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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-14/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Month of Love: February Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Bring a date to this lit reading by five Northern Californian writers. We are feature local talent along with refreshments and a book store cat. All free!! Come enjoy and warm your winter bones. \nAntmen Pimentel Mendoza\nGrace Loh Prasad\nApollo Papafrangou\nWill Preston\nLisa Rosenberg \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nantmen pimentel mendoza (he\, him\, his & she\, her\, hers) is a scorpio\, bakla\, and writer. antmen is based in Huichin Ohlone Land (the San Francisco Bay Area) where he talks about pop music nearly all day and plays with friends. She works at a cultural center where she conspires with undergraduate students of color toward more free and just worlds\, manages a community lending library\, and geeks on curriculum development and workshop facilitation. \nApollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions\, 2016) and the story collection Concrete Candy\, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday in 1996\, with French and Danish editions. He has also written for HBO Films\, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine\, Oakland Review\, The Bookends Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Simon & Schuster anthology Trapped. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nGrace Loh Prasad was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey and Hong Kong before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College\, and is an alumna of the VONA workshop for writers of color along with residencies at Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Catapult\, Jellyfish Review\, Ninth Letter\, Blood Orange Review\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, Memoir Mixtapes\, The Manifest-Station\, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthology Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration\, Identity and Coming to America and has work forthcoming in Panorama\, and the anthologies Ms. Aligned 3 and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the TaiwanesDiaspora\, Vol. II. Grace is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables\, an Asian Pacific American writers collective. She is currently finishing her memoir entitled The Translator’s Daughter (www.translatorsdaughter.com). \nWill Preston was born in Oakland where he is now a middle school teacher\, and will complete the MFA program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College where he is also the Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal Mary. His short fiction appears in Milvia Street. \nPoet and recovering engineer\, Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics\, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. She holds degrees in physics and creative writing\, and worked for many years in the space program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford\, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Lisa’s poems explore natural and cultural landscapes\, the art of making\, and the drive to question inherited models. She was recently named a MOSAIC Fellow with Sangam Arts\, and has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Residency for Scientists and Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/month-of-love-february-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
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SUMMARY:Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue. \n  \nFEATURING:\nal aguas\nKiyaan Abadani\nmadhvi trivedi-pathak\nManeo Refiloe Mohale
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-show-us-your-spines-resident-reading/
LOCATION:El Rio\, 3158 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen featuring Kaecey McCormick
DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nKaecey McCormick is an author\, artist\, and educator whose mission is to help people access creativity as a tool for effecting change in their lives. Named the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate for the City of Cupertino\, she enjoys helping the community celebrate poetry. Kaecey works as a writer and creativity coach\, and her writing appears in her book Pixelated Tears (Prolific Press) and numerous journals and anthologies. When not creating\, Kaecey enjoys time with her husband and four daughters..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-featuring-kaecey-mccormick/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:“Poetry from Prisoners”
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner\, currently teaching at the Salinas Valley State Prison poetry workshop. \nRose and Ken are also two of the founders of Right to Write Press – Promoting the growth of emerging writers incarcerated in California State prisons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-from-prisoners/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Lucky Star: A Novel \npublished by Viking/Penguin \nThe National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society \nIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family\, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps\, prostitutes\, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In this new novel\, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves\, and who has to love them all back. \nAfter being initiated into a coven of island witches\, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard\, the introverted\, alcoholic\, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane\, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank\, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much\, Judy’s retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. \nCrafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic\, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture\, gender identity\, incest\, Christian sacrifice and\, most of all\, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way\, and stand up for who they are. \nPraise for The Lucky Star \n“[A] provocatively playful novel . . . As Neva evolves from an innocent to an icon on par with Marlene Dietrich\, at least in the eyes of the Y Bar circle\, she guides and mentors their sexual self-discovery\, helping define their boundaries and gain confidence . . . Vollmann’s challenging novel is full of memorable moments.