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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Series Kick-Off
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Robert Hass\, this event features distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem. This year’s participants: Stephanie Cannizzo (BAM/PFA)\, Library Director of Development & External Relations David Duer\, Penelope Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies)\, Jianye He (C. V. Starr East Asian Library)\, Paul Howl (Financial Services)\,Melani King (Public Affairs)\, Chana Kronfeld (Near Eastern Studies)\, Gregory P. Levine (History of Art) University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeff MacKie-Mason\, Tim Pine (Environment\, Health\, & Safety)\, and Dora Zhang (English).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-series-kick-off/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Maggie Tokuda-Hall: Also an Octopus
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in Berkeley for a launch party celebrating former Books Inc. bookseller Maggie Tokuda-Hall‘s adorable debut picture book\, Also an Octopus! Even the most “totally awesome” story starts with a little bit of nothing. What happens next is up to you! A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring. It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story\, the octopus has to “want “something maybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to “build “a spaceship out of soda cans\, glue\, umbrellas\, glitter\, and waffles. OK\, maybe the octopus needs some help\, like from an adorable bunny friend\, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something even more amazing come to pass? Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, with the help of award-winning illustrator Benji Davies\, sets up an endearingly funny story\, then hands the baton to readers\, who will be more than primed to take it away. (Ages 3+)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-tokuda-hall-also-an-octopus/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective September Reading
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto: \nHeather Bourbeau\nJenny Bitner\nJane Ciabattari\nChristopher Cook\nLaurie Doyle\nThaisa Frank\nVanessa Hua\nChad Koch\nJoshua Mohr\nEthel Rohan\nLizette Wanzer \nJenny Bitner’s short stories and flash fiction have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Writing That Risks\, PANK\, The Sun\, Mississippi Review and Fence magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and teaches Flash Fiction at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Duende\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Tupelo Press. Her piece “Hopscotch” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nJane Ciabattari is the author of the story collections\, Stealing the Fire and California Tales\, and of stories published in 100WordStory and New Flash Fiction Review and many other publications. She writes the Between the Lines column for BBC.com\, a weekly column for the Literary Hub\, and contributes regularly to NPR. She is vice president /online and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Flash Fiction Collective. \nChristopher Cook is an award-winning writer and author whose work has appeared in Harper’s\, Mother Jones\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis\, and is completing a memoir about living and growing up on the road. Check him out at www.christopherdcook.com. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Award\, as well as nominations for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book of short stories\, World Gone Missing\, is a finalist for the Livingston Press (University of West Alabama) fiction prize\, and a story from the collection appears in their fiction anthology. Other stories and essays have been published in Jabberwock Review\, Arroyo Literary Review\, Dogwood Journal\, Under the Sun and elsewhere. She’s a co-founder of Babylon Salon\, San Francisco’s long running reading series\, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nThaisa Frank’s sixth book\, Enchantment\, includes two semi-autobiographical novellas and thirty-three stories. Heidegger’s Glasses (2010)\, about the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, sold to ten foreign countries. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage. Her nonfiction book Finding Your Writer’s Voice has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and is used in MFA programs. \nVanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and a forthcoming novel\, is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, ZYZZYVA\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including “Damascus\,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” recently won the Northern California Book Award. \nEthel Rohan is an award-winning flash and short story writer. Her first novel\, The Weight of Him\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in February\, 2017. \nLyzette Wanzer is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, Aesthetica Magazine\, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie\, 2012) and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books\, 2015). Lyzette is the 2016 First Place winner in the national Kay Snow Nonfiction Competition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-september-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett + Natasha Dennerstein
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening of readings with two-time Pushcart nominee and Lit Death Match Champ\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Norfolk Press author Natasha Dennerstein. With musical guest TBD. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nParking: Street parking is usually available\, but the easiest thing to do is to park at the Walgreens just a block away. Here is a handy map (you should see Nomadic Press on there) https://goo.gl/maps/SgaHMhV88MA2
