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SUMMARY:Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical\, thought-provoking contemporary fiction. \nThe February selection is Sing\, Unburied\, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones\, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner\, The Odyssey and the Old Testament\, Ward gives us an epochal story\, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discuss-the-contemporary-fiction-book-club/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Freud's Bar - - All the Jazz w/Henry Markman\, MD
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is pleased to host another installment of Freud’s Bar on Wednesday\, February 13th at 6:30pm. This week Henry Markmanwill present All That Jazz: The Therapy in Music\, The Music in Therapy. \nAre you interested in the world of psychology but afraid you may not understand all of the terms and jargon? Join us for monthly talks given by local Bay Area psychoanalysts. You don’t need to be a psychologist to check out Freud’s Bar. Just bring your interest and a friend! \nMusic is healing and enlivening\, as therapy can be. Part listening party\, part lecture\, we’ll look at what makes jazz and human conversation so meaningful and potentially freeing. “Communicate musicality\,” an idea derived from infant-parent studies\, is an intimate song without words – shared\nemotional narratives based on rhythm\, tone and gesture that are deeply pleasurable and creative. When it is flowing\, there is a sharing of rhythm that nurtures intimacy and creative expression in jazz and therapy. \n  \n  \nABOUT THE PRESENTER \nHenry Markman\, MD is a psychoanalyst working in Berkeley. He has written and taught seminars on aesthetic experience\, beauty\, music and psychoanalysis\, and various aspects of therapeutic technique and theory. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 – 6:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowse For Books\n\nPeruse our shelves \n\n\n\nOur Customers Have Great Taste!\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNewsletter\n\nSign up \n\n\n\nAudio\n\nYour audiobook needs await you at Libro.fm \nCouldn’t make it to an event? 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/freuds-bar-all-the-jazz-w-henry-markman-md/
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:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Andrea Brady with John James
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Brady with John James\nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group
URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-andrea-brady-with-john-james/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tara Conklin\, The Last Romantics
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times bestselling author of The House Girl explores the lives of four siblings in this ambitious and absorbing novel in the vein of Commonwealth and The Interestings. “Tara Conklin is a generous writer who deftly brings us into the world of this fictional family\, an engrossing and vivid place where I was happy to stay. The Last Romantics is a richly observed novel\, both ambitious and welcoming.” —Meg Wolitzer \n“The greatest works of poetry\, what makes each of us a poet\, are the stories we tell about ourselves. We create them out of family and blood and friends and love and hate and what we’ve read and watched and witnessed. Longing and regret\, illness\, broken bones\, broken hearts\, achievements\, money won and lost\, palm readings and visions. We tell these stories until we believe them.” \nWhen the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work\, The Love Poem\, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. \nIt begins in a big yellow house with a funeral\, an iron poker\, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that stretches before them\, the Skinner siblings–fierce Renee\, sensitive Caroline\, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona–emerge from the Pause staunchly loyal and deeply connected. Two decades later\, the siblings find themselves once again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bonds and forces them to question the life choices they’ve made and ask what\, exactly\, they will do for love. \nA sweeping yet intimate epic about one American family\, The Last Romantics is an unforgettable exploration of the ties that bind us together\, the responsibilities we embrace and the duties we resent\, and how we can lose–and sometimes rescue–the ones we love. A novel that pierces the heart and lingers in the mind\, it is also a beautiful meditation on the power of stories–how they navigate us through difficult times\, help us understand the past\, and point the way toward our future. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have an ADA accommodation request\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 11th. \nTara Conklin has worked as a litigator in the New York and London offices of a corporate law firm but now devotes her time to writing fiction. She received a BA in history from Yale University\, a JD from New York University School of Law\, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Born in St. Croix\, she grew up in Massachusetts and now lives with her family in Seattle\, Washington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tara-conklin-the-last-romantics/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:How 1960's Students Fought to Create A Better World - The Intriguing Story of the SDS
DESCRIPTION:The contributors in this book were mostly members of WSA. These accounts are both optimistic\, from those still inspired\, and bitter\, from those now critical of their involvement. The stories they tell speak across the years\, as a new generation–from Black Lives Matter to Fight for $15 to the Parkland students–faces decisions about how to organize and build alliances to stop wars abroad\, confront racial oppression at home\, fight for immigrant rights\, and end violence and neoliberal exploitation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday\, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is often portrayed as the drama of the good early 1960s SDS turning into Weatherman\, the small faction whose story ended in a bombed-out New York townhouse. \nIn his book You Say You Want A Revolution: SDS\, PL\, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance\, author John Levin shows the reality was quite different. SDS at its apex in 1968/69 numbered 100\,000 students whose political views reflected a rainbow of ideologies exploring what a new American left could be with a willingness to risk everything to stop the war in Vietnam and achieve social justice. When SDS splintered in June 1969\, a majority of the delegates supported the program of its Worker-Student Alliance caucus: building a strategic alliance between students and the working class to achieve the movement’s goals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-1960s-students-fought-to-create-a-better-world-the-intriguing-story-of-the-sds/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Then & Now: Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya
