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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
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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:20260422T192728
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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:20260422T192728
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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:20260422T192728
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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:20260422T192728
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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161115T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192728
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SUMMARY:SJSU Lurie Author-in-Residence 2017: Vendela Vida
DESCRIPTION:Vendela Vida is a native Californian\, journalist\, editor\, and novelist\, and will serve as SJSU’s Lurie Author-in-Residence in 2017. She is the author of five books\, including Girls on the Verge\, a nonfiction exploration of how young women from a myriad of cultures come of age in modern America; And Now You Can Go\, which The New York Review of Books describes as “a thriller about how we love and how we forgive and when and how we have to choose to do so”; and finally\, Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name\, a 2007 New York Times Notable Book of the Year that evokes a culture on the cusp of extinction. Her most recent novel\, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty\, described by actress Lena Dunham as “part glamorous travelogue\, part slow-burn mystery\,” recounts a tale that investigates the frailty of identity. She received the 2007 Kate Chopin Writing Award and is a founding coeditor of the stalwart San Francisco publication The Believer\, as well as the editor of The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers. She also collaborated with her husband Dave Eggers on the screenplay for the film Away We Go\, which opened the 2009 Edinburgh International Film Festival. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-lurie-author-in-residence-2017-vendela-vida/
LOCATION:Dr. MLK Jr. Library SJSU\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose\, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T210000
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SUMMARY:Vernon Dwelly
DESCRIPTION:The author has lived a remarkable life across the globe. He now invites you to share some of his experiences in the USA and on far-afield foreign assignments with his poems and short stories in Until the Gods Say No. Humor\, surprises\, challenges\, nature and human observations\, illustrate a poet’s sensitivities as well as the realities of life in different global environments. \nVernon I. Dwelly was born in Liverpool\, England\, in 1921\, and attended Buxton College\, Derbyshire\, and the London School of Economics. His studies were interrupted by WWII\, where he rose to the rank of captain with the British Special Services Brigade Commandos. His responsibilities included training U.S. Rangers in night warfare. After the war\, he performed intelligence duties\, with both anti-Nazi and anti- Russian assignments. \nHis thirty-three year management career with American Express yielded him projects in Latin America\, the Orient\, Europe\, and the U.S.A. On retiring in 1984\, Dwelly invented\, designed\, and produced the “Pocket Pillow\,” a two-chamber light\, versatile mountaineering and medical support cushion\, now licensed in the U.S. and Holland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vernon-dwelly/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T210000
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry \nMephistos and Other Poems \npublished by City Lights!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T210000
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime Ignominy
DESCRIPTION:Will feature Molly Giles (All The Wrong Places)\, Arisa White (You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened)\, Peter Bullen (Wallflower)\, Zach Wyner (What We Never Had)\, and Darothy Durkac. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-ignominy/
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:20161117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161117T213000
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SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott
DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott’s poems have been praised by Robert Hass\, Thom Gunn\, and Robert Pinsky; and in 2002 he won the Lannan Poetry Award. His eighth book of poems looks back on six decades of experiences as a confused student in Paris\, a diplomat in Poland\, Vienna and New York\, a professor of English at UC Berkeley in the tumultuous sixties\, and after retirement a tutor in Buddhist Thailand- all of the poems in search of “this oxymoron/ the meaning of life”. \nPeter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and Professor Emeritus of English at UC Berkeley. In addition to numerous volumes of poetry\, including Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror\, his books include The American Deep State: Wall Street\, Big Oil\, and the Attack on U.S Democracy and Tilting Point.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-dale-scott/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161118T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T183000
