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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here. \nFull schedule of events coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Alana Apfel
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Alana Apfel to the store to discuss and sign Birth Work as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities\, on Sunday\, April 17th at 3:00pm. Joining her in conversation will be Bay Area doula\, Jewel Buchanan-Boone and local birth activist\, Ariel Gore. \nBirth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more becomes political\, and birth workers\, supporters\, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process\, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change. At a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites\, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly\, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle\, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle the struggle over the reproduction of life itself. \nAlana Apfel is a birth worker\, writer\, and community gardener. She is a graduate of the Anthropology and Social Change program of the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a birth justice activist\, she has been involved with the San Francisco General Hospital Doula Program\, BirthWays community education center in Berkeley\, and the growing international BirthKeepers coalition. She now lives and works in Bristol\, UK\, where she is part of the Positive Birth Movement and is training to be a midwife in the National Health Service. Birth Work as Care Work is her first book. \nJewel Buchanan-Boone is a doula within the San Francisco Bay Area. Her philosophy and approach to birth work are rooted in her passion for social and reproductive justice. Jewel shares her experience of doula work from a public health perspective\, specifically addressing the need to break cycles of oppression within communities of color in relation to generational trauma and stigmas that surround Black motherhood. \nAriel Gore is a journalist\, memoirist\, novelist\, nonfiction author\, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama\, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama\, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers’ movement. Gore’s fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity\, spirituality\, queer culture\, and positive psychology.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alana-apfel/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:As part of Poetry Month\, Pegasus Books and Poetry Flash present Drew Dillhunt and Angela Hume \nDrew Dillhunt’s debut book of poems is Leaf is All\, which won the 2015 Bear Star Press Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Craig Santos Perez says\, “Through avant-garde\, documentary\, and eco-poetic modes\, Drew Dilhunt weaves the intimate themes of birth\, parenthood\, and family into the global contexts of plastic production and ecological collapse…Read these poems carefully because they are tenderly inscribed with fragmented origins and precarious futures.” Widely published in literary journals\, his writing has appeared in VOLT\, Mudlark\, Tarpaulin Sky\, and Jacket2. An earlier version of Leaf is All was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He’s released two albums of songs\, one with the band Fighting Shy\, and is currently a member of the Seattle-based band Answering Machines. He is Associate Editor of Hummingbird Press. \nAngela Hume’s debut book of poems is Middle Time. Joan Retallack asks\, “What happens when in a time of extreme crisis the action (poiesis) of a discerning mind creates not arguments or proposals\, but poetry?…Hume’s active generosity of material and imaginative space makes it possible to conjure myriad forms of life thriving in improbably unconsummated ruin.” She is the author of three poetry chapbooks; she’s also a critic whose essays have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as Contemporary Literature\, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\, and Jacket2. She co-coordinated the first ever Conference on Ecopoetics in Berkeley in 2013 and co-curates Heart’s Desire\, the reading series of the Bay Area Public School.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-drew-dillhunt-and-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Backyard #7: Death and Taxes
DESCRIPTION:(Follow signs to back gate. Do not knock on front door.) \nGate opens at 4:30\, readings commence at 5:00\, drowning of the sorrows to follow. \nReadings by:\nSarah Heady\nMatt Leibel\nTony Press\nNatalya Sukhonos\nVirgie Tovar \nSpring comes rolling around again\, with all its bright promises. But where there is life\, there must be death\, and where there is death\, there must be taxes (at least\, I think that’s how the estate tax works). In this edition of Backyard we will be confronting the inevitable\, the things that always happen\, no matter how much we fight or run or imagine it could be different this time around. We’ll talk about cycles\, returns\, and all the dependable-as-clockwork structures that make our lives tick (until\, of course\, they don’t). \nRevenue agent and/or grim reaper costumes encouraged. \nFree\, though donations of cash and beer will be accepted. \nReader Bios: \nPoet and essayist Sarah Heady writes on human geography\, American history\, and the built environment. She is the author of Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills\, 2013)\, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; Tatted Insertion (San Francisco State University\, 2014\, with artist Leah Virsik); and a manuscript\, Corduroy Road (finalist for the 2013 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Prize). Works-in-progress include Comfort\, a poetic meditation on female solitude\, agency\, and relationship set on the prairies of the American West; and the libretto for Unfinished: An Opera About Change\, in collaboration with new music composer Joshua Groffman\, who has previously adapted her texts for vocal and electroacoustic works. She lives in San Francisco and co-edits Drop Leaf Press\, a small women-run poetry outfit. More at sarahheady.com. \nMatt Leibel’s short fiction has appeared in Barcelona Review\, Quarterly West\, Wigleaf\, Juked\, and many other places. He has read/performed his writing on the radio\, in bars\, at yoga studios\, and inside a police station. Matt also publishes 75 word microstories thrice-weekly on his Facebook page. \nTony Press tries to pay attention. Sometimes he does. His book CROSSING THE LINES – Stories by Tony Press – appeared in January of 2016\, published by Big Table. Close to 100 of his stories and poems have appeared in print and online. Although he lives near San Francisco he has no website. \nNatalya Sukhonos was born in Odessa\, Ukraine and immigrated to New York City at the age of 9. She is bilingual in Russian and English and also speaks Spanish\, French\, and Portuguese. Natalya has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and teaches in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University. A number of her poems are published online and in print. Natalya was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2015. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Ian and her daughter Naomi. \nVirgie Tovar is a fat\, Latina femme + author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is a plus size style writer for BuzzFeed and the creator of #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar edited the ground-breaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press\, November 2012)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/backyard-7-death-and-taxes/
LOCATION:Backyard\, 917 Hearst Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Esme Wang + Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise. \nAbout The Border of Paradise: \nIn booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame the sharp-tongued\, intelligent Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter.\nIt’s Daisy’s solution for the future of her two children\, inspired by the old Chinese tradition of raising girls as sisterly wives for adoptive brothers\, that exposes Daisy’s traumatic life\, and the terrible inheritance her children must receive. Framed by two suicide attempts\, “The Border of Paradise” is told from multiple perspectives\, culminating in heartrending fashion as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune confront their past and their isolation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-wang-amy-berkowitz/
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:Maw Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:Maw Shein Win’s writing has appeared in various journals including Cimarron Review\, Ping-Pong\, Eleven Eleven\, vitriol\, and most recently in the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet and was an Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Win often collaborates with visual artists and musicians\, and her collaborative book with paintings by Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects. Along with composer\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind which combines poetry with abstract electronic music. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maw-shein-win/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Jandy Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Young adult fiction writer Jandy Nelson reads from and discusses her work. Free. \nJandy Nelson\, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun (Penguin)\, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood\, throws salt and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel\, The Sky is Everywhere (Penguin)\, was on multiple best books of the year lists\, was a Yalsa Best Fiction for Young Adults pick\, earned numerous starred reviews\, has been translated widely and continues to enjoy great international success. Nelson\, a literary agent for many years\, received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and Master of Fine Arts degrees in poetry and children’s writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-jandy-nelson/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Location: Cemex\, Zambrano Hall\, Knight Management Center \nJennifer Egan was born in Chicago and raised in San Francisco. She is the author of The Invisible Circus\, a novel which became a feature film starring Cameron Diaz in 2001\, Look at Me\, a finalist for the National Book Award in fiction in 2001\, Emerald City and Other Stories and the bestselling The Keep.  Her most recent novel\, A Visit From the Goon Squad\, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction\, and the LA Times Book Prize.  Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker\, Harpers\, Granta\, McSweeney’s and other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction\, and a Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her non-fiction articles appear frequently in the New York Times Magazine. Her 2002 cover story on homeless children received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award\, and “The Bipolar Kid” received a 2009 NAMI Outstanding Media Award for Science and Health Reporting from the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan/
LOCATION:Stanford University\, 450 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, Vincent Kobelt\, + The All Star Revue
DESCRIPTION:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, jazz poet\, painter\, and playwright\, was born in San Francisco in 1950. His lifelong love for jazz and blues has helped him overcome the obstacle of near-blindness. He is published both nationally and internationally in a variety of magazines and publications including The New York Times\, appeared on PBS television\, and has been the recipient of many local awards. Blackwell is the author of The Fiery Response to Love’s Callings\, Is\, the Color of Mississippi Mud\, If a Pigeon Can’t Fly\, Blind Alley Cats Dream Jazz and his new album release\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. His captivating performance reinvents the intriguing sound of jazz into transcendent poetry. \nVincent Kobelt has written poetry for the page\, the stage\, and the mic. His early work explored the murals of the Mission where he grew up\, the music of jazz\, the milk weed that cracks concrete\, the beauty of the earth\, and a cry for justice. For some time now he has been experimenting with poetry that lends itself to musical accompaniment. He has taught creative writing and California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA or Inner Spark) and has written numerous chapbooks: Peppers from