DESCRIPTION:We’re really excited to host two amazing\, accomplished\, dynamic writers and thinkers\, Diane Ward and Roberto Bedoya! \nDiane Ward was born in Washington\, DC where she attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She received a doctorate degree in Geography from UCLA. Her poetry publications include a collaboration with Tina Darragh and Jane Sprague in the Belladonna Elders series\, No List (no list) from Seeing Eye Books in Los Angeles\, Flim-Yoked Scrim from Factory School\, and When You Awake from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her poem\, “Fade on Family” was set to music by the Los Angeles composer Michael Webster and performed as part of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound series at the Schindler House in West Hollywood. “InHouse\,” a constructed poem\, appeared in Kindergarde\, the First Avant Garde Anthology for Children\, edited by Lee Ann Brown. She curated an edition of the Poetic Research Bureau’s “live magazine\,” @SEA\, around the theme “Flows.” She has been a member of “The Reader’s Chorus\,” performing in Los Angeles at MOCA\, the Museum of Jurassic Technology\, and the Velaslavasay Panorama. Her collaboration with the artist Ursula Brookbank is documented in the chapter\, “Borne-away: Tracing a gendered dispossession by accumulation” in the edited book\, Geopoetics in Practice\, forthcoming from Routledge. \nRoberto Bedoya is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland where he most recently shepherded the City’s Cultural Plan. – “Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan”. Through-out his career he has consistently supported artists-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging throughout his career. His essays “Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-Belonging”; “Spatial Justice: Rasquachification\, Race and the City” have reframed the discussion on cultural policy to shed light on exclusionary practices in cultural policy decision making. In addition to his essays he is the author The Ballad of Cholo Dandy\, a poetry chapbook (Chax Press) and an excerpt of his play “Decoto” is anthologized in Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997; ( Nightboat Books). He is a Creative Placemaking Fellow at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/then-now-diane-ward-and-roberto-bedoya/
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:Reema Zaman
DESCRIPTION:Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir\, I Am Yours. \n\nPraise for I Am Yours \n“Tender\, fierce\, compassionate\, and wise . . . a moving story about how one woman found her voice—and her power.”—Cheryl Strayed\, #1 NYT bestselling author of Wild \n“My heart just burst into a thousand songs after reading I Am Yours by Reema Zaman. From the first word to the last\, this story is phenomenal triumph of one woman’s body and voice rising up and through a culture that would quiet her. Moving through experience and language without flinching\, Zaman reminds us that to have a body is to bring a soul to life. A stunning debut.”–  Lidia Yuknavitch\, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Joan. \n“More than a memoir\, I Am Yours is a spiritual guide . . . poetic\, healing\, and so necessary.”—Gemma Hartley\, author of FED UP \n\nAbout I Am Yours \nI Am Yours is the story of Reema Zaman’s unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh\, to Thailand\, to New York\, to Oregon\, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting\, poetic as it is political\, and healing as it is haunting\, Zaman explores the many difficulties\, dangers\, and ultimately\, the necessity for all women\, all people\, to own and use their voices. With astonishing courage and intimacy\, Zaman is a reader’s author\, offering up a memoir written to alleviate the loneliness that often arises from being human in this world. A voice of a new era\, a revolution in itself\, an iconic debut that promises to shake global literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reema-zaman/
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:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, James Cagney\, and Christine No for a special Valentine’s Day poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Main Library. Join us! \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-3/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, February 14\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-19/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nreading from new work \nKeith Scribner reads from \nOld Newgate Road \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nTom Barbash reads from \nThe Dakota Winters \npublished by Ecco Press \nabout Old Newgate Road: \nFrom the author of The Oregon Experiment\, the story of a father’s return to his childhood home\, the site of unspeakable tragedy\, and of the complex and often warring obligations–not least forgiveness–we have to our family\, our friends\, and our past. \nOld Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth\, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring–painstakingly\, relentlessly\, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can’t go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house\, to this street\, in thirty years–not since he was a teenager\, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now\, however\, he finally dares to risk it\, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast\, and is shocked to discover his elderly father\, freed from prison\, living alone in their old home\, and succumbing to dementia. Compelled by a sense of responsibility to a man he hates\, and confronted in middle age by everything he’d left unfinished when he fled this place in his aborted childhood\, he finds that the time for a reckoning has at last come. \nMatters grow even more complicated when his estranged wife calls to say their ultra-progressive\, rabble-rousing son has run up against the law and been expelled from high school. And so Cole summons Daniel to East Granby to work in the tobacco fields–his own job growing up–and soon their lives are enmeshed with the family legacy\, and with Cole’s boyhood sweetheart as well as his nemesis. What unfolds over this summer surprises and challenges them all\, as they contend with the sinister history they share and desperately try to invent a future that isn’t doomed by it. \nAbout The Dakota Winters \nAn evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters\, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination \nIt’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter\, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria\, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father\, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter\, is there to greet him\, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long\, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career\, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York\, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics\, to the Hollywood Hills\, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle\, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson\, Ted and Joan Kennedy\, and a seagoing John Lennon. \nBut the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention\, the more he questions his own path\, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant\, The Dakota Winters is a family saga\, a page-turning social novel\, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large. \nTom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel\, The Last Good Chance\, which was was awarded the California Book Award\, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me\, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book\, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal\, was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, VQR\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio for their Selected Shorts Series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts. \nKeith Scribner grew up in Troy\, New York\, and then East Granby\, Connecticut. His previous novels are The Oregon Experiment\, Miracle Girl\, and The GoodLife\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He currently teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis\, where he lives with his wife\, the poet Jennifer Richter\, and their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-barbash-keith-scribner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robin LaFevers with Sabaa Tahir
DESCRIPTION:Robin LaFevers’ wonderful His Fair Assassins series tells the story of assassin nuns in Medieval France and is a store favorite. We are thrilled to welcome Robin to Kepler’s to celebrate her fabulous new book Courting Darkness\, the greatly anticipated highly praised return to the world of the bestselling His Fair Assassin series \n\n\n\n\nTold in alternating perspectives\, when Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin deep undercover in the French court\, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister in arms before her time—and that of the newly crowned queen—runs out. When Sybella accompanies the Duchess to France\, she expects trouble\, but she isn’t expecting a deadly trap. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown\, Sybella searches for the undercover assassins from St. Mortain’s convent who were placed in the French court years ago. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years\, she no longer knows who she is or what she’s supposed to be fighting for. When she discovers a hidden prisoner who may be of importance\, she takes matters into her own hands. As these two worlds collide\, the fate of the Duchess\, Brittany\, and everything Sybella and Genevieve have come to love hangs in the balance. \nRobin LaFevers is the author of the New York Times bestselling Grave Mercy\, Dark Triumph\, and Mortal Heart. She’ll be chatting with Sabaa Tahir\, author of An Ember in the Ashes\, A Torch Against the Night\, and A Reaper at the Gates. Come join the party
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-lafevers-with-sabaa-tahir/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ms. Kathleen Beitiks to talk about her book entitled\, Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco. \nA SFMOMA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/westwood-park-building-a-bungalow-neighborhood-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Ingleside Meeting Room\, 1298 Ocean Ave\, San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Land / Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother's Will to Survive
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special Saturday afternoon event to welcome Stephanie Land for her remarkable memoir Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Please join us! \n  \n“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.” \nWhile the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens\, grueling low-wage domestic and service work–primarily done by women–fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid\, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. In Maid\, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s inequitable society. \nWhile she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent\, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy\, navigating domestic labor jobs\, higher education\, assisted housing\, and a tangled web of government assistance\, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren’t being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. \nWritten in honest\, heart-rending prose and with great insight\, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost\,” Stephanie writes. With this book\, she gives voice to the “servant” worker\, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children. \n  \n\n  \n“If this book inspires you\, which it may\, remember how close it came to never being written. Stephanie might have given in to despair or exhaustion; she might have suffered a disabling injury at work. Think too of all the women who\, for reasons like that\, never manage to get their stories told. Stephanie reminds us that they are out there in the millions\, each heroic in her own way\, waiting for us to listen.” – From the Foreword to Maid by Barbara Ehrenreich\, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed \n  \n“What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood\, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net\, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty\, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy\, and people’s lousy attitudes toward poor people… Land’s prose is vivid and engaging… [A] tightly-focused\, well-written memoir… an incredibly worthwhile read.” – Roxane Gay\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir \n  \n“Marry the evocative first person narrative of Educated with the kind of social criticism seen in Nickel and Dimed and you’ll get a sense of the remarkable book you hold in your hands. In Maid\, Stephanie Land\, a gifted storyteller with an eye for details you’ll never forget\, exposes what it’s like to exist in America as a single mother\, working herself sick cleaning our dirty toilets\, one missed paycheck away from destitution. It’s a perspective we seldom see represented firsthand-and one we so desperately need right now. Timely\, urgent\, and unforgettable\, this is memoir at its very best.” – Susannah Cahalan\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness \n\n  \nStephanie Land‘s work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Vox\, Salon\, and many other outlets. She lives in Missoula\, Montana. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Maid\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-land-maid-hard-work-low-pay-and-a-mothers-will-to-survive/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Poets: One A Former ANC Militant; the Other a Theorist of Afro-Pessimism
