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SUMMARY:Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
DESCRIPTION:Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel\, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. \nAbout The Worst Kind of Want \nA trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood\, death\, and sex \nTo cool-headed\, fastidious Pricilla Messing\, Italy will be an escape\, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s starting to feel like one long decline. \nRescued from the bedside of her difficult mother\, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece\, Hannah. But after years of caregiving\, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah’s youthful\, heedless world—drinking\, dancing\, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked\, Cilla feels like she’s coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories\, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless\, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. \nWith the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith\, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina\, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liska-jacobs-the-worst-kind-of-want/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST \nMARILYN CHIN’s new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said\, “Marilyn Chin’s poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings\, their theatre of anger\, ‘fierce and tender\,’ their compassion\, and their high mockery of wit.” Born in Hong Kong\, currently living in San Diego\, she is the author of four previous poetry collections and a novel. Widely anthologized\, in Best American Poetry\, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women\, and elsewhere\, her honors include five Pushcart Prizes\, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nGENNY LIM—San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, born in San Francisco—is the author of the poetry collections Winter Place\, Child of War\, and Paper Gods and Rebels. She also wrote the plays Paper Angels and Bitter Cane and the children’s book Wings for Lai-Ho\, among other works. Winner of the American Book Award in 1981\, she founded the theater company Paper Angels Productions\, later known as XX Theater\, and produced many experimental performance pieces. Recipient of the Bay Guardian Goldie for Local Discovery in 1991\, she went on to record and collaborate with musician-composers Jon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Anthony Brown\, the late Max Roach\, and Herbie Lewis. Her new poetry book KRA! is a power house political and historical\, biographical work invoking figures such as James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Francisco X. Alarcon\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor\, and is a salute to Flint\, Michigan\, Standing Rock\, and Black Lives Matter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marilyn-chin-genny-lim/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nReading in November: \nKatherine Vaz\nJalyce Fairley\nCasey Walker\nJeffery Leong\nMonica Zarazua \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-13/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Linda Lappin \nWillow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nLinda Lappin is a former Professor of English\, retired in 2018. Her latest collection tentatively called “Falling Home” is in the first round of editing and revision work with April Ossmann (formerly with Alice James Books). She has an MFA from San Jose State University where she was fortunate in meeting and taking classes with Ishmael Reed\, Naomi Shehab Nye\, Jane Hershfield (through the Montalvo seminars)\, Sam Mao\, and Alan Soldofsky. She has studied with Ellen Bass and Molly Fisk (poetry bootcamp). Through the MFA she published her first collection “Not Far from the Tree” and while there published individual poems in Convergence\, Coe Review\, Sanskrit\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Though many of her poems are narrated from Boulder Creek\, he now lives in San Jose\, California. Do not confuse her with the other Linda Lappin living in Italy\, please. \nupcoming at Third Thursdays:\nDecember: Laurence Snydal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books \nThe President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press\nThe Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace \n\n\n\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets\, Puerto Rican poet and activist Raquel Salas Rivera\, with us from her present home in Philadelphia\, and writer\, filmmaker\, and artist Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, here from Southern California. Both poets read from their work\, then join in conversation with one another and the audience. This evening at The Poetry Center—co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State—will be followed by a second reading the next night\, Friday November 22\, across the Bay at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Kielinski Photography. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Kielinski Photography. \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo by Beowulf Shehan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nFriday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Latina/Latino Studies\, and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-raquel-salas-rivera-and-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-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:Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games
