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SUMMARY:Radar Productions: March Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nMarisa Crawford\nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (2017) and The Haunted House (2010) from Switchback Books\, as well as two chapbooks. Her poems\, essays\, and articles have appeared in publications including Hyperallergic\, BUST\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and Fanzine\, and are forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books\, 2017). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website Weird Sister. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nZulfikar Ali Bhutto\nAs an artist of mixed Pakistani and Lebanese descent and having grown up in Pakistan\, Bhutto sees his body caught in the middle of complex identity politics formed by centuries of colonialism and exacerbated by contemporary international politics. In his work he explores the politics of queerness\, its intersections with Islam and how it exists in a constant liminal and non-aligned space. Bhutto is also interested in issues of state violence and how that violence resonates in our collective memory\, how it forms and shapes communities and by extension how it affects the individual. \nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta\nYuska Lutfi Tuanakotta graduated from Saint Mary’s College of California with double MFA degrees in Creative Fiction Writing and Creative Nonfiction Writing and was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Nonfiction. His debut nonfiction\, Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tales of Gay Indonesians and Green Card Marriages was on LitHub’s 2016 list of Books to Read on Pride Month. OUT Magazine puts Gentlemen Prefer Asians on its must-read list and describes it as “Graceful and sensitive\, yet pleasingly acerbic when necessary.” \nYuska lives in Los Angeles and works as a photographer. He recently launched Faglandia.com\, a website dedicated to bringing unabashedly gay news\, entertainment\, and propaganda. \nTrinidad Escobar\nTrinidad Escobar is an artist\, mother\, bruha\, and educator from the Bay Area\, California. Her writing and visual art have been featured in various publications such as Rust & Moth\, The Brooklyn Review\, The Womanist\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Solo Cafe\, Mythium\, Tayo\, the anthologies Walang Hiya\, Over the Line\, Kuwento\, and more. Trinidad has been a guest artist and speaker at the San Jose Museum of Art\, Pilipino Komix Expo\, LitQuake\, and The Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. Her graphic memoir CRUSHED\, published by Rosarium Publishing\, is available on Amazon\, Comixology\, Barnes and Noble. Trinidad teaches Comics & Race at California College of the Arts in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-march-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:W. Kamau Bell
DESCRIPTION:Live Broadcast of Kamau Right Now! featuring political comedy\, cultural conversation and special guests.  Hosted by W. Kamau Bell \nCo-presented with KALW\n\nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transforms the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and GLAAD Award.\n\n\n* Early start time: 6:45PM (doors open at 6PM)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/w-kamau-bell/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Chad Post
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Literature in Translation with Two Lines \nJoin us for an evening of literature at Amado’s\, in the Mission District in San Francisco! \nThe night will include music\, conversation\, and live readings from Issues 25 and 26. We’ll provide snacks and a cash bar. You’ll also get a chance to meet Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and grab a sneak peek at our forthcoming book. \nAll proceeds support Two Lines Press. Your $10/$15 ticket includes a free issue of the journal. Check back for ticket purchase details.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-chad-post/
LOCATION:Amado’s\, 998 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kendra Tanacea
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, March 23rd at 7:00pm as we welcome Author Kendra Tanacea\, reading from and discussing her book of poetry A Filament Burns in Blue. \nA Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life’s strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns\, remodels\, sex\, longing\, joy; sometimes tender\, sometimes humorous\, these poems explore interpersonal relationships of all kinds and embrace the competing impulses of working hard at changing life’s course and fatalistic acceptance. Kendra’s poems keep the light on in the darkest of places: “Come after midnight\, your hand / on the door\, and me\, lit\, humming.” \nKENDRA TANACEA\, an attorney in San Francisco\, holds a BA in English from Wellesley College and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College. A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees was a semifinalist for the Washington Prize and a finalist for the Idaho Prize for Poetry. Kendra’s poems have appeared in 5AM\, Rattle\, Moon City Review\, The Coachella Review\, Stickman Review\, and Juked\, among others. Visit Kendra Tanacea online here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kendra-tanacea/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Summer of Love
