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SUMMARY:After Hours: 9th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 24th | 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nDaniel Handler emcees this fabulous mashup of poetry and baseball\nwhere poets are players\, scored on their literary cred with bonus points\nfor quick thinking\, repartee\, and out-of-the-park performances. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens April 6th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-9th-annual-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200416T190000
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass and Marlene Mörling
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass’s poetry includes Indigo (Copper Canyon Press\, forthcoming 2020) Like a Beggar (Copper Canyon Press\, 2014)\, The Human Line (Copper Canyon Press\, 2007)\, and Mules of Love (BOA\, 2002). She co-edited\, with Florence Howe\, the first major anthology of women’s poetry\, No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (Doubleday\, 1973). Her poetry has appeared frequently in The New Yorker\, The American Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Among her awards are Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The California Arts Council\, three Pushcart Prizes\, The Lambda Literary Award\, The Pablo Neruda Prize\, The Larry Levis Prize and the New Letters Prize. Her nonfiction books include Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay\, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies\, I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse\, and The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches in the MFA writing program at Pacific University. \nMalena Mörling was born in Stockholm in 1965 and grew up in southern Sweden. She is the author of two books of poetry: Ocean Avenue and Astoria. She has also published translations of work by Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer and together with Jonas Ellerström\, a collection of the Finland-Swedish poet Edith Södergran\, On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems\, the collection 1933 by Philip Levine into Swedish\, and they have edited and translated the anthology\, The Star By My Head\, Poets From Sweden published by Milkweed Editions. Mörling has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a Dianna L. Bennett Fellowship from the Beverly Rogers\, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at The University of North Carolina\, Wilmington and is teaching as Hugo Poet and Visiting Professor at University of Montana for the 2019-2020 school year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-and-marlene-morling/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200407T204500
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-3/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200328T193000
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SUMMARY:Jane Hirshfield: Ledger
DESCRIPTION:Jane Hirshfield reads from her new collection of poems\, Ledger. \nAbout Ledger:\nFrom one of our most celebrated contemporary poets–long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize–comes Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger\, her most important work yet. From its already much-quoted opening lines of despair and defiance (“Let them not say: we did not see it. / We saw.”)\, Hirshfield’s poems inscribe a registry\, both personal and communal\, of our present-day predicaments\, and call us to action. They summon our responsibility to sustain one another and the earth while pondering\, acutely and tenderly\, the crises of refugees\, justice\, and climate. They consider “the minimum mass for a whale\, for a language\, an ice cap\,” recognize the intimacy of interconnection (“lichens\, burdocks\, mycelial mats between trees– / forgive this hubris”)\, and apply the lever of questions (“How came separation to chisel\, / to cherish\, to chafe?”) by which we might begin to find a way forward. Finally\, it is the human spirit and words themselves–loyal instruments of recognition\, humility\, and praise–that triumph in this stunning accounting by an essential poet. \nAbout Jane Hirshfield:\nJane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry\, including Ledger; The Beauty; Come\, Thief; and Given Sugar\, Given Salt. She is also the author of two now-classic collections of essays\, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World\, and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry\, have been finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T.S. Eliot Prize\, and long-listed for The National Book Award. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Academy of American Poets\, and presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Review of Books\, The Times Literary Supplement\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, New Republic\, Harper’s\, and Poetry\, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A resident of Northern California\, she is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-hirshfield-ledger-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Roundelay w/ JOHN LEONARD
DESCRIPTION:A gathering for those who write\nand/or are interested in poetry! \nLocal poet John Leonard will introduce featured poet Chris Spark who will do a short reading. After this\, each participant is invited to read a favorite poem and\, if desired\, one of his/her own. Discussion will follow. This is an all-participant event. \nMeets in the upper Loft sitting area. \n$10\, $5 OHCA members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-roundelay-w-john-leonard/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T203000
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SUMMARY:Anders Carlson-Wee and Maria Gillam
