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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-2/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Odd Mondays Series
DESCRIPTION:The Odd Mondays Series at Folio Books \nMonday\, May 15th\, 7 PM \n3957 24th Street\, San Francisco \nA LITERARY POTPOURRI \nFeaturing Authors: Erika Atkinson\, Michael Helquist\, Andrew McIntyre\, Laynie Tzena. \nFREE ADMISSION \nERIKA ATKINSON signed up with the Canadian Foreign Service in Washington\, D.C.\, for several years\, after which she worked in administrative positions in schools\, colleges\, and universities across Canada\, the United States\, and various parts of Europe before settling in Bernal Heights in 1984. She is the author of five books. Two of them\, Happily Lost in Time and Place\, and More Miles and Moments\, are collected stories about adventures of happenstance\, about characters\, situations\, and experiences that were never planned. In her book Frozen Stillness\, she recounts her journey to Antarctica in 2010. Her first collection of poetry\, Exhort the Goddesses\, was compiled in 2015 to honor the Supreme Court’s historic decision that same sex marriage be declared legal across the United States. The most recent book\, Ode to the Castro\, is her dedication to the neighborhood she loves\, where she has now lived and played for nearly two decades. \nMICHAEL HELQUIST is an awarding-winning author\, journalist\, and historian. He has published in “Ms. Magazine\,” “The Advocate”\, “American Medical News”\, and “The Oregon Historical Quarterly.” As a medical journalist\, he consulted for the World Health Organization\, the Centers for Disease Control\, and the U.S. State Department. He was inspired to write the biography\, Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions\, because of Dr. Equi’s fierce struggle as an outsider to achieve independence\, and her commitment to social and economic justice. Helquist lived in Noe Valley for five years before relocating to the North Panhandle neighborhood. \nAfter years of traveling\, ANDREW McINTYRE has found a settled existence in San Francisco. He attended universities in England\, Scotland\, Japan\, and the United States\, and holds master’s degrees in Economics and Comparative Literature. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines\, including “The Mississippi Review\,” “3:AM Magazine”\, “Long Story Short”\, “The Copperfield Review”\, and “Pindeldyboz.” In 2002\, he was a finalist in Ireland’s Fish Short Story Prize. His short story collection\, The Short\, the Long\, and the Tall\, was published by Merilang Press in December\, 2010. He lives in San Francisco. \nLAYNIE TZENA is a writer\, performer\, and visual artist based in San Francisco. Her work has been published in “Bayou”\, “Event”\, “The Michigan Quarterly Review”\, “Sonora Review”\, and “Zone 3\,” among others; she has received an Avery Hopwood Award in Poetry\, was named on of the “New Voices in Michigan Poetry”\, and has been a Cranbrook Fiction Scholar. “Glimmer Train” recently included her short story\, “Egg\,” in the top 25 of its “Family Matters” competition. Tzena has been a featured performer at the Austin International Poetry Festival\, the Marsh Café\, the Monkey House\, and on Michigan Public Radio. \nConsider joining us for a no-host pizza/salad or other entré dinner ($15-20)\, before the reading\, 5:30 p.m. at the Haystack Pizza Restaurant\, south side of 24th near Sanches Street. \nThe 24 line and the 48 line and the J Church are the nearby Muni transportation lines available. \nwww.oddmondays.com \nOdd Mondays is presented by Judith and Ramón Sender and Folio Books. \n“You shall know the truth\, and the truth shall make you odd.” -Flannery O’Connor
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-odd-mondays-series/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170515T213000
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SUMMARY:Hala Alyan
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a dazzling new literary voice\, Hala Alyan\, and her debut novel\, Salt Houses\, about a Palestinian family caught between present and past\, between displacement and home. \nOn the eve of her daughter Alia’s wedding\, Salma reads the girl’s future in a cup of coffee dregs. She sees an unsettled life for Alia and her children; she also sees travel\, and luck. While she chooses to keep her predictions to herself that day\, they will all soon come to pass when the family is uprooted in the wake of the Six-Day War of 1967. Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus; Alia’s brother gets pulled into a politically militarized world he can’t escape; and Alia and her gentle-spirited husband move to Kuwait City\, where they reluctantly build a life with their three children. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait in 1990\, Alia and her family once again lose their home\, their land\, and their story as they know it\, scattering to Beirut\, Paris\, Boston\, and beyond. Soon Alia’s children begin families of their own\, once again navigating the burdens (and blessings) of assimilation in foreign cities. Lyrical and heartbreaking\, Salt Houses is a remarkable debut novel that challenges and humanizes an age-old conflict we might think we understand—one that asks us to confront that most devastating of all truths: you can’t go home again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hala-alyan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fenton Johnson
