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SUMMARY:Jackie Townsend
DESCRIPTION:Jackie Townsend shares her compelling new novel\, The Absence of Evelyn. Newly divorced Rhonda\, haunted by her sister Evelyn’s ghost\, travels to an old palazzo in Rome to confront Marco\, the man who stole her sister’s heart–only to find out he’s vanished in the wake of Evelyn’s death. Meanwhile\, Rhonda’s nineteen-year-old daughter Olivia\, adopted by Rhonda at birth\, travels to the mysterious and lush waters of northern Vietnam\, where she’s been summoned by the missing Marco–a man she only knows from her parents’ whispers\, a man she has never met or seen. Soon\, truths are exposed and lives unraveled\, and the real journey begins. Four lives in all\, spanning three continents\, are now bound together in an unfathomable way–and they tell a powerful story about love in all its incarnations\, filial and amorous\, healing and destructive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-townsend/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Trane to Africa
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month featuring Charles Curtis Blackwell Jazz Poet Extraordinaire\,Victor Mavedzenge Spoken Word Artist from Zimbabwe\, Greer Rockett on Trumpet and special guests. More details coming soon…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/trane-to-africa/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanghai Faithful: Jennifer Lin
DESCRIPTION:Former China correspondent Jennifer Lin dramatizes 150 years of her family history in her new book\, Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family\, (Rowman & Littlefield\, March 2017). A reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer for 31 years\, Lin used her skills as a reporter to weave oral history and archival resources into a narrative spanning five generations. Shanghai Faithful presents a poignant portrait of a family as well as a vivid history of Christianity in China\, stretching from the 19-century mission outposts of South China to the cathedrals of war-torn Shanghai and today’s thriving house churches at the heart of China’s unprecedented religious revival.  The program will be conducted in English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanghai-faithful-jennifer-lin/
LOCATION:Chinatown Meeting Room\, 1135 Powell Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Call & Response: Readings by 100 Days Action Poets
DESCRIPTION:Action by: 100 Days Action \nDate/Time\nDate(s) – 04/29/2017\n2:00 pm – 3:30 pm \nLocation\nClarion Alley\nClarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110 \n\nACTION: ON THE 99TH DAY THERE WAS POETRY\n100 Days Action comes to Clarion Alley\n\n\nIn these turbulent months\, its the poets who have carried our thoughts. 100 Days Action has published poems by more than a dozen poets since the Inauguration. For our closing\, we bring these unique voices to the historic Clarion Alley reading series for an afternoon of solidarity\, joy\, grim resilience\, and a way forward. In addition to the poetry\, CAMP’s community partner\, The San Francisco Poster Syndicate\, will be live silk screening posters of resistance. \nFeatured Poets:\nHeather Bourbeau\nJosh Wilson\nAndy Sano\nMk Chavez\nYvonne Campbell\nCyrus Armajani\nMaw Shein Win\nJason Wyman\nRaina J. León\nAmos White\nCaitlin Myer\nChristine No\nBonnie Kwong \n“Call & Response” is curated by Maw Shein Win and Ingrid Rojas Contreras. More information about can be found on our Facebook page\, or by contacting Maw Shein Win at maw@redbridgepress.com. \n\nWant to hear about more events and updates? Sign up for our newsletter below!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/call-response-readings-by-100-days-action-poets/
LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="100 Days Action":MAILTO:info@100daysaction.net
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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshop: Writing Home
DESCRIPTION:RAWI is excited to launch it’s second In Solidarity: RAWI Creative Writing Workshops in San Francisco! \nPlease join us for a poetry workshop\, “Writing Home” led by Deema K Shehabi at the Presidio Branch Library Community Room. \nWorkshop: Writing Home \nHaving lost our way home through dystopia\, exile\, and creeping environmental degradation\, how is it possible to reconstruct and/or recreate the idea of home through writing? By reading and studying a mix of contemporary poets who write about this theme\, this workshop will seek to place participants in a space where they can negotiate their identities through language and explore the relationship between the cultures\, histories\, and geographical locations of their original national and ethnic group. \nThe workshop includes a discussion and featured readings by Nathalie Khankan\, Lena Khalif Tuffah\, and Priscilla Wathington. \nRegister for free here.\n(Note: this program is not sponsored by San Francisco Public Library) \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-workshop-writing-home/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:Michael Chabon joins us on Independent Bookstore Day to read from his new novel\, Moonglow. The classic arcade game Moon Patrol will also be available to play! \n\nPraise for Moonglow \n\n“Elegiac and deeply poignant … Chabon weaves these knotted-together tales together into a tapestry that’s as complicated\, beautiful and flawed as an antique carpet…. Chabon is one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists…. In Moonglow\, he writes with both lovely lyricism and highly caffeinated fervor.” — Michiko Kakutani \n\n“Mix[es] in generous dollops of meaning\, a sprinkling of fancy metaphors and an abundance of beautiful sentences so that it becomes a rich and exotic confection. Too strict a recipe would have spoiled the charm of this layer cake of nested memories and family legends.