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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "It Aint Just Genre!"
DESCRIPTION:Why is fiction a wrestling match\, with literary fiction in one corner and genre fiction in another? Isn’t a mystery or a romance or science fiction as much literature as non-genre fiction? We’ll thrash those questions and more out at “It Aint Just Genre!”–Perfectly Queer’s August 14 event\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro (489 Castro St.\, San Francisco). Three writers will read from their new books: Ralph Josiah Bardsley (romance)\, Tim Floreen (horror)\, and Bonnie J. Miller (speculative fiction). The readings will be followed by a panel discussion and book signing. Door prizes awarded. Wine\, edibles\, and good cheer provided for free. \nRalph Josiah Bardsley is the author of three books – Brothers\, The Photographer’s Truth\, and A Careful Heart. Brothers was a Forward Reviews Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I was born in a small town outside of Boston. My dad was in the Coast Guard so I grew up in a lot of different places – New Orleans\, Cape Cod\, North Carolina\, and Sitka\, Alaska. When I wasn’t in school\, I spent most of my time in Coast Guard hangers or reading. Today\, he lives in San Francisco\, where my hobbies include writing\, running\, and reading. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Tattoo Atlas\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. \nBonnie J. Morris is a professor of women’s history\, a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of fifteen books\, as well as an archivist of the lesbian music movement. She recently hosted the first exhibit of radical lesbian albums at the Library of Congress and will now be working with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Her new book\, SAPPHO’S BAR AND GRILL\, is a sexy time-travel romp across women’s history rebellions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-it-aint-just-genre/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danzy Senna
DESCRIPTION:As the twentieth century draws to a close\, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil\, her college sweetheart\, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple\, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn\, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation\, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them\, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man\, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation\, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona. \nHeartbreaking and darkly comic\, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another\, and ourselves. \nDanzy Senna’s first novel\, the bestselling Caucasia\, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and was translated into close to a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic\, the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?\, and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the novelist Percival Everett\, and their sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danzy-senna/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Dumuk
DESCRIPTION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nNorm Mattox is a native Bronx\, New Yorker. He has been living on the ‘left’ coast for over thirty years. Norm is a bilingual educator in the San Francisco Unified School District for over 25 years. He is a mentor and math coach for middle school math teachers in the Math Department. Norm has been writing in journals\, notebooks\, on the backs of envelopes and on color coded\, post-it notes for decades. Norm crossed out of his comfort zone\, from writing in silence to speaking his peace on the Open Mic\, in 2015. His muse is inspired by the dance he does with students in the public education system\, by a tribal response to persistent aggressions in today’s society\, by family and by love. He recently published his first chapbook\, Get Home Safe! Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. One of his poems is included in El Tecolote’s Anthology\, Poetry in Flight/Poesia en Vuelo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jorge Molina
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-jorge-molina/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-27/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tom Perrota: Mrs. Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time\, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex\, love\, and identity on the frontlines of America’s culture wars. \nEve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college\, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number\, the mysterious sender tells Eve\, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow\, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night—Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com\, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary\, middle-aged women like herself. Before long\, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life\, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-perrota-mrs-fletcher/
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:20170816T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T210000
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SUMMARY:Lucky Seventh Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate our seventh year of presenting the diverse voices of the East Bay!!! The theme is luck! We’re popping bottles of champagn and serving special treats. It’s all on us. Come hear seven extraordinary readers: \nVernon Keeve III\nJulie Thi Underhill\nArisa White\nJulian Mithra\nThea Matthews\nJoshua Escobar\nLark Omura \nHosted and curated by the sparkling duo: Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucky-seventh-anniversary/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170816T193000