DESCRIPTION:Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of The Low Passions\, published by W.W. Norton in 2019. His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, BuzzFeed\, Ploughshares\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Poetry Daily\, The Sun\, Best New Poets\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, and many other publications. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the McKnight Foundation\, the Camargo Foundation\, Bread Loaf\, Sewanee\, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference\, he is the winner of the 2017 Poetry International Prize. His work has been translated into Chinese. Anders holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and lives in Cincinnati. \nMaria Mazziotti Gillan is winner of the 2014 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature from AWP\, the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers\, and the 2008 American Book Award for her book All That Lies Between Us. She is the Founder/Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College\, editor of the Paterson Literary Review\, and has been appointed a Bartle Professor at Binghamton University-SUNY\, and Professor Emerita of English and Creative Writing. She has published 23 books including Paterson Light and Shadow and What Blooms in Winter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anders-carlson-wee-and-maria-gillam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T170000
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Li: Brave New Medicine w/ Anna O'Malley
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Li in conversation with Anna O’Malley about her book\, Brave New Medicine. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine at Commonweal Garden. \nAbout Brave New Medicine\nIn this revelatory memoir\, Doctor Cynthia Li shares the truth about her disabling autoimmune illness\, the limitations of Western medicine\, and her hard-won lessons on healing–mind\, body\, and spirit. \nLi had it all: a successful career in medicine\, a loving marriage\, children on the horizon. But it all came crashing down when\, after developing an autoimmune thyroid condition\, mysterious symptoms began consuming her body. Test after test came back “within normal limits\,” baffling her doctors–and baffling herself. Housebound with two young children\, Li began a solo odyssey from her living room couch to find a way to heal. \nBrave New Medicine details the physical and existential crisis that forces a young doctor to question her own medical training. She dives into the root causes of her illness\, learning to unlock her body’s innate intelligence and wholeness. Li relates her story with the insight of a scientist\, and the humility and candor of a patient\, exploring the emotional and spiritual shifts beyond the physical body. \nMillions of people worldwide are affected by autoimmune disease. While complex conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are gaining attention\, patients struggling with these mysterious ailments remain largely dismissed by their doctors\, families\, and friends. This is the harsh reality that doctor-turned-“difficult patient” Li faced firsthand. \nDrawing on cutting-edge science\, ancient healing arts\, and the power of intuition\, this memoir offers support\, validation\, and a new perspective for doctors and patients alike. Through her story\, you can find the wisdom and heart to start your own healing journey\, too. \nAbout the participants\nCynthia Li\, MD\, graduated from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center\, and has practiced internal medicine in settings as diverse as Kaiser Permanente Medical Center\, San Francisco General Hospital\, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic for the homeless. She currently serves on the faculty of the Healer’s Art program at the UCSF School of Medicine\, and has a private practice in integrative and functional medicine. She lives in Berkeley\, CA\, with her husband and their two daughters. \nAnna O’Malley is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin in 2005\, and completed her residency training at the University of California-San Francisco in 2008. She was certified in Integrative Medicine in 2010 upon completion of the University of Arizona’s Program in Integrative Medicine. Her other interests include social justice\, environmental sustainability\, and enjoying life. When not working\, she can be found hiking the hills of Marin\, dancing\, savoring yummy food\, reveling in the beauty of nature\, and sharing the mysteries and joys of life with her daughters Lila and Elsa and husband Jeffery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-li-and-anna-omalley/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora
DESCRIPTION:The Mycological Society of Marin is proud to announce Mushrooms Demythified with David Arora. \nJoin us for this special After Hours mushroom talk where David Arora will explore some of the many contemporary myths about wild mushrooms spawned and reinforced by the Internet. Arora is an American mycologist\, naturalist\, and author of two popular mushroom field guides\, Mushrooms Demystified and All the Rain Promises and More. \nDoors open for the Marin Mycological Society’s meeting at 6:30pm\, followed by the mushroom talk at 7:00pm. Wine reception for registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Limited seating. Registration opens February 24th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-mushrooms-demythified-with-david-arora/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200312T203000
