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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johanna-ely/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170626T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170626T210000
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SUMMARY:Amelia Gray + Rosecrans Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is doubly excited to host a joint reading by Amelia Gray and Rosecrans Baldwin to celebrate their anticipated new books\, Isadora and The Last Kid Left. Don’t miss this! \nIsadora \nAmelia Gray’s Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life; a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits\, even in the darkest days of her life. \nThe Last Kid Left \nRosecrans Baldwin’s The Last Kid Left is loosely inspired by a true crime in 1930’s New England. After a double-murder kicks off a scandal in a beach town\, a young woman struggles to create a life for herself and escape the lurid interest of a tight-knit community. This novel is a sort of modern day witch hunt\, involving the precarious lives of two teens\, a small town sheriff\, a retired big-city police officer\, and an aspiring young journalist desperate to make the pages of the New Yorker— they all collide in a media firestorm that threatens to swallow them whole. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amelia-gray-and-rosecrans-baldwin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards: Judy Grahn
DESCRIPTION:36th Annual Northern California Book Awards \nNorthern California authors are honored in Fiction\, General Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature with brief readings and remarks \npresentation of the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award to poet\, activist\, and cultural theorist Judy Grahn; NCBR Recognition Award to Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers\, by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames; master of ceremonies Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor\, presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library\, Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Public Library\, 100 Larkin\, enter at Grove\, SF\, free\, 5:30\, book signing reception follows (510/525-5476\, NCBR@poetryflash.org\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards-judy-grahn/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T203000
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SUMMARY:Patti Trimble + Toshi Washizu
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patti-trimble-toshi-washizu/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022132Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s popular comic\, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, On the Next Dream evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from Madonna’s home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. \nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series All Over Coffee and the author of two books\, All Over Coffee and Everything is Its Own Reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-4/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T210000
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race\, motherhood\, and history. \nAs a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel\, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant\, then toddler\, intensely aware of how they are seen\, not just as mother and child\, but as black women. With a poet’s eye\, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive\, yet threatening\, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. \nWith exceptional candor and grace\, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds―the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child\, living with illness\, conversing with strangers\, and counting on others’ goodwill. Across the nation\, she finds fear and trauma\, and also mercy\, kindness\, and community. Penetrating and generous\, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Habash + Julie Buntin
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Habash and Julie Buntin discuss their new novels Stephen Florida and Marlena. \nGABE HABASH:\nFoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding\, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season\, when every practice\, every match\, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane\, manic\, and tipping into the uncanny\, it’s a story of loneliness\, obsession\, and the drive to leave a mark. \n“Stephen Florida is an unforgettable addition to the canon of great literary eccentrics. At once a chronicle of obsession\, a philosophical treatise\, and a deeply affecting love story\, this singular novel is perhaps most profoundly an anatomy of American loneliness. Gabe Habash is a writer of powerful gifts\, and this is a wonderful book.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nJULIE BUNTIN:\nAn electric debut novel about love\, addiction\, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life\, and define the other’s for decades. \n“Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. She writes the kind of piercing\, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near\, sentences you find yourself remembering years later.”–Jonathan Safran Foer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-habash-julie-buntin/
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:20170628T064500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T204500
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CREATED:20170616T124636Z
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Reading
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-reading/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T200000
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SUMMARY:Laura Kamoie + Stephanie Dray
