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SUMMARY:Swan Huntley
DESCRIPTION:The Descendants meets Single White Female in this captivating novel about a woman who moves her family to Hawaii\, only to find herself wrapped up in a dangerous friendship\, from the celebrated author of We Could Be Beautiful. \nWhen Nancy and her family arrive in Kona\, Hawaii\, they are desperate for a fresh start. Nancy’s husband has cheated on her; they sleep in separate bedrooms and their twin sons have been acting out\, setting off illegal fireworks. But Hawaii is paradise: they plant an orange tree in the yard; they share a bed once again and Nancy resolves to make a happy life for herself. She starts taking a yoga class and there she meets Ana\, the charismatic teacher. Ana has short\, black hair\, a warm smile\, and a hard-won wisdom that resonates deeply within Nancy. They are soon spending all their time together\, sharing dinners\, relaxing in Ana’s hot tub\, driving around Kona in the cute little car Ana helps Nancy buy. As Nancy grows closer and closer to Ana skipping family dinners and leaving the twins to their own devices she feels a happiness and understanding unlike anything she’s ever experienced\, and she knows that she will do anything Ana asks of her. A mesmerizing story of friendship and manipulation set against the idyllic tropical world of the Big Island\, The Goddesses is a stunning psychological novel by one of our most exciting young writers. \nSwan Huntley is the author of We Could Be Beautiful. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in California and Hawaii. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-huntley-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Barry Kraft: Shakespeare Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Barry Kraft for a celebration of all things Shakespeare! Kraft has acted in all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays\, playing more than 100 roles in 86 full productions. He spent 28 seasons as an actor and dramaturg at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-kraft-shakespeare-celebration/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Tom Centolella\, Kathy Evans + Molly Giles - A Literary Evening
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first-person protagonists are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry. His awards include the American Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared widely in magazines\, anthologies\, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has been a visiting writer at many colleges\, universities and literary centers and has taught creative writing in the Bay Area for 30 years\, notably at College of Marin and in private Marin workshops. \nAbout Hunger And Sorrow F. D. Reeve\, poet critic\, said: \n“The attitude in Hunger and Sorrow is impassioned; the voice is sophisticated; the author’s intelligence distances the introversion . . with a tone whose sweet patience endures.” \nKathy Evans\, from Sausalito\, California\, is the author of three books of poetry. She has been published in journals and West Coast reviews\, including the Alaska Review\, the Atlantic Review\, California Quarterly\, Black Bear Review\, Runes\, Oberon\, and most recently the Tupelo Quarterly. She teaches Creative Writing at Juvenile Hall in Marin County\, the University of San Francisco\, and The College of Marin. She is a poet teacher with The California Poets-in- the-Schools and is currently at UCSF as a poet- in-residence at Benioff Children’s Hospital. Her three collections of poetry include: Imagination Comes To Breakfast\, As The Heart Is Held\, and Hunger and Sorrow\, which was a winner for the Small Press Poetry Prize. \nWinner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction\, All the Wrong Places feature nineteen strange and tightly woven tales which merge the mythic and the modern with dark humor and deep humanity. Many of the stories contain contemporary versions of ancient guides: a ghost dog seen by a young drifter in love with a much older guru; a wild goat on a cliff forever standing beside her dead ram glimpsed by a woman whose husband battles cancer; a volcano goddess with a small dog appearing to a woman whose boyfriend is flirting with her teenage daughter. The vacationland settings\, Hawaii\, Ireland\, Baja and California among them\, accentuate the characters’ sense of displacement. \nMolly Giles is the author of three award-winning story collections\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, and Bothered\, and a novel\, Iron Shoes. Previous awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, the Small Press Short Fiction Award\, the Boston Globe Award\, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and an NEA grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-centolella-kathy-evans-molly-giles-a-literary-evening/
LOCATION:Book Passage By-the-Bay\, 100 Bay Street\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Portents
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on July 13th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors read from their works\, exploring the theme of Portents. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit\, are always welcome. \nElizabeth Block is the author of the books\, A Gesture Through Time (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2006) and Celluloid Salutations (BlazeVOX\, 2014). She is the recipient of a Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fiction Fellowship from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation among other awards\, residencies\, and fellowships. A Gesture Through Time was sought for feature film development by VOX 3 Films. She is also the author\, director\, and producer of the published play “Exposing We” (based on the Japanese rope play photography of David Levinthal)\, and many short works of fiction\, poetry\, essays\, TV spec scripts\, and screenplays. Penguin Signet Classics commissioned to write a new (feminist) foreword to The Confessions of St. Augustine. Her most recent reviews were published in the SF Chronicle and The Brooklyn Rail (May 2017). Also a distributed filmmaker\, her short films have screened internationally in festivals\, museums\, art house cinemas\, film archives\, and curated tours. Elizabeth is currently working on both short and feature-length screenplays about the complexities and detritus of biracial/interracial A.R.T. \nLois Roma-Deeley’s fourth collection of poems\, The Short List of Certainties (Franciscan University Press\, 2017)\, won the 2016 Jacopone da Todi Book Prize and will be published by Franciscan University Press in 2017. She is the author of High Notes (Benu Press 2010)\, her third collection\, which was a 2011 Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist. Her first and second collections