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SUMMARY:Amy Stewart
DESCRIPTION:Amy Stewart\, the bestselling author of Girl Waits with Gun\, returns with another adventure featuring the fascinating\, feisty\, and unforgettable Kopp sisters. \nAfter besting (and arresting) a ruthless silk factory owner and his gang of thugs in Girl Waits with Gun\, Constance Kopp became one of the nation’s first deputy sheriffs. She’s proven that she can t be deterred\, evaded\, or outrun. But when the wiles of a German-speaking con man threaten her position and her hopes for this new life\, and endanger the honorable Sheriff Heath\, Constance may not be able to make things right. \nLady Cop Makes Trouble sets Constance loose on the streets of New York City and New Jersey–tracking down victims\, trailing leads\, and making friends with girl reporters and lawyers at a hotel for women. Cheering her on\, and goading her\, are her sisters Norma and Fleurette–that is\, when they aren’t training pigeons for the war effort or fanning dreams of a life on the stage. Based on a true story\, Girl Waits with Gun introduced Constance Kopp and her charming and steadfast sisters to an army of enthusiastic readers. Those readers will be thrilled by this second installment–also ripped from the headlines–in the romping\, wildly readable life of a woman forging her own path\, tackling crime and nefarious criminals along the way. \nAmy Stewart is the award-winning author of seven books\, including her acclaimed fiction debut Girl Waits With Gun and the bestsellers The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband live in Eureka\, California\, where they own a bookstore called Eureka Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-stewart/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Anita Cruz + John Landry
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-john-landry/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies!
DESCRIPTION:Trashy! Tawdry! Page after page of smut and gossip! We love to hate them —and can’t get enough of them —they are Celebrity Autobiographies! \nCome celebrate the BEST of the absolute WORST celebrity autobiographies to ever line a bookstore shelf. To celebrate this achievement in awful celebrity prose\, our guest readers for the night are some of the most iconic queens in the Bay Area! Donna Sachet\, Sue Casa\, Sugah Betes\, MuthaChucka\, Shane Zaldivar\, and Daft-nee Gesuntheit! Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel. \nAs always Literary Speakeasy is FREE. But for this evening\, we will be collecting donations and raffling off prizes to raise money for Strut in the Castro. So bring your donations\, order a martini\, and laugh along to some of the worst celebrity autobiographies these queens could find!! \nPerformer bios:\nDaft-nee Gesuntheit! has been a San Francisco staple since showing up on the scene six years ago. Since her inception\, she has performed at the legendary Marlena’s Bar in the Hayes Valley Follies\, Cookie Dough’s Monster Show at The Edge Bar\, Sunday’s A Drag at The Starlight Room\, and Oasis as Jo Polniaczek (pronounced Pole-nuh-check) in Facts of Life and Charlotte York in Sex and the City. Fond of fundraising\, she participates in galas for the Academy of Friends; she is a Princess of the Imperial Court\, a miracle worker and shiny gem in the community. Befriend her on Facebook for more fun and frivolity. \nDonna Sachet started her adventure in San Francisco over twenty years ago and the City has applauded her fun-loving spirit\, quick wit\, and musical talent ever since. Donna can be seen throughout the Community\, judging contests\, emceeing fund-raisers\, cutting ribbons\, and hosting parties and was featured in individual stories in The SF Chronicle\, SF Bay Guardian\, GLOSS magazine\, and on ABC television. Donna currently writes a biweekly column for the publication Bay Area Reporter and stars in the weekly Sunday’s A Drag brunch shows\, now in its eleventh year\, at the Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. In 2009\, Donna Sachet was the first drag personality in history to sing the National Anthem for a major league sports game at AT&T Park for the SF Giants. A short film about her\, named Sachet\, was completed in 2014 and included in the Frameline Film Festival. \nMuthaChucka is a tireless performer\, fundraiser and political dragtivist based in San Francisco\, host of her own show in the Castro\, Sex\, Drags & Rock n Roll at the Midnight Sun & SOMA party Try Some Thing at the Stud. Mutha has worked on behalf of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation\, AIDS Housing Alliance\, Tenderloin Tessies Holiday Dinners\, Project Open Hand\, and countless other charities in the Bay Area and beyond! Having discovered her love of performing at an early age MuthaChucka has been amazing audiences with her fierce lipsynch\, unique song choices\, and gracious hosting ever since! With a rubbery face of a thousand expressions and a clever sensibility that never fails to amuse\, she has made people laugh and cry with her riveting performances and twisted sense of humor! For calendar and booking information check out www.Muthachucka.com. \nShane Zalidvar has been living in San Francisco for nearly three years since moving from Florida and graduating from Oaksterdam University. During that