DESCRIPTION:Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book\, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including\, Busted!\, a game from the 1970s about trying to start a career dealing weed\, Class Struggle\, the world’s first socialist board game\, and The Grizzled\, a modern cooperative game about being in the trenches in World War I\, will be available to play. \nAvidly―the online magazine founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood & Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)―specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to the intersection of expertise and passion.  Now\, Blackwood & Mesle are partnering with NYU Press to launch Avidly Reads\, an exciting new series of books that are part memoir\, part cultural criticism\, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \nIn Board Games\, writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal\, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat\, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart\, Class Struggle\, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships―from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night\, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns\, trivia\, and nostalgia. \nEric Thurm is a writer whose work has appeared in\, among other publications\, Esquire\, WIRED\, Real Life\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-thurm-avidly-reads-board-games/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Best Small Fictions 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody\, Natalie Hernandez\, Joy Lanzendorfer\, Kim Magowan\, J.L. Montavon\, and Kara Vernor. \nAbout The Best Small Fictions \nThe Best Small Fictions anthology\, now in its fifth year\, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short\, elliptical works are varied and edgy\, sorrowful and triumphant\, provocative and visionary. The small fictions enclosed within this volume are always vibrant. They scintillate. They linger. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break\, the tales contained within 2019’s The Best Small Fictions promise to leave a mark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-best-small-fictions-2019/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart\n\n\n\n\n(and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-sciolino-in-conversation-with-thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nFYI the 10 slot open mic list starts at 7:30 and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway). \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T190000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay\, to Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley\, for what will be a powerful evening featuring poets Vanessa Angélica Villareal\, joining us from Southern California\, and—from Puerto Rico via Philadelphia\, Raquel Salas Rivera. The In Common Writers Series\, now in its second year\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Both this event and a reading and conversation by both poets the prior evening at The Poetry Center are free and open to the public. Join us! \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo: Self-portrait. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Paloma Alicea. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Paloma Alicea. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nThursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-and-raquel-salas-rivera-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nJIM NORMINGTON\nJOHN CURL\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nNELLIE WONG\nRAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ\nLYNNE BARNES\nCATHLEEN WILLIAMS\nGREGORY POND\nJUDITH BERNHARD\nGAYLIN WEST\nSCOTT BIRD\nVICTORIA BRILL\nDAVID VOLPENDESTA\nYOLANDA CATZALCO\nHAI PHAM\nKRISTINA BROWN\nDOREEN STOCK\nNEELI CHERKOVSKI\nKIM SHUCK\nJENNY WADE\nBOB COLEMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-1/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
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SUMMARY:Egypt + Holiday Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band together for an early evening\, relaxed community celebration on Sunday and break bread together before the end of 2019. Publisher J. K. Fowler will share a few photos of\, and stories about\, his recent community-funded trip to the Tanta international festival of poetry. \nBring one of your favorite dishes\, a dish that speaks to a favorite book of yours\, or try your hand at an Egyptian dish: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15039/world-cuisine/african/north-african/egyptian \nWine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/egypt-holiday-potluck/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T163000
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SUMMARY:Marcia Falk & Steven Rood