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Vollmann pours his signature fascination with outcasts\, women’s sexuality\, violence\, and injustice into this gargantuan\, omnivorously explicit\, ravening orgy of trauma and resilience. Rooted in interviews with women survivors\, this is a molten amalgam of cynicism and compassion\, horror and beauty.” —Booklist \nWilliam T Vollmann is an award winning novelist\, journalist\, war correspondent\, short story writer\, essayist\, and painter. He is the author of ten novels\, four short story collections\, nine works of non-fiction\, and numerous limited special editions. His novel Europe Central won the 2005 National Book Award. He has won numerous honors for his work including the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nAlameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts. All attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Alameda Food Bank that night to support those needing help this holiday season. \nAs Charles Dickens wrote\, “it is a time\, of all others\, when Want is keenly felt\, and Abundance rejoices.” Let’s all rejoice by sharing our cultures\, our words\, and our hearts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-2/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket : Revenge
DESCRIPTION:There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and lust and backstabbing and danger and excitement and sex (there is has to be sex right?) and for some reason we think everything is covered in thick\, red velvet and dimly lit and maybe there’s a vampire because vampires are probably pretty vengeful but maybe that’s just because now we’re thinking thick\, red velvet and goblets full of red wine and maybe some of these stories will be set in castles with vampires… Could somebody please dump some ice on us so we can cool down? \nAnyways\, it’s going to be quite the evening. \nFree beer\, until it is not around anymore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-revenge/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event—the first of two evenings with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto—is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of Hindrances of a Householder (Chax 2016)\, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books\, 2014)\, lullaby without any music (Chax Press\, 2012)\, and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press\, 2007). Of her work\, Nathaniel Tarn writes\, “Jennifer Bartlett has created not a new form of surrealism\, nor of magical realism\, but a kind of supernal realism which leaves room for dreams\, visions\, and angels as well as the panoplies of both country and urban life.” \nBartlett is currently finishing a biography on the life of Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner. In 2017\, she cofounded Zoeglossia\, a literary organization pioneering an inclusive space for poets with disabilities. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen\, she also coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press\, 2011). Bartlett has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the University of Connecticut\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art; The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde; and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa\, Naropa University\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, the Breadloaf Poetry Fellowship in Sicily\, and the Queer Sugarloaf Art Residency. Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. The collaborative article\, “In Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation” with Sima Belmar was published in the December issue of In Dance. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDenise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett\nreading from their work\nFriday February 21\n7:00 pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \nZoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities \nIn Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation with Denise Leto (with Sima Belmar) \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/in-common-writers-series-jennifer-bartlett-and-denise-leto-reading-and-in-conversation/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
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SUMMARY:Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, Adrienne Oliver\, and Alexandra Mattraw Reading
DESCRIPTION:Local writers Elwin Cotman\, Vernon Keeve\, and Adrienne Oliver read from their work. \nElwin Cotman grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, whee the post-industrial landscape was a great inspiration for him. He is a writer of urban fantasy. He is also the author of two collections of speculative short stories\, The Jack Daniels Sessions EP and Hard Times Blues. His work has appeared in Grist\, Weird Fiction Review\, Black Gate\, The Thought Erotic\, The Southwestern Review\, and Cabinet des Fees\, among others. His third collection\, Dance on Saturday\, is being published by Small Beer Press in 2020. \nVernon Keeve III is a Virginia born writer. He currently lives and teaches in Oakland. His purpose is to teach the next generation the importance of relaying their personal narratives\, sharing their experiences\, and taking control of their destinies. He holds a MFA from CCA\, and a MA in Teaching Literature from Bard College. His full-length collection of poetry\, Southern Migrant Mixtape\, was published by Nomadic Press in 2018 and is the recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. \nAdrienne Danyelle Oliver is a poet-educator currently living in Oakland\, CA. Her previous work has appeared in Digital Paper\, The Womanist\, Storytelling\, Self & Society (Wayne State University Press 2018) and The Musuem of African American Diaspora’s poet corner. A Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) alumna\, Adrienne enjoys writing about intergenerational healing and 1930s era history leading up to the civil rights era. When she is not writing\, Adrienne is reading or watching documentaries. She also leads a monthly writing and healing circle for Black women.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elwin-cotman-vernon-keeve-adrienne-oliver-and-alexandra-mattraw-reading/
