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SUMMARY:Everybody’s Improper Maps to San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:It’s a book tour! Three NYC poets\, Mark Gurarie\, Alex Crowley and Keara Driscoll are on tour in support of the publication of Gurarie’s Everybody’s Automat and Crowley’s Improper Maps. This trio is joined by local poets Charlie Getter and Miguel Pereira. Learn more about the readers below: \nOriginally of Cleveland\, Ohio\, Mark Gurarie currently splits time between Brooklyn\, New York and Northampton\, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the New School’s MFA program\, and is the author of Everybody’s Automat (The Operating System\, 2016)\, his debut collection. His poems and prose have appeared in Pelt\, Paper Darts\, Sink Review\, Everyday Genius\, The Rumpus\, The Literary Review\, Coldfront\, Publishers Weekly\, Lyre Lyre and elsewhere. In 2012\, the New School published Pop :: Song\, the 2011 winner of its Poetry Chapbook Competition. He co-curates the Mental Marginalia Poetry Reading Series in Brooklyn\, serves as the Printed Matter Editor at Boog City and lends bass guitar and occasional vocals to psych-punk band\, Galapagos Now!. In addition\, he is an adjunct instructor teaching online for George Washington University\, a book reviewer and free-lance copywriter. \nAlex Crowley is a reviews editor at Publishers Weekly and a cofounder of Brooklyn’s Mental Marginalia reading series. He was the recipient of the first annual Paul Violi Award from the New School\, and is the author of the chapbook Improper Maps (The Operating System\, 2016). Poems and reviews have appeared in Phantom Limb\, TLR\, Forklift Ohio\, BORT Quarterly\, DIAGRAM\, Handsome\, HARIBO\, and elsewhere. He is the guitarist/vocalist for the band Warmth and you can find him on Twitter @a_p_crowley. \nKeara Driscoll‘s poems have appeared in the Argos Books anthology Why I am Not a Painter\, Big Bell\, and Forklift\, Ohio. She holds an MFA in poetry from The New School\, and likes to make people drink wine with her. She was born in Queens and she will die in Queens.\nFind her on Twitter. \nCharlie Getter can’t spell\, except big words\, like forsythia or ragamuffin\, he’s left handed\, but only when he’s sleeping\, he’s been known to be known for something\, whatever that is\, well no one knows… \nTransplant local poet Miguel Pereira is a military brat who came to San Francisco after graduating from Princeton University with a BA in Creative Writing. A founding father of the 16th and Mission weekly gathering\, he has been publishing and reading locally since last century.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everybodys-improper-maps-to-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bernal Yoga Literary Series: Event #3
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the third event of the 2015-16 season. \nDoors open at 7:30\, reading begins at 8pm.\n$5 suggested donation at door\, no one turned away for lack of funds. \nOur readers: \nPETER BULLEN was born\, and is therefore said to have lived. Forty nine years into this experiment\, he took to writing fiction as an alternative to conversation for which he had lost the reins\, the motivation\, and the ability. Due to the unforeseen kindness of strangers his work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, and the L.A. Review of Books. He has a smattering of other literary credits but gets jealous and depressed when hearing writers introduced with a long list of them\, and will therefore spare you his one or two more. \nTERRA BRIGANDO’s first novel\, Rooms for Ghosts\, was released from Wordcraft of Oregon this past August. Her work has appeared in Bloom\, Word Riot\, The Cortland Review\, 580 Split and others. She teaches and writes in Oakland. More of her work can be found by visiting www.terrabrigando.com. \nNANCY DAVIS KHO lives in Oakland\, CA with her husband and two teenage daughters. A passionate reader and writer from the time she had the dexterity to turn the pages of Little Golden Books herself\, Nancy began publishing essays in 2005 and leveraged that experience into a freelance journalism and editorial career. Her feature writing and profiles have appeared in publications including The San Francisco Chronicle\, EContent Magazine\, Information Today\,and her essays and humor writing appear in the Washington Post\, Huffington Post\, The Toast\, The Rumpus\, and her own blog\,Midlife Mixtape. In 2013 Nancy was accepted as one of the inaugural attendees at LitCamp\, the Bay Area’s only juried writing conference. She does frequent readings at events like San Francisco’s literary festival Litquake\, The Basement Series\, and appeared in the 2013 San Francisco cast of Listen To Your Mother. \nEMILY KIERNAN is the author of a novel\, Great Divide (Unsolicited Press\, 2014)\, and many short fictions. She is a prose editor at Noemi Press\, a fiction editor at Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks\, and the curator of the Backyard Reading Series in Berkeley\, California. More information can be found at emilykiernan.com. \nFRANCOIS LUONG is originally from Strasbourg\, France\, lives in San Francisco\, where he writes\, translates\, and draws\, among other things. With Geneva Chao\, he has translated Encrusted on the Living by Nicolas Tardy (LX Press\, 2016). He has also translated the works of François Turcot\, Hector Ruiz\, Esther Tellermann and other francophone poets. His work has otherwise appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Verse\, Lit\, Entropy\, Typo and elsewhere. \nJON SINDELL wrote the flash–fiction collection The Roadkill Collection (Big Table Publishing\, 2014) and the long–story collection Family Happiness (2016). He curates the San Francisco–based reading series Rolling Writers and is a full time personal humanities tutor. He used to practice law. \n~with music by~: \nELLISA SUN has been singing since the age of 9 and playing guitar since the age of 15. Ellisa continued singing as she grew older and\, after moving to San Francisco\, she began to explore songwriting for sketch comedy. Her sister Nicole acted as the catalyst for Ellisa’s songwriting and performing skills by putting her on the stage at a sketch comedy show with Pianofight Productions\, a theater group based in San Francisco. In June 2012\, Ellisa had her first experience with raw songwriting and wrote the song “In So Many Words”. Ellisa aims to incorporate Jazz\, Soul\, and R&B into her music\, drawing parallels to Amy Winehouse and Lauryn Hill. Her influences also include female singer-songwriters Feist and Regina Spektor\, as well as Trip-hop artists Zero 7 and Bjork.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bernal-yoga-literary-series-event-3/
