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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Harmon Guest House
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Valentine’s Day a little early with Red Light Lit on the rooftop of Harmon Guest House in Healdsburg\, CA. Spend the day roaming wine country and the evening exploring love\, relationships\, and sexuality through poetry\, storytelling\, and song. \nThe show features musician Josiah Johnson (The Head and The Heart)\, local investigative journalist and experiential humorist\, Scott Keneally; San Francisco-based musician and poet\, Sarah Bethe Nelson; Red Light Lit’s editor\, Jennifer Lewis; and memoir and essayist\, Allyson Darling; with musical accompaniment by musician\, songwriter\, and film composer\, David Williams. Come early for drinks\, bites\, and views from the Harmon Rooftop. See menu items here : https://harmonguesthouse.com/the-rooftop/ \nTickets are $20 and includes a personal poem typed on-demand by Allyson Darling.
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LOCATION:Harmon Guest House\, 227 Healdsburg Ave\, Healdsburg\, CA\, 95448
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\,\nnurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. Hallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Hallie Iglehart Austen began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
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LOCATION:Copperfield’s Books\, 138 North Main Street\, Sebastopol\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:David St. John & Jane Mead
DESCRIPTION:David St. John has won many significant prizes\, including both the Rome Fellowship and the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters\, the O.B. Hardison Prize for teaching and poetic achievement from the Folger Shakespeare Library\, and the George Drury Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from Beyond Baroque. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHe is the author of eleven collections of poetry\, including Study for the World’s Body (1994)\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and more recently the The Auroras (2012)\, The Window (2014)\, and The Last Troubadour: Selected and New Poems (2017). St. John is also the author of a volume of essays\, interviews and reviews entitled Where the Angels Come Toward Us (1995) and is coeditor of American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (2009). He teaches at University of Southern California. \n  \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n\n \n  \nJane Mead is the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996)\, The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001)\, The Usable Field (2008)\, Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014)\, and World of Mad and Unmade (2016). Mead is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Lannan\, Whiting\, and Guggenheim foundations. She has taught at Colby College\, Washington University\, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was for many years poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University. Mead is currently on the faculty of the Drew University Low-Residency MFA program. \n\n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents a Special Celebration: WTAW 9th Anniversary!
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on January 10\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration: Our 9th anniversary! A spectacular line up of authors will help us ring in the new year and kick off another year of Why There Are Words: Nisha Batsha\, Jack Boulware\, Lydia Kiesling\, Dickson Lam\, Huda Al-Marashi\, Caille Millner Nayomi Munaweera\, and Jeremy Vasquez. \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nNishant Batsha‘s fiction and essays have been published in TriQuarterly\, The Offing\, and The Caribbean Review of Books\, among others. He is currently revising his novel trilogy. www.nishantbatsha.com \n  \nJack Boulware is a San Francisco Library Laureate\, journalist\, and author of three books\, including the Bay Area punk oral history Gimme Something Better (Penguin Books\, 2009). He is a co-founder and Executive Director of San Francisco’s Litquake literary festival. www.jackboulware.com \n  \nLydia Kiesling is the author of The Golden State (MCD\, September 2018)\, which was longlisted for the Center For Fiction’s First Novel Prize\, and a 2018 National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree. She is the editor of The Millions and her writing has appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, and Slate. www.lydiakiesling.com \n  \nDickson Lam is the author of Paper Sons: A Memoir (Autumn House Press\, March 2018). His work has appeared in StoryQuarterly\, The Kenyon Review Online\, The Rumpus\, and others. He is an assistant professor of English at Contra Costa College. dicksonlam.net \n  \nHuda Al-Marashi is the Iraqi-American author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story (Prometheus Books\, November 2018). Other writing has appeared in the Washington Post\, the LA Times\, al Jazeera\, and elsewhere. www.hudaalmarashi.com. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification (Penguin Press\, 2008). Her fiction has been published in Zyzzyva\, Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories. Her essays have been well published and listed in Best American Essays. She is a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. www.caillemillner.com \n  \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel\, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (St. Martin’s Press\, 2014)\, won multiple awards and was the Target Book Club selection for January 2016. Munaweera’s award-winning second novel\, What Lies Between Us\, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016. She has work forthcoming in the Anthology\, What I Don’t Talk About With My Mother\, (Simon and Schuster\, 2019). \nJeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, activist and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist he has performed at many community events and correctional facilities. With his latest published book\, Unshackled\, he has been called to free people through story-telling and vulnerability. www.jeremymichaelvasquez.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now 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 part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, www.wtawpress.org. For more information visit www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Ultimate
