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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion with Alan Bern
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nABOUT BERKELEY ART CENTER  In 1967\, the Berkeley Art Center was built by the Rotary Club as a gift to the City of Berkeley. Ever since\, BAC has been a cutting-edge art gallery\, presenting the work of talented local and regional artists in many media\, expressing diverse points of view. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary\, we are proud of our role in the community. Over the past five decades we have presented exhibitions that reflect and shape what is happening now. We still seek to inspire positive cultural change by nurturing artists and encouraging our community to participate in creative expression.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion-with-alan-bern/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry reading with your host Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please plan to arrive by 4 and listen to all of the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry event hosted by Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \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/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman reads from and discusses her novels\, short stories and nonfiction. Her new book is Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press\, 2018). “Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine — not because I ‘admire’ her writing\, (although I do\, very\, very much)\, but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That’s how I feel.” — Jonathan Safran Foer. Free. \n  \n\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 211\n\n\nDirections: View on Google Maps\n\n  \nLynne Tillman \nTillman’s novel No Lease on Life was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\, and her essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Tillman’s writing appears often in artists’ books and museum catalogs\, including\, most recently\, those of Raymond Pettibon\, Joan Jonas\, Cindy Sherman and Carroll Dunham. Tillman is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing\, and is a professor and writer-in-residence at University of Albany. She also teaches in New York City’s School of Visual Arts\, in its art criticism and writing Master of Fine Arts program. \n\nWriters on Writing \nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public this spring. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Carey / A Long Way From Home
DESCRIPTION:The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant\, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia\, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10\,000-mile race\, the Redex Trial. \nIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial\, a brutal race around the ancient continent\, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky\, fair-haired navigator\, Willie Bachhuber\, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them\, without warning\, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high-speed story that starts in one way\, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny\, more so as the world gets stranger\, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. \nSet in the 1950s\, this is a world every American will recognize: black\, white\, who we are\, how we got here\, and what we did to each other along the way. \nA Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece. \n— \nPeter Carey is the author of thirteen previous novels. In addition to the Booker Prize\, his honors include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia\, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-carey-a-long-way-from-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrick Nathan discusses Some Hell
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nathan to discuss his dynamic debut novel\, Some Hell\, on Tuesday\, March 13th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation with our dear friend\, Scott Esposito. \nA wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide \nMiddle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly\, his autistic brother lashes out at him\, and he has a crush on his best friend\, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide\, none of that matters. Diane\, his mother\, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt\, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather\, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there–in fragments about disaster scenarios\, the violence of snow\, mustangs running wild in the west–but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane\, meanwhile\, has a miserable fling with a co-worker\, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding\, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell\, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching\, pointillistic detail\, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life\, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-nathan-discusses-some-hell/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nov'Ell Goes West: Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Eileen G’Sell reads from Life After Rugby and JoAnna Novak reads from Noirmania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novell-goes-west-oakland/
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:Poetry Reading in Celebration of Muni Art 2018: Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Muni Art 2018\, hear a reading by participating poet#KayRyan at the San Francisco Public Library Presidio Branch. Bay Area poet #HilaryRand will introduce Ryan. Audience members will be invited to enter a raffle and the winner will receive a Muni Art 2018 print! Share your experience using #SFMuniArt. \nKay Ryan\, acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape\, has published several collections of poetry\, including Erratic Facts (Grove Press\, 2015) and The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press\, 2010)\, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. Ryan’s awards include a National Humanities Medal\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Award\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Union League Poetry Prize\, the Maurice English Poetry Award\, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. \nCo-Sponsored by San Francisco Beautiful\, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\, San Francisco Public Library\, and the Poetry Society of America. \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-in-celebration-of-muni-art-2018-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Reading "Korima Press\, Queer Latinx Publisher"
