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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160417T170000
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CREATED:20160407T010725Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here. \nFull schedule of events coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Alana Apfel
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Alana Apfel to the store to discuss and sign Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities\, on Sunday\, April 17th at 3:00pm. Joining her in conversation will be Bay Area doula\, Jewel Buchanan-Boone and local birth activist\, Ariel Gore. \nBirth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more becomes political\, and birth workers\, supporters\, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process\, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change. At a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites\, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly\, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle\, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle the struggle over the reproduction of life itself. \nAlana Apfel is a birth worker\, writer\, and community gardener. She is a graduate of the Anthropology and Social Change program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a birth justice activist\, she has been involved with the San Francisco General Hospital Doula Program\, BirthWays community education center in Berkeley\, and the growing international BirthKeepers coalition. She now lives and works in Bristol\, UK\, where she is part of the Positive Birth Movement and is training to be a midwife in the National Health Service. Birth Work as Care Work is her first book. \nJewel Buchanan-Boone is a doula within the San Francisco Bay Area. Her philosophy and approach to birth work are rooted in her passion for social and reproductive justice. Jewel shares her experience of doula work from a public health perspective\, specifically addressing the need to break cycles of oppression within communities of color in relation to generational trauma and stigmas that surround Black motherhood. \nAriel Gore is a journalist\, memoirist\, novelist\, nonfiction author\, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama\, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama\, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers’ movement. Gore’s fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity\, spirituality\, queer culture\, and positive psychology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alana-apfel/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:As part of Poetry Month\, Pegasus Books and Poetry Flash present Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume \nDrew Dillhunt’s debut book of poems is Leaf is All\, which won the 2015 Bear Star Press Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Craig Santos Perez says\, “Through avant-garde\, documentary\, and eco-poetic modes\, Drew Dilhunt weaves the intimate themes of birth\, parenthood\, and family into the global contexts of plastic production and ecological collapse…Read these poems carefully because they are tenderly inscribed with fragmented origins and precarious futures.” Widely published in literary journals\, his writing has appeared in VOLT\, Mudlark\, Tarpaulin Sky\, and Jacket2. An earlier version of Leaf is All was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He’s released two albums of songs\, one with the band Fighting Shy\, and is currently a member of the Seattle-based band Answering Machines. He is Associate Editor of Hummingbird Press. \nAngela Hume’s debut book of poems is Middle Time. Joan Retallack asks\, “What happens when in a time of extreme crisis the action (poiesis) of a discerning mind creates not arguments or proposals\, but poetry?…Hume’s active generosity of material and imaginative space makes it possible to conjure myriad forms of life thriving in improbably unconsummated ruin.” She is the author of three poetry chapbooks; she’s also a critic whose essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Contemporary Literature\, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Jacket2. She co-coordinated the first ever Conference on Ecopoetics in Berkeley in 2013 and co-curates Heart’s Desire\, the reading series of the Bay Area Public School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-drew-dillhunt-and-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Backyard #7: Death and Taxes
DESCRIPTION:(Follow signs to back gate. Do not knock on front door.) \nGate opens at 4:30\, readings commence at 5:00\, drowning of the sorrows to follow. \nReadings by:\nSarah Heady\nMatt Leibel\nTony Press\nNatalya Sukhonos\nVirgie Tovar \nSpring comes rolling around again\, with all its bright promises. But where there is life\, there must be death\, and where there is death\, there must be taxes (at least\, I think that’s how the estate tax works). In this edition of Backyard we will be confronting the inevitable\, the things that always happen\, no matter how much we fight or run or imagine it could be different this time around. We’ll talk about cycles\, returns\, and all the dependable-as-clockwork structures that make our lives tick (until\, of course\, they don’t). \nRevenue agent and/or grim reaper costumes encouraged. \nFree\, though donations of cash and beer will be accepted. \nReader Bios: \nPoet and essayist Sarah Heady writes on human geography\, American history\, and the built environment. She is the author of Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills\, 2013)\, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; Tatted Insertion (San Francisco State University\, 2014\, with artist Leah Virsik); and a manuscript\, Corduroy Road (finalist for the 2013 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Prize). Works-in-progress include Comfort\, a poetic meditation on female solitude\, agency\, and relationship set on the prairies of the American West; and the libretto for Unfinished: An Opera About Change\, in collaboration with new music composer Joshua Groffman\, who has previously adapted her texts for vocal and electroacoustic works. She