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SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov w/ Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:As part of our National Poetry Month reading series Alex Dimitrov discusses his new collection\, Together and By Ourselves\, with Noah Warren. \n\nPraise for Alex Dimitorv \n\n“Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures\, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he’s here.” —Michael Cunningham \n\n“Alex Dimitrov’s passionate\, headlong poems seem to want to carve beneath the surface of gestures\, beneath the skin\, to the warm and dangerous blood beneath.” —Mark Doty \n\n“Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.” Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nAbout Together and By Ourselves \n\nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-w-noah-warren/
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:Release Party: Foglifter Vol. 2 Issue 1
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the launch party for Volume 2\, Issue 1 of Foglifter! \nWe’ll be loud & queer at Strut next month with plenty of snacks\, beverages\, and\, of course\, a gaggle of incredible readers. \nSpeaking of — behold our featured contributors for the evening! \nChristopher J Adamson\nSevanKelee Boult\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nClara McLean\nDanny Thanh Nguyen\nD.A. Powell\nDaniel Riddle Rodriguez\nBrenda Usher-Carpino \nThe event is free and open to the public\, with a suggested donation of 15.00\, that buys you a copy of the publication. If you are subscribed to Foglifter and wish to pick up your copy at the event\, please let us know! \nWatch this space for more info\, contributor bios\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-foglifter-vol-2-issue-1/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Benavides
DESCRIPTION:Join Denise Benavides\, Kórima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading of Denise’s new book published by Korima Press “Split.” \nBook description:\nDenise Benavides’ debut collection Split is a dedication to motherlessness and abandon—to a nightly killing and rebirths. At its worst\, it is all teeth masticating through the body in an attempt to interrogate and cut out what no longer serves the Self. It is a collection not meant for the weak\, but for those willing to walk through what haunts them the most. \nAuthor Bio:\nDenise Benavides is a queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She uses the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. \nHer work has recently been published in Third Woman Press\, Foglifter Journal\, and The Feminist Wire. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nFree and Open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-benavides/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170409T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170409T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Martha Rhodes + Bruce Willard
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 9th at 3pm featuring Martha Rhodes and Bruce Willard. \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! \n  \nMartha Rhodes’s new book of poems is The Thin Wall. Susan Wheeler says\, “The Thin Wall—between care and resentment\, protectiveness and rage\, betrayal and abandonment–marks the furious\, vital poems in Martha Rhodes’s fifth collection…Martha Rhodes has long been one of our finest poets\, and now she has written her best and most moving book.” Her previous collections are At the Gate\, Perfect Disappearance\, Mother Quiet\, and The Beds. She directs the summer Conference on Poetry at the Frost Place and is the director of Four Way Books in New York City. \nPhoto Credit- Rachel Eliza Griffiths \nBruce Willard’s new book of poems is Violent Blues. Juan Felipe Herrera says\, “Willard plays the notes in-between—the awakenings\, loves and losses\, the slippages between two blurred bodies of life\, of sending and receiving­ that is the ‘ununderstandable\,’ perhaps like Thelonius Monk’s fractured piano\, the one that flames in the center of being\, meaning\, and enlightenment.” His earlier collection is Holding Ground. He spends his time in Maine\, Colorado\, and California and runs several clothing businesses. \n  \nCopies of The Thin Wall and Violent Blues will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2017 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-martha-rhodes-bruce-willard/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Argentine Poetry and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Two touring Argentine poets\, Luisa Futoransky and Claudia Schvartz\, Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amara\, with two noted translators\, John Oliver Simon and Stephen Kessler bring to life the “Coast of Silver” for one evening in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood! \nJoin us for an incredible night of word play and language\, with complimentary beverages and snacks provided!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-argentine-poetry-and-translation/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170409T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170409T200000
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SUMMARY:32x6 Feminist SciFi Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Save the date!\nTwice a year\, a merry band of roving feminists get together for a weekend of flash fiction about time travel.\nThe entire process\, from prompt to book release party\, takes 32 hours\, and you’re invited to help usher the beautiful books into the world!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/32x6-feminist-scifi-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carol Sheldon
DESCRIPTION:Exposed: The Poetry of Carol Sheldon is an open\, honest and revealing account of author Carol Sheldon’s feelings\, experiences and musings in the form of poetry. Sheldon has previously published two books of poetry and many assorted other works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carol-sheldon-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170410T190000
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SUMMARY:David Meltzer Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebration of maestro David Meltzer’s life and work\, Monday evening\, April 10th from 7 to 9:30 pm at Bird & Beckett Books. Diane di Prima\, Duncan McNaughton and others (TBA) will read and speak in honor of our friend David Meltzer. Please check back here and on the B&B website for more details soon. \nDAVID MELTZER MEMORIAL READING: Monday\, April 10th\, 2017 – 7:00 pm\nBird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94131\n(2 blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-meltzer-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170410T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170410T210000
