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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret. \n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.” \nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. \nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. \nBrit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan\, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-bennett/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/
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:Get Lit! October 2017
DESCRIPTION:Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook\, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Amy Bess Cook has been a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She has left her mark on everything from travel guides to children’s manuscripts to gardening books. Her personal essays have appeared in Vela\, Entropy\, and Fiction Southeast. \nWith a background in book publishing\, Amy Bess also spent eight years helping to operate a boutique winery. Armed with a broad skill set that includes wordsmithing and oenology\, she recently launched a new experiment in art\, wine\, and giving. The project is called Sirsee\, which means “gift” in the Southern parlance. With a handcrafted wine and a literary journal–both created by Amy Bess–Sirsee raises funds for social justice organizations. In a few short months\, the project has raised $4\,000 for Southern Poverty Law Center and $1\,000 for other groups. \nAmy Bess will share poetry by contributors to the inaugural issue of Sirsee journal\, with the theme: “Ripe for the Picking”. \n* Cameron Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in <proximity> magazine. She’s an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar\, awarded in 2014. She’s working on a collection of essays\, and will graduate from Antioch University LA in 2017. \n* Alex Simand does not believe in the left brain / right brain dichotomy. He lives and works in San Francisco\, having arrived via the two socialist countries of Canada and Russia before that. His short story\, Election Cycle\, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions award. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a free quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2017/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T203000
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SUMMARY:Havarie/Collision
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Litquake and Unnamed Press\, the Center for the Art of Translation presents a screening of the German “slow-cinema” film Havarie followed by a conversation about the film with director Philip Scheffner and a reading by author Merle Kröger Collision\, a crime novel inspired by research for the film. \nCollision – The Book\nThe research for the film Havarie was starting point and inspiration for the novel of the same title\, written by Merle Kröger\, and translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt and Alexandra Roesch as Collision (Unnamed Press November 2017). The book received the Radio Bremen Crime Novel Award 2015 and the German Crime Novel Award 2016. According to Kröger\, “Reality is much more dramatic\, violent and incomprehensible than fiction. I decided to take the encounter between the ships as the cause to freeze time\, to create a 3-D model from this situation which I can observe from all perspectives. In this kind of model space I now step into each character’s role and try to let him or her think and act on the basis of their individual biographies.” \nHavarie – The Film\nOn September 14\, 2012 at 2:56pm\, the cruise liner “Adventure of the Seas” reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past\, present and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.\nDirector: Philip Scheffner\, Color\, 97 minutes\, 2015/16\, Germany
URL:https://litseen.com/event/havariecollision/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Three Distinguished Poets
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry featuring Al Young\, Floyd Salas & Andrena Zawinski. \nAl Young’s many books include poetry collections\, memoirs\, and novels. His honors include Wallace Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships\, the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poetry Fellowship\, and the Richard Wright Award for Excellence in Literature. He has twice received the American Book Award. A two-time California Poet Laureate\, he is currently Distinguished Professor at California College of the Arts’ MFA In Writing program. alyoung.org \nFloyd Salas is the author of nine books: five novels\, three volumes of poetry and a memoir. His first novel\, Tattoo the Wicked Cross\, along with his memoir Buffalo Nickel\, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins 1994). He was 2002-2003 Regent’s Lecturer at University of California\, Berkeley\, staff writer for the NBC drama series\, Kingpin and the recipient of NEA\, California Arts Council\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and other fellowships and awards. His work is archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library\, UC Berkeley. floydsalas.com \nAndrena Zawinski’s latest poetry collection\, Landings\, is from Kelsay Books. Previous collections include: Something About(Blue Light Press)\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient\, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press)\, a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. She has also authored four chapbooks. Zawinski runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Her poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, Progressive Magazine\, Pacific Review\, Rattle\, Quarterly West\, Mantis\, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized. Awards include those for lyricism\, free verse narratives\, formal poetry\, spirituality\, and social concern.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/three-distinguished-poets-al-young-floyd-salas-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peninsula Literary readings
