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SUMMARY:THE RACKET : TOTAL RECALL w/ Héctor Tobar
DESCRIPTION:THE RACKET READING SERIES:\nTOTAL RECALL w/ HECTOR TOBAR\nZOOM LINK TO COME!\nWe’re doing a weekly reading series.\nAnd this week\, oooooh weeee\, are we excited. Hector Tobar – author of Deep Down Dark and The Last Great Road Bum and much\, much more – is joining us for TOTAL RECALL. It’ll be a night of nostalgic\, memory\, tricks of memory\, not being able to remember things and so on and so on.\nDoors @ 7:00PM. Show @ 7:15PM.\nLINK TO COME.\n\nTHE READERS (for now):\nHéctor Tobar\nSage Curtis\nClaire Calderón\nDanielle Truppi
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-total-recall-w-hector-tobar/
LOCATION:ZOOOM
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T190000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #65 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-65-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
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SUMMARY:SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr\, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. \nMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November\, 1930\, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco\, Detroit and New York. Still\, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. \nOnly twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera\, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place\, one filled with magnificent beauty\, horrific poverty\, racial tension\, anti-Semitism\, ethnic diversity\, bland Midwestern food and a thriving music scene\, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear\, cracks in her marriage widened and tragedy struck\, twice while she was living in Detroit. \nFrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia\, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail\, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. \nCelia Stahr is a professor at the University of San Francisco\, where she specializes in modern American and contemporary art with an emphasis on feminist art and gender studies\, as well as African and multicultural art. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Iowa and lives in the Bay Area. \nConnect with Celia Stahr – Website | Instagram | Blog \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-virtual-library-celia-stahr-frida-in-america-the-creative-awakening-of-a-great-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T120000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Native Tongues: Tres Poetas de Califas
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of ¡VIVA! poetry with Alejandro Murguía\, Leticia Hernández-Linares and José Héctor Cadena. \nAlejandro Murguía author of Southern Front and This War Called Love\, Nine Stories\, City Lights Books (winner of the American Book Award). In non-fiction he has published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California\, University of Texas Press. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. Currently he is a professor in Latina/Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. In 2013 City Lights Books published his new book Stray Poems. His short story\, The Other Barrio\, was recently released as a full length feature\, filmed in the street of the Mission District. He was the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino to hold the position. \nConnect with Alejandro Murguía – Website \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is the author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl\, and co-editor of The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States. Widely published\, her work appears in Other Musics\, Latinas: Struggles & Protests\, Maestrapeace\, Huizache\, and Pilgrimage.  A four-time San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grantee\, she teaches in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. \nConnect with Leticia Hernández-Linares – Website | Twitter \nJosé Héctor Cadena is a poet\, scholar and collage artist who grew up along the San Ysidro/Tijuana borderlands. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at The University of Kansas. His work has appeared in Raices y Mas: An Anthology of Young Border Voices\, Cipactli\, Transfer Magazine\, Pacific Review\, La Bloga\, Red Light Lit and San Diego Poetry Annual. \nZoom Reservation \nSFPL YouTube Live \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-native-tongues-tres-poetas-de-califas/
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CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T160000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Libby Copeland\, The Lost Family
DESCRIPTION:The Lost Family explores the rapidly evolving phenomenon of home DNA testing\, its implications for how we think about family and ourselves and its ramifications for American culture broadly. \nLibby Copeland is an award-winning journalist who has written for the Washington Post\, New York magazine\, the New York Times\, the Atlantic and many other publications. She specializes in the intersection of science and culture. Copeland was a reporter and editor at the Post for eleven years\, has been a media fellow and guest lecturer and has made numerous appearances on television and radio. \nIn collaboration with the Bay Area’s scientific\, cultural and educational institutions\, the Bay Area Science Festival\, now in its 10th year\, is an annual celebration of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics. Organized by the Science and Health Education Partnership at UCSF\, the Festival features hundreds of online activities\, provocative conversations and virtual tours of cutting-edge facilities\, all designed to connect residents with the region’s scientists and engineers. \nThe festival runs from Oct. 21-25 and at SFPL we will feature picture books with a science connection during our live story times that week. Also join us online for STEM workshops aimed at elementary school-age audiences that explore basic science\, engineering\, math and technology topics. \nCopies of The Lost Family\, signed and personalized by Libby Copeland\, can be purchased through The Village Bookstore in Pleasantville\, NY (Attention: Jennifer Kohn\, 914-769-8322). \nConnect with Libby Copeland – Website | Twitter | \nConnect with the Bay Area Science Festival – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nRegistration: http://bit.ly/LostFamily10-24-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/yQBUYM1E6Yw \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-libby-copeland-the-lost-family/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T200000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Book Club: Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra
