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SUMMARY:Peter S. Beagle w/ Tad Williams
DESCRIPTION:One of science fiction and fantasy’s most celebrated creators returns when Peter S. Beagle comes to Kepler’s with his thrilling new fantasy novel\, Summerlong. The award-winning\, bestselling author of The Last Unicorn has written dozens of books as well as nonfiction\, short stories\, poetry and screenplays\, including produced screenplays for Ralph Bashki’s animated 1978 adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” and the “Sarek” episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” \nBeagle’s most well-known novel\, The Last Unicorn\, has sold more than five million copies worldwide and been adapted as a stage production\, an animated film and a graphic novel. The author’s first novel in more than a decade is Summerlong\, a fascinating story about encroaching magic on Puget Sound that Kirkus Reviews calls\, “A beautifully detailed fantasy about love\, magic\, and age.” \nWe hope you’ll join us for this marvelous celebration of one of America’s most gifted fantasy writers. \nTad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. He is the author of a considerable number of epic fantasy and science-fiction series\, fantastical stories of all kinds\, urban fantasy novels\, comics\, scripts\, etc.\, which have strongly influenced a generation of writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-s-beagle-w-tad-williams-2/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Tracy K. Smith
DESCRIPTION:Tracy K. Smith is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Light (Knopf\, 2015) and three books of poetry. Her collection Life on Mars won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. Duende won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and an Essence Literary Award. The Body’s Question was the winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers Award in 2004 and a Whiting Award in 2005. In 2014 the Academy of American Poets awarded her the Academy Fellowship. Smith is Director of the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tracy-k-smith/
LOCATION:Lafayette Library\, 3491 Mt. Diable Blvd\, Lafayette\, CA\, 94549\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2016
DESCRIPTION:Come back to the future with the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest science fiction and fantasy when the editors and authors included in this year’s Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy visit Kepler’s Books. \nThis year’s guest editor is Karen Joy Fowler\, the Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves. She worked with series editor John Joseph Adams to select twenty or so phenomenal pieces of science fiction and fantasy to publish. Featuring writers with deep science fiction and fantasy backgrounds alongside writers who are infusing traditional fiction with speculative elements\, these stories ask big questions about the future\, starting with “What if?” \nJoining Karen Joy Fowler and John Joseph Adams will be popular sci-fi novelist Charlie Jane Anders\, author of All The Birds in the Sky\, and acclaimed short story writer Elizabeth Ziemska.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-best-american-science-fiction-fantasy-2016/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Celebration of New Books by MPC Members
DESCRIPTION:NEW EVENT!!! Join us as we raise a glass to our amazing members who have new books out! We’ll have cake and bubbly! Poems will be read! Books will be for sale! Come help us toast the satisfaction and sweetness of making it through the long slog that leads to publication.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebration-of-new-books-by-mpc-members/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jessica Bennett w/ Rachel Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Jessica Bennett – creator of a real life Fight Club for feminists – and Rachel Thomas – President of Lean In – gather us for a special meeting of the feminist fight club\, providing battle tactics to navigate gender landmines in today’s workplace. \nFeminist Fight Club has been praised by everyone from Sheryl Sandberg to Adam Grant to Ilana Glazer of Broad City fame as a hilarious and practical guide to smashing the patriarchy on the daily. \nDon’t think sexism exists in your workplace? The problems of today’s working world are more subtle\, less pronounced\, harder to identify and harder to prove than those of our foremothers. Come huddle round at Kepler’s to learn trade tips for battling sexism in the workplace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-bennett-w-rachel-thomas/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:2016 Marin Poetry Center Anthology Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out and eat cake and hear our anthology contributors read their poems. The public is very welcome to attend this always lively and lovely event!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-marin-poetry-center-anthology-launch/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:MFA Core Faculty Reading
DESCRIPTION:Marilyn Abildskov\, Brenda Hillman\, Wesley Gibson\, Rosemary Graham\, Christopher Sindt\, Lysley Tenorio\, and Matthew Zapruder. Introduction by Brenna McNab. \nA part of the Graduate Student Reading Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-core-faculty-reading/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night w/ Taylor\, Richardson\, Warren\, + Banias
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to belong to the increasingly slippery present? Come celebrate harvest season with four acclaimed new California poets as they take on technology\, rootedness\, longing\, apocalypse\, and the complex cartographies of desire. \nTess Taylor\, WORK & DAYS \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPRs All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito. \nRachel Richardson\, HUNDRED-YEAR WAVE \nRachel Richardson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the arts and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford. Her poetry collection Hundred-Year Wave juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary motherhood. The San Francisco Chronicle says of the book that “ancestry\, history and the whaling industry unite in a lived present\, and the poem becomes a visceral experience…. Over and over Hundred-Year Wave locates the tender self in a wide expanse of sea.” \nNoah Warren\, THE DESTROYER IN THE GLASS \nNoah Warren is the author of The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review\, The Yale Review\, Poetry\, Agni\, The Missouri Review\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he lives in Palo Alto. \nAri Banias\, ANYBODY\nAri Banias is the author of Anybody. His poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and elsewhere. He lives in Berkeley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night-w-taylor-richardson-warren-banias/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Peter S. Beagle w/ Tad Williams
