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SUMMARY:Hume\, Rahimtoola\, Weeks\, + Burger
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 6th @ 7:30 pm\nfor a reading and release party for\nAngela Hume’s Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016)\nfeat. readings by Angela Hume\, Samia Rahimtoola\, and Maya Weeks\, plus paintings by Mary Burger! \n\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). Her poems appear in Macaroni Necklace\, Dusie\, Armed Cell\,Little Red Leaves\, and RealPoetik\, among others. She has essays published or forthcoming in Contemporary Literature\,ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Evental Aesthetics. You can learn more about Angela here. \n\nSamia Rahimtoola is a poet and critic living in Oakland.\n\nMaya Weeks is a wannabe oceanographer and trash aficionado from the central coast of California. She is the author of Panic Train (Mondo Bummer\, 2013) and How To Be On the Outside of Every Inside/How To Be Inside Every Outside (these signals press\, 2016). She is currently working on a project about the gendered violence of marine debris. Catch her on Twitter @looseuterus.\n\nMary Burger is an artist and writer living in Oakland. Her visual work uses biomorphic and geometric patterns to explore spatial experience and the intersections between natural and cultural adaptations\, drawing on practices of literature\, philosophy\, and environmental history. Mary posts interviews with artists at the blog Articiple. Her art is online atMaryburger.com\, and some recent writing is at Elderly Magazine (elderlymag.tumblr.com.) She exhibits work frequently at the Compound Studio Artist Gallery and other locations in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hume-rahimtoola-weeks-burger/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160507T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T160000
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SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Extension Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join students and teachers for a selection of readings from work produced through the UC Berkeley Extension program. Founded in 1891\, UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California\, Berkeley. Today they offer more than 2\,000 courses each year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uc-berkeley-extension-student-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160507T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160507T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Kate Folk\, Joel Gregory\, + Tomas Moniz
DESCRIPTION:Readings and new chapbook by:\nKATE FOLK\nJOEL GREGORY\nTOMAS MONIZ\n+\nHypertrophic Distress: a solo exhibition by Alex Oslance \nKATE FOLK’s fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Word Riot\, Joyland\, and many other journals. She’s received support for her writing from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Originally from Iowa\, she’s lived in San Francisco since 2008. \nJOEL GREGORY is a poet and visual artist living in Oakland\, California. He is a dropout of the Evergreen State College and the New School. He is a co­-founder at Timeless\, Infinite Light. His work can be found in 580 Split\, Elderly\, and Open House. He is currently working on Connection\, a voyeuristic book-length manuscript\, in which he collages language from Craigslist missed connections into poems and reposts them in search of the absent object of desire. \nTOMAS MONIZ is the founder\, editor\, and writer for the award winning project: Rad Dad. His novella Bellies and Buffalos is a tender\, chaotic road trip about friendship\, family and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He is co-founder and co-host of the rambunctious monthly reading series\, Saturday Night Special. He’s been making zines since the late nineties\, and his most current zine addition / subtraction is available\, but you have to write him a postcard: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. \nfeatherboard.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-folk-joel-gregory-tomas-moniz/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160507T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Ayelet Waldman: Love and Treasure
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed author of Red Hook Road\, Bad Mother\, Daughter’s Keeper\, and the “Mommy Track Mysteries” series  joins us at the Berkeley Public Library North Branch to talk about her latest  novel\, Love and Treasure. \nIn 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg\, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches. Jack Wiseman\, a tough\, smart New York Jew\, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona\, a fierce\, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later\, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations\, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter\, Natalie Stein\, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman— a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. \nComplementary copies of this book will be available at the North Branch\, and at various points around Berkeley while supplies last! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayelet-waldman-love-and-treasure/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160508T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160508T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress: Conservations with Writers
