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SUMMARY:The Wild Poets of Telegraph Hill
DESCRIPTION:A READING FROM THREE WORKS-IN-PROGRESS \nfeaturing PHIL COUSINEAU\, TERRY TARNOFF\, & MARK BITTNER \nIn the tradition of old North Beach\, when it was common for writers to share their current works\, Phil Cousineau\, Terry Tarnoff\, and Mark Bittner read from their latest novels and discuss what it’s like to live in—and write about—one of the world’s most iconic literary neighborhoods. \nMark Bittner is the author of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill and stars in the acclaimed documentary of the same name. He is currently at work on a memoir about his eighteen years living on the streets of North Beach. He’s been on Telegraph Hill since 1973. \nTerry Tarnoff is the author of four novels and playwright of The Bone Man of Benares. He is currently at work on The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, a kaleidoscopic novel set in North Beach that’s about to be re-released in a second edition. It recounts the story of one family’s curious destiny. Terry has lived on Telegraph Hill since 1978. \nPhil Cousineau is author of over forty books and twenty documentary films\, and is the co-host with Carlos Santana of the current PBS television series\, Global Spirit. Phil is working on his eagerly anticipated book that combines art history\, mythology\, and travel lore\, “Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo?” set partially in North Beach. He’s the “new guy in the hood\,” having lived on Telegraph Hill only since 1995\, but claims that he feels like he’s lived there all his life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wild-poets-of-telegraph-hill/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Poetry Society of America Event
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America (PSA) returns with their current national series\, Air This Pain & Alter It: What Can Poetry Do? Brenda Hillman\, Atsuro Riley\, and Brian Turner will read their own poems and others’\, showing the unique power of writing to effect change and speak to the moment. PSA Executive Director Alice Quinn moderates Q&A. \nMain Reading Room – 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-poetry-society-of-america-event/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nAlley Cat Books and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, The Other Side of Violet\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and award-winning poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Jessica Barksdale (Oakland)\, Carol Dorf (Berkeley)\, Patrick Cahill (SF)\, Maw Shein Win (Poet Laureate of El Cerrito)\, Julian Mithra (Oakland)\, Jan Steckel (Oakland)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening. \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of The Other Side of Violet to call your very own. \nRelease party for The Other Side of Violet \na reading by\nJessica Barksdale\nCarol Dorf\nPatrick Cahill\nMaw Shein Win\nJulian Mithra\nJan Steckel\nRichard Loranger\nand Jane Ormerod \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \nFriday\, November 3\n6:45 pm \nfree of charge \nAlley Cat Books\n3036 – 24th Street\nSan Francisco\, CA \nPERFORMER BIOS \nJessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel\, The Burning Hour\, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016. Her short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in\, or are forthcoming\, in Waccamaw Journal\, Salt Hill Journal\, Little Patuxent Review\, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill\, California\, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension. In addition\, Jessica holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.\nPatrick Cahill co-edits Ambush Review\, a San Francisco based literary and arts magazine. He received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UCSC. His poetry twice received the Central Coast Writers Award. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Left Curve\, San Francisco Peace and Hope\, Digging Our Poetic Roots\, Otoliths\, Aji\, Into The Void\, and riverbabble.\nCarol Dorf is the author of the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press) and Some Years Ask (Locofo Chaps\, Moria Press.) Her poetry appears in Sin Fronteras\, Antiphon\, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics\, Scientific American\, Maintenant\, and Best of Indie Lit New England. Carol is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches mathematics in Berkeley. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. His recent book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016)\, has been warmly received. He is also the author of the Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, and nine chapbooks. Other recent work can be found in Oakland Review #4\, Full of Crow (Winter 2017 Fiction Issue)\, and the online anthology HIV Here and Now. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nJulian Mithra\, primarily a performance artist\, hovers between genre and gender\, border-mongering and mongreling. Resisting essentialisms\, they roll out monologues\, collage black & white zines\, clip poem videos\, and rubber stamp imprints. They hold an MA in Folklore from UC Berkeley. Their work has been featured in Gendertrash Café\, Milvia Street\, Storm Cellar\, Whirlwind\, Sharkpack Review\, and enough/enough. \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 award-winning fiction and poetry appear in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and others. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone on Nomadic Press\, and her full-length poetry collection will be published by Manic D Press in spring 2018. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-edge-writers-reading-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jean Day + Sophia Dahlin
