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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Presents Kimberly Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new collection Life During Wartime\, winner of the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. With additional readings from Kar Johnson\, Truong Tran\, Max Shanley and Alanna Rae. Sponsored by Fourteen Hills. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist who has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Columbia University\, Callaloo\, and San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared or is upcoming in The Associated Press\, The Atlantic\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, NY1 News\, Entropy\, Medium\, and The Best American Poetry blog\, among other places. Her poetry appears widely online and in journals\, including poets.org\, The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, RHINO\, Columbia Journal\, Yemassee\, Eleven Eleven\, and New American Writing. Her full-length poetry book Running to Stand Still is forthcoming from Omnidawn.
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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:City Lights presents "The Poetic City" at the Night of Ideas.
DESCRIPTION:City Lights presents “The Poetic City” at the Night of Ideas.\nSaturday\, February 2nd\, 8:00-9:00pm\, San Francisco\, CA: SF Library\, Main Branch\nhttps://www.nightofideassf.com/\n  \nWhat is the “Poetic City” of San Francisco? The City at our feet\, the City behind us\, the one in our heads\, the one breathing down our necks? Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? \nPoems\, songs\, anti-poems\, and more from an inspired crew of local artists and writers including: Julien Poirier\, Ash Tré Philips\, Kim Shuck\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Robert Andrew Perez\, Ava Koohbor\, Lisa Gray-Garcia\, Josiah Luís Alderete\, Thea Matthews\, Jack Hirschman\, and Flavia Mora. \nJoin us on February 2nd\, 2019 when the San Francisco Public Library\, SFMOMA\, and the French Consulate in SF unite to present a seven-hour marathon of debate\, performance\, readings\, screenings\, and music featuring big thinkers from SF and beyond as we envision the “city of the future.”  This event is free and open to all!
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LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What If: The Fiction of the Future
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETS\nFantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future\, and our fascination continues unabated in recent films and TV shows such as Children of Men\, Blade Runner 2049\, Black Mirror\, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring\, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism\, or can it alter our destiny? Discussing these questions and more will be Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night)\, and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife)\, in conversation with Nilgun Bayraktar\, a writer and professor at California College of the Arts. \n\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nNilgun Bayraktar\nNilgun Bayraktar is an assistant professor of film in the Visual Studies Program at California College of the Arts. She received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies with a designated emphasis in Film & Media Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley. Her work focuses on migrant… Read More →\n\n\nAuthors \n\n \nCharlie Jane Anders\nCharlie Jane Anders is the former editor-in-chief of io9.com\, the extraordinarily popular Gawker Media site devoted to science fiction and fantasy. Her SF and fantasy debut novel\, All the Birds in the Sky\, won the 2017 Nebula Awards for Best Novel and was a finalist for the 2017 Hugo… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Elison\nMeg Elison is a science fiction author and feminist essayist. Her debut novel\, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, won the 2014 Philip K. Dick award. Her second novel\, The Book of Etta\, was a finalist for the Philip K. Dick\, and both were longlisted for the James A. Tiptree award. She… Read More →\n\n\n\n \n\nSaturday February 2\, 2019 8:00pm – 9:00pm\nSan Francisco Public Library\, main branch\, 1st Floor Deaf Services Center 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-if-the-fiction-of-the-future/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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