DESCRIPTION:As part of Works in Progress\, a series of conversations between writers about the process of writing\, moderated by noted essayist and poet Susan Griffin Adam Hochschild\, author of many brilliant historical accounts\,including King Lepold’s Ghost and the recent Spain in Our Hearts will talk about Re-Membering History with poet Drew Dellinger who is writing a book about Marin Luther King’s environmental thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/works-in-progress-conservations-with-writers/
LOCATION:Central Library\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2090 Kittredge St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Beers and Poems w/ Emily Carr
DESCRIPTION:Dearest Reader\, \nJoin us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Carr’s poetry collection\, WHOSOEVER HAS LET A MINOTAUR ENTER THEM\, OR A SONNET— at Woods Bar & Brewery in Oakland. \nFeaturing a reading from the poet herself. \nIntriguing secrets and surprises to come. \nIs it free? You might ask. You bet your lucky stars it is! \nWarmly\,\nMcSweeney’s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beers-and-poems-w-emily-carr/
LOCATION:Woods Bar & Brewery\, 1701 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Alford
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Alford has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with poetry; but in the wake of her graduation from CSU East Bay\, she recently announced that they are now going steady (much to everyone’s relief). She lives in Hayward\, CA with her loving fiancé\, mother\, and two stupid dogs. Her favorite things include sushi\, loud music on long drives\, staring at the stars\, and poetry. Her work has appeared in the student literary magazine Occam’s Razor (once as third place winner in the Donald Markos Poetry Contest of 2014); and also online at Poetry Super Highway\, Haikuniverse\, Quatrain.fish\, and the blogs of Silver Birch Press and Creative Talents Unleashed.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/ElizabethAlfordPoetry/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-alford/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T214500
DTSTAMP:20260430T172128
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T003904Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian\, one of the original New Narrative writers\, has written a book of poetry\, Argento Series; two novels\, Shy and Arctic Summer; a book of memoirs\, Bedrooms Have Windows; and a book of stories\, Little Men\, which won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. He has written often on the U.S. poet Jack Spicer\, and the edition of Spicer’s poetry My Vocabulary Did This to Me\, edited with Peter Gizzi\, won the American Book Award in 2008. Recently\, Killian’s books have been all about Kylie Minogue — a book of poems\, Action Kylie\, and a book of stories\, Impossible Princess. He is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160510T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T200000
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SUMMARY:Benavides\, Baltrónica-Gomez\, Dunitz-Johnson\, + Cyd Nova
DESCRIPTION:Denise Benavides\nDenise Benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry\, riot girl. \nJess Baltrónica-Gomez\nBalitronica is a performance artist\, cyborg poet\, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe\, Edith Frampton\, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco\, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason\, Herani Hache\, RJ Muna\, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled\, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring as a member of the International performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. \nCyd Nova\nCyd Nova is a mouthy slut and celebrator of all hos’. He has been part of the St James Infirmary family\, a clinic for folks who have been involved in the sex trade in San Francisco\, for 8 years and this month is leaving to return back to his roots of hustling and writing gossipy zines. He is the co-director of Bonus Hole Boys – the first gay hardcore website featuring FTM men. His writing has appeared on the Rumpus\, Policy Mic\, Tits and Sass\, Visual AIDS and in the books Coming Out Like a Porn Star and The Collection: The New Transgender Vanguard. Currently he is working on a series of comics based on the more comically intense moments of life. You can check out his writing at cydnova.wordpress.com \nAriel Dunitz-Johnson\nAriel is a San Francisco based illustrator who trained at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her illustrations focus primarily on pen and ink work\, specializing in portraiture. She was recently awarded San Francisco Beautiful’s Muni Art Winner with her portrait project\, SWAY: Contemporary Queer Portraiture. Through Muni Art\, her work was shown on buses around San Francisco during the fall/winter of 2015. Ariel has been freelancing for nearly a decade\, having shows of her personal work whenever she can. She finds inspiration everywhere\, from the architectural lines of the urban landscape\, the many faces in everyday life\, to sticks\, stones and other natural objects that she collects. When she’s not busy drawing\, she’s usually shopping at farmer’s markets\, cooking for her partner\, or playing with her Boston Terriers\, Harley and Levi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benavides-baltronica-gomez-dunitz-johnson-cyd-nova/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160510T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T210000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Clark + Wendy Barker
