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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Fran Wisby
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fran Wisby writes poetry\, short fiction\, memoir and essays\, preferring always to deepen and subvert genre by way of the hybrid form. Her book Viva Loss was published in 2008 by Small Desk Press. Recent work can be found in Eleven Eleven Journal and Rumpus Women Volume 1\, and heard on Invisible Cities Audio Tour No. 2: The Armada of Golden Dreams. She’s also been published in Instant City\, Sparkle and Blink\, Digital Artifact and The Encyclopedia Project Volume 2. She performs her work all over the Bay Area and beyond\, and was a Literary Death Match champion in December 2010.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-fran-wisby/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Ali Eteraz will also read excerpts from \nNative Believer \npublished by Akashic Books \nAli Eteraz’s much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M.\, a supportive husband\, adventureless dandy\, lapsed believer\, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.’s world gradually fragments around him—a wife with a chronic illness; a best-friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career—M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia\, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam\, punks\, and wrestlers\, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.  \nDarkly comic\, provocative\, and insightful\, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs. \nAli Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Children of Dust (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes (Guernica Ed.). Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review\, storySouth\, and Crossborder\, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR\, The New York Times\, and the Guardian. Recently\, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid\, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar. Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic\, Pakistan\, the Persian Gulf\, and Alabama. Native Believer is his debut novel. \nVanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. For nearly two decades\, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a past Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, Guernica\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. A former staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. Deceit and Other Possibilities\, her debut story collection\, will be published this fall (Willow Books). \nWhat has been said about the work of Ali Eteraz: \n“Ali Eteraz has written a novel\, both heartbreaking and exultant\, about how it feels to get scalded by the great melting pot. He is a writer of tremendous nuance\, sensitivity\, and insight. An enormous triumph in its own right\, Native Believer also points toward an even brighter future for American fiction.”\n—Andrew Ervin\, author of Burning Down George Orwell’s House
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-eteraz-w-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Asymmetrical Press Word Tasting Tour
DESCRIPTION:http://asymmetrical.co/wordtas ting/ \nNot just a book reading\, not just another event—a meaningful experience. Asymmetrical Press’ team of talented authors is hitting the road in May and June for a WordTasting Tour across the western United States and Canada. From minimalism and travel to storytelling and humor\, this tour provides a taste of something for everyone. \nJoin Colin Wright\, Josh Wagner\, Shawn Mihalik\, Skye Steele\, and special local guests for an evening of WordTasting: readings\, stories\, live music\, questions\, and answers. Plus special guests Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists will host and read at most events (see full schedule for details). \nAdmission to each two-hour event is free. So are the words. Come get a taste of something simple\, unique\, indie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asymmetrical-press-word-tasting-tour/
LOCATION:The Crepe Place\, 1134 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160503T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160503T213000
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SUMMARY:Cheena Marie Lo + Wendy Trevino
DESCRIPTION:Born in Manapla\, Philippines\, Cheena Marie Lo is a genderqueer poet based in Oakland\, CA. They co-curated the Manifest Reading Series\, which featured mainly queer experimental artists and writers. They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts\, and co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. This is their first book. \nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbookCruel Work in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY and Open House. Not just her thoughts on writing can be found here: http://www.lanaturnerjournal.com/blog/response
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheena-marie-lo-wendy-trevino/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T173000
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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T210000
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SUMMARY:One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Fred Dodsworth • Rafael Jesús González • Rosa Lane • Nina Lindsay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Free Drawing: Book\, Broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. Book Table. Free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/one-big-union/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman + Andrew Kenower