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CREATED:20161018T001200Z
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SUMMARY:CA Conrad
DESCRIPTION:CA Conrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of eight books of poetry and essays\, the latest ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness (Wave Books) is the winner of the 2015 Believer Magazine Book Award. \nHe is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, Banff\, and Ucross. \nVisit CA Conrad’s website for more info\, including about the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ca-conrad/
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:20161118T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T210000
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CREATED:20161118T021746Z
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SUMMARY:Haight Ashbury Literary Journal 40th Issue
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Beat Museum for a celebration of our latest issue\, an event that features poets Joanne Mallari\, Cesar Love\, Alice Rogoff\, Will Walker and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/haight-ashbury-literary-journal-40th-issue/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161118T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161118T213000
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SUMMARY:Kelly Luce
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Kelly Luce: \n“Kelly Luce makes a persuasive case for why she should be one of your favorite new short-story writers.” – SF Chronicle on Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Tail \n\n“Luce manages to effortlessly capture both what it’s like to be a foreigner in Japan & to write in a believable way from the perspective of a native.” – The Japan Times \n\nAbout Pull Me Under: \nA searing debut novel from one of the most imaginative minds in fiction.\nKelly Luce’s “Pull Me Under” tells the story of Rio Silvestri\, who\, when she was twelve years old\, fatally stabbed a school bully. Rio\, born Chizuru Akitani\, is the Japanese American daughter of the revered violinist Hiro Akitani–a Living National Treasure in Japan and a man Rio hasn’t spoken to since she left her home country for the United States (and a new identity) after her violent crime. Her father’s death\, along with a mysterious package that arrives on her doorstep in Boulder\, Colorado\, spurs her to return to Japan for the first time in twenty years. There she is forced to confront her past in ways she never imagined\, pushing herself\, her relationships with her husband and daughter\, and her own sense of who she is to the brink.\nThe novel’s illuminating and palpably atmospheric descriptions of Japan and its culture\, as well its elegantly dynamic structure\, call to mind both Ruth Ozeki’s “A Tale for the Time Being “and David Guterson’s “Snow Falling on Cedars.” “Pull Me Under” is gripping\, psychologically complex fiction–at the heart of which is an affecting exploration of home\, self-acceptance\, and the limits of
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelly-luce/
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:20161119T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161119T210000
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CREATED:20161118T022723Z
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SUMMARY:Once in a Lifetime Event: Judy Grahn\, CA Conrad\, + Katie Ebbitt
DESCRIPTION:CAConrad\, Judy Grahn\, and Katie Ebbitt will read poetry on Saturday\, November 19\, 2016 at 7 p.m\, for a “Once in a Lifetime” event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. CAConrad and Judy Grahn are mutual admirers of each other\, but have not yet actually met\, so this reading will be practically historic\, while Katie Ebbitt will be able to tell future generations that she was there too\, and she gave her first reading in San Francisco with two giants. \nCAConrad’s childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays the latest While Standing In Line For Death is forthcoming from Wave Books in September 2017. He is a Pew Fellow and has also received fellowships from Lannan Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, Banff\, RADAR\, Flying Object and Ucross. For his books\, essays\, and details on the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films\, 2016)\, please visit http://CAConrad.blogspot.com/ \nJudy Grahn is perhaps best known as a poet\, and also as author of Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words\, Gay Worlds\, and her memoir A Simple Revolution\, the Making of an Activist Poet. She teaches creative writing\, mythology\, Women’s Spirituality\, LGBTQ studies\, and new origin stories when the spirit moves her. \nKatie Ebbitt is author of the chapbook ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath Press). Her work is available at Tarpaulin Sky\, The FanZine\, and Queen Mob’s. She is a LMSW in New York City and is writing a full length book on illness\, disability\, and disease remission. \nTHANKS to Alley Cat Books for hosting us; THANKS to Steve Dickison for the use of his 2014 photo of Judy Grahn\, and THANKS to Melissa Buzzeo for her recent photo of CA Conrad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/once-in-a-lifetime-event-judy-grahn-ca-conrad-katie-ebbitt/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T210000
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SUMMARY:Final Odd Mondays of the Season!
