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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery\, To Die But Once. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of To Die But Once by calling the store (510) 704-8222 and speaking to one of our booksellers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany\, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public\, and the threat of invasion rises\, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. \nMaisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men\, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches\, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future–and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. \nJacqueline Winspear’s  bestselling Maisie Dobbs series includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, Winspear now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Poems Under the Dome
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars! \nSpeak in verse in the belly of the beast! \nAll are welcome to celebrate National Poetry Month inside beautiful San Francisco City Hall. This unique FREE event invites ALL AGES to share a poem or enjoy the magic of the spoken word. Put your name in the hat\, and reading slots will be drawn throughout the evening. \nSerious folks who want a chance to ‘win’ a guaranteed reading spot can check www.poemdome.net in April to see which open mics we’ll be visiting to draw names throughout the month. If you host an open mic in San Francisco\, and would like a Poem Dome volunteer to attend your event and do a drawing in April\, please leave a comment here. \nReaders are permitted ONE poem\, not to exceed 3 minutes. The shorter your piece\, the more people we can get up to the mic. \nThursday\, April 19th 2018\nSan Francisco City Hall – North Light Court\n5:30-8pm sharp!\nFREE & ALL AGES\nwww.poemdome.net \nNOTE:\nPoetry only. No music/songs.\nMusical instruments are not allowed into City Hall without prior registration\, which the hosts cannot accommodate.\nThank you for your cooperation 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-poems-under-the-dome/
LOCATION:San Franscico City Hall\, San Francisco City Hall
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Words and Music Double Bill\, Steve Dalachinsky ||| Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer\, John Schott\, Joshua Horowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as The Poetry Center Reading Room transforms into a one-night-only performance space\, for a very special evening of improvised music and poetry deployed out of the spirit of the music and related impulses. It’s unlikely that any one poet has been as immersed\, and for so long\, in the New York and European jazz and improvised music scenes\, or has collaborated in some manner with as many of its extraordinary artists\, as has Steve Dalachinsky. He\, among other participatory roles\, has written liner notes for the recordings of Anthony Braxton\, Charles Gayle\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Rashied Ali\, Roy Campbell\, Matthew Shipp\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, among others. Tonight\, visiting San Francisco on a rare West Coast excursion\, he’ll share the bill with Bay Area poetry and music trio Cosmic Diaspora\, fresh from their own turn through New York City\, as part of guitarist/composer John Schott’s week-long residency at The Stone\, the famed improvised music space run by John Zorn\, now in its revived venue at The New School in Manhattan. Besides the extraordinary Mr Schott on guitars\, Cosmic Diaspora features Joshua Horowitz on keyboards and accordion\, and Jake Marmer\, voice and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. \n“He lives the music\, and his poems capture its heat and illumination.” —Francis Davis\, on Steve Dalachinsky \nSteve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987–2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (RogueArt\, 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group\, the Snobs (Bambalam\, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (feral press\, 2014). A Superintendent’s Eyes (revised and expanded\, Autonomedia/Unbearables\, revised and expanded\, 2013/14). flying home\, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press\, 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press\, 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.\, Frozen Heatwave\, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods\, 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Pressm\, 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent audio release is With Shelter Gone\, a full length 12-inch LP on the German label Psych.KG\, and his latest book is Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media\, 2018). He lives\, with Yuko Otomo\, in New York City. \nCosmic Diaspora. Near the close of 2017\, in a burst of verbal improv\, John Schott wrote this: \n“I love my band Cosmic Diaspora with pianist/accordionist Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass\, Budowitz) and poet Jake Marmer(Jazz Talmud). Josh and I come up with little loose compositions to serve as accompaniments to Jake’s poems\, which are mostly fixed but allow for spontaneous elaborations and disruptions. It’s a very tricky thing\, finding the right amount of activity and density\, so as not to overwhelm the listener\, but allow them to take in the words. I like Jake Marmer’s poetry very\, very much. He has the wonderful quality of savoring the English language from a non-Native speaker’s perspective — he immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when he was a teenager. He also thoughtfully works through various Jewish and Rabbinic texts and tropes in his work\, which creatively stimulate me as well. Josh Horowitz is both a virtuoso pianist and accordionist with a jaw-dropping\, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish music\, Jazz\, and Classical music — truly one of the most remarkable musicians I’ve ever met. Like\, he published an article in a learned German musical journal with a ground-breaking discovery about Bach’s puzzle canons. He is completely