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SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction: Barbash\, Howard\, Scheeres\, Zeff + More
DESCRIPTION:Stranger Than Fiction is the Edinburgh Castle Pub’s new reading series\, co-produced by Alan Black and Frances Stroh. The next edition\, on Sunday\, May 1\, from 3-5pm\, presents new work from Tom Barbash\, Rachel Howard\, Julia Scheeres\, and Maury Zeff\, alongside hosts Black and Stroh. \nTOM BARBASH is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance\, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me\, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House\, Story magazine\, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. \nRACHEL HOWARD’S fiction and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast\, the Hudson Review\, ZYZZYVA\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker Online. Her memoir The Lost Night\, about her father’s unsolved murder\, was described as “enthralling” by the New York Times. She runs the acclaimed reading series Yuba Lit in the Sierra Foothills. \nJULIA SCHEERES is the author of the memoir JESUS LAND\, which was a New York Times and London Times bestseller. She is also the author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown\, which was recently optioned by a famous actor who wants to play Jim Jones (and whose name she can’t yet reveal). \nMAURY ZEFF’S fiction and plays have been published in American Fiction 2012\, Southern California Review\, the Best of PlayGround 2014\, and elsewhere. He has won a PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award and three PlayGround People’s Choice Awards. His play\, I Wanna Be So Dated\, about striving teenagers\, helicopter parents\, artistic expression\, and the Ramones\, premiered in March at the Vermont State Drama Festival. He has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and was a San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Fellow. \nFRANCES STROH is the author of BEER MONEY: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss (out May 3 from HarperCollins)\, which chronicles her coming of age in the midst of the Stroh’s Beer family’s decline coupled with the unraveling of Detroit. Publisher’s Weekly described BEER MONEY as “A compelling memoir that vividly portrays the aching permanence of loss and the palpability of hope that accompanies starting over.” \nALAN BLACK works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-barbash-howard-scheeres-zeff-more/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Ron Sauer + Dan De Vries
DESCRIPTION:Ron Sauer \nRon Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene\, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire\, Aloysius Betrand\, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America\, Sauer is a musician\, collagist\, art collector\, teacher of film history and literature\, polymath critic\, and compulsive talker. The only formal education he admits to is a summa cum laude in Horizontal Angelology. He likes to spend his free time playing haberdasher to the happily impoverished. He is the co-founder\, with artist Rebecca Peters\, of Fly-By-Night Productions\, which stages art exhibitions\, and publishes Off the Cuff Press broadside editions of new poetry and prose. \nDan De Vries \nBorn in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, Dan De Vries has lived in San Francisco since ’91. Before then\, Denver\, Laramie\, Vancouver\, Ann Arbor\, and periodically up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Grad school in Wyoming and the University of Michigan (Hopwood prize in major fiction in 1980). Poems\, Past & Presently\, published in 2014 by IFSF. Author of three novels\, Trees for Tomorrow\, Blasphemous Rumors\, and Piggery\, and a short story collection\, The Mountain King.\nThe Secret is sacred\, but it is also somewhat ridiculous. The practice of the mystery is furtive and even clandestine\, and its adepts do not speak about it. There are no respectable words to describe it\, but it is understood that all words refer to it\, or better\, that they inevitably allude to it\, and thus\, in dialogue with initiates\, when I have prattled about anything at all\, they have smiled enigmatically or taken offense . . . Borges\, from “The Sect of the Phoenix\,” tr. Anthony Kerrigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ron-sauer-dan-de-vries/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at the 41 Ross
DESCRIPTION:SUBMIT to our May 2nd show and help us enrich that month’s Quiet Lightning – page to page\, wall to wall\, word to word\, with all languages\, all sounds\, and all stories. Help us embrace the rich patina of culture and history celebrated by our host space\, the 41 Ross and the Chinatown Community Development Center\, to create a literary mixtape that is as diverse as our beloved Bay Area community. \nThere is no theme that we are adhering to\, but this show as a whole will pay homage to CCDC’s vision of embracing home\, culture\, and community. \nCurated by Christine No + Bel Poblador! \nFree copy of sPARKLE & bLINK featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by Katie Jenkins-Moses for the first 100 people in attendance \nSubmit by Apr 13: https://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/55842 \nCheap draft beer courtesy of Lagunitas Brewing Co.\nAll ages. This is a FREE show!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-41-ross/
