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SUMMARY:Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
DESCRIPTION:Co-hosted by Tamara Cushway and Michael Warr \nReadings by devorah majors\, CS Giscombe\, Al Young\, and Michael Warr \nA bookrelease party and evening of poetry celebrating \nOf Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin \nComplied by Phil Cushway\, Edited by Michael Warr \nPublished by W.W. Norton \nCity Lights celebrates the release of this stunning new anthology that illuminates today’s black experience through the voices of our most transformative and powerful African American poets. \n\nIncluded in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths\, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove\, Natasha Tretheway\, Yusef Komunyakaa\, and Tracy K. Smith\, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander\, Ishmael Reed\, and Sonia Sanchez. Included are poems such as “No Wound of Exit” by Patricia Smith\, “We Are Not Responsible” by Harryette Mullen\, and “Poem for My Father” by Quincy Troupe. Each is accompanied by a photograph of the poet along with a first-person biography. The anthology also contains personal essays on race such as “The Talk” by Jeannine Amber and works by Harry Belafonte\, Amiri Baraka\, and The Reverend Dr. William Barber II\, architect of the Moral Mondays movement\, as well as images and iconic political posters of the Black Lives Matter movement\, Malcolm X\, and the Black Panther Party. Taken together\, Of Poetry and Protest gives voice to the current conversation about race in America while also providing historical and cultural context. It serves as an excellent introduction to African American poetry and is a must-have for every reader committed to social justice and racial harmony. \n\nPhilip Cushway is the owner of Artrock and the author of Art of the Dead. \n\n\nMichael Warr received a Creative Work Fund award for “Tracing Poetic Memory.” He is deputy director of the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/of-poetry-and-protest-from-emmett-till-to-trayvon-martin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cesar L. Baquerizo
DESCRIPTION:Cesar L. Baquerizo shares his stunning debut novel\, A Safe Place with You. “Grow And Live Normally” is a clinic in Ecuador that was opened to treat general addictions before moving to what the religious families viewed as the ultimate sin – homosexuality. The center boasts that they alone are able to cure families of this hidden secret inflicting their children. The unfortunate youths are misunderstood in a time when homosexuality was not just frowned upon\, but also illegal. They are sent to the clinic by their families where they are held against their will in the sexual reorientation wing. They find themselves subjected to physical and emotional trauma that tests their strength to survive and their courage to fight for their identities. Inspired by true events\, A Safe Place With You follows a young man named Tomas DIaz and his group of new found friends as they try to find themselves during an era of heightened ignorance and hatred. Will they be able to survive the closed doors of Grow and Live Normally? At its core\, this is a story about love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cesar-l-baquerizo/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yuyutsu Sharma
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with the distinguished Himalayan poet and translator Yuyutsu Sharma\, Quaking Cantos and A Blizzard in my Bones: New York Poems\, currently Visiting Poet at Columbia University\, Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, dinner and socializing 7:00\, reading and book signing 8:00-9:30 (rsvp to Estelle Schneider\, estelabella2003@yahoo.com to give the restaurant an estimate)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yuyutsu-sharma/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160701T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160701T204500
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SUMMARY:Wilson\, Stein\, The Third Thing\, + Selcer
DESCRIPTION:“we dont need more concepts but presences”\n-R.W. \n+ Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man and Poems of the Black Object and most recently\, Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other and Lucy 72 . He is a member of the Black Took collective and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz. In his performance work and performative video\, dance\, drag\, music and masks interpolate the formal tension of the poem. Like Hito Steryl’s “poor images” his work is stitched from cultural artifacts that are passed around and over-mediated. If modernist literature carved the space of interior subjectivity\, this is an interior script of improvisatory cultural memory\, which has to do with recording and recalling the sensory world through the singular conduit of one body. From inside multiple contingencies\, this body asserts a sinuous autonomy. \n+ Suzanne Stein is a poet\, writer\, and performer. Her work is often site- and context-specific\, collaborative\, anxious\, and interactive\, joining examinations of visual and performance arts with lyric and somatic exploration. Many of her projects are first drafted live and in front of an audience\, as speech or as text. At risk\, in real time. Recent publications and performance documents include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks)\, TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press)\, and Passenger Ship (Ypolita). Poems\, talk performances\, and prose have appeared in War and Peace\, On: Contemporary Practice\, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts\, the Poetry Project\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound. Other texts in the live\, performative\, and conceptual vein include Three-Way (2nd Floor Projects\, 2009)\, HOLE IN SPACE (Omg\, 2009)\, and Orphée (Minor/American\, 