are Rules of Hunger (Star Cloud Press\, 2004) and northSight (Singularity Press\, 2006). She has published poems in numerous anthologies\, including Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity Anthology\, Villanelles (Random House/​Everyman’s Library\, Pocket Poets Series and others. Her poems has been featured in numerous literary journals including Spillway\, Juked\, Bellingham Review\, Water~Stone\, and many others. Lois Roma-Deeley has worked as poetry editor of a national magazine for more than 10 years\, served as a judge for local\, state and national creative writing contests and has taught creative courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. She was named the U.S. Professor of the Year\, Community College\, by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and CASE\, 2012. She is a recipient of an Arizona Commission on the Arts 2016 Artist Research & Development Grant. \nJulia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer\, published by St. Martin’s Press on June 6th\, and Cutting Teeth (St. Martin’s Press\, 2014). Her work has been published in The New York Times\, Buzzfeed\, Glamour\, The Millions\, Poets & Writers\, and other publications\, and she has been profiled in The Observer and The Economist. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop\, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop (SSWW) in 2002\, which has grown into a creative home to 4\,000 writers in NYC\, Los Angeles\, and online. SSWW was named “Best Writing Classes” by The Village Voice\, Time Out New York\, Brooklyn Magazine\, the L Magazine; and “Best MFA-Alternative” by Poets & Writers. She lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. \nCary Groner’s debut novel\, Exiles\, was published by Spiegel & Grau / Random House in 2011\, and went on to become a Chicago Tribune “best book” of that year. His short stories have won numerous awards\, including the Glimmer Train Fiction Open\, and have appeared there and in other venues that include American Fiction\, Mississippi Review\, Salamander\, Southern California Review\, Sycamore Review\, Tampa Review\, and Zymbol. He received his MFA from the University of Arizona in 2009 and now teaches at the Writing Salon in Berkeley. \nDavid Hicks grew up in New York\, moved to Colorado in his thirties\, and is now a professor at Regis University in Denver\, where he co-directs the Mile-High MFA in Creative Writing. He has published stories in such fine journals as Glimmer Train\, Colorado Review\, and Saranac Review. White Plains (Conundrum Press\, 2017)\, his first novel\, has been called “a gorgeous and unforgettable debut” by Kathy Fish\, “an extraordinary novel” by David Lazar\, and “a captivating debut” by Leni Zumas. Hicks\, who also plays saxophone for a rock band called the Plagiarists\, lives with his wife Cynthia in Colorado\, and his two grown children live nearby. \nSusanna Solomon is the author of Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls\, (HD Media Press\, 2013) and a second collection\, More Point Reyes Sheriff’s Calls (Susanna Van Leuven\, 2016). Her stories have been published in the Point Reyes Light\, The MacGuffin Literary Review\, Meat for Tea – the Valley Review\, Foliate Oak Magazine\, in the Redwood Anthology (five times) and online in the Mill Valley Literary Review and Harlot’s Sauce Radio. She is an electrical engineer and has operated her own business for sixteen years. She gets her inspiration from actual sheriff’s calls in the Point Reyes Light and makes up wild and wacky stories. Lately she’s been writing ghost stories set in Paris. \nKendra Tanacea holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. Her collection of poetry\, A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees (Lost Horse Press\, 2017)\, was a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry\, and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. Her second book\, Garbage Heart\, was a semifinalist for The Elixir Press 17th Annual Poetry Award and the Two Sylvias’ 2016 Wilder Series Poetry Book Prize. Kendra’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review\, Poet Lore\, 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, and The Coachella Review\, among others. In March 2017\, Garrison Keillor read two of her poems on his radio show\, The Writer’s Almanac.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-portents/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit at Aqus
DESCRIPTION:Come join us July 13 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Brian Boldt\, Frances Lefkowitz and Lorelle Saxena (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Brian Boldt edited and published the environmental and political poetry journal Green Fuse. His first collection of poetrywas One Never Knows\, Do One? from Running Wolf Press. His recent chapbook is Staying In and Other Poems. He has taught writing classes on both coasts and lives with his wife Sarah in Santa Rosa. \n* Frances Lefkowitz is the author of the memoir\, To Have Not\, about growing up poor in 1970s San Francisco\, and currently at work on a memoir about fear\, risk\, and surfing. Her fiction and nonfiction appear in dozens of literary and commercial magazines\, and awards include a CalHumanities Community Stories Grant\, and Notable Mentions twice for both the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. She is Founder/Director and Chief Bottle Washer for the Community Memoir Project\, which brings free memoir-writing workshops to public libraries. She is about to be priced out of Petaluma\, so catch her while you can. \n* Lorelle Saxena loves boots\, bicycling\, and beet greens. The weekends she loves best are spent working in the garden and the kitchen with her husband Adam\, their little son Kamal\, and their dog Belly. Lorelle was voted “Best Acupuncturist in Sonoma County” five years in a row in the North Bay Bohemian’s annual Reader Poll. Her work focuses on empowering patients to overcome health challenges through self-reflection\, acupuncture\, and subtle lifestyle shifts. Her training includes rotations at the San Diego Memorial Hospice\, the UCSD Owen Clinic for HIV and AIDS patient care\, and a free clinic for low-income senior citizens. Lorelle’s practice is grounded in empathy\, a keen interest in all things human\, and an intention to raise the standard for healthcare everywhere. Her writing revolves around the shared human experience and finding the beautiful and extraordinary in everyday life. Her proudest accomplishment is being a nice person most of the time. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a 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-at-aqus/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #87
