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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Paul Ebenkamp is author of Parallel Realism (Despite Editions\, 2017) and The Louder the Room the Darker the Screen (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2015); is co-editor of Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Robert Hass\, Counterpoint\, 2014) and Richard O. Moore’s Particulars of Place: New Poems (with Brenda Hillman and Garrett Caples\, Omnidawn\, 2015); curates the Woolsey Heights reading series with Andrew Kenower; and with strings and devices makes music as Position. \nLara Durback is a poet who has lived in Oakland\, CA for 12 years. \nAngel Dominguez is a Latinx Los Angeles born writer and performance artist forming Dzonots with notebooks along the California coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:Laleh Khadivi\n(A Good Country; The Walking; The Age of Orphans) \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. Her debut novel\, The Age of Orphans\, received the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She has worked as director\, producer and cinematographer of documentary films since 1999. Her fiction and non-fiction can be found in The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, VQR\, The Sun and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize for her story Wanderlust. \nLee Daniel Kravetz\n(Strange Contagion; Supersurvivors) \nLee Daniel Kravetz is the bestselling author of Supersurvivors (Harpercollins/Harper Wave). His work has been translated into ten languages. He has written for print and television\, including The New York Times\, Psychology Today\, The San Francisco Chronicle\,and PBS. He has been featured in Time Magazine\, theHarvard Business Review\, and Fast Company\, and is a founding board member of the Lit Camp Writers Conference. \nShanthi Sekaran\n(Lucky Boy; The Prayer Room)\nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nand more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading-2/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170909T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T200000
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SUMMARY:Christine Evelyn Volker Book Talk: Venetian Blood
DESCRIPTION:Kirkus Reviews calls Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City\, “A riveting whodunit that makes full use of its dramatic setting.” \nLeft Coast Writers presents Christine Evelyn Volker’s book launch. Come hear her discuss this international mystery and the city which inspired it. \nStruggling to forget a crumbling marriage\, Anna Lucia Lottol travels to Venice to visit an old friend. But instead of finding solace\, she is dragged into the police station and accused of murdering a money-laundering count with whom she had a brief affair.  A US Treasury officer with brains and athleticism\, Anna fights to clear her name in a city of illusions\, with recalcitrant characters denying what she sees and hears.  Her mission stirs up a powerful foe bent on destroying her. Will she overcome her adversaries\, including her deepest fears? \nThis multi-layered work is a mystery\, a personal\, psychological journey\, and a dark love poem to the city of Venice. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-evelyn-volker-book-talk-venetian-blood/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170910T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170910T200000
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SUMMARY:Saporoso - Book Release Party + Reading
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Feather Press to celebrate the book release of the new\, second edition of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food & love” by Jennifer Barone and artist Lam Khong. Food\, wine\, music and tasty poems will be read by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Adrian Arias\, Norma Smith and more … \nSaporoso (Italian for “tasty”) – is the latest collection of poems by Jennifer Barone in collaboration with artist Lam Khong. Saporoso reads like a robust\, Italian dinner menu that explores the sensual nature of Italian culture\, mythology\, family\, sex and love through Italian food and its natural\, aphrodisiac qualities. As she states in her poem\, “it is no small thing to eat” – through making and sharing food\, we find the basic thread of our humanity\, connection to each other and ultimately an expression of love. \nThis newly updated\, Second Edition by Feather Press – includes three new poems\, an additional section of the author’s family recipes and features beautiful drawings by artist Lam Khong. Visit featherpress.org for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saporoso-book-release-party-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170911T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T200000
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CREATED:20170722T011207Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: David Hathwell
DESCRIPTION:The French entre chien et loup describes moments at dusk when the eye\, no longer to be trusted\, can’t distinguish between a dog and a wolf. The poems in David Hathwell’s second collection take place on the threshold between light and darkness: between the familiar and the unknown\, the expected and the unforeseen\, safety and danger. Erica Dawson calls the poems “sharp and unsettling\,” and Between Dog and Wolf “an important book for times like these.” \nDavid Hathwell published Muses\, his debut collection\, in 2016\, to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines. A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia\, and a degree in music theory from Queens College of CUNY. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and the San Francisco Choral Society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-david-hathwell/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170816T011100Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Teachers on Parade
DESCRIPTION:Two of San Francisco’s favorite English professors read from works that are relevant to today’s national climate. Come hear Daniel Curzon and Margo Perin at Dog Eared Books Castro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-teachers-on-parade/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T133000