2007). With Steve Benson\, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, a book documenting the 36 live improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. \n+ The Third Thing is a performative poetics collaboration between Bay Area poets Ivy Johnson and Kate Robinson. They deploy still and moving images\, live performance\, and poetry to create multimedia collages in the service of an ecstatic feminist agenda. “If I watch violence passionately with care\, will that free me from violence? If it is freedom you seek\, don’t watch the violence\, but participate in it. I want to put my body there again. I want to re-live my trauma and again. If aesthetecized\, it becomes an image\, a body to be consumed. Eat your heart out. I want nothing left of it. And yet\, I hold onto my wounds with irascible grief. And yet\, I dream that with enough momentum\, we can ride that great wind of cruelty into the real\, which is to say\, pure presence. Touch me and touch me hard; katharos\, pure. What does it feel like now\, to both live in a body and be a body that was once occupied by violence in violation of that body’s will? Now\, if I hold up the infrared light to my subtle-bodied\, naked flesh in the dark room\, searching for DNA evidence\, where will that glitter of blood taken persist?” \n+ Anne Lesley Selcer is an art writer and a poet in the expanded field. Her collection from A Book of Poems on Beauty was chosen for the Gazing Grain publication award in 2014. She is also the author of Banlieusard commissioned by Artspeak (Vancouver)\, as well as two other chapbooks. Work has just gone up at GaussPDF. Poetry and critical writing is forthcoming in The Chicago Review\, Elderly\, Rabble (Insert Blanc)\, and the Capilano Review / have most recently appeared in Fence\, Open House\, Armed Cell and Art Practical. Writing has been included in seven anthologies\, and appears in many catalogs or monographs. She was a member of the Nonsite Collective in San Francisco\, and curated the Chroma Reading Series in Vancouver. An artist-in-residence at Krowswork gallery\, and a fellow at Mildred’s Lane\, she is Southern Exposure’s current art writing fellow. Current creative and critical work is on appearance\, disappearance\, biopolitics\, and social death.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wilson-stein-the-third-thing-selcer/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Hundy: Our Own Hard Egotistic Hearts
DESCRIPTION:“We don’t ever have to be ashamed of feelings\, of tears\, for feelings are the rain upon the earth’s blinding dust: our own hard egotistic hearts.” – Kathy Acker \n~*~ \nGRACE AMBROSE \nE.R. CONNER \nLIZ KINNAMON \nTESSA MICAELA\n\nCONNIE YU \n~*~ \nwhat we want / not what you want / some texts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-hundy-our-own-hard-egotistic-hearts/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160702T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160702T170000
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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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160705T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160705T200000
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SUMMARY:She Writes Press: Grinell\, Giammatteo\, Simpson\, + Rea
DESCRIPTION:In Appetite\,  twenty-five-year-old Jenn Adler brings home a guru from Bangalore with a plan to marry him\, forcing her parents to come to grips with the impending marriage—and its effect on their own. \nBorn in a taxi in Manhattan\, Sheila Grinell studied at the Bronx High School of Science\, Harvard University\, and the University of California\, Berkeley. Towards the end of her forty-year career as a creator of science museums\, she began to write fiction. \nWhen Hollis Giammatteo sought a job working with the elderly\, she did so with the intention of finding models of healthy aging. And she failed. In The Shelf Life of Ashes\, Giammatteo chronicles her experiences with her wards\, as well as the trip she embarks upon when her mother\, who is convinced she is dying\, entreats her to come “home.” Trips back\, traumas triggered\, identity in crisis\, equanimity gained—this quasi-comic\, concentrated journey engages the reader in the process of naming and facing the tasks involved in growing old\, while asking a simple but weighted question: Can aging be done well? \nWhen a life-threatening illness makes it necessary for Virginia A. Simpson’s mother\, Ruth\, to come live with her\, Simpson struggles to heal their relationship before Ruth dies. Touching and vividly human\, The Space Between reminds us all that without accepting the inevitability of death and looking ahead to it with clarity\, life cannot be fully lived. \nConjuring Casanova follows ER physician Elizabeth Hillman. She’s been hurt by the men in her life far too often\, which is why she spends her free time safely alone\, reading the memoir of Giacomo Casanova\, history’s most famous libertine. But when a child in Lizzy’s care dies\, she flees to Venice\, Italy for a much-needed break. It’s there\, on a lovely rooftop\, Casanova appears beside her. \nMelissa Rea has degrees in psychology and French literature\, and is an amateur Casinovist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/she-writes-press-grinell-giammatteo-simpson-rea/
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:20160706T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160706T213000
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SUMMARY:Celebration of All-New SPD Small Press Section