LOCATION:41 Ross\, 41 Ross Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Mama Said
DESCRIPTION:Please join us here at Green Apple Books on Clement in welcoming the writers of Mama Said for an evening of laughs\, libations and light hors d’oeuvres. The fun begins on Monday\, May 2nd at 7:00pm at our Clement St. location (506 Clement). \nA gorgeous and heartfelt tribute to the joys and frustrations of motherhood\, Mama Said is a collection of personal narratives and artwork created by mothers\, for mothers. The beautifully illustrated text takes readers through the range of human emotions that come along with nurturing a tiny human. The stories invite mothers to join their hearts in the sacred sisterhood of creation and go beyond the personal choices of how one mothers\, and instead unearth the universal themes of love\, fear\, humanity and humor all mothers experience. \nThese brave women share their hopes\, dreams\, and doubts\, as well as their laughter\, tears\, and even a few bodily fluids\, on this journey through what it means to love another soul like you never thought possible. \nPraise for Mama Said \n“A brilliant tribute to what it means to be a mother. The overall tone is one of celebration\, but these mamas are not afraid to open their hearts and share the raw reality of pregnancy\, birth and humanity. A delightful and validating read for mothers everywhere.” \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mama-said/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Fran Wisby
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fran Wisby writes poetry\, short fiction\, memoir and essays\, preferring always to deepen and subvert genre by way of the hybrid form. Her book Viva Loss was published in 2008 by Small Desk Press. Recent work can be found in Eleven Eleven Journal and Rumpus Women Volume 1\, and heard on Invisible Cities Audio Tour No. 2: The Armada of Golden Dreams. She’s also been published in Instant City\, Sparkle and Blink\, Digital Artifact and The Encyclopedia Project Volume 2. She performs her work all over the Bay Area and beyond\, and was a Literary Death Match champion in December 2010.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-fran-wisby/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Ali Eteraz will also read excerpts from \nNative Believer \npublished by Akashic Books \nAli Eteraz’s much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M.\, a supportive husband\, adventureless dandy\, lapsed believer\, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.’s world gradually fragments around him—a wife with a chronic illness; a best-friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career—M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia\, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam\, punks\, and wrestlers\, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.  \nDarkly comic\, provocative\, and insightful\, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs. \nAli Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Children of Dust (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes (Guernica Ed.). Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review\, storySouth\, and Crossborder\, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR\, The New York Times\, and the Guardian. Recently\, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid\, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar. Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic\, Pakistan\, the Persian Gulf\, and Alabama. Native Believer is his debut novel. \nVanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. For nearly two decades\, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a past Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, Guernica\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. A former staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. Deceit and Other Possibilities\, her debut story collection\, will be published this fall (Willow Books). \nWhat has been said about the work of Ali Eteraz: \n“Ali Eteraz has written a novel\, both heartbreaking and exultant\, about how it feels to get scalded by the great melting pot. He is a writer of tremendous nuance\, sensitivity\, and insight. An enormous triumph in its own right\, Native Believer also points toward an even brighter future for American fiction.”\n—Andrew Ervin\, author of Burning Down George Orwell’s House
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-eteraz-w-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
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:McSweeney’s Social Hour: Cowboy Disco
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s Publishing cordially invites you to a special evening of music\, drinks and dance as we celebrate another day of book/art/merrymaking in the zesty San Francisco bay. Mostly\, we just want to hear your stories about your great aunt’s three legged show poodle and cha-cha slide with you in between Dolly Parton and Abba songs. There might even be a fog machine. \nA few memorable histories & events that have also taken place on May 4: \n1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. \n1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu\, becoming the first women to climb an 8\,000-meter peak. \n2016 – You attend the McSweeney’s Night of Cocktails and Cowboy Disco. As expected\, you are magnetic and charming. Everyone loves you. You’re absolutely contagious. You have become\, The Life of the Party. \nLet us carry on the tradition of great and beautiful things to happen on May 4th as we journey into a night of revelry. Special guests and details to be announced. \nWarmly\, \nMcSweeney’s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcsweeneys-social-hour-cowboy-disco/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
