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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kiese Laymon / Heavy: An American Memoir
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Kiese Laymon for his new book Heavy: An American Memoir. More details coming soon\, but save the date and join us! \n  \nIn this powerful and provocative memoir\, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets\, lies\, and deception does to a black body\, a black family\, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse. \n  \nKiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In his essays\, personal stories combine with piercing intellect to reflect both on the state of American society and on his experiences with abuse\, which conjure conflicted feelings of shame\, joy\, confusion and humiliation. Laymon invites us to consider the consequences of growing up in a nation wholly obsessed with progress yet wholly disinterested in the messy work of reckoning with where we’ve been. \n  \nIn Heavy\, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson\, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence\, to his suspension from college\, to his trek to New York as a young college professor\, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother\, grandmother\, anorexia\, obesity\, sex\, writing\, and ultimately gambling. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding\, Laymon asks himself\, his mother\, his nation\, and us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love\, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. \n  \nA personal narrative that illuminates national failures\, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable\, an insightful\, often comical exploration of weight\, identity\, art\, friendship\, and family that begins with a confusing childhood–and continues through twenty-five years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. \n  \n\n  \n“A challenging memoir about black-white relations\, income inequality\, mother-son dynamics\, Mississippi byways\, lack of personal self-control\, education from kindergarten through graduate school\, and so much more. Laymon skillfully couches his provocative subject matter in language that is pyrotechnic and unmistakably his own … Far more than just the physical aspect\, the weight he carries also derives from the burdens placed on him by a racist society\, by his mother and his loving grandmother\, and even by himself. At times\, the author examines his complicated romantic and sexual relationships\, and he also delves insightfully into politics\, literature\, feminism\, and injustice\, among other topics. A dynamic memoir that is unsettling in all the best ways.” – Kirkus Reviews\, starred \n  \n“How do you carry the weight of being a black man in America? In electrifying\, deliberate prose\, Kiese Laymon tries to answer that question from the first page of Heavy: An American Memoir to the last. He writes about what it means to live in a heavy body\, in all senses of that word. He writes of family\, love\, place\, trauma\, race\, desire\, grief\, rage\, addiction\, and human weakness\, and he does so relentlessly\, without apology. To call the way Laymon lays himself bare an act of courageous grace is beside the point but what and how he writes in this exceptional book are\, indeed\, acts of courageous grace.” – Roxane Gay \n  \n“Kiese’s heart and humor shine through\, and we are blessed to have such raw humanity rendered in prose that begs for repeat readings. We do not deserve Heavy. We do not deserve Kiese. That he is generous enough to share is a testament to his commitment to helping us all heal.”  – Mychal Denzel Smith\, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man\, Got the Whole World Watching \n  \n“The abundance of Heavy is going to be a gift for many hurting hearts\, in our time and beyond.” – Eve Ewing\, author of Electric Arches \n  \n\n  \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and the forthcoming memoir\, Heavy. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated by not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kiese-laymon-heavy-an-american-memoir/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday October 25\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \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 and Marcus Books Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-and-tongo-eisen-martin-reading-their-work/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Betsy Mason presents All Over the Map
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 25\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nBetsy Masons presents All Over the Map: A Cartographic Oddysey.  \nCreated for map lovers by map lovers\, this rich book explores the intriguing stories behind maps across history and illuminates how the art of cartography thrives today. \n\n\nABOUT ALL OVER THE MAP \nIn this visually stunning book\, award-winning journalists Betsy Mason and Greg Miller–authors of the National Geographic cartography blog “All Over the Map”–explore the intriguing stories behind maps from a wide variety of cultures\, civilizations\, and time periods. Based on interviews with scores of leading cartographers\, curators\, historians\, and scholars\, this is a remarkable selection of fascinating and unusual maps. \nThis diverse compendium includes ancient maps of dragon-filled seas\, elaborate graphics picturing unseen concepts and forces from inside Earth to outer space\, devious maps created by spies\, and maps from pop culture such as the schematics to the Death Star and a map of Westeros from Game of Thrones. If your brain craves maps–and Mason and Miller would say it does\, whether you know it or not–this eye-opening visual feast will inspire and delight.\nBetsy Mason is a freelance science journalist and former geologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT for 2015-16. Before that Mason was the online science editor for Wired\, where she founded the Wired Science Blogs Network and co-authored the Map Lab blog with Greg Miller. She and Miller also co-author the National Geographic blog All Over the Map (see older posts here and follow the blog on Twitter here). \nWhen she’s not writing about maps\, Mason covers science and makes excuses to write about beer. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, October 25\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betsy-mason-presents-all-over-the-map/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181027T190000