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman is the author of nine collections of poetry: White Dress\, Fortress\, Death Tractates\, Bright Existence\, Loose Sugar\, Cascadia\, Pieces of Air in the Epic\, Practical Water\, for which she won the LA Times Book Award for Poetry\, and Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire\, which received the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry. Among the awards Hillman has received are the 2012 Academy of American Poets Fellowship\, the 2005 William Carlos Williams Prize for poetry\, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. \nPoet Andrew Kenower (poetry\, 2007) curates the online audio archive A Voice Box and is co-curator of the Woolsey Heights Reading Series. He is the principle designer for Trafficker Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-andrew-kenower/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Humble Pie Vol. 13
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\n5212 Broadway (at College Avenue)\nContact: David Morini\, dmorini@cca.edu \nCome help us celebrate the publication ofHumble Pie Volume 13\, a whale of an issue\, with readings by the authors included in this edition.\nFree Pie. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times. \nAbout HearSay Reading Series\nHearSay is the monthly literary reading series sponsored by the editorial staff of Humble Pie and the Writing and Literature Program. HearSay features CCA students and established Bay Area writers. \nVisit us at humblepiemag.com for literary and visual art from past years as well as to confirm event dates and times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-humble-pie-vol-13/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160504T213000
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SUMMARY:Literary Pub Quiz
DESCRIPTION:This Event is at Overland Bar & Grill (101 Broadway\, Oakland 94607) – near Jack London Square! \nPegasus proudly hosts this Independent Bookstore Day bonus event!  \nCalling all lit majors\, librarians\, lovers of language\, and literati. Come on out for our 3rd annual night of biblio-mania! Featuring fearless facts of fictional fancy\, this special edition pub quiz is sure to tickle your textual tendencies. \nHosted by Pegasus Oakland\, we welcome all word-smiths on Wednesday May 4th at Overland Bar & Grill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pub-quiz/
LOCATION:Overland Bar & Grill\, 101 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Hour: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SJSU Legacy of Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:5pm to 7pm Poetry on the Paseo: SJSU Readers\n8:15pm Legacy of Poetry: Poets Laureate Reading \nSan Jose State University\, Poetry Center San Jose\, Center for Literary Arts\, MACLA\, Poets & Writers Coalition and friends invite you to join the celebration of Legacy of Poetry Day! \nFeaturing Juan Felipe Herrera\, US Poet Laureate and local Bay Area present and past Poets Laureate:\nAl Young\, California Poet Laureate Emeritus\nSally Ashton\, Santa Clara County Emerita\nArlene Biala\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\nJennifer Swanton Brown\, Cupertino Poet Laureate Emerita\nDavid Denny\, Cupertino Poet Laureate Emeritus\nStan Garber\, Los Gatos Poet Laureate\nCaroline Goodwin\, San Mateo County Poet Laureate\nErica Goss\, Los Gatos Poet Laureate Emeritus\nParthenia M. Hicks\, Los Gatos Poet Laureate Emerita\nAlejandro Murguía\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\nNils Peterson\, Santa Clara Poet Laureate\nAmanda Williamsen\, Cuptertino Poet Laureate\nRachelle Escamilla\, Producer/host of KUSP 91.5 FM’s Out of Our Minds. \nFREE Admission\, amazing poets\, music and more! \nFor a complete list of sponsors and more info visit:legacyofpoetryday.wix.com/hammer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-legacy-of-poetry-day/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Slaymaker on Furukawa
DESCRIPTION:Hideo Furukawa has built a name for himself as one of the titans of contemporary Japanese literature. His book Horses\, Horses\, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction that deeply entwines his own life and the disaster in Fukushima\, Japan\, as it was devastated by an earthquake\, tsunami\, and nuclear meltdown. \nTo better understand this powerful\, moving story\, we’ll talk with Doug Slaymaker\, who brought it from Japanese into English for Columbia University Press. We’ll talk about how he dealt with the various strands of fiction\, history\, and memoir in this book\, as well as touching on some authors whose work this book resembles\, including W.G. Sebald. We’ll also discuss the unique aspects of the Japanese language and culture that make this such and interesting book to translate. \nThis will be our last Salon until the fall\, so please do join us for a wonderful night of literature\, friends\, snacks\, and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slaymaker-on-furukawa/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Paschke + Jorge Argueta
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Barbara Paschke & Jorge Argueta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-paschke-jorge-argueta/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160505T213000
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SUMMARY:Brendan Jones: The Alaskan Laundry
