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SUMMARY:After Hours: Jeff Goodell - The Water Will Come
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 22nd · 7:00pm \nJeff Goodell\, author of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas\, Sinking Cities\, and the Remaking of the Civilized World\, has traveled across 12 countries to interview scientists and leaders about climate change. He will present his findings and report how climate change and sea level rise are affecting major cities\, coastal villages\, island nations and the military. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens June 4th. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 22\, 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
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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 BODY LANGUAGE
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on June 14\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Body Language.” 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 \nKelly Alsup\, a graduate of the University of Oregon and Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School\, works from coastal California where she gardens\, teaches\, dances\, swims\, and sings. Born in California and raised in Nebraska\, her writing can be found in The Axe Factory\, Bombay Gin\, Buddhist Poetry Review\, and Inverness Almanac. She celebrates publication of her first chapbook\, When If Ever Alive\, from Finishing Line Press in 2018. \nLucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of six novels\, including the just-released The Evolution of Love (Rare Bird Books\, May 2018) and A Thin Bright Line (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2016). Her fiction has won a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, an American Library Association Stonewall Award\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, a Pushcart nomination\, a Yaddo Fellowship\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. Her story collection\, Lava Falls\, is forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press this fall 2018. She lives in the Bay Area where she spends as much time as possible kayaking in the bay\, as well as hiking and cycling in the hills. \nJane Rosenberg LaForge is a poet and author of two full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks; an experimental memoir; and a new novel\, The Hawkman: A Fairy Tale of the Great War from Amberjack Publishing (June 2018). The Hawkman has been named a book to watch by Publisher’s Lunch BuzzBooks 2018. Her memoir\, An Unsuitable Princess: A True Fantasy/A Fantastical Memoir (Jaded Ibis Press\, 2014)\, received an honorable mention for the best books of the (Jewish) year 5774 in HEEB magazine. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, a storySouth Million Writers Award\, and the Best of the Net collection. \nJan Reid spent much of his early career writing wide-ranging nonfiction for publications that include Texas Monthly\, Esquire\, New York Times Magazine\, Men’s Journal\, and Slate. His non-fiction books include The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (University of Texas Press\, 2004)\, for more than forty years held to be a classic portrayal of the Austin-based music boom; Let the People In (University of Texas Press\, 2013)\, his widely praised biography of the late Texas governor Ann Richards; and his own favorite\, The Bullet Meant for Me (University of Texas Press\, 2005)\, a memoir that questions ingrained masculine values and relates a dire confrontation in Mexico and his recovery from it. In recent years he has returned to his first love\, fiction. His second novel\, Comanche Sundown (Texas Christian University Press\, 2010)\, won a best fiction award from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2010\, an honor that puts him in company with previous honorees Cormac McCarthy and Katherine Ann Porter. His writing has been anthologized in many collections\, and his honors include the career achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, a creative nonfiction award from PEN Southwest\, and a research and travel grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The latter spawned the book he considers his best\, his third novel\, Sins of the Younger Sons (TCU Press\, 2017)\, a love story and thriller that plunges an American agent inside dangerous intrigues in South America and the Basque separatist insurgency in Spain. \nJenn Scott‘s debut collection of stories\, Her Adult Life\, was just published this year by Acre Books. Her stories have appeared in such places as Gettysburg Review\, Santa Monica Review\, Cincinnati Review\, Gulf Coast\, Los Angeles Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and Fiction. She lives and writes and eats and drinks in Oakland with four cats and a husband. Currently\, she is revising a novel spanning nearly eighty years in that city’s Rockridge district. \n \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015 by Truth Serum Press. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards\, two stories that are included in his new collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies(Deeds Publishing\, 2018). During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market (John Wiley & Sons Inc\, 1981)\, Managing Risk with Derivatives (American Bankers Association\, 1996)\, and Managing Lease Portfolios (Wiley\, 2005). He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. \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-body-language/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
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LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Summer Traveling show
DESCRIPTION:First reading of the season! This year we are offering a showcase of our own board members in a Cavalcade of Marin Poetry Center Board Member Stars: Sandy Cross\, Susan Gunter\, Roy Mash and Meryl Natchez\, hosted by Siân Killingsworth.
