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SUMMARY:Sharon Doubiago + Art Montecon
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/sharon-doubiago-art-montecon/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T200000
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Dr. Ajuan Mance
DESCRIPTION:It’s International Mandela Day!\nCome celebrate South Africa\, as well as 19th Century African-American Literature (“Before Harlem”) with Professor Ajuan Mance of Mills College. Also to be presented: “1001 Black Men” and “Gender Studies” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-dr-ajuan-mance/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
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SUMMARY:Janelle Brown w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Essayist\, journalist\, and New York Times-bestselling author Janelle Brown shares her new novel\, Watch Me Disappear. Janelle will be in conversation with Vanessa Hua\, award-winning journalist and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \nThe disappearance of a beautiful\, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies–from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.\n“Tantalizing and twisty . . . a spider’s web of a novel . . . You won’t be able to put it down.”–Megan Abbott\nWho you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are.\nIt’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found\, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie’s death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote\, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends.\nBut then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother\, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability\, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Who was the woman he knew as Billie Flanagan?\nTogether\, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truth–about Billie\, but also about themselves\, learning\, in the process\, about all the ways that love can distort what we choose to see. Janelle Brown’s insights into the dynamics of intimate relationships will make you question the stories you tell yourself about the people you love\, while her nervy storytelling will keep you guessing until the very last page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janelle-brown-with-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\n\nNEXT: Tuesday July 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Avotcja!\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission\, full menu and bar in the front room.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-5/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T213000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Khong
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Khong discusses her debut novel\, Goodbye\, Vitamin. \n\nPraise for Rachel Khong \n“Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you ― just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love.”―Miranda July \n\n“The novel Goodbye\,Vitamin builds with humor\, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders\, at its devastating end\, how in the world the debut author Rachel Khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. The only possible answer is this\, that Khong is a magician\, and that we are lucky to fall under her spell at the beginning of her brilliant writing life.” ―Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n\n“Half stand-up comic\, half a seismographer of the human heart\, Khong writes with vulnerability and penetrating insight\, and with a gentle humor that moves you not only to care for her characters\, but also to care more fervently for the people in your life.”―Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine \n\nAbout Goodbye\, Vitamin \nFreshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned\, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job\, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father\, a prominent history professor\, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother\, meanwhile\, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth’s father’s condition intensifies\, the comedy in her situation takes hold\, gently transforming all her grief. \nTold in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight\, humor\, and unexpected tenderness\, Goodbye\, Vitamin pilots through the loss\, love\, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-khong-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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T200000
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Demuk
DESCRIPTION:Nearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nKazumi Chin is the author of Having a Coke With Godzilla. He works to build loving communities with marginalized people\, to put language to the mechanisms of structures and identities\, and to create spaces and tools that allow others to do the same. He is interested in scholarship at the intersection of art-making and critical theory\, and has a profound love for maps\, spreadsheets\, algorithms\, taxonomies\, simulations\, and also poetry & the mythical power of true friendship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #140\, San Jose\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tom Centolella\, Kathy Evans + Molly Giles - A Literary Evening
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first-person protagonists are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry. His awards include the American Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared widely in magazines\, anthologies\, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has been a visiting writer at many colleges\, universities and literary centers and has taught creative writing in the Bay Area for 30 years\, notably at College of Marin and in private Marin workshops. \nAbout Hunger And Sorrow F. D. Reeve\, poet critic\, said: \n“The attitude in Hunger and Sorrow is impassioned; the voice is sophisticated; the author’s intelligence distances the introversion . . with a tone whose sweet patience endures.” \nKathy Evans\, from Sausalito\, California\, is the author of three books of poetry. She has been published in journals and West Coast reviews\, including the Alaska Review\, the Atlantic Review\, California Quarterly\, Black Bear Review\, Runes\, Oberon\, and most recently the Tupelo Quarterly. She teaches Creative Writing at Juvenile Hall in Marin County\, the University of San Francisco\, and The College of Marin. She is a poet teacher with The California Poets-in- the-Schools and is currently at UCSF as a poet- in-residence at Benioff Children’s Hospital. Her three collections of poetry include: Imagination Comes To Breakfast\, As The Heart Is Held\, and Hunger and Sorrow\, which was a winner for the Small Press Poetry Prize. \nWinner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction\, All the Wrong Places feature nineteen strange and tightly woven tales which merge the mythic and the modern with dark humor and deep humanity. Many of the stories contain contemporary versions of ancient guides: a ghost dog seen by a young drifter in love with a much older guru; a wild goat on a cliff forever standing beside her dead ram glimpsed by a woman whose husband battles cancer; a volcano goddess with a small dog appearing to a woman whose boyfriend is flirting with her teenage daughter. The vacationland settings\, Hawaii\, Ireland\, Baja and California among them\, accentuate the characters’ sense of displacement. \nMolly Giles is the author of three award-winning story collections\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, and Bothered\, and a novel\, Iron Shoes. Previous awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, the Small Press Short Fiction Award\, the Boston Globe Award\, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and an NEA grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-centolella-kathy-evans-molly-giles-a-literary-evening/
