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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180318T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180318T183000
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SUMMARY:Go Home! A Celebration of a New Anthology of Asian Diasporic Writing
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Press in conjunction with Asian American Writers’ Workshop present \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan and Esmé Weijun Wang celebrating: \nA book Release Party for \nGo Home! \nEdited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan \nForeword by Viet Thanh Nguyen \npublished by The Feminist Press \nAsian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction\, memoir\, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative\, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. \nGo Home! is published in collaboration with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Established in 1991\, AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating\, publishing\, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans through a New York events series and online editorial initiatives. \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was an Asian American Writers’ Workshop fellow\, and her short work has appeared in Grant\, the Guardian\, Guernica\, Apogee\, and the White Review\, among other places. She has received residencies from the Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an essayist\, the author of The Border of Paradise: A Novel\, and the recipient of the 2016 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been awarded the Sudler Award\, Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. Her work has appeared in Salon\, Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Beliver\, and Lenny Letter. \nWhat has been said about Go Home! \n“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories\, poems\, and testaments\, perhaps home is not so much a place\, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel\, in our collective outsiderhood\, at home.” —Ocean Vuong\, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds \n“There is a whole range of expression in this book\, delving deeply into the manifold experiences of being a perpetual alien. To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora\, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated\, rarely counted\, hardly seen. Here\, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang\, author of Sour Heart \n“Go Home! is a bold\, eclectic chorus that provides an invigorating antidote to the xenophobia of our times.” —Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“This anthology displays the colors of the liminal—half-tones and undertones mixing the wry\, the irreverent\, the outraged\, the lyric\, and the longing. A composite portrait of the Asian diasporic experience today.” —Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre: Poems \n“Hats off to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for putting together such a rich and diverse anthology. In these dark times\, we need these voices and stories more than ever.” —Jessica Hagedorn\, author of The Dogeaters \n“In this new and daring collection\, I find myself reliving moments of heartbreak that can only come from living in between two cultures—but also feeling profound relief in discovering I am not alone in these private burdens and joys. Go Home! should be celebrated\, as reading it is a homecoming in itself.” —Yumi Sakugawa\, author of There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/go-home-a-celebration-of-a-new-anthology-of-asian-diasporic-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Scarlett Sabet & Janaka Stucky
DESCRIPTION:reading from new works \nScarlett Sabet is a London based poet and performer. She wrote\, directed and starred in her poetic short film “Burning” which was produced by BAFTA winning producer Charlie Hanson in 2012. Her first collection “Rocking Underground” was launched with a reading at the Chelsea Arts Club in November 2014. Her second collection “The Lock And The Key” was launched with a reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris in July 2016. In October 2016 GQ online released a video of Scarlett performing her poem Feathers at Leighton House to celebrate National Poetry Day. In January 2017 Scarlett was interviewed and gave a reading for the radio program “Van Morrison And Me” hosted by journalist John McCarthy for the BBC World Service\, also featuring Sir Van Morrison\, Brian Keenan and novelist Ian Rankin. In April 2017\, Scarlett was invited by poet and Professor Dr. Dan Chiasson to give a reading at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. In December 2017 Scarlett gave a reading and her poems were exhibited alongside acclaimed photographer Jim Marshall’s work for the Peace and Light exhibition at The Troubadour in London. Scarlett has given poetry readings at the Aspects Literary Festival\, and No Alibi’s bookshop in Belfast\, The Troubadour in London\, the William Morris Gallery\, the World’s End Bookshop\, Burberry\, The Groucho Club\, Atlantis Bookshop. Scarlett has read at KGB\, Bowery Poetry and Berl’s bookshop in New York. Sir Van Morrison commented on Scarlett’s poetry: “”What strikes me about Scarlett’s work it that it’s very cutting edge and it’s making poetry interesting again. I love both the intensity and the spiritual aspect she conveys.” Scarlett is currently working on her third collection of poetry which will be released in Spring 2018. \nJanaka Stucky is an American poet\, performer\, and publisher. The founding editor of Black Ocean\, as well as the annual poetry journal\, Handsome\, he is also the author of a few poetry collections. His poems have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly\, Fence and North American Review\, and his articles have been published by The Huffington Post and The Poetry Foundation. He is a two-time National Haiku Champion and in 2010 he was voted “Boston’s Best Poet” in The Boston Phoenix. \nIn 