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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Dating
DESCRIPTION:Spring is in the air and other clichés\, and people are swiping right and left like crazy! Whether you’re single or coupled or thrupled up or “it’s complicated” you’ve got a sick or sexy or funny story to tell. And here at SNS\, we want it all! Tell us the truth; lie to us; sing to us; tell us a story; write a poem for us. Give us your DATING inspirations\, real or imagined\, past\, present\, or future. Best and worst. First or last. Hot or horrible. Let’s do this! \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 featured readers for April are Don Gonzales Filmmaker & Jan Steckel\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! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, April 28\, 2018\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 \nDonny Gonzalez is the result of what happens when you get fed cocaine while teething. Raised in the inbreeding Capitol of California\, Modesto aka Methdesto. A place where people have more tattoos than teeth\, and the line outside the methadone clinic looks like the line outside Walmart on Black Friday. Donny began writing poems to stay sane & as an alternative to murdering his neighbors. These neighbors would be the focal point of Don’s bizarro poetry. Don left Modesto in 2015 and is now a booth mopper at an all male peepshow in San Francisco. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
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LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Inning
DESCRIPTION:More Baseball Poetry from San Francisco Poets \nJoin San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and others for a poetry jam! \nWhen \nMonday\, 4/30/2018\, 4:00 – 5:30 \nWhere \nLatino/Hispanic Rms A & B \nMain Library \n100 Larkin St.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-inning/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Re-Assembling Hope with Rebecca Solnit\, Dacher Keltner & others
DESCRIPTION:Re-Assembling Hope: Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Dacher Keltner\, Dan Kammen\, Shannon Jackson and Friends of the Bay Area Book Festival\nMonday / 4.30.18 / 6:30 \n*Tickets will be made available 10 days prior to the event. Once all tickets have been claimed\, we will open up a waitlist.\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/general-seating-reassembling-hope-with-rebecca-solnit-dacher-keltner-dan-kammen-shannon-jackson-and-tickets-42259151259 \nPLEASE READ: If you are a ticket holder\, please be aware that if you are not seated in the theater by 6:15pm\, you are relinquishing your reserved seat to those waiting at the door and who have signed up for the waitlist. \n*Pending approval\, this event may be available via livestream.\n—\nDacher Keltner\, Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center\, Professor\, Psychology\, UC Berkeley\nDan Kamman\, Professor of Energy & Chair Energy and Resources Group\nShannon Jackson\, Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts + Design\, UC Berkeley\nRebecca Solnit\, Writer\, Historian\, Activist \nJoin UC Berkeley alum Rebecca Solnit as she brings both the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival and A+D Mondays to a close with a conversation on the idea of Hope. Solnit\, in conversation with a range of Berkeley professors\, authors\, and community activists will discuss our fraught political landscape\, how literature and art help us to navigate through crises\, and how Hope helps us to assemble and re-assemble our communities and our social movements. \n—\nDan Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California\, Berkeley\, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group\, the Goldman School of Public Policy\, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)\, and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies\, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities. \nDacher Keltner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as well as Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is the co-author of two textbooks\, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life\, and The Compassionate Instinct. He has published over 190 scientific articles\, received numerous national prizes and grants for his research\, and has written for multiple publications\, including The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition\, he was a scientific consultant on Pixar’s film\, Inside Out. \n———\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series with the theme of Public (Re)Assembly. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays \n—\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holly Brown
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. In April\, we feature a reading and conversation with Holly Brown on her new book being published in May\, How Far She’s Come. \nIf you would like to have a book signed by the author\, please bring your checkbook to the event to purchase the newest book\, How Far She’s Come. You may also buy any of her previously published books in advance at Books Inc. or your favorite indie bookstore to bring with you for signing. \nLook for the event in the “Living Room” near the front entrance. Free and open to the public; please reserve your spot using the tickets link.