DESCRIPTION:Hooke Press’s launch of Nicole Trigg’s Chapbook Slats \nNicole Trigg lives in Oakland.  She is the author of two chapbooks\, Double Cup and Slats. Recent writing is published inMacaroni Necklace\, 580 Split\, Monday Night\, and the Featherboard Writing Series release “Crossing Paths.” She will be returning to school in the fall of 2016 to study Italian feminism. \nIn Nicole Trigg’s writing\, the personal\, the political\, and the colloquial exist in always-shifting relations to one another–at times one is clearly the other; at times their conflation is the primary problem.  Both autobiographical and imaginary\, unhurried and urgent\, the contrasts and differentiations located in and between these poems become the “slats” of the title in at least one essential way: they let the light of the outside in. \nReadings by Sean Collins\, Johnny Hernandez\, Jason Christopher Mull and Nicole Trigg. \nAnd Cake!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebration-of-all-new-spd-small-press-section/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160707T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160707T210000
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SUMMARY:phren-Z Online Literary Magazine Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will include Wallace Baine\, John Chandler\, Elizabeth McKenzie\, Richard Lange\, Dan White\, Vito Victor\, and more. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-online-literary-magazine-reading/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160707T220000
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SUMMARY:Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:This month’s line up: \nAlexandra Mattraw is a fifth generation native of Northern California. Her three chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press\, Beard of Bees\, and Achiote Press. Alexandra’s poems and reviews have appeared in journals including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Thethepoetry\, alice blue\, Seneca Review\, Word For/Word\, Cultural Society\, RealPoetik\, Shampoo\, Diagram\, VOLT\, and Verse. Her work has also been featured in several art shows and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her first manuscript\, honest as any treeless place\, has been named a finalist in three separate competitions through Nightboat Books\, 1913 Press\, and the May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Her second book\, Inside the Mind’s Hotel\, was a finalist for the 2013 Colorado Prize for Poetry. A former Vermont Studio Center resident\, Alexandra lives in Oakland\, where she and her partner curate an eclectic writing\, reading\, and art series called Lone Glen. \nKelly lives in Oakland\, supposedly East\, though she is never oriented enough to know for sure. If she had a spouse\, she surely wouldn’t mention that here. She is inclined to mention the things people like least to talk about openly. She is an atheist who treasures Christmas. She has a love/hate relationship with some ants who\, with the rain\, have begun to invade her home. She is considering letting them stay\, so long as they live in the succulents and leave her kitchen be. She studied with amazing poets at Saint Mary’s College of CA. If she had been published in any journals\, or had any books\, she would mention that here. But she has not. \nAndrea Murphy is a fifteen year educator\, who is currently on hiatus. She has taught English at both high school and community college. During this hiatus\, she has decided to focus on her passion for creative writing and is developing as an emerging poet in the St. Mary’s MFA program. If asked what she plans to do with her degree\, she would tell you that she intends to enjoy it. She loves the lyrical expression of language and has made it her primary intention of study as she writes about family\, legacy\, illness\, and blackness from a “womanist” perspective. \nKathryn Gresham Lancaster is a writer living in Oakland. She has published in Recursive Angel\, Slow Trains and several other journals. She has also written and performed in: plays\, puppet shows and performance art pieces. This excerpt is from her novel in progress: Voices Underwater.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Bitting\, Laux\, + Millar
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Bitting’s new book of poems is The Couple Who Fell to Earth. Juan Felipe Herrera says\, “In a multi-directional ‘one shape’ of voices\, time\, people\, spaces Bitting takes us in and out of her all seeing third eye poetics. We go into an orb of family\, love\, then we swoop out into the delight of humanity.…A unique treasure of visions and voice.” Her first collection\, Good Friday Kiss\, was chosen by Thomas Lux for the DeNovo First Book Award\, and her second\, Notes To The Beloved\, won the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award and got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. \nDorianne Laux’s fifth book of poems is The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Prize. Alan Shapiro says\, “The Book of Men…could just as easily have been called The Book of Empathy\, or The Book of Negative Capability\, or The Book of Intimate Awareness of Who We Are and How We Got To Be This Way. Whether she is writing about men or women\, the powerful or the powerless\, the present day or the past\, Laux observes\, evokes and meditates with profound compassion and understanding for the delicate complexities of the human heart.” Her previous collections are Awake\, What We Carry\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, Smoke\, and Facts About the Moon\, which won the Oregon Book Award. Among her other honors are a Pushcart Prize\, two appearances in Best American Poetry\, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. \nJoseph Millar’s new book of poems is Blue Rust. Tony Hoagland observes of it\, “…long spiraling sentences full of used cars and kung pao chicken\, umbilical blood and rent money\, lentils and sausage and death.…Blue Rust is a big\, beautiful book of poems—moving\, sensuous\, artful\, full of courage and blessings.” His previous collections areOvertime and Fortune. His honors include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-bitting-laux-millar/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bill Lascher: Eve of a Hundred Midnights