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \n\nPraise for White Tears \n\n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n\n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n\n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \n\nAbout White Tears \n\nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru-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=UTC:20170411T190000
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SUMMARY:Mills MFA Alumni Reading
DESCRIPTION:MFA Alumni Reading featuring Christine Hyung Oak-Lee and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-mfa-alumni-reading/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170411T190000
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170412T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170412T193000
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Douglas Kearney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170412T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170412T200000
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SUMMARY:Reese Jones
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Ingrid Contreras Rojas \ndiscussing his new book \nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move \nfrom Verso Books \nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis\, focusing on how borders are formed and policed \nForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade\, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. \nReece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional\, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization\,” he writes\, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.” \nIn Violent Borders\, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world\, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization\, the wealthy travel without constraint\, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures\, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change\, environmental degradation\, and the growth of global wealth inequality. \nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa\, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States\, India\, and Israel. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds. \nCrtitical praise for the work of Reese Jones: \n“I’d like an endless supply of Reece Jones’ Violent Borders to hand out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that we live in\, an argument for a world of humanity.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South \n“A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us to secure our borders\, Reece Jones’ Violent Borders goes beyond the headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis. Borders\, Jones convincingly argues\, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue.” \n– Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and the Domestic War on Terror \n“From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state formation to the current fortification of the US–Mexico frontier\, Reece Jones explains what a boundary is\, and how national sovereignty is being reinforced\, in an age of capital mobility\, by the crackdown on human movement across borders.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World \n“With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news\, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n“In an era of terrorism\, global inequality\, and rising political tension over migration\, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse\, not better.” \n– Boston Globe \n“Reece Jones\, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa\, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion…This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.” \n– Darwin BondGraham\, East Bay Express
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome contributors of Oakland Noir to the store to celebrate this new release on Wednesday\, April 12th at 7:00 pm. The participants for this evening include editors Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller and authors Dorothy Lazard\, Nick Petrulakis\, and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder . \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJerry Thompson is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the co-author of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nEddie Muller\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nDorothy Lazard grew up in West Oakland and was an early fan of the library. She has worked at the Oakland Main Library since 1983 and is now the reference librarian of the Main Library’s Oakland History Room. \n  \nNick Petrulakis is a bookseller and self-taught mixologist –  what could be a more natural pairing? Inspired by books\, characters\, settings\, and authors\, he uses all of these elements for inspiration when creating a new drink. Check out his blog\, Drinks with Nick to see his latest cocktails. \n  \nKeri Miki-Lani Schroeder is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland. A fan of all things odd\, experimental\, or transgressive\, Schroeder creates artist books and dark short fiction. After earning an MFA in book art and creative writing from Mills College in 2015\, Schroeder now works for Flying Fish Press\, an independent publisher of limited-edition artists’ books\, and teaches book art workshops and classes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. \nIn this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town\, while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, keenly observed portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Party Like A Parisian! Impressions of Paris; An Artist's Sketchbook book launch party
