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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Love
DESCRIPTION:“Even or odd\, of all days in the year\,\nCome Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.”\n\nIn honor of Juliet’s birthday\, Rolling Writers express and reflect on romantic love the evening before Lammas Eve (not wishing to compete with the myriad celebrations of Juliet’s birthday that will undoubtedly take over the city on Lammas Eve itself\, July 31; besides which\, we don’t show on Sundays). \nReaders\nLucille Lang Day\nRichard Levine\nRoy Mash\nKathleen McClung\nColleen McKee\nSarah Paris\nLaura Zink \nMusic\nEllisa Sun with Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-love/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Entwined: Sisters and Secrets
DESCRIPTION:The remarkable story of outsider artist Judith Scott\, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being rescued by her sister. From birth\, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies\, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt\, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome\, profound deafness\, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color\, texture\, and feeling ended abruptly when\, at age seven\, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept\, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered. \nFor the next three decades\, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother alone. Even so\, her life parallels her twin’s in surprising ways. While in college\, Joyce too is sent away\, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption. \nDecades later\, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After winning the struggle to become Judy s legal guardian\, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland\, California. Judy is hesitant at first\, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing\, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art\, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around found objects. With unflagging intensity\, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years\, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame\, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today\, Judith Scott s work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world\, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art. \n“Entwined” is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability\, loss\, reunion\, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir\, part biography\, it s a poignant and astonishing story about the art of embracing life.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/entwined-sisters-and-secrets/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express: Diane Moomey
DESCRIPTION:Diane has lived and wandered around the US and Canada. Now she dips her gardener’s hands in California dirt . . . and reads at poetry venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. \nHer poetry and short prose have appeared\, or are scheduled to appear this year\,  in Red Wheelbarrow\,Perfume River Poetry Review\, The Sand Hill Review\, Caesura\, Glass: a Journal of Poetry; the Faultzoneseries\, (California Writers’ Club anthologies); No Ordinary Language and Third Thursdays (the Willow Glen Poetry Project anthologies); Not Somewhere Else But Here\, Sundress Publications; Northwest Literary Forum\, Earth Prayers\, (Roberts/Amidon\, Harper-Collins\, 1991\,) Two-Twenty-Four Poetry Quarterly\, Blis\, Icon\, The Love Project (Anabasis)\, and Writing For Our Lives. One prose piece from this last\, “Grandmother\, Geo­thermally Yours\,” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. \nDiane has published three books under her own imprint\, Day’sEye Press and Studios: \nFigure in a Landscape\, a ten-year collection of poems\, in 2015 \nSilk Road\, Iron Bird\,  a long poem of pilgrimage\, 2011 \n. . . Place . . . \, a collection of prose and poetry\, 2010 \nPage on Poets and Writers’ Site:       https://www.pw.org/content/diane_moomey \nDiane is also a watercolorist and collage artist\, an experience that both seeds and is seeded by\, her poetic imagery. To view her artwork\, please visit www.dianeleemoomeyart.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-diane-moomey/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160801T193000
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SUMMARY:Aaron Burch\, Colin Winnette + Uzodinma Okehi
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Burch\, Uzodinma Okehi\, and Colin Winnette read from their latest books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-burch-colin-winnette-uzodinma-okehi/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160802T190000
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SUMMARY:Lori Ostlund
DESCRIPTION:California Book Award-winner Lori Ostlund celebrates the paperback release of her critically-acclaimed debut novel\, After the Parade. Sensitive\, bighearted\, and achingly self-conscious\, forty-year-old Aaron Englund long ago escaped the confinements of his Midwestern hometown\, but he still feels like an outcast. After twenty years under the Pygmalion-like care of his older partner\, Walter\, Aaron at last decides it is time to take control of his own fate. But soon after establishing himself in San Francisco\, Aaron sees that real freedom will not come until he has made peace with his memories of Mortonville\, Minnesota: a cramped town whose four hundred souls form a constellation of Aaron’s childhood heartbreaks and hopes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lori-ostlund/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Baruch Porras Hernandez hosts The News
