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SUMMARY:Does the Secret Mind Whisper?  Celebrating Bob Kaufman\, Poet
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation in association with the Oakland Book Festival and the African-American Center of the San Francisco Public Library presents: \nDoes the Secret Mind Whisper?\nCelebrating Bob Kaufman\, Poet \nFeaturing:\nAnne Waldman\nWill Alexander\nDavid Boyce\nKevin Carnes \nThe life and legacy of Bob Kaufman\, one of the most innovative and exciting voices in American poetry of the late 20th century\, is celebrated by a gathering of formidable talents.  \nAnne Waldman\, a towering presence in international arts and letters\, one of the pre-eminent poets of our times\, will be joined by African-American surrealist poet\, playwright\, and essayist Will Alexander\, presenting original work as well as classics from Kaufman himself. \nCollaborating with both Waldman and Alexander will be multi-instrumentalists David Boyce on saxophones and Kevin Carnes on drums and various percussion. Boyce and Carnes have been among the most fertile and imaginative improvisers in the world of the legendary Broun Fellinis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/does-the-secret-mind-whisper-celebrating-bob-kaufman-poet/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160411T200000
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Southern Sampler Artists Colony Poets
DESCRIPTION:The Left Coast Writers® and the Southern Sampler Artists Colony Poets invite you to join them for an evening of poetry readings in celebration of National Poetry Month! Poems of all shapes and sizes will be shared and recited\, so usher in the spring with a wonderful evening amongst talented friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-southern-sampler-artists-colony-poets/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160411T190000
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SUMMARY:Jacquelyn Mitchard
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in the terrifying darkness of a Christmas Eve tsunami\, Two If by Sea takes the reader from the ravaged shores of Brisbane to the heartland of America to a quaint English village. Jacquelyn Mitchard keeps her story fully anchored in the emotions of her characters: While coping with grief\, finding comfort in the fragile safety of family\, daring to hope for new love\, and summoning the kind of courage that can only come from protecting a child\, these characters resonate with feelings and complexities we recognize as our own. \nJacquelyn Mitchard is the national bestselling author of The Breakdown Lane\, Twelve Times Blessed\, and The Deep End of the Ocean\, which was the very first book picked by Oprah for her book club. She also has several children’s books to her credit: Baby Bat’s Lullaby\, Starring Prima!\, and Rosalie\, My Rosalie. Jackie lives outside Madison\, Wisconsin\, with her husband and eight children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacquelyn-mitchard/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays: A Reading Honoring Jean Pumphrey
DESCRIPTION:Audrey “Jean” Pumphrey was a gifted poet and teacher who lived to share the joys of creative writing with others. She was born in Dayton\, Ohio in 1931 and attended Dennison University before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953. Jean received her M.A. in English from San Francisco State University and in 1967 began a long career teaching English and Creative Writing at the college of San Mateo. AS the founding director of the College’s Poetry Center\, she brought internationally renowned poets to campus-wide events and classes. She also conducted highly successful creative writing workshops at mental hospitals and community senior centers for persons who had never written before. After Professor Pumphrey retired from the College of San Mateo in 1993\, she became a founding and active member of the Marin Poetry Center\, and also hosted many gatherings of poets and writers in her home in Sausalito. The beauty of the Bay and coastal waters and mountains of Marin County continually inspired her writing. Ms. Pumphrey died in 2014 while at work on this collection. This book came out via a collaborative effort by Jean’s friends. \nThe following poets have been invited to read poems from Jean’s book as well as one of their own\nBarbara Brauer\, Ella Eytan\, Susan Griffin\, Jackie Kudler\, Louise Nayer\, Kate Peper\, James Nihan\, Dr. Catharine Clark Sayles\, Judith Levy-Sender\, Ramon Sender\, Doreen Stock\, Al Young\, Joe Zaccardi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-a-reading-honoring-jean-pumphrey/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:April's Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Readings
DESCRIPTION:April’s Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Readings presents Trace Peterson and TC Tolbert\, editors of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics;Julian Talamantez Brolaski\, author of Advice for Lovers; Gr Keer\, author of Heterotextual; and Zoe Tuck\, author of Terror Matrix.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aprils-perfectly-queer-lgbtq-readings/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160412T194500
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SUMMARY:RADAR: Gabriel García Román\, Ajuan M. Mance\, Mira Gonzalez\, + Faith Adiele