LOCATION:Bernal Yoga\, 908 Cortland Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Velro: Emily Pinkerton + Lynn Brown
DESCRIPTION:Why did the Storm Trooper buy an iPhone? \nBecause he couldn’t find the Droid he was looking for! \nTo hear some even better stuff (WHAT?!) come on by to next Monday’s VelRo. We are proud to feature the amazing writing of Lynn Brown and Emily Pinkerton. And as always\, 5-minute open mic slots\, complimentary refreshments\, and cheesy snacks. \n… \nRaised in the shadow of Houston refineries\, Emily Pinkerton currently lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her writing has previously appeared or is forthcoming in Pith\, Anthropoid\, Noble/Gas Qtrly\, Delirious Hem\, and LEVELER\, among others. She lived on a sailboat once\, and should probably do it again. Her favorite color is fog. \nLynn Brown was technically born and raised in New York\, but her heart (and most of her writing) will always belong to New Orleans. She is the co-curator of the Voices from the Margins reading series and editor of the forthcoming Footsteps of Baldwin Anthology\, a collection of works by African American expats living in Paris. Her nonfiction work has been published in Conde Nast Traveler\, the Colorado Daily News and the Matador Network\, while her fiction is still mostly lurking around the halls of San Francisco State. She is not at all convinced that the ghosts\, fairies and vampires she writes about in her speculative fiction work are not real.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/velro-emily-pinkerton-lynn-brown/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sharon Dolin + Jane Hirshfield
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books in welcoming poets Sharon Dolin and Jane Hirshfield on Monday\, April 4th\, 2016 at 7pm at our Clement St.location (506 Clement St.). \nThis evening will highlight the work of two of the nation’s foremost poets & heralds the release of Sharon Dolin’s Manual for Living. \nSharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections\, including Manual for Living (2016)\, Serious Pink (2015 reissue)\, Whirlwind (2012)\, and Burn and Dodge (2008)\, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other awards include the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, a Fulbright Fellowship\, a Pushcart Prize\, and a Drisha Arts Fellowship. Her work has appeared in dozens of magazines as well as in these recent anthologies: Short Flights: Aphorism Anthology\, The Poet’s Quest for God\, The Incredible Sestina Anthology\, Ecopoetry\, Poetry in Medicine\, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poets. She is co-founder and director of the Center for Book Arts Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition in New York City. Since 2014\, she directs and teaches in the international writing workshop\, Writing About Art in Barcelona. \nAward-winning poet\, essayist\, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poetry\, including The Beauty (2015)\, a finalist for the National Book Award\, Come\, Thief (2011)\, After (2006)\, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize\, and Given Sugar\, Given Salt (2001)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Award\, among others. She is also the author of two books of essays\, the now-classic Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. (2015). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has received honors including the Poetry Center Book Award\, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award\, the Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Award\, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal\, and the Hall-Kenyon Award. In 2004\, she was awarded the Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012\, she is the 2016 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-dolin-jane-hirshfield/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Funny Sexy Sad
DESCRIPTION:FUNNY SEXY SAD is a reading series in which every writer must read something hilarious\, sex-related or miserably sad. \nLizzy Acker is one of the progenitors of Funny Sexy Sad\, as well as a writer at Willamette Week and a co-founder and contributing editor to The Tusk. She is a former writer and editor at KQEDPop and the author of “Monster Party” and “Half Life.” \nMaggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in writing from USF and a tendency to spill things. She splits her time writing for children and writing for adults\, and her debut children’s book\, Also an Octopus\, comes out in 2016. Find her on twitter @emteehall. \nLauren O’Neal’s work has appeared in Slate\, The Hairpin and The Rumpus. She is an editor at Midnight Breakfast. One of her Tusk articles from over a year ago\, about the phenomenon of a girl band’s straight fans fantasizing about the band’s members being romantically involved with each other\, has been one of the site’s top three articles every day since its publication. \nCarolyn Ho was a child actress in McDonald’s commercials in the late ’80’s. She is a Kundiman fellow and a William Dickey fellow\, and she has won the SF Foundation’s Phelan Award\, the Anne Fields Poetry Award\, the Kathryn Manoogian Scholarship\, and she is a grant recipient from the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2014\, SF Weekly named her one of the city’s best writers without a published book. \nCasey Childers is a producer of Shipwreck and WRITE CLUB SF. \nJoe Wadlington is a multiple Shipwreck SF and Write Club SF champion. He runs the Drafts newsletter. \nNate Waggoner is a co-founder and contributing editor at The Tusk. In 2014\, SF Weekly named him one of the best\nwriters in the Bay Area without a published book. He is now ineligible for that honor because he lives in Brooklyn and his first novel\, Dilettantes and Heartless Manipulators\, is available from Snow Goose Press. \nHope Waggoner is the arguably better Solange to Nate’s Beyonce. Her whole thing is probably just going to be like\, arriving with two handsome dudes in tuxes on her arms\, smoking a cigarette\, then playing a couple of notes on a piano and leaving\, and everyone just goes nuts. \nKath Duckworth is a poet working and living that broken dream in Oakland. Her work explores the intimacy of capitalism and its violent and personal attack on the working class. She is the author of two chapbooks\, The Soda Can Forever (2015) and Mexia\, (2014) both published through Roseffern Press. Her forthcoming collection looks at professional sports\, nationalism\, and violence. She holds an English degree from Mills College and 40 thousand dollars in debt. \nIt’s $5 \nIf you help Nate get there he will make weird art for you:https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nate-waggoner-lil-darlin-tour-2016#/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funny-sexy-sad/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gerard Sarnat + Keith Ekiss plus an open mic
