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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1478069\n$10 in advance [plus online fees] or $10 at the door.\nIf cost is a concern\, please contact ned@yg2d.com. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-7/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Juliana Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Juliana Delgado Lopera in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \n  \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Four Way Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, The Bold Italic\, Weird Sister\, Black Girl Dangerous\, and SF Weekly\, among others. Lopera has performed in countless venues around the West Coast and lectured at San Francisco State University\, Wayward Writers and 826 Valencia. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-juliana-delgado-lopera/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T203000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:3 Minute Reads from San Francisco Grotto Writers • 50+ Writers\, 3 Minutes Each! \nJoin us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
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SUMMARY:Brian Hassett's Beat Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and keynote essayist in The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats\, Brian Hassett performs a comical collage of original and Beat works including a nobody’s-ever-done-it-before chapter from Kerouac’s final novel Pic. \nLongtime friend of Edie Kerouac-Parker\, Carolyn Cassady\, Henri Cru\, and numerous other Beat and Prankster luminaries\, Hassett is a natural and funny storyteller\, and has preformed Kerouac & the Beats on stage in Amsterdam\, London\, Toronto\, New York\, L.A. & at The Beat Museum’s own Beatnik Shindig in 2015. \nThis appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos\, bringing the total in the book to 70! \nThis will be his first Bay Area performance in two years and the only one this Summer of Love. \nSpecial guests are likely. \nLively guests are a certainty. \nCharming event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-hassetts-beat-cafe/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
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SUMMARY:RHINO Poetry Magazine's 40th Anniversary Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Adobe Bookstore welcomes RHINO Poetry magazine and hosting a the reading as part of their 40 Readings in 40 Cities tour! A great series of readings to celebrate RHINO Poetry magazine’s 40th anniversary. \nSpecial guests: \nPeter Kline\, Brittany Perham\, Roy Mash and Cintia Santana. \nhttp://rhinopoetry.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhino-poetry-magazines-40th-anniversary-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
CREATED:20170527T005609Z
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SUMMARY:Poets of Color Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser: Poets of Color Podcast\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017 | 7:00 pm \nFundraiser and Showcase for the upcoming Poets of Color Podcast. \nThe Poets of Color Podcast is dropping June 2017 and your host’s Asha Sudra & Chris “L7” Cuadrado need your help to make it happen! \nCome enjoy some poetry from local bay area poets of color\, find out what we have planned for the show\, and meet other folks in the community invested in PoC words and narratives. \nFeaturing: \nAsha Sudra \nChris “L7” Cuadrado \nFlavia Mora \nSharif Zakout \nHablo Rw \n\n& More TBA! \n$5 – $10 (NOTAFLOF)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-of-color-podcast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T120000
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – EUREKA VALLEY LIBRARY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\nSan Francisco Public Library – Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch   •\n\n\n\n\nSaturday June 3\n12pm\nEureka Valley Library\nSan Francisco\nFREE\nFeaturing Panda Dulce\n \nABOUT DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR\nCreated by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT PANDA\nPanda Dulce is a drag queen who was born and raised in San Francisco. Sometimes Panda dresses like a girl\, and sometimes Panda dresses as a boy. (But she feels most special when you call her a girl). Panda believes that whatever makes you different\, is beautiful and powerful. Remember to be proud of yourself\, always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T150000
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SUMMARY:Youth Poetry Workshop w/ Kim Shuck + Dan Vera
DESCRIPTION:Poets Kim Shuck of San Francisco and Dan Vera of Washington\, DC will host a poetry workshop for young adults\, by drawing on the poetry anthology\, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books\, 2016). Students will have a chance to explore new voices and styles of poetry–concentrating on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa–and will write and share their own poetry over the course of the workshop. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but young\, aspiring Latino/a poets are especially encouraged to participate. This workshop will be held in Studio D\, in the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. \nHosted by Aunt Lute Books\, and underwritten by the NEA and CAC. \nSnacks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-poetry-workshop-with-kim-shuck-and-dan-vera/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:  \nSaturday\, June 3 \nfeaturing\n\n\nBrenda Hillman\n\nMeron Hadero\n\nErin Byrne\n\nand many more…\n\n\n\nat our exciting new venue\nThe Armory Club \nin the \ndownstairs performance space\n1799 Mission St \n(across from the Armory Building)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T203000