2015 Jack White’s Third Man Records launched a new publishing imprint\, Third Man Books\, and chose Janaka’s full-length poetry collection\, The Truth Is We Are Perfect\, as their inaugural title. Janaka’s poems are at once incantatory\, mystic\, and epigrammatic. His esoteric & occult influences\, combined with a mesmeric approach to performance\, create an almost ecstatic presence on stage. \n“Stucky’s raw works … give a dreamlike power to an antinomian religion of erotic love” \n—Publishers Weekly \n“He pulls from Eastern religious texts\, mysticism\, and the occult\, and casts dirty\, hallucinatory images onto graceful lines about love\, resulting in a collection that is empathetic\, nuanced\, and wild.” \n—The Kenyon Review \n“Stucky’s verse has the power of the best East European poets—some of his poems seem to be perfect\, magnificent\, and instantly anthologizable. He is a forceful\, cogent\, incisive phrase-maker.” \n—Bill Knott \n“Stucky has catapulted into the firmament of my favorite ecstatic writers alongside Diane di Prima\, Bill Callahan\, Hafiz\, e.e. cummings\, and Larkin Grimm.” \n—Phantasmaphile \n“The yearning in these poems is awash in dense\, spiritual sexuality buffeted by time and the mishandling of promises and breakable bonds.” \n—apt Journal \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scarlett-sabet-janaka-stucky/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cheston Knapp and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Cheston Knapp discusses his new essay collection\, Up Up\, Down Down with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for Up Up\, Down Down \n\n“Full of wit and disquiet\, Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down is a glittering collection of essays about nostalgia\, skateboarding\, fathers\, waterslides\, and all kinds of community. The path toward whatever we mean by “maturity” is a flowering vine of fruitful discomfort in these pages\, and so much grows from it: acute self-awareness\, intricate curiosity\, tender interrogations. This book made me laugh out loud in embarrassing places—a quiet Swedish train\, a darkened redeye flight—and its insights will keep echoing in me for a long time.” Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Up\, Up\, Down\, Down is an always smart\, often hilarious\, and ultimately transcendent essay collection\, full of thousand-dollar words and genuine goodness. You think you’re reading about tennis\, low-rent wrestling\, the death of a neighbor\, or the perils of beer pong\, but suddenly you’re pondering the biggest questions: What is kindness? What is self-consciousness? How does articulating an experience change it? It’s an unqualified pleasure to be in Knapp’s company.” Anthony Doerr\, author of All the Light We Cannot See \n“Cheston Knapp’s Up Up\, Down Down has the uncanny\, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white\, masculinist\, Christian\, frat boy\, and so on—appear newly strange\, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist\, a joyously expansive vocabulary\, a prose style that feels both extravagant and exact\, and a big\, booming heart.” Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n\nAbout Up Up\, Down Down \n\nDaring and wise\, hilarious and tender\, Cheston Knapp’s exhilarating collection of seven linked essays\, Up Up\, Down Down\, tackles the Big Questions through seemingly unlikely avenues. In his dexterous hands\, an examination of a local professional wrestling promotion becomes a meditation on pain and his relationship with his father. A profile of UFO enthusiasts ends up probing his history in the church and\, more broadly\, the nature and limits of faith itself. Attending an adult skateboarding camp launches him into a virtuosic analysis of nostalgia. And the shocking murder of a neighbor expands into an interrogation of our culture’s prevailing ideas about community and the way we tell the stories of our lives. Even more remarkable\, perhaps\, is the way he manages to find humanity in a damp basement full of frat boys. \nTaken together\, the essays in Up Up\, Down Down amount to a chronicle of Knapp’s coming-of-age\, a young man’s journey into adulthood\, late-onset as it might appear. He presents us with formative experiences from his childhood to marriage that echo throughout the collection\, and ultimately tilts at what may be the Biggest Q of them all: what are the hazards of becoming who you are?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheston-knapp-and-matthew-zapruder/
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:Michael David Lukas: The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Michael David Lukas reads from The Last Watchman of Old Cairo — the spellbinding new novel from the author of the internationally bestselling\, The Oracle of Stamboul. \n  \nABOUT THE LAST WATCHMAN OF OLD CAIRO \nIn this spellbinding novel\, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old family secrets. \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. \nThe Last Watchman of Old Cairo is a moving page-turner of a novel from acclaimed storyteller Michael David Lukas. This tightly woven multigenerational tale illuminates the tensions that have torn communities apart and the unlikely forces—potent magic\, forbidden love—that boldly attempt to bridge that divide. \nAdvance praise for The Last Watchman of Old Cairo \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 \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the internationally bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association 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 works in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books on Solano\, 1855 Solano Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Terry Patten / A New Republic of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host an evening with Terry Patten\, who will read from and discuss his new book A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Join us! \nIn the midst of today’s many global crises\, many of us recognize the