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SUMMARY:M. NourbeSe Philip: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in our newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work\, in the 3rd Floor loft space at McRoskey Mattress Co.\, on Market Street (at Gough)\, and respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is free and open to the public. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong!(Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nAfter earning a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario\, Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before turning full-time to writing. She is the author of works of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988)\, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008)\, a polyvocal\, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Fred Wah has noted that Zong! “is legal poetry. This is\, legally\, poetry. … The poetry displays the agonizing tension of an exploration through the minute particulars and silences locked within the legal text\, the precise and cautious movement that tries to not tell the story that must be told.” Like much of Philip’s work\, the book asks readers to actively engage the text at the level of syllable\, fragment\, sound\, and space. \nIn addition to poetry\, Philip has published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988)\, a runner-up for both a Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature and a Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature\, and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s short story “Stop Frame” received a Lawrence Foundation Award in 1994. Her play Coups and Calypsos (1999) has been produced in both Toronto and London. \nPhilip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992)\, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993)\, CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race\, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996)\, Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997)\, and Blank: Essays and Interviews (2018). \nPhilip’s numerous honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Toronto Arts Council. In 2001\, she was recognized by the Elizabeth Fry Society with its Rebels for a Cause Award\, and the YWCA awarded her its Women of Distinction in the Arts Award. Philip has received a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and has been writer-in-residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and McMaster University. In 2012\, she received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at nourbese.com \nOn M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! \nVIDEO: Fred Moten and M. NourbeSe Philip. A story that cannot be told\, yet must be told. Zong! and its context \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Discourse on the Logic of Language” from She Tries Her Tongue\, Her Silence Softly Breaks \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip on Belonging\, Race\, Politics\, and Art \n  \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 and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/m-nourbese-philip-the-leslie-scalapino-21st-century-innovative-writers-series/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned Afro-Canadian Poet\, Writer\, Lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip Appears at McRoskey Mattress Company
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in the newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work and will respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Co. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong! (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, event begins at 7:00pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-afro-canadian-poet-writer-lawyer-m-nourbese-philip-appears-at-mcroskey-mattress-company/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181028T150000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:More Info To Come \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, October 28\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:From the Ice Age to the present\, from Nigeria to Hawaii\, images of the Goddess are reemerging\, bringing renewed attention and expression to mythical and spiritual inner and outer guides. The Heart of the Goddess presents a worldwide selection of the art\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. To author Hallie Iglehart Austen\, respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long lost power of Woman are inseparable. Through the presence of the Goddess in daily life\, the reader finds wisdom\, serenity\, and guidance. The Heart of the Goddess is an invaluable addition to the literature of feminist spirituality. \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back over the course of a year. is journey\, described in her book Womanspirit: A Guide to Women’s Wisdom (HarperCollins\, 1983)\, led to her synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she has been teaching since 1974. She has led workshops\, rituals\, and conferences at the University of California\, United Nations Conferences on Women\, the Graduate Theological Union\, and other venues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with New York Review Books \nDonald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer \ncelebrating the recent release of \nIvory Pearl \nby Jean-Patrick Manchette \npublished by New York Review Books \nJean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist\, screenwriter\, critic\, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means\, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris\, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne\, he contributed articles to the newspaper La Voie communiste and became active in the national students’ union. In 1961 he married\, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction—he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake\, Ross Thomas\, and Margaret Millar\, often for Gallimard’s Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts\, screenplays\, young-adult books\, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel\, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid\, and embarked on his literary career in earnest\, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel\, the néo-polar (distinguished from traditional detective novel\, or polar\, by its political engagement and social radicalism). Manchette had been as equally influenced by the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists as he had by Dashiel Hammett. During the 1980s\, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novels for a bande-dessinée publishing house co-founded by his son\, Doug Headline. In addition to Fatale\, Ivory Pearl\, and The Mad and the Bad\, Manchette’s novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman\, as well as Jacques Tardi’s graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\, respectively)\, are available in English. \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977). \nJames Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works\, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord. He translated Jean Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman for City Lights Books. \nPraise for Ivory Pearl and the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette: \nIvory Pearl is the kind of bold female that Virginia of Black Wings Has My Angel or my own Perdita Durango might have become had their lives taken a different turn. Manchette sets Ivory Pearl loose in perilous 1950s Cuba and smartly allows her to survive\, a master stroke by a daring\, innovative writer.