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SUMMARY:Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simon-wickhamsmith-on-mongolian-poet-tseveendorjin-oidov/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T200000
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SUMMARY:David Weisberg discusses and signs "The American Plan"
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes David Weisberg to the store to discuss and sign The American Plan\, on Thursday\, May 11th at 7:00 pm. This will be his West coast launch and all are welcome to attend. \nA daring and disturbing tale of survival set in Cuba and South Florida during the 1950s and early 60’s\, embracing both the breadth of historical fiction and the intimate intensity of a psychological suspense novel\, The American Plan is a vertiginous ride through the mid-century American psyche. \nCopies of The American Plan will be for sale at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-weisberg-discusses-and-signs-the-american-plan/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T210000
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy + Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nWriters Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 \nEdited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian \nPublished by Nightboat Books \nIn the twenty years that followed America’s bicentennial\, narrative writing was re-formed\, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the publication of this anthology\, the New Narrative era bounds back to life\, ripe with dramatic propulsion and infused with the twin strains of poetry and Continental theory. Arranged chronologically\, the reader will discover classic texts of New Narrative from Bob Glück to Kathy Acker\, and rare materials including period interviews\, reviews\, essays\, and talks combined to form a new map of late twentieth-century creative rebellion. \nDodie Bellamy is the author of numerous works of prose. Her latest book is When the Sick Rule the World. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and California College of the Arts. \nKevin Killian is a San Francisco-based poet\, novelist\, playwright\, and art writer. He is the author of fifteen books and co-wrote Poet Be Like God\, a biography of the American poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). City Lights published his novel Impossible Princess\, winner of the 2010 Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Erotica . \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T190000
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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author and illustrator Marissa Moss shares her touching memoir\, Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love. \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience–of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T213000
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SUMMARY:Glori Simmons
DESCRIPTION:Glori Simmons discusses her new story collection\, Suffering Fools\, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. \n\nAbout Suffering Fools \n\nA woman running a halfway house for paroled sexual predators is left wondering if her favorite has committed his most unthinkable crime yet. A groundskeeper who has just discovered that his ex is pregnant digs up an infant’s tombstone inscribed with his own name. A traumatic traffic collision sends an aging couple back into their decades long marriage. Whether it be a dying man spying on two teenage lovers or a new mother running from her colicky infant\, the nine stories in Suffering Fools spring from the dark corners of our psyches\, revealing the fears and contradictions that give shape to unconditional love. Suffering Fools is the winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glori-simmons/
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=UTC:20170511T213000
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SUMMARY:Laura McBride
DESCRIPTION:Laura McBride\n\n\n\n\nreads from her new novel\, ‘Round Midnight\, a story that follows the interconnected lives of four women in Las Vegas\, each of whom experiences a life-changing moment at a classic casino nightclub. \n“Gorgeous\, engrossing\, moving\, and at times wickedly funny\, this brilliant novel pulled me in and didn’t let me go until the shattering final sentence. This is the novel you need to read right now.”–Joanna Rakoff\, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nSpanning the six decades when Las Vegas grew from a dusty gambling town into the melting pot metropolis it is today\, ‘Round Midnight is the story of four women–one who falls in love\, one who gets lucky\, one whose heart is broken\, and one who chooses happiness–whose lives change at the Midnight Room. \nJune Stein and her husband open the El Capitan casino in the 1950s\, and rocket to success after hiring a charismatic black singer to anchor their nightclub. Their fast-paced lifestyle runs aground as racial tensions mount. \nHonorata leaves the Philippines as a mail order bride to a Chicago businessman\, then hits a jackpot at the Midnight Room when he takes her on a weekend trip to Las Vegas. \nEngracia\, a Mexican immigrant whose lucky find at the Midnight Room leads to heartbreak\, becomes enmeshed in Honorata’s secret when she opens her employer’s door to that Chicago businessman–and his gun. \nLast is Coral\, an African-American teacher who struggles with her own mysterious past. A favor for Honorata takes her to the Midnight Room\, where she hits a jackpot of another kind. \nMining the rich territory of motherhood and community\, ‘Round Midnight is a story that mirrors the social transformation of our nation. Full of passion\, heartbreak\, heroism\, longing\, and suspense\, it honors the reality of women’s lives. \nLaura McBride is also the author of the novel We Are Called to Rise. She lives in Las Vegas and teaches composition at the College of Southern Nevada. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-mcbride/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Simon Wickhamsmith
