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SUMMARY:Happy Hour Stories Celebrates National Poetry Month!
DESCRIPTION:About Happy Hour Stories: \nCreated in 2014 by Pegasus on Solano’s Elizabeth Freeman and Manuela Aronofsky\, Happy Hour Stories is a special story time – for adults! \nEvery last Tuesday of the month\, short stories on a theme are read aloud by Pegasus employees and friends…. Served up with a refreshing drink\, and light snacks. \nPast Happy Hour Stories themes have included a celebration of Black History Month\, LGBTQ Pride\, California-inspired fiction\, and school stories; with special guests such as local authors Elizabeth Rosner\, Darryl Brock\, Nia King\, and Alex Gino\, as well as the Oakland-based band Halcyonaire\, and various professional actors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-hour-stories-celebrates-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Martinis & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy is celebrating National Poetry Month with some amazing Bay Area talent. Coming up this month — Amy Berkowitz\, Robin Ekiss\, Nazelah Jamison\, Nick\, Johnson\, and Richard Loranger. Your host for the night\, James J. Siegel. \nEach of the night’s poets will not only be reading their own work\, but they will share some of their favorite poems from the poets who inspire them. It will be a celebration of poetry past and present. So come out and raise a glass to poetry! \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. Also\, every attendee will get a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret speakeasy prize. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the editor of Mondo Bummer Books\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. She recently co-organized Sick Fest\, and she was a 2014 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, VIDA\, and Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness\, among other places. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco. More at amyberko.com. \nRobin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford\, a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers\, and author of the book\, The Mansion of Happiness (University of Georgia Press)\, winner of the 2010 Shenandoah / Glasgow Prize\, and finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize\, Northern California Book Awards\, and Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards. Robin’s poems have appeared widely\, in The Atlantic Monthly\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her husband\, the poet Keith Ekiss\, their son\, and their cats\, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. \nNazelah Jamison is a gifted poet\, emcee\, and vocalist who has graced the stage with some of the finest people in entertainment today. After performing in various artistic mediums\, she began playing music in 1992 and moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco in 1994 to play keyboards and sing on tour with the hip hop band Spearhead. Nazelah settled in the SF Bay Area in 1996\, and for a time studied acting at Jean Shelton’s Actors’ Studio. Since then\, Nazelah has competed on and/or coached 12 National Slam teams. She has hosted and co-produced The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic\, an on-going monthly poetry slam in Oakland\, CA\, as well as performing at venues around the SF Bay Area and the country. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, and other fine journals. His first book of poems Music for Mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. Additionally\, he wants you to know\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always. Learn more at his website\, www.nickjohnsonpoetry.com. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth\, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks. He has a book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows\, being released by Zeitgeist Press later this year. Recent work can be found in Oakland Review #2\, Overthrowing Capitalism vol. 2 (Revolutionary Poets Brigade)\, and the anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-poetry/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Percival Everett\, Brynn Saito\, + Maxine Hong Kingston
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Brynn Saito’s new collection of poetry \nPower Made Us Swoon \nfrom Red Hen Press \nA lyrical journey through family legacies\, silenced histories\, and the possibilities of transformation\, guided by the ruthless\, witty\, and vulnerable voice of a mythic woman warrior. \nGuided by the character of the Woman Warrior–witty\, swift\, and ruthless in her wonder–readers of Brynn Saito’s second collection of poetry travel the terrain of personal and historical memory: narrative poems about family\, farming towns\, and the bravery of girlhood are interspersed with lyric poetry written from the voice of a stone found in a Japanese American internment camp during the wartime incarceration. What histories can be summoned with poetry? What are the forces shaping an American life in the 21st century? Car accidents\, patriarchy\, and television fall under this poet?s gaze\, along with the intergenerational reverberations of historical trauma. As with The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, Saito’s first award-winning collection\, Power Made Us Swoon strives for wonder and speaks–in edgy and vulnerable tones–of the fraught journey toward a more just world. “Learn to lie to survive\,” sings the woman warrior\, “Learn to outlast the flame / learn the art of surprise.” \nBrynn Saito is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Contemplating Desire\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in March\, 2013. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Ninth Letter\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Pleiades\, andDrunken Boat. Brynn was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean-American mother and a Japanese-American father. She received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from NYU. Currently\, Brynn lives in the Bay Area and teaches in San Francisco. \nPercival Everett is the author of fourteen novels and three collections of short fiction including re:f(gesture)\, published by Red Hen Press. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection Big Picture) and a New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel Zulus). His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for\, among others\, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing\, American studies\, and critical theory\, and he has taught at Bennington College\, the University of Wyoming\, and the University of California at Riverside. He is currently at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a musician\, a ranch hand\, and a high school teacher. \nMaxine Hong Kingston is the aclaimed author of three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She is the winner of the National Medal of the Arts and was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special Award in Publishing for her anthologyVeterans of War\, Veterans of Peace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/percival-everett-brynn-saito-maxine-hong-kingston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Before We Visit the Goddess
DESCRIPTION:American Book Award-winner Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni shares her powerful new novel\, Before We Visit the Goddess. Capturing the gorgeous complexity of multi-generational and transcontinental bonds\, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal\, India\, to the streets of Houston\, Texas\,Before We Visit the Goddess is an extraordinary journey told through a sparkling symphony of voices.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chitra-banerjee-divakaruni-before-we-visit-the-goddess/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! w/ Spagna\, Arsdale + Conran
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates SPRING with special guest readers Ana Maria Spagna\, Sarah Van Arsdale and A. E. Conran ! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (5 minute limit). \nAna Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin\, Washington\, a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat\, trail\, or float plane. She is the author most recently of the braided nonfiction narrative Reclaimers\, stories of people reclaiming sacred land and water\, as well as the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey\, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize\, and two collections of essays\, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness\, finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, and Now Go Home\, a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. Her writing on nature\, work\, civil rights\, and life in a small community has appeared in dozens of publications including Orion\, Ecotone\, Creative Nonfiction\, North American Review\, and High Country News. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, is just out with Queen’s Ferry Press\, April\, 2012. Her third novel\, Grand Isle\, was published by SUNY Press in 2012. Her second\, Blue\, winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel\, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003\, and her first\, Toward Amnesia\, was published in 1996 by Riverhead Books. Her poetry\, book reviews\, interviews and essays have appeared in national publications\, including Guernica\, Passages North\, Fiction Writers Review\, Bookslut\, Episodic\, and Oxford Magazine. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College\, and teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program and at NYU. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction and curates BLOOM: The Reading Series at Hudson View Gardens in New York City. \nA. E. Conran (Amanda) is a children’s book author\, freelance editor\, children’s book specialist and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. The Lost Celt is her first middle grade novel. A modern adventure story\, it draws upon video games\, time-travel conspiracies\, Roman and Celtic history and the ancient stories of Irish warrior hero Cuchulain\, but ultimately it deals with the invisible effects of war on veterans and their families throughout the generations and the transcendent power of friendship. Katherine Applegate\, Author of THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal says\, “THE LOST CELT is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of taut suspense\, riveting action\, and\, most importantly\, humor and heart. Not to be missed.” Originally from England\, Amanda now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, two kids and lots of squirrels\, deer and coyotes…in the back garden\, not in the house! \n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-w-spagna-arsdale-conran/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160428T203000
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SUMMARY:Boadiba + Neeli Cherkovski
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): Boadiba & Neeli Cherkovski
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boadiba-neeli-cherkovski/
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:20160428T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160428T210000
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SUMMARY:Jason Schneiderman: Primary Source
DESCRIPTION:With work published in numerous journals and anthologies\, including American Poetry Review and The Best American Poetry\, award-winning poet Jason Schneiderman shares his new collection\, Primary Source. Jason’s most exuberant volume of poetry yet\, Primary Source plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal archive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-schneiderman-primary-source/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160429T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160429T210000
