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SUMMARY:Kill the Ampaya!
DESCRIPTION:A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the border but almost none of it is available in English. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. \nJoin us when editor Dick Cluster reads from Kill the Ámpaya! and discusses Latin American baseball fiction. He is joined by Norman Antonio Zelaya who will read in Spanish. \n“A welcome reminder that inspired writing about the sport isn’t limited to the United States. Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each story reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most of these stories also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.”\n— Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.  Co-sponsored by SABR\, Lefty O’Doul chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Dog-Eared Books
DESCRIPTION:NOMADIC PRESS AT DOG-EARED BOOKS (CASTRO)\n\nTuesday\, May 2\, 2017\n7:00pm 9:00pm\n\n\nDog-Eared Books (Castro)489 Castro StreetSan Francisco\, CA\, 94114United States\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore information soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-dog-eared-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Day
DESCRIPTION:Legacy of Poetry Day\nCelebrating the Legacy of Asian American Poetry\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017\n5-6:30pm: Reading by SJSU Students\, Faculty\, Staff and Alumni in the Lobby\n7-9pm: Main Stage Reading with Featured Poets \nHammer Theatre Center\n101 Paseo De San Antonio\, San Jose\, CA 95113\nAdmission FREE \nFeaturing:\nMaxine Hong Kingston\nwith\nAl Young\, California Poet Laureate Emeritus\nArlene Biala\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\nGenny Lim\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGary Singh\nand San Jose poets / spoken word artists:\nASHA\, Lorenz Dumuk\, and Quyhn Nguyen\nmusic by:\nJon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Jimmy Biala\, and P.J. and Roy Hirabayashi \nPresented by SJSU College of Humanities and the Arts\, SJSU Department of English and Comparitive Literature\, Associated Students San Jose State University\, and MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center. \nCosponsored by: CATS (Contemporary Asian Theater Scene)\, Poetry Center San Jose\, Poets and Writers\, and National Poetry Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-day/
LOCATION:Hammer Theater Center\, 101 Paseo De San Antonio Walk\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:James Nolan
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nFlight Risk: Memoirs of a New Orleans Bad Boy \nfrom University Press of Mississippi \nFlight Risk takes off as a page-turning narrative with deep roots and a wide wingspan. James Nolan\, a fifth-generation New Orleans native\, offers up an intimate portrait both of his insular hometown and his generation’s counterculture. Flight runs as a theme throughout the book\, which begins with Nolan’s escape from the gothic mental hospital to which his parents committed the teenaged poet during the tumult of 1968. This breakout is followed by the self-styled revolutionary’s hair-raising flight from a Guatemalan jail\, and years later\, by the author’s bolt from China\, where he ditched his teaching position and collectivist ideals. These Houdini-like feats foreshadow a more recent one\, how he dodged biblical floods in a stolen school bus three days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. \nNolan traces these flight patterns to those of his French ancestors who fled to New Orleans in the mid-nineteenth century\, established a tobacco business in the French Quarter\, and kept the old country alive in their Creole demimonde. The writer describes the eccentric Seventh Ward menagerie of the extended family in which he grew up\, his early flirtation with extremist politics\, and a strong bond with his freewheeling grandfather\, a gentleman from the Gilded Age. Nolan’s quest for his own freedom takes him to the flower-powered\, gender-bending San Francisco of the sixties and seventies\, as well as to an expatriate life in Spain during the heady years of that nation’s transition to democracy. Like the prodigal son\, he eventually returns home to live in the French Quarter\, around the corner from where his grandmother grew up\, only to struggle through the aftermath of Katrina and the city’s resurrection. \nMany of these stories are entwined with the commentaries of a wry flâneur\, addressing such subjects as the nuances of race in New Orleans\, the Disneyfication of the French Quarter\, the numbing anomie of digital technology and globalization\, the challenges of caring for aging parents\, Creole funeral traditions\, how to make a soul-searing gumbo\, and what it really means to belong. \nJames Nolan is a fiction writer\, poet\, essayist\, and translator. His eleven books include the recent You Don’t Know Me: New and Selected Stories (winner of the 2015 Independent Publishers Gold Medal in Southern Fiction) and the novel Higher Ground (awarded a William Faulkner/Wisdom Gold Medal in the Novel). He has taught at universities in San Francisco\, Florida\, Barcelona\, Madrid\, and Beijing\, as well as in his native New Orleans. \nWhat has been said about Flight Risk: \n“James Nolan looks back unsparingly on a time few writers have faced with such clarity and compassion. There’s suspense and beauty on every page . . .”―Andrei Codrescu \n  \n“Hail James Nolan. He sure can tell a story and build it up to a climax.” \n―Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, poet and publisher of City Lights Books \n  \n“A wryly eloquent memoir of world travel and the joys\, and difficulties\, of returning home.” \n–Kirkus Reviews\n“James Nolan’s memoir is vivid\, entertaining\, and utterly memorable\, one of the most enjoyable reads that has come my way for a very long time. The picture he paints of the city he inhabits is unforgettable. New Orleans is fortunate indeed to have such a magnificent writer to record its fragile and extraordinary culture.” ―Alexander McCall Smith\, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency novels