DESCRIPTION:We will be discussing Pura Neta by Benjamin Bac Sierra\, our Sept./Oct. On the Same Page author. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice. Cartoon\, a Homeboy who had been banished from the barrio twenty years earlier\, has returned from his educational and spiritual odyssey. He finds the hood under attack\, and it is no longer the gangs\, but the monsters of cafes\, cheese schools and micro-breweries\, protected by their own police force\, that are destroying the native San Franciscans. In order to strategize a meaningful movement\, Cartoon visits his old mentor\, El Lobo\, a barrio shot caller who is now serving a life prison sentence in San Quentin. Cartoon then recruits the young Homeys to begin implementing amor action in the hood\, until the police murder a Loved One\, which ultimately sparks The Revolt of the Roots. \nRegistration: https://bit.ly/OTSPBkClb10-26-20 \n–
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-book-club-pura-neta-by-benjamin-bac-sierra/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T180000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Virtual Library - Filipinx Poetry w Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez
DESCRIPTION:An evening with Barbara Jane Reyes\, Rachelle Cruz\, Jan-Henry Gray and Aldrin Valdez in honor of Filipino American History Month\, and in celebration of Filipinx poetry and the release of Barbara Jane Reyes’ sixth book of poetry\, Letters to a Young Brown Girl. Authors will read\, hold dialogue and have short Q & A. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl(BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center(Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015) and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). \nShe is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. \nConnect with Barbara Jane Reyes – Website | Instagram | Twitter \nRachelle Cruz is the author of God’s Will for Monsters (Inlandia\, 2017)\, which won an American Book Award in 2018 and the 2016 Hillary Gravendyk Regional Poetry Prize.  She was appointed the 2018-2020 Inlandia Literary Laureate. She co-edited Kuwento: Lost Things\, an anthology of Philippine Myths (Carayan Press\, 2015) with Melissa Sipin.  Her most recent book\, Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading\, Discussing and Creating Comics\, was published in Fall 2018. Her work has appeared in As/Us\, Yellow Medicine Review\, The Lit Pub\,The Collagist\, Bone Bouquet\, PANK\, Muzzle Magazine\, Inlandia: A Literary Journey\, among others. She hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour with Muriel Leung. She is a Lecturer in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California\, Riverside.  An Emerging Voices Fellow\, a Kundiman Fellow and a VONA writer\, she lives and writes in Southern California. \nConnect with Rachelle Cruz – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nJan-Henry Gray was born in the Philippines\, grew up in California and worked as a chef in San Francisco for more than 12 years. He lived undocumented in the US for more than 32 years. A graduate of San Francisco State University and Columbia College Chicago’s MFA program\, he received the inaugural Undocupoets Fellowship and awards from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. Jan’s writing can be found in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color\, The Rumpus\, Tupelo Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, DIAGRAM\, Fourteen Hills\, The Margins\, Quarterly West\, Puerto del Sol\, and other journals. He is the author of the chapbook Selected Emails from speCt! Books. His first book\, Documents\, was chosen by D.A. Powell as the winner of BOA Editions’ 2018 Poulin Poetry Prize. He is a Kundiman fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Adelphi University. He lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nConnect with Jan-Henry Gray – Website | Instagram | Facebook \nAldrin Valdez (they) is the author of ESL or You Weren’t Here(Nightboat Books\, 2018)\, selected as a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Poetry in 2019. They are a writer and visual artist. \nConnect with Aldrin Valdez – Instagram | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/BarbaraJaneReyes10-28-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live: https://youtu.be/EkeYcNiNYlQ \n\n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-virtual-library-filipinx-poetry-w-barbara-jane-reyes-rachelle-cruz-jan-henry-gray-and-aldrin-valdez/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201107T183000
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SUMMARY:Ayşegül Savaş Reading
DESCRIPTION:You must register to attend this event! \nFree and Open to the Public. \nCo-sponsored by the MFA Program in Writing and the English Department. \n\n\n\n\n\nAyşegül Savaş is the author of Walking on the Ceiling. Her second novel White on White is forthcoming from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, and The Guardian. She lives in Paris.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aysegul-savas-reading/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T170000
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SUMMARY:Harmada: Juan Cárdenas and Edgar Garbelotto celebrate João Gilberto Noll
DESCRIPTION:Join Unabridged Bookstore and Two Lines Press for an event celebrating João Gilberto Noll’s Harmada\, a mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto. \nEdgar Garbelotto will be in conversation with Juan Cárdenas\, author of Ornamental. Sign up on Unabridged Bookstore’s website to join this virtual event. And while you’re there don’t forget to grab a copy of the book for yourself and a friend! \nAbout Harmada: \nLike an Edenic Adam birthed from the clay\, our narrator rises to his feet from the muck—reborn\, or something like that. Unbeknownst to him\, he’s on a desperate search for Harmada\, the capital city of an unnamed nation and the land of his former glory. Told using Noll’s characteristic fragmented logic and spirited prose\, Harmada traces the life of this nameless man on a voyage that takes him from aimless outcast to revered director of avant-garde theater\, from asylum patient to father to God\, conjuring along the way essential questions about the power of art and storytelling\, the vanity of glory\, and the meaning of freedom. \nA mythic tale of art and displacement nimbly translated from Portuguese by Edgar Garbelotto\, Harmada serves as yet another reminder of João Gilberto Noll’s sublime literary power: generous in its mystery; earthbound in its essential urges; and entirely unpredictable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harmada-juan-cardenas-and-edgar-garbelotto-celebrate-joao-gilberto-noll/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Patrick Earl Ryan and Martin Pousson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 13 at 7pm PST when Patrick Earl Ryan discusses his award-winning debut collection\, If We Were Electric\, with Martin Pousson on Zoom! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88012383591 \n  \nPraise for If We Were Electric \nSelected by Roxane Gay for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\n“If We Were Electric\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how.”