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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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