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett-natasha-dennerstein/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beyond Words: An Evening of Jazz + Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Come experience an evening that stretches your literal imagination\, when renown Bay Area poets fuse with jazz musicians in a synchronous overtone of musicality! \nFEATURING\nBonnie Kwong\, poet\nCandy Shue\, poet\nDeWayne Dickerson\, poet\nAmos White\, poet \nMusic: Dillon Vado (Music Director) and his Jazz Trio \nBeyond Words – An Evening of Jazz & Poetry\nFriday\, September 2 at 8pm. \nDoors open: 7:30pm \nat The California Jazz Conservancy\n2087 Addison St.\, Berkeley\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/hg9cp5Kq47D2 \nBay Area impresario and haiku poet Amos White and CJC’s Dillon Vado present an evening that promises to stretch the imagination in musical expression. \nListen to “Time No Changes”\nThe Dillon Vado Trio featuring Amos White\, poet\nhttps://soundcloud.com/amoswhite3/poetry-jazz-time-no-changes-amos-white-poet-dillon-vado \nBONNIE WAILEE KWONG – Bonnie’s first poetry collection is ravel\, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press\, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered several Pushcart nominations. She creates in many mediums and languages: English\, Cantonese\, Mandarin\, Japanese\, ruby\, and javascript. She is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University. Her website is:www.bonniekwong.info \nDEWAYNE FRAZIER DICKERSON – One of the last unicorns known to man. Nevertheless\, the proud Louisville native would be nowhere without support from the National Authors League\, Radar Productions\, or New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in West Oakland with his daughter and Squishy\, the turtle. \nCANDY SHUE – Poet and prose writer. Candy holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Poetry from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been published in Washington Square\, Drunken Boat\, sparkle + blink\, Works & Days Quarterly\, Versal\, and other journals\, and she has received grants from Kundiman\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Workshop\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her photography and poetry was featured in the 92nd Street Y’s #wordsweliveinproject and she currently serves as Chairman on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Generations reading series. She has also collaborated with the composer Jerry Gerber on a musical poem\, “Lucid: Dream For” for his recent CD release\, Virtual Harmonics. You can find Candy at:www.invisibleadventure.com \nDILLON VADO is an active professional drummer and vibraphonist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He grew up in San Jose\, California and has performed in situations from high school band\, to marching snare drum with the Santa Clara Vanguard\, to playing and recording professionally with other professionals in the Bay Area. Dillon has performed with Art Lande\, Marcus Shelby\, Erik Jekabson\, Jeff Denson\, Alan Hall\, Clifford Brown III and Marcos Silva. In 2014\, Dillon won 1st place in the Jazz Search West competition on vibraphone. He is currently in his last year of the Bachelor’s Program at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. \nAMOS WHITE is an awarded American haiku poet and author of The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter (2012). His works have appeared in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology amongst others. Amos serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards\, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, and produces Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. www.about.me/amoswhite \nIN THE NEWS \nPoetry Flash\nhttp://poetryflash.org/calendar/?t=0n20160902c_white-kwong-shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beyond-words-an-evening-of-jazz-poetry/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hot! New Books!
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rosa Lane\, Jon Sindell\, Brynn Saito\, and Richard Loranger. \nGuitar: Barry Ebner. \nAn open mic follows the featured readers. \nEveryone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. \nFree drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. \nThe series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, free. We pass the hat. 6:45-9:00 pm (pandemoniumpress@gmail.com).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hot-new-books/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160907T183000
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SUMMARY:Annual Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:With C.S. Giscombe\, Robert Hass\, Lyn Hejinian\, Geoffrey G. O’Brien\, John Shoptaw\, and Mary Szybist. \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC \nReadings begin at 6:30pm \nUnless otherwise noted\, 2016-2017 Holloway events will be held in the HEARST FIELD ANNEX room D37\, UC BERKELEY
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annual-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NoViolet Bulawayo
DESCRIPTION:NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names\, about a young girl’s journey out of Zimbabwe and to America\, won numerous awards and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times called it a “deeply felt and fiercely written debut novel.” NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University\, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. NoViolet grew up in Zimbabwe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noviolet-bulawayo/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Justin Chin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nJustin Chin: Selected Works \nEdited by Jenifer Joseph\, with commentary by R. Zamora Linmark\, Michelle Tea\, Tim Liu\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka \nfrom Manic D Press \nHosted by Jennifer Joseph \nwith colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin’s work:  Kevin Killian (Spreadeagle) and Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman)\, filmmaker Henry Machtay\, Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)\, Thea Hillman (Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word))\, Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a Glittering Palace)\, Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?)