of word and image\, internationally renowned photographer B.A. Van Sise offers a visually stimulating anthology that will enchant lovers of both poetry and photography. At times whimsical\, surreal\, challenging\, enigmatic\, joyful and sobering\, these portraits— running adjacent to poems by each of their subjects—highlight some of the most influential poets of our time and celebrate creativity as only these poets in collaboration with Van Sise could convey. Children of Grass is also a timely homage to Walt Whitman—of whom Van Sise is a relative—and his masterpiece\, “Leaves of Grass\,” during this\, the 200th anniversary of his birth. Children of Grass\, will\, like the work of its literary grandfather\, stand as a lasting tribute to the vitality and creativity that flourishes in our country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/children-of-grass-a-portrait-of-american-poetry/
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:20190914T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190830T210539Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Celebration: Maestrapeace
DESCRIPTION:This event is in celebration of the seven amazing female muralists who created San Francisco’s iconic Women’s Building- and the launch of their new book\, Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural\, published by Heyday Books\, featuring Juana Alicia\, Miranda Bergman\, Edythe Boone\, Susan Kelk Cervantes\, Meera Desai\, Yvonne Littleton\, and Irene Pérez Foreword by Angela Davis. \n2019 marks the 25th anniversary of Maestrapeace\, the monumental and fabulously detailed mural that adorns two sides of the The Women’s Building in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. Weaving in myriad female figures\, historical and sacred\, this public artwork highlights women’s accomplishments across time and coSisters in Paintntinents\, and envisions a world healed of injustices. Maestrapeace: San Francisco’s Monumental Feminist Mural\, is a beautiful book allowing readers to take an extended tour of the mural\, revealing intricacies and nuances that may go unnoticed from a street-level view. Angela Davis’s foreword provides a rich history of the mural and the seven artists who collaboratively executed the work—a collective of women\, itself a rarity in muralist tradition. Maestrapeace\, the book\, enriches readers’ appreciation for the groundbreaking mural\, and it makes this deep sense of place accessible to viewers across the globe. \nBooks will be available at the event! Published by Heyday Books. \nPart of ¡VIVA!\, our Annual Celebration of Latino Hispanic Heritage. SFPL.ORG/VIVA \nThe Library is wheelchair accessible. To request other accommodations\, call 415-557-4557 or contact marti.goddard@sfpl.org. Requesting 72 hours in advance will help ensure availability. \nLOCATION\nKoret Auditorium – Lower Level\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco \nADMISSION\nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1038640301
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-celebration-maestrapeace/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
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SUMMARY:VIVA! Still Here SF: Queer and Trans Latinx Writers in This City
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of #StillHereSF QTPOC Latinx Voices! \nFeaturing:\nCathy Arellano\nTina Valentin Aguirre\nPrado Gomez\nMason J.\nCristina Mitra\nAmanda Vigil\nAmelia Vigil\nNatalia M. Vigil\nChloe X. \nThis non-fiction reading from Queer and Trans Latinx raised in San Francisco. They will share their love for the Mission and their pieces from Still Here San Francisco’s new anthology edited by Mason J. & Natalia Vigil presented by Foglifter Press. (Books available for purchase following the program) \nFounded in 2012 Still Here San Francisco builds creative space for\nLGBTQI2S+ artists born and raised in San Francisco to tell our stories of survival\, resilience\, and joy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viva-still-here-sf-queer-and-trans-latinx-writers-in-this-city/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library Mission Branch\, 300 Bartlett St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190825T193144Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon: Daniel Handler\, Jenny Odell\, Namwali Serpell\, Nancy Au\, Jason Sheeler: Fall
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Salon \n\npresents our Fall Reading \nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street \n(downstairs performance space)   \nfeaturing\n—\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n—\nJenny Odell\n(How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy)\n“Odell struck a hopeful nerve of possibility that I hadn’t felt in a long time.”—Jia Tolentino\, THE NEW YORKER\n\n“How to Do Nothing is a complex\, smart and ambitious book that at first reads like a self-help manual\, then blossoms into a wide-ranging political manifesto.”—Jonah Engel Bromwich\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\n\n“Your chaotic\, fraught internal weather isn’t an accident\, it’s a business-model\, and while ‘thoughtful resistance’ isn’t ‘productive\,’ Odell proves that it is utterly necessary.”—Cory Doctorow\, author of Radicalized and Walkaway\n\nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times\, SFMOMA’s Open Space\, McSweeney’s\, The Creative Independent\, Sierra Magazine\, Topic\, and Real Future. Her book\, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, was recently published by Melville House. She lives in Oakland.