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SUMMARY:Imaniman: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras\, identity\, and art. \nFeatured poets: Dan Vera\, Kim Shuck\, Tomas Moniz\, Suzy de Jesus Huerta \nAppetizers and drinks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Imaniman will be available for purchase at this event. We take both cash and credit card. Imaniman: A Night of Poetry is a MAPP event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imaniman-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T200000
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CREATED:20170519T101358Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Aamina Ahmad\, Peg Alford Pursell\, Michael Shewmaker\, and Shelley Wong\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAamina Ahmad grew up in London. She completed her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her full length play\, The Dishonored\, toured the UK in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in The Normal School\, The Missouri Review\, Ecotone and the anthology\, And the World Changed. \n\nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, RHINO\, VOLT\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael Shewmaker is the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and author of Penumbra (Ohio UP\, 2017). Born in Texarkana\, Texas\, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University. His poems have recently appeared in Yale Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Sewanee Review\, Poetry Daily\, Parnassus\, Oxford American\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University. \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a winner of the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook award. Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse\, The Volta\, Sixth Finch\, and Southern Humanities Review. A Kundiman fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient\, she holds an MFA from Ohio State University and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-reading/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170605T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170605T210000
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Now accepting submissions: 6/5 @ Clarion Music Performing Arts Center \nAll forms of writing are accepted. This will be a free show\, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission all authors will be paid\, and will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \nThe deadline is End of Day 5/17. SUBMIT NOW!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-2/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170606T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170606T210000
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SUMMARY:Shut Up + Share
DESCRIPTION:Have you wondered what your fellow Shut Up & Write writers are up to?  Have you wanted to share your own work in a no-pressure environment? Join us at Adobe Books to read your own work and support your fellow SU&W writers. Here’s how it works:\n1) Readings are first come\, first serve and will last for up to seven minutes. \n2) You can read an excerpt from a story\, a poem\, blog post\, article you’re writing\, etc. We expect that you’ll use your best judgment about the type of material to read. \n3) Sign-ups are first come\, first serve on the night of the meetup at the bookstore. \nOpen to all! More info: i.magdaleno@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shut-up-share/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170606T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170606T213000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio/Golden State 2017: New Writing from California
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host writer and editorLisa Locascio for the launch of Golden State 2017: New Writing from California. \nPlease join us\, along with contributorsSusanna Kwan\, Rebecca Baumann\, Alia Volz\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Olga Zilberbourg\,Jasper Henderson\, Kara Vernor\, andMicah Perkins\, in celebrating the publication of the fourth installment of this terrific annual collection. You can read Lisa’s introduction to the book here. \nLisa Locascio\, this year’s Golden State anthology editor\, is publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7. Her work has appeared in The Believer\, Bookforum\, Santa Monica Review\, n+1\, Western American Literature\, Tin House online\, and many other magazines. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locasciogolden-state-2017-new-writing-from-california/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170607T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170607T210000