\, and Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways to Stay Alive). \nJustin Chin’s fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview\, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American\, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian\, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals\, Chin’s early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works\, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane\, saints and sinners\, health and illness\, hope and despair\, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV\, which progressed into AIDS in his final years. \nThis unique collection of Chin’s literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works\, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best. Notable literary figures pay tribute to the poet/writer with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. \nAmong many others\, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark (Rolling the R’s)\, Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)\, Timothy Liu (Don’t Go Back To Sleep)\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Night at the Pahala Theatre). \nJustin Chin (1969-2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books\, two essay collections\, one book each of short fiction\, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, and anthologies\, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council\, Djerassi Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Fund\, PEN American Center\, and PEN Center USA West\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-chin-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin + Jasmine Gibson
DESCRIPTION:HUM 512\, SFSU\, free\nGetting here: http://poetry.sfsu.edu/contact-us \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also arevolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \nThe Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\nhttp://poetry.sfsu.edu/\nStreaming video at Poetry Center Digital Archive\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter\nVideo clips at Poetry Center Video Highlights\nhttps://vimeo.com/channels/poetrycenter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-jasmine-gibson/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Bern w/ Lucinda Weaver
DESCRIPTION:“PACES: dance & poetry fit to the space performance” based on Alan Bern’s greater distance and other poems; Bern reads from the book as he and dancer/choreographer Lucinda Weaver perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on a poem from the book\, “Dialogue\,” a dramatic dialogue between Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francis of Assisi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bern-w-lucinda-weaver/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/ Taylor\, Richardson\, Warren\, + Banias
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to belong to the increasingly slippery present? Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology\, rootedness\, longing\, apocalypse\, and the complex cartographies of desire. \nTess Taylor\, WORK & DAYS \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPRs All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito. \nRachel Richardson\, HUNDRED-YEAR WAVE \nRachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Her poetry collection Hundred-Year Wave juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary motherhood. The San Francisco Chronicle says of the book that “ancestry\, history and the whaling industry unite in a lived present\, and the poem becomes a visceral experience…. Over and over Hundred-Year Wave locates the tender self in a wide expanse of sea.” \nNoah Warren\, THE DESTROYER IN THE GLASS \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, Agni\, The Missouri Review\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he lives in Palo Alto. \nAri Banias\, ANYBODY\nAri Banias is the author of Anybody. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night-w-taylor-richardson-warren-banias/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anuradha Roy: Sleeping on Jupiter
DESCRIPTION:On a train bound for the seaside town of Jarmuli\, known for its temples\, three elderly women meet a young documentary filmmaker named Nomi\, whose braided hair\, tattoos\, and foreign air set her apart. At a brief stop en route\, the women are unprepared to witness a sudden assault on Nomi that leaves her stranded as the train pulls away. \nLater in Jarmuli\, among pilgrims\, priests\, and ashrams\, the women disembark only to find that Nomi has managed to arrive on her own. What is someone like her\, clearly not a worshipper\, doing in this remote place? Over the next five days\, the women live out their long-planned dream of a holiday together; their temple guide pursues a forbidden love; and Nomi is joined by a photographer to scout locations for a documentary. As their lives overlap and collide\, Nomi’s past comes into focus\, and the serene surface of the town is punctured by violence and abuse as Jarmuli is revealed as a place with a long\, dark history that transforms all who encounter it. A haunting\, vibrant novel\, Sleeping on Jupiter is a brilliantly told story of contemporary India from an internationally acclaimed writer. \nAnuradha Roy is the author of The Folded Earth\, which won the Economist Crossword Prize\, An Atlas of Impossible Longing\, which was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and the Seattle Times\, and Sleeping on Jupiter\, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Ranikhet\, India.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anuradha-roy-sleeping-on-jupiter/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160909T213000
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SUMMARY:A collaboration w/ Commune Editions