my Tongue\, Volumes 1 and 2\, Textures of Pregnancy\, The Way Light Ripples on Water\, and Pinch of Salt. Recently he has collaborated with poet Charles Curtis Blackwell and musician Brian Kendricks on their poetry album\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. \nThe All-Star Revue includes:\nRussell Brown as a musician plays acoustic and electric guitar\, electric bass\, and piano. Born in St. Louis educated in California\, music became a part of his life when he began playing drums in elementary school (4th grade\, age 8). In middle school (7th grade\, age 11) he started playing trombone\, which he played throughout high school. Inspired by the sound of the electric guitar\, Russell started teaching himself how to play at 13 years old. Today\, the passion and inspiration that fueled that young man still burns bright. \nSandra Poindexter’s musical experience expands from classical to jazz\, Cuban\, mariachi\, and flamenco. She is a former member of alto sax player John Handy’s group\, John Handy with Class. Some highlights over the last 15 years include The Village Vanguard in New York; The 1989 Monterey Jazz Festival; Oakland Paramount (Black Filmmaker Awards honoring Dizzy Gillespie); San Francisco\, San Mateo\, San Jose\, Russian River Jazz Festivals; and touring extensively throughout Japan. \nPoindexter is currently a member of Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion. This group has performed for over 10 years\, playing engagements such as the Summer Festival at Lincoln Center in New York; John Ford Theater in Los Angeles; San Jose and San Francisco Jazz Festivals; Stern Grove; the Smithsonian Institute in D.C.; Yoshi’s San Franciso/Oakland and La Peña in Berkeley. Sandra is currently also a member of Avotcja and Modupue as well as Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids\, with whom she toured Germany\, England\, Czechoslovakia\, Denmark\, Sweden and Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-curtis-blackwell-vincent-kobelt-the-all-star-revue/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julien Poirier: Out of Print
DESCRIPTION:Release party for the new poetry collection \nOut of Print by Julien Poirier. With Elaine Kahn\, author of Women in Public. \nNo. 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series published by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection by Julien Poirier\, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume\, reflecting the poet’s years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism\, a series of quips intercepted from America’s underground poetry telegraph\, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture. \n“Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical\, often bonkers play of language is\, for me\, a source of delight & revelation.”––David Meltzer \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, and Way Too West (Bootstrap\, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling). He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind (Ugly Duckling\, 2008)\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling\, 2015). A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaper New York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julien-poirier-out-of-print/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paolo Bacigalupi
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Books presents Paolo Bacigalupi\, on his paperback tour for The Water Knife \nPaolo Bacigalupi\, New York Times-Bestselling author and National Book Award Finalist\, dives once again onto our uncertain future with The Water Knife\, his first thriller for adults since his multi-award winning debut phenomenon The Windup Girl.In the American Southwest\, Nevada\, Arizona\, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez\, detective\, leg-breaker\, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife\, Angel “cuts” water for his boss\, Catherine Case\, ensuring that her lush\, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert\, so the rich can stay wet\, while the poor get nothing but dust. \nWhen rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix\, Angel is sent to investigate. There\, he encounters Lucy Monroe\, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel\, and Maria Villarosa\, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything that she represents.  With bodies piling up\, bullets flying\, and Phoenix teetering on collapse\, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel\, Lucy\, and Maria time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other’s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold\, alliances shift like sand\, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink. \nPaolo Bacigalupi’s writing has appeared in WIRED Magazine\, High Country News\, Salon.com\, OnEarth Magazine\, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. His short fiction been anthologized in various “Year’s Best” collections of short science fiction and fantasy\, nominated for three Nebula Awards\, four Hugo Awards\, and won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best science fiction short story of the year. His short story collection PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES was a 2008 Locus Award winner for Best Collection and also named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly \nHis debut novel THE WINDUP GIRL was named by TIME Magazine as one of the ten best novels of 2009\, and also won the Hugo\, Nebula\, Locus\, Compton Crook\, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Internationally\, it has won the Seiun Award (Japan)\, The Ignotus Award (Spain)\, The Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany)\, and the Prix Planète-SF des Blogueurs (France). His debut young adult novel\, SHIP BREAKER\, was a Micheal L. Printz Award Winner\, and a National Book Award Finalist\, and its sequel\, THE DROWNED CITIES\, was a 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best of YA Book\, A 2012 VOYA Perfect Ten Book\, and 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. \nHe has also written ZOMBIE BASEBALL BEATDOWN for middle-grade children\, about zombies\, baseball\, and\, of all things\, meatpacking plants. Another novel for teens\, THE DOUBT FACTORY\, a contemporary thriller about public relations and the product defense industry was a both an Edgar Award and Locus Award Finalist. His latest novel for adults THE WATER KNIFE\, a near-future thriller about climate change and drought in the southwestern United States. He currently lives in Western Colorado with his wife and son\, where he is working on a new novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paolo-bacigalupi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Porter Shreve
