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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Brushes with Fame
DESCRIPTION:Fame is such an odd thing. Everybody wants a piece of it\, though many who get it\, ultimately regret it. This month\, Fireside brings to the stage six storytellers to tell true tales about their brushes with fame: whether it’s encounters with famous people\, or finding themselves in the middle of their 15 minutes of fame — or infamy. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-brushes-with-fame/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Paramour'
DESCRIPTION:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWednesday\, April 12th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling #Unedited #TheRealDeal\n\n\n\nThis Evening of “Love stories includes:\n\n\n❤ Online Dating Prankster Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ YOU! Pitch your story to Dixie!\n\n\n\n❤ Musical act to come (do songs about sex? Email Dixie!)\n\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nSexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour brings her true dirty storytelling show back to the Verdi Club’s stage and this month\, we intertwine Love and Sex. : stories of wild abandon that left to true love\, tales of the search for more than orgasm or finding that you\, on your own\, are what you’ve been looking for all along. Hey… isn’t that your story?! Let’s find out: email Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com and pitch her your story to be part of this show. Bawdy Storytelling promises you a Wednesday night of true\, funny\, poignant\, shocking tales – each told without notes by the sexual adventurer who lived to tell the tale. \n\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n\n❤ Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award winner and was named “Best Bay Area Comedian” by the SF Weekly\, Bay Area Reporter and The SF Bay Guardian. Robin Williams called her “Amazing..a lesbian Lenny Bruce.” Gomez’s comedy has been featured on HBO\, LOGO\, Showtime\, Comedy Central and PBS. She is also the author/performer of twelve solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series “Sense8” She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s “WTF\,” “The Keith and The Girl Show” and Kevin Allison’s “Risk.” Her website is margagomez.com\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Ash Fisher is a comedian\, actor and writer. She is not a comedienne\, an actress or a writeress. She co-hosts the popular Oakland comedy show “Man Haters\,” named 2016 Best Comedy Show by East Bay Express. She was the 2012 Newcomer Runner-Up in Ladies of Laughter at Gotham Comedy Club NYC\, won the Oakland Storytelling Showdown\, won the Shipwreck Erotic Fan Fiction Competition\, and performed in San Francisco Sketchfest 2016 and 2017. She writes for Wear Your Voice Mag and has been published in The Huffington Post and The Advocate. She does illustration and voiceovers whenever someone lets her. Ash holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and Sallie Mae will never let her forget it. Find her at ashfisherhaha.com & on twitter & instagram: @ashfisherhaha\n\n\n\n❤ Online dating prankster & Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey).\n\n\nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-paramour/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Party Like A Parisian! Impressions of Paris; An Artist's Sketchbook book launch party
DESCRIPTION:Stop by and help us toast Cat’s new book\, Impressions of Paris; An Artist’s Sketchbook. Meet and mingle with the artist herself and have your copy signed!\nShop the studio and enter our raffle! Toast with free snacks & beverages and snap a Frenchie photo in our photo booth! \nThe book event is on the same day as Polk Street’s First Annual Spring Wine Walk. Tickets are available at www.sresproductions.com for $20 in advance or $25 day-of at 1475 Polk Street. \nHope to see you! Come party with us like a Parisian! \nNo rsvp required but we do appreciate it on our Facebook event page. The event is the same day and alongside the Polk Street Spring Wine Walk which is $20 advanced and $25 at the door. Entry to the book launch party and all activities are free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/party-like-a-parisian-impressions-of-paris-an-artists-sketchbook-book-launch-party/
LOCATION:Ferme A Papier by Cat Seto\, 2406 Polk Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Reading from his poetry and celebrating the release of Selected Poems: 1962-1985 \nfrom Station Hill Press \nEdited by Larry Fagin \nClark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985 will be how Coolidge’s revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. Lyn Hejinian writes\, “Reading through the still incredible work collected in this exemplary SELECTED POEMS\, I marvel all over again at the force of even the ‘smallest’ of Clark Coolidge’s poems. Coolidge’s sonic expertise has often been noted\, and music—especially bebop and what has followed it—clearly has suggested to him ways to generate rhythmic clusters\, to ride accelerations\, to invent scales. No other poet ever has so exquisitely\, and sometimes also turbulently\, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry.” This volume includes an introduction by Bill Berkson\, entitled “The Spools of Clark Coolidge\,” recounting Coolidge’s coming up and influences as well as eloquently expressing the visionary nature of his poetic enterprise. \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SpeCt Poets\, Ambr33zy Ba!: Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark
DESCRIPTION:A diverse selection of Bay Area musicians activate Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark \nThursday\, April 13\, 2017\, 7:00 PM\n$10-$20 sliding scale at door \nStart off your evening with local poets Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, Peter Burghardt\, and Robert Andrew Perez. The three co-publish speCt!\, an artbook press that prints small-batch\, single-author chapbooks\, and each has been widely published in poetry journals. Perez\, whose first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn Publishing\, is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. \nThen get the dance party started with Oakland’s own Ambr33zy BA! making the dance floor a safe space for all creative freaks\, oddballs\, and disco grannies to be themselves and shake their ass! For this special night\, Ambr33zy BA! with friends Ka’ra Kersey and Simmi will come together on one stage to bring high energy world music that will sweat your wig off in the name of LOVE! \nSee the full schedule of Black Ark performers:\nhttp://soex.org/blackark \nIn addition to an artist stipend in accordance with WAGE standards\, the performers will receive 50% of the proceeds from admissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spect-poets-ambr33zy-ba-recapturing-memories-of-the-black-ark/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alejandro Murguía: The Power of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Starting with the word and advancing to a complete poem\, this workshop\, taught by San Francisco’s poet laureate Alejandro Murguía\, will focus on poetry for our times. Student poets will be encouraged to channel their rage\, anger\, politics\, doubts\, insecurities as well as love and compassion into their poetry—with a bit of irony and humor included. If time allows we will workshop the poems in class. Bring two pencils and paper to write with. For poets of all skill and experience levels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alejandro-murguia-the-power-of-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170201T042054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T042054Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Let's Jew It!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Jew It!\nSaturday\, April 15\, 6 to 8 pm\nAt Rolling Out\nSubmissions open. See guidelines below\, bubie. \nAlready On Board \nSusan Cohen\nRick May\nColleen McKee\n[Your Name Here?] Submissions are rolling … we’ll keep accepting subs until the lineup is full.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-lets-jew-it/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170417T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170417T200000
DTSTAMP:20260502T180018
CREATED:20170118T061046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170118T061046Z
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of 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. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170417T210000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170414T030146Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170417T210000
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CREATED:20170320T074933Z
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith welcomes Edie Meidav for her new story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. She’ll be in conversation with Zyzzyva’s managing editor Oscar Villalon. Join us! \nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceañera parties\, these stories—along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda—testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \n————————–————————–————————–—– \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.” – Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n“These stories are dazzling\, full of knowledge of the world and of the heart\, and written with the pluck and thrum of a flamenco guitarist. Meidav draws you into world after world; she makes you want to sit by your window and listen all night.” – Paul La Farge\, author of Luminous Airplanes \n“Edie Meidav’s writing is a cascade of fireworks. Her ideas are little bombs—and these stories\, fast-spinning sparklers. Her hallucinatory prose flares with color and heart.” – Leela Corman\, author of Unterzakhn \n————————–————————–————————–—– \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels: The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. Work from Kingdom of the Young appeared in Conjunctions and American Literary Review\, among other places. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nOscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \n>>> More Info Here:\nhttp://www.booksmith.com/event/edie-meidav-kingdom-young
