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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tallent: Scratched
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism\, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich\, dramatic\, and constantly surprising personal life. \n\n\n\n\n “One of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”–Sigrid Nunez \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Scratched by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nScratched is an intimate account of the uses a child\, and the adult she becomes\, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington\, D.C.\, when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter\, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her own mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment\, Tallent moves back and forth in time\, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. \nTallent traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family\,” to her adulthood\, when perfectionism came to affect everything. In the decade between 27 and 37\, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in The New Yorker. But this extraordinary start to her career is followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote\, or rather published\, nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. \nTallent’s early publications secure her a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. As she toggles between Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives\, raises her son Gabriel\, and pursues an important psychoanalysis\, she grapples with the perfectionism that has always been home to her. Eventually\, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place\, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. \nHer final triumph is the writing of this memoir\, filled with wit\, humor\, and heart\, and unlike any other you will read. Scratched is a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence. \nElizabeth Tallent\, author of a novel and four story collections including Mendocino Fire\, has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, and ZYZZYVA as well as in the Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, O. Henry Prize\, and Pushcart Prize award anthologies. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives with her wife\, an antiques dealer\, on the Mendocino Coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-tallent-scratched/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Slam Jam!
DESCRIPTION:Slam Jam! \nA series presenting original music and poetry featuring a rotating lineup of Bay Area Spoken Word Artists and Musicians. \nHeld on the Cabaret Stage at The Marsh Arts Center 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA. \n——————- \nBook Release Party for TUREEDA MIKELL!\nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\nNomadic Press \nThe wordsmiths with us tonight: \nNOISE ALLSTAR BAND \nGENIUS WESLEY – drums\nDANNY BROWN – saxophone\nMICHAEL TINY LINDSEY – bass\nMANNY BERRY – keys \nON THE MIC \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN\nKWAN BOOTH\nTUREEDA MIKELL\nJAMES CAGNEY\nABDUL KENYATTA\nMELISSA JONES——————- \nThere is a full bar on-site with great drink specials so this event is 21 & up. \nJoin us at the Marsh Arts Center: a breeding ground for new performance!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slam-jam/
LOCATION:The Marsh Berkeley\, 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Super Tuesday with Mark DiCamillo
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nLongtime pollster Mark DiCamillo will discuss the California primary election\nand provide an overview of other elections taking place across the\ncountry on Super Tuesday. Currently Director of the UC Berkeley IGS\nPoll\, DiCamillo last spoke here before the 2016 Presidential election. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens February 10th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-super-tuesday-with-mark-dicamillo/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Revolution Books 40th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Sahar Delijani\, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez\, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. \n6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments\n7pm Program & champagne toast \nThis is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise\, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. \nYou feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature\, poetry\, history\, science\, art\, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. \nRevolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political\, intellectual\, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique\, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution\, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley\, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future. \nThe store still concentrates and captures what was best in Berkeley in the 60s—the wildness and fury and intellectual\, cultural and scientific daring and rebellion of the times. At RB we seek to foster a culture of revolt against a revolting culture while nurturing art that imagines in the present what a future world and people could be. And at RB people experience and can take up the science of revolution in the extensive body of work of Bob Avakian that shatters demoralized defeatist preconceptions that the misery and spirit crushing world today is all that could be. \nThere is a reason the fascists who come to Berkeley have focused on Revolution Books and attacked it again and again. It has to do with how they hate the Enlightenment—hate critical thinking\, search for the truth; and how they see that revolutionary communism is fundamentally opposed to everything they are about. \nThere is all this and much more to celebrate about Revolution Books—both parts of its name. Join with the staff of Revolution Books and its broader community to make this anniversary\, and the future of this unique place all it needs to be. Keep Revolution Books the vibrant\, daring intellectual center for an actual revolution it must be now more than ever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolution-books-40th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Revolution Books\, 2444 Durant Ave.