DESCRIPTION:50 years ago\, young men and women put flowers in their hair and headed to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury (Arcadia Press) by local author Katherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, chronicles this and other events in the history of San Francisco’s grooviest neighborhood. Cohen compiled vintage images and stories from individual sources\, public collections\, and from interviews she has conducted as a columnist for the Haight Ashbury Beat newspaper. The author will appear at our event and read from and discuss her book. A book signing follows. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 eventfacebook.com/events/376833466034270 \nKatherine Powell Cohen\, Ph.D.\, is an English professor at San Francisco State and Golden Gate Universities and has lived in the Haight-Ashbury for over 20 years. She is the author of several other books of local history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-of-love/
LOCATION:Cliché Noe Gifts + Home\, 4175 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Because We come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Society of America and City Lights Bookstore present SYRIA — Because We Come From Everything: The Poetics of Migration\, a poetry reading and discussion as part of the Poetry Coalition’s 2017 programming. Twenty-two nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities\, and the important contribution poetry makes in the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering\, throughout the month of March 2017\, Poetry Coalition members will present multiple programs on the theme: Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration\, which borrows a line from U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s poem\,  “Borderbus.” The Poetry Society in conjunction with City Lights prsent an evening that focusses on the Syrian refugee crisis. Poets Jack Hirschman and Jack Marshall\, will read poems of theirs and others. Journalist Jonathan Curiel will join them in conversation. \nJonathan Curiel is a San Francisco-based writer and journalist who has written widely about the Middle East\, and has reported from Syria\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, and Egypt. His 2008 book\, Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots won an American Book Award. He has been a USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program fellow\, a Thomson Reuters Foundation fellow at Oxford University\, and a Fulbright Scholar at Punjab University in Lahore\, Pakistan. A former staff writer with the San Francisco Chronicle\, he has written about the arts for SF Weekly since 2010. \nJack Hirschman is the former Poet Laureate of the City of San Francisco\, a poet’s poet\, translator\, and editor. His powerfully eloquent voice set the tone for political poetry in this country many years ago. Since leaving a teaching career in the ’60s\, Hirschman has taken the free exchange of poetry and politics into the streets where he is\, in the words of poet Luke Breit\, “America’s most important living poet.” He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, plus some 45 translations from a half a dozen languages\, as well as the editor of anthologies and journals. Among his many volumes of poetry are Endless Threshold\, The Xibalba Arcane\, and Lyripol (City Lights\, 1976). \nBorn in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria\, Jack Marshall now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/because-we-come-from-everything-the-poetics-of-migration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ivy Anderson + Devon Angus
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ivy Anderson and Devon Angus as they discuss Alice: Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute\, winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award. \n\nPraise for Alice: \n\n“With its unflinching honesty\, the political relevance of Alice’s story and analysis resonates today. By speaking out from ‘the underground\,’ Alice’s narrative predicts contemporary San Francisco sex worker discourse\, motivating political action against all odds. An important book.”—Carol Leigh\, artist\, author\, filmmaker\, and sex workers’ rights advocate \n\n“Not only for Bay Area history buffs\, Alice will enlighten all readers to early shifts in gender roles and societal correlations today.”—Cassie Duggan\, Literary Hub \n\nIvy Anderson is a San Francisco–based writer who focuses on issues of ecology and radical history. Her reportage on water management issues was published in Water Efficiency Magazine and and her poetry in Poecology. \n  \nDevon Angus is an artist\, activist\, and historian based in San Francisco. He composed and performed a conceptual folk operetta based on San Francisco history\, The Ghosts of Barbary\, throughout the Bay Area\, Switzerland\, and Italy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ivy-anderson-devon-angus/
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:Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Peg Alford Pursell as she celebrates the publication of her debut book\,Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow. She’ll read and be in conversation with Grant Faulkner. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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