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: APRIL QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nTuesday\, April 12\, 2016\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\n5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nGabriel García Román\nGabriel Garcia Roman was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico in 1973 and raised in Chicago. He received his B.A. from The City College of New York where he studied studio art. Garcia is a photo-based artist and craftsman. As an artist\, he is constantly looking for ways to counteract the flatness that’s inherent to the medium of photography: weaving\, folding\, cutting\, interlacing prints or collaging are all different attempts at realizing that goal. Photography allows him to explore aspects of his identity and decode the world he lives in. Queer. Mexican. American. Immigrant. Secular. Catholic. Urban Apartment dweller. Country nomad. Queer Icons\, his most recent body of work\, looks at the\nQTPoC community\, a disenfranchised community and turns them into heavenly beings. The work has been written up by media outlets like\, Fusion\, Huffington Post\, NPR and The Advocate\, to name a few. He currently lives and works in New York City. \nAjuan M. Mance\nA lifelong artist\, Ajuan Mance works in acrylic on paper and canvas\, ink on paper and\, for the 1001 Black Men project\, ink on paper and digital media. She began writing and illustrating the autobiographical comic series Gender Studies in 2014. Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area\, as well as at the University of Oregon\, the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago\, IL\, and the Reinhardt-Fisher Gallery in Trenton\, NJ. Her work has appeared in a number of publications\, including\, most recently\, Cog\, Transition\, and Mission at Tenth. A professor of English at Mills College in Oakland\, Ajuan art work is partly inspired by her teaching and research in U.S. Black literature and history. A 19th-century African American literature specialist\, she holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Look for a full-color version of Ajuan’s “Requiem for a Hot Comb” in the upcoming Alphabet anthology\, from Prism Comics\, out this spring. \nMira Gonzalez\nMira Gonzalez is a writer from Los Angeles\, CA. She is the author of two books. Her first book was nominated for The Believer Poetry Award and The Goodreads Choice Award. She lost the latter to the guy who wrote Lord of The Rings\, who is dead. Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in Nylon\, VICE\, The Guardian\, Thought Catalog\, Hobart\, Muumuu House and others. \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele is author of the memoirs\, THE NIGERIAN-NORDIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO LADY PROBLEMS and MEETING FAITH\, which won the PEN Open Book Award. She is also writer/narrator/subject of MY JOURNEY HOME\, a PBS documentary about her mixed family\, and editor of COMING OF AGE AROUND THE WORLD: A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY. She lives in Oakland\, where she runs an African Book Club at Octopus Literary Salon\, and teaches at VONA/Voices: Summer Workshops for Writers of Color\, California College of the Arts\, and The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-gabriel-garcia-roman-ajuan-m-mance-mira-gonzalez-faith-adiele/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:wordWIND Chorus
DESCRIPTION:q. r. hand\, jr. (voice and poetry)\, moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about forty years ago. Originally published in the 1968 classic\, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro American Writing\, edited by Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Larry Neal\, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press\, he is the author of three poetry books\, i speak to the poet in man (jukebox press)\,how sweet it is (Zeitgeist Press) and whose really blues: new & selected poems (Taurean Horn Press). \nLewis Jordan (saxophone and poetry) is producer of Music at Large (an interdisciplinary music and arts project). He focuses on creative structures for improvisation\, and his interest continues to be meeting and working with performers who delve into their deeper resources for modes of expression that honor their traditions while speaking to the urgency of the present. \nBrian Auerbach (voice and poetry) has published as a music journalist\, poet and photographer. He works as a communications and technology manager at a San Francisco-based university\, while pursuing writing and the visual arts. \nReginald Lockett passed away in 2008. wordWind chorus continues to perform his work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordwind-chorus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christina Hutchins + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Christina Hutchins (Tender the Maker) & Tess Taylor (Work and Days): New Poetry Collections \nFollowed by open mic. \nContact Reference Desk at 526-3720.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christina-hutchins-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Crane w/ Eden Lepucki
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Crane in conversation with Eden Lepucki\, introduced by Matthew Zapruder \ncelebrating the release of Elizabeth Crane’s new novel \nThe History of Great Things \nfrom Harper-Perennial \nA witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nIn two beautifully counterpoised narratives\, two women—mother and daughter—try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each other.The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois\, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star\, and her daughter\, Elizabeth\, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent\, always larger-than-life mother. In a tour de force of storytelling and human empathy\, Elizabeth chronicles the events of her mother’s life\, and in turn Lois recounts her daughter’s story—pulling back the curtain on lifelong secrets\, challenging and interrupting each other\, defending their own behavior\, brandishing or swallowing their pride\, and\, ultimately\, coming to understand each other in a way that feels both extraordinary and universal. \nThe History of Great Things is a novel about a mother and daughter who are intimately connected and not connected enough; it will make readers laugh and cry and wonder how we become the adults we always knew we should—even if we’re not always adults our parents understand. \nElizabeth Crane is the author of the novel We Only Know So Much\, and three collections of short stories: When the Messenger is Hot\, All this Heavenly Glory\, andYou Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award\, and her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. A feature film adaptation of We Only Know So Much will be released in 2016. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me originally published by Flatmancrooked\, and recently re-released by Nouvella Press.  The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014. \nMatthew Zapruder is a poet\, editor\, translator\, and professor in the MFA program at the University of California\, Riverside-Palm Desert and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. His poetry has been published by Copper Canyon Press and his work has also appeared in The Boston Review\, The Believer\, Fence\, Bomb\, McSweeney’s\, Jubilat\, Conduit\, Harvard Review and many others. Together with Joshua Beckman he is co-editor of Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-crane-w-eden-lepucki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s first day\, April 12\, will include readings from Abeer Hoque\, Lucas Mann\, and Sara Michas-Martin. \nAbeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She is the author of three books: Olive Witch\, a memoir; The Lovers and the Leavers\, a collection of linked stories\, photographs\, and poems; and The Long Way Home\, a coffee table book of travel photographs and poems. Her photographs have been featured in two solo exhibitions. Hoque has a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumna of the University of San Francisco’s MFA Program in writing. \nLucas Mann is the author of Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere\, a 2013 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and Lord Fear: A Memoir\, named one of the best books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. His essays and stories have appeared in Gawker\, BuzzFeed\, TriQuarterly\,New South\, Wigleaf\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently an assistant professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. \nSara Michas-Martin is the author of Gray Matter\, which received the 2014 Poets Out Loud Prize. Other awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers Conferences. Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, Best New Poets\, Denver Quarterly\, Harvard Review\, Threepenny Review\, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Michigan\, Goddard College\, Stanford\, and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-1/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Frank B. Wilderson\, III
DESCRIPTION:Readings are free & open to the public \nLocation: Maude Fife Room (Wheeler Hall #315)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-frank-b-wilderson-iii/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The 2015-2016 Steinbeck Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Join the CLA and the Steinbeck Center for readings by this year’s Steinbeck Fellows Candace Eros Diaz\, Jennie Lin\, and Gabriel Thompson. \nApril 13\, 7pm – Reading and Discussion\, MLK Steinbeck Center 590 \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Steinbeck Studies \nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-2015-2016-steinbeck-fellows/
LOCATION:Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies\, SJSU\, 1 Washington Square \, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories
DESCRIPTION:Release Party and Celebration for The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.  \nCo-sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jewelle-gomez-the-gilda-stories/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2016 One Book One Marin Culminating Event - The Martian
DESCRIPTION:Andy Weir’s acclaimed science fiction novel\, The Martian\, has been selected as the 2016 honoree for One Book One Marin. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary\, One Book One Marin seeks to build a stronger\, enriched community through community dialogue\, and the exploration of literature and culture. The One Book One Marin program will conclude with a special event on Wednesday\, April 13\, 2016\, at Dominican University’s Angelico Hall\, featuring Andy Weir and KQED host Michael Krasny in conversation. \nWinner of the 2015 Audie Award for Best Science Fiction\, The Martian follows an American astronaut\, Mark Watney\, who through a series of tragic events\, is left behind on the red planet\, stranded and facing certain death. He must improvise in order to survive. The story is told mostly through Watney’s log entries\, chronicling his efforts to finding a way to grow food\, make water\, and get himself off the planet. Interspersed among the log entries are sections told from the point of view of the NASA specialists\, back on Earth\, who discover that Watney is not dead (as everyone assumed) and scramble together a rescue plan. A film adaptation of the book was released in early October 2015. \nPopular across the United States and throughout the world\, One Book programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city or county. The city\, county and college libraries of Marin\, and community partners Book Passage and the Institute for Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California collaborate to bring Marin County readers stimulating programming and events related to the book throughout a three-month period\, February – April\, each