—Roxane Gay \nAbout If We Were Electric \nIf We Were Electric‘s twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical\, muddy and exquisite\, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair\, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis\, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities\, about people on the outside who don’t fit in\, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. \nIn “Feux Follet\,” an old man’s grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer’s raw\, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange\, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. “Blackout” sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in “Before Las Blancas” is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he’s known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And “Where It Takes Us” is a poignant\, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight\, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again. \nAbout Patrick Earl Ryan \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, San Francisco Bay Guardian\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, Cairn\, and the James White Review. Founder and editor in chief of Lodestar Quarterly\, Ryan has also taught martial arts philosophy and tai chi chuan for many years. He lives in San Francisco\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-patrick-earl-ryan-and-martin-pousson-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "Cut to Bloom"
DESCRIPTION:This November\, KSW Presents “Cut to Bloom\,” a celebration of Arhm Choi Wild’s collection of poetry. Joined by Isabella “Isa” Borgeson and Hieu Minh Nguyen\, this event features three powerful poets reading works transforming the cut\, the chasm\, the hyphen—of identity\, of the body\, of queerness\, home and healing. \n  \nNO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Email info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll take care of you. \n  \n\n\n\nFeatured Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nArhm Choi Wild \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, Korean-American poet who grew up in the slam community of Ann Arbor\, Michigan\, and went on to perform across the country\, including at Brave New Voices\, the New York City Poetry Festival\, and Asheville Wordfest. Their debut book of poems\, CUT TO BLOOM\, was the winner of the 2019 Write Bloody Book Contest. Arhm is a Kundiman fellow with an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College\, and was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize in 2019. They have been anthologized in Daring to Repair by Wising Up Press and The Queer Movement Anthology of Literatures\, and their work appears in Barrow Street\, The Massachusetts Review\, Pleiades\, Split this Rock\, and other publications. They work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute and as a Diversity Coordinator at a school in New York City. For more information\, visit arhmchoiwild.com. \nphoto by Sy Klipsch-Abudu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nHieu Minh Nguyen \n\n\n\n\nis a queer Vietnamese American poet and performer. He is a Kundiman fellow\, the recipient of the 2017 NEA fellowship for poetry\, a 2018 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry fellowship\, the VERVE grant from Intermedia Arts\, the Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant from The Loft Literary Center\, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency. His work has appeared in PBS Newshour\, POETRY Magazine\, Gulf Coast\, BuzzFeed\, Poetry London\, Nashville Review\, Indiana Review\, and more. In 2014\, his debut collection of poetry\, This Way to the Sugar\, was a finalist for both the Lambda Book Award and Minnesota Book Award. His second collection\, Not Here\, was published in April 2018 by Coffee House Press. He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College and is currently a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nIsabella “Isa” Borgeson \n\n\n\n\nis a queer\, mixed race\, white and Filipina poet\, community organizer\, and teaching artist from Oakland. Isa was named a “Best New Poet” of 2018. She has received fellowships from Voices of Our Nation Art Foundation (2015\, 2017)\, the Poetry Incubator through Crescendo Literary (2016)\, and AIR Serenbe as their 2019 Spoken Word Artist with a commitment to Community and Collaboration (SWACC!) Fellow. Most recently\, she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Isa is a co-founder of The Root Slam – a free poetry venue in Oakland dedicated to promoting the artistic growth of the Bay Area poetry community. She currently organizes with the #StopSanQuentinOutbreak coalition around COVID-19 rapid response work to decarcerate all prisons. Isa’s commitment toward teaching poetry as a tool for resistance keeps her grounded in her communities from Oakland to Tanauan. \nphoto by Andrea Gutiérrez \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT CUT TO BLOOM \nWhat does it take to unlearn the survival instinct of trauma? What does it take to choose our tools instead of wearing down the ones we’ve been handed? In Cut to Bloom\, Arhm Choi Wild attempts to forge answers to these questions by navigating the hyphen\, sometimes chasm\, between the Asian and American identity\, between queerness and the politics of belonging\, between survival and the possibility of choice. \nWhile talking back to the colonialism of strict poetic form\, this book attempts to disrupt clear definitions and redefine the American identity as one that is constructed more by questions than answers. This book celebrates the self-made\, rogue bouquet\, the taking of what you were given and transforming it into something you could make a gift of\, and examines what needs to be pruned in order to arrive at this transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-cut-to-bloom/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Night of Memoir with Alden Jones and Rick Moody
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, November 18 at 5pm PST for a special Night of Memoir with writers Alden Jones and Rick Moody\,\nas they discuss their latest books and answer your questions about the art of memoir! \nIf you’re enjoying Green Apple’s virtual events\, consider making a donation here to help sustain our programming. \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84986160532 \nAbout The Wanting Was a Wilderness \nHow did Cheryl Strayed turn a solo hike into an inspirational memoir\, beloved by millions? Memoirist and professor Alden Jones sets out to explore why. But when a sudden personal crisis occurs while she is writing\, Jones realizes she must confront some difficult truths\, both in her life and on the page. THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS is a profoundly original work that blends criticism\, craft analysis\, and a memoir of Jones’s own time in the wilderness. The result is a celebration of WILD and a map of our long path to self-discovery. \nAbout The Long Accomplishment \nRick Moody\, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm\, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage in this eventful\, month-by-month account. \nAt this story’s start\, Moody\, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression\, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is\, fully and for the first time in his life\, “Yes.” \nAnd so his second marriage begins as he emerges\, humbly and with tender hopes\, from the wreckage of his past\, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles—miscarriages\, the deaths of friends\, and robberies\, just for starters. As Moody has put it\, “This is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists\, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment\, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times\, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple\, lifting them above their hardships\, and the reader is buoyed along with them.