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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th st\, Oakland\, near Broadway\, @ 6pm and will feature readings by a few of the poets to be published in our journal\, Lo Ferris\, Claire Marie Stnacek\, and Daniel Benjamin. Snacks and beverages will be included & we hope to see you there! \nReaders:\nClaire Marie Stancek\nBio: Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, Claire Marie Stancek now lives in Berkeley\, California. She is the author of MOUTHS (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions. These poems are taken from her second book of poetry\, Oil Spell\, which is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2018. \nLo Ferris\nBio: Lo Ferris is a poet and translator living in the East Bay. Their work can also be found in Fence\, Bombay Gin\, and The Atlas Review. \nDaniel Benjamin\nBio: Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley\, researching minoritarian forms of universality in lyric poetry. With Eric Sneathen\, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books\, 2017); with Claire Marie Stancek\, he is the co-editor of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba / Giramondo\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/2122238844723108/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-review-issue-48-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11th – 7:00pm\nMain Reading Room \nDaniel Handler returns to emcee as 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. \nFeatured Poets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin\, Kai Carlson-Wee\, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kathleen Winter \nFor adults and high school students only. Pregame refreshments starting at 6:30pm for registered guests. Program starts at 7:00pm. \nRegistration is strongly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, May 11\, 2018 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Teens \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-7th-annual-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Reading - Eckes\, Seidenberg\, Spencer Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \nEckes\, Seidenberg\, and Spencer Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-eckes-seidenberg-spencer-smith/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. \nAbout the poets: \nBrenda Hillman is an activist\, writer\, editor\, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press\, including Practical Water\, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California\, as the Olivia Filippi professor of poetry. \ngiovanni singleton is a poet\, teacher\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-and-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley\ncities\, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor\, current laureate of Sacramento\, and\nGillian Wegener\, former laureate of Modesto\, will read along with Alhambra students\,\nand other poets who have a long personal association with Martinez.  The theme will be\nthe evolution of ecological stewardship and poetry’s contribution to it. To root that\nevolution\, we will also express the essence of place\, specifically Martinez\, where John\nMuir settled as an adult.\nWHERE:  The John Muir National Historic Site\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\nWHEN:    Saturday\, May 12th\, 5-8 PM\nCOST:      Free\, but reservations required \nContact: Eliot Schain or James McDonald\nPhone: 925-228- 8860\, ext. 6431 (the John Muir House)\nEmail: eschain@martinez.k12.ca.us (Alhambra High School)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/5th-annual-ecopoetry-festival-at-the-john-muir-house/
LOCATION:John Muir House\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\, CA\, 94553\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virginia Eubanks talks about her book: Automating Inequality:  How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany\, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect\, The Nation\, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades\, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-eubanks-talks-about-her-book-automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making\, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she applied to Harvard Law School\, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich wrote her admissions essay about her staunch opposition to the death penalty. The child of two lawyers\, her position had always been clear in her mind. So when she finds herself at her first summer internship at a New Orleans law firm that is working on the re-trial of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley\, she feels ready to begin her life’s work. \nBut when she watches the tape of Ricky’s confession\, she is overcome by one thought: she wants him to die. Shocked by her reaction\, Alexandria digs deeper and deeper into the case and realizes that something about this story\, so seemingly distant from her own suburban upbringing in New Jersey\, is uncannily familiar. As she pores over the details of the trial and the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood\, she is forced to face her own story\, to unearth long-buried family secrets\, and to reckon with how her own past colors her view of Ricky’s crime. \nThrough Alexandria’s meticulously researched and vividly reconstructed telling of Ricky’s story and her deeply personal investigation into her own past\, it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one using her own memories to understand the case. Everyone—from the judge to the jury foreman to the defense attorney to Ricky’s own mother—sees what happened through the lens of their own experience. \n\n\n  \n“The balancing act here performed between autobiography and journalism\, documentary and imagination\, witnessing and reckoning\, the tender and the terrible\, is shrewd and graceful…Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has given us an exquisite and exquisitely difficult work of art that makes a fierce claim on our attention\, conscience\, and heart.” — Maggie Nelson\, NBCC award-winning author of The Argonauts \n  \n\n\n  \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was awarded numerous fellowships to write this book\, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Oxford American\, Salon\, and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard\, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Boston\, Massachusetts\, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and graduate public policy students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-the-fact-of-a-body/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-alan-harris/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers\, Longhairs\, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. \n“An outstanding food and cultural history…In this informative\, briskly paced first book…Kauffman is equally thorough in tracing how these early innovators inspired the food co-ops and whole food stores that exist today.