DESCRIPTION:Stop by and help us toast Cat’s new book\, Impressions of Paris; An Artist’s Sketchbook. Meet and mingle with the artist herself and have your copy signed!\nShop the studio and enter our raffle! Toast with free snacks & beverages and snap a Frenchie photo in our photo booth! \nThe book event is on the same day as Polk Street’s First Annual Spring Wine Walk. Tickets are available at www.sresproductions.com for $20 in advance or $25 day-of at 1475 Polk Street. \nHope to see you! Come party with us like a Parisian! \nNo rsvp required but we do appreciate it on our Facebook event page. The event is the same day and alongside the Polk Street Spring Wine Walk which is $20 advanced and $25 at the door. Entry to the book launch party and all activities are free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/party-like-a-parisian-impressions-of-paris-an-artists-sketchbook-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Ferme A Papier by Cat Seto\, 2406 Polk Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran’s forthcoming novel\, Lucky Boy\, has been praised as “richly layered” and “superbly crafted”. Due for release in January 2017\, the novel tells the story of a young undocumented Mexican woman who finds her fate unexpectedly entwined with that of a Berkeley couple. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, came out in 2009. Sekaran now lives in Berkeley and teaches writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Reading from his poetry and celebrating the release of Selected Poems: 1962-1985 \nfrom Station Hill Press \nEdited by Larry Fagin \nClark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985 will be how Coolidge’s revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. Lyn Hejinian writes\, “Reading through the still incredible work collected in this exemplary SELECTED POEMS\, I marvel all over again at the force of even the ‘smallest’ of Clark Coolidge’s poems. Coolidge’s sonic expertise has often been noted\, and music—especially bebop and what has followed it—clearly has suggested to him ways to generate rhythmic clusters\, to ride accelerations\, to invent scales. No other poet ever has so exquisitely\, and sometimes also turbulently\, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry.” This volume includes an introduction by Bill Berkson\, entitled “The Spools of Clark Coolidge\,” recounting Coolidge’s coming up and influences as well as eloquently expressing the visionary nature of his poetic enterprise. \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:A Sixteen Rivers Press Launch Celebration with Poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener\n\n\n\n\nreading from new collections\, Body\, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 13\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Erin Rodoni’s Body\, in Good Light: \nThroughout this debut collection\, Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a  caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \n“Here is a book that journeys out into the world\, and also inward\, into the mysteries of private life\, of the body\, where ‘bliss\, like a memory\, can be unearthed by scent.’ I love how the wisdom enters the moment of passion in these poems\, where we see ourselves living here\, on this earth\, ‘believing // in these bodies.’ This is a marvelous debut.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Dancing In Odessa \nErin Rodoni’s work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Born and raised in Point Reyes\, Rodoni currently lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Gillian Wegener’s This Sweet Haphazard: \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \n“Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems— rivers\, bees\, the Old Mill Café\, forest fires\, churches\, Neville Bros. Service\, the ghosts of Humboldt County…and most importantly\, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative\, Wegener charts past and present\, interior and exterior\, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave.”—Dean Rader\, author of Works & Days \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance. Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener lives in Modesto where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto. \nAbout Sixteen Rivers Press: \nSixteen Rivers Press is poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Bay Area poets. The press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Laura Hinton + Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Laura Hinton’s new book of poems is Ubermütter’s Death Dance. Elizabeth Frost asks\, “How do we survive grief—let alone write it? Shattered by the inexplicable death of her only child at 32\, Laura Hinton miraculously gives us this lacerating work of witness\, “am I still a mother?” she asks\, refusing any answer…I feel privileged to read—to be—in these words.” She is a scholar\, editor\, literary critic\, and multi-media poet. Among her many scholarly books is the edited collection Jayne Cortez\, Adrienne Rich\, and the Feminist Superhero: Voice\, Vision\, Politics and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women’s Poetics. Her previous book of poems is Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub). She maintains a blog on hybrid poetics\, “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com). Her readings are performances\, often including dance.\nAngela Hume’s new full-length book of poems is Middle Time. Eveyn Reilly says\, “Mid-stream\, mid-era\, mid-construction of the notion of an Anthropocene extending into a multitude of future absences\, Hume is writing poetry that is both symptom and diagnosis. Querying vocabularies of mitigation\, of damage\, of ‘rage’s junk effects\,’ these intelligent\, visually and sonically acute fragments set forth an almost impossible lyric of a ‘possible earth capsizing toward you’ or\, rather\, us.” Widely published in literary journals\, she is also the author of the chapbooks Melos\, The Middle\, and Second Story of Your Body.\nFor more on Poetry Flash events\, see Poetryflash.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-laura-hinton-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck + Jose Luis Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck\, and Jose Luis Gutierrez will read at 7 pm on Friday\, April 14th\, at Nefeli Caffe\, 1854 Euclid Avenue\, a little north of Hearst\, in Berkeley\, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading. \nThis reading is also a celebration of the latest issue of Ambush Review. \nSharon Coleman’s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks\, that came out from Paper Press in 2016. Her most recent publications appear in Your Impossible Voice\, White Stag\, and Ambush Review. \nKim Shuck is a poet\, regalia maker and educator. Shuck is author of four solo books\, many works that have appeared in anthologies and literary journals\, and thousands of irritable postings on social media. She holds an MFA in Fine Art /textiles from San Francisco State University\, has won awards including a bay area Local Hero Award and a first book award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and