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on December 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when eight acclaimed authors read from their works to help us close out the year. Our ultimate event of the year will prove to be the ultimate way to spend your evening! \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nRae Gouirand is the author of two collections of poetry\, Open Winter (Bellday Books\, Inc.\, 2011)\, winner of the Bellday Prize; and Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press\, 2018); and the chapbook Must Apple (Educe Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Oro Fino Competition. She lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis. \n  \nVanessa Hua’s latest book is the novel A River of Stars (Ballantine Books\, August 2018). She is the author of the story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books\, 2016) and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. www.vanessahua.com \n  \nSandra Hunter’s latest book is the story collection Trip Wires (Leapfrog Press\, June 2018). The author of two previous books\, her fiction has won the 2017 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest\, the 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize\, the October 2014 Africa Book Club Award\, and the 2014 H.E. Francis Fiction Award. www.sandrajhunter.com \n  \nCarrie La Seur is the award-winning author of two critically acclaimed novels\, The Home Place (2014) and The Weight of an Infinite Sky (January 2018)\, both from William Morrow. She is also the author of dozens of essays\, book reviews\, poems\, and law review articles that have appeared in Daily Beast\, The Guardian\, Harvard Law and Policy Review\, and others. carrielaseur.com \n  \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, April 2018) and Rough Honey (American Poetry Review\, 2010)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, Best New Poets\, and others. www.melissastein.com \n  \nNancy Tingley has written literary fiction in the closet for decades and has only just come out with the publication of the Jenna Murphy Mysteries. A Head in Cambodia (Swallow Press\, 2017)\, which was nominated for a Lefty Award for best debut mystery\, is the first in the series\, and A Death in Bali (Swallow Press\, March 2018) is the second. www.nancytingley.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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 part 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.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Cosmopolitan Wanderlust: Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod discuss Oliverio Girondo’s Decals
DESCRIPTION:An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others\, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. His first two books demonstrate his cosmopolitan wanderlust and avant-garde aesthetics. Twenty Poems to Be Read on the Streetcar crisscrosses Europe and the Americas on trams\, express trains\, and ocean liners. Decalcomania takes the reader on a tour of Spain that cleverly deflates its romantic appeal\, but reinvigorates it with a glamour found in Girondo’s intensive wordplay and idiosyncratic flare for metaphor. Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod join Silvia Oviedo López to discuss their translation of Decals: Complete Early Poems by Oliverio Girondo. \n\n “Girondo’s poetry is a song to the transgressive imagination\, an assault on routine. . . . Unlike other experimental artists\, his gestures usually transcended mere provocation. His work not only paved the way for a rigorous vanguardia\, with a profound theoretical basis\, but it also took up the quotidian as a field of action\, enriching it with an absurd humor that ties it to a Hispanic tradition that stretches from Quevedo and Gracián to Ramón Gómez de la Serna\, Julio Cortázar\, or Augusto Monterroso. Both shores of the language\, with their intense cultural differences\, are present (and both are parodied) in these poems that are something like scenes of self-criticism.” —Andrés Neuman\n\n“Girondo’s effectiveness undeniably frightens me. I came to his work from the suburbs of my own verse\, from that long line of mine where there are sunsets and little lanes and a blurry girl who looks clear next to a sky-blue balustrade. I saw him as so skillful\, so apt at hopping off a streetcar in full stride\, being reborn safe and sound amid the menace of car horns and stepping away from the passing crowd\, that I felt provincial next to him. . . . Girondo is a violent one. He looks on things at length and suddenly gives them a smack.” —Jorge Luis Borges\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
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LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Flight of Poets: Pairings for the Senses
DESCRIPTION:The best of California art\, poetry\, food\, and wine all come together at our 3rd annual Pairings event. \nMeet Sonoma winemakers\, chefs\, and artists along with our featured “Flight of Poets”: Julia Bouwsma\, Joseph Rios\, Sam Sax and Melissa Stein. Sommelier Chris Sawyer co-hosts with curators Hollie Hardy and Tess Taylor. \nSunday\, December 2\, 2018\nDoors at 5:30pm\nSonoma Valley Museum of Art\n551 Broadway\, Downtown Sonoma \nTickets include wine flight & snacks\n$25 SVMA members\, $35 general public \nThis event usually sells out. Advance tickets recommended:\nhttp://www.svma.org/calendar/events/pairings-senses-art-poetry-food-wine \nFeatured Poet Bios: \nJulia Bouwsma is the author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press\, 2018)\, selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the Poets Out Loud Prize\, and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017)\, which recently received the 2018 Maine Literary Award. She lives and works on an off-the-grid farm in the mountains of western Maine where she serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine. \nJoseph Rios is the author of Shadowboxing: Poems and Impersonations (Omnidawn)\, winner of the Before Columbus American Book Award. In 2016\, his debut poetry collection was chosen by Claudia Rankine as a finalist for Omnidawn’s first book prize. Recent poems published or forthcoming in The Nation\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, Huizache\, and elsewhere. He is a graduate of Fresno City College and the University of California\, Berkeley. He lives in Los Angeles. \nSam Sax is a queer\, jewish\, writer & educator. The author of Madness (Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems in BuzzFeed\, The Nation\, The New York Times\, + other journals. He’s a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow from the Poetry Foundation and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently sam’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press. \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she’s received awards and fellowships from the NEA\, Pushcart Prize\, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell Colony\, among others. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flight-of-poets-pairings-for-the-senses/
LOCATION:Sonoma Valley Museum of Art\, 551 Broadway\, Sonoma\, 95476\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Peter LaBerge & Rebecca Foust Falkirk Center
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, the Marin County Poet Laureate\, is the author of four books of poetry: Paradise Drive (2015)\, which won a Poetry Society of Virginia Book Award\, a National Indie Excellence Award for Poetry\, a San Francisco Book Festival Award for Poetry\, and a Royal Dragonfly Award for Poetry; All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of a Many Mountains Moving Press Book Prize; and God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (2010)\, a collaboration with artist Lorna Stevens that won a Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award for Poetry. Foust’s chapbooks include Mom’s Canoe (2009) and Dark Card (2008). Foust has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Frost Place\, where she was the 2014 Dartmouth poet-in-residence. She is on the board of the Marin Poetry Center\, a reader for the Northern California Book Award\, and assistant editor of fiction for Narrative magazine. She is an autism activist and a grassroots organizer. \nPeter LaBerge is the author of the chapbooks Makeshift Cathedral (YesYes Books\, 2017) and Hook (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2015). His recent work appears in Best New Poets\, Crazyhorse\, Harvard Review\, Iowa Review\, Pleiades\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal\, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the Bucknell University Stadler Center for Poetry. He lives in Redwood City\, California\, where he works as a content marketer.
