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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon: One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 30 is 2017’s global 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day (http:/www.100TPC.org)! \nCome to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event\, and join other poets\, musicians\, artists\, dancers\, photographers\, performing artists\, around the US and across the planet\, in a demonstration and celebration of poetry to promote social\, environmental\, and political change. \nThis year’s superb line-up: \n* May-lee Chai * Rachelle Linda Escamilla *\n* Edward Foster * Caroline Goodwin * Daphne Gottlieb *\n* Julie Lythcott-Haims * Melissa Ramos * \nDoors open at 7pm.\nReading begins at 7:30pm *SHARP* \nFor more info\, contact series curator Donna de la Perrière
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-one-hundred-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Impermanent" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic\, we are exploring the fragililty of everything—the fleating nature of life\, love\, and rent control\, of sunsets\, egg shells\, and dandelion fluff. Join us! Take to the page and embrace “impermanence.” Then bring us your creation. \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 September features are: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis and Zephir O’Meara\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, September 30th\, 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!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nVANESSA ROCHELLE LEWIS is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is the former Senior Editor for Everyday Feminism and Black Girl Dangerous\, has taught at California Community Colleges for over 7 years\, and has performed in a wide variety of theatre projects\, cabarets\, and literary events all over the West Coast. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate Facebook statuses about romance. \nZEPHIR O’MEARA\, a Bay Area native\, has writing in Transfer\, Oakland Review\, Be About it\, Naked Bulb Anthology\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, and East Bay Review. Is he working on a secret project or two? Maybe. And yes\, I’m sorry to say\, he is just the type to subvert a perfectly good bio blurb whenever the opportunity arises. He thought he’d just joke around and hide behind a few words but then he realized something: This is him (me). This is more me\, these frivolous words on this screen\, then you’ll get out of the real me (him) in person. Or maybe not. But will you even try? The ball’s in your court.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-impermanent-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kevin Craft + Troy Jollimore: an Afternoon of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Craft Talk: “A Red Hot Half-Brick in an Old Sock: Tradition\, Subversion\, and the Sonnet” (1:00-2:00) \nWhy would anyone today choose to write a sonnet? In fact\, some of our best contemporary poets have taken a stab at the venerable form\, in order to explore (and\, at times\, explode) the limits of the form\, and to place the sonnet in the service of surprising\, at times radical ends. In this joint talk\, poets Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore discuss the sonnet form\, its history\, its poetic nature\, its particular capabilities and possibilities\, and talk about their own experiences reading and writing sonnets. (The craft talk will be followed by a break with wine and savory treats.) \nReading: “Burn After Reading: The Poetry of Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore.” (2:30 pm) Come for one or both events! This is a unique chance to hear and learn from two illustrious out-of-town poets. \nThis event is a collaboration of the Mill Valley Library and Marin Poetry Center. \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley\, CA \n\n\n\nKevin Craft directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book\, Solar Prominence\, won the Gorsline Prize. His new collection is Vagrants & Accidentals. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, MacDowell Colony\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy)\,the Camargo Foundation and many others. He is executive editor of Poetry NW Editions\, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program. \n\n\n\n\nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and Fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times‘ list of the best books of poetry in 2015. His reviews appear in the Chicago Tribune\, and the Washington Post. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-craft-troy-jollimore-an-afternoon-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:New Poetry From Rob Halpern
DESCRIPTION:Rob Halpern will read from his new book of poetry Touching Voids in Sense which\n\n “enters regions of the self that existing regimes of sense\, visible\, tactile\, and verbal\n keep hidden. What’s at stake is love\, care and the human body\, an abyss at which\n\nloving care of another’s body is the most explosive of concerns. The requirement\n\nis radical critique of the logics of meaning. Touching holes in sense is a reflection\n on the deeper sources of Halpern’s previous books and an investigation of how\n\nan end to mourning requires nothing less than a different ontology of life and death.”\n\n– William Rowe   Rob Halpern’s books include Common Place (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015) and Music  for Porn (Nightboat Books\, 2012). His chapbook called Touching Voids in Sense was  just published by Veer Books in London. He lives between San Francisco and  Ypsilanti\, Michigan\, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron  Valley Women’s Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-from-rob-halpern/
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:Bazaar Writers Salon returns! Join us for the first reading of the 2017-2018 season. \nReadings by William Brewer\, Benjamin Gucciardi\, Dominic Russ-Combs\, Cintia Santana\, and Glori Simmons\nHosted by Peter Kline \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, which was selected for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, New England Review\, A Public Space\, and other journals. He lives in Oakland. \nBenjamin Gucciardi was born and raised in San Francisco. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Orion Magazine\, Forklift Ohio\, Radar Poetry\, upstreet\, Poetry East\, The California Journal of Poetics and other journals. A Best New Poets nominee\, he is a winner of a Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize and contests from The Maine Review and The Santa Ana River Review. He works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland. \nA native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Dominic Russ-Combs welded industrial models in Durham\, North Carolina\, before publishing his first stories and being awarded both a Stegner Fellowship and an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Kenyon Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, among others. He’s currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories. \nCintia Santana’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology\, edited by Mary Szybist. She is the recipient of Djerrassi\, CantoMundo and Hambidge Fellowships. Currently\, she teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. She is at work on her first poetry manuscript. \nGlori Simmons is the author of Suffering Fools\, recipient of the Spokane Prize from Willow Springs Editions (Eastern Washington University\, 2017) and Graft\, poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002). A former Stegner Fellow\, she currently lives in Oakland and is the director of the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-6/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T193000
