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SUMMARY:The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation w/ Gary Snyder
DESCRIPTION:In honor of National Poetry Month\, California Film Institute and the Buddhist Film Foundation present a festival of compelling contemporary films about inspiring American poets. Apr 3 at 4:15 pm: “The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation with Gary Snyder.” Apr 3 at 7 pm: “Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder.” Filmmaker and photographer Chris Felver will show and discuss his long-gestating portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, the iconic poet\, artist\, publisher and First Amendment activist\, who helped forge many of the most significant cultural movements of the past 60 years. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Sura Wood had to say about Poetry in Motion Film Festival: Apr 3 : \n“Lawrence Ferlinghetti—poet\, activist\, publisher and painter\, as well as founder of City Lights bookstore—has been a presence on the local literary and cultural scene since the mid 1950s. He’s the subject of Christopher Felver’s doc\, which features commentary from Allen Ginsberg\, Gary Snyder\, Dennis Hopper\, Dave Eggers\, Michael McClure\, Amiri Baraka and Bob Dylan\, as well as the man himself. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-practice-of-the-wild-a-conversation-w-gary-snyder/
LOCATION:Rafael Film Center\, 1118 4th St\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:In honor of National Poetry Month\, California Film Institute and the Buddhist Film Foundation present a festival of compelling contemporary films about inspiring American poets. Apr 3 at 4:15 pm: “The Practice of the Wild: A Conversation with Gary Snyder.” Apr 3 at 7 pm: “Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder.” Filmmaker and photographer Chris Felver will show and discuss his long-gestating portrait of Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, the iconic poet\, artist\, publisher and First Amendment activist\, who helped forge many of the most significant cultural movements of the past 60 years. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Sura Wood had to say about Poetry in Motion Film Festival: Apr 3 : \n“Lawrence Ferlinghetti—poet\, activist\, publisher and painter\, as well as founder of City Lights bookstore—has been a presence on the local literary and cultural scene since the mid 1950s. He’s the subject of Christopher Felver’s doc\, which features commentary from Allen Ginsberg\, Gary Snyder\, Dennis Hopper\, Dave Eggers\, Michael McClure\, Amiri Baraka and Bob Dylan\, as well as the man himself. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ferlinghetti-a-rebirth-of-wonder/
LOCATION:Rafael Film Center\, 1118 4th St\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with T.J. Stiles
DESCRIPTION:T. J. Stiles\, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize (and dad of two)\, comes to the Mill Valley library in April to discuss his most recent biography The Last Trials of Custer with Write on Mama Mary Allison Tierney. They’ll discuss the craft of storytelling in nonfiction and the biographer’s dilemma: when to stop the research.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-conversation-with-t-j-stiles/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:2016 One Book One Marin Culminating Event - The Martian
DESCRIPTION:Andy Weir’s acclaimed science fiction novel\, The Martian\, has been selected as the 2016 honoree for One Book One Marin. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary\, One Book One Marin seeks to build a stronger\, enriched community through community dialogue\, and the exploration of literature and culture. The One Book One Marin program will conclude with a special event on Wednesday\, April 13\, 2016\, at Dominican University’s Angelico Hall\, featuring Andy Weir and KQED host Michael Krasny in conversation. \nWinner of the 2015 Audie Award for Best Science Fiction\, The Martian follows an American astronaut\, Mark Watney\, who through a series of tragic events\, is left behind on the red planet\, stranded and facing certain death. He must improvise in order to survive. The story is told mostly through Watney’s log entries\, chronicling his efforts to finding a way to grow food\, make water\, and get himself off the planet. Interspersed among the log entries are sections told from the point of view of the NASA specialists\, back on Earth\, who discover that Watney is not dead (as everyone assumed) and scramble together a rescue plan. A film adaptation of the book was released in early October 2015. \nPopular across the United States and throughout the world\, One Book programs take the idea of a localized book discussion club and expand it to cover a whole city or county. The city\, county and college libraries of Marin\, and community partners Book Passage and the Institute for Leadership Studies at Dominican University of California collaborate to bring Marin County readers stimulating programming and events related to the book throughout a three-month period\, February – April\, each year. All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-one-book-one-marin-culminating-event-the-martian/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: “Rhyme or Reason”
