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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T213000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T213000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T210000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
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SUMMARY:Patty Yumi Cottrell
DESCRIPTION:Patty Yumi Cottrell was born in South Korea. Ed Park describes her novel\, Sorry To Disturb the Peace\, as “a sort of Korean-American noir\, lean and wry and darkly compelling\,” and Danielle Dutton calls it “a beguiling debut: absurdly funny\, surprisingly beautiful\, and ultimately sad….” Cottrell’s work has appeared in BOMB\, Gulf Coast\, and Black Warrior Review. She lives in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-yumi-cottrell-2/
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:20170919T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T203000
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell + Clyde Always
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/jeanne-powell-clyde-always/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T210000
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SUMMARY:Anne Korkeakivi
DESCRIPTION:Anne Korkeakivi shares her critically-acclaimed new novel\, Shining Sea. An arresting and absorbing novel that spans decades\, Shining Sea draws readers into the turbulent lives of a family in Southern California after the sudden death of the father. This event will feature a musical performance by critically-acclaimed troubadour Rachel Garlin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-korkeakivi/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T223415
CREATED:20170604T224138Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #28
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit.\nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.)\nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee.\nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-28/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Josephine Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Josephine Rowe discusses her new novel\, A Loving\, Faithful Animal. \n\nPraise for A Loving\, Faithful Animal \n\n“A subtle and haunting meditation on childhood\, escape\, the bonds and the limits of family\, and the long reach of trauma. Rowe is a serious talent\, and her debut novel is both gorgeous and stunning.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“A Loving\, Faithful Animal lured me in with astonishing\, poetic prose\, and a glimpse of an Australia I don’t always see in fiction. But the true thrill of the novel is the carousel of haunting characters Josephine Rowe creates with unbelievable precision. An unflinching look at the ways we fail the people we love\, at the cruelty of family\, its toxicity\, and beauty. The book is a deep\, multi-faceted portrait of the inheritance of damage\, one that left me aching and inspired.” —Stephanie Danler\, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter \n“Josephine Rowe writes like someone who\, having been quiet a long time\, has thought carefully and viciously about what must be said. In this flinty debut\, Rowe fashions a string of refractory surfaces―the family members of a veteran―to remind us just how far\, into love and time\, the atrocity of war will reach.” ―Kathleen Alcott\, author of Infinite Home \n\nAbout A Loving\, Faithful Animal \nIt is New Year’s Eve 1990\, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father\, Jack\, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War\, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door\, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister\, Lani\, is throwing herself into sex\, drugs\, and dangerous company. Their mother\, Evelyn\, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les\, Jack’s inscrutable brother\, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost\, earning both trust and suspicion. \n  \nA Loving\, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender\, brutal\, and heart-stopping in its beauty\, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe\, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josephine-rowe/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:In 2011\, when she was in her late fifties\, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine\, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined\, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. \nBefore they met\, both had believed they were done with marriage\, and even after they married\, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then\, just after their one year wedding anniversary\, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed\, as they battled his illness together\, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one. \nThis is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance\, a marriage cut short by tragedy\, and Joyce’s return to singleness on new terms\, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching\, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss. \nJoyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth\, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children\, and makes her home in Lafayette\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to have Jesmyn Ward in the store for her latest novel\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing. Please join us! \nCarrying the torch of Faulkner and As I Lay Dying\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing tells the emotional journey taken by Leonie\, a single mother addicted to drugs\, her son Jojo\, 13\, and his toddler sister\, Kayla—who have been raised by their grandparents Pap\, who tries to teach Jojo how to be a man\, and Mam\, who is sick with cancer—to Parchman Farm\, the Mississippi State Penitentiary where Jojo and Kayla’s white father is being released from prison. Ghosts and spirits hover over Ward’s narrative\, which hums with ambition\, complexity\, heartache\, rich visuals\, and violence. \nIn Sing\, Unburied\, Sing\, Ward shows us life on the gulf coast of Mississippi—lush and menacing and marked by a precise rural vernacular—and life within a family weighted by history and poverty but bonded by love. Rich with Ward’s distinctive\, musical language\, it is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature by a writer at the top of her game. \nJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novelsWhere the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones\, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoirMen We Reaped\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010\, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170920T213000
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CREATED:20170621T232716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T232716Z