DESCRIPTION:Brendan Jones reads from his debut novel\, The Alaskan Laundry. \nPraise for The Alaskan Laundry: \n\n“This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart.” — Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a gorgeous and powerful novel that succeeds both as a page-turning adventure story and an evocative exploration of the meaning of home. With acute psychological precision and a naturalist’s attention to detail\, Brendan Jones has created a hauntingly beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time.” – Molly Antopol\, author of The Unamericans\n\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a novel of bracing air that gets deep into your lungs. As Tara Marconi reinvents herself in Alaska\, we see all facets of the American dream of self-reliance and boundless possibility play out on the stage of the Last Frontier. A strong\, singular person grows in these pages. Like a protagonist in a Daniel Woodrell novel\, she is stubborn\, heroic\, and capable of anything.” — Will Chancellor\, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall\n\nAbout the Alaskan Laundry: \nA fresh debut novel about a lost\, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing\, as far as the icy Bering Sea.\nTara Marconi has made her way to The Rock\, a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn t felt at home in a long while her mother’s death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and her father. But in the majestic\, mysterious\, and tough boundary-lands of Alaska she begins to work her way up the fishing ladder from hatchery assistant all the way to King crabber. She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly\, but here she learns anew what it means to work\, to connect\, and in buying and fixing up an old tugboat how to make a home she knows is her own. A beautiful evocation of a place that can’t help but change us and a testament to the unshakable lure of home\, The Alaskan Laundry also offers an unforgettable story of one woman’s journey from isolation back to the possibility of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brendan-jones-the-alaskan-laundry/
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:First Friday: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler returns to emcee this year’s series\, where baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing.  You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program.\nEmcee:\nDaniel Handler is the author of five novels\, including We Are Pirates. As Lemony Snicket\, he’s responsible for too many books for children\, including the relatively new series All the Wrong Questions. \nJudges:\nSusan Terris is the editor of Spillway and the author of fourteen chapbooks\, three artists’ books\, and six books of poetry\, including Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk 2013) and Memos (Omnidawn 2015). Her publications include Best American Poetry\, FIELD\, Pushcart Prize XXXI\, Ploughshares\, and The Southern Review. \nMill Valley resident Brian Murphy is the author of six books\, including San Francisco Giants: 50 Years. He was a sportswriter for 15 years at the LA Times\, Santa Rosa Press Democrat\, SF Examiner\, and SF Chronicle before joining KNBR\, where he’s hosted the popular “Murph and Mac” show since 2004. \nPlayers:\nGeorge Higgins is the author of There\, There (White Violet Press 2013). He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College\, where he was a Holden Fellow\, and is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Fugue\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Poetry Flash\, and Salamander\, among others. \nPeter Kline teaches at USF and Stanford. His first book\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. A former Stegner Fellow\, he’s also received fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in The Antioch Review\, Five Points\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. \nDanusha Laméris’s book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Poetry Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New Letters\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. \nDr. Raina J. León is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. Her books include Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (February 2016). She’s a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College. \nMeryl Natchez’s most recent book is a bilingual volume: Poems from the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova\, Mandelstam and Gumilev. She’s co-translator of Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems\, and her collection Jade Suit was published in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Pinch\, Atlanta Review\, Lyric\, Moth\, and elsewhere. \nMatthew Siegel’s Blood Work won the 2015 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-poetry-world-series/
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:Taylor Jacob Pate: Becoming the Virgin
DESCRIPTION:Start your weekend off right with a First Friday event to remember. Join us as Nomadic Press supports Action Books‘ release of Taylor Jacob Pate‘s new book\, Becoming the Virgin. \nCome for readings by Taylor Jacob Pate\, Blake Lee Pate\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez\, and Alexandra Naughton\, and stay for the company in our soon-to-be additional home at 2301 Telegraph in Uptown\, Oakland. Music by the ever-so-talented Azuah. \nDonations will be called for throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Wine will be available. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/taylor-jacob-pate-becoming-the-virgin/
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:N+1 Issue 25 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of N+1 Issue 25\, featuring readings by Anna Wiener\, Moira Weigel\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/n1-issue-25-launch-party/