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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:Naked Truth: real. stories. live
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 1st · 7:00pm \nWhether stories are hilarious\, poignant\, suspenseful\, or heartwarming\, the one thing you can count on is that our next edition of Naked Truth will be a fantastic night of true\, live storytelling. Josh Healey will emcee and tell a story along with Adam Mansbach\, Richard Sarvate\, and Judi Le.\nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdults and high school students only. Wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests.\n\nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, June 1\, 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/naked-truth-real-stories-live/
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:William Brewer reads poems about addiction Mill Valley Library Cosponsored by Marin Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:These moving and dramatic poems tackle the pain of the opioid addiction in West Virginia\, how it affects family\, addicts and the community. Brewer manages to infuse the poems with beauty and hope as well as speaking in the many voices of the epidemic \nRooted in the physical and spiritual landscape of West Virginia\, the poems focus on the small town of Oceana (nicknamed Oxyana for the record number of overdoses there)\, Oceana acts as a stand-in for West Virginia as a whole\, which has the highest OD rate in the country. \nThe poems are at once dreamlike and visceral\, and the images in it draw on the beauty and pain of a West Virginia that is\, in Brewer’s words “last on every list\,” a state that people in the nation’s capital\, only a few hours away\, barely acknowledge and clearly don’t care much about. \nWilliam Brewer’s book\, I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017) was the winner of the National Poetry Series. His work has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, ZYZZYVA\, New England Review\, The New Yorker\, and other journals. Currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. For more about William Brewer\, see the PBS segment or the ZYZZYVA interview.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-brewer-reads-poems-about-addiction-mill-valley-library-cosponsored-by-marin-poetry-center/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dorianne Laux + Joshua Mensch
DESCRIPTION:Dorianne Laux‘s most recent collections are The Book of Men\, winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize and Facts about the Moon\, winner of the Oregon Book Award.\n\nLaux is also author of Awake\, What We Carry\, and Smoke from BOA Editions. Only As The Day Is Long\, her new and selected poems\, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. \nShe teaches poetry in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University and is founding faculty at Pacific University’s Low Residency MFA Program. \n\n\n\n\nJoshua Mensch is a poet\, visual artist\, and a founding editor of the online literary journal B O D Y. His poetry has appeared in several magazines\, including Plume\, Brick\, The Collagist\, and Smartish Pace. His first book of poetry\, BECAUSE\, a lyric memoir\, will be published by W. W. Norton in 2018. He lives in Prague\, Czech Republic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dorianne-laux-joshua-mensch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. \nAbout the poets: \nBrenda Hillman is an activist\, writer\, editor\, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press\, including Practical Water\, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California\, as the Olivia Filippi professor of poetry. \ngiovanni singleton is a poet\, teacher\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-and-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11th – 7:00pm\nMain Reading Room \nDaniel Handler returns to emcee as baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing. You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program. \nFeatured Poets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin\, Kai Carlson-Wee\, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kathleen Winter \nFor adults and high school students only. Pregame refreshments starting at 6:30pm for registered guests. Program starts at 7:00pm. \nRegistration is strongly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, May 11\, 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\, Teens \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-7th-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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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: "The Return"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on May 10\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors read on the theme of “The Return. \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  \nPeter Neil Carroll’s newest collections of poetry are An Elegy for Lovers (Main Street Rag\, 2017)\, The Truth Lies on Earth (Turning Point Press\, 2017)\, and Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land (Turning Point Press\, 2017). His poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review\, Southern Quarterly\, Amsterdam Quarterly\, and many others. \nKirstin Chen‘s new novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. www.kirstinchen.com \nWilliam Luvaas’ new novel\, Welcome To Saint Angel with Anaphora Literary Press was just published on March 15\, 2018.  