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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The first new translation of this wall poetry in 40 years takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate their experiences\, these poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, eventual deportation.Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, information essential to our contemporary policy debates. These poems are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While earning his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at Angel Island. For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has focused on the Asian American experience including adoption\, multiracial families\, and student activism during the 1960s. His poetry and prose have appeared in many publications including Bamboo Ridge\, Crab Orchard\, Hyphen\, Spillway\, and other publications. In past lives he has been a singer-songwriter\, disc jockey\, high school teacher\, and open mic host. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay. \n 
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LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
DESCRIPTION:Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko Ono\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699189570134160/
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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:radical  poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:radical poesies \nSteven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin \nCurated by Tongo Eisen-Martin \nWednesday! May 16th \nDoors 6:30PM \nProgram7PM \nFREE \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radical-poesies-steven-seidenberg-aaron-heard-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Tea
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book\n\nAgainst Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nThe razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas\, a doomed lesbian biker gang\, recovering alcoholics\, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life\,yet all-too-human figures\, populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures\, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these lives\, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. \nDelivered with her signature honesty and dark humor\, Tea blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own. She turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career—memoir—and considers the extent to which art preys on life. \nMichelle Tea is the author of numerous books\, including Rent Girl\, Valencia\, and How to Grow Up. She is the creator of the Sister Spit all-girl open mic and 1997-1999 national tour. In 2003\, Michelle founded RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit that oversees queer-centric projects. \nOn the work of Michelle Tea: \n“These essays blow my mind with their algebraic rhythms by which Michelle Tea manages pain and bliss. They take turns erupting in a pulpy and marvelous parade: landscape\, passion\, morality\, family\, cigarettes—each cited frankly and exquisitely like a smart kid with a dirty crayon explaining to us all how she sees god.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls \n“I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously\, wickedly funny\, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-tea/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker / 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and Martha will read a section from her recent novel\, The Underground River. Please join us! \nThe twelve stories are rooted in foreign places\, cemeteries\, violence and strong women. The worlds the characters construct are unforgiving. Their paths cross in twisted and sometimes deadly ways. In the title novella\, three women use seduction\, wit\, and weapons to master the men they meet. In Super Secrets two women are neighbors and lovers\, until one is betrayed and extracts revenge. The ribald reverend in The Second Coming meets his match in 19 year-old Charity. On a darker note\, a crazed horse and a storm at sea shatter a fragile love in Slashing at the Nets. Then\, in Storm Painter an artist moves in with a writer\, but their past destroys his third novel. Place is important. None other than an Italian detective would find a clue in a singular tortellini. The New York sniper would only be trained by the Israeli Defense Force. \n— \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards. During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market\, Managing Risk with Derivatives\, and Managing Lease Portfolios. Education: Stanford (economics and creative writing)\, New York University (economics and anthropology)\, Georgetown (political science).He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. His website is www.townsendwalker.com. \nMartha Conway‘s most recent novel\, The Underground River\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, and her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. She has won numerous awards for her historical fiction\, including an Independent Publishers Award and the North American Book Award. Her short fiction has been published in the Iowa Review\, The Carolina Quarterly\, The Missouri Review\, The Quarterly\, and other journals\, and she received a California Arts Council fellowship for Creative Writing. Martha teaches creative writing for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009); the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010); and the full-length collections Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17 (City Lights Publishers\, 2018). \nGiménez Smith’s work explores issues affecting the lives of females\, including Latina identity\, and frequently references myth and memory. With the publication of Odalisque in Pieces\, Giménez Smith was featured as a New American Poet on the Poetry Society of America’s website. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets(1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). \nGiménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She was appointed as poetry co-editor (along with Steph Burt) at The Nation in 2017 and teaches at Virginia Tech University. \ngiovanni singleton’s debut collection Ascension\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her writing has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Canarium Books recently published a collection of her visual work entitled AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper. She was the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at University of California-Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-giovanni-singleton-and-carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day\, May Day--Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . \nDeMareon Gipson\nLiz Green\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nAnne F. Walker \nhosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with free refreshments and bookstore cats–thank you Pegasus!!!!\n\nDeMareon Gipson is a polymathic wordsmith from Vallejo\, California\, whose penned the book Looking Forward and composed a short film\, The Plan\, ” which was selected by East Bay Express as a Pick of The Week. The Plan combines visual art with Gipson’s poetry to broaden the definition of institutional violence imposed upon Black people. His poetry won the acclaim of the Academy of American Poets. In 2017\, he was awarded with the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize. A political and cultural activist\, Demareon created Heartspace\, an open mic for poets\, musicians and dancers that also provided local small businesses with vending and networking opportunities. In 2015\, Gipson the founded the annual event “With Love\,” which is a safe space for Black people to talk about love that is led by poetry. He recently started a small business\, the Forward Publishing House. \nLiz Green is a writer\, performer\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She was on two national slam teams. As a playwright and writer/performer\, she has had her work produced at multiple local and national theater festivals. She received her BA from Vassar and her MFA from Mills in Creative Writing. She was a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She attended the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. She is waitlisted at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. She has been published in several journals and anthologies\, including Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, Sparkle and Blink\, and The Body is Not an Apology. She is in conversation with North Atlantic Books about publishing an anthology she is co-editing with Kelechi Ubozoh. She is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California. \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 14 years old and attends Claremont Middle School. She was a featured reader at the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has performed at Bay Area Generations and the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Besides writing\, she likes to draw in her spare time. If you asked her what she explores in her poetry\, she might not be able to tell you exactly\, but she tries to write every day. She hopes to publish a collection of her own work someday. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the SF Bay Area\, and is the author of four previous poetry collections\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, Diwata\, and To Love as Aswang. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/ \nAnne F. Walker’s poetry has won Eisner Prizes at UC Berkeley and Canada Council Arts Grants among other honors. Her full-length published poetry books include Six Months’ Rent\, Pregnant Poems\, Into the Peculiar Dark\, and The Exit Show. Her recent poetry chapbook is when the light of any action ceases. She completed doctoral work at UC Berkeley and is an Assistant Professor at Holy Names University in Oakland\, California. Recently she has been working on 100-word prose poems concentrate attention on precision of image\, narrative\, and language. They are part of a collection\, Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length\, that reflect on landscapes\, bodies and rooted memories.
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:William Middleton
DESCRIPTION:William Middleton\n\ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nDouble Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nCity Lights celebrates the first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil\, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art\, artistic scholarship\, the creation of innovative galleries and museums\, and work with civil rights. \nDominique and John de Menil created an oasis of culture in their Philip Johnson-designed house with everyone from Marlene Dietrich and René Magritte to Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. In Houston\, they built the Menil Collection\, the Rothko Chapel\, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel\, the Cy Twombly Gallery\, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.\nNow\, with unprecedented access to family archives\, William Middleton has written a sweeping biography of this unique couple. From their ancestors in Normandy and Alsace\, to their own early years in France\, and their travels in South America before settling in Houston. We see them introduced to the artists in Europe and America whose works they would collect\, and we see how\, by the 1960s\, their collection had grown to include 17\,000 paintings\, sculptures\, drawings\, photographs\, rare books\, and decorative objects.\nAnd here is\, as well\, a vivid behind-the-scenes look at the art world of the twentieth century and the enormous influence the de Menils wielded through what they collected and built and through the causes they believed in. \nWilliam Middleton is a journalist and editor who has worked in New York and Paris. He has been the Fashion Features Director for Harper’s Bazaar and the Paris Bureau Chief for Fairchild Publications\, overseeing W Magazine and Women’s Wear Daily. He has written for The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, Vogue\, House & Garden\, Esquire\, Texas Monthly\, Travel & Leisure\, Departures\, and the International Herald Tribune. \nPraise for Double Vision: \n“Middleton spares no details in this history of the French couple who made Houston their home and converted it to a center of the arts… A well-written\, highly informative book for devotees of the modern art world.