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LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nikki McClure / The Great Chicken Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host an evening with Nikki McClure. Please join us for a discussion and special presentation of The Great Chicken Escape! \nA wordless picture book in which chickens flee their coop at an Alaskan monastery and four\, eluding the nuns\, enjoy a day in the forest before returning home to roost. Features cut-paper artwork and a die-cut cover. \n— \nNikki McClure is a well-known cut-paper artist and the author of several children’s books\, including Abrams’s Waiting for High Tide\, In\, Collect Raindrops\, and May the Stars Drip Down. She lives in Olympia\, Washington\, with her husband and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nikki-mcclure-the-great-chicken-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Fresán
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Fresán discusses his new novel\, The Bottom of the Sky. \n\nPraise for Rodrigo Fresán \n\n“It’s the book of the future\, the book that begins to write itself when everything has ended: the story of two young people in love with planets\, and of a disturbingly beautiful girl. Between Bioy Casares and Philip K. Dick\, but with a voice all its own\, it is both powerful and artistic.”—Enrique Vila-Matas \n\n“I’ve read few novels this exciting in recent years. Mantra is the novel I’ve laughed with the most\, the one that has seemed the most virtuosic and at the same time the most disruptive.”—Roberto Bolaño \n\n“A kaleidoscopic\, open-hearted\, shamelessly polymathic storyteller\, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.”—Jonathan Lethem \n\n“Rodrigo Fresán is a marvelous writer\, a direct descendent of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges\, but with his own voice and of his own time\, with a fertile imagination\, daring and gifted with a vision as entertaining as it is profound.”—John Banville \n\nAbout The Bottom of the Sky \n\nAt its core\, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction\, it’s also about the Gulf War\, 9/11\, and a mysterious “incident.” It’s like a Kurt Vonnegut novel told by David Lynch through the lens of Philip K. Dick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rodrigo-fresan/
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:Work & Workers
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Terry Lucas\, Jan Steckel\, Dennis Bernstein\, Barbara West. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications. \n\nAll readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month\nAdmission free • Morrison Library in Doe Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of The Poetry Center’s Spring 2018 season: an evening of reading and performance in celebration of San Francisco-based and nationally renowned organization Youth Speaks\, with two of its founders — James Kass and Paul S. Flores\, both SF State alumni and graduates of the MFA in Creative Writing program. (Rumor has it members of the Youth Speaks artists will also be in the house.) This event is free and open to the public. \nJames Kass is an award-winning writer\, educator\, producer and media maker. He is also the Founding Executive Director of Youth Speaks\, a position he held for 21 years (1996-early 2018)\, and is widely credited with helping to launch the global youth spoken word movement\, working with tens of thousands of young people from across the country — and helping launch close to 100 programs nationwide — to help them find\, develop\, publicly present\, and apply their voices as creators of change. \nCreator and Co-Executive Producer of the 7-part HBO series Brave New Voices and the Peabody-nominated HBO’s Brave New Voices 2010\, James also created the concept and served as the Artistic Director of the PBS series Poetic License and the independent documentary 2nd Verse\, as well as the NPR Series\, The Drop In. James created the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival\, serves as Executive Editor of First Word Press\, and was\, among many other things\, a founding member of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Selection Committee\, and helped launch the National\, SF and Oakland Youth Laureate Programs. He has also edited a number of books\, and has had much of his own fiction and poetry published\, while producing a number of nationally touring theater pieces and collaborating with choreographers Robert Moses and Sara Shelton Mann to stage his own writing through dance. He’s lectured and taught at numerous colleges\, including San Francisco State University\, Stanford\, and University of San Francisco\, and presented at NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity). Kass has received several awards for his writing\, his work in the nonprofit sector\, and his work as an educator. Having produced the first poetry slam for youth in the country\, he helped to develop a national network of nonprofits that believe the passion\, intelligence\, creativity and courage of young people can change the world. \nPaul S. Flores is a poet\, performance artist\, playwright\, and well known spoken word artist. He was raised in Chula Vista\, CA and spent much of his youth in Tijuana\, Mexico. Flores’ PEN Award-winning novel Along the Border Lies reflects this experience. Flores’ work explores the intersection of urban culture\, Hip-Hop and transnational identity. His spoken word poem “Brown Dreams” from Def Poetry on HBO has been viewed on YouTube 100\,000 times\, and continues to inform and influence young people all over the United States. \nAfter playing professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs\, Paul received his degree from University of California\, San Diego and then moved to San Francisco in 1995 to complete the MFA Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. In 1996\, he co-founded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados with Norman Zelaya and Darren de Leon and recorded a CD titled Word Descarga (Calaca Press\, 2000). Flores’ performance projects have taken him from HBO’s Def Poetry to Cuba\, Mexico\, and El Salvador. \nFlores was named The San Francisco Weekly’s 2011 Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist for his solo show You’re Gonna Cry\, which documents the demographic shift of The Mission District after the “dot-com” boom. Flores’ play Representa! features Cuban rapper Julio Cardenas\, directed by Danny Hoch\, and originally produced by La Peña Cultural Center and the San Francisco International Arts Festival at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2007 and later toured to 17 cities. His newest play PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo (2012) was directed by Michael John Garcés\, and starred Ric Salinas of Culture Clash. PLACAS premiered at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in Union Square\, San Francisco as a co-production of SFIAF and Central American Resource Center\, and later toured to The Los Angeles Theater Center\, and Off Broadway at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. \nA highly respected youth arts educator\, as co-founder of Youth Speaks Inc.\, he introduced spoken word to hundreds of thousands of youth all over the country\, and helped develop the national platform for young people to build peer relationships and strategize toward a better future through the Brave New Voices: National Teen Poetry Slam\, now seen on HBO. Flores currently manages the Latino Men & Boys Program\, funded by The California Endowment\, at The Unity Council in East Oakland. He is also adjunct faculty of Theater at the University of San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco with his children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouth Speaks\nPaul S. Flores\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-kass-and-paul-s-flores-a-reading-performance-celebrating-21-years-by-two-founders-of-youth-speaks/