DESCRIPTION:Two Voices Salon: Translator Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov\n\nCenter for the Art of Translation | 582 Market Street\, Suite 700 | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nDoors at 5:30. Event will begin promptly at 6:00 p.m. \n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation! \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-simon-wickhamsmith/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170512T210000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170512T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170512T210000
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SUMMARY:THERE 15
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 15 – Friday\, May 12 \, 2017 – award-winning East Bay author Cecile Barlier\, local author Katie Moulton\, and another writer TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-15/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T163000
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SUMMARY:Butchertown Book Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:BUTCHERTOWN BOOK RELEASE PARTY: At Stookey’s Club Moderne \n“One Bad Weekend in One Bad Town . . . Butchertown.” \n“A darkly fascinating novel. Butchertown is incendiary”— David Corbett\, award-winning author of Mercy of the Night. \n“Burchfield rounds up a great cast of gangsters and gunsels to bat his wide-eyed hero around.”—Don Herron\, author of the Literary World of San Francisco and Its Environs and The Dashiell Hammett Tour \n“A sexy\, violent non-stop thrill ride deep into the seedy underbelly of post-World War I San Francisco!” Critic’s Report\, The BookLife Prize\, sponsored by Publishers Weekly. \nOakland\, CA\, 5/5/2017 – The first official book release party for Butchertown\, Thomas Burchfield’s new novel set in 1920s gangland San Francisco Bay will be held this coming Saturday May 13\, 2017 at Stookey’s Club Moderne\, 895 Bush Street (at Taylor) from 3:00-4:30 PM\, with doors opening at 2:30. The author will read from Butchertown\, plus an excerpt from an upcoming novel and will provide signed copies of Butchertown for sale. \nButchertown tells the story of Paul Bacon\, ex-Navy boxer\, Jazz-Age playboy and junior city attorney\, who’s moved to California expecting sunshine and sandy beaches. But all he’s found is lonely misery in the chilly fog-choked canyons of 1920s San Francisco. \nThen\, one foggy night\, he meets Molly Carver. Alluring\, irresistible\, mysterious\, she lures Paul across San Francisco Bay to her hometown of Evansville\, to what she claims is the California promised in the travel brochures. \nBut Molly’s promise is only camouflage for a dangerous game. Evansville is no paradise but a whirling sewer of sin and perdition; a wilderness of slaughterhouses\, factories\, oil refineries\, gambling dens\, brothels\, and speakeasies even more decadent than San Francisco. And within its grimy\, gritty heart\, a gang war smolders\, ready for someone to throw a match. \nThey don’t call it Butchertown for nothing. \nABOUT THE VENUE: Stookey’s Club Moderne\, located at 895 Bush at Taylor\, between Nob Hill and Union Square\, is a lounge evoking the style of post-prohibition San Francisco (1930-1940). \nThe bar’s classic cocktails and Streamline-Moderne design\, brings its guests back in time and into the mood of Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco. \nContact:\nThomas Burchfield\namblerhouse@att.net\n(510) 817-4432\nhttp://amblerhouse.blogspot.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/butchertown-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Stookey’s Club  Moderne\, 895 Bush St. at Taylor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
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SUMMARY:Tenderloin Museum Turns Two
DESCRIPTION:The Tenderloin Museum marks its 2nd anniversary in the midst of an important year in the history of San Francisco – it’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the 100th anniversary of the “anti-vice” Tenderloin neighborhood shutdown. On Saturday\, May 13\, the Tenderloin Museum is inviting its friends and neighbors to celebrate the Tenderloin’s unique contributions to San Francisco history with daylong free museum admission and free public programs from 4 pm to 9 pm\, featuring accounts of the “Invisible Circus” from the Diggers\, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist David Talbot\, the first-ever reading of the new play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, and a dynamic jazz night by SF Recovery Theater. We’re excited to show off the best the neighborhood has to offer and celebrate the 31 square blocks we call home. \n Programming Schedule: \n4pm\, The Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Remembered \nCome hear