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:This special event\, hosted by Lean Frog & Mother’s Hen Publications\, will both inform and entertain you about the birth of the San Francisco Bay Area haiku movement of the 1950s. Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, Gary Snyder\, and others\, through their avid interest in Zen Buddhism\, adapted this unique Japanese form to the new free-verse of the American poetic voice. Jack Kerouac would call them “Western Haiku” in his Scattered Poems\, published by City Lights Books. \nFeaturing: \nan invocation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker\nMC Louis Cuneo\nBob Booker\nTobey Kaplan\nJeanne Lupton\nClive Matson\nFlorence Miller\nAmos White \nand other special guests w/ music by Lucho on sax and Toku Woo on guitar\nLean Frog was founded by Louis Cuneo in 1978 as a monthly newsletter to encourage others in the haiku spirit\, and to write their own haiku by forming an understanding of Zen Buddhism and “The Way” through informal workshops conducted by Lean Frog in Oakland and Berkeley\, California. \nThis will also be a book release party and book signing for Haiku Revisited\, Volume 2. \nLawrence Ferlinghetti\, in reviewing the original Haiku Revisited in 1975\, said “They are true haiku worth revisiting over and over…”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RAG: Official Zine Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Rag Zine\, a fine (and not so fine) Art and Lit Zine\, will be at Octopus Literary Salon on April 29th\, celebrating two years in print and the great milestone of reaching issue #5! This is the first public event for Rag Zine and it’s sure to be a monumental evening of vulnerability unveiling an intricate and intimate zine about the human condition. \nIssue #5 will be available for sale\, hot and fresh off the printers (and screen printer)\, and there will be food and drink for purchase with music to follow. \nThis is not an exhaustive list of readers but the following talented writers and performers will be sharing their work with us throughout the evening and there are more names to come! \nIsobel O’Hare\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nStacia Biltekoff\nLaura Close\nFred Dodsworth\nDarius Sohei\nFreeman Ng\nRj Equality Ingram \nWith a special guest appearance by Rudra Chakrabarti singing some Urdu Sufi poetry halfway through the set. \nThis is a Public event. Invite your friends! \nhttps://oaklandoctopus.org/rag-zine-5-launch-7pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rag-official-zine-launch-party/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:For Franco Beltrametti w/ Joanne Kyger\, Duncan McNaughton\, + more
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Franco Beltrametti\, From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995\, ed. Stefan Hyner + a screening of Claudio Tettamanti’s short film “Ultime cose (d’après CHOSES qui voyagent)” (1995) \nFriday APRIL 29 @ The Green Arcade 7:00 pm\, 1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\, free co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade \nJoin us for a celebratory reading of the poetry of Swiss-Italian poet/artist/world traveler Franco Beltrametti (1937–1995) by Bay Area poet friends and German poet Stefan Hyner\, editor of Beltrametti’s From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995 (Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Blackberry Books\, 2016). We’ll also screen a brief film featuring Franco Beltrametti in conversation\, made by Claudio Tettamanti\, shortly before the poet’s unexpected death in 1995. \n“From ‘a crowded place called future’ Franco Beltrametti arrives\, once again\, with subtle eloquence to surprise us with his unexpected nuances and turns. These poems give us his presence in the USofA\, calling up poets and ancestors of every sort; and show us the transparency and modesty of his world: ‘I am my only visitor.’ But one with many friends — ‘boot tracks in and out’ — and the muse always under his roof of the moment.” —Joanne Kyger \n“You are the poet.” —John Cage
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-franco-beltrametti-w-joanne-kyger-duncan-mcnaughton-more/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2016
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus proudly celebrates Independent Bookstore Day\, featuring festivities and fun at all three locations! \nThis year’s celebrations will include: \nA special party featuring Pegasus on Solano’s Dogstomers!\nAn “Ask Mary Anything” hour at Pegasus Downtown – with science writer Mary Roach!\nLive Music by the “Dusty Case Duo” at Pegasus Oakland\nLimited Edition Books and Art (created exclusively for indie bookstores)\nIn-Store Specials and Prize Drawings\nTreats\nBrand New Pegasus Swag\n…And More!\nStay tuned for many more details\, and a complete schedule of events.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2016/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:National Indie Bookstore Day: Naughton\, Prado + Lake Lady
DESCRIPTION:AND ANOTHER ONE! \nApril 30\, 2016 is National Indie Bookstore Day. To celebrate\, Alley Cat Books is hosting the release party for I’ve Been on Tumblr by Jesse Prado\, American Mary by Alexandra Naughton\, and Better Day by Lake Lady. Poetry\, prose\, and music. \nFeaturing performances by Jesse Prado\, Alexandra Naughton\, and Lake Lady\, along with special guests: \n– Fisayo Adeyeye\n– Amy Berkowitz\n– Geri Yong-Whee \nMore TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-indie-bookstore-day-naughton-prado-lake-lady/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Willis Barnstone + Tony Barnstone
