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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
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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
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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
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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:20260403T111607
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170703T213000
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170705T210000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T200000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T210000
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews Event #2
DESCRIPTION:Book talk & signing with Lindsay Hatton for Monterey Bay. Event #2 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \nLocals\, do not miss this author visit at Discretion Brewing’s picture perfect beer garden! Born and raised in Monterey\, debut novelist Lindsay Hatton has written a book that pairs a mesmerizing plot with the beauty and history of the Monterey Bay shoreline. \nJoin us for a night of lovingly crafted beer\, a skillfully written story\, and get your copy of Monterey Bay signed! \nThis enchanting debut novel tells the tale of feisty\, fifteen-year-old Margot Fiske and her eccentric entrepreneur father\, Anders\, as they arrive on the shores of Monterey Bay\, the locale soon to be immortalized by John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. Fans of Steinbeck will love the nods in this storyline! Young Margot quickly falls for Ed Ricketts\, the biologist known as “Doc” in Steinbeck’s novel\, setting in motion a chain of events that will affect not just them\, but the future of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Ms. Hatton will be in-conversation with essayist and novelist\, Ryan Sloan. \nRyan Sloan is a novelist and essayist. He is on the faculty at the University of California\, Berkeley’s College Writing Programs. Ryan is also a co-host of the long-running Babylon Salon reading series in San Francisco. He holds an MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Discretion are generously offering 50% off one beer with book purchase!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/27796/
LOCATION:Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170708T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T225244Z
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT: Tender Buttons
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of bay area poetry <3 \nHosted by Bloodflower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-tender-buttons/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170709T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T160000
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SUMMARY:Susan Cohen + Mary Pacifico Curtis
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a musical and literary performance by poet\, novelist\, and editor Diane Frank and poet Ellaraine Locke\, Tripping with the Top Down\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-cohen-mary-pacifico-curtis/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170709T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T170000
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SUMMARY:Don Bogen + Joseph Di Prisco
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, July 9th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Don Bogen and Joseph Di Prisco. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-don-bogen-and-joseph-di-prisco/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170709T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T190000
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CREATED:20170629T053105Z
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SUMMARY:CWP COLLECTIVE
DESCRIPTION:CWP Collective Press (“Cringe-Worthy Poets”) is a small chapbook press on the West Side of Buffalo New York. They have been producing handmade chapbooks of fine poetry since 2016. In this short time\, they have published nearly 20 chapbooks of poetry by poets from New Jersey to Texas. \nCWP is also a small band of young poets who are attempting to keep the art of the chapbook alive while making poetry more accessible and approachable. CWP is a diverse group of poets with actualized voices that differ greatly yet complement each other. They have been featured poets from New Jersey to New Mexico. They have extensively toured the Rust Belt and the Midwest. \nJOHN DORSEY John Dorsey is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books\, 2010)\, Tombstone Factory (Epic Rites Press\, 2013) and most recently\, Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press\, 2015)\, and his work has appeared in multiple anthologies. He’s performed frequently with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg‡; in 2005 as part of “NOW: New Word Order”; in 2006 as the “Deciders\,” which included Ellyn Maybe; and as “Rebels Without Applause\,” which included David Smith\, in 2007. He’s also worked extensively in theatre and film. \nJULIO MONTALVO VALENTIN Julio Montalvo Valentine is the author of two chapbooks\, Don’t Give up the Shipand Ship Lost. He is an editor and founder of CWP Collective Press. He is a Blogger for Plurality Press. Julio is also an editor for Mutata Re\, Erie Community Colleges literary journal. He has been a featured reader from New Jersey to New Mexico and many a town in between. Julio has two forthcoming chapbooks in 2017. His poems have appeared in various journals and magazines. Julio is a reluctant heart. \nNATHANAEL WILLIAM STOLTE Nathanael William Stolte is the author of five chapbooks\, A Beggars Book of Poems\, Bumblebee Petting Zoo\, Fools’ Song\, Origami Creature\, & A Beggar’s Prayer Book. His poems have appeared in Ghost City Review\, Guide to Kulture Creative Journal\, Five:2:One Magazine‘s #thesideshow\, Rusty Truck\, Poems-For-All\, Your One Phone Call\, In Between Hangovers\, Le Mot Juste\, The Rising Phoenix Review\, The Buffalo News\, Iconoclast\, Foundlings Zine\, & Plurality Press. He is a founder and the Acquisitions Editor for CWP Collective Press. He was voted best poet in Buffalo by Artvoices’ “Best of Buffalo” in 2016. He is a madcap\, flower-punk\, D.I.Y. Buffalo bred & corn-fed poet. \nJENNI SKELTON Jennifer Skelton is a poet from Buffalo\, NY. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from SUNY Buffalo State. Her first chapbook Gin came out this year. The themes in her poetry include the comedies and tragedies of personal relationships\, from mother to lover\, from American to Japan and back again. She has been a featured reader at Innisfree Poetry\, Buffalo State College’s Rooftop Poetry Series\, Queen City Gallery\, and Words on the Rocks. She is the social media handler for CWP Collective Press. \nMISTRAL CELESTE KHAN-BECERRA Mistral Khan-Becerra is a poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Buffalo\, NY by her Chilean family\, she loves the city and finds nostalgia around its every corner. In her work Mistral frequently draws on the complex relationship between Mother and Daughter. She attempts to bridge the gap between what is expected of or from this relationship\, and how stark (or truly inspired) its reality can be. She also fiddles around with how this dynamic presents itself in romantic relationships. Mistral is a cofounder of Cringe Worthy Poets Collective\, and Editor in Chief of CWP Collective Press. Born a strict Taurus\, she is stubborn in her form\, but rages on. She is the author of Could I Stay Here? and Where Have You Been For So Long? \nWILLIAM TAYLOR JR.William Taylor Jr. is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction\, including So Much is Burning\, Words for Songs Never Written\, The Hunger Season\, An Age of Monsters\, Broken When We Got Here\, The Blood of a Tourist\, To Break the Heart of the Sun\, and most recently The Song of What’s Become of Us. He lives in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwp-collective/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: YOU Are the Author!