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LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Authors from Nothing Short of 100\, with Special Guest R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on November 8\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when authors from the anthology Nothing Short of 100 will read\, along with very special guest R.O. Kwon. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. \nNOTHING SHORT OF presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. Published by Outpost 19 in April 2018\, in these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. These 100-word stories are authored by some of the best microfiction story writers around\, including WTAW’s own Peg Alford Pursell\, and the following readers. \nKaren Benke is the author of several creative writing adventure books from Shambhala Publications\, including Write Back Soon! Adventures in Letter Writing (2015). Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Rattle\, West Marin Review\, The Bark\, Poetry Daily\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her teenage son and leads writing workshops for children at Book Passage Bookstore and from The Writers Nest\, located in a converted lumber mill\, circa 1892. \nAndrew O. Dugas’ work has appeared in Unlikely Stories\, 100 Word Story\, Mayfly\, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. He recently snail-mailed 1\,001 original hand-inscribed haiku postcards to as many randomly selected recipients. Maybe you got one? \nJane McDermott is the 2014 Michael Rubin book award winner for her collection of microfiction Look Busy: One hundred 100-word stories by and for the easily distracted (14 Hills\, 2014). Her fiction can be found in Foglifter\, 100 Word Story\, Weirderary\, Reflex Fiction\, Reunion: The Dallas Review\, Red Light Lit\, and others. She earned an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, cats\, chickens\, and bees. \nLynn Mundell‘s writing has appeared in The Sun\, Booth\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Tin House online\, and elsewhere. Her story “The Old Days\,” originally published in Five Points (2018)\, is included in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (August 2018). Her work has been recognized on the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions long lists of 2017 and 2018. She is co-editor of 100 Word Story and its anthology Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story (Outpost19\, April 2018). \nCornelia Nixon’s fourth novel\, The Use of Fame\, is out in hardcover from Counterpoint Press (2017). She is also the author of Jarrettsville (Counterpoint\, 2009)\, Angels Go Naked (Counterpoint\, 2000)\, Now You See It (Perennial\, 1992)\, and a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards (one of them the First Prize in 1995)\, two Pushcart Prizes\, a Nelson Algren Prize\, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley\, California\, and half on an island in Puget Sound\, Washington. \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST:R.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was published in July 2018 by Riverhead (U.S.). Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-authors-from-nothing-short-of-100-with-special-guest-r-o-kwon/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass and Essy Stone Mill Valley Library
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Poetry Society of America and the Mill Valley Library. This is sure to be a packed event\, so register on the Mill Valley Library website starting on October 15. \n \nRobert Hass\, former United States Poet Laureate\, has illumined the poetic landscape with his many books of poetry\, translation\, and essays. His honors include the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. His celebrated books of essays include A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry and What Light Can Do: Essays on Art\, Imagination\, and the Natural World\, the recipient of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Hass translated many of the works of Czeslaw Milosz\, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer; The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His many honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (twice)\, and the Wallace Stevens Award. His poetry is deeply reflective of the California landscape\, domestic life\, and spiritual awareness. To hear him read or speak is transformative\, whether a Haiku from Issa\, a mediation from Miłosz\, or his own lyric work. \n\n\n\n\nEssy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami\, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, 32 Poems\, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book\, What It Done to Us\, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. For much of her life she supported herself as a waitress. Her work reflects the East Tennessee culture in which she grew up\, an often oppressive world\, especially for women or minorities. The freshness of her language and imagery reflect and transform that environment just as she has transformed herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-essy-stone-mill-valley-library/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:From the Ice Age to the present\, from Nigeria to Hawaii\, images of the Goddess are reemerging\, bringing renewed attention and expression to mythical and spiritual inner and outer guides. The Heart of the Goddess presents a worldwide selection of the art\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. To author Hallie Iglehart Austen\, respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long lost power of Woman are inseparable. Through the presence of the Goddess in daily life\, the reader finds wisdom\, serenity\, and guidance. The Heart of the Goddess is an invaluable addition to the literature of feminist spirituality. \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back over the course of a year. is journey\, described in her book Womanspirit: A Guide to Women’s Wisdom (HarperCollins\, 1983)\, led to her synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she has been teaching since 1974. She has led workshops\, rituals\, and conferences at the University of California\, United Nations Conferences on Women\, the Graduate Theological Union\, and other venues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Marc Dollinger: Black Power\, Jewish Politics
DESCRIPTION:The Osher Marin JCC is pleased to host an evening in celebration of Marc Dollinger’s new book Black Power\, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s. He will be joined in discussion by Ilana Kaufman\, the Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. \nAn audience Q&A and book signing will follow the program. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nMarc Dollinger charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. He shows how\, in a period best known for the rise of black antisemitism and the breakdown of the black-Jewish alliance\, black nationalists enabled Jewish activists to devise a new Judeo-centered political agenda-including the emancipation of Soviet Jews\, the rise of Jewish day schools\, the revitalization of worship services with gender-inclusive liturgy\, and the birth of a new form of American Zionism. \nUndermining widely held beliefs about the black-Jewish alliance\, Dollinger describes a new political consensus\, based on identity politics\, which drew blacks and Jews together and altered the course of American liberalism. \n“Dollinger’s illuminating book illustrates that many American Jewish leaders were not only sympathetic to Black Power but were supportive of it. Dollinger shows that the American Jewish turn toward issues of Jewish continuity owes a great debt to the Black Power movement and that Jewish leaders understood that early on. This book will significantly change how we view the American Jewish 1960s and their aftermath.”\n-Shaul Magid\, Indiana University\, Bloomington and Shalom Hartman Institute of North America \nFree\, RSVP by emailing rsvp_cjp@marinjcc.org. \nPresented by Osher Marin JCC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-dollinger-black-power-jewish-politics/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Miller & Carol Moldaw