DESCRIPTION:MARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings\, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English and Hebrew. She will be showing images of the artwork with her poetry at this event. Mark Podwal\, artist and scholar of Jewish culture\, says\, “Inner East is a symbiosis of word and image…Falk’s beautiful visual images are poems in paint that do not merely illustrate her written words but illuminate them.” A Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, she returned there four years later as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Among her many other books are The Days Between: Blessings\, Poems\, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season and The Book of Blessings: New English Prayers for Daily Life\, the Sabbath\, and the New Moon Festival. She is also the author of a classic verse translation of the biblical Song of Songs\, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible\, about which Adrienne Rich said\, “it’s always a thrill when (as rarely happens) the scholar’s mind and the poet’s soul come together.” A translator from Yiddish as well\, she’s published The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda\, poetry of the twentieth century mystic\, Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky\, and With Teeth in the Earth\, poems of the Yiddish modernist Malka Heifetz Tussman. \nSTEVEN ROOD’s debut book of poems is I Say Your Name\, devoted to the memory of both the late\, great poet Jack Gilbert and Rood’s own psychotherapist. For these many years he’s been a member of the writing workshop that Gilbert founded at San Francisco State in 1967\, and he was a primary caregiver of Gilbert’s during his last Alzheimer days.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-falk-steven-rood/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T180000
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo\, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. \nPoets Laureate on Social Justice–Vallejo\nSunday\, Nov. 24\, 4PM at Alibi Bookshop in Vallejo; Napa County Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson\, former San Mateo Co. Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin\, former Sonoma Co. Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, Richmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton\, and hosted by Ron Reikki\n\nNapa Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson (2017-2021) writes poems; he has also written novels\, short stories\, articles\, personal essays\, stand-up comedy routines\, short films\, and many letters. Jeremy aims to cultivate a rich community of writers\, readers\, and artists\, whether as a participant\, patron\, or planner. He has emceed open mics\, curated readings\, hosted craft-ins\, led workshops\, and cof-founded the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual exchange of hand-made chapbooks.\n\nCaroline Goodwin moved to California in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension\, CA College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies. In fall 2013\, she was appointed San Mateo County’s first Poet Laureate\, and served for three years (2014 – 2016). http://carolinegoodw.com/\n\n\nSonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle‘s (2017-2018) poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press\, 2017) Gold Passage (Trio House Press\, 2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech\, 2015). Her poem “Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts” poem will be featured on 100 buses as part of the San Francisco Beautiful and Poetry Society of America Muni Art 2020 campaign. Her works have been published in Tin House\, San Francisco Examiner\, Fence\, Los Angeles Review of Books\,  Split Rock Review\, Taos Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market\, Women’s Studies and Chicago Quarterly Review. Her biography on Charmian London\, Jack London’s wife will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.\n\n\n\n\nRichmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton is helping develop a literary arts center for the city. He has been a Pushcart nominee and Gregory O’Donoghue Competition winner. His work has appeared in Interbang\, Jacaranda Review\, King Log\, Shades of Contradiction\, The Texas Observer\, Parthenon West\, New Orleans Quarterly\, Journal of Human Architecture\, Quillpuddle\, Opium Magazine\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Oberon\, Written Here\, and Southword. His book\, A Complex Bravery was published by Marick Press. He works as a spatial epidemiologist. \n\n\n\nRon Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press)\, U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press)\, and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)\, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing\, 1917-2017 (MSU Press)\, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press\, Independent Publisher Book Award)\, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press\, Michigan Notable Book)\, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki is contracted for seven upcoming books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191125T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191125T200000
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CREATED:20191118T072734Z
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SUMMARY:Palestinian Voices: Palestinians Tell Their Stories