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Clark reads new poems and from his Self-Portrait with Expletives\, winner of the Pleiades Prize;  Wendy Barker presents two new collections\, One Blackbird at a Time\, which won the 2015 John Ciardi Prize\,  and  From the Moon\, Earth is Blue (Wings Press\, 2015). She will also read from  Far Out: Poems of the ’60s\, an anthology co-edited with Dave Parsons (Wings Press\, 2016). \n\n\nFollowed by open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-clark-wendy-barker/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T213000
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SUMMARY:Antonia Hayes + Sophie Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Antonia Hayes talks about her debut novel\, Relativity\, with Sophie Cunningham. \nPraise for Relativity: \n“Relativity is wonderful\, a beautifully written\, heartbreaking novel that I feel certain will find the huge audience it deserves.” — SJ Watson\, author of Before I Go to Sleep \n“Original\, compassionate\, cleverly plotted\, and genuinely difficult to put down. The premise is compelling and the plot twists and turns without ever feeling forced. This novel is an intelligent\, honest and compassionate look at people and relationships under stress: the shocking revelation [in it] is tempered with real insight as to how such things happen.” — Graeme Simsion\, author of The Rosie Project \n“Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy\, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair\, honest and remarkably non-judgemental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.” — Christos Tsiolkas\, author of The Slap \n“A charming and fresh debut placing a family’s secrets in the great expanse of the universe.” — Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Relativity: \nA beautifully written\, heartbreaking (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past\, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it\, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned.\nTwelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe\, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy\, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney\, Australia. Claire\, a former professional ballerina\, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan\, but he’s becoming increasingly curious about his father’s absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented\, vulnerable son and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill\, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy\, her tightly-held world is split open.\nThousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia\, Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart\, but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire\, he unleashes long-suppressed forces that like gravity pull the three together again\, testing the limits of love and forgiveness.\nTold from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents\, “Relativity” is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds\, irreversible acts\, the limits of science\, and the magnitude of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/antonia-hayes-sophie-cunningham/
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:20160510T213000
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SUMMARY:MariNaomi: Turning Japanese
DESCRIPTION:MariNaomi presents Turning Japanese\, an illustrated memoir that chronicles her experiences working at illegal hostess bars from San Jose to Tokyo. The story begins in 1995\, when 22-year-old Mari has just moved from her hometown in Mill Valley to San Jose and soon finds employment at a hostess bar for Japanese expats. There she becomes determined to learn Japanese and connect with the culture that had eluded her since childhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22\, the Eisner-nominated Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories\, and her self-published Estrus Comics. Her work has appeared in over sixty print anthologies\, and has been featured on such websites as The Rumpus\, The Weeklings\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast\, Truth-out\, XOJane\, Buzzfeed\, Bitch Media\, and more. She is also the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the LGBTQ Cartoonists Database.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-turning-japanese/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T213000
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SUMMARY:Milvia Street Journal Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents the newest issue of Berkeley City College’s art and literary journal: Milvia Street \nMilvia Street art and literary journal first came out in 1989 from Vista Community College.  We’re celebrating the newest issue with a reading by Diana Arnold\, Paul Elias Taylor\, Lark Omura\, Raymond Richard\, Patricia France\, and others. \nAlso joining the evening will be writers featured in Forum: San Francisco City College’s art and literary journal. \n—– \nMilvia Street Art and Literary Journal\, first published in 1989\, has featured creative work by Berkeley City College students–many who have gone on to university writing or art programs–recent alumni\, faculty and staff. It is a student edited and produced publication that in 1996 won national first place in the Literary Magazine competition of the Community College Humanities Association\, and since then has placed in the top three. \nEstablished in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family.  \nCopies of both journals will be for sale at the event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/milvia-street-journal-release-party/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160511T203000