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-by-jonathan-kauffman/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Book Reading "Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading\, “Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death\,” on Tuesday\, May 15 from 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco. Author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nAndrew Demcak is an American poet and novelist\, the author of four poetry collections and five young adult novels. His books have been featured by the American Library Association\, Verse Daily\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, The Best American Poetry\, and Poets & Writers. His new book Lazarus was a finalist for the prestigious 2018 Dorset Prize for Poetry. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Anatomy of a Murderer\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. To find out more about Tim and his secret obsession with Wonder Woman\, visit him online at timfloreen.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-book-reading-murderous-fiction-3-novels-about-death/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nCruel Futures \nCity Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 \n\nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures\, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith\, is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood—all in a late capitalist America. Like Joanne Kyger\, Giménez Smith deploys humor while depicting the quotidian and its function as sacrament. \nPraise for Cruel Futures: \n“Carmen Giménez Smith’s beautiful book\, Cruel Futures is one of those rare books\, rare pieces of art\, that manages to be extremely intimate\, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique. The poems can be tender or ironic\, and sometimes a blending of the two\, which is not easy\, but occasionally yields lines like these\, from the amazing and amazingly titled poem ‘Ravers Having Babies’: ‘So much to do so little skin / left for transformation . . .’ Somehow those lines for me get at the remarkable humanity in this book\, the remarkable wisdom\, which is ravenous\, sorrowful\, and dreaming. Like\, probably\, you are. Like me.”––Ross Gay \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\,’ this book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.’ Inheritor and conduit of an Latinx artistic tradition\, this primer on how to ‘feed the yearning’ Anzaldúa wrote of leaves us broken and stronger\, ‘Slick with lip gloss\, with legend.'”––Farid Matuk \n“Declamatory anthems to no nation\, these songs stride as they deal and wheel with skin and kin: history\, catastrophe\, the body\, love. ‘Upturned and defiant\, all types of shade\, no outskirt\, / vital like a saint\,’ the poems in Cruel Futures shimmer with Giménez Smith’s lyric attention: full of grit\, sharp and knowing.”––Hoa Nguyen
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim\, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano
DESCRIPTION:Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker\, Nellie was honored by Oakland High School with a building in her name. She is the author of four poetry books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. She is co-featured in the documentary film\, “Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\,” by Allie Light and Irving Sarah. Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals in the U.S. and around the world. Her award-winning play “Paper Angels\,” was the first Asian American play to be aired on PBS’s American. Lim’s performance piece\, “Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\,” dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, recently premiered at Safe House. She is author of five poetry collections and co-author of the seminal\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Kitty Tsui’s WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE was the first book by a Chinese American lesbian; her second BREATHLESS – EROTICA won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE will be out as a Sapphic Classic along with new poems from NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON’T in July\, 2019. Bill Crossman is a pianist\, composer\, human rights activist\, philosopher/educator\, poet\, playwright\, and author. As a pianist\, Crossman’s specialty is free jazz/free improvisation. His musically improvised “John Brown’s Truth” musical premiered at the 2009 International Society of Improvised Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz\, and has since been performed throughout northern California and in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-kitty-tsui-and-nellie-wong-w-bill-crossman-on-piano/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel\, Shadow Child. Please join us! \nShadow Child is a gorgeous novel about three strong women\, the dangerous ties of family and identity\, and the long shadow our histories can cast. Twin sisters Hana and Kei grew up in a tiny Hawaiian town in the 1950s and ‘60s\, so close they shared the same nickname. Mixed-race and fatherless\, they were raised in dreamlike isolation by their loving yet unstable mother. But when their cherished threesome with Mama is broken\, and then further shattered by a violent betrayal that neither young woman can forgive\, it seems their bond may be severed forever—until\, six years later\, Kei arrives on Hana’s lonely New York City doorstep with a secret that will change everything. Flashing back to 1942\, readers meet Lillie\, a young Japanese woman orphaned as a baby on the steps of a rural church in California. After she falls in love with Donald\, the only other Japanese person Lillie has known\, the young couple weds and moves in with his parents in Los Angeles\, only to find that in that time of war\, Japanese Americans were viewed with distrust and hostility. From the internment camps in World War II America\, to the exotic beaches and caves of Hawaii\, to the bustling metropolis of New York City\, Shadow Child follows these extraordinary women as they search for acceptance\, family\, and a truer sense of identity and happiness than what they’d known. \nRahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the memoir Hiroshima in the Morning\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel\, Why She Left Us\, won an American Book Award. The first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics\, she was raised in Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rahna-reiko-rizzuto-shadow-child/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Dixon Evans