\n—Barry Gifford \nThe opening chapter in particular is as sharp and brutal as anything Manchette wrote\, including his masterpiece\, The Prone Gunman. The obsessive details…might make even Ian Fleming feel uninformed…Noir fans won’t want to miss this one.\n—Publishers Weekly \nIn his final\, unfinished novel\, available for the first time in English\, Manchette departs from crime fiction—but not extreme violence—to deliver a saga of high adventure…Thanks to New York Review Books’ translations\, the English-speaking world has a generous sampling of [Manchette’s] unique fiction to enjoy. Idiosyncratic French novelist Manchette…went out in style. Short but sprawling\, the novel packs a mean punch.\n—Kirkus Reviews \n[Manchette’s] writing is lean and relentless.\n—David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times \nIn France\, which long ago embraced American crime fiction\, thrillers are referred to as polars. And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette…. [H]e’s a massive figure…. There is gristle here\, there is bone.\n—The Boston Globe \nManchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know\, and with good reason: His novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one.\n—Duane Swierczynski\, author of Expiration Date \nManchette called crime novels ‘the great moral literature of our time.’ Manchette pushes the Situationist strategy of derive and détournement to the point of comic absurdity\, throwing a wrench into the workings of his main characters’ lives and gleefully recording the anarchy that results.\n—Jennifer Howard\, Boston Review \nNew York Review Books also publishes: \nFatale – by Jean Patrick Manchette\, afterward by Jean Echenoz\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nThe Mad and the Bad – by Jean Patrick Manchette – introduction by James Sallis\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Sm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/toward-a-calculus-of-transgression-appreciating-jean-patrick-manchette/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Central America: Why the Surge in Asylum Seekers?"
DESCRIPTION:We have all seen the horrific recent images of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and heard stories of people from Central American countries seeking asylum in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions back home. But what are those conditions and why have so many asylum seekers been coming of late? \nActivist Trebor Healey\, Professor Susanne Jonas\, and journalist Mary Jo McConahay will discuss this topic and read a bit of their writing on the issue Monday\, October 29\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Admission and refreshments are free. A book signing will follow the event. \nHere is more about the panelists:\nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, a book of poetry and three collections of stories. He co-edited the anthologies Beyond Definition and Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \nTrebor works for Scalabrinianas Mision Con Migrantes Y Refugiados\, which houses about 50 Central American refugees at a time for a period of 3 months and helps them gain asylum from the Mexican Government. https://www.facebook.com/Scalabrinianas-Misi%C3%B3n-con-Migrantes-y-Refugiados-1709823382589599/ \nSusanne Jonas has been an internationally recognized writer/expert on Latin America\, particularly Guatemala/ Central America\, for five decades. She has taught Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1967\, she has written and co-edited 22 books and over 100 articles and OpEds — many translated into Spanish. Her book Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a Choice “Outstanding” book. Since the 1990s\, she is also a specialist on Central American migration and broader Latino immigration issues\, and co-authored Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (2014). She collaborates with Latin American colleagues and U.S.-based Latino community rights organizations. Her colleagues have honored her long writing/advocacy career at conferences in Latin America and the U.S. \nMary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. As a journalist\, her work has appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, Ms.\, Salon\, Sierra\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, Parenting\, The Progressive\, National Catholic Reporter\, and more than two dozen other magazines and periodicals. Most recently\, she has written on emotional border issues for The Texas Observer. Her books include Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey among the People of the Rainforest\, Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship under Fire\, and the just-released The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts\, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II. Maya Roads received the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She covers Latin America as an independent journalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-central-america-why-the-surge-in-asylum-seekers/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Anne-Marie Kinney / Coldwater Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Los Angeles-based Anne-Marie Kinney (Radio Iris) for her new novel Colwater Canyon. More details to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nShep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm\, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women—ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila\, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando Valley with his only companion\, his dog Lionel\, he takes increasingly desperate measures to insinuate himself into her life. Kinney’s precise and considered prose examines the insistence on reshaping the past through the lens of one’s own trauma and conceived desires as a means of moving forward. Why do we so often look for solace and