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, September 9th @ 7:30 pm for\na collaboration with Commune Editions\, featuring David Lau\, Wendy Trevino\, Cheena Marie Lo and Jasper Bernes!\n\nEvent is FREE. \n\nSnacks\, Lagunitas beer and wine will be served.\n\nDavid Lau‘s poetry and essays have appeared widely (in Boston Review\, The American Reader\, Armed Cell\, New Orleans Review\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, and New Left Review). His first book of poetry\,Virgil and the Mountain Cat\, was described by the Believer as “simultaneously creative and destructive … grounded in—or rather\, trapped by—the present.” Commune Editionswill publish his second book this August; Still Dirty finds its bearings in the political struggles after the economic crisis. In 2009\, he was chosen as a Poetry Society of America New American Poet. Lau is also the author of the chapbook Bad Opposites (speCt!\, 2012). With Cal Bedient\, he edits the journal Lana Turner. A graduate of UCLA and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he is a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz\, where he first began teaching in 2005. He has also taught poetry at UC Berkeley and in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College.\n\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook BRAZILIAN IS NOT A RACE was just recently published by Commune Editions\, and Krupskaya Books will publish her chapbookCruel Work later in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY and Open House.\n\nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They currently coordinate a youth art program at California College of the Arts\, and co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD.\n\nJasper Bernes is author of two books of poetry\,Starsdown (2007) and We Are Nothing and So Can You (2015). He has recently completed a scholarly book\, The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization(Stanford University Press\, forthcoming)\, about the role poetry plays in the postindustrial restructuring of labor. Poems\, essays\, and other writings can be found in Modern Language Quarterly\, Radical Philosophy\, Endnotes\, Lana Turner\, The American Reader\, Critical Inquiry and elsewhere. Together with Juliana Spahr and Joshua Clover\, he edits Commune Editions. He lives in Berkeley with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-collaboration-w-commune-editions/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday September 10\, Babylon Salon’s Fall Reading features PEN America and VCU Cabell First Novelist Award-winner Ramona Ausubel(Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty); New York Times bestselling novelist J Ryan Stradal (Kitchens of the Great Midwest); poet\, critic & NPR All Things Considered commentator Tess Taylor (Work & Days); artist & memoirist Frances Stroh (Beer Money); short story writer John Jodzio(Knockout). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downtown performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details:www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T203000
DTSTAMP:20260406T192301
CREATED:20160720T004333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T004333Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: R-Dub Doubles Three
DESCRIPTION:R–Dub Doubles Three\nWriters will pair up to read each other’s work\,\nSongwriters will cover each other’s songs\n\n\nReaders\nHeather Bourbeau/Maw Shein Win\nRebecca Foust/Terry Lucas\n\nmore to be announced\n\nThis special program is not submissions–based.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-r-dub-doubles-three/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160910T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160910T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T192301
CREATED:20160828T062104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T062104Z
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SUMMARY:Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters
DESCRIPTION:Unrequited Records is thrilled to announce an event in San Francisco for the latest tribute album…Ronnie Burk: A Man of Letters. \nTo celebrate this release there will a Poetry reading and party on September 10 at 7PM at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. The San Francisco readers include: \nLorna Dee Cervantes\nDiane Di Prima\nInés Hernández-Ávila\nElaine Katzenberger\nMonica Sanchez\nMia Kirsi Stageberg\nTodd Swindell\n\nThe first half of this album contains various rare recordings of Ronnie including radio interviews & call-ins\, specially taped segments for the ACTUP pirate radio show\, as well as a visit to local San Francisco Lowell High School. \nHear Ronnie read Arthur Rimbaud\, his own poetry including a brilliant collage letter to Andrei Codrescu\, on confronting internal homophobia\, the Aquarian love revolution\, the rainbow credit card\, rage as healing & how love is our greatest weapon. \nThe second half features more than two dozen friends & admirers reading Ronnie’s poems or sharing their remembrances & tribute poems. \nAvailable on 12-inch vinyl\, digipak CD or digital download\, each version is unique and contains material that the others do not.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ronnie-burk-a-man-of-letters/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160911T153000
DTSTAMP:20260406T192301
CREATED:20160720T004705Z
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SUMMARY:Chana Bloch + Susan Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Susan Cohen’s new book of poems is “A Different Wakeful Animal.” A journalist\, she has taken up poetry seriously over the past decade\, publishing two chapbooks and one book of poems prior to the current book. \nChana Bloch is the author of five books of poems (her latest is “Swimming in the Rain: New and Collected Poems\, 1985-2015”) as well as six books of translation from Hebrew poetry\, ancient and contemporary\, and a critical study of George Herbert. Bloch is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Creative Writing at Mills College\, where she taught for many years and directed the Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chana-bloch-susan-cohen/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160911T160000
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CREATED:20160825T003353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T003353Z