DESCRIPTION:On New Year’s Eve\, 1941\, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor\, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila\, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops\, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight\, they barely escaped on a freighter—the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another. While keeping ahead of the approaching Japanese\, Mel and Annalee covered the harrowing war in the Pacific Theater—two of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region. \nSupported by deep historical research\, extensive interviews\, and the Jacobys’ personal letters\, Bill Lascher recreates the Jacobys’ thrilling odyssey and their love affair with the Far East and one another. Bringing to light their compelling personal stories and their professional life together\, Eve of a Hundred Midnights is a tale of an unquenchable thirst for adventure\, of daring reportage at great personal risk\, and of an enduring romance that blossomed in the shadow of war. \nBill Lascher is a journalist whose work has appeared in The Guardian\, Pacific Standard\, Gizmodo\, Portland Monthly\, and other publications. He was a 2011 Knight Digital Media Center multimedia and convergence fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley\, Graduate School of Journalism. He is a graduate of Oberlin College\, the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism at USC\, and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies\, and lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-lascher-eve-of-a-hundred-midnights/
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:20160709T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160709T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
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SUMMARY:Harold Norse Centennial: Brooks\, Nawrocki + Swindell
DESCRIPTION:Feautring: \nPoet + Writer Adrian Brooks \nPoet + Friend of Norse Jim Nawrocki \nFounder of Unrequited Records Tate Swindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harold-norse-centennial-brooks-nawrocki-swindell/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160710T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160710T160000
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SUMMARY:Brynn Saito + Jacqueline Tchakalian
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito’s new book of poems is Power Made Us Swoon. Kazim Ali says\, “The questions this book asks of its mythological and actual heroes are questions I want to know the answers to. Her own are brave…but they are also beautiful. As the poet reassures herself\, ‘Your spirit is a songstress/ occupying the sea.’” Her first collection is The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award; she also co-authored the chapbook Bright Power\, Dark Peace with Traci Brimhall. Anthologized by both Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed\, she has received a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and the Poets 11 Award from the San Francisco Public Library. \nJacqueline Tchakalian’s debut book of poems is The Size of Our Bed. Charles Harper Webb says it “is powered by the pain of loss\, but leavened by careful craft and a heart that\, in being true to itself\, cannot be permanently cast down. I celebrate how these poems rise from the ashes of grief\, triumphant and full of life.” Trained as a visual artist\, she has come to poetry late in her life. That discovery caused a ten-year hiatus in her painting\, but it also resulted in this powerful book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brynn-saito-jacqueline-tchakalian/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry : Moore Jr.\, Ferraz\, + Rades
DESCRIPTION:July’s reading is about community. We’ve got two poets who have come to the Bay from parts east and one home grown poet. All three of these great writers have helped to foster a mutually supportive\, dedicated and healthy poetry scene while being from and of very different places. \nLeroy F. Moore Jr. is a dedicated activist\, a solid community member and a fierce poet. His first book\, Black Kripple Delivers Poetry and Lyrics is the result of many years of writing and reading in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. His writing touches issues of poverty\, feminism\, disability and various forms of injustice. His work ranges from lyric to anthemic. \nJerry Ferraz has been a fixture in various poetry venues through the years. From Café Babar to Bird and Beckett this poet has written\, played his guitar\, curated and fostered other poets for decades. Come hear him here at Modern Times and also catch his regular reading series at Bird and Beckett in Glen Park. \nJane Rades holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her paintings and poems reveal the edges of vision in the everyday. Her books A Rosary of Poems\, Five Decades and Two Years in the Tarot\, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fortuneteller as well as her deck of tarot cards all invite the reader/viewer to look deep. \nThis a Calle 24/Latino cultural heritage district\nSecond Sunday\, Paseo Artístico event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-moore-jr-ferraz-rades/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mixed Poetry Series Poesía Revuelta
DESCRIPTION:Mixed Poetry Series Poesía Revuelta\, features Jack Hirschman\, Dottie Payne\, QR Hand\, and Daniel Flores\, hosted by Jorge Argueta\, plus Kalpulli Kiaketzalli Aztec Dancers\, Acción Latina\, 2958 24th Street\, San Francisco\, free\, 4:00 (415/795-0024\, www.jorgeargueta.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mixed-poetry-series-poesia-revuelta/
LOCATION:Acción Latina\, 2958 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T200000
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Dystopia + Manifesto Readings