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“An authoritative account of the lives and patronage of 20th-century art-world power-couple Dominique and John de Menil…As Middleton dutifully shows\, the couple’s commitment to art and philanthropy defined their lives…. This exhaustively researched\, satisfying slab of a book offers a thorough look into the lives and influence of an extraordinary couple.”\n—Publisher’s Weekly \nIn “Double Vision\,” William Middleston gives visionary art collectors Dominique and John de Menil the joint biography they richly deserve–a sweeping\, superbly researched\, behind-the-scenes account of a family deeply involved in the story of 20th-century American art.”\n—Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan\, authors of de Kooning: An American Master
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-middleton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tao Lin / Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Tao Lin for his new book Trip: Psychedelics\, Alienation\, and Change. With Tao in conversation is The Believer‘s Ross Simonini — please join us! \nPlease note: this event begins at 7pm. Seating is limited\, and is first come\, first served. If you would like to reserve a seat\, please purchase a copy of Trip below and put your request in the notes field. Remember\, 1 seat = 1 book \nPart memoir\, part history\, part journalistic exposé\, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs\, literature\, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century’s most innovative novelists — The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new generation. \nWhile reeling from one of the most creative — but at times self-destructive — outpourings of his life\, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna\, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary\, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip\, Lin’s first book-length work of nonfiction\, he charts his recovery from pharmaceutical drugs\, his surprising and positive change in worldview\, and his four-year engagement with some of the hardest questions: Why do we make art? Is the world made of language? What happens when we die? And is the imagination more real than the universe? \nIn exploring these ideas and detailing his experiences with psilocybin\, DMT\, salvia\, and cannabis\, Lin takes readers on a trip through nature\, his own past\, psychedelic culture\, and the unknown. \n  \n\n  \n“Trip is not only a book about drugs–it’s about the condition of humans at this point in history\, troublingly divorced from our natural capacity for awe by our chemically depleted bodies and minds. This book has changed how I understand myself on a cellular level. It’s a superbly researched\, moving\, and formally inventive quest for re-enchantment\, and Tao Lin’s most compelling and profound book yet.” — Sheila Heti\, author of How Should a Person Be?\n“Similar to the psychedelic drugs Tao Lin writes about here\, this book introduces new ways to consider language\, perception\, and recovery. It’s a joy to watch Lin interrogate his obsessions so earnestly and thoroughly in an attempt to understand more about the world as he knows it. Trip is a book for anyone interested in learning about what the human mind is capable of seeing and believing.” — Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \n“Tao Lin took all the drugs so that we wouldn’t have to\, and the result is astonishing\, mind-expanding\, beautiful\, and profound. The whole of humanity seems contained in this one book.”— Kristen Iskandrian\, author of Motherest \n“Tao Lin’s writing reliably restores my sense of the inexhaustible strangeness of even one minute of human thought and feeling.” — Michael W. Clune\, author of White Out \n  \n\n  \nTao Lin is the author of the novels Taipei\, Richard Yates\, and Eeeee Eee Eeee\, the novella Shoplifting from American Apparel\, the story collection Bed\, and the poetry collections cognitive-behavioral therapy and you are a little bit happier than i am. He is the founder and editor of the literary press Muumuu House. His work has been translated into twelve languages and he lives in Manhattan. Author photo by Noah Kalina. \n  \nRoss Simonini is writer\, artist\, and musician. He lives in Northern California and New York. His debut novel\, The Book of Formation\, was released by Melville House in late 2017. He is the interviews editor at The Believer magazine and teaches experimental seminars at Columbia University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Trip\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tao-lin-trip-psychedelics-alienation-and-change/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Persist
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 17th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature\, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass)\, Townsend Walker (3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies)\, Colette Phair (In Your Shadow)\, and Juba Kalamka.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sway/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library Featuring Mighty Mike McGee
DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nMike brings out a mixture of spoken word and humor to his performances. His award marks a broadening of Poetry Center San Jose’s offerings to include younger people. Mike McGee is the first slam poet to win both the American National Poetry Slam Individual Grand Championship (2003) and the Individual World Poetry Slam Championship (2006). His poetry publications include “The Graveyard Shift\,” From Page to the Stage; “Open Letter to Neil Armstrong\,” Spoken Revolution Redux; and In Search of Midnight: A Collection of Poems by Mike McGee. As a poet\, he has toured throughout the U.S.\, Canada and Europe. He has performed at the University of Paris\, on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam\, on CBC Radio & Television\, and is a regular on NPR’s Snap Judgment. McGee is the fifth and current Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \nupcoming featuresL\nJune 21: Lisa Rosenberg\nSeptember 20: David Eisenbach\nOctober 18: David Denny