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, August 2\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez hosts a night of queer/punk culture-fucking liberation w/sonic beats\, 6-inch heels & colorful explosions. Drawing from personal stories and experiences\, the artists writhe all over the map with Bollywood inspired dance\, machismo resistance\, comedic storytelling\, sonic mantras\, femme fierceness\, and kink infused poetry. Live performances by: \n• Fiera!\n• Kohinoorgasm\n• SNJV\n• Baruch Porras Hernandez\n• Wonder Dave \nTickets\nAdmission is FREE! SOMArts is offering free admission in hopes that if you can afford to donate\, you will support the artists onstage when the hat passes. We recommend reserving tickets on Eventbrite to guarantee your seat: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-newsan-evening-of-fresh-queer-performance-tickets-25214461132! \nPerformer biographies and links: http://www.somarts.org/thenewsaugust2016 \nAbout The News\nOn the first Tuesday of each month The News\, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center\, features new\, queer work by Bay Area artists. The News is a monthly cabaret style evening that spotlights 10-minute or less performance pieces\, experiments\, and works in progress by pre-selected solo artists\, groups\, or troupes. \nIn addition to artists selected by a guest curator\, a “wild card” performer or two appears in each line-up at The News. “Wild cards” are artists who may not have been selected by the guest curators\, but join in the evening to share new work. Artists interested in performing as a “wild card” at The News can find more information here: http://www.somarts.org/programs/thenews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/baruch-porras-hernandez-hosts-the-news/
LOCATION:SOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dave Madden\, Theodore Wheeler\, + Amina Gautier
DESCRIPTION:Theodore Wheeler’s Bad Faith \nWith results both liberating and disastrous\, the characters of Bad Faith flee the trappings of contemporary domestic life. A young father visits a college friend in San Salvador rather than face the anticipated difficult birth of his third child. A boy comes to terms with his fractured family and the disabled father responsible for him after his soldier mother is stationed overseas. A biracial man journeys across Nebraska for the funeral of his white mother and strikes up an improbable if dishonest relationship with a centenarian Irish woman. And in the collection’s title story\, the running narrative of a pathetic yet oddly compelling ladies man culminates in an unexpected and deadly confrontation. In Theodore Wheeler’s collection of prizewinning stories\, the herd can’t always outpace the predator. \n“These stories turn the reader’s expectations on their head as Wheeler spins stunning arabesques\, scoring the surface of his characters’ reality to reveal the malice\, confusion\, and ultimate frailty of us all.” \n– Jonis Agee\, author of The Bones of Paradise \nDave Madden’s If You Need Me I’ll be Over There \nThis debut collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of difference—one not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles\, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For these characters\, queerness is part of the environment\, like the soil\, the sky\, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers; a 17-year-old girl tussles with a cartoon cobra to avoid thinking about the mother who abandoned her; and a hotel concierge starts attending Mass even though his partner was molested by a priest. In seeking out the ordinary struggles of extraordinary people trying to figure out their place within families and communities\, I explore what it means to be an outsider always looking in. \n“Dave Madden has again given us a wonder of a book. These charismatic stories\, as funny as they are sad\, are attuned to the possibility of disorder beneath every human aspiration.”\n—Paul Lisicky \, author of The Narrow Door \nAmina Gautier’s The Loss of All Things Lost \nAmina Gautier’s The Loss of All Lost Thigns won the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award. It is a short story collection that illuminates the beauty that can be found in inconsolable loss. Gautier leads us through terrible reality but leaves us with the promise of hope and redemption. Contest judge\, Phong Nguyen had this to say about it: “Literary fiction that grips us and won’t let us go is notoriously rare. To offer us complex emotional experience and riveting narrative momentum\, and then to leave the reader in contemplation of its sophisticated themes and subtle weave of objective correlatives that is the stuff of literary greatness\, of art that demands to be read in conversation with the canon .Gautier’s stories have you by the throat\, and they surprise you with their mercy. \n“Quiet\, subtle\, observant–the stories of The Loss of All Lost Things are pictures of sadness that enrich an understanding of separation and despair. One after another they do what short fiction does so well: capture a character\, scene or place that together are much bigger than they seem.” —Shelf Awareness