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:Two Voices Salon: Slaymaker on Furukawa
DESCRIPTION:Hideo Furukawa has built a name for himself as one of the titans of contemporary Japanese literature. His book Horses\, Horses\, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction that deeply entwines his own life and the disaster in Fukushima\, Japan\, as it was devastated by an earthquake\, tsunami\, and nuclear meltdown. \nTo better understand this powerful\, moving story\, we’ll talk with Doug Slaymaker\, who brought it from Japanese into English for Columbia University Press. We’ll talk about how he dealt with the various strands of fiction\, history\, and memoir in this book\, as well as touching on some authors whose work this book resembles\, including W.G. Sebald. We’ll also discuss the unique aspects of the Japanese language and culture that make this such and interesting book to translate. \nThis will be our last Salon until the fall\, so please do join us for a wonderful night of literature\, friends\, snacks\, and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slaymaker-on-furukawa/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barbara Paschke + Jorge Argueta
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): Barbara Paschke & Jorge Argueta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-paschke-jorge-argueta/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
DESCRIPTION:The question is\, said Alice\, whether you can make words mean different things. \nFinally and at long last\, the Shipwreck crew heads down the rabbit hole. Featured writers: 3-Time Champ Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, Damian Ledbetter\, George Chen\, Eden Temple\, and Sarah Stanton. \n$10 advance tickets / $12 at the door. Ticket includes open bar for 21+. \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.\nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \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-lewis-carrolls-alice-in-wonderland/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brendan Jones: The Alaskan Laundry
DESCRIPTION:Brendan Jones reads from his debut novel\, The Alaskan Laundry. \nPraise for The Alaskan Laundry: \n\n“This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart.” — Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a gorgeous and powerful novel that succeeds both as a page-turning adventure story and an evocative exploration of the meaning of home. With acute psychological precision and a naturalist’s attention to detail\, Brendan Jones has created a hauntingly beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time.” – Molly Antopol\, author of The Unamericans\n\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a novel of bracing air that gets deep into your lungs. As Tara Marconi reinvents herself in Alaska\, we see all facets of the American dream of self-reliance and boundless possibility play out on the stage of the Last Frontier. A strong\, singular person grows in these pages. Like a protagonist in a Daniel Woodrell novel\, she is stubborn\, heroic\, and capable of anything.” — Will Chancellor\, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall\n\nAbout the Alaskan Laundry: \nA fresh debut novel about a lost\, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing\, as far as the icy Bering Sea.\nTara Marconi has made her way to The Rock\, a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn t felt at home in a long while her mother’s death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and her father. But in the majestic\, mysterious\, and tough boundary-lands of Alaska she begins to work her way up the fishing ladder from hatchery assistant all the way to King crabber. She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly\, but here she learns anew what it means to work\, to connect\, and in buying and fixing up an old tugboat how to make a home she knows is her own. A beautiful evocation of a place that can’t help but change us and a testament to the unshakable lure of home\, The Alaskan Laundry also offers an unforgettable story of one woman’s journey from isolation back to the possibility of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brendan-jones-the-alaskan-laundry/
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:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1167669\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160506T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160506T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160420T013412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T013412Z
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SUMMARY:Listen to Your Mother