DESCRIPTION:A Pot Pourri for A Post-Election World \nNicole Wong\, Andrew McIntyre\, and Gerald Heather \nFREE ADMISSION \nSee the world through the eyes of Nicole Wong\, children’s writer\, health adviser. “Balm to our souls” is what we say of her writing\, and her volunteer cooperation with Odd Mondays. \nAndrew McIntyre: bibliophile\, book merchant at Folio’s Bookstore and writer of The Short\, The Long\, and The Tall. He will share his always-humorous tales. \nAnd \nOur witty political commentator and TV interviewee\, Gerald Heather\, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State\, will host questions and answers about the election. \nPlease join us in shared community in a tough\, post-election world!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/final-odd-mondays-of-the-season/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T213000
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SUMMARY:Henrietta Rose-Innes + Julie Shigekuni w/ Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:About Nineveh: \nKatya Grubbs is Cape Town’s only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter\, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew\, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh\, a new luxury housing development on the coast\, Katya finds that bugs aren t the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further\, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental\, not to mention architectural\, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders\, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction\, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh’s few residentsthe mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged fathera professional exterminator fallen on hard timesreappears in her life\, that Nineveh’s deeper secrets are exposed. \n\nAbout In Plain View: \nDaidai and her husband Hiroshi have what many of their friends believe is a perfect life. Daidai has recently left her job as curator of the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo so that she and Hiroshi\, a university professor\, can try for a baby. Frustrated by their lack of success so far\, and by their increasingly clinical love life\, Daidai befriends Satsuki\, one of Hiroshi’s graduate students. Newly arrived from Japan\, Satsuki clings to her friendship to Daidai and quickly becomes a mainstay in their household.\nSpurred by a revelation concerning Satsuki’s estranged mother and a disturbing trip to Japan where Daidai discovered Satsuki’s father was engaged in illegal\, and illicit\, activities\, Daidai begins to seriously question Satsuki’s seemingly innocent connection to three possible murders.\nDaidai’s concerns about Satsuki are dismissed as jealousy by her husband until Daidai’s investigation will lead to a harrowing confrontation between the two women\, and Satsuki’s true intentions will be revealed. At once a taut psychological thriller and examination of cultural divides\, Shigekuni’s “In Plain View” is never as it appears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henrietta-rose-innes-julie-shigekuni-w-aaron-bady/
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:20161122T213000
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CREATED:20161118T024243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T024243Z
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SUMMARY:ABBW Presents: The Hydra #8
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) eighth experimental\, flash\, and science fiction reading series at the beautiful Woods Bar & Brewery on 17th and Telegraph in Uptown\, Oakland. \nThis month features science-fiction author TBD and our Outsider of the Month TBD and five (5) open mic slots! Emceed by Elwin Michael Cotman and Vernon Keeve III. Music by the ever-so-talented Oakland Future Trio. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nGenesis \nAt one time it was believed that Hercules downed the six-headed beast\, discovering in the process that the removal of one head meant that two would grow in its place. It was only with help from Iolaus that the death of the beast was exposed in the marrying of decapitation and cauterization\, so that more heads could not sprout. Hercules buried the taproot of the beast under a huge rock\, known today as Mount Diablo. \nFor 27 centuries\, the Hydra has remained dormant\, until the 1940s when copious amounts of poetry began to stir the sleeping heart of the behemoth\, and slowly but surely the heads of the beast began to grow back despite the sealed wounds. \nOctavia Butler\, Samuel R. Delaney\, and Ursula K. Le Guin were knighted as keepers of the beast\, but the trio’s powers were greatly weakened with the passing of Octavia. \nUrsula recently said\, “with the popularity of poetry readings in the Bay Area the heads of the beast are growing back at an alarming rate\, and the only thing that will slow down the beast is the inclusion of more fiction in the literary scene. We need stories of mythical beasts stronger than the Hydra. We need stories of worlds that is not the world it remembers\, or maybe stories of lands the Hydra knows all too well. We need stories of heroes that can destroy it\, and villians greater than it. We need experimental stories\, we need short stories\, we need fiction. Fiction is the only thing that will down the beast for once and for all. Counteract the poetry that is making the beast grow\, and do it now.” \nThe Setup \nWith all that being said\, we would like to invite you all to The Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) The Hydra: A Reading Series of Experimental\, Flash\, and Science Fiction. This event will come to you on the last Tuesday of every month at Woods Bar & Brewery in Uptown Oakland. \nHydra will always have a featured reader who writes within the genre of fiction\, as well as\, an Outsider of the Month. The Outsider of the Month is someone who usually writes what cannot be classified as fiction\, but who will be asked to write a piece of fiction and share it with the audience. We’ve learned that this sacrifice is one that slows down the growth of the heads the most. \nThere will also 5 slots available for sacrificial (open-mic) readings (4 minutes per reading)\, so come out to listen\, to share\, to join us in ceremony. \nPSA: This series is still not affiliated with H.Y.D.R.A. the criminal organization\, but they want in
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abbw-presents-the-hydra-8/
LOCATION:Woods Bar & Brewery\, 1701 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192728
CREATED:20161118T024609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T024609Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Surreal" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:At Saturday Night Special\, we have always valued diversity\, inclusivity\, fairness\, and social justice. In the wake of recent events\, it feels important to reaffirm this commitment. \nWhen choosing the “surreal” theme for the final Saturday Night Special of 2016\, there was no way of knowing how appropos it would turn out to be. According to Merriam Webster\, “surreal” means “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream; also : unbelievable\, fantastic.” Sound about right? \nIn a time when so many of us have been casting about for light\, let’s gather together in the stuffed afterglow of the Thanksgiving holiday\, to drink and share some words. This month\, you are invited to bring us your surreal poems\, your irrational rants\, your unbelievable stories\, or whatever you like. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur November features are: Hugh Behm Steinberg +TBA\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, November 26th\, 2016\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nHugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two books of poetry: Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press)\, as well as three Dusie chapbooks\, Sorcery\, Good Morning! and The Sound of Music. His prose can be found in Psychopomp\, The East Bay Review\, Joyland\, Gravel\, Sand\, Vestal Review and Gigantic. His short story “Taylor Swift” won the 2015 Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast. He is a member of the non-ranked faculty collective bargaining team at California College of the Arts in San Francisco\, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-surreal-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161128T210000
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CREATED:20161129T053547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T053547Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations
DESCRIPTION:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #39\, November 28 at the Hotel Rex. \nCommunity Guest Curator: Jennifer Lewis\nBay Area Generations Board Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Bonnie McManis \nREADERS \nShizue Seigel + April Yee\nJustice Morríghan + Ryanaustin Dennis\nJohn Haggerty + Katrin Gibb\nPeter Bullen + Sarah Bethe Nelson\nKeith Donnell + Lisa Alden\nJessica Hahn + Barbara Campbell \nMUSICAL GUEST \nJustin Frahm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161129T210000
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CREATED:20161019T001608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T001608Z
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SUMMARY:Eavan Boland + Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new books of poetry \nA Poet’s Dublin – by Eavan Boland \nAnybody: Poems – by Ari Banias \nboth published by W.W. Norton \nA rare evening of reading and discussion betweem teacher and student. \nabout A Poet’s Dublin: \nWritten over years\, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet’s Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful\, historic city\, studying how it forms and alters language\, memory\, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and raised her children to the inner-city bombing of 1974\, and include such signature poems as “The Pomegranate\,” “The War Horse\,” and “Anna Liffey.” Above all\, these poems weave together the story of a self and a city—private\, political\, and bound by history. The poems are supported by photographs of the city at all times and in all seasons: from dawn on the river Liffey\, which flows through Dublin\, to twilight up in the Dublin foothills. \nPraise for the work of Eavan Boland: \n“For Boland\, one feels poetry has to be honorable and natural\, though at times as terrifying as giving birth alone in the open meadow\, and that it is also made of blood and the guilt of being human.” — Yusef Komunyakaa \nabout Anybody:Poems: \nIn Anybody\, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed\, the ways he and she\, us and them\, here and elsewhere are kept separate\, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes\, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered\, queer\, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns—the cruising spaces of Fire Island\, a city