conversant with the McCoy/Herbie/Keith vocabulary\, and can casually quote the opening to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in an improvisation. Also\, he’s one of the greatest authorities/educators on Jewish music in the world\, period. But in this project\, he’s totally out of all of his boxes\, and sort of free-floating in a world without definitions. \n“We recently played at a very special house concert venue in Palo Alto that was filmed. Here’s a selection:” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Diaspora in performance:\n• Warp\n• Panic\n• Turbine\n• Cosmo-Chameleon\n• Purple Rocks \nVideos\, Interview\, Review:\n• John Tchicai and Steve Dalachinsky\n• Steve Dalachinsky and Dave Liebman at The Stone\n• Steve Dalachinsky and The Snobs\n• Steve Dalachinsky interviewed by Lisa Chau in The Huffington Post\n• Steve Dalachinsky in the New York Times \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/words-and-music-double-bill-steve-dalachinsky-cosmic-diaspora-jake-marmer-john-schott-joshua-horowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Translator Walks into a Bar with Jessica Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Translator Jessica Cohen will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English. Translators are bridge-builders between different languages and cultures\, and the bridge between Hebrew and English can be particularly difficult. Cohen will consider different ways of contextualizing Israeli cultural references for English-language readers\, and the particular difficulties posed by jokes and humor. She will focus especially on David Grossman’s award-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar\, which employs humor (often of the dark variety) more to unsettle than to entertain. \nFree admission with free garage parking on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy streets. \nCo-presented with the Jewish Community Library and the Consulate General of Israel. \n  \n\n\n\n\nJessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. She has translated some of Israel’s finest writers\, including David Grossman\, Etgar Keret\, Assaf Gavron\, Rutu Modan\, Amir Gutfreund\, Yael Hedaya\, Ronit Matalon and Tom Segev\, as well as with prominent screenwriters such as Ari Folman and Ron Leshem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-translator-walks-into-a-bar-with-jessica-cohen/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Unrest
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime UNREST at Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St. San Francisco\, on Thursday April 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Yang Huang (My Old Faithful)\, Sumiko Saulson (Somnalia)\, Dominica Phetteplace\, Caitlin Myer\, and Ishita Arora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-unrest/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Scutts
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scutts discusses her new book\, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hills Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It. \n\nPraise for The Extra Woman \n\n“The fascinating and formidable Marjorie Hillis has at last found her rightful biographer\, champion\, and exegete in Joanna Scutts. This is a beautifully written\, insightful\, and wise account of the life and work of an important but heretofore largely unremembered writer\, wit\, and proto-feminist.” — Rosie Schaap\, author of Drinking with Men \n\n“Long before Girls\, Carrie Bradshaw\, and Mary Tyler Moore\, Marjorie Hillis inspired women to live more independently as ‘Live-Aloners\,’ and she deserves more recognition than she gets. Joanna Scutts’ account of Hillis and the cultural transformations she made possible is as witty\, forthright\, and elegant as its subject.” — Lauren Elkin\, author of Flâneuse \n\n“Scutts should feel proud that she did what she set out to do: return Hillis to her rightful place in the pantheon of women who made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy that freedom. ‘Recovering the spirit of daring that defined the Live-Alone heyday can remind us that a different story is always possible\,’ Scutts writes\, ‘and might just inspire us anew\, to resist and rebel against convention\, and to fight to create the life we really want.’ Here’s hoping every reader has the chance to do just that.” — Ellen McCarthy\, Washington Post \n\nAbout The Extra Woman \n\nFrom the flapper to The Feminine Mystique\, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. \n  \nYou’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated\, she lives comfortably alone\, she pursues her passions unabashedly\, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution\, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or\, worse\, pity. But for a brief\, exclamatory period in the late 1930s\, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography\, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties\, when\, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis\, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. \n  \nMarjorie Hillis\, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher\, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit\, she urged spinsters\, divorcées\, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives\, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone)\, Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. \n  \nIn a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own\, Joanna Scutts\, a leading cultural critic\, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement\, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash\, Decorating Is Fun!transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book\, The Joy of Cooking\, reassured the nervous home chef that she\, too\, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture\, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was\, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience\, Hillis proved that guts\, grace\, and perseverance would always be in vogue. \n  \nWith this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy\, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm\, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences\, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion\, mixology\, decorating\, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-scutts/