she is fascinated by shiny objects. Kim’s latest book is Clouds Running In which was published by Taurean Horn Press. \nJosé Luis Gutiérrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio\, Scythe\, Margie\, Poemeleon\, DMQ\, The Cortland Review\, Jetfuel\, Caliban and the anthologies Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent and is forthcoming in Metonym\, Xavier Review and Kestrel\, among others. His first poetry collection\, A World Less Away\, was published in 2016. \nBob Booker is a longtime contributor to the San Francisco-Bay Area poetry scene as a poet\, editor\, teacher\, performer and promoter: Co-editor of Tunnel Road\, Leanfrog\, A North American Haiku Publication\, Awaa-te Publications\, and Ambush Review; Co-Producer of “The Alchemy of the Word – Live at Venue 9”\, and Founder/Producer of the Poet’s Stage for the North Beach Festival\, 1996-2000. He is also the author of several collections of poetry\, including “First Poems & Other Things\,” “Moonlight on Paper\, Selected Haiku\,” “A Congenial Ear\,” “Sketching the Void” and “Fragments of a Dream\,” from No Press Publications. He presently conducts a poetry workshop for the elderly in Oakland and is the Event Coordinator for The Beat Museum\, North Beach\, SF. In his own words: “My whole approach to poetry is to transcend the words and get closer to the music.” \nThe Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe\, a cafe/restaurant that serves dinners\, tapas\, coffee drinks\, beer\, wine\, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-sharon-coleman-kim-shuck-jose-luis-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Nefeli Cafe\, 1854 Euclid Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Kostova
DESCRIPTION:From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes The Shadow Land\, an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria\, a beautiful and haunted country. \nA young American woman\, Alexandra Boyd\, has traveled to Sofia\, Bulgaria\, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city\, however\, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid\, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. \nAs Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item\, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by oppression and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. \nElizabeth Kostova’s new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written\, it explores the power of stories\, the pull of the past\, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss. \nElizabeth Kostova is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Historian\, for which she won the 2006 Book Sense Award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year\, and The Swan Thieves. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she won the Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-kostova/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Let's Jew It!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Jew It!\nSaturday\, April 15\, 6 to 8 pm\nAt Rolling Out\nSubmissions open. See guidelines below\, bubie. \nAlready On Board \nSusan Cohen\nRick May\nColleen McKee\n[Your Name Here?] Submissions are rolling … we’ll keep accepting subs until the lineup is full.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-lets-jew-it/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sponge: Cheena Marle Lo\, Angela Hume + Jacob Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Its the one-year anniversary of Sponge! We’re celebrating by having some great poets come out\, some of whom will be leaving the Bay Area\, heardbreaking but full of excitment. Just like Spring! Maybe we’ll even have some elderflower liqueur. \nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. \nAngela Hume has been a poet in Oakland for 11 years. But now she’s leaving town\, and having so many feelings! Angela is the author of the chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). \nJacob Kahn is a poet originally from the Rocky Mountains. He lives in Oakland\, CA\, where he works at E.M. Wolfman Books and teaches at an elementary school. A poetic guidebook\, ‘A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants’ (2015)\, is out from Wolfman Books. Other recent work can be found in Elderly\, Open House\, and Spork.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sponge-cheena-marle-lo-angela-hume-jacob-kahn/
LOCATION:976 21st st\, 976 21st st\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets Night
DESCRIPTION:Poets Night at Sunnyvale Library\nMonday\, April 17\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeatures: Charlotte Muse\, Riley O’Connell\, and Kim Johnson\nopen mic follows with host Bill Cozzini \nSunnyvale Public Library \n665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA 94086\nFree and open to the public \nCharlotte Muse received both her MA and MFA from San Francisco State\, where she taught poetry. Her most recent books include Violin (Blurb Books\, 2013)\, a series of poems illustrated by the artist Joyce Savre\, and A Story Also Grows (a Main Street Rag Editor’s Selection. A handmade letterpress edition by the Chester Creek Press is in both the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress rare book collections.) Her website is at www.charlottemuse.net. \nAn avid writer since the first grade\, Riley O’Connell served briefly as Denver’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate before attending Santa Clara University\, where she founded both The Bronco Slam & Jam (a quarterly poetry slam/music open mic) and SCU’s first national CUPSI team during her studies in English and Communication. \nKim Johnson has been a member of several Bay Area slam teams and toured the US many times\, performing at slam venues\, clubs\, colleges\, festivals and performing arts centers. In 2009 she was an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist\, and in 2010 completed her first European poetry tour with performances in Germany\, Spain\, Austria and the Netherlands. She has been a poet mentor for Youth Speaks San Francisco\, Lyrical Minded SF and Future Arts Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-night/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Public Library\, 665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA\, 94086\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
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:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-b-h-fairchild/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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