DESCRIPTION:One of science fiction and fantasy’s most celebrated creators returns when Peter S. Beagle comes to Kepler’s with his thrilling new fantasy novel\, Summerlong. The award-winning\, bestselling author of The Last Unicorn has written dozens of books as well as nonfiction\, short stories\, poetry and screenplays\, including produced screenplays for Ralph Bashki’s animated 1978 adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings” and the “Sarek” episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” \nBeagle’s most well-known novel\, The Last Unicorn\, has sold more than five million copies worldwide and been adapted as a stage production\, an animated film and a graphic novel. The author’s first novel in more than a decade is Summerlong\, a fascinating story about encroaching magic on Puget Sound that Kirkus Reviews calls\, “A beautifully detailed fantasy about love\, magic\, and age.” \nWe hope you’ll join us for this marvelous celebration of one of America’s most gifted fantasy writers. \nTad Williams is a California-based fantasy superstar. He is the author of a considerable number of epic fantasy and science-fiction series\, fantastical stories of all kinds\, urban fantasy novels\, comics\, scripts\, etc.\, which have strongly influenced a generation of writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-s-beagle-w-tad-williams/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Provenance
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10. \nNancy Au‘s stories have appeared or are forthcoming inSmokeLong Quarterly\, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts\, Necessary Fiction\, Fiction Southeast\, Word Riot\, Identity Theory\, Prick of the Spindle\, and elsewhere. She was recently awarded the Spring Creek Project residency (Oregon State University)\, which is dedicated to artists and writers whose work is inspired by nature and science. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Anthropology\, and is completing an MFA at San Francisco State University where she taught creative writing. She teaches at California State University Stanislaus. \nAndrea Kneeland is the author of How to Pose for Hustler (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2015) and The Translations (Sententia Books\, 2015). Her collection of fairy tales\, The Birds & The Beasts\, is forthcoming from Lazy Fascist Press later this year. \nJanice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press\, 2010)\, Daughter (Jaded Ibis\, 2011)\, Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2013)\, Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions\, 2015)\, and most recently\, The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms\, 2016). She also has several chapbooks: Red Trees\, Fried Chicken Dinner (Parrot/Insert Press)\, The Other Worlds (Eohippus Labs)\, and The Transparent As Witness (Solar Luxuriance)\, a collaboration with Will Alexander. She is Editor of the #RECURRENT Novel Series\, Assistant Editor at Fanzine\, Executive Editor of Entropy\, and CEO/Founder of POTG Design. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches at CalArts. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. His recent book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016)\, has been enthusiastically received. He is also the author of Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, and nine chapbooks. Other recent work can be found in Oakland Review #2\, Overthrowing Capitalism vol. 2 (Revolutionary Poets Brigade)\, and the anthology The Careless Embrace of the Boneshaker (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at his website. \nSue Mell was born in Queens\, New York\, and holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Several of her stories have appeared in Narrative Magazine. Sue lives in San Francisco\, where she freelances as a photo stylist and is currently working on a novel. \nAlexandra Naughton is a lil dusty possum and lives in Richmond. Her first novel\,American Mary\, was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms and has received rave reviews by readers worldwide. She is an extremely prolific writer: see her portfolio. She founded Be About It Press in San Francisco in 2010. \nJesse Prado lives in Hayward and blogs at thegreatcratsby.tumblr.com. His first poetry chapbook\, I’ve Been On Tumblr\, is critically acclaimed\, and you can own one for yourself for ten dollars. Hit him up. \nNatasha Sajéis Professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City\, and a long-standing faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. She is the author of three books of poems\, Red Under the Skin\, Bend\, and Vivarium\, a book of poetry criticism\, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (Michigan\, 2014)\, and many essays. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when people come from San Francisco\, the North Bay\, the East Bay\, the South Bay–everywhere–to crowd the house. The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for six years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-provenance/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jedediah Caesar + Kate Costello w/ Dodie Bellamy
DESCRIPTION:Shop Talk brings creative practitioners from disparate fields together for a casual conversation about the conceptual overlaps\, or contradictions\, within their work\, as well as the personal stakes or investments that are involved in their practices. This summer\, Los Angeles based visual artists Jedediah Caesar and Kate Costello (AIRs ‘16) speak with San Francisco novelist\, essayist\, and editor Dodie Bellamy. Together they will unpack the themes that live among and around their distinct projects\, which often deftly undo all expectations—by employing formal upendings\, shifting narratives\, and destabilizing established notions of authorship and truth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jedediah-caesar-kate-costello-w-dodie-bellamy/
LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! July 2016 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates HOT summer lit with special guest readers Michelle Cruz Gonzales\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez and Hilary Zaid! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (3-5 minute limit). \n* Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band\, a memoir about her days in the groundbreaking 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy. Michelle has been a regular contributor to Hip Mama Magazine\, published in anthologies\, and her story “Juan\, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. She teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas College and lives in Oakland with a jazz pianist\, a Mexican nationalist\, and three Mexican dogs. \n* Daniel Riddle Rodriguez’s real name is Daniel Riddle Rodriguez. A full-time student and father\, he is from San Lorenzo\, California\, where he lives with his son. He is the author of Low Village (CutBank 2016). Previous publications include Juked\, Prairie Schooner\, Gulf Stream Magazine\, Fourteen Hills\, and others. \n* Hilary Zaid is a writer who prefers candy to alcohol. She is a novelist whose short fiction has appeared in Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, CALYX\, The Utne Reader and other\, funkier venues. She is super stressed out about the possibility of being evicted from her home in Oakland and she is reading tonight from her story “Dark Between the Stars\,” the BLOOM Literary Chapbook Prize winner chosen by Judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe. \n—–\n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-july-2016-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Headlands Center for the Arts: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/headlands-center-for-the-arts-open-house/
