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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania and three chapbooks\, Tolbert is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. S/he is currently studying to be an EMT and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. Tolbert was recently named Tucson’s Poet Laureate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-2/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines - Uniquely SF Stories By SF Writers
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by editor\, Denise Sullivan\, featuring contributors Sylvia J. Martinez\, Shizue Seigel\, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon\, Lynell George and special guests. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nArtist evictions\, tech invasions – where will it end? This collection of uniquely San Francisco stories from a wide range of voices wrests wisdom from chaos and channels boundless progressive energy into lyrical short Artist evictions\, stories and personal narratives. Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuance as home and beacon to the literary vanguard\, situated at the edge of the world.\n\n\n\nSylvia J. Martínez is a writer and adult school ESL teacher. Her work has appeared in In Media Res: Stories from the In-Between (WriteSpace 2016)\, The East Bay Review\, Cipactli\, Word Riot\, Tattoo Highway\, and the San Francisco Examiner\, among others. She earned her MFA from San Francisco State and is working on her first collection of stories.   Shizue Seigel is a third-generation Japanese American writer and visual artist who has lived in San Francisco since 1958. She loves the city’s ever-changing diversity\, but misses the Fillmore\, the old Mission and Japantown\, fog and foghorns\, working docks\, the Belt Line. Her books include In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment and Standing Strong: Fillmore and Japantown.  Her latest project\, Endangered Species\, will be out in 2018.   \n Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is a Swiss-trained graphic designer with a masters degree in architecture. An award-winning landscape artist\, she conceived the signage and supergraphics at The Sea Ranch and Ghirardelli Square and the Ribbon of Light along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. \n\n\nLynell George will be here for a rare SF reading. She is a Los Angeles-based journalist\, essayist and photographer. She has written for KCET’s Artbound\, The Los Angeles Times\, the LA Weekly\, and she taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso/Doubleday).\n\n\n  \n Denise Sullivan is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. She writes about music\, arts\, and culture and her hometown\, and is the author of six titles\, including Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop and a chapbook\, Awful Sweet. She is at work on the biography of singer-songwriter Eugene McDaniels\, composer of the contemporary jazz standard\, “Compared To What\,” and the San Francisco memoir\, Sunnyside Up\, set in the Ingleside District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-uniquely-sf-stories-by-sf-writers/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Valentine's Day Romance
DESCRIPTION:Authors Anna Pulley\, Meg Elison\, and Monica Nolan read romantic passages from their books in honor of Valentine’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-valentines-day-romance/
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:20180213T193000
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff celebrates the release of her new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \nAbout Winter Kept Us Warm \nA bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war life \nUlli is a young woman\, half-English and half-German\, squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two American soldiers: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia and then Paris for New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Murillo + Nicole Sealey
DESCRIPTION:John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection\, Up Jump the Boogie\, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award. His honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Cave Canem Foundation\, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches at Hampshire College and New York University.\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas\, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka\, Florida. She is the author of Ordinary Beast\, forthcoming from Ecco in fall 2017\, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named\, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review\, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize\, as well as fellowships from CantoMundo\, Cave Canem\, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation\, Inc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-murillo-nicole-sealey/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Richard Silberg
DESCRIPTION:Richard Silberg reads his poetry then sits for an interview and discussion. Silberg is an editor of Poetry Flash; he has published six books. A free chapbook of Silberg’s poems is available at the library — please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-silberg/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Day of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Traditionally\, members of the Japanese-American community and their allies observe February 19th\, the date in 1942 when Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt\, leading to the internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps spread throughout the country. \nTonight\, Shizue Seigel and Hiroshi Kashiwagi will read prose and poetry\, respectgively\, in observation of this dark chapter in American history — a chapter which seems to be rewritten from time to time\, seemingly endlessly\, as it is being rewritten today in this era of unspeakable travesties and cruelty. \nAn open mic follows the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-day-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Reading of Song of a Captive Bird with Jasmin Darznik