DESCRIPTION:Sarnat reads from Melting the Ice King\, his fourth collection of poems; over 75 of these poems have been published in various magazines. His first was Homeless Chronicles: From Abraham to Burning Man (2010). He has been a professor at Stanford Medical School and has built and staffed clinics for the marginalized and homeless. For more info\, see gerardsarnat.com. \nEkiss is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University\, and was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford from 2005 to 2007 and has had residencies at the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers’ Conferences\, Santa Fe Art Institute\, Millay Colony for the Arts and the Petrified Forest National Park. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals\, and his creative nonfiction has been anthologized in Permanent Vacation: Living and Working in Our National Parks (Bona Fide Books\, 2011). He is the translator of Eunice Odio’s The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books\, 2012).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gerard-sarnat-keith-ekiss-plus-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Writer Sarah Schulman reads from and discusses her work. Free.\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Humanities Auditorium \nSarah Schulman is the author of novels\, nonfiction books\, plays and movies. Her forthcoming works are The Cosmopolitans (The Feminist Press) and nonfiction bookConflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm\, Community Responsibility and the Duty of Repair (Arsenal). She recently published Israel/Palestine and the Queer International(Duke University Press)\, The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination(University of California Press) and more. As a screenwriter\, her films include The Owls(written with director Cheryl Dunye)\, Mommy is Coming (written with Dunye) and Jason and Shirley. She is co-producer the feature documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. As a journalist\, Schulman has written essays for The New York Times\, The Nation and Interview. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in playwriting\, Fulbright in Judaic studies\, two American Library Association Book Awards and the 2009 Kessler Prize for sustained contribution to LGBT studies. Schulman is distinguished professor at City University of New York and a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. \nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public every semester. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-schulman/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Seanan McGuire: Every Heart a Doorway
DESCRIPTION:Book release party: Get your copy of Every Heart a Doorway at Booksmith day before pub date! \nIn Seanan McGuire’s Every Heart a Doorway\, children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe\, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells\, and emerging somewhere… else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. The residents at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children understand this all too well\,  and each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.\n \n\n\nSeanan McGuire is the author of the October Daye urban fantasy series\, the InCryptid series\, and several other works\, both standalone and in trilogies. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She was the winner of the 2010 John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer\, and in 2013 she became the first person ever to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seanan-mcguire-every-heart-a-doorway/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Brothel: D. A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:Hello San Francisco\, The Poetry Brothel is returning to your Golden Hills for another magical night. With us will be our bevy of brothel veterans and perhaps a few new recruits! We are so honored to announce that one such Poetry Brothel virgin will be the inimitable D.A. Powell! Other featured performers will include The Sour Mash Hug Band\, burlesque beauties\, Harvest King and Kitty Chow\, and as always\, your poetry whores! We are dying to get back into your arms San Francisco\, back into your fog\, into your hills\, and your hearts. We are calling out to you in the night\, you giants of love\, open yours ears\, let us bring you in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-brothel-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:Slide\, 430 Mason St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Copus
DESCRIPTION:Royal Kent’s love of poetry goes back to his formative high school years. Originally inspired by the legendary Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron\, he has performed with dancers\, theatrical troupes\, poets\, and many bands including the Vancouver-based Band of Angels and Czech Republic-based Pseudo Pseudo. He has produced television\, radio and stage shows\, and is the co-founder of independent label Copus Music. Kira Njinsky\, daughter of the great Russian ballet star Njinksy\, said: “Royal Kent recites poetry the way my father danced!” \nComposer/pianist Wendy Loomis has released 10 CDs of her compositions for COPUS\, acoustic ensemble Phoenix Rising\, piano/vocal duo AWE\, and solo piano. She won the ASCAP award for composition 4 times and has received awards and nominations for her music from the Unisong International Songwriting competition\, the LA Music Awards\, and the Hollywood Music and Media Awards. Most recently she performed one of her compositions in Havana\, Cuba as part of the cultural exchange led by the American Composers Forum. Wendy earned her bachelor’s degree in Creative Arts and her master’s degree in Arts Education. She is the co-founder and president of Copus Music LLC