DESCRIPTION:“Rhyme or Reason.” The third track from Eminem’s eighth studio album in which the rapper sings along with the chorus of “Time of the Season.” Attributed to poet Edmund Spenser in a letter with Queen Victoria as the first to utter the words. This in response to his having composed the poem “The Faire Queen” in honor of Queen Elizabeth and expecting his promised L100\, to which the High Treasurer of the time felt the sum was too much for a poem. The Queen\, however\, granted the money immediately after Spenser’s plea. Definitely found in Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and in As You Like It. Join us April 14\, 2016\, at Studio 333 on 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalitoto hear the following acclaimed authors give you their take on these words. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 \nA.E. Conran is a freelance editor\, bookseller\, book talker\, and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. Originally from England\, she holds a BA (Hons) and MPhil in English from Leeds University. She is a member of the Tuesday Night Writers group\, which hosts the bi-monthly Pints and Prose Reading series in Fairfax\, and co-organizer of Better Books Marin\, a craft-based children’s book conference now in its fourth year. Her first middle grade novel\, The Lost Celt\, was just launched on March 15. Katherine Applegate\, Author of The One and Only Ivan and winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal said\, “The Lost Celt is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of …humor and heart. Not to be missed.” \nBorn on the German coast of the Baltic Sea\, Stefan Kiesbye moved to Berlin in the early 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before a scholarship brought him to Buffalo\, New York. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. His stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, and in the Coachella Review\, among others. His first book\,Next Door Lived a Girl\, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award\, and has been translated into German\, Dutch\, and Spanish. Your House Is on Fire\, Your Children All Gone made EW’s Must List and was named one of the best books of 2012 by Slate editor Dan Kois\, and was optioned for television by Warner Bros. The German edition of Your House Is on Fire\, Your Children All Gone was published by Tropen Verlag\, the Spanish edition by Editorial Almadia. The gothic novel Messer\, Gabel\, Schere\, Licht (Knives\, Forks\, Scissors\, Flames) was published by Tropen Verlag in 2014. Ars Vivendi Verlag released the The LA Noir Fluchtpunkt Los Angeles (Vanishing Point) in February 2015. The Staked Plains\, a novella\, was recently published by Saddle Road Press. Kiesbye teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University. \nAllie Marini holds degrees from Antioch University of Los Angeles and New College of Florida\, meaning she can explain deconstructionism but cannot perform simple math. Her work has been a finalist for Best of the Net & nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is managing editor for theNonBinary Review\, Unbound Octavo\, & Zoetic Press\, and co-edits forLucky Bastard Press with her man\, performance poet B Deep. She has previously served on the masthead for Lunch Ticket\, Spry Literary Journal\, The Weekenders Magazine\, Mojave River Review & Press\, & The Bookshelf Bombshells. Allie is the author of Unmade & Other Poems\, (Beautysleep Press)\, You Might Curse Before You Bless (ELJ Publications)wingless\, scorched & beautiful\, (Imaginary Friend Press)\, Before Fire\, (ELJ Publications)\, This Is How We End (Bitterzoet)\, Pictures From The Center Of The Universe (Paper Nautilus\, winner of the Vella Prize)\,Cliffdiving (Nomadic Press)\, And When She Tasted of Knowledge(Nomadic Press)\, Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide To Beasts Of The Southern Wild (Hyacinth Girl Press)\,Here Comes Hell {dancing girl press}\, and Heart Radicals\, a collaborative collection with Les Kay\, Janeen Pergrin Rastall\, and Sandra Marchetti (ELJ Publications). Allie rarely sleeps\, and her mother has hypothesized that she is actually a robot fueled by Diet Coke & Sri Racha. Find her on the web: @kiddeternity. \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award. Publisher’s Weekly wrote\, “Munaweera’s… lyrical debut novel [is] worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience\, Jhumpa Lahiri.” The New York Times Book review called the novel\, “incandescent.” Nayomi’s second novel What Lies Between Us was released in February 2016 and has already been reviewed to great acclaim in venues from the SF Chronicle to Buzzfeed. \nBarbara Roether is a writer and teacher based in San Francisco. She grew up in Ohio and left rather quickly\, and rather young. Her debut novel This Earth You’ll Come Back Toexplains why. She has lived and worked in Morocco and Indonesia. Before teaching\, she worked in book publishing as an editor and freelance writer\, and has contributed to many books on travel and religion. As an editor at HarperCollins\, she created Signs of the Sacred\, a series of visual books on religious ritual. She is the author of a poetry collection The Middle Atlas\, while essays and short fiction have appeared in Tricycle\, Yoga Journal\, and various literary magazines. She holds an MFA from Bard College where she was the recipient of the Milton Avery Fellowship in the Arts. \nKathleen Winter is the author of Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press)\, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award.  Her poems have appeared in Tin House\, AGNI\, The New Republic\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry London\, and other journals. She was awarded fellowships at the Dora Maar House\, James Merrill House\, Cill Rialaig Retreat\, and Vermont Studio Center. During fall semester 2015\, she was the Ralph Johnston Fellow at the Dobie Paisano Ranch\, selected by the University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters. She teaches at Napa Valley College and lives in Glen Ellen. \nKatie M Zeigler is a writer and teacher living in Walnut Creek\, CA. She holds a BA and MA in Literature from Stanford University and has had short fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of outlets\, including A Clean\, Well-Lighted Place\, the Fish Anthology\, andStanford Magazine. She won the Stanford Magazine Fiction Contest and was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest. She is currently working on a young adult novel and teaches writing at Diablo Valley College. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, and is the brainchild of curator and host Peg Alford Pursell. This literary goodness has been going strong for six years and is expanding its mission in 2016 to publish those voices that must be heard. See WTAW Press for more information and to support this crucial activity!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-rhyme-or-reason/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Your Story Was This
