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SUMMARY:Elise Paschen + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Elise Paschen and Tess Taylor read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nPraise for Elise Paschen \n“The Nightlife is not only a beautiful and inventive collection\, it’s an important contribution to this period in American poetry. Paschen’s voice shows us how―given all the choices in form\, voice\, subject\, and vision―a poet might make the art her own through the force of her personal brilliance\, and a generous and idiosyncratic sensibility. In this work it is as if ‘. . . she unhinged every / window . . .’ These are poems you return to not only for the music and the detail―equally powerful through her wide-angle lens as under her magnifying glass―but to puzzle out how she managed it. So much craft in work that reads so freely\, seems to have issued forth so effortlessly\, but also from some supernatural source\, poems that read as if the poet were ‘. . . trying to put back / the wild fury she had released.’ This is poetry that reminds us of all the power and possibilities of poetry itself.”―Laura Kasischke\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space\, in Chains \n\nPraise for Tess Taylor \n“(This) lapidary\, moving book . . . shows that across thousands of years\, these smallest acts―to grow\, harvest\, mourn―still remain central to lyric utterance. Is such a pastoral sensibility possible in the mediated world of 21st century American life? Taylor’s answer is not only yes\, but to focus on the thousands of workers both here and abroad who live a life based on laboring with the earth. These subtle poems\, like those that explore her lineage to the Jefferson family in her first book\, are not without harder-to-confront agonies. As she draws the world… proximate to touch\, the intuited sense of apocalypse―whether ecological disaster\, or global political chaos―draws closer . . . (as well.)”―LitHub’s “30 Poets You Should be Reading” \n  \nAbout The Nightlife \n\nIn Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection\, Infidelities\, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book\, The Nightlife\, Paschen once again taps into dream states\, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls\,” she explores troubled love and relationships\, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives\, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. \n  \nThe Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum\, the villanelle and the tritina\, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection\, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads\, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky. \n  \nAbout Work and Days \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elise-paschen-tess-taylor/
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:Douglas Kearney + Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney has published six books\, most recently Buck Studies (Fence Books\, 2016)\, winner of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award in poetry. BOMB magazine states Kearney “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic\, personal and historical.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity\, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publishers Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Raised in Altadena\, he lives with his family in the Santa Clarita Valley and teaches at CalArts. \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist\, doula and the author of The Easy Body (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017). Luboviski-Acosta\, Matt Weathers and Carla Orendorff are founding members of strictlyyouth\, a decolonized punk dance collective for people of color. With Elana Chavez\, they are founding curators of the Cantil Reading Series. They have taught movement\, filmmaking and radical play to anarchists and children. Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles’ Eastside and now lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eleanor Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Booksmith as we welcome Eleanor Henderson for the debut of her forthcoming novel The Twelve-Mile Straight. \nSet in Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition\, The Twelve-Mile Straight is an American epic about race\, inequality\, and family that reads like a page-turner and is startlingly timely and relevant. It begins when two babies—one dark-skinned\, the other light—are born to the daughter of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery. The twins’ birth raises questions that have violent\, tragic consequences that continue to reverberate many years into the future. \nHenderson’s childhood was brimming with accounts from her grandparents’ and her father of the town where her grandparents were sharecroppers. She heard tales of her grandparents during the Great Depression and stories about the hard times on the farm\, and she also learned about the resilience and the ways in which families persevere together. Henderson was inspired to bring the world of Cotton County\, Georgia during the time of Jim Crow to the page\, and says she wanted “to capture the innocence of those country stories\, and also to fracture it. I knew there was a darker narrative running alongside this one\, like the quiet creek running along the [fictional] Twelve-Mile Straight.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-henderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Fall 2017 MFA Reading featuring Vivian Gornick. \nVivian Gornick\, a born and bred New Yorker\, is an essayist and memoirist whose latest book\, aptly enough\, is entitled The Odd Woman and The City. Her other books include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\, and many other works that have garnered nominations for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gornick is a former staff writer for The Village Voice. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nThe MFA Reading Series is co-sponsored by the English department and presents literary readings and discussions that are free and open to the public. For more information on the MFA in Writing program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing\, or email: mfaw@usfca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Swallowing Mercury: Wioletta Greg