time\, drag in the Bay area has become his art-therapy. He says\, “The performer community has incredible talent and invites authenticity to shine way beyond the stage. I’m lucky to be a part of it with a sensual\, androgynous\, and sometimes creepy style. Come see for yourself\, it’s so much fun!” \nSUE CASA is best described as the village idiot. With an amazing ability to paint the same exact face every time and wear the same exact wig\, her look is…well….recognizable. She is a hostess of the weekly Monster Show at the Edge Bar\, and Miss Trannyshack 2013. \nSugah Betes is an anachronism. She’s a larger than life character. Really she’s larger than most things in the room. She’s a funny girl with a real smart mouth on her. Her style is sequins and petticoats and her make-up is modified clown. She is a co-hostess of The Monster Show\, the Castro’s longest running drag show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-read-celebrity-autobiographies/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kathrine LaFleur
DESCRIPTION:Laurel Book Store in collaboration with Juma Ventures welcomes author Kathrine LaFleur in launching her new book Moonlight Hunting. \nWith one quarter of the Cardonian population in his grip\, Fillian Barnabas has made his way into the Steeple Basin and the next phase of his plan to usurp all control of Cardonia. But Moonlight is close on his heels\, determined to rescue the friends Barnabas has taken hostage\, and to put an end to his dominion. Separated from the small group of dissenters who pulled her into this fight in the first place\, Moonlight must face not only a lethally dangerous Persuasive\, but her own inner demons if she is to survive and win freedom for herself and her kingdom. \nKathrine LaFleur is thrilled to be working with Juma Ventures\, a youth-run social enterprise operation that provides youth with resources to fulfill their potential and have a positive impact in their communities. As an author and educator\, LaFleur hopes to empower young readers to value their unique qualities and inspire them to transform obstacles into opportunities to triumph .LaFleur will donate a percentage of book sales to Juma Ventures. \nKathrine LaFleur grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been an educator for nearly twenty years and enjoys nurturing a love of reading and writing in her students. She has written six books for a range of ages from four years to young adult. She hopes that her writing will empower readers to value their unique qualities and see their own potential to transform obstacles into opportunities to triumph. She currently lives and works in Oakland as an elementary school teacher. \nJuma strives to break the cycle of poverty by paving the way to work\, education\, and financial capability for youth across America. We believe that the world’s greatest social service is a job. But a Juma job is more than that. A Juma job socially engages youth and teaches them leadership skills while building confidence for a successful career. Juma serves as a launching pad to the real world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathrine-lafleur/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer
DESCRIPTION:Artists and Poets in Search of an Answer is a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art\, photography\, poetry\, critiques and perhaps an answer or two. Featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui\, installations by the UNDERCOVER collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii\, art by Kate Akimbo\, painting by Annice Jacoby\, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza\, Art Hazelwood\, Veronica Solis\, Ronnie Goodman\, and poems by Jack Hirschman\, Alejandro Murguía\, Alessandra Bava\, Tony Robles\, Norman Zelaya\, Cesar Love\, Virginia Barrett\, Michael Koch\, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others. \nClosing Reception on Friday August 26th\, 2016 from 6-9pm \nFeaturing LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza\, Txutuo Perez\, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself. \nThe gathering will also include SOAPBOX\, a participatory performance event for advocates\, heartbreakers\, change makers\, everyone with a fresh idea. Come have your five minutes on the SOAPBOX along with local celebs & creative provocateurs. Let’s use imagination and celebration\, mingle dignity and rage with constructive here-and-now good ideas that break the impasse around chronic homelessness in our beautiful city. Let us banish the shame and the blame and build off the good work and sacrifice of decades of artist activism\, community outcry and valuable lives grossly crushed. The best ideas will be captured and shared.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/closing-reception-a-home-for-the-homeless-artists-and-poets-in-search-of-an-answer/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:August at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Featuring:\nAimee Suzara\nJudy Halebsky\nKelly Egan\nMei Li Ooi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/august-at-cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Javier O. Huerta + Nataly Ortiz w/ Iwalani Venerable