DESCRIPTION:Nave Alcove\, San Francisco Campus\n\n\n\n\n\nMFA in Writing Faculty Jasmin Darznik reading from and in discussion around her new novel Song of a Captive Bird. \nRSVP Now >> \nFor more information\, contact Ben Austin-Docampo\, b.austin-docampo@cca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-of-song-of-a-captive-bird-with-jasmin-darznik/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski reading from his new collection of poetry\n\nElegy For My Beat Generation \nfrom Lithic Press \n(Hilton Obenzinger will give an opening statement) \nElegy For My Beat Generation is a masterful river of lyricism\, spilling from one perception into the next. In these odes and elegies Cherkovski pays homage to his aging and gone friends from the heyday of all their lives\, contemplates his own dwindling days\, and attempts to come to grips with ultimate ends. \nPraise for Cherkovski’s work: \n“From Lithic Press a brave and poignant new book of poems by my friend Neeli Cherkovski. Here are tributes to Corso\, Ginsberg\, Kerouac\, DiPrima and even yours truly. He’s a skilled lyricist\, a portraitist of mood\, where the personal meets the historical.” –Alan Kaufman\, author of Jew Boy and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry \n“…in the end\, what stamps Cherkovski’s poetry as unique is its unbounded lyricism\, a lyrical gift easily greater than that of any other poet of his generation.” –Gerald Nicosia\, author of Memory Babe and Home To War
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neeli-cherkovski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday February 20th\, 2017\nOur featured artist is: Afi Ayanna!\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission\, full menu and bar in the front room.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-6/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie presents: HearSay! with local poets Mg Roberts\, Zack Anderson\, and Aniqa Tasnim
DESCRIPTION:A2 Cafe\, Oakland Campus\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for poetry and (free) pie. Humble Pie presents HearSay! featuring local poets and Writing & Literature majors\, Zack Anderson and Aniqa Tasnim. \nMg Roberts is a teacher\, poet and multimedia artist. She is the author of the poetry collections\, Anemal\, Uter Meck (Black Radish 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga 2014). Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh(forthcoming from Nightboat Books); an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She is a Kelsey Street Press member\, Northern California Kundiman co-chair and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, Goldendoodle\, and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-presents-hearsay-with-local-poets-mg-roberts-zack-anderson-and-aniqa-tasnim/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Alan Felsenthal with Dylan Furcall
DESCRIPTION:Alan Felsenthal runs a small press called The Song Cave with Ben Estes. Together\, they edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton. Alan’s writing has appeared in BOMB\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Critical Quarterly\, Fence\, jubilat\, and Harper’s. Lowly\, published by Ugly Duckling Presse\, is his first collection of poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-alan-felsenthal-with-dylan-furcall/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Neiwert / Alt America
DESCRIPTION:Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world\, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists\, xenophobes\, militia leaders\, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11\, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president\, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio\, TV\, and online\, the far right\, Tea Party movement conservatives\, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon\, Milo Yiannopoulos\, and Alex Jones\, once rightly dismissed as cranks\, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism. \nInvestigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America\, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism\, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage\, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right\, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society. \n— \nDavid Neiwert is a journalist and author and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360\, CNN Newsroom\, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His work has also appeared in the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, Salon\, and other publications. His previous books include The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right\, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community\, as well as And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border\, which won the 2014 International Latino Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-neiwert-alt-america/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: February Love