DESCRIPTION:These two poets will read as part of The SF Poetry Center’s first annual Black Study Series. \nFrank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men (Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (Rutgers\, 2007).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-poets-one-a-former-anc-militant-the-other-a-theorist-of-afro-pessimism/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Frank B. Wilderson\, III and D.S. Marriott read from their poetry as part of The SF Poetry Center's first annual Black Study Series
DESCRIPTION:Frank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men(Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity(Rutgers\, 2007). \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-b-wilderson-iii-and-d-s-marriott-read-from-their-poetry-as-part-of-the-sf-poetry-centers-first-annual-black-study-series/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Green Apple Books on the Park\, featuring Heather June Gibbons\, Randall Mann\,Barbara Jane Reyes and Michelle Brittan Rosado
DESCRIPTION:Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the University of Utah Press. She teaches at San Francisco State University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco and the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017)\, and four previous collections of poetry. \nMichelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness\, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University\, Fresno\, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Southern California. \nRandall Mann is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Proprietary (Persea Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Northern California Book Award. A book of criticism\, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, is forthcoming from Diode Editions in March 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-green-apple-books-on-the-park-featuring-heather-june-gibbons-randall-mannbarbara-jane-reyes-and-michelle-brittan-rosado/
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:The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\na solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch\nat The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-a-solo-reading-and-conversation-with-annie-finch/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190218T210000
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CREATED:20190129T002251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T002251Z
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Poetry Express
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, with open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-poetry-express/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Bruce Bagnell":MAILTO:bagnell.bruce.a@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T193000
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SUMMARY:David Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nDavid Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His most recent book of poetry is Duppies\, a collection that mixes the tonality of lyric poetry with the aggression\, grit\, and speed of grime\, London’s street music. Marriott’s other books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo and In Neuter. His book Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being is forthcoming from Stanford University in June. A leading theorist of afro-pessimism\, he teaches black critical theory and culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-marriott/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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SUMMARY:Ayesha Harruna Attah
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel \npublished by Other Press \n\nBased on true events\, a story of courage\, forgiveness\, love\, and freedom in precolonial Ghana\, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. \nAminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche\, the willful daughter of a chief\, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region\, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. \nThrough the experiences of Aminah and Wurche\, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people. \nAyesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra\, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College\, Columbia University\, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Asymptote Magazine\, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayesha-harruna-attah/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile - - A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise\, on Tuesday\, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa Haile. \nSandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child\, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy\,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive\, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd\, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps\, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty\, single-spaced pages\, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic\,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. \n“Searing” (O\, The Oprah Magazine)\, “enthralling” (Star-Tribune\, Minneapolis)\, and “a marvel” (Esquire)\, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradiseshows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography\, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family\, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years\, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind\, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that\, to most people\, remains unimaginable. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSandy Allen is a writer\, speaker\, editor and teacher. Their essays and features stories have been published by BuzzFeed News\, CNN Opinion\, Bon Appétit’s Healthyish\, and Pop-Up Magazine. Sandy was previously BuzzFeed News’s deputy features editor. They also founded and ran the online-only literary quarterly Wag’s Revue. Sandy’s work focuses on constructs of normalcy\, including psychiatric disability and gender. Sandy is non-binary trans. Originally from Muir Beach\, CA\, they live in the Catskills. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is their first book. For more\, visit HelloSandyAllen.com \nRahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Outside\, and Pacific Standard. In Open Country\, her forthcoming memoir about through-hiking the Appalachian Trail\, explores what it means to move through American and the world as a black woman. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandy-allen-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-a-kind-of-miraculous-paradise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love. \n“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads\, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review\, The Offing\, and PANK\, has she been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore\, Art Farm Nebraska\, and The Vermont Studio Center\, among others. A born Vermonter\, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. \n\nMiriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth (University of Pittsburgh\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Poetry Foundation\, she’s written about the nomads\, hitchhikers\, and hobos living on America’s margins and crossed the continent as a hitchhiker and aboard freight trains herself. The author of two chapbooks—All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers\, 2013) and Pact-Blood\, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions\, 2013)\, Miriam grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas\, the daughter of a New York Jew and a goat-raising anthropologist involved in the back-to-the-land movement. These days she lives in  the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches creative writing and ESL\, helping jewelry students use laser cutters and architecture grad students wrap their heads around building information systems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection\, The Lumberjack’s Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! \n  \n“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be\, as it is here\, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is\, in its manner\, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment\, on loss\, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives\, myth and parable\, it is pithy\, magical\, its many insights\, its cautions and clarifications\, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy\, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” –Louise Gluck \nA boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition\, selected by Louise Gluck \nIn the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove\, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however\, instead of merely being severed\, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body\, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human\, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing\, time and memory\, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack\, his hand\, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story\, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love\,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled\, sliced to lumber\, & reassembled into a new body.” \nInflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points-of-view\, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise\, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T084643Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190220T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190220T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading in February: \nJenny Qi is a writer and scientist. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, BLR\, Atticus Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net\, and her first manuscript was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize. She has a PhD in Cancer Biology and works in science and health communications. She also co-hosts a storytelling podcast called Bone Lab Radio\, now in Season 2. Website: www.jqiwriter.com \nTony Aldarondo Is a Puerto Rican poet who has read his poetry from San Fran to Japan\, and in many venues throughout the bay area. He is an actor and a voiceover artist. And a member of the screen actors Guild\, and has toured the state of California with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He loves writing Poetry\, plays\, and music and is super excited to read at Pegasus Books. \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press) and two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover (Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Best New Poets\, Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco\, CA and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, the Writing Salon\, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth arts education non-profit. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, Sacramento\, Vancouver\, and Mumbai. Nomadic Press will publish his first collection Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory in August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nYaccaira Salvatierra is an educator and art instructor living in San José. Her poems have appeared in Huizache\, Diálogo\, Puerto del Sol\, and Rattle\, among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry\, the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. Although she has lived in over seven cities in California\, San José has been home for the past 17 years where she lives with her two sons. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
DESCRIPTION:Meet Jasmine Guillory\, a writer\, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. \nNew York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay called The Wedding Date “a charming\, warm\, sexy gem of a novel.” \nEntertainment Weekly gushed “Guillory writes with the fizzy effervescence of a glass of champagne\, and the entire book goes down just as easily (and quickly). The Wedding Date starts out as a fling\, but it makes us want a more long-term relationship with Guillory and her irresistible writing style.” \nKirkus Reviews called The Proposal “A charming book for the modern romance lover.” \nYou can find her online at @thebestjasmine on Twitter\, or at jasmineguillory.com. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing following the main event\, courtesy of East Bay Booksellers. \nWhen:\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019 – 6:30pm \nWhere:\nOakland Public Library: Main Library\nBradley Walters Community Room\n125 14th Street\nOakland\, CA 94612\nPhone: (510) 238-3134\nSee map: Google Maps