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Javier O. Huerta and Nataly Ortiz. With musical guest Iwalani Venerable. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there) https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javier-o-huerta-nataly-ortiz-w-iwalani-venerable/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tessa Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Three sisters and a brother\, complete with children\, a new wife\, and an ex-boyfriend’s son\, descend on their grandparents’ dilapidated old home in the Somerset countryside for a final summer holiday\, where simmering tensions and secrets rise to the surface over three weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past—their mother took them there to live when she left their father—but now\, they may have to sell it. And beneath the idyllic pastoral surface lie tensions. \nSophisticated and sleek\, Roland’s new wife (his third) arouses his sisters’ jealousies and insecurities. Kasim\, the twenty-year-old son of Alice’s ex-boyfriend\, becomes enchanted with Molly\, Roland’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Fran’s young children make an unsettling discovery in an abandoned cottage in the woods that shatters their innocence. Passion erupts where it’s least expected\, leveling the quiet self-possession of Harriet\, the eldest sister. As the family’s stories and silences intertwine\, small disturbances build into familial crises\, and a way of life—bourgeois\, literate\, ritualized\, Anglican—winds down to its inevitable end. \nOver five novels and two collections of stories\, Tessa Hadley has earned a reputation as a fiction writer of remarkable gifts. She brings all of her considerable skill to The Past\, a work of breathtaking scope and beauty—her most ambitious and accomplished novel yet. \nTessa Hadley is the author of five highly praised novels: Accidents in the Home\, which was longlisted for The GuardianFirst Book Award; Everything Will Be All Right; The Master Bedroom; The London Train\, which was a New York TimesNotable Book; and Clever Girl. She is also the author of two short story collections\, Sunstroke and Married Love\, which were New York Times Notable Books as well. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker. She lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Marvin R. Hiemstra + Julian Mithra
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with Marvin R. Hiemstra and Julian Mithra. With musical guest Hazy Loper. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marvin-r-hiemstra-julian-mithra/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dave Eggers
DESCRIPTION:A captivating\, often hilarious novel of family\, loss\, wilderness\, and the curse of a violent America\, Dave Eggers’ Heroes of the Frontier is a powerful examination of our contemporary life and a rousing story of adventure. \nJosie and her children’s father have split up\, she’s been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice\, and she’s grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fiancee’s family\, Josie makes a run for it\, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids\, Paul and Ana\, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau\, and at first their trip feels like a vacation: They see bears and bison\, they eat hot dogs cooked on a bonfire\, and they spend nights parked along icy cold rivers in dark forests. But as they drive\, pushed north by the ubiquitous wildfires\, Josie is chased by enemies both real and imagined\, past mistakes pursuing her tiny family\, even to the very edge of civilization. \nA tremendous new novel from the best-selling author of The Circle\, this is the darkly comic story of a mother and her two young children on a journey through an Alaskan wilderness plagued by wildfires and a uniquely American madness. \nDave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books\, including A Hologram for the King\, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun\, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book\, about Valentino Achak Deng\, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan\, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation\, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeneys\, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal\, a monthly magazine\, The Believer; a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries\, Wholphin; and an oral history series\, Voice of Witness. In 2002\, with Ninive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia\, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago\, Los Angeles\, New York\, Ann Arbor\, Seattle\, Boston\, and Washington\, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch\, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago\, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-eggers/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rae Meadows: I Will Send Rain
