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SUMMARY:Rebecca Foust & Nicholas Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust’s book Paradise Drive  won the 2015 Press 53 Prize for Poetry\, and was widely reviewed in such venues as the Times Literary Supplement\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, Huffington Post\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, and Hudson Review.  Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize\, God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Small Press Distribution\, 2010)\, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry\, and Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card\, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years\, 2008 and 2009. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize\, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, Sewanee and the Frost Place.  She is Marin County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change. \nNicholas Friedman’s debut book\, Petty Theft (Criterion Books\, 2018)\, is the winner of the The New Criterion Poetry Prize. B. H. Fairchild called Petty Theft a “brilliant\, beautifully crafted first book” by a poet “who remembers the art of poetry\, practices it superbly\, and so\, like Keats\, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses’\,” and Charles Martin called it “a first book of exceptional achievement.” His poems have appeared in The New York Times\, POETRY\, Yale Review\, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-foust-nicholas-friedman/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2019\, all day long\, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year\, or sign up for our events emails. \nWhat is Independent Bookstore Day? \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.  Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. But in addition to authors\, live music\, cupcakes\, scavenger hunts\, kids events\, art tables\, readings\, barbecues\, contests\, and other fun stuff\, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online. \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2019/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 27\, 2019 – 10:00am to 11:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIndependent Bookstore Day is two things: \n\nyour one & only chance to buy one-of-a-kind\, limited edition books and literary gifts.  Never again; never online. AND\nit’s a party in a bookstore!\n\nWe’re still developing the plans for the day\, but so far we know we’ll have: \n\nfree on-demand poetry by Silvi of The Poetry Store from noon to 2pm.  Her time is on us\, but tips are appreciated.\na free scavenger hunt around the store\nfree beer (locally made\, of course) from about 2pm onward\n\nMore detail tk!  Save April 27\, 2019! \n\n\n\n\nEvent Categories:\n\nClement St
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!
DESCRIPTION:events and special offers tba \nhttp://www.indiebookstoreday.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 28\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-3/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Night Library
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, APRIL 28\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th\, 2019. \nThe Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries\, perfect for book lovers of all ages! \nAfter a young boy goes to sleep upset that he’s getting a book for his birthday\, he’s visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude\, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon\, he’s magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx\, and the two mighty lions show him the wonder of the library. There\, the inquisitive Latino boy discovers the power of books and their role not only in his own life\, but also in the lives of the people he loves. \nRaul Colon’s gorgeous\, rich art creates an immersive world in this book about books\, which is sure to capture the imaginations of kids and adults and inspire them to grab their library cards and dive into the worlds of stories. \nDAVID ZELTSER emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union at age five. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics\, he was admitted to vet school to study wildlife medicine\, but ultimately came back to his first love–storytelling. David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded the Santa Cruz Young Writers Program’s tutoring and writing center at the Museum of Art & History. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his wife\, Fiona; their daughter\, Naomi; and their dog\, Ella.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-night-library/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
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:Foucault in California
DESCRIPTION:Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade \ncelebrating the release of \nFoucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death \nby Simeon Wade\, Foreword by Heather Dundas \npublished by Heyday Books \n\n\n\n\nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.'” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. \nSimeon Wade was born July 22\, 1940\, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969\, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975\, an experience Foucault described as “one of the most important in my life.” Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard\, California\, on October 3\, 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - -The World Could Be Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Norman Fishcher to discuss his new new book The World Could Be Otherwise\, on Tuesday\, April 30th at 7pm. \nAn imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times\, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”–qualities that lead to kindness\, wisdom\, and an awakened life. \nIn frightening times\, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination\, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden\, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching\, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas\, or “six perfections”—generosity\, ethical conduct\, patience\, joyful effort\, meditation\, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships\, ethics\, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings\, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His numerous books include What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong\, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-the-world-could-be-otherwise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nPoets and audience will gather upstairs at More Moe’s one hour before the reading. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Jenn McCreary and Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:READING\nJenn McCreary and Norma Cole\nMay 1\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-jenn-mccreary-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day: One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Andrena Zawinski\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Lenore Weiss\, Dennis Bernstein. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-one-big-union/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T213426Z
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:Seven Stories and City Lights present \nBarry Gifford \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights Trilogy: Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20190430T203449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190430T210715Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon: SAN FRANCISCO: BRAINSTORMING FOR JUNE
DESCRIPTION:MAY 2 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nFree! \n\n\n\n\n \nOnce again we come together to pool brains ! Bring your mathematical quandaries\, sweet solutions\, high octane spirits and tales of sleuthing genius for Odd Salon PROOF\, curated by Isolde Honore. \nBrainstorming sessions are free open to all! Come out and grab a drink\, meet the Oddlings\, and share your ideas around the table. \nThursday\, May 2nd at 7pm.\nWe’ll be in the back room at Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, drinking and thinking. Just a couple of doors down from the 24th and Mission BART stop. \nNo formal RSVP needed  – just come out and join us! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-brainstorming-for-june/
LOCATION:Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara\n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada”\nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nFor the concluding event as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center for Spring 2019\, Juliana Delgado Lopera will be reading and in conversation with novelist Joseph Cassara\, author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, an acclaimed debut novel that “follows the lives of the major players in New York’s 1980s drag ball scene\, made famous by Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film Paris Is Burning.” (full review at The Guardian) Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada” (*) is the title for Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Mazza Residency with The Poetry Center. Prior to this evening with Joseph Cassara\, she’ll by joined by special guest Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\, for an “afternoon of literary drag\,” Saturday April 27 at The Bindery\, annex of The Booksmith and just across Haight Street\, and will be visiting multiple classes at SF State\, in Women and Gender Studies\, Sexuality Studies\, and Creative Writing\, throughout the week of April 22. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker\, and performance artist based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo!\, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Magto name a few. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Much more at julianadlopera.com \n• Make sure to check out Juliana Delgado Lopera’s recent Ted Talk\, “The Poetry of Everyday Speech\,” which took place early this year at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \nJoseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018\, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently lives in Fresno\, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University\, Fresno. More at josephcassara.com \n(*”but my tongue is salty”) \nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nJuliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\nan afternoon of literary drag\nSaturday APRIL 27\n3:00 pm @ The Bindery (door + bar at 2:00 pm)\n1727 Haight Street (at Cole)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-juliana-delgado-lopera-with-joseph-cassara-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Miriam Toews and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Miriam Toews discusses her new novel\, Women Talking with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for Women Talking \n“This amazing\, sad\, shocking\, but touching novel\, based on a real-life event\, could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” –Margaret Atwood\, on Twitter \n“An astonishment\, a volcano of a novel with slowly and furiously mounting pressures of anguish and love and rage. No other book I’ve read in the past year has spoken so lucidly about our current moment\, and yet none has felt as timeless; the always-wondrous Miriam Toews has written a book as close to a Greek tragedy as a contemporary Western novelist can come.” —Lauren Groff\, author of FATES AND FURIES and FLORIDA \n“I am in awe of this novel. In Toews’s brilliant design\, eight women in a Mennonite hayloft manage to lay bare the rancid global root system of patriarchy. Their story is terrifying\, joyful\, gruesome\, and magnetic. What a reckoning–and what a gift.” Leni Zumas\, author of RED CLOCKS \n“A flawless\, ferocious work of art. I have yet to read a more scathing indictment of patriarchal violence\, or a more illuminating quest to comprehend the most vital contours of the human experience: what is agency\, what is meaning\, what is justice\, what is love. This is the kind of novel that changes you. Get ready.” —Laura van den Berg\, author of THE THIRD HOTEL \n\nAbout Women Talking \nOne evening\, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years\, each of these women\, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony\, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming to punish them for their sins. Now that the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community\, they are determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm. \nWhile the men of the colony are off in the city\, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home\, these women–all illiterate\, without any knowledge of the world outside their community and unable even to speak the language of the country they live in–have very little time to make a choice: Should they stay in the only world they’ve ever known or should they dare to escape? \nBased on real events and told through the “minutes” of the women’s all-female symposium\, Toews’s masterful novel uses wry\, politically engaged humor to relate this tale of women claiming their own power to decide.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miriam-toews-and-lydia-kiesling/