DESCRIPTION:Listen To Your Mother is a national live reading series in celebration of Mother’s Day that showcases the voices of local storytellers. Entertaining and engaging\, this year’s cast hails from all corners of the San Francisco Bay Area to bring their diverse array of experiences that range from funny to poignant. The cast includes Veronica Derrick\, Virginia Duan\, Minna Dubin\, Nancy Fawson\, Harriet Heydemann\, Jilanne Hoffmann\, Janine Kovac\, Nicki Orser\, Tarja Parssinen\, Maria Ramos-Chertok\, and Pamela Weymouth. \nTen percent of ticket proceeds will go to benefit Oakland Elizabeth House\, a transitional program for women with children who have experienced homelessness\, violence\, addiction\, and/or poverty. To learn more visit http://www.oakehouse.org. \n  \nSan Francisco was selected by creator/National Director Ann Imig of Madison\, Wisconsin who named 41 cities to host their own LTYM productions in 2016. All 41 shows will be videoed for LTYM Show’s YouTube channel. This year’s LTYMSF show marks the Fifth Annual San Francisco production. The performance will be produced and directed by Bay Area writers and residents Janine Kovac\, Tarja Parssinen\, and Mary Hill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/listen-to-your-mother/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160506T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160506T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160420T013656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T013656Z
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SUMMARY:N+1 Issue 25 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of N+1 Issue 25\, featuring readings by Anna Wiener\, Moira Weigel\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/n1-issue-25-launch-party/
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:20160507T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160505T011251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160505T011251Z
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SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Extension Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join students and teachers for a selection of readings from work produced through the UC Berkeley Extension program. Founded in 1891\, UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California\, Berkeley. Today they offer more than 2\,000 courses each year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uc-berkeley-extension-student-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T214500
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T003904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T003904Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Kevin Killian
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Killian\, one of the original New Narrative writers\, has written a book of poetry\, Argento Series; two novels\, Shy and Arctic Summer; a book of memoirs\, Bedrooms Have Windows; and a book of stories\, Little Men\, which won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. He has written often on the U.S. poet Jack Spicer\, and the edition of Spicer’s poetry My Vocabulary Did This to Me\, edited with Peter Gizzi\, won the American Book Award in 2008. Recently\, Killian’s books have been all about Kylie Minogue — a book of poems\, Action Kylie\, and a book of stories\, Impossible Princess. He is a senior adjunct professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-kevin-killian/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T004650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T004650Z
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SUMMARY:Don DeLillo w/ Rachel Kushner
DESCRIPTION:Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels\, one story collection\, and three stage plays. In 1985\, DeLillo’s reputation as one of America’s most important novelists and chroniclers of recent and contemporary culture was established with the publication of his novel\, White Noise. The book’s combination of satire\, social commentary\, and dystopian anxieties are hallmarks of DeLillo’s highly respected writing\, further acclaimed in novels like Libra\, Mao II\, Underworld\, and his newest\, Zero K. DeLillo has won many honors in this country and abroad\, most recently the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. \nRachel Kushner is the author of The Flamethrowers and Telex From Cuba\, both finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, The Believer\, Artforum\, and Bookforum. She is the recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/don-delillo-w-rachel-kushner/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160509T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160509T223000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T004241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T004241Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning: Call and Response: Kim Anno + Pamela Z
