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SUMMARY:Andrés Neuman
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Andrés Neuman: \n“Good readers will find something that can be found only in great literature\, the kind written by real poets\, a literature that dares to venture into the dark with open eyes and that keeps its eyes open no matter what . . . . The literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Andrés Neuman and a few of his blood brothers.” — Roberto Bolano \n\nAbout How to Travel Without Seeing: \nA kaleidoscopic\, fast-paced tour of Latin America from one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most outstanding writers. \nLamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara\, Andres Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of not seeing. But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move\, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic\, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places airports\, hotels\, taxis are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning. A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen\, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality\, immigration and globalization\, history and language\, and turbulent current events. Above all\, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America\, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolano\, Vargas Llosa\, Lorca\, and Galeano\, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide. \n  \nEye-opening and charmingly offbeat\, “How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America” is essential reading for anyone interested in the past\, present\, and future of the Americas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-neuman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161102T193000
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SUMMARY:Am I Alone Here?: Peter Orner's San Francisco Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Catapult celebrates the release of Peter Orner’s AM I ALONE HERE? with a reading and conversation with Peter Orner and award-winning journalist and radio producer Julia Scott at Booksmith\, Wednesday\, November 2nd\, 7:30pm. Join us! \nhttp://books.catapult.co/products/am-i-alone-here \n“This book\, thank god\, defies any category. It’s partly an ode to reading\, partly a memoir of Chicago and family\, partly a travelogue\, and often it’s all of these things in one four-page essay. Orner reads Cheever in Albania\, thinks about Salinger in Haiti\, salutes his father from a taqueria in San Francisco. Although some will want to dive in randomly and skip around\, reading these exquisite essays in order allows the book to develop a momentum and cumulative power that sneaks up on you and knocks you back.” —Dave Eggers \n“Orner\, a distinguished fiction writer\, appears here as a devoted book lover\, inviting the reader to an intimate and friendly book group of two. . . . Readers will be delighted to join him\, grab one of the stories he delves into\, and enjoy his company.” —Publishers Weekly \n“AM I ALONE HERE? [is] the most beautiful\, moving book I’ve read in a very long time\, and I’ll use any opportunity to mention it. . . . I encourage anyone who loves reading\, I mean who truly loves reading\, to immediately go to a bookshop and demand a copy.” —Alexander Maksik\, author of SHELTER IN PLACE\, in THE HUFFINGTON POST
URL:https://litseen.com/event/am-i-alone-here-peter-orners-san-francisco-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ballard\, Fenner\, + Opstedal
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Opstedal was Born and raised in Venice\, California\, and currently residing in Santa Cruz\, Kevin Opstedal is a poet whose line leaves three decades of roadcuts across the entire imaginary West. His twenty-five books and chapbooks include two full-length collections\, Like Rain (Angry Dog Press\, 1999) and California Redemption Value (UNO Press\, 2011). Blue Books Press\, one of many of his “sub-radar” editorships\, belongs in the same breath as the great California poetry houses (Auerhahn\, Big Sky\, Oyez) that his own poems seem to conjure like airbrushed flames on a murdered-out junker carrying Ed Dorn\, Joanne Kyger\, Ted Berrigan\, and some wide-eyed poetry neophyte to a latenite card game in Bolinas. “His poems\,” writes Lewis MacAdams\, “are hard-nosed without being hard-hearted.” As identity and ideas duke it out in the back-alley of academia\, Opstedal surfs an oil slick off Malibu into the apocalypse of style. \nDerek Fenner is an artist\, educator\, and researcher living in Oakland\, California. He earned his MFA in writing and poetics at Naropa University. After a decade of experience as an art educator in the juvenile justice system\, he is completing his Doctorate in education at Mills College. His latest book of poetry is Hermeticities & Others (2016) published by Bootstrap Press\, a publishing company he co-founded in 2000. \nMicah Ballard is the author of over a dozen books of poetry\, including Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter\, 2014)\, Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books\, 2011)\, Parish Krewes (Bootstrap Press\, 2009)\,  Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006)\, and Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Auguste Press\, 2001)\, as well as the collaborations Death Race V.S.O.P (with Cedar Sigo & Will Yackulic)\, Easy Eden (with Patrick James Dunagan)\, and Poems from the New Winter Palace (with Michael Carr). His third full-length collection\,  Afterlives\, was just released by Bootstrap Press. He works at the University of San Francisco and with Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the co-editor of Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ballard-fenner-opstedal/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161103T121000
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and four poetry collections including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. She co-edited  Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing published by Counterpath Press. A CantoMundo Fellow\, she teaches in the creative writing programs at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces\, NM and serves as the publisher of Noemi Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161103T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161103T210000