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate love and whatever else at Lyrics & Dirges with five fabulous readers: Fisayo Adeyeye\, Candace Eros Díaz\, Jacqueline Doyle\, Gillian Hamel & Nancy Huang. Free with refreshments and bookstore cats. Hosted and curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman and Lark Omura. \nblckfsh / bird enthusiast / benign boy / fisayo adeyeye has works published in souvenir lit journal / nailed magazine / the birds we piled loosely / and he is the author of cradles (nomadic press 2017) \nCandace Eros Díaz is a queer Xicana writer based in Oakland\, CA. She is a current Emerging Arts Professionals fellow and has previously held fellowships at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Lambda Literary\, and The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She co-curates the San Francisco reading series Babylon Salon and is the Coordinator for the MFA in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California where she earned a dual-concentration Masters in Fine Art in creative nonfiction and fiction. Her work has appeared in Under the Gum Tree\, Arroyo Literary Review\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She can be found at candaceerosdiaz.com. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl was recently published by Black Lawrence Press. She has new flash in Wigleaf\, Midway Journal\, and matchbook\, and new creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Under the Gum Tree\, and Superstition Review. Find her online atwww.jacquelinedoyle.com. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel is the author of occident (Called Back Books\, 2017). Her work has appeared in Public Pool\, The Elephants\, VOLT\, jubilat\, Dusie\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. She is a senior poetry editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. \nNancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from Voices/VONA and Tin House. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-february-love/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album
DESCRIPTION:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album\n\n  \nConcord Music reissues Allen Ginsberg reading HOWL on vinyl \nOpening statement by Garett Caples (Poetry Editor\, City Lights)\, and Ann Charters (BEAT Scholar) \nAppearance by Bill Belmont (Producer Concord Music/Fantasy Records) and the Poet Laureate of San Francisco Kim Shuck \nReminiscences of Allen Ginsberg and readings from HOWL by Neeli Cherkovski \nCraft Recordings\, the Catalog division of Concord Music\, is pleased to announce a deluxe vinyl box set\, celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s iconic Howl And Other Poems\, one of the most important pieces of modern American literature. Due out February 23rd\, the collection offers Ginsberg’s recording of the poems\, pressed on translucent red vinyl – reproducing the original 1959 LP release\, as well as a replica of the synonymous book of poetry\, published in 1956 by City Lights for their Pocket Poets series. Also included in the box set is a photo of Ginsberg from the ’50s\, a reproduction of the original City Lights reading invite from 1956 and a booklet\, with new liner notes by Beat scholar Ann Charters\, as well as notes by poet Anne Waldman. \nAllen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of the best-known writers of the Beat Generation as well as a leading figure in the counterculture movement. Tirelessly prolific throughout his life\, Ginsberg was most closely associated with was Howl – a poetic rage against society’s conformism and capitalism\, which rocked the literary world upon its publication\, and has gone on to be one of the most widely performed poems of the 20th Century. \nHowl is also noteworthy\, as it was at the center of a high-profile 1957 obscenity trial\, resulting in the arrest of City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, and bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The trial stands today as a prominent case for First Amendment rights\, having set a legal precedent for the publication of controversial works. Murao and Ferlinghetti were ultimately acquitted of charges\, as Howl was proven to be of redeeming social importance. Two years later\, Berkeley’s Fantasy Records (home to Dave Brubeck and\, eventually\, Vince Guaraldi and Creedence Clearwater Revival) issued a recording of Ginsberg reciting the contents of the pocket poem.  Although “Howl” itself is the centerpiece of the program\, each additional reading by Ginsberg is full of passion\, showcasing his brilliance both as a poet and a performer. His vaudevillian delivery carries the full weight of his honest observations on life\, love\, spirituality and existence. \nIn his introduction\, box set producer Bill Belmont notes that Howl “established the Beat generation of poets…as a cultural movement.” He goes on to argue that “the Beats successfully transitioned the generation gap between the mid-century post-war Beatnik movement to the more culturally transformative ’60s generation. In many ways\, the Beats influenced the cultural and musical era that followed.” Indeed\, Ginsberg was closely associated with several musicians of the era – most famously with Bob Dylan\, with whom he collaborated; but his work also has been cited as an influence by the likes of the Clash and Patti Smith\, as well as more modern acts\, such as Lana Del Rey and U2. \nIn her new liner notes\, Ann Charters shares her own experiences of hearing a live reading of the poem by Ginsberg in the mid-’50s\, recalling that “Courtesy shown to his listeners\, and patience sharing his poetry with large audiences\, were as much a part of Ginsberg as his breath. They were all essential parts of his being\, a poet honored worldwide in his lifetime as the quintessential ‘rebel bard.’” Decades after its recording\, Howl And Other Poems remains a lively and intimate listen\, and a reminder of Ginsberg’s consummate genius as both a writer and a performer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-howlthe-record-album/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roseann Lake / Leftover in China
