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SUMMARY:Oakland Book Festival 2017
DESCRIPTION:  \nOakland Book Festival \nFree and open to the public \nRead. Debate. Celebrate. \n  \nOakland Book Festival  \nSunday\, May 21\, 2017\, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nOakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \n  \nOne day – Seven Hours – 100 Writers – 50 Events \nThe Oakland Book Festival hosts over 100 novelists\, poets\, historians\, philosophers\, journalists\, editors\, and activists at City Hall\, engaging event goers in panels\, interviews\, and open debate. This year’s Festival will feature Angela Davis\, Judith Butler\, Danielle Allen\, Jeff Chang\, Arlie Hochschild\, Sheryl Oring\, Mistah F.A.B\, Wendy Brown\, Ishmael Reed\, Laura Albert and Anthony Marra (among many others). \n  \nChildren’s Area – Music – Booksellers – Food \nThe outdoor portion of the festival\, on Frank Ogawa Plaza\, includes a dedicated children’s area with performances from Children’s Fairyland\, “favorite-stories” read by librarians from the Oakland Public Library\, and book-making projects courtesy of Chapter 510. Oakland Youth Poet Laureate will be announced on the amphitheater at 1:00pm. \n  \nThere will be live music on the amphitheater all day. Booksellers\, magazine publishers and local literary organizations will have booths on the plaza; food trucks will provide nourishment. \n  \nAnd don’t miss … \n  \nKeynote Address  \nWhen: Saturday\, May 20\, 2017\, 5:00pm \nWhere: Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland CA  \nThe Oakland Book Festival 2017 will kick off with a keynote address on “Equality” by Danielle Allen at 5pm on Saturday May 20th in Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall. This event is free and open to the public. \n  \nOpening night Party \nWhen: Saturday May 20\, 6:30pm \nWhere: Starline Social Club\, 2236 M.L.K. Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA 94612 \nThe Starline Social Club will host a gala reception for the OBF from 6:30-8pm. This is an opportunity for you to meet the novelists\, journalists\, philosophers\, poets\, artists\, and editors participating this year\, from Danielle Allen to Sheryl Oring to Mistah F.A.B.\, privately and in person\, over the Starline’s delicious cocktails and food—all while supporting the Oakland Book Festival’s present and future efforts! \nPlease purchase tickets for the OBF gala here. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/975549984/2017-oakland-book-festival?ref=project_share \n  \nThe event at the Starline will continue with a general admission party starting at 8pm. There will be mercifully few readings\, many musical performances\, and non-stop dancing from 8pm-2am. \n  \nSocial Media Information: \n  \nWebsite  \nhttp://www.oaklandbookfestival.org/ \n  \nFacebook \nWe hope you will tag us on Facebook (Oakland Book Festival) \nThe Festival event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/268851293569074/ \nThe Festival Facebook page: http://bit.ly/obf-event \n  \nTwitter and Instragm \nOn Twitter\, find us @oaklandbookfest \n Instagram @oaklandbookfestival.  \nFor any posts on the day of the Festival\, please tag them #oaklandbookfestival.  \n  \nKickstarter \nhttp://kck.st/2qthU3p \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-book-festival-2017/
LOCATION:Oakland City Hall\, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaze\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
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SUMMARY:Poets @ Play
DESCRIPTION:Free parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.\nPlease enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side. \nQuestions? Call 408-368-0353\nRSVP recommended but not required: poetsatplay@pcsj.org \nWith this month’s leader Pushpa MacFarlane.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-play/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T153000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170502T011828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T011828Z
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SUMMARY:Sydney Clemens
DESCRIPTION:Sydney Gurewitz Clemens is an author of books for adults about helping children grow. She has given workshops for parents and teacher in 41 states\, New Zealand\, Australia\, Singapore and Nagoya\, Japan. \nA survivor of cancer\, she has written a cycle of poetry about that struggle; an activist\, she writes about those thing that need to be done\, or congratulated. \nA Q&A period and an open mic will follow Sydney’s reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sydney-clemens/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T170000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170516T001122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T001122Z
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SUMMARY:Alan Fleishman
DESCRIPTION:Local author Alan Fleisman shares his new work of historical fiction\, Odyssey of Chaos: And Other Stories. With the Gestapo pounding on every door\, no Jew in Athens is safe. At the start of Odyssey of Chaos\, Theo Kantos\, a dress shop owner\, has a desperate choice to make if he is to save his family. Does he trust the most despicable man he knows to hide them? Or does he place the lives of those he loves in the hands of a communist? And what does he do about his obsti-nate brother who always has to have the last word? Nearly 90% of Greece’s Jews perished in the Holocaust\, the highest percentage lost in any country. Odyssey of Chaos was inspired by the true story of the author’s Greek cousins who survived hidden in a cellar by a shepherd. Other cousins joined the partisan resistance. And others died in Auschwitz. Six contemporary stories follow the title novella. All are about dramatic events and choices that alter the course of lives and form who we are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-fleishman/
LOCATION:Belmont Library\, 1110 Alamade de las Pulgas\, Belmont\, CA\, 94002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T180000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170515T234114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T234114Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Kassidat