… This book is beautiful.” — A.O. Scott \n\nA flamboyantly imaganitive work of fiction dressed in the sheep’s clothing of autobiography….His most confident and complex performance….Moonglow is a movingly bittersweet novel that balances wonder with lamentation.” — Sam Sacks\, The Wall Street Journal \n\nAbout Moonglow \n\nMoonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as “my grandfather.” It is a tale of madness\, of war and adventure\, of sex and marriage and desire\, of existential doubt and model rocketry\, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury\, and\, above all\, of the destructive impact—and the creative power—of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother\, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. \nFrom the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany\, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison\, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the “American Century\,” the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth\, a work of fictional nonfiction\, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir\, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-2/
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:Saturday Night Special: An "Elevator Pitch" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:We’re locked in an elevator together. For the next three minutes (or less) I am your captive audience. What will you try to sell me? Give me your best elevator pitch. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, dances\, or sales pitches on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur April features are: K.R. Morrison & Robert Andrew Andres Perez Jr\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, April 29th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nWhen she’s not writing poems or drumming in an all-girl garage rock band\, K.R. MORRISON teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to inner city high school students at Galileo in San Francisco\, CA. Writing for many years\, she finally reads at open mics around the Bay Area\, including many Saturday Night Specials. K.R. Morrison has been featured twice in Bay Area Generations\, and her first publication “When in Mexico” appeared in Switchback Magazine in July\, 2016. She’s currently working on a poetry collection entitled\, “From Her Wrist\,” and hopes to have it published by someone awesome once it’s done. \nBorn in Manila & raised in the sprawling outer edges of Los Angeles County\, ROBERT ANDREW PEREZ moved to the Bay Area to earn his BA from Berkeley & MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California\, where he occasionally teaches. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His first poetry collection\, “The Field\,” was released in fall 2016 from Omnidawn. His work has also appeared or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, Eleven Eleven\, The Laurel Review\, The Cortland Review\, and Fourteen Hills. His poetry was also featured in Public Pool and Vinyl Poetry. He’s a 2017 guest editor for the online journal The Elephants. Currently\, he’s in the throes of finishing a feature-length comedy about a divorce and wine tasting called “Stone Fruit.” More at robertandrewperez.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-elevator-pitch-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen Welcomes BACS
DESCRIPTION:Lone Glen welcomes BACS\, April 29th!\nApril 10\, 2017\n\n\nLone Glen presents The Bay Area Correspondence School Variety Show and Art Extravaganza! \nOn Saturday evening\, April 29th at 7:30 pm\, come help us celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Bay Area Correspondence School with an evening of poetry\, music\, dance\, and art. We’ll have interactive mail-art activities\, copies of our new chapbook\, tasty refreshments\, and an epistolary-themed variety show. The evening will feature performances and art by Ramsay Bell Breslin\, Joe Cha\, MK Chavez\, Pat Dienstfrey\, Amber DiPietra\, Tiff Dressen\, Patrick Duggan\, Gloria Frym\, Margit Galanter\, Erin Heath\, Evan and Miles Karp of Turk and Divis\, Kristin Kong\, Raina Leon\, Alexandra Mattraw\, Sarah Rosenthal\, Heidi Smith\, Adam Thorman\, Marissa Bell Toffoli\, Della Watson\, Jessica Wickens\, Valerie Witte\, and more! \nJoin us at Lone Glen’s home: 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland. Bring a friend\, a beverage (if you have the means)\, and an open mind. When you arrive\, look for signs pointing you to the side entrance for our garden and garage performance space. \nThe Bay Area Correspondence School (BACS) is a project that explores experimental writing through online and offline communications\, including mail\, email\, and social media. Mail art and other work by our network can be viewed on our page: https://www.facebook.com/BayAreaCorrespondenceSchool/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-welcomes-bacs/
LOCATION:Lone Glen\, 3132 Harrison Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Lone Glen":MAILTO:anoncheval at gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Paul Elias Taylor Celebration of Life
DESCRIPTION:Please save this date to celebrate Paul’s life. We have reserved the community room at Redwood Gardens where his 70th birthday poetry reading was held. \nWe will hold a brief reading and time for those who wish to say a few words about Paul followed by a reception including lunch. \nIf you are interested in reading\, speaking about Paul\, or would like to help organize/contribte in any way\, please reach out to me (Alanna). \nI have invited those I know are interested\, but do not know everyone’s names. Please feel free to invite guests.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-elias-taylor-celebration-of-life/
LOCATION:Redwood Gardens\, 2591 Derby Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Donna Levin