DESCRIPTION:Call and Response: a specialist in any field gives a presentation—of any kind—in their area of expertise\, followed by an informal Q&A and an improv response by some of the Bay Area’s finest creative musicians. \nThis show features painter\, photographer\, and film/video artist Kim Anno and her adaptation-in-progress of Dante’s Purgatorio\, which she is secularizing. “Dante was moving in that direction but kept to the Christianity for many reasons\,” Anno says. “My aim is to remove that entirely and see what there is left.” \nResponding to Anno’s presentation is composer/performer and media artist Pamela Z! Two awe-inspiring creatives who actively bridge the worlds of art and science/tech\, and two excellent chances that you will find yourself saying I haven’t seen anything like that before. One night only. \nKim Anno is a painter\, photographer\, and film/video artist whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums nationally and internationally. Born in Los Angeles\, Anno has had exhibitions and screenings at the 14th Annual New Media Festival\, Seoul\, Korea\, Kala Art Institute\,Berkeley\, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg\, the Durban Municipal Gallery\, South Africa in the “Don’t Panic Exhibition”\, Flux Projects\, Atlanta\, Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta\, 6 channel video installation\, Windows Project\, Atlanta\, Sky Dive Gallery\, Houston\, San Francisco Asian Art Museum\, Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco\, Seeline Gallery in Los Angeles\, Patricia Correia Gallery\, Santa Monica\, Sue Scott Gallery\, NY\, Site Santa Fe Biennale: One Night Stand in New Mexico\, the King’s Art Center\, California Retrospective\, the Varnosi Museum in Hungary\, DC Dusseldorf International Expo (Germany)\, Pulse\, Miami\, and the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Denison University Museum\, and Noel Art Museum. Anno’s work was recently acquired by the Berkeley Art Museum\, and the Crocker Art Museum. Recipient of the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Purchase Award and the Eureka Foundation’s Fleishhaker Fellowship\, Anno has been a professor at the California College of the Arts since 1996. She was recently awarded a fellowship by the Zellerbach Foundation and the Open Circle Foundation in 2012-13 as well as a Sustainable Arts residency at Kala Art Institute in support of her new interdisciplinary work. In Fall 2014 Anno was a recipient of a Berkeley Film Foundation Award and published her second artists’ book with the poet Anne Carson. Her photographs have been published in Harper’s Magazine\, Sierra Magazine\,and Viz Journal from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Anno’s work has been collected by SFMOMA\, Berkeley Art Museum\, Honolulu Academy of Fine Art Museum\, Brooklyn Museum\, Crocker Museum of Art\, Oakland Museum\, Columbia University Library\, University of Texas\, Austin\, Getty Research Institute\, Goethe Institute\, among others. For more information visit www.kimanno.com. \nPamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice\, live electronic processing\, sampled sound\, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques\, she creates solo works combining experimental extended vocal techniques\, operatic bel canto\, found objects\, text\, digital processing\, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. In addition to her solo work\, she has been commissioned to compose scores for dance\, theatre\, film\, and new music chamber ensembles including Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can Allstars. Her large-scale multi-media works have been presented at venues including Theater Artaud and ODC in San Francisco\, and The Kitchen in New York\, and her media works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum (NY) \, the Diözesanmuseum (Cologne)\, and the Krannert Art Museum (IL). Her multi-media opera Wunderkabinet—inspired by the Museum of Jurassic Technology (co-composed with Matthew Brubeck)—has been presented at The LAB Gallery (San Francisco)\, REDCAT (Disney Hall\, Los Angeles)\, and Open Ears Festival\, Toronto. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the US\, Europe\, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals including Bang on a Can at Lincoln Center (New York)\, Interlink (Japan)\, Other Minds (San Francisco)\, La Biennale di Venezia (Italy)\, and Pina Bausch Tanztheater Festival (Wuppertal\, Germany). She is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, the Doris Duke Artist Impact Award\, the Creative Capital Fund\, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts\, The MAP Fund\, the ASCAP Music Award\, an Ars Electronica honorable mention\, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit www.pamelaz.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-call-and-response-kim-anno-pamela-z/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T200000
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CREATED:20160422T005933Z
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SUMMARY:Benavides\, Baltrónica-Gomez\, Dunitz-Johnson\, + Cyd Nova