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SUMMARY:Jess Arndt
DESCRIPTION:Reading from her short fiction debut\, Large Animals. \nJess Arndt’s striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and the real\, the masculine and the feminine\, the knowable and the impossible\, these fourteen stories are an exhilarating expression of voice and deliver a profoundly original punch to the gut. In “Jeff\,” Lily Tomlin confuses Jess for Jeff\, instigating a dark and hilarious identity crisis. In “Together\,” a couple battles a mysterious and unnamed STD that slowly undoes their relationship\, while outside a ferocious weed colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails\,” a character on the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers\, confronting their own reluctance to move on. \nArndt’s subjects are canny noticers even while they remain dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed\, these narrators challenge the limits of language—collectively\, their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes room for the undefined\, the nonconforming\, the queer. And yet\, while they crave connection\, love\, and understanding\, they are constantly at risk of destroying themselves. Large Animals pitches toward the heart\, pushing at all our most tender parts—our sex organs\, our geography\, our words\, and the tendons and nerves of our culture.\nJess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence\, BOMB\, Aufgabe\, and the art journal Parkett\, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press\, and lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jess-arndt/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170607T210000
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SUMMARY:Trina Robbins + Artists
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host author Trina Robbins for her new graphic novel\, A Minyen Yidn! Also in attendence will be a few of the artists that contributed to the work: Steve Leialoha\, Caryn Leschen\, and Robert Triptow. Please join us! \nA Minyen Yidn is based on the 1938 memoir of Trina Robbin’s father\, Muttel (Mutye) Perechudnik\, and was originally published in Yiddish. This memoir features a collection of 13 stories drawn from Muttel’s (later Max Perlson’s) life growing up in a shtetl in Belarus and immigrating to Brooklyn in the late 1910s at the age of 16. Here he became a journalist\, contributing short stories in Yiddish to Jewish newspapers. The memoir has been translated to English and adapted to graphic novel format by his daughter\, Trina Robbins\, who says of the stories within: “They are slyly humorous portraits of his little village in Belarus\, and of life in Brooklyn after he came to America. It’s a snapshot of a way of life that would end with the coming of the Nazis and WW2\, although none of them knew it yet.” \nThe cover was drawn by famed underground comic artist Barbara Mendes and each of the 13 stories was recreated visually by the following artists: Shary Flenniken\, Eve Furchgott\, Miriam Katin\, Miriam Libicki\, Michael Netzer\, Anne Timmons\, Robert Triptow\, Jen Vaughn\, Steve Leialoha\, Elizabeth Watasin\, Caryn Leschen\, Joan Steacy\, Ken Steacy\, and Terry Laban.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/trina-robbins-artists/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170608T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170608T143000
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SUMMARY:Kevin Kwan: Rich People Problems
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Kwan\, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend\, is back with an uproarious new novel of a family riven by fortune\, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy\, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage\, and the heir to one of Asia’s greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance. \nWhen Nicholas Young hears that his grandmother\, Su Yi\, is on her deathbed\, he rushes to be by her bedside—but he’s not alone. The entire Shang-Young clan has convened from all corners of the globe to stake claim on their matriarch’s massive fortune. With each family member vying to inherit Tyersall Park—a trophy estate on 64 prime acres in the heart of Singapore—Nicholas’s childhood home turns into a hotbed of speculation and sabotage. As her relatives fight over heirlooms\, Astrid Leong is at the center of her own storm\, desperately in love with her old sweetheart Charlie Wu\, but tormented by her ex-husband—a man hell bent on destroying Astrid’s reputation and relationship. Meanwhile Kitty Pong\, married to China’s second richest man\, billionaire Jack Bing\, still feels second best next to her new step-daughter\, famous fashionista Colette Bing. \nRich People Problems is a sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea\, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace\, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi. Kevin Kwan’s hilarious\, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia’s most privileged families and their rich people problems. \nKevin Kwan is the author of the international bestsellers Crazy Rich Asians\, soon to be a major motion picture\, and China Rich Girlfriend. Born in Singapore\, he has called New York’s West Village home since 1995.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-kwan-rich-people-problems/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170608T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170608T210000