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Public Library presents  Fenton Johnson for a Launch Party in celebration of his new work\, Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays. Fenton will be in conversation with Andrew Lam\, author of Birds of Paradise Lost–which was a 2013 California Book Awards-finalist for First Fiction. \nPart retrospective\, part memoir\, Fenton Johnson’s collection Everywhere Home: A Life in Essays explores sexuality\, religion\, geography\, the AIDS crisis\, and more. Johnson’s wanderings take him from the hills of Kentucky to those of San Francisco\, from the streets of Paris to the sidewalks of Calcutta. Along the way\, he investigates questions large and small: What’s the relationship between artists and museums\, illuminated in a New Guinean display of shrunken heads? What’s the difference between empiricism and intuition? \nThe collection draws together essays that originally appeared in Harper’s\, The New York Times\, All Things Considered and elsewhere\, along with new work. Johnson reports from the front lines of the AIDS epidemic\, from Burning Man\, from monasteries near and far. His subject matter ranges from Oscar Wilde to censorship in journalism to Kentucky basketball. \nEverywhere Home is the latest title in Sarabande’s Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature. \nFenton Johnson is the author of the novels The Man Who Loved Birds\, Scissors\, Paper\, Rock\, and Crossing the River\, and the nonfiction books Keeping Faith and Geography of the Heart. Johnson has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He writes regularly for Harper’s\, and is a professor in the creative writing programs at the University of Arizona and Spalding University. \nThe thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America s newest Americans\, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past memories of war and its aftermath\, of murder\, arrest\, re-education camps and new economic zones\, of escape and shipwreck and atrocity is ever present in these wise and compassionate stories. It plays itself out in surprising ways in the lives of people who thought they had moved beyond the nightmares of war and exodus. It comes back on TV in the form of a confession from a cannibal; it enters the Vietnamese restaurant as a Vietnam Vet with a shameful secret; it articulates itself in the peculiar tics of a man with Tourette s Syndrome who struggles to deal with a profound tragedy. Birds of Paradise Lost is an emotional tour de force\, intricately rendering the false starts and revelations in the struggle for integration\, and in so doing\, the human heart. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. Lam is an editor and cofounder of New American Media\, an association of over two thousand ethnic media outlets in America. He was a regular commentator on NPR s All Things Consideredfor many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, theChicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. Birds of Paradise Lostis his first story collection. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fenton-johnson-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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 May 16th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Tatiana Molinar! \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-3/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer\, author of the Southern Reach trilogy\, discusses his new novel\, Borne. \nPraise for Jeff VanderMeer: \n“I’m loving The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer. Creepy and fascinating.” ―Stephen King on the Southern Reach trilogy \n“VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension . . . Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It’s about science as a way of not only thinking but feeling\, rather than science as a means of becoming certain about the world. . . . Ingenious.” ―Laura Miller\, Salon \n“If J.J. Abrams-style by-the-numbers stories of shadowy organizations and science magic have let you down one too many times\, then Annihilation will be more like a revelation. VanderMeer peels back the skin of the everyday\, and gives you a glimpse of a world where science really is stretching the bounds of our knowledge–sometimes to the point where we can’t ever be the same . . . [Annihilation] will make you believe in the power of science mysteries again.” ―Annalee Nevitz\, io9 \nAbout Borne: \nIn a ruined\, nameless city of the future\, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord\, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm\, the Company\, until he was experimented on\, grew large\, learned to fly\, and broke free. Made insane by the company’s torture of him\, Mord terrorizes the city even as he provides sustenance for scavengers. \nAt first\, Borne looks like nothing at all—just a green lump that might be a discard from the Company\, which\, although severely damaged\, is rumored to still make creatures and send them to far-distant places that have not yet suffered collapse. \nBorne reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth\, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment that she resents: attachments are traps\, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary\, Rachel convinces her lover\, Wick—a special kind of dealer—not to render down Borne as raw genetic material for the drugs he sells. \nBut nothing is quite the way it seems: not the past\, not the present\, not the future. If Wick is hiding secrets\, so is Rachel—and Borne most of all. What Rachel finds hidden deep within the Company will change everything and everyone. There\, lost and forgotten things have lingered and grown. What they have grown into is mighty indeed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeff-vandermeer/