DESCRIPTION:Welcome our June writers Terry Lucas and Joan Baranow. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: In This Room (CW Books\, January 2016) and Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, October 2016). In addition he is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Altar Call\, one of four winning chapbooks selected by the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival for the anthology\, Diesel; and If They Have Ears to Hear\, winner of the 2012 Copperdome Chapbook contest (Southeast Missouri State University Press\, 2013). His work has received numerous other awards\, including the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Feature Award in Poetry\, the fifth annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize\, and six Pushcart Prize nominations. \nTerry’s poems\, reviews\, and essays have appeared in dozens of national literary journals\, including Best New Poets 2012\, Green Mountains Review\, Great River Review\, PoetryFlash\, and South 85 Journal. He has taught in the Chicago Public School System as a Master Poet in the Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center’s Writing Center\, and is a guest lecturer for the Dominican University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Formerly the co-executive editor of Trio House Press\, he is currently serving the press as an assistant editor in order to spend more time on his own writing\, as well as his work as a freelance poetry coach. More about Terry can be found at www.terrylucas.com. \nJoan Baranow\, PhD\, is Director\, Graduate Humanities\, and Associate Professor\, English at Dominican University.\nJoan is also Director of the newly launched Dominican Low-Res MFA program. \nHer poetry has appeared in The Paris Review\, Western Humanities Review\, The Antioch Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Squaw Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Cider Press Review\, The Western Journal of Medicine\, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery\, issued by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry\, Living Apart\, was published by Plain View Press. \nOur lively open mic follows our featured writers. We will have light refreshments\, and our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before 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-mouthwords-spoken-out-87/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jane Green - Literary Luncheon
DESCRIPTION:From Jane Green — the New York Times bestselling author of Falling — comes The Sunshine Sisters: a warm\, wise\, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life. \nRonni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful\, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home\, she was a narcissistic\, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters. \nAs soon as possible\, tomboy Nell fled her mother’s overbearing presence to work on a farm and find her own way in the world as a single mother. The target of her mother’s criticism\, Meredith never felt good enough\, thin enough\, pretty enough. Her life took her to London–and into the arms of a man whom she may not even love. And Lizzy\, the youngest\, more like Ronni than any of them\, seemed to have it easy\, using her drive and ambition to build a culinary career to rival her mother’s fame\, while her marriage crumbled around her. \nBut now the Sunshine sisters are together again\, called home by Ronni\, who has learned that she has a serious disease and needs her daughters to fulfill her final wishes. And though Nell\, Meredith\, and Lizzy have never been close\, their mother’s illness draws them together to confront the old jealousies and secret fears that have threatened to tear these sisters apart. As they face the loss of their mother\, they will discover if blood might be thicker than water after all… \nA former journalist in the UK and a graduate of the International Culinary Center in New York\, Jane Green has written many novels (including Jemima J\, The Beach House\, and\, most recently\, Falling)\, most of which have been New York Times bestsellers\, and one cookbook\, Good Taste. Her novels are published in more than twenty-five languages\, and she has over ten million books in print worldwide. She lives in Westport\, Connecticut\, with her husband and a small army of children and animals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-green-literary-luncheon/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Arrivals
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on June 8th\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Arrivals. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit\, are always welcome. \nReaders: Elaine Fletcher Chapman\, Barbara Edelman\, Rachel Hall\, Toni Mirosevich\, Lisa Rizzo\, Andrew Roe\, and Renate Stendhal.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-arrivals/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Lisa Ko
DESCRIPTION:One morning\, Deming Guo’s mother\, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly\, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. \nWith his mother gone\, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.” But far away from all he’s ever known\, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind. \nSet in New York and China\, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away–and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past. \nThis powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction\, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. \nLisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016\, Narrative\, Copper Nickel\, the Asian Pacific American Journal\, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, the Jerome Foundation\, and Blue Mountain Center\, among others. A founding coeditor of Hyphen and a fiction editor at Drunken Boat\, Ko was born in Queens and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-ko/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth real.stories.live
DESCRIPTION:Registration highly recommended. Registration will open Friday May 19th. \nFor Adults and High School Students only. \nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes.\nIt’s the 50th anniversary of the summer of love\, when tens of thousands of young people\, in search of something different\, came to San Francisco to find it. In honor of this very special moment in time\, our line-up of talented storytellers will share their own present-day stories of peace\, love\, and liberation. \nJosh Healey is back to emcee with storytellers Emily Epstein White\, Phil Surkis\, and others. \nIf you have a story to tell from the summer of love\, we want to hear it. Throw your name in the hat to tell a one minute story in our optional audience lightening round.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-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