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SUMMARY:Farewell Friends/Hurry Home Tour Launch
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Tuck & Brittany Billmeyer-Finn are moving to Massachusetts and along with Tessa Micaela and Madison Davis hitting the road to sling books from Oakland\, CA to Northampton\, Massachusetts. Come say goodbye to us and help us kick off the tour with an open mic event! We would love to be in a room with you all reading to each other. \nHere are some details: Potluck: bring a snack! We will have some beer and non alcoholic bevs available!\nReading: Sign up in the comments or email us or text us if you want to spend 5 minutes reading some poems\, telling a story\, playing some music or whatever. We will get you signed up! \nSupport the tour by purchasing our collaborative chapbook at the event! \nWe hope to see you\, hug you\, tell you all the things we meant to say! Invite buddies and lovers! \nPS Check out our tour dates here: https://www.facebook.com/events/266517403691573/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farewell-friendshurry-home-tour-launch/
LOCATION:The Speakeasy\, 605 56th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160511T213000
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SUMMARY:Kate Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, playwright\, and hip-hop artist Kate Tempest will read from her debut novel\, The Bricks That Built the Houses. \nPraise for Kate Tempest: \n“Powerful and merciful.” — Ali Smith \n“A talent that knows no bounds.” — Independent \n“Mesmerising . Humanity is celebrated in all its terrible imperfections . A genuinely galvanising presence.” — Guardian \n\nAbout The Bricks That Built the Houses: \nAt a party in London\, Becky meets a woman named Harry. They connect\, they part\, and they reconnect when Becky starts\, coincidentally\, dating Harry’s brother. When Harry is forced to set out on the lam\, Becky goes with her. But are they meant for each other? Or no good for each other at all?\nLove can be messy. Love can be a moral question. Love can be the same dull habit\, and it’s hard to know whether it’s braver to stay or to run. But every love\, Kate Tempest tells us\, is a great love. And love animates her debut novel\, rich with characters and restless in perspective\, sprawling across London. Tempest delves deeper and deeper into Becky and Harry’s worlds\, examining their childhoods\, their parents and siblings and uncles and friends\, each with their own ideals and disappointments\, all woven together in fluid\, vivid prose with virtuosic highs and quiet refrains.\n“The Bricks that Built the Houses” is about being young\, but being part of something old. It’s about how we become ourselves\, and to what extent who we are can be changed. Driven by empathy and ethics\, it’s a blazing and beautiful novel\, wise but never cynical\, generous and vigorous. Kate Tempest\, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds\, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-tempest/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T193000
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SUMMARY:Reyes\, Tremblay-McGaw\, + Stecopoulos
DESCRIPTION:The Main Library’s General Collections & Humanities Center presents its Local Poets Series\, featuring readings by Barbara Jane Reyes (“To Love as Aswang\,” “Diwata”)\, Robin Tremblay-McGaw (“Dear Reader”) and Eleni Stecopoulos (“Armies of Compassion\,” “Autoimmunity”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reyes-tremblay-mcgaw-stecopoulos/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T200000
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SUMMARY:A History of Latino Comics: “The Underground”
DESCRIPTION:Latino Voices: A History of Latino Press\, Radio\, and Comics in the United States. Moderated by Latino Comics Expo Co-Founder \, Ricardo Padilla & Artist Jaime Crespo\, the audience will get a sneak peek at the origins of the Underground Comix scene of the 1960s-70s\, and how it stimulated the Latino comics movement. From hanging out with Spain Rodriguez and MAD’s Sergio Aragones\, see how the new creativity and freedom of the 60s and 70s\, ushered in the golden age of Latino comics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-history-of-latino-comics-the-underground/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T203000
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CREATED:20160422T012422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T012422Z
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim + Michael Warr
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): Genny Lim & Michael Warr
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-michael-warr/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Cruz Gonzales\, Dallett\, + Veylit