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SUMMARY:Susanne Dyckman + Elizabeth Robinson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, September 11th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible. ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \nSusanne Dyckman’s new book of poems is A Dark Ordinary. George Albon says\, “A Dark Ordinary is concerned with a double struggle\, that of imagining the words of the early twentieth century immigrants denied civil voices\, through the always mute barriers of the photographic record…Dyckman’s poems are courageous attempts to puncture this hard double membrane.” She is also the author of the collection Equilibrium’s Form and three chapbooks\, as well as being the co-editor of Instance Press. \nElizabeth Robinson’s most recent book of poems is On Ghosts. Andrew Joron says\, “On Ghosts returns us to the haunted aura around words. Here\, a crossing of genres—poetry\, prose meditation\, and personal testimony—shows that language itself amounts to a gathering of ghosts. Robinson’s oblique lyricism beckons us toward a twilight zone where we become ‘witness to the unverifiable.’ This is writing as the highest form of bewitching.” Robinson’s previous books include Counterpart\, Blue Heron\, Three Novels: Poems\, House Made of Silver\, Also Know As\, Inaudible Trumpeters\, Under That Silky Roof\, and Apprehend\, winner of the 2003 Fence Modern Poets Prize. She has received grants from the Fund for Poetry\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and the Boomerang Foundation\, and recently served as the Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susanne-dyckman-elizabeth-robinson/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160912T200000
DTSTAMP:20260406T192301
CREATED:20160825T003605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T003605Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Two (2) Generations
DESCRIPTION:Authors from two generations present their latest works. Edmund Zagorin reads from “The Face of Our Town\,” the life of a Millennial Techie\, and Daniel Curzon presents “How To Cyberbully Your Teacher\,” based on his own experiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-two-2-generations/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160912T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160912T210000
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CREATED:20160825T003845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T003845Z
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SUMMARY:Liane Moriarty
DESCRIPTION:The new novel from Liane Moriarty\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, about how sometimes we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late—it’s just a normal weekend. Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty\, Liane Moriarty turns her unique\, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful\, albeit\, busy life; if there’s anything they can count on\, it’s each other. Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends; a single look between them can convey an entire conversation\, but theirs is a complicated relationship. When Erika mentions a last-minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors\, Tiffany and Vid\, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate—being around Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities will be a welcome respite. Two months later\, it won’t stop raining\, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone? In Truly Madly Guilty\, Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage\, sex\, parenthood\, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships\, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do\, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm. \n“Moriarty’s fans will rejoice at her latest title as she tackles marriage\, parenthood\, friendship\, and sex\, in this provocative and gripping read… This novel sheds light on the truths that we all fear as parents\, spouses\, and friends. It s perfect for those long summer days\, but readers will have to pace themselves to not devour it in one sitting.” —Library Journal (starred review) \n“What a wonderful writer—smart\, wise\, funny.” Anne Lamott \nLiane Moriarty is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and The Husband’s Secret\, as well as the New York Times bestseller What Alice Forgot and The Hypnotists Love Story. She lives in Sydney\, Australia\, with her husband and two children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liane-moriarty/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T200000
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CREATED:20160811T000640Z
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SUMMARY:Julia Claiborne Johnson
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Julia Claiborne Johnson to the store to discuss and sign\, Be Frank with Me. \nReclusive literary legend M. M. Mimi Banning has been holed up in her Bel Air mansion for years\, but after falling prey to a Bernie Madoff-style ponzi scheme\, she’s flat broke. Now Mimi must write a new book for the first time in decades\, and to ensure the timely delivery of her manuscript\, her New York publisher sends an assistant to monitor her progress. The prickly Mimi reluctantly complies with a few stipulations: No Ivy-Leaguers or English majors. Must drive\, cook\, tidy. Computer whiz. Good with kids. Quiet\, discreet\, sane.\nWhen Alice Whitley arrives at the Banning mansion\, she’s put to work right away as a full-time companion to Frank\, the writer’s eccentric nine-year-old\, a boy with the wit of Noel Coward\, the wardrobe of a 1930s movie star\, and very little in common with his fellow fourth-graders. As she slowly gets to know Frank\, Alice becomes consumed with finding out who Frank’s father is\, how his gorgeous piano teacher and itinerant male role model Xander fits into the Banning family equation and whether Mimi will ever finish that book.\nFull of heart and countless only-in-Hollywood moments\, Be Frank with Me is a captivating and unconventional story of an unusual mother and son\, and the intrepid young woman who finds herself irresistibly pulled into their unforgettable world. \nJulia Claiborne Johnson worked at Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines before marrying and moving to Los Angeles\, where she lives with her comedy-writer husband and their two children. Be Frank with Me is her fiction debut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-claiborne-johnson/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T210000
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CREATED:20160828T062526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T062526Z
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SUMMARY:Pan Dulce Poets: Summer Series!