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library-featuring-mighty-mike-mcgee/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17\n7pm\n \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel\, It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, on Tuesday\, May 17th at 7pm. \n“Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented\, and the wild\, weird\, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre\, frightening times.” — Richard Russo\, author of Trajectory \nEveryone has a dream\, an idea\, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted\, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others\, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. \nA fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister-in-law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second-rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not-quite-legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. \nOn their way across the country\, these star-crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man\, and the Rube-Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out\, and they are driving home\, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned a month before. \nAbout the Author \nTodd Robert Petersen’s work has appeared in Mid-American Review\, Hobart\, and the Wisconsin Review\, and he has published two books with a small regional press. He is currently writing a dark comedy about Native American antiquities theft set in the desert Southwest. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 17\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-robert-petersen-presents-it-needs-to-look-like-we-tried/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay Book Reading "Queer Fiction Authors"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman\, Lori Ostlund\, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay book reading\, Thursday\, May 17\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley. An author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7:30! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He and his fiancé Rick May host Perfectly Queer\, a reading series which holds monthly events in San Francisco and Oakland. Goodman also hosts Queer Words\, a quarterly in-conversation series. His books include Better Angels\, Britain’s Glory\, Fortune’s Lot\, The Last Great Hope\, The Seed of Immortality\, and Vanya Says Go! When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. \nLori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\, and was a Lambda Finalist. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife and cats\, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota\, cat-less. \nBarbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for over 35 years. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner\, she is now focused on creative writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writers Workshop Review\, Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review\, Blood and Thunder\, and Stoneboat. Her debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017) is set in Europe during World War Two and is based on her mother’s story as a Holocaust refugee. Barbara can be followed at www.barbararidley.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-east-bay-book-reading-queer-fiction-authors/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dorianne Laux + Joshua Mensch
DESCRIPTION:Dorianne Laux‘s most recent collections are The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon\, winner of the Oregon Book Award.\n\nLaux is also author of Awake\, What We Carry\, and Smoke from BOA Editions. Only As The Day Is Long\, her new and selected poems\, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. \nShe teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \n\n\n\n\nJoshua Mensch is a poet\, visual artist\, and a founding editor of the online literary journal B O D Y. His poetry has appeared in several magazines\, including Plume\, Brick\, The Collagist\, and Smartish Pace. His first book of poetry\, BECAUSE\, a lyric memoir\, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2018. He lives in Prague\, Czech Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dorianne-laux-joshua-mensch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons and Dickson Lam read from their latest works from Autumn House Press \nAbout Carry You \n \n  \nIn Carry You\, a Sunni museum official accidentally hits a Shiite child with her car. A group of young GIs sneak into the women’s quarters wearing night vision goggles. A father makes a daily ritual of searching the streets of war-torn Baghdad for his missing daughter. An injured vet finally mails a letter he found in a dying woman’s pocket. Moving between the Khalil family in Iraq and Clark\, an American soldier from Deer Park\, Washington\, the eleven stories in Carry You reveal the redeeming powers of love and family in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Glori Simmons \nGlori Simmons is an award-winning writer whose books include Graft: poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002)\, Suffering Fools: stories (Spokane Prize\, Willow Springs Books\, 2017)\, and Carry You: stories (Fiction Prize\, Autumn House Press\, 2018). She lives in Oakland and directs the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. \n  \nAbout Paper Sons \n \nSet in a public housing project in San Francisco\, Lam’s memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant’s family’s past. \n  \nAbout Dickson Lam \n  \nDickson Lam’s work has appeared in StoryQuarterly The Kenyon Review Online\, Hyphen Magazine\, The Normal School\, PANK\, The Good Men Project\, The Rumpus\, and Kartika Review. He is a VONA alum and has been a resident fellow at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. He holds MFA degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston and Rutgers-Newark. Lam is an Assistant Professor of English at Contra Costa College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons-and-dickson-lam/
