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SUMMARY:Ed Bok Lee
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nMitochondrial Night: Poems \nfrom Coffee House Press \nPoems that trace paths through time\, genealogy\, and geography\, locating the generational legacy of history. \nTaking mitochondrial DNA as his guide\, Ed Bok Lee explores familial and national legacies\, and their persistence across shifting boundaries and the erosions of time. In these poems\, the trait of an ancestor appears in the face of a newborn\, and in her cry generations of women’s voices echo. Stories\, both benign and traumatic\, travel as lore and DNA. Using lush\, exact imagery\, whether about the corner bar or a hilltop in Korea\, Lee is a careful observer\, tracking and documenting the way that seemingly small moments can lead to larger insights. \nEd Bok Lee is the author of Whorled (Coffee House Press) and a recipient of a 2012 American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. Lee is the son of North and South Korean emigrants—his mother originally a refugee from what is now North Korea; his father was raised during the Japanese colonial period and Korean War in what is now South Korea. Lee grew up in South Korea\, North Dakota\, and Minnesota\, and was educated there and on both U.S. coasts\, Russia\, South Korea\, and Kazakhstan. He teaches at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. Other honors include the Asian American Literary Award (Members’ Choice Award) and a PEN Open Book Award. \nPraise for Ed Bok Lee \n“There is a nomadic beauty to Ed Bok Lee’s Whorled\, which pulses with raw political anger and vital lyricism.” —The Guardian \n“These poems work in powerful concert to give body to an entire world of beauty\, terror\, loss\, grief\, and joy. The strength and magnetism of Lee’s voice come from his mind’s profound awareness of a person’s embeddedness in a context simultaneously personal and archetypal; social\, historical\, political\, and cosmic.” —Li-Young Lee \n“Like mitochondrion\, from whence this exhilarating book’s title comes\, the poet’s eye and spirit are ubiquitous\, examining and probing the tangled bloodlines of our social and political networks\, and the parasitic heft we are exerting on the world’s chest. Formally protean and polyphonic\, the poems change shapes and registers in a thrilling and often poignant chase after their truth. Ed Bok Lee’s Mitochondrial Night is a thrilling book by a gifted poet at the height of his powers.” —Khaled Mattawa \n“In Mitochondrial Night\, Ed Bok Lee takes us on an intimate journey through space and time\, introduces us to people and places we have and have not met\, to center us in our humblest humanity. Lee is a shaman\, he rides with his pen into the vast darkness of our pasts\, centers us in our present\, and then makes the fearless leap into the imagined\, the predestined future. He looks to raise from the dead the spirits of wars lost\, wars long forgotten\, the wars being waged now\, and he does so with a light\, lonely hand. This collection is explosive; it shatters the boundaries of self in the service of art.” —Kao Kalia Yang \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ed-bok-lee/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and The Open Chamber
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, APRIL 24 7 – 9 p.m.\nFromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\n\n\nCedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the editor of There You Are: Interviews\, Journals\, and Ephemera\, on Joanne Kyger (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2017)\, and author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry\, including Royals (Wave Books\, 2017)\, Language Arts (Wave Books\, 2014)\, Stranger in Town (City Lights\, 2010)\, Expensive Magic (House Press\, 2008)\, and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2003 and 2005). He has taught workshops at St. Mary’s College\, Naropa University\, and University Press Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-necessary-darkness-barbara-guest-and-the-open-chamber/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:PIERRE JARAWAN at Books Inc. Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Internationally-acclaimed writer Pierre Jarawan shares his astounding debut novel\, The Storyteller. \nSamir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home\, Germany\, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old photo and the bedtime stories his father used to tell him. In this moving and engaging novel about family secrets\, love\, and friendship\, Pierre Jarawan does for Lebanon what Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner did for Afghanistan. He pulls away the curtain of grim facts and figures portrayed in the media and shows an intimate truth of what it means to come from a country torn apart by civil war. With this beautiful and suspenseful story\, full of images\, Jarawan proves to be a masterful storyteller himself. \nPierre Jarawan is the son of a Lebanese father and a German mother and moved to Germany with his family at the age of three. Inspired by his father’s love of telling imaginative bedtime stories\, he started writing at the age of thirteen. He has won international prizes as a slam poet\, received the City of Munich literary scholarship (the Bayerische Kunstförderpreis) for The Storyteller\, and was chosen as Literature Star of the Year by the daily newspaper AZ. His debut novel The Storyteller was a Spiegel bestseller in Germany\, proclaimed Book of the Month by the leading Dutch television talk show DWDD\, and received unanimous rave reviews from the European press. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nBooks Inc.\n1491 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pierre-jarawan-at-books-inc-berkeley/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Berkeley\, 1491 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94710\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Myla Goldberg / Feast Your Eyes
