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SUMMARY:Melinda Clemmons
DESCRIPTION:Melinda Clemmons lives in Oakland. Her stories and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Cimarron Review\, Kindred\, Daphne Magazine\, West Trestle Review\, Eclipse\, 300 Days of Sun\, Cavalier\, and The Monthly. She worked for over twenty years in programs serving children and youth in foster care\, and is now a freelance writer and editor in the child welfare field. She is a frequent contributor to the online child welfare and juvenile justice news site\, The Chronicle of Social Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melinda-clemmons/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T180000
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SUMMARY:Reza Farazmand
DESCRIPTION:In the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines\, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time\, space\, and alternate realities\, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting even more ridiculous scenarios. A squirrel adapts to human society by purchasing a cell phone—and a gun. And an old man shares memories of the Internet with his granddaughter: “A vast network of millions of idiots. Together\, the idiots created endless shitty ideas. It was a true renaissance of shit.” In the world of Poorly Drawn Lines\, nothing is too weird or too outlandish for parody. \nFeaturing 50 percent brand-new content alongside some of the most popular comics of the past year\, Comics for a Strange World will be the perfect gift for your most sardonic friend or family member. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in San Francisco. He started putting his comics on the Internet in college at pdlcomics.tumblr.com\, and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reza-farazmand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Nina Serrano
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/karen-melander-magoon-nina-serrano/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T190000
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nThe Cuban Club: Stories \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nA masterpiece of mood and setting\, character and remembrance\, The Cuban Club is Barry Gifford’s ultimate coming-of-age story told as sixty-four linked tales\, a creation myth of the Fall as seen through the eyes of an innocent child on the cusp of becoming an innocent man. Set in Chicago in the 1950s and early 1960s against the backdrop of small-time hoodlums in the Chicago mob and the girls and women attached to them\, there is the nearness of heinous crimes\, and the price to be paid for them. To Roy and his friends\, these twists and tragedies drift by like curious flotsam. The tales themselves are koan-like\, often ending in questions\, with rarely a conclusion. The story that closes the book is in the form of a letter from Roy to his father four years after his father’s death\, but written as if he were still alive. Indeed\, throughout The Cuban Club Roy is still in some doubt whether divorce or even death really exists in a world where everything seems so alive and connected. Barry Gifford has been writing his Roy stories on and off for over thirty years\, and earlier Roy stories have been published as Wyoming\, Memories from a Sinking Ship and The Roy Stories. But it is in The Cuban Club that he brings the form he has created in these stories to its crystallization. Indeed\, to find precedents for The Cuban Club\, we must look not to other story collections\, but to other creation myths–to Gilgamesh\, or the Old Testament\, or Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire trilogy. Roy’s age in these stories wends back and forth between six and nineteen and back to twelve. He sees with the eyes of a seer who doesn’t seem to age\, and knows not to judge the good or the bad in circumstances or people\, or even to question why things are as they are\, instead filled with the romance of the world teetering on catastrophe always\, but abounding in saving graces. \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty published works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages. His most recent prose works are The Up-Down\, Writers\, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels\, Sad Stories of the Death of Kings\, Imagining Paradise: New and Selected Poems\, The Roy Stories\, and Landscape with Traveler. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. More at www.barrygifford.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
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SUMMARY:Daniel Borzutsky
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Borzutsky’s The Performance of Becoming Human\, winner of the 2016 National Book Award\, has been described as “one of contemporary poetry’s most cogent documents of humanity and suffering in the 21st century.” His other books include Lake Michigan\, In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy\, Memories of my Overdevelopment\, and The Book of Interfering Bodies. His translations from Spanish include Raúl Zurita’s Song for his Disappeared Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-borzutsky/
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:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Happy Fall Wanderlusters. Our next event is on the books and it’s one you won’t want to miss. Why? Well because we haven’t seen you in so long\, and we miss you. This will be our LAST event at the Hotel Rex. We’ll fill you in on all the details. AND because we have an amazing line up of writers: Frances Stroh and Laurie King from San Francisco\, and David Downie (Bay Area native) who is coming all the way from Paris\, France. Kimberley will also give a sneak peek at her new book\, too. We have so much to celebrate! Bios will be posted on our FB page. See you WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 25 for a night to remember.