LOCATION:Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: “Ever Since”
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15 \nMathieu Cailler’s poetry and prose have been widely featured in numerous national and international publications\, including the Los Angeles Times\, Epiphany\, and The Saturday Evening Post. A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he has been a finalist for the Glimmer Train New Writers Award\, the New Rivers Press American Fiction Prize\, and the Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. He is also the recipient of a Short Story America Prize for Short Fiction and a Shakespeare Award for Poetry. He is the author of Clotheslines (Red Bird Press)\, Shhh (ELJ Publications)\, and the recently acclaimed collection of short stories\, Loss Angeles (Short Story America Press 2016). \nElizabeth Collison is the author of the novel Some Other Town (Harper Perennial\, 2015). She has published stories in North American Review\, The Barcelona Review\, and Monkeybicycle and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lives in San Jose. \nBrennan DeFrisco is an MFA candidate in poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles. He was a National Poetry Slam Finalist in 2015\, placing third in the country. He is co-founder of Lucky Bastard Press\, where he co-edits with his muse\, Allie Marini. He is a teaching artist with California Poets In The Schools and Digital Storytellers\, facilitating poetry workshops for students across the Bay Area. He’s the author of A Heart With No Scars by Nomadic Press and co-author of Exquisite Duet by Hermeneutic Chaos Press\, a collaboration with Allie Marini. His work can be found or is forthcoming in Words Dance\, jmww journal\, Gemini and others. He loves movies\, poker\, whiskey\, Firefly\, & a particularly beautiful\, talented woman. He occupies Oakland\, CA with her. \nKate Folk‘s stories have appeared in many journals and are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, the Indianola Review\, and Juked. She has received support for her writing from the Headlands Center for the Arts\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Originally from Iowa\, she’s lived in San Francisco since 2008. \nMaureen O’Leary is a writer and educator from Sacramento. She is the author of the novels How to Be Manly\, The Arrow\, and Coffeetown Press’ summer 2016 release The Ghost Daughter. She is the winner of Heyday Books’ Sacramento Valley Writing Contest for Poetry\, and her work will be included in a forthcoming book about the people and environment of the region. Her short stories and poetry appear in the publications of Esopus\, Night Train Journal\, Brackish Vol. 2\, Revolution John\, Prick of the Spindle\, The Gold Man Review\, and in Shade Mountain Press’ anthology The Female Complaint: Tales of Unruly Women. \nShobha Rao is the author of the collection of short stories\, An Unrestored Woman\, published in March 2016. Kirkus Reviews called An Unrestored Woman “stunning and relentless.” Booklist said of the collection\, “Rao’s raw and breathtaking short story collection is set against [an] epic canvas\, yet her character studies are intimate.”  She is the winner of the 2014 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Fiction\, awarded by Nimrod International Journal. She has been a resident at Hedgebrook and is the recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation fellowship. Her story “Kavitha and Mustafa” was chosen by T.C. Boyle for inclusion in the Best American Short Stories 2015. She lives in San Francisco. \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 hailed by critic Stephen Burt as “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. She chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle\, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize and awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, The Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, Necessary Fiction\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and many others. She has been a Best Small Fictions finalist\, a Pushcart Prize nominee\, and a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Estelle Frank Fellow. She is currently an Elizabeth George Foundation scholar at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts\, and her first flash fiction chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, will be available from Split Lit Press in June 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-ever-since/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Sonoma County CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Kara would be so excited to see your face at the Sonoma County launch of her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, out on Split Lip Press 6/15. No open mic this time\, but she will be joined by some fabulous readers\, including Ms. Dani Burlison\, who will be reading from her new zine Lady Parts\, Shirin Bridges\, Guy Biederman\, Leilani Clark\, Jessica Dur\, and Tricia McWorter. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-sonoma-county-chapbook-launch-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15 \nJayne Benjulian’s careers have been as varied and many as places she has lived: she served as chief speechwriter at Apple\, investigator for the public defender in King County\, Washington\, and director of new play development at Magic Theater. She was an Ossabaw Island Project Fellow; a teaching fellow at Emory University\, where she earned an MA; a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Theater at San Francisco State University; and a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Lyon\, France. She holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She lives in Massachusetts and hikes the Berkshire Hills with her long-haired German shepherd\, Ophelia\, but she misses her big\, brash Pacific Ocean. Five Sextillion Atoms is her first collection. \nMark Ciabattari is the author of Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli\, The Literal Truth: Rizzoli Eats the Apple of Earthly Delights (which Kirkus Reviews calls “a delightful postmodern romp\, more Calvino than Kafka”)\, and Clay Creatures\, which matches two stories—Ciabattari’s “The Urn” and a new translation of Luigi Pirandello’s “The Jar” by Maria Enrico. Montana-born and raised\, he long resided in New York City; he and his wife Jane\, also a writer\, now live in Sonoma County.  