what the Summer of Love was like in the Tenderloin. Judy Goldhaft (original participant in the Diggers) and Eric Noble (Diggers archivist) talk with LisaRuth Elliott (Shaping San Francisco’s co-director) about who the Diggers were\, and their radical anti-capitalist philosophy and activities. They will share archival materials and personal experiences from the Diggers’ “Invisible Circus” Happening at Glide Church on February 24\, 1967. Stories about the “Invisible Circus” became legend in San Francisco’s hip community for years. Originally billed as a 72 hour event\, participants were thrown out within 24 hours. See the poster from the event and hear stories of the spectacle from the Diggers themselves. \n5pm\, David Talbot on the Summer of Love\, Season of the Witch\, and the Tenderloin \nAuthor of the best selling book on San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its aftermath\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist David Talbot gives his unique perspective on this seminal time in history. \n6pm\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot \nJoin us for the first-ever reading of scenes from a new play about Tenderloin history\, The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot\, based on events surrounding the United States’ first-ever anti-police riot by the LGBTQ community. Followed by dazzling drag performances by co-authors Donna Personna & Collette LeGrande\, and joined by Olivia Hart (all featured in James Hosking’s film about Aunt Charlie’s bar\, Beautiful by Night). The play is being co-produced by the Tenderloin Museum and writer Mark Nassar\, co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, and will premiere this fall in the Tenderloin. \n7:30\, SF Recovery Theater: Night at the Black Hawk \nJoin us for a raucous tour-de-force performance of some of the best musical talent in the neighborhood! Night at the Black Hawk is a live jazz concert\, part of an ongoing series that reflects on the lives and stories of the artists\, musicians\, and residents that lived in the shadow of the Black Hawk Jazz Club. \nParticipant Bios \nA former member of the Diggers\, Judy Goldhaft is an activist who has used art\, theater and education to further social change in urban and rural locations to promote community empowerment and bioregional ecological education. Judy has performed dance\, street theater\, life acting\, multispecies theater and single person performance pieces. Judy has been a guiding force with the ecological educational nonprofit Planet Drum Foundation since its inception in 1973\, serving currently as its director. She also gardens\, and is a maker\, repairer\, and reuser. \nAfter reading a copy of the Digger Papers while living in Ohio in 1968\, Eric Noble dropped out of college and made his way across the country to find the Diggers. From 1968 to 1971 he lived a peripatetic existence in lots of different communes along the way. Once in San Francisco in 1971\, he moved into the Kaliflower commune\, an offshoot inspired by the Diggers. Learning about how prolific the Digger movement had been in terms of written material\, he collected whatever he could find and became known as the Digger archivist\, so named by Peter Berg. His project\, the Digger Archives have been online in some form since 1995\, and continue to inspire people all over the world. \nShaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project dedicated to uncovering and sharing the overlooked and forgotten histories of the City. Through Free Public Talks\, Walking and Bicycle History Tours\, and our digital archive at Foundsf.org\, Shaping San Francisco seeks to make history together\, recognizing that “History is a Creative Act in the Present.” shapingsf.org\, foundsf.org\, diggers.org\, planetdrum.org \nDavid Talbot is a bestselling author\, journalist\, media entrepreneur and political activist. He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pioneering online publication Salon and a former senior editor of Mother Jones magazine. In recent years\, he has built a reputation as a popular historian with books such as the national bestseller Season of the Witch and the New York Times bestsellers The Devil’s Chessboard andBrothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Talbot has written for Time magazine\, The New Yorker\,Rolling Stone\, and other publications. He is currently a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also a cofounder of San Francisco Vision\, a progressive coalition that fights for “San Francisco values.” \nMark Nassar along with Tenderloin Museum director Katie Conry conceived of the idea of an interactive play based on the Compton’s Cafeteria riot\, inspired by the Tenderloin Museum’s exhibits on the subject. Nassar\, in collaboration with long-term Tenderloin drag queens Donna Persona and Collette LeGrande\, has spent the past year writing the play The Compton’s Cafeteria Riot. He boasts an impressive record of artistic success\, having written plays and screenplays\, and has also acted in theater\, TV and film. Mr. Nassar is also the co-creator of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding\, the longest running Off-Broadway comedy in New York City history. More recently\, he wrote the screenplay\, A Line in the Sand\, a film directed by Jeffrey Chernov\, in which he also had a principal role. In 2008\, the film won Best Feature and the Audience Award at numerous film festivals\, as well as the