DESCRIPTION:Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel\, How to Set Yourself on Fire. \n\nPRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\n“How to Set Yourself on Fire is a family mystery that slowly reveals itself\, illuminating a poignant emptiness in its lovable but complicated main character. Sheila is funny\, depressed\, searching\, and unpredictable. Her story will move you long after its lovely final scene.”—Lindsay Hunter\, author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry \n\n“This book had me glued. I came for the intrigue buried in the treasure hunt of letters\, but I stayed for the unlikely friendship of thirty-five-year-old Sheila and twelve-year-old Torrey. I would read a whole series of these two having adventures together\, but I’ll have to relish this singularly heartbreaking and hilarious story of lost and found love\, in all its guises.”—Jac Jemc\, author of The Grip of It \n\n“This book features my favorite type of protagonist: the creepy\, socially awkward woman who you can’t help but fall in love with. It’s also the best kind of reading experience: a book that is funny and difficult to put down\, and builds to something that is disarmingly touching.”—Juliet Escoria\, author of Witch Hunt \n\nABOUT HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\nSheila’s life is built of little thievings.  Adrift in her mid-thirties\, she sleeps in fragments\, ditches her temp jobs\, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls\, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand\, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows.  Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory.  Her only friends are her mysterious\, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey\, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. \nWhen her grandmother Rosamond dies\, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr—a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself\, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair\, piecing together her grandmother’s past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond’s shoebox. \nAs they get closer to unraveling the truth\, Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them.  Somewhere\, there’s an answering stack of letters—written in Rosamond’s hand—and Sheila can’t stop until she uncovers the rest of the story.  Threaded with wry humor and the ache of love lost or left behind\, How to Set Yourself on Fire establishes Julia Dixon Evans as a rising talent in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Lindsay Hunter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-dixon-evans/
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:Mark Greenside
DESCRIPTION:Mark Greenside\n\n\n\n\nReads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a sequel of sorts to I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)\, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Imagine Larry David . . . spending a summer in a French village–against his will\, of course–and you get some sense of what Mark Greenside goes through.” \nTo reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year upon arriving in Plobien\, the small Breton town where he spends his summers\, Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled\, but not daunted (OK\, slightly daunted)\, he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all\, when can he touch the tomatoes? \nDespite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life\, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France\, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses\, he learns the rules of engagement\, how he gets what he needs–which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants–and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails\, which is more often than he can believe. \nMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of a collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. Greenside resides in Alameda and Brittany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-greenside/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The first new translation of this wall poetry in 40 years takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate their experiences\, these poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, eventual deportation.Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, information essential to our contemporary policy debates. These poems are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While earning his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at Angel Island. For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has focused on the Asian American experience including adoption\, multiracial families\, and student activism during the 1960s. His poetry and prose have appeared in many publications including Bamboo Ridge\, Crab Orchard\, Hyphen\, Spillway\, and other publications. In past lives he has been a singer-songwriter\, disc jockey\, high school teacher\, and open mic host. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
DESCRIPTION:Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko Ono\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699189570134160/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-yoko-ono/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:radical  poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:radical poesies \nSteven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin \nCurated by Tongo Eisen-Martin \nWednesday! May 16th \nDoors 6:30PM \nProgram7PM \nFREE \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radical-poesies-steven-seidenberg-aaron-heard-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Tea