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is pleased to bring Jarett Kobek\, author of I Hate the Internet\, into the store for his brilliant follow-up novel\, The Future Won’t Be Long\, a provocative\, ecstatic story of friendship\, sex\, art\, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East Village (1986-1996). \n  \nThe story centers on Adeline—featured years later in I Hate the Internet—a wealthy art student in New York City who chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat. The two begin a fiery friendship which propels them through a decade of New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol\, Basquiat\, Wojnarowicz\, by the Tompkins Square Park riots\, and by the rise of club kid culture. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby\, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin\, Baby soon finds himself at the center of the club kid social scene\, cavorting with Michael Alig and James St. James at The Tunnel\, Limelight\, and Alig’s infamous “Outlaw Party” at a midtown McDonald’s. \n  \nAs Adeline and Baby both develop into the artists they never expected to become\, Kobek pays tribute to the last gasps of the gritty\, drug-fueled scene of the East Village as gentrifiers begin to trickle in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:For the past seven weeks\, every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, we have presented Community Voices: Poets Speak\, where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflected on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work took place in the galleries. The series culminates today with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS\, on Thursday August 17th\, 7-9 pm\, in the basement room at Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Meg Elison (The Book of Etta)\, Nancy Jane Moore (The Weave)\, Skye Allen (The Songbird Thief)\, Sunil Patel\, and Sean Craven. With guest MC Allison Mick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-redirections/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Persis Karim is poet\, editor\, and professor of literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo\, Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Red Wheelbarrow\, HeartLodge\, and The New York Times\, as well as other publications. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature and is the founding director of Persian Studies at San Jose State University. Her current project is a collection of poems called “When the World is Harsh\, Find Your Tenderness.” For more information: www.persiskarim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Danya Kukafka w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Danya Kukafka as she introduces her debut novel Girl in Snow. With Danya in conversation will be fellow author Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept With God). Please join us! \nSet in the small suburb of Broomsville\, Colorado\, this addictive thriller begins with the discovery of high school freshman Lucinda Hayes’s dead body near a playground carousel. With the town’s golden girl murdered\, accusations quickly spread\, drawing three outsiders from the shadows. \nOddball Cameron Whitley loved—still loves—Lucinda. Though they’ve hardly ever spoken\, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda’s stalker\, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death\, Cameron’s erratic behavior provides the town ample reason to suspect that he’s the killer. \nJade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from Jade: her babysitting job\, and her best friend. The worst part was Lucinda’s blissful ignorance to the damage she’d wrought. \nOfficer Russ Fletcher doesn’t know Lucinda\, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about\, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner’s son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda’s murder and keep a promise he made long ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danya-kukafka-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chiara Barzini
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Barzini discusses her new novel\, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake\, with Kate Schatz. \n\nPraise for Chiara Barzini \n“Chiara’s stories are beautiful\, her voice powerful. She writes with a voice that is both tense and open. The effect is surprising\, subversive\, and singular.”—Jhumpa Lahiri \n  \n“Chiara Barzini has written a wild first novel\, full of sex\, violence\, and desperate prayers to the Virgin Mary. This is a brutal and bizarre coming of age story aptly set in one of America’s many crises.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n\n“Chiara Barzini has pulled off that most dazzling balancing act: combining a deliciously entertaining plot with effortlessly elegant prose. She has an extraordinarily keen eye for cultural nuance. Through her alter-ego Eugenia we come to discover a California as wildly foreign to us as it is to her. A brilliant\, sexy\, and unexpected take on the immigrant bildungsroman.”—Taiye Selasi\, author of Ghana Most Go. \n\nAbout Things That Happened Before the Earthquake \n\nWelcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.\nMere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles\, Eugenia\, a typical Italian teenager\, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big\, Hollywood fashion\, she must navigate her huge new public high school\, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members\, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry\, who runs his mother’s movie memorabilia store\, and the bewitching Deva\, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake rocks the foundations not only of Eugenia’s home but of the future she’d been imagining for herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chiara-barzini/
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:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mejia + Natalie Enright