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SUMMARY:Carolina De Robertis + Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Carolina De Robertis is the author of internationally best-selling novels that have been translated into 17 languages. The Invisible Mountain received Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize and was a finalist for a California Book Award\, an International Latino Book Award and the VCU Cabell First Novel Award. It was also named a best book of the year by Booklist\, O – The Oprah Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle\, among others. The Gods of Tango received a Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and was named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and NBC Latino. De Robertis is the recipient of a 2012 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the translator of two Latin American novels\, and her literary translations have appeared in Granta\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. \nMicah Perks is the author of a novel\, We Are Gathered Here; a memoir\, Pagan Time; and a long personal essay\, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed\, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. Excerpts of What Becomes Us won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and The New Guard Machigonne 2014 Fiction Prize. Perks received her Bachelor of Arts and Master Fine Arts from Cornell University and now co-directs the creative writing program at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolina-de-robertis-micah-perks/
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:Steffi Drewes + nick johnson
DESCRIPTION:Steffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press\, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Magnetic Forest\, Cartography Askew\, and History of Drawing Circles. \nHer poems have appeared in 6×6\, Aufgabe\, Eleven Eleven\, Monday Night\, New American Writing\, No Tell Motel\, Zen Monster\, and in the anthology IT’S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT’S SUNNY IN OAKLAND (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2014). \nShe works as a freelance writer and organizes Featherboard Writing Series at Aggregate Space Gallery in Oakland.\nnick johnson was born near the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay and raised by his single mother in Baltimore. His mother\, who died when he was in his early teens\, has become a consistent presence and voice in his work\, along with themes of otherness and alienation. \nHis poems have been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and have appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and the anthology Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. \nHis first collection of poems\, music for mussolini\, was published by Nomadic Press in March of 2016. \nWhen he’s not writing poems\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey — typically in that order\, but not always. \nJohnson earned his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from California College of the Arts. \nHe lives and works in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steffi-drewes-nick-johnson/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161104T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161104T200000
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SUMMARY:Civil Coping Mechanisms: #Recurrent
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Civil Coping Mechanisms to exhibit their new series\, #RECURRENT\, on Friday\, November 4th at 7pm. Series editor\, Janice Lee\, describes #RECURRENT as such: “The series will push the boundaries of narrative with books that seek to reconstruct\, reimagine & expand on existing narrative spaces. Not bound to genre or category\, #RECURRENT books will be intuitive\, instigative\, innovative\, sensitive\, perceptive\, heart-breaking\, and honest.” The evening’s feature writers are Harold Abramowitz\, Jordan Okumura\, and Doug Rice \nHarold Abramowitz is from Los Angeles. He is author and co-author of books of poetry and prose\, including Blind Spot\, Dear Dearly Departed\, Not Blessed\, and UNFO Burns A Million Dollars. Harold will be reading from his book Blind Spot\, a poetic novel that weaves a new structure for narrative\, and forces the reader to consider the complex and profound structures hidden in a record of time. \nJordan Okumura is a writer and editor. Her work has been published in Gargoyle\, Dirty:Dirty (Jaded Ibis Press)\, Black Rabbit\, and First Stop Fiction. Jordan lives and works in Sacramento\, California\, where she is an editor for trade news publications in the agricultural industry and is a regular contributor at Enclave/Entropy. She will be reading from her debut book\, Gaijin. \nDoug Rice is the author of several books including Here Lies Memory\, Blood of Mugwump\, and An Erotics of Seeing. He is also the co-editor of Federman: A to X-X-X-X. His fiction\, philosophy\, and creative nonfiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Avant Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation\, Zyzzyvya\, Western Humanities Review\, 580 Split\, and others. His work has been translated and published in six languages. He was awarded a Literature Fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude\, Stuttgart\, Germany for 2012-2014. His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2016). Doug will be reading from Here Lies Memory: A Pittsburgh Novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/civil-coping-mechanisms-recurrent/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161104T210000
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Bay Crossing
DESCRIPTION:Bay Crossing\nSpecial East Bay edition\nOctopus Literary Salon\n2101 Webster St.\, Oakland\n\nReaders\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nJacqueline Doyle\nColleen McKee\nLynn Mundell\nApollo Papafrangou\nAndrew Sano\nRobert Thomas\nAmos White \nMusic by Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-bay-crossing-2/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161104T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161104T213000
