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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman + Friends
DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING: ANNE WALDMAN +\nshort opening readings by Dean Kritikos\, Laura Hinton\, Lee Ann Brown\nCelebrating the wild hybrid nature of Anne Waldman’s poetry \nFREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC \nIn conjunction with the American Literature Conference\nHyatt Regency\, 5 Embarcadero\, Room TBA \nThere are few living American poets today who bring to our literary table the artistic achievement\, influence\, and multi-faceted artistic production of Anne Waldman. \nPoet\, multi-media performer\, scholar\, editor\, teacher\, playwright\, feminist\, anti-war activist\, and innovator-builder of two major U.S. poetry institutions—Waldman has long been and continues to be into her 70s one of our most important and cherished contemporary avant-garde poetry figures. She is a verbal-performance powerhouse who has worked on countless stages and within multiple forms of poetry-hybrid collaborations as she struggles to reinvent genres and poetry itself through various new-media forms. \nAuthor of over forty volumes of poetry\, as well as well as books and essays on poetry and art criticism\, Waldman is a legendary experimenter of the hybrid\, multi-dimensional possibilities of poetry in performance\, a poetics that works both on and off the page. She recently stated in an interview\,”I love the book as a vibrational object. I also like to get up and activate the text energetically with my voice.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman-friends/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160528T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160528T160000
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SUMMARY:Conditional Love: Lonely Christopher\, Maxe Crandall & Kevin Lo
DESCRIPTION:SPD PRESENTS is a monthly reading series with the aim of fostering relationships between emerging writers and readers in our national small press community. \n~*~ \nLONELY CHRISTOPHER is a poet and filmmaker. He is the author of the poetry collection Death & Disaster Series (Monk Books\, 2014) and the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse\, which was a 2011 selection of Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery imprint of Akashic Books. His first novel\, THERE\, is forthcoming in 2017. His plays have been produced in New York City and China. His film credits include the feature MOM (which he wrote and directed)\, the shorts We Are Not Here and Petit Lait (which were adapted from his stories)\, and Crazy House (for which he wrote the screenplay). He lives in Brooklyn. \nMaxe Crandall is a poet and playwright who lives in Brooklyn\, NY and Berkeley\, CA. Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place and was short-listed for the Leslie Scalapino Award. Their art and writing about art has appeared in the show Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Art and Archives and Transgender History in 99 Objects. A recipient of the Poetry Project’s Emerge-Surface-Be Fellowship and the Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship\, Maxe teaches in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. \nKEVIN LO is a composer\, choreographer\, and writer recently moved to Oakland from Melbourne\, Australia\, whose sonic improvising work generally unfolds from preparing and re-preparing instruments as morphological substrate\, using violins/the insides/outsides of a piano (depending on availability) with metallic and magnetic objects; sometimes utilizing electronics; often employing extremely close recording techniques. \n~*~ \nFounded in 1969\, SPD is currently the only distributor in the country dedicated exclusively to independently published literature. For more information\, visit http://spdbooks.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conditional-love-lonely-christopher-maxe-crandall-kevin-lo/
LOCATION:Small Press Distribution\, 1341 7th Street\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: A "Sullied" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month at SNS\, we’re celebrating the sullied. The damaged\, the impure\, the tainted\, tarnished\, spoiled\, polluted and defiled. Bring us your filthy poems\, your ruined stories\, your glorious poisonous words. We want to eat them up. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nFeatures: Tim Donnelly & Barbara R. Saunders \n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nSaturday\, May 28th\, 2016\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz \nPlease help us out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic/112174188880786?sk=info \nBIOS \nBarbara R. Saunders is a writer from New York\, living in Berkeley. She has been a featured storyteller at The Monkey House and has performed original solo work at the Marsh\, where she studies with director David Ford. Barbara works as a freelance writer and editor and has won national awards for scholastic nonfiction and communications. In poetry\, she is drawn to musical sounds and biographical themes. \nTIM DONNELLY has lived in downtown Berkeley since 1991. Before that he was an LA poet. He is a Special Education paraprofessional in the Berkeley Unified School District and a seasoned Union negotiator. \nRecent poetry publications include Eleven Eleven\, The Dead Animal Handbook\, Saturday Night Special\, The Oakland Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, Poems on the Emery-Go-Round\, & Cross Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-sullied-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160529T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160529T163000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition: Special Biennial Event
DESCRIPTION:BAPC presents a special biennial poetry event \nat the SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY \nin the H/L Room\, Grove Street at Market. \nPlease enter the building on Grove Street. \nA poster just beyond the lobby will direct you to the meeting hall. \nPersons from the East Bay taking BART will get off at CIVIC CENTER station\, \n1/4 block from the Grove Street entrance to the library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-special-biennial-event/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160529T203000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press All Stars
DESCRIPTION:FREE. Please RSVP via ticket link to help us track numbers:http://ticketf.ly/1q8bkLn \nCentral Market NOW and The SF Creative Writing Institute will present local writers reading their work in a free presentation of Nomadic Press All Stars. \nReadings by Cassandra Dallett\, Mk Chavez\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Nick Johnson\, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Music by Azuah! Curated by Nomadic Press Executive Director and Founder\, J. K. Fowler. www.nomadicpress.org \nThis event is FREE and OPEN to the public. There will also be light refreshments and the opportunity to meet and talk with the performers. \nCentral Market NOW celebrates another year of supporting neighborhood art in partnership with the SF Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development\, the California Arts Council and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. This year CMN has also partnered with The SF Creative Writing Institute to bring the best of the Bay Area’s writers and poets to our neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-all-stars/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160531T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160531T190000
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SUMMARY:Kwame Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books will sell books at this special event with Middle Grade author Kwame Alexander – Presented by the Berkeley Public Library \n\n\n\n\nAuthor\, poet and educator Kwame Alexander\, winner of the 2015 Newbery Medal and a 2015 Coretta Scott King author medal for The Crossover\, will visit the Berkeley Public Library for a very special program for kids ages 9 and up and their parents. The Crossover was a New York Times Bestseller and was called a fast and furious middle grade novel of family and brotherhood (and basketball). \nMr. Alexander will talk about and read from his amazing breakthrough book and upcoming books (both about sports and not). He will also be available shortly afterward to sign books. \nKwame Alexander is a poet\, educator\, New York Times Bestselling author of 21 books\, and recipient of the 2015 Newbery Medal for his novel\, The Crossover. The founder of two organizations\, Book-in-a-Day and LEAP for Ghana\, he regularly travels the world as a literacy advocate and expert. Kwame has owned several publishing companies\, written for stage and TV (TLC’s “Hip Hop Harry”)\, recorded a CD\, produced jazz and book festivals\, hosted a radio show\, and taught high school English. In 2015\, Kwame served as Bank Street College of Education’s first writer-in-residence. Visit him at KwameAlexander.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kwame-alexander/
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:20160531T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160531T213000
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SUMMARY:Happy Hour Stories Goes Classic!