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SUMMARY:Dr. Shauna Shapiro 'Rewire Your Mind' Lecture and Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a special event to hear Dr. Shauna Shapiro speak on this very timely topic: Rewire Your Mind: The Science of Mindfulness & Self-Compassion in Parenting and Beyond. \nDr. Shapiro is a world-renowned author\, professor\, scientist\, and mother. She has published three critically acclaimed books and her TEDx talk on the Power of Mindfulness has been viewed over 1.5 million times. \nDr. Shapiro will appear as our guest in partnership with Congregation Kol Shofur Come join us and learn about revolutionary breakthroughs in neuroscience\, and engage in simple\, yet powerful practices that you can apply in daily life from parenting to the workplace. \nThursday\, March 12\, 7-8:30pm at Kol Shofur located at 215 Blackfield Drive\, Tiburon\, CA 94920. This event is free for all to attend. \nSpecial Offer: Shauna’s new “Good Morning\, I Love You” meditation video is available for free. Email to slshapiro@scu.edu \nShauna Shapiro Ph.D. is a professor at Santa Clara University\, she has published over 150 papers and three critically acclaimed books\, translated into 16 languages. Shauna has presented her research to the King of Thailand\, the Danish Government\, Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Summit\, and the World Council for Psychotherapy\, as well as to Fortune 100 Companies including Google\, Cisco Systems and LinkedIn. Her work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal\, Mashable\, Wired\, USA Today\, Dr. Oz\, the Huffington Post\, and the American Psychologist. Shauna is a Fellow of the Mind and Life Institute\, co-founded by the Dalai Lama. \nTo order Dr. Shapiro’s new book\, please visit https://drshaunashapiro.com/books/#pre-order or buy a copy at the event. \nBook signing will follow the talk. \nFree \nhttp://www.marinjcc.org info@marinjcc.org 415-444-8000
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-shauna-shapiro-rewire-your-mind-lecture-and-book-signing/
LOCATION:Congregation Kol Shofur\, 215 Blackfield Drive\, Tiburon\, 94920
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Osher Marin JCC":MAILTO:info@marinjcc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T204500
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-2/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200228T203000
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Super Tuesday with Mark DiCamillo
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nLongtime pollster Mark DiCamillo will discuss the California primary election\nand provide an overview of other elections taking place across the\ncountry on Super Tuesday. Currently Director of the UC Berkeley IGS\nPoll\, DiCamillo last spoke here before the 2016 Presidential election. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens February 10th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-super-tuesday-with-mark-dicamillo/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill: Weather
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Offill\, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation\, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel\, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks. \nAbout Weather:\nLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment\, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor\, Sylvia Liller\, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast\, Hell and High Water\, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world\, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse\, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone\, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair\, conscience and collusion\, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny\, disturbing\, and increasingly mad. \nAbout Jenny Offill:\nJENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award)\, and Dept. of Speculation\, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize\, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-weather-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:“Poetry from Prisoners”
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner\, currently teaching at the Salinas Valley State Prison poetry workshop. \nRose and Ken are also two of the founders of Right to Write Press – Promoting the growth of emerging writers incarcerated in California State prisons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-from-prisoners/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200204T020810Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass: Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads from Summer Snow\, his first collection of new poems in a decade. \nAbout Summer Snow\nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Robert Hass\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide (1973)\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200207T210000
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Naked Truth: real.stories.live.
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nCelebrate ten years of the Naked Truth with some of our favorite storytellers! \nEmcee Josh Healey is joined by David Nihill\, Kari Kiernan\, Don\nReed\, and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan for a special night of great stories. \nDavid Nihill is a bestselling author\, featured in Inc\, NPR\, Huffington Post\, Forbes\, and the Irish Times. David was recently part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour and SF Sketchfest. A Moth Storyslam winner and Grandslam finalist\, David has also told tales at Porchlight\, Fireside and Litquake. \nKari Kiernan is a writer and a storyteller\, and a bona fide local: she graduated from Tam\, holds a Master’s degree from Dominican University\, and spent a great deal of her young life at the Mill Valley Library. In addition to Naked Truth\, she’s been onstage at Porchlight\, the Throckmorton\, The Vent\, and Literary Death Match. \nDon Reed (HBO\, Pop Up Magazine) is an entertainer. Works include: “Unleashed” on Netflix\, a streaming comedy series “Bartlett\,” five solo shows Off Broadway and Bay Area – including “East 14th.” Other credits: I Miss Toni\, Snap Judgment 2016 Performance of the Year\, The Flintstones\, DMV\, A Different World\, Partners in Crime. \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan is an internationally recognized comedian and was the Grand Prize Winner of The Ultimate Comedy Challenge filmed in Singapore. She received the 2016 Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award\, previously awarded to Samantha Bee and Wanda Sykes. Dhaya’s stories have appeared on Snap Judgment and the Moth podcast. Dhaya also regularly acts as emcee at the monthly SF Moth Story SLAMs. \nEmcee: Josh Healey\nAward-winning writer\, performer and filmmaker\, Healy has been a regular performer on NPR’s Snap Judgment. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, and his nephew’s YouTube page\, where it has at least 27 ‘likes.’ He is the lead writer and producer of The North Pole\, a comedic web series that hits on today’s issues. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-naked-truth-real-stories-live-2/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T203000