year. All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-one-book-one-marin-culminating-event-the-martian/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin: The Skin of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:In The Skin of Meaning\, Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fueled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry\, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities. \n“Reading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic\, conceptual\, strongly non-personal vision….His writing about AIDS\, brilliantly gathered here—rich\, fantastic\, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world.” –Kevin Killian \nAaron Shurin is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Citizen\,King of Shadows\, and Involuntary Lyrics. His honors and awards include the Gertrude Stein Award\, the Bay Area Art Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-the-skin-of-meaning/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Manguso
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Manguso is the author\, most recently\, of the memoirs Ongoingness\, The Guardians\, and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her other books include the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise and the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape. Her prose has appeared in Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, and the f\, and her poems have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-manguso/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160413T213000
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SUMMARY:Molly Prentiss + Tom Barbash
DESCRIPTION:Molly Prentiss reads from and discusses her debut novel\, Tuesday Nights in 1980\, with Tom Barbash. \nPraise for Tuesday Nights in 1980: \n“It isn’t easy to write a novel about art\, and even harder to write a novel about art this good\, with this much energy and verve and sense of adventure — and Molly Prentiss has done it. ‘Tuesday Nights in 1980’ is much more than an accomplished first novel; it is a beautifully written story of creation and transformation\, set against a backdrop of urban decay and political violence. I loved this book.” – Daniel Alarcón\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles & Lost City Radio \n\n“For those of us who like our novels soulful and brainy\, ambitious and deeply felt\, Molly Prentiss has given us a first work of fiction to marvel at and then savor. This is a serious young writer in full command of her craft.” – Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me \n\n“Whether her canvas is as broad as the New York City art world in the good old days of glitz and excess\, or as small as the quiet\, deeply moving connection between brother and sister\, Molly Prentiss seems able to render any expression of humanity expertly onto the page. TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 has worlds in it\, all wildly appealing\, and Molly Prentiss has chops to spare. I can’t imagine the soul who won’t love this book.” – Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas\n \nAbout Tuesday Nights in 1980: \nAn intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic\, an artist\, and their shared muse as they find their way and ultimately collide amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.\nWelcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty\, quickly gentrifying playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett\, a synesthetic art critic for the “New York Times “whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound\, magical ways\, and Raul Engales\, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene\, dual tragedies strike\, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art.\nIt is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason a small town beauty and Raul’s muse and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they ve lost.\nAs inventive as Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad “and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer’s “The Interestings\, Tuesday Nights in 1980 “boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended\, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful\, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty\, community\, creation\, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-prentiss-tom-barbash/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160413T193000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s second day\, April 13\, will include readings from Naomi J. Williams and Jill Talbot\, followed by the panel discussion. \nNaomi J. Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Her debut novel\, Landfalls\, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and Best American Honorable Mention for her short fiction. Her work has appeared in Zoetrope\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Williams has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and lives with her family in northern California. \nJill Talbot is the author of a memoir\, The Way We Weren’t\, and Loaded: Women and Addiction. She is the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity\,DIAGRAM\, Ecotone\, Fourth Genre\, The Normal School\, The Paris Review Daily\,Passages North\, and The Pinch. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T180000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T121203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T121203Z
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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Zoë Ferraris