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-night-of-memoir-with-alden-jones-and-rick-moody-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T170000
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SUMMARY:Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez
DESCRIPTION:November 19\, 2020\nJewish Community Center/Marin Poetry Center Present Jane Hirshfield & Meryl Natchez\nMill Valley poet Jane Hirshfield’s most recent\, ninth poetry collection is Ledger (Knopf\, 2020). Among her many honors are the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she was elected in 2019 to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Meryl Natchez\, the chair of the Marin Poetry Center\, is a poet\, translator and reviewer. Her fourth book\, Catwalk\, was released in June from Longship Press. The two poets will read from their new books and talk about their experiences as writers during a time of crisis\, the importance of community\, and their shared sense of reverence for the natural world. This event is cosponsored by The Marin Poetry Center. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marin-poetry-center-present-jane-hirshfield-meryl-natchez/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T190000
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SUMMARY:Author: Rand Quinn\, Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools
DESCRIPTION:Quinn discusses the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. \nSan Francisco’s school board is once again rethinking its student assignment system. Debates over student assignment trace back over a half century and map the long struggle to desegregate the city’s schools. In Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco Schools\, Rand Quinn explains the contentious racial politics that emerged from school desegregation and why the school district gradually resegregated despite a court mandate. Student assignment — once the remedy for government discrimination through busing and other desegregative mechanisms — soon became a tool intended to create diversity. \nRand Quinn is associate professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the origins and political consequences of private sector engagement in public education\, the politics of race and ethnicity in urban school reform and the impact of community-based institutions\, organizations and action in education.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-rand-quinn-class-action-desegregation-and-diversity-in-san-francisco-schools/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="58124":MAILTO:anissa.malady@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:Panel: How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America\, the latest addition to the Voice of Witness book series\, with a roundtable conversation about Indigenous narratives\, visibility\, and storytelling. \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n  \nHow We Go Home\, edited by oral historian Sara Sinclair\, shares contemporary first-person Indigenous stories in the long and ongoing fight to protect Native land\, rights\, and life. In myriad ways\, each narrator’s life has been shaped by loss\, injustice\, resilience\, and the struggle to share space with settler nations. In this roundtable conversation\, narrator Ashley Hemmers will be joined by the book’s editor\, Sara Sinclair\, and News from Native California editor\, Terria Smith\, to discuss representation and visibility of Indigenous communities today. \nThis event is cosponsored by Voice of Witness (VOW)\, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that advances human rights by amplifying the voices of people impacted by—and fighting against—injustice. The VOW Book Series depicts human rights issues through the edited oral histories of people—VOW narrators—who are most deeply impacted and at the heart of solutions to address injustice. The series explores issues of race-\, gender-\, and class-based inequity through the lenses of the criminal justice system\, migration\, and displacement. The VOW Education Program connects over 20\,000 educators\, students\, and advocates each year with these stories and issues through oral history-based curricula\, trainings\, and holistic educational support.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/panel-how-we-go-home-voices-from-indigenous-north-america/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Tracy Anne Hart on Stevie Ray Vaughan
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 30 at 6:00pm PST when photographer Tracy Anne Hart discusses her book\, Seeing Stevie Ray\, with former Creem magazine editor Robert Duncan on Zoom! \n10% of each book sold will be donated to the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank.\nStevie Ray Vaughan regularly donated to local food banks while on tour\, and in partnership with Hart we are pleased to do so in his memory.\nIf you would like to donate to the food bank directly\, we encourage you to do so here. \nKeep an eye out for our upcoming auction of an archival print of Stevie by Tracy Anne Hart. Posting November 20\, 2020! \nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89343683958 \nAbout Seeing Stevie Ray \nIt may be difficult to say anything about Stevie Ray Vaughan that hasn’t already been said. The skinny kid from Oak Cliff on the south side of Dallas who followed his older brother Jimmie in and out of local blues clubs and eventually to Austin would go on to establish himself as the finest guitar player of his generation and perhaps the best of all time. Vaughan was truly a conduit for the symphony of the universe. The music that flowed through him endeared him to hordes of fans and won him near-divine status among guitarists. Vaughan continues to inspire and enthrall even decades after his passing. \nWhat others have attempted to portray in prose\, photographer Tracy Anne Hart has expressed in imagery. From 1983 until just before his death in 1990\, Hart captured Vaughan as he summoned magic with his passion\, his technique\, his intensity\, and his love and respect for the music. The result is a deeply felt visual portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan that tells us almost as much about the photographer behind the camera as it does about the musician in front. Through Hart’s eyes and mind\, readers will experience his genius in an entirely new way. \nHart also provides a glimpse at Vaughan’s legacy\, offering evidence of some of the next generation of guitarists who consider Vaughan a principal influence. The sum of her efforts comprises a work that offers a visual feast for guitar enthusiasts and music fans in Texas and beyond. Enjoy the photographs and remember to listen to Stevie’s music as often and as loudly as possible! \nAbout the Author \nTRACY ANNE HART\, a professional photographer since 1981\, is the owner of The Heights Gallery (www.theheightsgallery.com). Her photographs of music legends have been exhibited in galleries and are in private collections from Texas to Australia. Her work has graced album and DVD covers\, billboards\, international magazines\, and other media.