lives in San Francisco and co-edits Drop Leaf Press\, a small women-run poetry outfit. More at sarahheady.com. \nMatt Leibel’s short fiction has appeared in Barcelona Review\, Quarterly West\, Wigleaf\, Juked\, and many other places. He has read/performed his writing on the radio\, in bars\, at yoga studios\, and inside a police station. Matt also publishes 75 word microstories thrice-weekly on his Facebook page. \nTony Press tries to pay attention. Sometimes he does. His book CROSSING THE LINES – Stories by Tony Press – appeared in January of 2016\, published by Big Table. Close to 100 of his stories and poems have appeared in print and online. Although he lives near San Francisco he has no website. \nNatalya Sukhonos was born in Odessa\, Ukraine and immigrated to New York City at the age of 9. She is bilingual in Russian and English and also speaks Spanish\, French\, and Portuguese. Natalya has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and teaches in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. A number of her poems are published online and in print. Natalya was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Ian and her daughter Naomi. \nVirgie Tovar is a fat\, Latina femme + author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press\, November 2012)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/backyard-7-death-and-taxes/
LOCATION:Backyard\, 917 Hearst Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Esme Wang + Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise. \nAbout The Border of Paradise: \nIn booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame the sharp-tongued\, intelligent Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter.\nIt’s Daisy’s solution for the future of her two children\, inspired by the old Chinese tradition of raising girls as sisterly wives for adoptive brothers\, that exposes Daisy’s traumatic life\, and the terrible inheritance her children must receive. Framed by two suicide attempts\, “The Border of Paradise” is told from multiple perspectives\, culminating in heartrending fashion as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune confront their past and their isolation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-wang-amy-berkowitz/
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:Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win’s writing has appeared in various journals including Cimarron Review\, Ping-Pong\, Eleven Eleven\, vitriol\, and most recently in the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Win often collaborates with visual artists and musicians\, and her collaborative book with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Along with composer\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind which combines poetry with abstract electronic music. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Jandy Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Young adult fiction writer Jandy Nelson reads from and discusses her work. Free. \nJandy Nelson\, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun (Penguin)\, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood\, throws salt and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel\, The Sky is Everywhere (Penguin)\, was on multiple best books of the year lists\, was a Yalsa Best Fiction for Young Adults pick\, earned numerous starred reviews\, has been translated widely and continues to enjoy great international success. Nelson\, a literary agent for many years\, received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and Master of Fine Arts degrees in poetry and children’s writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-jandy-nelson/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Location: Cemex\, Zambrano Hall\, Knight Management Center \nJennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is the author of The Invisible Circus\, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001\, Look at Me\, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001\, Emerald City and Other Stories and the bestselling The Keep.  Her most recent novel\, A Visit From the Goon Squad\, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\, and the LA Times Book Prize.  Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction\, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award\, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, Vincent Kobelt\, + The All Star Revue
DESCRIPTION:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, jazz poet\, painter\, and playwright\, was born in San Francisco in 1950. His lifelong love for jazz and blues has helped him overcome the obstacle of near-blindness. He is published both nationally and internationally in a variety of magazines and publications including The New York Times\, appeared on PBS television\, and has been the recipient of many local awards. Blackwell is the author of The Fiery Response to Love’s Callings\, Is\, the Color of Mississippi Mud\, If a Pigeon Can’t Fly\, Blind Alley Cats Dream Jazz and his new album release\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. His captivating performance reinvents the intriguing sound of jazz into transcendent poetry. \nVincent Kobelt has written poetry for the page\, the stage\, and the mic. His early work explored the murals of the Mission where he grew up\, the music of jazz\, the milk weed that cracks concrete\, the beauty of the earth\, and a cry for justice. For some time now he has been experimenting with poetry that lends itself to musical accompaniment. He has taught creative writing and California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA or Inner Spark) and has written numerous chapbooks: Peppers from my Tongue\, Volumes 1 and 2\, Textures of Pregnancy\, The Way Light Ripples on Water\, and Pinch of Salt. Recently he has collaborated with poet Charles Curtis Blackwell and musician Brian Kendricks on their poetry album\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. \nThe All-Star Revue includes:\nRussell Brown as a musician plays acoustic and electric guitar\, electric bass\, and piano. Born in St. Louis educated in California\, music became a part of his life when he began playing drums in