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-nolan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marissa Moss
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Wednesday\, May 3rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Marissa Moss\, reading from and discussing her graphic memoir Last Things. \n  \nLast Things is the true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. \n  \nUsing her trademark mix of words and pictures to sharp effect\, Marissa Moss presents the story of how she\, her husband\, and her three young sons struggled to maintain their sense of selves and wholeness as a family and how they continued on with everyday life when the earth shifted beneath their feet. \n  \nAfter returning home from a year abroad\, Marissa’s husband\, Harvey\, was diagnosed with ALS. The disease progressed quickly\, and Marissa was soon consumed with caring for Harvey while trying to keep life as normal as possible for her young children. ALS stole the man who was her husband\, the father of her children\, and her best friend in less than 7 months. \n  \nThis is not a story about the redemptive power of a terminal illness. It is a story of resilience―of how a family managed to survive a terrible loss and grow in spite of it. Although it’s a sad story\, it’s powerfully told and ultimately uplifting as a guide to strength and perseverance\, to staying connected to those who matter most in the midst of a bleak upheaval. If you’ve ever wondered how you would cope with a dire diagnosis\, this book can provide a powerful example of what it feels like and how to come through the darkness into the light. \n  \nMarissa Moss has written more than seventy books\, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Best known for the Amelia’s Notebook series (over 5 million sold)\, her books are popular with teachers and children alike. Her picture book\, Barbed Wire Baseball\, won the California Book Award\, Gold medal. Marissa is also the founder of Creston Books\, an independent children’s publishing house.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marissa-moss/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NYMBC: The Love Panel at Opera Plaza
DESCRIPTION:Not Your Mother’s Book Club is excited to present a star studded\, award-winning panel with Rachel Cohn\, author of Kill All Happies\, and Jennifer E. Smith\, author of Windfall. Rachel and Jennifer will be in conversation with Nina LaCour\, author of We Are Okay; Stacey Lee\, author of The Secret Heart of a Note; and Elizabeth Eulberg\, author of Just Another Girl! Join us at Opera Plaza for a night focusing on love\, in all its\, ridiculous\, tragic\, wonderful forms. \nThis event will be moderated by Christy\, YA blogger for Tales of the Ravenous Reader. Christy is the resident sci-fi reader and also enjoys contemporary\, thrillers/mystery\, romance\, paranormal\, and YA non-fiction. In addition to contributing to Ravenous Readers\, she blogs for talks about superheroes on Sunday for Forever Young Adult. You can find her at Bay Area author events and on Twitter\, Instagram\, and Goodreads as diamondxgirl. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n601 Van Ness Avenue\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nNot Your Mother’s Book Club\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nymbc-the-love-panel-at-opera-plaza/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Winifred M. Reilly
DESCRIPTION:With writing appearing on Huffington Post\, The Good Men Project\, XOJane\, and on her blog\, Speaking of Marriage\, psychotherapist Winifred M. Reilly\, M.A.\, MFT celebrates the launch of her refreshing and witty book\, It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help from My Spouse and How You Can\, Too. \nIt Takes One to Tango is a groundbreaking guide that shows how one determined partner acting alone can spark lasting\, significant change in a marriage\, often accomplishing change that cannot be made any other way. It doesn t matter how short-fused\, argumentative\, or seemingly impossible your partner can be or how long you ve been stuck.\nMarriage and family therapist Winifred Reilly has this message for struggling partners: Take the lead. Doing so is effective and powerful. Through Reilly’s own story of reclaiming her now nearly forty-year marriage\, along with anecdotes from many clients she’s worked with\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nFocus on your own behaviors and change them in ways that make you feel good about yourself and your marriage\nTake a firm stand for what truly matters to you without arguing\, cajoling\, or resorting to threats\nIdentify the big picture issues at the basis of your repetitive fights and learn how to unhook from them\nBe less reactive\, especially in the face of your spouse’s provocations\nDevelop the strength and stamina to be the sole agent of change\n\nCombining psychological theory\, practical advice\, and personal narrative\, It Takes One to Tango is a fresh and engaging guide that will empower those who choose to take a bold\, proactive approach to creating a loving and lasting marriage. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 3\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n2251 Chestnut St\n\nSan Francisco\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nSan Francisco Events