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:The Apartment in Bab El-Louk: Elisabeth Jaquette
DESCRIPTION:Translator Elisabeth Jaquette discusses her translation of Donia Maher’s graphic novel\, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk. This “fabulous noir poem” has been simply described as “the reflections of an old recluse in busy downtown Cairo neighbourhood of Bab El-Louk” by Egyptian artist\, Ganzeer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic\, instructor at Hunter College\, and Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-apartment-in-bab-el-louk-elisabeth-jaquette/
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:Mairghread Scott / The City on the Other Side
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mairghread Scott for her new graphic novel illustrated by Robin Robinson\, The City on the Other Side\, which is set in early 20th century San Francisco. Please join us! \nIn The City on the Other Side\, a young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms\, and the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance! \nSheltered within her high-society world\, Isabel plays the part of a perfectly proper little girl—she’s quiet\, well-behaved\, and she keeps her dresses spotlessly clean. She’s certainly not the kind of girl who goes on adventures. \nBut that all changes when Isabel breaches an invisible barrier and steps into another world. She discovers a city not unlike her own\, but magical and dangerous. Here\, war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Only Isabel\, with the help of a magical necklace and a few new friends\, stands a chance of ending the war before it destroys the fairy world\, and her own. \n  \n\n  \nMairghread Scott is an animation and comicbook writer specializing in action-comedy. Her animation work spans such titles as Guardians of the Galaxy\, Ultimate Spider-Man\, Transformers: Robots in Disguise\, and more. You can also read her work in comic book series such as: Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy\, Transformers: Till All Are One\, Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special\, and her creator-owned work Toil and Trouble. She is the author of the graphic novel Science Comics: Robots & Drones\, also from First Second. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marighread-scott/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Night of Readings and A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of readings & writings\, words & language\, lit & luminosity in toast to Laura Ritland’s debut poetry collection\, EAST AND WEST (http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655032). Books will be sold\, readers will read\, feelings will be felt! \nFeaturing readings by: \nLAURA RITLAND \nJANE HU \nMAX KAISLER \nJARED ROBINSON \nLaura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and CNQ. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016)\, a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto\, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry. She currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area\, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. East and West is her debut collection. \nJane Hu is a Berkeley English PhD and freelancer who has published in The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl. \nMax Kaisler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English & Classics from Amherst College. She’s worked as an editor and intern at Ploughshares\, The Common\, Bare Journal\, and Cutbank\, her own poetry and nonfiction has been published online and in print\, and she’s received multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. \nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN and moved to the Bay to study Literature at Berkeley. He has never published nor left the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-readings-and-a-book-launch/
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:Aline Kominsky-Crumb
DESCRIPTION:Legendary cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses Love That Bunch. \n\nPraise for Aline Kominsky-Crumb \n\n“For over 40 years\, Kominsky-Crumb has chronicled agony and ecstasy through brutally honest portraits . . . She changed the game for women comics—not to mention women comedians\, authors and artists.”—The Huffington Post \n\n“Kominsky-Crumb’s line has a freshness and energy that make her strips feel more honest and closer to autobiography than self-mythologizing.”—The New Republic \n\nAbout Love That Bunch \n\nAline Kominsky-Crumb redefined the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw\, dirty\, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery: her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were the fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego\, Bunch\, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. \n  \nCollecting comics from the 1970s through today\, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud\, complicated feminism. Most important\, she does so without apology. \n  \nOne of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time\, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps as a Beatles-loving fangirl\, an East Village groupie\, an adult grappling with her childhood\, and a 1980s housewife and mother. A new thirty-page story\, “Dream House\,” looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published in 1990\, this new expanded edition follows her to the present\, including a foreword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aline-kominsky-crumb/