DESCRIPTION:If you are a Queer-identified author and have a book (or similar media) to sell\, write to us at: PerfectlyQueerSF@gmail.com \nEach reader will have 5 minutes to discuss and read from their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-you-are-the-author/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170710T210000
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SUMMARY:Nadine Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:Nadine Lockhart received her MA and MFA from Arizona State University. She is currently working toward her PhD; for which she received the Lattie and Elva Coor Fellowship for Building Communities toward her research on the ability of poetry to transform into continued relevancy through hybridity and cultural relativism. This is serious stuff. Lockhart is an editorial assistant for Poetry Flash\, a Berkeley-based literary review and calendar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nadine-lockhart/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170711T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T133000
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Devereaux Baker + Stephen Shur
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays 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/devereaux-baker-stephen-shur/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deena Metzger
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps never before in the history of humankind has the disparity between Indigenous mind and Western mind been more on the pulse of what we must pay attention to in order to insure our survival. In A Rain of Night Birds\, Deena Metzger has written a novel in which two people\, who are from each side of this polarity\, begin a loving relationship. Sandra Birdswell is a student of climatology with an uncanny ability to sense weather events. Her mother\, who died in childbirth\, is a mystery to her. Her father\, John\, formerly a Reservation doctor\, faithfully raises her despite his limitations and obligations. She first meets Terrence\, a Native man and a professor of climatology\, at her university classes. Years later\, they are drawn together by the powerful forces of their love\, for the Earth\, for each other\, and their mutual need to seek out the broken links of their family histories. When the UN report on climate change is released in 2007\, the reality of the effects of the Anthropocene era sends a shockwave through both their lives. Their relationship to each other and to the elementals they are so intimate with lightning\, thunder\, rain\, mountain brings them deeply and violently into a quest to live their lives in ways that disengage from colonial mind\, the same mind that brought devastation to the Native peoples\, and now brings all of humanity to the brink of extinction. Through their love of and deeply felt intuitive connection to the Earth\, they each go to the brink of death to find their truth\, to gain strength and wisdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deena-metzger/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Robert Perry and Joel Katz\ncelebrating the release of a book of English/Dutch poetry\nOpen reading follows the featured reading. \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance\nJoin the event on Facebook! \nJoel Thomas Katz has worked in Silicon Valley as a business software specialist. His poems have appeared in Sand Hill Review\, The Montserrat Review\, Disquieting Muses Quarterly\, Spillway and Red Wheelbarrow. His chapbook Away was published by Mayapple Press in 2008\, and his online poetry blog can be enjoyed at katz-poempair.blogspot.com. \nRobert Perry is a poet\, graphic designer\, and book artist who recently established Dutch Poet Press where he designs and publishes books of poetry and art as print and electronic books\, letterpress editions\, and artist books. In 2015\, the press published The Comfort of Potatoes by poet Janice Dabney and along with iets anders | something else\, later this year will release a collection of his own poetry\, The Art of Painting. \nAvailable for sale: iets anders | something else vertaling van gedichten | translation of poems Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer by Joel Katz and Robert Perry Dutch Poet Press\, 2017 \nUpcoming at Well-RED:\nAugust 8: Dennis Noren;\nSeptember 12: Parthenia Hicks and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian;\nOctober 10: Erica Goss and Adrian Matejka\nNovember 14: Caesura 2017 book release and reading\nDecember 12: Red Wheelbarrow release party and celebration of Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Anna Redsand: A Creative Non-Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Anna Redsand will read from her memoir\, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond. “From Navajo dwellings in New Mexico to Scandinavia to the evangelical Midwest\, Anna Redsand’s beautiful\, heroic story is for anyone who has ever felt outcast from a community they love\, and tossed into the desert of doubt and despair. Here you will find spiritual hope embodied\, and the promise that\, no matter where we are lost\, it is possible to find our way home to new communities of faith\, compassion\, healing and belonging.” ~ John T. Price\, author of Daddy Longlegs: The Natural Education of a Father
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-redsand-a-creative-non-fiction-reading/
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:20170711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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CREATED:20170619T133957Z
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Bredie