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:Granta: Best of Young American Novelists
DESCRIPTION:Every ten years Granta magazine publishes a special issue of new fiction from the most exciting American writers under the age of forty. The third list of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists will be announced on April 26; join us as we host some of the Best Young American Novelists! \nThe last issue was published in 2007 and featured an extraordinary selection of young writers: Kevin Brockmeier\, Anthony Doerr\, Jonathan Safran Foer\, Nicole Krauss\, Yiyun Li\, Karen Russell\, Akhil Sharma and Gary Shteyngart among them. Similarly\, the list of writers from twenty years ago showcases some of today’s most successful and talented writers: Jonathan Franzen\, Edwidge Danticat\, Jeffrey Eugenides\, Lorrie Moore\, ZZ Packer\, Mona Simpson\, Elizabeth McCracken\, David Guterson\, Madison Smartt Bell\, Sherman Alexie and more. \nGranta’s forthcoming Best of Young American Novelists issue will feature new work from each writer\, creating a timely and authoritative commentary on the state of American writing. \nThe judges for this year’s selection are novelists Patrick deWitt\, A.M. Homes\, Kelly Link\, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. \nCheck back here on April 26\, when we’ll announce which authors will be in the store! \nMore Info Here: http://www.booksmith.com/event/granta-best-young-american-novelists
URL:https://litseen.com/event/granta-best-of-young-american-novelists/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gordon Ball
DESCRIPTION:Gordon Ball is a poet\, photographer\, filmmaker\, professor of english\, and master storyteller. For 28 years Gordon Ball took informal photographs of poet Allen Ginsberg and other members of the Beat Generation\, the literary and cultural phenomenon which has had a world-wide impact since its inception in the mid-1950s. As well as being exhibited at five conferences on Ginsberg and the Beat Generation\, at one-man shows at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and other venues\, Ball’s photos have appeared in many books\, including Dennis McNally’s Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac\, the Beat Generation\, and America; Michael Köhler’s Burroughs: Eine Bild Biographie; Carole Tonkinson’s Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation; Steven Watson’s The Birth of the Beat Generation: Visionaries\, Rebels\, and Hipsters\, 1994-1960; and many more. Starting at Ginsberg’s farm in 1968\, he worked with the poet on numerous literary and artistic projects\, editing three books\, including two volumes of journals and the Pulitzer Prize nominee Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry\, Politics\, Consciousness. He’s the author of ’66 Frames: A Memoir (Coffee House Press\, 1999) and Dark Music (Cityful Press\, 2006) Gordon now lives in Lexington\, Virginia\, where he teaches at the Virginia Military Institute. \nVisit: http://gordonballgallery.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gordon-ball/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rakesh Satyal
DESCRIPTION:Rakesh Satyal presents his big-hearted and funny novel\, No One Can Pronounce My Name.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rakesh-satyal/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's '#NerdSex
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 17th\, 2017\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\n\n\nThis Evening of ‘Sex Geekery’ includes:\n❤ Bawdy’s NerdSex Carnaval! #Pheromones #AnalogDating #More\n\n❤ Storytellers coming soon – Stay Tuned!\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n❤ Custom Sex Nerd Songs by Jefferson Bergey #NSFW #Yay\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 – they’re only sold online!\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\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\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\nPerformer Bios:\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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-nerdsex/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sustainability Made Simple: An Evening of Learning and Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Sustainability Co-Op hosts a night of idea sharing to encourage\, recognize and celebrate the shift towards shaping a sustainable future. Signed copies of Sustainability Made Simple will be available for purchase. Refreshments from local\, sustainable companies will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sustainability-made-simple-an-evening-of-learning-and-ideas/
LOCATION:Third Plateau\, 209 Kearny Street\, 3rd Fl\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Worlds of João Gilberto Noll: Adam Morris + Scott Esposito