and teaches private piano at her San Francisco studio. \nFlutist Monica Williams is a graduate of Eastman School of Music and has studied with several esteemed flutists such as Bonita Boyd\, Susan Levitin\, and Brad Garner. She has performed with orchestras in Rochester\, Cincinnati\, and Chicago\, and has toured Europe and the United States. Currently Monica is a member of several contemporary chamber ensembles in the Bay Area\, including Phoenix Rising and COPUS. Additionally\, she is the director of Flock of Flutes\, East Bay’s première flute choir\, and music coordinator for Civic Arts Education\, and Center Representative for the Carnegie Hall Music Development Program. She teaches private flute at Civic Arts Center of Walnut Creek and her home studio in San Francisco. \nBassist Patrick Mahon was born and raised in San Francisco. Patrick studied jazz with Tony P. Miller\, but he is primarily self-taught\, giving him a creative facility and an eager ear for new ways of expression\, including most recently using an unusual bowing technique on the electric bass. He joined COPUS in 2007\, played on the ‘Jah Provide’ trilogy\, and has performed at many Bay Area gigs as well as at the Sweet Auburn Springfest in Atlanta. His influences include Charles Mingus\, Marcus Miller\, Victor Wooten\, and Les Claypool. In addition to COPUS\, Patrick has performed with bands Scaramanga\, The Ambassadors\, and Electric Color Wheel. \nDrummer Greg McRay was fortunate to grow up in a musical family. His father\, saxophonist Robert McRay\, played the jazz circuit both in the U.S. and Europe. Greg has studied with Benny Green\, Jim Smith\, and Tony Williams and performed with many California-based jazz\, fusion\, and rock bands. Drawing on the powerful musicianship of Art Blakey\, Max Roach\, Bill Bruford\, and Billy Cobham\, Greg brought his creative drum playing to COPUS in 2002.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Danielle Dutton + Stephen Sparks
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Dutton\, founder of Dorothy\, a publishing project\, will discuss Margaret the First with Green Apple’s book buyer\, Stephen Sparks. \nPraise for Margaret the First: \n“Margaret the First is set in the seventeenth century\, but don’t let that fool you. It’s a strikingly smart and daringly feminist novel with modern insights into love\, marriage\, and the siren call of ambition.” —Jenny Offill\, author of Dept. of Speculation \n“All this trouble for a girl\,” say the bears in the book Margaret Cavendish writes within this remarkable book written by Danielle Dutton\, the story of a very real woman at a very particular moment in history that is at the same time the story of every woman artist who has ever burst loose the constraints of her particular moment in history to create “a new world called the blazing world.” —Kathryn Davis\, author of The Thin Place and Duplex \n“Ever since I first encountered her writing\, I’ve told every serious reader I know that Danielle Dutton is one of the most original and wonderfully weird prose stylists of our time\, every bit the contemporary of Lydia Davis\, Cesar Aira\, and Diane Williams. How perfect that her new novel is a portrait of Margaret of Newcastle\, whose perceived excesses and eccentricities were an object of fascination for her time\, as well as for Virginia Woolf\, who laments in A Room of One’s Own\, ‘What a vision of loneliness and riot the thought of Margaret Cavendish brings to mind!’ And what a visionary portrait Margaret the First is\, not only for the sheer joy of the sentences\, but also as it’s a marvel of tenderness\, rewriting a historical caricature as a life\, delighting in Margaret’s passion for writing and love of the beautiful and strange from childhood on. I am in awe of what Dutton accomplishes here\, in this novel of the small and the sublime. What a triumph!”\n—Kate Zambreno\, author of Green Girl \nAbout Margaret the First: \nMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish\, the shy\, gifted\, and wildly unconventional 17th-century Duchess. The eccentric Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems\, philosophy\, feminist plays\, and utopian science fiction at a time when being a writer was not an option open to women. As one of the Queen’s attendants and the daughter of prominent Royalists\, she was exiled to France when King Charles I was overthrown. As the English Civil War raged on\, Margaret met and married William Cavendish\, who encouraged her writing and her desire for a career. After the War\, her work earned her both fame and infamy in England: at the dawn of daily newspapers\, she was Mad Madge\, an original tabloid celebrity. Yet Margaret was also the first woman to be invited to the Royal Society of Londona mainstay of the Scientific Revolutionand the last for another two hundred years.\nMargaret the First is very much a contemporary novel set in the past\, rather than historical fiction. Written with lucid precision and sharp cuts through narrative time\, it is a gorgeous and wholly new narrative approach to imagining the life of a historical woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-dutton-stephen-sparks/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Garth Greenwell: What Belongs to You
DESCRIPTION:Garth Greenwell’s widely acclaimed novel What Belongs to You begins when an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture and meets Mitko\, a charismatic young hustler. When the teacher returns again and again to see Mitko over the next few months\, they find themselves in a relationship that is mutually predatory\, where tenderness can transform into violence at any moment. With lyric intensity and startling eroticism\, What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. \nGarth Greenwell will be in-conversation with Kevin Killian. \n\n  \nGarth Greenwell is the author of Mitko\, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review and A Public Space. \n\nKevin Killian is a San Francisco novelist and poet. Recent books include PINK NARCISSUS POEMS (The Song Cave); EYEWITNESS by Carolyn Dunn\, the memoirs of a Beat Generation legend “as told to” Kevin Killian (Granary Books); and TAGGED\, a collection of Killian’s intimate photographs of artists\, writers\, musicians\, filmmakers\, etc.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/garth-greenwell-what-belongs-to-you/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop celebrates the moments when literature and pop culture collide. Come and listen as Poets\, Fiction writers\, essayists and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions featuring Lambda Literary Fellow Baruch Porras Hernandez\, acclaimed poet Lauren Wheeler\, fiction writer and frequent SF Shipwreck champion Maggie Tokuda-Hall. Special guests Damian Ledbetter and Mandy Hu. Hosted by Wonder Dave of Tourettes Without Regrets. \nDoors at 7pm Show at 8pm \nSave money by purchsaing your tickets in advance at: http://www.docslabsf.com/event/1109657-literary-pop-baruch-porras-san-francisco/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T120534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T120534Z