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:Hume\, Rahimtoola\, Weeks\, + Burger
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 6th @ 7:30 pm\nfor a reading and release party for\nAngela Hume’s Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016)\nfeat. readings by Angela Hume\, Samia Rahimtoola\, and Maya Weeks\, plus paintings by Mary Burger! \n\nAngela Hume lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body(Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). Her poems appear in Macaroni Necklace\, Dusie\, Armed Cell\,Little Red Leaves\, and RealPoetik\, among others. She has essays published or forthcoming in Contemporary Literature\,ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Evental Aesthetics. You can learn more about Angela here. \n\nSamia Rahimtoola is a poet and critic living in Oakland.\n\nMaya Weeks is a wannabe oceanographer and trash aficionado from the central coast of California. She is the author of Panic Train (Mondo Bummer\, 2013) and How To Be On the Outside of Every Inside/How To Be Inside Every Outside (these signals press\, 2016). She is currently working on a project about the gendered violence of marine debris. Catch her on Twitter @looseuterus.\n\nMary Burger is an artist and writer living in Oakland. Her visual work uses biomorphic and geometric patterns to explore spatial experience and the intersections between natural and cultural adaptations\, drawing on practices of literature\, philosophy\, and environmental history. Mary posts interviews with artists at the blog Articiple. Her art is online atMaryburger.com\, and some recent writing is at Elderly Magazine (elderlymag.tumblr.com.) She exhibits work frequently at the Compound Studio Artist Gallery and other locations in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hume-rahimtoola-weeks-burger/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Extension Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join students and teachers for a selection of readings from work produced through the UC Berkeley Extension program. Founded in 1891\, UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California\, Berkeley. Today they offer more than 2\,000 courses each year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uc-berkeley-extension-student-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kate Folk\, Joel Gregory\, + Tomas Moniz
DESCRIPTION:Readings and new chapbook by:\nKATE FOLK\nJOEL GREGORY\nTOMAS MONIZ\n+\nHypertrophic Distress: a solo exhibition by Alex Oslance \nKATE FOLK’s fiction has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\, The Baltimore Review\, Word Riot\, Joyland\, and many other journals. She’s received support for her writing from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Originally from Iowa\, she’s lived in San Francisco since 2008. \nJOEL GREGORY is a poet and visual artist living in Oakland\, California. He is a dropout of the Evergreen State College and the New School. He is a co­-founder at Timeless\, Infinite Light. His work can be found in 580 Split\, Elderly\, and Open House. He is currently working on Connection\, a voyeuristic book-length manuscript\, in which he collages language from Craigslist missed connections into poems and reposts them in search of the absent object of desire. \nTOMAS MONIZ is the founder\, editor\, and writer for the award winning project: Rad Dad. His novella Bellies and Buffalos is a tender\, chaotic road trip about friendship\, family and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He is co-founder and co-host of the rambunctious monthly reading series\, Saturday Night Special. He’s been making zines since the late nineties\, and his most current zine addition / subtraction is available\, but you have to write him a postcard: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. \nfeatherboard.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-folk-joel-gregory-tomas-moniz/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Ayelet Waldman: Love and Treasure
DESCRIPTION:The acclaimed author of Red Hook Road\, Bad Mother\, Daughter’s Keeper\, and the “Mommy Track Mysteries” series  joins us at the Berkeley Public Library North Branch to talk about her latest  novel\, Love and Treasure. \nIn 1945 on the outskirts of Salzburg\, victorious American soldiers capture a train filled with unspeakable riches. Jack Wiseman\, a tough\, smart New York Jew\, is the lieutenant charged with guarding this treasure—a responsibility that grows more complicated when he meets Ilona\, a fierce\, beautiful Hungarian who has lost everything in the ravages of the Holocaust. Seventy years later\, amid the shadowy world of art dealers who profit off the sins of previous generations\, Jack gives a necklace to his granddaughter\, Natalie Stein\, and charges her with searching for an unknown woman— a woman whose secret may help Natalie to understand the guilt her grandfather will take to his grave and to find a way out of the mess she has made of her own life. \nComplementary copies of this book will be available at the North Branch\, and at various points around Berkeley while supplies last! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayelet-waldman-love-and-treasure/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress: Conservations with Writers