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:Tessa Fontaine\, author of The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. \nAdvance praise for The Electric Woman \n“With fearless grace and piercing intensity\, Tessa Fontaine juxtaposes the thrill of eating fire with the luminous mystery of her mother’s devastating strokes and harrowing transformations. I have never read a book more tender or more true. We all live in a World of Wonders\, a world of terror. The Electric Woman delivers us to the potent mercy of unmitigated love\, the passion of shared suffering\, the resilience of the spirit\, and the ecstasies of our transfigurations. The heart breaks\, and breaks open—in the divine light of despair\, we discover radiant joy: the hidden holiness of every breath\, every being\, every moment.”\n—Melanie Rae Thon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-author-of-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alicia Mountain\, Steffi Drewes\, Tonya M. Foster\, and Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 5\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems! By four poets! We’re excited to welcome Alicia Mountain’s BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the world! With readings from three amazing Bay Area poets\, Steffi Drewes\, Mg Roberts\, and Tonya M. Foster\, as well! \nALICIA MOUNTAIN is the author of High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press\, April 2018) which was awarded the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Thin Fire\, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press. Mountain’s poems can be found in Guernica\, jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, Pleiades\, Witness\, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee\, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow and a resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a queer poet\, PhD candidate at the University of Denver\, and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Mountain earned her MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula. \n  \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press) and four poetry chapbooks\, most recently New Animal from dancing girl press. Her work has been featured in various journals and event series\, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, The Desert House in California\, and the Wassaic Project in New York\, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed personalized readings. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor. \nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans\, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, which Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art\, Foster has had work published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016)\, boundary2\, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015\, Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere.Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Pan African literary Festival\, and elsewhere. \nMg Roberts is a multimedia artist\, teacher\, publisher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). Mg is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo V.  Wilson; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, array of animals and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-steffi-drewes-tonya-m-foster-and-mg-roberts/
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:Tessa Fontaine with Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine discusses her new memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts with Shawn Wen. \nPraise for The Electric Woman \nIn a word: wow. I read The Electric Woman in a hallucinatory fever filled with hospital beds and carnival rides\, gray eyes and biting boa constrictors\, brain bleeds and headless bodies\, fire eaters and electrified women. Tessa Fontaine is a real-life snake charmer—her writing hooked and hypnotized me from page one. I had to read just one more chapter\, just one more until I reached the end of her extraordinary memoir\, dismayed that it was over but so grateful for the unforgettable ride.” —Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire \n“Somewhere between knives and fire beats the heart of a young woman daring herself to live. In her memoir\, The Electric Woman\, Tessa Fontaine weaves her way through a mother-death story and a daughter-coming-alive story against the backdrop of America’s last traveling sideshow. There are so many ways to bring ourselves back to life. So many people along the way who become our secular guardian angels. This story is a breathtaking\, fire-eating\, heart-stopping\, death-defying thrill.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Book of Joan \nA beautiful and ferocious book\, The Electric Woman comes packed with magnificent stories of carnival tricks\, transcending the limits of the body\, and the bravery of survivors and caretakers. Yet\, somehow no marvel is more wondrous than the writing itself. Fontaine’s memoir is a brilliant testament to family\, grief\, love\, and the astonishing trick of being—and feeling—alive.” —Annie Hartnett\, author of Rabbit Cake \nAbout The Electric Woman \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \n  \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \n  \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-with-shawn-wen/
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:Alicia Mountain / High Ground Coward
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alicia Mountain reading from High Ground Coward\, winner of the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Joining her for a reading and conversation is Brittany Perham (Double Portrait)—join us! \nAlicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual\, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls\, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric\, confessional\, and narrative modes\, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil\, leftovers for breakfast\, road trip as ritual\, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail\, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious\, even the softest part\,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting\,” leaving us “ravenous\, but gradually.” \nBearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion\, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance\, illness\, violence\, mythology\, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt\, the entanglement of devotion\, or the dominion that place holds over us\, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. \n  \nfrom “Scavenger”  \nWe three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say \nthere are stores beneath the floor. \nPotatoes and shallots\, \nhard-necked garlic streaked purple\, \njars beside jars\, themselves \neach staving globes of suction. \nPreservation\, a guardian hunger. \n  \nIn the evening I whisper to the boiled beet\, \nlike a naked organ in my flushed hand: \nYou are ground blood\, \nyou are new born\, \nyou have never been nothing— \nthawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb \nhandpull shedscrub mouthsweet \nand again. \n  \n— \n“Alicia Mountain looks at every tiny thing very closely\, and in doing that conveys the big picture of a vast inner life with marvelous clarity and depth. Her