\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Disobedient Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:February is the month of love and loneliness\, Pisces and Leap Year. But we’re doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong in the world\, we’re celebrating DISOBEDIENCE. Tell us about being naughty\, or just plain bad\, about subverting expectations\, talking back\, bucking the system\, civil or marital or animal disobedience\, about saying no. Or yes. Or don’t do any of that. I’m not the boss of you. I’m not even your real mom. \nFebruary featured writers: Yume Kim & Georgina Marie \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \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 29\, 2020\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 \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has previously attended the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat during the summer of 2012 at Fordham University. Her recent chapbook\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Additionally some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, West Wind Review\, Transfer\, Sugared Water\, Writing Without Walls\, and The East Bay Review. \nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lake County\, Northern California. She was one of three finalists for the 2018-2020 Lake County Poet Laureate term and is in the running for the 2020-2022 term. She is involved in her literary community as a writer\, supporter of writers\, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in readings in Lake\, Mendocino\, Napa\, Alameda\, and San Francisco counties. In 2019\, she served as editor for RESTORE\, a collection of written word and visual arts for the Middletown Art Center\, was guest editor for author Nicole Gulotta’s online writers support group\, and had an ekphrastic poem in collaboration with Los Angeles artist Richard Chow featured at the Griffin Museum of Phptography in Boston\, Massachusetts. She currently hosts the Harbin Writers Collective at Harbin Hot Springs and aims to continue encouraging and promoting the literary movement in Lake County. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook\, Finding the Roots of Water\, in 2018 and recently completed her second chapbook\, Tree Speak\, in 2019. In 2020 she is working on her full-length manuscript to submit to publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-disobedient-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing\, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose work mines second-hand imagery to bring into focus culture and economies for a clearer understanding of social structures. The author of How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy\, her work has been featured in The Economist\, Wired\, Die Zeit\, and Le Soir. Jenny Odell teaches digital art and physical design at Stanford. \n“An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us.”—Annie Vainshtein\, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \n“An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency\, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it.”—Jennifer Szalai\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell-on-how-to-do-nothing/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press presents…\nBook Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok\nSat Feb 29\, 7pm\nEastSide Cultural Center\n2277 International Blvd. Oakland\n& Bandung Books\n2289 International Blvd. Oakland\nFREE COMMUNITY EVENT • accessible venue \nJoin us for a special evening\, as we celebrate Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection\, A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON. Featuring a traditional blessing dance by Morodok Khmer Performing Arts & readings by poets Safia Elhillo\, Charif Shanahan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, sam sax \, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, and Charleen McClure. After the show\, there will be a book signing next door at Bandung Books. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \nLearn more here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/ \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020) and YEAR ZERO\, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, selected by Marilyn Chin. In 2018\, her work was recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, CA. She is originally from Lancaster\, PA. [Photo Credit: Andria Lo] \nVisit her website here: www.monicasok.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-party-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Eastside Cultural Center\, 2277 International Blvd\, Oakland\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
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:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T204500
DTSTAMP:20260406T133408
CREATED:20191227T171553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T171553Z
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-2/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T133408
CREATED:20200203T223944Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease and Hank Lazer Reading
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, Testify (Coffee House Press\, 2011)\, and Broken World (Coffee House Press\, 2007). Lease’s poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Lease’s poem “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” was anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley\, Guest Editor). His poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in The New York Times. \nMarjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate\, as soft-spoken as they are indignant\, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained . . . Lease has complete command of his poetic materials. His poems are spellbinding in their terse and ironic authority: Yes\, the reader feels when s/he has finished\, this is how it was—and how it is. An exquisite collection!” \nOf The Body Ghost\, David Shapiro wrote: “When I was very young\, my father a ‘skin doctor’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like\nthese terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry\, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands\, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” \nLease’s poetry is also collected at PennSound\, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University\, KQED (NPR)\, The Scottish Poetry Library\, The Poetry Project\, Bay Poetics\, The AGNI 35th Anniversary Poetry Anthology\, Litscapes 2015\, The Colorado Review\, The Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Interim\, and elsewhere. Lease has been asked to read at numerous colleges and universities. He has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University\, Brown University\, Harvard University\, and California College of the Arts. Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume (#34) and Talisman (#42). In 2015\, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-and-hank-lazer-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T210000