DESCRIPTION:Stories are powerful and they allow us to understand our common humanity. Manny’s\, in partnership with Mothers on the March\, is putting together an events for Palestinian identified folk to come tell their stories. Participant list tbd! \nThis event is a part of our ongoing series related to Israel and Palestine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/palestinian-voices-palestinians-tell-their-stories/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191126T210000
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CREATED:20191030T210942Z
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SUMMARY:#we - a talk and reading series of queer perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the sixth installment of #we\, a talk and reading series of queer perspectives hosted by Richard Loranger. Each event features two writers from various segments of the queer spectrum\, who each give a talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness\, followed by a reading of their creative work. \nFor our sixth event\, trans poet Natasha Dennerstein will give a talk titled “Rebel\, rebel\, you’ve torn your dress”\, along with reading from Seahorse\, her Nomadic Press chapbook about her years of trans prostitution and transition in a harsher time of the 1980s; and Pushcart-nominated writer and queer disability activist Hilary Brown will give a talk titled “I’m a Mover and a Shaker: Thoughts From an Epileptiqueer”\, and will read a variety of relevant work. \nWe try to start promptly at 7 pm. Q&A and chat time will follow. \nAbsolutely all are welcome to this sharing of perspectives. The venue is wheelchair accessible (rest room in the restaurant next door)\, and ASL translation for the deaf is available on request\, with a two-week notice preferred. \n  \n#we \na talk and reading series of queer perspectives \nfeaturing \nNatasha Dennerstein\nand Hilary Brown \n  \nHosted by Richard Loranger \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She worked as a psychiatric nurse which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She collaborated on a book with visual artist Kaye Freeman Turn and Face the Strange (2019). She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nHilary Brown is a Pushcart-nominated writer and queer disability activist living in Oakland\, California. Their chapbook\, When She Woke She Was an Open Field (Headmistress Press)\, was a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize. Their work appears or is forthcoming in Queerly\, APT\, The Ocotillo Review\, The South Carolina Review\, and A Disabled Woman’s Reader. They enjoy reading their work around the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-a-talk-and-reading-series-of-queer-perspectives-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="#we":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191130T213000
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Obsession
DESCRIPTION:Don’t miss the last SNS of the year! The last (fifth!) Saturday of November\, right after Thanksgiving\, we’re celebrating OBSESSION. Every writer is obsessed with something: love\, loss\, longing\, the past\, the future\, the end of the world\, your mother\, my sister\, owls\, spiders\, scissors\, salt\, bones\, little red wagons\, the perfect pun. You know what yours is; you don’t need me to tell you. Write it down. And again. And again. Then come share. \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nNovember features Giavanna Ortiz de Candia & Norman Zelaya \nGiavanna Ortiz de Candia is a Bay Area born and bred writer\, musician and photographer. In 2011\, at age 22\, Giavanna wrote David Jacobs\, who was serving a nine year sentence for white collar crimes. Giavanna and David corresponded for two years\, engaging in topics of art\, music\, literature\, and how to live a life without compromise. A Story That Could Be True is an accumulation of these letters and includes illustrations\, cards\, lyrics-tablature\, cooking recipes\, and photographs. \nGiavanna and David lived together for two years after his release in Brooklyn\, New York and Oakland\, California. He is currently in Federal Prison\, and Giavanna is finishing what the pair began. \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, November 30\, 2019\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy\nGuest Hosted by: Abe Becker \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS forthcoming
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-obsession/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T163000
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SUMMARY:Joan Baranow & Joan Aleshire
DESCRIPTION:This reading will feature a festive book launch for JOAN BARANOW’s new book of poems\, In the Next Life. Alicia Suskin Ostriker says\, “The lilt and love\, the trust and thrust\, the pain and gain of these poems\, is simply marvelous. In the Next Life reminds me of what I often forget—that poetry can be radiant.” Her previous collection is Living Apart. With her husband David Watts she produced the PBS documentary Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine. Her feature-length documentary The Time We Have draws an intimate portrait of a young woman facing terminal illness.\nJOAN ALESHIRE’s new memoir in poems is Days of Our Lives. Reginald Dwayne Betts says\, “Most poets choose: navigate the personal or navigate the public. In Days of Our Lives\, Aleshire abandons the choice. Instead\, opts for the gospel that is all the ways our private turns at living are never as private as we imagine. As if\, all of it\, our love and the nation’s loss\, hang by the thinnest of wires.” She’s published five previous collections and is working on a novel. She lives in Vermont and is the founder of SAGE\, an organization that supports sustainable agricultural education and the arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-baranow-joan-aleshire/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T170000