DESCRIPTION:Called “one of the most celebrated writers in contemporary Brazilian literature” by Guernica magazine\, author João Gilberto Noll made a splash in the United States last year with the novel Quiet Creature on the Corner\, named a “Best Book of 2016” by World Literature Today and praised in Literary Hub\, the Kenyon Review\, Electric Literature\, and The Rumpus. \nNow\, Two Lines Press is very proud to announce a launch event at longtime Bay Area publishing mecca City Lights Booksellers to celebrate the release of the follow-up to Quiet Creature\, Noll’s career-defining novel Atlantic Hotel.\nTwo Lines Press’s Scott Esposito will be in conversation with author and Portuguese translator Adam Morris\, who has brought both Quiet Creature on the Corner and Atlantic Hotel into English. \nCompared to David Lynch\, César Aira\, the Dadists\, and the Situationists\, Noll creates strange\, surprising books that question our basic assumptions about identity\, while delivering madcap plots that revolve around modern-day flâneurs. His innovative stories and difficult-to-pin-down sentences have been met enthusiastically by experimental American authors like Matt Bell\, Brian Evenson\, and Lance Olsen. \nJoin us at City Lights Booksellers on May 18 for a reading from Atlantic Hotel\, along with an intriguing conversation delving into modern-day Brazil\, Noll’s influences (including Clarice Lispector)\, his mysterious protagonists\, and the challenges of translating his labyrinthine\, twisty sentences into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-worlds-of-joao-gilberto-noll-adam-morris-scott-esposito/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fourteen Hills Release Party - Issue 23.2
DESCRIPTION:Fourteen Hills Press is proud to announce the release party for issue 23.2! Join us for wine\, snacks\, and readings by the following contributors: \nJEN SULLIVAN BRYCH has published most recently in sPARKLE + bLINK and The Bygone Bureau. Past publications include The Rumpus\, The Los Angeles Timesand Wired. Her plays have also been read and performed in various Bay Area theaters. She’s currently working on a novel and advising Forum\, CCSF’s literary magazine. \nSYLVIA CHAN is a poet from Hayward\, California. She teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona and serves as contributing editor for Entropy. Her debut collection\, We Remain Traditional\, is forthcoming from the Center for Literary Publishing in 2018. She will be in conversation with CHET WIENER\, who selected Chan as the winner of the 2017 Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, TONGO EISEN-MARTIN is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. His latest book of poems titled Someone’s Dead Already was nominated for a California Book Award. His next book of poems\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is being published by the City Lights Pocket Poets Series. \nTIFFANY HIGGINS is the author of The Apparition at Fort Bragg (2016)\, an e-chapbook\, winner of Iron Horse Literary Review’s contest\, selected by Camille Dungy; And Aeneas Stares into Her Helmet (2009)\, Carolina Wren Poetry Prize winner; and Tail of the Whale\, translations from Alice Sant’Anna’s Portuguese (Toad Press\, 2016). \nLORRAINE LUPO is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, and the Art Book Review\, among others. She edits the poetry/art series Periodic Postcards and lives in Oakland\, California. \nANDREW MURPHY lives in San Francisco\, where he currently teaches English at San Francisco State University and Skyline College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourteen-hills-release-party-issue-23-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Gailey
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Gailey’s wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls “preposterously fun.” \nIn the early 20th Century\, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative meat source. This is true. \nOther true things about hippos: they are savage\, they are fast\, and their jaws can snap a man in two. \nThis was a terrible plan. \nContained within this volume is an 1890s America that might have been: a bayou overrun by feral hippos and mercenary hippo wranglers from around the globe. It is the story of Winslow Houndstooth and his crew. It is the story of their fortunes. It is the story of his revenge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-gailey/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170425T015423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T015423Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Finney Boylan
DESCRIPTION:Nationally recognized civil rights advocate and New York Times-bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan discusses her new work of fiction\, Long Black Veil. \nReview Quotes:\nPraise for Long Black Veil \n“This is Boylan’s best book. It’s one of the most eloquent pleas for empathy and moral imagination I’ve ever encountered.\n RICHARD RUSSO\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Nobody’s Fool \n“In the tradition of Donna Tartt\, Jennifer Finney Boylan has crafted a thriller that’s intellectual\, existential\, and compulsively readable. If change is the only constant in life\, how much can a person reinvent himself and still be the same? Long after the last page is turned\, you will be thinking about the nature of identity\, the pull of the past\, and whether you can ever outrun the person you used to be.\n JODI PICOULT\, New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and Leaving Time \nJennifer Finney Boylan rewards her fans with a riveting whodunit.The plot shapeshifts along with the unforgettable characters–including a woman whose family could be dismantled by her long-buried secrets. All this is rendered in Jenny’s signature hilarious\, wise and wise-assed prose. Bravo\, Boylan\, bring us another one!\n MARY KARR\, New York Times bestselling author of Liar s Club\, Lit and Cherry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-finney-boylan/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170515T235547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235547Z