lake\, a Greek island\, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop—he finds the charge of boundedness and signification\, the implications of what it means to be a this instead of a that. Witty\, tender\, and original\, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives. \nPraise for the work of Ari Banias: \n“I’m so impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias’ Anybody. It’s discursive\, straight-talking\, and thinky\, then ghostlike\, elliptical\, and mischievous. It takes its time\, then rushes; it’s quiet\, then bold; it’s steeped in sociality\, then ringing with solitude. I happily recognize its arrival\, even if I know (as does Banias\, quoting Berlant) that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.” — Maggie Nelson \n“Born late in the twentieth century\, tutored under the twin suns of Frank O’Hara and Guillaume Apollinaire\, vexed by ‘this set of meanings on my body\,’ Ari Banias is a poet for this hour—bewildered\, hopeful\, and cracklingly alive\, a citizen of the possible. How many utopias? (keep imagining them).” — Mark Doty \n“Here is Anybody with its syntax of rupture and suture\, its restless questions and metaphysical balloons. What a thrilling\, original\, generous\, openhearted book. A book we have waited for\, whoever we are.” — Donna Masini \n“Ari Banias has written one of the finest first books (OK\, any book!) that I’ve ever read… These poems stake a claim on the future: they give us a poet who understands to the bone how syntax and line and music embody emotion\, and how the integrity of the spirit is the maker’s integrity.” — Tom Sleigh\nEavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University\, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lives in Stanford\, California\, and Dublin\, Ireland. \nAri Banias has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University\, where he was most recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He received an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eavan-boland-ari-banias/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161130T210000
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CREATED:20161129T055241Z
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT #84
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our last reading of the year as we welcome writers Angelika Quirk\, who reads from her just released book\, Unspooling\, and Melanie Maier. \nAngelika Quirk was born and raised in Hamburg\, Germany. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 18 and received a degree in German literature from UC Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. She has published three books: After Sirens\, Of Ruins and Rumors\, and Unspooling which was published this year. Two of her books have been accepted for the library of the German American Heritage Museum\, in Washington DC. \nMelanie Maier’s poetry has been published in the Southern California Review\, and South Carolina Review. Her first chapbook\, The Land of Us\, was published by Pudding House Press. She is the author of two other chap books\, Scattering Wind\, and Night Boats\, from Conflux Press. \nWe will have light refreshments\, including hot apple cider to keep out the chill\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Tell your friends to come by\, and share the magic of words and friends in our welcoming salon. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before hand! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-84/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T125000
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CREATED:20161018T002614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002614Z
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SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Juan Felipe Herrera is currently the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012 to 2014\, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many collections of poetry include Notes on the Assemblage\, Senegal Taxi\, and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems which received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T180000
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CREATED:20160922T004241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T004241Z
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SUMMARY:Cary Groner
DESCRIPTION:Cary Groner grew up in the Midwest and has worked as a journalist and photographer for many years. He earned his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona in 2009\, and his debut novel\, Exiles\, was a Chicago Tribune “best book” of 2011. His short stories have won numerous awards\, including the Glimmer Train fiction open\, and have appeared there and in other venues including American Fiction\,Mississippi Review\, Sycamore Review\, and Southern California Review. Cary teaches at the Writing Salon and is completing a new novel and a story collection. His website is www.carygroner.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-groner/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192728
CREATED:20161025T012944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012944Z
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SUMMARY:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory)