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, editor\, and writing teacher Donna Levin celebrates the launch of her captivating new work of fiction\, There’s More Than One Way Home. Refreshments will be served. \nAnna Kagen seems to have it all: She’s young\, beautiful\, and married to a wealthy\, prominent man. \nBut within the walls of her San Francisco mansion\, she spends her time dodging her husband’s barbs and hunting down potential friends for her son\, Jack\, a 10-year-old on the autistic spectrum. \nThat old life suddenly seems idyllic when\, on a school field trip\, she makes the small error in judgment that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to another boy’s death. Suddenly Jack is a suspect\, her husband’s career is in jeopardy\, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son … and what may be her one chance at happiness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-levin/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction reading series
DESCRIPTION:Please join co-hosts Alan Black and Frances Stroh for this not-to-be-missed event on April 30\, 3-5 pm–check out our stellar line-up: \nEthel Rohan is the author of The Weight of Him\, a debut novel published by St. Martin’s Press\, February 2017. She is also the author of two story collections\, Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone. An award-winning short story writer\, her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, World Literature Today\, Tin House Online\, Guernica Magazine\, and many others. Raised in Ireland\, she lives in San Francisco. \nRachel Howard is the author of The Lost Night\, a memoir about her father’s unsolved murder. Her essays and short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA\, Gulf Coast\, the Arroyo Literary Review\, the Hudson Review\, Waxwing\, and OZY\, among other publications. Her essay for Oprah Magazine\, “The Love Fast\,” was recently collected in O’s Little Guide to Starting Over. She teaches memoir and personal essay writing at Stanford Continuing Studies and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. She has also served as Interim Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College\, and as Distinguished Visiting Writer for the Saint Mary’s College MFA program. She lives in Nevada City\, where she produces a popular reading series\, YubaLit. www.rachelhoward.com \nJason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. http://jasonbayani.com/ \nAlan Black works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Margot Livesey and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, 100 Word Story\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nJon Boilard is the author of the debut short story collection\, Setright Road (Dzanc Books/2017) and two novels\, The Castaway Lounge (Dzanc Books/2015) and A River Closely Watched (MacAdam Cage/2012)\, which was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. His award-winning short stories have appeared in some of the finest literary journals in the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, and Asia. Jon has participated in the Cork International Short Story Festival in Cork\, Ireland\, the Wroclaw Short Story Festival in Wroclaw\, Poland\, as well as LitQuake. He lives in the San Francisco Sunset district with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-reading-series/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Donna Levin
DESCRIPTION:Local author\, editor\, and writing teacher Donna Levin celebrates the launch of her captivating new work of fiction\, There’s More Than One Way Home. Refreshments will be served. \nAnna Kagen seems to have it all: She’s young\, beautiful\, and married to a wealthy\, prominent man. \nBut within the walls of her San Francisco mansion\, she spends her time dodging her husband’s barbs and hunting down potential friends for her son\, Jack\, a 10-year-old on the autistic spectrum. \nThat old life suddenly seems idyllic when\, on a school field trip\, she makes the small error in judgment that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to another boy’s death. Suddenly Jack is a suspect\, her husband’s career is in jeopardy\, and Anna has to choose between loyalty to her son … and what may be her one chance at happiness.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-levin-2/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170430T190000
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SUMMARY:Guts\, Grit & Glory Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:TWO JACKS DENIM \nPresents  \nIn the Tradition of the Two Jacks – Kerouac & London \nGuts\, Grit & Glory Poetry Night \nSun.\, April 30\, 5-7 p.m. \nFeaturing Readings by Three Stanford Wallace Stegner Fellows \n\nEdgar Kunz\nKai Carlson-Wee\nGrady Chambers\n\nSpecial Guest: Local Poet Guy Biederman \nTwo Jacks Denim\, 2355 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA 94612\, (510) 788-5832\, http://twojacksdenim.com \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1413463852030344/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guts-grit-glory-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Two Jacks Denim\, 2355 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Two Jacks Denim":MAILTO:twojacksdenim@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Tony Robles + Tommi Avicolli-Mecca