LOCATION:Book Passage By-the-Bay\, 100 Bay Street\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:John Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:John Burroughs a.k.a. Jesus Crisis is a dynamic performer whose poetry books include Water Works\, Electric Company\, Beat Attitude\, It Takes More Than Chance to Make Changeand The Eater of the Absurd. He co-founded the annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest and hosts sundry events around Cleveland. Since 2008\, he has served as founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press\, publishing superb writers from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burroughs/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Burroughs aka Jesus Crisis
DESCRIPTION:John Burroughs a.k.a. Jesus Crisis is a dynamic performer whose poetry books include Water Works\, Electric Company\, Beat Attitude\, It Takes More Than Chance to Make Changeand The Eater of the Absurd. He co-founded the annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest and hosts sundry events around Cleveland. Since 2008\, he has served as founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press\, publishing superb writers from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burroughs-aka-jesus-crisis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T230000
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SUMMARY:Snap Salon
DESCRIPTION:Snap Judgment and Awaken Cafe presents… \nDoors at 7pm :: Show at 8pm\nFREE with RSVP: https://snapsalon.eventbrite.com/ \nJoin us for an intimate evening of storytelling with Snap Judgment Superstars James Judd\, Josh Healey\, and special guests Julia Jackson and Bridget Schwartz at Awaken Cafe. Enjoy a glass of wine and listen to seasoned storytellers share their craft. Free to RSVP\, so reserve your spot now! \nFeaturing… \nJosh Healey is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and creative activist. \nJames Judd’s Funny Stories is an American humorist and monologist. \nJulia Jackson \nBridget Schwartz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snap-salon/
LOCATION:Awaken Cafe\, 1429 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T210000
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SUMMARY:July Lyrics & Dirges: Duende!
DESCRIPTION:A sizzling summer reading with Lorca’s Duende as the theme. Come hear Youssef Alaoui\, Vida Felsenfeld\, Florencia Milito\, Norma Liliana Valdez\, Joshua Adam Anderson!!! \nFree refreshements and bookstore cats!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/july-lyrics-dirges-duende/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T213000
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SUMMARY:Yanara Friedland + Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Yanara Friedland and Claire Marie Stancek discuss their new books from Noemi Press\, Uncountry: A Mythology and Mouths. \n\nPraise for Uncountry \n “Deep in the ethical vision of these prose pieces (each so dreamlike it seems the dream itself is dreaming) arrives the suggestion that the events of history—the heart-nulling wars\, the Holocaust\, the refugees broken by their own resistance; but also the personal fact\, the harm of being anyone—reach back into the ancient tales and refuse them their pre-ordained eternity.” Dan Beachy Quick \n\n“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door\,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling us “There is no original past to redeem: there is the void.” Uncountry is an invitation to that void\, and Friedland serves as dream guide through this blend of the personal\, political\, and stunningly poetic.” Lily Hoang \n  \nAbout Uncountry \nWinner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction Award. UNCOUNTRY: A MYTHOLOGY is a collection of narratives that aim to expand creative pathways into historical space\, particularly histories of migration and displacement. It is divided into four Histories: Ash\, Breath\, Hunger and Blood. The four Histories explore the gaps between “remembered” official history and the more unreliable spaces of private memory and unspoken unofficial history. The storylines re–contextualize and re–imagine content from mythic spaces\, such as German folktales and Eastern European Jewish lore\, historical narratives as well as anecdotes from oral family memory. UNCOUNTRY furthermore explores the notion of invisible landscapes; an accumulation of stories\, memories\, dreams and desires\, over–layering the visible place: a record of the human\, animal and geographical history that we move through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanara-friedland-claire-marie-stancek/
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:20170720T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T173000
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Raina León
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. \nRaina León \nRaina J. León is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others.  She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-raina-leon/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE\, on Thursday July 20th\, 7-9 pm\, at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth)\, September Williams (Chasing Mercury)\, Fisayo Adeyeye (Cradles)\, Andrea Passwater\, and Alex Ivey. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resilience/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Casey FitzSimons