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-tracy-anne-hart-on-stevie-ray-vaughan-3/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201211T190000
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SUMMARY:Andrea & Edmund Read You Art Out Loud
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Passwater’s “We Sing” (The Rumpus) and Edmund Zagorin’s “Year Are Sentences” (Rabid Oak Review) are out soon in the anthology Best Small Fictions 2020. \n\n\nTo celebrate\, we’re hosting a short live audio-only show to read aloud from our Best Small stories. No video\, no faces. Put in your headphones\, tune in and fold your laundry\, knit yourself a tea cozy or finish polka-dotting your holiday face mask while you quiver your auricles to a chill literary delight. \nAttendees will receive a link on December 11th\, the day of the show. Fees for tickets to this reading will be donated to support Quiet Lightning\, a Bay Area literary nonprofit that organizes inclusive community readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-edmund-read-you-art-out-loud/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201218T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:HIGH DAWN: Noah Ross\, S*an D. Henry-Smith\, Jamie Townsend\, Topazu\, Subset
DESCRIPTION:Small Press Traffic and UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium present HIGH DAWN 4 \nReadings by Noah Ross and S*an D. Henry-Smith \nIntroduced by Jamie Townsend \nMusic by Topazu & Visuals by Subset \nFriday\, December 10\, 6pm \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-dec.eventbrite.com \nNoah Ross is a bookseller\, editor\, and poet based in Berkeley\, CA. Noah is the author of Swell (Otis Books / Seismicity Editions\, 2019)\, Active Reception (Nightboat Books\, 2021)\, and an editor of Baest: a journal of queer forms & affects\, and\, with Lindsay Choi\, Mo0on/IO. \nS*an D. Henry-Smith is an artist and writer working primarily in poetry\, photography\, and performance\, engaging Black experimentalisms and collaborative practices. S*an is also the author of two chapbooks\, Body Text and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life\, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System. Wild Peach\, released fall 2020\, is their first full length collection. \nJamie Townsend is a genderqueer poet and editor living in Oakland. They are the author of 6 chapbooks as well as the full collections Shade (Elis Press\, 2015) and Sex Machines (speCt!\, 2020). They are also the editor of Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat\, 2019) and Libertines in the Ante-Room of Love: Poets on Punk (Jet Tone\, 2019). With Nick DeBoer they curate Elderly. \nTopazu is a San Francisco-based selector whom hosts the local Infinite Beat Ambient showcase and radio show Infinite Beat on SutroFM. Since 2015\, the show features producers\, artists and DJs that are shaping the Bay Area sound in experimental synthesis as well as celebrates romanticism\, nostalgia and cinematic themes with modern day electronics.Besides curating Infinite Beat\, she has been featured DJing many local shows including Sure Thing\, Surface Tension\, Honey Soundsystem and Recombinant Media Labs. With her interests in abstract textures\, carnal rhythms and her exuberance in darker\, chaotic noise\, Topazu has also supported many international artists such as Wolfgang Voigt\, Evigt Morker\, Silent Servant\, Takaaki Itoh and Marie Davidson. She was a featured performer for the first San Francisco edition of Mutek in 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-noah-ross-san-d-henry-smith-jamie-townsend-topazu-subset/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210119T203000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:LUSH: A SOMArts Series
DESCRIPTION:LUSH: A SOMArts Series launches on Tuesday\, January 19\, 2021. The first of three virtual programs\, this event features readings\, a panel discussion\, and Q&A with Juli Delgado Lopera\, author of Fiebre Tropical\, and Elaine Castillo\, author of America is Not the Heart\, two Bay Area novelists whose writing reflects diasporic and queer life in the US today\, moderated by Claire Calderón. \nLUSH: A SOMArts Series draws inspiration from Solarpunk\, a genre that imagines futures that reject dystopian narratives\, instead favoring visions of sustainability and interconnection. LUSH asks us how we\, as artists\, curators\, writers\, filmmakers\, musicians\, and activists\, can create a future where we are thriving in abundance? \nAccessibility \nClosed captioning will be provided during the virtual stream \nTickets \nTickets to this event are donation based on a sliding scale ($5-20; no one turned away for lack of funds. Your donation ensures that SOMArts continues to provide critical space and support to Bay Area artists and curators for years to come\, while ensuring the arts are accessible to all! \n\nRSVP TODAY!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLUSH: A SOMARTS SERIES LITERARY LINE UP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClaire Calderón is an Oakland-based writer and curator at work on her first novel. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is the manager of The Ruby\, a gathering space for women and non-binary artists and writers in San Francisco. \nPhoto credit: Alexa Treviño \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of “30 of the planet’s most exciting young people” by the Financial Times\, Elaine Castillo was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her debut novel America Is Not the Heart was named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Kirkus Reviews\, The New York Public Library\, The New York Post\, The Boston Globe\, Real Simple\, Lit Hub\, and has been nominated for the Elle Award\, the Center for Fiction Prize\, the Aspen Words Prize\, the Northern California Independent Booksellers Book Award\, and the California Book Award. Her writing can be found in The New York Times\, The Nation\, Freeman’s\, Electric Literature\, Lit Hub\, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a book of essays about the politics of our reading culture\, as well as a second novel. \nPhoto credit: Amaal Said \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJuli Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. They’re the author of The New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical\, out March 2020 from The Feminist Press. Juli is also the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017) an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Juli’s received awarded fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook\, Headlands Center for The Arts\, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto. Their work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Teen Vogue\, The Kenyon Review\, McSweeney’s\, The Rumpus\, The White Review\, LALT\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, TimeOut Mag to name a few. They are the former executive director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. \nPhoto credit: Rebeka Rodriguez