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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SUMMARY:Megan Miranda
DESCRIPTION:In The Perfect Stranger\,  the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls\, a journalist sets out to find a missing friend\, a friend who may never have existed at all. \nConfronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit\, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend\, Emmy Grey\, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to rural Pennsylvania\, where Leah can get a teaching position and both women can start again. But their new start is threatened when a woman with an eerie resemblance to Leah is assaulted by the lake\, and Emmy disappears days later. \nDetermined to find Emmy\, Leah cooperates with Kyle Donovan\, a handsome young police officer on the case. As they investigate her friend’s life for clues\, Leah begins to wonder: did she ever really know Emmy at all? With no friends\, family\, or a digital footprint\, the police begin to suspect that there is no Emmy Grey. Soon Leah’s credibility is at stake\, and she is forced to revisit her past: the article that ruined her career. To save herself\, Leah must uncover the truth about Emmy Grey—and along the way\, confront her old demons\, find out who she can really trust\, and clear her own name. \nEveryone in this rural Pennsylvanian town has something to hide—including Leah herself. How do you uncover the truth when you are busy hiding your own? \nMegan Miranda is the author of several books for young adults\, including Fracture\, Hysteria\, Vengeance\, and Soulprint. She grew up in New Jersey\, attended MIT\, and lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children. Her novels for adults include All the Missing Girls and Watch Me Go.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-miranda/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry + Music: Brian Laidlaw + Ken Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Brian Laidlaw is a troubadour-poet from San Francisco. He studied Creative Writing at Stanford and earned his MFA in Poetry at the University of Minnesota. His poems have been published widely in journals including New American Writing\, The Iowa Review\, Quarter After Eight\, Agni\, and many others. Paper Darts Press released his acclaimed hybrid poetry/music project called Amoratorium\, a vinyl LP with a companion poetry chapbook as the liner notes. His first full-length book of poems\, The Stuntman\, was published in 2015 by Milkweed Editions; a follow-up called The Mirrormaker is under contract as well. He tours to festivals\, colleges\, and arts venues around the country\, both solo and with his folk band The Family Trade. \nKen Waldman has drawn on his 30 years in Alaska to produce poems\, stories\, and fiddle tunes that combine into a performance uniquely his. Nine CDs mix Appalachian-style string-band music with original poetry. Eight books include six poetry collections\, a memoir\, and a children’s book. Since 1995 he’s performed at some of the nation’s leading concert series\, festivals\, universities\, and clubs. Of note are two CDs. Some Favorites\, contains tracks from Waldman’s first seven CDs. The double- CD\, All Originals\, All Traditionals consists of one CD with a five-piece band playing Waldman’s originals\, and a second CD of Waldman and friends playing traditional tunes to Alaska-set poetry\, and includes a ten-minute treatment of Waldman’s 1996 plane crash near Nome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-music-brian-laidlaw-ken-waldman/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace O'Brian
DESCRIPTION:In the luminous poems contained in The Moon Reminded Me\, Ellen Grace O’Brian manages to braid contemporary moments of everyday life with ancient spiritual teachings–the sight of a hummingbird’s red throat\, bread on the table\, a couple’s quarrel\, a mother’s advice–become doorways into the divine mystical heart. The Moon Reminded Me\, subtly laced with Sanskrit\, gives us an insight into a poet who bridges two worlds eloquently enough to take us along with her. Sandhya\, the numinous time for stepping into the temple\, suddenly becomes this moment\, now. \nYogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian is the Spiritual Director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment (CSE) with headquarters in San Jose\, California\, serving seeking souls since 1981. CSE is a meditation center in the spiritual tradition of Kriya Yoga that serves people from all faith backgrounds who are seeking Self- and God-realization. \nKhaled Hosseini\, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns\, has written And the Mountains Echoed\, a new novel about how we love\, how we take care of one another\, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters\, cousins and caretakers\, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture\, wound\, betray\, honor\, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us\, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos the story expands gradually outward\, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. \nKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner\, A Thousand Splendid Suns\, and And the Mountains Echoed. He is A U.S. Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency\, and the founder of The Khaled Hosseini Foundation\, a nonprofit that provides humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace-obrian/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170518T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Please join MPC in welcoming Marin’s new Poet Laureate\, Rebecca Foust\, and showing appreciation for our outgoing Poet Laureate\, Prartho Sereno\, before the Third Thursday event on May 18. Doors will open at Falkirk at 6:00 p.m. for a champagne and cake reception followed by brief remarks by both poets at 6:30.\n\n\nRebecca Foust has published five prizewinning books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Huffington Post\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, the Constance Rooke Prize for Creative Nonfiction and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \n\n\n\n\nPrartho Sereno is the author of three poetry collections and has taught poetry to both children and adults. A graduate of Bowling Green University and Syracuse University\, Sereno has worked as a counseling psychologist\, college mediation instructor\, illustrator\, cook\, farmer and songwriter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170516T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170516T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170514T020436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T020436Z
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SUMMARY:A Leak in the Speakers!