DESCRIPTION:Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books\, Swallowing Mercury. \nLonglisted for The Man Booker International Prize\, Swallowing Mercury looks back on youth in a close-knit\, agricultural community in 1980s Poland through the eyes of Wiola. Her memories are precise\, intense\, distinctive\, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women\, rumored visits from the Pope\, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house\, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch\, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up. \nWioletta Greg is a Polish writer. She was born in a small village in 1974 in the Jurassic Highland of Poland. In 2006\, she left Poland and moved to the UK. Between 1998–2012 she published six poetry volumes\, as well as a novel\, Swallowing Mercury\, which spans her childhood and her experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Her short stories and poems have been published in Asymptote\, theGuardian\, Litro Magazine\, Poetry Wales\, Wasafiri and The White Review. Her works have been translated into English\, Catalan\, French\, Spanish and Welsh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swallowing-mercury-wioletta-greg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170922T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170922T200000
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SUMMARY:Reed Magazine: 150th Anniversary Party
DESCRIPTION:Reed Magazine 150th Anniversary Party\nSpring 2017\n  \nJoin us for a night of readings to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Reed Magazine\, the West’s oldest literary journal\, founded on the San José State campus in 1867! \nM.C.s Santa Clara Co. Poet Laureate Arlene Biala & CLA director and Reed editor-in-chief Cathleen Miller. \nFriday\, September 22\, 6pm – San Jose City Hall Rotunda \n  \n\nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reed-magazine-150th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:San Jose City Hall Rotunda\, 200 E Santa Clara St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Authors of Dzanc Books
DESCRIPTION:Authors Jason Tougaw and Deb Busman read from their works published by Dzanc Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-authors-of-dzanc-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket #11: SILENCE w/ Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 25th at 7:00PM\, The Racket #11: SILENCE will touch down at Adobe Books. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Bay Area writer Shawn Wen\, the author of A Twenty Minute Silence\, Then Applause (Sarabande Books). She’ll be reading from her poetic essay on super mime Marcel Marceau\, answering questions and signing books. \nPreceding her will be Theresa Padden\, Janey Skinner\, Gary Singh andAndrew O. Dugas\, all reading on the subject of SILENCE. \nYou should be there. \nWe certainly will.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-11-silence-w-shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Dave Holt
DESCRIPTION:Dave Holt\, relocated to the Bay Area from Toronto\, Canada\, his place of birth\, to follow his dream of becoming a successful songwriter. He is English/Irish and Anishinaabe/Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian from his mother’s side and he volunteered to serve the American Indian community in California for several years. Dave graduated from S.F. State University’s Creative Writing program (M.A.\, 1995). He is a winner of several poetry prizes including the Thomas Merton Foundation’s Poetry of the Sacred prize and a Literary/Cultural Arts award for his book Voyages to Ancestral Islands. In 2016\, he was published in Red Indian Road West\, an anthology of Native American Poetry from California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-holt/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Karl Geary
DESCRIPTION:Karl Geary discusses his new novel\, Montpelier Parade with Ethel Rohan. \n\nPraise for Montpelier Parade \n“Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how\, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.” —Sunjeev Sahota\, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways \n\n“Geary — who has previously worked as an actor and scriptwriter — is a genuine talent. The sense of intimacy created by the second-person narrative is brilliantly sustained and the dialogue throughout is pitch perfect\, seeming almost audibly to slice the always pregnant\, often suffocatingly toxic atmosphere.” —Daily Mail (UK) \n\n“The work of a deft\, fearless writer … evoking the subtly dark comedy of Patrick McCabe\, and the delicious lyricism of Peter Murphy\, Geary has a keen recollection of the folly and hunger of youth. Add in a gut-spinning plot twist\, and it’s safe to describe Montpelier Parade as one of the first significant releases of 2017.” —Irish Independent \n\nAbout Montpelier Parade \nMontpelier Parade is just across town\, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday\, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera\, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. \n  \nHoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging―at high school\, in his part-time job at the butcher shop\, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family―Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time\, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? \n  \nUnfolding over a bright\, rain-soaked Dublin spring\, Montpelier Parade is a rich\, devastating debut novel about desire\, grief\, ambition\, art\, and the choices we must make alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-geary/
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:Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children\, was a New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel\, When the World Was Steady\, and her book of novellas\, The Hunters\, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel\, The Last Life\, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her forthcoming novel\, The Burning Girl\, is a bracing\, hypnotic\, coming of age story about the bond of best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-messud/
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:20170926T183000
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SUMMARY:Kristina Brown + Stephen Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristina-brown-stephen-kessler/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon (executive editor Zyzzyva Magazine) \ncelebrating the release of \nWhy Poetry \nfrom Ecco Press \n\n\nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, “possess the origin of all poems\,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry\, American Linden\, The Pajamaist\, and Come On All You Ghosts. The Pajamaist was selected as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Come On All You Ghosts was a New York Times Notable Book of the year\, and was also selected as the 2010 BooklistEditors’ Choice for poetry\, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers poetry book of the year.  Zapruder has been a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa\, Texas\, and a recipient of a May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship\, Zapruder lives in San Francisco\, where he is an editor at Wave Books. \nVisit: http://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Santiago Gamboa