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 12th at Alley Cat books for May’s Voz Sin Tinta\, featuring 3 powerful and amazing writers! \nFeatures will be followed by an open mic.List opens at 6:30 and spots go very quickly. \nEvent is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends\, bring something to drink and/or nosh on\, and get ready for an epic evening of live performances by local artists. \nMichelle Cruz Gonzales\, a Xicana writer\, writes memoir and fiction and is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. In the 1990’s MCG played drums in and wrote lyrics for the all female hardcore punk band\, Spitboy\, not a riot grrrl band. Spitboy toured in the US and overseas and released several albums. MCG has been a regularcontributor to Hip Mama Magazine\, published in anthologies and her story “Juan\, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. Michelle live in Oakland with her husband\, son\, and their three Mexican dogs. \nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published online and in many print magazines. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released to good review on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she published five chapbooks\, Bad Sandy\, Pearl Tongue\, The Water Wars\, On Sunday\, A Finch\, and Armadillo Heart with MK Chavez. \nChloé Veylit likes the ocean\, but is still afraid of the big waves. She works in San Francisco\, lives in Oakland\, and hails from Riverside\, California. Chloé is published or forthcoming in Eleven Eleven\, The Oakland Review\, The North American Review\, VOLT\, and others. In 2015\, she won second-place in a whistling contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-cruz-gonzales-dallett-veylit/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T210000
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SUMMARY:C. Dale Young + Rick Barot
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. as we host C. Dale Young and Rick Barot\, who will be reading from their collections of poetry Halo and Chord\, respectively. \n  \nPraise for C. Dale Young \n“Sometimes the ability to convey information compactly and quickly has moral grace. [Young’s] writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame.” —Robert Pinsky \n“Young is a doctor as well as a poet\, and [his poetry] demonstrates a skilled physician’s combination of empathy and formal precision.” —NPR \n“Like medicine\, poetry may demand that we treat wounds\, that we understand mortality\, that we apply all possible skill to the often messy terrain of human life. But poetry can also demand that we not repair\, that we leave torn what is torn. This is Young’s great gift. He balances his desire to treat his subjects exquisitely and assiduously with his healthy skepticism about easy resolutions.” — Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nPraise for Rick Barot’s Chord \n“I loved that I could feel him wrestling to understand his life\, even while the poems make clear that he knows the limits of understanding. The fluidity with which Barot walks this difficult line between meaning and certainty makes these poems feel more born than made. This is a fantastic book.” —Bob Hicok \n“Chord is a smart\, moving\, and elegant collection that takes none of its hard-won assertions for granted.” —Paisley Rekdal \n\nC. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, his poems and short fiction have appeared widely. The author of four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo (Four Way Books\, March 2016)\, he lives in San Francisco. \nRick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002)\, Want (2008)\, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize\, and Chord (2015)\, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN Open Book Award\, and the winner of the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Artist Trust of Washington\, the Civitella Ranieri\, and Stanford University\, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma\, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop\, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He is also the poetry editor for New England Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-dale-young-rick-barot/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jodie Hollander
DESCRIPTION:Jodie Hollander was raised in a family of classical musicians. Currently an artist in residence aboard the SS Vallejo at the Varda Artists Residency Program (http://www.vardaartistsresidency.to/#varprogramabout) she studied poetry in England and has published her work in journals such as The Poetry Review\, The Dark Horse\, The Rialto\, Verse Daily\, The Warwick Review\, Agenda\, Australia’s Best Poems\, 2011\, and Australia’s Best Poems of 2015. Her debut publication\, The Humane Society\, was released with Tall-Lighthouse (London) in 2012. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa\, and was awarded a MacDowell Colony fellowship in 2015. She is currently the poetry editor for GARO\, the new online journal for the Rocky Mountain Land Library. http://Jodiehollander.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/VARProgram/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jodie-hollander/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T213000
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SUMMARY:Women's Collective Reading: "Daughter’s Tongue Coalition"
