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SUMMARY:Jean Day and Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Jean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in 2021.Recent poems can also be seen in Brooklyn Rail\, Chicago Review\, The Delineator\, Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French). Earlier works include Daydream (Litmus\, 2016)\, Early Bird (O’Clock\, 2014)\, and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books. She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, a scholarly humanities journal\, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). \n  \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist from San Francisco. Works he has authored include The Sissies (Futurepoem); Terra Firmament (Krupskaya); and a chapbook\, Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-and-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Winter in San Francisco. Baby\, it’s cold outside–comparatively\, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday\, February 11\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in you-know-where. Dale Corvino is joining us from New York City! He’ll be joined by local glitterati Denise Conca\, Wayne Goodman\, Rob Rosen\, and Cass Sellars–each of them reading from new fiction. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and door prizes on the stroke of 7! http://bit.ly/2RjGosI \nMore about the authors:\nDale Corvino’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including online at the Rumpus and Salon. He received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction\, was a finalist in the 2017 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction contest\, and won the 2018 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest. WORKER NAMES was published in 2019. Most recently\, he reflected on his visit to Santiago\, Chile during the massive popular uprising and the legacy of queer writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review. www.dalecorvino.com \nDenise Conca is an anti-capitalist artist\, writer\, and cashier living in San Francisco. Her short works have appeared in Sinister Wisdom’s “Dump Trump” issue and in RFD magazine. Her recently published book\, A RECURSIVE NATURE\, explores the sexual exploits of a middle-aged leather dyke living on the margins of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco and is available at San Francisco Public Library and independent bookstores. Conca is featured in the short documentary film Refuse and Refashion which she wrote\, co-produced\, and directed. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing or recording\, Goodman enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, gay\, and Black composers. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship. \nRob Rosen is the author of the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES\, and editor of the anthologies Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1\, 2\, Lust in Time 3 and 4. www.therobrosen.com \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional living in the East Bay. She has led investigations in criminal\, theft\, corporate and financial fraud. Formerly an editor of a small magazine and creative journalist\, she’s always been a writer at heart. She loves writing about powerful women\, their adventures\, and searches for justice. FINDING SKY is her fourth novel and the first standalone after the Lightning Series. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and England but spent much of her on the East Coast. In addition to writing she works in interior design and event planning and loves everything wine. www.casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-winter-2020-reading-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee
DESCRIPTION:You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game\, The Crown’s Fate\, and Circle of Shadows. \nThe wait for her sequel is finally over! We are so very excited to invite you to the launch party of Cloak of Night\, the exciting end to this thrilling duology that is full of dangerous action\, heartbreaking romance\, and incredible magic. \nAfter the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts\, Sora\, Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing\, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes\, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger than she realized. Suddenly\, the stakes are higher and even more personal for Sora—not only must she stop a seemingly indestructible Prince Gin\, but she must also unravel the secrets of ryuu magic before it is too late for nearly everyone she loves. Sora Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick face dangerous obstacles at every turn\, but the greatest challenge may be discovering who they truly are and what\, if anything\, they are capable of. The fate of a kingdom rests in their hands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining Evelyn on stage is Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl\, Outrun the Moon\, Under a Painted Sky\, and The Secret of a Heart Note
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evelyn-skye-cloak-of-night-w-stacey-lee/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amina Cain: Indelicacy
DESCRIPTION:Amina Cain discusses her new novel\, Indelicacy\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Indelicacy \n“In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another\, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. In a deeply pleasing way\, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting\, a masterful study of light and dark\, inside and out\, freedom and desire. Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. I loved reading this book.” —Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First \n“Acutely observed\, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. Through this timeless examination of solitude\, art\, and friendship\, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.” —Patty Yumi Cottrell\, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n“Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \nAbout Indelicacy \nA ghostly feminist fable\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. \nIn “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler)\, a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing\, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man\, but having gained a husband\, a house\, high society\, and a maid\, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now\, however passively\, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \nReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature\, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys\, Octavia Butler\, Clarice Lispector\, and Jean Genet\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost\, a fable without a moral\, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing\, class\, desire\, anxiety\, pleasure\, friendship\, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amina-cain-indelicacy/