He has also published three other novels and two story collections. www.williamluvaas.com \nLone Mørch is an award-winning author\, photographer and speaker whose work lives at the intersection of art\, body\, identity\, culture and change\, whose latest book is Embody: Intimate Photographic Encounters With Women (Narayana Press\, May 2018). Her photos and essays have been featured in Cosmopolitan\, People\, SF Chronicle\, and many others. www.lonemorch.com \nTim J. Myers’ children’s books have won recognition from the New York Times\, NPR\, and the Smithsonian; he has published three books of adult poetry\, as well as a book of nonfiction on fatherhood\, and has won a major prize in science fiction. www.TimMyersStorySong.com \nAnne Raeff‘s latest book is her second novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm (Counterpoint Press\, February 2018). Her short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us (University of Georgia Press\, 2015) won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. www.anneraeff.com \nBarbara Ridley’s debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017)\, historical fiction set in Europe during WWII\, is based on her mother’s experience as a refugee from the Holocaust. Her work has been published in Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review and Stoneboat\, among others. www.barbararidley.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:Spring Lecture Series: Madeleine Albright
DESCRIPTION:Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright closes the 2018 Spring Leadership Lecture Series at Dominican University of California on Saturday\, April 28\, at 8 p.m. \nThe series is presented by Dominican in partnership with Book Passage. \nAll lectures will be held in Dominican’s Angelico Concert Hall. Doors open one hour prior to the programs. Free parking is available in the Conlan Center parking lot at the intersection of Acacia and Grand avenues. \nAlbright returns to Dominican for the first time since 2013. Her new book\, “Fascism: A Warning\,” draws on the former Secretary of State’s experiences as a child growing up in Czechoslovakia under the Nazi and Communist regimes and how it presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice today since the Berlin Wall fell. \nIndividual event tickets are $40 and include an autographed copy of “Fascism: A Warning.” Tickets can be purchased by calling (415) 927-0960 ext. 1 or visiting bookpassage.com/dominican. Or follow this link:http://bit.ly/2qMUh7y \nThe speaker series\, a cooperative effort between Dominican’s Institute for Leadership Studies and Book Passage\, features some of the country’s leading figures from the worlds of business\, politics\, entertainment\, academia\, and literature. The series has entertained and educated thousands of Marin County and San Francisco Bay Area residents for the past 14 years. \nThe Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring 2018 Leadership Lecture Series is sponsored by Private Ocean\, the oldest and largest privately-held wealth management firm in Marin County. Private Ocean’s commitment to community service has been a driving force behind its support of the lecture series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-lecture-series-madeleine-albright/
LOCATION:Angelico Hall\, Dominican University\, 20 Olive Ave\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Richard Powers
DESCRIPTION:Richard Powers is a National Book Award winner and recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant. He is the author of twelve novels. \n“The Overstory\,” his new novel\, is a moving novel about reimagining our place in the living world. \nMargaret Atwood writes of Powers: “If Powers were an American writer of the nineteenth century\, which writer would he be? He’d probably be the Herman Melville of Moby-Dick. His picture is that big.” \nFrom the publisher: \nA monumental novel about trees and people by one of our most “prodigiously talented” (The New York Times Book Review) novelists. \nAn Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky\, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits\, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself\, dies\, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four\, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. \nIn his twelfth novel\, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping\, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds\, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond\, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast\, slow\, interconnected\, resourceful\, magnificently inventive\, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. \nThe Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative\, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak\, what would they tell us? “Listen. There’s something you need to hear.”