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of Bay Area poetry\, hosted by Bloodflower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-kassidat/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170515T235940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235940Z
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SUMMARY:Cole Swensen
DESCRIPTION:Nightboat books presents legendary poet Cole Swensen reading from her new book “Walking On.” Additional readers include Susan Gevirtz and more TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cole-swensen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170504T234002Z
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SUMMARY:Amber Flame w/ Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Amber Flame for the San Francisco launch of her debut poetry collection\,Ordinary Cruelty! With Amber will be the poet Arisa White—please join us! \nIn Ordinary Cruelty\, Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder\, mentor\, mother in the face of losing those figures\, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems rejoice in the brown skin of the female body\, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body’s processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we do. \nAn award-winning writer\, composer and performer\, Amber Flame is also a professional singer\, Hedgebrook alum\, and member of The Watering Hole tribe. Flame’s original work has been published and recorded in diverse arenas\, including Def Jam Poetry\, Winter Tangerine\, The Dialogist\, Split This Rock\, Black Heart Magazine\, Sundress Publications\, Redivider Journal and more. A Jack Straw Writer and recipient of the CityArtist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs\, Flame’s first full-length collection\, Ordinary Cruelty is just out with Write Bloody Press. Flame works with a Black independent media company\, This Week in Blackness\, co-produces the Oakland Slam\, and teaches workshops for all ages. Amber Flame is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn. \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\,dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collection You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-flame-w-arisa-white/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170505T000623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T000631Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Cole w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Peter Cole: \n“A matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work\, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” — Harold Bloom \n“His vivid\, sonorous English translations of secular and mystical Hebrew verse that was previously ­neglected or regarded as esoteric\, parochial\, or simply too difficult have remade the American Jewish canon.” — Joshua Cohen\, The Paris Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-cole-w-matthew-zapruder/
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:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170522T134812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet\, musician and old friend Clark Coolidge in celebration of two new releases\, Selected Poems 1962-1985 (Barrytown/Station Hill Press) and The Circus (Flow Press). \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170504T235607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T235607Z
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SUMMARY:Madison Smartt Bell
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Madison Smartt Bell to the store to discuss and sign his novel\, Behind the Moon\, on Tuesday\, May 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nWhen Julie skips school and sets off with her best friend and some local boys for a camping trip in the desert\, she finds herself the target of unwanted\, drug-fueled sexual attention. Running away in fear\, she takes a dangerous fall down the shaft of a vast underground cave\, and it takes two days for her to be rescued. Lying unconscious in her hospital bed\, Julie hovers between life and death as she travels in a seductive parallel universe inspired by remarkable cave paintings left behind by prehistoric humans.\nMarko\, her attacker\, tries to cover his tracks\, menacing those who know what happened in the desert that night. Jamal\, the youngest son in a family of Iraqi refugees living in Julie’s small town\, is one of his prime targets. He defies Marko\, keeping him away from Julie’s bedside and refusing to fall prey to his threats of violence.\nMeanwhile\, Marissa\, who gave Julie up for adoption fifteen years earlier when she became pregnant as an adolescent\, is following an instinct that leads her back to the daughter she once abandoned. With the aid of Jamal and a local Native American hitman/shaman\, she attempts to draw Julie back to consciousness. \nMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist best known for his trilogy of novels about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution\, including All Souls’ Rising\, which was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN/Faulkner Award. It also won the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf Award for the best book of the year dealing with matters of race. Bell is a Professor of English at Goucher College in Towson\, Maryland\, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program from 1998 to 2004. In addition to many books of fiction and non-fiction\, he has published essays and reviews in Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, and The Village Voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-smartt-bell/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170509T001028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T001028Z
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with Bay Area author Anne Raeff Tuesday\, May 23\, 7-8 p.m. at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Raeff will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Raeff’s short-story collection The Jungle Around Us is a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170425T014156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T014156Z