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lush-a-somarts-series/
LOCATION:SOMArts\, 934 Brannan Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210127T110000
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SUMMARY:'Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure' MCD Virtual Event
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Craft and Design welcomes writer and speaker Katie Treggiden for a virtual discussion of her new book\, “Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure” on Wednesday\, January 27! \n  \nThe program will begin with an introduction by the book’s forward author\, renowned art critic\, and curator Glenn Adamson. Then\, dive into “Wasted”\, chronicling 30 designers who have founded their artistic and entrepreneurial practices upon principles of sustainability\, waste reduction\, and circular economics. Each of the featured makers and manufacturers have made reclaimed waste their primary material of construction in hopes of confronting Earth’s ever-ominous climate issues by avoiding the “take-make-waste” consumer model and rethinking the ways in which we can minimize our consumption and relative pollution. \n  \nIn this talk\, Treggiden will also explore the sociocultural and economic influences surrounding the book’s featured projects\, as well as highlight the people and ideas reinvigorating streams of waste into both functional and decorative objects\, followed by a Q&A session. \n  \nPurchase your copy of “Wasted” from the MCD Museum Store today at shop.sfmcd.org/books/wasted-when-trash-becomes-treasure. \n  \nPre-register now at sfmcd.org/events-limited space available! \n  \n$8 General Admission\, $6 Students/Seniors. \n  \nhttp://sfmcd.org sbrosales@sfmcd.org 415-773-0303
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wasted-when-trash-becomes-treasure-mcd-virtual-event/
LOCATION:Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third Street\, San Francisco\, 94107
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Museum of Craft and Design":MAILTO:sbrosales@sfmcd.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:Lunar New Year Poetry and Calligraphy with Poets Michael Warr\, Chun Yu\, and Calligrapher Aiqin Zhou
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Year of the Ox with us! Poets Michael Warr and Chun Yu read works in English and Chinese (Mandarin) that reflect the essence of the New Year — vanquishing the past\, embracing new beginnings\, and venerating ancestors — while Aiqin Zhou demonstrates her skillful calligraphy by illustrating some of the poems.\nReserve your tickets:\nhttps://calendar.asianart.org/…/lunar-new-year-poetry…/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunar-new-year-poetry-and-calligraphy-with-poets-michael-warr-chun-yu-and-calligrapher-aiqin-zhou/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260413T112119
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Georgina Marie!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”.\nThis month’s Eves at the Beat is curated by Georgina Marie!! And MC’s by Mia Ruiz\nLineup of readers:\nBrenda Yeager\, Beulah Vega\, Charity E. Yoro\, Lauren Traetto\, Melissa Eleftherion Carr\, K.R. Morrison\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Georgina Marie!\nTime: Feb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery month on the First Thu\, 6 occurrence(s)\nFeb 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM\nApr 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nMay 6\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJun 3\, 2021 07:00 PM\nJul 1\, 2021 07:00 PM\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0pdeqgqjgpGdWQXBj…/ics…\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89423843331\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,89423843331# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,89423843331# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington D.C)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 894 2384 3331\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbQpWeGiUH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-georgina-marie/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:LILY KING
DESCRIPTION:LILY KING\nThursday\, February 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n“Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett \nLily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her 2014 novel\, Euphoria\, received with widespread critical acclaim\, was inspired by the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead. King now returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Written with her trademark humor\, heart\, and intelligence\, Writers & Lovers explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. \n  \nPhoto credit: Winky Lewis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-king/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
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SUMMARY:Prepping to Publish: a workshop for writers of color
DESCRIPTION:Geared toward marginalized writers who may lack access to MFA programs\, workshops\, and conferences\, Prepping to Publish is a six-hour\, two-session intensive. Sonora will select 8 to 12 students based on the quality of their submissions\, and students will leave the course with a formatted manuscript\, a critiqued query letter\, and a tailored list of editors\, journals\, and publishing houses that might be a good home for their work. \n  \nInstructor: \nSONORA JHA\, Ph.D.\, is an essayist\, novelist\, and professor of journalism at Seattle University. She is the author of the novel Foreign (Random House India\, 2013) and the forthcoming How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood\, Masculinity\, and the Making of my Family (Sasquatch Books\, 2021). She teaches fiction and essay writing for the Richard Hugo House and Hedgebrook Writers’ Retreat\, and her writing has garnered many awards and residencies. \n  \nThis workshop is part of a three-event collaborative project between Aunt Lute Books and POC United in support of writers of color. The events are made possible by funds from the California Arts Council. \n  \nFor the other events\, please visit the links below: \n  \nPanel: Creating Our Own Table\, Wednesday\, April 7th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-the-panel-creating-our-own-table-tickets-133253297199 \n  \nReading: Isolation\, Thursday\, May 13th\, 2021: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aunt-lute-x-poc-united-presents-a-reading-isolation-tickets-133266558865 \n  \n  \nABOUT POC UNITED: \nPOC United is a literary safe space of creative play far removed from the white gaze\, a place where writers of color can focus on one another in solidarity. To showcase multi-genre works by writers of color\, POC United created GRAFFITI\, a bestselling anthology\, which is a Silver Winner of the 22nd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Anthologies. For more on POC United\, please visit pocunited.com. \n  \nFree \n  \nhttps://www.auntlute.com/ marketing@auntlute.com 415-826-1300