DESCRIPTION:Last teen open mic of the year\, organized by Rebound Bookstore intern\, Sami Stilson! Come by\, share this event with teens you think would like to be involved. Grown ups more than welcome! \nWriters\, singers\, rappers\, slammers\, speakers\, composers\, musicians\, etc. are welcome\, whether performing or supporting (drop-ins welcome)\nFriendly feedback!\nRSVP at reboundbookstore@aol.com. \nFree Refreshments! Meet like-minded artists! Safe space for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-leak-in-the-speakers/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170513T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170513T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170201T045437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T045437Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Lammott: On Writing
DESCRIPTION:Join Anne Lamott\, the bestselling author of Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life\, for an afternoon that includes an onstage interview\, a lecture\, and a Q&A session. Anne Lamott offers advice on the writing process\, while also touching upon the experiences of the writer and the writing life. Writers working at all levels are encouraged to learn from one of the great writers of our time. Anne Lamott taught the first Book Passage writing class almost two decades ago. It’s a joy to welcome her back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-lammott-on-writing/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170425T044013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T011110Z
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SUMMARY:Evolving American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Two contemporary master story tellers\, who focus on the immigrant experience\, talk about how their novels and stories portray the current immigrant experience\, at SHED\, 25 North Street\, Healdsburg\, Thursday\, May 11\, 2017\, 7-8:30 PM.  Shanthi Sekaran\, author of the best selling novel Lucky Boy\, and Vanessa Hua\, author of the acclaimed story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities\, join Oscar Villalon\, Managing Editor of the literary journal\, Zyzzyva\, in a conversation to map out the boundaries and barriers in the modern American immigrant scene.  Your $15 admission gets you a seat for the conversation\, tastes of Grey Stack Cellars stellar wines\, some of the special bites prepared by SHED chef Perry Hoffman\, and a chance to buy Shanthi’s and Vanessa’s books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evolving-american-dream/
LOCATION:SHED\, 25 North Street\, Healdsburg\, CA\, 95448\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Healdsburg Literary Guild":MAILTO:bosimons1234@
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170511T191500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T211500
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170425T012746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012746Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Suggestible
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words (WTAW) on May 11\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors explore the theme Suggestible. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. Entry fee is $10 at the door\, though donations to WTAW\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit are always welcome. \nJason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, and a Kundiman fellow\, and he works as the artistic director for Kearny Street Workshop. He performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. \nJon Boilard was born and raised in Western Massachusetts\, and has been living in Northern California since 1986. His award-winning short stories have appeared in some of the finest literary journals in the United States\, Canada\, Europe\, and Asia. His debut short story collection\, Settright Road (Dzanc Books\, 2017)\, is preceded by two novels\, The Castaway Lounge (Dzanc Books/2015) and A River Closely Watched (MacAdam Cage/2012)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. He has participated in the Cork International Short Story Festival in Cork\, Ireland\, the Wroclaw Short Story Festival in Wroclaw\, Poland\, and LitQuake in San Francisco. \nAlex Green is the author of the The Stone Roses (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2006)\, Emergency Anthems (Brooklyn Arts Press\, 2015)\, and the novel The Heart Goes Boom (Wrecking Ball\, UK 2017). His music criticism has appeared in Magnet\, CMJ New Music Monthly\, HITS!\, and Creem. Currently\, he’s the Editor-In-Chief of the daily online music magazine Stereo Embers Magazine and he hosts the weekly radio show “The Heart Goes Boom” on Ireland’s Primal Radio. A known moderator in the Bay Area\, he has conducted In Conversation interviews with Janice Cooke Newman\, Maira Kalman\, Joshua Mohr\, Bruce Bauman\, Kenneth Oppel\, Laura Dave\, Kazim Ali\, and Lysley Tenorio. He teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate English programs at St. Mary’s College of California. \nHenry Hoke is the author of Genevieves (winner of the Subito Press prose contest) and The Book of Endless Sleepovers (CCM). His stories appear in The Collagist\, Electric Literature\, Winter Tangerine\, and Carve. He co-created and directs Enter>text: a living literary journal\, and teaches at CalArts and the UVA Young Writers Workshop. \nSandra Hunter’s fiction has received the 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize\, October 2014 Africa Book Club Award\, 2014 H.E. Francis Fiction Award\, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She was a finalist for the 2016 Bridgeport Prize and is a 2017 MacDowell Fellow. Her debut novel\, Losing Touch\, was released in July 2014. Her fiction chapbook\, Small Change\, was published in August 2016. She’s just completed her second novel\, The Geography of Kitchen Tables\, and is now working on the sequel. Her favorite dessert: rose-flavored macaroons. \nPaul T. Scheuring was born in Aurora\, Illinois. He attended the UCLA School of Theater\, Film and Television\, and has written numerous projects for film and TV\, including the Golden Globe-nominated series Prison Break\, which has been declared the most anticipated series to return to television. Scheuring also wrote and directed The Experiment\, and served as producer alongside Ridley Scott on Klondike\, a series he created and co-wrote. The Far Shore (March 7\, 2017) is his first novel. He resides in Northern California. \nZach Wyner is a writer and teacher who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area through an organization called The Beat Within. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and is a contributor to Curly Red Stories\, The Good Man Project and Unbroken Journal. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, published by Rare Bird Books\, was released this past September. He lives in Oakland with his wife\, stepdaughter\, and infant son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-suggestible/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170511T150000