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:Åsne Seierstad / Two Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Two Sisters\, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad\, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara\, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway\, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular\, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria\, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. \nEmploying the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought toThe Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us\, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms\, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually\, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war\, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters\, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief\, extremism\, and the meaning of devotion. \n— \nPraise for Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us (2015)\, a New York Times Book Review ‘10 Best Books of 2015’ selection: \n“Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, [One of Us] has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and\, by implication\, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written\, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . The book attains an almost unbearable weight . . . One of Us must have been difficult to write\, and yet from the opening pages it has an irresistible force.” —Eric Schlosser\, The New York Times Book Review \n“‘Utøya’ and ‘July 22nd’ assume new meaning for me when I read [One of Us]. Once again\, that day becomes something concrete\, not a phenomenon\, not an affair\, not an argument in a political discussion but a dead body bent over a stone at the water’s edge.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard\, The New Yorker \n“One of Us reads like a true crime novel\, but it has the journalistic chops to back it up . . . [It] is the story of Norway\, its people\, and the lengths one will go to feel like they belong. Not only a stunning achievement in journalism\, it’s a touchstone on how to write about tragedy with detail\, honesty\, and compassion.”—Samantha Edwards\, The A.V. Club\n— \nÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath\, The Bookseller of Kabul\, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\,Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War\, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. She lives in Oslo\, Norway.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asne-seierstad-two-sisters/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexis Rhone Fancher + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:** THIS IS A READING OF EROTIC POETRY. ADULTS ONLY. **\n\n\n\nAlexis Rhone Fancher is a professionally trained theatre actress who gave it all up for poetry. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems\, (2014)\, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies\, (2015)\, and her latest erotic collection\, Enter Here (2017). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016\, Rattle\, Slipstream\, Plume\, Nashville Review\, Diode\, Glass\, Tinderbox\, and elsewhere. Her photos are published worldwide\, including the covers of Witness\, Heyday\, The Chiron Review\, and Nerve Cowboy. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles. www.alexisrhonefancher.com\n\n\n\n\n\nD.A. Powell is the author of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry\, the Shelley Memorial Prize\, and an Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\nCritic Steph Burt\, writing in the New York Times\, said of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessible.” \nA former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Stanford\, Columbia\, University of Texas at Austin\, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. \nPowell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy: "Hoarding as Écriture"
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Lecture Series]\nDodie Bellamy: “Hoarding as Écriture” \nThroughout her career\, Dodie Bellamy has undermined the fantasy of the autonomous subject. Her work compulsively explores the permeable boundaries between self and other\, the conflicting desires to merge with the outside and to protect oneself from invasion. Bellamy will discuss her use of appropriation to trouble the ever-wavering relation between self and culture. For her\, cut-ups\, collage\, citations\, and rewritings are more than literary techniques; they betray a libidinal urge to devour and spit up the world. \nDodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions between fiction\, essay\, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World. Her chapbook\, The Beating of Our Hearts\, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (2017). Also with Killian she curated the 2018 exhibit There’s a Dark Secret in Me: Precarity\, Exposure\, Camouflage for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. \n—\nImage: Tariq Alvi\, “Two Hankies: Pony\, The Bandaged Lady\,” 2005; Linen hanky. Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-hoarding-as-ecriture/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann discusses No Immediate Danger
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann-discusses-no-immediate-danger/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Full Color: A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION:Full Color: A Staged Reading \nAfro Urban Society and Studio Grand present ‘Full Color’\, a short story written by Itoro Udofia that has been adapted for the stage in a dynamic literary reading. The story follows Inem\, a first generation Nigerian woman returning home after five years of estrangement from her family. We follow her as she grapples with the fractured memories and loss she experiences when attempting to piece her life together amidst family tragedy. Ultimately\, the story is about finding reconciliation with one’s cultural and personal history as a survivor. This reading is to honor Sexual Assault Awareness month and all survivors attempting to find a road to recovery. \nMore Info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/full-color-a-staged-reading/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea: The House of Broken Angels