DESCRIPTION:As part of Works in Progress\, a series of conversations between writers about the process of writing\, moderated by noted essayist and poet Susan Griffin Adam Hochschild\, author of many brilliant historical accounts\,including King Lepold’s Ghost and the recent Spain in Our Hearts will talk about Re-Membering History with poet Drew Dellinger who is writing a book about Marin Luther King’s environmental thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/works-in-progress-conservations-with-writers/
LOCATION:Central Library\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2090 Kittredge St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beers and Poems w/ Emily Carr
DESCRIPTION:Dearest Reader\, \nJoin us as we celebrate the publication of Emily Carr’s poetry collection\, WHOSOEVER HAS LET A MINOTAUR ENTER THEM\, OR A SONNET— at Woods Bar & Brewery in Oakland. \nFeaturing a reading from the poet herself. \nIntriguing secrets and surprises to come. \nIs it free? You might ask. You bet your lucky stars it is! \nWarmly\,\nMcSweeney’s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beers-and-poems-w-emily-carr/
LOCATION:Woods Bar & Brewery\, 1701 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Alford
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Alford has always had an on-again-off-again relationship with poetry; but in the wake of her graduation from CSU East Bay\, she recently announced that they are now going steady (much to everyone’s relief). She lives in Hayward\, CA with her loving fiancé\, mother\, and two stupid dogs. Her favorite things include sushi\, loud music on long drives\, staring at the stars\, and poetry. Her work has appeared in the student literary magazine Occam’s Razor (once as third place winner in the Donald Markos Poetry Contest of 2014); and also online at Poetry Super Highway\, Haikuniverse\, Quatrain.fish\, and the blogs of Silver Birch Press and Creative Talents Unleashed.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/ElizabethAlfordPoetry/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-alford/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian\, one of the original New Narrative writers\, has written a book of poetry\, Argento Series; two novels\, Shy and Arctic Summer; a book of memoirs\, Bedrooms Have Windows; and a book of stories\, Little Men\, which won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. He has written often on the U.S. poet Jack Spicer\, and the edition of Spicer’s poetry My Vocabulary Did This to Me\, edited with Peter Gizzi\, won the American Book Award in 2008. Recently\, Killian’s books have been all about Kylie Minogue — a book of poems\, Action Kylie\, and a book of stories\, Impossible Princess. He is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Benavides\, Baltrónica-Gomez\, Dunitz-Johnson\, + Cyd Nova
DESCRIPTION:Denise Benavides\nDenise Benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry\, riot girl. \nJess Baltrónica-Gomez\nBalitronica is a performance artist\, cyborg poet\, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe\, Edith Frampton\, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco\, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason\, Herani Hache\, RJ Muna\, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled\, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring as a member of the International performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. \nCyd Nova\nCyd Nova is a mouthy slut and celebrator of all hos’. He has been part of the St James Infirmary family\, a clinic for folks who have been involved in the sex trade in San Francisco\, for 8 years and this month is leaving to return back to his roots of hustling and writing gossipy zines. He is the co-director of Bonus Hole Boys – the first gay hardcore website featuring FTM men. His writing has appeared on the Rumpus\, Policy Mic\, Tits and Sass\, Visual AIDS and in the books Coming Out Like a Porn Star and The Collection: The New Transgender Vanguard. Currently he is working on a series of comics based on the more comically intense moments of life. You can check out his writing at cydnova.wordpress.com \nAriel Dunitz-Johnson\nAriel is a San Francisco based illustrator who trained at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her illustrations focus primarily on pen and ink work\, specializing in portraiture. She was recently awarded San Francisco Beautiful’s Muni Art Winner with her portrait project\, SWAY: Contemporary Queer Portraiture. Through Muni Art\, her work was shown on buses around San Francisco during the fall/winter of 2015. Ariel has been freelancing for nearly a decade\, having shows of her personal work whenever she can. She finds inspiration everywhere\, from the architectural lines of the urban landscape\, the many faces in everyday life\, to sticks\, stones and other natural objects that she collects. When she’s not busy drawing\, she’s usually shopping at farmer’s markets\, cooking for her partner\, or playing with her Boston Terriers\, Harley and Levi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benavides-baltronica-gomez-dunitz-johnson-cyd-nova/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Clark + Wendy Barker
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Clark reads new poems and from his Self-Portrait with Expletives\, winner of the Pleiades Prize;  Wendy Barker presents two new collections\, One Blackbird at a Time\, which won the 2015 John Ciardi Prize\,  and  From the Moon\, Earth is Blue (Wings Press\, 2015). She will also read from  Far Out: Poems of the ’60s\, an anthology co-edited with Dave Parsons (Wings Press\, 2016). \n\n\nFollowed by open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-clark-wendy-barker/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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