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited for this one! One of our favorite east bay poets\, Jean Day\, recently put out another amazing book\, “Daydream” (Litmus Press)\, and is going to be reading with one of our newly re-acquainted east bay favorites\, Sophia Dahlin. Come celebrate Day’s new book and Dahlin’s return home to the bay after years of living\, well\, not here! \nJean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Daydream is just out from Litmus Press. Recent poems can also be seen in Chicago Review\, The Delineator\,Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French)–as well as in herTriumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions. Earlier works includeEarly Bird (O’Clock\, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books\, and her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, including\, most recently\, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by UC Press. \nSophia Dahlin is a writer and dilettante who has washed up again on Oakland’s mild sidewalks. Last time she lived here she ran a talk series called Poem Talks//Butterfly Dissection Sessions and went to all of your readings. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, BOMB\, the Awl\, the Recluse\, and Where Eagles Dare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-sophia-dahlin/
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:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Teri Emory
DESCRIPTION:Join essayist\, editor\, and author Teri Emory for a Launch Party celebration of her much-buzzed debut novel\, Second Acts. \nThe interwoven tales of three women unfold in the voices of Sarah\, Miriam\, and Beth\, whose unshakable friendship takes root in a Buffalo college dorm in the late 1960s. Fueled by the optimism and bravado of that era\, they charge into adulthood with high expectations and lofty ideas. They were\, as Beth would later observe\, -the first generation of women to feel entitled to interesting lives. \nAt times\, they find themselves living long distances from each other as each of them seeks new directions and new locales–midtown Manhattan\, a Florida suburb\, coastal Savannah\, the hills of Rome. Nonetheless\, they remain deeply connected in the decades after college\, sharing their joys and shepherding each other through heartache. With emotional courage and wry humor\, they come to terms with a disconcerting postscript to the Age of Aquarius: Life–inevitably\, unsparingly\, repeatedly–demands compromise. \nIn the year leading up to 9/11\, the three women\, now middle aged\, are tested by unwelcome drama at home\, unforeseen challenges at work\, and unresolved conflicts about decisions made long ago. Sustained by their abiding friendship\, Sarah\, Miriam and Beth confront hard truths about themselves and the choices they have made. They must let go of past regrets and make peace with present circumstances as they begin the second acts of their lives. \nSecond Acts is a story of love\, loss\, and renewal\, and a testament to the enduring power of female friendship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-teri-emory/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Women's National Book Association panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebrations of 100 years of women in the world of books with writer of the San Francisco Chapter of the WNBA.  Before women had the right to vote\, the Women’s National Book Association was advocating for women writers\, booksellers\, editors and “women in the world of books\,” starting in 1917.  This vital part of the Northern California publishing community includes New York Times bestselling authors\, writing coaches\, award-winning editors\, literary agents\, National Book Critics\, book to film creatives\, librarians\,  and an Indiefab Publisher of the Year\, offering insider secrets to getting your book published   In this Centennial Showcase\, the authors from the WNBA-SF will read from their books and join in a panel discussion of how women’s voices and those of diversity are more important than ever before. Signing and Q&A to follow. \nFeaturing WNBA-SF writers: \n\nPatricia Davis\, Cooking for Ghosts\nJanis Couvreux\, Sail Cowabunga!\nB. Lynn Goodwin\, Talent\nBrenda Knight\, Grateful Table\nMary Rodman\, Bloom Where You’re Planted\nSusan Pace Koch\, The Mermaid & the Moon\nKJ Landis\, Happy Healthy You\nSheri McGuinn\, Alice\nLousie Nayer\, Poised for Retirement\nDr. Jeanne Powell\, Carousel\nBarbara Falconer Newhall\, Wrestling with God\nBev Scott\, Sarah’s Secret\nRichard Robbins\, Overtaken by the Night\nJan Schmuckler\, Role Montage\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-national-book-association-panel/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Book Launch + Remembrance for Francesca Rosa
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Rosa’s passing in October 2016 brought to an untimely end the career  of one of the more remarkable and overtly political authors associated with the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. This book presents selections from the three titles published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press from 2005 to 2015 under her pen name\, F.S. Rosa. It begins with an appreciatory essay by Hilton Obenzinger and ends with a lengthy biographical interview conducted by Bay Area literary critic and author Robin Tremblay-McGaw.  F. S. Rosa was co-publisher of Ithuriel’s Spear Press. This book includes selections from Lunchtime at the Muqata’a\, The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca\, and from her collection of short stories Post War and Other Stories. Francesca was a rank and file union member and a long time student of labor and history of the Left in America. She lived\, loved and worked in San Francisco. Please join us as we gather to read from her writings and celebrate her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-remembrance-for-francesca-rosa/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Dinika Amaral\, Cate Lycurgus\, Aaron Poochigian\, and Sibongile Sithe\nHosted by Peter Kline \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. A former banker with JP Morgan Chase\, she has an M.A. and M.F.A. from New York University. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, the Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, the Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she lives with her husband in San Jose\, California. \nCate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Tin House\, Gulf Coast\, and elsewhere. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Finalist\, she has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Cate currently lives south of San Francisco where she takes care of her father\, edits interviews for 32 Poems\, and teaches professional writing. \nAaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho\, Stung With Love\, was published by Penguin Classics in 2009\, and his translation of Apollonius’ Jason and the Argonauts was released October 2014. For his work in translation he was awarded a 2010-2011 Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. His first book of original poetry\, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press)\, was published in 2012 and\, winner of the 2016 Able Muse Poetry Prize\, his second book Manhattanite will be out in the Fall of 2017. His thriller in verse\, Mr. Either/Or\, will be released by Etruscan Press in Fall of 2017. His work has appeared in such journals as The Guardian\, POETRY and The Times Literary Supplement. \nSibongile Sithe was born and raised in Cincinnati\, OH. She received her BA from Yale University where she was awarded the Elmore A. Willets and Wallace Prizes for fiction. She is at work on a first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-7/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lynne Barnes + Jessica Loos
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-barnes-jessica-loos/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes celebrates City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16\, Invocation To Daughters. Reading together with David Brazil.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Gauld w/ Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld as he presents a best-of collection of literary humour cartoons — Baking with Kafka. With Tom will be Mallory Ortberg—join us! \nIn his inimitable style\, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist\,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian\, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper\, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed\, concise comics. \nFrom sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction\, which summons mainstream acceptance\, Hollywood money\, and fresh coffee)\, Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour\, impeccable timing\, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest. Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist\, The Guardian and The New York Times\, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels\, Tom Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In Baking with Kafka\, he proves this with one witty\, sly\, ridiculous comic after another. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-gauld-with-mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010) and My Daughter La Chola (2013). He serves on the poetry editorial team for Fence magazine and as contributing editor to The Volta. He is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk-2/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff + Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Camera is Maxine Chernoff’s 16th book of poems. Her previous book\, Here\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth poetry collection\, Peace\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, Lovers in the Used World\, and Tall Stranger\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014\, and was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly. She co-translated (with Domenic Stansberry) Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto\, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love (Molotov Editions\, 2016). Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University since 1994 and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-chernoff-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Live! w/ Dr. Dawn McGuire
DESCRIPTION:Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire will be in conversation with Tom Donahoe and read selections from her latest poetry collection “American Dream With Exit Wound\,” which is inspired by her work with post 9/11 veterans. Produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\, Live! from the Library is free and open to the public.   RSVPs are encouraged and can be made online at www.wclibrary.org/live or by phone at 925.935.5395. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-w-dr-dawn-mcguire/
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library\, 1644 North Broadway\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94596\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171109T193000
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SUMMARY:Susan Kolodny + Carolyne Wright
DESCRIPTION:Susan Kolodny’s new book of poems is Preserve. Robert Thomas says\, “Susan Kolodny’s moving new collection begins with her arrival in Botswana and tells the story of a journey that transforms her understanding of herself and her own culture…Kolodny is unsentimental about the challenges that game preserves face…and the book itself becomes a Preserve she creates to save a world whose survival is at risk.” Her first collection is After the Firestorm. She’s also a psychoanalyst and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and its Inhibition. \nCarolyne Wright’s new book of poems is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems. David Axelrod says\, “The language of Carolyne Wright’s poems is as rich\, diverse\, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world\, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens\, their history\, turmoil\, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage.” Author of numerous previous collections\, including A Change of Maps\, she is co-editor of Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace\, a groundbreaking anthology. She is also a translator who has published five books of translation from both Spanish and Bengali. In addition\, she has published a book of essays\, and has received a Fulbright and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Seattle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-kolodny-carolyne-wright/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Joe Pachinko