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, October 13 at 7 pm at Gallery House\, 320 California Avenue\, Palo Alto for a reading of poetry and prose\, featuring Lita Kurth and Brittany Perham\, with guests Jim Cole\, Gerard Sarnat\, Margaret Juhae Lee\, and Jeff Grinnell. \nFeatured readers in early February – Susanna Solomon\, plus Joel Thomas Katz and Robert Perry reading from their translation of Dutch poets Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer; and fiction writer Pam Squyres.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Gallery House\, 320 California Ave.\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
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SUMMARY:A Night in Venice Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Experience Venice without leaving the Bay Area. Hear Christine Evelyn Volker discuss her just-published mystery\, Venetian Blood\, listen to classical music by Vivaldi played by the Town Quartet\, and watch an interrogation scene from the book\, directed by the Masquers Playhouse. Hope you can join us\, and purchase a copy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-in-venice-book-event/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime Deluge
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DELUGE\, in phase 1 of the San Francisco Lit Crawl on Saturday October 14th\, 5-6 pm at Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia Street\, San Francisco CA\, will feature Erika Mailman (The Murderer’s Maid)\, Rob Davidson (Spectators)\, Rebecca Winterer (The Singing Ship)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, and Rajshree Chauhan. MCd by Ransom Stephens (The 99% Solution).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-deluge/
LOCATION:Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for Leg 1 of LitCrawl\, featuring Lara Coley\, Matthew Clark Davison \, Shideh Etaat\, Loria Mendoza\, Joshua Mohr\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Kimmer Pierce\, alongside a live musical score by David Williams. \nDoors open at 4:30pm. FREE show starts at 5pm (Sharp)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-2/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Arts Resistance: Lit Crawl Leg 1
DESCRIPTION:“Everything’s sadder than it was\nAll earthly gods must wither\nWithin your voice laments the universe\nAnd three by three\nNew beings surge.” — Apollinaire. \n“There are times when silence is a crime.”–Vasyl Stus. \nJanina Glasov’s powerful voice will stay with us forever even though she is not with us anymore. A brilliant writer and journalist\, Yanina Glasov passed away at 25 in 2016 but her legacy lives. Her full bio is coming. \nGinger Murray is the editor in chief of Whore! magazine\, a once columnist for the SF Weekly Exhibitionist and a performance storyteller. She has been published by the 16th street Mission press\, The Skinny\, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Find her on Medium.com.\n\nRoman Rimer is a standup comedian and a host/DJ at Mutiny Radio. Full bio is coming. \nSimon Rogghe grew up in Belgium and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in French Literature at U.C.Berkeleу. He is an author of Green Lions\, a collaborative book of poetry. Simon Rogghe is a poet and fiction writer. He was born in Philadelphia\, grew up in Belgium\, and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. A polyglot\, he speaks English\, French\, Dutch\, German and Italian. After traveling in the US and Europe\, competing at horse shows as a professional rider\, he found a home in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not working on his Ph.D. in French literature\, he also translates French surrealism as well as contemporary fiction. His work is published in over thirty literary journals. He is the co-author of Green Lions\, a book of poetry written in collaboration with Zarina Zabrisky (Numina Press 2014). \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. 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. \nTerry Taplin holds several local and national slam poetry championships and final-stage performances spanning 2006–2012 across the youth and collegiate circuits. By occupation he is a scholar of Classical and Medieval/Renaissance Art\, Literature\, History and Philosophy. Terry Taplin’s performance work has appeared on stages ranging from The San Francisco Opera House and The Masonic Auditorium to The Apollo Theater in Harlem and Da Poetry Lounge in Hollywood New. He performed at Poetry Mission\, Lyrics and Dirges\, Under the Influence\, Beast Crawl and the 10th Berkeley Poetry Festival. He is the co-recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize for undergraduate poetry and the Newman Award for undergraduate writing. \nZarina Zabrisky is the author of the short story collections Iron\, A Cute Tombstone\, and Explosion (Epic Rites Press)\, and the novel We\, Monsters (Numina Press). Her work has been published in the US\, UK\, Canada\, Ireland\, Hong Kong\, Nepal and Mexico. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of a 2013 Acker Award. Zabrisky has focused on the independent journalism since November 9\, 2017. She is a contributor to Indivisible Movement\, Crossing Genres\, Mosaic and other publications on Medium\, where she is a suggested writer in Politics and was featured as a top writer in Psychology and History genres in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-arts-resistance-lit-crawl-leg-1/
LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Arts Resistance":MAILTO:zarinazabrisky@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Litquake at The Green Arcade: Beyond Boundaries + BentBoyBooks
DESCRIPTION:We will host two Litcrawl events with local writers who delve into topics obscure\, naughty and San Franciscan. \n\n\n\n\nPhase 1 (5-6 pm)  Beyond Boundaries: Mapping the Narrative   Mirabel Street Writers in the Mission invites you to board the omnibus. Nightingales  and runaways lead you through emotional dives and dangerous districts.   Featuring: David Jefferies\, Sari Kossowsky\, Cynthia Kreuz-Uhr\, Richard  Schwarzenberger\, William Torphy   Phase 2 (6.30-7.30 pm)  BentBoyBooks   BentBoyBooks\, home to experimental writing that transgresses expectations\,  delights in sensation and awakens language anew\, presents innovative new work.   Featuring: Drew Cushing\, Jan Johnson Drantell\, Pam Martin\, Ronald Palmer \n\n\n\nFor more details check out Litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-at-the-green-arcade-beyond-boundaries-bentboybooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Alan Harris has been an actor and a stand-up comedian\, which might explain why his “poetry” sounds like it does. He has lived in New York\, Los Angeles\, and San Francisco\, and would someday like to live in Cranky Corner\, Louisiana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-harris/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Lori Ostlund + Anne Raeff
DESCRIPTION:SF award-winning authors Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff discuss their literary works and recent travels through China with Wayne Goodman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-w-lori-ostlund-anne-raeff/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses his new novel\, All the Dirty Parts\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for All the Dirty Parts \n“Take one sex-crazed teenage boy and take him seriously. Don’t make him the butt of an easy joke. Don’t make him the star of a humiliation comedy. Let him be an idiot\, a jerk\, a cad\, a hero. Make his desire into a rocket shooting him out of this too small life. Show his loneliness crash-landing him into pieces. It’s almost impossible to write tenderly and truthfully about such things. Somehow Handler has done it.” – Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\n“Sex\, desire\, love\, consent\, coercion\, sexual identity\, porn–Daniel Handler takes it all on in ALL THE DIRTY PARTS. Teenage Cole is simultaneously lovable and troubling\, but mostly he is real\, and his story not only compelling but a fantastic jumping off point for discussing ethical sexual behavior.” – Peggy Orenstein\, author of GIRLS & SEX \n\n“A spectacular portrait of teenage male desire. This beautifully concise novel\, literally composed of only the dirty parts\, had me blushing and laughing and squirming\, sometimes all at once. ALL THE DIRTY PARTS is so honest and eloquent about youthful yearning–the pent-up aggression\, the confusion\, the pure wonder–that it will surely be passed quietly around middle school locker rooms and back-alley libraries everywhere. A joyously lewd yet tender masterpiece.” – Isaac Fitzgerald\, Buzzfeed Books Editor \n\nAbout All the Dirty Parts \nCole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country\, he sketches\, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way\,” he says. “Draw a number line\, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is\, it’s all you think about\, and while you are drawing the line\, I am thinking about sex.” \n  \nCole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls\, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company\, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he’s been after all this time-and then he meets Grisaille. \n  \nAll The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication\, where sex feels like love\, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison\, Daniel Handler gives us a tender\, brutal\, funny\, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. “There are love stories galore\,” Cole tells us\, “This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-w-matthew-zapruder/
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:Khary Lazarre-White