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Miller is a poet and painter living in San Francisco. Route 66 and Its Sorrows\, her most recent book of poetry\, was published by Terrapin Books in 2017. Two other full-length collections\, Light\, Moving (2009) and After Cocteau (2002)\, were published by Sixteen Rivers Press. Miller’s work has appeared The Georgia Review\, The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and The Gettysburg Review\, among other journals\, and her awards include the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah and the Rainmaker Award from Zone 3. \n \n\n\n\n\n\nCarol Moldaw is the author of Beauty Refracted\, a poetry collection (Four Way Books 2018); The Widening\, a short novel; The Lightning Field\, which won The FIELD Prize; and a chapbook\, Through the Window\, published as Pencereden in Istanbul\, in a bi-lingual Turkish-English edition. Moldaw is the recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a Lannan Foundation Marfa Writer’s Residency. Her book So Late\, So Soon: New and Selected Poems\, was shortlisted for the PEN Southwest Book Award (2011). Moldaw grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. Moldaw has been on the faculty of the Stonecoast low-residency M.F.A. program\,and has conducted residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, taught at the College of Santa Fe and in the MFA program at Naropa University and Bucknell’s Stadler Center for Poetry. In the spring of 2011 she served as the Louis D. Rubin\, Jr.\, Writer-in-Residence at Hollins University. Moldaw teaches privately and lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-miller-carol-moldaw/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents a Special Celebration: WTAW Press Book Launch with Very Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on October 11\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a special celebration when our WTAW Press authors Sarah Stone and Angela Mitchell will read from their brand new books\, as part of a spectacular line up of authors\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras\, Lisa Locascio\, Louise Marburg\, Natalie Singer\, and Terese Svoboda. \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. The celebration will include cake\, delectable treats\, and adult beverages. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday\, July 2018). Her essays and short stories have appeared in Nylon\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. Born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia\, she currently teaches writing to immigrant high school students as part of a San Francisco Arts Commission initiative bringing artists into public schools. She is the book columnist for KQED. \nLisa Locascio‘s work has appeared in n+1\, Tin House\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading. She is co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of 7x7LA\, as well as of the anthology Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California (Outpost 19\, 2017). Her first novel\, Open Me\, was published in August 2018 by Grove Atlantic. \nLouise Marburg is the author of the award-winning The Truth About Me: Stories (WTAW Press\, 2017). Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares\, Narrative Magazine\, Chicago Quarterly Review\, and many other fine journals. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University’s School of the Arts\, and lives in New York City with her husband\, the artist Charles Marburg. \nAngela Mitchell’s stories have appeared in Colorado Review\, New South\, Carve\, Midwestern Gothic\, storySouth\, Natural Bridge\, and other journals. Her story\, “Animal Lovers\,” was awarded Colorado Review’s Nelligan Prize for Short Fiction and was given special mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXV and noted as a distinguished story in the inaugural issue of New Stories from the Midwest. She holds degrees from the University of New Orleans\, University of Arkansas\, and University of Missouri-St. Louis\, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing\, and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar. She is an eighth generation native of southern Missouri\, where she maintains a small farm on her family’s land\, and resides in St. Louis with her husband and sons.  Unnatural Habitats is her first book\, published by WTAW Press (October 10\, 2018). \nNatalie Singer is the author of the memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation (Hawthorne Books\, March 2018). Her writing has been published in The Rumpus\, Proximity; Hypertext; Literary Mama; The Washington Post; Alligator Juniper; Brain\, Child; Largehearted Boy; The Nervous Breakdown; Full Grown People; and the 2015 anthology Love and Profanity (Switch Press\, 2015). She has been the recipient of several awards\, including the Pacific Northwest Writers Association nonfiction prize and the Alligator Juniper nonfiction prize.  California Calling was first runner-up for the Red Hen Press nonfiction prize and a finalist for the Autumn House Press nonfiction prize. She has taught writing inside Washington State’s psychiatric facility for youth and Seattle’s juvenile detention center\, and has worked as a journalist at newspapers around the West. She holds an MFA in creative writing and poetics from the University of Washington. Originally from Montreal\, she lives in Seattle. \nSarah Stone’s latest book is Hungry Ghost Theater: A Novel\, forthcoming from WTAW Press October 10\, 2018. Her novel The True Sources of the Nile (Doubleday\, 2002) has been taught in courses on literature\, ethics\, and the rhetoric of human rights. The novel was a BookSense 76 selection\, has been translated into German and Dutch\, and was included in Geoff Wisner’s A Basket of Leaves: 99 Books That Capture the Spirit of Africa (Jacana Media\, 2008). She’s the co-author\, with her spouse and writing partner Ron Nyren\, of the textbook Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers (Pearson\, 2004). Her stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in Ploughshares; StoryQuarterly; The Believer; The Millions; The Writer’s Chronicle; Dedicated to the People of Darfur: Writings on Fear\, Risk\, and Hope (Rutgers University Press\, 2009); and A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on Their Craft (Trinity University Press\, 2011)\, among other places. She teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. \nTerese Svoboda\, a Guggenheim fellow\, is the author of 18 books\, including seven books of poetry. Among her recent works are Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet (Schaffner Press\, Inc.\, 2016) and Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship (Eyewear Publishing\, 2016). Her collection of stories\, Great American Desert will be published in 2019. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction\, the Iowa Prize for poetry\, an NEH grant for translation\, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize\, a Jerome Foundation prize for video\, the O. Henry Award for the short story\, a Bobst prize for the novel\, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three-time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship\, and has been awarded Headlands\, James Merrill\, Hawthornden\, Yaddo\, McDowell\, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall in 2005. Her collection of stories\, Great American Desert will be published in 2019. Her visit to the Bay Area by is made possible in part by Headlands Center for the Arts. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-a-special-celebration-wtaw-press-book-launch-with-very-special-guests/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181020T170000