URL:https://litseen.com/event/winifred-m-reilly/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth L. Silver
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Elizabeth L. Silver for a discussion and signing of her new book\, The Tincture of Time. Ms. Silver will be in conversation with local author Elizabeth McKenzie (The Portable Veblen).\n\nGrowing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon\, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter\, Abby\, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures\, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed\, her relationship to medicine began to change.\n\nThe Tincture of Time: A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty is Silver’s gorgeous and haunting chronicle of Abby’s first year. It’s a year of unending tests\, doctors’ opinions\, sleepless nights\, promising signs and steps backward\, and above all\, uncertainty: The mysterious circumstances of Abby’s hospitalization attract dozens of specialists\, none of whom can offer a conclusive answer about what went wrong or what the future holds. As Silver begins to think about what it means to cope with uncertainty as a patient and parent and seeks peace in the reality that Abby’s injury may never be fully understood\, she looks beyond her own story for comfort. She probes literature\, religion\, and the history of medicine\, and reports the stories of doctors\, patients\, and fellow caretakers. The result is a blend of personal narrative and cultural analysis\, at once a poignant snapshot of a parent’s struggle and a wise examination of the boundaries of medicine. Happily\, today Abby is a joyous\, sweet\, and very active toddler.\n\nElizabeth L. Silver is the author of the novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton\, which has been published in seven languages. Her writing has been published in McSweeney’s\, The Huffington Post\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. She has worked as an attorney in Texas and California\, and as an adjunct instructor of English literature and composition. She lives with her family in Los Angeles.\n\n\nElizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen\, published by Penguin Press and 4th Estate. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology\, and recorded for NPR’s Selected Shorts. Her collection\, Stop That Girl\, was short-listed for The Story Prize\, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune\, San Francisco Chronicle and Library Journal Best Book of the year. She is the fiction editor at Santa Cruz’s Catamaran Literary Reader.\n\n“The Tincture of Time is just the kind of memoir this world desperately needs. In precise and powerful language\, Elizabeth Silver uses her deeply singular experience to shed light on universal issues of wellness\, health\, the body\, healing\, and trust. She shines her bright\, generous intellect into the deepest reaches of her own heart\, and into the heart of every reader. This book will change you\, teach you\, move you. Read it.” —Emily Rapp\, author of The Still Point of the Turning World
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-l-silver/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Paul Madonna back to the store for the release of his new book\, On to the Next Dream. Join us! \nPaul’s popular comic\, “All Over Coffee” had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, Madonna evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from his home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-3/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Humble Pie Volume 14 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of everyone’s favorite pie — Humble Pie\, that is! We’re throwing a party in honor of the launch of Volume 14! \nLight refreshments provided. \nWhat Is Humble Pie?\nHumble Pie is the undergraduate literary journal written and published by students enrolled in CCA’s Literature and Writing Program. \nThe popular publication features fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry\, and visual art. \nFaculty editor Caroline Goodwin works with the student staff to compile selected writings and choose which artworks to feature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humble-pie-volume-14-launch-party/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s most lively events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Story Hour in the Library Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year’s biggest prose prizes\, Story Hour in the Library interns\, and faculty nominees.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/story-hour-in-the-library-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cotton Reading of 'Pictures From Home'
DESCRIPTION:Join SFMOMA at 6 p.m. in the Roberts Family Gallery on Floor 1 (by the Richard Serra Sculpture) for a reading by independent curator Charlotte Cotton from Larry Sultan’s Pictures from Home to celebrate the republication of this acclaimed work. This is a pre-event reading. Free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charlotte-cotton-reading-of-pictures-from-home/
