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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160710T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160710T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160711T180000
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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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
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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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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160713T210000
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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T200000
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160714T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160715T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160715T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
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:20260425T085539
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:20260425T085539
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T003647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T003647Z
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SUMMARY:Booksmith is Turning 40
DESCRIPTION:Who’s invited: \nFriends\, neighbors\, customers\, writers\, book club members\, Bookswappers\, Shipwreckers\, celebrities\, Aileen\, Olympians of Literature\, employees past\, present\, and future\, and everyone else who makes our store great. \nWhat will we do: \nYou’re invited to contribute a story. It can be about the Haight Ashbury\, or about Booksmith in any of its iterations. From starting at 4\, local writer and editor Anisse Gross will be on hand to help you capture your story and add it to our already storied (sorry) history. We’ll provide everything you need; just bring your memories. (Bonus points for vintage Booksmith ephemera! Break out your old bookmarks\, totes\, newsletters\, and author trading cards. We know you kept them.) \nIf you love the Booksmith’s art\, we’re going to have Design Like Whoa set-up to print t-shirts and totes of our favorite designs. We’ll be selling shirts for a special birthday only price of $9 and totes for $5 to be printed with a Booksmith design of your choice\, or you can bring your own item to be printed for free! (100% cotton and white or light grey only\, no tie-die here folks). \nAt 5:30 pm we’ll have an Official 40th Birthday Toast with cake. Then on to eating\, drinking\, mingling\, and\, dare we suggest: dancing. \nWhen: 4:00pm-7:00pm \nWhy: \nOwners Christin Evans and Praveen Madan\, former owner Gary Frank\, and all the Booksmith staff are excited to share this moment with our unique\, vibrant community. As the Haight Ashbury’s premiere independent bookstore since 1976\, we’re more ambitious than ever to launch fearlessly into the future of bookselling. We’re experimenting with new business models\, leading the #Fightfor15 charge\, and building on our four-decade legacy of fostering communities around books\, writers\, and readers. \nJoin us to raise a glass\, tell your stories\, and hang out with the Booksmith gang.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-is-turning-40/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160714T000618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T000618Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is honored to be part of Beast Crawl’s Leg 1. Please join us for this FREE event at 5pm (sharp!) as Fisayo Adeyeye\, Lara Coley\, Allyson Darling\, Loria Mendoza\, Andrew Paul Nelson\, Kar A. Johnson\, Chad Koch\, Tara Rose and David Williams explore The Beast Within. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, art and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-red-light-lit/
LOCATION:Venue Oakland\, 420 14th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160714T000901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160714T000901Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Night Sounds
DESCRIPTION:Creatures of the night creep slowly into the shadows as the Beast Crawls.  Poets\, long in the game\, sway to the beat\, tap and snap to the night sounds.  The pops\, wails\, screeches move inward.  We stand still and listen.  We are alive.  Glorious. \nEvent Readers:\nGeorge Korolog is a Bay Area poet whose work has been published in over fifty journals. His first book\, Collapsing Outside the Box\, was published in 2012.  His second book\, Raw String was published in 2013. \nLucille Lang Day\, publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books\, is co-editor of Red Indian Road West. She has also authored ten poetry collections and an award-winning memoir\, Married at Fourteen. \nJohn Oliver Simon is a poet\, translator and teacher. He is President of California Poets in the Schools and was given a Lifetime Achivement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-night-sounds/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160717T020000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T004056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T004230Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:What Is Beast Crawl?\nOn Saturday\, July 16th 2016\, Uptown Oakland’s Beast Crawl will hold its fifth annual free literary festival featuring more than a hundred writers in a single night\, spread out over three hours and numerous local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. Past venues have included Telegraph Beer Garden\, Awaken Café\, Farley’s East\, Era Art Bar & Lounge\, The Legionnaire Saloon\, and many more. \nEach leg of the Beast lasts one hour\, and offers as many as a dozen readings to chose from. There’s a half hour break between literary legs for socializing and relocating to a new venue before the next reading begins. We recommend choosing one reading per leg. You can even plan your route in advance. Crawl maps listing all the venues\, curators\, legs\, and after-party locations will be available online and at all the Leg 1 events. \nTo curate these literary events for Beast Crawl\, we invite a diverse collection of local reading series producers and literary rock stars including the Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Awards\, Tourettes Without Regrets\, Nomadic Press\, Kundiman West\, Quiet Lightning\, Small Press Distribution\, Lip Service West and many more. \nThe name “Beast Crawl” derives from the Pig Latin for Beast\, which is East Bay\, symbolized by the classic Oakland image of the giant cranes that stalk our shore. We think every city should have its own unique literary identity\, and Beast Crawl is the beating literary heart of Oakland. \n1st leg: 5pm to 6pm\n2nd leg: 6:30pm to 7:30pm\n3rd leg: 8pm to 9pm\n4th leg: 9pm to 2am (After Party) \nTo plan your crawl\, check out our festival map\,\nsponsored by East Bay Express!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-literary-festival/
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T004549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T004549Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Crossing Over
DESCRIPTION:Rolling Writers escape their skin to visit other realms of mind\, spirit\, body.\n\n\n\n\nReaders\nJacqueline Doyle\nLynn Mundell\nCandy Shue\nJon Sindell\nKara Vernor\nJames Warner\nSandra Wassilie
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-crossing-over/