DESCRIPTION:Roseann Lake visits The Bindery to discuss her new book\, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower. Join us! \nForty years ago\, China enacted the one-child policy\, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences\, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys\, these girls were pushed to excel in school and thrive in their careers\, as if they were sons. \nIn Leftover in China\, American journalist Roseann Lake chronicles the lives of these women\, who she first met during her years working as a television reporter in Beijing. Throughout China’s booming city centers\, Lake saw passionate\, highly-educated young Chinese women acquiring wealth\, property\, and a measure of independence in record numbers. Yet while her female colleagues ascended in their careers\, many struggled to find suitable romantic partners\, in spite of an overwhelmingly large male population and immense traditional\, parental\, and societal pressures to wed. \nKnown as “leftovers” if they’ve failed to marry by age twenty-five\, these women represent a China where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself\, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of it. Some find their potential suitors’ conservative expectations on the roles of women grating against their own sensibilities. Still others find themselves on the track to powerful careers\, surrounded exclusively by an older guard of already-married men and a dearth of compatible bachelors; the majority of China’s surplus men are poor\, uneducated\, and tied to the rural areas where they were born. \nThe result is a mounting social quagmire: a generation of millions in limbo\, torn between past and future\, born into a country advancing rapidly on the world stage while nevertheless remaining\, when it comes to matters of the heart\, caught in “a distant\, anachronistic realm that seem[s] straight out of a Jane Austen novel.” \nLeftover in China combines Lake’s rigorous reporting\, historical and demographic research\, and scores of touching (and often humorous) real life anecdotes from colleagues and friends to illuminate this curious and portentous moment in the history of the world’s most populous nation. Through her remarkably candid subjects\, Lake regales us with stories of desperate mothers hacking their daughters’ dating profiles to secure a quick proposal. She tells of professional mistresses and the extravagantly wealthy men who compete for them\, and the subtle art of saijiao\, or “the strategically executed temper tantrum.” One of Lake’s friends compares modern China to “a giant episode of Sex and the City\, except that instead of bawdy Samantha\, we have our practical and traditional Charlotte-like mothers.” \nUltimately\, Leftover in China reminds us that China’s population of young women will prove crucial for the country’s future. As Lake writes\, “Channeling their full economic engagement is not only a social imperative; it’s an economic necessity.” \n— \nRoseann Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing\, where she spent time as a television reporter and journalist. Her China coverage has appeared in Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, Salon and Vice\, among others. She divides her time between New York City and Havana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roseann-lake-leftover-in-china/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Jerkins / This Will Be My Undoing
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Morgan Jerkins for This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America. Please join us! \n  \nJerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \n  \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as\, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n  \n\n  \n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” —Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick \n  \n\n  \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-jerkins-this-will-be-my-undoing/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Reading Series: Sam Lipsyte
DESCRIPTION:Sam Lipsyte is the author of five books of fiction\, including The Fun Parts\, Home Land\, and The Ask. A Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Believer Book Award\, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-reading-series-sam-lipsyte/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang\, "Favorite Daughter\," with Aurielle Marie
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter-with-aurielle-marie/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro Presents: Morgan Jerkins on Race and Misogyny
DESCRIPTION:Blogger and essayist Morgan Jerkins boldly takes on the most incendiary of topics: the stew of racism\, misogyny\, and white-dominated feminism that sidelines black women from American discourse and influence. Her new book This Will Be My Undoing tallies the cost to us all of objectifying and silencing black women. Lauded by no less a voice than Roxane Gay\, Jerkins’ essays are a fearless tapestry of observation and personal experience. \nIn an evening with Angie Coiro\, host of KLF’s This Is Now series\, Morgan Jerkins examines what it means to walk through America as a black woman today. \nMorgan Jerkins is a writer and contributing editor at Catapult.co\, where she write the essay series To Be Seen and Unseen. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Elle\, Rolling Stone\, and BuzzFeed. This Will Be My Undoing is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-morgan-jerkins-on-race-and-misogyny/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dear Diary Zine Fest Pre-Party!