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer San Francisco is proud to spotlight Korima Press\, a Queer Chicana/Chicano publishing house founded by poet and essayist Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano and based in San Francisco. Join us Tuesday\, March 13\, from 7pm to 8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. 4 Korima Press authors will read: Cathy Arellano\, Maya Chinchilla\, Dino Foxx\, and Michael Nava. A discussion of writing as a Queer Chincana/Chicano will follow the readings. The authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm sharp! \nABOUT KORIMA PRESS:\nKórima’s purpose is to infuse both the Chicana/o & Latina/o and Queer literary cannons with works by author’s whose craft\, stories\, and identities exist at the intersections of Queerness\, Chicanidad\, and Latinidad. Founded in 2010\, the Kórima catalogue\, which is expected to nearly double in the next two years\, counts 17 titles that have been taught in dozens of colleges\, high schools\, and universities across the United States\, Puerto Rico\, and Mexico. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nCathy Arellano is a Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission. Cathy is the author of two collections of poetry: Salvation on Mission Street\, a memoir in poetry and prose about love and loss within her San Francisco-based family from the 1960s to the 2000s; and\, I Love My Women\, Sometimes they Love Me. In 2017\, Arellano was the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author. \nMaya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work–sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware-draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. Maya is the author of The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Centromariconadas: A Queer & Trans Central American Anthology. \nDino Foxx\, born and raised in San Antonio\, Texas\, is a nationally presented actor\, singer\, poet\, arts educator\, and activist. They are a founding member of a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative and a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. Their poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry\, the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing\, and Queer Codex: Chile Love. Dino is the author of When the Glitter Fades and co-author of Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry. \nMichael Nava is the six-time Lambda Literary award-winning author of the Henry Rios novels and the historical novel\, The City of Palaces. In 2016\, he released Lay Your Sleeping Head\, a reimagining of the first Henry Rios novel\, which was hailed as “one of the literary events of the year\,” and earned him his tenth Lambda Literary award nomination. His most recent book\, released in 2017\, is titled Street People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-reading-korima-press-queer-latinx-publisher/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nMen and Apparitions: A Novel \nfrom Soft Skull Press \nWhy do human beings feel the need to create\, remake\, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark\, cultural anthropologist\, ethnographer\, specialist in family photographs. As Zeke goes from being a child obsessed with his family’s photo albums to a young and passionate researcher to a man broken by betrayal in love\, his academic fascinations reflect his course\, touching on such various subjects as discarded images\, pet pictures\, spirit mediums\, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams\, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic\, madcap and wry\, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on visual art and culture today. \nLynne Tillman is a novelist\, short story writer\, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius\, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967\, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are Someday This Will Be Funny and The Complete Madame Realism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra. \nPraise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman \n“Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist’s sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them.” ―Norman Rush\, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies \n“No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel\, my intellectual and creative hope\, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions\, readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture\, masculinity\, art\, being\, and knowing―like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope.” ―Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Misfit’s Manifesto and The Chronology of Water ​ \n“A powerful disquisition on memory\, media and melancholia.” ―Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island and Remainder \n“Lynne Tillman’s first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy\, Men and Apparitionsis a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius.” ―Stephen Sparks\, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station\, CA)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Linor Goralik
DESCRIPTION:Linor Goralik discusses her new book\, Found Life: Poems\, Stories\, Comics\, a Play\, and an Interview a part of Columbia’s Russian Library series. \nAbout Found Life \nOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet\, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms\, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal\, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose\, is on full display in this collection of poems\, stories\, comics\, a play\, and an interview\, here translated for the first time. \nIn Found Life\, speech\, condensed to the extreme\, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik’s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres—slight doubt\, subtle sadness\, vague unease—through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices\, her works are marked by a distinct voice\, simultaneously slightly naïve and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition\, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry\, Goralik’s colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of ridiculousness and the depths of grief.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linor-goralik/
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:Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Pre-order The Merry Spinster from Moe’s at http://www.moesbooks.com/the-merry-spinster-mallory-ortberg/ \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees\n\n  \ncelebrating \nA Life Among Fishes (from ORO Press) \nby Christopher Dewees \n& \nDesigning with Palms (from Timber Press) \nby Jason Dewees \nA Life Among Fishes explores the lifelong passion of fisheries by scientist and artist Christopher M. Dewees. The book features over 100 of his Japanese fish prints since 1969. Many of these are linked to stories about the journey\, and history and information about the art form are also described within. The book presents Dewees? half-century of printing fish and shellfish to full color. We follow his evolution from being exposed and fascinated to gyotaku as a graduate student to his status now as an internationally recognized master in the field. He documents his journey and growth by sharing fifty years of experiences and adventures. In recent years Dewees has focused more on writing stories and poems that are linked to his art. \nChristopher Dewees had a passion for fish since childhood. He is currently Marine Fisheries Specialist Emeritus at the University of California\, Davis. Since 1968 he has honed his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku). His works have been featured in many individual and group exhibitions around the world. \nPalms are a landscape staple in warm\, temperate climates worldwide. But these stunning and statement-making plants are large\, expensive\, difficult to install\, and create unique design challenges. In Designing with Palms\, palm expert Jason Dewees shares every major aspect of designing and caring for palms. This definitive guide shares essential information on planting\, irrigation\, nutrition\, pruning\, and transplanting. A gallery of the most important species showcases the range of options available\, and stunning photographs by Caitlin Atkinson show examples of home and public landscapes that make good use of palms. \nJason Dewees is a staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Garden Design magazine\, and he blogs at The Palm Broker. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-dewees-with-jason-dewees/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:Works Gallery –  364 S. Market St. (street edge of the Convention Center)\, San José\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-6/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amos White