DESCRIPTION:Annie Bell can’t escape the dust. It’s in her hair\, covering the windowsills\, coating the animals in the barn\, in the corners of her children’s dry\, cracked lips. It’s 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead\, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come\, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions. Annie’s fragile young son\, Fred\, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter\, Birdie\, flush with first love\, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel\, her husband\, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. \nAs Annie\, desperate for an escape of her own\, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer\, she must choose who she is going to become. With her warm storytelling and beautiful prose\, Rae Meadows brings to life an unforgettable family that faces hardship with rare grit and determination. Rich in detail and epic in scope\, I Will Send Rain is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience\, filled with hope\, morality\, and love. \nRae Meadows is the author of Calling Out\, which received the 2006 Utah Book Award for fiction\, and No One Tells Everything\, a Poets & Writers Notable Novel. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Minneapolis\, Minnesota.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rae-meadows-i-will-send-rain/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Series Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Robert Hass\, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: Stephanie Cannizzo (BAM/PFA)\, Library Director of Development & External Relations David Duer\, Penelope Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies)\, Jianye He (C. V. Starr East Asian Library)\, Paul Howl (Financial Services)\,Melani King (Public Affairs)\, Chana Kronfeld (Near Eastern Studies)\, Gregory P. Levine (History of Art) University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeff MacKie-Mason\, Tim Pine (Environment\, Health\, & Safety)\, and Dora Zhang (English).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maggie Tokuda-Hall: Also an Octopus
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a launch party celebrating former Books Inc. bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall‘s adorable debut picture book\, Also an Octopus! Even the most “totally awesome” story starts with a little bit of nothing. What happens next is up to you! A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring. It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story\, the octopus has to “want “something maybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to “build “a spaceship out of soda cans\, glue\, umbrellas\, glitter\, and waffles. OK\, maybe the octopus needs some help\, like from an adorable bunny friend\, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something even more amazing come to pass? Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, with the help of award-winning illustrator Benji Davies\, sets up an endearingly funny story\, then hands the baton to readers\, who will be more than primed to take it away. (Ages 3+)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-tokuda-hall-also-an-octopus/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective September Reading
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto: \nHeather Bourbeau\nJenny Bitner\nJane Ciabattari\nChristopher Cook\nLaurie Doyle\nThaisa Frank\nVanessa Hua\nChad Koch\nJoshua Mohr\nEthel Rohan\nLizette Wanzer \nJenny Bitner’s short stories and flash fiction have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Writing That Risks\, PANK\, The Sun\, Mississippi Review and Fence magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and teaches Flash Fiction at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Duende\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Tupelo Press. Her piece “Hopscotch” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nJane Ciabattari is the author of the story collections\, Stealing the Fire and California Tales\, and of stories published in 100WordStory and New Flash Fiction Review and many other publications. She writes the Between the Lines column for BBC.com\, a weekly column for the Literary Hub\, and contributes regularly to NPR. She is vice president /online and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Flash Fiction Collective. \nChristopher Cook is an award-winning writer and author whose work has appeared in Harper’s\, Mother Jones\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis\, and is completing a memoir about living and growing up on the road. Check him out at www.christopherdcook.com. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Award\, as well as nominations for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book of short stories\, World Gone Missing\, is a finalist for the Livingston Press (University of West Alabama) fiction prize\, and a story from the collection appears in their fiction anthology. Other stories and essays have been published in Jabberwock Review\, Arroyo Literary Review\, Dogwood Journal\, Under the Sun and elsewhere. She’s a co-founder of Babylon Salon\, San Francisco’s long running reading series\, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nThaisa Frank’s sixth book\, Enchantment\, includes two semi-autobiographical novellas and thirty-three stories. Heidegger’s Glasses (2010)\, about the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, sold to ten foreign countries. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage. Her nonfiction book Finding Your Writer’s Voice has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and is used in MFA programs. \nVanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and a forthcoming novel\, is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, ZYZZYVA\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including “Damascus\,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” recently won the Northern California Book Award. \nEthel Rohan is an award-winning flash and short story writer. Her first novel\, The Weight of Him\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in February\, 2017. \nLyzette Wanzer is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, Aesthetica Magazine\, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie\, 2012) and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books\, 2015). Lyzette is the 2016 First Place winner in the national Kay Snow Nonfiction Competition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-september-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160902T210000
