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SUMMARY:Julie Rogers + Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-rogers-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Forest Leo: The Gentlemen
DESCRIPTION:A funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. Distraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally summons the Devil—the polite “Gentleman” of the title—who appears at one of the society parties Savage hates. The two hit it off\, but when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \nNewly in love with Vivien\, Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures. \nForrest Leo was born in 1990 on a homestead in remote Alaska\, where he grew up without running water and took a dogsled to school. He holds a BFA in drama from New York University\, and has worked as a carpenter\, and a photographer\, and in a cubicle. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forest-leo-the-gentlemen/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Claire Cameron w/ Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Claire Cameron discusses her new novel\, The Last Neanderthal\, with The Millions’ Lydia Kiesling. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-cameron-w-lydia-kiesling/
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:Daniel H. Wilson presents The Clockwork Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Daniel H. Wilson\,New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse\, as he turns his pen to a new kind of thriller in The Clockwork Dynasty — join us! \nPresent day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll\, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake\, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined\, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… \nRussia\, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin\, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time\, possessed with uncanny power\, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society\, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. \nThe Clockwork Dynasty expertly draws on Wilson’s robotics and science background\, combining unforgettable characters with visionary technology in a richly-imagined and heart-pounding tale that will have you rooting for the avtomats and wondering how many of them are still living among us…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-h-wilson-presents-the-clockwork-dynasty/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Burley\, The Quiet Child
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author John Burley for a book talk and signing of his new novel\, The Quiet Child. John Burley is the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy\, honored with the National Black Ribbon Award\, and of The Forgetting Place. With its suburban setting\, domestic focus\, and atmospheric prose\, The Quiet Child is sure to appeal to readers of literary suspense.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burley-the-quiet-child/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:David Larsen w/ Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation and DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes poet and translator David Larsen to the store to discuss his translation of 10th-century Arabic lexicographer Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion. He will be in conversation with Stephen Sparks. \nNames of the Lion is a thesaurus\, a word list\, a bestiary with only one beast. It was written as a virtuoso display of philological learning by a man who considered himself the greatest living authority on the Arabic language\, and was so considered by others. At the time of Ibn Khālawayh’s life and work\, the study of the Arabic language had reached a mature phase\, but although the works of Ibn Khālawayh are steeped in this tradition\, they depart from received models. His longest and most innovative text\, The Book of “Not in the Arabic Language\,” is organized aphoristically into short chapters. Each chapter begins with the phrase “In the Arabic language\, there is no X\, except for…” followed by all the exceptions to the stated rule. Names of the Lion is a chapter from this work\, which begins: “In all the speech of the Arabs and all books of Arabic philology put together\, there are no names for the lion besides what I have written for you.” Hundreds of words for lion then follow. Ibn Khālawayh produced word-lists on other subjects (names of the wind\, of the sword\, of honey\, etc). It was a well-established genre of linguistic scholarship\, and it’s not clear that lions were a particular obsession with Ibn Khālawayh. However\, the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) was endemic to Syria\, and a real-life scourge of the pastoral economy\, and no one who encounters a lion in the wild ever forgets it. \nIs Names of the Lion a work of literature? If by “literature” you mean an intentional work of poetry or artistic prose\, then it’s not. But that’s a narrow definition: “Pleasure reading” is a much broader category than that\, at least for the seekers and dreamers and students of the world. Formally\, the text will be familiar to everyone. It is a list\, and there is abundant precedent for the list as a poetic form. In our day\, the list poem is a standard exercise of Creative Writing because it never fails to yield interesting results. So even though Ibn Khālawayh had no conception of Names of the Lion as a work of poetry\, to enjoy it as one is practically irresistable. You could call it Ibn Khālawayh’s answer to poetry\, even his vengeful attack on it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-larsen-w-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SPD Presents
DESCRIPTION:SPD Presents is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community.\n~*~ \nMAYA SIMONE loves witches and zines and really wants to know your hot take on Avril Lavigne’s “sk8er boi.” She is a rising senior at Penn in Philadelphia and is so excited to leave soon. Shen she is not doing student things\, she maintains a grave garden in a cemetery. She hopes in the future to work in the literary community and live in a small town with her family of three dogs. \nEDDIE HOPELY is a writer and researcher now living in Oakland. \nLAUREN LEVIN is the author of The BraidD (Krupskaya\, 2016) and the forthcoming Justice Peace/Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). From 2011-2014\, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spd-presents/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak devorah major
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \ndevorah major \ndevorah major served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). She has five poetry books\, the most recentl titled and then we became. major has two biographies for young adults\, a host of short stories\, essays\, and individual poems published in anthologies and periodicals as well as two novels. She is Poet-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums\, and as a Senior adjunct professor at California College for the Arts. devorahmajor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-devorah-major/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170810T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170810T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-august/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Boss Fight Books