LOCATION:SFMOMA\, 151 Third Street \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kevin Allardice
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street\, Thursday May 4th at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kevin Allardice\, reading from and discussing his book Family\, Genus\, Species. \n  \nAt a sprawling urban farm in the hills above Berkeley\, a woman’s attempt to give a birthday present to her four-year-old nephew erupts into an epic quest\, increasingly nightmarish and violent\, to survive our deepest cultural chasms. A wickedly funny satire of parenting and privilege\, sex and politics\, set in the shadow of civil unrest. \n  \n“Kevin Allardice harnesses his great powers of description and ingenious sense of narrative for this viciously funny satire\, Family Genus Species. Laurence Sterne would have been proud to call Mr. Allardice a descendent.” – Michael Kimball\, author of Big Ray\, Us and Dear Everybody. \n  \n“With poignant wit\, Kevin Allardice draws us into this backyard fairytale and social satire. Vee is a memorable protagonist\, quirky and brave and tender. Fast-paced and suspenseful\, FAMILY\, GENUS\, SPECIES is compelling and utterly original.” – Vanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \n  \nKevin Allardice is the author of the novel Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint\, 2014) . He was born in Oakland\, California\, and was a Henry Hoyns fellow in fiction at the University of Virginia\, where he received his MFA in 2010. His short stories\, winner of the of the Donald Barthelme Prize and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, have appeared in The Santa Monica Review\, The Florida Review\, Gulf Coast\, The North American Review\, and elsewhere. He currently lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-allardice/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babar in Exile
DESCRIPTION:Babar in Exile #8\na revival of the Cafe Babar and Paradise Lounge reading series \nfeaturing\nJon Longhi\nDawn Oberg\nand “Honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine \nwith open mic Hosted by Paul Corman-Roberts and Richard Loranger \nThursday\, May 4\, 2017\n7pm sharp\nfree of charge \nThe Octopus Literary Salon is proud to present Babar in Exile\, a quarterly commemoration and revival of the high energy San Francisco reading series of the 1990’s\, Café Babar and Paradise Lounge. Our eighth installment marks the first anniversary of this series. We are excited to feature two former and very active participants of Babar and Paradise\, Jon Longhi\, whose writing has been compared to Terry Southern\, Charles Bukowski\, and Hunter S. Thompson\, and Dawn Oberg\, a versatile musician who is currently writing and recording songs from and for the Dystopia. As well we welcome “honorary Babarian” Joel Landmine\, who will turn your day inside-out and lay it on the table. So come on down to check out a slice of Bay Area poetry history\, now and in the making\, and make your way home with a bindle full of inspiration and a thimbleful more hope for the species. \nThere will be cake.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babar-in-exile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - May Edition
DESCRIPTION:May is approaching\, and Hazel Reading Series is blooming with its wonderful line-up of writers. Join us at The Mission Cultural Center for our May edition. \nFeaturing:\nGuest Reader: Natasha Dennerstein \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Snorkel\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Transfer\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review and Foglifter. Her collections Anatomize (2015) and Triptych Caliform (2016) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her recent chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \nJennifer Barone nominated by Ingrid Keir \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.comfor more. \nAlexandra Mattraw nominated by Sarah Rosenthal \nAlexandra Mattraw is a poet and educator whose Celtic maternal great grandparents settled in Oakland and its vicinity in the early 1900s. Her full length book\, small siren\, emerges from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society in 2018. Alexandra’s various collections have previously been named finalists at 1913 Press\, Colorado Review\, Nightboat Books\, and elsewhere. She is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm\, which is forthcoming in mid May from Dancing Girl Press. You can find her poems and criticism in places including 1913 Journal of Forms\, American Letters & Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, The Volta\, and VOLT. A Bay Area Correspondent School member and co-founder of Artists for Sustained & United Resistance (ASUR)\, Alexandra also curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its sixth year: http://loneglen.wordpress.com/. She hopes you will join her and several other poets at Octopus Salon on May 16th to celebrate “A Poetry of Ritual.” \nJenny irizary nominated by Lisa Gray \nJenny Irizary is currently working on a memoir about growing up along the Russian River. Her work has been published in Sick Lit\, Squalorly\, District Lit\, Communion\, Lavender Review\, and other journals. Her poem\, “If You Want Any More Proof She’s Not Puerto Rican\,” was the winner of Green Briar Review’s 2016 poetry contest. \nThe Poetician nominated by Thea Matthews\n(Bio to follow soon) \nStacy Carlson nominated by LJ Moore\n(Bio to follow soon) \nNo one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-may-edition/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Liana Steinmetz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/liana-steinmetz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Patricia Lockwood to the store to discuss and sign her memoir\, Priestdaddy\, on Thursday\, May 4th at 7:00 pm. \nFather Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met–a man who lounges in boxer shorts\, loves action movies\, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972”.  