DESCRIPTION:Denise Benavides\nDenise Benavides is an oakland based queer xicana poet and performer. you can find her latest publication through Third Woman Press: a zine titled writing through bipolar in sixteen steps. She holds an MFA in creative writing and is currently working on her upcoming collection of poetry\, riot girl. \nJess Baltrónica-Gomez\nBalitronica is a performance artist\, cyborg poet\, and queer sex radical raised on the Tijuana/San Diego border. She studied Literature at San Diego State University under the guidance of Harold Jaffe\, Edith Frampton\, and Sydney Brown. She then relocated to Paris to study American Expat Literature and lived in a 17th century convent with Dominican nuns. Currently living in San Francisco\, she recently earned her MFA in Poetry and Queer Theory at Mills College. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and La Pocha Nostra and has developed photo-performance projects with Manuel Vason\, Herani Hache\, RJ Muna\, and Marcos Raya. She is currently working on a book titled\, “A Brief Conversation With My Psychotherapist” and touring as a member of the International performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra. \nCyd Nova\nCyd Nova is a mouthy slut and celebrator of all hos’. He has been part of the St James Infirmary family\, a clinic for folks who have been involved in the sex trade in San Francisco\, for 8 years and this month is leaving to return back to his roots of hustling and writing gossipy zines. He is the co-director of Bonus Hole Boys – the first gay hardcore website featuring FTM men. His writing has appeared on the Rumpus\, Policy Mic\, Tits and Sass\, Visual AIDS and in the books Coming Out Like a Porn Star and The Collection: The New Transgender Vanguard. Currently he is working on a series of comics based on the more comically intense moments of life. You can check out his writing at cydnova.wordpress.com \nAriel Dunitz-Johnson\nAriel is a San Francisco based illustrator who trained at Parsons School of Design in New York City. Her illustrations focus primarily on pen and ink work\, specializing in portraiture. She was recently awarded San Francisco Beautiful’s Muni Art Winner with her portrait project\, SWAY: Contemporary Queer Portraiture. Through Muni Art\, her work was shown on buses around San Francisco during the fall/winter of 2015. Ariel has been freelancing for nearly a decade\, having shows of her personal work whenever she can. She finds inspiration everywhere\, from the architectural lines of the urban landscape\, the many faces in everyday life\, to sticks\, stones and other natural objects that she collects. When she’s not busy drawing\, she’s usually shopping at farmer’s markets\, cooking for her partner\, or playing with her Boston Terriers\, Harley and Levi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benavides-baltronica-gomez-dunitz-johnson-cyd-nova/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T010634Z
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SUMMARY:Antonia Hayes + Sophie Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Antonia Hayes talks about her debut novel\, Relativity\, with Sophie Cunningham. \nPraise for Relativity: \n“Relativity is wonderful\, a beautifully written\, heartbreaking novel that I feel certain will find the huge audience it deserves.” — SJ Watson\, author of Before I Go to Sleep \n“Original\, compassionate\, cleverly plotted\, and genuinely difficult to put down. The premise is compelling and the plot twists and turns without ever feeling forced. This novel is an intelligent\, honest and compassionate look at people and relationships under stress: the shocking revelation [in it] is tempered with real insight as to how such things happen.” — Graeme Simsion\, author of The Rosie Project \n“Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy\, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair\, honest and remarkably non-judgemental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.” — Christos Tsiolkas\, author of The Slap \n“A charming and fresh debut placing a family’s secrets in the great expanse of the universe.” — Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Relativity: \nA beautifully written\, heartbreaking (S. J. Watson) debut novel about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past\, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it\, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned.\nTwelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe\, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy\, has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney\, Australia. Claire\, a former professional ballerina\, has been a wonderful parent to Ethan\, but he’s becoming increasingly curious about his father’s absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented\, vulnerable son and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill\, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy\, her tightly-held world is split open.\nThousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia\, Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart\, but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire\, he unleashes long-suppressed forces that like gravity pull the three together again\, testing the limits of love and forgiveness.\nTold from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents\, “Relativity” is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds\, irreversible acts\, the limits of science\, and the magnitude of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/antonia-hayes-sophie-cunningham/
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:20160510T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160510T213000
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CREATED:20160422T010831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T010831Z
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SUMMARY:MariNaomi: Turning Japanese