DESCRIPTION:In the compelling\, richly researched America’s First Daughter\, a novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources\, bestselling authors Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray tell the fascinating\, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter\, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy \nFrom her earliest days\, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly\, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter\, she becomes his helpmate\, protector\, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death\, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France. \nIt is in Paris\, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution\, that fifteen-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings\, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile\, Patsy has fallen in love—with her father’s protégé William Short\, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Torn between love\, principles\, and the bonds of family\, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter. \nHer choice will follow her in the years to come\, to Virginia farmland\, Monticello\, and even the White House. And as scandal\, tragedy\, and poverty threaten her family\, Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father’s reputation\, in the process defining not just his political legacy\, but that of the nation he founded. \nLaura Kamoie has always been fascinated by the people\, stories\, and physical presence of the past\, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary\, published two non-fiction books on early America\, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction as the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books. \nStephanie Dray is an award-winning\, bestselling and two-time RITA award nominated author of historical women’s fiction. Her critically acclaimed series about Cleopatra’s daughter has been translated into eight different languages and won NJRW’s Golden Leaf. As Stephanie Draven\, she is a national bestselling author of genre fiction and American-set historical women’s fiction. She is a frequent panelist and presenter at national writing conventions and lives near the nation’s capital.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kamoie-and-stephanie-dray/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170519T103032Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DESECRATION
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DESECRATION\, on Wednesday June 28th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, will feature Angela Pneuman (Lay it on my Heart)\, Saqib Mausoof (The Warehouse)\, Youssef Alaoui (Fiercer Monsters)\, Lyndsey Ellis\, and Peter Clarke. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns). This will be one of those BYOB midsummer roof-of-a-convent kinda readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-desecration/
LOCATION:Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #87
DESCRIPTION:Welcome our June writers Terry Lucas and Joan Baranow. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: In This Room (CW Books\, January 2016) and Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, October 2016). In addition he is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Altar Call\, one of four winning chapbooks selected by the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival for the anthology\, Diesel; and If They Have Ears to Hear\, winner of the 2012 Copperdome Chapbook contest (Southeast Missouri State University Press\, 2013). His work has received numerous other awards\, including the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Feature Award in Poetry\, the fifth annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize\, and six Pushcart Prize nominations. \nTerry’s poems\, reviews\, and essays have appeared in dozens of national literary journals\, including Best New Poets 2012\, Green Mountains Review\, Great River Review\, PoetryFlash\, and South 85 Journal. He has taught in the Chicago Public School System as a Master Poet in the Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center’s Writing Center\, and is a guest lecturer for the Dominican University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Formerly the co-executive editor of Trio House Press\, he is currently serving the press as an assistant editor in order to spend more time on his own writing\, as well as his work as a freelance poetry coach. More about Terry can be found at www.terrylucas.com. \nJoan Baranow\, PhD\, is Director\, Graduate Humanities\, and Associate Professor\, English at Dominican University.\nJoan is also Director of the newly launched Dominican Low-Res MFA program. \nHer poetry has appeared in The Paris Review\, Western Humanities Review\, The Antioch Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Squaw Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Cider Press Review\, The Western Journal of Medicine\, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery\, issued by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry\, Living Apart\, was published by Plain View Press. \nOur lively open mic follows our featured writers. We will have light refreshments\, and our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-87/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Kaitlin Solimine + Warren Read
DESCRIPTION:Kaitlin Solimine has been a Fulbright Fellow in China\, and has received several scholarships\, awards\, and residencies for her writing\, including the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award for an earlier draft of Empire of Glass\, judged by Colson Whitehead. Her fiction has been published in Guernica\, theKartika Review\, and numerous anthologies. Kaitlin is co-founder of HIPPO Reads\, a network connecting academic insights and scholars to the wider public. She resides in San Francisco with her husband and daughter\, where she is a 2016 SF Grotto Writing Fellow. \n  \nWarren Read is the author of a 2008 memoir The Lyncher in Me (Borealis Books)\, about his discovery that his great-grandfather had incited a lynching in 1920. His fiction has been published in Hot Metal Bridge\, Mud Season Review\, Sliver of Stone\, Inklette\, Switchback and The Drowning Gull. In addition\, he has had two short plays directed and produced by Tony winner Dinah Manoff. Warren earned his MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaitlin-solimine-warren-read/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T213000
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SUMMARY:Catherine Lacey