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:Ellen Forney / Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Ellen Forney for Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life\, the anticipated companion volume to her bestselling graphic memoir Marbles: Mania\, Depression\, Michelangelo\, and Me\, which she presented at Booksmith. Please join us in welcoming Ellen back to San Francisco! \nWhereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder\, Rock Steady turns the focus outward\, offering a self-help guide of tips\, tricks\, and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it. \nWith Marbles\, Forney helped de-stigmatize mood disorders with her candid presentation of her struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passion and creativity. This is the jumping off point for her new book\, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life. Personal stories and solid advice from Forney on how to overcome the hassle of meds\, recognize red flags\, and other tools from her own experience of 14 years of stability — all in comics form. Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life invites readers into Ellen’s home\, head\, and Peanuts pill box. \n  \n\n  \n“Ellen Forney is an inspiration to me as an artist and as a human being! Let her drawings springboard you into self-acceptance!” — Maria Bamford\, Lady Dynamite \n  \nEllen Forney lives in Seattle\, WA\, with her partner. She was the 2012 recipient of The Stranger Genius Award for Literature as well as the winner of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 2013 Gradiva Award. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Rock Steady and/or Marbles order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-forney-rock-steady-brilliant-advice-from-my-bipolar-life/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says\, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” Her first book of poems\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nC. Dale Young’s new novel-in-stories\, The Affliction\, is his first collection of fiction. Charles Baxter says\, “The linked stories in C. Dale Young’s The Affliction send us off to a magical location\, where the fantastical can seem both miraculous and ordinary. These tales treat life-and-death matters with a beautifully eloquent fervor\, and\, like the stories of Julio Cortázar\, they remind us off how varied and unpredictable short stories\, like the world itself\, can be.” He’s published four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo\, and his poetry has been anthologized several times in Best American Poetry. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He practices full-time as a medical doctor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-melissa-stein-and-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bookworks :: An Artist's Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:About the Bookworks :: An Artist’s Book Fair \nBookworks at San Francisco Center for the Book is a great place to start your artist’s book collection\, to meet fantastic book artists\, and spend time with friends over cocktails and light hors d’oeuvres. The vision of Bookworks is to encourage the beginning artist’s book collector\, support local book artists (especially in the early stages of their career)\, and provide a social event for the community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookworks-an-artists-book-fair/
LOCATION:San Francisco Center for the Book\, 375 Rhode Island St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poetry: w/ Carmen Giménez Smith & MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 18\n7:00pm\n \nEast Bay Booksellers is excited to host a fantastic Friday night of contemporary poetry\, featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and MK Chavez\, on May 18th at 7pm. \nCarmen Giménez Smith \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\, ‘ [Cruel Futures] book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.'”–Farid Matuk \nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood–all in a late capitalist America. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of four poetry collections\, including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an American Book Award for her memoir Bring Down the Little Birds (2010) and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for Goodbye\, Flicker (2012). She also co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (2014)\, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing. Be Recorderwill be published by Graywolf Press in 2019. She now serves on the planning committee for CantoMundo and on the board of RASA\, which sponsors the Thinking Its Presence conference on race and art. She serves as the publisher of Noemi Press. She is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech and the poetry editor for The Nation. \n* * * \nMK Chavez \n“MK Chavez wields a torrential consciousness that exists both as racing music and a suspended realm of human astronomy. Memorials share food with births.  Freedom fighters and artists must be one. Patriarchy must answer for its brutalization and farce. Sketches of loves expand the boundaries of poetry. Reading her poetry\, I feel invincible. Dear Animal\, is the incantation before justice\, and truly our return.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author ofsomeone’s dead already \nMK Chavez will be reading from their most recent collection\, Dear Animal\, which is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the myriad Animalia that dwell in the margins. \nChavez is co-founder/co-curator of the Berkeley-based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, and the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to obliterate all forms of oppression. Recent and upcoming work can be found in Story Magazine\, Aspasiology\, and Jam Tarts Literary Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/friday-night-poetry-w-carmen-gimenez-smith-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 23 – Friday\, May 18\, 2018\, with East Bay novelist Cameron MacKenzie\, award-winning local writer Tamara Schuyler\, local novelist Yang Huang\,and musical guest TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! \nTHERE will take its annual summer break from June-August and return in September!