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CREATED:20200126T013958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T201443Z
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SUMMARY:Opening celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Center\, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and others tba
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Tuesday evening event celebrating the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network—directed by Isabelle Pelaud\, writer and professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Thi Bui\, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with DVAN co-founder Viet Thanh Nguyen)\, She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill\, and by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is co-sponsored by DVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE\, and is free and open to the public.\n“Refugee to Detainee” presentation: Thi Bui (author of The Best We Could Do) \nDiscussion with DVAN co-directors: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathiser) & Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Professor in Asian American Studies) \nPoetry reading: She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan\, and Julie Thi Underhill \nA musical essay: Danny Nguyen \nEmcee: Philip Nguyen \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nDVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nLiving in Dreams: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud In Conversation with Vi Khi Nao (Feb. 7\, 2019) \nThi Bui with Lauren Markham\, One City One Book interview at the San Francisco Public Library (video\, posted Oct 29\, 2018) \nPaul Beatty in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fall 2017) \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\nDVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/opening-celebration-of-the-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-center-featuring-viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-others-tba/
LOCATION:Jack Adams Hall\, César Chavez Student Center\, SFSU\, SFSU\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T200000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Magdalena Zurawski
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-magdalena-zurawski/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T200000
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SUMMARY:Fred Moten: Approaching Buenaventura
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Fred Moten in reflection and dialogue on his most recent journey towards Buenaventura\, navigating the deep affinities and differences between Black and Indigenous radical struggle in Colombia and the United States. \n“The problem of our “relations” to institutions will surely arise but outside the framework of normal understandings of equity and inclusion and by way of a radicalization of the notion of diversity.” —Dr. Fred Moten \nFred Moten studies the black radical tradition. He works collaboratively with Stefano Harney\, Laura Harris\, Wu Tsang\, Manolo Callahan and many others. His latest book is all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions\, 2019). He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. \nMATATU artist and percussionist Marshall R. Trammell performs at 6:30pm to open the space\, followed by the talk and response. Audience participation guides the course of the conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fred-moten-approaching-buenaventura/
LOCATION:African American Museum and Library\, 659 14th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Lisa Brown / The Phantom Twin\, with Wendy Macnaughton
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts our favorite illustrator\, Lisa Brown\, for her new book The Phantom Twin. She’ll be in conversation with Wendy Macnaughton. Please join us! \nA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin\, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters\, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails\, causing Jane’s death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted\, altered\, and alone for the first time\, can Isabel build a new life that’s truly her own? \n\nLisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator\, author\, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book\, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults\, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art. \nWendy Macnaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco\, The City in its Own Words\, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology\, Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them\, Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos\, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert\, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes\, The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles. Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine\, and co-founder of  Women Who Draw. Before all that stuff\, she studied art and social work\, worked as a copywriter in advertising\, a campaign director for non-profits\, a bookseller in a used bookstore\, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda\, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya\, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul\, two cats and a dog. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \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 The Phantom Twin\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-lisa-brown-the-phantom-twin-with-wendy-macnaughton/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Javad Djavahery