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SUMMARY:Wayne Miller
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wayne Miller: \n“In these poems\, we see the way the world around us is layered by confrontation\, love\, and remembrance. And whether it is the birth of a child\, the death of a father\, the various ways we’ve found to kill each other\, or the aftermath of a riot in response to those killings\, we carry it all forward with us\, in memory and action\, and we give it to those who follow us.” —Adrian Matejka \n\n“This is poetry at its most powerful: instrument of change\, defense against the commonplace of mall shooters and hoax bombs\, deeply entered wisdom of the body in both birth and dying\, and a bastion against loss and forgetting. Wayne Miller’s Post- doesn’t take this century lying down\, it is a ringing rejoinder to those who say poetry does not matter. In Miller’s lines\, we hear the ancient magic of sorrow transformed to hope\, elegy bent back around to ode.” —D. A. Powell\n\nAbout Post-: \nThe poems of this fourth collection from Wayne Miller exist in the wake of catastrophe. It is a world populated by rogue gunmen on shooting sprees\, a world where the only inheritance a father has to pass on is his debt. In this world\, every box could be a bomb and what comes after is what is lived. And yet\, this painful past is not set in stone. The past becomes the present\, yielding toward an immediate future.\nThe collection coalesces around a series of post-elegies triggered by three occurrences: the birth of his child\, the death of his father\, and his experience of the seeming explosion of sociohistorical and political conflict and violence over the past decade. Throughout this series\, Miller processes grief\, but also cuts through pain to open up a way forward in the aftermath of shared loss. “Post-” thrums with pathos and humor\, pain and the beauty of living.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-miller/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161104T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161104T220000
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SUMMARY:The Other Fabulous Reading Series: Cotman\, Rees\, + Woltag
DESCRIPTION:The Other Fabulous Reading Series is hosting a reading at The Long Haul again. \nIt’s been a while. \nThe readers are Elwin Cotman\, Ted Rees\, and Laura Woltag. \nMore Info soon\, but all you really need to know is to come to The Long Haul at 8.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-other-fabulous-reading-series-cotman-rees-woltag/
LOCATION:The Long Haul\, 3124 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161105T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161105T200000
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SUMMARY:Sneathen\, Wolkin\, + Low
DESCRIPTION:chapbook release by ERIC SNEATHEN / LINDSEY WOLKIN\n+\nreading by TRISHA LOW\n+\nΦ\, EMPTY SET: a solo exhibition by Shisi Huang\, featuring interactive spatial installations that alter perceptual dimensions of time and space\, inspired by haunting personal experiences \nERIC SNEATHEN splits his time between Oakland and UC Santa Cruz\, where he is a PhD student in Literature. His poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, littletell\, Faggot Journal\, and The Equalizer\, and his first collection\, Snail Poems\, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He is also the editor and producer of Macaroni Necklace\, a DIY literary zine and reading series featuring (mostly) writers who have not yet published a book-length manuscript. \nLINDSEY WOLKIN is a writer and visual artist working in Oakland. Her writing has appeared online and in Transfer Magazine\, Forum\, and Passages North. She is a recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize from San Francisco State University and a San Francisco Artist Commission Grant. She’s currently working on a novel and a series of mixed media drawings on paper. \nTRISHA LOW is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions\, 2013). She lives in Oakland and is currently working on a book length essay entitled SOCIALIST REALISM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sneathen-wolkin-low/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reading Next to Kilns\, Poetry\, Pots and Prose
DESCRIPTION:Red Brick Studios presents\, Reading Next to Kilns\, a free evening of art and readings ‪on Saturday\, November 5th at 7pm‬ at 1275 17th Streeet (between Capp and Mission) 3rd floor. \nFeatured readers are Rohan daCosta\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, Arisa White\, and Kenneth Wong! \nReading Next to Kilns is a spontaneous and random exhibition space for artists and writers. The series highlights working poets and writers inside a sculpture and ceramic studio in the heart of the Mission district of San Francisco. An independent collective of over twenty artists working primarily in clay\, Red Brick Studios will host this evening of poetry\, pots and prose inside their art studio during Open Studios for Mission Artist United. \nRed Brick Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/studios/red-brick-studio \nMission Artist United Spring Open Studios http://www.missionartistsunited.org/open_studios
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-next-to-kilns-poetry-pots-and-prose/
LOCATION:Red Brick Studio\, 3265 17th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161106T190000
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SUMMARY:Obsessions: a talk by Kaia Sand