DESCRIPTION:Catherine Lacey discusses her latest novel\, The Answers\, with FSG editor Emily Bell. \nAn urgent\, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various aftereffects via the simulacrum of a perfect romantic relationship \nIn Catherine Lacey’s ambitious second novel we are introduced to Mary\, a young woman living in New York City and struggling to cope with a body that has betrayed her. All but paralyzed with pain\, Mary seeks relief from a New Agey treatment called Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia\, PAKing for short. And\, remarkably\, it works. But PAKing is prohibitively expensive and Mary is dead broke. So she scours Craigslist for fast-cash jobs and finds herself applying for the “Girlfriend Experiment\,” the brainchild of an eccentric actor\, Kurt Sky\, who is determined to find the perfect relationship—even if that means paying different women to fulfill distinctive roles. Mary is hired as the “Emotional Girlfriend”—certainly better than the “Anger Girlfriend” or the “Maternal Girlfriend”—and is pulled into Kurt’s ego-driven and messy attempt at human connection. \nTold in her signature spiraling prose\, The Answers is full of the singular yet universal insights readers have come to expect from Lacey. It is a gorgeous hybrid of the plot- and the idea-driven novel that will leave you reeling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/27432/
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:20170629T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T173000
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nAlyss Dixson \nAlyss Dixson grew up in Portland\, Oregon. She received the 2015 Joseph Henry Jackson award in fiction and is writing a collection entitled Fukuoka Woman. She has publications in The Callaloo Journal\, Day One\, and The Atlantic. She studied at Yale\, Columbia and San Francisco State. She also makes movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T210000
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SUMMARY:TransAction: Trans Writing as Activism
DESCRIPTION:Foglifter\, RADAR Productions\, Bay Area Writers Resist\, and Queer Rebels present a reading and panel discussion featuring prominent Bay Area trans writers and activists. \nThe event will examine the role of trans literature and aesthetic in the current American political and cultural climate. \nFeaturing:\nNatasha Dennerstein\nSam Dylan Finch\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nAkira Jackson\nShafer Mazow\nKay Nilsson\nAria Sa’id \nJulia Serano \nThe event is free and open to the public and created incoordination with TAJA’s Coalition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/transaction-trans-writing-as-activism/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Siobhan Fallon
DESCRIPTION:I’ll just read a little bit\, I tell myself. And really\, why shouldn’t I? \nBoth Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the US Embassy in Jordan\, but that’s about all the women have in common. After two years\, Cassie’s an expert on the rules of the Middle East. For newly arrived Margaret\, the move is a chance to see the world and explore. Against the odds the two strike up a friendship\, until their husbands deploy and Cassie senses her new friend pulling away. \nSo when a fender-bender supposedly sends Margaret to the local police station\, Cassie remains alone in the Brickshaw apartment to watch over Margaret’s toddler son. But with Margaret missing for hours Cassie becomes bored and soon frustrated\, tired of being left behind while Margaret adventures. Then she discovers her friend’s journal. Where could Margaret be? Could her diary reveal the secrets that have come between them? \nWritten with stunning prose and powerful emotional insight\, here is a story of two unforgettable women and the choices each will make in friendship\, in marriage\, and in love. The Confusion of Languages offers a poignant glimpse into the private lives of husbands\, wives\, and American military families living overseas. \nSiobhan Fallon is the author of The 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone. She earned her MFA at the New School in New York City and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post Magazine\, Women’s Day\, Good Housekeeping\, Prairie Schooner\, Publishers Weekly\, The Huffington Post\, NPR’s The Morning Edition\, and Military Spouse magazine. Siobhan and her family moved to Jordan in 2011\, and they currently live in Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/siobhan-fallon/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Anastasia Aukeman w/ Deborah Treisman
DESCRIPTION:Anastasia Aukeman in discussion with Deborah Treisman\, moderated by Paul Yamazaki \nAnastasia Aukman\, author of Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association meets Deborah Treisman\, co-author with Walter Hopps and Anne Doran of The Dream Colony: A Life in Art. They will explore two enigmatic and influential figures in the world of art and how their work intersected via art creation and curation. City Lights very own Paul Yamazaki will moderate an evening of discussion that traverses the San Francisco\, Los Angeles\, and national art scenes. Mid-century San Francisco artist Bruce Conner and legendary arts curator Walter Hopps walked in familiar worlds. The Rat Bastard Protective Association intersected with Wallace Berman’s Semina Scene of which Hopps was a supporter (and integral part of) via the Ferus Gallery. Through following the threads that connected artists with each other and the gallery scenes that supported them\, we hope to show the rich history that California mid-century artists and curators shared. \nAnastasia Aukeman is an art historian and curator who teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York City. She has contributed essays to numerous exhibition catalogues and written articles and reviews for Art in America\, Art on Paper\, and ARTnews\, among other publications. \nDeborah Treisman is the fiction editor of The New Yorker. This year\, she won the Maxwell E. Perkins Award for distinguished achievement in the field of fiction. She has edited 20 Under 40: Stories From The New Yorker. \nPaul Yamazaki has been the principal buyer and board member at City Lights Booksellers for over 30 years. He has served on the boards of the Council of Literary Magazines & Presses\, Small Press Distribution\, Kearny Street Workshop\, and has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts\, California Arts Council and many others. He recently spoke at the Menil Collection in Houston\, Texas discussing the history of City Lights in relation to the BEAT Generation for the exhibit Holy Barbarians: Beat Culture on the West Coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anastasia-aukeman-deborah-treisman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170605T102529Z