DESCRIPTION:Porter Shreve is the author of four novels. The Obituary Writer was a New York Times Notable Book. Drives Like a Dream and When the White House Was Ours were Chicago Tribune Books of the Year. And his latest\, The End of the Book\, published in 2014\, was a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year. The Washington Post called The End of the Book “excellent… entertaining\, insightful fiction.” Shreve has coedited six anthologies and published fiction\, nonfiction\, Op-Eds and book reviews in many magazines and newspapers\, and he writes a column on e-books for the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition and the Diane Rehm Show\, among other programs\, and has taught at a number of universities\, including the University of Michigan\, the University of Oregon\, Purdue and the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porter-shreve/
LOCATION:Soda Center\, Claeys Lounge SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Chris Clarke on Modiano
DESCRIPTION:Two Voices Salon with Chris Clarke on Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. \nWe’ll talk with Chris Clarke about his translation of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Cafe of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). A short\, pensive novel of bohemian Paris just after the war\, Kirkus Reviews calls it “Evocative and perfectly written—trademark Modiano\, in other words.” \nClarke is a PhD student in French at City University of New York (CUNY)\, and together with Barbara Wright\, translator of Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition\, a collection of fiction by Raymond Queneau. \nWe’ll kick off the evening as usual with a short discussion of what’s new in translation and what we’re reading now. Come prepared to join the conversation!\nFREE food and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-chris-clarke-on-modiano/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Intimacy by Sex Workers
DESCRIPTION:HELLA CLOSE IS BACK by popular demand!!! \nJoin RADAR Productions on our signature series\, Hella Close\, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program! \nCurated and Hosted by Cyd Nova\nFeaturing \nAria Sa’id\nAria Sa’id is the writer of Trans Sex In The City\, a concept blog of her essays and story telling of the experiences of cosmopolitan TS girls who weren’t invited to fish slumber parties. She resides in Oakland\, and in her spare time she browses style blogs; enjoys people watching\, habesha history\, listening to D’Angelo and Aaliyah\, run on sentences and intentionally bad punctuation\, drinking americanos and chain smoking\, memorizing James Baldwin and Picasso quotes on the steps in Union Square. \nLyric Seal aka Neve Be\nLyric Seal aka Neve Be is a mouthy\, queer\, multigender femme\, disabled black punk alter-disciplinary erotic artist and sex worker writing\, talking\, singing\, dancing\, touching (hearts\, themselves\, consenting creatures)\, and creating subversive\, disability justice centered queer eruptions and home in Oakland and Seattle. They are a Staff Writer at HARLOT Magazine (harlot.media)\, a columnist at maximumrocknroll\, a member of disability justice movement builder and performance project Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org)\, co-founder/co-facilitator of The Blueberry Jam\, a group and contact improvisational dance lab for queers and all genders of people dancing against misogyny\, and the voice behind the advice column SLUMBER PARTY which can be found on crashpadseries.com. You can be nice to them on Twitter and Instagram @littlebeasthood and you can find more of their work at littlebeasthood.tumblr.com. They are available for worship\, workshops\, performances\, porn\, and friend dates to punk shows. \nNatalia García\nNatalia García was born and raised in San Francisco Califaztlán. She reads from Sad Criolla Girl\, her in progress writings on her grandparents birthplace of Al Andalusia where she lives for several years of her life. Ella dedica suss escrituras a las que como ella no son ni de aquí\, ni de allá. \nTitiana Kumeh\nT. Kumeh is a Black queer art model\, a performance artist\, a writer\, and a ho-slash-professional lover. She fronts a punk rock band called Ugly\, a woman of color project that debuts May 2016. She has a BFA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She hated grad school\, and her first reading was about that. In the past she’s written about communities of color\, education\, health\, and sex worker rights for publications such as the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, and Mother Jones. Now she’s more interested in writing for and about herself. She’s performed at SomArts Cultural Center\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Lab\, Interface Gallery\, and with the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. She regularly poses for artists in studios and schools around the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hella-close-stories-of-intimacy-by-sex-workers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Miguel Robles
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Karen Melander Magoon & Miguel Robles
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-melander-magoon-miguel-robles/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160421T210000
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CREATED:20160408T010832Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime SUPERPOWERS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime SUPERPOWERS\, in the downstairs room at the Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday April 21st 2016\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Seanan McGuire (Indexing: Reflections)\, Charlie Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)\, Daryl Gregory (Harrison Squared)\, Elwin Cotman (Hard Time Blues)\, and Jessica May Lin. With guest MC Dhaya Lakshminarayanan. (Note: this event was originally to take place at the Make-out Room but had to relocate — apologies for any confusion.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-superpowers/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160421T213000