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Myla Godberg reading from her new novel Feast Your Eyes. More information to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us for Myla’s only Bay Area appearance! \n  \nFeast Your Eyes\, framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at the Museum of Modern Art\, tells the life story of Lillian Preston: “America’s Worst Mother\, America’s Bravest Mother\, America’s Worst Photographer\, or America’s Greatest Photographer\, depending on who was talking.” After discovering photography as a teenager through her high school’s photo club\, Lillian rejects her parents’ expectations of college and marriage and moves to New York City in 1955. When a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of Lillian and her daughter Samantha\, Lillian is arrested\, thrust into the national spotlight\, and targeted with an obscenity charge. Mother and daughter’s sudden notoriety changes the course of both of their lives and especially Lillian’s career as she continues a life-long quest for artistic legitimacy and recognition. \n  \nNarrated by Samantha\, Feast Your Eyes reads as a collection of Samantha’s memories\, interviews with Lillian’s friends and lovers\, and excerpts from Lillian’s journals and letters — a collage of stories and impressions\, together amounting to an astounding portrait of a mother and an artist dedicated\, above all\, to a vision of beauty\, truth\, and authenticity. \n  \n\n  \n“A riveting portrait of an artist who happens to be a woman.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred) \n  \n“Reading Myla Goldberg’s Feast Your Eyes reminded me of other unlikely adventure stories\, like Hillary’s summit of the Himalayas\, or Shackleton’s return from Antarctica. Only here the human constraints are still more challenging: making art as a single mother in a twentieth century dominated\, and distorted\, by men. This is an unflinching\, deeply moving portrait of the artist\, and a bravura performance in and of itself. I loved this book.” – Joshua Ferris\, author of Then We Came to the End and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour \n  \n\n  \nMyla Goldberg is the bestselling author of Feast Your Eyes\, The False Friend\, Wickett’s Remedy\, and Bee Season\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, winner of the Borders New Voices Prize\, and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award\, the NYPL Young Lions award\, and the Barnes & Noble Discover award. It was adapted to film and widely translated. In addition to her novels\, she has written an essay collection\, a children’s book\, and short stories that have appeared in Harper’s. She teaches in the fiction programs at Sarah Lawrence and NYU and has been known to sing and play accordion and banjo in the Brooklyn art-punk band The Walking Hellos. She was also the subject of a song by The Decemberists\, “Song for Myla Goldberg.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jason Little and their two daughters. \n  \n\n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you’d like a signed copy of Feast Your Eyes\, and/or any of Myla’s books\, order below and be sure to include your request in the special field. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/myla-goldberg-feast-your-eyes/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A "Weekly" Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 24\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Weekly Reading Series \nIn celebration of National Poetry Month\, our flagship reading series Lyrics & Dirges is going weekly! (For April only). \nLyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Currently in its ninth year\, its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-weekly-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Returns to read from her latest Maisie Dobbs novel The American Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-3/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jane Gregory
DESCRIPTION:Jane Gregory is from Tucson and lives in Oakland. She is the author of Yeah No and My Enemies\, both from The Song Cave\, as well as several chapbooks. Her work has been most recently published or reviewed in The Believer\, Omniverse\, and The New York Times. She is co-editor and co-founder (with Lyn Hejinian and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions\, a chapbook press\, and she works for Small Press Distribution. \nGRADUATE STUDENT READING SERIES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Neda Atanasoski in conversation with Kalindi Vora
