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SUMMARY:First Friday Teen Open Mic & Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:Our February First Friday Children’s Storyteller Series and Teen Poetry Open Mic is filled with literary magic. \n6pm-7pm\, featuring:\n– Children’s Storytelling with children’s book author Lashon Daley\, who will be reading from her book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\n– Chapter 510 young author Aida Ndiaye\, reading aloud from one of her published children’s books: Evil Burrito and the FBI\n– Recently awarded young authors from Oakland’s own We Write Here contest ! \nLashon A. Daley is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. As a scholar\, dancer\, storyteller\, and choreographer\, Lashon thrives on bridging communities together through movement and storytelling. Her children’s book\, Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\, was released in February 2016. Lashon is also the creator of Stories&Slams\, a podcast that focuses on every day stories. \nAida Ndiaye is ten years old and in the fifth grade at Piedmont Avenue Elementary. She loves to write\, read and go places (specifically Jack London Square). She believes she can fly. She dreams that she will write and publish 2\,000\,000 books. \n6pm-7pm:\nTeen Poetry Writing Workshop with Gabriel Cortez in our Room of Infinite Possibilities!\nFree and open to writers 13-19 years old \nGabriel Cortez is a poet\, educator\, and organizer. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, National Public Radio and Huffington Post. Gabriel is a VONA fellow\, grant recipient\, and winner of the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize! Gabriel Cortez currently works as Lead Poet Mentor at Youth Speaks\, one of the world’s leading presenters of spoken word performance\, education and youth development programs. \n7pm-9pm:\nTeen Poetry Open Mic\nSign ups begin at 7pm\nShow starts at 7:30pm \nFeaturing local poet\, Quinn Edlin: \nQuinn Edlin is a poet from Berkeley\, California. She is a Queer\, mixed Black woman who roots her work in the exploration of existing at the intersection of her identities. She was a finalist of the 2019 Teen Poetry Slam and performed at the Sydney Goldstein theatre for the 21st annual “Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\,” and at the Brava theatre for the 2019 Queeriosity showcase. \nCome out and share your story on the mic! \nDoors open at 6pm. There will be tiny bookmaking activities for the whole family\, smooth jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX and food available from Two Mamacitas pop up kitchen! \nThe Dept. of Make Believe store will be open for business as well. \nFREE FOR ALL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-teen-open-mic-childrens-storyteller-series/
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:February First Friday
DESCRIPTION:6pm-7pm\, featuring:\n– Children’s Storytelling with children’s book author Lashon Daley\, who will be reading from her book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\n– Chapter 510 young author Aida Ndiaye\, reading aloud from one of her published children’s books: Evil Burrito and the FBI\n– Recently awarded young authors from Oakland’s own We Write Here contest ! \nLashon A. Daley is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. As a scholar\, dancer\, storyteller\, and choreographer\, Lashon thrives on bridging communities together through movement and storytelling. Her children’s book\, Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\, was released in February 2016. Lashon is also the creator of Stories&Slams\, a podcast that focuses on every day stories. \nAida Ndiaye is ten years old and in the fifth grade at Piedmont Avenue Elementary. She loves to write\, read and go places (specifically Jack London Square). She believes she can fly. She dreams that she will write and publish 2\,000\,000 books. \n  \n7pm-9pm:\nTeen Poetry Open Mic\nSign ups begin at 7pm\nShow starts at 7:30pm \nFeaturing local poet\, Quinn Edlin: \nQuinn Edlin is a poet from Berkeley\, California. She is a Queer\, mixed Black woman who roots her work in the exploration of existing at the intersection of her identities. She was a finalist of the 2019 Teen Poetry Slam and performed at the Sydney Goldstein theatre for the 21st annual “Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\,” and at the Brava theatre for the 2019 Queeriosity showcase. \nCome out and share your story on the mic! \nDoors open at 6pm. There will be tiny bookmaking activities for the whole family\, smooth jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX and food available from Two Mamacitas pop up kitchen! \nThe Dept. of Make Believe store will be open for business as well. \nFREE FOR ALL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/february-first-friday/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch / Verge
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes the fierce and fabulous Lidia Yuknavitch back for her first collection of stories\, Verge. Please join us! \nI tell you\, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts\, enough for a body and language all the way out of this world. \nAn eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier\, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical\, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward\, through tears and grief\, toward an unexpected transcendence. \nLidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, and her groundbreaking memoir The Chronology of Water\, have established her as one of our most urgent contemporary voices: a writer with a rare gift for tracing the jagged boundaries between art and trauma\, sex and violence\, destruction and survival. In Verge\, her first collection of short fiction\, she turns her eye to life on the margins\, in all its beauty and brutality. A book of heroic grace and empathy\, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life. \n\nLidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan\, The Small Backs of Children\, Dora: A Headcase\, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award\, and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Verge\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch-verge/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Naked Truth: real.stories.live.