His new collection\, Preludes to History\, is just out. \nJoe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and and producer of Lip Service West\, a “gritty\, real\, raw” reading series in Oakland\, CA. He is the author of several books\, including Junkie Love and Lamentation\, as well as editor ofTrouble in the Heartland: Crime Stories Based on the Songs of Bruce Springsteen. His latest novel\, December Boys\, the second in the Lamentation series (Oceanview Publishing)\, is out June 2016. \nLeora Fridman is the author of My Fault\, out this spring from Cleveland State University Press and winner of the 2015 CSU First Book Poetry Competition. She is also the author of the chapbooks Precious Coast (H_ngm_n Books)\, Obvious Metals (Projective Industries)\, On the Architecture andEssential Nature (The New Megaphone)\, and Eduardo Milán: Poems\, a chapbook of translations from Toad Press. She attended Brown University\, where she was awarded the Pembroke Poetry Prize\, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers\, where she was awarded a Graduate Fellowship and MFA Thesis Grant\, taught College Writing and Poetry Writing\, served as Assistant Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute\, and curated the  jubilat/Jones Reading Series. She is a recipient of multiple grants and honors including a 2015 Vermont Studio Center fellowship\, grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation\, and a Dorot Fellowship. \nAlyssa Oursler is a freelance writer from Maryland\, currently living in San Francisco. Her creative non-fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Luna Luna Magazine\, The East Bay Review\, Thought Catalog and others\, on top of placing second in Litquake’s 2015 writing contest. Alyssa also writes regularly about tech\, travel\, gender\, money and more; her articles have been published on USA Today\, Forbes\, Business Insider\, The Bold Italic\, 7×7 and many others. She is currently working on her debut essay collection\, “Fool’s Paradise.” \nKaren Terrey earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in 2007.  She loves to collaborate with visual artists in critique groups and art salons on her creative process and use of image and form. Her poems have appeared in RHINO\, Edge\, West Trestle Review\, Sierra Nevada Review\, The Meadow\, Squaw Valley Review and Puerto Del Sol\, among others. Her poetry chapbook\, Bite and Blood\, published by Finishing Line Press\, is available in local bookstores. As a builder of literary community\, she is the co-organizer for the Literary Arts & Wine Reading Series\, a monthly event in downtown Truckee. She is a writing coach and editor\, offering workshops\, manuscript review\, and coaching through her business\, Tangled Roots Writing. She’s taught writing at Sierra Nevada College\, Lake Tahoe Community College and Sierra College. To see her poems and info on other events and workshops check out her blog. \nRuth Thompson is the author of three books of poetry:Crazing\, Woman With Crows\, and Here Along Cazenovia Creek. Poems from Crazing have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly\, Poetry Flash\, and elsewhere. Woman With Crowswas a finalist for AROHO’s To The Lighthouse Prize; it included poems that won the New Millennium Writings\,Harpur Palate\, and other prizes. Here Along Cazenovia Creekwas choreographed and performed as Dancing the Seasons by the great Japanese dancer Shizuno Nasu. She received a BA from Stanford and a doctorate in English from Indiana University. She now lives in Hilo\, Hawai’i\, where she teaches writing\, meditation\, and yoga and is currently absorbed in creating poetry and dance videos with dancer Jenn Eng and videographer Don Mitchell. Ruth travels often to read and to teach workshops on writing from the body. She owns and operates Saddle Road Press\, which has published such authors as Jayne Benjulian\, Stefan Kiesbye\, Tania Pryputniewicz\, and Jessamyn Smyth. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when people come from San Francisco\, the North Bay\, the East Bay\, the South Bay–everywhere–to crowd the house. The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for six years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-solidarity/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\n \nFirst Friday: Naked Truth\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. Our amazing line-up of talented storytellers will have carte blanche to choose their favorite\, go-to\, killer stories—no constraints of a theme!  Some of your favorite storytellers will be back to share some of their favorite stories\, including Matteson Perry\, Doug Cordell\, & Josh Healey.\n\nWhat is First Friday?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience: \nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth/
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:Dana Gioia: 99 Poems
DESCRIPTION:We are so honored to bring the newly appointed Poet Laureate of California\, Dana Gioia\, to celebrate the publication of his new collection. We hope youll join us in welcoming this profound and meaningful artist to Keplers Books in Menlo Park. \nDana Gioia is widely known in the literary community for his rigorous craft and his imaginative use of traditional forms\, rhyme and meter. He tackles the everyday drama and emotional moments in our lives and explores universal themes like grief\, love\, time\, family and his own mortality. This is the first collection of Gioias to gather work from across his storied career\, including a dozen remarkable new poems. \nThe Washington Post raves\, 99 Poems is one of the most anticipated collections of 2016\, and it does not disappoint. No matter what the topicmystery\, place remembrance\, imagination\, stories\, songs\, loveor the form\, these polished pieces are vibrant and inviting. \nDana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He earned an M.B.A at Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In December of 2015\, Gioia was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown and will advocate for the education and practice of poetry during his two-year term. He has published four full-length collections of poetry\, as well as eight chapbooks. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-gioia-99-poems/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:David Hernandez + Tiffany Midge