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SUMMARY:John Carreyrou - Bad Blood
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $40 (includes signed book) \n \nIn 2014\, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device\, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper\, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion\, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Erroneous results put patients in danger\, leading to misdiagnoses and unnecessary treatments. All the while\, Holmes and her partner\, Sunny Balwani\, worked to silence anyone who voiced misgivings—from journalists to their own employees. \nRigorously reported and fearlessly written\, Bad Blood is a gripping story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron—a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. \nJohn Carreyrou\, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner\, was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for twenty years. For his extensive coverage of Theranos\, Carreyrou was awarded the George Polk Award for Financial Reporting\, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in the category of beat reporting\, and the Barlett & Steele Silver Award for Investigative Business Journalism. Bad Blood was named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year. Carreyrou lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with his wife and three children. \n………………………………………………………………………………….. \nPlease note: Tickets are non-refundable
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-carreyrou-bad-blood/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200205T190000
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SUMMARY:The Wig Diaries Book Signing at Copperfield's Books Napa
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will host a book signing at Copperfield’s Books in Napa. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wig-diaries-book-signing-at-copperfields-books-napa/
LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books Napa\, 3740 Bel Aire Plaza\, Napa\, 94558
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T184500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200204T204500
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
CREATED:20191227T171340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T171340Z
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
CREATED:20200126T020420Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - Santa Rosa
DESCRIPTION:OUR FIRST You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church – Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: https://sforce.co/2udTNcD\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – Santa Rosa\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSome words from Destiny Grace on her musical offering for the evening: “Music has always been a healer in my life. It’s held me when a body couldn’t; it’s given me the power to alchemize my grief into something beautiful and way less scary or intimidating. For me\, creating songs is like choosing specific emotions or memories and building them altars of remembrance that I can return to whenever I need to. Writing & playing music acts as a tool to articulate my sometimes painful emotions into something less abstract and more concrete; something not only I can find catharsis in\, but when shared\, can also build a bridge to others who have shared experiences.” \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-santa-rosa/
LOCATION:The Lost Church – Santa Rosa\, 427 Mendocino Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #105
DESCRIPTION:Our first reading of the year will feature Marin Poet Laureate Terry Lucas\, and poet Kat Crawford. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, 2016) and In This Room (CW Books\, 2016)\, in addition to two prize-winning chapbooks. His poems\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in numerous national literary journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, Best New Poets\, Crab Orchard Review\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, Green Mountains Review\, and others. An excerpt of his memoir\, Flight\, is published in the current issue of Great River Review\, and immediately received a Pushcart nomination—his seventh. A regular speaker at the Dominican University of California’s Low-Residency MFA Program and a free-lance poetry coach\, Terry is the current and sixth Poet Laureate of Marin County\, California. \nKat Crawford’s poetry has been published in several quarterlies including Creative Woman\, Nomads’ Choir\, Marin Poetry Anthology\, Tuxedo of Dominican University and Spillway. Her first poetry collection\, A Particular Kind of Heaven\, was published in 2014. A recent graduate of the Dominican University MFA Poetry Program\, Kat is busy planning a group that will use poetry to link the communities of teenagers and elders. \nThere will be refreshments\, and open mic after our features read. Remember to grab a coupon (only good for evening of Hand To Mouth) with discounts on food and drinks from our neighbors Cafe Arrivederci\, Whipper Snapper\, and The Mayflower Pub\, for before or after the reading. \nHand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT\, emceed by Joel and Toni Eis\, is in its 15th year\, with readings generally taking place on the last Wednesday of the month\, except for August and December.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-105/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200124T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