DESCRIPTION:Happy Hour Stories is Solano’s monthly story time – for adults!\nThis month\, join us for an hour of our favorite classics – Greek\, Roman\, epics\, etc. …As always\, stories served up with a delicious cocktail.\nFeaturing a special guest – TBA! \nAbout 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!\n\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-goes-classic/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T200000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening as we showcase new work from the students of the famed San Francisco Grotto Writing Program. On consecutive Friday evenings fiction and nonfiction writers from Grotto classes will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each. Their instructors (Writers Grotto authors) will be enforcing the time limit! Join us for some wine\, fun\, and a lot of fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-3-minute-reads/
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:20160603T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T200000
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Oakland First Fridays with Fantastic Negrito
DESCRIPTION:Join us at this amazing Oakland First Fridays event as Nomadic Press presents a host of amazing Bay Area writers prior to a performance by the phenomenal Fantastic Negrito as they launch their newest album\, Last Days of Oakland. \nThe lineup: Arisa White\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Kwan Booth\, Cassandra Dallett\, Freddy Gutierrez\, Mk Chavez\, Paul S. Flores\, and two of the Oakland Youth Poet Laureates\, Tova Ricardo\, this year’s Youth Poet Laureate\, and Emma Talamantes\, one of the 2016 finalists. Music by the wonderful Hip Hop for Change! \nEvent details: \nMain FB event listing: https://www.facebook.com/events/1015349905221447/ \nWe are thrilled and honored to announce that Fantastic Negrito will be performing to celebrate the launch of their upcoming album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, at our June First Friday street festival. \nFantastic Negrito will be playing a full set at the dusk of dawn (around 8:15). \nPrior to the performance\, the evening will feature Zakiya Harris and interactive art by 1AM SF and spoken word by Nomadic Press (featuring Oakland Youth Poet Laureattes)\, and more! \nMuch of the art and performances will be themed around the title of Fantasic Negrito’s album: THE LAST DAYS OF OAKLAND \nIt means something to be from Oakland. The tiny city that birthed the Hells Angels\, the first sports team in black\, and America’s oldest street dance has always been ground zero for counter culture. It is a place where violent crime\, art\, and swagger converge. It has always been diverse. It has always understood that danger and edge are critical ingredients for art and culture. \nBut Oakland is changing. As its neighbors\, San Francisco and Silicon Valley\, spill over with money\, the economy in Oakland is soaring. Young entrepreneurs and aspiring artists are attracted by the city’s perceived “renaissance.” Oakland is becoming whiter and safer. Now Oakland is ground zero for the national discussion on gentrification. \nFantastic Negrito is an artist who bridges Oakland’s future with its legendary past. He is a wounded veteran of the city once claimed by Black Panthers and hustlers. He is a vital voice in what the New York Times called “the hottest city in America.” His album\, The Last Days of Oakland\, is about the fallout and rebirth that comes in the wake of a seismic shift. It is intensely relevant — the way his city has always been. \nCome out to join the conversation about the changing landscape of our beautiful city. It’s going to take all of us to perserve our city’s diverse personality\, culture\, and richness. Let’s do this. Together. \nABOUT FANTASTIC NEGRITO \nXavier Dphrepaulezz hailed from an orthodox Muslim household as a child. After relocating from rural Massachusetts to Oakland as a teenager in the 1980s\, he quickly moved from strict religion to the music of Funkadelic; by the age of 20 he taught himself to play just about every instrument he came across\, and in the `90s\, he signed a multi-million dollar deal with Interscope Records performing under his first name Xavier. Dphrepaulezz’s life changed drastically when he was involved in a near death car accident resulting in a three-week coma\, followed by intensive physical rehabilitation with his guitar playing hand permanently incapacitated. After a five-year hiatus\, Dphrepaulezz created Fantastic Negrito. Inspired by all American music\, most especially Delta bluesmen such as R.L Burnside and Skip James\, he sought to modernize his compositions by sampling and looping his own live recordings. He told NPR that the name is “a celebration of blackness. The ‘Fantastic’ is self-explanatory; the ‘Negrito’ is a way to open blackness up to everyone\, making it playful and international.” \nUpon winning NPR’s inaugural Tiny Desk Concert Contest\, Fantastic Negrito quickly won over critics with 2015’s self-titled EP. Consequence of Sound wrote of the record “Dphrepaulezz sings like a man compelled by a spiritual force…[his] voice is impassioned\, somewhere between a croon and a scream\,” and the Washington Post praised the EP’s “raw vocals and self-assessing lyrics.” The San Francisco Chronicle noted that “almost overnight\, the singer-songwriter became an international sensation.” \nFind our more about the band at http://www.fantasticnegrito.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-oakland-first-fridays-with-fantastic-negrito/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\n \nFirst Friday: Naked Truth\nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes. Our amazing line-up of talented storytellers will have carte blanche to choose their favorite\, go-to\, killer stories—no constraints of a theme!  