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:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:EVES AT THE BEAT: WOMXN READING AT THE BEAT MUSEUM\nDuring Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nTHURS. MAY 2ND\, 7:30PM\nFeaturing: \nSHELLEY WONG\nTHEA MATTHEWS\nJENNY QI\nROSA DE ANDA\nJENNIFER HASEGAWA\nAISHWARYA VARDHANA\nCurated by Cassandra Rockwood-Rice\nMC’d by Nicole Noel \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop: a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, lead by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill. Get your copy and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III (more TBD) and live music by Azuah Melara at 7pm. Emceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. FREE! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press & Chapter 510 Black Joy Poetry Anthology Release
DESCRIPTION:Nomadic Press will be releasing an anthology written by Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe authors taking part in our Black Joy Workshop (a poetry workshop for black young men ages 13-18\, led by poet and teaching artist Daniel B Summerhill). \nGrab your copy of the anthology and hear readings by Vernon Keeve III\, James Cagney\, Darius Simpson\, Leila Mottley – 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, the authors published in the anthology (Samuel Getachew\, Nicos Hubbard-Riley\, Julian Khalil Allen\, Elijah I. Hynson\, Damion Evans\, and Charles Hall)\, and live music by Azuah Melara starting at 7 PM. \nBoots Riley will speak at the beginning of the event about the importance of Black Joy. \nEmceed by the ever-fabulous Nazelah Jamison. DJ XCAIROCITOSX will weave together sounds and Two Mamacita’s pop-up kitchen will be on site. Tiny book making on the theme of “Joy” will be happening throughout the evening. On-site photography by Robbie Sweeny and Rohan DaCosta. Oh\, and did we also mention it is Oakland First Fridays?! \nThis event is FREE and open to all! \nThrough publications\, events\, and active community participation\, Nomadic Press collectively weaves together platforms for intentionally marginalized voices to take their rightful place within the world of the written and spoken word. Through its limited means\, Nomadic Press is simply attempting to help right the centuries’ old violence and silencing that should never have occurred in the first place and builds alliances and community partnerships with others who share a collective vision for a future far better than today. \n“This project was made possible with support from California Humanities\, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-chapter-510-black-joy-poetry-anthology-release-2/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Brenda Shaughnessy\, D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy reads from her new collection\, The Octopus Museum. Also featuring readings by D.A. Powell\, and Roberto Santiago. \nAbout The Octopus Museum \nThis collection of bold and scathingly beautiful feminist poems imagines what comes after our current age of environmental destruction\, racism\, sexism\, and divisive politics. \nInformed by Brenda Shaughnessy’s craft as a poet and her worst fears as a mother\, the poems in The Octopus Museum blaze forth from her pen: in these pages\, we see that what was once a generalized fear for our children (car accidents\, falling from a tree) is now hyper-reasonable\, specific\, and multiple: school shootings\, nuclear attack\, loss of health care\, a polluted planet. As Shaughnessy conjures our potential future\, she movingly (and often with humor) envisions an age where cephalopods might rule over humankind\, a fate she suggests we may just deserve after destroying their oceans. These heartbreaking\, terrified poems are the battle cry of a woman who is fighting for the survival of the world she loves\, and a stirring exhibition of who we are as a civilization. \nAbout The Poets\nBrenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa\, Japan\, and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of four books of poetry\, including So Much Synth\, Human Dark with Sugar–winner of the James Laughlin Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award–and Our Andromeda\, which was a New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2013. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers University\, Newark. She lives in New Jersey.\nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. He lives in San Francisco\, California. \nRoberto F. Santiago is a poet\, translator\, musician\, and performer. He earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence and MFA from Rutgers University. His first collection of poetry\, Angel Park (2015)\, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for Poetry and long-listed for an Able Muse Poetry Prize. Santiago is the recipient of an Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize and has received fellowships from the Lambda Foundation and Sarah Lawrence; in 2016\, he was named a Community of Writers fellow. He currently lives in Oakland and works in San Francisco as an educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-shaughnessy-d-a-powell-and-roberto-santiago/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20190430T220112Z
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series featuring Terry Taplin\, William "Endlesswill" Davis\, and Caroline O'Connor Thomas!