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flashon Sunday\, May 1st at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Willis Barnstone and Tony Barnstone. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nWillis Barnstone’s new book of poems is Mexico in My Heart: New and Selected Poems. He is a translator\, memoirist\, editor\, and Biblical and Gnostic scholar as well as a poet; a man who has authored and edited some seventy books. Recent books of poems include Moonbook and Sunbook andStickball on 88th Street; among his scriptural works and translations are The Other Bible and The New Covenant Commonly Called the New Testament. He has been four times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize\, and in 2015 he was awarded the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Northern California Book Reviewers at the Northern California Book Awards. \nWillis’s son\, Tony Barnstone’s new book of poems is Pulp Sonnets. Dorianne Laux says\, “Tony Barnstone takes a walk on the wild side\, the darkest dark of the wild side\, and stabs us with his manic sonnets of gore\, tossing up the meat we call human before taking it down with his forked tongue.” His recent collections include Tongue of War\, winner of the John Ciardi Prize\, and The Golem of Los Angeles\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award for Poetry. Translator\, editor\, and fiction writer\, too\, he has published seventeen books and a music CD. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Pablo Neruda Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-willis-barnstone-tony-barnstone/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction: Barbash\, Howard\, Scheeres\, Zeff + More
DESCRIPTION:Stranger Than Fiction is the Edinburgh Castle Pub’s new reading series\, co-produced by Alan Black and Frances Stroh. The next edition\, on Sunday\, May 1\, from 3-5pm\, presents new work from Tom Barbash\, Rachel Howard\, Julia Scheeres\, and Maury Zeff\, alongside hosts Black and Stroh. \nTOM BARBASH is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance\, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me\, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House\, Story magazine\, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. \nRACHEL HOWARD’S fiction and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast\, the Hudson Review\, ZYZZYVA\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker Online. Her memoir The Lost Night\, about her father’s unsolved murder\, was described as “enthralling” by the New York Times. She runs the acclaimed reading series Yuba Lit in the Sierra Foothills. \nJULIA SCHEERES is the author of the memoir JESUS LAND\, which was a New York Times and London Times bestseller. She is also the author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown\, which was recently optioned by a famous actor who wants to play Jim Jones (and whose name she can’t yet reveal). \nMAURY ZEFF’S fiction and plays have been published in American Fiction 2012\, Southern California Review\, the Best of PlayGround 2014\, and elsewhere. He has won a PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award and three PlayGround People’s Choice Awards. His play\, I Wanna Be So Dated\, about striving teenagers\, helicopter parents\, artistic expression\, and the Ramones\, premiered in March at the Vermont State Drama Festival. He has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and was a San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Fellow. \nFRANCES STROH is the author of BEER MONEY: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss (out May 3 from HarperCollins)\, which chronicles her coming of age in the midst of the Stroh’s Beer family’s decline coupled with the unraveling of Detroit. Publisher’s Weekly described BEER MONEY as “A compelling memoir that vividly portrays the aching permanence of loss and the palpability of hope that accompanies starting over.” \nALAN BLACK works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-barbash-howard-scheeres-zeff-more/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nina Lindsay + Rosa Land
DESCRIPTION:Because is a book that reminds us why it matters that we are here\, living our complicated lives\, our days crowded with houses\, buses\, work\, cafes\, bakeries\, fear and singing\, brief joy and “rapturous dust.” These subtle and surprising poems are deeply engaged with the present\, reminding us of how we are enmeshed with the particularities of existence: wisteria and neighbors\, children breaking sticks\, rats and trash\, a skunk galloping over the lawn and an ant on the doorframe\, and so many riddles we can never know the answer to in our “cake-like houses.” Musing and wondering\, grieving and praising\, these poems dwell in both the inner and outer worlds\, in the mysteries of our daily actions and our dreaming selves. \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \nTiller North takes us behind the walls of a fishing village in coastal Maine. With her insider’s voice\, Rosa Lane breaks the code of silence in her telling: secrets embedded within class\, sexual identity\, familial relationships\, death\, and rebirth. “I once said I would not look back\,” Lane tells us toward the end of the book\, but how grateful we are that she has\, opening a world for us where she learned to listen not just for the cry of the loon\, but also the rhythms of boats in water\, bamboo flutes\, the “rusty jaw” of the mailbox\, June bugs that “bomb / the porch light with spiny legs\,” and all the sounds that accompany Maine’s harsh winters and lush summers. But we don’t just hear this world: Lane makes us see it\, with one stunning image after another. \nRosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-lindsay-rosa-land/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Ron Sauer + Dan De Vries