DESCRIPTION:The Left Coast Writers® present an evening of selected readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-dystopia-manifesto-readings/
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:20160711T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160629T235708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235708Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: The Long and Short of It
DESCRIPTION:Three writers of long (novels\, novellas) and short fiction (short stories) read from their work Monday\, July 11\, 7pm at Books Inc. Opera Plaza. \nMichael Aleynikov is the author of the novel Ivan and Misha\, the four novellas of Quartet\, and numerous short stories published in literary magazines and anthologies. \nJim Provenzano’s new short story collection is 40 Wild Crushes. He has published 5 novels including Message of Love and Every Time I Think of You and many short stories. \nNa’amen Gobert Tilahun has just published his first novel The Root\, a scifi thriller. His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines. \nAfter the authors read\, they’ll participate in a short discussion of the variety and vagaries of writing short fiction vs. long. \nRefreshments will be served. \nDoor prizes at 7pm to reward prompt arrival! \nA free event open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-the-long-and-short-of-it/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160711T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160629T235335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235335Z
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SUMMARY:Zora O’Neill
DESCRIPTION:Praise for All Strangers Are Kin: \n\n“Part travelogue\, part Bildungsroman\, part ethnography\, this work is as intricate and nuanced as the Arabic language itself. O’Neill masterfully weaves together vignettes\, linguistic musings\, and a colorful cast of thousands into an always-thoughtful\, often hysterically funny paean to a part of the world about which most Americans remain woefully ignorant.” –Suketu Mehta\, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found \n“Zora O’Neill is the perfect travel companion: smart\, curious\, witty and knowledgeable. In time where the news out of the Middle East is too often grim\, she finds warmth and humor. By refusing to tread along the same paths that so many news reporters are confined to\, and in so doing\, she reveals to us rich new possibilities for understanding–all in a deceptively breezy tone.” – Carla Power\, author of National Book Award Finalist If the Oceans Were Ink \n“Zora O’Neill is a wonderful writer\, a hakawati who can spin a tale with the best of them.” – Rabih Alameddine\, bestselling author of The Hakawati and An Unnecessary Woman \n\nAbout All Strangers Are Kin: \n\nThe “shadda” is the key difference between a pigeon (“hamam”) and a bathroom (“hammam”). Be careful\, our professor advised\, in the first moment of outright humor in class\, that you don t ask a waiter\, Excuse me\, where is the pigeon? or\, conversely\, order a roasted toilet. If you ve ever studied a foreign language\, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora O Neill recalls\, you feel like “a magician.” If that foreign language is Arabic\, you just might feel like a wizard. They say that Arabic takes seven years to learn and a lifetime to master. O Neill had put in her time. Steeped in grammar tomes and outdated textbooks\, she faced an increasing certainty that she was not only failing to master Arabic\, but also driving herself crazy. She took a decade-long hiatus\, but couldn t shake her fascination with the language or the cultures it had opened up to her. So she decided to jump back in this time with a new approach. Join O Neill for a grand tour through the Middle East. You will laugh with her in Egypt\, delight in the stories she passes on from the United Arab Emirates\, and find yourself transformed by her experiences in Lebanon and Morocco. She’s packed her dictionaries\, her unsinkable sense of humor\, and her talent for making fast friends of strangers.From quiet\, bougainvillea-lined streets to the lively buzz of crowded medinas\, from families homes to local hotspots\, she brings a part of the world that is thousands of miles away right to your door. A natural storyteller with an eye for the deeply absurd and the deeply human\, O Neill explores the indelible links between culture and communication. A powerful testament to the dynamism of language\, “All Strangers Are Kin” reminds us that learning another tongue leaves you rich with so much more than words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-oneill/
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:20160712T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160712T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160629T235945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160629T235945Z
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SUMMARY:She Writes Press: Ainsworth\, Sweeney\, Nye\, + Pearl
DESCRIPTION:From the privacy of a confidential read\, and with the perspective of both client and healer\, Tell Me Your Story: How Therapy Works to Awaken\, Heal\, and Set You Free moves you through the stages of therapy from the initial phone call to the final goodbye connecting body\, mind\, and spirit with inner wisdom to reclaim and enjoy your most authentic life. \nTuya Pearl is the pen name of a psychotherapist from Southern California. \nJust when US WAVE Livvy Delacourt thinks she and her team of psychic Nazi hunters are ready for whatever The Reich can throw at them\, Hitler adds to the mix a spy who also happens to be a wizard. An emotional journey through paranormal realms\, Expect Deception: An Operation Delphi Novel is a fast-paced\, suspenseful tale of what happens when US Navy psychics pit themselves against their Nazi counterparts. \nJoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced WWII food