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Santiago Gamboa to the store to read and sign\, Return to the Dark Valley\, on Wednesday\, September 27th at 7:00 pm. \nSantiago Gamboa is one of Colombia’s most exciting young writers. In the manner of Roberto Bolaño\, Gamboa infuses his kaleidoscopic\, cosmopolitan stories with a dose of inky dark noir that makes his novels intensely readable\, his characters unforgettable\, and his style influential. \nManuela Beltrán\, a woman haunted by a troubled childhood she tries to escape through books and poetry; Tertuliano\, an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son\, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society; Ferdinand Palacios\, a Colombian priest with a dark paramilitary past now confronted with his guilt; Rimbaud\, the precocious\, brilliant poet whose life was incessant exploration; and\, Juana and the consul\, central characters in Gamboa’s Night Prayers\, who are united in a relationship based equally on hurt and need. These characters animate Gamboa’s richly imagined portrait of a hostile\, turbulent world where liberation is found in perpetual movement and determined exploration. \n\n\n\n\nSantiago Gamboa was born in Bogotá\, Colombia. His debut novel\, Páginas de vuelta (1995)\, established him as one of the most innovative voices in Colombian literature. He has since published seven novels and two collections of short stories. His journalism appears regularly in El Tiempo (Colombia) and Cromos\, and he is a regular contributor to Radio France International. Previously Colombia’s cultural attaché in New Delhi\, he has lived in Rome and Paris\, and currently lives in Calí\, Colombia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santiago-gamboa/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Queer Realities
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Richard Loranger presents local LGBTQ authors Tim Donnelly\, Nazelah Jamison\, and Julian Mithra
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-queer-realities/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Josh Weil
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Age of Perpetual Light \nfrom Grove Press \nA dazzling new work that spans a century and eight tales of light\, human progress\, and the search for a better life from Josh Weil\, one of “the most gifted writers of his generation” (Colum McCann)\, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters \nFollowing his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel\, The Great Glass Sea\, Josh Weil brings together stories selected from a decade of work in a stellar new collection. Beginning at the dawn of the past century\, in the early days of electrification\, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night\, The Age of Perpetual Light follows deeply-felt characters through different eras in American history: from a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp\, to a 1940 farmers’ uprising against the unfair practices of a power company; a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990’s Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite\, to a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter’s autism during winter’s longest night. \nBrilliantly hewn and piercingly observant\, these are tales that speak to the all-too-human desire for advancement and the struggle of wounded hearts to find a salve\, no matter what the cost. This is a breathtaking book from one of our brightest literary lights. \nJosh Weil was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novella collection\, The New Valley. A National Book Award “Five Under Thirty-Five” author\, he has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation\, Columbia University\, the MacDowell Colony\, Bread Loaf\, and Sewanee. His fiction has appeared in Granta\, Esquire\, One Story\, and Tin House. \nPraise for The Age of Perpetual Light \n“A rich\, often dazzling collection of short stories linked by themes while ranging widely in style from Babel-like fables to gritty noir and sci-fi . . . engrossing\, persuasively detailed and written with a deep affection for the way language can\, in masterful hands\, convey us to marvelous new worlds.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-weil/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Words: Readings in Two Languages
DESCRIPTION:A bicycle: \nthere is no poetry \nin stopping. \nSo writes Ahmed Al Mulla\, the groundbreaking Saudi poet whose vivid\, free-flowing prose has gained him critical acclaim across the Arab World. Diverging from the strict\, metered-style of Arabic poetry\, Al Mulla chooses to embrace free verse in his poems. Al Mulla will share a number of his poems in both the original Arabic and English translation alongside poet Mohammad Salama and musical accompaniment by Hafez Modirzadeh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-readings-in-two-languages/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Middle East Institute":MAILTO:exchanges@mei.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T193000
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SUMMARY:Bone: An Evening w/ Yrsa Daley-Ward
DESCRIPTION:Celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward presents bone\, a poignant collection of autobiographical poems about the heart\, life\, and the inner self. \nABOUT BONE \nBone. Visceral. Close to. Stark. \nThe poems in Yrsa Daley-Ward’s collection bone are exactly that: reflections on a particular life honed to their essence—so clear and pared-down\, they become universal. \nFrom navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire\, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman\, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss\, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love\, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonate to the core of what it means to be human. \n“You will come away bruised.\nYou will come away bruised\nbut this will give you poetry.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bone-an-evening-w-yrsa-daley-ward/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170816T005513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T005513Z
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade. Her recent collection of essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race\, Motherhood and History. She has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, 100 Best African American Poems and many other print and online venues. Her honors include an American Book Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, a California Book Award silver medal\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly a professor at San Francisco State University\, she is a professor at Colorado State University. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the U.S. when he was 9. He is a 2016 – 2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writers Award\, he will publish his first poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) in September.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000