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SUMMARY:China Miéville
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the subject of his new book: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. \nAward-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down \nChina Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here\, on the centenary of the revolution\, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. \nIn February 1917\, in the midst of bloody war\, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later\, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country\, swept up in a desperately unpopular war\, rocked by not one but two revolutions? \nThis is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals\, in February and October\, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year\, of their intrigues\, negotiations\, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. \nHistorians have debated the revolution for a hundred years\, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events\, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence\, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. \nChina Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City\, Embassytown and This Census-Taker\, and has won the Hugo\, World Fantasy and Arthur C. Clarke awards; his non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He has written for various publications\, including the New York Times\, Guardian\, Conjunctions and Granta and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-mieville/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170516T001324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170516T001324Z
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Gettleman
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Gettleman\, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist\, will discuss his memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent and yet most beautiful places in the world\, Love\, Africa: A Memoir of Romance\, War\, and Survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-gettleman/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170425T012007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012007Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Gordon
DESCRIPTION:Mary Gordon reads from her new novel\, There Your Heart Lies\, a deeply moving novel about an American woman’s experiences during the Spanish Civil War\, the lessons she learned\, and how her story will shape her granddaughter’s path. \n“An emotionally and historically rich work with a strong character portrait holding together its disparate parts.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 23\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nMarian cut herself off from her wealthy\, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War–an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties\, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia\, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life’s purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian’s secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco’s war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer\, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years–personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia’s millennial generation\, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship. \nMarian’s story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain\, to reconcile her grandmother’s past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core\, this novel\, which explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history and passed down through the generations\, is especially relevant in our own time. Its call to arms–a call to speak honestly about evil when it is before us\, and equally about goodness–will linger long with its readers. \nMary Gordon is the author of seven novels\, including Final Payments\, Pearl\, and The Love of My Youth; six works of nonfiction\, including the memoirs The Shadow Man and Circling My Mother; and three collections of short fiction\, including The Stories of Mary Gordon\, which was awarded the Story Prize. She has received many other honors\, including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and an Academy Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Barnard College and lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-gordon/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170504T234200Z
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mat-callahan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170524T122335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T122335Z
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SUMMARY:Find Yourself Reading
DESCRIPTION:Find Yourself is an art exhibit that ponders the parallels between a revealing phrase in story-telling and a common occurrence while reading: “one finds oneself…” Artist/author Chris Kerr combines endpapers\, sentences by various writers\, and playful\, austere sculptures (using books he unwittingly found himself purchasing a second time) in order to guide viewers in contemplation of how we use statements like “I found myself [doing this]” or “she finds herself [thinking that].” The opening party on June 9 (7:00-9:30 PM) includes a find-myself-themed poetry reading at 8:00 PM by Genine Lentine\, Cedar Sigo\, and Stephanie Young!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/find-yourself-reading/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Chris Kerr":MAILTO:muddoctorkerr@yahoo.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T064500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T204500
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170519T110253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T110253Z