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SUMMARY:Barry Eisler
DESCRIPTION:Barry Eisler returns to Kepler’s for the release of the newest John Rain novel\, Zero Sum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-eisler/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170629T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170629T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170619T140734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022441Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Barkan
DESCRIPTION:Josh Barkan in conversation about his new story collection\, Mexico. \nThe unforgettable characters in Josh Barkan’s astonishing and beautiful story collection–chef\, architect\, nurse\, high school teacher\, painter\, beauty queen\, classical bass player\, plastic surgeon\, businessman\, mime–are simply trying to lead their lives and steer clear of violence. Yet\, inevitably\, crime has a way of intruding on their lives all the same. A surgeon finds himself forced into performing a risky procedure on a narco killer. A teacher struggles to protect lovestruck students whose forbidden romance has put them in mortal peril. A painter’s freewheeling ways land him in the back of a kidnapper’s car. Again and again\, the walls between “ordinary life” and cartel violence are shown to be paper thin\, and when they collapse the consequences are life-changing. \nThese are stories about transformation and danger\, passion and heartbreak\, terror and triumph. They are funny\, deeply moving\, and stunningly well-crafted\, and they tap into the most universal and enduring human experiences: love even in the face of danger and loss\, the struggle to grow and keep faith amidst hardship and conflict\, and the pursuit of authenticity and courage over apathy and oppression. With unflinching honesty and exquisite tenderness\, Josh Barkan masterfully introduces us to characters that are full of life\, marking the arrival of a new and essential voice in American fiction. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-barkan/
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:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170619T130430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170624T003854Z
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SUMMARY:Curate & Create
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of community celebration\, a ‘thank you’ reading for the labor and efforts of local literary curators\, Amy Berkowitz and Paul Ebenkamp. Snacks and drinks will be provided. \nIf you are a curator and would like to read in the future\, please reach out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alley-cat-books-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170630T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170630T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170629T052835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T052835Z
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SUMMARY:THE BEATS AND BEYOND
DESCRIPTION:Come and experience the poetry of the Beat Generation with musical accompaniment. Featuring the works of Herbert Huncke\, Michael McClure\, Diane di Prima\, John Weiners\, Alden Van Buskirk\, and others\, read by younger poets influenced by their works. \n\nClive Matson\nAndy Halsig\nMartine Algier\nAntonio the Rapper\nKwesi the Dreamer\nBob Booker\n\nand Cori Hartwig on guitar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-beats-and-beyond/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170701T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170701T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170511T040841Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170511T040841Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday Readings
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2017:\n \nJune 3\, July 1\, August 5\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\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-readings/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170701T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170701T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170515T232703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170603T022006Z
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SUMMARY:Yuri Herrera: Kingdom Cons
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Art of Translation and Green Apple Books on the Park welcomes Mexican author Yuri Herrera in conversation with Bay Area writer Caille Millner. Come hear “Mexico’s greatest novelist\,” according to Francisco Goldman\, discuss his new book Kingdom Cons.  \nTranslated by Lisa Dillman and published by And Other Stories\, Kingdom Cons is part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance. In the court of the King\, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads\, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. In Kingdom Cons\, Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power. \n  \n\nPraise for Yuri Herrera \n“Herrera’s metaphors grasp the freedom\, and the alarming disorientation\, of transition and translation.” Maya Jaggi\, The Guardian  \n“Yuri Herrera’s tiny\, beautiful novels each conjure myth and metaphor from a contemporary experience in a precise location\, transformed by archaic-colloquial prose.” Lorna Scott-Fox\, Times Literary Supplement
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yuri-herrera-kingdom-cons/