Some of your favorite storytellers will be back to share some of their favorite stories\, including Matteson Perry\, Doug Cordell\, & Josh Healey.\n\nWhat is First Friday?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience: \nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Hamel\, Lau\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, June 3rd @ 7:30 pm for a reading w. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, David Lau and Garrett Caples! \nEvent is FREE. \nWine\, Lagunitas beer and snacks will be served. \nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\,jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\,occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\, Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editions will publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbookBad Opposites (2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College. \nGarrett Caples is the author of the forthcoming Power Ballads(Wave\, 2016)\, as well as earlier poetry collections The Garrett Caples Reader (Angle\, 1999) and Complications (Meritage\, 2007).  He wrote the essay book Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and co-editedIncidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016) and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia(California\, 2013).  He curates the Spotlight Poetry Series for City Lights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hamel-lau-caples/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160604T170000
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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-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Cathy Arellano\, Korima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading for Cathy’s new book published by Korima Press “Salvation on Mission Street.” \nBook description:\nThe poetry and prose in the collection explore the deep love instilled in a people for themselves and their homeland even as they battle loss in San Francisco’s Mission District. \nAuthor Bio:\nJust another Mexican lesbian writer from San Francisco’s Mission District\, Cathy Arellano grew up here in the late 1960s to early 80s surrounded by cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, and grandparents on her mother’s side. In 1983\, new owners evicted her mother from the flat they were renting\, and she passed away less than a year later. Arellano returned and taught youth in the neighborhood. “Salvation’s” poems and stories are her creative offering to a people and place she loves. \nReader Bios:\nEstela de la Cruz is a poet who lives in San Francisco. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. She has read at Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada\, Voz Sin Tinta\, Pan Dulce Poets\, Flor y Canto (2015)\, and other Bay Area venues. She was published in Konch Magazine\, and she self-published a small chapbook called For the Hell of it. Her primary objective is to create art. That’s it. \nIngrid Aleja García is a Guatemalan jack of all trades and participant of many sf carnavals\, a Loco Bloco alumni and lover of all arts. Ingrid grew up in SF´s mission district (when taxis wouldn´t dare to enter the neighborhood). She immigrated back to the homeland and worked as a social justice activist & artist. Now she is a proud Visual Designer graduate of CCSF and has taught youth to express themselves through the arts in Guatemala and in San Francisco. \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, and author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press\, 2015). A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee\, she lives\, works\, and writes in the Mission District. There was a time when she did not know Norman Zelaya. \nAndrea Rodriguez: Born and raised in SF\, received her B.A. from UCLA and M.F.A. from USC. Intersecting her worlds of dance\, fitness\, design\, production and technology\, she is a Game Producer for the Zumba Fitness Video Game Franchise\, Music Video Director for the Loco Bloco “From the Bay to Bahia\,” video\, and Theatrical Director for the LA Cumbia Festival. Andrea’s mission is to inspire you to move using dance\, art\, music\, technology and cultura! \nLito Sandoval is President of the Latino Democratic Club. He was a member of the queer Latino comedy troupe Latin Hustle and appeared in the production Full Frontal Rudity. His work has also been seen in the anthology Virgins\, Guerrillas y Locas: Gay Latinos Writing About Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading: Eteraz\, Shreve\, Khong\, Bernard + Mouton
DESCRIPTION:featuring\nAli Eteraz\ncritically acclaimed memoirist\n(Children of Dust)\,\nand author of the novel Native Believer\n“Merciless\, intellectually lacerating\, and brutally funny\, Native Believer is not merely a Gonzo panorama of Muslim America–it’s one of the most incisive novels I’ve ever read on America itself. Here\, sex\, money\, and violence all stake their claims on treacherously shifting identities–and neither love nor god is an escape.”\n–Molly Crabapple\, author of Drawing Blood \nPorter Shreve\nNew York Times notable\nauthor\, teacher\, and essayist\n(The End of the Book\, When The White House Was Ours)\n“Porter Shreve’s The End of the Book is audacious\, affecting and elegiac\, a terrific novel about a century of American letters that hums with the artist’s deep desire to last.” — Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nRachel Khong\n(California Sunday\, The Believer)\nExecutive Editor of Lucky Peach\nand author of the forthcoming novel\nGoodbye\, Vitamin\n“Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you — just like life\, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small\, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately incredibly poignant.”