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CREATED:20170817T122148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T122148Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:Pushcart Prize-nominated writer Margaret Wilkerson Sexton shares her much-buzzed debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom. Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. \nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. \nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal. \nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170616T121830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T114527Z
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SUMMARY:Nathan Englander
DESCRIPTION:A political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. \nA prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General\, Israel’s most controversial leader\, who lies dying in a hospital\, the only man who knows of the prisoner’s existence. \nFrom these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful\, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict\, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined–a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished\, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians\, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right\, who is wrong – who is the guard\, who is truly the prisoner?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathan-englander/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170815T113725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T113725Z
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SUMMARY:MPC Anthology Launch Party & Read-Around
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-anthology-launch-party-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170926T011004Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T011004Z
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch Party & Read-Around
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch-party-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170929T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170929T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170621T233108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233108Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Airea D. Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Airea D. Matthews read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.”With poems that weave from Marrakesh to Zurich to London\, through history to the present day\, this book is\, on its surface\, an uncompromising exploration of identity in personal and collective terms. Yet the collection is\, most deeply\, about intimacy and love\, the inevitability of human separation and the challenge of human connection. Urging us to reexamine our own place in the broader human tapestry\, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing announces the arrival of a powerful and necessary new voice. \n  \nAbout Simulacra \nWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize \nA fresh and rebellious poetic voice\, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews’s superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power\, insight\, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America\, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation\, striving and thwarting\, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword\, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book “rollicking\, destabilizing\, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant.” This is poetry that breaks new literary ground\, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-airea-d-matthews/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170930T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170926T002054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013102Z
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Karen Melander Magoon & Philip Hackett \nJoin us for an open mic\, featuring the following readers\, under the banner of “100 Thousand Poets for Change.” \nFeatured readers: \n\nDee Allen\nDan Brady\nMahnaz Badihian\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAna Elsner\nAgneta Falk\nNahid Fattahi\nDavid Giesen\nQ R Hand\nNajia Karim\nRichard Loranger\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nBarbara Paschke\nRichard Sanderell\nDavid Volpendesta\n\nand others… \nPoets and artists all over the world are currently organizing events to promote environmental\, social\, and political change. \nPoets\, writers\, artists\, and humanitarians will create\, perform\, educate and demonstrate\, in their individual communities\, and decide their own specific area of focus for change within the overall framework of peace and sustainability\, which co-founder Michael Rothenberg stated\, “…is a major concern worldwide and the guiding principle for this global event.” \nAll those involved are hoping\, through their actions and events\, to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue of the day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace and sustainability.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T210000
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CREATED:20170926T001812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013317Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon: One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 30 is 2017’s global 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day (http:/www.100TPC.org)! \nCome to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event\, and join other poets\, musicians\, artists\, dancers\, photographers\, performing artists\, around the US and across the planet\, in a demonstration and celebration of poetry to promote social\, environmental\, and political change. \nThis year’s superb line-up: \n* May-lee Chai * Rachelle Linda Escamilla *\n* Edward Foster * Caroline Goodwin * Daphne Gottlieb *\n* Julie Lythcott-Haims * Melissa Ramos * \nDoors open at 7pm.\nReading begins at 7:30pm *SHARP* \nFor more info\, contact series curator Donna de la Perrière