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books as we welcome several fantastic authors from Boss Fight Books reading from and discussing their recent titles! \nFeaturing: \nAlexa Ray Corriea\, author of the new Kingdom Hearts II\nNick Suttner\, author of Shadow of the Colossus\nChris Kohler\, author of the forthcoming Final Fantasy V \n Stick around to pick up copies of Corriea and Suttner’s books\, and get your copies signed by the authors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boss-fight-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yalie Kamara
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Yalie Kamara to the store to discuss and sign her chapbook\, When the Living Sing\, on Thursday\, August 10th at 7:00 pm. \n“When The Living Sing is a stunning and lush collection\, teeming with bright music. Here\, the mouth is a doorway and a dirge to what beckons and consumes the speaker’s tongue declaring\, ‘I become a lyre bird mimicking their sound\, unsure of what grief means in the hyphen of my African and American throat.’ Here\, the ‘pulpy lava bullet’ of the Malombo Fruit tethers memory to family in Sierra Leone and Oakland\, California. Here\, the elegy is housed in the sanctuary of praise by traversing the distances woven with slices of Krio\, Black death\, and always finding joy amidst sorrow. Yalie Kamara is a poet with a gorgeous and wild imagination that conjures the ‘opal hue of God’s touch’ and the ‘blueberry gauze of nightfall.’ I never wanted the chapbook to end.” —Tiana Clark\, author of Equilibrium \nYalie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean-American and native of Oakland\, California. Prior to becoming an MFA candidate at Indiana University\, she worked in the service of youth and adults all over the state of California in the areas of educational access\, nonprofit management\,and community-based art facilitation. She holds Bachelors of Arts degrees in Languages and Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a Masters of Arts degree in French from Middlebury College. Among her publications\, Yalie’s work has appeared in Vinyl Poetry and Prose\, and Entropy Mag. She is a Callaloo Fellow\, is a 2017 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and was a finalist for the 2017 Brunel International African Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yalie-kamara/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry: Gillian Hamel's Occident
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book release and reading. Additional readings by Kelly Egan and Kevin Peters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-gillian-hamels-occident/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170813T150000
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Christine Evelyn Volker to the store to discuss and sign\, Venetian Blood\, on Sunday\, August 13th\, at 3:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nA captivating tapestry of murder\, betrayal and family\, Venetian Blood is the story of one woman’s brave quest for the truth—before it’s too late. \nIt’s 1992 when Anna Lucia Lottol visits Venice to see an old friend and escape her failing\, childless marriage. Instead of finding serenity however\, Anna encounters a frightening world where she becomes a ruthless detective’s murder suspect. Dragged into the police station\, she lies about being in Venice the night before. Terrified of foreign justice\, she lies too\, about knowing the dead man—a money launderer from Venice who had made threats after he’d seduced her at financial conference in Milan. Anna\, talented in mathematics and physics\, working in anti-money laundering for the US Treasury Department\, struggles to make sense of an irrational city filled with illusions. With murders of long ago spiraling into the present-day and police working overtime to uncover her lies\, how can Anna find a way to clear her name\, identify the killer and keep her job? She teams up with her old friend\, and together they attempt to pry clues from uncooperative characters—some even denying what Anna has seen or heard. Bewildered\, she can’t tell if they are hiding something or if she is losing touch with reality. As she resists the charms of an Italian banker\, she must ask herself\, “Who is friend\, who is foe?” Anna—nearly killed by an unseen attacker\, beset by haunting dreams\, racing to unlock secrets—unleashes a force bent on destroying her. As the mystery turns personal\, will Anna save herself? Will she vanquish both her enemies and her darkest fears? \nCapturing the delicate beauty of Venice\, the novel is a dark love poem to the city whose sinuous canals it traces. Suspenseful and evocative\, this multi-layered work is an intimate portrayal of a woman’s perilous voyage of self-discovery. The reader is plunged into Venice’s tangled web of alleys and canals\, but soon realizes that the connections do not stop at the shores of the Adriatic. The fates of creatures far away\, the tales of people without a voice\, reverberate through the pages. \nChristine Evelyn Volker was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. After studying for her undergraduate degree from University at Albany in Spanish Language and Literature\, and securing an MLS\, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. She retooled herself with an MBA in Finance from UC Berkeley and worked in corporate and international lending. Her career brought her to live in Milan and London. An intrepid traveler\, she is writing full time\, thanks to the support of her husband\, Stephan\, a public interest environmental lawyer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katharine Harer + Judy Bebelaar
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a poetry reading by Katharine Harer Jazz and Other Hot Subjects\, and BAWP poet Judy Bebelaar\, Walking Across the Pacific\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-harer-judy-bebelaar/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cary Cordova's "Heart of the Mission" Reading + Release!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Cary Cordova’s “Heart of the Mission” newly published by The University of Pennsylvania Press. Book signing to follow. \nIn “The Heart of the Mission” Cary Cordova combines urban\, political\, and art history to examine how the Mission District\, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco\, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the “Mission School” by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century\, Latino artists\, writers\, poets\, playwrights\, performers\, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse. \nThe Mission\, home to Chileans\, Cubans\, Guatemalans\, Mexican Americans\, Nicaraguans\, Puerto Ricans\, and Salvadorans never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century\, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist interventions. The book begins with the history of the Latin Quarter in the 1940s and the subsequent cultivation of the Beat counterculture in the 1950s\, demonstrating how these decades laid the groundwork for the artistic and political renaissance that followed. Using oral histories\, visual culture\, and archival research\, she analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s\, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s\, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s\, the community mural movement of the 1970s\, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador\, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Through these different historical frames\, Cordova links the creation of Latino art with a flowering of Latino politics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-cordovas-heart-of-the-mission-reading-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170814T190000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "It Aint Just Genre!"