\n—Miranda July\, author of The First Bad Man \nSean Bernard\nauthor of Studies in the Hereafter\nand\nDesert Sonorous\,\nwinner of the 2014 Juniper Prize\n“This collection works by stealth\, like alien lights sweeping over a desert plain. All the wreckage of American life\, Tucson style\, is here on display: the margaritas and air-conditioning\, the lost believers caught in a life most theirs the moment before it slips from their palms. What Sean Bernard does so well\, with his versatile rhythmic style\, is to get you to care about such overheated characters\, all of them aliens.”―Edie Meidav\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Lola\, California \nTommy Mouton\npoet\, fiction writer\n& Steinbeck Fellow\nauthor of What We Do Cherish \nFree Admission\nCash Bar Exotica\nDoors at 5.30\,\nReading at 6.00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-eteraz-shreve-khong-bernard-mouton/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeramy DeCristo
DESCRIPTION:Jeramy DeCristo is a black Bay Area-based artist and writer working in sound\, text\, image\, structure and movement. The conceptual dimensions of his work\, whether art installation or poetry\, emerge largely from thinking and rethinking blackness as a profoundly radical aesthetic form and material; specifically he thinks through the formal\, material and epistemological worlds made possible in and through black music. He also makes music under his own name and the pseudonym OKeh. DeCristo is currently a University of California President’s Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Literature Department at UC San Diego where he is working on a book about black experimental music\, entitled Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity. He obtained his PhD from the History of Consciousness Program at UC Santa Cruz in 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeramy-decristo/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:León\, Peters\, Gelman\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Raina J. León\, PhD is a CantoMundo fellow\, a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016). She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\nhttp://www.rainaleon.com/poems.html \nAnnelyse Gelman is a California Arts Scholar\, the inaugural poet-in-residence at UCSD’s Brain Observatory\, and recipient of the 2013 Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, and elsewhere\, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (2014)\, shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award.\nwww.annelysegelman.com. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the northwest regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened.\narisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leon-peters-gelman-white/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jensen Beach + Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:Colin Winnette talks with Jensen Beach about his short story collection\, Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf Press). \n\nPraise for Jensen Beach: \n\n“The shocking accident in the first story of Swallowed by the Cold centers this collection like a knife. Jensen Beach understands the deep uneasiness of men and women\, and in his stories lie surprises—mortal surprises\, among others—that are revealed in vivid episodes of quiet harm. This book held me fast.”—Ron Carlson \n\n“Jensen Beach is a master of linguistic restraint\, a writer whose precision\, empathy\, and relentless honesty form the spine of this extraordinary work of fiction. Taken individually\, these stories are works of art. It’s when the collection is viewed as a whole\, however\, that an intricate fictional latticework emerges. Each story here is the progenitor of the next\, each life therein a quiet catastrophe\, each character both victim and witness\, bound to every other character in those unknowable ways that bind us all together. This is not just a book\, but a world.”—Jack Livings\, author of The Dog \n\n“Swallowed by the Cold moved me enormously. Jensen Beach renders his characters in a way that is both unsettling and deeply complex\, and he imbues the Swedish landscape that surrounds them with a layered personality. This is a wonderful book—graceful and assured\, spare and compassionate—and Jensen Beach is a fiercely talented writer.”—Molly Antopol \n\n\nAbout Swallowed by the Cold: \n\nThe intricate\, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s extraordinarily poised story collection are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years.\nIn “Swallowed by the Cold\,” people are besieged and haunted by disasters both personal and national: a fatal cycling accident\, a drowned mother\, a fire on a ferry\, a mysterious arson\, the assassination of the Swedish foreign minister\, and\, decades earlier\, the Soviet bombing of Stockholm. In these stories\, a drunken\, lonely woman is convinced that her new neighbor is the daughter of her dead lover; a one-armed tennis player and a motherless girl reckon with death amid a rainstorm; and happening upon a car crash\, a young woman is unaccountably drawn to the victim\, even as he slides into a coma and her marriage falls into jeopardy.\nAgain and again\, Beach’s protagonists find themselves unable to express their innermost feelings to those they are closest to\, but at the same time they are drawn to confide in strangers. In its confidence and subtle precision\, Beach’s prose evokes their reticence but is supple enough to reveal deeper passions and intense longing. Shot through with loss and the regret of missed opportunities\, “Swallowed by the Cold” is a searching and crystalline book by a startlingly talented young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jensen-beach-colin-winnette/