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SUMMARY:Elise Paschen + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Elise Paschen and Tess Taylor read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nPraise for Elise Paschen \n“The Nightlife is not only a beautiful and inventive collection\, it’s an important contribution to this period in American poetry. Paschen’s voice shows us how―given all the choices in form\, voice\, subject\, and vision―a poet might make the art her own through the force of her personal brilliance\, and a generous and idiosyncratic sensibility. In this work it is as if ‘. . . she unhinged every / window . . .’ These are poems you return to not only for the music and the detail―equally powerful through her wide-angle lens as under her magnifying glass―but to puzzle out how she managed it. So much craft in work that reads so freely\, seems to have issued forth so effortlessly\, but also from some supernatural source\, poems that read as if the poet were ‘. . . trying to put back / the wild fury she had released.’ This is poetry that reminds us of all the power and possibilities of poetry itself.”―Laura Kasischke\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space\, in Chains \n\nPraise for Tess Taylor \n“(This) lapidary\, moving book . . . shows that across thousands of years\, these smallest acts―to grow\, harvest\, mourn―still remain central to lyric utterance. Is such a pastoral sensibility possible in the mediated world of 21st century American life? Taylor’s answer is not only yes\, but to focus on the thousands of workers both here and abroad who live a life based on laboring with the earth. These subtle poems\, like those that explore her lineage to the Jefferson family in her first book\, are not without harder-to-confront agonies. As she draws the world… proximate to touch\, the intuited sense of apocalypse―whether ecological disaster\, or global political chaos―draws closer . . . (as well.)”―LitHub’s “30 Poets You Should be Reading” \n  \nAbout The Nightlife \n\nIn Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection\, Infidelities\, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book\, The Nightlife\, Paschen once again taps into dream states\, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls\,” she explores troubled love and relationships\, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives\, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. \n  \nThe Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum\, the villanelle and the tritina\, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection\, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads\, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky. \n  \nAbout Work and Days \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elise-paschen-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney + Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney has published six books\, most recently Buck Studies (Fence Books\, 2016)\, winner of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award in poetry. BOMB magazine states Kearney “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic\, personal and historical.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity\, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publishers Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Raised in Altadena\, he lives with his family in the Santa Clarita Valley and teaches at CalArts. \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist\, doula and the author of The Easy Body (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017). Luboviski-Acosta\, Matt Weathers and Carla Orendorff are founding members of strictlyyouth\, a decolonized punk dance collective for people of color. With Elana Chavez\, they are founding curators of the Cantil Reading Series. They have taught movement\, filmmaking and radical play to anarchists and children. Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles’ Eastside and now lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/
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:Eleanor Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Booksmith as we welcome Eleanor Henderson for the debut of her forthcoming novel The Twelve-Mile Straight. \nSet in Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition\, The Twelve-Mile Straight is an American epic about race\, inequality\, and family that reads like a page-turner and is startlingly timely and relevant. It begins when two babies—one dark-skinned\, the other light—are born to the daughter of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery. The twins’ birth raises questions that have violent\, tragic consequences that continue to reverberate many years into the future. \nHenderson’s childhood was brimming with accounts from her grandparents’ and her father of the town where her grandparents were sharecroppers. She heard tales of her grandparents during the Great Depression and stories about the hard times on the farm\, and she also learned about the resilience and the ways in which families persevere together. Henderson was inspired to bring the world of Cotton County\, Georgia during the time of Jim Crow to the page\, and says she wanted “to capture the innocence of those country stories\, and also to fracture it. I knew there was a darker narrative running alongside this one\, like the quiet creek running along the [fictional] Twelve-Mile Straight.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-henderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Fall 2017 MFA Reading featuring Vivian Gornick. \nVivian Gornick\, a born and bred New Yorker\, is an essayist and memoirist whose latest book\, aptly enough\, is entitled The Odd Woman and The City. Her other books include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\, and many other works that have garnered nominations for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gornick is a former staff writer for The Village Voice. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nThe MFA Reading Series is co-sponsored by the English department and presents literary readings and discussions that are free and open to the public. For more information on the MFA in Writing program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing\, or email: mfaw@usfca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Swallowing Mercury: Wioletta Greg
DESCRIPTION:Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books\, Swallowing Mercury. \nLonglisted for The Man Booker International Prize\, Swallowing Mercury looks back on youth in a close-knit\, agricultural community in 1980s Poland through the eyes of Wiola. Her memories are precise\, intense\, distinctive\, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women\, rumored visits from the Pope\, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house\, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch\, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up. \nWioletta Greg is a Polish writer. She was born in a small village in 1974 in the Jurassic Highland of Poland. In 2006\, she left Poland and moved to the UK. Between 1998–2012 she published six poetry volumes\, as well as a novel\, Swallowing Mercury\, which spans her childhood and her experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Her short stories and poems have been published in Asymptote\, theGuardian\, Litro Magazine\, Poetry Wales\, Wasafiri and The White Review. Her works have been translated into English\, Catalan\, French\, Spanish and Welsh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swallowing-mercury-wioletta-greg/
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:20170922T200000
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CREATED:20170417T114026Z
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SUMMARY:Reed Magazine: 150th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:Reed Magazine 150th Anniversary Party\nSpring 2017\n  \nJoin us for a night of readings to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Reed Magazine\, the West’s oldest literary journal\, founded on the San José State campus in 1867! \nM.C.s Santa Clara Co. Poet Laureate Arlene Biala & CLA director and Reed editor-in-chief Cathleen Miller. \nFriday\, September 22\, 6pm – San Jose City Hall Rotunda \n  \n\nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reed-magazine-150th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:San Jose City Hall Rotunda\, 200 E Santa Clara St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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