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:‘NEARING THE EXIT’: POEMS BY HERBERT GOLD
DESCRIPTION:Novelist\, memoirist\, essayist\, Herbert Gold returns to his earliest form of literary expression\, poetry—here in a publishing first\, Nearing the Exit. In these poems 94-year-old Gold visits his past and future\, with a tip of the hat to the theme of his recent book Still Alive: A Temporary Condition(2008\, republished as Not Dead Yet\, 2011). \nIncludes an interview with Herb by publisher Les Gottesman at Omèrta Press. \n\nHerbert Gold began writing poetry in high school in Cleveland in the 1930s. Writing propelled him to New York City after several of his poems had been accepted by New York literary magazines. He studied philosophy at Columbia University (interrupted by 3 years in “downtown World War II\,” as he calls it) and became involved with the burgeoning Beat Generation\, which resulted in a lifelong friendship with Allen Ginsberg. He won a Fulbright to Paris\, where he joined a literary scene around Saul Bellow. Gold recalls\, “Somehow I got to writing prose\, confining my poetry to folders which will in due course be excavated by my children. Along the way\, I’ve published approximately 20 novels and collections of stories (who’s counting?) and maybe 6 or 8 nonfiction books (I’m not a mathematician). I’ve temporarily taught at Harvard\, Cornell\, Stanford\, UC-Berkeley\, and UC-Davis\, but didn’t want to depart San Francisco. I’ve had 2 wives and 5 children Isn’t that enough bio? There could be more…” At age 94\, Gold returns to poetry in these new poems\, lyrical but tough reflections on his loves\, joys\, and losses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nearing-the-exit-poems-by-herbert-gold/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Laura Catherine Brown dicusses her new novel\, Made By Mary. \n\nAbout Made By Mary \n\nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown/
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:Molly Crabapple / Brothers of the Gun
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Molly Crabapple for Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War\, which she illustrated and co-authored with Marwan Hisham. Please join us! \nA bracingly immediate memoir by a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, Brothers of the Gun is an intimate lens on the century’s bloodiest conflict and a profound meditation on kinship\, home\, and freedom. \nIn 2011\, Marwan Hisham and his two friends — fellow working-class college students Nael and Tareq — joined the first protests of the Arab Spring in Syria\, in response to a recent massacre. Arm-in-arm they marched\, poured Coca-Cola into one another’s eyes to blunt the effects of tear gas\, ran from the security forces\, and cursed the country’s president\, Bashar al-Assad. It was ecstasy. A long-bottled revolution was finally erupting\, and freedom from a brutal dictator seemed\, at last\, imminent. Five years later\, the three young friends were scattered: one now an Islamist revolutionary\, another dead at the hands of government soldiers\, and the last\, Marwan\, now a journalist in Turkish exile\, trying to find a way back to a homeland reduced to rubble. \nBrothers of the Gun is the story of a young man coming of age during the Syrian war\, from its inception to the present. Marwan watched from the rooftops as regime warplanes bombed soldiers; as revolutionary activist groups\, for a few dreamy days\, spray-painted hope on Raqqa; as his friends died or threw in their lot with Islamist fighters. He became a journalist by courageously tweeting out news from a city under siege by ISIS\, the Russians\, and the Americans all at once. He watched the country that ran through his veins — the country that held his hopes\, dreams\, and fears — be destroyed in front of him\, and eventually joined the relentless stream of refugees risking their lives to escape. \nIllustrated with more than eighty ink drawings by Molly Crabapple that bring to life the beauty and chaos\, Brothers of the Gun offers a ground-level reflection on the Syrian revolution—and how it bled into international catastrophe and global war. This is a story of pragmatism and idealism\, impossible violence and repression\, and\, even in the midst of war\, profound acts of courage\, creativity\, and hope. \n\n  \n“This powerful memoir\, illuminated with Molly Crabapple’s extraordinary art\, provides a rare lens through which we can see a region in deadly conflict\, a struggle for peace\, and a human tragedy in desperate need of attention. It is a compelling\, sobering\, and necessary book.”— Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \n“From the anarchy\, torment\, and despair of the Syrian war\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have drawn a book of startling emotional power and intellectual depth. Many books will be written on the war’s exhaustive devastation of bodies and souls\, and the defiant resistance of many trapped men and women\, but the Mahabharata of the Levant has already found its wisest chroniclers.”— Pankaj Mishra\, author of Age of Anger and From the Ruins of Empire\n \n“A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail\, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before\, after\, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousness.”— Angela Davis \n“Marwan Hisham took part in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad and then did the unthinkable—wrote journalism from inside ISIS territory\, risking his life so that the world might know the truth. He gives us an unforgettable portrait of what it feels like to resist a tyrannical dictator\, live under ISIS occupation\, brave bombs falling from the sky\, and somehow survive with your humanity intact. Punctuated by Molly Crabapple’s beautiful\, haunting art\, this heart-rending memoir is essential reading to understand one of the greatest catastrophes of our time.”