DESCRIPTION:Kaia Sand is the author of the newly released A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff (Tinfish Press 2016) as well as Remember to Wave (Tinfish Press 2010)\, and interval (Edge Books)\, a Small Press Traffic book of the year in 2004; and co-author with Jules Boykoff of Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space (Palm Press\, 2008). With Garrick Imatani\, she was an artist-in-residence from 2013-2015 at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center\, a public art commission in which they responded to the contents of historical surveillance files on local political activists. This past spring she exhibited Moth\, Flame\, Desire\, at the Portland Community College Cascade Gallery\, after serving in the Despina Artist Residency at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro\, Brazil. She works across genres and media\, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts; she documents work at kaiasand.net.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/obsessions-a-talk-by-kaia-sand/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161106T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161106T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Peter Kline \nChris Drangle is a writer from Arkansas. His fiction received a 2016 Pushcart Prize\, and has appeared in the Idaho Review\, Epoch\, Crazyhorse\, and the Oxford American\, among others. He recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference as the Margaret Bridgman Scholar in fiction\, and taught creative writing to high school students in Kazakhstan. He earned an MFA at Cornell University\, and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nA freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach\, Cheryl Dumesnil is the author of the recently released Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes; the 2008 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner\, In Praise of Falling; and the memoir Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood\, and is also co-editor with Kim Addonizio of the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers\, Writers on Tattoos. \nDanusha Laméris’s work has been published in The New York Times\, American Poetry Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, New Letters\, and The Sun and as well as in a variety of other journals and anthologies. Her first book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. She received a special mention in the 2015 Pushcart anthology for a poem\, and her work has been featured by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. She lives in Santa Cruz\, California and teaches private writing workshops. More at Danusha Laméris. \nRoberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University and his BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow\, a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow\, and the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize. His debut collection\, Angel Park\, was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry\, and was selected by Rigoberto Gonzalez for the L.A. Times list of 23 Essential New Books by Latino Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-2/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161107T193000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at The American Bookbinders Museum
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Quiet Lightning 101\, a literary mixtape performed live by the authors and handed out as a book to the first 100 people at this free show: \nWesley Cohen » josé vadi » Kate Ambash » Sarah Heady » Lorraine Lupo » Brennan DeFrisco » Cassandra Dallett | Elizeya Quate » Abe Becker » Allie Marini » J. K. Fowler » Sarah Henry » Keith Gaboury » Joanell Serra \nall ages\ncurated by Kelsey Schimmelman + Christine No \nfeaturing cover art by M M. Blü Voelker \nLagunitas on draft \nmore info + links to all artists: quietlightning.org/bookbinders \naccepting submissions for our SEVEN YEAR anniversary show: https://www.facebook.com/events/693003144209866/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-american-bookbinders-museum/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161109T213000
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Spahr edits the book series Chain Links with Jena Osman and the collectively funded Subpress with nineteen other people and Commune Editions with Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes. With David Buuck she wrote Army of Lovers. She has edited with Stephanie Young A Megaphone: Some Enactments\, Some Numbers\, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism (Chain Links\, 2011)\, with Joan Retallack Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary(Palgrave\, 2006)\, and with Claudia Rankine American Women Poets in the 21st Century(Wesleyan U P\, 2002). Her most recent book is That Winter the Wolf Came from Commune Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161109T213000
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SUMMARY:Shaddock\, Maher\, + Silberg
DESCRIPTION:Facets of Spirituality\, a poetry reading by David Shaddock\, Vernal Pool\, Judy Maher\, and reader and event host Richard Silberg\, The Horses: New and Selected Poems\, refreshments\, Temple Sinai\, Albers Chapel\, entrance is on Webster Street\, just north of 28th Street beside the parking lot\, “2808 Summit” is written above the door\, several blocks east of Telegraph Avenue\, no driving entry from Broadway\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shaddock-maher-silberg/
LOCATION:Temple Sinai\, 2808 Summit Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161109T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161109T213000
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CREATED:20161018T233855Z
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SUMMARY:Stecopoulos\, Heuving\, + Thackrey