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event\, which is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers)\, occurs on Wednesday\, May 24th at 6:45 p.m. Come join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-open-mic/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170524T013618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170524T013618Z
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell + Robert Thomas Reading
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning local authors Peg Alford Pursell and Robert Thomas will be stopping by our store to read excerpts from their works!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell-robert-thomas-reading/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T184950
CREATED:20170504T232449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T232449Z
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SUMMARY:Magazine Launch Party: Forum (CCSF)
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family. Publication is open to any who have ever been involved with the school\, whether as student\, educator or employee. Forum is published twice each year\, once in both the Fall and Spring semesters. \nForum Magazine is a student-produced publication of the City College of San Francisco and the stories\, artwork and views expressed within its pages are not necessarily those of\, or shared by\, the college as a whole or its administration. \nFor those who wish to view or purchase copies of Forum\, you can find them for purchase at the Ocean Campus bookstore\, at the English department on the 5th floor of Batmale Hall\, or you can request a copy via email through editor@forumccsf.org. \nQuestions or comments concerning Forum? Interested in sharing a short piece regarding literary matters? You can also email us at editor@forumccsf.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magazine-launch-party-forum-ccsf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Brazil w/ Julien Poirier
DESCRIPTION:David Brazil celebrates the release of \nHoly Ghost  \npublished by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection from poet-scholar-activist David Brazil\, Holy Ghost is a hymnal with secular burdens\, poured from the mold of our actual life in common\, sung against its limits. It seeks a way to find and build a soul together\, and records the seekers’ findings along the way\, proposing love as our common human denominator. A record of the author’s struggle to forge a relationship between two distinct vocations—one historical\, as an activist (with Occupy Oakland\, among other projects)\, and one spiritual\, as he explores the path of radical Christian discipleship (in his life as a pastor)—Holy Ghost attempts to articulate an understanding of where class struggle meets the will of God. \nDavid Brazil is a poet\, translator\, and novelist. His books include The Ordinary and Antisocial Patience. With Kevin Killian\, he edited the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945-1985. From 2008 to 2011 he published over sixty issues of the seminal TRY! magazine with Sara Larsen. David co-pastors a house church in Oakland and works for social justice with the Faith Alliance for a Moral Economy. He’s a Scorpio. \nJulien Poirier is a co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse. He has taught poetry in New York City and San Francisco public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. Previous books include Way Too West (2015) and El Golpe Chileño (2010). City Lights Books recently published his poetry collection titled OUT OF PRINT\, as volume 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series.\nPraise for Holy Ghost: \n“All singing is contemporaneous in the heart\, & thus I’d call Holy Ghost heart-felt. It keeps time with the forms of its devotion\, touching various eras of diction\, prayer & song & verse & hymn. In the mind then\, all at once\, it does becomes a work of love; for the reader\, for paths of grace & liberation\, & for the singing that refuses to abide our time but takes its measure\, day by day\, in wounded\, contemplative poems. Everywhere it must be poor it is. It comes to us in penury because the search for company & love is the struggle of students & poets who seeks out such wealth in an era when they’re ever more in peril. So it arrives rich\, by which I mean empty handed\, & so doing makes the book into a little ball of light\, a trove of mercy’s tone\, & my heart’s treasure.” ––Dana Ward\n“Musings on Holy Ghost . . . remarkable loveliness . . . a Soul singing praises to souls\, free of general rancor . . . One of the special books of this decade and should be read by Souls or Ghosts or Geists in search of assurance and aware of Ecclesiastes’ Preacher who says that the souls of men fly up\, up\, up\, and that the undersoul of beasts dives down\, down into the earth. A key to Holy Ghost is that it’s all going at once in all directions. Each time Brazil’s extended poem folds\, or curls\, or shifts\, the point of concentration or consideration is experienced as if under a loupe of the spirit. It is clear that the Holy Ghost is everywhere at all times at once. The poem is not held to historical imaginings of time-space. Resembling the speech of Dogen in his visionary 13th-century fascicles\, or the Cloud of Unknowing\, or Saint Francis’ lamb in the furnace\, Holy Ghost does not speak about itself—it is itself. There is not wisdom to speak of because the field for wisdom does not exist except in a convention that is elsewhere. Brazil’s Holy Ghost is as Romantic as a long poem by Percy Shelley. An act of beauty—breath-taking. As unexpected as A.N. Whitehead’s Function of Reason and Christian Morgenstern’s nonsense poetry. Brazil brings to mind the tenseless\, non-subjective (not centered on the ‘I’ figure)\, and numberless of some Asian languages. I free-float in the presence of this wholly Kindness-Ghost as I would float in a Navajo world—like that world\, the surrounding is strange and natural. Bask in it . . . Slip in or out of it . . . Any muscular ring or reflection in\, on\, or part of the Holy Ghost\, is the Ghost. The Holy Ghost shimmers with Jack Kerouac’s Blues\, and on the page (typographically) can be as precise as Diane di Prima’s poetry and Leslie Scalapino’s . . . It’s not impossible to hear Kurt Cobain humming in the background.”––Michael McClure \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brazil-w-julien-poirier/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Sea Change Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Julian Shendelman\, Mya Byrne\, + Daniel Riddle Rodgriguez read from their works.\nMusic by Mya Byrne.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-sea-change-story-hour/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T213000