DESCRIPTION:September’s edition of Pan Dulce Poets presents the ecstaic poetry of Kari Riesgo Bañuelos\, Natalie Enright and Naomi Quiñonez. \nOpen Mic sign up starts at 7pm and coffee & canela are free during readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pan-dulce-poets-summer-series/
LOCATION:La Reyna Bakery\, 3114 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160913T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160913T213000
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CREATED:20160811T000436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T000436Z
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SUMMARY:Mauro Javier Cardenas w/ Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Mauro Javier Cardenas discusses his debut novel\, The Revolutionaries Try Again\, with Zyzzyva magazine’s Oscar Villalon. \nFeaturing a performance by the Word for Word Theatrical Company! \nPraise for The Revolutionaries Try Again: \n“Exuberant\, cacophonous . . . Cardenas dizzyingly leaps from character to character\, from street protests to swanky soirees\, and from lengthy uninterrupted interior monologues to rapid-fire dialogues and freewheeling satirical radio programs\, resulting in extended passages of brilliance.” —Publishers Weekly\, review *starred* \n“An unhinged novel about three childhood friends contemplating a presidential run against the crooked Ecuadorian president Abdalá “El Loco” Bucaram. This is double-black-diamond high modernism\, so do some warm-up stretches before you crack this baby.” —Shelf Awareness \n“In The Revolutionaries Try Again\, Mauro Javier Cardenas has taken the edifice of arch modernism and suffused it with tender details of a boyhood in Ecuador. The long\, unraveling sentences reveal an extraordinarily musical ear. This is a debut that will last.” —Karan Mahajan \n“Beware of this writer! The book you’re holding bites. If the reader dares enter after this warning\, he’ll never forget it\, and the memory will stay just as sharp as the humor and velocity in the stories themselves. Incisive\, forceful\, and written in an English that’s fiercely subversive\, The Revolutionaries Try Again evokes a pair of great Latin American novels: Bolaño’sThe Savage Detectives and Cortázar’s Hopscotch. But this book goes even further: it’s the novel we’ve been waiting for\, witness to the most recent wave of immigration from Latin America to the US\, told through the eyes of a privileged class that forces their conationals out of their countries. It’s been ten years since a book this alive\, this incandescent\, has fallen into my hands.” —Carmen Boullosa \nAbout The Revolutionaries Try Again: \nThree former members of an idealistic Jesuit volunteer group attempt to transform Ecuador in the lost decade of austerity packages and the populist demagogy of El Loco Bucaram. Antonio\, an expat and artist in San Francisco\, wants to believe he’s left his country’s extreme poverty behind for good\, but his childhood friend Leopoldo\, now a political bureaucrat\, persuades him to return to make a run for office. Meanwhile\, Rolando suspects his girlfriend Eva will leave him if he acts on his violent revolutionary impulses\, so he agrees to stage political plays with her instead. Their relationship is strained by the struggles they’ve hidden from each other: her brother’s disappearance by paramilitary squadrons\, his sister’s misfortunes crossing the border to the United States.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mauro-javier-cardenas-w-oscar-villalon/
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:20160914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160914T210000
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CREATED:20160811T001156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160811T001156Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Dolan Book Launch in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please help me launch my new book\, THE EMPRESS OF TEMPERA\, at the Bookshop in West Portal. This will be the only event I’m doing in San Francisco\, and I’d really appreciate the support. I hope you can make it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dolan-book-launch-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160914T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160914T213000
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CREATED:20160825T004419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T004419Z
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SUMMARY:MFA Core Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Wesley Gibson\, Rosemary Graham\, Christopher Sindt\, Lysley Tenorio\, and Matthew Zapruder. Introduction by Brenna McNab. \nA part of the Graduate Student Reading Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-core-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T200000