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LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Stevenson Poetry Night at the SHPL
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening celebrating the spoken word and the works of Robert Louis Stevenson! The evening will feature an open mic for aspiring poets and poetry lovers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stevenson-poetry-night-at-the-shpl/
LOCATION:Saint Helena Public Library\, 1492 Library Lane\, Saint Helena\, 94574
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #94
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month with host Marin County Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust\, and teen writers from ForWords Literacy Lab. \nForWords provides instruction and resources to help students develop the ability to write\, speak\, and read effectively and publish their work in print\, video and digital media. \nForWords works with students to foster self-awareness\, confidence\, personal voice and pride in community and culture. \nForWords provides professional development for teachers and direct assistance to our students by partnering with the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California\, Berkeley and is staffed and advised by an exceptional community of writers\, educators\, artists and digital media experts. \nRebecca Foust’s five books of poetry include Paradise Drive\, reviewed in theTimes Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Recent Recognitions include the CP Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, American Literary Review’s Fiction Prize\, and the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize as well as fellowships from MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and The Frost Place. Foust is Poet Laureate of Marin County and writes a weekly column for Women’s Voices for Change\, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/arts-culture/poetry. \nTime allowing\, we will have our open mic following the reading. Our West End Village restaurant neighbors kindly offer a discount on the evening of the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-94/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Copper Canyon Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:This reading\, featuring four wonderful poets with new collections from Copper Canyon Press\, is a collaboration between Marin Poetry Center and the Mill Valley Library and will be held at: \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley \n\n\nDana Levin fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Stein is the author of Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018). Her debut collection\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize selected by Mark Doty. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, New England Review\, Tin House\, The Southern Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she has received fellowships from the NEA\, Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\nJavier Jose Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his poems appear or are forthcoming in APR\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copper-canyon-press-reading/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180423T203000
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea: The House of Broken Angels
DESCRIPTION:Luis Alberto Urrea reads from and signs his new novel\, The House of Broken Angels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-the-house-of-broken-angels/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180419T213000
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SUMMARY:Alexis Rhone Fancher + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:** THIS IS A READING OF EROTIC POETRY. ADULTS ONLY. **\n\n\n\nAlexis Rhone Fancher is a professionally trained theatre actress who gave it all up for poetry. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems\, (2014)\, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies\, (2015)\, and her latest erotic collection\, Enter Here (2017). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016\, Rattle\, Slipstream\, Plume\, Nashville Review\, Diode\, Glass\, Tinderbox\, and elsewhere. Her photos are published worldwide\, including the covers of Witness\, Heyday\, The Chiron Review\, and Nerve Cowboy. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles. www.alexisrhonefancher.com\n\n\n\n\n\nD.A. Powell is the author of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry\, the Shelley Memorial Prize\, and an Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\nCritic Steph Burt\, writing in the New York Times\, said of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessible.” \nA former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Stanford\, Columbia\, University of Texas at Austin\, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. \nPowell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher-d-a-powell/
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: "Search"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on April 12th\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Search.” \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  \nJan Beatty’s fifth book\, Jackknife: New and Collected Poems\, was published in 2017 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her previous book\, The Switching/Yard (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2013)\, was named by Library Journal as one of …30 New Books That Will Help You Rediscover Poetry\, and The Huffington Post named her as one of ten women writers for “required reading.” www.janbeatty.com \n  \nJasmin Darznik is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her brand new debut novel Song of a Captive Bird (Ballantine Books\, 2018) is a fictional account of Iran’s trailblazing woman poet\, Forugh Farrokhzad. jasmine-darznik.com \n  \nAllison Landa is a Berkeley-based writer of fiction and memoir whose work has been featured in The Guardian US\, The Washington Post\, The Huffington Post\, The Rumpus\, and Salon Magazine\, among other venues. www.allisonlanda.com. \n  \nScott Nadelson’s latest book is the story collection\, The Fourth Corner of the World (Engine Books\, February 2018). He is the author of three story collections\, a memoir\, and the novel Between You and Me (Engine Books\, 2015). www.scottnadelson.com \n  \nDavid Rutschman is the author of the story collection Into Terrible Light (Forklift Books\, 2017.)  His work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review; Forklift\, Ohio; Kenyon Review Online; The Massachusetts Review; The Sun; Waxwing; Witness\, and many other journals. www.daverutschman.com \n  \nHilary Zaid’s 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 and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her brand new book Paper is White was just published by Bywater Books (February 2018). www.paperiswhite.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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-search/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Spring Reading!