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SUMMARY:Claire Dederer w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:From the New York Times best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\, a ferocious\, sexy\, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. \nJoin us as we welcome Claire Dederer to celebrate Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning. She’ll be reading and in conversation with Peggy Orenstein! \nClaire Dederer is a happily married mother of two\, ages nine and twelve\, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and\, simultaneously\, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. This exuberant memoir shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager – when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. From her hilarious chapter titles (“How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years”) to her subjects – from the boyfriend she dumped at fourteen the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm\, to the girls who ruled her elite private school (“when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever\, but it turned out …they also edited all the newspapers and magazines\, and wrote all the books”)\, to raising a teenage daughter herself – Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly\, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman\, a daughter\, a wife. \nClaire Dederer is the author of the New York Times best-selling memoir Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses\, which has been translated into twelve languages\, and which Elizabeth Gilbert called “the book we all need.” A book critic\, essayist\, and reporter\, Dederer is a longtime contributor to The New York Timesand has also written for The Atlantic\, Vogue\, Slate\, The Nation\, and New York magazine\, among other publications. She lives on an island near Seattle with her family. \n Peggy Orenstein is the author of The New York Times best-sellers Girls & Sex\, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well asFlux: Women on Sex\, Work\, Kids\, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women\, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine\, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times\, Vogue\, Elle\, Time\, Mother Jones\, Slate\, O: The Oprah Magazine\, and The New Yorker\, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered and the PBS Newshour. Her articles have been anthologized multiple times\, including in The Best American Science Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-dederer-w-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joel Selvin + John Hell
DESCRIPTION:If 1967’s Summer of Love heralded a sea change in San Francisco\, the disastrous events at Altamont in late 1969 heralded quite another. In Altamont: The Rolling Stones\, The Hells Angels\, And The Inside Story Of Rock’s Darkest Day\, Joel Selvin\, longtime music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, details every way in which the presumptive “Woodstock West” dissolved into chaos and bloodshed\, a bracing reminder that some of the “good old days” were not as nostalgia would paint them. Joining Selvin onstage will be local radio luminary John Hell (Radio Free Burning Man\, Radio Valencia)\, for an in-depth Q & A about one of rock music’s most notorious moments.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-selvin-and-john-hell/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with East Bay author Lucy Jane Bledsoe Thursday\, May 25\, 7-8 p.m. at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway\, in Oakland. Bledsoe will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Bledsoe’s newest novel\, A Thin Bright Line\, is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. The New York Times says Bledsoe’s book “triumphs as an intimate and humane evocation of day-to-day life under inhumane circumstances.” \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DEFIANCE\, on Thursday May 25th\, 7-9 pm\, at Ale Industries\, 3096 E. 10th Street\, Oakland\, will feature Micheline Aharaonian Marcom (A Brief History of Yes)\, Brynn Saito (Power Made Us Swoon)\, Vernon Keeve III (Southern Migrant Mixtape)\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-defiance/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alan Lessik
DESCRIPTION:With non-fiction works include news articles published in the Advocate\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, and Frontiers\, local author Alan Lessik shares his debut work of fiction\, The Troubleseekers. \nThe Troubleseeker tells the contemporary odyssey of Antinio\, a native-born Cuban who confronts his gay identity in post-revolution Cuba and as a refugee in America. Narrated by the ancient Roman Emperor and demigod Hadrian\, The Troubleseeker weaves Cuban Santería traditions with classical Greek mythology to depict Antinio’s quest to achieve both freedom and love. \n\n“Lessik’s prose is always sympathetic and eloquent.” —Kirkus Reviews \n“An exceedingly rich novel\, reminiscent of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.” —ALA GLBT Reviews \n“This stunningly creative novel combines history and mythology from several cultures to tell the story of Antinio\, a gay Cuban man\, as he searches for freedom and love in the face of oppression and disease.” —Charles Green\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-lessik/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170501T130734Z