redemption through others\, pushing ourselves to do anything for them\, even when it harms everyone involved? \n  \n\n  \n“Hot\, gritty\, swirling\, hypnotic and sensual… an unhinged\, sweetly sinister sun-baked noir; all danger\, doomed love\, and compassion.” – Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n  \n“A stunning journey through the hard-beating heart of a California everyone needs to see and know\, and now they can through Anne-Marie Kinney’s evocative\, heartbreaking\, hopeful and hilarious novel. Her landscape is singular\, and her voice a welcome new addition to American fiction. I loved this book – and the people\, and dog\, in it.” – Susan Straight\, author of Highwire Moon and Between Heaven and Here \n  \n“Kinney’s beautiful writing propels this story of a traumatized Nebraska man navigating the diffuse loneliness of Los Angeles. Coldwater Canyon is haunting.” – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \n\n  \nAnne-Marie Kinney is the author of two novels\, Radio Iris (2012\, Two Dollar Radio) and Coldwater Canyon (forthcoming from CCM in 2018). A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick\, Radio Iris was called “a spiky debut” and “‘The Office’ as scripted by Kafka” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her shorter work has been published in journals including Joyland\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Rattling Wall\, The Collagist\, Fanzine and Black Clock\, for which she also served as Production Editor from 2011-2016. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-anne-marie-kinney-coldwater-canyon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Wendy Trevino and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Brazilian no es una raza – a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. Her first book-length collection of poems will be published by Commune Editions in September 2018. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMelissa has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and a consistently retiring punker. She is too Black to ever be considered a snowflake. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish”\, though many zines and many blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa in no way identifies as butch and she recently bought a new impact drill and sawzall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-wendy-trevino-and-melissa-merin/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nDu Bois’s Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment \npublished by Harvard U. Press \n\nIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. “Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.” Taking seriously Du Bois’s allegation\, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous\, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? \nDu Bois’s Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production\, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and\, in the twenty-first century\, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English. Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy\, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial\, anti-racist\, anti-capitalist efforts. \nSpahr does not deny the exhilarations of politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated. \nJuliana Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry\, including The Winter the Wolf Came\, Well Then There Now\, and Response\, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is also the editor\, with Claudia Rankine\, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century and received the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. \n\nWhat has been said about Du Bois’s Telegram: \n“This book is thrilling. Spahr develops a truly original\, even clarion\, account of the relationship of social movements\, avant-garde and politically charged writing\, and the foreign policy arm of the U.S. A great deal of the power of Du Bois’s Telegram has to do with the way it makes totally unexpected connections among separate discourses\, and makes the connections seem necessary and obvious\, at a stroke. It is common to praise a book for being potentially field-changing; this book suggests the possibility of changing several fields.“—Christopher Nealon\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - THE PROPOSAL
DESCRIPTION:[more info to come] \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 30\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-the-proposal/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen. \n\nPraise for The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\n“A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait; andsomething like a master class in complicity.”—David Shields\, author of Reality Hunger \n\n“The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary\, Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book’s peculiar spell. Through Adrian’s rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective\, both as a child and a grown woman\, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother.”—Alysia Abbott\, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father \n\n“This is desperately serious work\, an exacting memoir that excavates\, with compassion for all involved\, the harrowingly repetitive patterns of abuse as well as moments of something like hope\, crushable and delicate\, thwarted\, and yet renewable. An agonized\, beautiful\, unflinching account.” —Lee Upton\, author of Visitations: Stories \n\nAbout The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\nClear-sighted\, darkly comic\, and tender\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter’s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness\, addiction\, and violence\, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother\, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried–even as they were formed–and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. \nIn The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories\, anecdotes\, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past\, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian’s aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately\, the glossary’s imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths\, such as the fact that some problems simply can’t be solved\, and that loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean saving them. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-adrian-discusses-her-new-memoir-the-twenty-seventh-letter-of-the-alphabet-with-amy-wallen/