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SUMMARY:Laleh Khadivi
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Micheline Aharonian Marcom  \ncelebrating the release of \nA Good Country \nBy Laleh Khadivi \nfrom Bloomsbury Publishing \nA timely novel about the radicalization of a Muslim teen in California–about where identity truly lies\, and how we find it. \nLaguna Beach\, California\, 2010. Alireza Courdee\, a fourteen-year-old straight-A student and chemistry whiz\, takes his first hit of pot. In as long as it takes to inhale and exhale\, he is transformed from the high-achieving son of Iranian immigrants into a happy-go-lucky stoner. He loses his virginity\, takes up surfing\, and sneaks away to all-night raves. For the first time\, Reza–now Rez–feels like an American teen. Life is smooth; even lying to his strict parents comes easily. \nBut then he changes again\, falling out with the bad boy surfers and in with a group of kids more awake to the world around them\, who share his background\, and whose ideas fill him with a very different sense of purpose. Within a year\, Reza and his girlfriend are making their way to Syria to be part of a Muslim nation rising from the ashes of the civil war. \nTimely\, nuanced\, and emotionally forceful\, A Good Country is a gorgeous meditation on modern life\, religious radicalization\, and a young man caught among vastly different worlds. What we are left with at the dramatic end is not an assessment of good or evil\, east versus west\, but a lingering question that applies to all modern souls: Do we decide how to live\, or is our life decided for us? \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran\, in 1977. In the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution her family fled\, finally settling in Canada and then the United States. Khadivi received her MFA from Mills College and was a Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction at Emory University. In 2008 she received The Whiting Writers’ Award. In 2009 she published her first novel The Age of Orphans. Laleh Khadivi lives in California. \nMicheline Aharonian Marcom  is the author of five books including the critically acclaimed trilogy of novels: Three Apples Fell from Heaven (2001)\, The Daydreaming Boy (2004) which earned her the 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship as well as the 2005 PEN/USA Award for Fiction\, and Draining the Sea (2008). She currently teaches Creative Writing at Mills College and is also on the faculty of the Goddard College MFA in Creative Writing Program. \n  \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laleh-khadivi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Forrester + Ariel Gore
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Forrester in conversation with Ariel Gore about her memoir\, Narrow River\, Wide Sky \n\nPraise for Jenny Forester \n\nNarrow River\, Wide Sky unwrites the story of family and America through the flutter of hearts beating or beaten up\, through a skull on the piano\, through the desert of our longings into the river of our sorrow—or is it hope\, or maybe love\, that keeps us alive in spite of ourselves. Jenny Forrester has hit the mother lode. –-Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Chronology of Water and The Small Backs of Children \n\nForrester’s debut memoir is a lyrical account of coming of age as a woman in the West. Amid urgent geography\, aching choices\, and uncertain faith\, Forrester explores the moments and forces that hold us together and shape our lives. This family flickers on the page like a constellation; Forrester is both a star unto herself and an inextricable part of the glowing whole. — Megan Kruse\, author of Call Me Home \n\nA taut memoir about coming of age in the middle of nowhere where there are no minor decisions. Narrow River\, Wide Sky is a haunting\, intimate visit to the unforgiving landscape of life. –-Mark Russell\, author of God Is Disappointed in You and Apocrypha Now \n\n\nAbout Narrow River\, Wide Sky \n\nOn the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes\, Jenny Forrester grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester’s powerfully eloquent story reveals a rural small town comprising God-fearing Republicans\, ranchers\, Mormons\, and Native Americans. With sensitivity and resilience\, Forrester navigates feelings of isolation\, an abusive boyfriend\, sexual assault\, and a failed college attempt to forge a separate identity. As young adults\, after their mother’s accidental death\, Forrester and her brother are left with an increasingly strained relationship that becomes a microcosm of America’s political landscape. Narrow River\, Wide Sky is a breathtaking\, determinedly truthful story about one woman’s search for identity within the mythology of family and America itself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-forrester-ariel-gore/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T130000
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CREATED:20170513T010143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170513T010143Z