DESCRIPTION:Ron Sauer \nRon Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene\, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire\, Aloysius Betrand\, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America\, Sauer is a musician\, collagist\, art collector\, teacher of film history and literature\, polymath critic\, and compulsive talker. The only formal education he admits to is a summa cum laude in Horizontal Angelology. He likes to spend his free time playing haberdasher to the happily impoverished. He is the co-founder\, with artist Rebecca Peters\, of Fly-By-Night Productions\, which stages art exhibitions\, and publishes Off the Cuff Press broadside editions of new poetry and prose. \nDan De Vries \nBorn in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, Dan De Vries has lived in San Francisco since ’91. Before then\, Denver\, Laramie\, Vancouver\, Ann Arbor\, and periodically up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Grad school in Wyoming and the University of Michigan (Hopwood prize in major fiction in 1980). Poems\, Past & Presently\, published in 2014 by IFSF. Author of three novels\, Trees for Tomorrow\, Blasphemous Rumors\, and Piggery\, and a short story collection\, The Mountain King.\nThe Secret is sacred\, but it is also somewhat ridiculous. The practice of the mystery is furtive and even clandestine\, and its adepts do not speak about it. There are no respectable words to describe it\, but it is understood that all words refer to it\, or better\, that they inevitably allude to it\, and thus\, in dialogue with initiates\, when I have prattled about anything at all\, they have smiled enigmatically or taken offense . . . Borges\, from “The Sect of the Phoenix\,” tr. Anthony Kerrigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ron-sauer-dan-de-vries/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at the 41 Ross
DESCRIPTION:SUBMIT to our May 2nd show and help us enrich that month’s Quiet Lightning – page to page\, wall to wall\, word to word\, with all languages\, all sounds\, and all stories. Help us embrace the rich patina of culture and history celebrated by our host space\, the 41 Ross and the Chinatown Community Development Center\, to create a literary mixtape that is as diverse as our beloved Bay Area community. \nThere is no theme that we are adhering to\, but this show as a whole will pay homage to CCDC’s vision of embracing home\, culture\, and community. \nCurated by Christine No + Bel Poblador! \nFree copy of sPARKLE & bLINK featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by Katie Jenkins-Moses for the first 100 people in attendance \nSubmit by Apr 13: https://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/55842 \nCheap draft beer courtesy of Lagunitas Brewing Co.\nAll ages. This is a FREE show!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-41-ross/
LOCATION:41 Ross\, 41 Ross Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Mama Said
DESCRIPTION:Please join us here at Green Apple Books on Clement in welcoming the writers of Mama Said for an evening of laughs\, libations and light hors d’oeuvres. The fun begins on Monday\, May 2nd at 7:00pm at our Clement St. location (506 Clement). \nA gorgeous and heartfelt tribute to the joys and frustrations of motherhood\, Mama Said is a collection of personal narratives and artwork created by mothers\, for mothers. The beautifully illustrated text takes readers through the range of human emotions that come along with nurturing a tiny human. The stories invite mothers to join their hearts in the sacred sisterhood of creation and go beyond the personal choices of how one mothers\, and instead unearth the universal themes of love\, fear\, humanity and humor all mothers experience. \nThese brave women share their hopes\, dreams\, and doubts\, as well as their laughter\, tears\, and even a few bodily fluids\, on this journey through what it means to love another soul like you never thought possible. \nPraise for Mama Said \n“A brilliant tribute to what it means to be a mother. The overall tone is one of celebration\, but these mamas are not afraid to open their hearts and share the raw reality of pregnancy\, birth and humanity. A delightful and validating read for mothers everywhere.” \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mama-said/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160502T214500
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CREATED:20160420T001603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T001603Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Fran Wisby
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fran Wisby writes poetry\, short fiction\, memoir and essays\, preferring always to deepen and subvert genre by way of the hybrid form. Her book Viva Loss was published in 2008 by Small Desk Press. Recent work can be found in Eleven Eleven Journal and Rumpus Women Volume 1\, and heard on Invisible Cities Audio Tour No. 2: The Armada of Golden Dreams. She’s also been published in Instant City\, Sparkle and Blink\, Digital Artifact and The Encyclopedia Project Volume 2. She performs her work all over the Bay Area and beyond\, and was a Literary Death Match champion in December 2010.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-fran-wisby/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160503T125000
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SUMMARY:Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20160420T004024Z
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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Ali Eteraz will also read excerpts from \nNative Believer \npublished by Akashic Books \nAli Eteraz’s much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M.\, a supportive husband\, adventureless dandy\, lapsed believer\, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.’s world gradually fragments around him—a wife with a chronic illness; a best-friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career—M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia\, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam\, punks\, and wrestlers\, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.  \nDarkly comic\, provocative\, and insightful\, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs. \nAli Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Children of Dust (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes (Guernica Ed.). Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review\, storySouth\, and Crossborder\, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR\, The New York Times\, and the Guardian. Recently\, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid\, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar. Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic\, Pakistan\, the Persian Gulf\, and Alabama. Native Believer is his debut novel. \nVanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. For nearly two decades\, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a past Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, Guernica\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. A former staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. Deceit and Other Possibilities\, her debut story collection\, will be published this fall (Willow Books). \nWhat has been said about the work of Ali Eteraz: \n“Ali Eteraz has written a novel\, both heartbreaking and exultant\, about how it feels to get scalded by the great melting pot. He is a writer of tremendous nuance\, sensitivity\, and insight. An enormous triumph in its own right\, Native Believer also points toward an even brighter future for American fiction.”\n—Andrew Ervin\, author of Burning Down George Orwell’s House