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SUMMARY:Tony Tulathimutte: Private Citizens
DESCRIPTION:With writing published in publications such as VICE and The New Yorker online\, Tony Tulathimutte shares his critically-acclaimed novel\, Private Citizens. Capturing the anxious\, self-aware mood of young college grads\, this is the story of four whip-smart friends torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it\, and who–though estranged–stagger through the Bay Area\, always washing up in each other’s lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tony-tulathimutte-private-citizens/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T122248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T122248Z
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SUMMARY:A Night of Literature\, Friends\, and Drinks with Two Lines at Churchill's Office
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us for an intimate\, glamorous evening of literature at the private\, wood-lined The Office\, recently named one of 7x7s Best Private Dining Rooms in San Francisco. \nIncluding a gorgeous wood interior\, wallpaper made from handwritten WWI-era letters\, a shuffleboard table\, and a wall-sized photo of an astonishing sunset\, this is the your place to meet translation-lovers as we launch Issue 24 of Two Lines! \nWe’ll provide the snacks! You sidle up to the cash bar to choose from over a dozen cocktails–including our own Two Lines-inspired signature drink–plus a curated list of local brews. \nThe night will include music\, mingling\, live readings from Issues 23 and 24\, and a few other surprises. Plus\, you’ll also get a chance to meet the Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and you can grab a sneak peek of our forthcoming spring book. \nYour $10 ticket includes a copy of Issue 24\, and your $15 includes both Issue 24 and Issue 23. Because of the fire code\, this event is limited to the first 30 people who purchase tickets. Order now to ensure that you’ll party with us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-literature-friends-and-drinks-with-two-lines-at-churchills-office/
LOCATION:The Office\, 194 Church St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160406T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T210000
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CREATED:20160404T123129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T123129Z
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SUMMARY:China on Strike: Narratives of Workers’ Resistance
DESCRIPTION:China on Strike is based on dozens of interviews with workers in Pearl River Delta factories\, an industrial region of region of 60 million people that has become the “workshop of the world\,” as China has become the fastest growing major economy in the world over the last three decades. Pearl River Delta factories supply the world’s most profitable corporations\, like Apple\, Nike\, Hewlett Packard\, and many others. These interviews document the processes of internal migration in China\, changing employment relations\, worker culture\, and other issues related to China’s explosive growth. China on Strike is the first English-language book to provide an intimate and revealing window into the lives of workers as they organize against low pay and brutal working conditions\, launching the world’ largest strike wave in the 21st century. \n“As these vivid case-studies illustrate\, the real sleeping dragon—China’s enormous factory proletariat—is wide awake and fighting back on all fronts. Indeed\, here is first-hand evidence that Chairman Xi Jinping may soon confront the largest labor rebellion in history.”—Mike Davis\, Professor Emeritus\, University of California\, Riverside\, and author ofPlanet of Slums\n\nFang Gang has worked in factories since he graduated from university\, conducting interviews with other workers about their collective struggles in the Pearl River Delta and compiling them into articles that are published and distributed. An example is his 2013 piece “Strikes over the relocation of factories.” Currently\, Fan Gang assists with workers taking collective action in the Pearl River Delta. \nMi Tu has been engaged in doing translations of literature on workers’ struggles in other countries\, as well as researching the conditions of workers in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs)\, since her university days. Since graduating\, Mi has worked in factories\, interviewed workers engaged in struggles in the Pearl River Delta\, and compiled and circulated these oral histories. Mi currently assists workers taking collective action against occupational diseases. \nAlex T. Tom (interpreter) is the Executive Director of San Francisco’s Chinese Progressive Association.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-on-strike-narratives-of-workers-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160406T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160406T213000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T121444Z
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SUMMARY:Sarah Schulman