DESCRIPTION:Zoë Ferraris moved to Jeddah\, Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. She lived in a conservative Muslim community with her then-husband and his family\, a group of Saudi-Palestinians. In 2006\, she completed her MFA at Columbia University. Her debut novel\, Finding Nouf\, and a follow-up novel\, City of Veils\, have been published in over thirty countries. Her third novel\, Kingdom of Strangers\, came out in 2012. \nAll readings take place in Morrison Library unless otherwise indicated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-zoe-ferraris/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T121458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T121458Z
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SUMMARY:Jessica Knoll: Luckiest Girl Alive
DESCRIPTION:As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School\, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking\, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now\, with a glamorous job\, expensive wardrobe\, and handsome blue blood fiance\, she’s “this close” to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her\, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. \nWith a singular voice and twists you won t see coming\, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to have it all and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth\, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for or\, will it at long last\, set Ani free? \nJessica Knoll has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at SELF. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr\, Pennsylvania\, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, New York. This is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-knoll-luckiest-girl-alive/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T200000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T125239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T125239Z
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SUMMARY:Write from the Gut #11
DESCRIPTION:Come to our final reading for Spring term at SF Creative Writing Institute. Event will take place at Wework Golden Gate: 25 Taylor Street. San Francisco\, CA 94102 in the 7th floor lounge. Beer and snacks will be provided. Amazing writers serving up their best works-in-progress for you to enjoy. Featured readers will be students and workshop participants of the Winter 2016 term from SF Creative Writing Institute. There will also be an open-mic for friends\, alumni and everyone else.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-from-the-gut-11/
LOCATION:Wework Golden Gate\, 25 Taylor St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T195000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T121827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T121827Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Circle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly poetry program at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library features you and what you like on the second Thursday of each month from 6:30 pm-7:50 pm.   Come\, participate in the friendly atmosphere\, share a ready ear\, read aloud (or recite)\, and let the words do their weave and swing and work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-circle/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T203000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T122126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T010309Z
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker + Maria Medina Serafin
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Bob Booker & Maria Medina Serafin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-maria-medina-serafin/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T122634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T122634Z
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SUMMARY:MY FAULT is OUR FAULT: a book celebration
DESCRIPTION:Leora Fridman’s first book is happening\, and in celebration let’s gather to share things like: \nmusic from Josh Finn\, Bryan Alvarez & others ! !\na communal fault ritual !\nopportunities to predict the activities of the San Andreas & Hayward Faults !\nceremonies for your faults & the faults of others !\nsome reading from me from my newborn book & readings from others !\nother surprises that hopefully will not harm you in any way ! \nyay. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/239375343080379/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-fault-is-our-fault-a-book-celebration/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160414T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T124716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T124716Z
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SUMMARY:Kemper Donovan: The Decent Proposal
DESCRIPTION:An addictively readable romantic comedy\, drama\, and mystery rolled into one\, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition. This is a funny\, tender\, and enchanting story about love\, attraction\, and friendship: Jane Austen in Los Angeles. \nA struggling Hollywood producer\, Richard Baumbach is twenty-nine\, hung-over\, and broke. Ridiculously handsome with an innate charm and an air of invincibility\, he still believes good things will come his way. For now he contents himself with days at the Coffee Bean and nights with his best friend Mike (that s a woman\, by the way). \nAt thirty-three\, Elizabeth Santiago is on track to make partner at her law firm. Known as La Maquina The Machine to her colleagues\, she s grown used to avoiding anything that might derail her quiet\, orderly life. And yet recently she befriended a homeless man in her Venice neighborhood\, surprised to find how much she enjoys their early-morning chats. \nRichard and Elizabeth’s paths collide when they receive a proposal from a mysterious\, anonymous benefactor. They’ll split a million dollars if they agree to spend at least two hours together just talking every week for a year. Astonished and more than a little suspicious\, they each