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SUMMARY:Enduring Struggle\, Enduring Spirits
DESCRIPTION:ENDURING STRUGGLE\, ENDURING SPIRITS: Remembering Steve Abbott and Karl Tierney on World AIDS Day \nLocation: Latino/Hispanic meeting room\, Lower Level\, San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 \nSteve Abbott and Karl Tierney were two gifted Bay Area writers connected in life by gay literary circles and connected in death by the scorched earth of AIDS. Now two posthumous books celebrate their enduring spirits. Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader brings together a cross-section of artistic work spanning three decades of poetry\, fiction\, collage\, comics\, essays\, and autobiography. Have You Seen This Man? The Castro Poems of Karl Tierney is a time capsule of San Francisco in the ’80s and ’90s that morphs from observation to humor to hunger to fear\, each poem carrying a razor-sharp wit. Join the editors of both books\, Jamie Townsend and Jim Cory\, along with special guest Alysia Abbott\, at a special World AIDS Day event made possible by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center\, Nightboat Books\, Sibling Rivalry Press\, and\, with his trademark kindness\, the late Kevin Killian\, who organized this event in one of his last acts of generosity. Find more information about the writers and editors below: \nSTEVE ABBOTT was a poet\, critic\, editor\, novelist\, and artist based in San Francisco. Abbott edited the Bay Area periodical Poetry Flash and the influential SOUP Magazine. Abbott was a frequent contributor to The Advocate\, The Sentinel\, and The Bay Area Reporter. With Bruce Boone\, he organized the historic Left/Write conference in 1981. He was also a single father and many of his poems reflect on his relationship with his daughter\, Alysia\, who in 2013 published the acclaimed memoir\, Fairyland. Abbott died of AIDS in 1992. \nKARL TIERNEY was born in Westfield\, Massachusetts\, in 1956 and grew up in Connecticut and Louisiana. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in English from Emory University in 1980 and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas in 1983. That same year\, he moved to San Francisco where he dedicated himself to poetry. He was twice a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award\, a finalist for the National Poetry Series\, and a 1992 fellow at Yaddo. Though unpublished in book form during his lifetime\, his poems appeared in many of the best literary magazines of the period. He published more than 50 poems in magazines and anthologies before his death. In December of 1994 he became sick with AIDS and took his own life in October of 1995. \nJAMIE TOWNSEND is a genderqueer poet\, publisher\, and editor living in Oakland\, California. They are half responsible for Elderly\, a publishing experiment and persistent hub of ebullience and disgust. They are the author of several chapbooks including\, most recently\, Pyramid Song (above/ground press; 2018) as well as the full-length collection SHADE (Elis Press; 2015). An essay on the history of the New Narrative magazine SOUP was published in The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books; 2017). \nJIM CORY’S most recent publications are Wipers Float In The Neck Of The Reservoir (The Moron Channel\, 2018) and 25 Short Poems (Moonstone Press\, 2016). He has edited poetry selections by contemporary American poets including James Broughton (Packing Up for Paradise\, Black Sparrow Press\, 1998) and Jonathan Williams (Jubilant Thicket\, Copper Canyon Press\, 2005). He lives in Philadelphia. \nALYSIA ABBOTT is the author of Fairyland\, A Memoir of My Father\, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury\, the only child of gay poet and writer\, Steve Abbott. As a journalist and critic\, she’s written for The New York Times\, Real Simple\, Vogue\, Marie Claire\, OUT\, Slate\, Salon\, TheAtlantic.com\, TriQuarterly and Psychology Today\, among other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from New School University and was a contributing producer at WNYC Radio. \n—\nEVENT COVER PHOTO: March 8\, 1988—Activists in support of the ARC/AIDS Vigil block the entrance to the old Federal Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center before their arrest. The AIDS/ARC Vigils of 1985-1995 remain the longest running act of civil disobedience in San Francisco. Credit: Rick Gerharter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enduring-struggle-enduring-spirits/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Scarlett Sabet