DESCRIPTION:Oh my goodness\, it is almost time for the Bay Area’s only PERZINE FEST! We are celebrating by hosting a zine reading the night before the fest! \nOut-of-town and local zinestresses will be reading select works from their *super popular* zines. Come hangout with Enola Dismay\, Alex Wrekk\, Angela Roberts\, Neelybat Chestnut and the rest of the Dear Diary Zine Fest crew. All exhibitors\, attendees\, and zine fans are welcome to come mingle and trade zines. \nIt’s gonna be a fun event\, so don’t miss it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dear-diary-zine-fest-pre-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An African American and Latinx History of the United States - With Author Paul Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Paul Ortiz’ new book An African American and Latinx History of the United States is the latest in Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History series. (Previous titles include Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.)\n \n\nOrtiz’ book examines U.S. history through the lens of African-American and Latinx activists. Much of the American history taught in schools is limited to white America\, leaving out the impact of non-European immigrants and indigenous peoples. The author corrects that error in a thorough look at the debt of gratitude we owe to the Haitian Revolution\, the Mexican War of Independence\, and the Cuban War of Independence\, all struggles that helped lead to social democracy. \n\n\n\n\nOrtiz shows the history of the workers for what it really was: a fatal intertwining of slavery\, racial capitalism\, and imperialism. He states that the American Revolution began as a war of independence and became a war to preserve slavery. Thus\, slavery is the foundation of American prosperity. With the end of slavery\, imperialist America exported segregation laws and labor discrimination abroad. As we moved into Cuba\, the Philippines\, and Puerto Rico\, we stole their land for American corporations and used the Army to enforce draconian labor laws. This continued in the South and in California.\n\nThe rise of agriculture in the US could not have succeeded without cheap labor. Mexican workers were often preferred because\, if they demanded rights\, they could just be deported. Convict labor worked even better. The author points out the only way success has been gained is by organizing; a great example was the “Day without Immigrants” in 2006. Of course\, as Ortiz rightly notes\, much more work is necessary\, especially since Jim Crow and Juan Crow are resurging as each political gain is met with “legal” countermeasures.\n\nThis book is a concise\, alternate history of the United States “about how people across the hemisphere wove together antislavery\, anticolonial\, pro-freedom\, and pro-working-class movements against tremendous obstacles.” It is a sleek\, vital history that effectively shows how\, “from the outset\, inequality was enforced with the whip\, the gun\, and the United States Constitution.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-african-american-and-latinx-history-of-the-united-states-with-author-paul-ortiz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: Shades of Gray
DESCRIPTION:February is the sluttiest month. Our theme is “shades of grey.” You know what to do. You’re welcome 😉 \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 fab February features are: Cassandra Dallett and Mimi Gonzalez\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\, February 24th\, 2018\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 coming soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-shades-of-gray/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shaina Hammerman / Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Shaina Hammerman as she launches her first book\, Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews. Joining her in conversation is Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni). Don’t miss it! \n  \nMotivated by Woody Allen’s brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall\, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film\, television\, theater\, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships\, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity\, multiculturalism\, belonging\, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen. \n  \n— \n  \nShaina Hammerman teaches Jewish studies\, cultural history\, film\, and literature at the University of San Francisco\, Mills College\, and San Quentin State Prison. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish History and Culture from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. \n  \nHelene Wecker grew up in suburban Chicago\, and received her Master’s in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel\, the New York Times bestseller\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was published by HarperCollins in 2013. Its sequel\, THE IRON SEASON\, will arrive in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shaina-hammerman-silver-screen-hasidic-jews/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #16 - Grief