voice is intimate\, brash\, always precise\, heartbreaking in both its vulnerability and its authority. These poems are carried away by both lust and intelligence. This poet understands desire: its expression lets loose while giving form. This book doesn’t detour\, it goes right to and through the overpowered\, relentless heart of its speaker and the reader is struck through too\, and good. High Ground Coward is a dazzling debut by a rare\, true talent.” – Brenda Shaughnessy\, judge\, Iowa Poetry Prize \n“High Ground Coward is raw and intimate. Alicia Mountain looks at what she loves and that foreground blurs into a backdrop of practical constraints and injustices. The poems press at those boundaries where desire starts to interfere with the opportunities of others and cast an unsparing eye on the cost. This is a book of hard\, shifting\, dreamlike gems.” – Joanna Klink\, author\, Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-high-ground-coward/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by J. Bruce Fuller\, Jason Labbe\, Raina J. León\, and Matt W. Miller\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts. \nJ. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native\, and is currently a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His chapbooks include The Dissenter’s Ground\, Notes to a Husband\, Lancelot\, and Flood which won the 2013 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming at The Southern Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Harpur Palate\, Pembroke Magazine\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, and Louisiana Literature\, among others. He is the editor and publisher of Yellow Flag Press. He received a MFA from McNeese and a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. \nBorn in New Britain\, Connecticut and raised by a machinist and a waitress\, Jason Labbe is the author of a full-length collection\, Spleen Elegy (BlazeVOX\, 2017)\, and a handful of chapbooks\, including Blackwash Canal (2011) and Dear Photographer (Phylum Press\, 2009). His poems\, reviews\, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry\, Boston Review\, A Public Space\, Conjunctions\, DIAGRAM\, American Book Review\, Washington Square\, Gulf Coast\, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has taught writing at the University of Virginia\, the University of Connecticut\, and Southern Connecticut State University. Also a drummer and recording engineer\, he has worked with many artists in New England and New York City. He splits his time between Bethany\, Connecticut and Brooklyn\, New York. \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nMatt W. Miller is the author of the collections The Wounded for the Water (Salomon Poetry)\, Club Icarus\, selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and Cameo Diner: Poems. He has published poems and essays in The Adroit Journal\, Harvard Review\, Narrative Magazine\, Notre Dame Review\, Southwest Review\, 32 Poems\, Memorious\, and crazyhorse\, among other journals. He was winner of the River Styx Microbrew/Microfiction Prize and Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-10/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:curated by Sarah Carpenter and Gracie Malley! \nsubmissions are open through Apr 18 \nStudioToBe \, 906 Washington St.\, Oakland \nfree + all ages
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-on-may-7/
LOCATION:StudioToBe\, 906 Washington St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley / A Lucky Man
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the Bay Area launch for Jamel Brinkley and his debut book\, A Lucky Man: Stories. Please join us in celebration! \nIn the nine expansive\, searching stories of A Lucky Man\, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members\, and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs\, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. And at a capoeira conference\, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family\, caught in the dance of their painful\, fractured history. \nThis stunning debut by Jamel Brinkley reflects the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \n  \n\n  \n“This is the rare debut that introduces not a promising talent but a major writer\, fully formed.” – Garth Greenwell \n  \n“An unmissable debut short story collection\, Jamel Brinkley’s poignant A Lucky Man is revelatory in its crafting of prose and language. A wonderful read.” – The Root \n  \n“Spectacular. . . . Quite simply stunning. . . . [Jamel Brinkley] shines a light on difficult truths.” – Nylon \n  \n\n  \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has received fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Beginning this fall\, he will be a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Lucky Man\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley-a-lucky-man/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine / The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Tessa Fontaine for her first book\, The Electric Woman\, in conversation with Molly Giles. Please join us! \nThis astonishing memoir of pushing past fear follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery — through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous\, spirited mother. \nTurns out\, one lesson applies to living through illness\, keeping the show on the road\, letting go of the person you love most\, and eating fire: \n  \nThe trick is there is no trick. \nYou eat fire by eating fire. \n  \nTwo journeys—a daughter’s and a mother’s—bear witness to this lesson in The Electric Woman. \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love. \n  \n\n  \nTessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. Author photo by Claire Marika. \n  \n  \n  \nMolly Giles has published a novel\, Iron Shoes\, and four award winning collections of short stories\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, Bothered\, and All the Wrong Places. She taught Creative Writing for many years at San Francisco State University and the University of Arkansas. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Electric Woman\, and/or any of Molly’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Book Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poets Susan Dambroff and David Hathwell and novelists Anne Raeff and Rob Rosen will read from new work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco’s “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose\,” Tuesday\, May 8\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Author signing follows. Admission is free\, and free refreshments will be provided. Door prizes awarded at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer and teacher\, living in San Francisco. Her poetry chapbook Conversations With Trees was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her first book of poetry\, Memory in Bone\, was published by Black Oyster Press. Her poems have appeared in Stoneboat\, Earth’s Daughters\, and Red Bird Chapbooks\, among other literary venues. She performs in Spoken Duets\, a poetic and improvisational collaboration with performance artist Chris Kammler. Throughout her creative work\, she is drawn to the detailed placement of words\, the alchemy of sequence and timing. \nDavid Hathwell published Between Dog and Wolf\, his second poetry collection\, in 2017. Muses\, his debut collection\, appeared in 2016 to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines .A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia and a degree in music theory from the City University of New York. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in two Bay Area choruses. \nAnne Raeff’s second novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm\, just came out in February\, 2018. Her short story collection The Jungle Around Us won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and on The San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Best Books of 2017 list. Her first novel\, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia\, was published in 2002. Anne’s stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats. \nRob Rosen (www.therobrosen.com) is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, Divas Las Vegas\, Hot Lava\, Southern Fried\, Queerwolf\, Vamp\, Queens of the Apocalypse\, Creature Comfort\, Fate\, Midlife Crisis\, Fierce\, and And God Belched. His short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies. You can find 20 of them in his erotic romance anthology Good & Hot. He is also the editor of Lust in Time: Erotic Romance Through the Ages\, Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1 and 2 and 3.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-book-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown
DESCRIPTION:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown\n\nRita Bullwinkel celebrates the release of \nBelly Up: Stories \nfrom A Strange Object Press \nLisa Brown presents a sneak preview of an upcoming new graphic novel forthcoming in late 2018 \nRita and Lisa will also discuss the creative process in an evening of readings accompanied by talks. \nabout Belly Up: \nThe stories of Belly Up occupy the space between the familiar and the surreal. Through fiercely intelligent prose and quotidian moments\, a receptionist becomes fascinated with harp music\, two high school girls debate taking gym class and a bored beauty corresponds with an inmate. Fantastical stories filled with ghosts\, mediums and carnivorous churches find humanity and warmth in the grotesque. The characters and voices of Belly Up\, whether a sentient snake who eats children or a widow building a life without her husband\, are all seeking to find a way to cope with the bodies they’ve been given and the bodies they must encounter. \nRita Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area\, she now lives in the Richmond and works in the Mission. This is her first book. \nLisa Brown draws things like illustration and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy. Since then she has published a ton more books\, including Vampire Boy’s Good Night and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming\, a New York Times bestseller by elusive author Lemony Snicket. She co-authored Picture the Dead\, an illustrated young adult novel\, with acclaimed writer Adele Griffin\, and created the award-winning Baby Be of Use series of board books for McSweeney’s. Lisa draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon strip\, and is a comics contributor at The Rumpus. She teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts\, and is a long-time workshop instructor and field trip leader at the 826 Valencia tutoring center. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son\, but can usually be found wandering around the internet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-bullwinkel-and-lisa-brown/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:wordWind Chorus Live + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.] hosts wordWind Chorus: \nQ.R. Hand Jr. \nLewis Jordan \nBrian Auerbach \nWith Tongo Eisen-Martin \nTuesday\, May 8\, 2018 \nDoors: 6:30 p.m. \nProgram:7:00 p.m. \nFree entry \n296 Ivy Street\, between Gough & Franklin\, Western Addition\, S.F.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordwind-chorus-live-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty\, P.O. Box 460908\, San Francisco\, 94146
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch for Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story\, with editors Grant Faulkner\,Lynn Mundell\, and Beret Olsen. Please join us! \nGems\, shards\, bon bons\, quickies … nuggets\, tickles\, or even pinpricks. Each 100 Word Story is its own kind of special. \nNothing Short Of presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. In these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. And the things left out\, the spaces around the stories\, are just as intense. \nWhat can a hundred words do? They can send chills\, they can bring you to tears\, they can take your breath away. In charged\, sometimes racy encounters — from wild\, messy breakups to a disgruntled clown dinner to quiet revelations over folded laundry — these 100-word stories take us to lightning moments when everything is at stake. \n\n  \nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories have appeared in dozens of literary magazines\, including Tin House\, The Southwest Review\, and The Gettysburg Review. His essays on creativity have been published in The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, and The Writer. He has published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, and his book of essays on creativity\, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Prompts to Boost Your Creative Mojo\, was published last fall by Chronicle Books. \n  \nLynn Mundell is co-founder and co-editor of 100 Word Story\, as well as a managing editor at a large health care organization. Her short-short stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in many U.S. and U.K. literary journals\, including Tin House online\, Booth\, Superstition Review\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, The Sun\, and Five Points\, as well as in anthologies including The Lobsters Run Free (Bath Flash Fiction)\, Short on Sugar\, High on Honey (Flash International)\, and New Micros: Exceptionally Short Stories (W.W. Norton & Company\, August 2018). Lynn earned her MFA in Creative Writing from American University and is an advisory board member of the U.C. Berkeley Extension Post-Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Writing. \n  \nBeret Olsen is a writer\, photographer\, and the photo editor for 100 Word Story. Her art\, essays\, and fictions have been published in a variety of places including: First Class Lit\, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine\, and her blog\, Bad Parenting 101. A longtime educator\, Beret has also written grants to help low-income\, first-generation college students get into\, through\, and beyond college. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Nothing Short Of\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-nothing-short-of-selected-tales-from-100-word-story/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Miller