His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory\, their two worlds collide.\nIn Priestdaddy\, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence–from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested\, to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group–with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory\, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband\, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws\, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. \nLockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime\, from the comic to the deeply serious\, exploring issues of belief\, belonging\, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining\, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing\, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition. \nPatricia Lockwood was born in Fort Wayne\, Indiana\, and raised in all the worst cities of the Midwest. She is the author of two poetry collections\, Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals\, a New York Times Notable Book. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, Slate\, and the London Review of Books. Lockwood lives in Lawrence\, Kansas. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 4\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-lockwood/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:VeteransWrite featuring Alan Quale
DESCRIPTION:VeteransWrite featuring Alan Quale\nA special edition of our monthly VeteransWrite program\nFriday\, May 5\, 2017\, 1:00pm \nDr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library\, room 390 \n150 E. San Fernando Street at Fourth Street\ndowntown San José\nAdmission FREE \nAlan Quale is a retired journalist\, having worked as a newspaper reporter\, copy editor\, page designer and news editor\, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2010 he published his first novel titled My Dakota\, the story of his early life on the Great Plains. He recently published his second novel titled Replacements\, which is based on his experiences as a supply sergeant for an infantry company in which more than 83 percent of the men were either killed or wounded during the Vietnam War. Born in Montana\, Quale holds a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota. When he’s not writing\, he enjoys hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains where he and his wife have a cabin. Alan Quale will give his book Replacements free to participants. \nADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Email to veteranswrite@yahoo.com\, with your name\, branch of service and dates of service\, email address or phone number. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veteranswrite-featuring-alan-quale/
LOCATION:Dr. MLK Jr. Library SJSU\, 1 Washington Square\, San Jose\, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T190000
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CREATED:20170423T191211Z
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SUMMARY:Duncan McNaughton + Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:Readings by two poets in our Reading Room\, programmed by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. \nDuncan McNaughton has lived in and around the Bay Area since 1973 and established the Poetics Program at New College of California with Louis Patler. His recent books include Tiny Windows and Altoon’s Frog. \nNorma Cole is a poet living in the sanctuary city of San Francisco whose books include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside. Her new translation of Jean Daive’s White Decimal is forthcoming in 2017. \nProgrammer Sunnylyn Thibodeaux is the author of Universal Fall Precautions and over a dozen small books. She coedits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/duncan-mcnaughton-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive":MAILTO:bampfa@berkeley.edu
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SUMMARY:Drop Leaf Press: Taitano + Shanley
DESCRIPTION:We’re back! Drop Leaf Press returns with a reading at Alley CatBooks to celebrate the release of two poetry chapbooks: Lehua Taitano’s SONOMA and Maxwell Shanley’s forthcoming chapbook (TBA). Each book is hand-bound and includes cover art and lettering by illustrator and designer Mary Lundquist. They’ll be joined by two readers: Clarissa Mendiola and a special guest. Please gather with us for an evening of libations\, snacks\, and poetry. Books are $9; cash or card accepted. \nGet it early: Buy SONOMA at Alley Cat Books (SF)\, Diesel\, A Bookstore (Oakland)\, or purchase our titles from the Drop Leaf Press online store:http://dropleafpress.com/store \nNote: Maxwell Shanley’s chapbook (TBA) is headed to the printers. We’ll announce when it’s available in our shop/in stores. Pics to come! \nABOUT THE READERS: \nLEHUA M. TAITANO\, a native Chamoru from Yigo\, Guåhan (Guam)\, is a queer poet\, writer\, and artist. She is the author of A Bell Made of Stones (TinFish Press\, 2013) and a chapbook of short fiction\, appalachiapacific\, which won the 2010 Merriam-Frontier Award. Her poetry\, essays\, and Pushcart Prize- nominated fiction have appeared in Poetry\, Narrative Witness\, Oxalis\, Witness\, Storyboard\, and The Yellow Medicine Review\, among many others. She has served as an APAture Featured Literary Artist (Kearny Street Workshop) and as a contributing Kuwentuhan poet (The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University). Taitano currently serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator on the Executive Board of the Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Literary\, and Interdisciplinary Studies Conference. \nMAXWELL SHANLEY lives in San Francisco where he works as a bookseller. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University. His work from his forthcoming chapbook (TBA\, Drop Leaf Press\, 2017) has previously appeared in New American Writing and Slipstream. \nCLARISSA MENDIOLA: As a Chamoru woman raised on the mainland\, home is straddling the International Date Line\, where it is today and tomorrow simultaneously. Clarissa’s work attempts to describe that place\, however disorienting. Her work can be found in As Us\, Literary Hub\, Omniverse\, and The Offending Adam. Clarissa has an MFA in Writing from California College of Arts\, was a 2011 Hedgebrook Writer in Residence\, and teaches creative writing summer camps for junior high school students. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. \nDANIEL SUÁREZ is the son of Cuban immigrants. He currently lives in Chicago\, Illinois and is a Substitute Teacher. His poems can be found in the Columbia Poetry Review\, RHINO\, Eleven Eleven\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and other print and online journals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drop-leaf-press-taitano-shanley/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Drop Leaf Press":MAILTO:dropleafpress@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Laura Kipnis
DESCRIPTION:Writer and feminist Laura Kipnis will discuss her latest book: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. A professor at Northwestern University\, Kipnis is known for her spirited\, sometimes provocative interrogations of contemporary gender and sexual politics. Previous books include Men\, An Ongoing Investigation\, The Female Thing\, and Against Love: A Polemic. \nHer new book emerged from the experience of finding herself the target of a Title IX complaint — and subsequent tribunal — that turned out to be a thinly veiled attempt to censor her for an essay. While Kipnis’s own professional standing hung briefly in the balance\, of wider concern was an unchallenged threat to academic freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kipnis/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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SUMMARY:Homegoing: An Evening with Yaa Gyasi
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi returns to Berkeley to discuss and sign copies of her extraordinary debut novel. Join us at Pegasus Books Downtown for the paperback launch of Homegoing. \n“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates \nWinner of the NBCC’s John Leonard First Book Prize\nA New York Times Notable Book\nA Washington Post Notable Book\nOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR\, Time\, Oprah.com\, Harper’s Bazaar\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Mother Jones\, Esquire\, Elle\, Paste\, Entertainment Weekly\, the Skimm\, Minneapolis Star Tribune\, BuzzFeed \n**Free to attend. Seats are on a first-come basis.** \nAbout the Book: \nGhana\, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages\, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village\, imprisoned in the very same castle\, and sold into slavery. \nHomegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi\, from the American Civil War to Jazz Age Harlem. Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed—and shows how the memory of captivity has been inscribed on the soul of our nation. \nAuthor Bio: \nYaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville\, Alabama. She holds a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. She lives in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/homegoing-an-evening-with-yaa-gyasi/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay\, + Lorraine Lupo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 5th @ 7:30 pm\, for the release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s occident\, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!\n\nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\, occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.\n\n최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley\, where they study literature and philosophy\, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2016 chapbook contest\, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal\, The Felt\, Omniverse\, and Apogee’s print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.\n\nLorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin\, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland\, Ca.