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\nAfter Hours – Liss Fain Dance: Your Story Was This\nAn immersive performance installation integrates Fain’s choreography with three poems by Jane Hirshfield\, embedded in an original score by Dan Wool. Fain’s work fuses modern dance’s forceful energy with the kinetic precision of ballet. Q&A with Fain and Hirshfield follows performance. Fain\, Hirshfield\, and costume designer Mary Domenico are all Mill Valley residents. \nWhat is After Hours?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience:\nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-your-story-was-this/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here. \nFull schedule of events coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Motion Festival
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 17 at 4:15 pm: “Baddddd Sonia Sanchez.” For 80-year-old Sonia Sanchez\, writing is both a personal and political act. She emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement\, raising her voice in the name of black culture\, civil rights\, women’s liberation and peace. Maya Angelou called her “a lion in literature’s forest\,” and in this spirited film we understand why. \nAPRIL 17 at 7 pm: “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.” This exquisite and intimate documentary tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of 20th century America. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Sura Wood had to say about Poetry in Motion Festival: Apr 17 : \n “Pratibha Parmar’s doc follows “The Color Purple” author from her birth in a shack in the cotton fields of rural Georgia to her experiences as a civil rights activist in the South to her work as a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. The film\, which explores Walker’s identities as an African-American\, Southerner and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize\, includes interviews with Danny Glover\, Steven Spielberg and Gloria Steinem. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-motion-festival/
LOCATION:Rafael Film Center\, 1118 4th St\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sinan Antoon
DESCRIPTION:Sinan Antoon (Baghdad\, 1967) is a poet\, novelist\, scholar\, and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad\, Georgetown\, and Harvard\, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His works have been translated into nine languages. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His translation of his own novel\, The Corpse Washer\, won the 2014 Saif Ghobash Prize for Literary Translation and was longlisted for the International Prize for Foreign Fiction. His third novel\, Ya Maryam\, was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave\, 2014). In 2003 he returned to his native Baghdad to co-direct About Baghdad\, a documentary about life under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. He is an associate professor at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sinan-antoon/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! w/ Spagna\, Arsdale + Conran
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates SPRING with special guest readers Ana Maria Spagna\, Sarah Van Arsdale and A. E. Conran ! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (5 minute limit). \nAna Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin\, Washington\, a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat\, trail\, or float plane. She is the author most recently of the braided nonfiction narrative Reclaimers\, stories of people reclaiming sacred land and water\, as well as the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey\, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize\, and two collections of essays\, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness\, finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, and Now Go Home\, a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. Her writing on nature\, work\, civil rights\, and life in a small community has appeared in dozens of publications including Orion\, Ecotone\, Creative Nonfiction\, North American Review\, and High Country News. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, is just out with Queen’s Ferry Press\, April\, 2012. Her third novel\, Grand Isle\, was published by SUNY Press in 2012. Her second\, Blue\, winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel\, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003\, and her first\, Toward Amnesia\, was published in 1996 by Riverhead Books. Her poetry\, book reviews\, interviews and essays have appeared in national publications\, including Guernica\, Passages North\, Fiction Writers Review\, Bookslut\, Episodic\, and Oxford Magazine. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College\, and teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program and at NYU. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction and curates BLOOM: The Reading Series at Hudson View Gardens in New York City. \nA. E. Conran (Amanda) is a children’s book author\, freelance editor\, children’s book specialist and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. The Lost Celt is her first middle grade novel. A modern adventure story\, it draws upon video games\, time-travel conspiracies\, Roman and Celtic history and the ancient stories of Irish warrior hero Cuchulain\, but ultimately it deals with the invisible effects of war on veterans and their families throughout the generations and the transcendent power of friendship. Katherine Applegate\, Author of THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal says\, “THE LOST CELT is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of taut suspense\, riveting action\, and\, most importantly\, humor and heart. Not to be missed.” Originally from England\, Amanda now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, two kids and lots of squirrels\, deer and coyotes…in the back garden\, not in the house! \n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-w-spagna-arsdale-conran/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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