DESCRIPTION:Luis Alberto Urrea reads from and signs his new novel\, The House of Broken Angels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-the-house-of-broken-angels/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Kauffman discusses her new novel\, The Gunners. \n\nPraise for The Gunners \n\n“I recommend you read every single thing Rebecca Kauffman writes―start with this beautiful novel\, and start now.” ―Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \n\n“Kauffman’s prose is restrained in a way that causes it to actually vibrate in places\, and her details are so richly observed they feel like gems\, impossible things mined from deep under the earth. Funny\, raw\, and deeply elegant\, The Gunners is ultimately a meditation on friendship\, that least examined\, most mysterious form of love\, perhaps more sacred for its incompleteness\, for the ways we can never fool ourselves completely into believing we truly know one another.” ―Rufi Thorpe\, author of Dear Fang\, with Love and The Girls from Corona del Mar \n\n“The Gunners explores what it means to have people crawl into your heart and settle in for a lifetime. In this lovely\, truthful novel of six people who have been friends since childhood\, Rebecca Kauffman strips enduring love of all its usual romantic costumery\, and shows us how it actually works.” ―Martha Woodroof\, author of Small Blessings \n\nAbout The Gunners \n\nFollowing her wonderfully received first novel\, Another Place You’ve Never Been\, called “mesmerizing\,” “powerful\,” and “gorgeous\,” by critics all over the country\, Rebecca Kauffman returns with Mikey Callahan\, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections―even his emotional life is a blur. \n  \nAs the novel begins\, he is reconnecting with “The Gunners\,” his group of childhood friends\, after one of their members has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself from all of them before ending her life\, and she died harboring secrets about the group and its individuals. Mikey especially needs to confront dark secrets about his own past and his father. How much of this darkness accounts for the emotional stupor Mikey is suffering from as he reaches his maturity? And can The Gunners\, prompted by Sally’s death\, find their way to a new day? The core of this adventure\, made by Mikey\, Alice\, Lynn\, Jimmy\, and Sam\, becomes a search for the core of truth\, friendship\, and forgiveness. \n  \nA quietly startling\, beautiful book\, The Gunners engages us with vividly unforgettable characters\, and advances Rebecca Kauffman’s place as one of the most important young writers of her generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-kauffman/
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:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Third Thursday of Every Month \nFeature: Mighty Mike McGee\nopen mic follows \nWillow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public \nupcoming features:\nJune 21: Lisa Rosenberg\nSeptember 20: David Eisenbach\nOctober 18: David Denny
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library-2/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Journal Release: Nomadic Journal 2017: Wonder (Retro!)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2017-wonder-retro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-brenda-hillman-with-jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell\n\n  \ndiscussing \nYour Art Will Save Your Life \nA candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nAs a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum\, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult\, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists. Intimate yet practical\, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs\, residencies\, and institutional funding. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by OutMagazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music. \nWhat has been said about Your Art Will Save Your Life: \n“Offers modest and straightforward suggestions for surviving and thriving in creative endeavors.” —Publishers Weekly \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n“A survival guide for the creatives among us.” —Nicole Georges\, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home \n“I’m so grateful for this book! I’m buying it for every single creative person in my life.” —Ann Friedman\, host of Call Your Girlfriend \n“If you are a person who needs to make art in order to function\, this book is from your best\, smartest\, coolest\, most insightful\, wise\, learned\, practical\, savvy\, no-bullshit friend who knows you and loves you anyway.” —Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses \n“An electrically inspiring\, politically fresh\, and class-conscious guide for artists who wish to engage more deeply with their process\, their careers\, and their lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Modern Tarot \n  \n“The self-help book every artist needs! Wish I’d had this book my entire life.” —Ali Liebegott\, author of Cha-Ching!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-pickens-with-brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Copper Canyon Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:This reading\, featuring four wonderful poets with new collections from Copper Canyon Press\, is a collaboration between Marin Poetry Center and the Mill Valley Library and will be held at: \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley \n\n\nDana Levin fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Stein is the author of Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018). Her debut collection\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize selected by Mark Doty. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, New England Review\, Tin House\, The Southern Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she has received fellowships from the NEA\, Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\nJavier Jose Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his poems appear or are forthcoming in APR\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copper-canyon-press-reading/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Europa Grace\, M.I.\, Miyuki\, and Gabriel Christian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #94
