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SUMMARY:Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico
DESCRIPTION:In observance of National Poetry Month\, Charles Sullivan\, author and editor of America in Poetry and other volumes\, reads and discusses selections of poems from his book\, Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico.  An “Easterner\,” Sullivan wrote the poems during visits to “The Land of Enchantment\,” where he spoke with its people and listened to and imagined their stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santa-fe-voices-poems-of-new-mexico/
LOCATION:Merced General Floor Area\, 155 Winston Drive\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of my third book! Join me for a party\, gallery show\, and book signing at the fabulous 3 Fish Studios on April 1st (no joke!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-2/
LOCATION:3 Fish Studios\, 4541 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Signals & Intersections
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $15 General\, $10 Members\nBuy Tickets Online\nTickets also available at the door \nWriter/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads an afternoon of poetic contemplation\, in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman and other artists: writers Javier Huerta\, Evan Karp\, Danny Thanh Nguyen\, and musicians Gael Alcock\, Jean Robertson and Miles Karp. Signals & Intersections is an exploration of our bodies in communication\, from within\, to one another\, in stillness\, in motion\, within and across borders. The codes\, signs and signals of our technologies and politics meet in a tender\, experimental mix of music\, words and more.\nPoets\, writers\, and acoustic musicians are welcome to join in this dialogue in an open mic. Sign up at the beginning of the program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/signals-intersections/
LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lovely night of writing and music at the Bazaar Writers Salon\, coming up on Sunday\, April 2nd in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café. \nBazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by R. O. Kwon\, Margaret Ross\, and Essy Stone\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nSunday\, April 2nd\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Café\, 5927 California St.\, SF \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts and as a tool for his leadership consulting practice. \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, Heroics\, is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Noon\, The Guardian\, VICE\, Electric Literature\, Time\, The Believer\, and elsewhere. Named one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30” writers\, she has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Omi International\, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony\, the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation\, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \nMargaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn\, 2015). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nEssy Stone has recently published her first collection of poetry\, What It Done to Us\, with Lost Horse Press. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University\, Essy spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee before receiving her MFA in Poetry from the University of Miami. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner\, 32 Poems\, and the New Yorker. She will be pursuing a PhD in the fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-4/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION: April 3 @ Elbo Room\nAdam Moskowitz\nKatie Wheeler-Dubin\n Kazumi Chin\nPeter Bullen\nJeff Bostic\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nGoldie Negelev\nLinette Escobar \nw/music by\nKristina Dutton + Holly Muñoz \n+ \nrelease party for vitriol 3 \nFREE SHOW • 21+ • 7pm doors \ncurated by Evan Karp\, Brianna Nelsun + Hannah Rubin \nRSVP \n^ sPARKLE & bLINK 84 for the first 100 people\nw/art by Peter Max Lawrence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Safiya Sinclair
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Cannibal: \n“Stunning debut collection”—Publishers Weekly starred review \n\n“Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary\, absolutely unparalleled experience.”—Diego Báez\, Booklist starred review \n\n“Safiya Sinclair writes strange\, mythological\, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems\, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary. . . . Her language is distinctive\, assured\, and a marvel to read.”—Cathy Park Hong\, from her introduction to Safiya Sinclair in the Boston Review\n \n“Cannibal is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers. Here is a poetry that richly interrogates power and history while also eloquently and furtively asserting the possibilities of nature\, desire\, and the body as ceremonial and spiritual sources of resistance and affirmation.”—Major Jackson\, author of Roll Deep \n\n“With exquisite lyrical precision\, Safiya Sinclair is offering us a new muscular music that is as brutal as it is beautiful. Intelligent and elemental\, these poems mark the debut of a poet who is dangerously talented and desperately needed.”—Ada Limón\, author of Bright Dead Things \n\nAbout Cannibal: \nColliding with andconfrontingThe Tempestand postcolonial identity\, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history\, race relations in America\, womanhood\, otherness\, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable\, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery\, these full-blooded poems are elegant\, mythic\, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke\, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/safiya-sinclair/
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:Dean Radar