\n\n\nNamwali Serpell\n(The Old Drift) \n“Extraordinary\, ambitious\, evocative…. A dazzling debut\, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.” Salman Rushdie\, The New York Times Book Review (cover) \n“This is a dazzling book\, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle….” Dwight Garner\, The New York Times \nNamwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. She won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for women writers in 2011 and was selected for the Africa39\, a 2014 Hay Festival project to identify the best African writers under 40. The Old Drift is her first novel and has been long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown. \nNancy Au \n(Spider Love Song and Other Stories) \n“These stories sparkle with life and secrets\, joy and power\, pain and hilarity and sharp insights into the human heart. Nancy Au is a rare and blazing talent\, and this debut collection is a house of wonders\, thrilling and unforgettable.” Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“An original and delightfully off-kilter debut collection about searching for a sense of belonging. . . . Only a writer who knows how closely bound are heartbreak and resilience could write stories as emotionally stirring as these.” *starred review*\, Kirkus Review \nNancy Au‘s essays and stories appear in many journals\, including Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Lunch Ticket\, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus\, and in the Fall will begin teaching at San Francisco State University. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art unschool. Her flash fiction is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018 anthology\, and in The Vestal Review as the winner of their 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize. Her flash also won Redivider‘s 2018 Blurred Genre Contest. Her debut full-length collection is Spider Love Song & Other Stories. \n\nJason Sheeler\nJason Sheeler is a writer newly based in San Francisco. Formerly the style director for Departures magazine\, editor-at-large at Entertainment Weekly\, senior editor at Glamour\, and contributing writer at Texas Monthly\, he has done recent work for The Hollywood Reporter\,Bloomberg Businessweek\, Travel + Leisure\, and Condé Nast Traveler. \n____________________ \n\n \nCheck out our partner Podcast: www.grottopod.com \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-daniel-handler-jenny-odell-namwali-serpell-nancy-au-jason-sheeler-fall/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190914T200000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019  Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler: Fall 2019\n\n\n\nBabylon Salon\n\npresents our Fall Reading\nSaturday\, Sept 14\, 2019\, 6.00 pm \nat The Armory Club\n1799 Mission Street\n(downstairs performance space) \n\n\nfeaturing\n\nDaniel Handler\n(Bottle Grove; A Series of Unfortunate Events)\n\n“Set in San Francisco during the Big Bang of tech\, Bottle Grove sees two marriages form and mutate under the influence of greed\, secrets\, and income inequality. With this dark\, timely comedy\, Handler continues to prove himself a writer of prodigious gifts.” –  Esquire\, “Most Anticipated Books of the Year”\n\n“Oh lucky you to have Bottle Grove in your hands! What a funny\, riveting\, heartbreaking\, wise and joyous read you have ahead of you! A masterpiece by Daniel Handler\, one of our greatest storytellers. How I envy you.” –  Andrew Sean Greer\, author of LESS\, Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize\n\nDaniel Handler is the author of seven novels\, including Bottle Grove\, which is forthcoming in August 2019. As Lemony Snicket\, he is responsible for numerous books for children\, including Swarm of Bees\, illustrated by Rilla Alexander. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages\, and have been adapted for screen and stage. The first season of Netflix“s adaptation ofA Series of Unfortunate Events\, for which he served as Executive Producer and Writer\, won a 2018 Peabody Award for its “lively excellence\, strange silliness\, and compelling storytelling\,” and the teleplay won a 2019 Writers Guild Award. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books\, and one son.\n\nand many more\, soon to be announced!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-fall-2019-babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2019
DESCRIPTION:The 5th Annual Poetry in Parks / Ayala Cove on Angel Island\n\nSunday\, Sept 15\, 2019\, 11a – 4pm\nYouth readings\nA literary mixtape curated by Katie Tandy and July Westhale\nNeighborhood Heroes curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nMusic + Dance curated by Kearny Street Workshop\nLive painting by ArtSpan\nBeer courtesy Lagunitas\nRSVP / SUBMIT\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Quiet Lightning \nNow in its 10th year\, Quiet Lightning is a San Francisco-based literary nonprofit with the mission to foster community based on literary expression and to provide a safe and supportive arena for said expression. Its flagship is the literary mixtape\, a submission-based series with a completely blind selection process and different curators for every show\, for which there are no introductions or banter. The shows are published as books\, handed out free to the first 100 people at each show. All participating artists are paid and the shows are free to attend. We’ve now produced 126 shows\, featuring 1\,200+ readings by 900+ different authors in 80+ venues and 100+ books. Quiet Lightning also maintains Litseen.com\, a daily calendar of literary events. \nAbout California State Parks \nThe mission of CA State Parks is to provide for the health\, inspiration and education of the people of California by helping to preserve the state’s extraordinary biological diversity\, protecting its most valued natural and cultural resources\, and creating opportunities for high-quality outdoor recreation. \nAbout Kearny Street Workshop \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nAbout ArtSpan \nArtSpan believes in the power of art to enrich lives. For 20-plus years we’ve championed an inclusive art experience and provided diverse audiences with an authentic connection to local art and artists. We support emerging and established artists who contribute to San Francisco’s inimitable creative energy\, while bolstering the next generation of artists and encouraging the public to engage in preserving and furthering our vibrant art community. \nWith crucial support from SOMArts Cultural Center \nSOMArts leverages the power of art as a tool for social change through multi-disciplinary events and exhibitions. Equipping artists with the space\, mentorship and support they need to shift perspectives and innovate solutions\, SOMArts fosters access to arts and culture for collective liberation and self-determination. \n\nimage: Angel Island by Evan Karp