DESCRIPTION:Passage tells the story of Warrior\, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. Warrior is surrounded by deep family love and a sustaining connection to his history\, bonds that arm him as he confronts the urban forces that surround him—both supernatural and human—including some that seek his very destruction. \nFor Warrior and his peers\, the reminders that they\, as black men\, aren’t meant to be fully free\, are everywhere. The high schools are filled with teachers who aren’t qualified and don’t care as much about their students’ welfare as that they pass the state exams. Getting from point A to point B usually means eluding violence\, and possibly death\, at the hands of the “blue soldiers” and your own brothers. Making it home means accepting that you may open the door to find that someone you love did not have the same good fortune. \nWarrior isn’t even safe in his own mind. He’s haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression. Though the story told in Passage takes place in 1993\, there is a striking parallel between Warrior’s experience and the experiences of black male youth today\, since nothing has really changed. Every memory in the novel is the memory of thousands of black families. Every conversation is a message both to those still in their youth and those who left their youth behind long ago. Passage is a novel for then and now. \nKhary Lazarre-White is a writer\, social justice advocate\, attorney\, and activist who has dedicated his life to the educational outcome and opportunities for young people of color at key life stages. His support base is far-reaching and diverse\, built over the past twenty-two years as co-founder and executive director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. He has received awards for his work\, including the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network Use Your Life Award\, the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award\, awards from Black Girls Rock! and the Andrew Goodman Foundation\, and a Resident Fellowship Award to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Khary Lazarre-White is a highly influential presence among national policymakers and broadcast\, print\, and social media outlets. He has written for the Huffington Post\, NYU Press\, Nation Books\, and MSNBC.com\, and has edited three books\, The Brotherhood Speaks\, Voices of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol\, and Off the Subject. He lives in Harlem\, New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khary-lazarre-white/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Viet Thahn Nguyen: Houston Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Viet Thanh Nguyen is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The  Sympathizer\, a New York Times bestseller. His current short story collection The Refugees has also become a bestseller. Other awards include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America\, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association\, among others. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.  
URL:https://litseen.com/event/viet-thahn-nguyen-houston-lecture/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000
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SUMMARY:‘Huncke & Louis’ Film Screening w/ Laki Vazakas
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Laki Vazakas returns to the Beat Museum for a screening of his film Huncke & Louis\, shot in 1993\, and offering a tender\, candid glimpse into the lives of seminal (if under-acknowledged) Beat Generation writer Herbert Huncke\, and his longtime friend and companion Louis Cartwright. Tate Swindell will be joining Laki in a discussion of the film\, and Huncke’s life and work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/huncke-louis-film-screening-with-laki-vazakas/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170722T002512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T002512Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother\, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies\, and her lovely\, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub\, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again\, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nMesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel is a masterpiece\, a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five books of fiction\, including A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and National Books Critics Circle Award; The Keep\, a national bestseller; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus\, which was adapted into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, The New York Times Magazine and many others. She lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170621T233918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233918Z
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SUMMARY:John Kaag
DESCRIPTION:Paperback release for John Kaag’s new book\, American Philosophy. \n\nPraise for American Philosophy \n“Kaag’s accounts are accurate\, engaging and scrupulous. They show profound learning. They’re also genuinely entertaining\, recapturing lost details of thinkers’ personal lives without sensationalism. The further you go on in the book\, and the more of Kaag’s skillful miniatures you take in\, the deeper it becomes. You realize he is also making an unconventional argument for who was right\, and who was wrong\, in the classical tradition of American philosophy from about 1830 to 1930\, in Transcendentalism and Pragmatism and Idealism and beyond. It is an argument strikingly suited to our time . . . American Philosophy succeeds\, not as a textbook or survey\, but a spirited lover’s quarrel with the individualism and solipsism in our national thought.” ―Mark Greif\, The New York Times Book Review \n\n“John Kaag hits the sweet spot between intellectual history and personal memoir in this transcendently wonderful love song to philosophy . . . this is the most enthralling book of intellectual history I’ve read since David Edmonds’ and John Eidinow’s