rationing\, Victory Gardens\, and blackout sirens as a child. \nWhen Eliza Waite chooses to leave a stagnant life in rural Washington State and join the masses traveling north to Alaska in 1898 during the tumultuous Klondike Gold Rush\, she encounters challenges and successes in both business and love. Using Gold Rush history\, diary entries\, and authentic pioneer recipes\, Eliza Waite transports readers to the sights sounds\, smells\, and tastes of a raucous and fleeting era of American history. \nA native New Yorker\, Ashley Sweeney lives and writes in La Conner\, Washington. \nAfter a devastating firestorm destroys Risa Nye’s Oakland\, California home and neighborhood\, she has to dig deep to discover her inner strength and resilience. There Was a Fire Here is the story of how Nye adjusts to the turning point that will forever mark the “before and after” in her life—and a chronicle of her attempts to honor the lost symbols of her past even as she struggles to create a new home for her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/she-writes-press-ainsworth-sweeney-nye-pearl/
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:20160712T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160712T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T000250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T000250Z
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SUMMARY:California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County. This month\, California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia will be reading with a local poet co-reader. They generally hold monthly meetings at Bookshop Santa Cruz on the second Tuesday of the month. The suggested donation is $3. Please go to the Poetry Santa Cruz website or contact Len Anderson for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-poet-laureate-dana-gioia/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160712T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160712T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T000531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T000531Z
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SUMMARY:Jesse Ball: How to Set a Fire and Why
DESCRIPTION:Long-time Green Apple favorite Jesse Ball joins us for a special celebration of his latest novel\, How to Set a Fire and Why. \nPraise for Jesse Ball: \n“How to Set a Fire and Why is a rare and startling work. Days after I read it\, I find that I can’t stop thinking about it\, and what I’ve realized is that this is a book I will not forget. This is a harrowing\, subtle\, and absolutely electrifying novel.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, bestselling author of Station Eleven\n\n\n“The beautifully blunt narration of a gifted delinquent propels this excellent sixth novel…. Lucia details a philosophy that smartly parallels the novel’s own–namely\, that writing literature is\, like arson\, an act of creation and destruction…. Thrilling…. A song of teenage heartbreak sung with a movingly particular sadness\, a mature meditation on how actually saying something\, not just speaking\, is what most makes a voice human.”  —Publishers Weekly (starred\, boxed review)\n\n\n\n“Profound… Ball performs the remarkable task of pruning away layers of readerly skepticism in order to find the inherent beauty of small moments.” —Jonathon Sturgeon\, Flavorwire\, on A Cure for Suicide\n\n\nAbout How to Set Fires and Why: \nThe highly acclaimed author of A Cure for Suicide now gives us a singular\, blistering novel about a teenage girl who has lost everything and will burn anything. \n  \nLucia’s father is dead; her mother is in a mental institute; she’s living in a garage-turned-bedroom with her aunt. And now she’s been kicked out of school again. Making her way through the world with only a book\, a zippo lighter\, a pocket full of stolen licorice\, a biting wit\, and striking intelligence she tries to hide\, she spends her days riding the bus to visit her mother and following the only rule that makes any sense to her: “Don’t do things you aren’t proud of.” But when she discovers that her new school has a secret Arson Club\, she’s willing to do anything to be a part of it\, and her life is suddenly lit up. And as her fascination with the Arson Club grows\, her story becomes one of misguided friendship and\, ultimately\, destruction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesse-ball-how-to-set-a-fire-and-why/
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:20160713T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160713T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T000734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T000734Z
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SUMMARY:Sin Soracco Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:A joint publication of Ithuriel’s Spear and The Green Arcade Come To Me is a tale of a woman just sprung from prison who finds her way back to a once familiar San Francisco. Gina seeks out her old friend Francine whose rooming house is a refuge for women who are devotees of Santeria\, the religion brought to this hemisphere by African slaves. It is above a botanica and curio shop run by Oleander\, whose secret past will play a crucial role in this story of love\, magic\, greed and desire. \nFrom the author of the cult classics Low Bite and Edge City. \n“Take one of Soracco’s plucky ex-cons who can’t catch a break…throw in a cursed statue that everyone wants to get their hands on\, and shake. What you get is a cocktail of classic noir mixed with magic that will keep you turning the page till the sun rises.”—Victoria Law\, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\n\nSin Soracco now lives on the edges of the Russian River but her shadows still travel the streets of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sin-soracco-launch-party/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160714T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160713T235343Z