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:Arthur Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History\, Anthropology\, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present \nArthur Kleinman \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor \nfrom Viking Books \nA moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world. \nWhen Dr. Arthur Kleinman\, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist\, began caring for his wife\, Joan\, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease\, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor\, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan\, and he describes the practical\, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. \nCaregiving is long\, hard\, unglamorous work–at moments joyous\, more often tedious\, sometimes agonizing\, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system\, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves\, and of our doctors. To give care\, to be “present” for someone who needs us\, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences\, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life\, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human. \n\nArthur Kleinman\, MD\, is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry\, anthropology\, global health\, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School\, he has taught at Harvard for over forty years. He is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan\, he is also a leading expert on East Asia\, and was the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard’s Asia Center from 2008 to 2016. He is also the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering\, Healing\, and the Human Condition\, now widely taught in medical schools. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-kleinman/
LOCATION:UCSF Parnassus Campus\, 530 Parnassus Avenue\, 5th Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Intergenerational Conversations: Dating & Relationships
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of conversations and stories! The theme will be around “relationships and dating through the years”. We are inviting younger and older folks to share their own experiences and thoughts. \nTopics will range from finding dates to choosing date spots to breaking up. Over the decades\, how do you or did you go about finding dates? Has it become easier to have so many choices through your phone? Date spots and activities always elicit strong reactions. Which ones did you enjoy most? Breakups have never been easy but has it become too impersonal in the era of texting? Was “ghosting” a thing back then? \nRegardless of all these technological and societal changes\, are we all continuing to approach relationships similarly to years past? \nWe will have a few older adults share their personal stories and we will split into small pairs of young people and older adults to discover and answer questions about relationships. \nFree liquid courage will be provided! Let’s have fun and get to know people of different ages in our community. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-intergenerational-conversations-dating-relationships-2/
LOCATION:Red Victorian\, 1665 Haight Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
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SUMMARY:Jeneé Darden at Alameda Authors Series IV
DESCRIPTION:Details:  \nThe fourth annual Alameda Authors Series\, sponsored by\, AAUW Alameda and the Friends of the Alameda Free Library\, returns with award winning journalist and book author Jeneé Darden. \nMs. Darden will speak about her book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, a collection of poetry and essays that reflect her journey through Black womanhood. With heart and humor\, Darden engages us in conversations about race\, love\, sex\, and mental health. Like a rose\, being a Black woman in this society comes with its thorns and beauty. Darden brings that complexity to every page.  \nReservations requested: \n https://jeneedarden-aauw2020.eventbrite.com \nPraise for When a Purple Rose Blooms: \n“When a Purple Rose Blooms is more than a series of essays and poems. Jeneé Darden’s debut collection is a homegrown Oakland spellbook\, a womanist battle cry\, a spiritual incantation of Black joy\, self-love\, and healing for contemporary African American sistren.” \n– Aya de León\, author of Uptown Thief\, The Boss\, and The Accidental Mistress\, and director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley \n“A wealth of wisdom\, humor\, grit\, warmth\, and sensuality. When a Purple Rose Blooms candidly shows a Black woman’s quest to embrace her entire self while navigating contemporary America. Very few works spit fire and water like this one. Darden gets to the core of what it means to feel without apology\, love radically\, and get Queened up while honoring the Queen in others as well.” \n– Lyndsey Ellis\, writer\, editor\, and award recipient of 2018 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund \n“Jeneé Darden’s When a Purple Rose Blooms is a daring book of poems and essays\, depicting family\, pop culture\, self-love\, racism\, and other issues\, especially those that impact women. This truth-telling book heralds with allusions\, historical references\, blues\, East Oakland\, and inter-generational camaraderie\, praise\, and ‘God’s Image.’ These poems and essays tell us what’s happening\, and display much intelligence.” \n– Lenard D. Moore\, author of The Geography of Jazz\, Associate Professor of English\, University of Mount Olive \nAbout the author: \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, author\, public speaker\, mental health advocate and proud Oakland native. She covers stories about East Oakland at KALW News 91.7 FM and hosts the arts segment Sights & Sounds.  Jenee has reported for NPR\, Time\, The LA Times\, Ebony and other outlets. She also hosts the blog and podcast Cocoa Fly. Her first book\, When a Purple Rose Blooms\, is a womanist collection of essays and poetry about her personal experiences with race\, mental health and love as a Black woman. Jeneé holds a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego and a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California. \n  \nFor more information\, please contact AAUW Alameda at alameda-ca@aauw.net or see our Web site at http://alameda-ca.aauw.net/ \nEvent telephone: 510.463.4966 Kevis Brownson (leave message)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenee-darden-at-alameda-authors-series-iv/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meng Jin - Little Gods
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Meng Jin to read from her new book\, Little Gods on Wednesday\, February 12tht at 7pm. \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meng-jin-little-gods/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T193000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \nDanielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200212T210000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Svetcov: Parked
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Svetcov discusses her new book\, Parked. \nPraise for Parked \n“A big-hearted novel with characters I wish were my friends in real life.” –Gennifer Choldenko\, author of the Al Capone at Alcatraz series \n“Danielle Svetcov has written a novel that’s utterly of this moment. It’s a book about generosity—not just toward others\, but toward oneself. Parked is a reminder that we don’t have to feel alone in the world\, because we’re not.”—Jack Cheng\, Golden Kite Award-winning author of See You in the Cosmos \n“An absorbing and warm-hearted read that explores what happens when homelessness and helpfulness collide. Readers will be transported while parked. —Annie Barrows\, author of the Ivy & Bean series \nAbout Parked \nJeanne Ann is smart\, stubborn\, living in an orange van\, and determined to find a permanent address before the start of seventh grade. \nCal is tall\, sensitive\, living in a humongous house across the street\, and determined to save her. \nJeanne Ann is roughly as enthusiastic about his help as she is about living in a van. \nAs the two form a tentative friendship that grows deeper over alternating chapters\, they’re buoyed by a cast of complex\, oddball characters\, who let them down\, lift them up\, and leave you cheering. Debut novelist Danielle Svetcov shines a light on a big problem without a ready answer\, nailing heartbreak and hope\, and pulling it off with a humor and warmth that make the funny parts of Jeanne Ann and Cal’s story cathartic and the difficult parts all the more moving.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-svetcov-parked-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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T170000
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SUMMARY:b\, Book\, and Me Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us after work to raise a glass to Two Lines latest from Kim Sagwa\, b\, Book\, and Me\, translated from Korean by Sunhee Jeong. There will be readings from Two Lines editors\, drinks\, and snacks. Entry is free but please rsvp! \nMore about b\, Book\, and Me \nBest friends b and Rang are all each other have. Their parents are absent\, their teachers avert their eyes when they walk by. Everyone else in town acts like they live in Seoul even though it’s painfully obvious they don’t. When Rang begins to be bullied horribly by the boys in baseball hats\, b fends them off. But one day Rang unintentionally tells the whole class about b’s dying sister and how her family is poor\, and each of them finds herself desperately alone. The only place they can reclaim themselves\, and perhaps each other\, is beyond the part of town where lunatics live—the End. \nIn a piercing\, heartbreaking\, and astonishingly honest voice\, Kim Sagwa’s b\, Book\, and Me walks the precipice between youth and adulthood\, reminding us how perilous the edge can be. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor / Kim Sagwa\n\n\nKim Sagwa is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed emerging writers. She is the author of several novels\, story collections\, and works of nonfiction\, and has been shortlisted for several major South Korean awards\, including the Munji Prize and the Young Writers Award. Kim contributes columns to two major Seoul newspapers\, and she co-translated John Freeman’s book How to Read a Novelist into Korean.\n\n\n\n\n\nTranslator / Sunhee Jeong\n\n\nBased in Seoul\, Sunhee Jeong is a Korean-English translator and editor of literary and multimedia productions. She is also a scholar of visual studies\, intersectionality and critical theory.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/b-book-and-me-happy-hour/
LOCATION:DaDa Bar\, 65 Post St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200131T195451Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! (Copy) (Copy) at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVoz Sin Tinta\, our monthly bi-lingual poetry reading and open mic night! Hosted and curated by Rene Vaz and Marguerite Munoz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-bi-lingual-poetry-reading-and-open-mic-night-copy-copy-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191227T022259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022259Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200131T185910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T185910Z