DESCRIPTION:David Hernandez’s most recent book of poetry\, Hoodwinked (Sarabande Books\, 2011)\, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry. Dear\, Sincerely—his new collection—is forthcoming Spring 2016 as part of the Pitt Poetry Series. His other books include Always Danger (SIU Press\, 2006)\, winner of the Crab Orchard Series\, and A House Waiting for Music (Tupelo Press\, 2003). David’s awards include an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in FIELD\, The Southern Review\, Ploughshares\, The Threepenny Review\, and The Best American Poetry 2013. He is also the author of two YA novels\, No More Us for You and Suckerpunch\, both published by HarperCollins. David teaches creative writing at California State University\, Long Beach and at California State University\, Fullerton. He lives in Long Beach and is married to writer Lisa Glatt. \nTiffany Midge is the recipient of the Kenyon Review Earthworks Prize for Indigenous Poetry for The Woman Who Married a Bear (University of New Mexico Press)\, and the Diane Decorah Memorial Poetry Award for Outlaws\, Renegades and Saints; Diary of a Mixed-up Halfbreed (Greenfield Review Press). Her work has appeared in North American Review\, Florida Review\, South Dakota Review\, Shenandoah\, and the online journals No Tell Motel and Drunken Boat. Tiffany has published creative nonfiction in The Butter\, and Sovereign Bodies\, and her essays received Pushcart Prize nominations from The Raven Chronicles and Yellow Medicine Review. An enrolled Standing Rock Sioux\, she holds an MFA from University of Idaho and is Poet Laureate of Moscow\, Idaho. Tiffany is writing the Great American (Indian) Novel about contemporary\, urban Native life\, Sex\, Lies\, and Frybread\, a Dramedy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-hernandez-tiffany-midge/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Louise Erdrich w/ Gail Tsukiyama
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening with Louise Erdrich\, one of the most gifted\, prolific\, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. The author of many award-winning novels\, including Love Medicine; The Beet Queen\, and The Bingo Palace\, this is her first novel since the publication of the 2012 National Book Award-winning novel\, The Round House. \nIn LaRose\, Landreaux Iron kills his neighbor’s five-year-old son\, Dusty Ravich\, in a hunting accident. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor\, Peter Ravich\, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux’s five-year-old son\, LaRose. The two families have always been close\, sharing food\, clothing\, and rides into town; their children played together despite going to different schools; and Landreaux’s wife\, Emmaline\, is half sister to Dusty’s mother\, Nola. Horrified at what he’s done\, the recovered alcoholic turns to traditionthe sweat lodgefor guidance\, and finds a way forward. Following an ancient means of retribution\, he and Emmaline will give LaRose to the grieving Peter and Nola. “Our son will be your son now\,” they tell them. \nWhat follows is a powerful exploration of loss\, justice\, and the reparation of the human heart\, and an unforgettable\, dazzling tour de force from one of America’s most distinguished literary masters. \nBorn to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father in San Francisco\, Gail Tsukiyama’s bestselling novels include The Street of a Thousand Blossoms\, Women of the Silk\, A Hundred Flowers\, Dreaming Water\, The Language of Threads\, The Samurai’s Garden\, and Night of Many Dreams. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-erdrich-w-gail-tsukiyama/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Begin Again
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. \nPaul Corman-Roberts’ most recent collection of poems We Shoot Typewriters (Nomadic Press\, September 2015) was nominated for a Northern California Book Reviewers award. A Pushcart and Best of Web nominee\, Corman-Roberts’ work has appeared in The Rumpus\, subTerrain\, Full of Crow\, Connotation Press\, The Cape Fear Review\, Red Fez\, andCorium among others. In addition to producing spoken word performance spectacles across the Bay Area\, he is a core-founder of Oakland’s largest and oldest regular literary festival\, the Beast Crawl. \nSherrie Flick is the author of the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting\, the novel Reconsidering Happiness\, and the short story collection Whiskey\, Etc. (Queen’s Ferry Press\, 2016). Her work has appeared in many anthologies and journals\, including Flash Fiction Forward\, New Sudden Fiction\, Ploughshares\, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She teaches in the MFA and Food Studies programs at Chatham University. \nA Canadian by birth\, a high school dropout\, and a mother at 17\, in her early years\, Lily Iona MacKenzie supported herself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company\, as a long distance operator for the former Alberta Government Telephones\, and as a secretary (Bechtel Corp sponsored her into the States). She also was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco\, briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman (and almost got her legs broken)\, founded and managed a homeless shelter in Marin County\, and eventually earned two Master’s degrees (one in Creative Writing and one in the Humanities). She has published reviews\, interviews\, short fiction\, poetry\, travel pieces\, essays\, and memoir in over 150 American and Canadian venues. Fling was published in July 2015 by Pen-L Publishing. Bone Songs\, another novel\, will be published in November 2016. Her poetry collection All This was published in 2011. She also taught writing at the University of San Francisco and was vice-president of USF’s part-time faculty union. When she isn’t writing\, she paints and travels widely with her husband. She also maintains a blog. \nMarian Palaia is\, among other things\, an author. Born in Riverside\, California\, she currently resides in San Francisco. Other places she has called (or does call) home: Montana\, Hong Kong\, Olympia\, WA\, Nepal\, Saigon\, Boulder\, CO\, and Kensington\, MD. To support her writing habit\, she has been a teacher\, a bartender\, a truck driver\, “chip girl” in a poker room\, and the littlest logger in Lincoln\, Montana\, where she and Ted Kazynski were neighbors\, sort of. Her first novel\, The Given World (Simon & Schuster\, 2015)\, was a Kirkus Best Novel of 2015 (also Best Debut and Historical) and was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, Break Glass\, will be published by Queen’s Ferry Press in April\, 2016.  She is on the fiction faculty of the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBT fiction\, and she lives in New York. \nZarina Zabrisky is the author of three short story collections\, including Explosion(Epic Rites Press\, 2015) and a novel We\, Monsters (Numina Press). She moved to San Francisco from Russia in 1998 and started to publish in English in 2011. Since then her work has appeared in six countries and has been featured and reviewed in over thirty magazines\, including The Nervous Breakdown\, The Rumpus\, Guernica\, PANK Magazine\, Anthropology Now\, and more. She has received literary awards and nominations\, including Acker Award for Achievement in The Avant Garde. She is involved in protest art as a co-founder of The Arts Resistance\, a collective resisting the war and injustice through the means of the arts. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when word lovers from the Bay Area and beyond crowd the house.  The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for six years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-begin-again/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler returns to emcee this year’s series\, where baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing.  