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nCelebrate ten years of the Naked Truth with some of our favorite storytellers! \nEmcee Josh Healey is joined by David Nihill\, Kari Kiernan\, Don\nReed\, and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan for a special night of great stories. \nDavid Nihill is a bestselling author\, featured in Inc\, NPR\, Huffington Post\, Forbes\, and the Irish Times. David was recently part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour and SF Sketchfest. A Moth Storyslam winner and Grandslam finalist\, David has also told tales at Porchlight\, Fireside and Litquake. \nKari Kiernan is a writer and a storyteller\, and a bona fide local: she graduated from Tam\, holds a Master’s degree from Dominican University\, and spent a great deal of her young life at the Mill Valley Library. In addition to Naked Truth\, she’s been onstage at Porchlight\, the Throckmorton\, The Vent\, and Literary Death Match. \nDon Reed (HBO\, Pop Up Magazine) is an entertainer. Works include: “Unleashed” on Netflix\, a streaming comedy series “Bartlett\,” five solo shows Off Broadway and Bay Area – including “East 14th.” Other credits: I Miss Toni\, Snap Judgment 2016 Performance of the Year\, The Flintstones\, DMV\, A Different World\, Partners in Crime. \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan is an internationally recognized comedian and was the Grand Prize Winner of The Ultimate Comedy Challenge filmed in Singapore. She received the 2016 Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award\, previously awarded to Samantha Bee and Wanda Sykes. Dhaya’s stories have appeared on Snap Judgment and the Moth podcast. Dhaya also regularly acts as emcee at the monthly SF Moth Story SLAMs. \nEmcee: Josh Healey\nAward-winning writer\, performer and filmmaker\, Healy has been a regular performer on NPR’s Snap Judgment. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, and his nephew’s YouTube page\, where it has at least 27 ‘likes.’ He is the lead writer and producer of The North Pole\, a comedic web series that hits on today’s issues. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-naked-truth-real-stories-live-2/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax\, Jay Deshpande\, and Kai Carlson-Wee at City Lights Books!