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-olivia-blythe-hamel-%ec%b5%9c-lindsay-and-lorraine-lupo/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pittsburghers by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:It’s no surprise that Pittsburghers (a.k.a. yinzers) feel at home in the Bay Area. With ample bridges\, a jaw-dropping skyline\, a top-notch food scene\, and Steelers-friendly sports bars to show off black-and-gold pride\, San Francisco has everything a Pittsburgh native needs to survive. \nJoin us as we celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers – Laura Davis\, Molly Prosser\, Turi Fesler Steffen\, and Laura Vrcek! \nEnjoy books for sale\, light refreshments\, and the emcee skills of Pittsburgh-at-heart Hannah Rothstein. \nWhether you’re a homesick ‘burgher or a yinzer groupie\, this afternoon will have you longing for those three rivers and that glorious “dahntahn.” \nREADERS: \nLaura E. Davis grew up on California Avenue and earned a bachelor’s from California University of Pennsylvania. While she may have been destined to move to San Francisco\, she first earned an MFA from Chatham University. Both sides of her family have lived in Southwestern Pennsylvania for over 100 years. \nLaura misses sandwiches with fries on them. \nMolly Prosser swapped the wilds of the Allegheny Forest for the traffic of Silicon Valley. She edits copy for eBay and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University. Her work has appeared in various publications and on the Prosody radio show (90.5 WESA Pittsburgh). Her poetry collection Rubbernecking is available from Word Poetry. \nMolly misses random Rick Sebak sightings. \nTuri Fesler Steffen was born in Alaska\, but her experience spans beyond halibut fishing. She has her MFA from Pitt\, where she was the editor of Hot Metal Bridge. And you may have seen her at readings around the Bay\, including Shipwreck and Voz sin Tinta. Last year\, deciding she yearned for the ‘Burgh\, Turi moved to Pittsburg\, California. \nTuri misses salads with french fries. \nLaura Vrcek has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University and works as a ghostwriter for Bay Area tech executives. Her nonfiction work has appeared on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog\, The Orange Dot\, and Perspectives\, a storytelling segment on KQED\, NPR’s San Francisco affiliate. \nLaura misses Pennsylvania’s summer thunderstorms. \nEMCEE: \nHannah Rothstein (@HRothsteinArt) is the author of Yoga for Bros and an artist whose work has been featured in TIME\, The Guardian\, Vogue Italia\, and more. Besides shamelessly namedropping\, Hannah enjoys painting\, punning\, and reminiscing about the wonderful year she spent in Pittsburgh. \nHannah misses church-lady-crafted\, kraut pierogis. \nImage by Molly Cockcroft\, http://missmoco.co.uk/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pittsburghers-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:"Kill the Ampaya!" The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most  also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.” — Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \n“It may be that as this baseball season begins\, no book related to the game is more necessary than this one. The great bonus is that ‘Kill The Ampaya!’ is also great fun. An extraordinary collection.” — Bill Littlefield\, WBUR/NPR “Only a Game” \nOakland’s Dick Cluster will introduce Kill the Ampaya!: the Best of Latin American Baseball Fiction\, his newly published selection and translations of stories by writers from Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, Mexico\, Nicaragua\, Puerto Rico\, and Venezuela.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya-the-best-latin-american-baseball-fiction/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library Temescal branch\,  5205 Telegraph Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mariko Tamaki
DESCRIPTION:The Main Children’s Center celebrates Children’s Book Week!\nRegister HERE \nJoin us for a special event: Graphic novel author Mariko Tamaki will discuss her book This One Summer\, acclaimed by reviewers as a powerful coming-of-age story. \nSaturday\, May 6\, at 4 p.m.\, in the Main Children’s Center \nMariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer. Her works include the graphic novels This One Summer  and Skim\, both with Jillian Tamaki\, and Emiko Superstar\, with Steve Rolston. Her first YA novel (You) Set Me on Fire  was published by Penguin Canada. She lives in Oakland\, California. Visit her website at marikotamaki.blogspot.com/. \nChildren’s Book Week is the annual celebration of children’s books and reading. Established in 1919\, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. The program is administered by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is the anchor sponsor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariko-tamaki/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170430T031237Z
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SUMMARY:James Meetze\, Claire Marie Stancek\, + Andrew Wessels
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-meetze-claire-marie-stancek-andrew-wessels/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170414T011856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T011856Z
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SUMMARY:Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
DESCRIPTION:Cutthroat\, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works\, as powerful\, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively\, the pieces in this anthology trumpet a stirring call to action on today’s most crucial issues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truth-to-power-writers-respond-to-the-rhetoric-of-hate-and-fear/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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