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-madden-theodore-wheeler-amina-gautier/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Krys Lee w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Krys Lee presents How I Became a North Korean\, a debut novel that follows the lives of three characters as they struggle to survive in the complex and dangerous Chinese territory bordering North Korea. In order to escape their circumstances\, Yongju\, Jangmi and Danny cross borders—struggling against informants\, spouses\, thieves\, abductors\, and even missionaries in the process—and eventually cross paths with one another. Against a harsh and unforgiving backdrop\, they form a kind of adoptive family while they struggle to create better lives. How I became a North Korean is inspired by Lee’s personal experiences as a humanitarian helping North Korean refugees and it is a brilliant exploration of the persistence of humanity under dire circumstances. \nKrys Lee was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, raised in California and Washington\, and studied in the United States and England. Her debut story collection\, Drifting House\, was awarded the 2012 Story Prize Spotlight Award and was a finalist for the 2012 BBC International Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Narrative magazine\, Granta (New Voices)\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Conde Nast Traveller\, UK\, and other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Seoul. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\,The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/krys-lee-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
DESCRIPTION:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa\, the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English\, shares her beautifully written memoir\, Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love\, Loss\, and Belonging. After her mother dies in a car accident in India\, Tsering Wangmo Dhompa decides to take a handful of her ashes back to her homeland in Tibet. Dhompa’s story is interlaced with poetic prose describing the land\, people\, and spirit of the country as experienced by a refugee seeing her country for the first time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tsering-wangmo-dhompa/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime FORBIDDANCE
DESCRIPTION:Will feature S.G. Browne (Less Than Hero)\, Na’amen Tilahun (The Root)\, Rahul Kanakia (Enter Title Here)\, and others. \nProduced by James Warner with Ransom Stephens and Yanina Gotsulsky\, In our inaugural year\, InsideStoryTime was voted SF Weekly BEST NEW READING SERIES 2006. A fun\, cosy event where you can booze and schmooze with the San Francisco literati.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-forbiddance/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julie Rogers + Adrian Arias
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/julie-rogers-adrian-arias/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Watson\, Sakkis\, + Breiseth
DESCRIPTION:Group chapbook release and readings by:\nDELLA WATSON / JOHN SAKKIS / MEGAN BREISETH\n+\nCONFLUENCE\, by Kate Lee Short: a site-specific\, acoustic installation that draws the viewer through a sonic maze of shifting auditory tones and bold minimalist sculptures \nDELLA WATSON is the co-author of Everything Reused in the Sea: The Crow and Benjamin Letters (Mission Cleaners Books\, 2013) and a founding member of the Bay Area Correspondence School. Her work was recently featured in the anthology Remembering the Days that Breathed Pink (Quaci Press\, 2016). She tweets poetry as @alma_crow. \nJOHN SAKKIS is the author of RAVE ON!\, The Islands and Rude Girl + numerous chapbooks and ephemera. He has translated 7 books of poetry by Demosthenes Agrafiotis. Recent work has appeared in SF Weekly\, Harriet and SFAQ. He lives in Oakland. \nMEGAN BREISETH is the author of the chapbook Zia\, from Mrs. Maybe Press\, and a couple of yet-to-be published manuscripts. She lives in Alameda\, CA\, where she also works as a trainer\, coach\, tarot reader\, and mother. \nfeatherboard.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/watson-sakkis-breiseth/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Judy Halebsky + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, August 7th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Judy Halebsky and Nina Lindsay. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nJudy Halebsky’s most recent book is Tree Line. Dean Rader says\, “Robert Frost believed a poem should begin in delight and end in wisdom\, but inTree Line\, Judy Halebsky proves a poet never has to choose between the two—her poems begin in both and end in both. Smart\, sexy\, thoughtful\, and beautiful\, Halebsky’s lyrics are a masterful marriage of tradition and innovation.” Her first book\,Sky=Empty\, won the New Issues Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Her chapbook\,Space/Gap/Interval/Distance won the Poets-Under-Forty Award from Sixteen Rivers Press. \nNina Lindsay’s new book of poems is Because. It is a book that reminds us why it matters that we are here\, living our complicated lives\, our days crowded with houses\, buses\, work\, cafes\, bakeries\, fear and singing\, brief joy and “rapturous dust”. These subtle and surprising poems are deeply engaged with the present\, reminding us of how we are enmeshed with the particularities of existence. Musing and wondering\, grieving and praising\, these poems dwell in both the inner and outer worlds\, in the mysteries of our daily actions and our dreaming selves. W. S. Di Piero says\, “… Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen…The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught….The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous”. Her first collection\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published in 2007. She is a member of the Northern California Book Reviewers; among her honors is the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/judy-halebsky-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Krys Lee
DESCRIPTION:In How I Became a North Korean\, Yongju is an accomplished student from one of North Korea’s most prominent families. Jangmi\, on the other hand\, has had to fend for herself since childhood\, most recently by smuggling goods across the border. Danny is a Chinese-American teenager of North Korean descent whose quirks and precocious intelligence have long marked him as an outcast in his California high school. \nThese three disparate lives converge when each of them travels to the region where China borders North Korea—Danny to visit his mother\, who is working as a missionary there\, after a humiliating incident keeps him out of school; Yongju to escape persecution after his father is killed at the hands of the Dear Leader himself; and Jangmi to protect her unborn child. As they struggle to survive in a place where danger seems to close in on all sides\, in the form of government informants\, husbands\, thieves\, abductors\, and even missionaries\, they come to form a kind of adopted family. But will Yongju\, Jangmi and Danny find their way to the better lives they risked everything for? Transporting the reader to one of the most complex and threatening environments in the world\, and exploring how humanity persists even in the most dire of circumstances\, How I Became a North Korean is a brilliant and essential first novel by one of our most promising writers. \nKrys Lee was born in Seoul\, South Korea\, raised in California and Washington\, and studied in the United States and England. Her debut story collection\, Drifting House\, was awarded the 2012 Story Prize Spotlight Award and was a finalist for the 2012 BBC International Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review\, Narrative magazine\, Granta (New Voices)\, The Guardian\, Financial Times\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Conde Nast Traveller\, UK\, and other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in Seoul
URL:https://litseen.com/event/krys-lee/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Abbott
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Megan Abbott shares her much buzzed new novel\, You Will Know Me. With Starred Reviews from Publishers Weekly\, Kirkus Reviews\, Booklist\, and Library Journal\, You Will Know Me is a breathless rollercoaster of a novel about the desperate limits of parental sacrifice\, furtive desire\, and the staggering force of ambition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-abbott/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jedediah Caesar + Kate Costello w/ Dodie Bellamy
DESCRIPTION:Shop Talk brings creative practitioners from disparate fields together for a casual conversation about the conceptual overlaps\, or contradictions\, within their work\, as well as the personal stakes or investments that are involved in their practices. This summer\, Los Angeles based visual artists Jedediah Caesar and Kate Costello (AIRs ‘16) speak with San Francisco novelist\, essayist\, and editor Dodie Bellamy. Together they will unpack the themes that live among and around their distinct projects\, which often deftly undo all expectations—by employing formal upendings\, shifting narratives\, and destabilizing established notions of authorship and truth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jedediah-caesar-kate-costello-w-dodie-bellamy/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Catamaran Literary Reader\, Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Catamaran Literary Reader and some of their fantastic contributors–including Jacob Moniz\, Pat Zylius\, Vito Victor\, and Melissa Sanders-Self–for a celebration of the release of their Summer Issue\, Issue 14. Light refreshments will be provided!\n\nCatamaran Literary Reader is a gorgeous print magazine published quarterly and distributed nationwide and in Canada\, featuring the fine art\, fiction\, poetry\, and creative nonfiction of both emerging and established contributors from all over the world. Founded by Catherine Segurson\, who this year received a Gail Rich Award recognizing her work\, the collection often highlights works about the environment\, the artistic spirit\, personal freedom\, and innovation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catamaran-literary-reader-live-reading/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160809T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T003946Z