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prepping-to-publish-a-workshop-for-writers-of-color/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210228T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210228T170000
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SUMMARY:High Dawn 7: Ahsan / Montes / Low / Dennis
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with UC Berkeley Poetry Colloquium \nRSVP for Zoom link: spt-march.eventbrite.com \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBahaar Ahsan is a poet in the Bay Area. Bahaar’s work is both speculative and deeply embedded in lineage(s). Recent work can be found in Berkeley Poetry Review\, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics(forthcoming from Nightboat Books)\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Venn Daniel \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLara Mimosa Montes is the author of THRESHOLES (Coffee House Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in Fence\, BOMB\, Jacket2\, and elsewhere. She is a CantoMundo fellow and has been awarded residencies from Storm King: Shandaken\, Marble House Project\, and Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2018\, Lara was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in Poetry. Currently\, she is a senior editor of Triple Canopy. She lives in Minnesota. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPhoto credit: Kari Orvik \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTrisha Low is the author of The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books\, 2019). She lives in the East Bay. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRyanaustin Dennis is an Oakland based art work and cultural strategist. Their practice is concerned with how 20th and 21st century experimental performance\, film\, and writing histories are shaped by the metaphysics of blackness. They have done curatorial work for Kadist\, SFMOMA Open Space\, Eastside Arts Alliance\, and Soundwave Biennial. They currently co-curate the Black Life series at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Pro Arts Gallery & Commons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/high-dawn-7-ahsan-montes-low-dennis/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210301T190000
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CREATED:20210301T021810Z
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Patricia Lockwood in conversation with Sheila Heti\nMonday\, March 1\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/14/2021\, 03/16/2021\, 03/17/2021\nTICKETS \nThis event appears in the series\nFiction/Friction: A Miniseries \n \n\n\n“I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and [No One is Talking About This] is her best\, funniest\, weirdest\, most affecting work yet.” – Sally Rooney \nPatricia Lockwood is a poet and the author of the memoir Priestdaddy\, an extraordinarily funny account of growing up the daughter of the most singular Catholic priest in America. Lockwood is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books\, and has written on Nabokov\, John Updike\, Lucia Berlin\, Joan Didion\, the Internet\, and more\, suffusing her book reviews with her characteristic wit and analytic breadth. She also has a vast following on Twitter\, which regularly features her Internet-famous cat\, Miette. Lockwood is the author of the two poetry collections Balloon Pop Outlaw Black and Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals. Her forthcoming first novel\, No One is Talking About This\, reckons with the feeling of being eternally online\, unable to shut off the feed that keeps on scrolling\, no matter what we do to stop it. \nSheila Heti is the author of eight books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the novels Motherhood\,  How Should a Person Be? and Ticknor\, and the story collection\, The Middle Stories. She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by The New York Times; a list of fifteen women writers from around the world who are “shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” Her play\, All Our Happy Days are Stupid\, had sold-out runs in New York and Toronto\, and she is currently developing a new play called The Dug Out. Her new novel\, Pure Colour\, will be published in January 2022.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-lockwood-in-conversation-with-sheila-heti/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T183000
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Alka Joshi
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Alka Joshi\nThu Mar 4th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\n\n\n  Buy Tickets \n\n\n\nLitquake’s second season of Seismic Salons begins with the always fascinating Alka Joshi\, whose debut novel The Henna Artist was chosen for Reese Witherspoon’s book club\, and appears in paperback this April 6. Born in Jodhpur\, Rajasthan\, India\, she has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. Alka has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of the Arts\, and ran her own advertising and PR agency for 30 years. Currently\, she is working both on a screen adaption of The Henna Artist\, and a third novel. Join us as Alka entertains and informs about the rigors of writing a historical novel for many years (how much research did she have to do?) and finally seeing the labor pay off handsomely. \nBuy Alka Joshi’s book at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alka-joshi/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza and Kit Schluter\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, Carolina de Robertis \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 7:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \n\n\n\nCelebrated novelist\, poet\, and essayist Cristina Rivera Garza returns to The Poetry Center. She’ll be joined by poet and translator Kit Schluter\, in Mexico City. They’ll each read from their own writings\, then join in conversation with one another and with novelist Carolina de Robertis as emcee\, and respond to questions from the audience. \n\nOne day\, on a cloudy March afternoon to be more exact\, I was in a classroom lined with long\, rectangular windows in an old colonial building in the heart of Mexico City. Through one of those windows\, in the most surprising manner\, someone entered. It was a young man. He said he’d come from Oaxaca and that he wanted to meet me. I believe he sat in on the session in which we discussed the methods of documentary poetry\, the writing practice that incorporates and subverts\, that embraces and tests the public language of the dispossessed and the suffering…. Later\, that same young man who came in through the window as if it was a door asked me something impossible\, which is the only thing worth asking for.