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. Our March author Amos White will present selections from his poetry and discuss the creative process and current projects. His book The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter is available on Amazon.com. Look for the event in the ballroom up the stairs from the front entrance. Free and open to the public. \nAbout the author: \nAmos White is an American haiku poet and author of “The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter” (link:www.amazon.com/Sound-Web-Poetry-Facebook-Twitter/dp/1456581473/)\, recognized for his vivid imagery and breathless interpretations. He was a Finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and has works published in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology. He is President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series; Host of The Heart of the Muse arts salon; Producer of Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry show. Amos lives in Alameda with his family. www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku www.twitter.com/aw3haiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amos-white/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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SUMMARY:Salutations: Reconnecting
DESCRIPTION:The sixth installment of our event series\, Salutations\, returns with a night of letter-reading on Reconnecting. \nSponsored by Chronicle Books\, Letters to My series\, and Green Apple. \nFor more information or to submit your letter for inclusion\, email salutationsSF@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salutations-reconnecting/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T210000
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CREATED:20180219T025619Z
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SUMMARY:Michael David Lukas / The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome The Oracle of Stamboul author Michael David Lukas back to the store to launch his anticipated second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Please join us! \n  \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary—perhaps magical—Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \n  \n— \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history\, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons\, religion\, magic\, love\, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”– Rabih Alameddine\, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman \n“Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo—with a bit of Berkeley thrown in. His prose is deeply evocative\, and a sense of mystery and profound tristesse pervade this unusual narrative\, which tells the story of a young California man on a quest to understand a puzzling gift left for him by his late father\, the descendant of generations of watchmen at the venerable Ben Ezra synagogue in the depths of Old Cairo. The novel is enhanced by Lukas’ impressive historical research on the Geniza and the colorful characters involved in rescuing its treasure trove of documents. But his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful\, haunted\, shabby\, beleaguered\, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”– Lucette Lagnado\, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years \n  \n— \n  \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T200000
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet Joseph Lease who will be reading from The Body Ghost\, due out soon from Coffee House Press. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies\, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and lives in Oakland with the poet Donna de la Perrière.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T203000
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CREATED:20180129T123152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T054125Z
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SUMMARY:Ramona Ausubel
DESCRIPTION:discusses her new story collection Awayland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramona-ausubel/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20180219T081920Z
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SUMMARY:David Henderson\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as David Henderson makes a rare appearance back in San Francisco from his long-time home on New York’s Lower East Side\, reading and talking with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Henderson was connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop\, where he served as an editor of their magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998)\, and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. Author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition “Love in Outer Space” (and the singer)\, he has also recorded with the saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (“Science Fiction”) and David Murray\, and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. He is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix\, Voodoo Child (2009)\, and wrote and produced an award-winning two-hour documentary on the African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation. Recent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009)\, Obama\, Obama (2012)\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013)\, and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York\, he has taught in CUNY’s SEEK Program and has been a visiting professor at the University of California\, Berkeley\, University of California\, San Diego\, State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and Wesleyan University\, Middleton\, Connecticut. Most recently he became the first Fellow of Lost and Found\, the Poetics Document Initiative at the Center for the Humanities\, The City University of New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event:\nDavid Henderson\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, QR Hand: Black Tradition in Present Time\nSaturday March 24\, 7pm at The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-henderson-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
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CREATED:20180129T113803Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah McBride / Tomorrow Will Be Different