DESCRIPTION:Eleni Stecopoulos is a poet and independent scholar. She recently published Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice)\, which Alphonso Lingis writes “open[s] an important field for investigation and practice: the healing force of language\, of poetry” and Petra Kuppers calls “a thick rich book of Artaudian trickster moves.” Other books include Armies of Compassion (Palm Press) and Daphnephoria (Compline). She has taught at Bard College\, the University of San Francisco\, Naropa University\, the Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne\, and in community workshops. Originally from New York\, she lives in Berkeley. \nJeanne Heuving is a writer and a scholar. Her book length-study The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics is just out from the Modern and Contemporary Poetics series at the University of Alabama Press.  Other books include Incapacity (Chiasmus)\, Transducer (Chax)\, and Omissions Are Not Accidents:  Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore (Wayne State U P). Her cross genre book Incapacity won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic.  She recently published her long poem “Miss  Lonelyhearts” in Hambone 20\, and was one of two scholars to write an overview of American women’s poetry 1950-2000 for A History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry (Cambridge 2016).  She has an essay on Tisa Bryant forthcoming in The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of our Time (Northwestern 2017).  Heuving directs the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington\, Bothell and is on the graduate faculty in the English Department at the University of Washington Seattle. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, Simpson Humanities Center\, and the Beinecke Library at Yale. \nSusan Thackrey\, a poet who lives and works in San Francisco\, began to compose poetry at the age of three.  She was an inaugurating student in the Poetics Program at New College in San Francisco in 1980\, and studied with Robert Duncan and Diane di Prima over a number of years. Thackrey has given invitational lectures on Charles Olson\, Robert Duncan\, and  George Oppen\, including as a keynote speaker at the George Oppen Conference in Buffalo\, and most recently on Duncan’s The H.D. Book for the San Francisco Poetry Center. Since reading Homer In Greek over a five year period with Robert Duncan and some of her poet contemporaries\, an important and lively part of her life in poetry has almost always included variously focused and long-lived reading groups with other poets. She has earned her livelihood in various ways\, including as co-founder and co-director of the art gallery Thackrey and Robertson in San Francisco\, and for a number of years as a Jungian analyst in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.  There she has taught\, spoken and published\, focusing especially on art\, recently publishing a talk and essay on Jung’s paintings for The Red Book: Reflections on C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (Routledge). \nHer poems have appeared in a number of journals\, including  Five Fingers\, Hambone\, Talisman\, Traverse\, and Volt.  Current books in print are Andalusia (Chax)\, Empty Gate (Listening Chamber)\, and George Oppen: A Radical Practice (O Books and The San Francisco Poetry Center).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stecopoulos-heuving-thackrey/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20160922T003245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T003245Z
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SUMMARY:Frances Dinkelspiel
DESCRIPTION:Frances Dinkelspiel is an award-winning journalist who cofounded the local news site Berkeleyside. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Los Angeles Times\, People and elsewhere. Her first book Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and was named a Best Book of 2008 by the newspaper. Her second book\, Tangled Vines: Greed\, Murder\, Obsession\, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California was a New York Timesbestseller and published in 2015 to rave reviews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frances-dinkelspiel/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161017T231744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T231744Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Donald Nicholson-Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us at a special Two Voices Salon to celebrate the release of prize-winning Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laabi’s latest book\, In Praise of Defeat\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. \nDonald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and editor focused on psychology and social criticism\, more recently moving to fiction–especially noir fiction–and poetry. He has received numerous awards and was short-listed for the French-American Prize for his translation of Apollinaire’s Letters to Madeleine; and has also been named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres for services to French literature in translation. \nAbdellatif Laabi is a novelist\, poet and playwright\, and the French translator of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish\, the Moroccan poet Abdallah Zrika\, the Iraqi poet Abdelawahab Al Bayati and the Syrian novelist Hanna Minna. He has edited numerous anthologies\, most notably one of twentieth-century Moroccan poetry. He received the Prix Goncourt de la Poésie in 2009 and the Académie française’s Grand prix de la Francophonie in 2011. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please come join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-donald-nicholson-smith/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161025T012255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012255Z
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SUMMARY:José Kozer
DESCRIPTION:José Kozer is recognized in the Spanish-speaking world as the foremost Cuban poet of his generation and an inheritor of the neo-baroque tradition after José Lezama Lima. Kozer is author of 52 books of poetry and prose\, and has lived in the U.S. since the 1960s. \nKozer’s poetry has been translated to English\, Portuguese\, German\, French\, Italian\, Hebrew and Greek\, has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous literary journals from all over the world\, and from publishers such as Gallimard (France) and Fischer Verlag (Germany)\, where only 15 poets of the Latin American 20th century appeared. A 1997 symposium on Kozer’s poetry\, held at University of California\, Irvine\, produced a full-length book\, La Voracidad Grafómana: José Kozer (UNAM University in Mexico City). \nBorn in Havana\, Cuba\, of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland and Czechoslovakia\, Kozer left his native land in 1960 and lived in New York until 1997\, the year he retired from Queens College\, where he taught Spanish and Latin American literatures for 32 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-kozer/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20160922T003048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T003049Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff + Lori Ostlund w/ Jan Ellison