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 3rd\, featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, and Caroline O’Connor Thomas!\nPlease join us on Friday\, May 3rd from 7:30-9:30 pm for a reading featuring Terry Taplin\, William “Endlesswill” Davis\, \nand Caroline O’Connor Thomas! \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nTerry Taplin is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow at Saint Mary’s College. Terry serves as Poetry Editor for MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, Co-Editor of Baest\, and is the Social Media Manager at speCt! books. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \nWilliam “Endlesswill” Davis\, 2016-2018 poet laureate of Hillsborough\, NC\, and author of Broken Perception and Falling Apples\, is a spoken word artist who is dedicated to continuing the tradition of poetry in living form. Ambitious in his craft and performance\, Endlesswill offers audiences unforgettable performances that evoke thoughtfulness\, introspection\, and connection as a community. William is a publisher\, graphic design artist\, basketball coach\, and radio host\, and manages to juggle all of that under the umbrella of being a father and a husband.  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer who lives in Oakland\, California.  Her poetry has appeared in 580 Split\, Tin House\, Sixth Finch and others. She is the author of the chapbook Unusual Light Source (White Stag\, 2018) and a graduate of the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California. https://carolineoconnorthomas.com \nPosted by Casey at 9:09 PM No comments: 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-featuring-terry-taplin-william-endlesswill-davis-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \nMay 4\, June 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-6/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190504T203000
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SUMMARY:Music to my Eyes - Stories\, Music and Art From a Chicago Cabbie
DESCRIPTION:Author and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music.  \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-to-my-eyes-stories-music-and-art-from-a-chicago-cabbie/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show
DESCRIPTION:Dmitry Samarov: A Talk\, a Slide-show\nIntroduced by Ben Terrall\, publisher of the cult ‘zine\nNamaste Motherfu**er\n\n \nAuthor and artist Dmitry Samarov talks about and shows slides of art from his new book Music to My Eyes. Samarov has written for The Chicago Tribune\, The Chicago Reader\, and more; in Music to My Eyes he turns his eye and pen towards the musical stage\, sketching and describing a host of independent musicians he’s seen\, crossed paths with\, offered sofa space to\, and taken out to breakfast over the course of the past few decades. From well-known names like Nick Cave and Mission of Burma to lesser-known greats like Bill MacKay and Condo Fucks\, Samarov draws haunting portraits of artistry at the fringes of (and off the edges of) the mainstream\, while also offering poignant and memorable essays not only about their work\, but about musicianship and art\, creativity and commerce—the perils of selling out\, and the dangers of never doing so\, and above all else\, the thrill of creating something new. A love song and a lifer’s lament\, Music to My Eyes is an exquisite tribute to the trials and triumphs of independent music. \nDmitry Samarov was born in Moscow\, USSR in 1970. He immigrated to the US with his family in 1978. He got in trouble in first grade for doodling on his Lenin Red Star pin and hasn’t stopped doodling since. \nHe has exhibited his work in all manner of bars\, coffeeshops\, libraries\, and even the odd gallery (when he’s really hard up). He paints and writes in Chicago\, Illinois. He is the author of Where To: A Hack Memoir.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dmitry-samarov-a-talk-a-slide-show/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow
DESCRIPTION:Join poet and writer Jeffrey Thomas Leong as he takes us through the hidden history of the Chinese wall inscriptions at Angel Island. Drawing from his recent published works\, Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island and Writ\, Jeff will give us a glimpse at this dark\, yet relevant periods of the Chinese American experience. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer\, born in Southern California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.  For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for the City of San Francisco.  While earning his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began a project to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at the Angel Island Immigration Station.  These translations became the book Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island published by Calypso Editions in 2018. His new book Writ\, consisting of original poems also about the Angel Island detainee experience\, will be published by Eastwind Books of Berkeley in March 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow/
LOCATION:North Beach Library\, 850 Columbus Ave.\, San Francisco
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190505T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190505T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T135642
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SUMMARY:Joseph Noble & Todd Melicker reading
DESCRIPTION:Sun\, May 5\, 2:00pm – 3:45pm\nTodd Melicker and Joseph Noble read from their new books\, is this the body/if hovers\, and Within Hearing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-noble-todd-melicker-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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