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SUMMARY:Devereaux Baker + Sharon Doubiago
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books 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. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devereaux-baker-sharon-doubiago/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160714T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160713T235603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T235603Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nLinda Maria Girón is Los Angeles born and El Monte raised\, currently residing in Berkeley\, CA where she is pursuing a BA in Theater and Performance Studies at Cal. When she isn’t buried in a script or turning down another social invitation because\, “sorry\, rehearsal…again.” Linda spends her time writing plays\, music and burning her tortillas like ‘amá taught her. Currently\, she is developing an original play\, La Memoria de Silencio en el País de la Eterna Primavera\, which is selected to premiere at Cal’s TDPS season in Spring\, 2017. \nKelechi Ubozoh is a singer\, writer\, and mental health advocate. Published in The New York Times during her undergrad\, she strives to uncover truths in her poetry. She has performed at Beast Crawl\, presented at the 29th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference\, and was recently featured at Lyrics and Dirges. Currently\, she is working on a collection of poetry and will be featured in the “S” Word documentary\, which aims to promote awareness for suicide attempt survivors. \nKari Riesgo Bañuelos is a queer femme mixed-native Xicanx organizer\, student\, poet and social justice educator from Southeast Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160714T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T001519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T001519Z
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SUMMARY:Hassan El-Tayyab: Composing Temple Sunrise
DESCRIPTION:This memoir by musician Hassan El-Tayyab recounts his trip across the US looking for that elusive muse. He arrives in Berkeley and hooks up with a group creating a metal sculpture called Fishbug. They go to Burning Man in the Nevada dessert and here he writes the musical piece Temple Sunrise. Hassan is a musician singer/songwriter with his group America Nomad. This is a book of travel\, personal exploration\, community\, and that elusive finding of the creative source. A beautiful song comes of this journey as well as a beautiful\, insightful book. \nHassan El-Tayyab is an award-winning singer/songwriter\, author\, teacher\, and cultural activist currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. His critically acclaimed Americana act American Nomad performs regularly at festivals and venues up and down the West Coast and beyond. He teaches music in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hassan-el-tayyab-composing-temple-sunrise/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160714T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160713T235825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T235825Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Kramen\, Coleman\, + Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Kraman’s latest book of poems is The Touch. Bob Holman says\, “The Touch\, the long-awaited new book of poetry from medievalist and former punk-rocker Cynthia Kraman\, tosses New Formalism on its ear\, and its rock lyrics…resuscitate Wordsworth…a superb\, extraordinary\, shocking\, unflinching\, charming\, hilarious\, perfectly gem-cut book.” Her first book\, Taking on the Local Color\, was the Wesleyan New Poets Selection for 1976. Other collections include Club 82 and The Mexican Murals. Published in such journals as The Paris Review and Open City\, her poetry has been anthologized in Ordinary Women\, New York: Poems\, and Bowery Women: Poems. She is an associate professor of English literature at the College of New Rochelle in New York. \nSharon Coleman‘s first full-length book of micro-fiction is Paris Blinks. Indigo Moor says\, “Similar in concept to Calvino’s seminal work\, Invisible Cities\, the sensual\, the alluring\, and the distasteful are woven into a collection of fifty\, fifty-word jaunts that walk the razored tightrope of harsh realism with an exquisite\, magical nuance.” She is the author of the chapbook Half Circle\, writes for Poetry Flash as a contributing editor\, co-curates the poetry reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nJoyce Jenkins is editor of Poetry Flash online review and literary calendar. She has two chapbooks\, Portal and Joy Road. Her poetry has appeared in Burning the Midnight Oil\, Ambush Review\, ZYZZYVA\, The Addison Street Anthology: Berkeley’s Poetry Walk\, and The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed. She received the American Book Award in 1994\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2006\, and\, for Poetry Flash\, the Litquake Barbary Coast Award 2012. Co-curator of the Poetry Flash Reading Series\, she is sharing a few poems to open the reading in homage to Cynthia and Sharon. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-kramen-coleman-jenkins/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160715T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T002227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T002227Z
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SUMMARY:FRESH AND BEST! w/ Solmaz Sharif