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review\, AGNI\, Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri and is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award. He is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. (ISBN 9781936919338) \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL\, published by BOA Editions in 2018. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax-jay-deshpande-and-kai-carlson-wee-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manny’s monthly open mic! Everyone is welcomed. \nCome to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nFebruary 7th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there!\n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night-3/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch Reading for "Dear—"
DESCRIPTION:A community reading of letters commemorating “Day of Remembrance” and launching “Dear—” a new book project and online letter archive compiled by Brynn Saito with portraits by Dave Lehl. Visit https://www.youaremissing.com/ for details. \nLetter readings by Nikiko Masumoto\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Marion Masada\, Janelle Saito\, Gregg Saito\, Samina Najmi\, and others! \n“Dear—” was created with the support of an Artists Initiative grant from Densho\, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today; the Santa Fe Arts Institute’s (SFAI) “Truth and Reconciliation” residency; and the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University\, Fresno. \nDeep gratitude to Gregg Saito\, Janelle Saito\, Leigh Saito\, Marion Masada\, Saburo Masada\, Nikiko Masumoto\, Valarie Kaur\, Brandon Shimoda\, Devoya Mayo\, Akiko Miyake-Stoner\, Naser Nekumanesh\, Tess Taylor\, Lee Herrick\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Samina Najmi\, and Amy Uyematsu for engaging in correspondence with me. \nThank you\, Dave Lehl\, for the photographic portraits of my family and community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-reading-for-dear/
LOCATION:United Japanese Christian Church\, 136 N Villa Ave.\, Clovis\, CA\, 93612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved authors. Two fabulous critically-acclaimed new books. One exceptional afternoon. The Red Tour is coming to Kepler’s! \nMeet Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K. Arnold as they introduce their newest books Dark and Deepest Red\, a modern story of passion and betrayal paired with the forbidding magic of a fairy tale. And Red Hood\, a dark\, engrossing\, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark and Deepest Red: Summer\, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets\, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread\, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family\, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later\, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet\, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil\, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows\, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes. \nRed Hood: Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old\, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming\, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees\, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it\, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past\, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened\, but not alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of The Weight of Feathers\, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and was the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award; Wild Beauty\, and Blanca & Roja . \nElana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children’s books\, including the Printz Honor winner Damsel and the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of. Elana teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-marie-mclemore-and-elana-k-arnold/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:P: Carl Becoming a Man
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir\, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg\, and co-founder of Howlround\, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card\,” Carl was transitioning\, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man\, a white man\,” writes Carl\, just months after Trump’s election\, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday\, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement. \nAgainst the backdrop of our pivotal political moment\, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting\, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be\, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man\,” he writes\, “knowing what I know as a woman\, is my work now.” \nCarl delivers a singular\, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty\, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime\, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century. \nP. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation\, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018\, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington\, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years\, the writer Lynette D’Amico\, and their dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-carl-becoming-a-man/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass: Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads from Summer Snow\, his first collection of new poems in a decade. \nAbout Summer Snow\nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Robert Hass\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide (1973)\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T203000
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CREATED:20191227T022636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022636Z
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200210T210000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century\nIn conversation with Janine Zacharia \n6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception\n7:00 pm: Talk \nThe Levy family established itself in Salonica (now Thessaloniki\, Greece) in the 18th century and for two centuries published books and newspapers for the region’s Sephardic Jews. With the Ottoman Empire’s collapse\, the Levys scattered throughout the world but kept in touch through letters. Drawing on this rich correspondence\, Stein\, the award-winning author of Extraterritorial Dreams uses the family’s experience to trace the history of Sephardic Jews through the twentieth century\, showing how individual lives were affected by world wars\, shifting political boundaries and the Holocaust – which wiped out several branches of the Levy family. \nJanine Zacharia is the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University\, and writes regularly about foreign affairs\, the intersection of technology and national security\, and media trends for the San Francisco Chronicle\, Slate and other news outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
