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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The first new translation of this wall poetry in 40 years takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate their experiences\, these poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, eventual deportation.Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, information essential to our contemporary policy debates. These poems are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While earning his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at Angel Island. For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has focused on the Asian American experience including adoption\, multiracial families\, and student activism during the 1960s. His poetry and prose have appeared in many publications including Bamboo Ridge\, Crab Orchard\, Hyphen\, Spillway\, and other publications. In past lives he has been a singer-songwriter\, disc jockey\, high school teacher\, and open mic host. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF
DESCRIPTION:Street Sheet\, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the talents of the musicians\, poets\, and performers who contribute to the paper while bringing in funds for the project. Open mic session\, space is limited. \nMore details soon!
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LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:radical  poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:radical poesies \nSteven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin \nCurated by Tongo Eisen-Martin \nWednesday! May 16th \nDoors 6:30PM \nProgram7PM \nFREE \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michelle Tea
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Tea celebrating the release of her new book\n\nAgainst Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nThe razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas\, a doomed lesbian biker gang\, recovering alcoholics\, and teenagers barely surviving at an ice creamery: these are some of the larger-than-life\,yet all-too-human figures\, populating America’s fringes. Rife with never-ending fights and failures\, theirs are the stories we too often try to forget. But in the process of excavating and documenting these lives\, Michelle Tea also reveals herself in unexpected and heartbreaking ways. \nDelivered with her signature honesty and dark humor\, Tea blurs the line between telling other people’s stories and her own. She turns an investigative eye to the genre that’s nurtured her entire career—memoir—and considers the extent to which art preys on life. \nMichelle Tea is the author of numerous books\, including Rent Girl\, Valencia\, and How to Grow Up. She is the creator of the Sister Spit all-girl open mic and 1997-1999 national tour. In 2003\, Michelle founded RADAR Productions\, a literary non-profit that oversees queer-centric projects. \nOn the work of Michelle Tea: \n“These essays blow my mind with their algebraic rhythms by which Michelle Tea manages pain and bliss. They take turns erupting in a pulpy and marvelous parade: landscape\, passion\, morality\, family\, cigarettes—each cited frankly and exquisitely like a smart kid with a dirty crayon explaining to us all how she sees god.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Chelsea Girls \n“I gobbled up these essays. Michelle Tea is riotously\, wickedly funny\, with an uncommon knack for naming the more hideous and complex parts of being human. Her particular genius makes the hardest truths and sorrows an irresistible joy to read.”—Melissa Febos\, author of Abandon Me
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker / 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Townsend Walker in conversation withMartha Conway about his new short story collection\, 3 Women\, 4 Towns\, 5 Bodies. Townsend will read a story from the collection and Martha will read a section from her recent novel\, The Underground River. Please join us! \nThe twelve stories are rooted in foreign places\, cemeteries\, violence and strong women. The worlds the characters construct are unforgiving. Their paths cross in twisted and sometimes deadly ways. In the title novella\, three women use seduction\, wit\, and weapons to master the men they meet. In Super Secrets two women are neighbors and lovers\, until one is betrayed and extracts revenge. The ribald reverend in The Second Coming meets his match in 19 year-old Charity. On a darker note\, a crazed horse and a storm at sea shatter a fragile love in Slashing at the Nets. Then\, in Storm Painter an artist moves in with a writer\, but their past destroys his third novel. Place is important. None other than an Italian detective would find a clue in a singular tortellini. The New York sniper would only be trained by the Israeli Defense Force. \n— \nTownsend Walker’s novella La Ronde was published in 2015. His short stories have appeared in over seventy-five literary journals. “A Little Love\, A Little Shove” and “Holding Tight” were nominated for PEN/O.Henry Awards. During a career in finance he wrote A Guide for Using the Foreign Exchange Market\, Managing Risk with Derivatives\, and Managing Lease Portfolios. Education: Stanford (economics and creative writing)\, New York University (economics and anthropology)\, Georgetown (political science).He lives in San Francisco and conducts a creative writing workshop at San Quentin Prison. His website is www.townsendwalker.com. \nMartha Conway‘s most recent novel\, The Underground River\, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, and her first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. She has won numerous awards for her historical fiction\, including an Independent Publishers Award and the North American Book Award. Her short fiction has been published in the Iowa Review\, The Carolina Quarterly\, The Missouri Review\, The Quarterly\, and other journals\, and she received a California Arts Council fellowship for Creative Writing. Martha teaches creative writing for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program and UC Berkeley Extension. She lives in San Francisco with her family.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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