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:Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry\, Leadbelly and Olio which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry\, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.  Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series and named one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005” by both The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:great weather for MEDIA Book Party & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing contributors and special guests Cathyann Cusimano\, Cassandra Dallett\, Carol Dorf\, Heikki Huotari\, Kit Kennedy\, and Richard Loranger\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nWe start with a short open mic. Please arrive early to sign up. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15th 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-party-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nLessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays \npublished by University of California Press \nIn this rich collection\, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison\, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic\, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves\, from Mark Twain to John McPhee\, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written\, what bookshelves tell us about their owners\, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. \nWith the skills of a journalist\, the knowledge of a historian\, and the heart of an activist\, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism\, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance\, and dared to dream of a better and more just world. \nAdam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. His books include the bestselling King Leopold’s Ghost. He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and once for the National Book Award. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is a two-time recipient of the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Adam Hochschild: \n“Adam Hochschild’s brilliant and sprawling books on inhumanity and injustice have made him an international treasure. Now\, with Lessons from a Dark Time\, we have Hochschild in more bite-sized (well\, meal-sized) form. His journalism ranges widely\, literally around the world\, but it’s always written with the same careful craft and indignant eloquence that we’ve come to admire so much.”—Jeffrey Toobin\, author of American Heiress; staff writer\, New Yorker;and chief legal analyst\, CNN \n“This book reveals Adam Hochschild’s journalism in all its glory. His facts are like jewels\, luminous in their importance. As a reporter and historian\, he turns facts into stories so dynamic and vivid that I couldn’t put the book down. This is important work by a gifted writer at the top of his game.”—Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author\, filmmaker\, former chief correspondent\, PBS NewsHour \n“Lessons From a Dark Time is an elegant collection that showcases all of Adam Hochschild’s singular talents as a master essayist\, historian\, literary critic\, and narrative writer. In search of a fair and humane world\, he tackles big issues of social injustice by focusing on particular people\, giving us their lives and travails with the grace and nuance of a wise storyteller. These pieces are special and enduring—a chronicle of our time\, past and present\, told always on an intimate human scale.”—Barry Siegel\, Pulitzer Prize winner; Director\, Literary Journalism Program\, University of California\, Irvine \n“Lessons from a Dark Time offers us an inspiring but clear-eyed perspective on what has been—and what can be—accomplished through resistance\, persistence\, and vision. A wonderful book for our time.”—Eric Stover\, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California\, Berkeley and coauthor of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror \n“One wanders through this collection like the proverbial kid in a candy store. All the essential issues of our time are here\, from colonialism to surveillance to development to McCarthyism to the life of the revolutionary\, all shaped brilliantly into unforgettable stories\, all brightly illuminated by Hochschild’s bracing intelligence and sparkling prose. Start at Kerala or the Congo and finish in Catalonia or Berkeley. Dip in here and there\, or read straight from first page to last. Whatever path you take\, Lessons from a Dark Time is a delightful\, vital book.”—Mark Danner\, author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War \n“These timely\, trenchant essays offer a concentrated sample of Adam Hochschild’s unique gift for illuminating the history of present-day moral conflicts. Their range is amazing\, from the Congo to Siberia to Berkeley\, but they are united by Hochschild’s wry\, compassionate sensibility and voice.”—Robert Worth\, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil\, from Tahrir Square to ISIS \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sally McGrane
DESCRIPTION:Sally McGrane\n\n\nClement: Sally McGrane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement St. location. \nSally McGrane discusses her new novel\, Moscow at Midnight. \n\nPraise for Moscow at Midnight \n\n“Everyone’s talking about Russia but this is a book that really takes you there\, a crime thriller with a truly documentary eye\, full of insights about Russian people\, politics and culture- while never failing to intrigue and excite.” —Peter Pomerantsev\, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible \n\n“A worthy successor to John le Carré . . . A fast-paced spy thriller\, full of unexpected twists and turns.” —Buchbord  \n\n“Great! Tense right up to the final page . . . A multi-layered\, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down\, even at the end.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung \n\nAbout Moscow at Midnight \n\nDownsized by the CIA\, Max Rushmore is re-hired by a private contractor—operating on a tightened budget in a world of ratcheting tensions—to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max\, whose non-transferable skills include never having met a Russian he couldn’t drink under the table\, soon uncovers all sorts of inconsistencies: could it be that she is not dead at all? So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes the agent across Russia as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. With all the breathless tension of classic espionage novels\, Moscow at Midnight is both humorous and utterly enthralling—a fast-paced page-turner of the old school. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-mcgrane/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Anita Felicelli and Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Anita Felicelli discusses her debut story collection\, Love Songs for a Lost Continent with Peg Alford Pursell. \n\nPraise for Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is an expansive\, inventive meditation on the shifting landscape of identity\, on how people can be shaped and reshaped by violence and power and love. Anita Felicelli has a singular eye for the moments that transfigure lives\, and this tremendous debut collection announces the arrival of a stunning new voice.”– Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n  \n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is the kind of work that we all need to be reading right now. Filled with heart and heat\, these beautiful stories pursue and reinvent ideas of home and self in ways that push our national conversation on identity.”- Bich Minh Nguyen\, author of Pioneer Girl and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner \n  \n“[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday… a book we will still be reading tomorrow.”- Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects \n\nAbout Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\nAnita Felicelli’s debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. \n  \nFrom the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley\, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar\, immigrants\, daughters\, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love\, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-anita-felicelli-and-peg-alford-pursell/
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:great weather for MEDIA Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great sweather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \nFeaturing contributors and special guests Zoë Christopher\, Kit Kennedy\, Calder G. Lorenz\, Richard Loranger\, Mary Mackey\, and William Taylor Jr.\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nOctober 6\, November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Hey! Poets! Friends of poets! People dragged to poetry readings for various personal and professional reasons! You know what time it is! It’s time for an amazing reading\, courtesy of Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta. \nCody-Rose Clevidence lives in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, pearl. Their most recent book is FLUNG THRONE from Ahsahta (2018). Their first book\, Beast Feast\, also from Ahsahta\, was a finalist for the 2016 CLMP Firecracker award in poetry and their little chapbook\, Perverse\, All Monstrous\, is out from Nion Editions. \nMargaret Ross was born in New York City. She holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference\, Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa\, the International Writing Program and Yale. Her first book\, A Timeshare\, was selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. \nRohan DaCosta is a multi-disciplinary artist from the city of Chicago\, working primarily through photography\, writing\, and song. Often approaching his work with great emotional sensitivity\, Rohan explores complex dilemmas\, and frequencies found in lovers\, in families\, in ecosystems\, and in places. In his candid street photography and in his poetry\, Rohan keenly examines intimacy and relativity\, often finding the personal angle to political problems. In verse\, he expresses the profound joy and quandary of black life in America. He is the founder of and curator for GRACEGOD The Collective\, which celebrates the unique work of artists\, craftsmen\, and activists from all over the world. His work in graphic design and clothing has been featured as limited edition merchandise at The Koppel Project in London. His photography has been featured at The Flight Deck Gallery as a solo exhibition titled Ordinary People (2018). His photography has also been featured at Root Division Gallery as part of a group exhibition titled Let Me Be a Witness (2018). His book of photography\, poetry\, and song\, The Edge of Fruitvale\, was published by Nomadic Press on April 28\, 2018. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Funding Grant by the City of Oakland for his upcoming show\, Trap : Trauma : Transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-cody-rose-clevidence-margaret-ross-and-rohan-dacosta/
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:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\, nurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. \nHallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. \nAusten began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-2/
LOCATION:East West Bookstore\, 324 Castro Street\, Mountain View\, 94041
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join us at the Bindery for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \n  \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \n  \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Five Fingered Being" by Grace Rosario Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Growlery in San Francisco to celebrate Grace Rosario Perkins’ new book of paintings\, “Five Fingered Being”. The book is 52 pages\, 8×11″ and includes a short essay by Grace at the end. This book turned out so rad\, and we’re really excited to share it with you! We’ll have some drinks and snacks to share\, and Grace will be hanging some new work for the occasion. \nThe gallery at The Growlery itself will be open from 1 pm onward with the actual book launch 6-9 pm! \nCome hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-five-fingered-being-by-grace-rosario-perkins/
LOCATION:The Growlery\, 235 Broderick\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Clark Coolidge reads from Poet (Pressed Wafer) and other works. \nAuthor of more than twenty books of poetry\, Clark Coolidge has occupied a singular place in American letters since the mid-1960s. An unparalleled influence on the wider avant- garde—the Language Poets\, the second and third generation New York School\, and whole movements of visual artists\, musicians\, and linguists\, Coolidge is from Providence\, Rhode Island. Since 1997 he has lived in Petaluma\, California. \n“When I was a Poet / I had no doubt / knew the Ins & Outs of / All & Everything”–so wrote David Meltzer in the title poem of his 2011 collection\, When I Was a Poet. Clark Coolidge heard this poem many times\, in different versions\, over the years\, often as a result of giving readings with Meltzer. He began to ask himself\, What is a poet? Pressed Wafer is proud to present the fruits of Coolidge’s ruminations: a 310-page serial poem\, the bulk of which was written between 2014 and 2016\, titled POET and dedicated to Meltzer. “I give instructions in my poems / you must follow them to the ends of / tura lura independence platform / forget any leaden attempts along the way / this is fortissimo serious / there’ll be no popcorn.” Luckily for us\, “fortissimo serious” means altogether too exuberant to pay bashful court to the muse. These delightful–and frequently hilarious–meditations on the ontologically precarious condition of poethood could only have been written by someone who has spent a lifetime productively writing and reading poems–someone\, moreover\, who is as uninterested in self-regard as they are in penning a lifeless line. Coolidge follows the direction of the music\, keeping his poems just beyond him but within reach. “The poet steps to the beat of his own length.” And his pearls of advice are beyond price: “won’t get far with a title like / Heaven’s Penis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Talking About Theatre with Lily Janiak & Joel Mullennix"