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book\n\nAgainst Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nThe razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas\, a doomed lesbian biker gang\, recovering alcoholics\, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life\,yet all-too-human figures\, populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures\, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these lives\, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. \nDelivered with her signature honesty and dark humor\, Tea blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own. She turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career—memoir—and considers the extent to which art preys on life. \nMichelle Tea is the author of numerous books\, including Rent Girl\, Valencia\, and How to Grow Up. She is the creator of the Sister Spit all-girl open mic and 1997-1999 national tour. In 2003\, Michelle founded RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit that oversees queer-centric projects. \nOn the work of Michelle Tea: \n“These essays blow my mind with their algebraic rhythms by which Michelle Tea manages pain and bliss. They take turns erupting in a pulpy and marvelous parade: landscape\, passion\, morality\, family\, cigarettes—each cited frankly and exquisitely like a smart kid with a dirty crayon explaining to us all how she sees god.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls \n“I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously\, wickedly funny\, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-tea/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker / 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and Martha will read a section from her recent novel\, The Underground River. Please join us! \nThe twelve stories are rooted in foreign places\, cemeteries\, violence and strong women. The worlds the characters construct are unforgiving. Their paths cross in twisted and sometimes deadly ways. In the title novella\, three women use seduction\, wit\, and weapons to master the men they meet. In Super Secrets two women are neighbors and lovers\, until one is betrayed and extracts revenge. The ribald reverend in The Second Coming meets his match in 19 year-old Charity. On a darker note\, a crazed horse and a storm at sea shatter a fragile love in Slashing at the Nets. Then\, in Storm Painter an artist moves in with a writer\, but their past destroys his third novel. Place is important. None other than an Italian detective would find a clue in a singular tortellini. The New York sniper would only be trained by the Israeli Defense Force. \n— \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards. During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market\, Managing Risk with Derivatives\, and Managing Lease Portfolios. Education: Stanford (economics and creative writing)\, New York University (economics and anthropology)\, Georgetown (political science).He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. His website is www.townsendwalker.com. \nMartha Conway‘s most recent novel\, The Underground River\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, and her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. She has won numerous awards for her historical fiction\, including an Independent Publishers Award and the North American Book Award. Her short fiction has been published in the Iowa Review\, The Carolina Quarterly\, The Missouri Review\, The Quarterly\, and other journals\, and she received a California Arts Council fellowship for Creative Writing. Martha teaches creative writing for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/townsend-walker-3-women-4-towns-5-bodie/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009); the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010); and the full-length collections Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17 (City Lights Publishers\, 2018). \nGiménez Smith’s work explores issues affecting the lives of females\, including Latina identity\, and frequently references myth and memory. With the publication of Odalisque in Pieces\, Giménez Smith was featured as a New American Poet on the Poetry Society of America’s website. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets(1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). \nGiménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She was appointed as poetry co-editor (along with Steph Burt) at The Nation in 2017 and teaches at Virginia Tech University. \ngiovanni singleton’s debut collection Ascension\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her writing has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Canarium Books recently published a collection of her visual work entitled AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper. She was the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at University of California-Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-giovanni-singleton-and-carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day\, May Day--Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . \nDeMareon Gipson\nLiz Green\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nAnne F. Walker \nhosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with free refreshments and bookstore cats–thank you Pegasus!!!!\n\nDeMareon Gipson is a polymathic wordsmith from Vallejo\, California\, whose penned the book Looking Forward and composed a short film\, The Plan\, ” which was selected by East Bay Express as a Pick of The Week. The Plan combines visual art with Gipson’s poetry to broaden the definition of institutional violence imposed upon Black people. His poetry won the acclaim of the Academy of American Poets. In 2017\, he was awarded with the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize. A political and cultural activist\, Demareon created Heartspace\, an open mic for poets\, musicians and dancers that also provided local small businesses with vending and networking opportunities. In 2015\, Gipson the founded the annual event “With Love\,” which is a safe space for Black people to talk about love that is led by poetry. He recently started a small business\, the Forward Publishing House. \nLiz Green is a writer\, performer\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She was on two national slam teams. As a playwright and writer/performer\, she has had her work produced at multiple local and national theater festivals. She received her BA from Vassar and her MFA from Mills in Creative Writing. She was a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She attended the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. She is waitlisted at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. She has been published in several journals and anthologies\, including Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, Sparkle and Blink\, and The Body is Not an Apology. She is in conversation with North Atlantic Books about publishing an anthology she is co-editing with Kelechi Ubozoh. She is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California. \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 14 years old and attends Claremont Middle School. She was a featured reader at the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has performed at Bay Area Generations and the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Besides writing\, she likes to draw in her spare time. If you asked her what she explores in her poetry\, she might not be able to tell you exactly\, but she tries to write every day. She hopes to publish a collection of her own work someday. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the SF Bay Area\, and is the author of four previous poetry collections\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, Diwata\, and To Love as Aswang. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/ \nAnne F. Walker’s poetry has won Eisner Prizes at UC Berkeley and Canada Council Arts Grants among other honors. Her full-length published poetry books include Six Months’ Rent\, Pregnant Poems\, Into the Peculiar Dark\, and The Exit Show. Her recent poetry chapbook is when the light of any action ceases. She completed doctoral work at UC Berkeley and is an Assistant Professor at Holy Names University in Oakland\, California. Recently she has been working on 100-word prose poems concentrate attention on precision of image\, narrative\, and language. They are part of a collection\, Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length\, that reflect on landscapes\, bodies and rooted memories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-may-day-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William Middleton
DESCRIPTION:William Middleton\n\ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nDouble Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nCity Lights celebrates the first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil\, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art\, artistic scholarship\, the creation of innovative galleries and museums\, and work with civil rights. \nDominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston\, they built the Menil Collection\, the Rothko Chapel\, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel\, the Cy Twombly Gallery\, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.\nNow\, with unprecedented access to family archives\, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace\, to their own early years in France\, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect\, and we see how\, by the 1960s\, their collection had grown to include 17\,000 paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, photographs\, rare books\, and decorative objects.\nAnd here is\, as well\, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in. \nWilliam Middleton is a journalist and editor who has worked in New York and Paris. He has been the Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications\, overseeing W Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily. He has written for The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, House & Garden\, Esquire\, Texas Monthly\, Travel & Leisure\, Departures\, and the International Herald Tribune. \nPraise for Double Vision: \n“Middleton spares no details in this history of the French couple who made Houston their home and converted it to a center of the arts… A well-written\, highly informative book for devotees of the modern art world.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“An authoritative account of the lives and patronage of 20th-century art-world power-couple Dominique and John de Menil…As Middleton dutifully shows\, the couple’s commitment to art and philanthropy defined their lives…. This exhaustively researched\, satisfying slab of a book offers a thorough look into the lives and influence of an extraordinary couple.”\n—Publisher’s Weekly \nIn “Double Vision\,” William Middleston gives visionary art collectors Dominique and John de Menil the joint biography they richly deserve–a sweeping\, superbly researched\, behind-the-scenes account of a family deeply involved in the story of 20th-century American art.”\n—Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\, authors of de Kooning: An American Master
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-middleton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer‘s Ross Simonini — please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of Trip below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nPart memoir\, part history\, part journalistic exposé\, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs\, literature\, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists — The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. \nWhile reeling from one of the most creative — but at times self-destructive — outpourings of his life\, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna\, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary\, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip\, Lin’s first book-length work of nonfiction\, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs\, his surprising and positive change in worldview\, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? \nIn exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin\, DMT\, salvia\, and cannabis\, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature\, his own past\, psychedelic culture\, and the unknown. \n  \n\n  \n“Trip is not only a book about drugs–it’s about the condition of humans at this point in history\, troublingly divorced from our natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular level. It’s a superbly researched\, moving\, and formally inventive quest for re-enchantment\, and Tao Lin’s most compelling and profound book yet.” — Sheila Heti\, author of How Should a Person Be?\n“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here\, this book introduces new ways to consider language\, perception\, and recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and believing.” — Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \n“Tao Lin took all the drugs so that we wouldn’t have to\, and the result is astonishing\, mind-expanding\, beautiful\, and profound. The whole of humanity seems contained in this one book.”— Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n“Tao Lin’s writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling.” — Michael W. Clune\, author of White Out \n  \n\n  \nTao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei\, Richard Yates\, and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated into twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan. Author photo by Noah Kalina. \n  \nRoss Simonini is writer\, artist\, and musician. He lives in Northern California and New York. His debut novel\, The Book of Formation\, was released by Melville House in late 2017. He is the interviews editor at The Believer magazine and teaches experimental seminars at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Trip\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-trip-psychedelics-alienation-and-change/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Persist