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T203000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Short Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Four East Bay short-fiction authors appear at Perfectly Queer East Bay Wednesday\, October 25\, 7pm to 8:30pm\, at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue in Uptown Oakland. Kwan Booth\, Helen Klonaris\, Achy Obejas\, and Kamala Puligandla read from their work. Delicious refreshments & thematic door prizes for the prompt! A discussion of writing short fiction follows the readings. Books by the authors will be available. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nKwan Booth is an award-winning writer and strategist focused on the intersection of media\, culture\, and technology. He’s the editor of “Black Futurists Speak: New Black Writing” and has had journalism and creative writing published in The Guardian\, Fusion\, “CHORUS: a literary mixtape”\, and “Beyond the Frontier: African American Poets for the 21st Century.” His awards include a Sigma Delta Chi Award from The Society of Professional Journalists and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction. Kwan posts occasional updates\, publications\, and mediocre cell phone photos at Boothism.org. \nHelen Klonaris is a Greek Bahamian writer\, educator\, and energy medicine practitioner. Her short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Let’s Tell This Story Properly\, Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories\, Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writings from the Antilles\, and The Racial Imaginary: Writers and the Life of the Mind\, among others. In 2014\, she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Helen is co-editor of the anthology Writing the Walls Down: A Convergence of LGBTQ Voices\, published by Trans-Genre Press\, and the author of If I Had the Wings\, a collection of short stories published by Peepal Tree Press. \nAchy Obejas is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many other authors. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Director of the MFA in Translation program at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \nKamala Puligandla is the writer of many short autobiographical and biographical fictions\, some of which were definitely shared with her in confidence. She’s not really sorry. Her work has been featured in The Tusk\, The Establishment\, and in Loose Lips\, the anthology of the show Shipwreck SF. She also has a novel manuscript called Zigzags that she would love to give to someone else to care for. Kamala is well-known for being easily bribed by cheese and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos\, use that info as you will. And find her work at thatkamala.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-short-fiction-reading/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT # 89
DESCRIPTION:Our first Hand To Mouth of the Fall season features writer Peg Alford Pursell\, along with writer Jacqueline Doyle. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (First edition: ELJ Editions\, March 2017). Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is Founder and Director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl has just been published by Black Lawrence Press. She has recent flash writing in matchbook\, Monkeybicycle\, Quarter After Eight\, and The Pinch\, fiction in Phoebe and PANK\, and creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Electric Literature\, and Superstition Review. She lives in the East Bay. \nOur open mic will follow our featured writers. We will have light refreshments. Also\, we have a partnership with neighborhood restaurants\, with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before the reading!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-89/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171020T023322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023322Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle w/ Alia Volz
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of Laurie Ann Doyle’s new book World Gone Missing: Stories.  Conversation\, readings\,  and champagne!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle-alia-volz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Laurie Ann Doyle":MAILTO:laurie@laurieanndoyle.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171025T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T210000
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SUMMARY:MFA Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen\, the author of the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, winner of the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, winner of an American Book Award\, and the novel Pioneer Girl. Coeditor of the anthologies Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: I & Eye and 30/30: Thirty American Stories from the Last Thirty Years. Her work has been featured in numerous university and community reads programs. \nBarbara Jane Reyes\, the author of Invocation to Daughters\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, and To Love as Aswang. \nNina Schuyler\, the author of The Translator\, which won the Next Generation Indie Award for General Fiction and was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Writing Award. Her first novel\, The Painting\, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award and named a Best Book by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her short stories have been published in ZYZZYVA\, Your Impossible Voice\, Fugue\, Santa Clara Review and elsewhere. She writes a monthly column for Fiction Advocate about style. \nBruce Snider\, the author of two poetry collections\, Paradise\, Indiana\, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize\, and The Year We Studied Women\, winner of Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, New England Review\, VQR\, Threepenny Review\, Iowa Review and Best American Poetry 2012. \n  \nFree and open to the public. Reception to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171025T213000