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another talent-filled Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jessica Mejia and Natalie Enright\, with musical guest TBD. Emceed by Paul Corman-Roberts and curated by René Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nJessica Mejia is a scholar and poet based in San Francisco. She is finishing her MA in comparative literature at San Francisco State University with a focus on 20th Century Literature of the Americas\, and was selected by the California Pre-Doctoral Program as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year. She is an active performer and organizer for the Flor y Canto Literary Festival in the Mission. Her poetry explores the transformative nature of the family unit\, music as an element trauma and healing\, and the Salvadoran diaspora. She hopes one day to teach Latin American and U.S. poetry in any and every department possible\, all the while sharing her love of scholarship and the priceless experience of finding one’s local literary community. \nNatalie Enright is a poet in San Francisco\, originally from Kenya\, Africa. She writes and has published poetry in English\, French\, and Swahili. She is finishing her Master of Library and Information Science degree at San Jose State University with the goal of becoming a public children’s librarian. She currently volunteers at the Fisher Children’s Center in the Main library\, downtown San Francisco\, as a reading partner and provides homework help for grade school kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-mejia-natalie-enright/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cedar Sigo\, Peter Burghardt\, Anne McGuire
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry with Cedar Sigo reading new works from his new books\, Peter Burghardt launches his new chapbook\, and Anne McGuire presents a mix of music and poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cedar-sigo-peter-burghardt-anne-mcguire/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T220000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170817T043744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T043744Z
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SUMMARY:A Reading in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus
DESCRIPTION:Steve Arntson Presents:\nAn Evening in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus (or\, What You Wanted All Along) \nBay Area writers and artists gather to create some good frickin energy. \nThe Lineup: Toreadah Mikell – Nazelah Jamison – Richard Loranger – Victor James Smith – Julian Mithra – Alison Luterman – Tom Stolmar – James Cagney – Allie Marini – Christine No \nAnd jazz with Karen Sudjian on voice and Jim Davidson on keyboards. \nHosted by the road demon himself\, Steve Arntson \nRefreshments will be served \nFree of charge \nPlease do stop by for a levitational experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-support-of-the-rehabilitation-of-venus/
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\, 1939 Addison St\,\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170820T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170820T150000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170817T121405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T121405Z
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SUMMARY:Doreen Stock + Kate Peper
DESCRIPTION:Talking With Marcelo is a bio-sketch of Argentine journalist Marcelo Holot\, a chapbook-length interview in which he answers six questions covering his early years\, his life as a student protester during the Dirty Wars\, and also his subsequent career as a journalist in Buenos Aires. Holot met and wrote about some of the most important people of his time\, including Juan Peron and the Argentine soccer hero\, Maradona. His interviewer\, the poet and memoir artist Doreen Stock\, first met him in Argentina in a tango palace\, Confiteria Ideal\, where the long conversation which was to become this interview\, began. Sixteen photographs complete the limited edition\, published by Mine Gallery\, Fairfax\, CA. \nDoreen Stock is a poet\, essayist\, and memoir practitioner who has been exploring creative nonfiction for thirty plus years from the feminine point of view as a wife\, mother of three\, single human\, and grandmother of eleven. Her first book of poems\, The Politics of Splendor\, was part of a New American Writers exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. It combined poetry and prose poems with her translations from the work of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. A selection of Stock’s poetry and translations has been video-archived at Marin Poets\, Live! She was a founding member of the Marin Poetry Center and is currently living in Fairfax\, California. \nIn this collection of poems\, Dipped in Black Water\, Kate Peper explores the imperfect body\, the flawed spirit and the uneasy balance she strikes between the two. Horror and depression live side-by-side with humor and hope. These poems reveal how hidden losses do not so much define the person\, but once embraced\, lead to wholeness. \nKate Peper is a freelance designer and award-winning watercolor painter. She was a recipient of a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for poetry and her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including The Baltimore Review\, Cimarron Review\, Gargoyle\, The Lindenwood Review\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Review and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doreen-stock-kate-peper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170324T014120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170818T051520Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170821T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170622T014107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T014107Z
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett
DESCRIPTION:Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170622T012834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012834Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Kyriazis + Zaid Shlah
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kyriazis-zaid-shlah/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170712T235457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T235457Z
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SUMMARY:Timothy McSweeney's Grand 50th Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Did you know McSweeney’s glorious 50th issue is due August 29th? That’s right\, FIFTY! We’ve pulled all the stops for this one\, including can’t-miss new work from writers who we’ve long published — Jonathan Lethem\, Lydia Davis\, Sherman Alexie\, Etgar Keret\, Sheila Heti\, Diane Williams\, Sarah Vowell\, John Hodgman\, Steven Millhauser (among many others) — and fantastic new writing from authors who we’ve long admired\, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Thomas McGuane\, Kevin Young\, and Carrie Brownstein. The book itself will be hardback with a dust jacket that folds into two different covers\, and folds entirely open to a poster by Tucker Nichols. Choose whatever cover fits your mood\, or tack it to the wall and reveal the gem hidden underneath. OKAY\, we’ve said enough\, now to why we’re really here…. \nIt’s a party! There will be drinks (by Fort Point Beer Company) and mingling and happy moments to share. If we figure out the sound system\, there may even be music. (Group meditation is cool\, though\, right?)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-mcsweeneys-grand-50th-issue-release-party/