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SUMMARY:Knapp\, Kline\, Vossoughi\, Salvatierra\, + Matus
DESCRIPTION:Join Tracey Knapp in celebrating her month-long Poet-in-Residence at the Bazaar Cafe with writers Peter Kline\, Siamak Vossoughi\, Yaccaira Salvatierra and Gerardo Pacheco Matus. \nPETER KLINE teaches writing at the University of San Francisco and Stanford University. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he has also received residency fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House\, James Merrill House\, Marble House Project\, and Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares\, Five Points\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and many other journals\, as well as the Best New Poets series and the 2015 Random House anthology\, Measure for Measure. Since 2012 he has directed the San Francisco literary reading series Bazaar Writers Salon. His first collection of poetry\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. \nYACCAIRA SALVATIERRA was born and raised in California. Her poems have appeared\, or are forthcoming in the The Acentos Review\, Huizache\, Diálogo\, MiPOesías\, Puerto del Sol\, Rattle and Kweli among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, has received the Dorrit Sibley Award for poetry\, is the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in San José\, California with her two sons. \nSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI is an Iranian-American writer living in San Francisco. He has had stories published in various journals and his short story collection\, Better Than War\, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nGERARDO PACHECO MATUS\, a Mayan native\, was recipient of a 2015 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Work-Study Scholarship. In 2012\, The San Francisco Foundation awarded Pacheco the distinguished Joseph Henry Jackson Award. Pacheco’s poems and essays have appeared and are forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press\, Jambu Press\, La Bloga Online Magazine\, Grantmakers in the Arts\, San Francisco Foundation\, Spillway Magazine\, Transfer Magazine\, El Tecolote Newspaper\, Cipactli Magazine\, Amistad Howard-University\, Poets Responding to SB1070\, The University of Arizona Press\, APRICITY PRESS\, The Packinghouse Review & West Branch Wired. Pacheco was also selected to participate on “The Pintura:Palabra National Ekphrastic Workshops\, in tandem with the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Travelling Exhibit\, “Our America: The Latino Presence in America Art.”” Pacheco’s manuscript\, Child of the Grasses\, was chosen as finalist for the Andrés Montaya Poetry Prize in 2016. This summer\, Pacheco joined The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and became a CantoMundo fellow. \nTRACEY KNAPP’s first full-length collection of poems\, Mouth\, won the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award and was published in 2015. Tracey has received scholarships from the Tin House Writers’ Workshop and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fund. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2008 and 2010\, The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems (Red Hen Press)\, and has appeared in Poetry Daily\, Five Points\, The National Poetry Review\, Red Wheelbarrow Review\, The New Ohio Review and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/knapp-kline-vossoughi-salvatierra-matus/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160809T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160713T010906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T010906Z
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SUMMARY:Kaui Hart Hemmings
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Kaui Hart Hemmings returns with her new novel How to Party with an Infant. In this hilarious and charming story set in San Francisco\, food blogger and single mom\, Mele Bart finds herself involved in her ex-boyfriend’s wedding when he requests that their daughter be the flower girl. Mele has also agreed to attend the nuptials and finds herself quietly obsessing about Bobby and his fiancée. Out of desperation\, she enters the San Francisco Mother’s Club Cookbook competition and unexpectedly discovers the friends\, inspiration\, and comfort she needs to make it through. Author of The Descendants and The Possibilities\, Kaui Hart Hemmings has an uncanny ability to make disastrous romances and calamitous circumstances relatable\, funny\, and unforgettable. \nKaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence\, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel\, a New York Times bestseller\, The Descendants\, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is now an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection House of Thieves\, the novel The Possibilities and the YA novel Juniors. She lives in Hawaii.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaui-hart-hemmings/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160810T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160810T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T004227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T004227Z
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SUMMARY:Passages on the Lake 29
