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SUMMARY:Asymmetrical Press Word Tasting Tour
DESCRIPTION:http://asymmetrical.co/wordtas ting/ \nNot just a book reading\, not just another event—a meaningful experience. Asymmetrical Press’ team of talented authors is hitting the road in May and June for a WordTasting Tour across the western United States and Canada. From minimalism and travel to storytelling and humor\, this tour provides a taste of something for everyone. \nJoin Colin Wright\, Josh Wagner\, Shawn Mihalik\, Skye Steele\, and special local guests for an evening of WordTasting: readings\, stories\, live music\, questions\, and answers. Plus special guests Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists will host and read at most events (see full schedule for details). \nAdmission to each two-hour event is free. So are the words. Come get a taste of something simple\, unique\, indie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asymmetrical-press-word-tasting-tour/
LOCATION:The Crepe Place\, 1134 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sarah J. Mass
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books \nKepler’s favorite\, Sarah J. Maas\, is back with the stunning sequel to her New York Times bestselling “A Court of Thorns and Roses”\, and we couldn’t be more excited. \nIn “A Court of Thorns and Roses”\, Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae\, her heart remains human\, and it can’t forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin’s people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand\, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics\, passion\, and dazzling power\, a greater evil looms–and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her gifts\, heal her fractured soul\, and decide how she wishes to shape her future–and the future of a world cleaved in two. \nIn this electrifying sequel\, Sarah J. Maas’ masterful storytelling takes her seductive and action-packed series to new heights. \nSarah will be in conversation with Evelyn Skye\, author of “The Crown’s Game”. \nPlease note:\n1. The purchase of A Court of Mist and Fury IS REQUIRED in order to join the signing line. \n2. Sarah will sign three books per person\, but only personalize one. \nTicket Information: \n$25.00 — Premier Ticket. This includes one hardcover copy of “A Court of Mist and Fury”\, priority seating\, and priority in the signing line \n$15.00 — General Admission. No hardcover copy of “A Court of Mist and Fury”\, no priority seating or priority in the signing line. \nFor those who wish to sit together\, please purchase tickets in the same seating area. \nThe book will be available for pickup\, and for sale\, at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-j-mass/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler returns to emcee this year’s series\, where baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing.  You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program.\nEmcee:\nDaniel Handler is the author of five novels\, including We Are Pirates. As Lemony Snicket\, he’s responsible for too many books for children\, including the relatively new series All the Wrong Questions. \nJudges:\nSusan Terris is the editor of Spillway and the author of fourteen chapbooks\, three artists’ books\, and six books of poetry\, including Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk 2013) and Memos (Omnidawn 2015). Her publications include Best American Poetry\, FIELD\, Pushcart Prize XXXI\, Ploughshares\, and The Southern Review. \nMill Valley resident Brian Murphy is the author of six books\, including San Francisco Giants: 50 Years. He was a sportswriter for 15 years at the LA Times\, Santa Rosa Press Democrat\, SF Examiner\, and SF Chronicle before joining KNBR\, where he’s hosted the popular “Murph and Mac” show since 2004. \nPlayers:\nGeorge Higgins is the author of There\, There (White Violet Press 2013). He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College\, where he was a Holden Fellow\, and is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Fugue\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Poetry Flash\, and Salamander\, among others. \nPeter Kline teaches at USF and Stanford. His first book\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. A former Stegner Fellow\, he’s also received fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in The Antioch Review\, Five Points\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. \nDanusha Laméris’s book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Poetry Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New Letters\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. \nDr. Raina J. León is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. Her books include Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (February 2016). She’s a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College. \nMeryl Natchez’s most recent book is a bilingual volume: Poems from the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova\, Mandelstam and Gumilev. She’s co-translator of Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems\, and her collection Jade Suit was published in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Pinch\, Atlanta Review\, Lyric\, Moth\, and elsewhere. \nMatthew Siegel’s Blood Work won the 2015 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-poetry-world-series/
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:Why There Are Words: Begin Again
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. \nPaul Corman-Roberts’ most recent collection of poems We Shoot Typewriters (Nomadic Press\, September 2015) was nominated for a Northern California Book Reviewers award. A Pushcart and Best of Web nominee\, Corman-Roberts’ work has appeared in The Rumpus\, subTerrain\, Full of Crow\, Connotation Press\, The Cape Fear Review\, Red Fez\, andCorium among others. In addition to producing spoken word performance spectacles across the Bay Area\, he is a core-founder of Oakland’s largest and oldest regular literary festival\, the Beast Crawl. \nSherrie Flick is the author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting\, the novel Reconsidering Happiness\, and the short story collection Whiskey\, Etc. (Queen’s Ferry Press\, 2016). Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals\, including Flash Fiction Forward\, New Sudden Fiction\, Ploughshares\, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University. \nA Canadian by birth\, a high school dropout\, and a mother at 17\, in her early years\, Lily Iona MacKenzie supported herself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company\, as a long distance operator for the former Alberta Government Telephones\, and as a secretary (Bechtel Corp sponsored her into the States). She also was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco\, briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman (and almost got her legs broken)\, founded and managed a homeless shelter in Marin County\, and eventually earned two Master’s degrees (one in Creative Writing and one in the Humanities). She has published reviews\, interviews\, short fiction\, poetry\, travel pieces\, essays\, and memoir in over 150 American and Canadian venues. Fling was published in July 2015 by Pen-L Publishing. Bone Songs\, another novel\, will be published in November 2016. Her poetry collection All This was published in 2011. She also taught writing at the University of San Francisco and was vice-president of USF’s part-time faculty union. When she isn’t writing\, she paints and travels widely with her husband. She also maintains a blog. \nMarian Palaia is\, among other things\, an author. Born in Riverside\, California\, she currently resides in San Francisco. Other places she has called (or does call) home: Montana\, Hong Kong\, Olympia\, WA\, Nepal\, Saigon\, Boulder\, CO\, and Kensington\, MD. To support her writing habit\, she has been a teacher\, a bartender\, a truck driver\, “chip girl” in a poker room\, and the littlest logger in Lincoln\, Montana\, where she and Ted Kazynski were neighbors\, sort of. Her first novel\, The Given World (Simon & Schuster\, 2015)\, was a Kirkus Best Novel of 2015 (also Best Debut and Historical) and was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, Break Glass\, will be published by Queen’s Ferry Press in April\, 2016.  