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:Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bonnie Thomas: Sun on the Rind • Chantal Guillemin: Truchas: Closer to Heaven • Gail Peterson: Swimming the Sky • Kimberly Saterfield:Voices from the Field. 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Russ Franklin w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi\, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray. Sandeep lives a nomadic life staying at different hotels across America with his mother and her hotel consulting firm. After not seeing them for many years\, Van Ray shows up broke with his pregnant astronaut ex-wife in tow\, claiming to have discovered a big secret that will change their lives. Sandeep must juggle his father’s scientific search\, his mother’s failing business\, and the tension of having family all together for the first time in decades. \nRuss Franklin has degrees in math\, physics\, and literature\, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American\, Alaska Quarterly Review\,Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russ-franklin-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel\, Homegoing\, at this book launch party. \n\nPraise for Homegoing: \n\n“A marvelous novel.” — Publishers Weekly *starred review* \n\n“Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized\, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters\, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans\, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly virtuous victims.  Sin comes in all forms\, from selling people to abandoning children.  I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible.  I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates\, National Book Award winning author of Between the World and Me \n\n“Homegoing is a remarkable feat—a novel at once epic and intimate\, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles\, hopes\, and fears. A tremendous debut.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment \n\n\nAbout Homegoing: \n\nA riveting\, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race\, history\, ancestry\, love\, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. \n  \nTwo half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi\, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America\, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America\, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures–with outstanding economy and force– the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-book-launch/
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:Passages on the Lake 27
DESCRIPTION:Oakland’s premiere literary showcase kicks off summer early with some seriously hot performance writers including Maw Shein Win\, Kira Lynne Allen\, Jenee Darden\, Riss Rosado and a tribute to musical poetry duo Beach Head.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/passages-on-the-lake-27/
LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, 1800 Madison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ruth Thompson + Jayne Benjulian
DESCRIPTION:About Ruth Thompson’s Crazing: Beginning where “The White Queen” (Woman With Crows) ends\, in the loss of “memory\, cleverness\, concentration” and the hope of “light through the cracks\,” this new book by poet Ruth Thompson explores aging\, loss\, and the “delamination” of the earth whose body she shares. “We are blown here out of sight of ourselves\,” she writes\, “staggering and dismayed.” Yet dissolution resolves in expansion\, laughter\, joy – “seeing\, in this dire wind\, what there is to worship.” \n\nAbout Jayne Benjulian’s Five Sextillion Atoms: In poems of formal compression\, tautness\, acuity of imagery and epigrammatic exactitude\, we encounter loving mother\, father who betrays\, cruel stepmother\, followed by motherhood peeled of its idyllic fantasies. Nuanced and gripping\, Five Sextillion Atoms is the debut of a skilled portraitist and satirist. \nNotable for the way in which it combines stories of family history with larger matters of public history\, Five Sextillion Atoms encapsulates the inner world of the child and the adult who carries an icy wound. \nRuth Thompson grew up in California and received a BA from Stanford and a PhD from Indiana University. She has been an English professor\, librarian\, college dean\, and yoga teacher in Los Angeles. She now lives in Hilo\, Hawai’i\, where she teaches writing\, meditation\, and yoga. Her poems have won the New Millennium Writings Poetry Award and the Harpur Palate Milton Kessler Memorial Prize\, among others. Woman with Crows is her second book of poetry\, and was a finalist for the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s To The Lighthouse Prize in 2010. Her chapbook\, Here Along Cazenovia Creek\, was the basis for a collaborative performance of poetry and dance with Japanese dancer Shizuno Nasu. Her most recent book is Crazing. \nJayne Benjulian’s work appears in Agni\, Barrow Street\, Women’s Review of Books\, Poet Lore\, Nimrod International\, Ms.\, Poetry Daily and elsewhere. She has been an Ossabaw Island Project Fellow; a teaching fellow at Emory University\, where she earned an MA; a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Theater at San Francisco State University; and a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Lyon\, France. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Jayne grew up near Jones Beach and in Westchester\, NY.  As a child\, she left letters to herself under her mattress\, intending to read them years later and see who she had been. She served as chief speechwriter at Apple\, investigator for the public defender in King County\, Washington\, and director of new play development at Magic Theater. She now lives in the Berkshires. Five Sextillion Atoms is her first collection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ruth-thompson-jayne-benjulian/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Cohen + Hodges