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:Paul E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. \npublished by Basic Books \n\nThis dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century’s most iconic African American leaders. \nTo most Americans\, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence\, black power vs. civil rights\, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy\, the movement’s militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield\, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who\, despite markedly different backgrounds\, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography\, not only of Malcolm and Martin\, but also of the movement and era they came to define. \nPeniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan professor of political values and ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several previous books on African American history\, including Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin\, Texas. \nDr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. is a life long activist and educator. He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California\, Berkeley and the author of numerous important books on African American history which include: “No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America” and as co-author with Joshua Bloom “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party”\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-e-joseph-in-conversation-with-with-dr-waldo-e-martin-jr-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill: Weather
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. \nPraise for Weather \n“This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong \n“Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds with her steady\, near-pointillist technique. One feels a whole heaving\, breathing universe behind her every line. Dread\, the sensation of sinking\, lostness\, and being cast away from any sense of safety infiltrates every interaction and private moment in this book\, like ashes from the burning world she describes.”–Sheila Heti \n“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it.  Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices\, because she writes about essential things\, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–Jonathan Dee \nAbout Weather \nFrom the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation–one of the New York Times Book Review‘s Ten Best Books of the Year–a shimmering tour de force about a family\, and a nation\, in crisis \nLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment\, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor\, Sylvia Liller\, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast\, Hell and High Water\, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world\, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse\, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone\, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair\, conscience and collusion\, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny\, disturbing\, and increasingly mad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-weather/
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:Joan Frank
DESCRIPTION:reads from her new collection of essays\, Try To Get Lost \n\nThrough the author (TM)s travels in Europe and the United States\, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry\, how politics infuse geography\, media (TM)s depictions of an idea of home\, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word oehotel\, � and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate\, inhabited place “the oevastest real estate we know\, � with a oestunningly short � lease.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joan-frank-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T220000
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are TBA. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nThe 10-slot open mic list opens at 7:30 PM and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200204T021838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T021838Z
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill: Weather
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Offill\, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation\, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel\, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks. \nAbout Weather:\nLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment\, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor\, Sylvia Liller\, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast\, Hell and High Water\, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world\, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse\, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone\, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair\, conscience and collusion\, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny\, disturbing\, and increasingly mad. \nAbout Jenny Offill:\nJENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award)\, and Dept. of Speculation\, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize\, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-weather-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200126T014217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T014217Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event—the second of two evenings with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto—is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art; The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde; and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa\, Naropa University\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, the Breadloaf Poetry Fellowship in Sicily\, and the Queer Sugarloaf Art Residency. Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. The collaborative article\, “In Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation” with Sima Belmar was published in the December issue of In Dance. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of Hindrances of a Householder (Chax 2016)\, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books\, 2014)\, lullaby without any music (Chax Press\, 2012)\, and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press\, 2007). Bartlett is currently finishing a biography on the life of Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner. In 2017\, she cofounded Zoeglossia\, a literary organization pioneering an inclusive space for poets with disabilities. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen\, she also coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press\, 2011). Bartlett has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the University of Connecticut\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\nreading and in conversation\nThursday February 20\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \nZoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities \nIn Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation with Denise Leto (with Sima Belmar) \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 and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-denise-leto-and-jennifer-bartlett/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200212T184712Z
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SUMMARY:Two Remarkable Poets on Disability Poetics and Activism
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event\, with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of her work\, Nathaniel Tarn writes\, “Jennifer Bartlett has created not a new form of surrealism\, nor of magical realism\, but a kind of supernal realism which leaves room for dreams\, visions\, and angels as well as the panoplies of both country and urban life.” She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics.  Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-remarkable-poets-on-disability-poetics-and-activism/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200126T205529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T205529Z
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SUMMARY:Children's Book Night at Nomadic Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate three amazing children’s books: Sam! (written by Dani Gabriel\, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo)\, I Am Sausal Creek/Soy El Arroyo Sausal (written by Melissa Reyes\, translated by Cinthya Muñoz\, illustrated by Art of Robert Liu-Trujillo)\, and Occasionally Accurate Science (written by July Westhale\, illustrated by Liz Laribee). \nReading and author discussion and book signing to follow. Family friendly\, so please bring everyone to enjoy a relaxed pleasant evening of storytelling and community building. \nLight refreshments and snacks will be provided. Donations will be collected throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-book-night-at-nomadic-press-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
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SUMMARY:Stephen Ratcliffe and Kyle Schlesinger at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books!  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-ratcliffe-and-kyle-schlesinger-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T123000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20191227T172116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T172116Z
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SUMMARY:American Sutra at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
DESCRIPTION:“American Sutra” discussion on author panel for the 2020 National Day of Remembrance. \nTime TBD. \nSponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center and Eastwind Books of Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/american-sutra-at-oakland-asian-cultural-center/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T143000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200207T212729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T212729Z
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SUMMARY:Ann Harleman Reading from TELL ME\, SIGNORA
DESCRIPTION:Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel\, TELL ME\, SIGNORA.  Kate Hagesfeld\, a recent widow\, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to restart her career as an archaeologist.  Caught up in efforts to aid political refugees\, she must make the choice of a lifetime.  Ann is the author of four previous books: Happiness; Bitter Lake; Thoreau’s Laundry; The Year She Disappeared.   “A wonderful talent!” (The Washington Post); “Stellar” (O\, The Oprah Magazine); “verbal razzle-dazzle…mystery…a dexterous writer” (The New York Times)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-harleman-reading-from-tell-me-signora/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200203T215748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T215748Z
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SUMMARY:Day of Remembrance with author Duncan Ryuken Williams
DESCRIPTION:Day of Remembrance:\nDuncan Ryuken Williams discusses his book\, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War. Duncan Ryūken Williams reveals the little-known story of how\, in the darkest hours of World War II when Japanese Americans were stripped of their homes and imprisoned in camps\, a community of Buddhists launched one of the most inspiring defenses of religious freedom in our nation’s history\, insisting that they could be both Buddhist and American. \nSponsored by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, and Berkeley JACL. \nOACC’s 2020 Day of Remembrance programs are supported in part by the CA State Library Civil Liberties grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/day-of-remembrance-with-author-duncan-ryuken-williams/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200126T004348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T004600Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Kaufman\, Maxine Chernoff\, and Jake Marmer – Three Jewish Writers at The Beat Museum