You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program.\nEmcee:\nDaniel Handler is the author of five novels\, including We Are Pirates. As Lemony Snicket\, he’s responsible for too many books for children\, including the relatively new series All the Wrong Questions. \nJudges:\nSusan Terris is the editor of Spillway and the author of fourteen chapbooks\, three artists’ books\, and six books of poetry\, including Ghost of Yesterday: New & Selected Poems (Marsh Hawk 2013) and Memos (Omnidawn 2015). Her publications include Best American Poetry\, FIELD\, Pushcart Prize XXXI\, Ploughshares\, and The Southern Review. \nMill Valley resident Brian Murphy is the author of six books\, including San Francisco Giants: 50 Years. He was a sportswriter for 15 years at the LA Times\, Santa Rosa Press Democrat\, SF Examiner\, and SF Chronicle before joining KNBR\, where he’s hosted the popular “Murph and Mac” show since 2004. \nPlayers:\nGeorge Higgins is the author of There\, There (White Violet Press 2013). He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College\, where he was a Holden Fellow\, and is also a Cave Canem Fellow. His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Fugue\, Nimrod\, Pleiades\, Poetry Flash\, and Salamander\, among others. \nPeter Kline teaches at USF and Stanford. His first book\, Deviants\, was published by SFASU Press in 2013. A former Stegner Fellow\, he’s also received fellowships from the Amy Clampitt House and James Merrill House. His poetry has appeared in The Antioch Review\, Five Points\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, Tin House\, and elsewhere. \nDanusha Laméris’s book\, The Moons of August\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye for the 2013 Autumn House Press poetry prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review\, American Poetry Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New Letters\, The Sun\, and elsewhere. \nDr. Raina J. León is a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, CantoMundo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. Her books include Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (February 2016). She’s a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College. \nMeryl Natchez’s most recent book is a bilingual volume: Poems from the Stray Dog Café: Akhmatova\, Mandelstam and Gumilev. She’s co-translator of Tadeusz Borowski: Selected Poems\, and her collection Jade Suit was published in 2001. Her work has appeared in The Pinch\, Atlanta Review\, Lyric\, Moth\, and elsewhere. \nMatthew Siegel’s Blood Work won the 2015 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize. His work has appeared in The Guardian\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. A former Stegner Fellow\, he teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sarah J. Mass
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler’s Books \nKepler’s favorite\, Sarah J. Maas\, is back with the stunning sequel to her New York Times bestselling “A Court of Thorns and Roses”\, and we couldn’t be more excited. \nIn “A Court of Thorns and Roses”\, Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae\, her heart remains human\, and it can’t forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin’s people. Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand\, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics\, passion\, and dazzling power\, a greater evil looms–and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her gifts\, heal her fractured soul\, and decide how she wishes to shape her future–and the future of a world cleaved in two. \nIn this electrifying sequel\, Sarah J. Maas’ masterful storytelling takes her seductive and action-packed series to new heights. \nSarah will be in conversation with Evelyn Skye\, author of “The Crown’s Game”. \nPlease note:\n1. The purchase of A Court of Mist and Fury IS REQUIRED in order to join the signing line. \n2. Sarah will sign three books per person\, but only personalize one. \nTicket Information: \n$25.00 — Premier Ticket. This includes one hardcover copy of “A Court of Mist and Fury”\, priority seating\, and priority in the signing line \n$15.00 — General Admission. No hardcover copy of “A Court of Mist and Fury”\, no priority seating or priority in the signing line. \nFor those who wish to sit together\, please purchase tickets in the same seating area. \nThe book will be available for pickup\, and for sale\, at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-j-mass/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Asymmetrical Press Word Tasting Tour
DESCRIPTION:http://asymmetrical.co/wordtas ting/ \nNot just a book reading\, not just another event—a meaningful experience. Asymmetrical Press’ team of talented authors is hitting the road in May and June for a WordTasting Tour across the western United States and Canada. From minimalism and travel to storytelling and humor\, this tour provides a taste of something for everyone. \nJoin Colin Wright\, Josh Wagner\, Shawn Mihalik\, Skye Steele\, and special local guests for an evening of WordTasting: readings\, stories\, live music\, questions\, and answers. Plus special guests Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus of The Minimalists will host and read at most events (see full schedule for details). \nAdmission to each two-hour event is free. So are the words. Come get a taste of something simple\, unique\, indie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asymmetrical-press-word-tasting-tour/
LOCATION:The Crepe Place\, 1134 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! w/ Spagna\, Arsdale + Conran
DESCRIPTION:Get Lit celebrates SPRING with special guest readers Ana Maria Spagna\, Sarah Van Arsdale and A. E. Conran ! We sure hope you’ll join us! \nFollowing our guest readers\, we’ll have time for schmoozing\, buying books and drinks and then YOU can read on the open mic (5 minute limit). \nAna Maria Spagna lives and writes in Stehekin\, Washington\, a remote community in the North Cascades accessible only by boat\, trail\, or float plane. She is the author most recently of the braided nonfiction narrative Reclaimers\, stories of people reclaiming sacred land and water\, as well as the memoir/history Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter’s Civil Rights Journey\, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize\, and two collections of essays\, Potluck: Community on the Edge of Wilderness\, finalist for the Washington State Book Award\, and Now Go Home\, a Seattle Times Best Book of 2004. Her writing on nature\, work\, civil rights\, and life in a small community has appeared in dozens of publications including Orion\, Ecotone\, Creative Nonfiction\, North American Review\, and High Country News. \nSarah Van Arsdale’s fourth book of fiction\, In Case of Emergency\, is just out with Queen’s Ferry Press\, April\, 2012. Her third novel\, Grand Isle\, was published by SUNY Press in 2012. Her second\, Blue\, winner of the 2002 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel\, was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003\, and her first\, Toward Amnesia\, was published in 1996 by Riverhead Books. Her poetry\, book reviews\, interviews and essays have appeared in national publications\, including Guernica\, Passages North\, Fiction Writers Review\, Bookslut\, Episodic\, and Oxford Magazine. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Vermont College\, and teaches at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts MFA in Creative Writing Program and at NYU. She serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction and curates BLOOM: The Reading Series at Hudson View Gardens in New York City. \nA. E. Conran (Amanda) is a children’s book author\, freelance editor\, children’s book specialist and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. The Lost Celt is her first middle grade novel. A modern adventure story\, it draws upon video games\, time-travel conspiracies\, Roman and Celtic history and the ancient stories of Irish warrior hero Cuchulain\, but ultimately it deals with the invisible effects of war on veterans and their families throughout the generations and the transcendent power of friendship. Katherine Applegate\, Author of THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and Winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal says\, “THE LOST CELT is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of taut suspense\, riveting action\, and\, most importantly\, humor and heart. Not to be missed.” Originally from England\, Amanda now lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, two kids and lots of squirrels\, deer and coyotes…in the back garden\, not in the house! \n*NEW FOR 2016: Join hosts Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor the 4th Wednesday of January\, April\, July and October for the Get Lit reading series at Corkscrew Wine Bar in Petaluma! \nEach event features three guest readers with a short open mic immediately following. Authors will have books and other materials available to purchase. Corkscrew will have fantastic wine\, beer\, non-alcoholic beverages\, appetizers and desserts for sale at the bar\, as well. \nGet Lit is a free\, 21+ event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-w-spagna-arsdale-conran/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sinan Antoon
DESCRIPTION:Sinan Antoon (Baghdad\, 1967) is a poet\, novelist\, scholar\, and translator. He holds degrees from Baghdad\, Georgetown\, and Harvard\, where he earned a doctorate in Arabic literature. He has published two collections of poetry and four novels. His works have been translated into nine languages. His translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book In the Presence of Absence won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His translation of his own novel\, The Corpse Washer\, won the 2014 Saif Ghobash Prize for Literary Translation and was longlisted for the International Prize for Foreign Fiction. His third novel\, Ya Maryam\, was shortlisted for the Arabic Booker. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf (Palgrave\, 2014). In 2003 he returned to his native Baghdad to co-direct About Baghdad\, a documentary about life under occupation. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya. He is an associate professor at New York University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sinan-antoon/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160417T210000
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Motion Festival
DESCRIPTION:APRIL 17 at 4:15 pm: “Baddddd Sonia Sanchez.” For 80-year-old Sonia Sanchez\, writing is both a personal and political act. She emerged as a seminal figure in the 1960s Black Arts Movement\, raising her voice in the name of black culture\, civil rights\, women’s liberation and peace. Maya Angelou called her “a lion in literature’s forest\,” and in this spirited film we understand why. \nAPRIL 17 at 7 pm: “Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.” This exquisite and intimate documentary tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of 20th century America. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Sura Wood had to say about Poetry in Motion Festival: Apr 17 : \n “Pratibha Parmar’s doc follows “The Color Purple” author from her birth in a shack in the cotton fields of rural Georgia to her experiences as a civil rights activist in the South to her work as a contributing editor at Ms. Magazine. The film\, which explores Walker’s identities as an African-American\, Southerner and the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize\, includes interviews with Danny Glover\, Steven Spielberg and Gloria Steinem. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-motion-festival/
LOCATION:Rafael Film Center\, 1118 4th St\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Spring Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come roam the various buildings of our campus\, engage with artists in their studios\, experience new work and works in progress\, see performances\, hear readings\, and stay for a housemade lunch in the Mess Hall. \nParking is limited! If you can\, we encourage you to carpool\, bike\, or take the bus. More info on transportation and directions here. \nFull schedule of events coming soon!
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LOCATION:Mess Hall\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, 944 Simmonds Road\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Your Story Was This
DESCRIPTION:Main Reading Room – 7pm\nWine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nFor adults and high school students only. No one younger will be admitted. This event is free and open to the public. \nRegistration highly recommended. Click here to register.\nAfter Hours – Liss Fain Dance: Your Story Was This\nAn immersive performance installation integrates Fain’s choreography with three poems by Jane Hirshfield\, embedded in an original score by Dan Wool. Fain’s work fuses modern dance’s forceful energy with the kinetic precision of ballet. Q&A with Fain and Hirshfield follows performance. Fain\, Hirshfield\, and costume designer Mary Domenico are all Mill Valley residents. \nWhat is After Hours?\nDebuting in January 2011 in celebration of the Library’s centennial year\, the ongoing “First Fridays” and “After Hours” series presents different narratives\, ideas and presentations that an audience might otherwise not consider or experience. After Hours is for adults and high school students. \nThe Venue:\nThe Library’s Main Reading Room is transformed into a beautiful venue for After Hours events. Built in 1966\, the Library is nestled among the redwoods in an award-winning building and reflects the diverse intellectual interests of the community. \nThe Experience:\nPrograms typically last 90 minutes (includes Q&A). After Hours features a wine reception before and after our program. Patrons enjoy the intimate atmosphere and ability to meet our presenters. Attendance ranges between 115 and 260 people per event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-your-story-was-this/
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: “Rhyme or Reason”