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile will be ending in May\, and for its penultimate installment we proudly feature a lineup of queer readers who will take a close look at all our lives. Two of our features honed their chops at the original Café Babar and remain performers of towering skill\, and the third is blazing a trail as we speak. Three-time SF Slam Team member and former Lake County Poet Laureate Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga will share some of his Filipino American gaze\, while special educator\, Union activist\, and longtime Berkeley resident Tim Xonnelly will endow us with some true Bay Area queerness. And “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen will vibe us with some next-gen activist energy. \nSo 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. \n  \nBabar in Exile #22: Up Close and Personal\na revival of the Cafe Babar\, Paradise Lounge\, and Club Chameleon reading series \nfeaturing\nRussell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga\nTim Xonnelly\nand “Honorary Babarian” Anna Allen \nand you\, in our all-inclusive open mic \nHosted by Richard Loranger and Paul Corman-Roberts \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nThree-time SF Poetry Slam team member\, Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga honed his poetic and spoken word skills at Cafe Babar on a weekly basis. Gonzaga is an esteemed member of the arts\, activism\, and healing communities. The sixth Poet Laureate of Lake County\, former bookstore co-owner\, and resident of Harbin Hot Springs\, Gonzaga was displaced by the devastating Valley Fire in 2015. He has recently returned to San Francisco where he is working on his first novel. Born in the Philippines and raised in the East Bay\, Gonzaga has been a dervish\, minister\, writer\, freelance journalist\, editor\, social justice activist\, arts educator\, youth mentor\, and martial artist. He states: “Giving expression and voice to our grief\, rage\, hopes\, and joys serve the healing of an individual\, and in turn\, a community.” \nTim Xonnelly is a special educator and Union activist living in downtown Berkeley since 1991. He’s recently had poetry published in Be About It\, Naked Bulb 2018 Anthology\, the-fabulist.org\, 11 Eleven\, Cross Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco\, and 1001 Nights: Twenty Years of Redondo Poets at Coffee Cartel. \nBorn in Stockton\, CA\, Anna Allen has been writing fairy tales and tragedies since childhood. Her work has appeared in various literary mags and journals. You can read some of her work on Sparkle and Blink\, Chronically Lit\, The Scribelrus\, and Little Death Lit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile-22-up-close-and-personal/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94703
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Power Unit 17":MAILTO:hello@richardloranger.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200207T191218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T191218Z
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SUMMARY:Howard Eiland at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:City Lights in conjunction with the Program in Critical Theory at the University of California at Berkeley present an evening with Howard Eiland \ncelebrating two new books \nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel – by Walter Benjamin – (Tr. Howard Eiland) – published by Harvard University Press \nand \nNotes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz – by Howard Eiland – published by Spuyten Duyvil \nabout Origin of the German Trauerspiel \n\nOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin’s first full\, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as “The Origin of German Tragic Drama\,” but in fact the subject is something else―the play of mourning. Howard Eiland’s completely new English translation\, the first since 1977\, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin’s philosophical idiom. \nFocusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel\, precursor of the opera\, Benjamin identifies allegory as the constitutive trope of the Baroque and of modernity itself. Allegorical perception bespeaks a world of mutability and equivocation\, a melancholy sense of eternal transience without access to the transcendentals of the medieval mystery plays―though no less haunted and bedeviled. History as trauerspiel is the condition as well as subject of modern allegory in its inscription of the abyssal. \nBenjamin’s investigation of the trauerspiel includes German texts and late Renaissance European drama such as Hamlet and Calderón’s Life Is a Dream. The prologue is one of his most important and difficult pieces of writing. It lays out his method of indirection and his idea of the “constellation” as a key means of grasping the world\, making dynamic unities out of the myriad bits of daily life. Thoroughly annotated with a philological and historical introduction and other explanatory and supplementary material\, this rigorous and elegant new translation brings fresh understanding to a cardinal work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary critics. \n\nabout Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz \nWeaving through a host of “classic” texts—literary\, cinematic\, and musical—these notes of a close reader set up echoes and reflections across signature moments. \nHoward Eiland’s Notes on Literature\, Film\, and Jazz is a highly erudite and courageous inquiry into the arts. It addresses a dissident force in art while discussing an impressively diverse range of works and ideas in literature\, film\, and jazz. For instance: Shakespeare\, Cervantes\, and Jane Austen mix with Dickens and Kafka; Carl Dreyer intersects with Mizoguchi\, Bresson\, Lynch\, and Madden; Eric Dolphy and Cecil Taylor process Schoenberg\, Berg\, and Webern. In a quasi-musical way\, Notes interweaves elements within and between works—elements that open onto the unknown in an utterly questioning and self-questioning way. Eiland’s eloquent writing itself exemplifies this “aesthetic\,” if it may be called that; the writing is enthralling in its capacity to challenge both the works examined and those who would assess them. Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be. This extraordinarily original book will interest all concerned with broad implications of developments in literature\, film\, and jazz. \nHoward Eiland is a critic and translator. He received the 2011 James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize for Excellence in Teaching. He is the co-author\, with Michael W. Jennings\, of the first English-language biography of Walter Benjamin\, an influential German writer who died in 1940 while in flight from the Nazis. He co-edited three volumes of Benjamin’s Selected Writings and co-translated Benjamin’s massive Arcades Project\, and he has also translated Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900\, his On Hashish\, and his Early Writings: 1910-1917. His recent publications include work on film and jazz. Current projects are “Walter Benjamin’s Jewishness” and “Education as Awakening.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/howard-eiland-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200207T222835Z