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CREATED:20170414T010013Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-4/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170912T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T203000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Page + Tony Robles
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays 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/sarah-page-tony-robles/
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:20170912T203000
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CREATED:20170902T093023Z
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SUMMARY:Designing San Francisco: The Untold Story of How Artists and Activists Rebuilt Postwar SF
DESCRIPTION:Alison Isenberg\, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Princeton Mellon Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism\, and the Humanities presents her new book Designing San Francisco\, the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book\, Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners–those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design–to the unsung artists\, activists\, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrevious accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs–put simply\, development versus preservation–and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful\, pioneering\, and contentious San Francisco\, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square\, Golden Gateway\, and the Transamerica Pyramid.\n\nWhen large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s\, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals\, including architectural model makers\, real estate publicists\, graphic designers\, photographers\, property managers\, builders\, sculptors\, public-interest lawyers\, alternative press writers\, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city\, regional\, and national planning and shape novel projects across urban\, suburban\, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land\, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era–especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design\, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s.\n\n\nAn evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities\, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/designing-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170912T210000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Gattis
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nSafe \npublished by MCD/Farrar\, Straus and Giroux \nRyan Gattis’ gritty\, fast-paced thriller\, Safe\, hurtles readers toward a shocking conclusion that asks the toughest question of all: how far would you go to protect the ones you love? \nRicky ‘Ghost’ Mendoza\, Jr. is trying to be good. In recovery and working as a freelance safecracker for the DEA\, the FBI\, and any other government agency willing to pay him\, Ghost is determined to live clean for the rest of his days. And maybe he could\, if the most important person in his life hadn’t gotten into serious financial trouble. To fix it\, all Ghost has to do is crack a safe and steal drug money from under the noses of the gangs and the Feds without getting caught. Or killed. \nRudy ‘Glasses’ Reyes runs drugs and cleans up messes for the baddest of bad men. When Ghost hits one of his safes\, Glasses must hunt him down or be held accountable. But Glasses is worried about more than just money. The heist puts everything in his life at risk—his livelihood\, his freedom\, even his family. \nRyan Gattis is the author of Kung Fu High School and All Involved\, a novel about the 1992 L.A. riots. He lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ryan-gattis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170913T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T193000
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CREATED:20170824T134717Z
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SUMMARY:Tales and Legends from Mexico w/ Marcos Barraza
DESCRIPTION:Marcos Barraza is a writer of varied topics such as physics\, society\, history and technology. His latest book\, Cuentos y Legendas (Tales and Legends)\, is a compendium of historical tales from Victoria de Durango\, the capital of the Spanish province of Nueva Vizcaya which today represents the Mexican states of Durango and Chihuahua.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tales-and-legends-from-mexico-with-marcos-barraza/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170913T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T203000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:giovanni singleton earned a BA from American University and an MFA from the New College of California. She is the author of the poetry collections AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper (2017) and Ascension (2011)\, which won a California Book Award for Poetry. The book earned praise for its evocative use of white space\, silence\, and omissions. \nsingleton is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts. Her honors and awards include fellowships from the Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Cave Canem\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference. Her work has been anthologized widely and appeared on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building. Coordinator for the Lunch Poems reading series at the University of California–Berkeley\, singleton has taught at Saint Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and New Mexico State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170913T210000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kane