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CREATED:20170505T005218Z
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Ludwig
DESCRIPTION:Readers who loved Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime\, Jack from Room\, and Bee from Where’d You Go\, Bernadette\, will be thrilled to get to know Ginny Moon in this unforgettable debut that affirms of how fiction has the power to change the way we look at the world. \nTold in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character. \nFor the first time in her life\, Ginny Moon has found her “forever home”-a place where she’ll be safe and protected\, with a family that will love and nurture her. It’s exactly the kind of home that all foster kids are hoping for. So why is this 14-year-old so desperate to get kidnapped by her abusive\, drug-addict birth mother\, Gloria\, and return to a grim existence of hiding under the kitchen sink to avoid the authorities and her mother’s violent boyfriends? \nWhile Ginny is pretty much your average teenager-she plays the flute in the school band\, has weekly basketball practice and studies Robert Frost poems for English class-she is autistic. And so what’s important to Ginny includes starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast\, Michael Jackson\, bacon-pineapple pizza and\, most of all\, getting back to Gloria so she can take care of her baby doll. \nA compulsively readable and touching novel\, this story is about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up. \nBenjamin Ludwig lives in New Hampshire with his family and is a life-long teacher of English and writing. He holds an MAT in English Education and an MFA in Writing. Shortly after he and his wife married they became foster parents and adopted a teenager with autism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benjamin-ludwig/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T210000
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SUMMARY:José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:A World Less Away is a honeycomb\, blackbox\, dream codex and memory palace. These poems traffic in the interstices of our lives where the quotidian is imbued with meaning and hums with metaphysical unrest. By turns existential\, surreal and elegiac\, the poems in this collection take swerves that are sure to transport the reader to the oneiric side of reality while never losing sight that “flesh was the first simile/we were given\,/to feel\, conjure\,/never truly inhabit. \nJosé Gutiérrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio\, Scythe\, Margie\, Poemeleon\, DMQ\, Kestrel\, Thrush Journal\, Jetfuel\, Caliban\, Gnarled Oak and the anthologies Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent and is forthcoming in Metonym\, Public Pool\, eleveneleven and Xavier Review\, among others. He works as an interpreter and translator in the medical and legal fields in the Bay Area. \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page — sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation. \nBorn in Oklahoma\, Dean Rader has published in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco\, and writes regularly on literature and politics for The San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-gutierrez-dean-rader/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170510T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170510T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170320T102121Z
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SUMMARY:MPC Stump the Laureate: Dana Gioia
DESCRIPTION:Stump the Laureate: Poetry Recitation with Dana Gioia\n\n\nMarin Poetry Center is proud to co-sponsor this wonderful event with the Mill Valley Public Library. \nCome and recite your favorite poem by a published author other than you. California Poet Laureate\, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem until we or he runs out of poems! \nMill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave Mill Valley CA 94941 \nBook Sales and Signing Afterward \n\n\n\nDana Gioia Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Gioia has published three full-length collections of poetry\, as well as eight chapbooks. Interrogations at Noon\, won the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic\, Gioia’s 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter?\, which was a finalist for the NBCC award\, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture. Gioia has published many literary anthologies and his poems\, translations\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post Book World\, The New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, and The Hudson Review. Gioia has written two opera libretti and is an active translator of poetry from Latin\, Italian\, and German. In 2015\, he was appointed the State Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-stump-the-laureate-dana-gioia/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170507T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170418T102745Z
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SUMMARY:The Dark & The Surreal: Etgar Keret + Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION: \n\nEtgar Keret will discuss selections from his vast body of short stories\, focusing on “dark matter”: the absurdist humor and surreal thematic elements found in the extraordinary and mundane elements of daily life.  He will be joined in conversation by the local New York Times-bestselling author\, Ayelet Waldman\, in an exploration of his work\, and how it reflects and refracts the world we currently inhabit. \n A book signing will follow the program. A selection of Keret’s books will be available for sale. \nUnderwritten by Brian and Caroline Lurie with support from the Haas Senior Fund\, Larry and Deborah Stadtner and The Peleh Fund\, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom. \nABOUT ETGAR KERET \n“If Kafka has the power to smash through the frozen sea of our souls\, Keret perhaps can infiltrate our gray matter\, adding synapses where none existed before.” —San Francisco Chronicle \nInternationally acclaimed for his short stories\, Etgar Keret is hailed as the voice of young Israel and is one of its most radical and extraordinary writers. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages\, Keret’s stories fuse the banal with the surreal\, and offer a window on a surreal world that is both dark and comic. Keret’s books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in over thirty languages. His books include The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God\, Missing Kissinger\, The Nimrod flipout\, The Girl on the Fridge\, and Suddenly a Knock on the Door\, which became an instant #1 bestseller in Israel. Keret is also the author of a memoir\, The Seven Good Years\, in which he contemplates moments of his life against a backdrop of constant conflict\, casting an absurd light on both the monumental and mundane. \nKeret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times\, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters\, and has been awarded the Prime Minister`s Prize and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize. More than forty short movies have been based on his stories\, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998). Keret’s stories have even inspired Polish architect Jakub Szczesny to build in Warsaw the narrowest house in the world (38 inches wide). The house was named after Keret\, who will be using the house for several years. \nAs a filmmaker\, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays\, including Skin Deep (1996)\, which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Wrist Cutters\, featuring Tom Waits\, was based on Keret’s story Kneller’s Happy Campers. Jellyfish\, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen\, won the coveted Camera d’Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. The animated feature film $9.99\, based on several of Keret’s stories\, marries the tradition of Jewish self-flagellating humor with uncanny absurdity. Keret currently teaches at Ben Guryon University. \nABOUT AYELET WALDMAN \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children. \nAdvance Price: \n$15 Members / $20 Public / $10 Kids (17 & Under) \nDay-of Price: $25 (Members & Public)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-dark-the-surreal-etgar-keret-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170505T210000
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SUMMARY:Laura Kipnis
DESCRIPTION:Writer and feminist Laura Kipnis will discuss her latest book: Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. A professor at Northwestern University\, Kipnis is known for her spirited\, sometimes provocative interrogations of contemporary gender and sexual politics. Previous books include Men\, An Ongoing Investigation\, The Female Thing\, and Against Love: A Polemic. \nHer new book emerged from the experience of finding herself the target of a Title IX complaint — and subsequent tribunal — that turned out to be a thinly veiled attempt to censor her for an essay. While Kipnis’s own professional standing hung briefly in the balance\, of wider concern was an unchallenged threat to academic freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kipnis/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170427T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170427T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T161605
CREATED:20170425T120920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T120920Z
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SUMMARY:Talking Down to Trump
DESCRIPTION:ACTION: RESIST\, MAKE MERRY\, AND CONSPIRE\nJoin us as we practice radical self love and poke holes in the Cloud and Twittersphere by meeting in real space and time\, where we remember that sometimes Mother really does know best\, that Donnie is full of hot air\, and that together we can resist\, make merry\, and conspire. Short film\, live dance\, prose\, and joy. Further “Sloughing” (as conceived by Raegan Truax) encouraged. \n\nTalking Down to Trump is an evening featuring short film\, reading\, and live dance performance\, as well as group meditation organized by artists\, activists\, and mothers who work\, live\, and resist in the Bay Area. (Will send clips to the 100days email address.) Talking Down To Trump: short films projected over the tiniest Trump Tower. By writer-activist-mother Allison Muir Radical Love: a short film by artist-activist Gaby Esensten. Love\, Donnie: Reading of selected love letters from Donnie the Blow Up Doll to Ronnie “the Gipper” Reagan by writer-activist-mother Kris Malone Grossman #DancersAgainstDAPL: Performed by the collective We Rise Breathe: Remembering How To\, group meditation/breathing led by mother-activist-educator Jen Burk Reynolds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/talking-down-to-trump/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="100 Days Action":MAILTO:info@100daysaction.net
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170424T210000
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CREATED:20170323T000748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T000748Z
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SUMMARY:Donna Seaman
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion—their lives fascinating\, their artwork a revelation. \nWho hasn’t wondered where—aside from Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo—all the women artists are? In many art books\, they’ve been marginalized with cold efficiency\, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase “identity unknown” while each male is named. \nDonna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists\, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie\, with her dark\, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton\, with her witty\, oddly beautiful constructions; Lois Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney\, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg\, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson\, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from most recent surveys of her era. \nThese women fought to be treated the same as male artists\, to be judged by their work\, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant\, compassionate prose\, Seaman reveals what drove them\, how they worked\, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects—not makers—of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work\, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field. \nDonna Seaman has degrees in the fine arts and English. An editor at Booklist\, she reviews books for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. She has written bio-critical essays for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers\, and has published in TriQuarterly and Creative Nonfiction. Seaman created\, hosted\, and produced Open Books\, a radio program about outstanding books and writers and the art of reading. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-seaman-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170422T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170422T210000