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by William Taylor\, Jr. \nJoe Pachinko was born 1960 in Oakland\, California. In 2003\, through his Superstition Street Press\, he republished Beat icon Lenore Kandel’s groundbreaking work The Love Book\, which was banned and suppressed upon its original release in 1966. He is the author of the novel SWAMP!\, and two poetry collections: The Urinals of Hell\, and Stumpfucker Cavalcade. His second novel\, Geek City Apocalypso was published in 2012 by Last Gasp. \nBeloved poet Joe Pachinko has left the building. Join us for a celebration of his life and work. \nPachinko’s work\, and tributes to the late poet will be read by the following: \n\nBrenda Knight\nNicole Henares\nChristopher Robin\nBrian Morrisey
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-for-joe-pachinko/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171110T210000
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CREATED:20170817T045804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T045804Z
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SUMMARY:David Rocklin: The Night Language
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is happy to welcome David Rocklin for The Night Language. Please join us! \nThe Night Language tells the story of a young man\, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia)\, who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about. With him is Philip Layard\, a young apprentice to one of the doctors on the battlefield in Abyssinia\, who becomes Alamayou’s guardian\, only friend\, and eventually\, the love of his life. When Parliament accuses Alamayou of murder\, the young prince is sentenced to return to Abyssinia\, where he will be executed. \nHis only hope comes from the very thing that cannot be uttered: the unexpected and forbidden love between Alamayou and Philip. \nInspired by true events\, The Night Language is a unique novel of love\, loss\, and the consequences of repressive societies. \n— \n“Not since Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient have I read a novel in which a character—the story and skinsong of Alamayou–has haunted language\, history\, and heart so intensely. If you read one novel this year\, let it be The Night Language. It is still possible for a reader’s heart to be broken back open.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water \n— \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger. \n— \nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of The NIght Language\, please follow this link and place your order\, filling out the special request field: http://www.booksmith.com/book/9781945572487
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-rocklin-the-night-language/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171111T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T141230
CREATED:20171111T074856Z
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SUMMARY:THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS: BOOK LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for This is for the mostless by Jason Magabo Perez. Special guests: Aimee Suzara\, Janice Lobo Sapigao and Jason Bayani. \nTHIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS (WordTech Editions\, 2017)\, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez’s debut book\, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems\, essays\, fictions\, and oral histories. Moving against discipline and genre\, from city to city\, barrio to barrio\, these stories and sympathies are filled with familia and trauma\, and cast with wildly divergent figures as iconic as Don Cheadle and Mandy Moore\, and as obscure as Cobra Commander and Perez’s own mother\, a Filipina migrant nurse who in 1976 was framed by the FBI for murder. Ultimately\, Perez celebrates and mourns the multiple migrations and afterlives of grandmothers\, gangsters\, girlfriends\, superheroes\, and poets. This book is about and most definitely for all of the mostless. \n“Jason Magabo Perez pulls me into his stories like the ink of a comic book or opening hook. He drops 1972\, Redlands\, Manila\, the smell of eucalyptus\, Raid and fried fish\, and ain’t no ipis will interrupt this flow. All the aunties\, cousins and homies are here\, and there’s an earnest\, tender urgency in these verses and jagged lines and tangles that refuse to forget. He makes me want to listen.” – JAI ARUN RAVINE\, AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF SIAM \n“When the poet you are reading raises pen to sky and cuts its belly open\, revealing river of ancestor hair\, uncut\, uncombed\, rife with angels and stories\, and holds it aloft\, unsorted\, to show you you–historical\, non-fictional\, truthfully and wholeheartedly loved\, shivering silver sardine in the oily tin of our im/migrant story…then the poet you are reading is Jason Magabo Perez\, and you are blessed. Read this book like postdated scripture\, and be loved.” – DENIZEN KANE\, POET/EMCEE\, TYPICAL CATS \n“These poems mark the time of millennial southern California\, the time of brown boyhood\, the time after death and before birth. ‘A time when we’re beginning to notice that we are so death & so penniless. / So penny-skinned.’ Perez asks how to live in the wake of violence and disconnection and a girl asks the alphabet. A balm of persistence\, commemoration becomes a promise of a time beyond time: ‘Today\, we’re coloring the king.'” – KIMBERLY ALIDIO\, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE PROJECTS THE RESOUND \n“This is for the mostless is a smartly forged momentum and memento\, a forward-thinking look back. From one line to the next\, Jason Magabo Perez can compel a tear or noisy nostalgia; mostly\, we are asked-with the urgency of justice and artful storying-to take all things that happen in our suburbs\, cities\, and histories deeply and consciously personal.” – VEJEA JENNINGS\, AUTHOR OF FREE LUNCH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-for-the-mostless-book-launch/
LOCATION:Arkipelago Books\, 1010 MISSION ST\, SAN FRANCISCO\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T141230
CREATED:20171010T115636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T115636Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Non-Fiction November