Grand Jury prize at the Canada International Film Festival. He also attended the Djerassi Artists Residency in Woodside\, California\, where he completed a new play\, Shouting in the Wilderness\, and is currently playing Sal the owner in San Francisco’s immersive hit – The Speakeasy. \nCollette LeGrande is the twice former Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has raised funds for charity in the Tenderloin for 30 years\, supporting AIDS Emergency Fund\, Magnet\, Mama Reinhardt’s Toys for Tots\, and many others. She has worked at Aunt Charlie’s since 1998 and organizes her own bi-weekly drag show\, the Dream Queens Revue. \nDonna Personna is an artist and performer\, who first hit the stage with the legendary Cockettes. She was the subject of the 2013 Iris Prize-winning short “My Mother\,” by Jay Bedwani\, and is currently in production with Bedwani on another documentary film. She serves on the board of directors committees for Trans March and the Transgender Day of Remembrance\, working to gain wider visibility for transgender rights. \nOlivia Hart is a chef by day and performer by night. She is the current Grand Duchess of the Ducal Court of San Francisco. She has organized and hosted numerous events to benefit the LGBT community and\, in particular\, organizations that support addiction recovery and sober living. \nThe San Francisco Recovery Theatre is a grassroots organization with a lot of local and some municipal support. It is funded by grants from the art and health community in San Francisco with no full time staff\, but with a core group of dedicated actors\, composed mainly of people in recovery. Its mission is to meet people where they are\, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope\, consequence and solutions. http://sfrecoverytheatre.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tenderloin-museum-turns-two/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T193000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Author Deborah Fleming \nAward winning hippie/Vietnam War novel Without Leave published by Black Mountain Press. Winner of the 2013 Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press\, the novel Without Leave places brave people into the hippie experience and turbulent antiwar movement of the 1960s and addresses the existential question of freedom of the will. \nPublished 47 years since the “Summer of Love” and 49 years since the troop surge that ushered in the full-scale American commitment to the Vietnam War\, Without Leave chronicles the stories of two alienated young people during 1967-70. David Shields goes AWOL from the Navy where he’d hoped to find training and focus for his life but instead finds boredom and disillusionment during deployment on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Haight-Ashbury region of San Francisco in 1967 he meets and falls in love with an artist\, Diane Cavanagh\, who drops out of college after a brutal rape and the death of the black man she loved. Through turmoil and separation\, they find they cannot escape their past.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-fleming/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20170430T032405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170430T032405Z
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SUMMARY:Chris Higgs\, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux\, + Cassandra Troyan
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-higgs-sunnylyn-thibodeaux-cassandra-troyan/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170515T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170515T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20170429T022133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170429T022133Z
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SUMMARY:The Odd Mondays Series
DESCRIPTION:The Odd Mondays Series at Folio Books \nMonday\, May 15th\, 7 PM \n3957 24th Street\, San Francisco \nA LITERARY POTPOURRI \nFeaturing Authors: Erika Atkinson\, Michael Helquist\, Andrew McIntyre\, Laynie Tzena. \nFREE ADMISSION \nERIKA ATKINSON signed up with the Canadian Foreign Service in Washington\, D.C.\, for several years\, after which she worked in administrative positions in schools\, colleges\, and universities across Canada\, the United States\, and various parts of Europe before settling in Bernal Heights in 1984. She is the author of five books. Two of them\, Happily Lost in Time and Place\, and More Miles and Moments\, are collected stories about adventures of happenstance\, about characters\, situations\, and experiences that were never planned. In her book Frozen Stillness\, she recounts her journey to Antarctica in 2010. Her first collection of poetry\, Exhort the Goddesses\, was compiled in 2015 to honor the Supreme Court’s historic decision that same sex marriage be declared legal across the United States. The most recent book\, Ode to the Castro\, is her dedication to the neighborhood she loves\, where she has now lived and played for nearly two decades. \nMICHAEL HELQUIST is an awarding-winning author\, journalist\, and historian. He has published in “Ms. Magazine\,” “The Advocate”\, “American Medical News”\, and “The Oregon Historical Quarterly.” As a medical journalist\, he consulted for the World Health Organization\, the Centers for Disease Control\, and the U.S. State Department. He was inspired to write the biography\, Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions\, because of Dr. Equi’s fierce struggle as an outsider to achieve independence\, and her commitment to social and economic justice. Helquist lived in Noe Valley for five years before relocating to the North Panhandle neighborhood. \nAfter years of traveling\, ANDREW McINTYRE has found a settled existence in San Francisco. He attended universities in England\, Scotland\, Japan\, and the United States\, and holds master’s degrees in Economics and Comparative Literature. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines\, including “The Mississippi Review\,” “3:AM Magazine”\, “Long Story Short”\, “The Copperfield Review”\, and “Pindeldyboz.” In 2002\, he was a finalist in Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. His short story collection\, The Short\, the Long\, and the Tall\, was published by Merilang Press in December\, 2010. He lives in San Francisco. \nLAYNIE TZENA is a writer\, performer\, and visual artist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published in “Bayou”\, “Event”\, “The Michigan Quarterly Review”\, “Sonora Review”\, and “Zone 3\,” among others; she has received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry\, was named on of the “New Voices in Michigan Poetry”\, and has been a Cranbrook Fiction Scholar. “Glimmer Train” recently included her short story\, “Egg\,” in the top 25 of its “Family Matters” competition. Tzena has been a featured performer at the Austin International Poetry Festival\, the Marsh Café\, the Monkey House\, and on Michigan Public Radio. \nConsider joining us for a no-host pizza/salad or other entré dinner ($15-20)\, before the reading\, 5:30 p.m. at the Haystack Pizza Restaurant\, south side of 24th near Sanches Street. \nThe 24 line and the 48 line and the J Church are the nearby Muni transportation lines available. \nwww.oddmondays.com \nOdd Mondays is presented by Judith and Ramón Sender and Folio Books. \n“You shall know the truth\, and the truth shall make you odd.” -Flannery O’Connor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-odd-mondays-series/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170515T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20161223T032904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T032904Z
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SUMMARY:Hala Alyan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a dazzling new literary voice\, Hala Alyan\, and her debut novel\, Salt Houses\, about a Palestinian family caught between present and past\, between displacement and home. \nOn the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding\, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel\, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day\, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can’t escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City\, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990\, Alia and her family once again lose their home\, their land\, and their story as they know it\, scattering to Beirut\, Paris\, Boston\, and beyond. Soon Alia’s children begin families of their own\, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. Lyrical and heartbreaking\, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hala-alyan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20170425T015219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T015219Z
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SUMMARY:Fenton Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Public Library presents  Fenton Johnson for a Launch Party in celebration of his new work\, Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays. Fenton will be in conversation with Andrew Lam\, author of Birds of Paradise Lost–which was a 2013 California Book Awards-finalist for First Fiction. \nPart retrospective\, part memoir\, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality\, religion\, geography\, the AIDS crisis\, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco\, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way\, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums\, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition? \nThe collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, All Things Considered and elsewhere\, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic\, from Burning Man\, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball. \nEverywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande’s Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. \nFenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds\, Scissors\, Paper\, Rock\, and Crossing the River\, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s\, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University. \nThe thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans\, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath\, of murder\, arrest\, re-education camps and new economic zones\, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force\, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration\, and in so doing\, the human heart. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New American Media\, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR s All Things Consideredfor many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, theChicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. Birds of Paradise Lostis his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fenton-johnson-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T200000