Wittgenstein’s Poker . . . With its lucid\, winning blend of autobiography\, biography\, and serious philosophical reflection\, American Philosophy provides a magnificently accessible introduction to fundamental ideas about freedom and what makes life significant. It’s an exhilarating read.” ―Heller McAlpin\, NPR \n\n“Is life worth living?” This is the age-old but forever timely question at the center of this remarkable and daring memoir. Part history of American philosophy\, part personal narrative\, American Philosophy: A Love Story\, takes us deeply into that ‘epic love affair with wisdom’ that is philosophy\, but it does so through the wonderfully intimate lens of the author himself\, a young and accomplished philosopher who has summoned the nerve to expose his flaws\, his failures\, his deepest doubts about it all\, a rare act of creative courage and generosity that leads us to where the heart of true philosophy lies: to a deep and abiding sense of wonder. This is an absolutely stellar memoir.” ―Andre Dubus III \n\nAbout American Philosophy \nJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind\, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James\, the father of American philosophy and psychology\, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170824T053847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T010046Z
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center: Thomas Centolella + Diana Goetsch
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella is the author of four collections of poetry. The most recent\, Almost Human\, won the Dorset Prize from Tupelo Press\, selected by Edward Hirsch. His honors include the American Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University where he studied poetry with Denise Levertov and fiction with Grace Paley. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies and on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has taught creative writing for many years in the Bay Area. \nDiana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems—most recently Nameless Boy (2015\, Orchises) and In America (forthcoming from Rattle)—and the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Her work has appeared in many leading magazines and anthologies including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Iowa Review\, Ploughshares\, The Southern Review and Best American Poetry. Known as a generous and innovative teacher\, Diana has taught writing in colleges\, MFA programs\, art centers\, jails and living rooms for 30 years. Currently she is the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow in writing at The New School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-thomas-centolella-diana-goetsch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T000000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171022T003719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T003719Z
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Winter 2017 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Winter 2017 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until November 8th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170926T224254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015902Z
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SUMMARY:San Jose Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Arlene Biala reading at San José Poetry Festival 2016 \nPoetry Center San José presents\nthe Third Annual San José Poetry Festival \nThe Third Annual San José Poetry Festival will celebrate our community’s diverse ethnic and cultural heritage with a wide range of topics and literary styles reflected in performances and workshops. \na day of readings and performances:\nSaturday\, October 21\, 2017\, 9am to 5pm\na day of workshops:\nSunday\, October 22\, 2017\, 9am to 5pm\nHistory Park San José \nfeaturing:\nArlene Biala\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\, Deborah A. Miranda\, Persis Karim\, \nTshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell\, Yesika Salgado\, David Perez\, and more! \nThe diverse voices of local and California poets\, along with:\nSmall Press Fair\, Booksignings\, Poetry Across Cultures\, Spoken Word Performances\, Media Poetry Studio Videos\, Poetry Workshop Day\, and more! \nSaturday poetry presentations: \nYukei Teikei Haiku Society: Patricia Machmiller and Patrick Gallagher \nVeteransWrite: Jeffrey Leonard (MC)\, Dale Barnett\, Nick Butterfield\, Emilio Gallegos\, Douglas Nelson\, and David Sullivan \nHindi Poetry: Anshu Johri\, Pallavi Sharma\, and Vinod Narayan \nPoets & Writers Coalition of SJSU: Gabrielle LaFrank\, Brandon Luu\, and Emily Tang \nKeynote Address: Arlene Biala \nMiddle Eastern Poetry: Persis Karim \nOhlone/Costanoan Poetry Tradition: Debora A. Miranda \nMedia Poetry Studio: David Perez and Erica Goss \nLatinx Poetry: Roberto Tinoco Duran and Suzana De Jesus Huerta \nGrand Finale: Tshaka Menelik Imhotep Campbell\, Kim Johnson\, and Yesika Salgado \nSaturday small press fair (so far):\nDutch Poet Press\nSwan Scythe Press\nTourane Poetry Press \nSunday poetry workshops:\nFour workshops to choose from: \nBarbara Jane Reyes\, 9am-12pm\npresenting Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) \nDavid Perez\, 9am-12pm\nA poetry composition workshop inspired by the medium of video poetry. Participants will view a series of video poems and discuss various techniques at play in each example. The workshop culminates in several focused creative