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \nSarah Klineman\, Amy Harcourt\, Vincent Chu\, Galadrielle Allman\, Elizabeth Bernstein\, Jacqueline Hampton and Jennifer Lewis \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/165709004068905/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-16-grief/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang / Favorite Daughter
DESCRIPTION:In town from Austin\, TX\, Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. Reading with her are Bay Area poets Arati Warrier and Kiana Young—join us! \n  \nFavorite Daughter is a poetry collection trying to uproot America from inside the body\, and find where China is buried underneath. Divided into four parts\, Daughter explores ideas like navigating hybridity\, localism\, and harmony in ways that disturb commonly-held notions about broad terms like “belonging” and “cultural struggle.” A compilation of immigration stories\, Chinese radio segments\, Google translate entries\, and dictionary remixes\, Huang immerses herself in everything she is uncertain of. \n— \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing. \nArati Warrier is a South Asian American poet from Austin\, TX\, by way of diaspora. She graduated from UT\, Austin in May 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Asian American Studies. She featured on the final stage at Women of the World Poetry Slam 2014\, is a recipient of the Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets prize\, and is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. Familiar with both the stage and the page\, Arati has been on five slam poetry teams\, was awarded “Best Poem” at the national collegiate poetry slam\, and has been published in Junoesq Literary Magazine and The Aerogram. She has opened for poets like Dominique Christina\, Denice Frohman\, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\, Sam Sax\, and Sarah Kay. Arati’s other interests include dancing\, reading\, and loving intentionally. She currently works as a part time vegetable enthusiast and a full time high school English teacher. \nKiana Young is an unapologetically queer\, mixed race Chinese-American poet\, educator\, and activist from Southern California. In 2016 and 2017\, they represented CalSLAM at the CUPSI national collegiate poetry slam\, helping their team earn 8th and 13th place\, respectively. Kiana was a member of the 2016 Queer Emerging Artist Residency cohort with Destiny Arts Center in Oakland\, CA. In 2017\, Kiana was a finalist for the Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, and was a featured performer and speaker at Syracuse University. She also has three years of experience as a consent and sexual violence prevention educator in the Bay Area. This year\, Kiana will be graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Discourse and a minor in LGBT Studies––which means that they are a scholarly gay and you shouldn’t argue with them. Currently\, she works as a speech and debate coach for middle school and high school youth of color in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vincent Chu / Like a Champion
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch for Vincent Chu’s debut story collection\, Like a Champion! Please join us. \nIn eighteen stories that shine a light on people who are far from champions\, Like a Champion is an ode to underdogs and long shots\, sad office parties and one-sided basketball games\, disappointed worker bees and hopeful lovers. \nA lonely businessman on a cruise finds comfort in an unlikely companion. Two high school friends try to survive their last backyard wrestling match only to learn that not all endings can be choreographed. An expat teacher struggles with her new life overseas until a familiar stranger joins the faculty. A young woman fails to make progress in a strip mall boxing gym before discovering strength in her breaking point. \nVincent Chu’s work is funny and big-hearted\, and imbued with a generosity and warmth that reminds us that moments of glory can happen when we least expect it. \n— \n“In Like a Champion\, Vincent Chu decidedly hands us a triumphant collection of surprising\, energetic stories and good\, weird\, sometimes sad people. It is an intimate book that made me laugh out loud more than once. We are safe in Chu’s hands as he tackles the anxious thoughts of people who want to be loved and included\, of characters all-too-painfully human\, and he knows exactly when to close the door on these stories. I read this book thinking\, oh bless their hearts\, bless all of our hearts.” — Leesa Cross-Smith\, author of Every Kiss A War and Whiskey & Ribbons.\n— \nVincent Chu was born in Oakland\, California. His fiction has appeared in PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, Pithead Chapel\, Cooper Street\, Stockholm Review\, Chicago Literati\, WhiskeyPaper and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. This is his debut collection. He wrote most of the stories in Cologne\, Germany. He can be found online at www.vincentchuwriter.com or @herrchu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-chu-like-a-champion/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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