DESCRIPTION:This month we are featuring the release of Solmaz’s new and acclaimed debut collection\, Look (Graywolf Press). Come see what booksellers are already raving about (Look is also a July IndieNext selection)\, and join us for an evening of poetry\, community\, and beverages! \nSolmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley\, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People\, and New York University. Her work has appeared in The New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, jubilat\, Gulf Coast\, Boston Review\, Witness\, and others. She has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-and-best-w-solmaz-sharif/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160715T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160715T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160714T000152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T000152Z
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SUMMARY:Canarium Books night w/ Farnoosh Fathi + John Beer
DESCRIPTION:Farnoosh Fathi is the author of Great Guns (Canarium\, 2013)\, the editor of The Collected Poems of Joan Murray (NYRB\, 2017)\, and the founder of YALDA: The Young Artists Language and Devotional Alliance\, a literary intensive and publishing platform for young women authors ages 12 to 19. She lives in New York City and in the Granny Cloud. \nJohn Beer is the author of The Waste Land and Other Poems (Canarium Books\, 2010)\, winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America\, a chapbook\, Lucinda (Spork Press\, 2013)\, and the full-length verse novella of Lucinda\, published by Canarium Books in 2016. He is also the editor of a selection of Robert Lax’s poems\, published by Wave Books in 2013. He lives in Portland\, Oregon and teaches at Portland State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/canarium-books-night-w-farnoosh-fathi-john-beer/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T004256
CREATED:20160630T003426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T003426Z
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Museum One Year Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:On July 16th\, 2016 the Tenderloin Museum will have been open for one year. Please join us in celebrating this important milestone at our free community day celebration from 10am-9pm\, with free hourly programming from 1pm-8pm. The mission of the Tenderloin Museum is to inspire and serve the neighborhood. The museum’s permanent collection and Neighborhood Walking Tours offer locals and tourists alike an opportunity to learn the history of the Tenderloin and experience San Francisco’s most unique neighborhood\, a history that has been routinely overlooked in historical accounts of San Francisco. Our evening programming celebrates the Tenderloin’s rich artistic community and features live music\, theatre performances\, film screenings\, lectures\, local artist exhibitions\, poetry nights\, and much more. \nOur first year has been exceptional because of all the incredible partnerships we’ve forged with other museums\, non-profit organizations\, artists\, local businesses\, and our neighbors. Our first anniversary will be spent celebrating those partnerships. \nProgramming Schedule: \n1pm- Youth Magic Class with Magician Mike Della Penna\nMike will begin with a performance followed by a short teach-in session where attendees will learn to perform a few simple\, yet powerful magic effects to amaze friends\, family\, or even an audience! For Tenderloin youths & our SF & Bay Area neighbors\, for ages 8-98\n2pm- Asian Art Museum\nA storyteller from the Asian Art Museum will delight visitors with a short story from the Rama Epic recounting the struggle of Prince Rama. His epic has been a prime subject for visual and performing arts\, literature\, and religious thought in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia\n3pm- Larkin Street Youth Services- Vocal Chords\nYouth Choir at Larkin Street’s Youth Arts Program\n4pm- California Historical Society\nBilly Jennings\, founder of the Black Panther Archive and former Black Panther will discuss the history and impact of the Black Panther Party in City of San Francisco and show small portions of his archive\n5pm- Don Herron on Dashiell Hammett\nDiscussion about the famous American author dubbed the “Grandfather of Noir” and his close relationship to the Tenderloin\n6pm- Skywatchers\nTenderloin residents celebrate a resistance to oppression and affirm their community through music\, dance and spoken word\n7pm- Café Society SF\nA night of contemporary jazz with Tenderloin-based Cafe Society featuring vocalist Tomas Jay with the Dave Austin trio\, and special guest vocalists\n8pm- Aunt Charlie’s Dream Queens Revue Drag Show\nQueens Donna Personna\, Collette LeGrande & the TL Museum’s own Cruzin d’Loo will dazzle us with drag performances \nResident Artists’ Group Show:\nOn display in our museum store\nThe Tenderloin Museum Artist in Residence program facilitates the display of San Francisco Bay Area art. With a new exhibition every one to two months\, the Museum Store becomes a gallery for a wide variety of mediums. From graphic-designed art objects to screen – printed pennants\, from photography to letterpress prints – all with a Tenderloin specific object or theme. By helping to bring art to the Tenderloin and highlighting the art already in the neighborhood\, this Artist Program bridges the history of one of San Francisco’s oldest neighborhoods to the culture of today. All of our previous resident artists will be featured in a group show opening July 16th\, part of our One Year Anniversary Celebration. Featured artists include Ryan De La Hoz\, Jacinto Castillo\, Kelly Nicolaisen\, Nan Castle\, and Darwin Bell. Public art project Temporal Cities (created by Tenderloin artists Lizzy Brooks and Radka Pulliam) will also be sharing work collected through partnership with the Tenderloin Museum. \nThank you for all the support you’ve given us this first year. We are so excited to be a part of the neighborhood and continue to support a thriving Tenderloin. We look forward to celebrating this important milestone with you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-museum-one-year-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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