— Anand Gopal\, author of No Good Men Among the Living \n  \n\n  \nMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. Her memoir\, Drawing Blood\, was published by HarperCollins in 2015. Brothers of the Gun\, her illustrated collaboration with Syrian war journalist Marwan Hisham\, will be published by One World/Penguin Random House in May 2018. Her reportage has been published in the New York Times\, New York Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, VICE\, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of a Yale Poynter Fellowship\, a Front Page Award\, and a Gold Rush Award\, and shortlisted for a Frontline Print Journalism Award. She is often asked to discuss her work chronicling the conflicts of the 21st Century\, and has appeared on All In with Chris Hayes\, Amanpour\, NPR\, BBC News\, PRI\, and more. The New Yorker described her 2017 mural “The Bore of Babylon” as “a terrifying amalgam of Hieronymus Bosch\, Honoré Daumier\, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Rubin Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend this event but would like to request a signed copy of Brothers of the Gun\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, at 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-crabapple-brothers-of-the-gun/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:  \nLaura Catherine Brown and Maw Shein Win read from their latest works\, Made By Mary and Invisible Gifts. \nAbout Made By Mary \n \n  \nWhen Mary and Ann agree to a surrogacy partnership everything goes awry. Ann\, a pre-school teacher\, is desperate for the children she physically can’t have. Mary\, a 50-year-old pagan jeweler\, hopes to make amends for years of maternal neglect. Together\, they plunge into the expensive\, morally complex world of reproductive technology and an intimacy neither they\, nor Ann’s husband\, Joel\, is prepared for. Financially hard-pressed\, Joel goes behind Ann’s back and agrees to help Mary grow a marijuana crop in her attic. Ann struggles with the rigors and enforced togetherness of the reproductive regime. And Mary’s delight in being a “bountiful earth mother” is offset by the physical ordeal of bearing multiple fetuses. The stakes escalate as the police start sniffing around the grow house\, a pagan ritual goes tragically awry\, and the pregnancy becomes more perilous\, forcing Ann\, Joel\, and Mary to confront the potentially calamitous consequences of pursuing their deepest desires. Sharp and audacious\, Made by Mary is a black comedy using magic realism to blow up myths about women\, mothers\, and motherhood\, where even the most extreme situations are rendered with candor\, intelligence\, and empathy. \n  \nAbout Invisible Gifts \n \n  \nIn her first full-length collection of poems\, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors\, flowing in poems like “Hands” My father’s hands\, frail birds\, shaking wings. / In Burmese\, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-catherine-brown-and-maw-shein-win/
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:David Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:David Ulrich\n\n\n\n\npresents Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice of Photography\, an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your our fingertips\, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera\, even the one embedded in your phone. \n“Zen Camera is to photographers what The Artist’s Way is to writers. This master class in creativity deserves a place in your home.”–Create with Joy \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Zen Camera by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts\, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs\, its insights into the nature of seeing\, art\, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful\, meaningful\, and uniquely your own. \nYou’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology–transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness\, to see creatively\, and to live authentically. \n\nDavid Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu\, Hawai’i. He teaches frequent classes and workshops\, and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture\, Manoa\, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness at www.theslenderthread.org\, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-ulrich/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:AfroSurreal Writers Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Folks\, do the grown person thing and RSVP yes only if you can confirm your attendance so we can plan accordingly. We need to know how much food\, chairs\, etc to bring. \nThose who RSVP yes will receive the venue address via messenger. Thank you! \nThis is the monthly (every 3rd Saturday) meeting of the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop in Oakland. \nWe welcome new members so please share with your networks even if you aren’t able to join this month. \nThis group was “HOTLISTED” by the Writers Guild of America for Experimental Writing and we have exciting events planned for the coming year! \nJoin us to be in like-minded community with artists of all genres (literary\, podcasting\, digital storytelling\, film\, comics\, theater\, photography\, sculpture\, trans-media\, singing\, dancing\, audio\, video\, spoken word…) who creatively express with persepectives rooted and centered in the African diaspora and all communities of color. \nOur current members’ work focuses on AfroSurreal\, AfroFuturist\, horror\, fantasy\, science fiction\, speculative fiction\, memoir\, absurd\, weird\, or uncategorical art forms.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afrosurreal-writers-monthly-meeting/