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SUMMARY:At The Inkwell Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:At The Inkwell returns with its usual variety of tender mayhem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-inkwell-reading-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170519T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170519T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170519T102130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T102409Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading
DESCRIPTION:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading/
LOCATION:364 S. Market St.\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,South Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T160000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170503T120043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T005749Z
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SUMMARY:Mike Marinacci Reads
DESCRIPTION:Author Mike Marinacci will read from\, and sign his book CALIFORNIA JESUS: A (Slightly) Irreverent Guide to the Golden State’s Christian Sects\, Evangelists\, and Latter-Day Prophets (Berkeley: Ronin Publishing – ISBN 978-1-57951-230-9) on Saturday\, May 20th\, from 2-4pm\, at Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA. \nThe author of several titles about California’s more unusual cultural byways\, Mike will read from this book about Golden State’s strangest and most unorthodox Christian groups and leaders\, and discuss how their sometimes-scandalous and always-colorful doings affected not only the region\, but worldwide religious history and practices. \nCopies of the book will be available at Florey’s for purchase\, and will be signed by the author. Believers\, skeptics\, and the merely curious alike are encouraged to stop by this landmark Pacifica business for a unique view of an eccentric spiritual subculture and its saintly and sinful inhabitants.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-marinacci-reads/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Florey's Book Co.":MAILTO:FloreysBookCo@yahoo.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170430T032909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T233041Z
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Poets Against Fascism
DESCRIPTION:POETS AND MUSICIANS AGAINST FASCISM!NOTABLE POETS AND MUSICIANS WILL COME TOGETHER IN THIS\, THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF EVENTS TO EXPRESS OUR SHARED SOLIDARITY AS WE DECLARE “ALL ARE WELCOME HERE!” \nFEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE: \n*ALFREDO GOMEZ–GUITAR AND VOCALS ( ACCLAIMED MISSION BASED MUSICIAN/RECORDING ARTIST) \n* MAURO FORTISSIMO–PIANO\, POETRY AND SONG (OF “TWELVE PIANOS” FILM) \n*ALEJANDRO MURGUIA\, POET LAUREATE \n*JACK HIRSCHMAN\, EMERITUS POET LAUREATE \n* CHRISTINA GUITEREZ THE “MOTHER WARRIOR” OF THE FRISCO FIVE HUNGER STRIKERS\, LIFELONG MISSION ACTIVIST \nAND THE FOLLOWING POETS:\n*CHITO CUELLAR\n*MAURISSA THOMPSON\n*DOTTIE PAYNE\n*MAHNAZ BADIHIAN\n*ROSEMARY MANNO\n*DAVID KUBRIN\n*FRANCISCO ORREGO\n*SARAH MENEFEE \n***FOOD AND LIBATIONS OFFERED***\n***************************************\nTHIS FREE EVENT IS SPONSORED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE AND THE JUANA BRIONES CULTURAL COMMITTEE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolutionary-poets-against-fascism/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170520T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170520T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170514T015237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T015237Z
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SUMMARY:Norman Zelaya
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch: Orlando & Other Stories by Norman Zelaya\nSaturday\, May 20\, 2017 \n\nJoin us in celebration for the book launch of Orlando & Other Stories\, a collection of poetry by Norman Zelaya published by Pochino Press.\n\n  \n\nPochino Press is proud to present Orlando & Other Stories\, a collection of short stories by Nicaraguan American writer Norman Zelaya. Passionately writing about the highs and lows of the human experience\, he skillfully weaves in the diversity of the San Francisco Bay in a way that highlights the uniqueness of the region\, but touches on our common humanity. No stone goes unturned. The layers of gentrification\, love\, substance abuse\, violence\, friendship\, and religion are given a human face in this powerful dedication to the everyday people of his beloved Mission District.\n\n\nAbout the author:\n\n\nNorman Antonio Zelaya was born and raised in San Francisco\, CA. He has published stories in ZYZZYVA\, NY Tyrant\, 14 Hills\, Cipactli\, Apogee Journal\, among others\, and he was a 2015 Zoetrope: All-Story finalist. He is a founding member of Los Delicados\, and has performed extensively throughout the US with them. Zelaya has appeared on stage\, in film and in the squared circle as luchador\, Super Pulga. Currently\, he lives and works in San Francisco’s Mission District as a special education teacher. Orlando & Other Stories is his first published book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-zelaya/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T153000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170502T011828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T011828Z