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SUMMARY:An evening w/ Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:This event is also made possible by the following cosponsors: the Campus Committee on Inclusive Excellence; the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action; Collegiate Seminar; the Communications Department; the English Department; and the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts \nThe evening will include an introduction by Matthew Zapruder and a reading and preformance from Tyehimba Jess\, followed by a Q/A with Jess and Zapruder. Matthew Zapruder is Associate Professor of English and Poetry Faculty in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s. He serves as Editor-at-Large for Wave Books\, the publisher of Jess’ 2017 Pulitzer Prize poetry collection\, Olio. \nTyehimba Jess is the author of leadbelly and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Olio. Jess’s Olio\, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry\, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry\, and the 2017 Book Award for Poetry from the Society of Midland Authors. It was also a finalist for the 2016 National Books Critics Circle Award\, 2017 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award\, and the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Library Journal called it a “daring collection\, which blends forthright\, musically acute language with portraiture” and Publishers Weekly\, in a starred review\, called it “Encyclopedic\, ingenious\, and abundant” and selected it as one of the five best poetry books of 2016. Jess is the Poetry and Fiction Editor of the African American Review and is an Associate Professor of English at College of Staten Island.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys 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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
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SUMMARY:Helen Dimos + William Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Greece resident Helen Dimos is co-organizer of the annual Paros Poetry and Translation Symposium\, a weeklong annual conversation between languages and persons. She produces a twice-monthly English-language radio show\, peopletalk\, at Beton7 Arts Center in Athens\, where she also co-hosts Poetry Meeting\, a monthly experiment performing works in progress (in any language) with others in a “non-ego” space. No Realtor Was Compensated for This Sale (The Elephants\, April 2017) is her first book. \nWilliam Rowe’s Collected Poems was published by Crater (U.K.) in 2016. INRI\, his translation of works by Chilean poet Raúl Zurita\, was initially published by Marick Press\, 2009\, with a new edition\, carrying an introduction by Norma Cole\, out this year from New York Review of Books. Other recent publications of his poetry include Nation (Klinamen\, 2012; enlarged edition\, Knives\, Forks and Spoons\, 2015) and Incisions (Iodine\, 2014). Among the recent translated books of poetry from Spanish include: LVB\, translation of Raúl Zurita (Veer Books\, 2013); A Cruise to the Galapagos Islands\, translation of late Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros (Shearsman\, 2013); and Corpses\, translation of late Argentine poet Néstor Perlonger (Hong Kong\, 2015).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-dimos-william-rowe/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
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SUMMARY:The Return of BOOKSWAP
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first ever Bookswap in our new space\, The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \nBring a counterculture book\, or\, really\, any book you love. We’ll sit you in small groups\, get you chatting about the book you brought\, switch groups every 20 minutes or so to make sure you get to meet lots of new friends\, and then at the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap. You’ll leave with someone else’s fave\, and a reading list to last you months. \nWe’re thinking of this as a pre-holiday House Warming at The Bindery. Come meet the curators of the counterculture display and the Arcana Project\, hear the story of our new bookstore and gallery space\, try our premium cocktails\, and enjoy our new plush\, warm living room annex. (We have couches now!) \n  \nFree with required RSVP! This time only. \n  \nRSVP at this link. Space is limited\, so let us know early if you plan to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-return-of-bookswap/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raphael Cohen + Jonathan Moody
DESCRIPTION:Raphael Cohen is a writer-performer committed to poetry for social change. His debut book of poems is Scrutinizing Lines(2007). His new chapbook\, Rebel Elegant\, is a single long poem on Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf\, a rising star for the Denver Nuggets basketball team\, who was suspended by the NBA when he refused to stand for the national anthem\, citing his Muslim conscience and the U.S.’s history of racial and economic oppression. Cohen has performed widely across the U.S. and in Canada\, taught\, facilitated training at various youth empowerment groups and founded and directed Play at the Margins Press\, an independent publishing and event production initiative. \nJonathan Moody’s new book of poems\, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, is Olympic Butter Gold; Pleiades says\, “Jonathan Moody’s second full-length collection of poems…overflows with music\, image\, and pop culture. The speaker is a natural storyteller\, fusing lyric and narrative with a voice that walks the line between youth and experience\, playfulness and seriousness.” A Cave Canem graduate fellow\, he is also author of the collection The Doomy Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raphael-cohen-jonathan-moody/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