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SUMMARY:Craig Vachon\, The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley
DESCRIPTION:ookshop welcomes Craig Vachon for a reading and signing of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, his entertaining tale of a befuddled but highly capable venture capitalist who is compelled to chart his own course on a global quest to save his new brain-computer interface tool from falling into some very\, very wrong hands. \nRalph Gibsen isn’t your typical spy. In fact\, he may not be a spy at all. He’s lumpy\, blundering and abysmal at chatting up the fairer sex. Yet\, he is attracting a significant amount of attention from the intelligence community. After all\, as a 30-year Silicon Valley mainstay\, he can phish your passwords\, bust firewalls\, and has developed software used by millions to circumvent government censorship. And now\, he thinks he has stumbled upon a cabal who is pushing to misuse his own technology for world domination. \nRalph helps create an educational Tool that maps a learner’s neurological processes and pinpoints the exact moment a student learns. But the Tool can also manipulate people’s beliefs. At least\, that what several influential people think. Soon\, Ralph finds himself the target of increasingly complex attacks on his businesses\, reputation\, freedom\, and life. \nRalph enlists an eclectic group of ‘frenemies’ to thwart this nefarious plot. McKenna may or may not still work for the CIA. Beautiful Eva may work for the Chinese government\, who wants the Tool for themselves. Even Ralph’s lovely wife Jen could be involved… Ralph simply isn’t equipped to figure it out. And the world is closing in. \n“Knucklehead is like being shot out of an Ethernet cable lined with exotic travel and baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.” —Peterson Conway \nAbout the author: The character of Ralph Gibsen\, the protagonist of The Knucklehead of Silicon Valley\, isn’t based on the author G. Craig Vachon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/craig-vachon-the-knucklehead-of-silicon-valley/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200203T203920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T203920Z
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SUMMARY:CAFÉ SOCIETY PRESENTS ROBERT HASS
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass reads from his new collection\, Summer Snow\, in Point Richmond. \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \n  \nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide(1973)\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-robert-hass/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200131T195918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T190554Z
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SUMMARY:Love Songs for Dyslexic Hearts: A Night of Poetry at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Kim Shuck and the legendary bloodflower. Featuring Jack Hirschman\, Rusty Rebar\, Wrob Rosenberger\, Jack Mellender\, James Zealous\, and the legendary bloodflower! The second hour is an OPEN MIC so be sure to sign up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-songs-for-dyslexic-hearts-a-night-of-poetry-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191227T165517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T165517Z
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SUMMARY:Enter Generations
DESCRIPTION:ENTER GENERATIONS: A Night of Intergenerational QTPOC Brilliance\, curated by Shannon Prasad\, Greg Pond\, and Dazie Grego-Sykes with the support of Queer Rebels\, in their first ever queer inter-generational curatorial residency. Join us for a free night of performances featuring community elders\, Maria Medina\, Blackberri and Mali. Each of these legends will be collaborating with emerging or mid-career artists to create original performances creating conversations that have been lost throughout our generations. These performers include The Global Street Dance Masquerade\, Chibueze Crouch\, Gabriel Christian\, SNJV\, Mirza\, Benny Avalos\, and Ferny Miguel. Together with our evening’s host\, the talented Baruch Porras-Hernandez. \nAt this critical moment\, we feel the urgency in sharing the rich stories and experiences of our QTPoC community. It is vital that we take up space as a community. This multi-generational evening of performance is the beginning of a conversation and a reclaiming of our own Queer Histories. \n*Work in Progress Show will be held on Friday Jan 24th 2020 8:00 – 9:00pm at CounterPulse.* \n**This event is wheelchair accessible and will have an ASL interpreter.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enter-generations/
LOCATION:Counterpulse\, 80 Turk St\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T150000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191124T170914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191124T170914Z
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Rebecca Radner