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-jasmine-guillory/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Chloe Aridjis
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nSea Monsters: A Novel \npublished by Catapult Press \nPulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division\, Nick Cave\, and Siouxsie and the Banshees\, an intoxicating portrait of Mexico in the late 1980s by this brilliant Guggenheim fellow and Prix du Premier Roman Étranger–winning author. \nOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City\, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead\, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás\, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness\, impulse\, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports\, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies\, nudists\, beachcombers\, and eccentric storytellers\, Luisa searches for someone\, anyone\, who will “promise\, no matter what\, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar\, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite\, the “Beach of the Dead.” \nMeanwhile\, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. \nChloe Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows\, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel\, Book of Clouds\, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes about art and insomnia and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chloe-aridjis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 21 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI eat crumbs out of the baby’s neck\nI’m glad there are no great poems by women\nI’m glad there are no great poems by Jews\nI’m glad there are no great poems about motherhood\nI’m glad no great poems have ever been written. \n—Lauren Levin\, from The Braid \nThe Poetry Center presents Poetry Center Book Award winner Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid\, (Krupskaya Books)\, together with award judge Melissa Mack. Both poets read from their work\, then engage in conversation with each other and the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \n\nMany of the books I read for the Poetry Center Book Award spoke to me\, were doing urgent and interesting work\, shared vital rhythms\, sounds\, forms\, and concerns. But The Braid rose. It articulated and worried—as in worked\, as in worried—some of my (and I would venture to say ‘our’) most pressing concerns. What I’m looking for is a way to join with the world / and love won’t let me do that any more than hatred will. And the way it did so was expansive and specific\, so good at the vague grammar of consciousness and the precision of “personal” experience. Maybe I should call this poem that refuses to stop / ‘the care-giver’ / or ‘the shepherdess’ or ‘the murderess’… Levin’s long poems made of long lines allow tenderness and aggression to coexist\, like in the game Levin plays with daughter Alejandra\, “Little bee\, little bee\, don’t sting your mama” / while she nudges my face with her mouth and nose … / and shouts into my mouth\, STING! Also\, the principal of the braid as a combinatory form in which the source materials remain fully themselves\, even when brought together\, I found so respectful and responsible in this era of cooption\, merging\, networks. Different bodies at different times in different places have different experiences. The obvious things are worth saying instead. Once\, my niece\, five years old or so\, told me\, of a party she’d been to\, “There was a part where I didn’t feel included.” I felt included in this braid alright. Levin’s examination of whiteness as the pastoral—willful innocence and a desire to be soothed\, to be able to exit the scene at any time—and of persistent anxiety was gripping. But I do believe that it is meaningful / where relief and solace come from // If I am not afraid / because I have been listening to Reagan speeches / vs. if I am not afraid // Because the bravery of my murdered friends / has taken my fear away / That is a meaningful distinction. The Braid is rigorous and uncomfortable and beautiful and I am glad to have picked it for this award and I hope everyone reads it.\n—Melissa Mack\, judge’s citation for the Poetry Center Book Award\n\nLauren Levin is a poet\, mixed-genre writer and art critic\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) and Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer\, Jewish great-aunt\, and aspirational Frank O’Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond\, CA\, are from New Orleans\, LA\, and are committed to queer art\, intersectional feminism\, being a parent\, and anxiety. \nMelissa Mack is the author of The Next Crystal Text (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) and the chapbook Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press\, 2014). Her work has also appeared in a variety of anthologies\, journals\, poet’s theater\, and that most ephemeral of forms\, the public reading. She organizes with the Oakland Summer School\, a collaborative\, non-institutional space of gathering & study created by a group of activists\, artists\, and educators\, and she lives and works in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-lauren-levin-and-melissa-mack-reading-and-in-conversation/
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:Marina Mularz
DESCRIPTION:Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection\, Welcome to Freedom Point. \n\nPraise for Welcome to Freedom Point \n“Fresh\, witty\, delightfully weird\, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused with quirky charm\, youthful energy\, and the palpable sense of age-old loneliness that can sneak up and gut you. A collection of deeply human contradictions.”– GINA FRANGELLO Author of A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting \nAbout Welcome to Freedom Point \nIt’s all happening in the small town of Freedom Point\, Wisconsin Karlee Starr explores the rhythms of young love and snot-soaked heartache on a middle school dance floor. Thirteen-year-old Jacob Kentor suffers an identity crisis at Hooters. Desperate yeti hunting conceals the death of a marriage. A motivational speech ends in arrest. Equal parts humor and heartbreak\, Welcome to Freedom Point dissects the thrills and spoils of small-town adolescence in a series of linked stories that captures the essence of what it means to come of age…at any age. In the spaces between each uproarious episode\, the good people of Freedom Point collectively celebrate–or simply survive–the deeply human art of aiming for more one uncomfortable leap at a time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-mularz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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