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SUMMARY:Sasaki\, Share\, Banias\, + Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Present Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine. \nBuy a book to reserve your seat! Call the store 510.704.8222. \nWho reads poetry? We know that poets do\, but what about the rest of us? When and why do we turn to verse? Seeking the answer\, Poetry Magazine since 2005 has published a column called “The View From Here\,” which has invited readers “from outside the world of poetry” to describe what has drawn them to poetry. Over the years\, the incredibly diverse set of contributors have included philosophers\, journalists\, musicians\, and artists\, as well as doctors and soldiers\, an iron-worker\, an anthropologist\, and an economist. This collection brings together fifty compelling pieces\, which are in turns surprising\, provocative\, touching\, and funny. \nWho Reads Poetry offers a truly unique and broad selection of perspectives and reflections\, proving that poetry can be read by everyone. No matter what you’re seeking\, you can find it within the lines of a poem. \nFred Sasaki edits Poetry magazine’s prose feature “The View from Here\,” from which the essays in this book are gathered. He is the art director of Poetry magazine and a gallery curator at the Poetry Foundation. He authored Real Life Emails\, a book of deluded emails\, and the zine series FRED SASAKI’S AND FRED SASAKI’S FOUR-PAGER GUIDE TO: HOW TO FIX YOU. In 2004 he founded Chicago Printers Ball\, an annual celebration of poetry and printmaking. He is also cofounder of the Homeroom 101 pop and subculture show. \nDon Share is the editor of Poetry magazine. Among his twelve books are Wishbone\, Union\, and Bunting’s Persia; he also edited a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s poems\, named a Book of the Year by the Times of London and the New Statesman. Miguel Hernández\, his book of translations\, was awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán. Other books of his include Seneca in English\, Squandermania\, and The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of “Poetry” Magazine. Share received a VIDA “VIDO” Award for his contributions to American literature and literary community. \nAri Banias is the author of Anybody\, a debut collection of poetry\, published by W.W. Norton in 2016. He is the recipient of the 2014 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the 2012 Campbell Corner Prize. He has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Banias lives in Berkeley. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador in 1990 and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. His first poetry collection Unaccompanied\, was published in 2017 by Copper Canyon Press. Zamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. He lives in San Rafael.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sasaki-share-banias-zamora/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171026T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171026T213000
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SUMMARY:Brittany Perham + Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION:Brittany Perham and Randall Mann discuss their new poetry collections with Susan Steinberg. \n\nPraise for Double Portrait \n“Double Portrait\, by turns playful\, mournful\, indulgent\, musical\, insightful\, and all the way human\, comes clean about our most driving desires. . . . Imaginative and familiar\, the result is full of humor that is both rueful and sensual.” Claudia Rankine \n“This unswerving ambitious work brings the reader on a wild and thrilling journey. The poems lead into a world where desire\, the body\, memory and invention are looked at in the bright light of language: nothing forgiven\, everything laid bare. . . . This is a wonderful\, compelling book with the qualities of the best writing\, both memorable and moving.” Eavan Boland \n“If you took the superabundant abandon of Olena Kalytiak Davis and crossed its wires with the graven psychological acuity of Louise Glück\, you might get a poet like Brittany Perham. Double Portrait is full of bracing poetry\, and arrives from deep inside the soulful solid. There may be a few other books as good as this published this year. There won’t be any better.” David Rivard \n\nAbout Double Portrait \n\nEach poem in this prize-winning collection links two portraits: child and parent\, lover and beloved\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? \n  \nAbout Proprietary \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. “Please consider / Ocean Beach / out of reach\,” he writes; in these poems\, nothing is beyond the reach of his acuity. \n  \nFor years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittany-perham-randall-mann/
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:20171027T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170924T001248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T001248Z
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SUMMARY:¡Cuéntamelo! A Night of Celebration // Una Noche de Celebración
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of celebration featuring performances\, visual art\, and readings from ¡Cuéntamelo! by Juliana Delgado Lopera. ¡Cuéntamelo! is a collection of oral histories and illustrations from LGBT Spanish-speaking immigrants who arrived in the States between the 80’s and 90’s. ¡Cuéntamelo! is due to be released by Aunt Lute Books in November. For more info\, check out: http://www.auntlute.com/cuentamelo \nThis event is free and open to the public. Venue is ADA accessible. Food and refreshments will be provided. \nReserve free tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion-tickets-37930964536
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cuentamelo-a-night-of-celebration-una-noche-de-celebracion/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171027T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171027T220000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T041541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T041541Z
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SUMMARY:Multiple Poets Reading
DESCRIPTION:ASAP Offsite!\n8 pm doors\, 8:30 pm readings\n@ Wolfman No More Cops Free Health Care New Life Bookstore or Wolfman/New Life\, 644 40th St.\, Oakland \nw readings by Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young \nRight off of MacArthur Bart stop \nPoets Tonya M. Foster\, Angela Hume\, Sawako Nakayasu\, Samia Rahimtoola\, MG Roberts\, Jennifer Scappettone\, Lindsay Turner\, Stephanie Young.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/multiple-poets-reading/
LOCATION:MacArthur Annex\, 644 40th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T021715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021715Z