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CREATED:20170514T015657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T015657Z
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastridge Open Mic\nwith host Lorenz Dumuk\nTuesday\, May 16\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeature: Tyson Amir\nopen mic follows \nBarnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nTyson Amir is an author\, musician\, educator\, community organizer\, and freedom fighter born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In the spirit of The Dragon\, George Lester Jackson\, he endeavors to utilize any and all resources at his disposal as weapons to bring about the eventual liberation of his people. Tyson has been engaged in movement work since the late 1990s. His movement work has influenced his artistic work. Black Boy Poems\, his debut release as an author is an example of that. Black Boy Poems is a powerful\, timely\, and revolutionary body of literature that seeks to inspire his people towards liberation. Find out more about Tyson Amir at www.BlackBoyPoems.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20170425T012214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012214Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #24
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-24/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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CREATED:20170429T032427Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170429T032427Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday May 16th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Tatiana Molinar! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-3/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T143035
CREATED:20170514T020436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T020436Z
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SUMMARY:A Leak in the Speakers!
DESCRIPTION:Last teen open mic of the year\, organized by Rebound Bookstore intern\, Sami Stilson! Come by\, share this event with teens you think would like to be involved. Grown ups more than welcome! \nWriters\, singers\, rappers\, slammers\, speakers\, composers\, musicians\, etc. are welcome\, whether performing or supporting (drop-ins welcome)\nFriendly feedback!\nRSVP at reboundbookstore@aol.com. \nFree Refreshments! Meet like-minded artists! Safe space for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-leak-in-the-speakers/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
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CREATED:20170201T045614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T045614Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy\, discusses his new novel\, Borne. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer: \n“I’m loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.” ―Stephen King on the Southern Reach trilogy \n“VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension . . . Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It’s about science as a way of not only thinking but feeling\, rather than science as a means of becoming certain about the world. . . . Ingenious.” ―Laura Miller\, Salon \n“If J.J. Abrams-style by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic have let you down one too many times\, then Annihilation will be more like a revelation. VanderMeer peels back the skin of the everyday\, and gives you a glimpse of a world where science really is stretching the bounds of our knowledge–sometimes to the point where we can’t ever be the same . . . [Annihilation] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again.” ―Annalee Nevitz\, io9 \nAbout Borne: \nIn a ruined\, nameless city of the future\, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord\, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm\, the Company\, until he was experimented on\, grew large\, learned to fly\, and broke free. Made insane by the company’s torture of him\, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers. \nAt first\, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a discard from the Company\, which\, although severely damaged\, is rumored to still make creatures and send them to far-distant places that have not yet suffered collapse. \nBorne reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth\, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment that she resents: attachments are traps\, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary\, Rachel convinces her lover\, Wick—a special kind of dealer—not to render down Borne as raw genetic material for the drugs he sells. \nBut nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past\, not the present\, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets\, so is Rachel—and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There\, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer/
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=UTC:20170516T210000
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CREATED:20170320T103417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T103417Z