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170418T213000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170419T200000
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CREATED:20170201T042432Z
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170419T213000
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CREATED:20161223T032739Z
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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170419T213000
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SUMMARY:Marcy Dermansky w/ Daniel Hadler
DESCRIPTION:Praise for The Red Car \n“I’ve been waiting and waiting for a new book from Marcy Dermansky and finally that new book is here. The Red Car is taut and smart and strange and sweet and perfect. I want to eat this book or sew it to my skin or something.” Roxane Gay\, author Bad Feminist \n“A new book by the inimitable Marcy Dermansky is worth cheering for. The Red Car is droll\, unflinching\, and mysterious\, a feat of efficient storytelling. I could not put it down. This novel mesmerized me.” Edan Lepucki\, author of California \n“There are few writers who can do what Marcy Dermansky does so effortlessly in The Red Car\, the way she pushes this story in such surprising and thrilling directions\, never losing control\, taking your breath away line by beautiful line. Dermansky writes with such unnerving clarity about grief\, not just for the loss of a loved one\, but for our own unexpected lives. A strange\, unflinching\, utterly amazing novel.” Kevin Wilson\, author of The Family Fang \n\nAbout the Red Car \nLeah is living in Queens with a possessive husband she doesn’t love and a long list of unfulfilled ambitions\, when she’s jolted from a thick ennui by a call from the past. Her beloved former boss and friend\, Judy\, has died in a car accident and left Leah her most prized possession and\, as it turns out\, the instrument of Judy’s death: a red sports car. \nJudy was the mentor Leah never expected. She encouraged Leah’s dreams\, analyzed her love life\, and eased her into adulthood over long lunches away from the office. Facing the jarring disconnect between the life she expected and the one she is now actually living\, Leah takes off for San Francisco to claim Judy’s car. In sprawling days defined by sex\, sorrow\, and unexpected delight\, Leah revisits past lives and loves in search of a self she abandoned long ago. Piercing through Leah’s surreal haze is the enigmatic voice of Judy\, as sharp as ever\, providing wry commentary on Leah’s every move. \nFollowing her “irresistible” (Time) and “wicked” (Slate) novel Bad Marie\, Dermansky evokes yet another edgy\, capricious\, and beautifully haunting heroine one whose search for realization is as wonderfully unpredictable and hypnotic as the twists and turns of the Pacific Coast Highway. Tautly wound\, transgressive\, and mordantly funny\, The Red Car is an incisive exploration of one woman’s unusual route to self-discovery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcy-dermansky-w-daniel-hadler/
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:Cleve Jones - When We Rise
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce our second What We Do Now event featuring the amazing Cleve Jones in conversation with David Talbot to discuss activism and dissent In Trump’s America. \nCleve Jones’ career as an activist began in San Francisco in 1970s. He co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and conceived the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, which memorializes over 85\,000 Americans who have died from AIDS. He lives in San Francisco and works as a labor activist. \nHis new book\, When We Rise: My Life in the Movement provided inspiration for the ABC television mini-series of the same name. \nBorn in 1954\, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people\, Jones\, nearly penniless\, was drawn in the early 1970s to San Francisco\, a city electrified by progressive politics and sexual freedom. \nJones found community–in the hotel rooms and ramshackle apartments shared by other young adventurers\, in the city’s bathhouses and gay bars like The Stud\, and in the burgeoning gay district\, the Castro\, where a New York transplant named Harvey Milk set up a camera shop\, began shouting through his bullhorn\, and soon became the nation’s most outspoken gay elected official. \nWith Milk’s encouragement\, Jones dove into politics and found his calling in “the movement.” When Milk was killed by an assassin’s bullet in 1978\, Jones took up his mentor’s progressive mantle–only to see the arrival of AIDS transform his life once again. By turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. When We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cleve-jones-when-we-rise/
LOCATION:Bookshop West Portal\, 80 W Portal Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94127\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Bookshop West Portal":MAILTO:info@bookshopwestportal.com
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