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett + Natasha Dennerstein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with two-time Pushcart nominee and Lit Death Match Champ\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Norfolk Press author Natasha Dennerstein. With musical guest TBD. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there) https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett-natasha-dennerstein/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160902T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160902T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T214617
CREATED:20160810T234304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T234304Z
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SUMMARY:Beyond Words: An Evening of Jazz + Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Come experience an evening that stretches your literal imagination\, when renown Bay Area poets fuse with jazz musicians in a synchronous overtone of musicality! \nFEATURING\nBonnie Kwong\, poet\nCandy Shue\, poet\nDeWayne Dickerson\, poet\nAmos White\, poet \nMusic: Dillon Vado (Music Director) and his Jazz Trio \nBeyond Words – An Evening of Jazz & Poetry\nFriday\, September 2 at 8pm. \nDoors open: 7:30pm \nat The California Jazz Conservancy\n2087 Addison St.\, Berkeley\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/hg9cp5Kq47D2 \nBay Area impresario and haiku poet Amos White and CJC’s Dillon Vado present an evening that promises to stretch the imagination in musical expression. \nListen to “Time No Changes”\nThe Dillon Vado Trio featuring Amos White\, poet\nhttps://soundcloud.com/amoswhite3/poetry-jazz-time-no-changes-amos-white-poet-dillon-vado \nBONNIE WAILEE KWONG – Bonnie’s first poetry collection is ravel\, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press\, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered several Pushcart nominations. She creates in many mediums and languages: English\, Cantonese\, Mandarin\, Japanese\, ruby\, and javascript. She is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Her website is:www.bonniekwong.info \nDEWAYNE FRAZIER DICKERSON – One of the last unicorns known to man. Nevertheless\, the proud Louisville native would be nowhere without support from the National Authors League\, Radar Productions\, or New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in West Oakland with his daughter and Squishy\, the turtle. \nCANDY SHUE – Poet and prose writer. Candy holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in Washington Square\, Drunken Boat\, sparkle + blink\, Works & Days Quarterly\, Versal\, and other journals\, and she has received grants from Kundiman\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her photography and poetry was featured in the 92nd Street Y’s #wordsweliveinproject and she currently serves as Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Generations reading series. She has also collaborated with the composer Jerry Gerber on a musical poem\, “Lucid: Dream For” for his recent CD release\, Virtual Harmonics. You can find Candy at:www.invisibleadventure.com \nDILLON VADO is an active professional drummer and vibraphonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up in San Jose\, California and has performed in situations from high school band\, to marching snare drum with the Santa Clara Vanguard\, to playing and recording professionally with other professionals in the Bay Area. Dillon has performed with Art Lande\, Marcus Shelby\, Erik Jekabson\, Jeff Denson\, Alan Hall\, Clifford Brown III and Marcos Silva. In 2014\, Dillon won 1st place in the Jazz Search West competition on vibraphone. He is currently in his last year of the Bachelor’s Program at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. \nAMOS WHITE is an awarded American haiku poet and author of The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter (2012). His works have appeared in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology amongst others. Amos serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards\, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, and produces Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. www.about.me/amoswhite \nIN THE NEWS \nPoetry Flash\nhttp://poetryflash.org/calendar/?t=0n20160902c_white-kwong-shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-words-an-evening-of-jazz-poetry/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160906T210000
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SUMMARY:Hot! New Books!