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nDo You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City \nfrom Columbia University Press \nDuring the late 1960s\, throughout the 1970s\, and into the 1980s\, New York City poets and musicians played together\, published each other\, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In “Do You Have a Band?”\, Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge to the status of the visionary artist\, the cultural capital of poetry\, and the lines dividing sung lyric from page-bound poem. \nKane reveals how the new sounds of proto-punk and punk music found their way into the poetry of the 1960s and 1970s downtown scene\, enabling writers to develop fresh ideas for their own poetics and performance styles. Likewise\, groups like The Fugs and the Velvet Underground drew on writers as varied as William Blake and Delmore Schwartz for their lyrics. Drawing on a range of archival materials and oral interviews\, Kane also shows how and why punk musicians drew on and resisted French Symbolist writing\, the vatic resonance of the Beat chant\, and\, most surprisingly and complexly\, the New York Schools of poetry. In bringing together the music and writing of Richard Hell\, Patti Smith\, and Jim Carroll with readings of poetry by Anne Waldman\, Eileen Myles\, Ted Berrigan\, John Giorno\, and Dennis Cooper\, Kane provides a fascinating history of this crucial period in postwar American culture and the cultural life of New York City. \nDaniel Kane is reader in English and American literature at the University of Sussex in Brighton. His books include We Saw the Light: Conversations Between the New American Cinema and Poetry (2009) and All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (2003).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-kane/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Victor Serge translator James Brook
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge\, translated and edited by James Brook (PM Press). \nVictor Serge (1890-1947) played many parts\, as he recounted in his indelible Memoirs of a Revolutionary. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels\, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik activist in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky’s; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely\, Boris Pilnyak\, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico . . . \nLike Serge’s extraordinary novels\, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule. Many of the poems were written during the “immense shipwreck” of Stalin’s ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd\, Orenburg\, Paris\, Marseille\, the Caribbean\, and Mexico\, Serge composed elegies for the fallen — as well as tributes to the living who\, like him\, endured prison\, exile\, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century. \n“Victor Serge was a major novelist\, a revolutionary\, and a historical witness\, so it is perhaps not surprising that his poetry has been overlooked. But his poetry is for real. It is as grounded in specifics as you might expect from a fighter in some of the twentieth century’s great struggles\, and as visionary as you’d hope from a disciple of Rimbaud and a friend to the Surrealists. Reading it is like coming upon an unsuspected corridor in the house of literature. James Brook’s lucid translation does it full justice.”\n–Luc Sante\, author of The Other Paris \nJames Brook is a poet whose translations include works by Guy Debord\, Henri Michaux\, Gellu Naum\, and Benjamin Péret. He is the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life (with Iain Boal) and Reclaiming San Francisco (with Chris Carlsson and Nancy J. Peters). The New York Times named his translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman a Notable Book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victor-serge-translator-james-brook/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170826T144848Z
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SUMMARY:Novelist Jac Jemc & "Snap Judgement's" Eliza Smith
DESCRIPTION:Jac Jemc will read from her new novel THE GRIP OF IT (FSG Originals) and discuss with Eliza Smith. \nTHE GRIP OF IT by Jac Jemc weaves the tale of a troubled married couple looking for a new start in an old home full of secrets.\n“The Grip of It is a stunning\, smart\, genuinely creepy page-turner that I couldn’t put down. It’s got depth\, thrills\, twists\, and great writing. I’d recommend this novel to anyone. One of the few haunted house stories that sticks the landing.”\n— Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, Borne and City of Saints & Madmen \nJac Jemc is the author of The Grip of It newly released from FSG Originals in August 2017. Her first novel\, My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, and her collection of stories\, A Different Bed Every Time (Dzanc Books) was named one of Amazon’s best story collections of 2014. She edits nonfiction for Hobart. \nEliza Smith is a producer at WNYC’s Snap Judgment. In addition to producing nonfiction stories\, she is also the fiction editor and adapts work by writers like Manuel Gonzalez\, Amelia Gray\, and Kelly Link into radio plays. Sometimes\, she’ll freelance for publications like The Organist and The Litography Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novelist-jac-jemc-snap-judgements-eliza-smith/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T200000
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CREATED:20170817T042626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T042626Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us when Kim Shuck\, San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate\, is inaugurated.  Kim\, a life long resident of San Francisco\, will read her poetry and discuss her plans as poet laureate. \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T210000
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CREATED:20170324T014540Z
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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-in-september/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen Martin celebrates the release of Number 61 in the Pocket Poets Series Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T043314
CREATED:20170816T005011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T005011Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Ronk + Paul Vangelisti
DESCRIPTION:Martha Ronk has published 11 books of poetry\, most recently the photography-focused Ocular Proof (Omnidawn\, 2016)\, Transfer of Qualities\, prose poems (named to long list for the National Book Award) and National Poetry Series selection Vertigo\, indebted to W.G. Sebald. Her most recent chapbook\, Familiar/Unfamiliar (Magra Books\, 2017)\, addresses Los Angeles. Recent poems appear in Volt\, Lana Turner and Conjunctions. She lives in Los Angeles. \nPaul Vangelisti has published more than 30 books of poetry and is a noted translator from Italian. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s S.O.S.: Poems 1961 – 2013\, for Atlantic-Grove\, and in the same year his book of sonnets\, Solitude\, appeared in a bilingual edition in Italy. In 2016 a new collection of poems\, Border Music\, was published by Talisman House. His translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems\, 1961 – 1992\, received the Academy of American Poets translation prize in 2010. Vangelisti lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-ronk-paul-vangelisti/