DESCRIPTION:Why is fiction a wrestling match\, with literary fiction in one corner and genre fiction in another? Isn’t a mystery or a romance or science fiction as much literature as non-genre fiction? We’ll thrash those questions and more out at “It Aint Just Genre!”–Perfectly Queer’s August 14 event\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro (489 Castro St.\, San Francisco). Three writers will read from their new books: Ralph Josiah Bardsley (romance)\, Tim Floreen (horror)\, and Bonnie J. Miller (speculative fiction). The readings will be followed by a panel discussion and book signing. Door prizes awarded. Wine\, edibles\, and good cheer provided for free. \nRalph Josiah Bardsley is the author of three books – Brothers\, The Photographer’s Truth\, and A Careful Heart. Brothers was a Forward Reviews Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I was born in a small town outside of Boston. My dad was in the Coast Guard so I grew up in a lot of different places – New Orleans\, Cape Cod\, North Carolina\, and Sitka\, Alaska. When I wasn’t in school\, I spent most of my time in Coast Guard hangers or reading. Today\, he lives in San Francisco\, where my hobbies include writing\, running\, and reading. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Tattoo Atlas\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. \nBonnie J. Morris is a professor of women’s history\, a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of fifteen books\, as well as an archivist of the lesbian music movement. She recently hosted the first exhibit of radical lesbian albums at the Library of Congress and will now be working with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Her new book\, SAPPHO’S BAR AND GRILL\, is a sexy time-travel romp across women’s history rebellions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-it-aint-just-genre/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danzy Senna
DESCRIPTION:As the twentieth century draws to a close\, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil\, her college sweetheart\, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple\, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn\, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation\, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them\, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man\, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation\, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona. \nHeartbreaking and darkly comic\, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another\, and ourselves. \nDanzy Senna’s first novel\, the bestselling Caucasia\, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and was translated into close to a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic\, the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?\, and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the novelist Percival Everett\, and their sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danzy-senna/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170815T114227Z
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Dumuk
DESCRIPTION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nNorm Mattox is a native Bronx\, New Yorker. He has been living on the ‘left’ coast for over thirty years. Norm is a bilingual educator in the San Francisco Unified School District for over 25 years. He is a mentor and math coach for middle school math teachers in the Math Department. Norm has been writing in journals\, notebooks\, on the backs of envelopes and on color coded\, post-it notes for decades. Norm crossed out of his comfort zone\, from writing in silence to speaking his peace on the Open Mic\, in 2015. His muse is inspired by the dance he does with students in the public education system\, by a tribal response to persistent aggressions in today’s society\, by family and by love. He recently published his first chapbook\, Get Home Safe! Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. One of his poems is included in El Tecolote’s Anthology\, Poetry in Flight/Poesia en Vuelo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T203000
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CREATED:20170622T012846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012846Z
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jorge Molina
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-jorge-molina/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T115228
CREATED:20170621T123201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T123201Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T115228
CREATED:20170604T223927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021205Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-27/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T115228
CREATED:20170604T214118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021237Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Perrota: Mrs. Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time\, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex\, love\, and identity on the frontlines of America’s culture wars. \nEve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college\, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number\, the mysterious sender tells Eve\, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow\, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night—Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com\, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary\, middle-aged women like herself. Before long\, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life\, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-perrota-mrs-fletcher/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T115228
CREATED:20170815T113359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T113359Z
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SUMMARY:Lucky Seventh Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate our seventh year of presenting the diverse voices of the East Bay!!! The theme is luck! We’re popping bottles of champagn and serving special treats. It’s all on us. Come hear seven extraordinary readers: \nVernon Keeve III\nJulie Thi Underhill\nArisa White\nJulian Mithra\nThea Matthews\nJoshua Escobar\nLark Omura \nHosted and curated by the sparkling duo: Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucky-seventh-anniversary/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T213000
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CREATED:20170720T051127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T051127Z