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month with host Marin County Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust\, and teen writers from ForWords Literacy Lab. \nForWords provides instruction and resources to help students develop the ability to write\, speak\, and read effectively and publish their work in print\, video and digital media. \nForWords works with students to foster self-awareness\, confidence\, personal voice and pride in community and culture. \nForWords provides professional development for teachers and direct assistance to our students by partnering with the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California\, Berkeley and is staffed and advised by an exceptional community of writers\, educators\, artists and digital media experts. \nRebecca Foust’s five books of poetry include Paradise Drive\, reviewed in theTimes Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Recent Recognitions include the CP Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, American Literary Review’s Fiction Prize\, and the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize as well as fellowships from MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and The Frost Place. Foust is Poet Laureate of Marin County and writes a weekly column for Women’s Voices for Change\, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/arts-culture/poetry. \nTime allowing\, we will have our open mic following the reading. Our West End Village restaurant neighbors kindly offer a discount on the evening of the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-94/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Your Art Will Save Your Life launch at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 25\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the launch of YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE with Beth Pickens and Tammy Johnson! \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \nBeth Pickens reminds us that art makes us want to be alive. It lets us know that we are not alone in this world no matter how isolated we feel. And in this oppressive political climate\, art is more important now than ever. \nWritten in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election and drawing from Pickens’s extensive background in art fundraising and consulting\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE empowers emerging and established artists alike to balance activism and financial concerns while nurturing their own creative processes. \nFrom exercises designed to quiet inner critics to advice on navigating institutional funding\, Pickens helps artists create foundations for healthy and sustainable expression no matter the medium. Reminding us art has always been a tool of the resistance\, YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE provides simple yet powerful lessons on how to keep creating at a time\nwhen art is more necessary than ever. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nTammy Johnson is a dancer\, writer\, and equity analyst living in Oakland\, California. As a highly visible and effective community organizer in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin\, she directed campaigns on economic justice\, electoral reform and public education. Johnson’s gift for strategy development and ability to nurture strong relationships with groups on the ground led to a decade at Race Forward. She is also a principal partner of Art/Work Practice\, a firm that advances cultural strategies with a through an equity-based approach. For over a decade Johnson and Etang Inyang performed as the award-winning Egyptian Bellydance duet\, Raks Africa\, and co-directed Girls Raks Bellydance and Body Image program. She is currently the director the Northern African Berber inspired culture production company\, Project Aiwa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-art-will-save-your-life-launch-at-wolfman-books/
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:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Sally Kohn
DESCRIPTION:Sally Kohn is currently a CNN political commentator and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Kohn was previously a Fox News contributor\, and she has been a frequent guest on MSNBC. She writes regularly for media outlets including the Washington Post\, the New York Times\, New York Magazine\, Refinery29\, Marie Claire\, Cosmopolitan\, Yahoo\, Salon\, Time and many more. She also works as a communications consultant and was previously a campaign strategist for the Center for Community Change\, a fellow at the Ford Foundation\, and a strategic advisor to the Social Justice Infrastructure Funders\, as well as a fellow at the National Gay and Lesbian task Force Policy Institute. \nOne of the leading progressive voices in America\, Sally Kohn\, is out to understand the epidemic of incivility and hate that has overcome our country. Often a beacon of rationality in the firebrand of today’s political discourse\, Kohn’s ]patient approach to commentary has often been a bridge over intractable divides\, whether it be on Fox News\, CNN\, The Washington Post\, or in her own life\, where she has been both victim and perpetrator of bullying and partisan resentment. \n“Sick of the anger\, division and hate in our world? Sally Kohn’s book is uplifting\, funny\, and full of inspiring solutions.” —Van Jones