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with Sarah McBride\, who celebrates the launch of Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love\, Loss\, and the Fight for Trans Equality. \nBefore she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six\, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University\, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories\, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country. \nFour years later\, McBride was one of the nation’s most prominenttransgender activists\, walking the halls of the White House\, advocating the passing of laws\, and addressing the country in the midst of a heated presidential election. And\, she’d found her first love and future husband\, Andy\, a trans man and fellow activist\, who complemented her in every way… until cancer tragically intervened. \nInformative\, heartbreaking\, and empowering\, Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride’s story of love and loss\, a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care\, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds. \nThe fight for equality and freedom has only just begun.\n— \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Tomorrow Will Be Different\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-mcbride-tomorrow-will-be-different/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
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SUMMARY:Nicole Georges presents her graphic memoir FETCH\, with special guest Gemma Correll
DESCRIPTION:Lambda award-winner Nicole Georges presents and signs her graphic memoir FETCH. With special guest cartoonist and illustrator\, Gemma Correll. \nPugs and pups of all kinds welcome! \n  \nAbout FETCH \nWhen Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija\, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack\, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years\, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression\, relationships gone awry\, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene\, Beija was there\, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” bandana. \nGeorges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic\, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets\, dog whisperers\, and even a pet psychic for help\, but it is the moments of accommodation\, adaption\, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija “sit\,” but in the end\, Beija taught Nicole how to stay. \nNicole J. Georges is a professor\, writer\, and illustrator\, who has been publishing her own zines and comics for twenty years. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura and the diary comic Invincible Summer. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \nGemma Correll is a young English illustrator\, cartoonist\, and generally quite small person. She and her trusty pug sidekicks\, Bella and Mr. Norman Pickles\, recently left the land of their births for a new life in the very large country of America. Wish them luck! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-georges-presents-her-graphic-memoir-fetch-with-special-guest-gemma-correll/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T210000
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T020003Z
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Dumesnil + Allison Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Dumesnil‘s books include two collections of poems\, Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes and In Praise of Falling (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society Prize for Poetry); a memoir\, Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood; and the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers\, Writers on Tattoos\, co-edited with Kim Addonizio. A freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach\, she lives in Walnut Creek with her two sons and her partner\, Sarah. www.cheryldumesnil.com\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Joseph lives\, writes\, and teaches in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review\, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List\, and director of Writers in Common\, a summer writers conference for writers of all ages. Her new chapbook press\, No Chair Press\, will launch in 2018.\n\nHer books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press)\, Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press)\, In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications)\, Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP)\, Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press)\, My Father’s Kites(Steel Toe Books)\, Trace Particles (Backbone Press)\, Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press)\, Mercurial (Mayapple Press)\, Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press)\, Multitudes (Word Poetry)\, The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press)\, Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheryl-dumesnil-allison-joseph/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T173516
CREATED:20180219T040424Z
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Teen Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:azz Hudson emcees as teens compete in an event that is part performance\, part spoken word. Contestants often draw upon racial\, economic\, and gender injustices and current events for subject matter. \nAdults and high school students only. Wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Registration opens February 26th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-teen-poetry-slam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180316T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T173516
CREATED:20180129T123047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T123047Z
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SUMMARY:Hilary Zaid discusses PAPER IS WHITE (w/ Jane Mason)
DESCRIPTION:More info to come
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-zaid-discusses-paper-is-white-w-jane-mason/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg reads from The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
DESCRIPTION:Mallory Ortberg\, co-creator of The Toast\, reads from her new book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror. A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien–from the author of Texts From Jane Eyre. \n      \nAbout the Book \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, “The Merry Spinster” takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. Sinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. \nReaders of The Toast will instantly recognize Ortberg’s boisterous good humor and uber-nerd swagger: those new to Ortberg’s oeuvre will delight in her unique spin on fiction\, where something a bit mischievous and unsettling is always at work just beneath the surface. \nUnfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. \nBed time will never be the same. \nMallory Ortberg is the co-creator of the Toast and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Texts From Jane Eyre.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-reads-from-the-merry-spinster-tales-of-everyday-horror/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180318T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180318T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T173516
CREATED:20180219T034420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T034420Z
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:With your host Bloodflower \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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