DESCRIPTION:The Jungle Around Us: Stories by Ann Raeff\nAfter the Parade by Lori Ostlund \nJoin us for an evening with two Flannery O’Connor prize winners as they are interviewed by the author of one of the most popular debuts of 2015. Jan Ellison\, author of A Small Indiscretion\, will lead what’s sure to be a deep and engaging discussion between Anne Raeff\, author of the upcoming collection The Jungle Around Us\, and Lori Ostlund\, author of the incredibly well received After the Parade. \nThough very different\, both books deal with issues and emotions important to today: embracing the world though the world contains everything we fear; displacement and private grief made public; how we grow up and move on; and how we can change our deepest wounds into our greatest strengths. \nThis much talent and depth in the room – with authors loved by Richard Russo; Hanya Yanighara\, bestselling author of A Little Life; Yiyun Li; Ann Packer; Emma Donoghue; and more –  guarantees nothing short of an unforgettable evening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-lori-ostlund-w-jan-ellison/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161110T194500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161110T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161018T002339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002339Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reading by Maggie Nelson\, the author of nine books of poetry and prose\, including the nonfiction collections The Argonauts\, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Bluets\, The Red Parts\, and Women\, the New York School\, and Other True Abstractions; and the poetry collections Something Bright\, Then Holes and Jane: A Murder\, finalist for the PEN/ Martha Albrand Art of the Memoir. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, an NEA in Poetry\, a Literature Fellowship from Creative Capital\, and an Arts Writers Fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation. She currently directs the MFA in Writing Program for the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles. \nThe MFA Reading Series presents free literary readings and discussions that are open to the public. The series is co-sponsored by USF’s English department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161111T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161111T183000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161018T001028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T001028Z
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. \nShe lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161113T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161113T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161018T231452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T231452Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Brennan + Elizabeth T. Gray Jr.
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, November 13th at 3pm. This will be a celebration for Four Way Books and the featured guest poets will be Karen Brennan and Elizabeth T. Gray\, Jr. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible. ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nKaren Brennan’s new book is Monsters\, a collection of thirty-eight innovative fictions. Lance Olsen says\, “Monsters takes the form of an extraordinary wunderkammer filled with narraticules….about what can’t stay\, what was probably never there to begin with\, and the beauty of that\, and the biting loss.” Her previous book\, Little Dark\, is a hybrid of poems and prose threaded together as memoir. Her previous books include two books of poems\, Here on Earth and The Real Enough World\, two books of short fiction\, and a memoir. Her fiction and poetry are widely anthologized. She’s also the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nElizabeth T. Gray\, Jr.’s new book of poems is Series | India. Jennifer Grotz calls it “a gorgeously woven book-length sequence of poems that moves from New York to India\, from a dying mother to a motley group of spiritual seekers.” She is a poet\, translator\, and a corporate consultant and has published translations from classical and contemporary Persian. She is currently collaborating on the translation of a Tibeto-Mongolian folk epic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-brennan-elizabeth-t-gray-jr/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161113T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161113T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20160929T015848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160929T015848Z
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning: Twaddle\, Schweigman\, + Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Originally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a poet\, movement worker and educator. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. His latest book of poems titled\, Someone’s Dead Already\, (Bootstrap Press) was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nKurt Schweigman is co-editor of Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California (Scarlet Tanager Books\, 2016). His poetry appears in Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets (Michigan State University Press\, 2008). Kurt was a featured poet at the prestigious Geraldine R. Dodge 12th Biennial Poetry Festival and the first spoken word poet to receive an Archibald Bush Foundation artist fellowship in literature. Although retired from competition\, he has won Poetry Slams across the United States and in Germany. Kurt has a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma. Born and raised in Rapid City\, South Dakota\, he now resides in Oakland and is an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. \nJohn Twaddell “Ye’es”\, is of the Tsimshian First Nations\, Gitando Tribe. John is of the Gisbudwada Clan literally translated as Black Fish commonly known as Killer Whale. John maintains cultural identification and oral traditions through association with the California Indians Story Teller Association and the San Francisco Tlingit & Haida Community Council which he actively supports and participates as guest story teller. He has participated in Cultural Events held at North West Indian College\, Bellingham and Tlingit & Haida Cultural celebration in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-twaddle-schweigman-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161114T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20161025T012736Z