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CREATED:20160408T011210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T011210Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Pulley: The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)
DESCRIPTION:Lesbian sex has been confounding people since the dawn of time. What is it that two women do together exactly? The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)\, a humorous guide to lesbian sex\, dating rituals\, and relationships\, aims to dispel all myths. Haiku paired with hilarious watercolor illustrations of cats in various stages of sexual awkwardness will enlighten\, demystify\, remystify\, and most importantly entertain as you learn all the aspects involved in girl-on-girl action.\n\nThis laugh-out-loud book is the perfect gift to amuse and educate your friends\, loved ones\, and lovers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANNA PULLEY is a writer in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in New York magazine and Mother Jones\, on BuzzFeed\, AlterNet\, The Toast\, and Salon\, and in zines tastefully peppered with Ani DiFranco lyrics. She’s been a repeat guest on Dan Savage’s podcast\, Savage Love\, and is a sex and relationship columnist for the Chicago Tribune and AfterEllen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-pulley-the-lesbian-sex-haiku-book-with-cats/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160421T213000
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CREATED:20160408T011729Z
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SUMMARY:Sinan Antoon
DESCRIPTION:Sinan Antoon (Baghdad\, 1967) is a poet\, novelist\, scholar\, and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad\, Georgetown\, and Harvard\, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His works have been translated into nine languages. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His translation of his own novel\, The Corpse Washer\, won the 2014 Saif Ghobash Prize for Literary Translation and was longlisted for the International Prize for Foreign Fiction. His third novel\, Ya Maryam\, was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave\, 2014). In 2003 he returned to his native Baghdad to co-direct About Baghdad\, a documentary about life under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. He is an associate professor at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sinan-antoon/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160422T200000
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CREATED:20160408T012055Z
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Small Presses w/ Esposito\, Lee\, + Schluter
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome Scott Esposito\, Janice Lee\, and Kit Schluter on Friday\, April 22nd at 7:00pm. We will celebrate the mighty power of small presses as they read from their new and forthcoming works. \nScott Esposito will be reading from his book-length personal essay\, The Surrender (Anomalous Press). Scott is a prolific writer\, interviewer\, and reviewer. In addition to his book (with Lauren Elkin)\, The End of Oulipo?\, his writings and criticsm have appeared in journals like Music & Literature and The Point\, as well as the Times Literary Supplement\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Washington Post. In The Surrender\, he explores\, via a “collection of facts”\,  his lifelong desire to be a woman. It is a book that asks just what we mean when we say the word gender—what separates male from female\, and how we gain access to those things that make us feel who we truly are. \nJanice Lee will be reading from The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms). Janice is a writer\, artist\, editor\, designer\, curator\, and scholar. Her interests are as multi-dimensional as they are multi-disciplinary\, as she pursues the connections between the realms of technology\, consciousness studies\, the paranormal & occult\, biological anthropology\, psychology\, and literary theory. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is Editor of the #RECURRENT Novel Series\, Assistant Editor at Fanzine\, Executive Editor at Entropy\, and Founder/CEO of POTG Design. \nKit Schluter will be reading from a manuscript in process. Kit a writer\, translator\, artist\, and bookmaker who lives in Oakland\, CA. His writing can be found in the Boston Review\, Elective Affinities\, and BOMB\, among other publications.  Among his published translations are The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press)\, The Cold by Jaime Saenz\, Occitan Goliard Songs by Clamenç Llansana\, and Circle of Dogs\, in collaboration with Jocelyn Spaar. He is a recipient of a Boston Review/”Discovery” Prize\, a Glascock Prize\, and is a 2016 NEA Translation fellow for the project of The Selected Writings of Marcel Schwob. \n* The Surrender and The Sky Isn’t Blue will be available for purchase\, along with a collection of the writers’ other works at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-small-presses-w-esposito-lee-schluter/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160423T220000
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SUMMARY:Write of Way Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Art Institute will host the 1st annual Write of Way Literary Festival\, a series of readings and a bazaar featuring 25 of the best Bay Area independent literary organizations! Come celebrate independent literature! \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nList of Participating Literary Organizations \n826 Valencia\nAmbush Review\nBay Area Generations\nBazaar Writers Salon\nBeastCrawl\n¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?\nEleven Eleven\nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nFoglifter Press\nFourteen Hills\nThe God Particle\nLiminal\nLit Camp\nLyrics & Dirges\nManic D Press\nMilvia Street\nMixed Race Writers\nNomadic Press\nPandemonium Press\nPaper Press\nPassages on the Lake\nQueer Rebels\nRed Light Lit\nSF Creative Writing Institute\nSF Writers Grotto\nSanta Clara Review\nStudio 18: Spoken Word\nTransit Books\nUntitled Magazine\nVelRo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-of-way-literary-festival/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160408T013126Z