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CREATED:20200126T011808Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Brenda Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She is currently writing an opera libretto for the composer Paola Prestini\, commissioned by The Atlanta Opera. Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-brenda-shaughnessy/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
CREATED:20200207T222418Z
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernadez Castillo\, Children of the Land at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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 email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernadez-castillo-children-of-the-land-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
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CREATED:20191227T173848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T174104Z
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SUMMARY:Jean Day and Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Jean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in 2021.Recent poems can also be seen in Brooklyn Rail\, Chicago Review\, The Delineator\, Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French). Earlier works include Daydream (Litmus\, 2016)\, Early Bird (O’Clock\, 2014)\, and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books. She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, a scholarly humanities journal\, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). \n  \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist from San Francisco. Works he has authored include The Sissies (Futurepoem); Terra Firmament (Krupskaya); and a chapbook\, Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-and-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200211T203000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Winter in San Francisco. Baby\, it’s cold outside–comparatively\, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday\, February 11\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in you-know-where. Dale Corvino is joining us from New York City! He’ll be joined by local glitterati Denise Conca\, Wayne Goodman\, Rob Rosen\, and Cass Sellars–each of them reading from new fiction. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and door prizes on the stroke of 7! http://bit.ly/2RjGosI \nMore about the authors:\nDale Corvino’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including online at the Rumpus and Salon. He received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction\, was a finalist in the 2017 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction contest\, and won the 2018 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest. WORKER NAMES was published in 2019. Most recently\, he reflected on his visit to Santiago\, Chile during the massive popular uprising and the legacy of queer writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review. www.dalecorvino.com \nDenise Conca is an anti-capitalist artist\, writer\, and cashier living in San Francisco. Her short works have appeared in Sinister Wisdom’s “Dump Trump” issue and in RFD magazine. Her recently published book\, A RECURSIVE NATURE\, explores the sexual exploits of a middle-aged leather dyke living on the margins of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco and is available at San Francisco Public Library and independent bookstores. Conca is featured in the short documentary film Refuse and Refashion which she wrote\, co-produced\, and directed. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing or recording\, Goodman enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, gay\, and Black composers. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship. \nRob Rosen is the author of the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES\, and editor of the anthologies Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1\, 2\, Lust in Time 3 and 4. www.therobrosen.com \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional living in the East Bay. She has led investigations in criminal\, theft\, corporate and financial fraud. Formerly an editor of a small magazine and creative journalist\, she’s always been a writer at heart. She loves writing about powerful women\, their adventures\, and searches for justice. FINDING SKY is her fourth novel and the first standalone after the Lightning Series. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and England but spent much of her on the East Coast. In addition to writing she works in interior design and event planning and loves everything wine. www.casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-winter-2020-reading-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee
DESCRIPTION:You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game\, The Crown’s Fate\, and Circle of Shadows. \nThe wait for her sequel is finally over! We are so very excited to invite you to the launch party of Cloak of Night\, the exciting end to this thrilling duology that is full of dangerous action\, heartbreaking romance\, and incredible magic. \nAfter the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts\, Sora\, Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing\, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes\, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger than she realized. Suddenly\, the stakes are higher and even more personal for Sora—not only must she stop a seemingly indestructible Prince Gin\, but she must also unravel the secrets of ryuu magic before it is too late for nearly everyone she loves. Sora Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick face dangerous obstacles at every turn\, but the greatest challenge may be discovering who they truly are and what\, if anything\, they are capable of. The fate of a kingdom rests in their hands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining Evelyn on stage is Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl\, Outrun the Moon\, Under a Painted Sky\, and The Secret of a Heart Note
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evelyn-skye-cloak-of-night-w-stacey-lee/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amina Cain: Indelicacy