DESCRIPTION:Come join us April 12 as we celebrate spring reads with a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Christine No\, Patty Somlo and Paul Corman-Roberts (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~\n+ Christine No is a writer/organizer with work shown work at the Sundance Film Festival\, in publications including: The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Atlas And Alice\, Apogee\, The Brooklyn Quarterly & various anthologies. She is a VONA/Voices Fellow\, a Pushcart Prize & Best of The Net 2017 Nominee. She believes in radical kindness\, that magic exists\, and that “the only way out is through”. (She’s also a total dork and looks way better on paper.) She lives in Oakland with her dog\, Brandeh.www.christineno.com \n+ Patty Somlo’s most recent book\, Hairway to Heaven Stories\, a linked short story collection set in a gentrifying African American neighborhood\, was just published by Cherry Castle Publishing. Her previous books have beenFinalists in the International Book Awards\, the Best Book Awards\, the National Indie Excellence Awards\, and the Reader Views Literary Awards. She won Honorable Mention for Fiction in the Women’s National Book Associat ion Contest\, was a Finalist in the Adelaide Voices Literary Award for Short Story\, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize\, Best of the Net and the storySouth Million Writers Award\, and had an essay selected as Notable for Best American Essays 2014. \n+ Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the Nomadic Press chapbook “We Shoot Typewriters” which was nominated for a Northern California Book award. He is also a core-founder of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland CA where he lives. He serves as fiction editor for the online zine Full of Crow as well as timekeeper for several East Bay rock bands. His work has appeared in The Rumpus\, Sparkle and Blink\, Red Fez\, Cherry Bleeds\, Buddy and many others. \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-spring-reading/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180410T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180410T203000
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SUMMARY:Literary Cafe Presents: SEAN PENN
DESCRIPTION:Actor\, filmmaker\, and political activist Sean Penn\, discusses his most recent endeavor and first novel. Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff is a scorching\, darkly funny novel about Bob Honey-a modern American man\, entrepreneur\, and part-time assassin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-cafe-presents-sean-penn/
LOCATION:The Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, 94903
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180316T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180316T210000
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Teen Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:azz Hudson emcees as teens compete in an event that is part performance\, part spoken word. Contestants often draw upon racial\, economic\, and gender injustices and current events for subject matter. \nAdults and high school students only. Wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Registration opens February 26th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-teen-poetry-slam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180315T213000
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Dumesnil + Allison Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Dumesnil‘s books include two collections of poems\, Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes and In Praise of Falling (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society Prize for Poetry); a memoir\, Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood; and the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers\, Writers on Tattoos\, co-edited with Kim Addonizio. A freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach\, she lives in Walnut Creek with her two sons and her partner\, Sarah. www.cheryldumesnil.com\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Joseph lives\, writes\, and teaches in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review\, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List\, and director of Writers in Common\, a summer writers conference for writers of all ages. Her new chapbook press\, No Chair Press\, will launch in 2018.\n\nHer books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press)\, Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press)\, In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications)\, Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP)\, Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press)\, My Father’s Kites(Steel Toe Books)\, Trace Particles (Backbone Press)\, Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press)\, Mercurial (Mayapple Press)\, Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press)\, Multitudes (Word Poetry)\, The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press)\, Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheryl-dumesnil-allison-joseph/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:John Murillo + Nicole Sealey