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new collection of poetry \nCamille \nScarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. Her poetry has been featured in GQ\, Tatler\, Constellation Magazine\, The Violet Book and Dazed and Confused. Her poetry readings have been broadcast on the BBC\, London Live\, and London’s Soho Radio. She wrote\, directed and starred in her poetic short film “Burning” which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection “Rocking Underground” was launched with a reading at the Chelsea Arts Club in November 2014. Her second collection “The Lock And The Key” was launched with a reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris in July 2016. In October 2016 GQ online released a video of Scarlett performing her poem Feathers at Leighton House to celebrate National Poetry Day. In January 2017 Scarlett was interviewed and gave a reading for the radio program “Van Morrison And Me” hosted by journalist John McCarthy for the BBC World Service\, also featuring Sir Van Morrison\, Brian Keenan and novelist Ian Rankin.  In December 2017 Scarlett’s poems were exhibited alongside acclaimed photographer Jim Marshall’s work for the Peace and Light exhibition at The Troubadour in London. Scarlett has read at KGB\, Bowery Poetry Club\, Berl’s bookshop in New York\, Aspects Literary Festival\, No Alibi’s bookshop in Belfast\, The Troubadour in London\, the William Morris Gallery\, the World’s End Bookshop\, Burberry\, The Groucho Club\, and Atlantis Bookshop. Van Morrison commenting on Scarlett’s poetry says: “”What strikes me about Scarlett’s work it that it’s very cutting edge and it’s making poetry interesting again. I love both the intensity and the spiritual aspect she conveys.” \nAn interview with Scarlet on HUNGER TV \nInterview with Paul Gorman at Leighton House Museum\, London \nScarlett reading at The Troubador
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scarlett-sabet/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Daniel Ari\, Colby Cotton\, Caroline Goodwin\, and Ari Moskowitz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nDaniel Ari serves as poet laureate of Richmond\, California and produced the city’s first anthology of poetry. His own book One Way to Ask (Norfolk Press\, 2016) combines poems in a new 17-line form called queron with illustrations created and curated in collaboration with 67 artists including Roz Chast\, R. Crumb\, Henrik Drescher and Wayne White. The book won the Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award for design. His writings have appeared in Poet’s Market\, Writer’s Digest\, McSweeney’s\, Defenestration\, the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest\, The Wayfarer\, and many other venues over the last 30 years. He is currently transitioning into a new life as a guide. \nColby Cotton is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro\, and the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, his work appears or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review\, Cincinnati Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and Colorado Review\, among others. He lives in Oakland\, CA. \nCaroline Goodwin moved to the Bay Area in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies; from 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. \nIn 2018\, Ari Moskowitz worked the graveyard shift full-time at Hotel Zeppelin in Union Square. He spent his nights talking to sex workers\, tech workers\, addicts\, poets\, the homeless\, film producers\, the police\, EMTs\, Katie Couric\, André 3000\, Jeff Gutt\, and Chris Taylor. He earned $17.53/hour after a raise. He’s working on a novel. Ari holds a B.A. in English from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from SFSU\, where he was the Editor of Fourteen Hills. His writing has recently appeared in American Literary Review\, The Pinch\, and Red Light Lit. He’s been supported by a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts as well as a grant from the Creative Capacity Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-14/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191201T213000
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SUMMARY:Beasts of Bourbon II
DESCRIPTION:Beasts of Bourbon returns with a stellar lineup of kick ass writers poets and musicians to close out the New Year with it’s second edition featuring Kim Shuck\, James Cagney\, Cassandra Dallett\, Juba Kalamka\, Alexandra Naughton and Red O’ Hare with musical guests Oddly Even (featuring Ashley Macachor and Calvin Sturges.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beasts-of-bourbon-ii/
LOCATION:The Legionnaire Saloon\, 2272 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
CREATED:20191120T045034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T045034Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #37: Holiday
DESCRIPTION:The holidays are a tinsel covered monster\, roughly entangled in twinkling lights\, half-choked on a nutcracker doll. The kind of slavering nog-soaked beast that comes around once a year just to lift a leg on your “More Like Holi-Daze” door mat before knocking down the door and eating your children. \nTo stave off this beast with a literary pole\, we’re gathering some of our very favorite writers to address the subject of HOLIDAY (we leave off the ‘s’ in case anyone just wants to talk about vacationing on a sun-soaked isle) in it’s tattered\, gift-wrapped glory. \nThere will be beer. There might be nog. Hell\, we might go all out and get some cookies. \nBe there. \nThe Readers (so far): \nJoe Wadlington\nMicheal Foulk\nVernon Keeve III\nJoel Tomfohr\nSerena Chan\nJulia Halprin Johnson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-37-holiday/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