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in conjunction with Restless Books and City Lights Booksellers present \nJavad Djavahery \nreading from his new novel \nMy Part of Her \ntranslated by Emma Ramadan\, published by Restless Books \nFor our unnamed confessor\, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There\, he is not the “poor relative from the North\,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers\, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado\, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor\, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later.\nOver the next twenty years\, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political\, religious\, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written\, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth\, the folly of love\, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. \nIranian novelist and short story writer\, Javad Djavahery currently resides in Paris after being forced to flee Iran and claim refuge in France at the age of 20. For many years he lived as a political refugee\, waiting to return to his home country. During these years\, he owned nothing more than what could fit in a suitcase. When asked where he’s from\, Javad responds by saying that he was born once in Iran\, and then a second time at the age of 20 in Rennes\, his adoptive city. He have not returned to Iran since his departure\, which allows him “to preserve in my memory images of a country that no longer exists.” Shifting between literature and film\, he has produced many films and co-written numerous screenplays including Red Rose (directed by Sepideh Farsi). A bilingual author\, he has two short story collections in Persian. His first novel Soupir de l’Ange was published by Éditions de l’Aube. His second novel\, Ma part d’elle (My Part of Her) was published in 2017 by Gallimard. \nEmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence\, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff\, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship\, a PEN/Heim grant\, and a Fulbright scholarship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javad-djavahery/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T210000
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SUMMARY:Evan Bloom\, Rachel Levin\,&; George McCalman: Eat Something
DESCRIPTION:Evan Bloom\, co-owner of Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen\, Rachel Levin\, and George McCalman discuss their new cookbook Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews. \nPraise for Eat Something \n“My Russian-born mother always used to ask\, “Is it good for the Jews?” And I have to say that Eat Something not only is good for the Jews but also will make them chuckle and enjoy cooking. This book offers a fresh California perspective and a dash of cultural irreverence.” – Joyce Goldstein\, chef & author \n“This book is an extremely entertaining and haimish guide to Jewish food and the role it plays in our lives.” – Josh Russ Tupper\, 4th generation co-owner of Russ & Daughters \n“This book embodies the spirit of Jewish soul food we all need right now. Equally delicious and inspiring\, it satisfies like a holiday brisket\, with a joy that lasts for days (minus the heartburn).” – David Sax\, author of Save the Deli \nAbout Eat Something \nFrom nationally recognized Jewish brand Wise Sons\, the cookbook Eat Something features over 60 recipes for salads\, soups\, baked goods\, holiday dishes\, and more. \nThis long-awaited cookbook (the first one for Wise Sons!) is packed with homey recipes and relatable humor; it is as much a delicious\, lighthearted\, and nostalgic cookbook as it is a lively celebration of Jewish culture. \nStemming from the thesis that Jews eat by occasion (and with enthusiasm)\, the book is organized into 19 different events and celebrations chronicling a Jewish life in food\, from bris to shivah\, and all the makeshift and meaningful events in between\, including: Shabbat\, Passover\, the high holidays\, first meal home from college\, J-dating\, wedding\, and more. \n• Both a Jewish humor book and a cookbook\n• Recipes are drawn from the menus of their beloved Bay Area restaurants\, as well as all the occasions when Jews gather around the table.\n• Includes short essays\, illustrations\, memorabilia\, and stylish plated food photography. \nWise Sons is a nationally recognized deli and Jewish food brand with a unique Bay Area ethos—inspired by the past but entirely contemporary\, they make traditional Jewish foods California-style with great ingredients. \nRecipes include Braided Challah\, Big Macher Burger\, Wise Sons’ Brisket\, Carrot Tzimmes\, and Morning After Matzoquiles\, while essays include Confessions of a First-Time Seder Host\, So\, You Didn’t Marry a Jew\, and Iconic Chinese Restaurants\, As Chosen by the Chosen People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evan-bloom-rachel-levin-george-mccalman-eat-something/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T125000
DTSTAMP:20260406T133408
CREATED:20191219T073059Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Lunch Poems: Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:Ocean Vuong is the author of the internationally best-selling debut novel\, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press 2019). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection\, Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2016\, and winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Harpers\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, and The New York Times. Born in Saigon\, Vietnam\, he lives in Northampton\, Massachusetts\, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at UMass-Amherst.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200305T203000
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SUMMARY:Homeless Activist Poet Sarah Menefee Reads From Her New Book Cement
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco poet and homeless activist Sarah Menefee’s latest\, voices from the streets and of comrade angels; along with Haitian-born poet and performer Boadiba\, with her thrilling poetry\, storytelling and ritual: A lively evening is expected!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homeless-activist-poet-sarah-menefee-reads-from-her-new-book-cement/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200306T190000
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SUMMARY:Colonize This! w/ Lexi Adsit\, Sonia Guiñansaca\, Rebecca Hurdis\, Darice Jones\, Luna Merbruja\, Bhavana Mody\, Natani Notah\, Bushra Rehman.