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SUMMARY:NaNoWriMo Kick-Off Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the San Francisco regional chapter of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for their annual Kick-Off Party at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight Street\, on 10/28\, from 3-6pm. \nWrite 50\,000 words in 30 days? We must be crazy! \nThousands of writers worldwide have stepped up to the challenge\, and we’re excited for another November to test ourselves\, make new friends\, and have a great time. \nKick-Off is open to anyone: long-time SFWrimos\, new participants\, the curious\, the incredulous. \nWe will gather together to meet and greet both new and veteran participants\, to share tips and tricks\, and to hold a raffle to make money to put towards our TGIO in December (That’s our Thank Goodness It’s Over party\, for theun-initiated). Any remaining funds will be donated to the NaNoWriMo non-profit in the name of our regional group. \nRaffle items include NaNoWriMo posters\, craft of writing books\, mugs for the copious amounts of tea and coffee you will drink in November\, and two gift certificates to The Booksmith. \nJoin us for an afternoon of camaraderie and good cheer ahead of another challenging\, fun November!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nanowrimo-kick-off-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171028T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171028T213000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T011329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T011329Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special Halloween Reading + Costume Contest
DESCRIPTION:Join Saturday Night Special for our 7th Annual Halloween Reading & Costume Contest! \nOur theme this year is: NIGHT CIRCUS\nInspired by the 2011 fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern (written for NaNoWriMo; see book description following bios below.) Think Victorian; think noir; think black and white with a red scarf; think sexy\, or macabe; think fascinator hat; thing top hat; think burlesque; think lion tamer; think lion. Think fortune teller\, contortionist\, carnie. Think freak show. If you must\, think clown. Or just wear a mask– But really\, you can dress up as anything. We will have prizes for the best costumes. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur October features are: Abe Becker and Kwan Booth\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: The list is often full by 7:05pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading and costume contest\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, October 28th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-halloween-reading-costume-contest/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171029T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171029T163000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171025T011450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171025T011450Z
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SUMMARY:Erika Mailman from The Murderer's Maid
DESCRIPTION:Join the Oakland launch party for The Murderer’s Maid at East Bay Booksellers\, and have a bloody cupcake on us! \nIn 1889\, Bridget joins the Borden household as their maid\, but something evil is brewing beneath the house’s genteel surface. In 2016\, Brooke hides from her dangerous past and avoids making friends. But what if it’s time to stop running? \nDescribed by Kirkus Reviews as “complex and riveting\,” The Murderer’s Maid brings the true story of the brutal murder of Lizzie Borden’s father and stepmother into new focus by adding a riveting contemporary narrative.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erika-mailman-from-the-murderers-maid/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Yellow Pear Press":MAILTO:marketing@yellowpearpress.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171030T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171030T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T021115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T021115Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #12
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 30th we’ll be welcome a bevy a talented readers – Joe Wadlington\, Pamela Alma Weymouth\, Allison Landa\, Allison Payne – as well as our featured reader\, Lucky Boy author\, Shanthi Sekeran. \nShanthi will be reading from the book as well as signing and answering questions. \nHosted by Noah Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-12/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171031T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171031T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T020108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020108Z
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SUMMARY:Pauline Craig + Stephen Kopel
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/pauline-craig-stephen-kopel/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170721T234852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T234852Z
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SUMMARY:Cristina García
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nHere In Berlin: A Novel \nfrom Counterpoint Press \n\nHere in Berlin is a portrait of a city through snapshots\, an excavation of the stories and ghosts of contemporary Berlin—its complex\, troubled past still pulsing in the air as it was during World War II. Critically acclaimed novelist Cristina García brings the people of this famed city to life\, their stories bristling with regret\, desire\, and longing. \nAn unnamed Visitor travels to Berlin with a camera looking for reckonings of her own. The city itself is a character—vibrant and postapocalyptic\, flat and featureless except for its rivers\, its lakes\, its legions of bicyclists. Here in Berlin she encounters a people’s history: the Cuban teen taken as a POW on a German submarine\, only to return home to a family who doesn’t believe him; the young Jewish scholar hidden in a sarcophagus until safe passage to England is found; the female lawyer haunted by a