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry \nSelf-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page—sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation. \nBorn in Oklahoma\, Dean Rader has published in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco\, and writes regularly on literature and politics for The San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-radar/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Augusten Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times-bestselling author Augusten Burroughs joins us at Opera Plaza to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of his newest memoir\, Lust & Wonder. With Augusten’s unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous\, Lust & Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. His story began in Running with Scissors\, endured through Dry\, and continues with this memoir\, the capstone to the life of Augusten Burroughs. \nFunny\, sweet\, alarming\, and ultimately\, moving and tender\, Lust & Wonder is an experience of a book that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/augusten-burroughs/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN\, on Wednesday April 5th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Make-out Room\, 3325 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Ethel Rohan (The Weight of Him)\, Jon Sindell (Family Happiness)\, Peg Alford Pursell (Show Her a Flower\, a Bird\, a Shadow)\, Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points)\, and Christine No. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-chagrin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Felver
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits \nPhotographs by Christopher Felver; Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz; Introduction by Linda Hogan \npublished by Universtiy of New Mexico \nChristopher Felver’s Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today. In these commanding portraits\, Felver’s distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist’s strength\, integrity\, and character. Accompanying each portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the origin of the poet’s language and legends. As the individuals share their unique voices\, Tending the Fire introduces us to the diversity and complexity of Native culture through the authors’ generous and passionate stories. \nFelver’s insightful epilogue reminds us that “Native Americans today are as modern as the Space Age\, and each in their own way carries forth the cultural heritage ‘from whence they came.’ Their abiding legacy as the first people of this continent has found its voice in the hard-won wisdom of their art and activism. Let’s learn from this belated opportunity to look and listen to these Native voices.” \nChristopher Felver’s previous books include American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey\, The Importance of Being\, The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography\, The Poet Exposed\, and Ferlinghetti Portrait. His photographs are distributed worldwide and collected by museums and university libraries. They have been featured in international exhibitions\, including the Centre Pompidou\, London’s National Theatre\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, and MOCA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-felver/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: 1984
DESCRIPTION:Shipwreck Presents George Orwell’s 1984 and uses some language to corrupt your thought. \nFeatured writers: two-time champ Lily Miller\, plus Kaeli Quick\, India Sabater\, Jared Schwartz\, and Natalie Warner. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. Tickets on sale NOW. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event.\nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco.\nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.\nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-1984/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Oates
DESCRIPTION:As half of the iconic duo of Hall & Oates\, John Oates has achieved incredible success. Together\, he and Daryl Hall made over twenty albums\, sold more than 60 million records\, had 29 Top 40 hits\, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, and have recently gotten stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. \nToday Oates is as an accomplished solo artist. For the first time\, he is sharing his story in Change of Seasons: A Memoir with Chris Epting. Based on journals hes kept throughout his life\, Change of Seasons contains never-before-shared anecdotesand picturesfrom a life lived on the road and in the studio. His legions of fans will finally hear the stories behind the songs\, the lessons from a life navigating the music industry\, and his reflections on a remarkable 50 year partnership. The first printing of the book will also include an exclusive five track album that includes a special live version of Maneater. \nJoining John in conversation is co-author of the book and award-winning journalist Chris Epting\, who has written for many publications including The Los Angeles Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Loudwire. \nJohn will also play some music! Join us! \n——————\nPLEASE NOTE:\n—————— \nThis event will be held at Swedish American Hall (2174 Market St.). \nTickets are on sale now and can be purchased here:https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1435012. Tix purchased in advance guarantee a seat and spot in the signing line. \nJohn will only sign books purchased at the event (including\, of course\, the books that come with each ticket). There is no limit to the amount of books he will sign. HOWEVER\, he will not sign ANY other merchandise\, of any kind — no exceptions. \nThank you! Hope to see you there.\n♥\, Booksmith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-oates/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: Poet Laureates Kick-Off Reading\n\n\n\nIshmael Reed\, former SFJAZZ Poet Laureate\nTennessee Reed\nAlejandro Murguía\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\nJanice Mirikitani\, American Sansei poet and activist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going To Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes — Private Parlor Show (($10 adv/$10 day of show)) at The Lost Church\nDoors at 7:30pm\nStarts at 8:15pm\nTickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1455860 \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (YG2D generally sells out in advance)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show. \nYG2D: Every 1st and 3rd Thursdays at The Lost Church \n================================================ \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series is Back