writing activities that encourage participants to apply these techniques in their own work. \nCharlotte Muse\, 2pm-5pm\nA workshop illustrating the many ways poetry inspires\, and is inspired by the senses. \nDeborah A. Miranda\, 2pm-5pm\nDescription to come. \nJoin us at the beautiful History Park San José for San José Poetry Festival 2017—two full days of inspiration and exploration! \nSan José Poetry Festival 2017 is presented by Poetry Center San José and is sponsored in part by: Festival and Cultural Affairs grants from the City of San José; a grant from Silicon Valley Creates\, in partnership with the County of Santa Clara and the California Arts Council; Poets & Writers through grants it has received from The James Irvine Foundation and the Hearst Foundations; with support from History/San José; and discounted accomodations from Hotel De Anza.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-festival-2/
LOCATION:History Park San José\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose \, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170911T231854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T231854Z
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books 4-year Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat!\n \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm.  \nIn honor of the authors who inspired our tour\, we invite participants to bring small excerpts or quote from their favorites to be read on location throughout the ride.  \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-4-year-anniversary/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20170926T002530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014725Z
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SUMMARY:10th Annual Beat Museum Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY TERRY ADAMS\, LEAH LUBIN & FRED DODSWORTH \nFor the 10th year running\, we feature the living poets\, poets laureate\, former Stegner Fellows\, local published poets\, as well as brilliant old and new-timers\, plus musicians and performance artists from all over the Bay Area (including Europe this year). Diverse voices will resonate with the all-embracing spirit of the original San Francisco Beat Movement in the aura of memorabilia downstairs in the Beat Museum. \nDray Zera and Umor Hague\, young performers from the UK will join us\, along with Clive Matson\, Caroline Goodwin\, Avotcja\, Q.R. Hand\, Peter Kline\, Jack Foley (with Sangye Land)\, Gwen O’Gara\, William Taylor\, Chris Vannoy (from San Diego)\, Kim Adonizio\, Brittany Perham\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, The Word Music Continuum\, and 20 or so others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-annual-beat-museum-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171022T015213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T015213Z
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SUMMARY:Crossing Borders: Remembering Francisco X. Alarcón
DESCRIPTION:The International Center of the San Francisco Public Library\, in collaboration with Carayan Press\, present Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders poetry series first presented at the Main Library back in 2011. This special edition\, We Remember You\, features various poets reading their work in either Spanish or English and selections from the poetry of Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016) as an homage to the poet.\nGuest Poets: Camincha\, Avotcja\, Betty Sánchez\, Edwin Lozada\, Christina Lloyd\, and others.\nFor more information visit: fronteras.carayanpress.com \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/crossing-borders-remembering-francisco-x-alarcon/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T123000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171020T023215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023215Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come one and all and bring your friends\, partner and neighbors to a gathering in which favorite poems will be shared. Or you can come and simply listen and enjoy. The number of poems one can read will depend on the number of people attending who want to share their poetry. You may read one or several. The host Sally Love Saunders has a passion for poetry and gathering people around to write and read. Today we will simply read and listen. Hope to have you there. \nSally Love Saunders is a widely published Poet\, Poetry Therapist\, Lecturer\, Free-Lance Writer and Workshop Leader. Sally’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, Times International\, The London Times\, The Denver Post\, and among over three hundred other anthologies\, magazines and newspapers. She has received many prizes for her poetry. “A Johnny Appleseed Poet\,” Sally travels all over the country running workshops. It is her absolute conviction that “Everyone is a Poet!” Sally has developed fun techniques to help individuals to get in touch with their own unique creativity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Cultural Integration Fellowship 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 94118
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Sally Love Saunders":MAILTO:slovesndrs@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171022T031857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T031857Z
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SUMMARY:David St. John + Susan Terris