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents a reading with “Daughter’s Tongue Coalition” – a local women’s writing collective.  \nFeaturing Readers: \nDeShara Suggs-Joe \nElla Schoefer-Wulf \nGrace Fondow \nMelissa Ramos \nClaudette Davis \nAnna Avery \nJezebel Delilah \nNatalie Catasus \nRachel Kass \nAnd featured poet Donna de la Perriere \nCopies of the collective’s new chapbook\, Body Collective\, will be for sale at the event. \n\nABOUT THE COLLECTIVE: “The Daughter’s Tongue Collective aims to redefine what it means to be a woman writer. Our goal is to work with and bring together communities of multi-racial\, multi-cultural and multi-identifying women. We want to create a safe space for women poets\, writers\, and lovers of literature to gather together and celebrate women’s art. The immense gentrification infecting the Bay Area is driving out young artists\, specifically artists of color. With our Coalition we would like to help foster a community of multicultural women artists and reclaim a space that is rightfully ours. In this space women can gather together to create\, perform\, and support each other in their artistic endeavors in the Bay Area.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-collective-reading-daughters-tongue-coalition/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Martin Seay + Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Martin Seay will talk about The Mirror Thief (Melville House)\, one of the most talked-about debut novels of 2016\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for The Mirror Thief \n“A true delight\, a big\, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller\, a supernatural mystery\, and an enchanting historical adventure story…A splendid masterpiece\, to be loved like a long-lost friend\, an epic with near-universal appeal.”—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed) \n“Matched in its ambition only by its accomplishment. This literary\, noir thriller–drenched in grit\, paranoia\, and desperation–pulls the reader inexorably through a Russian doll of mysteries that span centuries and cultures. One hell of a debut novel.” —Chris Phipps\, Diesel Books Oakland \n“An incredible feat of storytelling . . . A delicious stew of Los Angeles-type noir\, Da Vinci Code mystery\, Rebel Without a Cause toughness\, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance mechanical spirituality.” —Steve Salardino\, Skylight Books \n\nAbout The Mirror Thief: \nA globetrotting\, time-bending\, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of “Cloud Atlas.”\n“Publishers Weekly” raved that “with near-universal appeal . . .Seay’s debut novel is a true delight\, a big\, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller\, a supernatural mystery\, and an enchanting historical adventure story.”Set in three cities in three eras\, “The Mirror Thief” calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.\nThe core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century\, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world’s most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination was it reflecting simple reality\, or something more spiritually revealing? the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology\, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man\, however a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city’s terrifying enforcers of the edict\, the ominous Council of Ten . . .\nMeanwhile\, in two other Venices Venice Beach\, California\, circa 1958\, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas\, circa today two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . .\nAll three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down an old-fashioned\, stay-up-all-night novel that\, in the end\, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martin-seay-robin-sloan/
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:FRESH AND BEST: Poirier\, Ventura + Labrador y Manzano
DESCRIPTION:Diesel; A Bookstore welcomes Julien Poirier to the store for the release of Out of Print (City Lights\, 2016) as part of the FRESH AND BEST reading series featuring scene-fixtures alongside new and often unpublished poets. Reading with Julien will be Sean Labrador y Manzano and Sierra Ventura. We hope you can join us for an evening of poetry\, community\, and beverages! \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, 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. \nSierra Ventura was born and raised in the East Bay. She is a poet\, an amateur funny person\, and an eldritch abomination. She is currently studying creative writing at Mills College in Oakland\, CA. Her work has been published in City College of San Francisco’s literary journal\, The Forum\, The Walrus\, and Odd Compulsion. Her poems have been compiled in the following chapbooks: Subhuman Sprawl\, STYLE IS A FRAUD\, Who’s Fucking Shoe is That?