DESCRIPTION:Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading\, interview\, and discussion\, featuring Rebecca Radner. \nRebecca Radner\, a Berkeley poet\, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011 (Class Action Ink).  Her poems have appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, and The New England Review\, as well as the anthology What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle. She has read her poems recently as part of the Bay Area Generations reading series and at the Berkeley Art Center. \nA free chapbook of Rebecca Radner’s poems will be available at all BPL locations starting in January. Please pick one up!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-rebecca-radner/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191124T185032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T193530Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell‘s first full-length collection of poetry\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location to be announced soon. \nPreorders help small presses gauge print runs\, so grab your copy before the event! www.nomadicpress.org/store/synchronicity \nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a rhyme in time to forewarn and sign the body and the mind. Filled with questions\, answers\, wordplay\, interspecies connection\, religious\, scientific\, and political satire\, and prose about the Black Panthers\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine connects readers with the universal ear that takes them on a healing journey into the mysterious interwoven nature of humans\, birds\, stars\, and those from beyond. \nJames Cagney\, author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles PEN Oakland award says: “Be careful casual reader—cold hard truths lie within. These are not poems—they are corrective sermons written to turn you around to look squarely in the face of logic and reason. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a double-barreled book blasting holes clean through your assumptions and understanding of nature\, spirit\, history\, and race. It aims to disassemble language down to its barest elements to help readers rebuild common sense from scratch. A veteran teacher and master storyteller\, Tureeda Mikell is a lyrical wonder digging deep into the words and symbols we too often take for granted. There’s a reason events rhyme and repeat\, there’s a grander purpose behind those synchronistic events and occurrences linking like a chain around you. The answers you need are lit and laid open at your feet. The journey is yours to take.” \nAdditional readers and the musician will be announced soon. Gnosh and drinks will be provided. \nDonations will be collected throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-synchronicity-by-tureeda-mikell/
LOCATION:East Side Arts Alliance\, 2277 International Blvd.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20200126T004957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T004957Z
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SUMMARY:‘Heartbeat’\, A Film by Will Combs featuring Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline\, ‘Hube the Cube’ and others
DESCRIPTION:As a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’\, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in San Francisco’s North Beach in the mid-1970’s. Using surplus film stock and a spring-wind Bolex\, he began to capture the temperament of the Era\, kabuki style. HEARTBEAT features rare and personal footage of Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline and Hube the Cube in their environment\, infusing poetry with a concise inquiry into the Beat Era.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heartbeat-a-film-by-will-combs-featuring-bob-kaufman-jack-micheline-hube-the-cube-and-others/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191227T172345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T172345Z
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SUMMARY:Gish Jen's The Resisters Book Talk with Helen Zia
DESCRIPTION:A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible\, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Gish will be in conversation with Helen Zia\, activist/author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams. \n“The Resisters is palpably loving\, smart\, funny\, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett \nGISH JEN is the author of four previous novels\, a story collection\, and two works of nonfiction\, the latest of which was The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nCo-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Bay Area Chapter\, Asian Health Services\, and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nFREE\, $3-5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jens-the-resisters-book-talk-with-helen-zia/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Clement: Schulkind\, McClung\, Grafton\, & Barnes
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket\nto HAIR\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She\nwas part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She is a former\npsych nurse and librarian. Her beloved partner\, Carole\, created the cover art for her book.\nFALLING INTO FLOWERS was the recipient of the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Gay and Lesbian\nPoetry\, a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award\, and received Honorable Mention in both\nthe “Gay” and “Poetry” categories for the 2018 San Francisco Book Festival. \nGrace Marie Grafton’s latest book\, LENS\, from Unsolicited Press\, features poems inspired by\nthe art of California. Six additional collections of her poetry have been published. Her poems\nwon first prize in the Soul Making contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, in Bellingham Review\,\nand from The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a\nPushcart Prize. Ms. Grafton taught with CA Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve CA Arts Council\ngrants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s\nFountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nKathleen McClung is the author of two poetry collections\, The Typists Play Monopoly and\nAlmost the Rowboat. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest\nReview\, Naugatuck River Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, The MacGuffin\, Forgotten Women\,\nSanctuary\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. Winner of the Rita Dove\,\nMorton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and\nBest of the Net nominee. Associate director of the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, she\nhas mentored hundreds of writers at Skyline College\, The Writing Salon\, and other colleges and\nhas taught/advised student teachers in the credential program at Mills College. For ten years\nshe has directed Women on Writing: WOW Voices Now on the Skyline campus. In 2018-2019\nshe is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.