DESCRIPTION:Authors Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Peter Gajdics\, and Julia Serano read from and discuss their works of non-fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-non-fiction-november/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T141230
CREATED:20170929T235959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024610Z
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTechnicians of the Sacred\, Third Edition: A Range of Poetries from Africa\, America\, Asia\, Europe\, and Oceania\, Revised and Expanded\, 50th Anniversary \npublished by University of California Press \nHailed by Robert Creeley as “both a deeply useful book and an unequivocal delight” and by the LA Times Book Review as one of the hundred most recommended American books of the late 20th century\, Jerome Rothenberg’s landmark anthology Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired generations of poets\, artists\, musicians\, and other readers\, exposing them to the multiple possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Juxtaposing “primitive” and archaic works of art from many cultures with each other and with avant-garde and experimental poetry\, Jerome Rothenberg contends that literature extends beyond specific temporal and geographic boundaries\, while acting as a retort to those who would call that larger humanity into question. A half-century since its original publication\, this revised and expanded third edition provides readers with a wealth of newly gathered and translated texts from recently reinvigorated indigenous cultures\, bringing the volume into the present and further extending the range and depth of what we recognize and read as poetry.\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T193000
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CREATED:20170816T003326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003326Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Willis
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book\, Alive: New and Selected Poems\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her other books include Address\, Meteoric Flowers\, Turneresque\, The Human Abstract\, and Second Law. She is also the editor of Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place. She taught poetry at Mills College from 1995 to 2002. In 2015 she joined the faculty of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-willis/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171114T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T203000
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CREATED:20171022T020605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020605Z
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Manno + Clif Ross
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosemary-manno-clif-ross/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20171111T082810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171111T082810Z
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SUMMARY:STEVE ZOLNO at Books Inc. in The Marina
DESCRIPTION:Management and Educational Consultant Steve Zolno discusses his encouraging and timely book\, The Future of Democracy: Lessons from the Past and Present to Guide Us on Our Path Forward. \nWhat is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it. \nIncludes the section: Guide to Voting in a Democracy \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-at-books-inc-in-the-marina/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171114T220000
DTSTAMP:20260419T141230
CREATED:20171022T005559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T005559Z
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SUMMARY:Nan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Nan Cohen is the author of two books of poetry\, Rope Bridge and Unfinished City\, and her poems have appeared in The New Republic\, Slate\, Ploughshares\, Tikkun\, Gulf Coast\, and other magazines and anthologies. Her awards and honors include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award\, and a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the poetry director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nan-cohen/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171115T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T141230
CREATED:20171025T011423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011423Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: "Queer Femme Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Gr Keer hosts an evening of “Queer Femme Poetry” with readers Vanessa Rochelle Lewis\, Maya Chinchilla\, Rona Luo\, and Crystal Azul Barr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-femme-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T203000
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CREATED:20170929T232858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024707Z
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SUMMARY:Hilton Obenzinger
DESCRIPTION:This is the East Bay book launch for Hilton Obenzinger’s new book\, Treyf Pesach: \nBlasphemy is holy—and exciting\, outrageous literature in Treyf Pesach (Unkosher Passover). Novelist Paul Auster declares that this book “strikes with all the force of an exploding bomb—because it speaks the truth.” This collection of poems presents radical departures from traditional rituals\, formats and conventions: alternative Passover Seders\, Yom Kippur liturgy\, Thanksgiving prayers\, psalms and other poems in the form of proclamations\, resolutions\, jazz improvisations\, incantations\, rants\, orations\, comic monologues\, oil spills\, life spills\, songs\, visions\, undocumented documents\, borders\, suns\, farewells\, minutes of meetings\, talk-stories\, and all accompanied by provocative drawings of Treyf Passover Seder plates by artist Charles Steckler. In this book the symbolic plate is arrayed with treyf (un-kosher food) and the story of the Exodus with untypical meanings\, whiskey instead of wine\, recounting the continual slavery of wars and military occupations. The poems in Treyf Pesach have taken place over the course of years and various occasions\, from vicious aggressions\, to absurd walls\, to smallpox blankets\, to oil spouting across the Gulf\, and more\, all framed by the first months of the Trump regime. Some have been read out loud at Seders\, Yom Kippur