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SUMMARY:Explosive Poetry w/ Shiloh Jines\, Maxe Crandall & Jason Zuzga
DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY KEVIN KILLIAN \n/Shiloh Jines/ received her BA from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry. In 2014\, she did an internship at The Pioneer House of Letterpress and Design\, formerly known as Yee-haw Industries\, which inspired a love of antique wood type and the southern handmade aesthetic. Jines is currently an MFA canidate in creative writing and book art at Mills College in Oakland\, California. Shiloh makes poem-books\, printed matter\, experimental videos & installations that explore temporal\, tactile & sensual dissonance which manifest in queer feminine memory. https://www.tumblr.com/search/shiloh%20jines \n/Maxe Crandall/ is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a tutor in the Hume Center for Speaking and Writing. They hold a PhD in English and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan. Maxe is at work on a critical biography titled Gertrude Stein and Men and has co-authored several academic articles on transgender performance with fellow PWR lecturer Dr. Selby Wynn Schwartz. A playwright and poet\, Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place (NYC) with an all poet and activist cast and was a finalist for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award. Prior to Stanford\, Maxe taught literature\, creative writing\, and academic writing at Columbia University\, Temple University\, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program\, Maxe began and co-directed the pilot program “Readings in Gender and Sexuality\,” where they developed courses grounded in activist writing\, intersectional feminism\, and social justice. http://maxecrandall.com/ \nAfter a series of jobs in New York publishing and a residential poetry fellowship year at the Fine Arts Work Center\, /Jason Zuzga/ completed an M.F.A. in poetry and nonfiction at the University of Arizona\, followed by a year as the poet-in-residence in the James Merrill House. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania\, pursuing a Ph.D. in the English Department\, where he has taught classes such as “BAD KIDS” “SPOKEN ANIMAL” “HAUNTED HOUSES” and “20th C POETRY.” His debut book of poetry\, HEAT WAKE was published by Saturnalia Books in March 2016. His poetry and nonfiction has been published in numerous journals\, such as Tin House\, the Yale Review\, and the Paris Review. He is the Other/Nonfiction co-editor of FENCE. Words that appear in his new book include “queer\,” “Ava Gardner” and “tardigrade.” http://jasonzuzga.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/explosive-poetry-w-shiloh-jines-maxe-crandall-jason-zuzga/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160408T013354Z
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SUMMARY:Yuri Herrera + Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera\, author of staff favorite Signs Preceding the End of the World\, discusses his new novel\, The Transmigration of Bodies\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Yuri Herrera: \n‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell\, and heaven\, and back again. He must have once been a girl\, an animal\, a rock\, a boy\, and a woman. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding.’ — Valeria Luiselli\, author of Faces in the Crowd \n‘In its hundred-odd pages\, Signs Preceding the End of the World manages to be many things at once: an allegory\, a dark myth\, an epic\, a compelling meditation on language.’ — Adam Levy\, Music and Literature \n‘Yuri Herrera is Mexico’s greatest novelist.’ — Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n\nAbout The Transmigration of Bodies: \nA plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero\, The Redeemer\, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors\, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.\nYuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet\, Roberto Bolano and Raymond Chandler\, “The Transmigration of Bodies” is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies loved\, sanctified\, lusted after\, and defiled that violent crime has touched. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yuri-herrera-aaron-bady/
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:Esmé Weijun Wang + Ranbir Singh Sidhu
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang and Ranbir Singh Sidhu to the store to discuss and compare their two debut novels\, The Border of Paradise and Deep Singh Blue\, on Sunday\, April 24th at 3:00pm. \nEsmé Weijun Wang’s remarkable multigenerational novel\, The Border of Paradise\, transports readers into the world of an iconoclastic midcentury family. In booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame: the beautiful\, sharp-tongued Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s mental health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter. When Marianne appears at their doorstep\, the couple’s fateful decision to take the child as their own determines a tragic course of events for the entire family. Told from multiple perspectives\, The Border of Paradise culminates in heartrending fashion\, as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune must confront their past and the tragic reality of their future. \nRanbir Singh Sidhu’s debut takes us into the heart of another America\, and into the lives of the other Indians\, the ones who don’t get talked about and whose stories don’t get written. With a sharp\, funny and unsentimental eye\, Sidhu chronicles the devastating consequences of racism in eighties America and offers a portrait of a wildly dysfunctional family trying to gain a foothold in their adopted country. Deep Singh wants out out of his family\, out of his city\, and more than anything\, out of his life. His parents argue over everything and his brother\, who hasn’t said a single word in over a year\, suddenly turns to him one day and tells him to die. So when Lily\, a beautiful\, older\, and married\, woman\, shows him more than a flicker of attention\, he falls heedlessly in love. It doesn’t help that Lily is an alcoholic\, hates her husband\, and doesn’t think much of herself\, or her immigrant Chinese mom either. As Deep’s growing obsession with Lily begins to spin out of control\, the rest of his life seems to mirror his desperation\, culminating in his brother’s disappearance and an unfolding tragedy. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker\, as well as a journalist and essayist. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco. \nRanbir Singh Sidhu is the author of the story collection Good Indian Girls and is a winner of a Pushcart Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Deep Singh Blue is his first novel. He divides his time between the US\, India\, and Greece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-ranbir-singh-sidhu/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christos Ikonomou + Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:Christos Ikonomou in conversation with Anne Germanacos about his English-language debut\, Something Will Happen\, You’ll See. \nPraise for Christos Ikonomou: \n“A gripping collection of short stories… In Ikonomou’s concrete streets\, the rain is always looming\, the politicians’ slogans are ignored\, and the police remain a violent\, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution\, his men and women act for themselves\, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society\, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here\, deep faith — though little or none in those who habitually ask for it.” — Mark Mazower\, The Nation \n“Heart-wrenching and moving…deeply illuminating\, not only about working-class Greeks in the face of the crisis\, but\, more importantly\, about the human condition.” — Publishing Perspectives \n“The Greek Faulkner… one of the most touching chronicles of the economic crisis to have come out of Greece.” — La Republica \nAbout Something Will Happen\, You’ll See: \nSomething Will Happen\, You’ll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus\, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomou’s luminous and poignant short stories center around laid-off steelworkers\, warehousemen\, families\, pensioners\, and young couples faced with sudden loss and turmoil. Between docks\, in tenement buildings\, and on city streets Ikonomou’s men and women sustain their traumas on flickers of hope in the darkness and on their deep faith in humanity. An illuminating examination of the human condition\, Ikonomou’s award-winning book has become the literary emblem of the Greek crisis; stories so real\, humane\, and haunting that they will stay with the reader long after the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christos-ikonomou-anne-germanacos/
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:Dastanhayeh-jadid (New Stories): Iranian Writers Reading + Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday (4/24) Siamak Vossoughi (Better Than War)\, Persis Karim (Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers)\, Jasmin Darznik (The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Life)\, and Shideh Etaat (recipient of the 2015 James D. Phelan Award) will be discussing the new narratives being shaped today in Iranian-American literature. \nbios: \nSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI was born in Tehran\, grew up in Seattle\, and lives in San Francisco. His work has been published in Kenyon Review Online\, Missouri Review\, The Rumpus\, and Glimmer Train. His short story collection\, “Better Than War”\, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nPERSIS KARIM is a writer\, editor\, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Reed Magazine\, HeartLodge\, Caesura\, Callaloo\, and other. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian-American literature and her most recent anthology “Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers (with Anita Amirrezvani)”. To find out more information about her work\, go to: www.persiskarim.com. \nJASMIN DARZNIK is the author of a New York Times bestseller\, “The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life”. Jasmin’s book was published in thirteen countries and shortlisted for the 2012 Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has contributed to the New York TImes\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature at Princeton University and now teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. \nSHIDEH ETAAT is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dastanhayeh-jadid-new-stories-iranian-writers-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mixed-genre reading w/ Hahn\, Morduchovich\, + O'Hare
DESCRIPTION:Giovanna Morduchovich is a recent addition to San Francisco. She earned her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. An Italian Jew from birth\, she writes breezy non-fiction about light topics such as ancestral grief\, shoplifting\, and gnomes. She is currently working on a book about her deaf mother’s obsession with small dogs and dolls. \nIsobel O’Hare is a poet and essayist who was born in Chicago\, Illinois but did most of her growing up in Ireland. She is the author of the chapbook Wild Materials\, published in 2015 by Zoo Cake Press. Her writing can be found in The Account\, Dirty Chai Magazine\, HOUND\, FORTH Magazine\, Numero Cinq\, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review\, and Cease\, Cows among other publications. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and she was recently awarded a Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mixed-genre-reading-w-hahn-morduchovich-ohare/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jung Yun: Shelter