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 12th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges. \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! Poetry Flash has begun a Kickstarter campaign. Click here to learn more about helping them so they can better serve and support the literary communities of the West Coast and beyond. \nJoin us for the official book launch of Susan Cohen’s second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, winner of the 2015 Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. Stephen Dunn says\, “Her descriptions constitute what I want to call intelligence—someone in the act of getting the world right\, making it ours as well as hers.” A former contributing writer for the Washington Post Magazine\, she was also a professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. \nCatherine Abbey Hodges’s debut book of poems is Instead of Sadness\, winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Paulann Petersen says\, “Catherine Abbey Hodges offers us—inside each musical line\, within each vibrant trope—a luminous wisdom. Each poem gives us a world ‘replenished like a well // in blues and greens and wings.’” She is also author of the chapbook All the While\, and she is professor of English at Porterville College in central California. \nCopies of each book will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-cohen-hodges/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa 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. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \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. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards \nFICTION\nGold: Lucia Berlin\, A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\nSilver: Ernest J. Finney\, Elevation 6040\, Texas Review Press\n\nNONFICTION\nGold: Jill Leovy\, Ghettoside\, Spiegel & Grau\nSilver: Steve Silberman\, Neurotribes\, Avery Publishing\n\nYOUNG ADULT\nGold: Neal Shusterman\, Challenger Deep\, Harper Teen\nSilver: Andrew Smith\, The Alex Crow\, Dutton Books for Young Readers\n\nFIRST FICTION\nGold: Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\, Grove Press; First Edition\n\nJUVENILE\nGold: Alex Gino\, George\, Scholastic Press\n\nPOETRY\nGold: Beth Murray\, Cancer Angel\, Belladonna Publishing\n\nCALIFORNIANA\nGold: Tom Killion\, California’s Wild Edge\, Heyday\n\nCONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING\nGold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers\, Edited by James Karman\, Stanford University Press\n\nImportant Upcoming Dates \n#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition\nAwards Ceremony: June 13\, 2016 \n#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-book-awards/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Panel
DESCRIPTION:Annual Pride Poetry Panel features MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nico Peck and James J. Siegel Monday\, June 13\, 7-8pm at Books Inc. Castro. Celebrate Queer pride\, these fabulous poets\, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro! Door prizes at 7pm. Champagne and chocolates. A free event open to all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-panel/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Return to Butternut Lake with local author Mary McNear!
DESCRIPTION:Local author and New York Times bestseller Mary McNear returns to Butternut Lake with the fourth novel of her popular series. Space Between Sisters uncovers the complicated bond between two sisters during one memorable summer season. 10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building\, a community space for women in San Francisco\, http://womensbuilding.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-butternut-lake-with-local-author-mary-mcnear/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Sonoma County CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Kara would be so excited to see your face at the Sonoma County launch of her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, out on Split Lip Press 6/15. No open mic this time\, but she will be joined by some fabulous readers\, including Ms. Dani Burlison\, who will be reading from her new zine Lady Parts\, Shirin Bridges\, Guy Biederman\, Leilani Clark\, Jessica Dur\, and Tricia McWorter. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-sonoma-county-chapbook-launch-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks\,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were. \nGrady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel\,Horrorstör\, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio. \n  \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad\, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\,Slate\, Salon\, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow\, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grady-hendrix-w-katie-crouch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Readers: \nJuliana Spahr \nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nRochelle Spencer \nJoy Elán \nRené Vazquez \nKay Nillson \nHosted and Curated by MK Chavez \nLyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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