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rosa Lane\, Jon Sindell\, Brynn Saito\, and Richard Loranger. \nGuitar: Barry Ebner. \nAn open mic follows the featured readers. \nEveryone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. \nFree drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. \nThe series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, free. We pass the hat. 6:45-9:00 pm (pandemoniumpress@gmail.com).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160907T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160907T213000
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CREATED:20160825T000800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T000800Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:With C.S. Giscombe\, Robert Hass\, Lyn Hejinian\, Geoffrey G. O’Brien\, John Shoptaw\, and Mary Szybist. \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nReadings begin at 6:30pm \nUnless otherwise noted\, 2016-2017 Holloway events will be held in the HEARST FIELD ANNEX room D37\, UC BERKELEY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annual-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T180000
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CREATED:20160825T001355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T001355Z
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SUMMARY:NoViolet Bulawayo
DESCRIPTION:NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names\, about a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America\, won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times called it a “deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University\, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noviolet-bulawayo/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160908T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T210000
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CREATED:20160825T001046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T001046Z
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SUMMARY:Justin Chin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nJustin Chin: Selected Works \nEdited by Jenifer Joseph\, with commentary by R. Zamora Linmark\, Michelle Tea\, Tim Liu\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka \nfrom Manic D Press \nHosted by Jennifer Joseph \nwith colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin’s work:  Kevin Killian (Spreadeagle) and Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman)\, filmmaker Henry Machtay\, Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)\, Thea Hillman (Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word))\, Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a Glittering Palace)\, Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?)\, and Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways to Stay Alive). \nJustin Chin’s fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview\, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American\, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian\, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals\, Chin’s early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works\, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane\, saints and sinners\, health and illness\, hope and despair\, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV\, which progressed into AIDS in his final years. \nThis unique collection of Chin’s literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works\, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best. Notable literary figures pay tribute to the poet/writer with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. \nAmong many others\, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark (Rolling the R’s)\, Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)\, Timothy Liu (Don’t Go Back To Sleep)\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Night at the Pahala Theatre). \nJustin Chin (1969-2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books\, two essay collections\, one book each of short fiction\, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, and anthologies\, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council\, Djerassi Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Fund\, PEN American Center\, and PEN Center USA West\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-chin-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin + Jasmine Gibson
DESCRIPTION:HUM 512\, SFSU\, free\nGetting here: http://poetry.sfsu.edu/contact-us \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also arevolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \nThe Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\nhttp://poetry.sfsu.edu/\nStreaming video at Poetry Center Digital Archive\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter\nVideo clips at Poetry Center Video Highlights\nhttps://vimeo.com/channels/poetrycenter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-jasmine-gibson/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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CREATED:20160720T003309Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Bern w/ Lucinda Weaver
DESCRIPTION:“PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space performance” based on Alan Bern’s greater distance and other poems; Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book\, “Dialogue\,” a dramatic dialogue between Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bern-w-lucinda-weaver/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/ Taylor\, Richardson\, Warren\, + Banias
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to belong to the increasingly slippery present? Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology\, rootedness\, longing\, apocalypse\, and the complex cartographies of desire. \nTess Taylor\, WORK & DAYS \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPRs All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito. \nRachel Richardson\, HUNDRED-YEAR WAVE \nRachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Her poetry collection Hundred-Year Wave juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary motherhood. The San Francisco Chronicle says of the book that “ancestry\, history and the whaling industry unite in a lived present\, and the poem becomes a visceral experience…. Over and over Hundred-Year Wave locates the tender self in a wide expanse of sea.” \nNoah Warren\, THE DESTROYER IN THE GLASS \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, Agni\, The Missouri Review\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he lives in Palo Alto. \nAri Banias\, ANYBODY\nAri Banias is the author of Anybody. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night-w-taylor-richardson-warren-banias/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T210000
