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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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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate African-American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Professor of African-American Literature at Mills College Dr. Ajuan Mance discusses nearly-lost works by Black authors in the United States prior to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Come hear voices from the past as we celebrate Black History Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-african-american-literature/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Ismail Muhammad
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-tongo-eisen-martin-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180228T210000
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CREATED:20180219T010319Z
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman
DESCRIPTION:Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz\, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson’s accompanying black-and-white scratchboard drawings.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nMatilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. \nRabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:André Aciman / Call Me By Your Name & Enigma Variations
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host André Aciman reading from his sensational novels Call Me By Your Name—now a major motion picture nominated for three Golden Globes—andEnigma Variations. \nPlease note: Due to popular demand\, this event has been moved to Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The event is free to attend\, but seating is limited.  \nAndré Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction\, when\, during the restless summer weeks\, unrelenting currents of obsession\, fascination\, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly\, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. \nA USA Today bestseller\, Los Angeles Times bestseller\, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Call Me by Your Name was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, Publishers Weekly\, The Seattle Times\, and New York Magazine\, and the film has been called “far and away the best movie of the year” by rogerebert.com; Esquire says it has “some of the most emotional moments in film history.” \n—Enigma Variations— \nEnigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul\, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy\, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker\, or a snowbound campus in New England\, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable\, transient\, and forever underwritten by raw desire. \nAhead of every step Paul takes\, his hopes\, denials\, fears\, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to other. But sooner or later\, we discover who we’ve always known we were. \n— \n“[Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who’s finally getting his vision down\, and he has to say it\, has to get it out. He’s made a magnificent\, living thing.” —Paul Lisicky\, New York Times Book Review  \n“A breathless\, sketched rendering of one man’s life in love\, Aciman’s novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust\, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure\, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly  \n— \nAndré Aciman is the author of Call Me By Your Name\, Out of Egypt\, Eight White Nights\, False Papers\, Alibis\, and Harvard Square\, and the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan. \nPlease note: \n>>> This event will be at Booksmith at 1644 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n>>> This is a free event\, but seating is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-call-me-by-your-name-enigma-variations/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T210000
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SUMMARY:Lily Hoang + Jackie Wang
DESCRIPTION:Poets Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang read from their work\, in their first-ever appearances at The Poetry Center. This is the first of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson \n  \nJackie Wang\nWang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series\, is a book of essays that includes her influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is the author of the nonfiction book Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte/MIT Press)\, a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-hoang-and-jackie-wang/
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:Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to welcome Brittney Cooper to read from and discuss Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. She will be in-conversation with Alicia Garza; please join us! \nIn the tradition of bell hooks\, Roxane Gay and Audre Lorde\, America’s leading young black feminist celebrates dissent—both personal and public\, reminding us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. \n— \n“Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called “homegirl and hand-grenade”—here\, like the homegirl she is\, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today\, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people\, and particularly Black women\, have the brilliance\, foresight\, and vision to bring a different America to fruition\, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil.” —Alicia Garza\, Special Projects Director\, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder\, Black Lives Matter \n“Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp\, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep\, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols.” — Michael Eric Dyson \n— \nBrittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race\, gender\, and politics for Cosmo. A professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University\, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective\, and her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, Ebony.com\, and TheRoot.com\, among many others. \nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. Garza\, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors\, also co-founded the Black Lives Matter network\, a globally recognized organizing project that focuses on combatting anti-Black state-sanctioned violence and the oppression of all Black people. Since the rise of the BLM movement\, Garza has become a powerful voice in the media. Her articles and interviews have been featured in Time\, Mic\, The Guardian\, Elle.com\, Essence\, Democracy Now!\, and The New York Times. \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Eloquent Rage\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittney-cooper-eloquent-rage/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Will Boast + Molly Antopol
DESCRIPTION:Will Boast discusses his new novel\, Daphne with Molly Antopol. \nPraise for Daphne \n“Will Boast has written a novel that exquisitely marries ancient mythology and au courant medicine to tell our favorite tale\, the love story\, with insights both age-old and brand-spanking new. It’s a fine\, fine ride.”- Antonya Nelson\, author of Bound and Funny Once \n“Richly meditative and quietly suspenseful\, Daphne breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions about love and risk―the unknowable cost of fully opening one’s heart to another. Will Boast writes beautifully about life’s daily moral gambles\, and Daphne is an outright marvelous debut.”- Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“In his stunning first novel\, Boast turns the myth of Daphne and Apollo into a modern love story about social anxiety and physical debilitation…Sharply observant\, both of the limits of human longing and of the fear of feeling trapped inside one’s body\, Boast’s understated tale is at once tragic and enchanting.”- Booklist\, Starred Review \nAbout Daphne \nElegantly written and profoundly moving\, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast’s reputation as a “new young American voice for the ages” (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion\, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake\, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy\, charming Ollie\, her well-honed defenses falter\, and she’s faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine\, manicured isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the vivid backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest\, Daphne is a gripping and tender modern fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-boast-and-molly-antopol/