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SUMMARY:Litquake 2018
DESCRIPTION:Full schedule is here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-2018/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay,San Francisco,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181002T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181002T210000
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass and Essy Stone
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Poetry Society of America and the Mill Valley Library. This is sure to be a packed event\, so register on the Mill Valley Library website starting on October 15. \n \nRobert Hass\, former United States Poet Laureate\, has illumined the poetic landscape with his many books of poetry\, translation\, and essays. His honors include the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. His celebrated books of essays include A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry and What Light Can Do: Essays on Art\, Imagination\, and the Natural World\, the recipient of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Hass translated many of the works of Czeslaw Milosz\, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer; The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His many honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (twice)\, and the Wallace Stevens Award. His poetry is deeply reflective of the California landscape\, domestic life\, and spiritual awareness. To hear him read or speak is transformative\, whether a Haiku from Issa\, a mediation from Miłosz\, or his own lyric work. \n\n\n\n\nEssy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami\, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, 32 Poems\, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book\, What It Done to Us\, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. For much of her life she supported herself as a waitress. Her work reflects the East Tennessee culture in which she grew up\, an often oppressive world\, especially for women or minorities. The freshness of her language and imagery reflect and transform that environment just as she has transformed herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-essy-stone/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180920T210000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center 2018 Anthology Launch Thursday\, September 20\, 7pm
DESCRIPTION:The annual event to launch the Marin Poetry Center is always popular. Come join us to start the Marin Poetry Center fall season and read and hear selections from this unique anthology. This is an evening of reconnecting with other members\, having a glass of wine\, and celebrating our unique anthology. \nWe will also let you know about exciting new events\, partnerships\, and venues for our Spring Season. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-2018-anthology-launch-thursday-september-20-7pm/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180916T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180916T180000
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SUMMARY:poetry in parks 2018 @ samuel p. taylor state park
DESCRIPTION:sunday\, sept 16\n \n12pm potluck\, 2pm readings\n  \nJoin us for an afternoon of readings in the redwoods! \ncurated by Chris Cole\, Evan Karp\, and Scott Green \nfree\, all-ages show \nall the authors are paid \nthe first 100 people receive a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 95 \n  \nThanks so much to everyone who sent in writing!!! \n  \nWe received 71 submissions and will announce the selected authors by Wed\, 8/22. \n  \nCheck out those trees!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180913T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180913T213000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Sausalito Presents: A Collaboration with Black Lawrence Press
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito September 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 when the following five authors from Black Lawrence Press will read\, along with special guest Nona Caspers. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15\, $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. \nNona Caspers recently released a novel-in-stories\, The Fifth Woman (Sarabande Press\, August 2018)\, which was honored with the Mary McCarthy award from Sarabande Press. Earlier books include Little Book of Days (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009) and Heavier than Air (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2006)\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a NYTBR Editors’ Choice. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, and The Sun. In 2014\, she co-edited with Joell Hallowell Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century (Triton Books). Other awards include a NEA fellowship\, San Francisco Cultural Equity Grant\, and LAMBDA nomination. She is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. \nScott Shibuya Brown is the author of the novels The Traders (Black Lawrence Press\, 2017)\, named a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize for Fiction\, and Far Afield (Red Hen Press\, 2010)\, and is a former staff journalist at Time Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His reporting\, reviews\, and photos also have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, The Kartika Review\, and The LA Weekly\, among other publications. He has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and currently teaches at California State University\, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on a novel set in 1950s Japan. \nJacqueline Doyle‘s award-winning flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl was published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2017. Her essays\, stories\, and flash have appeared in The Gettysburg Review\, Post Road\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Pinch\, and Wigleaf.  Her work has earned numerous Pushcart nominations\, Best of the Net nominations\, finalist listings in Best Small Fictions\, and notable essay listings in Best American Essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she is a professor of English at California State University\, East Bay. \n  \n  \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days (Truman State University Press\, 2010)\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn\, 2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. His most recent projects\, all published in 2017\, include Suture\, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press)\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. \nSarah Suzor’s first full-length poetry collection\, The Principle Agent (Black Lawrence Press\, 2011)\, won the 2010 BLP Hudson Prize. Her second full-length collection\, After the Fox\, is a collaboration between Suzor and Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press\, 2014). Her poetry\, interviews\, and book reviews have been published and anthologized in a range of literary journals. She is the founder and owner of INK\, LLC\, a company that has successfully helped other writers complete their manuscripts and publish their books. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister (Black Lawrence Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from BLP. Twister was shortlisted for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. Her other work has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader\, Spry\, BLOOM\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs and is at work on another novel. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-presents-a-collaboration-with-black-lawrence-press/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:WHY THERE ARE WORDS – SAUSALITO COLLABORATES WITH BLP