elementary school (4th grade\, age 8). In middle school (7th grade\, age 11) he started playing trombone\, which he played throughout high school. Inspired by the sound of the electric guitar\, Russell started teaching himself how to play at 13 years old. Today\, the passion and inspiration that fueled that young man still burns bright. \nSandra Poindexter’s musical experience expands from classical to jazz\, Cuban\, mariachi\, and flamenco. She is a former member of alto sax player John Handy’s group\, John Handy with Class. Some highlights over the last 15 years include The Village Vanguard in New York; The 1989 Monterey Jazz Festival; Oakland Paramount (Black Filmmaker Awards honoring Dizzy Gillespie); San Francisco\, San Mateo\, San Jose\, Russian River Jazz Festivals; and touring extensively throughout Japan. \nPoindexter is currently a member of Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion. This group has performed for over 10 years\, playing engagements such as the Summer Festival at Lincoln Center in New York; John Ford Theater in Los Angeles; San Jose and San Francisco Jazz Festivals; Stern Grove; the Smithsonian Institute in D.C.; Yoshi’s San Franciso/Oakland and La Peña in Berkeley. Sandra is currently also a member of Avotcja and Modupue as well as Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids\, with whom she toured Germany\, England\, Czechoslovakia\, Denmark\, Sweden and Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-curtis-blackwell-vincent-kobelt-the-all-star-revue/
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:Julien Poirier: Out of Print
DESCRIPTION:Release party for the new poetry collection \nOut of Print by Julien Poirier. With Elaine Kahn\, author of Women in Public. \nNo. 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series published by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection by Julien Poirier\, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume\, reflecting the poet’s years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism\, a series of quips intercepted from America’s underground poetry telegraph\, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture. \n“Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical\, often bonkers play of language is\, for me\, a source of delight & revelation.”––David Meltzer \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, and Way Too West (Bootstrap\, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling). He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind (Ugly Duckling\, 2008)\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling\, 2015). A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaper New York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julien-poirier-out-of-print/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paolo Bacigalupi
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents Paolo Bacigalupi\, on his paperback tour for The Water Knife \nPaolo Bacigalupi\, New York Times-Bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist\, dives once again onto our uncertain future with The Water Knife\, his first thriller for adults since his multi-award winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl.In the American Southwest\, Nevada\, Arizona\, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez\, detective\, leg-breaker\, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife\, Angel “cuts” water for his boss\, Catherine Case\, ensuring that her lush\, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert\, so the rich can stay wet\, while the poor get nothing but dust. \nWhen rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix\, Angel is sent to investigate. There\, he encounters Lucy Monroe\, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel\, and Maria Villarosa\, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything that she represents.  With bodies piling up\, bullets flying\, and Phoenix teetering on collapse\, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel\, Lucy\, and Maria time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other’s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold\, alliances shift like sand\, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. \nPaolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in WIRED Magazine\, High Country News\, Salon.com\, OnEarth Magazine\, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. His short fiction been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy\, nominated for three Nebula Awards\, four Hugo Awards\, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of the year. His short story collection PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and also named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly \nHis debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009\, and also won the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, Compton Crook\, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Internationally\, it has won the Seiun Award (Japan)\, The Ignotus Award (Spain)\, The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany)\, and the Prix Planète-SF des Blogueurs (France). His debut young adult novel\, SHIP BREAKER\, was a Micheal L. Printz Award Winner\, and a National Book Award Finalist\, and its sequel\, THE DROWNED CITIES\, was a 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best of YA Book\, A 2012 VOYA Perfect Ten Book\, and 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. \nHe has also written ZOMBIE BASEBALL BEATDOWN for middle-grade children\, about zombies\, baseball\, and\, of all things\, meatpacking plants. Another novel for teens\, THE DOUBT FACTORY\, a contemporary thriller about public relations and the product defense industry was a both an Edgar Award and Locus Award Finalist. His latest novel for adults THE WATER KNIFE\, a near-future thriller about climate change and drought in the southwestern United States. He currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son\, where he is working on a new novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paolo-bacigalupi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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