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Nicholas Bredie in celebration of his debut novel Not Constantinople. Join us!\nThe story centers around Fred and Virginia\, two American expats living in Istanbul and working at the university who come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks. Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them\, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbul because the pay is good\, and with the property in limbo he can ignore the rent\, not to mention the paper-writing racket he starts with the Greek patriarch\, selling term papers to his own university students. \nBetween get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists\, Fred watches the transformation of his neighborhood from a place with a kind of sad romance to a generic megalopolis\, gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-bredie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Brownrigg w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:discussing Brownrigg’s new novel\, Pages for Her\, the story of two women\, Flannery and Anne\, each at a personal turning point\, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. \n“Brownrigg . . . approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity\, capturing the nuances in the women’s relationships to the people they love–as mother\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, wife\, or lover–and the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . . Brownrigg considers motherhood\, romance\, identity\, and the changes brought by time in this tender\, insightful novel.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwenty years after their brief but passionate affair\, chronicled in Brownrigg’s earlier novel\, Pages for You\, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne\, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love–then left her heartbroken. \nHaving long ago put their love behind them\, they live now on opposite coasts. Anne has been in a deep\, childless partnership with a fellow scholar\, Jasper\, who recently left her. Flannery\, to her own surprise\, married a charismatic artist named Charles\, with whom she has a young daughter. Submerged by her husband’s demands and personality and her adjustment to motherhood\, Flannery has lost sight of her self and her work. When the two women meet at a conference\, they find that the passion and understanding between them has endured\, though it has been hidden. In rediscovering each other\, they are able to rediscover themselves. \nPages for Her is an exhilarating\, passionate work that explores marriage\, sexuality\, and the transformative power of love over time. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels– Morality Tale\, The Delivery Room\, winner of the Northern California Book Award\, Pages for You\, winner of the Lambda Award\, and The Metaphysical Touch–and a collection of stories\, Ten Women Who Shook the World. She lives in Berkeley. \nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, Schoolgirls and\, most recently\, Girls & Sex.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sylvia-brownrigg-in-conversation-with-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:POETRY SANTA CRUZ featuring: \nEllen Grace O’Brian\, Kevin Opstedal\, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman\, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County\, and generally hold monthly meetings at Bookshop Santa Cruz on the second Tuesday of the month. Visit www.poetrysantacruz.org or contact Len Anderson for more information about the poets featured this month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Cara Black: Murder in Saint Germain
DESCRIPTION:Aimeé Leduc\, the fashionable doyenne of Parisian detectives\, is back on the case – this time juggling a trio of seemingly impossible jobs: the first of which has ties to her mother’s treacherous past\, the second and most dangerous\, involves a series of murders where the victims are all highly trained members of a Hague counterterrorism unit\, and last is caring for her eight month old bébé. How does she do it? Join us when author Cara Black discusses her new book Murder in Saint Germain. A book sale by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-murder-in-saint-germain/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170712T213000
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CREATED:20170621T124429Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Glass
DESCRIPTION:Julia Glass discusses her new novel\, A House Among the Trees. \n\nPraise for Julia Glass \n“The delight of reading Julia Glass turns out to be the connections we make with her generous characters\, who become as endearing—and exasperating—as the people we love in real life.” —The Miami Herald \n“Sophisticated and surprising. . . . Luminous.” —San Francisco Chronicle \n“Glass’ prose is so lovely and filled with felicitous phrases and insights that when she orchestrates a family reunion\, the reader is apt to just follow along like Kit\, knowing the music is bound to enthrall.” —The Dallas Morning News \n\nAbout A House Among the Trees \nIn Julia Glass’s fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award\, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant–a richly plotted novel of friendship and love\, artistic ambition\, the perils of celebrity\, and the power of an unexpected legacy \n \nWhen the revered children’s book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home\, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant\, Tomasina Daulair\, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades\, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life\, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet\, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty’s last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people\, including her estranged brother; the lonely\, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene\, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie. When Greene arrives for a visit\, he and Tommy are compelled to look more closely at Morty’s past\, a process that undermines much of what Tommy believed she knew about her boss–and about herself. As she contemplates a future that will no longer include him\, her unlikely alliance with Greene–and the loyalty they share toward the great man–will lead to surprising upheavals in their wider relationships\, their careers\, and even their search for love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-glass-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:Community Voices: Poets Speak DéLana R.A. Dameron
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. \nDéLana R.A. Dameron \nDéLana R.A. Dameron is a writer and arts and culture administrator living in Brooklyn\, NY. Dameron is the author of Weary Kingdom (2017) and her debut collection How God Ends Us was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-delana-r-a-dameron/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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