DESCRIPTION:MariNaomi presents Turning Japanese\, an illustrated memoir that chronicles her experiences working at illegal hostess bars from San Jose to Tokyo. The story begins in 1995\, when 22-year-old Mari has just moved from her hometown in Mill Valley to San Jose and soon finds employment at a hostess bar for Japanese expats. There she becomes determined to learn Japanese and connect with the culture that had eluded her since childhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMariNaomi is the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize-winning graphic memoir Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22\, the Eisner-nominated Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories\, and her self-published Estrus Comics. Her work has appeared in over sixty print anthologies\, and has been featured on such websites as The Rumpus\, The Weeklings\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast\, Truth-out\, XOJane\, Buzzfeed\, Bitch Media\, and more. She is also the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the LGBTQ Cartoonists Database.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-turning-japanese/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160511T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160511T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T011306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T011306Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, playwright\, and hip-hop artist Kate Tempest will read from her debut novel\, The Bricks That Built the Houses. \nPraise for Kate Tempest: \n“Powerful and merciful.” — Ali Smith \n“A talent that knows no bounds.” — Independent \n“Mesmerising . Humanity is celebrated in all its terrible imperfections . A genuinely galvanising presence.” — Guardian \n\nAbout The Bricks That Built the Houses: \nAt a party in London\, Becky meets a woman named Harry. They connect\, they part\, and they reconnect when Becky starts\, coincidentally\, dating Harry’s brother. When Harry is forced to set out on the lam\, Becky goes with her. But are they meant for each other? Or no good for each other at all?\nLove can be messy. Love can be a moral question. Love can be the same dull habit\, and it’s hard to know whether it’s braver to stay or to run. But every love\, Kate Tempest tells us\, is a great love. And love animates her debut novel\, rich with characters and restless in perspective\, sprawling across London. Tempest delves deeper and deeper into Becky and Harry’s worlds\, examining their childhoods\, their parents and siblings and uncles and friends\, each with their own ideals and disappointments\, all woven together in fluid\, vivid prose with virtuosic highs and quiet refrains.\n“The Bricks that Built the Houses” is about being young\, but being part of something old. It’s about how we become ourselves\, and to what extent who we are can be changed. Driven by empathy and ethics\, it’s a blazing and beautiful novel\, wise but never cynical\, generous and vigorous. Kate Tempest\, a major talent in the poetry and music worlds\, sits poised to become a major novelist as well.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kate-tempest/
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:20160511T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160511T220000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160505T013347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160505T013347Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: GOTTA BAIL
DESCRIPTION:You know those sketchy scenes\, untenable situations and tight squeezes where your brain starts screaming “Aaaaand … I’m outta here!”? Yep\, those. We’ve assembled six great storytellers who’ll share their best stories about those sticky “gotta bail” situations. Join us! \nSTORYTELLERS: \nJeff Greenwald\nKay DeMartini\nJake Arky\nDanny Caravalho\nGary Pinsky\nTBD \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-gotta-bail/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T193000
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CREATED:20160422T011626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T011626Z
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SUMMARY:Reyes\, Tremblay-McGaw\, + Stecopoulos
DESCRIPTION:The Main Library’s General Collections & Humanities Center presents its Local Poets Series\, featuring readings by Barbara Jane Reyes (“To Love as Aswang\,” “Diwata”)\, Robin Tremblay-McGaw (“Dear Reader”) and Eleni Stecopoulos (“Armies of Compassion\,” “Autoimmunity”).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reyes-tremblay-mcgaw-stecopoulos/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T200000
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CREATED:20160422T012111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T012111Z
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SUMMARY:A History of Latino Comics: “The Underground”
DESCRIPTION:Latino Voices: A History of Latino Press\, Radio\, and Comics in the United States. Moderated by Latino Comics Expo Co-Founder \, Ricardo Padilla & Artist Jaime Crespo\, the audience will get a sneak peek at the origins of the Underground Comix scene of the 1960s-70s\, and how it stimulated the Latino comics movement. From hanging out with Spain Rodriguez and MAD’s Sergio Aragones\, see how the new creativity and freedom of the 60s and 70s\, ushered in the golden age of Latino comics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-history-of-latino-comics-the-underground/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T203000