need for change\, both in ourselves and in our social and political institutions\, in order to build a truly sustainable future. In A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries\, Terry Patten sheds new light on this issue\, providing a practical approach to “being the change” that the world needs now more than ever. \nIn the most convincing terms\, Patten illustrates how inner and outer transformation are entirely interdependent. In fact\, the future of our very life-support system are utterly dependent on the quality\, intelligence\, tenderness\, and courage that each of us can cultivate in ourselves. The book lays out the difficult\, necessary\, creative\, and ultimately rewarding work we must each engage in to meaningfully address our most “wicked” problems. \nPatten shows how we can come together in our communities for “conversations that matter.” And he describes new communities\, enterprises\, and forms of dialogue that have already created miracles that can be replicated on larger scales. The “new republic of the heart” is already coming into being\, invisibly and quietly. More of us need to learn to animate our best qualities so that we can transform ourselves\, our societies\, and the planet. A New Republic of the Heart shows us how. \n— \nTerry Patten is a philosopher\, activist\, consultant\, coach\, teacher\, social entrepreneur\, and author of A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries: An Ethos for Revolutionaries. Over the last fifteen years he has devoted his efforts to the evolution of consciousness by facing\, examining\, and healing our global crisis through the marriage of spirit and activism. As an author\, he co-wrote the book Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber and a core team at the Integral Institute. As a teacher he is the founder of the “Beyond Awakening” teleseminar series and Bay Area Integral. As a social entrepreneur\, he founded the pioneering consciousness technology company Tools For Exploration\, and is now involved in restorative redwood forestry and fossil-fuel alternatives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-patten-a-new-republic-of-the-heart/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Afternoon Series Welcomes Brynn Saito on "Intimate Ecologies: Crisis\, Community\, and the Poem"
DESCRIPTION:Intimate Ecologies: Crisis\, Community\, and the Poem  \nThis talk will inquire into the limits\, complexities\, and possibilities of community-based poetry and poetics in this moment of social and economic precarity. Drawing on recent work with the Yonsei Memory Project—an arts-based initiative surfacing connections between the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans and current civil liberties debates—we’ll explore a number of threads\, questions: What is the role of poem-making and poem-speaking in maintaining communal memory? What are the implications of considering the poet as diagnoser\, preserver\, creator\, or disrupter within a particular collective? Considering “community” as one form of public intimacy/assembly\, we’ll ask: can the poem\, too\, enact a coalitional space and way of loving? We’ll move through a variety of fields (zen buddhism; critical theory) and conjure writings by Judy Grahn\, June Jordan\, Gloria Anzaldúa and others in order to trace these lines of inquiry. \n\nBrynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Saito is the 2018 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry in the MFA in Creative Writing program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-afternoon-series-welcomes-brynn-saito-on-intimate-ecologies-crisis-community-and-the-poem/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Winter
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Clement street on Wednesday\, March 21st at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome poet Kathleen Winter who will read from her latest collection I will not kick my friends. \n\nKathleen Winter was born in McAllen\, Texas. Her poems have appeared in AGNI\, The New Republic\, Field\, The Cincinnati Review and other journals. Her awards include fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, Virginia G. Piper Center\, and the Prague Summer Program. She is a graduate of the University of Texas\, Austin; Boston College; the University of California\, Davis\, School of Law; and Arizona State University. Winter lives with her husband in Sonoma County\, California\, and teaches writing at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-winter/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass / David Koehn
DESCRIPTION:Omnidawn Press presents \nDavid Koehn \ncelebrating the release of \nCompendium: Donald Justice’s Prosody Syllabus  \nEdited by David Koehn & Alan Soldofsky \npublished by Omnidawn Books \nRichard Haas \nreading from \nA Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry \nby Richard Haas \npublished by ECCO Press \nAbout Compendium: \nAs prosody is the very medium of the poet’s domain\, Donald Justice saw prosody as a set of nomenclatures for the poet composers to use in making their music. The collage process Justice employed to present his instructional materials possesses a composer’s quality\, the structure of which possesses a unique beauty. His insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy\, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here\, but rather a kind of scrapbook that has a broader motive. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s mind to their possibilities. \nDavid Koehn has taught at the University of Florida\, Eastern Oregon State College\, Blue Mountain Community College\, the University of Alaska\, and San Francisco State University. He has published several books of poetry\, Coil (a chapbook of poems)\, Tunic (a letterpress chapbook of translations of Catullus) and Twine (a full length collection of poems). David also edited Compendium about Donald Justice’s thoughts on prosody. His next full-length book of poems\, Scatterplot\, is due for release in 2020. \nAbout A Little Book on Form: \n\nAn acute and deeply insightful book of essays exploring poetic form and the role of instinct and imagination within form—from former poet laureate\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author Robert Hass. \nRobert Hass—former poet laureate\, winner of the National Book Award\, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize—illuminates the formal impulses that underlie great poetry in this sophisticated\, graceful\, and accessible volume of essays drawn from a series of lectures he delivered at the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \nA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic and reflects his profound education in the art of poetry. Starting with the exploration of a single line as the basic gesture of a poem\, and moving into an examination of the essential expressive gestures that exist inside forms\, Hass goes beyond approaching form as a set of traditional rules that precede composition\, and instead offers penetrating insight into the true openness and instinctiveness of formal creation. \nA Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our longest lasting mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-david-koehn/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Poetry! Boom!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6:30PM and poetry starts at 7PM-10PM. \nEveryone is welcome! Helen Hyojoo Kang as always will be MC’ing for the evening\, so come prepared with a poem or two\, and if you’re shy to get up on the stage\, your listening ears is all we need.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-poetry-boom/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Sarvas and Marie Mockett
DESCRIPTION:Mark Sarvas discusses his new novel\, Memento Park\, with Marie Mockett. \n\nPraise for Memento Park \n\n“Mark Sarvas has written a gripping mystery novel about art that is also a powerful meditation on fathers and sons\, and the need to face up to the falsehoods spawned by the horror of the past.”–Salman Rushdie \n\n“What does the next generation carry forward\, and why is it so compelling? In his powerful novel MEMENTO PARK\, Mark Sarvas explores the essential questions of history and its burdens and legacies. The gifted novelist Sarvas takes you by the hand and tells you the important story you need to hear.” – Min Jin Lee\, National Book Award finalist author of Pachinko \n\n“A thrilling\, ceaselessly intelligent investigation into the crime known as history.”  – Joseph O’Neill\, author of Netherland and The Dog \n\nAbout Memento Park \n\nAfter receiving an unexpected call from the Australian consulate\, Matt Santos becomes aware of a painting that he believes was looted from his family in Hungary during the Second World War. To recover the painting\, he must repair his strained relationship with his harshly judgmental father\, uncover his family history\, and restore his connection to his own Judaism. Along the way to illuminating the mysteries of his past\, Matt is torn between his girlfriend Tracy and his attorney Rachel\, with whom he travels to Budapest to unearth the truth about the painting and\, in turn\, his family. \n  \nAs his journey progresses\, Matt’s revelations are accompanied by equally consuming and imaginative meditations on the painting and the painter at the center of his personal drama\, Budapest Street Scene by Ervin Kálmán. By the time Memento Park reaches its conclusion\, Matt’s narrative is as much about family history and father-son dynamics as it is about the nature of art itself\, and the infinite ways we come to understand ourselves through it. \n  \nOf all the questions asked by Mark Sarvas’s Memento Park―about family and identity\, about art and history―a central\, unanswerable predicament lingers: How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-sarvas-and-marie-mockett/
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:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez\, Sharon Coleman\, and Lark Omura.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Graduate Student Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Curated and hosted by a committee of graduate students\, the Graduate Student Reading Series showcases the dynamic and welcoming arts community here at Saint Mary’s College.\nAll readings are free and open to the public. \nSecond Year MFA Students Reading their Work: \nYiwei Li (Creative Nonfiction)\, Briana Swain (Poetry)\, William Montes (Poetry)\, Laura Zink (Fiction) \n  \nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/graduate-student-reading-series/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LEGACY OF POETRY SLAM: FINALS
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience and judges at the SJSU Student Union Auditorium. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Poets and Writers Coalition":MAILTO:legacyofpoetry@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180322T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180322T203000
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Slam: Finals
DESCRIPTION:The Legacy of Poetry Slam’s purpose is to promote poetry as a vital art form with a broad authorship. The diversity of poetry in the United States and in California by writers born outside the United States or who are the children or grandchildren of immigrant families facilitates cultural awareness and cross-cultural communication and understanding. \nOur 8 finalists will perform their poem in front of a great audience\, judges and emcee Mighty Mike McGee\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. So\, come out and support these amazing poets who will pour out a myriad of words in form of poems around our theme: migration and diaspora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-slam-finals-2/
LOCATION:Student Union Theater\, San Jose State University\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SlamFinalFlyer.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Poets and Writers Coalition":MAILTO:legacyofpoetry@gmail.com
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