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 17th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature\, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass)\, Townsend Walker (3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies)\, Colette Phair (In Your Shadow)\, and Juba Kalamka.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sway/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library Featuring Mighty Mike McGee
DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nMike brings out a mixture of spoken word and humor to his performances. His award marks a broadening of Poetry Center San Jose’s offerings to include younger people. Mike McGee is the first slam poet to win both the American National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championship (2003) and the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship (2006). His poetry publications include “The Graveyard Shift\,” From Page to the Stage; “Open Letter to Neil Armstrong\,” Spoken Revolution Redux; and In Search of Midnight: A Collection of Poems by Mike McGee. As a poet\, he has toured throughout the U.S.\, Canada and Europe. He has performed at the University of Paris\, on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, on CBC Radio & Television\, and is a regular on NPR’s Snap Judgment. McGee is the fifth and current Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \nupcoming featuresL\nJune 21: Lisa Rosenberg\nSeptember 20: David Eisenbach\nOctober 18: David Denny
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library-featuring-mighty-mike-mcgee/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17\n7pm\n \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel\, It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, on Tuesday\, May 17th at 7pm. \n“Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented\, and the wild\, weird\, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre\, frightening times.” — Richard Russo\, author of Trajectory \nEveryone has a dream\, an idea\, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted\, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others\, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. \nA fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister-in-law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second-rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not-quite-legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. \nOn their way across the country\, these star-crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man\, and the Rube-Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out\, and they are driving home\, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned a month before. \nAbout the Author \nTodd Robert Petersen’s work has appeared in Mid-American Review\, Hobart\, and the Wisconsin Review\, and he has published two books with a small regional press. He is currently writing a dark comedy about Native American antiquities theft set in the desert Southwest. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 17\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-robert-petersen-presents-it-needs-to-look-like-we-tried/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay Book Reading "Queer Fiction Authors"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman\, Lori Ostlund\, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay book reading\, Thursday\, May 17\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley. An author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7:30! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He and his fiancé Rick May host Perfectly Queer\, a reading series which holds monthly events in San Francisco and Oakland. Goodman also hosts Queer Words\, a quarterly in-conversation series. His books include Better Angels\, Britain’s Glory\, Fortune’s Lot\, The Last Great Hope\, The Seed of Immortality\, and Vanya Says Go! When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. \nLori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\, and was a Lambda Finalist. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife and cats\, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota\, cat-less. \nBarbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for over 35 years. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner\, she is now focused on creative writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writers Workshop Review\, Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review\, Blood and Thunder\, and Stoneboat. Her debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017) is set in Europe during World War Two and is based on her mother’s story as a Holocaust refugee. Barbara can be followed at www.barbararidley.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-east-bay-book-reading-queer-fiction-authors/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dorianne Laux + Joshua Mensch
DESCRIPTION:Dorianne Laux‘s most recent collections are The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon\, winner of the Oregon Book Award.\n\nLaux is also author of Awake\, What We Carry\, and Smoke from BOA Editions. Only As The Day Is Long\, her new and selected poems\, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. \nShe teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \n\n\n\n\nJoshua Mensch is a poet\, visual artist\, and a founding editor of the online literary journal B O D Y. His poetry has appeared in several magazines\, including Plume\, Brick\, The Collagist\, and Smartish Pace. His first book of poetry\, BECAUSE\, a lyric memoir\, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2018. He lives in Prague\, Czech Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dorianne-laux-joshua-mensch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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