LOCATION:Farley’s East\, 33 Grand Avenue\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160716T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160716T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T004823Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T004823Z
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl: Saturday Night Special
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is an open mic literary reading series held at Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley on the last Saturday of every month\, with a huge following and a reputation for being diverse\, loud\, gritty\, sexy\, inclusive\, and loaded with local talent. \nFor Beast Crawl 2016 we’re bringing together some of our favorite writers to rock the festival: \nPeter Bullen\, Dennis Cruz\, Hollie Hardy\, Tomas Moniz\, Karen Penley\, and April Sinclair \nHosted by Hollie Hardy & Tomas Moniz \nLEG 2 of the Beast (6:30pm – 7:30pm)\nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph Ave (between 24th & 25th)\n\nLike our FB page to find more details about upcoming events and photos from past events \nhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic/112174188880786 \nBios: \nIncreasing ambivalence in regard to conversation led PETER BULLEN in quiet and lonely solitude\, to take up something he optimistically refers to as writing. He hopes you see it that way. \nDENNIS CRUZ has been writing and performing poetry for over 30 years. His latest collection of poems: Moth Wing Tea is available atpunkhostagepress.com \nHOLLIE HARDY is the author of How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems\, co-host of Saturday Night Special: An East Bay Open Mic\, and a core producer of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival. www.holliehardy.com \nTOMAS MONIZ is the founder\, editor\, and writer for Rad Dad\, author of Bellies and Buffalos\, and co-host of Saturday Night Special in Berkeley. Write him a postcard: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nKAREN PENLEY sort of plays guitar\, accordion. cartoon dogs. old black men. shitty little feelings in a really pretty voice. She also makes tee shirts\, Shit Howdy Shirts on Facebook. karenpenley.com \nAPRIL SINCLAIR is the author of three novels\, including the best seller\, Coffee Will Make You Black. Sinclair received the Carl Sandburg Award in Literature from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. Sinclair is a Chicago native and a longtime Bay Area resident.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-saturday-night-special/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160717T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160717T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T005250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T005250Z
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SUMMARY:Headlands Center for the Arts: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/headlands-center-for-the-arts-open-house/
LOCATION:Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160717T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160717T153000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T005635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T005635Z
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SUMMARY:Laurel Taylor + Richard Michael Levine
DESCRIPTION:On remote Spanish island near the African coast\, a Mexican American entomologist\, Epiphany Jerome\, is looking for a rare beetle. Instead she finds a body on an empty beach with a knife sticking out from its back. “Said the Fly” is a forensic murder mystery that Kirkus Review called “dazzling” and “smartly written” in their *starred* review. It was selected as one of their May “Kirkus Indie Books of the Month.” Writer and biologist Laurie Taylor moved to Glen Park in 2014\, after more than a decade of living in Europe and the Middle East. \nRichard Michael Levine’s short story collection\, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife\, was published by Capra Press in 2015. He was a magazine writer and editor for many years\, publishing feature articles and columns in Harper’s\, Esquire\, The New York Times Magazine\, Rolling Stone\, Playboy\, and many others. He has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is the author of a bestselling non-fiction book\, Bad Blood: A Family Murder in Marin County\, published by Random House and New American Library. His poems\, which have appeared widely in literary magazines\, have been collected in Catch and Other Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurel-taylor-richard-michael-levine/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T085539
CREATED:20160630T095821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T095821Z
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SUMMARY:Foglifter Journal’s San Francisco Launch
DESCRIPTION:We aim to uplift and support the voices of the marginalized\, the many\, the queer. Join us for a glorious and joyous evening to celebrate the official San Francisco introduction to Foglifter\, a truly unique literary journal and press. \nThe Lineup: \nMK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal will be released Fall 2016\, both from Nomadic Press. She is co-curator of Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and a regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, you’re the most beautiful thing that happened. arisawhite.com \nKevin Killian lives in San Francisco. He has published three books of poetry\, three books of stories\, and three novels. In each category a fourth is imminent. In addition there will be a third volume of his Selected Amazon Reviews\, and a second volume of Tagged\, Killian’s intimate color photographs of poets\, artists\, musicians\, filmmakers–the whole creative class. \nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe. \nRoberto Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University\, and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. He is a 2016 Community of Writers Fellow\, 2015 Sarah Lawrence Fellow\, 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow\, the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize\, and his debut book of poetry was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. Roberto writes and produces his own music\, and likens himself to Tennessee Williams in a poodle skirt\, Gloria Anzaldúa in culottes\, and/or James Merrill in short-shorts. Currently\, he works as an educator in San Francisco and lives in Oakland with a fiction writer and 15 year old cat that edits most of his poetry…whether he asks her to\, or not. \nNona Caspers is the author of four books including Heavier Than Air\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She has received a NEA Fellowship and an Iowa Review Fiction Award\, among others. Stories have appeared in Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, Cimarron Review\, The Sun. She co-edited with Joell Hallowell a nonfiction book Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century. She teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. www.nonacaspers.com \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist for the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foglifter-journals-san-francisco-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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