She is on the fiction faculty of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBT fiction\, and she lives in New York. \nZarina Zabrisky is the author of three short story collections\, including Explosion(Epic Rites Press\, 2015) and a novel We\, Monsters (Numina Press). She moved to San Francisco from Russia in 1998 and started to publish in English in 2011. Since then her work has appeared in six countries and has been featured and reviewed in over thirty magazines\, including The Nervous Breakdown\, The Rumpus\, Guernica\, PANK Magazine\, Anthropology Now\, and more. She has received literary awards and nominations\, including Acker Award for Achievement in The Avant Garde. She is involved in protest art as a co-founder of The Arts Resistance\, a collective resisting the war and injustice through the means of the arts. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when word lovers from the Bay Area and beyond crowd the house.  The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for six years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-begin-again/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Louise Erdrich w/ Gail Tsukiyama
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening with Louise Erdrich\, one of the most gifted\, prolific\, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. The author of many award-winning novels\, including Love Medicine; The Beet Queen\, and The Bingo Palace\, this is her first novel since the publication of the 2012 National Book Award-winning novel\, The Round House. \nIn LaRose\, Landreaux Iron kills his neighbor’s five-year-old son\, Dusty Ravich\, in a hunting accident. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor\, Peter Ravich\, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son\, LaRose. The two families have always been close\, sharing food\, clothing\, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux’s wife\, Emmaline\, is half sister to Dusty’s mother\, Nola. Horrified at what he’s done\, the recovered alcoholic turns to traditionthe sweat lodgefor guidance\, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution\, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. “Our son will be your son now\,” they tell them. \nWhat follows is a powerful exploration of loss\, justice\, and the reparation of the human heart\, and an unforgettable\, dazzling tour de force from one of America’s most distinguished literary masters. \nBorn to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in San Francisco\, Gail Tsukiyama’s bestselling novels include The Street of a Thousand Blossoms\, Women of the Silk\, A Hundred Flowers\, Dreaming Water\, The Language of Threads\, The Samurai’s Garden\, and Night of Many Dreams. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-erdrich-w-gail-tsukiyama/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:David Hernandez + Tiffany Midge
DESCRIPTION:David Hernandez’s most recent book of poetry\, Hoodwinked (Sarabande Books\, 2011)\, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Dear\, Sincerely—his new collection—is forthcoming Spring 2016 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. His other books include Always Danger (SIU Press\, 2006)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series\, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press\, 2003). David’s awards include an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in FIELD\, The Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Best American Poetry 2013. He is also the author of two YA novels\, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch\, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches creative writing at California State University\, Long Beach and at California State University\, Fullerton. He lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. \nTiffany Midge is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry for The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press)\, and the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award for Outlaws\, Renegades and Saints; Diary of a Mixed-up Halfbreed (Greenfield Review Press). Her work has appeared in North American Review\, Florida Review\, South Dakota Review\, Shenandoah\, and the online journals No Tell Motel and Drunken Boat. Tiffany has published creative nonfiction in The Butter\, and Sovereign Bodies\, and her essays received Pushcart Prize nominations from The Raven Chronicles and Yellow Medicine Review. An enrolled Standing Rock Sioux\, she holds an MFA from University of Idaho and is Poet Laureate of Moscow\, Idaho. Tiffany is writing the Great American (Indian) Novel about contemporary\, urban Native life\, Sex\, Lies\, and Frybread\, a Dramedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hernandez-tiffany-midge/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dana Gioia: 99 Poems
DESCRIPTION:We are so honored to bring the newly appointed Poet Laureate of California\, Dana Gioia\, to celebrate the publication of his new collection. We hope youll join us in welcoming this profound and meaningful artist to Keplers Books in Menlo Park. \nDana Gioia is widely known in the literary community for his rigorous craft and his imaginative use of traditional forms\, rhyme and meter. He tackles the everyday drama and emotional moments in our lives and explores universal themes like grief\, love\, time\, family and his own mortality. This is the first collection of Gioias to gather work from across his storied career\, including a dozen remarkable new poems. \nThe Washington Post raves\, 99 Poems is one of the most anticipated collections of 2016\, and it does not disappoint. No matter what the topicmystery\, place remembrance\, imagination\, stories\, songs\, loveor the form\, these polished pieces are vibrant and inviting. \nDana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He earned an M.B.A at Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In December of 2015\, Gioia was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown and will advocate for the education and practice of poetry during his two-year term. He has published four full-length collections of poetry\, as well as eight chapbooks. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-99-poems/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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