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome contributors from the new edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism on Friday\, March 6th at 7pm. We will be joined by Lexi Adsit\, Sonia Guiñansaca\, Rebecca Hurdis\, Darice Jones\, Luna Merbruja\, Bhavana Mody\, Natani Notah\, Bushra Rehman. \nJoin us for the first West Coast reading from the NEW edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism! \nColonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism has been described by Ms. Magazine as one of the “100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time\,” by Vibe  as “13 Books Every Mujerista & Womanist Should Read” and on Buzzfeed as one of 19 Books “On Intersectionality That Taylor Swift Should Read.” \nThe NEW edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism! is a protest to the current political regime in our country. It is a response to the deportations of immigrant families\, to the relentless killing of black people by police officers\, and to the media outlets that describe the abuse of girls by old white men as ‘sexual encounters.’ This book\, being as it is a gathering of young women of color sharing their experiences and intellectual insights\, stands in defiance of what is happening in the courts\, in Washington\, and on the streets of our country. \nThis edition includes nine new essayists\, writing on topics from gun violence to trans motherhood; serving as an abortion doula\, to organizing migrants; navigating call-out culture as a transgender Latina to challenging rape culture on campus. It is an empowering survey of feminism as practiced by women of color and a clarion call for the next generation. Join us to celebrate the writers in Colonize This! and our collective resistance. Come out to meet the new essayists along with original contributors and editor during this special evening at East Bay Booksellers. \nThe reading will be followed by book signing.  \n  \nABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS \n\nLexi Adsit is a fierce\, fat\, and femme trans latina woman born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has helped organize groundbreaking projects such as the Queer Yo Mind Conference at San Francisco State University\, the International Trans Women of Color Network Gathering\, and the first all-trans women of color comedy show Brouhaha. Her writing has been featured on Salon\, on Autostraddle\, and in the new anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. You can find out more about her work and get in touch with her at lexiadsit.com. \nSonia Guiñansaca is an international award winning queer migrant poet\, cultural organizer and social justice activist. They emerged as a national leader in the migrant artistic and political communities where they coordinated and participated in groundbreaking civil disobedience actions. Guiñansaca co-founded some of the largest undocumented organizations in the US\, including some of the first artistic projects by and for undocumented writers and artists. Sonia has worked for over a decade in both policy and cultural efforts building equitable infrastructures for migrant artists. They have been awarded residencies and fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation\, Poetry Foundation\, British Council\, and the Hemispheric Institute for Performance & Politics. Guiñansaca has performed at the Met\, the NYC Public Theater\, Lehmann Maupin Gallery and has been featured on PEN American\, Interview Magazine\, Ms Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, Diva Magazine UK\, and PBS to name a few. Sonia self- published Nostalgia and Borders in 2016\, and in 2020 is releasing #PapiFemme and launching Alegria Press\, a publishing house for undocumented writers. Soniaguinansaca.com Twitter/IG: @TheSoniaG \nRebecca Hurdis has lived in the Santa Cruz area since 1995.  She left academia in 2014 to become the Executive Director of a residential program for houseless pregnant women.  She returned back to academia as staff in 2018.  She has a teenage daughter and when they are not talking about tik tok\, youtube\, and thrift store finds\, she relentlessly lectures to her on the importance of women of color feminism\, intersectionality\, and justice and equity. \nDarice Jones\, aka DJ\, based in Oakland\, California\, is a writer and director. In the mid-2000s\, she copublished a Bay Area queer zine called PussyTown. Jones completed her first feature film\, She Wasn’t Last Night\, in 2009. She was able to showcase the blacklesbian project internationally to receptive Afri-Queer audiences. Through her small indie film organization Griot Soul Films\, she is currently in development on three new projects: Love Letters to Black Children (a short-form web series)\, Resonance (an Afrofuturist feature fantasy)\, and The Seven Codes (an urban TV fantasy series). She has also continued her storytelling through novel writing and poetry. In addition to her creative works\, DJ is development director at Brava! for Women in the Arts\, a San Francisco nonprofit theater Organization. \nLuna Merbruja is a Mexican-Athabaskan multidisciplinary artist and writer. They are the author of Heal Your Love and Co-Executive Director of Heartspark Press that recently released 99% Chance of Magic\, an illustrated anthology for trans children. They have been published in Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic\, The Resilience Anthology\, and various online magazines. You can find their work archived at luna.merbruja.com and follow them on social media @LunaMerbruja.” \nBhavana Mody lives in Novato\, California\, where she indulges in hikes and long bike rides in the redwoods and near the Pacific Ocean. For her primary job she teaches elementary school environmental science in English and Spanish at a dual-immersion public school in Napa. Since writing her essay for the first edition of Colonize This!