CREATED:20200123T160120Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass - Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author\, Robert Hass \nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date.\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200117T203000
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SUMMARY:Gary Snyder and Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Poetry Society of America \nGary Snyder began his career in the 1950s as a noted member of the “Beat Generation\,” though he has since explored a wide range of social and spiritual matters in both poetry and prose. Snyder’s work blends physical reality and precise observations of nature with inner insight received primarily through the practice of Zen Buddhism. He has been described as the “poet laureate of Deep Ecology”. Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award. His awards also include the Bollingen Prize\, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award\, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship\, the Bess Hokin Prize and the Levinson Prize\, the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award\, the Shelley Memorial Award\, and the Ruth Lilly Award. \n\nJane Hirshfield’s ninth\, forthcoming poetry collection\, Ledger (Knopf\, 2020)\, centers on the crises of climate and biosphere\, and on our interconnection with one another and all beings.  She is the founder of #PoetsForScience\, a project originating with the first March For Science in D.C. in 2017\, and the author of two now-classic books of essays\, Nine Gates and Ten Windows. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as the Poetry Center and California Book Awards. The Washington Post has named her “among the modern masters” and the New York Times called her last book\, The Beauty\, “a deep well of wisdom.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-snyder-and-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200113T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:Evie Shockley is the author of semiautomatic and the new black\, both winners of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry; semiautomatic was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the LA Times Book Prize.  Her publications include as well the critical study Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry and poems and essays appearing recently and forthcoming in The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, Obsidian\, The Black Scholar\, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry & Opinion\, The New Emily Dickinson Studies\, New Literary History\, and the PoetryNow podcast series.  Among her honors are the Stephen Henderson Award\, the Holmes National Poetry Prize\, and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She is Professor of English at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Edgehill Mansion in Dominican University\, 50 Acacia Ave.\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Last Things with Authors from Red Hen Press
DESCRIPTION:What does “last” really mean? Answer this question with Why There Are Words on December 12\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a lively night of readings with six authors from Red Hen Press.  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15pm. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, http://www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \nFrancesca Bell is the author of the collection Bright Stain (Red Hen Press\, 2019). Her poems and translations appear in many journals\, including North American Review\, Poetry Northwest\, Prairie Schooner\, among many others. The former poetry editor of River Styx\, she is also the translator of a collection of poems by Palestinian poet Shatha Abu Hnaish (Dar Fadaat\, 2017). www.francescabellpoet.com \nYu-Han (Eugenia) Chao recently published Sex and Taipei City (Red Hen Press\, 2019). She is the author of several other books published by The Backwaters Press\, Another Calligraphy Press\, Dancing Girls Press\, and Boaat Press. www.yuhanchao.com.  \nCai Emmons is the author of Weather Woman (Red Hen Press\, 2019)\, His Mother’s Son\, and The Stylist. Her short work has appeared in such publications as TriQuarterly\, Narrative\, Arts and Culture\, among others. She teaches in the University of Oregon’s Creative Writing Program. www.caiemmonsauthor.com. \nJudy Grahn recently released the poetry collection Hanging on Your Own Bones (Red Hen Press\, 2019). Her work has won numerous awards and honors\, including an American Book Review Award\, two American Book Awards\, a Stonewall (American Library) Award\, the Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian Letters Award\, and two Lambda book awards. judygrahn.org. \nBrittany Ackerman recently published the memoir The Perpetual Motion Machine (Red Hen Press\, 2018).  She is a Critical Studies instructor at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts\, where she teaches Archetypal Psychology as well as Applied Logic and Critical Thinking. www.brittanyackerman.com.  \nFlorencia Ramirez is the author of Eat Less Water (Red Hen Press\, 2016)\, named the Kirkus Review Indie Best Book of the month for April 2019 from the list of 10\,000+ books. She won the Creative Nonfiction Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. www.eatlesswater.com. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell and expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-last-things-with-authors-from-red-hen-press/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191209T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center's annual Holiday Potluck & Read Around
DESCRIPTION:Our annual holiday party at the Falkirk mansion is a time for poetry\, song\, and great food. Bring a poem and a holiday dish to share. If your last name begins with: \nA – G – please bring a dessert\nH – P – please bring a salad\nQ – Z – please bring a main course
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-centers-annual-holiday-potluck-read-around/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