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SUMMARY:Lillian Howan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Lillian Howan’s novel The Charm Buyers\, a novel about Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing. Howan’s writings have been published in the Asian American Literary Review\, Café Irreal\, Calyx\, New England Review\, and the anthology Under Western Eyes. She is the editor of legendary playwright Wakako Yamauchi’s collection\, Rosebud and Other Stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lillian-howan/
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:20171004T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Poetry of Witness
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Amos White\, Jan Steckel\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Peggy Morrison. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. 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-poetry-of-witness/
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:20171004T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
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SUMMARY:Celeste Ng w/ Bich Minh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You) to the store for her new novel Little Fires Everywhere. With her in conversation will be Bich Minh Nguyen. Please join us! \nIn Shaker Heights\, a placid\, progressive suburb of Cleveland\, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads\, to the colors of the houses\, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson\, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. \nEnter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl\, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. \nWhen old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby\, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town–and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives\, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. \nLittle Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets\, the nature of art and identity\, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. \nCeleste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, and Shaker Heights\, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her husband and son. \nBich Minh Nguyen\, who also goes by Beth\, is the author of three books\, all with Viking Penguin: the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, which received the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, which received an American Book Award\, and most recently the novel Pioneer Girl. She teaches in and directs the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celeste-ng-w-bich-minh-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T125000
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier
DESCRIPTION:Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry\, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation\, and a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award. She is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS and has served as contributing editor of Drunken Boat. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” She teaches at Diné College and lives in Santa Fe\, NM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mazza Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from his poetry\, as part of his weeklong stint as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center. “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, will be out soon from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nThe Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence program allows Eisen-Martin to work with students of poetry\, drama and other studies\, and present performances both on and off the SF State campus\, with intensive student and community involvement. The residency pairs classroom workshop situations aimed at students\, with performances open to the general public. \nThe Mazza Writer in Residence is made possible by a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mazza-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Ho Lin
DESCRIPTION:Ho Lin\, co-editor of the long-running literary journal Caveat Lector\, joins us in the Marina for a Launch Party celebrating his dazzling fiction debut\, China Girl: And Other Stories. \nA modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies\, depending on a filmmaker’s whim… These are the characters that populate Ho Lin’s short story collection China Girl. \nIn its nine tales\, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West\, the power of myth and the burden of history\, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful\, China Girl is a journey into today’s Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-ho-lin/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000
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SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle
DESCRIPTION:Reads from her short story collection\, World Gone Missing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mary Cisper\, Jane Lin\, + Iris Jamahl Dunkle
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, October 6th @ 7:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring \nMary Cisper\, Jane Lin and Iris Jamahl Dunkle! \n*Event is FREE* \nLagunitas beer\, wine & snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street \nOakland\, CA 94609 \nhere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \n* Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \n*Lagunitas Brewing Company \n*Clorox Company Foundation \nAmid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds\, Mary Cisper\, poet and sometime visual artist\, lives with her husband in northern New Mexico. Her first poetry collection\, Dark Tussock Moth\, won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press\, 2017).  A former chemist\, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers in search of ultra-low detection limits.  Her poems and reviews have been published in various journals including Denver Quarterly\, ZYZZYVA\, Lana Turner\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Terrain\, Water-Stone Review\, Newfound\, FIELD\, and Omniverse.  She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder.  Of all the places she’s lived\, she misses the Bay Area the most. \nJane Lin is a poet and software engineer for an environmental consulting company in Northern New Mexico. Her debut poetry collection Day of Clean Brightness was published by 3: A Taos Press this year. She received her BA and BS from Stanford University where she studied under Denise Levertov\, and her MFA from New York University where she was a New York Times fellow. Her poem “Signs and Portents” was transformed into an art song by Emmy Award winning composer Glen Roven for his composition “The Santa Fe Songs” for soprano and piano and appears on Talise Trevigne’s album At the Statue of Venus. Other poems have appeared in Cura\, Five Points\, jmww\, New Madrid\, Slant\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, The Harwood Poetry Anthology\, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. For many years she taught creative writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitated the Mesa Public Library Poetry Gathering series. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her second poetry collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, is about the untold history of Sonoma County\, CA\, and was published in November 2015 by Word Tech Editions. Her third collection\, Interrupted Geographies\, will be published by Trio House Press in 2017. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW. and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. She received her B.A. from the George Washington University\, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University\, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-cisper-jane-lin-iris-jamahl-dunkle/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Filipino American Literary Readings