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SUMMARY:Granta: Best of Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:Every ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists will be announced on April 26; join us as we host some of the Best Young American Novelists! \nThe last issue was published in 2007 and featured an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nGranta’s forthcoming Best of Young American Novelists issue will feature new work from each writer\, creating a timely and authoritative commentary on the state of American writing. \nThe judges for this year’s selection are novelists Patrick deWitt\, A.M. Homes\, Kelly Link\, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. \nCheck back here on April 26\, when we’ll announce which authors will be in the store! \nMore Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/granta-best-young-american-novelists
URL:https://litseen.com/event/granta-best-of-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T210000
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CREATED:20170109T104318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T104318Z
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SUMMARY:Gordon Ball
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Ball is a poet\, photographer\, filmmaker\, professor of english\, and master storyteller. For 28 years Gordon Ball took informal photographs of poet Allen Ginsberg and other members of the Beat Generation\, the literary and cultural phenomenon which has had a world-wide impact since its inception in the mid-1950s. As well as being exhibited at five conferences on Ginsberg and the Beat Generation\, at one-man shows at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and other venues\, Ball’s photos have appeared in many books\, including Dennis McNally’s Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac\, the Beat Generation\, and America; Michael Köhler’s Burroughs: Eine Bild Biographie; Carole Tonkinson’s Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation; Steven Watson’s The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries\, Rebels\, and Hipsters\, 1994-1960; and many more. Starting at Ginsberg’s farm in 1968\, he worked with the poet on numerous literary and artistic projects\, editing three books\, including two volumes of journals and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry\, Politics\, Consciousness. He’s the author of ’66 Frames: A Memoir (Coffee House Press\, 1999) and Dark Music (Cityful Press\, 2006) Gordon now lives in Lexington\, Virginia\, where he teaches at the Virginia Military Institute. \nVisit: http://gordonballgallery.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gordon-ball/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T210000
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CREATED:20170501T131706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T131706Z
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning novelist Jeff VanderMeer will be in conversation with Karen Joy Fowler about his thrilling new novel\, Borne\, which has earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Booklist\, and Kirkus Reviews. \nIn Borne\, a young woman named Rachel survives as a scavenger in a ruined city half destroyed by drought and conflict. The city is dangerous\, littered with discarded experiments from the Company—a biotech firm now derelict—and punished by the unpredictable predations of a giant bear. Rachel ekes out an existence in the shelter of a run-down sanctuary she shares with her partner\, Wick\, who deals his own homegrown psychoactive biotech. \nOne day\, Rachel finds Borne during a scavenging mission and takes him home. Borne as salvage is little more than a green lump—plant or animal?—but exudes a strange charisma. Borne reminds Rachel of the marine life from the island nation of her birth\, now lost to rising seas. There is an attachment she resents: in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet\, against her instincts—and definitely against Wick’s wishes—Rachel keeps Borne. She cannot help herself. Borne\, learning to speak\, learning about the world\, is fun to be with\, and in a world so broken that innocence is a precious thing. For Borne makes Rachel see beauty in the desolation around her. She begins to feel a protectiveness she can ill afford. \n“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world\, and it’s a thorough marvel.” –Colson Whitehead\, author of The Underground Railroad \nJeff VanderMeer is most recently known as the author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy—the first volume of which\, Annihilation\, is currently being made into movie to be released by Scott Rubin / Paramount in 2017—and the coeditor with his wife\, Ann VanderMeer\, of The Big Book of Science Fiction. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and multiple year’s-best anthologies. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee\, Florida. \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of three short story collections and six novels including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s short story collection\, Black Glass. won the World Fantasy Award in 1999\, and her collection What I Didn’t See won the World Fantasy Award in 2011. Fowler and her husband\, who have two grown children and seven grandchildren\, live in Santa Cruz\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer-2/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T203000
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CREATED:20170504T053036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T011348Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Schelling + Jaime de Angulo