\, Bhavana has made several visits to India\, deepening her relationships with her extended family and her culture and passionately taking up yoga and meditation. She has been teaching yoga for about fifteen years and is currently training to become a yoga therapist. Perhaps one of the few South Asian yoga teachers in Marin County\, Bhavana teaches yoga classes and Indian dance classes\, shamelessly claiming her Indian-ness. \nNatani Notah is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation (Diné) on her father’s side and part Lakota and Cherokee on her mother’s. Her work has been exhibited at the Holland Project\, Reno (2019); Edwin W. Zoller Gallery\, Penn State University\, University Park (2019); Mana Contemporary\, Chicago (2019); Stanford Art Gallery\, California (2018); SOMArts Cultural Center\, San Francisco (2018); and Root Division\, San Francisco (2018). Notah has received awards from the San Francisco Foundation\, Art Matters\,\nand the International Sculpture Center. She has been published in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature\, Art & Thought\, Sculpture Magazine\, Tripwire\, and the second edition of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. She has had artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Grounds for Sculpture\, she is a 2019–20 affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts\, and she will participate in the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in 2020. Notah holds a BFA with a minor in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies from Cornell University and an MFA in art practice from Stanford University. \nBushra Rehman is a writer and cultural activist. Her poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon is “a love poem for Muslim girls\, Queens\, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home–and surviving.” Her novel Corona\, a dark comedy about being Pakistani-American\, was noted by Poets & Writers among the year’s Best Debut Fiction and her co-edited anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism was chosen as one of Ms. Magazine’s &100 Best Non-fiction Books of All Time.” Rehman’s first YA novel Corona: Stories of a Queens Girlhood is forthcoming from Tor\, an imprint of Macmillan. She is creator of the community-based writing workshop ‘Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Memoir and Autobiographical Fiction.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colonize-this-w-lexi-adsit-sonia-guinansaca-rebecca-hurdis-darice-jones-luna-merbruja-bhavana-mody-natani-notah-bushra-rehman/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY 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\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Moore Ramée: "A Good Kind of Trouble"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Moore Ramée will be in conversation with David William Hill and reading from her debut YA novel\, “A Good Kind of Trouble.” \n“Full of heart and truth\, A Good Kind of Trouble has all of the makings to be this generation’s Roll of Thunder\, Hear My Cry. Much like Cassie Logan’s\, Shayla’s experiences\, pitfalls\, and triumphs will inspire young people for years to come. It is a well-written page-turner with a voice that stays with you long after you put the book down.” —Angie Thomas\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-moore-ramee-a-good-kind-of-trouble/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Night of Jazz and Spoken Word
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the second collaboration between Charles Blades Barber Spa and Pochino Press! Our feature for this edition is live jazz by the Isaac Schwartz and friends. We’ll have local vendors\, hot food for sale\, and of course the open mic. All are welcome! Our last event featured first time readers\, singers\, and published authors. We got love for everyone!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-jazz-and-spoken-word/
LOCATION:Charles Blades Barber Spa\, 180 2nd St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Odd Mondays March 2020 Reading: Larkin\, Sindell & Subramanian
DESCRIPTION:Odd Mondays offers you three very different novels for March: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\, THE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\, and SWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin. Hear excerpts from these very original works Monday\, March 9\, 6:30pm at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and free refreshments. \nHere’s more about the books:\nA PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF HEAVEN by Mathangi Subramanian\nIn the tight-knit community known as Heaven\, a ramshackle slum hidden between luxury high-rises in Bangalore\, India\, five girls on the cusp of womanhood forge an unbreakable bond. Muslim\, Christian\, and Hindu; queer and straight; they are full of life\, and they love and accept one another unconditionally. Whatever they have\, they share. When the local government threatens to demolish their tin shacks in order to build a shopping mall\, the girls and their mothers refuse to be erased. Together\, they wage war on the bulldozers sent to bury their homes\, and\, ultimately\, on the city that wishes that families like them would remain hidden forever. \nTHE PUGILIST POETS OF VENICE by Jon Sindell\nMeet Hammerhead Hirsch\, a charismatic middle-aged boho known in the 60s as “The Pugilist Poet” for his Golden Gloves boxing crown and Beat poetry chops. Thirty years later\, Head has become a first-time father and his joy is immense—until the mom bolts. Can Head last fifteen rounds as a single dad with a paltry income\, scanty prospects\, biting personal demons\, and a “ball-and-chain” kid? The tale is told by a worshipful youth who accompanies Head and his son every step of the way on a ten-year-long\, three-way journey of struggles\, missteps\, love\, and growth. \nSWIMMING FOR SUNLIGHT by Allie Larkin\nWhen recently divorced Katie Ellis and her rescue dog Bark move back in with Katie’s grandmother in Florida\, she becomes swept up in a reunion of her grandmother’s troupe