\n—Cristina Rivera Garza\, “Taking Shelter\,” Introduction to Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\n\nCristina Rivera Garza. “Born in Mexico and a resident of the United States for over two decades\, Rivera Garza is a prolific and multifaceted author of fiction\, essays\, and scholarship\, including nearly twenty works in Spanish. Her novels…are deeply informed by her training as a historian and frequently feature characters who stumble upon images\, texts\, or people that disturb the supposed clarity of the historical record.” (from the MacArthur Fellows citation\, 2020). Three of Rivera Garza’s acclaimed six novels have appeared in the US—most recently\, The Taiga Syndrome (El mal de la taiga\, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana); The Iliac Crest (La cresta de Ilión\, trans. Sarah Booker); and No One Will See Me Cry (Nadie me verá llorar\, trans. Andrew Hurley). \nWithin this past year\, Rivera Garza’s complete poems\, La fractura exacta: Poesía completa\, were published in Spanish (from Ediciones Libros del cardo\, in Chile). And three remarkable books of nonfiction also appeared\, in the US in English translation: Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (tr. Sarah Booker); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting & Disappropriation (tr. Robin Myers); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain in Modern Mexico (tr. Laura Kanost). On the faculty at the University of Houston since 2016\, Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing. Visit her blog (in Spanish and English)\, No hay tal lugar: U-tópicos contemporáneos. \n\nTrust\nWhen I first looked in the mirror\, I thought I looked dead\, but I had simply become a child. Beside my face was a blue cake so radiant\, even its light was edible.\n—Kit Schluter\, at The Brooklyn Rail\n\nKit Schluter is a poet-translator and bookmaker. His poetry and stories have appeared in Boston Review\, BOMB\, Brooklyn Rail\, Folder\, Hyperallergic\, and in the chapbooks Inclusivity Blueprint\, Journals\, Translations of Forgetting\, Without is a Part of Origin\, and the collections of stories and drawings\, 5 Cartoons/5 caricaturas (tr. Mariana Rodríguez\, Juan Malasuerte Editores)\, The Good in Having a Nuclear Family (Despite Editions)\, and his first full-length collection of poetry\, Pierrot’s Fingernails (Canarium Books\, 2020). Among his prolific translations—from the French\, Occitan\, and Spanish—are books by Olivia Tapiero (Phototaxis\, Nightboat)\, Anne Kawala (Screwball\, Canarium)\, Jaime Saenz (The Cold\, Poor Claudia)\, Michel Surya (Dead End\, Black Sun Lit)\, Julio Torri (Essays & Poems\, Archivo48)\, Marcel Schwob (The Book of Monelle; The Children’s Crusade\, foreword by J.L. Borges; and The King in the Golden Mask\, all Wakefield Press)\, Amandine André (Circle of Dogs\, with Jocelyn Spaar; Some Thing\, with Lindsay Turner\, Aphonic Space)\, and Clamenç Llansana (Goliard Songs\, Anomalous)\, with others on the way. Schluter co-edits O’clock Press\, designs for Nightboat Books and Juan Malasuerte Editories\, and with Tatiana Lipkes organizes the monthly reading series at Aeromoto\, a public arts library in Mexico City. More\, including links to publishers and selected writings\, here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nCristina Rivera Garza\, MacArthur Foundation Fellows Citation\, 2020 \nChristina Rivera Garza\, on The Taiga Syndrome\, at the 2019 Library of Congress National Book Festival\, Washington\, D.C. \nKit Schluter interviewed\, National Poetry Month featured poet\, at Entropy\, April 2017 \nKit Schluter\, reading with Brandon Brown and Wendy Trevino\, at Woolsey Heights\, May 25\, 2019 \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kSpx1UTcQYy9W87DIjCshg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-rivera-garza-and-kit-schluter-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading Curated by Barbara Saunders!!!
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month 2019 a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. Come celebrate the two-year anniversary at this month’s Eves at the Beat curated by Barbara Saunders!!\n\nLineup of readers:\n\nCenta Theresa\nnialla rose\nElaine Brown\, Poet E Spoken\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nKerry O. Vineberg\n\nTopic: Eves at the (Virtual) Beat: Womxn Reading w/Barbara Saunders!\nTime: Mar 4\, 2021 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87396584235\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nOne tap mobile\n+16699009128\,\,87396584235# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87396584235# US (Houston)\nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 873 9658 4235\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdAPLwin6i
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-virtual-beat-womxn-reading-curated-by-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T183000
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SUMMARY:Page Poets reading online event at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:COVID wouldn’t stop Ovid! Or any other poets worth their salt\, so please join us for an exciting online reading from The Page Poets Series and The Divers Collection this Saturday\, March 6 from 5pm – 6:15. \nFeatured poets are Katharine Harer\, Charlie Pendergast\, Stan Stone\, Garrett Caples\, Mary Julia Klimenko\, Tamsin Smith and Jason Morris. \nHere’s how the press describes their work: \nThe Page Poets Series was conceived by friends on a bright day in a dark corner of The Page bar on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. We publish important Northern California poets whose work excites us. \nThe Divers Collection expands our horizons. It is dedicated to the discovery and exploration of eclectic creative treasures\, which we wish to share. \nTo sign up for this Saturday’s reading click on this link: https://meet.google.com/vne-woki-ytq \nFor more info on their publications check their website: fmsbwpress.com \nYou will be able to order copies of some books from the evening’s poets from The Green Arcade by contacting us at: TheGreenArcade.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/page-poets-reading-online-event-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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