DESCRIPTION:Passages on the Lake rows on with our 29th edition rolling out Wednesday August 10th with the El Cerrito Poet Laureate Maw Shein Win\, New South Poetry winnter Xan Roberti\, Litseen Contributors Steven Gray and Jamey Genna\, musical guest Sebastian Poznansky and the Literary Tarot Reader Meg Hayertz! No cover\, always free\, with a full bar and restaurant on hand!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/passages-on-the-lake-29/
LOCATION:The Terrace Room\, 1800 Madison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160810T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160810T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160713T011213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T011213Z
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SUMMARY:Drew Magary
DESCRIPTION:Drew Magary presents The Hike\, a wild\, thrilling fantasy saga that chronicles one man’s epic life-or-death quest to return to his family after getting lost on a wooded path that leads him into an alternate\, dreamlike world full of man-eating giants\, garish demons\, and colossal insects. As a columnist forDeadspin and correspondent for GQ\, Magary is known for his brash commentary on everything from professional football to politics. Though The Hike is penned in his trademark\, hilarious\, no-holds-barred prose\, the story is inspired by classic fairy tales like The Odyssey\, as well as children’s books like The Lion\, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The result is utterly imaginative\, deeply felt novel—like a Salvador Dali painting on amphetamines. \nDrew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. He is the author of the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt and the novel ThePostmortal. His writing has appeared in Maxim\, New York\, NPR\, NBC\, The Atlantic\, Bon Appétit\, The Huffington Post\, the Awl\, Gawker\, Penthouse\,Playboy\, Yahoo!\, ESPN\, Rolling Stone\, Comedy Central\, and more. He’s been featured on Good Morning America and has been interviewed by theAV Club\, the New York Observer\, USA Today\, US News\, and many others. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drew-magary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160810T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160810T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T004413Z
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SUMMARY:Bruce Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins reads from his memoir\, Shop Around: Growing up with Motown in a Sinatra Household\, a part of The Music That Changed My Life series. \nAbout Shop Around: \nBruce Jenkins was twelve years old\, living in Malibu with his parents\, when he heard the original Shop Around single\, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey Robinson\, the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown’s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960\, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame\, but for young Bruce\, the first times he heard the song were a revelation. Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father\, Gordon Jenkins\, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash\, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother\, Beverly\, was a singer.\nFor Bruce\, Shop Around ushered him into a new world of loving Motown. In “Shop Around\,” he brings to life the first thrill of having the music claim him\, provides the back story of the recording (and rerecording) of the hit single\, shares sketches from his life with his father and mother\, and traces how his love of music has grown and evolved over the years and how he still loves driving around San Francisco with Motown cranked up on his car stereo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-jenkins/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160811T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160811T203000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160713T011450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T011450Z
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jennifer Barone
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/mahnaz-badihian-jennifer-barone/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160811T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160811T213000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160713T011651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T011651Z
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SUMMARY:Joe McGinniss Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Joe McGinniss Jr. presents Carousel Court\, a novel about Nick and Phoebe Maguire\, a couple  who has recently moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son. Both naïve in their actions and victims of the recent economic crisis\, they quickly become broke and desperate to claw their way back into the middle class where they feel they belong. Plotted in secret but under the same roof\, their separate agendas soon collide in spectacular fashion and leave them both wondering what the other is capable of. \nJoe McGinniss Jr. is the author of Carousel Court and The Delivery Man. He lives in Washington\, DC\, with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-mcginniss-jr/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160812T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160812T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T005751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T005751Z