\n \nLaura Schulkind\, an attorney by day\, is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry she tells\nher own. She has two poetry chapbooks\, both published by Finishing Line Press\, The Long Arc of\nGrief (2019) and Lost in Tall Grass (2014). Her writing has also appeared in numerous literary\njournals including: The Dallas Review\, Diverse Voices Quarterly\, Dos Passos Review\, Forge\, The\nMacGuffin\, and Reed Magazine.\nHer recent collection The Long Arc of Grief\, dedicated to her parents\, was impelled by suddenly\nfinding herself in a world without them. But it also moves beyond grief\, exploring how we all\nnot merely carry on\, but live. In telling these stories\, she has been described as\, “a fearless\ntruth-teller\, shining the light of her poetic language on details we well might have missed\notherwise–the small\, miraculous moments of discovery\, heartbreak and redemption.” Barbara\nQuick (Vivaldi’s Virgins) Her published work\, and additional reviews can also be found at:\nwww.lauraschulkind.com\, along with musings on why “lawyer-poet” isn’t an oxymoron.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-schulkind-mcclung-grafton-barnes/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books Clement Street\, 506 Clement Street\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
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SUMMARY:Book Swap!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our semiannual Book Swap at Novel Brewing Co.! \nHow does it work?\nBring a book\, or a few books. We prefer ones from home that you finished reading and would like to share with others \nAND/OR come in to find the next book you want to read! \nEach book included in the Book Swap needs a BOOKMARK!\nBookmarks and writing utensils are provided. Please write (1) your first name and last initial\, and (2) the top 2 reasons someone should read the book. Place the books\, with the bookmark in it\, on the Book Swap Book Cart. \nNovel Brewing Company’s Book Swap host (Teresa) will push around the Book Swap Book Cart from 4 to 6 pm to get each book a new home! \nSuccess = Extra $1 off your next pint!\nIf your book is selected by someone to take home\, the bookmark will be given to the beer server SO ASK if you have a bookmark behind the bar during your next pint purchase to redeem an extra $1 off your pint! \nIf books remain at the end\, no worries\, they will be put in the Lending Library over the next few months. \nHave fun and READ MORE in your daily life!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-swap/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T190000
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty - Golden Gates w/Nellie Bowles
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Conor Doughertyto read from his new book\, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America on Monday\, February 17th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Nellie Bowles. \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nConor Dougherty is an economics reporter at The New York Times. He previously spent a decade in New York covering housing and the economy for The Wall Street Journal. He grew up in the Bay Area and lives with his family in Oakland. \nNellie Bowles is a reporter for the New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates-w-nellie-bowles/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T210000
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CREATED:20200215T021249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T021249Z
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SUMMARY:Dia Felix and Matt Longabucco
DESCRIPTION:Come out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and stay for the surprise!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-felix-and-matt-longabucco/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260406T120959
CREATED:20191227T170850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T170850Z
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SUMMARY:Typewriter Art: Typestracts\, Artyping\, and Constellation Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Before ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool\, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new genre of art and poetry. Breaking the grid and exploding words\, these artists and poets used the limitations and practicalities of the typewriter to create beautiful and thought provoking pieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/typewriter-art-typestracts-artyping-and-constellation-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lewis Watts - Harlem of the West
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book\, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era on Tuesday\, February 18th at 7pm. \nIn the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the Westcaptures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist\, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lewis-watts-harlem-of-the-west/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She \nPublished by Liveright \n\n\n\n\n\nAddressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation\, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they. \nLike trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms\, pronouns are sparking a national debate\, prompting new policies in schools\, workplaces\, even prisons\, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars\, gender-neutral pronouns are\, however\, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context\, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women’s rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns\, not just hir and zie\, for centuries. Based on Baron’s own empirical research\, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved. \nDennis Baron\, professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois\, has long been a national commentator on language issues\, from the Washington Post to NPR and CNN. He is the author of A Better Pencil: Readers\, Writers\, and the Digital Revolution. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Champaign\, Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-baron-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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