DESCRIPTION:There are three Filipino American Literary Readings at the Filipino American International Book Festival\, which will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, Civic Center\, SF\, CA 94102. \nFirst reading is on October 7 at 1:30-3 p.m.; \nSecond one at  4:20- 5:30 p.m.; \nThird reading on 8 at 1:45-3:05 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
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SUMMARY:Sim Warkov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, interview\, and Q&A when Sim Warkov visits Claremont. Sim was born in Chicago\, raised in Manitoba\, and educated in New York and Connecticut. Warkov has four books of poetry\, a new one out this year\, Island Dreams (with Margaretta K. Mitchell)\, and three earlier books\, Reaching\, Thin Soils\, and Grandchildren. Host: Glenn Ingersoll
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sim-warkov/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
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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-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000
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SUMMARY:Paradigm Lost at Adobe Books
DESCRIPTION:Paradigm Lost is a collection of radical verse & visuals for the shift. A book that seeks to manufacture dissent through collaborative art and poetry. \nPoet and creative activist Eleanor Goldfield will perform a few pieces from the book as well as discuss the role of art in movements. \nBooks will be for sale and available for signing. \nFor more information on the book\, please visit artkillingapathy.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paradigm-lost-at-adobe-books/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20171007T014749Z
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SUMMARY:Poet\, Musician Improvise Against Racism + Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin in collaboration with drummer/composer and writer Marshall  Trammell\, of the duo Black Spirituals\, appear in a first-time improvised duo performance at The Green Arcade. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center at SF State.   Tongo Eisen-Martin\, a movement worker and educator who has organized against  mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United  States\, has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California  county jails. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African- American Studies at Columbia University. His first full-length book of poems\,  Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book  Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self- determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is  the latest from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series.   Marshall R. Trammell is the founder and Chief Investigator of Music Research  Strategies\, an interdisciplinary artist performing-ethnomusicology\, political  education\, and social engagement platform working with video\, sound\, music\, text\,  geography\, and data collection environments. Trammell’s work combines re- imaginings of ‘narratives of fugitivity\,’ tactical media and solidarity economics of the  Underground Railroad for today’s political landscape. Trammell is the percussionist  in Black Spirituals\, an interdisciplinary\, electro-acoustic artist collective. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-musician-improvise-against-racism-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171009T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170816T003952Z
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SUMMARY:Writing the World: From Struggle to Joy
DESCRIPTION:Kathy D’Arcy\, Stephen Connolly\, and Stephen Sexton – will join Afro-Latinx writer\, Raina León\, in the rebellious act of telling their own stories. Each writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. The reading will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Rosemary Graham.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-world-from-struggle-to-joy/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 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:20171010T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170414T010048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011510Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170817T051602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T051602Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Olstein\, Julie Carr\, + Amanda Nadelberg
DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to be hosting three three three amazing poets! We’ll be celebrating Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr’s new books\, and joining them is Oakland-native\, Amanda Nadelberg\, whose newest book is also still fairly\, well\, new! \nLisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently LATE EMPIRE (October 2017). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, the Hayden Carruth Award\, a Lannan Literary Residency\, an Essay Press chapbook prize\, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, Centrum\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, she currently serves as a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. \nJulie Carr is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta\, 2010)\, RAG(Omnidawn\, 2014)\, and Think Tank (Solid Objects\, 2015). She is also the author of two prose works: Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive\, 2013) and Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta\, 2017). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press\, 2015). A chapbook of prose\, “The Silence that Fills the Future\,” was released as a free pdf from Essay Press: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/ \nCarr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory is due out from Commune Editions in 2018\, as will a mixed-genre work\, Reallife: An Installation. \nCarr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. She regularly collaborates with dance artist K.J. Holmes and is the co-founder of Counterpath Press\, Counterpath Gallery\, and Counterpath Community Garden (www.counterpathpress.org). \nAmanda Nadelberg is the author of three books\, most recently Songs from a Mountain. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-olstein-julie-carr-amanda-nadelberg/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170817T114513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T114513Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Stiefvater
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Stiefvater has been called “a master storyteller” by USA Today and “wildly imaginative” by Entertainment Weekly. We fell for her writing in Lament and Ballad. Swooned over the New York Times bestselling Wolves of Mercy series. Loved The Scorpio Races\, which was named a Michael L Printz Honor Book by the ALA. Obsessed over the highly praised Raven Cycle series. And are wildly excited to welcome her back to launch All the Crooked Saints\, the extraordinary story of an extraordinary family\, a masterful tale of love\, fear\, darkness\, and redemption. \nMaggie Steifvater has been a wedding musician\, a technical editor\, a portrait artist\, a calligraphy instructor\, and\, for several fraught weeks\, a waitress. She is now a full time writer who plays several musical instruments and still makes art. \nMaggie will be in conversation with Chris Taylor of Mashable.com. Chris is a veteran journalist hailing from the U.K. He was San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine and in the past five years has served as senior editor for Business 2.0\, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet #1 New York Times bestselling author and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year-winner Maggie Stiefvater to launch All the Crooked Saints\, which follows the Soria family\, who can perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-stiefvater/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170824T052315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T004255Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Renee Gladman