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-sally-kohn/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Dana Levin and Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Dana Levin and Dean Rader read from their latest poetry collections\, Banana Palace and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry. \n\nAbout Dana Levin \n\nDana Levin’s fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis. \n\nAbout Dean Rader \n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-levin-and-dean-rader/
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:The Others: A Dramatic Reading by Matthew Rohrer & Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a performance of Matthew Rohrer’s novel in verse\, The Others\, featuring guest readers including Daniel Handler and Arisa White. Please join us! \nA gripping\, eerie\, and hilarious novel-in-verse from poet Matthew Rohrer. In a Russian-doll of fictional episodes\, we follow an entry-level publishing assistant over the course of a day as he encounters ghost stories\, science fiction adventures\, Victorian hashish eating\, and robot bigfoots. Rohrer mesmerizes with wildly imaginative tales and resonant verse in this compelling love letter to storytelling. \n— \nMatthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books\, 2015)\, Destroyer and Preserver (Wave Books\, 2011)\, A Plate of Chicken (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2009)\, Rise Up (Wave Books\, 2007) and A Green Light (Verse Press\, 2004)\, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. He is also the author of Satellite (Verse Press\, 2001)\, and co-author\, with Joshua Beckman\, of Nice Hat. Thanks. (Verse Press\, 2002)\, and the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Next Big Thing. His first book\, A Hummock in the Malookas was selected for the National Poetry Series by Mary Oliver in 1994. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and teaches at NYU. \n  \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels We Are Pirates\, The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and Why We Broke Up\, a 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. He is responsible for many books for children\, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown\, and lives with her and their son in San Francisco. \n  \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\, dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collectionYou’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-others-a-dramatic-reading-by-matthew-rohrer-special-guests/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brynn Saito
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon and The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties grant. Her poetry has appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine\, Poetry Northwest\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Saito is the Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry at Saint Mary’s College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brynn-saito/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea \nApril 26 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 180 Doe Library \nSpeaker: Dafna Zur\, Stanford University\nModerator: Steven Lee\, UC Berkeley \nFiguring Korean Futures is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s\, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart\, the perception that the child’s body and mind were transparent and knowable\, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. This privileged location enabled writers and illustrators\, educators and psychologists\, intellectual elite and laypersons to envision the child as a powerful antidote to the present and as an uplifting metaphor of colonial Korea’s future. \nReading children’s periodicals against the political\, educational\, and psychological discourses of their time\, Dafna Zur argues that the figure of the child was particularly favorable to the project of modernity and nation-building\, as well as to the colonial and postcolonial projects of socialization and nationalization. She demonstrates the ways in which Korean children’s literature builds on a trajectory that begins with the child as an organic part of nature\, and ends\, in the post-colonial era\, with the child as the primary agent of control of nature. Figuring Korean Futures reveals the complex ways in which the figure of the child became a driving force of nostalgia that stood in for future aspirations for the individual\, family\, class\, and nation. \nABOUT THE SPEAKER \nDafna Zur is Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature\, popular culture\, cinema\, and popular culture. Her book\, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press\, 2017)\, traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction\, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature\, childhood in cinema\, and Korean popular culture. Her translations have been published in wordwithoutborders.org\, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories\, and the Asia Literary Review. \nDafna Zur received her PhD and MA in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia\, and a BA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-talk-figuring-korean-futures/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stevenson Poetry Night at the SHPL
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening celebrating the spoken word and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson! The evening will feature an open mic for aspiring poets and poetry lovers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevenson-poetry-night-at-the-shpl/
LOCATION:Saint Helena Public Library\, 1492 Library Lane\, Saint Helena\, 94574