DESCRIPTION:Matt Miller reads from his new poetry collection\, The Wounded for the Water. Also featuring readings by Mario Chard and Peter LaBerge. \n\nPraise for The Wounded for the Water \n\n“Matt W. Miller’s The Wounded for the Water is a horrific\, undulating\, beautiful\, sublime lesson on the art of drowning\, the wonder of living\, and the scars that act as memory.  You will have no choice but to dive into this meditation\, and you will have no choice but to go deep. Miller’s portrait of masculinity is a lyrical homage to the survived and resilient\, to the learned and unlearned\, a prayer for the departed. Like so many hurricanes\, Miller teaches us that sometimes you’re left with nothing\, and that is the moment when you can choose to be reborn or continue holding your breath.”—Willie Perdomo author The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award \n  \n“The reality of drowning\, and the powerful metaphor of it\, inform Matt Miller’s lyrical muscular new collection. Although water\, violent or not\, is often the book’s setting\, these relentless poems explore the pain and perils of tenderness \, of friendship\, our physical and moral vulnerability\, the challenges of loving and being loved. As Miller puts himself at risk again and again\, his poetry grabs me by the throat\, breaks my heart\, even makes me laugh—and\, oddly\, gives me hope.”—Gail Mazur\, author of Forbidden City \n  \n“One needs read only a poem or two in Matt Miller’s The Wounded for the Water to sense we’re in the hands of a poet with tremendous control. There are musical moments so lush I hear echoes of Hopkins\, coupled with a tender directness and images of clinical grit. Whether he’s offering the straight dope on the different suits boys try on as they audition for manhood\, or meditating on what the rain can and can’t wash away\, Miller takes us time and again to the moment\, as children\, when the force of the world struck us\, and we were left to examine the mark.” —Michael Bazzet\, author of Our Lands Are Not So Different
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-miller/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ashley Dawson
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nExtreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change \nfrom Verso Books \n\nA cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis \n\n\nNamed One of the Top 10 Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Planetizen \nHow will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities\, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change\, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere\, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. Today\, the majority of the world’s megacities are located in coastal zones\, yet few of them are adequately prepared for the floods that will increasingly menace their shores. Instead\, most continue to develop luxury waterfront condos for the elite and industrial facilities for corporations. These not only intensify carbon emissions\, but also place coastal residents at greater risk when water levels rise. \nIn Extreme Cities\, Dawson offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities\, describing the efforts of Staten Island\, New York\, and Shishmareff\, Alaska residents to relocate; Holland’s models for defending against the seas; and the development of New York City before and after Hurricane Sandy. Our best hope lies not with fortified sea walls\, he argues. Rather\, it lies with urban movements already fighting to remake our cities in a more just and equitable way. \nAs much a harrowing study as a call to arms Extreme Cities is a necessary read for anyone concerned with the threat of global warming\, and of the cities of the world. \nAshley Dawson is a professor of English at the City University of New York\, and the author of Extinction: A Radical History. \n\n\n\nWhat has been said about Extreme Cities: \n“Extreme Cities is a ground-breaking investigation of the vulnerability of our cities in an age of climate chaos. We feel safe and protected in the middle of our great urban areas\, but as Sandy and Katrina made clear\, and as this fine book reveals anew\, the massive shifts on our earth increasingly lay bare the social inequalities that fracture our civilization.” \n– Bill McKibben\, author and founder of 350.org \n\n\n\n“A substantive contribution to the growing dialogue about our response—or lack thereof—to climate change.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n\n\n“The way we design and live in cities will determine humanity’s ability to avoid an anthropogenic mass extinction event in the coming century. Dawson makes this vividly clear in Extreme Cities\, laying out in detail the nature of the problem and some possible positive actions we can take. Crucial to his argument is the fact that technological solutions will not be enough\, so that we need to drastically reform the capitalist economic system to properly price and value the biosphere and human lives. His point that social justice is now a necessary survival strategy makes this not just a meticulous history and analysis of our situation\, but also an exciting call to action.” \n– Kim Stanley Robinson\, author of The Red Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 \n\n\n“Dawson makes a convincing case that\, unless urban dwellers and civic leaders engage in a fundamental reconceptualization of the city and whom it serves\, the future of urban life is dim.” \n– Publishers Weekly (★ Starred Review) \n\n\n“Cities both in the North and the South are already suffering the effects of climate change. Government and business fitfully recognize and respond\, but in ways that reinforce existing injustices and as often as not make things worse. Dawson shows how social movements have combined action on disaster relief with forms of equitable common life to produce models for radical adaptation from which we can all learn. This is a brillant summation of what we know and what we can do build a new kind of city in the ruins of the old.” \n– McKenzie Wark\, author of Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Many books have elucidated the ever-increasing dangers of climate change\, particularly the disastrous impact that rising sea levels will have on coastal regions\, but Dawson goes further as he outlines some potential solutions to this crisis. Massive technological projects may not be what’s needed\, he finds; instead\, the solution may already exist in radical movements to forge a more just and equitable society.