\, Winter Vomiting Disease\, Take Me to Suplex City\, and Daria Reruns. \nSean Labrador y Manzano edited the print journal Conversations at the Wartime Café: a Decade of War 2001-2011; is founder of the series “Mixer 2.0\, a San Francisco Bay Area M.F.A/PhD reading series;” curated the symposium “From Trauma to Catharsis: Performing the Asian Avant-Garde;” and with Dillon Westbrook and Robert Woodcock\, he performs as José Rizal in the ninety-minute jazz choreo-poem\, “Das Kapital\, Volume 4: Elimination of the Industrial Phase and the Accumulation of Debt\,” which was excerpted at the SF Jazz Poetry Festival\, 2014. This year he did a whirlwind tour of conferences (ALA Boston\, North American Review bicentennial\, and Berkeley Poetry Conference) discussing a range of topics from Mark Twain’s Anti-Imperialist Writings to the Asian Avant Garde. He was selected for the Best American Poetry in 2004. In response to the Best American Poetry 2015 controversy\, on behalf of the Circle for Asian American Literary Studies\, he will be moderating a roundtable on “Yellowface” at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco in 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-and-best-poirier-ventura-labrador-y-manzano/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren reads from his first collection\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the 110th Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. \n\nPraise for The Destroyer in the Glass: \n“The Destroyer in the Glass impresses at once with its wedding of intellect\, heart\, sly humor\, and formal dexterity\, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self. The poems both examine and embody the nexus of joy and sorrow\, of certainty and confusion\, without which there’d be none of the restlessness that makes us uniquely human. Warren’s vision is a generous one indeed —and itself a gift.” –Carl Phillips\, Judge’s Citation \n\nAbout The Destroyer in the Glass: \nNoah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize\, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done—to ourselves and to others—in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form\, rhyme\, and allusion with a freer\, expressive style\, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through\, by\, and in language.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren/
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:Cross Strokes\, Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the San Francisco Launch Party for the anthology Cross Strokes\, Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Saturday\, May 14th from 2 to 4 pm. \nReadings by: \nNeeli Cherkovski\nTim Donnelly\nSharon Doubiago\nPatrick James Dunagan\nBill Mohr\nPaul Vangelisti\nMaw Shein Win\n\nPlus readings of work by Francisco X. Alarcon\, Jack Hirschman\, and Lenore Kandel. \nBird & Beckett is located at 653 Chenery Street near the Glen Park Bart station. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cross-strokes-poetry-between-los-angeles-and-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:35th Annual Northern California Book Awards celebrate writers\, readers\, and publishers of Northern California. Authors will be honored in Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature\, with brief celebratory readings and remarks by the winning authors. A lively reception with book signing follows\, all free and open to the public; Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Susan Griffin\, eco-feminist essayist\, novelist\, poet\, and playwright. NCBR Recogntion Award will be presented to California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Poetry\, Prints\, and History\, by Tom Killion with Gary Snyder\, (Heyday). The NCBAs are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers\, an association of book reviewers and book review editors\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library. Visit Poetryflash.org (see NCBA feature on Front Page) for complete list of nominees to be announced in April: http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2016\, or email NCBR@poetryflash.org. Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amanda Nadelberg + Ben Mirov
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland and Coffee House Press welcome Amanda Nadelberg and Ben Mirov to the store to discuss and sign their new poetry books\, Songs from a Mountain and Ghost Machines\, on Sunday\, May 15th at 3:00pm. \nPanoramic narratives made from imaginary forms\, daily commutes\, circuits of walks—invitations to a new sense of memory and scale. Songs from a Mountain has been praised by Publishers Weekly as “a wild\, careening\, conceptually wily (yet somehow ruly) book that refuses to keep its feet on the ground.” \nAmanda Nadelberg is the author of Bright Brave Phenomena\, Isa the Truck Named Isadore\, and\, most recently\, a chapbook called The Bartleby Poems. She lives in Oakland. \nDouglas Kearney says of Ghost Machines: “Reading Ghost Machines\, I am reminded of Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts\, J Dilla’s\, or DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing. In these sonic works\, archives reanimate into loop driven compositions that stave off endings. Refrain riddles these poems\, deepening echoes that re-orient and destabilize.” \nBen Mirov is the author of Ghost Machines\, Hider Roser\, and Ghost Machine. He grew up in Northern California and lives in Oakland. \nThe books will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amanda-nadelberg-ben-mirov/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Artists + Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in West Marin Review\, Volume 6. The award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, art\, and original music selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists. West Marin Reviewis published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin. \nFeatured Speakers: \nCatlyn Fendler\, poetry\nDenise Parsons\, prose\nSusan Starbird\, prose\nJan Dederick\, poetry\nLinda Allen\, art
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-artists-writers/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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