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SUMMARY:Forrest Gander in conversation with Jonathan Santlofer (moderated by Susan Steinberg)
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books: \nBe With – by Forrest Gander – from New Directions \nWidows Notebook – by Jonathan Santlofer – from Penguin Books \nabout Be With: \nDrawing from his experience as a translator\, Forrest Gander includes in the first\, powerfully elegiac section a version of a poem by the Spanish mystical poet St. John of the Cross. He continues with a long multilingual poem examining the syncretic geological and cultural history of the U.S. border with Mexico. The poems of the third section—a moving transcription of Gander’s efforts to address his mother dying of Alzheimer’s—rise from the page like hymns\, transforming slowly from reverence to revelation. Gander has been called one of our most formally restless poets\, and these new poems express a characteristically tensile energy and\, as one critic noted\, “the most eclectic diction since Hart Crane.” \nabout Widows Notebook: \nOn a summer day in New York Jonathan Santlofer discovers his wife\, Joy\, gasping for breath on their living room couch. After a frenzied 911 call\, an ambulance race across Manhattan\, and hours pacing in a hospital waiting room\, a doctor finally delivers the fateful news. Consumed by grief\, Jonathan desperately tries to pursue life as he always had–writing\, social engagements\, and working on his art–but finds it nearly impossible to admit his deep feelings of loss to anyone\, not even his to beloved daughter\, Doria\, or to himself. \nAs Jonathan grieves and heals\, he tries to unravel what happened to Joy\, a journey that will take him nearly two years. \nabout the authors: \n\nForrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert and grew up\, for the most part\, in Virginia. Trenchant periods of his life were spent in San Francisco\, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico)\, and Eureka Springs\, Arkansas. With degrees in both geology and English literature\, Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He’s the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. A U.S. Artists Rockefeller fellow\, Gander has been recipient of grants from the NEA\, the Guggenheim\, Howard\, Witter Bynner and Whiting foundations. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was an NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \n\nJonathan Santlofer is a writer and artist. His debut novel\, The Death Artist\, was an international bestseller\, translated into seventeen languages\, and is currently in development for screen adaptation. His fourth novel\, Anatomy of Fear\, won the Nero Award for best novel of 2009. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. He is also the creator and editor of several anthologies including It Occurs to Me That I Am America\, a collection of original stories and art. His paintings and drawings are included in many public and private collections. He lives in New York City. \nSusan Steinberg is the author of the short story collections\, Hydroplane and The End of Free Love\, and her third collection\, Spectacle\, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Conjunctions\, American Short Fiction\, and elsewhere\, and she was the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-gander-in-conversation-with-jonathan-santlofer-moderated-by-susan-steinberg/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading by Bay Area poets MK Chavez and Heather June Gibbons. We’ll be helping to debut the first full-length book\, Her Mouth As Souvenir\, by SF State Creative Writing faculty member Gibbons. This event\, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nOakland based Latinx writer MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis and Dear Animal (both from Nomadic Press.) She is a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself Among the Ruins was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. She is a co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, a fellow with CantoMundo\, and guest curator of the reading series at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the Fall of 2018. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press\, as well as two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover. Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Vermont Studio Center\, Academy of American Poets and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She lives in San Francisco\, where she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nVIDEO: MK Chavez at Radar Reading Series\, San Francisco Public Library\nVIDEO: Heather June Gibbons at Quiet Lightning/Poetry in Parks \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mk-chavez-and-heather-june-gibbons-reading-and-in-conversation/
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:Readings by R. O. Kwon\, Anisse Gross\, Rachel Khong\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Caille Millner\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, and Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a very special evening of readings with one of San Francisco’s longest-running writing groups! It all started in 2003\, when some friends in college started a group called Chapter Room. It’s gone through a lot of iterations since then\, and names (Kick-It Boys\, Pre-Party Forever); it’s now bicoastal and nameless\, with one branch in San Francisco and one in New York. Please come join us for a celebratory group reading\, and for revelry afterward! \n  \nReadings by (clockwise\, from top left): Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Esmé Weijun Wang\, Colin Winnette\, Anisse Gross\, Caille Millner\, Rachel Khong\, and R. O. Kwon! \n  \n\n  \nBorn and raised in New Orleans\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her debut novel\, A Kind of Freedom\, was a 2017 National Book Award Nominee\, a New York Times Notable Book of 2017 and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review\, Oprah.com\, Lenny Letter\, The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, and other publications. She lives in the Bay Area\, California\, with her family. \n  \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of the novel The Border of Paradise. She received a 2018 Whiting Award\, was named by Granta as one of the “Best of Young American Novelists” in 2017\, and is the recipient of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize for her forthcoming essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias. Born in the Midwest to Taiwanese parents\, Esmé lives in San Francisco. \n  \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Haints Stay (Two Dollar Radio) and The Job of the Wasp (Soft Skull Press). He lives in San Francisco. \n  \nAnisse Gross is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. \n  \nCaille Millner is the author of a memoir\, The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification. Her fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva\, the Cimarron Review\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Paris Review Daily\, Longreads\, and many other publications. She is also a cultural columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. \n  \nRachel Khong is a writer living in the Mission. She’s the author of the novel Goodbye\, Vitamin\, which was released by Henry Holt in 2017\, and recently in paperback by Picador. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Joyland\, Tin House\, and The Paris Review. She is the founder of The Ruby\, also located in the Mission\, a shared work and gathering space for women of all definitions. \n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n\n  \nR. O. Kwon is a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing is published or forthcoming in The Guardian\, Vice\, Time\, Noon\, Electric Literature\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards from Yaddo\, MacDowell\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, Omi International\, the Steinbeck Center\, and the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony. Born in South Korea\, she has lived most of her life in the United States. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-the-incendiaries/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Clifton
DESCRIPTION:Denise Clifton discusses her new book\, Tables from the Rubble: How the Restaurants That Arose After the Great Quake of 1906 Still Feed San Francisco Today. \n\nAbout Tables from the Rubble \n\nTABLES FROM THE RUBBLE transports readers to San Francisco in the years just after the Great Earthquake of 1906. Amid the ruins\, restaurants rose to feed the hungry and lead the recovery. Today\, a handful of the restaurants that opened in those boom years remain – some still serving customers in the same spaces where they first opened\, offering food and drinks with a direct link to a century-old past. TABLES FROM THE RUBBLE tells the stories of restaurants like Swan Oyster Depot\, Liguria Bakery\, Comstock Saloon\, the Palace Hotel\, the House of Shields\, John’s Grill and Schroeder’s. And it follows the journey of Chinatown’s Sam Wo\, which was saved by the hard work of one family and an entire community committed to the historic restaurant’s legacy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-clifton/
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:The story of the Spear of Longinus: Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel "The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker"
DESCRIPTION:Author Terry Tarnoff discusses his novel The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker with special focus on the story of the Spear of Longinus.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-story-of-the-spear-of-longinus-terry-tarnoff-discusses-his-novel-the-thousand-year-journey-of-tobias-parker/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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