DESCRIPTION:ALAN KAUFMAN \nAlan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers\, Etgar Keret and Sapphire to David Mamet\, Hubert Selby Jr. and Thane Rosenbaum but has been compared by critics to such prose masters as Henry Miller\, I.B. Singer and Jack Kerouac. His books include The Berlin Woman\, Matches\, Jew Boy\, Drunken Angel and several anthologies\, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Art. \n\nMAXINE CHERNOFF \nMaxine Chernoff has written 17 books of poetry\, most recently Under the Music (MadHat Press\, 2019)\, and 6 works of fiction. An NEA fellow in poetry in 2013\, she is also recipient of the 2009 PEN Translation Award. She was a 2016 Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of Creative Writing at SFSU\, where she chaired the department for 20 years. \nMaxine Chernoff at SF State \n  \n\nJAKE MARMER \nJake Marmer is a poet\, performer\, and educator. His latest poetry collection Cosmic Diaspora is forthcoming from Station Hill Press in May 2020. He is also the author of The Neighbor Out of Sound (2018) and Jazz Talmud (2012)\, both published by the Sheep Meadow Press. His klez-jazz-poetry record Hermeneutic Stomp was released by the Blue Fringe Music 2013. Jake is the contributing editor and poetry critic for Tablet Magazine. Born in the provincial steppes of Ukraine\, in a city that was renamed four times in the past 100 years\, Jake considers himself a New Yorker\, even though he lives in the Bay Area. For more info\, see jakemarmer.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-kaufman-maxine-chernoff-and-jake-marmer-three-jewish-writers-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
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SUMMARY:THERE 32
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 32  will be Saturday\, February 22\, 2020\, at East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue in Oakland\, guests TBA. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. For more than four years. Doug hosted it on the (usually) 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! But sadly\, the Octopus was forced to close its doors in August ’19\, so now THERE is relocating to East Bay Booksellers in the Rockridge district of Oakland\, resuming February 22\, 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-32/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200131T200645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T200645Z
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SUMMARY:Sean Negus and Caroline Goodwin at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin). \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-negus-and-caroline-goodwin-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200219T012722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200219T012722Z
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SUMMARY:Polyglot Author Kiran Bhat Reads from we of the forsaken world (and open mic)
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Kiran Bhat’s upcoming reading from his new book We of the Forsaken World at Oakland’s Café Uccello (340 14th St) next Sunday February 23rd from 2-5 pm. All ages\, open mic to follow.\n\nAbout We of the Forsaken World…:\n\n\nIn a distant corner of the globe\, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother\, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe\, the chief’s second son is born\, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises\, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And\, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road\, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation. \nIn we of the forsaken world… Kiran Bhat tells the stories of four worlds falling apart\, through the structure of four linguistic chains\, comprised of the accounts of four people witnessing the decline of these worlds\, in four acts. Like modern communication networks\, these sixteen stories connect along subtle lines\, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. they flow together and disconnect. Each story is a parable of its own\, into the mind of a distinct human being. These are the tales of not just sixteen strangers\, but many different lives\, who live on this planet\, at every second\, everywhere. \n\n\nAbout Kiran Bhat:\n\nKiran Bhat is the author of the poetry collections Autobiografia (Letrame Editorial\, 2019) and Kiran Speaks (White Elephant Press\, 2019)\, as well as the Kannada-language travelogue Tirugaatha (Chiranthana Media Solutions\, 2019) and the novel We of the Forsaken World (Iguana Books\, 2019). He has traveled to over 130 countries\, lived in 18 different places\, and speaks 12 languages. He considers Mumbai his spiritual base\, but currently lives in Melbourne.\n\nOpen mic to follow\, headlined by Sheryl Bize-Boutte (author of Running for the 2:10)\, Christopher Bernard (author of the novel Meditations on Love and Loss at the Liars’ Café)\, Mary Mackey (author of The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams)\, Pamela McCorduck (author of This Could Be Important\, a history of AI technology) Kristen Caven (author of The Souls of Her Feet\, a modern Cinderella)\, Linda Brown\, and Joan Gelfand (poet and author of the upcoming novel about tech culture and Silicon Valley\, Extreme).\n\nFood provided\, drinks for purchase! We would love to see more guests!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/polyglot-author-kiran-bhat-reads-from-we-of-the-forsaken-world-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Cafe Uccello\, 340 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20191227T064431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T064431Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200221T005652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T005652Z
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SUMMARY:SF in SF with Juliette Wade\, Tiffany Trent\, and Mike Chen