DESCRIPTION:Casey FitzSimons has poems in Red Wheelbarrow\, Mezzo Cammin\, and numerous other print and online journals. She has first place awards from Bay Area Poets Coalition\, Mendocino Coast Writers Conference\, and Ina Coolbrith Circle and has been honored by River Styx\, Writecorner Press\, The Rita Dove Awards\, and the Soul-Making Keats competitions. She has published 12 chapbooks\, including Pushing Sky Aside (2016) and The Sharp Edges of Knowing (2015). She donates all her book proceeds to Doctors Without Borders. Casey taught art for many years and her reviews of Bay Area exhibitions appeared often in Artweek. She has a master’s degree in Fine Arts from San Jose State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/casey-fitzsimons/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Roe w/ Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Andrew Roe reading from his new book\, the collection of stories Where You Live. He’ll be in conversation with our friend and yours Ethel Rohan. Please join us! \nThe California of Where You Live might have sun\, surf\, and sand\, but it’s more densely populated with cracking marriages\, accidental pregnancies\, and shitty jobs. Andrew Roe’s Californians face sharp points of change: Stay or go? Love or leave? Run or get stuck? Their choices\, like our own\, reveal life’s stark limitations and its wide-open vistas all at once. \nFull of lush prose and unforgettable imagery\, the stories in Where You Live shine an unforgiving yet shimmering light on longing\, loss\, and the everyday catastrophes of life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-roe-with-ethel-rohan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
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SUMMARY:Sherman Alexie
DESCRIPTION:Sherman Alexie’s work is canonical. Novels like The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven are standards in classrooms across the country. Few writers have captured the American experience in quite the way Alexie has. \nNow he faces head-on the ghosts of his past\, grappling with the life and the upbringing that inspired the novels and stories that vaulted him to literary stardom. Join us for an evening of raw and honest reflection with Sherman Alexie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherman-alexie/
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:20170720T213000
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SUMMARY:Tamara Shopsin
DESCRIPTION:Tamara Shopsin discusses her new book from MCD\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal. \n\nPraise for Arbitrary Stupid Goal \n“Tamara Shopsin’s new memoir is hilarious. Just in like the West Village itself\, you zigzag along on a fun adventure never knowing who you are going to meet.  What a fun read!”—Amy Sedaris \n  \n“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world―when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.”―Miranda July  \n  \n“Tamara Shopsin’s memoir is a funny and absorbing portrait of the city in a grubbier\, less corporate incarnation. If you believe\, as she does—and I do—that New York is ‘matter-of-fact\, the best place on earth\,’ then read this book. And if you don’t believe that\, after you read this book\, you will.”—Roz Chast \n\nAbout Arbitrary Stupid Goal \nIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal\, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood\, a funky\, tight-knit small town in the big city\, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s\, her family’s legendary greasy spoon\, aka The Store\, run by her inimitable dad\, Kenny a loquacious\, contrary\, huge-hearted man who\, aside from dishing up New York’s best egg salad on rye\, is Village sheriff\, philosopher\, and fixer all at once. All comers find a place at Shopsin’s table and feast on Kenny’s tall tales and trenchant advice along with the incomparable chili con carne. \n  \nFilled with clever illustrations and witty\, nostalgic photographs and graphics\, and told in a sly\, elliptical narrative that is both hilarious and endearing\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life\, which is becoming a forgotten art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamara-shopsin/
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:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
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CREATED:20170720T045418Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Noah Blaustein\, Kathryn Nuernberger\, + Jacques J. Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Noah Blaustein’s book of poems is Flirt. Christopher Merrill says\, “Like all great lovers\, he promises the world—and then delivers\, in poems that…address the central issues of the heart: how we flirt before we think—and how we then discern order in the new dispensation in which we find ourselves.” Widely published in literary journals\, he is the editor of the anthology Motion: American Sports Poems\, which was an editor’s pick of National Public Radio and a Librarian’s pick of the New York Public Library. \nKathryn Nuernberger’s latest book of poems is The End of Pink. Aimee Nezhukumatahil says\, “The remarkable designs of a landscape created by Kathryn Nuernberger give us such a stamp of hoof\, wonder\, and wit…This is an unforgettable collection of sly-sexy poems of desire\, grief\, and motherhood.” Her first collection\, Rag & Bone\, won the 2010 Elixir Press Antivenom Prize. She is the director of Pleiades Press and has received fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society and the Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life to research aspects of the history of science and medicine. \nJacques J. Rancourt’s debut book of poems is Novena\, winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleiades Press. D. A. Powell says\, “Jacques Rancourt is a votary of desire and a faithful disciple to memory…This is a holy book\, a pilgrim’s progress of erotic\, mystical and terrifying beauty.” A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, his poems have been widely published in literary journals\, including Kenyon Review and Best New Poets 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-noah-blaustein-kathryn-nuernberger-jacques-j-rancourt/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170721T213000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170621T125117Z
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SUMMARY:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell + Jacques Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell and Jacques Rancourt read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Exit Theater \nWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry \nExit Theater casts classical elegy\, with dazzling formal innovation\, into a staggering work of contemporary\, political polyphony. Through monologues\, performance scripts\, and poems of exquisite prosody\, Mike Lala examines the human figure as subject and object\, enemy and ally in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus\, Shakespeare\, Cy Twombly\, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals\, accused terrorists\, State Department employees\, nuclear scientists\, SaturdayNight Live actors\, war criminals\, malware\, and a host of mythic\, literary\, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony\, Lala implicates every actor\, including himself\, in a web of shared culpability vis-a-vis consumerism\, representation\, speaking\, writing\, and making art against the backdrop of the endless\, open wars of a post Cold War\, post-2001 era. Exit Theater is a debut of and against its time\, a book about war\, art\, and what it means to make art in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys \nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award \nD. A. Powell’s fifth book of poetry\, Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, explores the darker side of divisions and developments\, the interstitial spaces of boonies\, backstage\, bathhouse\, and bar. With witty banter\, emotional resolve\, and powerful lyricism\, this collection demonstrates Powell’s exhilarating range. \n  \nAbout Novena \nIn poems inspired by and sometimes borrowing their forms from the novena\, a nine-day Catholic prayer addressing and seeking intercession from the Virgin Mary\, Jacques Rancourt explores the complexities of faith\, desire\, beauty\, and justice. Novena is a collection that invites prayer not to symbols of dogmatic perfection but to those who are outcast or maligned\, LGBTQ people\, people in prison\, people who resist\, people who suffer and whose suffering has not been redeemed. In Novena\, the Virgin Mary is recast as a drag queen\, religious icons are merged with those who are abolished\, and spiritual isolation is scrutinized in a queer pastoral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-lala-d-a-powell-jacques-rancourt/
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:20170722T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170722T000617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T000617Z
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SUMMARY:Wolfman @ The 2017 San Francisco Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolfman-the-2017-san-francisco-art-book-fair/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T220000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170621T005314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T005314Z
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SUMMARY:Adobe Bookstore's 28th Birthday Party!
DESCRIPTION:Come join art lovers\, book makers\, booksellers\, artists and neighbors for a celebration in a leftist\, cooperative\, used bookstore and gallery in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. We’ll be celebrating our founder Andrew McKinley’s birthday\, our fourth anniversary in our space on 24th St.\, our 28th anniversary in the Mission\, and the beautiful work of booksellers and artists Kate Rosenberger and Justin Carder in the Backroom Gallery. Grab a burrito at Taqueria Vallarta\, a coffee at Philz\, and wander over to toast great people and great content in a long time Mission institution. See you soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adobe-bookstores-28th-birthday-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170702T111947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170702T111947Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic: Fiestas Fridas Edition
DESCRIPTION:All topics\, all styles\, all skill levels welcome! Come in at 2:30 to sign up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-fiestas-fridas-edition/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170702T110915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170703T072534Z
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SUMMARY:Fateme Banishoeib
DESCRIPTION:Adobe welcomes poet Fateme Banishoeib reading from her new book. \nThe Whisper  is a lyrical engagement with the intimacy and audacity of being human and it reminds of what it is to hide from the world\, and in doing so become hidden to our own selves. It speaks of leadership of self first before the leadership of others. \nFateme is a strategic leadership consultant. She defines herself many and multitudes.  She gives talks on leadership and human-centered business. Her book of poetry called The Whisper\,  charts the journey of leadership of self before the leadership of others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fateme-banishoeib/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170604T124006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T023058Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Chloe Veylit.\nReaders:  Brandon Brown\, Kazumi Chin\, Vanessa Flores\, Nick Johnson\, Joseph Lease\, Michelle Lin\, Carrie Murphy\, and Denise Newman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170724T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170622T014002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T014002Z
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SUMMARY:Elaine Brown
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Brown – “E Spoken”\nI have been writing ever since my Mother and siblings taught me how to hold a pen. I grew up listening to the stories my Grandmother and Mother would tell me about my family and their struggles wondering how I could change things. So\, history and writing became my passion. I have been writing Free Style Poetry for almost 30 years combining past and present issues that affect our daily lives; motivating people to change their mindsets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-brown/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170503T234247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T234247Z
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SUMMARY:A Bunch of Bad Hombres: Immigrant Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-bunch-of-bad-hombres-immigrant-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170622T012355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012355Z
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SUMMARY:Bob Anbian + Randy Fingland
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/bob-anbian-randy-fingland/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170720T034356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T034356Z
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SUMMARY:Anita Cruz + Chris Carosi
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-chris-carosi/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T210000
DTSTAMP:20260405T202136
CREATED:20170619T134555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T012320Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Richmond
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is elated to host a launch party for the one and only Michelle Richmond\, reading from her new novel The Marriage Pact. Join us! \nNewlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice\, once a singer in a well-known rock band\, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients\, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. \nThe goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .  \nNever mention The Pact to anyone.\n            \nAlice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties\, the sense of community\, their widening social circle of like-minded couples. \nAnd then one of them breaks the rules. \nThe young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact\, membership\, like marriage\, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. \nFor Jake and Alice\, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-richmond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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