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Schulman reads from her new novel\, The Cosmopolitans. \nPraise for Sarah Schulman: \n“This bracing\, powerful\, and well-reasoned work reaffirms the author’s stature as a distinctive American woman of letters. Ideal for an academic setting\, it will also precipitate discussion among all those interested in learning more about this painful chapter in U.S. history. Highly recommended.”—Richard Drezen (Library Journal)\, on Gentrification of the Mind \n“[The Cosmopolitans] is book club gold. . . . The Cosmopolitans is a great group read—weighty dilemmas\, unforgettable characters\, and a roller-coaster plot!”—Tayari Jones\, author of Silver Sparrow \nAbout The Cosmopolitans: \nA modern retelling of Balzac’s classic “Cousin Bette “by one of America’s most prolific and significant writers. Earl\, a black\, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant\, and Bette\, a white secretary\, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their familied\, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense\, a wealthy young actress from Ohio\, comes to the city to “make it.” Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan\, “The Cosmopolitans “is a lush\, inviting read.The truths it frames about the human need for love and recognition remain long after the book is closed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-schulman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160407T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T190000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T125148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T125148Z
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SUMMARY:The Visual Word: Working with Poetry
DESCRIPTION:David Annwn and Thomas Ingmire reflect on their working processes and explore new insights about their collaborations. Their discussion will center on specific works now on exhibition at the Book Club of California and the many curious issues relating to creating visual interpretations of poetry. David will also read some finished poems and discuss the impulses behind their creation. 5 p.m.: Reception 6 p.m.: Program
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-visual-word-working-with-poetry/
LOCATION:The Book Club of California\, 312 Sutter St\, Suite 510\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160407T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T203000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T125739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T125811Z
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SUMMARY:Aja Couchois Duncan + Adrian Arias
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Aja Couchois Duncan & Adrian Arias
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aja-couchois-duncan-adrian-arias/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160407T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T130537Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: A Song of Ice and Fire
DESCRIPTION:“7th I am your OG  and I will be respected as such” Cersei to Margaery\, probably \nWelp\, with the 6th season imminent\, it’s finally time for us to take on A Song of Ice and Fire. Yep\, the whole f*cking series. Maybe this’ll spur GRRM to finish The Winds of Winter. Hey\, has anyone thought of tweeting him about that? Anyway\, Winter is Cumming\, etc. \nFeatured writers: Gabriel Cubbage\,Alan Leggitt\, Tomas Moniz\, Red Scott\,Maggie Tokuda-Hall\, and Feb/March winner Vivenne Pustell. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \n$10 advance tickets / $12 at the door. Ticket includes open bar for 21+.\nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-a-song-of-ice-and-fire/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T210000
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CREATED:20160404T131242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T131242Z
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SUMMARY:Jack Bender w/ Jason Ritter
DESCRIPTION:A producer and director on projects such as Lost\, The Sopranos\, and Game of Thrones\, JACK BENDER shares his brilliant debut book\, Elephant in the Room. \nIf ever there was a children’s book for adults only\, this is the one: sweet and surreal\, playfully Picasso\, and full of cockeyed wisdom. I was charmed\, and I’m giving the damn thing to everyone. I think you ll do the same. My advice is grab a copy immediately. Yesterday\, if possible. -Stephen King\nThe Elephant in the Room\, is a collection of stories told through his art\, a lyrical interweaving of abstraction\, rich color and texture\, and surreal dreaminess. With themes of morality\, identity\, love\, loss\, death\, and birth\, these stories are tender and intimate\, but cut with Bender’s biting humor and a master storyteller’s sense of irony. \nA slideshow presentation will also be featured AND Jack will be interviewed by JASON RITTER\, from NBC’s Parenthood\, Comedy Central’s Drunk History and Another Period\, and Shoshanna’s love interest on HBO’s Girls.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jack-bender-w-jason-ritter/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160407T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160407T213000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160404T131028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160404T131028Z
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SUMMARY:Rob Spillman + Glen David Gold
DESCRIPTION:Rob Spillman\, one of the founding editors of Tin House Magazine\, talks with Glen David Gold about his memoir\, All Tomorrow’s Parties. \nPraise for All Tomorrow’s Parties: \n“Spillman’s story of rarefied opera culture as a child\, and East German nightlife as an adult\, is limpid and lively in its telling\, and covers fascinating ground. Spillman is endearing and frank in his various adventures.” —Rachel Kushner \n“Achingly beautiful and brilliantly structured.” —David Shields \n“Spillman brilliantly—thrillingly—captures the velocity and the changing sounds of youth as it simultaneously hurls away from\, and toward\, home. This memoir rivets me to the page.” —Nick Flynn \n “Part survivor’s manual\, part travelogue\, part cultural history\, it’s a story of an arts-mad\, idealistic\, brave young man struggling to make his way—and find a place in the world.” —Michael Hainey \nAbout All Tomorrow’s Parties: \nRob Spillman\, the award-winning\, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary “Tin House” magazine has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians\, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti\, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There\, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West\, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression. \nAfter an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities\, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York City\, only to abandon it to return to Berlin just months after the Wall came down. Twenty-five and newly married\, Spillman and his wife\, the writer Elissa Schappell\, moved to the anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place\, or person\, to call home. In his intimate\, entertaining\, and heartfelt memoir\, Spillman narrates a colorful\, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rob-spillman-glen-david-gold/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160408T210000