DESCRIPTION:Theatre lovers everywhere! Come by Folio Books\, 3957 24th St.\, Monday\, November 5 at 7pm for a special treat. Maxine Einhorn will be speaking with critic Lily Janiak and director/actor Joel Mullennix about their individual perspectives on theatre at Odd Mondays’ “Talking About Theatre.” Janiak is the theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Mullennix is a director and performer at the Word for Word Performing Arts Company in San Francisco. How does a professional reviewer/critic watch and evaluate a production? How and why does the director choose to work with a particular play? How does the performer get into character? Bring questions and hear about upcoming Bay Area productions. Free admission. Free refreshments. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nLily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously\, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area\, American Theatre\, SF Weekly\, the Village Voice\, and HowlRound. She holds a B.A. in theater studies from Yale and an M.A. in drama from San Francisco State University. \nJoel Mullennix is a performer and director with numerous performance credits\, especially with Word for Word Performing Arts Company\, both at the Magic Theater and Z Space in San Francisco. He won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for directing Olive Kitteridge and has directed numerous Word for Word productions\, such as Stories by Alice Munro\, Which is More Than I Can Say About Some People\, and most recently Deep Kiss by Tobias Wolff at Word for Word’s 25-Year Anniversary Performance at Z Space. \nMaxine Einhorn is a Londoner\, an educator\, having lectured and managed a department in colleges in inner London for over 25 years before coming to San Francisco and joining the Education Department at KQED Public Media. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in Film and TV from the University of London and has taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy. She has researched and written education guides for independent film productions in London and San Francisco and\, now retired\, is a senior programmer with the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-talking-about-theatre-with-lily-janiak-joel-mullennix/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tim Mohr in conversation with Penelope Houston
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Rock ‘n Roll Book Club in conjunction with City Lights and Algonquin Books \ncelebrating the release of \n\nBurning Down the Haus: Punk Rock\, Revolution\, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall \nby Tim Mohr \nPublished by Algonquin Books \n\nIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin in 1980\, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars\, the messed-up clothing and hair\, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings\, where everyone’s future was preordained by some communist apparatchik\, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy—quite literally\, as it turned out. \nBut as the East German punks became more numerous\, more visible\, and more rebellious\, security forces—including the dreaded secret police\, the Stasi—targeted them. They were spied on by friends and even members of their own families; they were expelled from schools and jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. Instead of backing down\, the punks fought back\, playing an indispensable role in the underground movements that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. \nThe story of East German punk rock is about much more than music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. Rollicking\, cinematic\, deeply researched\, highly readable\, and thrillingly topical\, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. \nTim Mohr is an award-winning literary translator of authors such as Alina Bronsky\, Wolfgang Herrndorf\, and Charlotte Roche. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron\, Duff McKagan of Guns n’ Roses\, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, New York Magazine\, and Inked\, among other publications\, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine\, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson\, John Dean\, and Harvey Pekar\, among others. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin. \nPenelope Houston is one of the pioneering women of American punk music. As the lead singer and songwriter for the seminal San Francisco Punk band The Avengers\, she trailblazed the first wave of American punk influencing many future musicians. Music critic Greil Marcus described The Avengers as “San Francisco’s best punk band – in their moments\, they were\, you knew\, better than any other band playing that night anywhere in the world.” Penelope’s later solo forays into acoustic and electric music blended the influences of punk\, folk\, rock\, blues and americana leading to the release of over 11 albums. She makes her home in San Francisco. \nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club \nAdvance praise for Burning Down the Haus: \n“The Best Punk Book since Please Kill Me.”\n—Legs McNeil\, author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“Burning Down the Haus is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin\, it’s the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today.  Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we’ve all been waiting for.”\n—DW Gibson\, author of The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century \n“In East Germany\, where non-conformity meant jail time\, punks’ ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get ahold of them\, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. Burning Down the Haus is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere.”