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito September 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 when the following five authors from Black Lawrence Press will read\, along with special guest Nona Caspers. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15\, $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. \nNona Caspers recently released a novel-in-stories\, The Fifth Woman(Sarabande Press\, August 2018)\, which was honored with the Mary McCarthy award from Sarabande Press. Earlier books include Little Book of Days (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009) and Heavier than Air (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2006)\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a NYTBR Editors’ Choice. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, and The Sun. In 2014\, she co-edited with Joell Hallowell Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century (Triton Books). Other awards include a NEA fellowship\, San Francisco Cultural Equity Grant\, and LAMBDA nomination. She is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. \nScott Shibuya Brown is the author of the novels The Traders (Black Lawrence Press\, 2017)\, named a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize for Fiction\, and Far Afield (Red Hen Press\, 2010)\, and is a former staff journalist at Time Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His reporting\, reviews\, and photos also have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, The Kartika Review\,and The LA Weekly\, among other publications. He has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and currently teaches at California State University\, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on a novel set in 1950s Japan. \nJacqueline Doyle‘s award-winning flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl was published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2017. Her essays\, stories\, and flash have appeared in The Gettysburg Review\, Post Road\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Pinch\, and Wigleaf.  Her work has earned numerous Pushcart nominations\, Best of the Net nominations\, finalist listings in Best Small Fictions\, and notable essay listings in Best American Essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she is a professor of English at California State University\, East Bay. \n  \n \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days (Truman State University Press\, 2010)\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn\, 2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. His most recent projects\, all published in 2017\, include Suture\, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press)\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. \nSarah Suzor’s first full-length poetry collection\, The Principle Agent(Black Lawrence Press\, 2011)\, won the 2010 BLP Hudson Prize. Her second full-length collection\, After the Fox\, is a collaboration between Suzor and Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press\, 2014). Her poetry\, interviews\, and book reviews have been published and anthologized in a range of literary journals. She is the founder and owner of INK\, LLC\, a company that has successfully helped other writers complete their manuscripts and publish their books. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister (Black Lawrence Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from BLP. Twister was shortlisted for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. Her other work has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader\, Spry\, BLOOM\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs and is at work on another novel. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-collaborates-with-blp/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia St.\, Sausalito\, 94965
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Vallejo Poetry Showcase @ Unity Day
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Unity Day in Vallejo will feature performances by ten local poets: Vallejo Poet Laureate D.L. Lang\, Nina Serrano\, Aqueila Lewis\, Ja Hicks\, Lady D\, Erika Snyder\, Jeff Williams\, Regina Sparrow\, and Amber Von Nagel. \nThere will also be a booth where visitors can contribute lines of poetry to a giant notebook. \nUnity Day is a celebration of Vallejo’s cultural diversity. All are welcome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vallejo-poetry-showcase-unity-day/
LOCATION:Vallejo City Park\, 425 Alabama Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Author Panel Discussion moderated by Michael Krasny
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 7th | 7pm – Main Reading Room \nFour to five esteemed Bay Area authors and booksellers debate the merits of the 100 Books list; delving into their personal favorites and connections to books from the list\, as well as books which were left out that they feel should have been included. \nKQED’s Michael Krasny will moderate the panel. \nAdults and high school students only. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens August 20th. \nWhen:Friday\, September 7\, 2018 \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-author-panel-discussion-moderated-by-michael-krasny/
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 Sausalito Presents: Back from Vacation
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on August 9\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when the following seven acclaimed authors read from their works to welcome us “Back from Vacation!” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15\, $10 entry fee at the door (cash or check made payable to Studio 333). Cash bar. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street. \nMathieu Cailler’s poetry and prose have been widely featured in numerous national and international publications\, including the Los Angeles Times and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he is the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry. He is the author of Clotheslines (Red Bird Press\, 2014)\, Shhh (ELJ Publications\, 2014)\, and Loss Angeles (Short Story America Press\, 2015)\, which has been honored by the Hollywood\, New York\, London\, Paris\, Best Book\, and International Book Awards. His newest book\, May I Have This Dance? (About Editions\, 2017)\, was recently named poetry winner of the New England Book Festival. \nGeraldine Connolly is the author of a chapbook and four poetry collections\, including the recently published Aileron (Terrapin Books\, March 2018). Her work has appeared in Poetry\, Shenandoah\, The Gettysburg Review\, and The Cortland Review. She has taught at the Writers Center in Bethesda\, Maryland\, The Chautauqua Institution\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center\, and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Maryland Arts Council\, the Breadloaf Writers Conference\, and the Cafritz Foundation. She lives in Tucson\, Arizona. \nYang Huang grew up in China’s Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her linked family story collection\, My Old Faithful (University of Massachusetts Press\, February 2018)\, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel\, Living Treasures (Harvard Square Editions\, 2014)\, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Poets & Writers\, The Margins\, Eleven Eleven\, Asian Pacific American Journal\, the Evansville Review\, and others. She lives in the Bay Area and works for the University of California\, Berkeley. \nAudrey Kalman writes literary fiction with a dark edge\, often about what goes awry when human connection is missing from our lives. She is the author of two novels—What Remains Unsaid (Sand Hill Review Press 2017) and Dance of Souls (CreateSpace\, 2011)—and a book of short stories\, Tiny Shoes Dancing (Terrella Media\, August 2018). She lives in northern California and is working on another novel. \nSusanna Solomon is the author of Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls\, (HD Media Press Inc.