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CREATED:20160810T235300Z
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SUMMARY:Anuradha Roy: Sleeping on Jupiter
DESCRIPTION:On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli\, known for its temples\, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi\, whose braided hair\, tattoos\, and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route\, the women are unprepared to witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away. \nLater in Jarmuli\, among pilgrims\, priests\, and ashrams\, the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her\, clearly not a worshipper\, doing in this remote place? Over the next five days\, the women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide\, Nomi’s past comes into focus\, and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long\, dark history that transforms all who encounter it. A haunting\, vibrant novel\, Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer. \nAnuradha Roy is the author of The Folded Earth\, which won the Economist Crossword Prize\, An Atlas of Impossible Longing\, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times\, and Sleeping on Jupiter\, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Ranikhet\, India.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anuradha-roy-sleeping-on-jupiter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T213000
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SUMMARY:A collaboration w/ Commune Editions
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, September 9th @ 7:30 pm for\na collaboration with Commune Editions\, featuring David Lau\, Wendy Trevino\, Cheena Marie Lo and Jasper Bernes!\n\nEvent is FREE. \n\nSnacks\, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served.\n\nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\,Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editionswill publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbook Bad Opposites (speCt!\, 2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College.\n\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook BRAZILIAN IS NOT A RACE was just recently published by Commune Editions\, and Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbookCruel Work later in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY and Open House.\n\nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts\, and co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD.\n\nJasper Bernes is author of two books of poetry\,Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book\, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization(Stanford University Press\, forthcoming)\, about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems\, essays\, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly\, Radical Philosophy\, Endnotes\, Lana Turner\, The American Reader\, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover\, he edits Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-collaboration-w-commune-editions/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday September 10\, Babylon Salon’s Fall Reading features PEN America and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award-winner Ramona Ausubel(Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty); New York Times bestselling novelist J Ryan Stradal (Kitchens of the Great Midwest); poet\, critic & NPR All Things Considered commentator Tess Taylor (Work & Days); artist & memoirist Frances Stroh (Beer Money); short story writer John Jodzio(Knockout). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downtown performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details:www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160720T004333Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Doubles Three
DESCRIPTION:R–Dub Doubles Three\nWriters will pair up to read each other’s work\,\nSongwriters will cover each other’s songs\n\n\nReaders\nHeather Bourbeau/Maw Shein Win\nRebecca Foust/Terry Lucas\n\nmore to be announced\n\nThis special program is not submissions–based.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-doubles-three/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T210000
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CREATED:20160828T062104Z
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SUMMARY:Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Unrequited Records is thrilled to announce an event in San Francisco for the latest tribute album…Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters. \nTo celebrate this release there will a Poetry reading and party on September 10 at 7PM at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. The San Francisco readers include: \nLorna Dee Cervantes\nDiane Di Prima\nInés Hernández-Ávila\nElaine Katzenberger\nMonica Sanchez\nMia Kirsi Stageberg\nTodd Swindell\n\nThe first half of this album contains various rare recordings of Ronnie including radio interviews & call-ins\, specially taped segments for the ACTUP pirate radio show\, as well as a visit to local San Francisco Lowell High School. \nHear Ronnie read Arthur Rimbaud\, his own poetry including a brilliant collage letter to Andrei Codrescu\, on confronting internal homophobia\, the Aquarian love revolution\, the rainbow credit card\, rage as healing & how love is our greatest weapon. \nThe second half features more than two dozen friends & admirers reading Ronnie’s poems or sharing their remembrances & tribute poems. \nAvailable on 12-inch vinyl\, digipak CD or digital download\, each version is unique and contains material that the others do not.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ronnie-burk-a-man-of-letters/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160911T140000
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CREATED:20160720T004705Z
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SUMMARY:Chana Bloch + Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Susan Cohen’s new book of poems is “A Different Wakeful Animal.” A journalist\, she has taken up poetry seriously over the past decade\, publishing two chapbooks and one book of poems prior to the current book. \nChana Bloch is the author of five books of poems (her latest is “Swimming in the Rain: New and Collected Poems\, 1985-2015”) as well as six books of translation from Hebrew poetry\, ancient and contemporary\, and a critical study of George Herbert. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College\, where she taught for many years and directed the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chana-bloch-susan-cohen/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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