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, May 1 – 7-9 pm\nPOETS!\nTony Robles & Tommi Avicolli-Mecca\, followed by an open mic\nevery 1st & 3rd Monday\nApril 12\, 2017 By Eric\n\nTony Robles\, born and raised in San Francisco\, is co-editor and a revolutionary worker scholar of Poor magazine\, and recently published Cool Don’t Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco. In 2010 he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mythium Literary Journal for his short story\, “In My Country.” Robles is also a housing rights advocate and board member of the Manilatown Heritage Foundation\, and has written two children’s books\, Lakas and the Manilatown Fish and Lakas and the Makibaka Hotel.\nTommi Avicolli-Mecca\, born and raised in the infamous South Philly\, is a former member of Gay Liberation Front who has never stopped being an activist for queer and social justice causes. He is editor of Smash the Church\, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation (City Lights Books)\, and co-editor of Avanti Popolo: Italians Sail Past Colum\nbus (Manic D Press). Avicolli-Mecca’s writings have appeared in various anthologies over the years\, most recently\, That’s Revolting (Soft Skull). He is a contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer\, SF Examiner\, and SF Bay Guardian\, among other newspapers. In addition\, he has published scores of poems since the late 60s\, including a recent work about the San Francisco housing crisis (in Philadelphia Poets\, edited by Rosemary Cappello). He was featured in St. Martin Press’ Gay and Lesbian Poets in our Time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-robles-tommi-avicolli-mecca/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170501T210000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Galería de la Raza!
DESCRIPTION:A literary mixtape selected through a blind submission-based process\, performed live by the authors\, and published as sPARKLE & bLINK 85\, handed out free to the first 100 people. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission\, all selected authors will be paid. Free show. All ages. \nSubmissions are open through end of day 4/12—do iiiit!\nhttps://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/81135/quiet-lightning-galeria-de-la-raza \nCurated by Christine No + Abe Becker! \nart by Darlene Alvarez\, cover artist for sPARKLE & bLINK 85 \nquietlightning.org for links + more info
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-galeria-de-la-raza/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Kill the Ampaya!
DESCRIPTION:A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the border but almost none of it is available in English. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. \nJoin us when editor Dick Cluster reads from Kill the Ámpaya! and discusses Latin American baseball fiction. He is joined by Norman Antonio Zelaya who will read in Spanish. \n“A welcome reminder that inspired writing about the sport isn’t limited to the United States. Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each story reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most of these stories also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.”\n— Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.  Co-sponsored by SABR\, Lefty O’Doul chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Dog-Eared Books
DESCRIPTION:NOMADIC PRESS AT DOG-EARED BOOKS (CASTRO)\n\nTuesday\, May 2\, 2017\n7:00pm 9:00pm\n\n\nDog-Eared Books (Castro)489 Castro StreetSan Francisco\, CA\, 94114United States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore information soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-dog-eared-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Legacy of Poetry Day\nCelebrating the Legacy of Asian American Poetry\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017\n5-6:30pm: Reading by SJSU Students\, Faculty\, Staff and Alumni in the Lobby\n7-9pm: Main Stage Reading with Featured Poets \nHammer Theatre Center\n101 Paseo De San Antonio\, San Jose\, CA 95113\nAdmission FREE \nFeaturing:\nMaxine Hong Kingston\nwith\nAl Young\, California Poet Laureate Emeritus\nArlene Biala\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\nGenny Lim\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGary Singh\nand San Jose poets / spoken word artists:\nASHA\, Lorenz Dumuk\, and Quyhn Nguyen\nmusic by:\nJon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Jimmy Biala\, and P.J. and Roy Hirabayashi \nPresented by SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts\, SJSU Department of English and Comparitive Literature\, Associated Students San Jose State University\, and MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center. \nCosponsored by: CATS (Contemporary Asian Theater Scene)\, Poetry Center San Jose\, Poets and Writers\, and National Poetry Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-day/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:James Nolan
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFlight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy \nfrom University Press of Mississippi \nFlight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan\, a fifth-generation New Orleans native\, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation’s counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book\, which begins with Nolan’s escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary’s hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail\, and years later\, by the author’s bolt from China\, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals. These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one\, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. \nNolan traces these flight patterns to those of his French ancestors who fled to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century\, established a tobacco business in the French Quarter\, and kept the old country alive in their Creole demimonde. The writer describes the eccentric Seventh Ward menagerie of the extended family in which he grew up\, his early flirtation with extremist politics\, and a strong bond with his freewheeling grandfather\, a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Nolan’s quest for his own freedom takes him to the flower-powered\, gender-bending San Francisco of the sixties and seventies\, as well as to an expatriate life in Spain during the heady years of that nation’s transition to democracy. Like the prodigal son\, he eventually returns home to live in the French Quarter\, around the corner from where his grandmother grew up\, only to struggle through the aftermath of Katrina and the city’s resurrection. \nMany of these stories are entwined with the commentaries of a wry flâneur\, addressing such subjects as the nuances of race in New Orleans\, the Disneyfication of the French Quarter\, the numbing anomie of digital technology and globalization\, the challenges of caring for aging parents\, Creole funeral traditions\, how to make a soul-searing gumbo\, and what it really means to belong. \nJames Nolan is a fiction writer\, poet\, essayist\, and translator. His eleven books include the recent You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco\, Florida\, Barcelona\, Madrid\, and Beijing\, as well as in his native New Orleans. \nWhat has been said about Flight Risk: \n“James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There’s suspense and beauty on every page . . .”