DESCRIPTION:Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. His debts have always seemed manageable\, but lately they’ve spiraled out of control\, and he is worried for his family’s future. A few miles away\, his parents\, Jin and Mae\, live in the town’s most exclusive neighborhood\, surrounded by the material comforts that Kyung desires for his wife and son. Growing up\, they gave him every possible advantage\, but never kindness nor affection. Now\, Kyung can hardly bear to see his parents\, much less ask them for help. Yet when an act of violence leaves Jin and Mae unable to live on their own\, the dynamic suddenly changes\, and he feels compelled to take them in. Once more under the same roof\, Kyung is forced to question what it means to be a good husband\, father\, and son\, while the life he knew begins to crumble and his own anger demands to be released. \nAs Shelter veers swiftly toward its startling conclusion\, Jung Yun leads us through dark and violent territory\, where\, unexpectedly\, the Chos discover hope. This book is a masterfully crafted debut novel that asks what it means to provide for one’s family and\, in answer\, delivers a story as riveting as it is profound. \nJung Yun was born in South Korea\, grew up in North Dakota\, and educated at Vassar College\, the University of Pennsylvania\, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories\, edited by Dorothy Allison; and she is a recipient of an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jung-yun-shelter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Hugo García Manríquez
DESCRIPTION:Hugo García Manríquez’s most recent book is Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Litmus Press/Aldus Editorial). He is the author of the chapbook Two Poems and Painting is Finite\, and two books in Spanish: No oscuro todaviaand Los materiales. Recent work has appeared in Dreamboat\, Dusie\, Spiral Orb\, Tierra Adentro\, the collective chapbook Field Work and in the collection of essays Escribir Poesía en México. His work as translator includes William Carlos Williams’ Paterson\, published in Mexico in 2009\, and\, in 2014\, Mecha de Enebros\, his translation of Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld by Clayton Eshleman. García Manríquez has also translated essays and poems by Charles Bernstein\, George Oppen and Myung Mi Kim. He is a graduate student in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-hugo-garcia-manriquez/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shawn Vestal: Daredevils
DESCRIPTION:Daredevils is the thrilling new book by Shawn Vestal\, who won last year’s PEN Bingham prize for his story collection\,Godforsaken Idaho. \nAt the heart of this exciting novel\, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-70s\, is fifteen-year-old Loretta\, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet a so-called gentile. Her strict Mormon parents catch her returning one night\, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder\, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids. Then Dean’s teenage nephew\, Jason\, falls for Loretta. A Zeppelin and Tolkien fan\, Jason worships Evel Knievel and longs to leave his close-minded community. He and Loretta make a break for it. They drive all night\, stay in hotels\, and relish their dizzying burst of teenage freedom as they seek to recover Dean’s cache of “Mormon gold.” But someone Loretta left behind is on their trail… \nShawn Vestal made his literary debut with Godforsaken Idaho\, a story collection that won the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. A graduate of the Eastern Washington University MFA program\, his stories have appeared in Tin House\, Ecotone\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review and other journals. He writes a column for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane\, Washington\, where he lives with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shawn-vestal-daredevils/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim w/ Jon Jang
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is a noted poet performer who’s collaborated with the late Max Roach and bassist\, Herbie Lewis. Lim has performed at numerous jazz festivals and venues coast to coast\, including the SF Jazz Poetry Festival and World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Her poetry and vocals can be heard on Asian ImprovArts recordings with her long time collaborators Francis Wong on Devotee and Child of Peace and Jon Jang on Immigrant Suite.  Her collaboration with Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra\, A Day of Infamy\, premiered in 2015 at Herbst Theater and other SF venues. Lim is also the author of the award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, the first Asian American play to be featured on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985. The drama shed light on Chinese immigrants held on Angel Island and will be presented at the Seattle Fringe Festival in Feb and March 2016. She co-authored\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island and several poetry collections\, including Paper Gods and Rebels. Her upcoming collaboration\, Liminal Space\, with drummer Marshall Trammell is set to premiere at the San Francisco International Performing Arts Festival in May 2106. Lim is the subject of a feature documentary\, The Voice\, which aired on PBS in 2002; and was featured in the five-part PBS series\, The United States of Poetry\, and San Francisco Chinatown. \nJon Jang (composer\, pianist) created the idea of SenseUS –Rainbow Anthems\, a collaboration of poets and composers who collectively reimagine the National Anthem as multiple poems in anthems as opposed to a singular song. This work featured poets Genny Lim\, Sonia Sanchez and Victor Hernandez Cruz with musicians Jon Jang\, Max Roach\, John Santos and a large music ensemble that premiered at Davies Symphony Hall in 1990. Jon Jang has also performed with Amiri Baraka Transbluesency and Janice Mirikitani Shadow in Stone. Jang has recorded with Max Roach\, James Newton\, David Murray and Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 featuring Genny Lim and the Jon Jang Octet on Soul Note\, a recording company based in Milano\, Italy. His ensembles have toured at major concert halls and music festivals in Europe\, China\, Canada\, United States and South Africa\, four months after the election in April 1994 to end apartheid. During 1999-2001\, Jang toured with Max Roach as part of the Beijing Trio at the Library of Congress in Washington DC\, Chicago\, San Francisco\, Boston\, Zurich\, Berlin\, Milan and the Royal Festival Hall in London. As a scholar\, Jang has taught at Stanford University\, University of California at Berkeley and UC Irvine. In 2012\, Jon Jang was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr.-Cesar Chavez-Rosa Parks Visiting Professor recognition at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-w-jon-jang/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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