DESCRIPTION:This is the Bay Area book launch for: \nTracks Along the West Coast:Jaime de Angulo & the Pacific Coast \nMore than an immersive tale of the picaresque life of cowboy linguist\, doctor\, ethnographer\, and author Jaime de Angulo— the Old Coyote of Big Sur—but an exploration of the persecuted Native Californian cultures and languages that had thrived for millennia and endured into his day.\nJaime de Angulo’s linguistic and ethnographic work\, his writings\, as well as the legends that cloak the Old Coyote himself\, vividly reflect the particulars of the Pacific coast. His poetry and prose uniquely represented the bohemian sensibility of the twenties\, thirties and forties\, and he was known for his reworkings of coyote tales and shamanic mysticism. So vivid was his writing that Ezra Pound called him “the American Ovid\,” and William Carlos Williams claimed that de Angulo was “one of the most outstanding writers I have ever encountered.”\nIn each retelling\, through each storyteller\, stories are continually revivified\, and that is precisely what Andrew Schelling has done in Tracks Along the Left Coast\, weaving together the story of a life with the story of the land and the people\, languages\, and cultures with whom it is so closely tied. \nAndrew Schelling is a poet\, essay writer\, and translator. He works on land use issues in the American West\, and teaches poetry and Sanskrit at Naropa University in Boulder\, Colorado. In India\, he teaches at Deer Park Institute in the Himalayan foothills. \nRecent titles include Love and the Turning Seasons and The Real People of Wind & Rain
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-schelling-jaime-de-angulo/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170517T213000
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CREATED:20170501T131045Z
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges celebrates Work on Wednesday May 17 from 7:30-9pm with a reading at Pegasus Books\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue. \nCome hear \nAnna Rodas \nDawn McGuire \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nHeather Bourbeau \nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman\,  hosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with refreshments and bookstore cats!!! \nAnna Christine Rodas is an itinerant teacher and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her academic research has explored the social realities of war\, violence\, and poverty.  And her poetry is an attempt to bring to the page the many voices left out of books. \nDawn McGuire is a neurologist-poet and the author of four poetry collections\, most recently American Dream with Exit Wound. She has received numerous prizes\, including the Indie Book Award in Poetry and the Sarah Lawrence/Campbell Corner Prize for “poems that treat larger themes with lyric intensity.” Her work appears in Zyzzyva\, Nimrod International\, Narrative and numerous other literary magazines\, and has been featured in a New Yorker podcast selected by Poetry Editor\, Paul Muldoon.  \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.  His latest book of poems titled “Someone’s Dead Already” was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, “Heaven Is All Goodbyes\,” is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Cleaver\, Duende\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, Open City\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. 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. Her first collection of poetry\, Daily Palm Castings\, profiles people in overlooked professions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rakesh Satyal
DESCRIPTION:Rakesh Satyal presents his big-hearted and funny novel\, No One Can Pronounce My Name.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rakesh-satyal/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join MPC in welcoming Marin’s new Poet Laureate\, Rebecca Foust\, and showing appreciation for our outgoing Poet Laureate\, Prartho Sereno\, before the Third Thursday event on May 18. Doors will open at Falkirk at 6:00 p.m. for a champagne and cake reception followed by brief remarks by both poets at 6:30.\n\n\nRebecca Foust has published five prizewinning books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Huffington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the Constance Rooke Prize for Creative Nonfiction and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \n\n\n\n\nPrartho Sereno is the author of three poetry collections and has taught poetry to both children and adults. A graduate of Bowling Green University and Syracuse University\, Sereno has worked as a counseling psychologist\, college mediation instructor\, illustrator\, cook\, farmer and songwriter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sustainability Made Simple: An Evening of Learning and Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Sustainability Co-Op hosts a night of idea sharing to encourage\, recognize and celebrate the shift towards shaping a sustainable future. Signed copies of Sustainability Made Simple will be available for purchase. Refreshments from local\, sustainable companies will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sustainability-made-simple-an-evening-of-learning-and-ideas/
LOCATION:Third Plateau\, 209 Kearny Street\, 3rd Fl\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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