―Andrei Codrescu \n  \n“Hail James Nolan. He sure can tell a story and build it up to a climax.” \n―Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, poet and publisher of City Lights Books \n  \n“A wryly eloquent memoir of world travel and the joys\, and difficulties\, of returning home.” \n–Kirkus Reviews\n“James Nolan’s memoir is vivid\, entertaining\, and utterly memorable\, one of the most enjoyable reads that has come my way for a very long time. The picture he paints of the city he inhabits is unforgettable. New Orleans is fortunate indeed to have such a magnificent writer to record its fragile and extraordinary culture.” ―Alexander McCall Smith\, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-nolan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Wednesday\, May 3rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Marissa Moss\, reading from and discussing her graphic memoir Last Things. \n  \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \n  \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \n  \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \n  \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience―of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light. \n  \nMarissa Moss has written more than seventy books\, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series (over 5 million sold)\, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Her picture book\, Barbed Wire Baseball\, won the California Book Award\, Gold medal. Marissa is also the founder of Creston Books\, an independent children’s publishing house.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NYMBC: The Love Panel at Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club is excited to present a star studded\, award-winning panel with Rachel Cohn\, author of Kill All Happies\, and Jennifer E. Smith\, author of Windfall. Rachel and Jennifer will be in conversation with Nina LaCour\, author of We Are Okay; Stacey Lee\, author of The Secret Heart of a Note; and Elizabeth Eulberg\, author of Just Another Girl! Join us at Opera Plaza for a night focusing on love\, in all its\, ridiculous\, tragic\, wonderful forms. \nThis event will be moderated by Christy\, YA blogger for Tales of the Ravenous Reader. Christy is the resident sci-fi reader and also enjoys contemporary\, thrillers/mystery\, romance\, paranormal\, and YA non-fiction. In addition to contributing to Ravenous Readers\, she blogs for talks about superheroes on Sunday for Forever Young Adult. You can find her at Bay Area author events and on Twitter\, Instagram\, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-the-love-panel-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Winifred M. Reilly
DESCRIPTION:With writing appearing on Huffington Post\, The Good Men Project\, XOJane\, and on her blog\, Speaking of Marriage\, psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly\, M.A.\, MFT celebrates the launch of her refreshing and witty book\, It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can\, Too. \nIt Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner acting alone can spark lasting\, significant change in a marriage\, often accomplishing change that cannot be made any other way. It doesn t matter how short-fused\, argumentative\, or seemingly impossible your partner can be or how long you ve been stuck.\nMarriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage\, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nFocus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage\nTake a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing\, cajoling\, or resorting to threats\nIdentify the big picture issues at the basis of your repetitive fights and learn how to unhook from them\nBe less reactive\, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations\nDevelop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change\n\nCombining psychological theory\, practical advice\, and personal narrative\, It Takes One to Tango is a fresh and engaging guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold\, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winifred-m-reilly/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth L. Silver
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Elizabeth L. Silver for a discussion and signing of her new book\, The Tincture of Time. Ms. Silver will be in conversation with local author Elizabeth McKenzie (The Portable Veblen).\n\nGrowing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon\, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter\, Abby\, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures\, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed\, her relationship to medicine began to change.