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CREATED:20160422T012422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T012422Z
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim + Michael Warr
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): Genny Lim & Michael Warr
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-michael-warr/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160512T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T203000
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CREATED:20160505T014239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160505T014239Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Cruz Gonzales\, Dallett\, + Veylit
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 12th at Alley Cat books for May’s Voz Sin Tinta\, featuring 3 powerful and amazing writers! \nFeatures will be followed by an open mic.List opens at 6:30 and spots go very quickly. \nEvent is FREE and open to the public. Bring friends\, bring something to drink and/or nosh on\, and get ready for an epic evening of live performances by local artists. \nMichelle Cruz Gonzales\, a Xicana writer\, writes memoir and fiction and is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. In the 1990’s MCG played drums in and wrote lyrics for the all female hardcore punk band\, Spitboy\, not a riot grrrl band. Spitboy toured in the US and overseas and released several albums. MCG has been a regularcontributor to Hip Mama Magazine\, published in anthologies and her story “Juan\, El Pájaro” one Honorable Mention in Riversedge Literary Journal contest. Michelle live in Oakland with her husband\, son\, and their three Mexican dogs. \nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has published online and in many print magazines. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released to good review on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she published five chapbooks\, Bad Sandy\, Pearl Tongue\, The Water Wars\, On Sunday\, A Finch\, and Armadillo Heart with MK Chavez. \nChloé Veylit likes the ocean\, but is still afraid of the big waves. She works in San Francisco\, lives in Oakland\, and hails from Riverside\, California. Chloé is published or forthcoming in Eleven Eleven\, The Oakland Review\, The North American Review\, VOLT\, and others. In 2015\, she won second-place in a whistling contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-cruz-gonzales-dallett-veylit/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160512T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T214744
CREATED:20160422T013059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T013059Z
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SUMMARY:C. Dale Young + Rick Barot
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, May 12th at 7:00 p.m. as we host C. Dale Young and Rick Barot\, who will be reading from their collections of poetry Halo and Chord\, respectively. \n  \nPraise for C. Dale Young \n“Sometimes the ability to convey information compactly and quickly has moral grace. [Young’s] writing can put garrulous narration or evasive speechifying to shame.” —Robert Pinsky \n“Young is a doctor as well as a poet\, and [his poetry] demonstrates a skilled physician’s combination of empathy and formal precision.” —NPR \n“Like medicine\, poetry may demand that we treat wounds\, that we understand mortality\, that we apply all possible skill to the often messy terrain of human life. But poetry can also demand that we not repair\, that we leave torn what is torn. This is Young’s great gift. He balances his desire to treat his subjects exquisitely and assiduously with his healthy skepticism about easy resolutions.” — Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nPraise for Rick Barot’s Chord \n“I loved that I could feel him wrestling to understand his life\, even while the poems make clear that he knows the limits of understanding. The fluidity with which Barot walks this difficult line between meaning and certainty makes these poems feel more born than made. This is a fantastic book.” —Bob Hicok \n“Chord is a smart\, moving\, and elegant collection that takes none of its hard-won assertions for granted.” —Paisley Rekdal \n\nC. Dale Young practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, his poems and short fiction have appeared widely. The author of four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo (Four Way Books\, March 2016)\, he lives in San Francisco. \nRick Barot has published three books of poetry with Sarabande Books: The Darker Fall (2002)\, Want (2008)\, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize\, and Chord (2015)\, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN Open Book Award\, and the winner of the 2016 UNT Rilke Prize. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Artist Trust of Washington\, the Civitella Ranieri\, and Stanford University\, where he was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer. He lives in Tacoma\, Washington and directs The Rainier Writing Workshop\, the low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Pacific Lutheran University. He is also the poetry editor for New England Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-dale-young-rick-barot/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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