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:20170822T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170817T045454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T045454Z
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Bindery as we welcome Brontez Purnell for the release of his novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \n— \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170721T235649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T235649Z
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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowicz
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Rex Renee Leonowicz to the store to perform from when there is no one and there is everyone\, on Wednesday\, August 23rd at 7:00 pm. \nABOUT THE PERFORMANCE: The multimedia performance acts as a touring funeral party\, using drag\, poetry\, music\, and visual art/digital media to create a kind of live memorial/archive that animates the book and brings its story to life to chart the personal\, political\, and cultural moments that are living\, dying\, and rebirthing in the book. Rex will perform poems from the book and drag versions of songs that influence the text. A video collage of drawings\, art maps\, and photos will stream in the background\, along with a soundtrack of music that influenced the work. The point of the music\, visual art\, maps\, and ephemera interspliced is to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, and triumph present in the work\, as well as to show evidence of communities that often are invisible or displaced. Part history lesson\, part mixtape\, part memorial\, part celebration\, the project blends genres to honor and illuminate resistance movements\, our heroes\, our experiences\, failures & successes in solidarity\, art\, and community love. \nABOUT THE BOOK: when there is no one and there is everyone is a full-length collection of poetry and illustrations set for release in Summer 2017 by Magic Helicopter Press. The collection is experienced as a collage-like mixtape of techniques\, influences\, pop references\, and city cultures that explores the messiness of identity\, relationship\, and resistance in an unjust world. Its biggest concern is with landscapes of public and private space\, specifically how gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out on the intimate geographies of bodies\, minds\, and cities Beyond this\, it’s a celebration of friendship\, freakdom\, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. \nABOUT THE ARTIST: Rex Renee Leonowicz is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other. S/he holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Mills College and a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies & Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowicz/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170805T004425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170805T004425Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents Dispatches From Lesbian America
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents readings by Joan Annsfire\, Xequina Maria Berber\, and Giovanna Capone from the anthology DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA on Wednesday\, August 23\, 7pm at the Nomadic Press: Uptown performance space\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland. Free refreshments and door prizes. A discussion of the anthology and book signing will follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/137277350195017 \nINFORMATION ON THE READERS: \nJOAN ANNSFIRE is a writer\, poet\, and retired librarian who lives in Berkeley. Her piece in Dispatches From Lesbian America is non-fiction\, based on her experience working at the San Francisco Water Department in the early Eighties. \nJoan’s memoir pieces have appeared most recently online in Identity Envy\, Read These Lips\, Aunt Lute Press\, and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness. She has also been published in Lavender Review\, Sinister Wisdom\, The 13th Moon\, Bridges\, The Evergreen Chronicles\, and The Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly\, among other publications. \nHer poetry is in an upcoming anthology\, 11/9: The Fall of American Democracy\, as well as Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival\, and The Times They Were A- Changing. Headmistress Press published a chapbook of her poems\, Distant Music. \nIn her blog\, “Lavenderjoan\, somewhere under the rainbow\,” the personal and the political meet. \nXEQUINA MARIA BERBER is a storyteller\, writer\, artist\, former law librarian\, and now elementary school librarian. She came out during early middlessence and makes up for lost Gay time through her creative endeavors: short stories and comic strips celebrating Lesbian personalities and themes. She also rewrites songs to honor Dyke culture\, which are then performed for the community with her drag king partner “Johnny Magnolia.” \nShe is the author of two books\, Santora: The Good Daughter\, a Latina novel\, under the psuedonym Resurrección Cruz\, and The Mermaid Girl\, a tween and teen book\, published under her first name\, by Bedazzled Ink. She is also one of the editors of Dispatches From Lesbian America. A collection of her lesbian short stories and memoir\, The Only Female Cross-Dresser in Memphis\, is due to come out this year. Many of her stories were inspired by her girlfriend’s life. \nXequina is also an artist and paints traditional Mexican retablos (miracle stories) and santos\, as well as themes of Mexican Magical Realism. She has degrees in literature\, art\, Women’s Spirituality\, and Library and Information Science. She lives in Oakland with her partner and their two bad cats. \nGIOVANNA CAPONE is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She was raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in Mt. Vernon\, New York\, whose strong Neapolitan influence still resonates in her life. \nHer work has appeared widely in various publications\, including Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent; Bless Me Father: Stories of Catholic Childhood; Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry; Avanti Opolo: Italian-American Writers Sail Beyond Columbus; Queer View Mirror 2\, Lesbian & Gay Short Fiction; What I Want From You: An Anthology of East Bay Lesbian Poets; and Fuori: Essays by Italian/American Lesbians and Gays. \nMost recently Giovanna edited the collection Words on Fire! An Anthology of Teen Voices as part of her master’s degree in Library and Information Science at San Jose State University. \nGiovanna’s first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna See Women’s Performance Project\, in their first Dyke Drama Festival. She is also a mixed media collage artist and has exhibited her visual art in venues throughout the Bay Area.\nShe lives in Oakland\, where for many years she has taught poetry writing workshops to children and teens through California Poets in the Schools. Find out more at www.giovannacapone.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-presents-dispatches-from-lesbian-america/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170823T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170823T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170616T120715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T114617Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:1. Tania Martin\, TBA\n2. Deiana Hristov\, “Witching Hour Child Ghosts”\n3. Direct from Cinequest! The Invasive Species (Kimy Martinez\, Nicole Alexander\, Alecia Parke\, and Lori Mahaffey) 1. Pass The Salt\, I’m A Section 8 Valley Girl and. Rules Broken\n4. Mike Karpa\, “Make a Muscle”\n5. Ann Hillesland\, “About My Mother” \nINTERMISSION \n6. Suzy Huerta\, “Mother Tongue”\n7. Erin Redfern\, “Velveteria”\n8. Julia Halprin-Jackson\, “Blossom” and “Maximum Capacity”\n9. Laura Diaz\, “Roots”\n10. Kevin Sharp\, “His and Hers\,” chapter from novel-in-progress\n11. Mighty Mike McGee\, identity piece (performed at Cinequest and other venues)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-4/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170824T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170720T045247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T045247Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Melba Joyce Boyd\, M.L. Liebler\, + Brian Jabas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, editor\, and professor Melba Joyce Boyd’s book\, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press\, is a tribute to Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with whom she worked as an editor at Broadside Press and whose authorized biographer she became. Randall was poet laureate of Detroit\, a civil rights activist\, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Two of his poems\, one for the four little girls killed in the Alabama church bombing in Birmingham\, one for the assassination of President Kennedy\, were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965. Randall published them as broadsides\, so the press\, publishing chapbooks that opened out the work of African American writers into the canon of American literature\, was born. Boyd’s book\, connecting politics and art with the wider struggles of black America in that era\, is also a dialogue between poets and includes extensive interviews. She\, herself\, has published six books of poetry\, edited an anthology of Detroit poetry\, written scholarly books\, and produced and directed a documentary film on Randall and the press. \nM.L. Liebler is a celebrated poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. Most recent of his many books of poetry is I Want to Be Once; others include The Moon a Box and Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1985-2000. He’s edited many books\, ranging across labor politics\, music\, and poetry\, and his brand new one is Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\, with a wide range of contributors\, including Greil Marcus and Al Young. \nBrian Jabas Smith’s debut book of fiction is Spent Saints & Other Stories. Jim Daniels says\, “In these fine stories\, Brian Smith’s direct\, natural\, story-telling voice rocks with the authority and grit of someone who’s been there and come back to tell the tale.” Smith is an award-winning journalist\, first as a staff writer and columnist for the Phoenix New Times and then as an editor for the Detroit Metro Times. His earlier career was as a songwriter who fronted rock’n’roll bands. He’s written for many performers\, including Alice Cooper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-melba-joyce-boyd-m-l-liebler-brian-jabas-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170824T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170824T213000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170722T003418Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T003418Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno. Currently\, she teaches and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, andA Public Space. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \nEmily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes\, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize at Tupelo Press. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Apogee\, The Literary Review\, and elsewhere. For her poetry\, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition\, The Home School in Miami\, Aspen Words\, New York University\, the University of Chicago\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins\, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago. \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\, September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170825T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170825T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T070029
CREATED:20170622T003219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T003219Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-3/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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