\n\nThe Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty is Silver’s gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby’s first year. It’s a year of unending tests\, doctors’ opinions\, sleepless nights\, promising signs and steps backward\, and above all\, uncertainty: The mysterious circumstances of Abby’s hospitalization attract dozens of specialists\, none of whom can offer a conclusive answer about what went wrong or what the future holds. As Silver begins to think about what it means to cope with uncertainty as a patient and parent and seeks peace in the reality that Abby’s injury may never be fully understood\, she looks beyond her own story for comfort. She probes literature\, religion\, and the history of medicine\, and reports the stories of doctors\, patients\, and fellow caretakers. The result is a blend of personal narrative and cultural analysis\, at once a poignant snapshot of a parent’s struggle and a wise examination of the boundaries of medicine. Happily\, today Abby is a joyous\, sweet\, and very active toddler.\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton\, which has been published in seven languages. Her writing has been published in McSweeney’s\, The Huffington Post\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. She has worked as an attorney in Texas and California\, and as an adjunct instructor of English literature and composition. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.\n\n\nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen\, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize\, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. She is the fiction editor at Santa Cruz’s Catamaran Literary Reader.\n\n“The Tincture of Time is just the kind of memoir this world desperately needs. In precise and powerful language\, Elizabeth Silver uses her deeply singular experience to shed light on universal issues of wellness\, health\, the body\, healing\, and trust. She shines her bright\, generous intellect into the deepest reaches of her own heart\, and into the heart of every reader. This book will change you\, teach you\, move you. Read it.” —Emily Rapp\, author of The Still Point of the Turning World
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-l-silver/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Madonna back to the store for the release of his new book\, On to the Next Dream. Join us! \nPaul’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\, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-3/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie Volume 14 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of everyone’s favorite pie — Humble Pie\, that is! We’re throwing a party in honor of the launch of Volume 14! \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-volume-14-launch-party/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Hour in the Library Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-in-the-library-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cotton Reading of 'Pictures From Home'
DESCRIPTION:Join SFMOMA at 6 p.m. in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 (by the Richard Serra Sculpture) for a reading by independent curator Charlotte Cotton from Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home to celebrate the republication of this acclaimed work. This is a pre-event reading. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlotte-cotton-reading-of-pictures-from-home/
LOCATION:SFMOMA\, 151 Third Street \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Allardice
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street\, Thursday May 4th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kevin Allardice\, reading from and discussing his book Family\, Genus\, Species. \n  \nAt a sprawling urban farm in the hills above Berkeley\, a woman’s attempt to give a birthday present to her four-year-old nephew erupts into an epic quest\, increasingly nightmarish and violent\, to survive our deepest cultural chasms. A wickedly funny satire of parenting and privilege\, sex and politics\, set in the shadow of civil unrest. \n  \n“Kevin Allardice harnesses his great powers of description and ingenious sense of narrative for this viciously funny satire\, Family Genus Species. Laurence Sterne would have been proud to call Mr. Allardice a descendent.” – Michael Kimball\, author of Big Ray\, Us and Dear Everybody. \n  \n“With poignant wit\, Kevin Allardice draws us into this backyard fairytale and social satire. Vee is a memorable protagonist\, quirky and brave and tender. Fast-paced and suspenseful\, FAMILY\, GENUS\, SPECIES is compelling and utterly original.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \n  \nKevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint\, 2014) . He was born in Oakland\, California\, and was a Henry Hoyns fellow in fiction at the University of Virginia\, where he received his MFA in 2010. His short stories\, winner of the of the Donald Barthelme Prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, have appeared in The Santa Monica Review\, The Florida Review\, Gulf Coast\, The North American Review\, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-allardice/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile #8\na revival of the Cafe Babar and Paradise Lounge reading series \nfeaturing\nJon Longhi\nDawn Oberg\nand “Honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine \nwith open mic Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Richard Loranger \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n7pm sharp\nfree of charge \nThe Octopus Literary Salon is proud to present Babar in Exile\, a quarterly commemoration and revival of the high energy San Francisco reading series of the 1990’s\, Café Babar and Paradise Lounge. Our eighth installment marks the first anniversary of this series. We are excited to feature two former and very active participants of Babar and Paradise\, Jon Longhi\, whose writing has been compared to Terry Southern\, Charles Bukowski\, and Hunter S. Thompson\, and Dawn Oberg\, a versatile musician who is currently writing and recording songs from and for the Dystopia. As well we welcome “honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine\, who will turn your day inside-out and lay it on the table. So come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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