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“A powerful argument in a dire situation: that we revise our cities to the new game changer\, or climate change will revise urban existences as we know it.” \n– Kazi Khaleed Ashraf\, director-general of Bengal Institute of Architecture\, Landscapes and Settlements \n\n\n“A sophisticated and provocative exploration of the unfolding impact of climate change on urban environments.” \n– Christoph Lindner\, Professor of Urban Theory and Visual Culture\, University of Oregon \n\n\n“A revelatory confrontation between two forms of ‘surplus liquidity’: the rent-seeking excess of circulating global capital and the more literal liquidity of the rising tides of climate change. The setting is the city and this meticulously researched and argued book probes the nexus of myopia\, greed\, environmental disaster – and hope – that has placed the urban habitat of billions of us in extremis.” \n– Michael Sorkin\, author of All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities \n\n\n“A must-read for everyone who wants to understand the politics of climate change in an increasingly urban planet\, and to explore the possibilities for radical change beyond all technological fixes and governmental adjustments that only reproduce the system as it is.” \n– Marco Armiero\, director of the Environmental Humanities Laboratory\, KTH Royal Institute of Technology\, Sweden \n\n\n“An ultimate call to action.” \n– Joep Janssen\, author of Living with the Mekong: Climate Change and Urban Development in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta \n\n\n“A superb essay of political ecology\, Extreme Cities demonstrates that there is nothing more depending on nature than the city\, offering both a diagnosis and a possible therapy for one of the greatest challenges of our time.” \n– Serenella Iovino\, editor of Material Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene \n\n\n“Extreme Cities takes the critical long view to challenge city decision-makers to deal seriously with the clash of business-as-usual development\, threats from climate change\, and persistent social inequality to develop real transformations to drive cities toward sustainability and resilience.” \n– Timon McPhearson\, Director\, Urban Systems Lab at The New School\, New York City \n\n\n“With the majority of humanity located in cities\, it behooves us to consider urban ecologies as recent and future sites of non-natural disasters as well as inspiring places of collective resilience and struggles for justice. Dawson’s book is a guiding light.” \n– T.J. Demos\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz\, Director of its Center for Creative Ecologies \n\n\n“The definitive study of an urban – and planetary – system pushed to the breaking point. Extreme Cities paints a terrifying\, but also hopeful\, picture\, weaving together accounts of iron-fisted states\, greedy real estate developers\, and the communities that challenge their rule.” \n– Jason W. Moore\, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life \n\n\n“A profoundly sobering picture of climate change’s uneven urban toll\, both across global expanses and within particular neighborhoods\, while also spotlighting instances of radical\, on-the-ground resistance to such trends.” \n– Emily Scott\, Postdoctoral Fellow\, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture\, ETH Zuric and co-editor of Critical Landscapes: Art\, Space\, Politics \n\n\n“[Ashley Dawson] is well attuned to the ways that upheavals and disasters disproportionately affect the socioeconomically disadvantaged. As Donald Trump continues to roll back protection measures and disavow the U.S.’s role in global cooperation to mitigate the effects of climate change\, this book is a clear-eyed reminder of who\, and what\, will be left most vulnerable as a result.” \n– Fast Company \n\n\n“Dawson’s book destroys the comforting global discourse of climate change\, resilience and adaptation and introduces the key words of our time: the dramatic ‘climate apartheid’ currently unfolding in front of us. A shrewd analysis of the prodigious contradiction of capitalism at the time of the anthropocene: what happens when coastal cities\, the great capital sinks of capital\, literally sink.” \n– Jean-Baptiste Fressoz\, coauthor of The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth\, History and Us \n\n\n“Books on climate change are a dime a dozen now\, but few\, if any\, truly reckon with the potential scale of the disasters that await. Dawson reveals the inadequacies of current plans to deal with the problems that cities around the world will face. Forget such buzzwords as ‘green cities\,’ ‘resilience\,’ and ‘sustainable development’ — the age of ‘disaster communism’ is here.” \n– Publishers Weekly \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is a sobering account of how planetary urbanization has put us on a collision course with the natural world.” \n– Sierra Club \n\n\n“Extreme Cities is an angry book—as it should be. ….Ashley Dawson outlines the existential dilemma facing coastal cities\, and the refusal of various powerbrokers to acknowledge that reality\, in bold and frequently horrifying terms.” \n– Chris Barsanti\, Rain Taxi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ashley-dawson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series:
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming Readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:Roman Muradov discusses his new book\, On Doing Nothing: Finding Inspiration in Idleness. \n\nPraise for On Doing Nothing \n\n“Roman Muradov’s whimsical\, clever\, and companionable book On Doing Nothing provides a much-needed correction to our distracted\, anxiety-ridden\, and increasingly disembodied culture. Muradov has written and illustrated a kind of Situationist\, Oulipian Ways of Seeing—a manual for clarity and presence\, a book which issues a call to attention; a call to pay attention. The smart yet approachable philosophical reflections unfold like a leisurely stroll through a beautiful and unfamiliar city\, provoking thoughtfulness and eliciting in the reader a spirit of discovery.” —Peter Mendelsund\, author of What We See When We Read \n\nAbout On Doing Nothing \n\nIn an age of obsessive productivity and stress\, this illustrated ode to idleness invites readers to explore the pleasures and possibilities of slowing down. Beloved author and illustrator Roman Muradov weaves together the words and stories of artists\, writers\, philosophers\, and eccentrics who have pursued inspiration by doing less. He reveals that doing nothing is both easily achievable and absolutely essential to leading an enjoyable and creative life. Cultivating idleness can be as simple as taking a long walk without a destination or embracing chance in the creative process. Peppered with playful illustrations\, this handsome volume is a refreshing and thought-provoking read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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