of underwater performers. Although most of the mermaids have since lost touch\, Katie helps Nan search for her old friends on Facebook\, sparking hopes for a reunion show. Katie is up for making some fabulous costumes\, but first\, she has to contend with her crippling fear of water. Then\, Katie’s college love Luca\, a documentary filmmaker\, enters the scene. She struggles to balance her hopes with her anxiety and begins to realize just how much Bark’s fears are connected to her own\, in this thoughtful\, charming novel about hope after loss and friendships that span generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-march-2020-reading-larkin-sindell-subramanian/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alec Karakatsanis / Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with Alec Karakatsanis for his new book\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \nFormer public defender and civil rights attorney Alec Karakatsanis has made it his mission to challenge the fact that we have developed two legal systems in this country: one for the rich\, and one for the poor. He and his organization\, Civil Rights Corps\, have brought lawsuits across the nation challenging cash bail\, modern-day debtors’ prisons\, and prosecutorial misconduct. They have won landmark cases that strike at the heart of America’s crisis of mass human caging\, freeing tens of thousands of people from jail and returning tens of millions of dollars to his clients and their families. Composed of three essays written across the span of this rising star’s dynamic legal career\, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System calls for a radical and collective reckoning with the way our criminal punishment system has evolved. \n\nA former public defender\, Alec Karakatsanis is the founder of Civil Rights Corps\, an organization designed to challenge systemic injustice in the criminal legal system. He was named the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice and was awarded the Stephen B. Bright Award for contributions to indigent defense in the South by Gideon’s Promise. Karakatsanis is interested in ending human caging\, surveillance\, the death penalty\, immigration laws\, war\, and inequity. The author of Usual Creuelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System\, he lives in Washington\, DC. \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Usual Cruelty\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alec-karakatsanis-usual-cruelty-the-complicity-of-lawyers-in-the-criminal-injustice-system/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Kerr\, Death Is but a Dream at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Hospice of Santa Cruz County\, in partnership with Bookshop Santa Cruz\, presents Dr. Christopher Kerr who will discuss and sign copies of his new book\, Death Is but a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End—the first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. \nChristopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who\, in the face of death\, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as “more real than real\,” these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships\, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life’s meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. \nDrawing on interviews with over 1\,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data\, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients’ stories point to death as not solely about the end of life\, but as the final chapter of humanity’s transcendence. Kerr’s book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved\, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. \nBeautifully written\, with astonishing real-life characters and stories\, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is but a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine’s and humanity’s greatest mystery. \nChristopher Kerr is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo\, New York. Born and raised in Toronto\, Canada\, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in Neurobiology. Outside of direct patient care\, Chris’ focus is in the area of patient advocacy. His passion is palliative care and a belief that such care should be throughout the continuum of illness. Under Dr. Kerr’s medical leadership\, Hospice Buffalo now serves 1\,000 patients a day\, half of whom receive services prior to hospice. \nDr. Kerr’s background in research has evolved from bench science towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside\, specifically patient’s dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored\, these near universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning\, as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated. To date\, the research team at Hospice Buffalo has published multiple studies on this topic and documented over 1\,500 end-of-life events\, many of which are videotaped. This work was the subject of his TEDx Buffalo Talk which has been viewed over 2 million times. It has been the subject of reports on The BBC\, in The New York Times\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Scientific American Mind\, Huffington Post\, and Psychology Today. It will also be featured in an upcoming Netflix production and a documentary film to be released in 2020. It has also gathered international attention and Dr. Kerr’s work will also be published in a book (Death Is But A Dream) by Penguin Random House to be released in February\, 2020. \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 any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 7th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-kerr-death-is-but-a-dream-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, was a silver medal winner in First Fiction from the California Book Awards\, a New York Times editor’s choice\, and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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