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SUMMARY:Ada Calhoun + T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:Ada Calhoun & T.J. Stiles in Conversation\n\n\n\n\nabout Calhoun’s essay collection\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. \n“This unflinchingly honest\, astutely balanced probe of a most perplexing institution asks all the right questions. It sets up a conversation with the reader\, who is challenged to reflect at each point\, choosing between ‘No\, that’s not me’ and ‘How did she know that?’ Most of the time\, she knows.”–Phillip Lopate\, author of The Art of the Personal Essay \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 25\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWe hear plenty about whether or not to get married\, but much less about what it takes to stay married. Cliches around marriage–eternal bliss\, domestic harmony\, soul mates–leave out the real stuff. After marriage you may still want to sleep with other people. Sometimes your partner will bore the hell out of you. And when stuck paying for your spouse’s mistakes\, you might miss being single. \nIn Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give\, Ada Calhoun\, acclaimed for her provocative essays in the New York Times Modern Love and Lives columns\, presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage\, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates\, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest. \nCalhoun’s funny\, poignant personal essays explore the bedrooms of modern coupledom for a nuanced discussion of infidelity\, existential anxiety\, and the many other obstacles to staying together. Both realistic and openhearted\, Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give offers a refreshing new way to think about marriage as a brave\, tough\, creative decision to stay with another person for the rest of your life. What a burden–Calhoun calls marriage–and what a gift. \nAda Calhoun has written for the New York Times\, New York magazine\, and the New York Post. Her book St. Marks Is Dead was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Boston Globe Best Book of the Year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-calhoun-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dan Bellm + Ann Pellertier
DESCRIPTION:Dan Bellm’s new book is Deep Well. Alicia Ostriker says\, “With a touch on the keys of language as light as the air we breathe\, Dan Bellm traces his mother’s death\, and abides her continuing presence…Deep Well is a book of the purest poetry I have read in a long time. I am grateful for it.” He’s published three previous collections\, including Practice\, which won the 2009 California Book Award. He’s also a translator\, whose books include Speaking in Song by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue by Mexican poet Jorge Esquinca\, and The Song of the Dead by French poet Pierre Reverdy. His honors include a prize from the Cleveland State University Poetry Center and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. \nAnn Pelletier’s debut full-length book of poems is Letter That Never. Carol Snow says\, “With each of these ‘imagined autobiographies’—unnamed\, evocative\, formally inventive—Ann Pelletier seeks\, seeks to offer\, a haunting solace at the edge of forgetting and being forgotten.” Raised in upstate New York; Madrid\, Spain; and New Hampshire\, she has been published in The Antioch Review\, New American Writing\, Volt\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bellm-ann-pellertier/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kerry Egan: On Living
DESCRIPTION:erry Egan discusses her new book\, On Living with Victoria Sweet. \n\nPraise for On Living \n\nThere’s nothing preachy about this book\, nor is it at all depressing — although it is terribly moving. This is a poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.—Elizabeth Gilbert\, author of Eat\, Pray\, Love \n\n“It’s a brave thing to walk into the rooms of the dying with no props–to sit down\, open your heart and your mind\, and be present to whatever comes up. But that’s exactly what chaplain Kerry Egan does\, and in On Living\, she reveals some of what she has learned. What does come up? Anger\, love\, regret\, secrets\, stories\, and insights\, well-told and well-felt.” —Victoria Sweet\, author of God’s Hotel \n\n“When I forget the importance of kindness\, when I forget to listen\, when I no longer recognize the comfort of a quiet presence\, when no words will help\, when I lose sight of what is most important\, I will want On Living within arm’s reach\, always. I love this book.” —Abigail Thomas\, author of A Three Dog Life and What Comes Next and How to Like It
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kerry-egan-on-living/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: MG Roberts + Melissa Eleftherion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by MG Roberts and Melissa Eleftherion\, with musical guest Heather Jovanelli \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nBorn in Subic Bay\, Philippines\, Mg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Drunken Boat\, Cream City Review\, the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies\, Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. She co-edited the anthology Nests and Strangers: On Asian Women Poets (Kelsey Street Press) along with Timothy Yu and is currently co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with her three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMelissa Eleftherion grew up in Brooklyn. She is the author of huminsec\, prism map\, Pigtail Dut\, the leaves the leave\, green glass asterism\, and several other chapbooks. Her first full-length collection\, field guide to autobiography\, is hot off the presses from H_NGM_ Books. ecent work is forthcoming in Glass\, Italian-Americana Review\, & Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel. ounder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange\, Melissa lives in Mendocino County where she works as a Teen Librarian\, teaches creative writing\, & curates the LOBA Reading Series at the Ukiah Library. More of her work can be found @ www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-mg-roberts-melissa-eleftherion/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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