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is pleased to bring Jarett Kobek\, author of I Hate the Internet\, into the store for his brilliant follow-up novel\, The Future Won’t Be Long\, a provocative\, ecstatic story of friendship\, sex\, art\, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East Village (1986-1996). \n  \nThe story centers on Adeline—featured years later in I Hate the Internet—a wealthy art student in New York City who chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat. The two begin a fiery friendship which propels them through a decade of New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol\, Basquiat\, Wojnarowicz\, by the Tompkins Square Park riots\, and by the rise of club kid culture. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby\, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin\, Baby soon finds himself at the center of the club kid social scene\, cavorting with Michael Alig and James St. James at The Tunnel\, Limelight\, and Alig’s infamous “Outlaw Party” at a midtown McDonald’s. \n  \nAs Adeline and Baby both develop into the artists they never expected to become\, Kobek pays tribute to the last gasps of the gritty\, drug-fueled scene of the East Village as gentrifiers begin to trickle in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T173000
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CREATED:20170619T113700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113700Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:For the past seven weeks\, every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, we have presented Community Voices: Poets Speak\, where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflected on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work took place in the galleries. The series culminates today with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T210000
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CREATED:20170815T112953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T112953Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS\, on Thursday August 17th\, 7-9 pm\, in the basement room at Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Meg Elison (The Book of Etta)\, Nancy Jane Moore (The Weave)\, Skye Allen (The Songbird Thief)\, Sunil Patel\, and Sean Craven. With guest MC Allison Mick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-redirections/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170815T114423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T114423Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Persis Karim is poet\, editor\, and professor of literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo\, Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Red Wheelbarrow\, HeartLodge\, and The New York Times\, as well as other publications. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature and is the founding director of Persian Studies at San Jose State University. Her current project is a collection of poems called “When the World is Harsh\, Find Your Tenderness.” For more information: www.persiskarim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T210000
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CREATED:20170720T051300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T051300Z
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SUMMARY:Danya Kukafka w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Danya Kukafka as she introduces her debut novel Girl in Snow. With Danya in conversation will be fellow author Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept With God). Please join us! \nSet in the small suburb of Broomsville\, Colorado\, this addictive thriller begins with the discovery of high school freshman Lucinda Hayes’s dead body near a playground carousel. With the town’s golden girl murdered\, accusations quickly spread\, drawing three outsiders from the shadows. \nOddball Cameron Whitley loved—still loves—Lucinda. Though they’ve hardly ever spoken\, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda’s stalker\, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death\, Cameron’s erratic behavior provides the town ample reason to suspect that he’s the killer. \nJade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from Jade: her babysitting job\, and her best friend. The worst part was Lucinda’s blissful ignorance to the damage she’d wrought. \nOfficer Russ Fletcher doesn’t know Lucinda\, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about\, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner’s son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda’s murder and keep a promise he made long ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danya-kukafka-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T213000
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CREATED:20170621T130148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130148Z
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SUMMARY:Chiara Barzini
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Barzini discusses her new novel\, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake\, with Kate Schatz. \n\nPraise for Chiara Barzini \n“Chiara’s stories are beautiful\, her voice powerful. She writes with a voice that is both tense and open. The effect is surprising\, subversive\, and singular.”—Jhumpa Lahiri \n  \n“Chiara Barzini has written a wild first novel\, full of sex\, violence\, and desperate prayers to the Virgin Mary. This is a brutal and bizarre coming of age story aptly set in one of America’s many crises.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n\n“Chiara Barzini has pulled off that most dazzling balancing act: combining a deliciously entertaining plot with effortlessly elegant prose. She has an extraordinarily keen eye for cultural nuance. Through her alter-ego Eugenia we come to discover a California as wildly foreign to us as it is to her. A brilliant\, sexy\, and unexpected take on the immigrant bildungsroman.”—Taiye Selasi\, author of Ghana Most Go. \n\nAbout Things That Happened Before the Earthquake \n\nWelcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.\nMere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles\, Eugenia\, a typical Italian teenager\, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big\, Hollywood fashion\, she must navigate her huge new public high school\, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members\, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry\, who runs his mother’s movie memorabilia store\, and the bewitching Deva\, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake rocks the foundations not only of Eugenia’s home but of the future she’d been imagining for herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chiara-barzini/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T213000
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CREATED:20170722T003128Z
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SUMMARY:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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