DESCRIPTION:WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, geographies\, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians; Calamities\, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience\, which won the 2017 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction; and a monograph of ink drawings\, Prose Architectures. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-renee-gladman/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20171007T014916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Brian Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Brian Rogers reads from and discusses his novel The Whole of the Moon. The novel features six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66 in Southern California\, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present\, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-rogers/
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:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T204500
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170926T004412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014059Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Once again\, we’ll have a magnificent roster of flash fiction writers reading their work!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170929T222708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T003413Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Eisen-Martin\, Zamora\, + Vaz
DESCRIPTION:Join Voz Sin Tinta in the month of October for an epic reading\, featuring three writers with their new books fresh off the presses. \nWe will have light refreshments\, drinks\, and an open mic before the featured readers. Maximum of 6 open mic slots will be available with a time limit of 4 minutes.\nBooks will be available for purchase! \nReaders:\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book\, someone’s dead already\, and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).\nIn 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017)\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.\nZamora 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\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, 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. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Latino Studies department and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. He holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. The Planet of the Dead is his debut book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-eisen-martin-zamora-and-vaz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20171001T001755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T001755Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer book reading "From Personal Experience"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Kate Carroll de Gutes joins local authors Lynne Barnes and Kate Jessica Raphael for a Perfectly Queer Rainbow Reading\, “From Personal Experience\,” Thu.\, Oct. 12\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, in San Francisco. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and thematic door prizes. A reception and book signing follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/1665334820143726 \nAll three authors write from personal experience: Barnes poetry\, de Gutes essays\, and Raphael novels. Here is more information about them and their writing. \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards and as a librarian in San Francisco’s public libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She lives with her beloved partner\, Carole\, who created the cover art for Lynne’s poetic memoir\, Falling Into Flowers\, 2017. \nKate Carroll de Gutes‘ book\, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book\, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life\, was released in August\, 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes grief\, the drama of perimenopause and dating\, riding bikes\, and the joys and challenges of authentic living. You can learn more at www.katecarrolldegutes.com. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer\, feminist\, queer activist\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service\, and spent over a month in Israeli prison because of her activism. She has also done international solidarity work in Bahrain and Iraq. She was awarded a Hedgebrook residency and elected Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade. She produces the weekly radio show Women’s Magazine on KPFA. The first novel in her Palestine mystery series\, Murder Under the Bridge\, won the Independent Publishers Book Award silver medal for mystery. Her second book\, Murder Under the Fig Tree\, was released in September\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-book-reading-from-personal-experience/
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:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170722T012857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T012857Z
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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret. \n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.” \nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. \nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. \nBrit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan\, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-bennett/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170816T010007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010007Z
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T042402
CREATED:20170926T004520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014212Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2017
DESCRIPTION:Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook\, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Amy Bess Cook has been a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She has left her mark on everything from travel guides to children’s manuscripts to gardening books. Her personal essays have appeared in Vela\, Entropy\, and Fiction Southeast. \nWith a background in book publishing\, Amy Bess also spent eight years helping to operate a boutique winery. Armed with a broad skill set that includes wordsmithing and oenology\, she recently launched a new experiment in art\, wine\, and giving. The project is called Sirsee\, which means “gift” in the Southern parlance. With a handcrafted wine and a literary journal–both created by Amy Bess–Sirsee raises funds for social justice organizations. In a few short months\, the project has raised $4\,000 for Southern Poverty Law Center and $1\,000 for other groups. \nAmy Bess will share poetry by contributors to the inaugural issue of Sirsee journal\, with the theme: “Ripe for the Picking”. \n* Cameron Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in <proximity> magazine. She’s an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar\, awarded in 2014. She’s working on a collection of essays\, and will graduate from Antioch University LA in 2017. \n* Alex Simand does not believe in the left brain / right brain dichotomy. He lives and works in San Francisco\, having arrived via the two socialist countries of Canada and Russia before that. His short story\, Election Cycle\, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions award. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a free quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2017/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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