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SUMMARY:Sydney Clemens
DESCRIPTION:Sydney Gurewitz Clemens is an author of books for adults about helping children grow. She has given workshops for parents and teacher in 41 states\, New Zealand\, Australia\, Singapore and Nagoya\, Japan. \nA survivor of cancer\, she has written a cycle of poetry about that struggle; an activist\, she writes about those thing that need to be done\, or congratulated. \nA Q&A period and an open mic will follow Sydney’s reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sydney-clemens/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170515T234114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T234114Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Kassidat
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of Bay Area poetry\, hosted by Bloodflower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-kassidat/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170521T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170521T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170515T235940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235940Z
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SUMMARY:Cole Swensen
DESCRIPTION:Nightboat books presents legendary poet Cole Swensen reading from her new book “Walking On.” Additional readers include Susan Gevirtz and more TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cole-swensen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170511T035629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170511T035629Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #45
DESCRIPTION:May 22 in San Francisco\, California at Hotel Rex\n\nGuest Curator: Teri Lee Kline\nBay Area Generations Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Amos White\nREADERS\nTBA\n\nMUSICAL GUEST\nTBA\n\nBAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #45\nMonday\, May 22\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\n* Free On-street After 6pm * Full bar and menu *  Walkable from BART\n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook\nDirections  Hotel Rex is located in San Francisco at 562 Sutter Street\, SF\, CA\, near Union Square\, and walkable from BART. Hotel Rex is a full service hotel offering a full bar and kitchen.. Map\, Event Page.\nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show\, monthly. \nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati \nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-45/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170504T234002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234002Z
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SUMMARY:Amber Flame w/ Arisa White
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Amber Flame for the San Francisco launch of her debut poetry collection\,Ordinary Cruelty! With Amber will be the poet Arisa White—please join us! \nIn Ordinary Cruelty\, Flame spells out rituals in everyday decisions to hold on or let go. While questioning the role of elder\, mentor\, mother in the face of losing those figures\, Flame details the unrelenting nature of parenthood through the cycles of grief. Her poems rejoice in the brown skin of the female body\, while soberly acknowledging the societal dangers of claiming such skin as home. Flame takes the reader through a visceral examination of the body’s processes of both dying and continuing to live and the joy to be found while we do. \nAn award-winning writer\, composer and performer\, Amber Flame is also a professional singer\, Hedgebrook alum\, and member of The Watering Hole tribe. Flame’s original work has been published and recorded in diverse arenas\, including Def Jam Poetry\, Winter Tangerine\, The Dialogist\, Split This Rock\, Black Heart Magazine\, Sundress Publications\, Redivider Journal and more. A Jack Straw Writer and recipient of the CityArtist grant from Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs\, Flame’s first full-length collection\, Ordinary Cruelty is just out with Write Bloody Press. Flame works with a Black independent media company\, This Week in Blackness\, co-produces the Oakland Slam\, and teaches workshops for all ages. Amber Flame is a queer Black single mama just one magic trick away from growing her unicorn horn. \nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow\, a graduate from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and author of the books Disposition for Shininess\,dear Gerald\, and Black Pearl. Her most recent book is the full length poetry collection You’re The Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury Books\, 2016.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amber-flame-w-arisa-white/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170522T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170522T213000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170505T000623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T000631Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Cole w/ Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Peter Cole: \n“A matchless translator and one of the handful of authentic poets in his own American generation. Hymns & Qualms is a majestic work\, a chronicle of the imaginative life of a profoundly spiritual consciousness.” — Harold Bloom \n“His vivid\, sonorous English translations of secular and mystical Hebrew verse that was previously ­neglected or regarded as esoteric\, parochial\, or simply too difficult have remade the American Jewish canon.” — Joshua Cohen\, The Paris Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-cole-w-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170509T001028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170509T001028Z