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is Back! Come celebrate our “return” on the lit scene and the beginning of Women’s History Month. \nPowerful women’s storytelling\, drinks\, and the beautiful community of the Mission Cultural Center. No one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥ \nFeaturing: \nMK Chavez\nOakland based writer\, MK Chavez is the author of several chapbooks\, including Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal\, her first full collection was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she received an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Recent and upcoming publications include Heavy Feather Review\, Story Magazine\, and Medium for a 100 days of Action. \nCassandra Dallett\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez. \nRaina León\nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast Native living in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she presently serves as a 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate and final judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her award-winning fiction chapbooks\, Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)\, have earned praise from Nikki Giovanni\, Daniel Handler (a/k/a Lemony Snicket)\, Antonya Nelson\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum\, Molly Giles\, Michelle Tea and others. Frazier’s writing has placed in literary competitions offered by HBO\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, the Mississippi Review and more. You can find her work online at Eclectica Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Eleven Eleven and Kore Press – or read her interviews with CBS\, SF Weekly and Women’s Quarterly Conversation. Recent work is available in Glimmer Train\, issue 96\, and ZYZZYVA\, issue 106. She is at work on a novel and a screenplay. Soma is Chair and Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at Cogswell College; Founding Editor of COG\, a multimedia publication. \nMaw Shein Win\nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nAnd since we really want to celebrate and be exceptional\, curators Sara Marinelli and Shideh Etaat will also read from their work. \nSara Marinelli\nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. \nShideh Etaat\nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. An excerpt from her novel can be found in Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans\, and she has published short stories in The Delmarva Review\, Amazon’s online journal\, Day One\, and Foglifter. She is a 2011 Breadloaf Work Study Scholar and a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-is-back/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates  Gala: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us April 7th as we once again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library for the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala! This year’s theme is Library Love Stories\, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. \nDATE:  April 7\, 2017\nTIME:  7:00 PM Reception followed by Dinner\nLOCATION:  Main Library — 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco \nAt Library Laureates\, the art of conversation is practiced in intimate salons within the heart of San Francisco’s Main Library\, as you and your guests enjoy drinks and dinner with one of the 30-plus authors scheduled to attend. An event like no other\, Library Laureates allows you unprecedented access to explore and discover the seeds of inspiration from a wide array of experiences\, complimented by exquisite food\, exceptional cocktails and extraordinary company. The evening’s woven tapestry of tales will stay with you long after our gala ends\, as you’ll be furnished with a copy of a book from your table’s author. We suspect that work will resonate on a more personal level now that you’ve spent the evening with a treasured wordsmith. \nGuests of honor include author\, publisher\, and Library champion Peter Booth Wiley\, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate)\, along with more than 30 other luminaries of the literary world. \nCo-chaired by Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith\, the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, made possible by our sponsors and other supporters (listed below)\, benefits the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nLast year’s event sold out. Make sure to take advantage of the Sponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now. \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information. \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/#sthash.fBcn8xBG.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-gala-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov w/ Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:As part of our National Poetry Month reading series Alex Dimitrov discusses his new collection\, Together and By Ourselves\, with Noah Warren. \n\nPraise for Alex Dimitorv \n\n“Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures\, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he’s here.” —Michael Cunningham \n\n“Alex Dimitrov’s passionate\, headlong poems seem to want to carve beneath the surface of gestures\, beneath the skin\, to the warm and dangerous blood beneath.” —Mark Doty \n\n“Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.” Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nAbout Together and By Ourselves \n\nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-w-noah-warren/
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:Release Party: Foglifter Vol. 2 Issue 1
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the launch party for Volume 2\, Issue 1 of Foglifter! \nWe’ll be loud & queer at Strut next month with plenty of snacks\, beverages\, and\, of course\, a gaggle of incredible readers. \nSpeaking of — behold our featured contributors for the evening! \nChristopher J Adamson\nSevanKelee Boult\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nClara McLean\nDanny Thanh Nguyen\nD.A. Powell\nDaniel Riddle Rodriguez\nBrenda Usher-Carpino \nThe event is free and open to the public\, with a suggested donation of 15.00\, that buys you a copy of the publication. If you are subscribed to Foglifter and wish to pick up your copy at the event\, please let us know! \nWatch this space for more info\, contributor bios\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-foglifter-vol-2-issue-1/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170329T093649Z