CREATED:20190930T200505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191205T150146Z
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 6th | 7:00pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests.\n \nPultizer Prize-winning journalist and author of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen\, Jose Antonio Vargas is one of the most well-known undocumented immigrants in the U.S. He will address migration versus immigration and examine what it means to be American. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens November 18th. \nAdults and high school students only. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, December 6\, 2019 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Adult \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-jose-antonio-vargas/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:A night for teens recite their original work. Teens from local high schools will perform: “A mic for your poem\, your breath\, and your soul. A space for your comrades\, your thoughts to unroll. Bring paper or not\, or perform on the spot\, we’re all here to listen to the words that you brought.” \nContact Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes (mflasherduz@gmail.com) or Erin Rodoni (erin_rodoni@hotmail.com) to sign up to perform an original work of poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-night/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T205454
CREATED:20191002T033645Z
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SUMMARY:Maurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14\, 2019 at 7pm\nMaurya Simon & Amber Flora Thomas\nMaurya Simon is the author of ten volumes of poetry\, including Speaking in Tongues\, a nominee for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize\, Ghost Orchid\, which was nominated in 2004 for a National Book Award in Poetry\, Cartographies\, (Red Hen Press\, 2008)\, and most recently\, a limited-edition letterpress book\, Questions My Daughters Asked Me\, Answers I Never Gave Them (Blackbird Press\, 2014). Her novel-in-verse\, entitled The Raindrop’s Gospel: The Trials of St. Jerome & St. Paula\, was issued by Elixir Press in 2010. In early 2018\, Red Hen Press will publish Simon’s tenth volume of poems\, The Wilderness: New & Selected Poems\, 1980-2016. \nShe received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and has been a Fulbright Fellow in India. She has taught at UC Riverside\, Caltech\, and at the Claremont Colleges and has published 10 books of poetry. Her poetry often combines the natural world with spirituality and metaphysics and her writing is enriched by the classics and art. \nAmber Flora Thomas\, was born and raised in northern California. She is the author of Eye of Water: Poems (University of Alaska Press\, 2012) which was selected by Harryette Mullen as the winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her other books include The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems (University of Alaska Press\, 2012) and Red Channel in the Rupture: Poems (Red Hen Press\, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in The New England Review\, Tin House\, Callaloo\, Orion Magazine\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Saranac Review\, and Third Coast\, as well as Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry\, and numerous other journals and anthologies. \nThomas has taught at the Cave Canem annual retreat and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference. She has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Atlantic Center for the Arts\, Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, and Sewanee Writers Conference. She earned an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis\, MO. Currently\, she is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at East Carolina University in Greenville\, NC. Her three books of poetry reflect the pathos and brutality of living things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maurya-simon-amber-flora-thomas/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 201 November 2\, December 7\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-10/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191031T133000
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SUMMARY:Impromptu writing online via Zoom!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us to write together from the comfort of home! This chance to meet via computer or mobile device (or by phone) is surprisingly akin to being together in “real life” (!!) and offers the added bonus of seeing each participant as though we are sitting across from each other. \nWe do short\, timed writings together from writing prompts (or from words drawn from the magic word pouch!). We read our impromptu work out loud and receive good\, specific feedback from the group\, words or phrases that strike people\, images\, feelings the work evokes. (There is no critique\, no advice for strengthening the writing\, because this is spontaneous writing\, not polished work.) This is a great chance to encourage agile writer’s minds\, to stretch\, to bypass our critic and censor\, practice sharing our impromptu work\, grow larger in ourselves. I think you’ll find these online sessions can be surprisingly warm and filled with lovely connections. 🙂 \nRegister here on Meetup:\nhttps://www.meetup.com/Desert-People-Writing-Together/events/265241826/ \nAbout the leader of this session\, Riba Taylor\nI’m in my 18th year of teaching community college English and have been leading on-the-ground spontaneous writing groups for the past 2-1/2 years at the Cathedral City library (near Palm Springs). For more details about me and writing\, please scroll down on this page to “About the retreat leader”:\nhttps://499words.org/retreat/ \n(All times are Pacific time.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/impromptu-writing-online-via-zoom/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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