DESCRIPTION:“Rhyme or Reason.” The third track from Eminem’s eighth studio album in which the rapper sings along with the chorus of “Time of the Season.” Attributed to poet Edmund Spenser in a letter with Queen Victoria as the first to utter the words. This in response to his having composed the poem “The Faire Queen” in honor of Queen Elizabeth and expecting his promised L100\, to which the High Treasurer of the time felt the sum was too much for a poem. The Queen\, however\, granted the money immediately after Spenser’s plea. Definitely found in Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and in As You Like It. Join us April 14\, 2016\, at Studio 333 on 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalitoto hear the following acclaimed authors give you their take on these words. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 \nA.E. Conran is a freelance editor\, bookseller\, book talker\, and children’s book club facilitator at Book Passage\, Corte Madera\, CA. Originally from England\, she holds a BA (Hons) and MPhil in English from Leeds University. She is a member of the Tuesday Night Writers group\, which hosts the bi-monthly Pints and Prose Reading series in Fairfax\, and co-organizer of Better Books Marin\, a craft-based children’s book conference now in its fourth year. Her first middle grade novel\, The Lost Celt\, was just launched on March 15. Katherine Applegate\, Author of The One and Only Ivan and winner of the 2013 Newbery Medal said\, “The Lost Celt is the best kind of children’s adventure story\, full of …humor and heart. Not to be missed.” \nBorn on the German coast of the Baltic Sea\, Stefan Kiesbye moved to Berlin in the early 1980s. He studied drama and worked in radio before a scholarship brought him to Buffalo\, New York. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. His stories\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, and in the Coachella Review\, among others. His first book\,Next Door Lived a Girl\, won the Low Fidelity Press Novella Award\, and has been translated into German\, Dutch\, and Spanish. Your House Is on Fire\, Your Children All Gone made EW’s Must List and was named one of the best books of 2012 by Slate editor Dan Kois\, and was optioned for television by Warner Bros. The German edition of Your House Is on Fire\, Your Children All Gone was published by Tropen Verlag\, the Spanish edition by Editorial Almadia. The gothic novel Messer\, Gabel\, Schere\, Licht (Knives\, Forks\, Scissors\, Flames) was published by Tropen Verlag in 2014. Ars Vivendi Verlag released the The LA Noir Fluchtpunkt Los Angeles (Vanishing Point) in February 2015. The Staked Plains\, a novella\, was recently published by Saddle Road Press. Kiesbye teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University. \nAllie Marini holds degrees from Antioch University of Los Angeles and New College of Florida\, meaning she can explain deconstructionism but cannot perform simple math. Her work has been a finalist for Best of the Net & nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is managing editor for theNonBinary Review\, Unbound Octavo\, & Zoetic Press\, and co-edits forLucky Bastard Press with her man\, performance poet B Deep. She has previously served on the masthead for Lunch Ticket\, Spry Literary Journal\, The Weekenders Magazine\, Mojave River Review & Press\, & The Bookshelf Bombshells. Allie is the author of Unmade & Other Poems\, (Beautysleep Press)\, You Might Curse Before You Bless (ELJ Publications)wingless\, scorched & beautiful\, (Imaginary Friend Press)\, Before Fire\, (ELJ Publications)\, This Is How We End (Bitterzoet)\, Pictures From The Center Of The Universe (Paper Nautilus\, winner of the Vella Prize)\,Cliffdiving (Nomadic Press)\, And When She Tasted of Knowledge(Nomadic Press)\, Southern Cryptozoology: A Field Guide To Beasts Of The Southern Wild (Hyacinth Girl Press)\,Here Comes Hell {dancing girl press}\, and Heart Radicals\, a collaborative collection with Les Kay\, Janeen Pergrin Rastall\, and Sandra Marchetti (ELJ Publications). Allie rarely sleeps\, and her mother has hypothesized that she is actually a robot fueled by Diet Coke & Sri Racha. Find her on the web: @kiddeternity. \nNayomi Munaweera’s debut novel Island of a Thousand Mirrors was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award. Publisher’s Weekly wrote\, “Munaweera’s… lyrical debut novel [is] worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience\, Jhumpa Lahiri.” The New York Times Book review called the novel\, “incandescent.” Nayomi’s second novel What Lies Between Us was released in February 2016 and has already been reviewed to great acclaim in venues from the SF Chronicle to Buzzfeed. \nBarbara Roether is a writer and teacher based in San Francisco. She grew up in Ohio and left rather quickly\, and rather young. Her debut novel This Earth You’ll Come Back Toexplains why. She has lived and worked in Morocco and Indonesia. Before teaching\, she worked in book publishing as an editor and freelance writer\, and has contributed to many books on travel and religion. As an editor at HarperCollins\, she created Signs of the Sacred\, a series of visual books on religious ritual. She is the author of a poetry collection The Middle Atlas\, while essays and short fiction have appeared in Tricycle\, Yoga Journal\, and various literary magazines. She holds an MFA from Bard College where she was the recipient of the Milton Avery Fellowship in the Arts. \nKathleen Winter is the author of Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press)\, winner of the Antivenom Poetry Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award.  Her poems have appeared in Tin House\, AGNI\, The New Republic\, Gulf Coast\, Poetry London\, and other journals. She was awarded fellowships at the Dora Maar House\, James Merrill House\, Cill Rialaig Retreat\, and Vermont Studio Center. During fall semester 2015\, she was the Ralph Johnston Fellow at the Dobie Paisano Ranch\, selected by the University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters. She teaches at Napa Valley College and lives in Glen Ellen. \nKatie M Zeigler is a writer and teacher living in Walnut Creek\, CA. She holds a BA and MA in Literature from Stanford University and has had short fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of outlets\, including A Clean\, Well-Lighted Place\, the Fish Anthology\, andStanford Magazine. She won the Stanford Magazine Fiction Contest and was a finalist in Glimmer Train’s short fiction contest. She is currently working on a young adult novel and teaches writing at Diablo Valley College. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, and is the brainchild of curator and host Peg Alford Pursell. This literary goodness has been going strong for six years and is expanding its mission in 2016 to publish those voices that must be heard. See WTAW Press for more information and to support this crucial activity!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-rhyme-or-reason/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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