\, 2013) and More Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls (Lucky Bat Books\, 2016). Her stories have been published in the Literary Review\, the Point Reyes Light\, and online in the Mill Valley Literary Reviewand Harlot’s Sauce Radio. She’s run her own an electrical engineering business for eighteen years. Her latest book\, Montana Rhapsody (She Writes Press\, July 2018)\, is about a pole dancer\, a farmer\, and a river. \nValerie Wallace’s debut poetry collection House of McQueen (Four Way Books\, March 2018) was chosen by Vievee Francis for the Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry. In their starred review Publishers Weekly said that Wallace created “…a literary seance…serving as a scholar of and medium for the late iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen….” Her work was chosen by Margaret Atwood for the 2012 Atty Award\, and she has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the San Miguel de Allende Writers Conference Award in Poetry. Earning her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, she is Associate Director of Communications for the project Virtue\, Happiness\, & the Meaning of Life at the University of Chicago\, and teaches courses and workshops throughout the Chicago area. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including Cimarron Review\, Poetry International\, Fanzine\, The Fabulist\, and others. Her poetry chapbook Score and Bone (2016) was published by Nomadic Press\, and her full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (May 2018) was recently published by Manic D Press. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. She often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers\, and a collaborative book with paintings by artist Mark Dutcher\, Ruins of a glittering palace\, was published by SPA/Commonwealth Projects in 2013. Along with composer and musician\, Amanda Chaudhary\, she is part of musical duo Pitta of the Mind that combines poetry with abstract electronic music. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-presents-back-from-vacation/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Joel Richard Paul - Defending the Constitution
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 3rd · 7:00pm \nFrom 1801-1835\, Chief Justice John Marshall defined our Constitution and established the Supreme Court’s authority to hold the President and Congress accountable. \nJoel Richard Paul\, author of Without Precedent\, argues that we are facing a constitutional crisis\, making it worth reflecting on Marshall’s pragmatic genius for forging compromise in defense of the rule of law. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens July 16th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, August 3\, 2018 \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\, After Hours \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-joel-richard-paul-defending-the-constitution/
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:#PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: Napa Valley Writers’ Conference with Brenda Hillman & Lan Samantha Chang
DESCRIPTION:The Napa Valley Writers’ Conference offers book-lovers and writers in the Napa Valley and North San Francisco Bay Area a wonderful opportunity to hear readings and lectures by world-class authors of poetry and fiction. On Wednesday\, August 1\, 6 p.m.\, join Brenda Hillman and Lan Samantha Chang at the Robert Mondavi Winery. \nAdmission to this evening reading is $20 and includes a wine reception prior to the presentation. Students with ID are admitted for free\, as are community housing hosts and conference participants. \nThe Napa Valley Writers’ Conference offers book-lovers and writers in the Napa Valley and North San Francisco Bay Area a wonderful opportunity to hear readings and lectures by world-class authors of poetry and fiction. On Wednesday\, August 1\, 6 p.m.\, join Brenda Hillman and Lan Samantha Chang at the Robert Mondavi Winery. \nAdmission to this evening reading is $20 and includes a wine reception prior to the presentation. Students with ID are admitted for free\, as are community housing hosts and conference participants.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetrynearyou-pick-of-the-week-napa-valley-writers-conference-with-brenda-hillman-lan-samantha-chang/
LOCATION:Robert Mondavi Winery\, 7801 St Helena Hwy\, Oakville\, CA\, 94562\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Napa Valley Writers’ Conference: Carl Phillips and Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Napa Valley Writers’ Conference: Carl Phillips and Lauren Groff\n\n\n\ndate\n\n\n\n\n\nJul 31 2018\nNapa Valley Writers’ Conference: Carl Phillips and Lauren Groff\n\nThe conference offers book-lovers and writers in the Napa Valley and North San Francisco Bay Area a wonderful opportunity to hear readings and lectures by world-class authors of poetry and fiction. \nAdmission to evening readings is $20 and includes a wine reception prior to the presentation. Students with ID are admitted for free\, as are community housing hosts and conference participants. \nTuesday\, July 31 – Carl Phillips and Lauren Groff. Reception at 6 p.m.\, reading at 6:30 p.m. \nlearn more \nAdmission fee: $20.00\nContact: info@napawritersconference.org\n\n6:30pm\n\n\n\nPine Ridge Vineyards \n5901 Silverado Trl\n94558 Napa\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/napa-valley-writers-conference-carl-phillips-and-lauren-groff/
LOCATION:Pine Ridge Vineyards\, 5901 Silverado Trl\, Napa\, CA\, 94558\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning presents Poetry in Parks 2018 @ Samuel P. Taylor State Park
DESCRIPTION:Read/perform with Quiet Lightning on September 16th — all forms of writing are accepted\, and all selected writers are paid! This show is our annual collaboration with California State Parks\, Poetry in Parks\, and will take place at Samuel P. Taylor State Park! \nSubmissions are open through end of day Wednesday\, August 15. Curators TBA soon. \nEntry to this show is free. The first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Authors will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \n*** \nGUIDELINES: \n\nSend us any kind of writing. Any kind! Make up new kinds and send them to us.\nNo one gets more than 8 minutes of reading time. This varies of course but don’t send us more than 1\,500 words unless you’ve timed the piece(s) multiple times and your speedy performance of the text somehow enhances it. We sometimes make an exception to this rule\, but rarely.\nYou may submit more than one attachment\, but the word count of your entire submission should not exceed 1\,500.\nBy submitting\, you commit to be present for the date: Sunday Sept 16\, 2018.\nDo not put your name anywhere — neither in the submission itself nor in the subject/title/filename of your submission.\nWe publish the accepted submissions in sparkle + blink for every mixtape show. It’s OK to submit previously published writings\, but please let us know where they were published so we can give props.\nYou may submit audio\, but all submissions must include full text.\nWe welcome and encourage submissions in any and all languages\, but all submissions must also contain an English translation.\n\n—\nDon’t hesitate to contact us for any reason: evan@quietlightning.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-presents-poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling Show
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Meryl Natchez\, readers include Linda Lancione\, Patricia McCaron\,\nJanis Seagrave\, Doreen Stock\, and Elizabeth Underwood\nHear local poets read their poems!\nReaders and Host TBA\nClick here for more information about the Marin Poetry Center. \n\nFREE – Donations accepted