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo read from their poetry\, continuing a collaboration between artists\, audiences and The Poetry Center\, as a way of enlarging this circle beyond ethnic boundaries\, in contested urban spaces. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) takes the Tagalog term\, a phoneticized form adapted through the colonial Spanish\, as its title\, proposition\, and starting point. Kuwentuhan (“necessary step toward big talk\,” by one definition) is orally based\, informal in nature\, usually spontaneous\, and is always an opportunity for people to converge and share. It occurs in all kinds of social spaces as talkstory circle. \nThe project’s aim is to open up precisely the kind of human space that barely exists in our technological and “globalized” culture\, by allowing a select group of American poets out of widely disparate and polyglot cultural and geographic backgrounds to actually talk face to face\, sharing stories\, poetry and conversations among themselves and with audiences. They are interested in work that originates from a communal basis\, and in shaping a project that encourages collective creation\, by putting into action mechanisms for creating “live” person-to-person exchange between and among artists and audiences. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of The Poetry Center and Reyes\, supported by the Creative Work Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kuwentuhan-talkstory/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192728
CREATED:20161130T030725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T030725Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective Flashathon
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for our second annual end-of-the-year flashathon\, featuring a few of our amazing past readers! \nLynn Mundell\nAndrew O. Dugas\nThaisa Frank\nChad Koch\nChristopher Cook\nMolly Giles\nJane McDermott\nHeather Bourbeau\nMardi Louisell\nJenny Bitner\nNoah Sanders\nTony Press\nJon Sindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-flashathon/
LOCATION:Flash Fiction Collective\, 3036 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
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CREATED:20161018T232942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T232942Z
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SUMMARY:Max Ritvo Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Read about Max’s life at NPR. \nPraise for Four Reincarnations: \n“Marked by intellectual bravado and verbal extravagance. . . .One of the most original and ambitious first books in my experience.” —Louise Glück \n\n“A Max Ritvo poem is:\nA map drawn by hand to show where the body is buried.\nA card trick with words. . . ‘Don’t show me how you did it.’\nLike reading the last sentence in a book first.\nDragging words across the page like a bow across a string.\nA piece of candy covered with ants.\nLike silverfish ate the words off a page . . . and left you a riddle.\nAll of the above.”\n—Tom Waits \n\nAbout Four Reincarnations: \nReverent and profane\, entertaining and bruising\, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.\nWhen Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen\, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied\, communicating pain\, violence\, and loss. And yet they are also erotically\, electrically attuned to possibility and desire\, to everything living / that won t come with me / into this sunny afternoon. Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity\, but he is also a poet of life and of lovea cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.\nRitvo writes to his wife\, ex-lovers\, therapists\, fathers\, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips\, Indian mythology\, wool hats. But in these poemsfrom the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of deathit’s Ritvo’s vulnerable\, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-ritvo-celebration/
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:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192728
CREATED:20161201T030741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030741Z
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SUMMARY:Mariela Griffor + Lynne Knight
DESCRIPTION:Mariela Griffor’s new book is a translation of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General: Song of the Americas\, edited by Jeffrey Levine\, perhaps Neruda’s most daring and ambitious project\, depicting history as a vast\, continuous struggle against oppression. Griffor was born in Concepción in southern Chile. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden and now lives in the U.S.\, in Michigan and Washington D.C.\, where she is Honorary Consul of Chile. She is the founder of Marick Press and is the author of three books of poems\,  Exiliana\, House\, and The Psychiatrist. \nLynne Knight’s new book of poems is The Persistence of Longing. Cecilia Woloch says\, “I’ve never read poems that seem to me more accurate about love and desire and sexual relationships and their almost-inevitable shattering—darkly gorgeous and expertly-crafted poems\, with a white-hot lyric intensity and a narrative pull that becomes cumulative\, an erotic veering toward doom.” She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks\, and translator of I Know (Je sais)\, by Ito Naga\, from the French. Among her honors are publication in Best American Poetry\, the Prix de l’Alliance Française 2006\, the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize\, a Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariela-griffor-lynne-knight/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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