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CREATED:20160405T010437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T010437Z
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SUMMARY:William Taylor Jr.: To Break the Heart of the Sun
DESCRIPTION:Hello friends! Please join me and some of my favorite people in helping to celebrate the release of my new book of poetry\, To Break the Heart of the Sun. Indulge in an evening of words\, music and wine in the heart of North Beach\, \nFeaturing: \nJon Bennett\nMK Chavez\nCharlie Getter\nColleen McKee\nSB Stokes\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nZarina Zabrisky and Simon Rogghe \nIt’s gonna be fun.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-taylor-jr-to-break-the-heart-of-the-sun/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160408T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160408T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160405T011044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T011044Z
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SUMMARY:CCA MFAW: Word World 2016 #1
DESCRIPTION:At California College of the Arts\, Timken Lecture Hall\n1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \nWord World is the culminating event of the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts that features graduating students reading from their thesis. \nAn evening of poetry\, prose\, and writings in between\, this night is also a community celebration as these students enter a new phase of their writing careers. \nFeatured Writers \nKate Robards\nBjorn Svendsen\nKeiran King\nRobyn Hester\nDaniel Delacruz\nRachel Alexandra Kass
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cca-mfaw-word-world-2016-1/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160409T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160409T170000
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CREATED:20160405T012136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T012136Z
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women
DESCRIPTION:With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-five engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind\, Daring to Write’s insightful works offer readers a wide array of content that touches on a range of topics: migration\, history\, religion\, race\, class\, gender\, and sexuality. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how these factors intersect and affect the daily lives of these Latina women. \nThe volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories\, novel excerpts\, memoirs\, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario\, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time\, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies\, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature. \n“Be prepared for a feast\, and then\, as with all such blessings of plenty\, share it: tell others about this book\, put it on your syllabi\, on the shelves of your bookstores and libraries. Nourish yourself and others with the rich and savory sancocho of the work collected here. As we Dominicans say when a visitor arrives at mealtime\, ¡A buen tiempo! Readers\, you have indeed come at a good time.” —Julia Alvarez\, from the foreword \n“Daring to Write gathers in one volume and for the first time Dominican women writing across genres and against gender norms and borders of all kinds. The result is a moving and imaginative critique of how gender\, race\, and class intersect in the daily lives of women in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora. This book is an important contribution to women’s studies and Latino/a studies.”\n—Daisy Hernández\, coeditor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism \nYalitza Ferreras was a 2014–15 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. She received an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, where she won the Delbanco Thesis Prize. Her writing appears in the Colorado Review and Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education. She is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories. \nErika M. Martínez\,recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Hedgebrook Writing Residency\, holds an MFA in English and creative writing from Mills College. Her writing has been adapted for the stage and has been featured in the anthologies Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education\, Homelands: Women’s Journeys across Race\, Place\, and Time\, and Second Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology. Her work has also appeared in Muthamagazine.com\, Consequence magazine\, and the Afro-Hispanic Review. She has taught creative writing in the Dominican Republic and is the editor of the annual Middle & High School Voices for the National Writing Project in New Hampshire. \n– See more at: http://moderntimesbookstore.com/event/yalitza-ferreras-and-erika-m-martinez-daring-to-write-contemporary-narratives-by-dominican-women/#sthash.ML9mbwJi.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-narratives-by-dominican-women/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160409T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160405T013010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T013010Z
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SUMMARY:Ethan Miller\, Daniel Higgs\, + Sylvie Simmons