DESCRIPTION:In The Last Troubadour\, David St. John has given us a collection of new and selected poems of astonishing beauty\, precise and keenly observed but also touched with sensuality and deep feeling. Nothing is too small to escape notice (in “Guitar” St. John reflects on the beauty of that word) or too large to be explored-the suicide of a friend\, the illness of a lover\, or the texture of longing and desire. A sharp observer of landscapes within and without\, St. John directs his empathetic gaze and vivid\, inventive voice to investigating both the darkest and the most inspiring parts of being human\, the small moments between friends and lovers as well as the groundswells that alter lives. \nAt times lyrical\, sometimes conversational\, occasionally wry and playful\, St. John’s poetry reveals an expansive vision animated by “intimacy and subtlety\, and by a disturbing force\, the work of an urgent sensibility and a true ear.” (W.S. Merwin) The beauty\, music\, and artistry of David St. John’s widely admired work is fully on display in this masterful collection. \nDavid St. John is the author of eleven collections of poetry (including Study for the World’s Body\, nominated for The National Book Award in Poetry) as well as a volume of essays\, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us. He is University Professor and Chair of English at The University of Southern California\, and lives in Venice Beach\, California. \nSusan Terris’s Take Two: Film Studies is a series of dazzling poems about pairs who are heading in one way or another for trouble\, disaster\, or death. Each poem is a kind of filmic scene\, which has a few movie terms embedded as parenthetical script directives. \nThe text spins back and forth in time from the era of Beowulf to that of Jacqueline Kennedy. There are traditional couples like Abélard & Héloïse or Bonnie & Clyde. But many of the pairs are unexpected: Sancho Panza & his donkey Dapple\, Mary Shelley & her monster\, Picasso & a portrait of Dora Maar\, or Lady Macbeth & King Duncan. Expect the unexpected in this volume. No matter what you think you know about a pair\, you may be in for a dark surprise. \nSusan Terris’s most recent books are Memos and Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems. She is the author of six books of poetry\, sixteen chapbooks\, three artist’s books\, and one play. Journal publications include The Southern Review\,Colorado Review\, and Ploughshares. A poem of hers from FIELD appeared in Pushcart Prize XXXI. A poem from Memos\, first published in the Denver Quarterly\, was selected for Best American Poetry 2015. She is the editor of Spillway Magazine and a poetry editor for Pedestal Magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-st-john-susan-terris/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171007T015111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015111Z
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SUMMARY:Words-n-Punks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of punk rock stories & art! \nReading/discussion hosted by Ben Sizemore\, with:\nMichelle Gonzales\, author of “The Spitboy Rule”\nLynn Breedlove\, author “Godspeed & “Lynn Breedlove’s One Freak Show”\nShawna Kenney & Rich Dolinger\, authors of “Live at the Safari Club: A History of HarDCore in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998” (showing a slideshow of outtake photos & flyers from the book)\nand award-winning journalist A.C. Thompson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-n-punks/
LOCATION:land and sea\, 5428 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171020T023001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023001Z
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin
DESCRIPTION:Poet Aaron Shurin will read from his new book Flowers & Sky: Two\n Talks which brings together two lectures and a suite of unpublished \npoems by one of our finest lyric poets. These intimate talks use \nShurin’s own work to illustrate the power and practice of image-\nmaking at the deepest level. \nShurin is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose\, most \nrecently The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks by\n University of Michigan Press (2016) and Citizen by City Light Books \n(2012). A master of the prose poem\, his career could be considered\n a love letter to San Francisco and the gay community there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T142430
CREATED:20171022T025359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T025359Z
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SUMMARY:CaConrad + Dara Wier
DESCRIPTION:CaConrad and Dara Wier read from their new poetry collections from Wave Books\, While Standing in Line for Death and In the Still of the Night. \n\nAbout While Standing in Line for Death \nAfter his boyfriend Earth’s murder\, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success\, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry’s ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet. \n  \nAbout In the Still of the Night \n“That’s how one human leaves us” ends the first poem of Dara Wier’s startling new collection\, a surprisingly raw and fluid exploration of grief. Wier records her thoughts with clarity and immediacy\, showing us the unraveling and reconstruction of her world and consciousness after a significant loss.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caconrad-dara-wier/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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