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of their new book \nSurrogate Humanity: Race\, Robots\, and the Politics of Technological Futures \npublished by Duke University Press \n(part of the Perverse Modernities Series edited by Lisa Lowe and Jack Halberstam) \nIn Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots\, artificial intelligence\, and other technologies serve as surrogates for human workers within a labor system entrenched in racial capitalism and patriarchy. Analyzing myriad technologies\, from sex robots and military drones to sharing-economy platforms\, Atanasoski and Vora show how liberal structures of antiblackness\, settler colonialism\, and patriarchy are fundamental to human—machine interactions\, as well as the very definition of the human. While these new technologies and engineering projects promise a revolutionary new future\, they replicate and reinforce racialized and gendered ideas about devalued work\, exploitation\, dispossession\, and capitalist accumulation. Yet\, even as engineers design robots to be more perfect versions of the human—more rational killers\, more efficient workers\, and tireless companions—the potential exists to develop alternative modes of engineering and technological development in ways that refuse the racial and colonial logics that maintain social hierarchies and inequality. \nNeda Atanasoski is Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity. \nKalindi Vora is Professor of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of California\, Davis\, and author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor. \nPerverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.  Books in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres.  Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death.  The project also highlights intellectual “perversities\,” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neda-atanasoski-in-conversation-with-kalindi-vora/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cherrie Moraga
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed artist\, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic\, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering\, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. \nAs a child\, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s\, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana\, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson of power\, sex\, and opportunity. In her old age\, she suffered under the yoke of Alzheimer’s. In relief against the extraordinary story of Elvira’s life\, is Cherríe’s own journey. Through Native Country of the Heart and her mother’s trials\, Moraga traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of the pueblo. \nMeet Cherríe Moraga – co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and cofounder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press – one of the most influential artist activists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Franny Choi and sam sax / Soft Science
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Franny Choi (Floating\, Brilliant\, Gone)\, in town to read from her second collection of poems\, Soft Science. Joining her is sam sax (Madness and Bury It). Don’t miss this evening of readings with these phenomenal young poets! \n  \nIn Franny Choi’s highly-anticipated collection\, Soft Science\, she uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer\, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems guides readers as Choi asks questions not just of identity\, but of consciousness — of how to speak and love\, in a world filled with strange (and sometimes violent) distances. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology\, gender\, violence\, erasure\, agency\, and loneliness. And we’re asked to examine the biggest question: “What does it mean to be human?” \n  \n\n  \n“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara\, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements\, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical\, some sensual\, some weaponized\, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics\, vibrators\, cigarettes\, smartphones\, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity\, she can play upon your emotions\, tickle your sweet spot\, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant\, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness\, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” – Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre  \n  \n“In Soft Science\, the reigning consciousness is split\, human teetering into machine\, machine forced to demonstrate its humanness via acts of ritual testing\, a passion play in which alienation seeks authenticity and dissociation pursues kin. Franny Choi’s generous inventiveness transmutes the book’s violent lore into a ferocious tenderness. In its conceptual heft\, formal virtuosity\, queer imagination\, multi-dexterous approach to language\, and tonal intricacy\, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time – perhaps the book for our time.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \n  \n“Franny Choi’s Soft Science offers an exceptional exploration both of all that comprises the intimate and of all that consumes the communal in our lives. Whether tracking the adventures of the ‘cyborg’ or eavesdropping on conversations between sisters\, it’s all the same world. These striking poems ring through with a singular voice\, creating a society that helps us understand our own. When you open a book of poems\, ‘isn’t that what you came to see?’ Choi builds a world not only of striking beauty and lucid politics\, but also\, more importantly\, with love.” – A. Van Jordan\, author of The Cineste \n  \n\n  \nFranny Choi is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and playwright. She is the author ofFloating\, Brilliant\, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, the New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Senior News Editor for Hyphen\, cohost of the Poetry Foundation’s podcast VS\, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection\, Soft Science\, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2018. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan\, she is currently based near Detroit\, MI. Author photo by Qurissy Lopez. \n  \nsam sax is a queer\, jewish\, poet\, & educator. He’s the author of Madness(Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, author of four chapbooks & winner of the Gulf Coast Prize\, The Iowa Review Award\, & American Literary Award. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Poetry Magazine + other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press & will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University this Fall. Author photo by Hollis Rafkin-Sax. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Soft Science\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/franny-choi-and-sam-sax-soft-science/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, outgoing poet laureate of Marin County will host this event\, welcoming the new poet laureate and honoring previous poets laureate. The evening will feature brief readings by all. \nRebecca’s books include Paradise Drive (Press 53 Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin won the 2018 Swan Scythe chapbook prize and is forthcoming in 2019. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes\, the Lascaux and American Literary Review Fiction Prizes\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Passionate about literature for everyone\, not just the educated elite\, and about using it to further social justice\, Foust is happy to be able to promote these goals as Marin Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for the online magazine\, Women’s Voices for Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Foust & Nicholas Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust’s book Paradise Drive  won the 2015 Press 53 Prize for Poetry\, and was widely reviewed in such venues as the Times Literary Supplement\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, Huffington Post\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, and Hudson Review.  Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize\, God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Small Press Distribution\, 2010)\, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry\, and Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card\, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years\, 2008 and 2009. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize\, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, Sewanee and the Frost Place.  She is Marin County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change. \nNicholas Friedman’s debut book\, Petty Theft (Criterion Books\, 2018)\, is the winner of the The New Criterion Poetry Prize. B. H. Fairchild called Petty Theft a “brilliant\, beautifully crafted first book” by a poet “who remembers the art of poetry\, practices it superbly\, and so\, like Keats\, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses’\,” and Charles Martin called it “a first book of exceptional achievement.” His poems have appeared in The New York Times\, POETRY\, Yale Review\, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-foust-nicholas-friedman/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2019\, all day long\, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year\, or sign up for our events emails. \nWhat is Independent Bookstore Day? \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.  Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. But in addition to authors\, live music\, cupcakes\, scavenger hunts\, kids events\, art tables\, readings\, barbecues\, contests\, and other fun stuff\, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online. \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2019/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 27\, 2019 – 10:00am to 11:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIndependent Bookstore Day is two things: \n\nyour one & only chance to buy one-of-a-kind\, limited edition books and literary gifts.  Never again; never online. AND\nit’s a party in a bookstore!\n\nWe’re still developing the plans for the day\, but so far we know we’ll have: \n\nfree on-demand poetry by Silvi of The Poetry Store from noon to 2pm.  Her time is on us\, but tips are appreciated.\na free scavenger hunt around the store\nfree beer (locally made\, of course) from about 2pm onward\n\nMore detail tk!  Save April 27\, 2019! \n\n\n\n\nEvent Categories:\n\nClement St
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!