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SUMMARY:Alice Notley: The Descent of Alette Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Alice Notley reads The Descent of Alette \nMonday & Tuesday NOV 14–15\n7pm @ The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco\nadmission: $10 per night\, $5 low income\nfree for SFSU students and Poetry Center and/or Lab members \nco-sponsored by The Poetry Center and False Starts Reading Series at The Lab \nAcross two nights\, Monday and Tuesday NOV 14 and 15\, Alice Notley will read the entirety of her visionary book-length poem\, The Descent of Alette (Penguin Poets\, 1996). \nIn The Descent of Alette\, Alice Notley presents a feminist epic\, a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette\, the narrator\, finds herself underground\, deep beneath the city\, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways\, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper\, she is on a journey of continual transformation\, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure\, with rhythmic units indicated by quotation marks\, Notley has created a “spoken” text\, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination\, mystery\, and power. \nAlice Notley was born in Bisbee\, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles\, California in the Mojave Desert. She was educated in the Needles public schools\, Barnard College\, and The Writers Workshop\, University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous books of poetry\, and of essays and talks on poetry\, and has edited and co-edited books by Ted Berrigan and Douglas Oliver. She edited the magazine CHICAGO in the 70s and co-edited with Oliver the magazines SCARLET and Gare du Nord in the 90s. She is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Award\, the Griffin Prize\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, the Lenore Marshall Prize\, and the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Prize. Her latest book is Certain Magical Acts\, from Penguin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-notley-the-descent-of-alette-day-1/
LOCATION:The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161115T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260428T220055
CREATED:20160922T003803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T003803Z
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SUMMARY:Aichlee Bushnell + Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Aichlee Bushnell’s remarkable debut\, Objects of Attention\, won the 2014 Noemi Press Book Award for Poetry and works with the writings of Thomas Jefferson tell the story of Sally Hemings with great care\, as Juliana Spahr writes: “Care with how to represent her\, her body. Care to not appropriate. Care to complicate. Care to tell it as expansive\, as international.” An alum of the MFA program at Mills College\, Bushnell is a Cave Canem fellow. She currently lives in Oakland with her family. \nOne of the most anticipated books of 2016\, Solmaz Sharif’s Look uses language from the Department of Defense to investigate the violence and loss of war\, and how these things are embedded in daily language. Sharif’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, Boston Review\, and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, her work has been recognized with many awards including NEA and Stegner Fellowships. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aichlee-bushnell-solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161115T200000
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CREATED:20161018T231617Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet/translator Alan Bernheimer\, to the store to discuss and sign\, Lost Profiles on Tuesday\, November 15th at 7:00pm. \nPoet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of the French literary classic\, Philippe Soupault’s Lost Profiles. It is a retrospective of a crucial period in modernism written by Soupault\, the co-founder of the surrealist movement. Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism\, Lost Profiles ushers its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions: We meet an elegant Marcel Proust\, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel to “contain” the silence needed to produce Remembrance of Things Past; an exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions for Finnegans Wake; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate “objet trouve.” Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars\, a moving account of his tragic fellow surrealist Rene Crevel\, and the story of his unlikely friendship with right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos. The collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners\, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. With an afterword by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in the mid 70’s and a preface by Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti\, Lost Profiles confirms Soupault’s place in the vanguard of twentieth-century literature. \nAlan Bernheimer’s most recent poetry collection is The Spoonlight Institute. He has lived in the Bay Area since the late 1970s\, where he was active in Poets Theater and produced a radio program\, In the American Tree\, of new writing by poets. He has translated works by Robert Desnos and Valery Larbaud.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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