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-eteraz-w-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Asymmetrical Press Word Tasting Tour
DESCRIPTION:http://asymmetrical.co/wordtas ting/ \nNot just a book reading\, not just another event—a meaningful experience. Asymmetrical Press’ team of talented authors is hitting the road in May and June for a WordTasting Tour across the western United States and Canada. From minimalism and travel to storytelling and humor\, this tour provides a taste of something for everyone. \nJoin Colin Wright\, Josh Wagner\, Shawn Mihalik\, Skye Steele\, and special local guests for an evening of WordTasting: readings\, stories\, live music\, questions\, and answers. Plus special guests Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists will host and read at most events (see full schedule for details). \nAdmission to each two-hour event is free. So are the words. Come get a taste of something simple\, unique\, indie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asymmetrical-press-word-tasting-tour/
LOCATION:The Crepe Place\, 1134 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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CREATED:20160420T004905Z
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SUMMARY:Cheena Marie Lo + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Born in Manapla\, Philippines\, Cheena Marie Lo is a genderqueer poet based in Oakland\, CA. They co-curated the Manifest Reading Series\, which featured mainly queer experimental artists and writers. They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts\, and co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. This is their first book. \nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbookCruel Work in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY and Open House. Not just her thoughts on writing can be found here: http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/blog/response
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheena-marie-lo-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Fred Dodsworth • Rafael Jesús González • Rosa Lane • Nina Lindsay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table. Free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-big-union/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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CREATED:20160420T005836Z
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman + Andrew Kenower
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman is the author of nine collections of poetry: White Dress\, Fortress\, Death Tractates\, Bright Existence\, Loose Sugar\, Cascadia\, Pieces of Air in the Epic\, Practical Water\, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry\, and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire\, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry\, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \nPoet Andrew Kenower (poetry\, 2007) curates the online audio archive A Voice Box and is co-curator of the Woolsey Heights Reading Series. He is the principle designer for Trafficker Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-andrew-kenower/
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:20160504T213000
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CREATED:20160420T011200Z
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Humble Pie Vol. 13
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\n5212 Broadway (at College Avenue)\nContact: David Morini\, dmorini@cca.edu \nCome help us celebrate the publication ofHumble Pie Volume 13\, a whale of an issue\, with readings by the authors included in this edition.\nFree Pie. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times. \nAbout HearSay Reading Series\nHearSay is the monthly literary reading series sponsored by the editorial staff of Humble Pie and the Writing and Literature Program. HearSay features CCA students and established Bay Area writers. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-humble-pie-vol-13/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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CREATED:20160420T011636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T011636Z
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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CREATED:20160505T003301Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:This Event is at Overland Bar & Grill (101 Broadway\, Oakland 94607) – near Jack London Square! \nPegasus proudly hosts this Independent Bookstore Day bonus event!  \nCalling all lit majors\, librarians\, lovers of language\, and literati. Come on out for our 3rd annual night of biblio-mania! Featuring fearless facts of fictional fancy\, this special edition pub quiz is sure to tickle your textual tendencies. \nHosted by Pegasus Oakland\, we welcome all word-smiths on Wednesday May 4th at Overland Bar & Grill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pub-quiz/
LOCATION:Overland Bar & Grill\, 101 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160505T180000
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CREATED:20160420T011910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T011910Z
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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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