CREATED:20191124T171121Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release for STENCILS and Celebration of the Life and Art of David King
DESCRIPTION:This event had been planned for some time as a launch party for David King’s long-overdue monograph featuring his iconic stencil-only designs. Sadly\, David passed away recently but friends\, family and colleagues decided to continue on with the launch event but to also make it a celebration of the life and work of David King. \n\nThe new book STENCILS starts with his legendary logo for the UK band Crass and continues to the present day. Both the artist’s process and finished output are on display in this revealing collection\, from the covered-in-layers-of-paint stencils themselves to the drawings and designs outlining the thought process and ultimately the final art. Many of these works used multiple stencils and colors to create one-off finished pieces that you’re likely to find only within the pages of this book. \n\n\n\nDavid King grew up in post-war London and attended art school there between 1964 and 1967. He worked as an art director for a decade thereafter\, but left the commercial art world as he became more involved in creating music and confrontational graphics. He moved to New York and was commissioned to do graphics for clubs like Danceteria\, Peppermint Lounge and also for The Museum of Modern Art. He joined the band Arsenal around this time. Eventually the band relocated to San Francisco\, touring the west coast extensively\, changing its name to Sleeping Dogs and then finally Brain Rust. In the early 1990s\, King attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Since that time\, David has made short films\, continued with his logo design for bands and record labels and has published a number of photo books. He still was making stencils until the time of his death.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-for-stencils-and-celebration-of-the-life-and-art-of-david-king/
LOCATION:3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Loft\, 1687 Market Street\, San Francisco\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
CREATED:20191001T201512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191001T201512Z
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SUMMARY:The Bushwick Book Club Oakland - - There\, There
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome The Bushwick Book Club Oakland on Sunday\, November 3rd\, from 6:30-8 pm (doors at 6). \n**Please Note** This event will take place after the store’s regular Sunday hours (10 am-6 pm). Attendees of the event are welcome to shop before or after but we will not be open to regular browsing in order to minimize disruption to the performances. \n\n\n\nThe Bushwick Book Club was started in 2009 by Brooklyn based singer-songwriter\, Susan Hwang.  At every Bushwick Book Club performance\, a book is selected\, and a collection of local musicians read the book and write songs inspired by them.  Over the past decade\, branches of the book club have sprouted all over the world\, in cities such as Portland\, LA\, Seattle\, Malmo\, Sweden\, Santa Barbara\, New Orleans\, Greenville\, SC and Toronto\, Canada. \n​Now\, Oakland\, CA has its very own Bushwick Book Club!  BBC Oakland specifically selects literature written by authors of color and members of LGBTQ communities. Each season a book is chosen and group of select singer-songwriters and composers read the book\, write a song inspired by it\, and perform their pieces for an audience of enthusiastic book people.  Bushwick Book Club Oakland selects books that take up issues of race\, gender\, class\, and mental health giving a place for artists of these communities to share their voices to an audience of similar representation and allies. Audience members are welcomed to read the book ahead of time for added fun. \nFor more information click here. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThere There lives and breathes its setting — the streets and neighborhoods of Oakland — and is a full-throated voicing of the urban Native American experience(s). A brutal history has made for a painful present that is as complex as the people living it. The characters in There There are angry\, funny\, heartbroken\, and their stories are woven together by having been silenced — their tongues and heads removed in past lives unseen in the present. What of their futures? \n— Brad \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, November 3\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bushwick-book-club-oakland-there-there/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
CREATED:20191024T152626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T152626Z