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CREATED:20170201T043137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T043137Z
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SUMMARY:Amy S. Peele
DESCRIPTION:In Cut\, a well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous. \nWhile the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution\, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon\, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend\, Jackie\, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami\, San Francisco\, and Chicago—a sometimes fun\, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives. \nAmy S. Peele was born and raised in the Chicago area\, where she graduated from South Chicago School of Nursing. She discovered her passion for organ donation and transplantation when she started as a transplant coordinator at University of Chicago\, and has since enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in transplantation in both Illinois and California. Peele has lived and worked in the San Francisco area since 1985 and has been writing creatively for over fifteen years. In addition to killing people in her murder mysteries\, she enjoys meditating\, yoga\, swimming\, and pursuing her spirituality by studying the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-s-peele/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170422T180000
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CREATED:20170201T042655Z
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Sixteen Rivers Press poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener for an evening of reading and discussion. \nThe first section of Body\, in Good Light opens with the words\, “Between any two points\, there is a love story”: points on a compass\, points in time\, between lovers and strangers\, mother and child. Throughout this debut collection\, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \nErin Rodoni was born and raised in the small coastal community of Point Reyes\, California. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Rodoni holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Gillian Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. The second poem in the book\, “Chorus\,” establishes the multiple tensions that exist between person and place\, tensions that come under the scrutiny of a shrewd\, wry\, endlessly inventive eye. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook\, Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2008). Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007\, and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener\, a junior high teacher\, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto\, where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of the Modesto- Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:April Ossmann + Connie Post
DESCRIPTION:April Ossmann is the author of Event Boundaries (Four Way Books\, forthcoming 2017)\, and Anxious Music (Four Way Books) and has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review and Harvard Review\, and in anthologies. Her poetry awards include a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. Former executive director of Alice James Books\, she owns a poetry consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com)\, offering manuscript editing\, publishing advice\, tutorials\, and workshops. She is a faculty editor for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College. She lives in West Windsor\, Vermont. \nConnie Post is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared in Calyx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Slipstream\, The Big Muddy\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her awards include the Caesura Poetry Award\, 2nd prize in the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize\, and 1st place in the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Her chapbook And when the When the Sun Drops won the 2012 Aurorean Editor’s choice Award. Her first full-length book\, Floodwater\, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She is a two-time nominee for the California Poet Laureate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-ossmann-connie-post/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the best-selling memoir\, At Home in the World. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, she founded the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop in 2001. Maynard makes her home in Lafayette\, CA\, where she is currently at work on the screenplay for her novel\, Under the Influence. A memoir about finding her husband at age 58\, marrying him at 59\, and losing him to cancer three years later\, will be published in Fall\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Wild Women: Soul-O w/Nina Wise\, Pamela Z + Amy X Neuburg
DESCRIPTION:An evening of solo performances by improv artist Nina Wise\, and two of the world’s most exciting vocalist-composers: Amy X Neuburg and Pamela Z. \nhttps://tickets.marincenter.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=210 \nNina Wise will weave events of the week into her always unpredictable and moving rendition of what it is like to be human.\nAmy X Neuburg and Pamela Z\, both internationally renowned pioneers in live electronics\, looping\, layered vocals and poetic narratives\, will each deliver original performances that astound\, uplift\, and revitalize our spirits. \n“No mere talking head\, Wise possesses a supple physique\, prodigious energy\, and nerve with which to render the shapes and souls of things. Loving kindness abounds in her work.” Village Voice \nPamela Z\, who uses an unpredictable combination of spoken and sung texts electronically reshaped and textured through digital delays is “like Meredith Monk gone wild.” — Stereo Review \n“Amy X Neuburg is a star — a brilliant one… A classically trained vocalist\, a composer\, an electronic musician\, a poet\, and an entertainer… satirical\, profound\, humorous\, and sexy…”\n— http://electro-music.com/ \nReserved seat tickets:\n$33.50 upper section or $42.50 lower section\nMarin Center box office in person\, phone 415-473-6800\, or online:https://tickets.marincenter.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=210 \nPresented by Lloyd Barde Productions. for info: 415.924.4848
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-women-soul-o-wnina-wise-pamela-z-amy-x-neuburg/
LOCATION:Showcase Theatre at Marin Civic Center\, 10 Avenue of the Flags\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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