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SUMMARY:Resist Reading + Art Show
DESCRIPTION:With Readings from Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Rene Vaz\, MK Chavez joel Landmine Thea Mathews\, and the goddess Vanessa Rochelle Cassandra Dallett
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-reading-art-show/
LOCATION:63 Bluxome St. Gallery\, 63 Bluxome Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Benavides
DESCRIPTION:Join Denise Benavides\, Kórima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading of Denise’s new book published by Korima Press “Split.” \nBook description:\nDenise Benavides’ debut collection Split is a dedication to motherlessness and abandon—to a nightly killing and rebirths. At its worst\, it is all teeth masticating through the body in an attempt to interrogate and cut out what no longer serves the Self. It is a collection not meant for the weak\, but for those willing to walk through what haunts them the most. \nAuthor Bio:\nDenise Benavides is a queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She uses the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. \nHer work has recently been published in Third Woman Press\, Foglifter Journal\, and The Feminist Wire. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nFree and Open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-benavides/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170408T213000
DTSTAMP:20260508T054629
CREATED:20170320T065951Z
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Variety is more that just the name of Prince’s favorite girl-singer sidekick. It’s more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It’s also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature\, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery\, romance\, memoir\, rants and “other.” \nAll proceeds benefit local non-profits. Charlie Jane Anders MCs and vamps. \nSaturday\, April 8\, 2017:\n \nPeter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nHari Kunzru (White Tears)\nIlana C. Myer (Fire Dance)\nShelley Wong (Rare Birds) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-3/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF JAZZ Poetry Festival: Black Lives Matter
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival\n\n\n\n\nw/ Genny Lim \n\n\nSaturday\, April 8\, 8:00pm\nat SFJAZZ Center\, Joe Henderson Lab\n\n\n\nGenny Lim\nPOETRY MATTERSSERIES: SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: Black Lives Matter\n\n\n\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph (+ musicians)\nln the Fall of 2007\, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine after being named one of America’s Top Young lnnovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the 7-part HBO documentary Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship\, which annually recognizes 50 of the country’s “greatest living artists”. He is the 2011 Alpert Award winner in Theater and in April 2012\, he was one of 21 artists to be named to the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists. He currently is completing new works for the Philadelphia Opera and South Coast Repertory Theater while serving as Director of Performing Arts at YBCA. \nLewis Jordan\nLewis Jordan is an international touring and recording musician; poet; actor and playwright. He was a founding member of United Front\, the seminal San Francisco Bay Area ensemble known for its originality\, aggressive imagination and cultural synthesis. Jordan founded Music at Large in 1976\, dedicated to interdisciplinary and multicultural productions\, with presentations incorporating music\, theater\, dance\, poetry and visual art. \nAVOCTJA \nAvoctja is an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City\, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável\, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk\, Bobi & Luis Cespedes\, John Handy\, Sonido Afro Latina\, Dimensions Dance Theater\, Black Poets With Attitudes
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-jazz-poetry-festival-black-lives-matter/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Argentine Poetry and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Two touring Argentine poets\, Luisa Futoransky and Claudia Schvartz\, Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amara\, with two noted translators\, John Oliver Simon and Stephen Kessler bring to life the “Coast of Silver” for one evening in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood! \nJoin us for an incredible night of word play and language\, with complimentary beverages and snacks provided!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-argentine-poetry-and-translation/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:32x6 Feminist SciFi Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Save the date!\nTwice a year\, a merry band of roving feminists get together for a weekend of flash fiction about time travel.\nThe entire process\, from prompt to book release party\, takes 32 hours\, and you’re invited to help usher the beautiful books into the world!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/32x6-feminist-scifi-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF JAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”\n\n\n\nDevorah Major & Destiny Muhammad\nMajor served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). In addition to her four poetry books she has four poetry chapbooks\, two novels\, two biographies for young adults\, and a host of short stories\, essays\, and individual poems published. In November 2016\, City Lights Publishing will release her fifth volume of poetry. Devorah Major performs nationally and internationally\, with and without musicians. \nDestiny Muhammad is a recording/performing artist\, band leader\, composer and producer. Her genre “Celtic to Coltrane” is cool and eclectic with a feel of jazz and storytelling to round out the sonic experience. \nGenny Lim w/ Anthony Brown & the Asian American Orchestra\nGenny Lim is a noted poet performer who’s collaborated with the late Max Roach and bassist\, Herbie Lewis. Lim has performed at numerous jazz festivals and venues coast to