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SUMMARY:Second Stutter Annual Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Solomon Rino \nwith readings by George Albon\, Laura Moriarty\, Joseph Lease\, and Norma Cole \nSecond Stutter is a San Francisco based literary journal that publishes annually. It’s focus is on contemporary English language poetry and translation. The editions are produced with letterpress printed covers and handmade endpapers. The covers for volume one and two were printed at Jack W. Stauffacher’s Greenwood Press at 300 Broadway\, and volume three at the San Francisco Center for the Book. The editions are limited and largely distributed through readings\, university lectures\, and other poets. Second Stutter has published Will Alexander\, Gillian Conoley\, Nathaniel Mackey\, Laura Moriarty\, G.C. Waldrep\, Rosmarie Waldrop\, Joseph Lease\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Eleni Sikelianos\, Donna de la Perriere\, Manuel Vazquez Montalban (trans.\, me)\, Mario Santiago Papasquiaro (trans.\, Arturo Mantecon)\, Victoria Xardel (trans.\, Norma Cole)\, Jean Daive (trans.\, me)\, and Paul Celan (trans.\, Ian Fairley)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-stutter-annual-release-party/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T142507
CREATED:20190930T192102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190930T192102Z
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SUMMARY:Mimi Lok: Last of Her Name
DESCRIPTION:Mimi Lok discusses her new book\, Last Of Her Name\, with Rachel Khong. \nPraise for Last Of Her Name \n“Last of Her Name is a mesmerizing and deeply felt debut that affirms all that is great about short fiction. Lok’s collection brings startling intimacy to her characters\, all of them struggling with dislocation and belonging. “Woman in the Closet\,” has to be considered a new classic. I can’t think of a collection that better speaks to this moment of global movement and collective rupture from homes and history\, and the struggle to find meaning despite it all.”— DAVE EGGERS\, author of The Parade \n“What a basket of jewels! Each of these stories is elegant\, poignant and multi-faceted. A true pleasure.”— GISH JEN\, author of The Girl at the Baggage Claim \n“A truly beautiful and wide ranging collection. There is love\, longing\, grief\, displacement\, endurance. And from the gut punch of the opening story to the wonderful novella that anchors the book\, not a word is wasted. So many lines spoke directly in my ear: “Night after night they sleep\, but rarely at the same time. Without knowing it they take turns watching each other.” A book to stay up with\, a book that will make you not want to sleep..”— PETER ORNER\, author of Maggie Brown & Others \nAbout Last Of Her Name \nLAST OF HER NAME is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including 80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and urban California\, LAST OF HER NAME features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers\, and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. \nIn the novella “The Woman In The Closet\,” a homeless woman finds refuge in the unlikeliest of places\, while in “Motet”\, a teenage girl navigates art and emotional allegiances with her ex-opera singer stepmother. In “The Wrong Dave\,” a soon-to-be-married architect takes up a covert correspondence with a grief-stricken woman who may or may not be writing to the right person. “Wedding Night” centers on an unconventional romance threatened by societal mores. The title story follows the parallel\, interweaving journeys of a mother and daughter as they grapple with their respective foes\, taking us from the suburbs of England to a Chinese village on the eve of World War II\, and exploring the hidden lives and secret histories within an immigrant family. Collectively\, LAST OF HER NAME offers a unique exploration of love\, longing\, and endurance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mimi-lok-last-of-her-name/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191204T193000
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CREATED:20191124T214122Z
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers / The Captain and the Glory
DESCRIPTION:When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time\, a new leader vows to step forward. Though he has no experience\, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law\, and though he has often remarked he doesn’t much like boats\, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Until one day a famous pirate appears on the horizon. \n\n\n\nDave Eggers is the author of twelve books\, including The Parade; The Monk of Mokha; The Circle; Heroes of the Frontier; A Hologram for the King\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and What Is the What\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of France’s Prix Médicis Étranger and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. His nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The Guardian\, the New Yorker\, The Best American Travel Writing\, and the Best American Essays. He is the founder of McSweeney’s\, an independent publishing company\, and cofounder of Voice of Witness\, a book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. He is the cofounder of 826 National\, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers with locations around the country\, and of ScholarMarch\, which connects donors with students to make college accessible. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into forty-two languages. He lives in Northern California with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers-the-captain-and-the-glory/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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