DESCRIPTION:events and special offers tba \nhttp://www.indiebookstoreday.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 28\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-3/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Night Library
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, APRIL 28\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th\, 2019. \nThe Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries\, perfect for book lovers of all ages! \nAfter a young boy goes to sleep upset that he’s getting a book for his birthday\, he’s visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude\, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon\, he’s magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx\, and the two mighty lions show him the wonder of the library. There\, the inquisitive Latino boy discovers the power of books and their role not only in his own life\, but also in the lives of the people he loves. \nRaul Colon’s gorgeous\, rich art creates an immersive world in this book about books\, which is sure to capture the imaginations of kids and adults and inspire them to grab their library cards and dive into the worlds of stories. \nDAVID ZELTSER emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union at age five. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics\, he was admitted to vet school to study wildlife medicine\, but ultimately came back to his first love–storytelling. David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded the Santa Cruz Young Writers Program’s tutoring and writing center at the Museum of Art & History. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his wife\, Fiona; their daughter\, Naomi; and their dog\, Ella.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-night-library/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
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:Foucault in California
DESCRIPTION:Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade \ncelebrating the release of \nFoucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death \nby Simeon Wade\, Foreword by Heather Dundas \npublished by Heyday Books \n\n\n\n\nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.'” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. \nSimeon Wade was born July 22\, 1940\, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969\, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975\, an experience Foucault described as “one of the most important in my life.” Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard\, California\, on October 3\, 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - -The World Could Be Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Norman Fishcher to discuss his new new book The World Could Be Otherwise\, on Tuesday\, April 30th at 7pm. \nAn imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times\, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”–qualities that lead to kindness\, wisdom\, and an awakened life. \nIn frightening times\, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination\, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden\, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching\, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas\, or “six perfections”—generosity\, ethical conduct\, patience\, joyful effort\, meditation\, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships\, ethics\, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings\, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His numerous books include What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong\, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-the-world-could-be-otherwise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nPoets and audience will gather upstairs at More Moe’s one hour before the reading. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Jenn McCreary and Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:READING\nJenn McCreary and Norma Cole\nMay 1\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-jenn-mccreary-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day: One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Andrena Zawinski\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Lenore Weiss\, Dennis Bernstein. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-one-big-union/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest 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/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:Seven Stories and City Lights present \nBarry Gifford \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights Trilogy: Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon: SAN FRANCISCO: BRAINSTORMING FOR JUNE
DESCRIPTION:MAY 2 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nFree! \n\n\n\n\n \nOnce again we come together to pool brains ! Bring your mathematical quandaries\, sweet solutions\, high octane spirits and tales of sleuthing genius for Odd Salon PROOF\, curated by Isolde Honore. \nBrainstorming sessions are free open to all! Come out and grab a drink\, meet the Oddlings\, and share your ideas around the table. \nThursday\, May 2nd at 7pm.\nWe’ll be in the back room at Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, drinking and thinking. Just a couple of doors down from the 24th and Mission BART stop. \nNo formal RSVP needed  – just come out and join us! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-brainstorming-for-june/
LOCATION:Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara\n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada”\nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nFor the concluding event as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center for Spring 2019\, Juliana Delgado Lopera will be reading and in conversation with novelist Joseph Cassara\, author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, an acclaimed debut novel that “follows the lives of the major players in New York’s 1980s drag ball scene\, made famous by Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film Paris Is Burning.” (full review at The Guardian) Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada” (*) is the title for Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Mazza Residency with The Poetry Center. Prior to this evening with Joseph Cassara\, she’ll by joined by special guest Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\, for an “afternoon of literary drag\,” Saturday April 27 at The Bindery\, annex of The Booksmith and just across Haight Street\, and will be visiting multiple classes at SF State\, in Women and Gender Studies\, Sexuality Studies\, and Creative Writing\, throughout the week of April 22. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker\, and performance artist based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo!\, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Magto name a few. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Much more at julianadlopera.com \n• Make sure to check out Juliana Delgado Lopera’s recent Ted Talk\, “The Poetry of Everyday Speech\,” which took place early this year at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \nJoseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018\, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently lives in Fresno\, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University\, Fresno. More at josephcassara.com \n(*”but my tongue is salty”) \nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nJuliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\nan afternoon of literary drag\nSaturday APRIL 27\n3:00 pm @ The Bindery (door + bar at 2:00 pm)\n1727 Haight Street (at Cole)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-juliana-delgado-lopera-with-joseph-cassara-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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