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:Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 1\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York. \nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeffe’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-raeff-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n\n\n\n\n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T170000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot and Family of Henrietta Lacks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with both Rebecca Skloot and members of the Lacks family to discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks\, the subject of Skloot’s best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. \nSeating is limited. Tickets will go on sale for Stanford students and the Stanford community Monday\, Jan 29 at 12noon\, and for the general public Wednesday\, Jan 31 at 12noon. Tickets will be available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-rebecca-skloot-and-members-of-the-henrietta-lacks-family-tickets-42139533479 \nThe event is sponsored by the Stanford Storytelling Project\, Stanford Continuing Studies\, the Center for Biomedical Ethics\, and the Medicine & the Muse Program in Medical Humanities & the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-family-of-henrietta-lacks/
LOCATION:Cemex Auditorium\, Zambrano Hall Knight\, 641 Knight Way\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Cantíl: Lily Hoang\, Kevin Lo\, Andrea Marina
DESCRIPTION:Lily Hoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego. \nKevin Lo is a composer\, choreographer and writer based in Oakland (previously Australia\, born New Zealand). He works with spatiality\, machinic processes\, and has a background in the biological sciences. \nAndrea Marina is an indigenous writer originally from Miami\, whose topics mainly center on trauma\, killing men\, and her deep and abiding love for Florida swamps. She co-hosts Words of Resistance with Andrea Abi-Karam\, a monthly queer reading series focused on giving non-cis male identifying writers a platform to showcase their work. Her first chapbook “my dirty southern heart” was released through Mess Editions\, a local press. \n***\nCANTÍL is a venomous snake // a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about the series here: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cantil-lily-hoang-kevin-lo-andrea-marina/
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:Caroline Goodwin / The Paper Tree
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with Caroline Goodwin (The Paper Tree) and Linda Norton (The Public Gardens). Please join us for this special Friday evening event! \n  \nThe poems in The Paper Tree are redolent in sound and rich in the details of place. Caroline Goodwin deeply knows these landscapes of which she writes\, goat hair and fireweed and cedar. She spins words with such velocity and cunning that the poems weave a spell. One arrives out the other side wild with rainwater and moss\, mussel shells and lupine. This is not a collection to read once\, but to savor and return to again and again. \n– Erin Coughlin Hollowell\, author of Pause\, Traveler \n  \nThe Paper Tree is a brave\, luminous\, and beautifully wrought book “where the need to name the shape / does not even exist / and nothing can be pinned / down or held as evidence.” It begins with stems and stones\, death and beads. Then Goodwin takes us deep into a teeming world characterized by perhaps\, where tiny gold frogs hop away and leave a cool sheen on the arms (“A kind of sleeve”) and medicine grows in the rushes. Ultimately\, the edges of that mythic landscape blur into the relentlessly technological\, political\, and embattled present. But when we finally enter the familiar world (of radiation\, mass-incarceration\, and friend requests)\, we do so with a broadened sense of these key particulars: mother\, father\, daughter\, sister\, ghost.” \n– Chiyuma Elliott\, author of California Winter League and Vigil \n  \n— \n  \nCaroline Goodwin was born and raised in Alaska and moved to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. She is also the author of Kodiak Herbal (MaCaHu Press\, 2008)\, Text Me\, Ishmael (Literary Pocket Book Series #2\, 2012)\, Trapline(JackLeg Press\, 2013) and Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer’s Studio. From 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, CA. \n  \nLinda Norton is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome)\, and a book\, The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in 2012. Her second book\, Wite-Out\, is scheduled for publication this year. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and others\, and were exhibited in Ireland in 2014 at the Dock Arts Centre\, courtesy of a grant from the U. S. Embassy in Dublin. In 2017 Linda became a citizen of Ireland/EU. You can find collages\, reviews\, interviews\, and excerpts from her books at thepublicgardens.blogspot.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-goodwin-the-paper-tree/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180302T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T152448
CREATED:20180219T082122Z
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series: Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli\, and Catherine Theis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis! \nEvent is FREE. \nLaguintas beer\, wine and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street | Oakland\, CA\, 94609 \nHere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nLaguintas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation  \nauthor bios and photos follow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award and the chapbook “Fishing Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is a faculty advisor at Goddard College. Arisawhite.com \nAja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area capacity builder and writer of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent. Her debut collection\, Restless Continent (Litmus Press) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human; Great Spirit knew it all along.\n\n \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City\, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. \nCatherine Theis’ latest book\, MEDEA (Plays Inverse\, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets\, 2011)\, followed by her chapbook\, The June Cuckold\, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive\, 2012). Theis has received various fellowships and awards\, most notably from the Illinois Arts Council and the Del Amo Foundation. She is a Provost’s Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California\, where she also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Theis’ scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation\, poetics\, and performance studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-arisa-white-aja-couchois-duncan-adam-giannelli-and-catherine-theis/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180303T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T152448
CREATED:20180128T223754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051142Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180303T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T152448
CREATED:20180219T070608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T070608Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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