services\, Thanksgiving Day benedictions\, Sunday fellowships\, and other ceremonies. But those are the exceptions. For the most part Treyf Pesach has been placed under arrest and shoved across the borders of respectability. Hilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism\, and is the recipient of the American Book Award. According to poet Diane di Prima\, “he is the American Jonathan Swift.” \nHilton Obenzinger writes poetry\, fiction\, history\, and criticism. His books include This Passover or the Next I Will Never be in Jerusalem\, which received the American Book Award\, Cannibal Eliot and the Lost Histories of San Francisco\, American Palestine: Melville\, Twain and the Holy Land Mania\, New York on Fire\, a*hole: a novel\, and the oral history Running through Fire: How I Survived the Holocaust by Zosia Goldberg. Recently\, he has published his autobiographical novel Busy Dying and How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience. Born in Brooklyn\, he graduated Columbia University in 1969\, taught elementary school on the Yurok Indian reservation\, nursery school in San Francisco\, ran an offset press at a community print shop in San Francisco’s Mission District\, worked as a commercial writer for business and industry\, and taught writing\, literature and American Studies at Stanford University. He is currently Associate Director of the Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilton-obenzinger/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171115T213000
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CREATED:20170816T004252Z
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SUMMARY:Gabrielle Selz
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. Her debut memoir Unstill Life\, published by W.W. Norton in 2014\, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and was listed as one of the best books of 2014 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, MORE Magazine\, the L.A. Times\, and Newsday. She writes art criticism for Art Papers\, Hyperallergic\, and the Huffington Post. Selz is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction and was a New York Moth Story Slam Winner. Selz is currently writing the biography of the artist\, Sam Francis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabrielle-selz/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171116T210000
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CREATED:20170929T232306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024822Z
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SUMMARY:Red\, Yellow\, Green: Alejandro Saravia + María José Giménez
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\n\nAlejandro Saravia\n\n\nAlejandro Saravia was born in Cochabamba\, Bolivia\, and since 1986 has lived in Quebec\, where he works as a journalist. His publications include the novel Rojo\, amarillo y verde (2003)\, Borealis Antología Literaria de El Dorado (Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca Editores\, Ottawa\, 2011)\, Dieciocho voces de la poesía hispano-canadiense (Acento Editores\, Guadalajara\, México\, 2009)\, Cuentos de nuestra palabra en Canadá: primera hornada(Editorial Nuestra Palabra\, Toronto\, 2009)\, Las imposturas de Eros\, cuentos de amor en la posmodernidad (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2009)\, The Fourth River (Chatham University\, Pittsburgh\, 2009) Retrato de una nube\, Primera antología del cuento hispano canadiense (Editorial Lugar Común\, Ottawa\, 2008)\, La poésie prend le métro (Éditions Adage\, Montréal\, 2004) and Boreal\, Antología de poesía latinoamericana en Canadá(Editorial Verbum Veritas – La cita trunca\, Ottawa\, 2002).He is co-director of Montreal’s Hispanic-Canadian collective The Apostles Review. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTRANSLATOR\nMaría José Giménez\n\n\nMaría José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet and translator. Recipient of a 2016 Gabo Prize for Translation and fellowships from the NEA\, The Banff International Literary Translation Centre\, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment\, María José is co-director of Montreal’s collective The Apostles Review and Assistant Translation Editor for Drunken Boat.\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 16\, 2017 | 7:30PM\n\nRSVP\n\nBolivian-Canadian writer Alejandro Saravia and poet and translator María José Giménez discuss his new novel\, Red\, Yellow\, Green\, the first to be translated into English\, as well as the tumultuous existence of the exile\, the crossings of language\, and Latino-Canadian literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-yellow-green/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171116T213000
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CREATED:20170926T011300Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Bouwsma + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine\, where she is a poet\, farmer\, freelance editor\, critic\, and small-town librarian. She is the author of MIDDEN (Fordham University Press\, forthcoming 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017). Her poems and book reviews appear in Bellingham Review\, Colorado Review\, Muzzle\, Salamander\, RHINO\, River Styx\, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize\, the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award\, and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. A former Managing Editor for Alice James Books\, Bouwsma currently serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine.\n\n\n\n\n\nTess Taylor‘s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book\, The Forage House\, “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book\, Work & Days\, was called “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Steph Burt and was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor currently chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle and is the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. She was most recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast\, Northern Ireland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-bouwsma-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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