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Ethan Miller\, Daniel Higgs\, and Sylvie Simmons: \nEthan Miller is a founding member of the bands Comets on Fire and Howlin’ Rain. His debut book of poetry\, The Glasgow Birds\, The Denver Shitter and Other Poems of Musical Life is a dream stroll through 15 years of musical life on the road. From concrete\, road-journal like storytelling prose poems to headier abstract rabbit holes and experimental waking dreams. Copies of this limited edition chapbook will be available for sale! http://www.silvercurrentrecords.com/index.php \nDaniel A.I.U. Higgs\, interdimensional song-seamstress and corpse-dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the harbor city of Baltimore\, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millennium. Having begun singing 25 years ago\, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish\, which is now\, as it often has been\, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently\, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hindrance of collaborative influence. http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/daniel-higgs \nSylvie Simmons\, a widely regarded writer and rock historian since the late 1970s\, is one of few women to be included among the predominantly male rock elite. She’s a cult fiction writer and the author of biographies of Leonard Cohen\, Serge Gainsbourg\, and Neil Young\, among others. She’s also a singer-songwriter and ukulele player\, signed to Light in the Attic Records. http://sylviesimmons.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ethan-miller-daniel-higgs-sylvie-simmons/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160409T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160409T210000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160405T013310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T013310Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Kim Vogee
DESCRIPTION:Left Coast Writers® Launch \nInspired by real-life events\, author Kim Vogee artfully combines the elements of a Western with the 21st century. Paths intersect and twist from Silicon Valley\, to Colorado\, to the wide-open spaces of the high desert of the Three Corner country of Oregon\, Idaho\, and Nevada. Three Corner Rustlers is a contemporary story featuring an estranged daughter\, Carson\, who is returning to her childhood home; C.J.\, an ex-con whose life is changed by an unusual mentor a wild mustang named Rio; plus a criminal network of cattle thieves\, Federal agents\, and a rancher whose livelihood is threatened. The journeys of these characters are woven together in this modern-day tale to surprising conclusions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-kim-vogee/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160409T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160409T213000
DTSTAMP:20260504T042851
CREATED:20160405T012531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T012531Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Savage\, Yap\, Kali\, + Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Adam Savage (Mythbusters)\nIsabel Yap (A Cup of Salt Tears)\nPrincess Kali (Enough to Make You Blush: Erotic Humiliation)\nWith Co-Host Annalee Newitz (Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-savage-yap-kali-newitz/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160410T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160410T180000
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CREATED:20160405T014746Z
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry Series: Clara Hsu\, Linda Noel + Sharon Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Linda Noel is a former poet laureate for Ukiah and has a long time association with California Poets in the Schools . The most recent place to read her work in print is in the anthology\, Red Indian Road West. \nClara Hsu practices the art of multi-dimensional being: mother\, musician\,\npurveyor of Clarion Music Center (1982-2005)\, traveler\, translator and poet. \nSharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for learning languages and their entangled word roots. She co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. \nA Note From Your Host\, Kim Shuck: This month the Gears are some legends and some favorites. The only struggle with having Linda come to San Francisco is moving the conversation from my living room to the bookstore for the reading. When Clara and I first met she gave me the great pleasure of hearing Polish spoken at a poetry venue\, a language I miss from my childhood with Polish grandparents. Sharon is a fellow traveler and good company. All three are phenomenal at poeming. Once again\, Ed Dang joins in on guitar. Bring a friend and a poem. There will be an open mic after the reading. \n– See more at: http://moderntimesbookstore.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-series-hosted-by-kim-shuck-with-clara-hsu-linda-noel-sharon-coleman-and-music-by-ed-dang/#sthash.Nxa4Ha0K.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-series-clara-hsu-linda-noel-sharon-coleman/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160410T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160410T200000
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CREATED:20160405T015205Z
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Friedman\, Rachel Richardson + Olga Zilberbourg
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a fantastic night of writing and music at the next Bazaar Writers Salon\, coming up on Sunday\, April 10th in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café. \nReadings by Nicholas Friedman\, Rachel Richardson\, and Olga Zilberbourg\nMusic by Kathleen Knighton\nHosted by Peter Kline \nNicholas Friedman’s poetry has appeared in The New York Times\, Parnassus\, POETRY\, Southwest Review\, Yale Review\, and other publications. Friedman received a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2012 and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.\n\nKathleen Knighton grew up among the mountains and valleys of West Virginia and followed a meandering path westward to San Francisco. Her musical roots extend across the map too\, ranging from folk to rock to country and blues. Knighton’s strength as a singer/songwriter can be found between the rippling lines of her new EP\, Brook Stones. She has toured as a vocalist in a dozen countries and was a featured performer at the West Coast Songwriters Conference in 2013. \nRachel Richardson is the author of two books of poems\, Hundred-Year Wave and Copperhead. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Slate\, Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere\, and she has been awarded Stegner and NEA Fellowships. She lives in Berkeley and coordinates poetry events for the Bay Area Book Festival. \nOlga Zilberbourg grew up in Russia and moved to the United States at the age of seventeen. Two books of her short fiction have been published in Russia; in English\, her work appears in Epiphany\, Printers Row\, Narrative Magazine\, Hobart\, Santa Monica Review\, J Journal\, and other print and online magazines. She co-hosts the weekly San Francisco Writers Workshop that meets at Alley Cat Books on Tuesday nights.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-friedman-rachel-richardson-olga-zilberbourg/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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