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SUMMARY:Frederick Speers + Jessica Mejía
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with organizer of the Flor y Canto Literary Festival Jessica Mejia and Jam Tarts publisher Frederick Speers. With musical guest Poise. \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/frederick-speers-jessica-mejia/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160813T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160813T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160719T231902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160719T232005Z
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen: Summer Night of Evan & Miles Karp
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 8 pm on Saturday\, August 13th for the summer installment of the Lone Glen series\, featuring the poetry and polyvocal rhythms of Turk & Divis\, a collaboration between Evan and Miles Karp. Evan Karp\, founder of Litseen and director/creator of Quiet Lightning\, and his brother\, Miles Karp\, offer us an evening of unbounded delights that defy categorization. Find us at 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, and look for the signs pointing you to the side entrance to our garden and garage performance space. Bring a friend\, a beverage (if you have the means)\, and an open mind! Lone Glen is a quarterly writing\, art\, and performance series dedicated to cultivating more community and inspiration among artists of any and all genres. \nEvan and Miles Karp are Turk & Divis\, an intersection where chance\, rhythm\, and processed repetition collide with modified fragments of language to form serendipitous anthems and intimate\, often polyvocal meditations inside of those anthems. Old school samples and some of tomorrow’s most unusual hits @ turkanddivis.bandcamp.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-summer-night-of-evan-miles-karp/
LOCATION:Lone Glen\, 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160814T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160814T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160713T012517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T012517Z
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SUMMARY:Blackwell\, Hernandez\, Serrano\, + Dang
DESCRIPTION:Gears Turning Poetry Series: Hosted by Kim Shuck with Charles Blackwell\, Leticia Hernandez\, and Nina Serrano with music by Ed Dang. \nThis is a Calle 24/Latino cultural heritage district\nSecond Sunday\, Paseo Artístico event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/blackwell-hernandez-serrano-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160814T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160814T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T010511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T010511Z
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SUMMARY:Poets Upstairs: Chris Carosi + Amy K. Bell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Upstairs features Chris Carosi and Amy K. Bell. Read alongside them at the open mic. Come early to sign up\, stay late to jump in on our Exquisite Corpse! \nAbout the Authors: \nChris Carosi is from Pittsburgh and became fugitive to his family and friends to study at the University of San Francisco Creative Writing Program between 2009 and 2011. He is the author of two chapbooks\, bright veil (New Fraktur Press\, 2011) and FICTIONS (The Gorilla Press\, 2015). Some other work has appeared in Spring Gun\, Switchback (where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize)\, Your Impossible Voice\, and a few others. He lives in San Francisco with Rebecca and his cat Georgina\, and he currently works as a book publicist & digital marketer for City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. \nAmy K. Bell lives in Oakland\, CA. Her chapbook\, Book of Sibyl\, was published in 2013 by The Gorilla Press. She has been published in JERRY\, Transfer\, Cura and elsewhere. In 2012\, she co-founded Drop Leaf Press\, a woman-run small publisher based in San Francisco. \nHosted by The Great Overland Book Company \nCurated by Susan Calvillo and Genie Cartier
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-upstairs-chris-carosi-amy-k-bell/
LOCATION:Great Overland Books\, 345 Judah Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160815T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160815T210000
DTSTAMP:20260427T134952
CREATED:20160810T011029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T011029Z
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Lupton
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Lupton is a poet and writer\, montage artist\, and student of the dulcimer. She is self-employed doing odd jobs\, including reflexology\, caregiving\, and pet and house sitting\, She has featured and read at open mics in the bay area\, leads a memoir writing group at the North Berkeley Senior Center\, and cohosts poetry readings at Frank Bette Center for the Arts in Alameda. She also hosts the monthly talent show at Strawberry Creek Lodge\, where she lives with 149 other elders and her cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-lupton/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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