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:Sebastian Barry
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Days Without End\, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award (his second) and just released in paperback. \n“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent\, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making\, the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.”–Kazuo Ishiguro \n“For its exhilarating use of language alone\, Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End stood out among the year’s novels. Epic in conception but comparatively brief in its extent\, this brutal\, beautiful book also features the year’s most beguiling narrator … A great American novel which happens to have been written by an Irishman.”–The Times Literary Supplement \nSebastian Barry is an award-winning novelist\, poet\, and playwright. His novels include The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty\, Annie Dunne\, A Long Long Way\, The Secret Scripture\, On Canaan’s Side\, and The Temporary Gentleman. Born in Dublin in 1955\, he lives in Wicklow with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sebastian-barry/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MPC Members' New Books Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we raise a glass to our amazing members who have new books out! We’ll have cake and bubbly! Poems will be read! Books will be for sale! Come help us toast the satisfaction and sweetness of making it through the long slog that leads to publication. If you have a new book or chapbook you’d like to share\, published from September 2016 – September 2017\, email Francesca Bell at events@marinpoetrycenter.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-members-new-books-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna: Close Enough for the Angels
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to present a special evening with Paul Madonna as he introduces his latest release Close Enough for the Angels\, along with a gallery showing of his iconic work. Please join us at The Bindery! \nEmit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s\, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it’s twenty years later\, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner\, stardom has found him once again. As he’s drawn back into the limelight he meets Julia\, a former celebrity chef with an enigmatic past. But when she disappears while hiking with two other women\, Emit finds himself chasing down a mystery that promises to leave him forever changed. \nFrom the artist and author of All Over Coffee and Everything is its own reward\, Paul Madonna uses his signature blend of drawing and storytelling to deliver a beautiful and entertaining novel filled with suspense\, surprise\, and humor. \nWith over one hundred lush and haunting drawings\, this full-length\, character-driven story is a fresh and innovative reinvention of the illustrated novel. \n— \n“Madonna captures snapshots in time as he explores the relationship between image and text… that’s so gorgeously rendered in Madonna’s precise yet fluid pen-and-ink style\, it feels like it could be anywhere and everywhere.” — Publisher’s Weekly \n— \nPaul Madonna is the award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and is the author of four books. His drawings and stories have appeared internationally in numerous books and journals as well as in galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and an upcoming solo exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Paul is a former editor fortherumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD magazine\, for which he proudly received no money. \nMore info: http://www.booksmith.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-angels-bindery
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-for-the-angels/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brutal Conditions of US Agriculture Workers Documented in Photo Essays
DESCRIPTION:The conditions of farm workers have deteriorated greatly since the 1970s and 80s.  Taking inflation into account\, wages are less than half. In photographs and testimonies\, In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte shows that these conditions are provoking a new wave of organizing efforts. It is the first book to do so visually\, and in the words of farm workers themselves.  It is a completely bilingual book\, with extensive captions for all the images and oral histories in accessible narrative form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What is distinctive about David Bacon´s work is his persistence and determination to be present at decisive moments in the lives of workers. His photo essays allow us to feel that we are there\, observing the events unfolding.  We are witnesses to intimate moments of farmers working at dawn in the onion fields.  We hear the testimonies of people participating in political action – with the strength of the community filling the air.”  Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\, professor of Chicano Studies\, UCLA David Bacon is a California-based writer and photographer.  He is the author of several books about migration\, including The Children of NAFTA\, Communities Without Borders and Illegal People – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon was a factory worker and union organizer for two decades with the United Farm Workers\, the International Ladies Garment Workers and other unions. Today he documents the changing conditions in the workforce\, the impact of the global economy\, war and migration\, and the struggle for human rights. His photography has been exhibited in the U.S. Mexico and Europe\, and his articles and photoessays have been published widely. As a photojournalist\, David Bacon has been documenting through photographs and stories the lives of farm workers since 1988.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brutal-conditions-of-us-agriculture-workers-documented-in-photo-essays/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THERE 16