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Daphne Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Daphne Gottlieb in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \nDaphne Gottlieb stitches together the ivory tower and the gutter just using her tongue. She is the award-winning author of ten books including the new Pretty Much Dead\, short stories on homelessness and mental illness. Previous works include Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in her Own Words\, letters from death row by the “first female serial killer.” She is also the author of five books of poetry\, editor of two anthologies\, and\, with artist Diane DiMassa\, a graphic novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-daphne-gottlieb/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T200000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
CREATED:20170427T030041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170427T030041Z
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SUMMARY:Danielle Krysa
DESCRIPTION:This book is duct tape for the mouth of every artist’s inner critic. Silencing that stifling voice once and for all\, this salve for creatives introduces ten truths they must face in order to defeat self-doubt. Each encouraging chapter deconstructs a pivotal moment on the path to success—fear of the blank page\, the dangers of jealousy\, sharing work with others—and explains how to navigate roadblock. Your Inner Critic is a Big Jerk is packed with helpful anecdotes\, thoughts from successful creatives\, and practical exercises gleaned from Danielle Krysa’s years of working with professional and aspiring artists—plus riotously apt illustrations from art world darling Martha Rich—this book arms readers with the most essential tool for their toolbox: the confidence they need to get down to business and make good work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danielle-krysa/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T210000
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CREATED:20170604T225703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T225703Z
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SUMMARY:Glen David Gold
DESCRIPTION:Local luminary Paul Madonna will be in conversation with acclaimed novelist Glen David Gold re: his new book “On To The Next Dream.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glen-david-gold/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170609T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
CREATED:20170522T134329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020306Z
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SUMMARY:Annie Hartnett
DESCRIPTION:Annie Hartnett discusses her new novel\, Rabbit Cake\, with Ellen O’Connell Whittet. \nAbout Rabbit Cake \nFans of Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett’s debut\, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world without her mother. \nTwelve-year-old Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color\, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3\,000 pounds\, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother\, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking\, for exactly eighteen months. But there are things Elvis doesn’t yet know―like how to keep her sister Lizzie from poisoning herself while sleep-eating or why her father has started wearing her mother’s silk bathrobe around the house. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother’s death and finds comfort\, if not answers\, in the people (and animals) of Freedom\, Alabama. As hilarious a storyteller as she is heartbreakingly honest\, Elvis is a truly original voice in this exploration of grief\, family\, and the endurance of humor after loss \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/annie-hartnett/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
CREATED:20170604T214502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T015555Z
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Lunada’s Spring 2017 Season Closer features Saint-Hills\, DJ Glo\, and 10 spots on our Open Mic. \nOpen Mic sign-up at 7:15pm: 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. each\, inviting poets\, emcees\, singer/ songwriters\, storytellers\, laureates\, and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight.\nLunada closes a phenomenal 2017 Spring season with much pride\, featuring Brazilian emerging artist\, singer producer Saint-Hills\, and Nuyorican DJ Glo – spinning tribal\, caribbean\, latinx\, and afro beats. With deep love for our pueblo\, we enter the summer on our feet\, dancing under the full moon at Galeria de la Raza. \nHosted by Sandra García Rivera\n\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nSaint-Hills is a 20-year-old Brazilian producer and singer\, known for his unique electro-pop sound\, which contains strong influences of Brazilian music and culture. In 2015 Saint-Hills moved from his hometown Brasilia\, Brazil to San Francisco\, USA\, where both his career and personal life took flight. In San Francisco\, Saint-Hills produced and released his first single\, the bilingual song “(Geo)graphy.” Saint-Hills is also the first transgender/gender non-conforming singer to come out of Brazil. \nDJ Glo\, a Nuyorican\, is passionate about the art of DJing and a student learning everyday. Influenced by the salsa\, bachata\, merengue\, and freestlyle music they heard growing up\, you can expect to hear (and feel) tribal\, caribbean\, latinx\, and/or afro beats while listening to their set.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adeline Nip