DESCRIPTION:John Murillo is the author of the poetry collection\, Up Jump the Boogie\, finalist for both the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Pen Open Book Award. His honors include a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Cave Canem Foundation\, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He teaches at Hampshire College and New York University.\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Sealey was born in St. Thomas\, U.S.V.I. and raised in Apopka\, Florida. She is the author of Ordinary Beast\, forthcoming from Ecco in fall 2017\, and The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named\, winner of the 2015 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her other honors include an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review\, a Daniel Varoujan Award and the Poetry International Prize\, as well as fellowships from CantoMundo\, Cave Canem\, MacDowell Colony and the Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. Nicole holds an MLA in Africana Studies from the University of South Florida and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the executive director at Cave Canem Foundation\, Inc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-murillo-nicole-sealey/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180208T213000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents “Reparations”
DESCRIPTION:Why There Are Words Presents: Reparations \n  \nSAUSALITO\, CA (January 24\, 2018) – Join Why There Are Words on February 8th\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Reparations.” \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\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nLaurie Doyle‘s new collection of stories\, World Gone Missing (Regal House Publishing\, 2017)\, was named as a top book pick by The East Bay Express. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Jabberwock Review\, and Under the Sun\, among many other literary journals. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nScott Esposito is the author of four books\, most recently The Doubles from Civil Coping Mechanisms (2017). He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle\, and his work has appeared in BOMB Magazine\, Tin House\, The White Review\, The Lifted Brow\, The Believer\, The Washington Post\, and others. \nShauna Hannibal is the author of Hannibal (Forklift Books\, 2017)\, her debut collection of poetry\, with praise from Laura Kasischke and Dean Young. Her work has appeared in jubilat\, Big Bell\, Forklift\, Ohio\, and others. \nKevin McIlvoy’s published works include the story collections 57 Octaves Below Middle C\, published by Four Way Books in September 2017\, and The Complete History of New Mexico\, as well as the novels The Fifth Station\, Little Peg\, and Hyssop. www.mcthebookmechanic.com \nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad and Rad Families. His novella Bellies and Buffalos is about friendship\, family and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency and others. tomasmoniz.weebly.com \n  \nKathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections\, I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018)\, winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize\, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past\, \nwhich received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. Her poems are forthcoming in The New Statesman\, Yale Review\, Barrow Street\, Confrontation\, and others. \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 five 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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-reparations/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Martha Ronk + Brian Turner
DESCRIPTION:Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry\, including Ocular Proof\, Omnidawn\, 2016\, Transfer of Qualities\, Omnidawn\, long-listed for the National Poetry Award\, Partially Kept\, published by Nightboat Books\, Vertigo\, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press\, In a landscape of having to repeat\, a PEN USA best poetry book published by Omnidawn Press\, and Why/Why Not from UC Press. She has also published a quasi-memoir\, Displeasures of the Table\, from Green Integer\, and a collection of stories\, Glass Grapes and Other Stories\, BOA Editions. She has had several residencies at Djerassi and MacDowell\, is an NEA recipient\, and is the Irma and Jay Price Emeritus Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Phantom Noise and Here\, Bullet\, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award\, the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection\, the 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award\, the 2007 Poets Prize\, and others. Turner’s work has been published in National Geographic\, The New York Times\, Poetry Daily\, Harper’s Magazine\, and other fine journals. Turner has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship\, an NEA Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship\, and more. His recent memoir\, My Life as a Foreign Country\, has been called\, “achingly\, disturbingly\, shockingly beautiful.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-ronk-brian-turner/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180111T220000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Celebrates 8 Years in Sausalito
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito to celebrate 8 years of live author readings on January 11\, 2018 at Studio 333 (333 Caledonia St.) Featured readers are Rob Davidson\, Lynn Freed\, Jared Joseph Harvey\, Shawna Kay Rodenberg\, Colin Winnette\, and Rebecca Winterer. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. Peg Alford Pursell will emcee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-celebrates-8-years-in-sausalito/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171214T190000