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SUMMARY:6 Years in Gay Conversion Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Peter Gajdics is the author of The Inheritance of Shame\, just published by Brown Paper Press\, which tells the harrowingly true story of his six years in Gay conversion therapy. \nGarrard Conley\, author of Boy Erased\, says the Gajdics memoir is “a necessary\, incredibly nuanced portrait of a survivor. The Inheritance of Shame will change lives.” Gajdics\, from Canada\, appears with Bay Area author Anne Raeff Tuesday\, May 23\, 7-8 p.m. at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Raeff will interview Gajdics\, and both authors will read from their work. Raeff’s short-story collection The Jungle Around Us is a finalist for the California Book Award and won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nFree admission and free refreshments. A book signing follows the discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/6-years-in-gay-conversion-therapy-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170425T014156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T014156Z
UID:26270-1495566000-1495573200@litseen.com
SUMMARY:China Miéville
DESCRIPTION:Discussing the subject of his new book: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. \nAward-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down \nChina Miéville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution and here\, on the centenary of the revolution\, he provides his own distinctive take on its history. \nIn February 1917\, in the midst of bloody war\, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later\, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country\, swept up in a desperately unpopular war\, rocked by not one but two revolutions? \nThis is the story of the extraordinary months between those upheavals\, in February and October\, of the forces and individuals who made 1917 so epochal a year\, of their intrigues\, negotiations\, conflicts and catastrophes. From familiar names like Lenin and Trotsky to their opponents Kornilov and Kerensky; from the byzantine squabbles of urban activists to the remotest villages of a sprawling empire; from the revolutionary railroad Sublime to the ciphers and static of coup by telegram; from grand sweep to forgotten detail. \nHistorians have debated the revolution for a hundred years\, its portents and possibilities: the mass of literature can be daunting. But here is a book for those new to the events\, told not only in their historical import but in all their passion and drama and strangeness. Because as well as a political event of profound and ongoing consequence\, Miéville reveals the Russian Revolution as a breathtaking story. \nChina Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City\, Embassytown and This Census-Taker\, and has won the Hugo\, World Fantasy and Arthur C. Clarke awards; his non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London’s Overthrow and Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. He has written for various publications\, including the New York Times\, Guardian\, Conjunctions and Granta and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/china-mieville/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170523T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170523T213000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170504T234200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234200Z
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan
DESCRIPTION:As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965-1975 offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mat-callahan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170524T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T064717
CREATED:20170504T232449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T232449Z
UID:26704-1495648800-1495656000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Magazine Launch Party: Forum (CCSF)
DESCRIPTION:Established in 1937\, Forum Magazine is a student-run literary journal that serves the City College of San Francisco community. Dedicated to providing a platform for the contemporary\, urban voices of our institution\, Forum collects\, edits and publishes quality works of literature and the visual arts as produced by the CCSF family. Publication is open to any who have ever been involved with the school\, whether as student\, educator or employee. Forum is published twice each year\, once in both the Fall and Spring semesters. \nForum Magazine is a student-produced publication of the City College of San Francisco and the stories\, artwork and views expressed within its pages are not necessarily those of\, or shared by\, the college as a whole or its administration. \nFor those who wish to view or purchase copies of Forum\, you can find them for purchase at the Ocean Campus bookstore\, at the English department on the 5th floor of Batmale Hall\, or you can request a copy via email through editor@forumccsf.org. \nQuestions or comments concerning Forum? Interested in sharing a short piece regarding literary matters? You can also email us at editor@forumccsf.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magazine-launch-party-forum-ccsf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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