childhood of deprivation in the bombed-out suburbs of Berlin who still defends those accused of war crimes; a young nurse with a checkered past who joins the Reich at a medical facility more intent to dispense with the wounded than to heal them; and the son of a zookeeper at the Berlin Zoo\, fighting to keep the animals safe from both war and an increasingly starving populace. \nA meditation on war and mystery\, this is an exciting new work by one of our most gifted novelists\, one that seeks to align the stories of the past with the stories of the future. \n\nCristina García is the author of seven novels\, including Dreaming in Cuban\, a finalist for the National Book Award that just celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary; The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, and King of Cuba. Her work has been translated into fourteen languages. García has edited anthologies\, written children’s books\, published poetry\, and taught at universities nationwide. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-garcia/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170926T014550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002836Z
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Día de la Muetros / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-dia-de-la-muetros-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171101T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170930T000710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T020309Z
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SUMMARY:Kitty Stryker
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Kitty Stryker for her latest work — an anthology — Ask: Building Consent Culture. Join us at THE BINDERY! \nHave you ever heard the phrase “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than permission?” Violating consent isn’t limited to sexual relationships\, and our discussions around consent shouldn’t be\, either. \nTo resist rape culture\, we need a consent culture—and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces\, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today’s world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. \nIn Ask\, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers\, journalists\, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom\, whether it’s at the doctor’s office\, interacting with law enforcement\, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays\, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives\, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kitty-stryker/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T125000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170816T002004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T002004Z
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SUMMARY:Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents\, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley\, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, and New York University. Her debut collection LOOK was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award and 2017 PEN Open Book Award. Sharif has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20170929T232528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T020411Z
UID:28985-1509649200-1509656400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Poems from Far and Wide
DESCRIPTION:Founding editors of McSweeney’s Poetry Series\, Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan\, join Ilya Kaminsky and special guests to serve up a sharp collection of poems from around the globe and across generations in celebration of their curated poetry anthology In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poems-from-far-and-wide/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171102T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171102T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T025823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T025823Z
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SUMMARY:A Tribute to Michelle Gillett
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Gillett’s debut book of poems\, Coming About\, was selected for publication before her death from lung cancer in 2016. Daniel Tobin says of it\, “…Gillett’s insight is Rilkean in its wisdom.…In these fiercely honest poems\, knowledge of the fragility of things before ‘the ever-declining light’ keeps pace with a faith that knows always ‘some effect of the light keeps the dusk unfinished\,’ staving off the absolute dark. Coming About is a brave and beautiful book by a poet greatly gifted both in her humanity and her craft.” Born in 1948\, she lived in Stockbridge\, Massachusetts and was active in the arts and literary communities of the Berkshires. \nThe readers for the event will be:\nErin Gillett\, her daughter\, who graduated from UC Berkeley with a Masters degree in Architecture and works as an architectural designer and consultant. \nSarah Miller\, author of Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn and numerous essays. \nRobert Thomas\, author of Bridge\, fiction\, and the poetry collections Door to Door\, winner of the Poets Out Loud Prize\, selected by Yusef Komunyakaa\, and Dragging the Lake. He’s won a Pushcart Prize and received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. \nCarolyn West\, poet and storyteller.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-tribute-to-michelle-gillett/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171103T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171103T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T061031
CREATED:20171022T005437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T005437Z
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION:MFA-Writing invites all to our weekly Fall reading series — we bring in today’s most vital voices for the benefit of the entire CCA community. This week’s visiting author is US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith (Ordinary Light\, Life On Mars).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith-2/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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