DESCRIPTION:Book talk and signing by author Adeline Nip.\nWriters Carol Liang and Tymo Lin will also participate in signing their new books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adeline-nip/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T173000
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CREATED:20170515T235051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235051Z
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SUMMARY:Paseo Artistico: Tender Buttons
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of bay area poetry <3
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-tender-buttons/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T200000
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CREATED:20170504T232743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T232743Z
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SUMMARY:New releases from Pelekinesis Press
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of sharing from three Pelekinesis authors reading from their latest books! \nPETER CHERCHES: Autobiography Without Words \nDON SKILES: Rain After Midnight \nPETER WORTSMAN: Footprints in Wet Cement \nCalled “one of the innovators of the short short story” by Publishers Weekly\, Peter Cherches is a writer\, singer and lyricist. Over the past 40 years his writing\, both fiction and nonfiction\, has appeared in dozens of magazines\, anthologies and websites. His first recording as a jazz vocalist\, “Mercerized! Songs of Johnny Mercer\,” was released in 2016. He is the author of three previous prose collections\, most recently “Lift Your Right Arm\,” which Pelekinesis published in 2013. Cherches is a native of Brooklyn\, New York. \nDubbed “a 20th-century Brother Grimm” (Bloomsbury Review) and “a delinquent Hans Christian Andersen” (by playwright Mark O’Donnell)\, Peter Wortsman is the author of work in multiple modes\, including a previous book of short prose fiction\, “A Modern Way To Die” (1991); a travel memoir\, “Ghost Dance in Berlin\, A Rhapsody in Gray” (2013); and a novel\, “Cold Earth Wanderers” (2014). He collaborated with artist Harold Wortsman on an artists’ book\, “it-t=i” (2004) and with photographer Jean-Luc Dubin on a photo essay “New York\, NY 1978” (2016). He is also the author of two stage plays. His travel writing has been included five years in a row in The Best Travel Writing\, 2008-2012\, and again in 2016. He is also a critically acclaimed translator from German into English. \nDon Skiles is the author of “Miss America and Other Stories”\, “The James Dean Jacket Story”\, and “Football”. His work has appeared in “Quaartsiluni\,” “Snowmonkey\,” “Silenced Press\,” “Over the Transom\,” “MungBeing\,” and “Chicago Quarterly Review.” His poetry appears in three books from Viking Dog Press/Conehenge Studios (with the work of painter Claribel Cone): “18 Views of San Francisco\,” “Sono Choushi!” and “Blue Rhapsody.” Skiles lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-releases-from-pelekinesis-press/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T213000
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CREATED:20170417T112328Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 10\, 2017: \nGlen David Gold (Sunnyside\, Carter Beats The Devil)\nMark Oshiro (Mark Does Stuff) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-5/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T220000
DTSTAMP:20260512T043229
CREATED:20170527T014634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T014634Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Secret Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for a SPECIAL evening of sexy spoken word and song in an intimate SECRET SPEAKEASY\, featuring the photography of Lucille Lares-Kiwan (@__gatekeeper). The show will be hosted by Jennifer Lewiswith piano accompaniment by Sarah Dineen and live musical scoring byDavid Williams. \nFeatured writers: Lisa Alden\, Tomas Moniz\, Kimberly Reyes\, Kelsey Kundera Whitman and more (TBA). \nComedy by: Luna Malbroux \nSpecial musical guests: Rykarda Parasol \nDoors open at 7:30pm\, show starts at 8pm. DJ Duserock (aka Ryan Stubbs) will play music after the show so plan on staying for a dance party. \nADVANCE TICKETS ARE SUGGESTED. Seating is limited!\n$15 in advance\, $20 at the door. Once you buy tickets via Eventbrite\, you will get the address. If you plan on buying tickets at the door\, please email: jennifer@redlightlit.com. \n***NO ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. (Please email jennifer@redlightlit.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-secret-speakeasy/
LOCATION:Secret South of Market Location
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T180000
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CREATED:20170515T235150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T235150Z
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Kim Shuck’s monthly poetry series
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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