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:20170703T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170703T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170622T013726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T013726Z
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SUMMARY:Connie Post
DESCRIPTION:Connie Post served as Poet Laureate of Livermore\, California (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared dozens of journals\, including Calyx\, Comstock Review\,Cold Mountain Review Slipstream\,Spillway Spoon River Poetry Review\, Valparaiso Poetry Review and Verse Daily. She has written seven books of poetry. Her first full length Book “Floodwater” (Glass Lyre Press 2014) won the Lyrebird Award. Her other awards include the Caesura Award and the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/connie-post/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170703T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170703T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170619T125105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T005006Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Free literary mixtape! Free books featuring all selected writing + art by Maricruz Mendoza for the first 100 people! \nSIDE A (~30min):\nSiamak Vossoughi\nPeter Bullen\nNorma Smith\nKristina Ten\nZephir O’Meara\nSally Saunders\nAllison Landa\nKarthik Sethuraman\nJon Sindell \nintermission w/cheap ice cold keg from Lagunitas \nSIDE B (~25min):\nJaida Samudra\nMargaret McCarthy\nJohn Panzer\nCaroline Kessler\nTownsend Walker\nDavid Katz\nA.D. Winans \nThanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, this is a free show and all selected authors will be paid! \nLinks to the artists + more\, including footage + pics from our last show @ Adobe: http://quietlightning.org/adobe-books/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170705T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170705T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170605T102355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T020655Z
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SUMMARY:Mackenzi Lee w/ Anna-Marie McLemore
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate McKenzi Lee’s hilarious and swashbuckling 18th-century romantic adventure\, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue about a young bisexual British lord who embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe. This is a witty\, romantic\, and exceedingly smart look at discovering one’s place in the world and explores the undeniably fine lines between friendship and love. Mackenzi will be in conversation with Anna-Marie McLemore\, author of The Weight of Feathers and When the Moon was Ours
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mackenzi-lee-in-conversation-with-anna-marie-mclemore/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170705T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170705T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170616T123253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170616T123253Z
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Dennis J. Bernstein\, Sharon Coleman\, James Cagney\, and Sara McAulay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170706T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170619T113055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113055Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Charif Shanahan
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nCharif Shanahan \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, and A Public Space. A two-time Puschart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-charif-shanahan/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170706T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170620T224454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T122750Z
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SUMMARY:Wayne + Rick's Big Oakland Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman and Rick May celebrate the publication of their new books Friday\, July 7\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland with friends Natasha Dennerstein and Hilary Zaid. Goodman’s new novel Better Angels is a retelling for modern readers of the first known American Gay novel\, Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor\, published in 1869. May’s new book is the paperback edition of his short-story collection Inhuman Beings: Monsters\, Myths\, & Science Fiction. Dennerstein reads from her two latest books\, Seahorse and Triptych Caliform\, and Zaid reads from her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars. Free refreshments\, door prizes\, and party favors! Signing by all four authors follows the readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-ricks-big-oakland-publication-party/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170706T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T130300
CREATED:20170619T132925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T010929Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith May
DESCRIPTION:An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction\, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly\, it is a story that must be told\, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. I\, Who Did Not Die is the untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless\, barbaric wars. \nLittle has been written of the Iran-Iraq war\, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century\, one fought with chemical weapons\, ballistic missiles\, and cadres of child soldiers. \nThe numbers involved are staggering:\n—All told\, it claimed 700\,000 lives—200\,000 Iraqis\, and 500\,000 Iranians.\n—Young men of military service age—eighteen and above in Iraq\, fifteen and above in Iran—died in the greatest numbers.\n—80\,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed\, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.\n—The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war. \nRarely does this kind of reportage succeed so power- fully as literature. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle\, where her 2004 narrative series on a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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