coast\, including the SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Her poetry and vocals can be heard on Asian ImprovArts recordings with Francis Wong\, Devotee and Child of Peace and on Jon Jang’s Immigrant Suite. She is the author of the award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, as well as several poetry collections\, including Paper Gods and Rebels. Lim is the second SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. \nAnthony Brown is a composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and Artistic Director of the GRAMMY nominated Asian American Orchestra and the nonprofit organization\, Fifth Stream Music. He has composed music for critically acclaimed\, award winning film documentaries\, theater productions\, dance companies and musical ensembles internationally\, and has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown has served as Curator of American Musical Culture and Director of the Jazz Oral History Program at the Smithsonian Institution\, and as a Visiting Professor of Music at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-jazz-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carol Sheldon
DESCRIPTION:Exposed: The Poetry of Carol Sheldon is an open\, honest and revealing account of author Carol Sheldon’s feelings\, experiences and musings in the form of poetry. Sheldon has previously published two books of poetry and many assorted other works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carol-sheldon-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Meltzer Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebration of maestro David Meltzer’s life and work\, Monday evening\, April 10th from 7 to 9:30 pm at Bird & Beckett Books. Diane di Prima\, Duncan McNaughton and others (TBA) will read and speak in honor of our friend David Meltzer. Please check back here and on the B&B website for more details soon. \nDAVID MELTZER MEMORIAL READING: Monday\, April 10th\, 2017 – 7:00 pm\nBird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94131\n(2 blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-meltzer-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170410T210000
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \n\nPraise for White Tears \n\n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n\n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n\n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \n\nAbout White Tears \n\nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170410T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170410T213000
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CREATED:20170330T115655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170330T115748Z
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SUMMARY:Stand Up for Choice: A Benefit for NARAL Pro-Choice America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of stand-up comedy to benefit NARAL Pro-Choice America and the fight for reproductive freedom! \nFeaturing:\nNato Green\nFrancesca Fiorentini\nMatt Lieb\nZahra Noorbakhsh\nNicole Calasich\nNatasha Muse\nDrew Platt\nand special guests!\n\nTickets are $20\, get them before they’re gone! \nAll shows are 18 & over with valid photo ID.\nThere is a two drink minimum per person.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stand-up-for-choice-a-benefit-for-naral-pro-choice-america/
LOCATION:Punch Line San Francisco\, 444 Battery St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170412T200000
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SUMMARY:Reese Jones
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Ingrid Contreras Rojas \ndiscussing his new book \nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move \nfrom Verso Books \nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis\, focusing on how borders are formed and policed \nForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade\, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. \nReece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional\, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization\,” he writes\, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.” \nIn Violent Borders\, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world\, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization\, the wealthy travel without constraint\, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures\, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change\, environmental degradation\, and the growth of global wealth inequality. \nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa\, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States\, India\, and Israel. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds. \nCrtitical praise for the work of Reese Jones: \n“I’d like an endless supply of Reece Jones’ Violent Borders to hand out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that we live in\, an argument for a world of humanity.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South \n“A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us to secure our borders\, Reece Jones’ Violent Borders goes beyond the headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis. Borders\, Jones convincingly argues\, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue.” \n– Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and the Domestic War on Terror \n“From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state formation to the current fortification of the US–Mexico frontier\, Reece Jones explains what a boundary is\, and how national sovereignty is being reinforced\, in an age of capital mobility\, by the crackdown on human movement across borders.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World \n“With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news\, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n“In an era of terrorism\, global inequality\, and rising political tension over migration\, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse\, not better.” \n– Boston Globe \n“Reece Jones\, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa\, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion…This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.” \n– Darwin BondGraham\, East Bay Express
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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