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley novelist Shanthi Sekaran\, Oakland author and Stegner Fellow Ben Hoffman\, local author Eanlai Cronin and music TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-16/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Adrienne Raphel + Alex Walton
DESCRIPTION:Have you also been dreaming about being at an Adrienne Raphel and Alex Walton reading? Then promise not to wake up until September 15th\, cause this reading’s gonna be amazing! \nAdrienne Raphel is the author of What Was It For (Rescue Press\, 2017). Her poetry and essays appear in the New Yorker online\, the Paris Review Daily\, the New Republic\, the Poetry Foundation\, and Lana Turner Journal\, among other publications. Born in New Jersey and raised in Vermont\, Raphel holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a PhD candidate at Harvard. She currently lives in New York. \nAlex Walton is currently a PhD student at UC Berkeley. He was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Some recent work is available in I\, The Claudius App\, and the PEN America Poetry Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-adrienne-raphel-and-alex-walton/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Junkyard 2017 Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Simone Herko Felton and Esme Cohen\, currently two sophomores at Lowell High school in South San Francisco and the founders of the schools creative writing club and very own literary magazine\, Junkyard. \n“The whole idea behind it is like finding tools in a Junkyard. In the mess of humanity that is a junkyard or high school\, it’s about finding the things that are valuable which can be such a mixture of different things.” -Simone \n“The junkyard is all about celebrating the unique things that you find.” -Esme \nCome support a group of 12 who are keeping the arts alive and well\, at such a young age. Join us at the Beat Musuem to hear this literary staff read their own work featured in the publication. \nWill be selling hard copies: $5 for Lowell students and $7 for the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-junkyard-2017-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Allison Cobb + Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:What if we told you two poets who put out two of our favorite books of 2016 were gonna read together?! Would you be like\, “Oh\, sweet\, Allison Cobb and Arisa White must be reading at Wolfman.” Would you be like\, “I’m down.” Would you be like\, “That reading is gonna be so good!” Cause you should\, be like\, that. And\, there may be special guests… \nAllison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Green-Wood(Factory School); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); and Born2(Chax Press). The poet Carolyn Forché calls After We All Died“inventive\, visionary\, hard-thought\, and impossible to put down.” \nCobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she co-curates The Switch reading\, art\, and performance series. \nCobb’s work combines historical and scientific research\, essay\, and poetry to address issues of landscape\, politics\, and ecology. She was a 2015 finalist for the National Poetry Series; a 2015 Djerassi Resident Artist; a 2014 Playa Resident Artist; received a 2011 Individual Artist Fellowship award from the Oregon Arts Commission; and was a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened\, was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award. “Fish Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wifewas a winner of Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She teaches in the low-residency BFA program at Goddard College and is a member of the board of directors for Nomadic Press. Arisa is the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, which is a series of poetic collaborations with QPOC artists\, community organizations\, and businesses that spotlight the narratives and experiences of queer people of color. arisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-allison-cobb-arisa-white/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Magra Books Reading: Paul Vangelisti + Sean Pessin Host
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the first two seasons of titles from the independent publisher\, Magra Books (magrabooks.com). Gillian Conoley will read from her just published chapbook\, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar\, along with Martha Ronk reading from her 2016 title\, Unfamiliar Familiar; Art Beck from his new translation\, Martial\, Epigrams; Dennis Phillips from his Desert Sequence chapbook; and Neeli Cherkovski from his forthcoming Magra chapbook\, Odes for Ezra Weston Pound. Part of the presentation will also be a memorial tribute to Ray DiPalma (1943-2016)\, whose For a Curved Surface is one of Magra’s initial offerings. Based in Los Angeles and Tuscany\, Magra Books is a series of chapbooks\, printed in editions of 300 copies\, featuring unique works by important writers. Each volume\, typically 32 pages in length\, presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing work that strives to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language\, language that knows no borders. Hosting the event will be Paul Vangelisti and Sean Pessin\, part of Magra Book’s editorial staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magra-books-reading-paul-vangelisti-sean-pessin-host/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-robert-anbian-michael-koch/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lenore Weiss
DESCRIPTION:Lenore Weiss is enrolled in the Master of Fine Arts Program at San Francisco State University. Her poetry has been published in many journals including WovenTales\, Midwood Press\, Maple Leaf Review\, Kindred\, San Francisco Peace and Hope\, Cactus Heart\, Ghost Town\, Poetica\, Carbon Culture\, BlinkInk\, The Portland Review\, La Más Tequila Review\, Digital Americana\, The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion\, Nimrod International Journal\, Copper Nickel\, The Reform Jewish Quarterly\, Feminist Studies in Religion\, and Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal. Her books include Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island (West End Press\, 2012) and Two Places (Kelsay Books\, 2014). Her blog resides at www.lenoreweiss.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lenore-weiss/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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