DESCRIPTION:Amina Cain discusses her new novel\, Indelicacy\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Indelicacy \n“In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another\, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. In a deeply pleasing way\, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting\, a masterful study of light and dark\, inside and out\, freedom and desire. Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. I loved reading this book.” —Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First \n“Acutely observed\, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. Through this timeless examination of solitude\, art\, and friendship\, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.” —Patty Yumi Cottrell\, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n“Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \nAbout Indelicacy \nA ghostly feminist fable\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. \nIn “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler)\, a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing\, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man\, but having gained a husband\, a house\, high society\, and a maid\, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now\, however passively\, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \nReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature\, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys\, Octavia Butler\, Clarice Lispector\, and Jean Genet\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost\, a fable without a moral\, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing\, class\, desire\, anxiety\, pleasure\, friendship\, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amina-cain-indelicacy/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T173000
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SUMMARY:Arthur Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History\, Anthropology\, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present \nArthur Kleinman \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor \nfrom Viking Books \nA moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world. \nWhen Dr. Arthur Kleinman\, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist\, began caring for his wife\, Joan\, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease\, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor\, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan\, and he describes the practical\, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. \nCaregiving is long\, hard\, unglamorous work–at moments joyous\, more often tedious\, sometimes agonizing\, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system\, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves\, and of our doctors. To give care\, to be “present” for someone who needs us\, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences\, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life\, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human. \n\nArthur Kleinman\, MD\, is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry\, anthropology\, global health\, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School\, he has taught at Harvard for over forty years. He is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan\, he is also a leading expert on East Asia\, and was the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard’s Asia Center from 2008 to 2016. He is also the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering\, Healing\, and the Human Condition\, now widely taught in medical schools. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-kleinman/
LOCATION:UCSF Parnassus Campus\, 530 Parnassus Avenue\, 5th Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Conversations: Dating & Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of conversations and stories! The theme will be around “relationships and dating through the years”. We are inviting younger and older folks to share their own experiences and thoughts. \nTopics will range from finding dates to choosing date spots to breaking up. Over the decades\, how do you or did you go about finding dates? Has it become easier to have so many choices through your phone? Date spots and activities always elicit strong reactions. Which ones did you enjoy most? Breakups have never been easy but has it become too impersonal in the era of texting? Was “ghosting” a thing back then? \nRegardless of all these technological and societal changes\, are we all continuing to approach relationships similarly to years past? \nWe will have a few older adults share their personal stories and we will split into small pairs of young people and older adults to discover and answer questions about relationships. \nFree liquid courage will be provided! Let’s have fun and get to know people of different ages in our community. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-conversations-dating-relationships-2/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeneé Darden at Alameda Authors Series IV
DESCRIPTION:Details:  \nThe fourth annual Alameda Authors Series\, sponsored by\, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library\, returns with award winning journalist and book author Jeneé Darden. \nMs. Darden will speak about her book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, a collection of poetry and essays that reflect her journey through Black womanhood. With heart and humor\, Darden engages us in conversations about race\, love\, sex\, and mental health. Like a rose\, being a Black woman in this society comes with its thorns and beauty. Darden brings that complexity to every page.  \nReservations requested: \n https://jeneedarden-aauw2020.eventbrite.com \nPraise for When a Purple Rose Blooms: \n“When a Purple Rose Blooms is more than a series of essays and poems. Jeneé Darden’s debut collection is a homegrown Oakland spellbook\, a womanist battle cry\, a spiritual incantation of Black joy\, self-love\, and healing for contemporary African American sistren.” \n– Aya de León\, author of Uptown Thief\, The Boss\, and The Accidental Mistress\, and director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley \n“A wealth of wisdom\, humor\, grit\, warmth\, and sensuality. When a Purple Rose Blooms candidly shows a Black woman’s quest to embrace her entire self while navigating contemporary America. Very few works spit fire and water like this one. Darden gets to the core of what it means to feel without apology\, love radically\, and get Queened up while honoring the Queen in others as well.” \n– Lyndsey Ellis\, writer\, editor\, and award recipient of 2018 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund \n“Jeneé Darden’s When a Purple Rose Blooms is a daring book of poems and essays\, depicting family\, pop culture\, self-love\, racism\, and other issues\, especially those that impact women. This truth-telling book heralds with allusions\, historical references\, blues\, East Oakland\, and inter-generational camaraderie\, praise\, and ‘God’s Image.’ These poems and essays tell us what’s happening\, and display much intelligence.” \n– Lenard D. Moore\, author of The Geography of Jazz\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Mount Olive \nAbout the author: \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, author\, public speaker\, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. She covers stories about East Oakland at KALW News 91.7 FM and hosts the arts segment Sights & Sounds.  Jenee has reported for NPR\, Time\, The LA Times\, Ebony and other outlets. She also hosts the blog and podcast Cocoa Fly. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a womanist collection of essays and poetry about her personal experiences with race\, mental health and love as a Black woman. Jeneé holds a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego and a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact AAUW Alameda at alameda-ca@aauw.net or see our Web site at http://alameda-ca.aauw.net/ \nEvent telephone: 510.463.4966 Kevis Brownson (leave message)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenee-darden-at-alameda-authors-series-iv/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
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SUMMARY:Meng Jin - Little Gods
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book\, Little Gods on Wednesday\, February 12tht at 7pm. \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meng-jin-little-gods/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nDanielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
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SUMMARY:b\, Book\, and Me Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa\, b\, Book\, and Me\, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There will be readings from Two Lines editors\, drinks\, and snacks. Entry is free but please rsvp! \nMore about b\, Book\, and Me \nBest friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent\, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it’s painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats\, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b’s dying sister and how her family is poor\, and each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can reclaim themselves\, and perhaps each other\, is beyond the part of town where lunatics live—the End. \nIn a piercing\, heartbreaking\, and astonishingly honest voice\, Kim Sagwa’s b\, Book\, and Me walks the precipice between youth and adulthood\, reminding us how perilous the edge can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor / Kim Sagwa\n\n\nKim Sagwa is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed emerging writers. She is the author of several novels\, story collections\, and works of nonfiction\, and has been shortlisted for several major South Korean awards\, including the Munji Prize and the Young Writers Award. Kim contributes columns to two major Seoul newspapers\, and she co-translated John Freeman’s book How to Read a Novelist into Korean.\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslator / Sunhee Jeong\n\n\nBased in Seoul\, Sunhee Jeong is a Korean-English translator and editor of literary and multimedia productions. She is also a scholar of visual studies\, intersectionality and critical theory.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/b-book-and-me-happy-hour/
LOCATION:DaDa Bar\, 65 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! (Copy) (Copy) at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoz Sin Tinta\, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-bi-lingual-poetry-reading-and-open-mic-night-copy-copy-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T112126
CREATED:20191227T022259Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile will be ending in May\, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a close look at all our lives. Two of our features honed their chops at the original Café Babar and remain performers of towering skill\, and the third is blazing a trail as we speak. Three-time SF Slam Team member and former Lake County Poet Laureate Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga will share some of his Filipino American gaze\, while special educator\, Union activist\, and longtime Berkeley resident Tim Xonnelly will endow us with some true Bay Area queerness. And “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen will vibe us with some next-gen activist energy. \nSo come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \n  \nBabar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \nfeaturing\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nTim Xonnelly\nand “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen \nand you\, in our all-inclusive open mic \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nThree-time SF Poetry Slam team member\, Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga honed his poetic and spoken word skills at Cafe Babar on a weekly basis. Gonzaga is an esteemed member of the arts\, activism\, and healing communities. The sixth Poet Laureate of Lake County\, former bookstore co-owner\, and resident of Harbin Hot Springs\, Gonzaga was displaced by the devastating Valley Fire in 2015. He has recently returned to San Francisco where he is working on his first novel. Born in the Philippines and raised in the East Bay\, Gonzaga has been a dervish\, minister\, writer\, freelance journalist\, editor\, social justice activist\, arts educator\, youth mentor\, and martial artist. He states: “Giving expression and voice to our grief\, rage\, hopes\, and joys serve the healing of an individual\, and in turn\, a community.” \nTim Xonnelly is a special educator and Union activist living in downtown Berkeley since 1991. He’s recently had poetry published in Be About It\, Naked Bulb 2018 Anthology\, the-fabulist.org\, 11 Eleven\, Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel. \nBorn in Stockton\, CA\, Anna Allen has been writing fairy tales and tragedies since childhood. Her work has appeared in various literary mags and journals. You can read some of her work on Sparkle and Blink\, Chronically Lit\, The Scribelrus\, and Little Death Lit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-22-up-close-and-personal/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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