\n—Ruth Franklin\, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life \n“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose\, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk rock kids who broke the state that wanted to break them. A book to warm an old punk’s heart.”\n—Claire Dederer\, author of Love and Trouble \n“Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating\, Burning Down the House is a fabulously alive history of punk rock behind the Iron Curtain\, where simply dressing like a punk could get you hauled in by Stasi\, the dreaded East German secret police. Mohr ties the fearless music-driven resistance to authoritarianism and mass surveillance in the 1980s to our current fraught times\, showing how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated\, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat. A thrilling\, inspiring read.”\n—Rob Spillman\, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow’s Parties \n“An appealing\, lively cultural history worth reading in an era of corporate punk nostalgia.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“You say you want a revolution? Tim Mohr’s spellbinding Burning Down the Haus reveals how a bunch of young East German punks in the 1980s made their wild music into a clarion loud enough to topple the Berlin Wall. With a sharp eye for the prosaic brutality of the repressive state and an ear locked on the furies in the music\, Mohr has crafted an unforgettable story that is part cultural history\, part political thriller and entirely true.”\n—Peter Ames Carlin\, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon \n“Berlin has always been a crazy city\, and a dramatic stage for the epic struggle between powerful ideological forces and the individual desire to be free. In case you weren’t sure just how political music\, fashion\, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful.”\n—Norman Ohler\, author of Blitzed \n“This is a crazily inspiring\, strange\, beautiful story that deserves to be remembered\, and Mohr is a wonderfully compassionate writer. What a combination!”\n—Johann Hari\, NYT bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections \n“Tim Mohr’s book details a fascinating period of time in the history of punk music. I am so glad he documented that moment in history for punk rock and for the world.”\n—Greg Gaffin\, singer/songwriter for Bad Religion and author of Population Wars and Anarchy Evolution
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-mohr-in-conversation-with-penelope-houston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises: \nPeter Bullen\nShirley Huey\nFernando Meisenhalter\nMaia Bull\nCassandra Dallett\nSarah Henry\nSean Taylor\nPaolo Bicchieri\nBrian Kirven \n  \nThis is a FREE\, all-ages show! WHERE IS IT? Ok ok: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou get it: Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park!!! \nMonday\, November 5\, 2018\nReadings begin at 7:30pm \nBut come early\, bring some dinner or a drink if you want\, it’s turn back the clock the night before so sunset will be *just after 5pm* … let’s do this together\, taking in the Bay Lights with a monster mixtape! \nThe first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and photography by Evan Karp. \nRSVP / invite a friend
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-5/
LOCATION:RIncon Rark\, The Embarcadero & Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:election Night with ZYZZYVA
DESCRIPTION:Election Night with Zyzzyva\nHosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor \nwith Nestor Gomez\, Matthew Zapruder\, Caille Millner\, Dean Rader\, Ismail Muhammad\, Vanessa Hua\, and D.A. Powell \nCome join a roster of ZYZZYVA contributors and friends of the journal as we follow the returns on the various congressional elections around the country and in our state. Featuring short readings spread out through the night. \nIssue No 13 – Of & About the Environment (the fall 2018 installement of Zyzzyva) will be on hand for sale that evening. \nThe issue includes work by: \nHéctor Tobar on living in Los Angeles\, before and after air quality regulations; Lauret Edith Savoy traces “the geology of us”; Juli Berwald on “the blob\,” the mysterious oceanic phenomenon that left destruction in its wake; Obi Kaufmann on the importance of reframing the language of conservation. \nArundhati Roy discusses with John Freeman her work as an activist and a writer\, and examines the great danger before us all. \nPoems by Jane Hirshfield\, John Sibley Williams\, Rebecca Foust\, Daniel Neff\, Maggie Millner\, Sophie Klahr\, and Emily Pinkerton. \nFiction by Ben Lasman (ceding the field of work to the robots)\, Manuel Muñoz (the vulnerability of those who work our fields)\, and Louis B. Jones (the tea compost isn’t the only rancidness found living off the grid). \nAnd More Fiction and Poetry: \nStories by Emma Copley Eisenberg\, Elena Graceffa\, and\, marking his First-Time-in-Print\, David Paul; poetry by Ruth Madievsky\, Jennie Malboeuf\, and Paul Wilner. \nArt: Featuring Obi Kaufmann’s watercolors of California’s fauna and flora. \n \nZYZZYVA’s first issue was published in 1985\, under founding editor Howard Junker. In 2011\, Laura Cogan became ZYZZYVA’s first new editor in more than 25 years. She and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon make up ZYZZYVA’s editorial team. Every issue is a vibrant mix of established talents and new voices\, providing an elegantly curated overview of contemporary arts and letters with a distinctly San Francisco perspective. \nTheir publishing history is as illustrious as it is groundbreaking. This is the journal that first published Jim Gavin and Jill Soloway\, F.X. Toole and Po Bronson—and introduced American readers to Haruki Murakami (in issue No. 13). Their list of contributors includes\, among many others\, Peter Orner\, Kay Ryan\, David Guterson\, Tom Bissell\, Tatjana Soli\, Ron Carlson\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Amy Hempel\, D.A. Powell\, Matthew Dickman\, Herbert Gold\, Daniel Sada\, Adam Johnson\, Karl Taro Greenfeld\, Sandow Birk\, Richard Misrach\, Aimee Bender\, Diego Enrique Osorno\, Sherman Alexie\, Daniel Handler\, Adrienne Rich\, Robert Hass\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Wanda Coleman\, Raymond Carver\, Tom Barbash\, William T. Vollmann\, Dagoberto Gilb\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, Ed Ruscha\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Robert Creeley\, and M.F.K. Fisher. \nVisit: www.zyzzyva.org \nto learn more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/election-night-with-zyzzyva/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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