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2019/
LOCATION:Ayala Cove\, Angel Island\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190707T193510Z
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SUMMARY:Chuck Poling's "Growing Up Bernal"
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-polings-growing-up-bernal/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190915T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
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SUMMARY:Anna Merlan
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her recently released book \nRepublic of Lies:American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power \nfrom Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co. \nA riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories\, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady\, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond. \nAmerican society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories\, but with the election of Donald Trump\, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the accusations of “fake news\,” he has fanned the flames of suspicion. \nBut it was not by the power of one man alone that these ideas gained new power. Republic of Lies looks beyond the caricatures of conspiracy theorists to explain their tenacity. Without lending the theories validity\, Anna Merlan gives a nuanced\, sympathetic account of the people behind them\, across the political spectrum\, and the circumstances that helped them take hold. The lack of a social safety net\, inadequate education\, bitter culture wars\, and years of economic insecurity have created large groups of people who feel forgotten by their government and even besieged by it. Our contemporary conditions are a perfect petri dish for conspiracy movements: a durable\, permanent\, elastic climate of alienation and resentment. All the while\, an army of politicians and conspiracy-peddlers has fanned the flames of suspicion to serve their own ends. \nBringing together penetrating historical analysis and gripping on-the-ground reporting\, Republic of Lies transforms our understanding of American paranoia. \nAnna Merlan is a journalist specializing in politics\, crime\, religion\, subcultures\, and women’s lives. Merlan is a reporter at the Special Projects Desk\, the investigative division of Gizmodo Media Group. She was previously a senior reporter at Jezebel and staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. Republic of Lies is her first book. She lives in New York. \nVisit: https://annamerlan.net/ \nWhat has ben said about the work of Ana Merlan: \n\n\n“A captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories and what they might say about society as a whole.” —New York Magazine \n“Meticulously researched.” —Mother Jones \n“A frequently jaw-dropping\, yet deeply sensitive and curious\, journey through some of the most pervasive conspiracy theories in America today.” —Huffington Post \n“Merlan approaches conspiracy theories and the people who believe them as a thoughtful\, thorough journalist\, looking at how those in power wield them at the expense of those who are destabilized and looking for answers. An amazing read.” —Literary Hub \n“A fascinating perspective on the current political era.” —Refinery29 \n“[Merlan] is one of the sharpest reporter/commentators in the game.” —Flavorwire \n“Engrossing assessment of the profitable mainstreaming of conspiracymongering in civic and political life … A lucid look at a slippery topic.” —Kirkus
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-merlan/
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:20190916T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190916T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T221206
CREATED:20190729T183758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190729T183758Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! 1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm Featured poets + open mic hosted by Jerry Ferraz
DESCRIPTION:POETS!\n1st and 3rd Monday of each month\, 7-9 pm\nFeatured poets + open mic\nhosted by Jerry Ferraz \nOn the first and third Monday of each month\, Jerry Ferraz hosts a poetry reading that showcases local legends\, poets passing through and folks from around the Bay — typically two featured poets followed by an open mic. We can count on a warm group of poets and poetry fans eager to hear the features and the potpourri of poets of every stripe who come out to read and keep the open mic scene alive. Drawing on the generosity of our neighbors and patrons\, we’re able to pay a small honorarium to the featured poets\, a rarity in reading series off the college campuses… your additional dollar or two tossed in the bucket at the readings makes it that much sweeter. 2018-19 SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck has graciously taken on some booking chores since assuming her laurels\, and much fun\, and some magnificent poetry\, is to be had as a result!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-1st-and-3rd-monday-of-each-month-7-9-pm-featured-poets-open-mic-hosted-by-jerry-ferraz-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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