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Juliette Wade\, Tiffany Trent\, and Mike Chen\, in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nJuliette Wade’s first novel\, Mazes of Power\, is just out from Daw; a work of sociological science fiction\, it follows a deadly battle for succession in a world where brother is pitted against brother in a singular chance to win power and influence. Wade’s short fiction has been published in Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines\, and she runs the popular Dive into Worldbuilding video series and blog. With a B.A. in Japanese\, an M.A. in Linguistics\, and a Ph.D. in Education\, Wade has spent time living in France and Japan. Now she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Australian husband and two teenage boys. \nTiffany Trent is the author of The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King\, and of the Hallowmere series. Her short stories have appeared in Clockwork Cairo\, Willful Impropriety\, After the Fall\, and others. With Stephanie Burgis she is the editor of the Locus Award finalist for Best Anthology\, The Underwater Ballroom Society. Trent teaches creative writing in the online MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives with her husband and two awesome kids\, and geeks out over beekeeping\, suburban homesteading\, weird science\, pie\, and martial arts. \nMike Chen‘s new novel A Beginning at the End\, is set among people struggling to survive and connect in post-pandemic San Francisco; his first book\, Here and Now and Then\, followed a time-traveling secret agent–and father–torn between a life in the future and one in the past. In addition to writing fiction\, Chen has been a tech writer\, Word Press developer\, and sports journalist. He lives in the Bay Area with his family\, and is ready to explain why Jean-Luc Picard is the greatest human in real or fictional history. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-with-juliette-wade-tiffany-trent-and-mike-chen/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200224T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T043636
CREATED:20200216T011730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T011730Z
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SUMMARY:In Search of My Robot: Media\, Racialized Gender\, and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Robots\, like any technology\, are not “objective” or “universal”; instead\, machines reveal the process of social formation. This talk by poet\, scholar\, and new media artist Margaret Rhee demonstrates how forms of difference—such as race\, gender\, and sexuality—are shaped by and co-constitutive with technological developments. Specifically\, Rhee illustrates how the robot is a locus of racialization for Asian Americans within modernity’s distinction between humans and machines. \nRhee is the author of Love\, Robot\, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. For more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nMargaret Rhee is a poet\, scholar\, and new media artist. She is the author of Love\, Robot\, named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. Her poetry chapbooks include Yellow and Radio Heart; or\, How Robots Fall Out of Love\, and forthcoming collection Poetry Machines: A Letter to a Future Reader\, a collection of lyrical essays on poetry\, and the intersections of cinema\, art\, and new media. Currently\, she is completing her monograph How We Became Human: Race\, Robots\, and the Asian American Body. She was a College Fellow in Digital Practice in the English Department at Harvard University and a member of MetaLab @ Harvard. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in ethnic studies with a designated emphasis in new media studies. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo and co-leads Palah 파랗 Light Studios\, a creative space for poetry\, participation\, and pedagogy through technology. \nPresented by the Berkeley Center for New Media; cosponsored by the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Comparative Literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-search-of-my-robot-media-racialized-gender-and-creativity/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Sayles at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Yellow Earth \nfrom Haymarket Books \n\nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \n\n\nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times. \nJohn Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director.  His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award.  He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.  He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress.  His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses.  Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nWhat has been said about the work of John Sayles: \n“John Sayles is a living master. Yellow Earth reminds me what novels are for.” —Jennifer Haigh\, author of Heat and Light \nFilmmaker Sayles … is also a highly imaginative short story writer with a sure ear for dialogue\, a keen eye for group dynamics\, a flair for quickly establishing intriguing mise-en-scènes\, and the ability to animate a great spectrum of flinty characters … Sayles expresses his compassion and concern for those who struggle with poverty and prejudice\, seeking both to provoke and entertain.” —Booklist\n“Many writers can render credible characters in a credible world\, but only a few can do so with a warmth and a humor that is as wise as it is true.” —Chicago Sun-Times\n“[Sayles’s] ancestry is more like the reportorial vigor Jack London on one side and a little of the sweet impressionism of Stephen Crane on the other.” —The New York Times\n“John Sayles is one of the most important public historians of our generation.” —William Cronon\, President of the American Historical Association\n“John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself\, Sayles functions more independently than most directors\, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions.From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State\, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race\, gender\, sexuality\, class\, and disability.”  —University of Illinois Press\nSayles is a terrific writer. His breathtaking precision and attention to detail can make E.L. Doctorow’s historical novels look puny and slapdash by comparison. His ability to map the intersections of scores of plots and hundreds of fictional and real-life characters is truly stunning.”  —Adam Langer\, San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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