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-one-hundred-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170930T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170929T221244Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Impermanent" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay open mic\, we are exploring the fragililty of everything—the fleating nature of life\, love\, and rent control\, of sunsets\, egg shells\, and dandelion fluff. Join us! Take to the page and embrace “impermanence.” Then bring us your creation. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur September features are: Vanessa Rochelle Lewis and Zephir O’Meara\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, September 30th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nVANESSA ROCHELLE LEWIS is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is the former Senior Editor for Everyday Feminism and Black Girl Dangerous\, has taught at California Community Colleges for over 7 years\, and has performed in a wide variety of theatre projects\, cabarets\, and literary events all over the West Coast. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate Facebook statuses about romance. \nZEPHIR O’MEARA\, a Bay Area native\, has writing in Transfer\, Oakland Review\, Be About it\, Naked Bulb Anthology\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, and East Bay Review. Is he working on a secret project or two? Maybe. And yes\, I’m sorry to say\, he is just the type to subvert a perfectly good bio blurb whenever the opportunity arises. He thought he’d just joke around and hide behind a few words but then he realized something: This is him (me). This is more me\, these frivolous words on this screen\, then you’ll get out of the real me (him) in person. Or maybe not. But will you even try? The ball’s in your court.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-impermanent-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T153000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Craft + Troy Jollimore: an Afternoon of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Craft Talk: “A Red Hot Half-Brick in an Old Sock: Tradition\, Subversion\, and the Sonnet” (1:00-2:00) \nWhy would anyone today choose to write a sonnet? In fact\, some of our best contemporary poets have taken a stab at the venerable form\, in order to explore (and\, at times\, explode) the limits of the form\, and to place the sonnet in the service of surprising\, at times radical ends. In this joint talk\, poets Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore discuss the sonnet form\, its history\, its poetic nature\, its particular capabilities and possibilities\, and talk about their own experiences reading and writing sonnets. (The craft talk will be followed by a break with wine and savory treats.) \nReading: “Burn After Reading: The Poetry of Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore.” (2:30 pm) Come for one or both events! This is a unique chance to hear and learn from two illustrious out-of-town poets. \nThis event is a collaboration of the Mill Valley Library and Marin Poetry Center. \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley\, CA \n\n\n\nKevin Craft directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book\, Solar Prominence\, won the Gorsline Prize. His new collection is Vagrants & Accidentals. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, MacDowell Colony\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy)\,the Camargo Foundation and many others. He is executive editor of Poetry NW Editions\, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program. \n\n\n\n\nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and Fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times‘ list of the best books of poetry in 2015. His reviews appear in the Chicago Tribune\, and the Washington Post. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-craft-troy-jollimore-an-afternoon-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
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SUMMARY:New Poetry From Rob Halpern
DESCRIPTION:Rob Halpern will read from his new book of poetry Touching Voids in Sense which\n\n “enters regions of the self that existing regimes of sense\, visible\, tactile\, and verbal\n keep hidden. What’s at stake is love\, care and the human body\, an abyss at which\n\nloving care of another’s body is the most explosive of concerns. The requirement\n\nis radical critique of the logics of meaning. Touching holes in sense is a reflection\n on the deeper sources of Halpern’s previous books and an investigation of how\n\nan end to mourning requires nothing less than a different ontology of life and death.”\n\n– William Rowe   Rob Halpern’s books include Common Place (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015) and Music  for Porn (Nightboat Books\, 2012). His chapbook called Touching Voids in Sense was  just published by Veer Books in London. He lives between San Francisco and  Ypsilanti\, Michigan\, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron  Valley Women’s Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-from-rob-halpern/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T205330
CREATED:20170926T001940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013703Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon returns! Join us for the first reading of the 2017-2018 season. \nReadings by William Brewer\, Benjamin Gucciardi\, Dominic Russ-Combs\, Cintia Santana\, and Glori Simmons\nHosted by Peter Kline \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, which was selected for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, New England Review\, A Public Space\, and other journals. He lives in Oakland. \nBenjamin Gucciardi was born and raised in San Francisco. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Orion Magazine\, Forklift Ohio\, Radar Poetry\, upstreet\, Poetry East\, The California Journal of Poetics and other journals. A Best New Poets nominee\, he is a winner of a Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize and contests from The Maine Review and The Santa Ana River Review. He works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland. \nA native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Dominic Russ-Combs welded industrial models in Durham\, North Carolina\, before publishing his first stories and being awarded both a Stegner Fellowship and an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Kenyon Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, among others. He’s currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories. \nCintia Santana’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology\, edited by Mary Szybist. She is the recipient of Djerrassi\, CantoMundo and Hambidge Fellowships. Currently\, she teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. She is at work on her first poetry manuscript. \nGlori Simmons is the author of Suffering Fools\, recipient of the Spokane Prize from Willow Springs Editions (Eastern Washington University\, 2017) and Graft\, poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002). A former Stegner Fellow\, she currently lives in Oakland and is the director of the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-6/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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