LOCATION:AfroSurreal Writers Workshop\, Oakland\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mitali Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Get up close and personal with Mitali Perkins\, author of ten novels for young readers.  Her latest book\, You Bring the Distant Near\, is an unforgettable story that spans decades and continents as it moves among three generations of Indian women\, some new immigrants to the U.S.\, all struggling to bridge cultures.  Come and discover why Mitali has been honored by independent booksellers across the country as a “Most Engaging Author.”  A book-signing session will follow the presentation.  Join us! \nFor more information about the author\, visit www.mitaliperkins.com. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mitali-perkins/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bikes to Books Five-Year Anniversary Spring Ride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate five years of Bikes to Books with our annual spring ride! Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat! \n  \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm.  \n  \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older.  \n  \nMeet at 12:45 p.m. at Jack London Alley \n(Northside of South Park in San Francisco) \nRide will commence at 1:00 p.m. sharp \nRide will end at approximately 4:00 p.m. in North Beach \n(outside City Lights Books)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-five-year-anniversary-spring-ride/
LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline Paul / You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a launch party for Caroline Paul‘s new book\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. Bring the family and join us for fun\, food\, and books! \nKids all over the world are making a difference. With protests\, marches\, town halls\, and speeches\, kids have proven that they are paying attention. They’re not going to let their age be a reason to stay quiet. \nIt’s time for the youngest generation to show what they can do. \nTo guide them\, New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl Caroline Paul has written an inspiring\, instructional\, and fun guide for kid activists: The Gutsy Girl\, You Are Mighty: A Guide to Changing the World. \nThis guide features change-maker tips as well as anecdotes of young activists around the globe and throughout history. The suggested activist tactics covered range from tweaking everyday habits—like the sisters who call themselves the Plastic Patrol and convinced their family to stop using grocery bags and straws—to stretching to achieve something extraordinary—like the teen who used food waste to invent a water purification system. \nTold in Caroline’s trademark breezy voice and including delightful illustrations from Lauren Tamaki\, as well as tons of DIY activities\, this is the ultimate practical—and fun!—manual for anyone looking to change the world. \n  \n\n  \nCaroline Paul is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure as well as the adult titles Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology; East Wind\, Rain; and Fighting Fire. She lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 4\, event begins at 4:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-paul-you-are-mighty-a-guide-to-changing-the-world/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito
DESCRIPTION:Spring Poetry & Place | El Cerrito \nPlease join us on Sunday\, May 20 from 1:30 – 5 pm at the El Cerrito Community Center for our Spring Poetry & Place celebration! \nThis event will feature readings by Rafael Jesús González\, poet laureate of Berkeley\, Indigo Moor\, poet laureate of Sacramento\, Kim Shuck\, poet laureate of San Francisco\, and Maw Shein Win\, poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nMusic by Dan Plonsey\, Ethan Port\, and Thomas Scandura in their debut as Moeser. \nThere will also be an all-ages open mic. Please bring a poem! \nIn addition\, there will be tables for local authors\, presses and organizations such as Sixteen Rivers\, Manic D Press\, Nomadic Press\, Works and Conversations\, Left Margin Lit\, Poetry Flash and others. This event will be in partnership with Poetry Flash\, one of the key literary organizations that has served the state of California since 1972. poetryflash.org \nSnacks and beverages will be served and the event will be free to the public. \nEl Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, EC\, 94530\nhttps://www.el-cerrito.org/Facilities/Facility/Details/El-Cerrito-Community-Center-18 \nhttps://www.facebook.com/poetryandplace.elcerrito/ \n\n\n\n\nLiterature\nKid Friendly\nPoetry\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShare In Messenger \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdd a message…\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRecent Posts \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Rafael Jesús González\, Prof. Emeritus of literature and creative writing\, was born and raised biculturally/bilingually in El Paso\, Texas/Cd. Juárez\, C… \nMarch 14 at 8:48am\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nMimi Heft — Wow\, this is going to be amazing!!! \nMarch 3 at 12:19pm\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito — Poet Laureate of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor is also a scriptwriter and author. His first book\, Tap-Root\, was published as part of Main Street Rag’s Edito… \nFebruary 26\n\n\n\nRead More \n\n\n\nSee All Posts\n\n\n\nFeaturing \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry & Place El Cerrito\nCommunity\n\nWelcome to my events & announcements page for literary & art events taking place in El Cerrito. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPoetry Flash\nArts & Entertainment · Berkeley\, California\nFounded in 1972\, Poetry Flash magazine builds community through literature through its online review and events.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4 posts in the discussion.\n\nSee Discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-poetry-place-el-cerrito/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Community Center\, 7007 Moeser Lane\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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