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents "Identity"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words for its last event of 2017 when the following acclaimed authors will read from their works on the theme of “Identity.” Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. There is a $10 cover charge at the door. Cash bar. \nSusan Kolodny’s latest book is Preserve\, just out from Finishing LIne Press. visit susankolodny.com \nKirk Landers‘ latest is the novel Alone on the Shield. Visit www.kirklanders.com \nRichard Levine‘s most recent book is the short story collection\, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife. Visit www.richardmichaellevine.com/ \nCalder Lorenz is the author of One Way Down (Or Another)\, his debut novel from Civil Coping Mechanisms (February\, 2017).Visit calderlorenz.com \nLily Iona MacKenzie‘s latest is the novel Curva Peligrosa (Regal House Publishing\, September 2017). Visit lilyionamackenzie.wordpress.com. \nTamer S. Mostafa‘s work has appeared in over twenty various journals and magazines such as Confrontation\, Monday Night Lit\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change\, among others. \nChristine No is an Oakland based poet\, essayist and producer. You can find her work in: The Rumpus\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, and more. Visit christineno.com \nAnastacia-Renee is a queer writer of color\, performance artist\, creative writing workshop facilitator\, and activist. Her lastest books are Forget It (Black Radish Books) and (v.). \nWhy There Are Words is part of WTAW Press\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. For more info see www.whytherearewords.com and www.wtawpress.org. Peg Alford Pursell is the founder and director of the national reading series and of the press. Visit www.pegalfordpursell.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-identity/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia St.\, Sausalito\, 94965
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Javier Zamora: Unaccompanied
DESCRIPTION:Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4\,000 miles\, across multiple borders\, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics\, race\, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that’s been left behind. \nThrough an unflinching gaze\, plainspoken diction\, and a combination of Spanish and English\, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited\, coyotes lead migrants astray\, and “the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun.” \nFrom “Let Me Try Again”: \nHe knew we weren’t Mexican.\nHe must’ve remembered his family\ncoming over the border\, or the border\ncoming over them\, because he drove us\nto the border and told us next time\, rest\nat least five days\, don’t trust anyone calling\nthemselves coyotes\, bring more tortillas\, sardines\,\nAlhambra. He knew we would try again.\nAnd again–like everyone does. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley\, an MFA at New York University\, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javier-zamora-unaccompanied/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Andy Weir Artemis Launch
DESCRIPTION:The author of the instant classic\, The Martian\, is back with a novel that will have you on the edge of your seat! Celebrate the release of the most-anticipated book of the year. \nAndy Weir presents: Artemis \nArtemis is the first only city on the moon. If you aren’t a tourist or an eccentric billionaire\, life in this fledgling new territory is tough. Providence and imperial dreams have been nickel-and-dimed from those who have called the moon their home. That’s why Jazz doesn’t rely on her day-job. She moonlights\, instead\, as a smuggler\, and gets along okay with small-time contraband that is\, until the chance to commit the perfect crime presents itself. \nJoin Kepler’s Literary Foundation for the literary event of the year! \nAndy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the runaway success of his debut novel\, The Martian\, allowed him to pursue writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics\, orbital mechanics\, and the history of manned spaceflight. He lives in California. \nTicket Information:\n$50.00 — Premier ticket with hardcover copy of “Artemis”\n$25.00 — General seating; does not include book\n$15.00 — Student seating; no book; must show student ID
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-weir-artemis-launch/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Julia Bouwsma + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine\, where she is a poet\, farmer\, freelance editor\, critic\, and small-town librarian. She is the author of MIDDEN (Fordham University Press\, forthcoming 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017). Her poems and book reviews appear in Bellingham Review\, Colorado Review\, Muzzle\, Salamander\, RHINO\, River Styx\, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize\, the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award\, and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. A former Managing Editor for Alice James Books\, Bouwsma currently serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine.\n\n\n\n\n\nTess Taylor‘s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book\, The Forage House\, “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book\, Work & Days\, was called “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Steph Burt and was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor currently chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle and is the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. She was most recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast\, Northern Ireland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-bouwsma-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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