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic\, in performance and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:“Our intention is to offer constructive speculation; our earnest hope to take up the love labor of the Black canons that laid these foundations in the past and provide guidance for the future.”\n— Zoé Samudzi\, Introduction to The Black Aesthetic Season II \nJoin us for an evening of readings\, performances\, and conversations with The Black Aesthetic. This group of writers and artists started their work together around a series of film screenings\, in the space at E. M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore in downtown Oakland. Their first publication\, The Black Aesthetic Season One: Black Women in Film\, emerged out of the dialogue that started to happen around their viewing of undeniable classics of independent Black cinema\, works that were met with acclaim when released\, and then became hard-to-find rareties. That publication struck a nerve\, and quickly sold out. Their follow-up\, The Black Aesthetic Season II\, just appeared this Spring 2018\, and it’s an even more extensive assembly of original writings and photo-works in response to a new series of films (100 Boyfriends Mixtape by Brontez Purnell\, Breathless by Anaiis Cisco\, Day by Day and Man Who Feared by Jehnovah Carlisle\, I gave myself space to go back by Yetunde Olagbaju\, Good White People by Jarrod Willing-Cann & Erick Stoll\, Short Films by Summer Mason\, Lucid Noon\, Sunset Blush by Alli Logout).  We’re devoting an evening to the artists who initiated these crucial conversations. \nJamal Batts is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley\, with a Designated Emphasis in Gender\, Women\, and Sexuality Studies. His work considers representations of morbidity\, death\, and disease in black and queer performance and visual culture. \nRyanaustin Dennis Founding member of The Black Aesthetic\, Ryanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based curator/artist/writer. His practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. He has done curatorial work for E.M. Wolfman Bookstore and is a Southern Exposure Curatorial Council Fellow. He is currently working on a manuscript How to Bend a Nigger. \nMalika “Ra” Imhotep is a black feminist writer/root worker from Atlanta\, GA currently pursuing a doctoral degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.  Her thinking engages black femme performance aesthetics and cultural production throughout the Black Diaspora. Her creative praxis is invested in a textual and performative enjoyment of undisciplined movement\, the historical present\, black obscenities\, black spiritual practices and other blackityblk happenings. \nZoé Samudzi is a writer whose work has appeared in a number of spaces including The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, and Bitch Media\, among others. She is presently a Sociology PhD student at the University of California\, San Francisco in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Her academic work includes biomedicalization theory\, structural productions of race and gender\, and transgender health. www.zoesamudzi.com \nLeila Weefur lives and works in Oakland\, CA. Weefur received her MFA from Mills College in 2016. She uses video and printmaking to investigate the phenomenology of Blackness. With materials and visual gestures that access the tactile memory she explores the abject\, the sensual and the nuance found in the social interactions and language with which our bodies have to negotiate space. She is a recipient of the Hung Liu award\, the Murphy & Cadogan award\, and recently completed an artist fellowship at Kala Art Institute. Weefur has exhibited her work in local and national galleries including Southern Exposure and SOMArts Gallery in San Francisco\, Betti Ono in Oakland\, and Smack Mellon in Brooklyn\, New York. She is the Audio and Video Editor in Chief at Art Practical. www.leilaweefur.com \nFrom their website: “The Black Aesthetic is a creative organization\, whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. We pose the question: What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you? \n“By working with artists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and designers. We cultivate work that asks our audience to consider their relationship to Black art. Based in Oakland\, we are invested in developing a community who will participate and engage with our mission. When you support The Black Aesthetic\, you are actively supporting a network of Black Artists. Through film screenings\, publications\, and product development we want to add to a growing collection of artistic visions that are grounded in place\, body\, lived-experience\, and are responsive to its respective environment.” More here. \nPhoto: Lance Yamamoto\, East Bay Express.\nFront\, left-right: Zoé Samudzi\, Leila Weefur\, Malika “Ra” Imhotep. Back\, left-right: Jamal Batts\, Ryanaustin Dennis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• The Black Aesthetic \n• Oakland’s Black Artists Make Space for Themselves | East Bay Express \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/the-black-aesthetic-in-performance-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:Dalachinsky\, Otomo\, Lazzara + Swindell at Alley Cat
DESCRIPTION:Readings by:\n\nSteve Dalachinsky\n\n\nYuko Otomo\nMarina Lazzara\n\n\nTate Swindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dalachinsky-otomo-lazzara-swindell-at-alley-cat/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yang Huang
DESCRIPTION:Yang Huang reads from her short story collection\, My Old Faithful\, winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShowing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday\, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories\, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period\, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life\, full of pain\, surprises\, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother\, the father\, the son\, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China’s social and economic change. \nWith quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary\, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love\, a brother who betrays his sister\, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling. \nYang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction\, and her essay and short stories have appeared in The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, The Evansville Review\, Futures\, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine\, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yang-huang/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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