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-summer-traveling-show-2/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:WHY THERE ARE WORDS PRESENTS 7 ACCLAIMED AUTHORS
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on July 12\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when seven acclaimed authors take the stage to present their works. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door (cash or check made payable to Studio 333). Cash bar. Studio 333 is located at 333 Caledonia Street. \nMari Coates holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and has published her stories in small literary journals. She is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, where she developed and completed her first novel\, now titled The Pelton Papers. She very much loved being part of the inaugural Why There Are Words and is happy to be back. She lives in San Francisco\, where\, before embarking on fiction writing\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. \nHelen Fremont’s memoir After Long Silence (Delta\, 2000) was a national bestseller\, and a Featured Alternate of the Book-of-the-Month Club.  Her works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies\, including The O. Henry Awards\, Ploughshares\, and The Harvard Review. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, she was a teaching Fellow at Bread Loaf in 1999\, and a teaching Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute in 2001. From 1999 to 2008 she was a Scholar in the Women’s Studies Research Center Scholars Program at Brandeis University. She lives in Boston with her wife and works as a public defender. \nMarjorie Hudson is the author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (Press 53\, 2011)\, a short story collection that received a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for Distinguished First Fiction. She is also author of Searching for Virginia Dare (Press 53\, 2007)\, a Blue Highways exploration of the fate of the first English child born in America. Her essay “Dear Joni” will be published in June 2018 in the anthology Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives\, from McFarland & Co. She has received fellowships from the Hemingway Foundation\, the Ucross Foundation\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and Hedgebrook Retreat for Women Writers. She teaches creative writing through her own Kitchen Table Workshops\, and she has just completed an epic novel about a mythical field in the rural South. \nNancy Koerbel’s poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Redactions\, One\, and The Pittsburgh Poetry Review. A former recipient of a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, she lives in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, where she teaches legal and business writing\, works as a copyeditor for a large tech company\, and coordinates the Pittsburgh branch of Why There are Words. \nKaren Llagas’s first collection of poetry\, Archipelago Dust\, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a Hedgebrook Residency and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, she lives in San Francisco and works as a freelance translator & lecturer at UC Berkeley. \nAlison Moore is the author of four books\, Riders on the Orphan Train (Roadworthy Press\, 2012) completed through a fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts\, a collection of short stories entitled The Middle of Elsewhere (University of Arkansas Press\, 2006)\, a novel\, Synonym for Love (Penguin/Plume\, 1996)\, and a collection of short stories\, Small Spaces between Emergencies (Mercury House\, 1993)\, one of the Notable Books of 1993 chosen by The American Library Association. She is the Coordinator for Why There Are Words-Austin\, and lives in Austin\, Texas\, when she’s not on the road. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and a former Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona\, she has developed educational outreach programs for the National Orphan Train Museum\, and for ArtsReach\, a Native American literacy project in Southern Arizona. Since 1999\, after leaving a tenure-track job\, she has been an itinerant performer with singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster. Together\, they perform a multi-media program called Riders on the Orphan Train in museums and libraries in the West. \nAmelie Prusik is the author of the novel Light Sister\, Dark Sister(Random House\, 1994) and has published short fiction in The North American Review\, America West\, Bosque\, Lantern Journal\, and The Copenhagen Review. Her chapbook\, Octavia Street was published in 2017 by WTAW Press. Her poetry has appeared in Antaeus and Intro 8. A graduate of the Warren Wilson Program For Writers\, she and teaches at DePaul University in Chicago. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\,now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. 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\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-7-acclaimed-authors/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Celebrates FIVE Years!
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate FIVE YEARS of literary fun at our July Get Lit with Melissa Eleftherion\, Manjula Martin & Hilary Zaid on Thursday\, July 12; 7pm at Aqus Café in Petaluma \nSomething different for this event: we won’t have our traditional open mic this time around. Instead\, we’ve invited some alumni readers to share a few short readings in lieu of the regular open mic.\nWe also have a ukulele band performing a few songs for us! \nPlease come out\, support our readers\, Aqus Café\, our musicians and our fun community at this FREE event. \n~~~~~\n+ Melissa Eleftherion is a writer\, librarian\, and a visual artist. She grew up in Brooklyn\, dropped out of high school\, and went on to earn an MFA in Poetry from Mills College and an MLIS from San Jose State University. She is the author of field guide to autobiography (The Operating System\, 2018)\, & six chapbooks: huminsect (dancing girl press\, 2013)\, prism maps (Dusie\, 2014)\, Pigtail Duty (dancing girl press\, 2015)\, the leaves the leaves (poems-for-all\, 2017)\, green glass asterisms (poems-for-all\, 2017) & little ditch (above/ground press\, 2018). Founder of the Poetry Center Chapbook Exchange for San Francisco State University\, Melissa now lives in Mendocino County where she manages the Ukiah Library\, teaches creative writing\, & curates the LOBA Reading Series. Recent work is available at www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com. \n+ Manjula Martin is editor of the anthology Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living (Simon & Schuster\, 2017). She is managing editor of Zoetrope: All-Story and her writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review\, Pacific Standard\, Aeon Magazine\, Hazlitt Magazine\, and The Awl. She lives in San Francisco and Camp Meeker. \n+ A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Hilary Zaid is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review. She is the author of a novel\, PAPER IS WHITE. Alexander Chee\, author of Queen of the Night and How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, says: “Written across histories as seemingly varied as Lithuania’s Jewish Kovno Ghetto and Queer Nation San Francisco\, Paper Is White connects them in a very different sort of adventure novel\, where remembering someone you love becomes one of the most radical things you can do. Zaid is fierce\, a rebel with a cause\, and her breathtaking leaps of imagination make new worlds possible.” \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a FREE quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-celebrates-five-years/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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