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CREATED:20160825T004908Z
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday Has a Birthday Party
DESCRIPTION:Please join the American Bookbinders Museum on Thursday\, September 15\, as we celebrate the museum’s first year in our new home. There will be refreshments\, cake\, good conversation\, and perhaps even a few surprises. We hope to see old friends and new\, to honor the people who have brought the museum so far\, and to thank our volunteers\, staff\, donors\, and friends. \nPlease come!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursday-has-a-birthday-party/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160811T001509Z
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SUMMARY:Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Zach Wyner\, to the store to discuss and sign his new novel\, What We Never Had. \nMeet Josh\, a paragon for the modern postcollegiate. He has a job with no upward path and a dysfunctional relationship with his ex. Through his work with teenagers\, he begins to find definition through the haze\, gradually discovering purpose and a measure of self-respect. After two shiftless friends take up residence in his apartment\, using his couch as a podium to rail against the world\, he takes stock of who he is versus who he wants to be\, and when his troubled ex finds herself in real danger\, Josh can’t resist the allure of playing the savior\, but now he may have a little wisdom on his side. \nZach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to Curly Red Stories. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and stepdaughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zach-wyner/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160915T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160915T203000
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CREATED:20160825T005106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160825T005106Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Mackey: The Village of Bones
DESCRIPTION:“Mary Mackey’s The Village of Bones gives us the vivid adventures of The Clan of the Cave Bear\, the magic of The Mists of Avalon and Lord of the Rings\, and the beauty of Avatar. Filled with the belief that love drives out fear\, it contains stunning twists that will leave you wanting more.” —Dorothy Hearst\, author of the Wolf Chronicles \nIn 4386 B.C.\, a young priestess named Sabalah conceives a magical child with a mysterious stranger named Arash. Sabalah names the child Marrah. This child will save the Goddess-worshiping people of Europe from nomad invaders called eastmen\, but only if her mother can keep her alive long enough to grow up. Warned in a vision of the coming invasion\, Sabalah flees west with Arash to save her baby daughter\, only to discover that she is running into the arms of her worst enemies. In the dark forests of northern Europe\, other humanlike species left over from the Ice Age still exist. \nMary Mackey is the author of fourteen novels including The Village of Bones: Sabalah’s Tale\,The Year the Horses Came\, The Horses at the Gate\, and The Fires of Spring\, all of which tell the story of Sabalah and Marrah’s struggle to save the Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic Europe from nomad invaders. Her novels have appeared on The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle bestseller lists\, been translated into twelve languages\, and longlisted for the James Tiptree\, Jr Literary Award. She has also written seven volumes of poetry includingSugar Zone\, winner of the 2012 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. A screenwriter as well as a novelist and poet\, Mary has sold feature-length scripts to Warner Brothers as well as to independent film companies. She sometimes writes comedy under her pen name Kate Clemens. At present\, she lives in Northern California with her husband Angus Wright. Her literary papers are archived in the Sophia Smith Special Collections Library\, Smith College\, Northampton\, MA. You can learn more about her\, read her blog interview series People Who Make Books Happen\, and sample her work at www.marymackey.com. \n“Grand adventure and a grand reading experience … sexy\, explosive.” —Pat Conroy\, author ofThe Prince of Tides \n“A fascinating evocation of a prehistoric world…” —Marion Zimmer Bradley\, author of The Mists of Avalon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-mackey-the-village-of-bones/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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