nevertheless say yes. Richard needs the money and likes the adventure of it. Elizabeth embraces the challenge of shaking up her life a little more. Both agree the idea is ridiculous\, but why not? \nWhat ensues is a delightful journey full of twists\, revelations\, hamburgers\, classic literature\, poppy music\, and above all love\, in its multitude of forms. The Decent Proposal is a heartfelt and often hilarious look at the ties that bind not just a guy and a girl but an entire\, diverse cast of characters situated within a modern-day Los Angeles brought to full and irrepressible life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kemper-donovan-the-decent-proposal/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160415T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T125931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T125931Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman is a celebrated poet\, performer\, professor\, editor\, and cultural activist. She is the former director and founder of The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery and cofounder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder\, where she is a Distinguished Professor of poetics and artistic director of the Summer Writing Program. \nWaldman is the author of over 40 books of poetry including the hybrid narrative poemManatee/Humanity (2009) and the feminist 1\,000-page epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (2011)\, which won the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. \nShe is known for her magnetizing public performances and frequently collaborates with musicians and dancers including Meredith Monk\, Thurston Moore\, and her son\, Ambrose Bye. \nWaldman will sign copies of her books following the lecture. \nThis event is cosponsored by the MFA in Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman/
LOCATION:Timken Lecture Hall\, CCA San Francisco Campus\, 1111 Eighth Street \, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160415T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160406T130535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T130535Z
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Your Story Was This
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\nAfter Hours – Liss Fain Dance: Your Story Was This\nAn immersive performance installation integrates Fain’s choreography with three poems by Jane Hirshfield\, embedded in an original score by Dan Wool. Fain’s work fuses modern dance’s forceful energy with the kinetic precision of ballet. Q&A with Fain and Hirshfield follows performance. Fain\, Hirshfield\, and costume designer Mary Domenico are all Mill Valley residents. \nWhat is After Hours?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience:\nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-your-story-was-this/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160415T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
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SUMMARY:Kim Dower: Last Train to the Missing Planet
DESCRIPTION:Critically-acclaimed poet Kim Dower reads from her extraordinary new poetry collection\, Last Train to the Missing Planet. Acclaimed for combining the accessible and profound\, Kim Dower’s poetry has been described by The Los Angeles Times as “Sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-dower-last-train-to-the-missing-planet/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160407T004955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T004955Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Doubles
DESCRIPTION:A Freaky Saturday criss–cross: writers pair up to read\neach other’s work\, songwriters cover each other’s songs.\nMichael Crabtree/Nancy Hall\nAndrew Demcak/Rick May\nFred Dodsworth/John Panzer\nJacqueline Doyle/Stephen D. Gutierrez\nPeg Alford Pursell/Olga Zilberbourg \nNo charge
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-doubles/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260612T072223
CREATED:20160407T010121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T010121Z
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SUMMARY:Macaroni Necklace #5.2: Woltag\, Hume\, Wilson + Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Come to San Francisco release and reading for Macaroni Necklace #5\, featuring new writing by Laura Woltag\, Angela Hume\, Mary Wilson\, and Ismail Muhammad! \nMacaroni Necklace is a Bay Area DIY literary zine dedicated to publishing (mostly) poets\, fiction writers\, and text-based artists who have yet to published a full-length collection. Reading and zines are free. \nMacaroni Necklace #5 was self-curated\, with writers picking and introducing other writers to bring into the Macaroni fold. \nLAURA WOLTAG lives in South Berkeley. Her most recent chapbook is Hush Hyletics (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Her poems have been installed along the Deer Creek Trail in Nevada City by Unmanned Minerals\, and appear in print in Where Eagles Dare\, Try\, OMG!\, and the\nanthology It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny In Oakland. \nANGELA HUME lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). You can learn more about Angela at angelamhume.tumblr.com. \nMARY WILSON lives holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University\, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Gobbet\, Sun’s Skeleton\, Everyday Genius\, Anomalous\, and Coconut. \nISMAIL MUHAMMAD is a writer and Ph.D. candidate living in Oakland. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Avidly\, and Public Books. Sometimes he tweets @trapmotives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/macaroni-necklace-5-2-woltag-hume-wilson-muhammad/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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