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SUMMARY:Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/editor-john-mink-talks-about-his-book-teaching-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T193000
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SUMMARY:Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections\, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nAbout Threshold Delivery \nThreshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at how we approach the death of our loved ones – and how we confront the various thresholds in our lives. These poems guide the reader through ritual\, tradition\, and mystical interpretations of how and why we mourn\, and how we conduct our lives after knowing grief. Though referencing Jewish tradition\, these poems ask the reader to confront their own strategies and observance. They call upon pathos\, personal history and humor\, confronting the everyday with no shortage of joy\, irony\, and bafflement. Poems range from short personal meditations and anecdotal narratives to associative flights of imagination and winding explorations\, replete with historical oddities and popular culture. Densely musical and voice driven\, poems take the reader on journeys through personal and family history\, mapping the movement of the heart and mind through life’s most challenging moments. A series of poems\, on the surface about Mah Jongg\, look at interweaving cultural histories and how the social world affects our behavior\, while asking us to consider what we inherit\, what we bring with\, and what we pass down\, as we “draw and discard.” \nAbout Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page–sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-seyburn-dean-rader/
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:Happy Endings: I Can't Thank You Enough
DESCRIPTION:Gratitude is the moment. But we’re kind of bad at it\, right? Like\, whenever someone says\, “we should go around and say one thing we are thankful for.” I always say\, “this meal?” But *being* thanked feels so boss. So we’re asking our writers to meditate on people who helped them in big ways. And by the end of the night we’ll all feel like pumpkin pie on the inside.\nSee you there\, Sunbeams ♥ \n_____ \nHAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-i-cant-thank-you-enough/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary Party for Wherever There Is A Fight with co-authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi
DESCRIPTION:We had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago\, and this history of the gaining—and retaining—of civil rights in California could not be timelier. Join as we celebrate the process:  Wherever There’s a Fight\, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers\, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. \nElaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines\, which was banned by the Marcos regime. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, Poets and Writers\, and numerous other periodicals. \nStan Yogi is also coauthor\, with Laura Atkins\, of the children’s book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books\, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle\, MELUS\, Los Angeles Daily Journal\, and several anthologies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-anniversary-party-for-wherever-there-is-a-fight-with-co-authors-elaine-elinson-and-stan-yogi/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times
DESCRIPTION:Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. \nA sharp\, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture\, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.net. \nThe Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times.net\, the Internet’s favorite music satire site. Often referred to as “The Onion for punk rock\,” the site has developed a sizable\, devoted following for its razor-sharp takes on underground music and alternative culture. And with headlines like “Man Magically Transforms into Music Historian While Talking to Women” and “Pretentious Friend Only Listens to Podcasts on Vinyl\,” you don’t have to be a punk rock diehard to appreciate their hilarious commentary. \nNow\, in this ’zine-style “historical retrospective\,” the writers behind the site document its development alongside the rise of punk rock\, with original articles from their ‘archives’ commenting upon ’70s\, ’80s\, and ’90s punk\, and site-specific fan favorites from the aughts-onward. With its unique aesthetic and laugh-out-loud humor\, The Hard Times will be the perfect gift book for music nerds and pop culture devotees everywhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-saincome-bill-conway-the-hard-times/
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:GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards
DESCRIPTION:Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book \nGloria Steinem is a writer\, speaker\, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine\, where she remains a consulting editor. She produced an HBO documentary on child abuse\, a Lifetime film about the death penalty\, and WOMAN\, a series of eight Viceland documentaries about violence against women across the world. Steinem is the subject of The Education of a Woman\, a biography by Carolyn Heilbrun\, and HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words. Her own books include My Life on the Road\, Revolution from Within\, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions\, and Moving Beyond Words. In 2013\, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the highest civilian honor. \nAmy Richards is a writer\, producer\, and organizer. Most recently\, she produced the Emmy-nominated series WOMAN for Viceland and curated a series of talks to accompany Annie Leibovitz’s traveling exhibition WOMEN. Richards was a consulting producer on the HBO documentary Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words and an advisor on the PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Making America. She is the author of Manifesta: Young Women\, Feminism\, and the Future. She works closely with Gloria Steinem on her writing
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gloria-steinem-in-conversation-with-amy-richards/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center Book Award Reading\, co-sponsored this year by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)\, features award winner Bao Phi\, from Minneapolis\, selected for his book Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press\, 2017)\, reading and in conversation with the award judge\, Sarah Menefee. The Poetry Center Book Award has been presented annually since 1980 by The Poetry Center to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year. The award carries a cash prize and an invitation to read\, along with the award judge\, at The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \n  Judge’s Statement: for Thousand Star Hotel\, by Bao Phi \n\nFrom the first poem in Bao Phi’s Thousand Star Hotel I was taken into a real world\, particular to the poet but a shared world\, in the best way\, written with a sure and generous ear. A confidence by one retail worker to another in the first poem of this fine collection: a scene certainly familiar to me\, and I know right off that the ways of the world and the heart are being masterfully revealed. The particulars of life\, which constitute both poetry and the shared experience called ‘history\,’ are here with their beautiful and brutal truths. In this case the war that was waged against the Vietnamese people\, something that reverberates forever here\, as part of this patched-together and unequal society of all of us from everywhere\, where the truths told by father to son and father to daughter are freighted with love\, ultimate innocence and experience. All these things weave through these poems\, which are a pleasure and an adventure to read\, best instances of the visionary real. At a time when there is so much dimensionless fantasy throughout this amnesiac culture\, how refreshing to be told the real story! — revelation and recognition. “That a raindrop can weep inside of itself so hard it drowns and\, looking at it\, you would never know.” —Sarah Menefee\n\nBao Phi is a multiple-time Minnesota Grand Slam poetry champ and National Poetry Slam finalist\, and the author of two collections of poetry\, Thousand Star Hotel and Sông I Sing\, both from Coffee House Press\, and both of which are taught in classrooms across the country. He is also author of A Different Pond\, a picture book which received a Caldecott honor\, an Ezra Jack Keats new author honor\, the Charlotte Zolotow award for excellence in children’s book writing\, and six starred reviews\, and He was Minnesota Monthly’s Author of the Year 2017 and City Pages’ Best Author 2018. He continues to tour as a featured guest speaker and artist across the country. He is the program director of events and awards at the Loft Literary Center\, in Minneapolis. Photo: Anna Min. \nSan Francisco poet Sarah Menefee\, originally from Reno\, Nevada\, is a homeless and poor people’s rights activist\, a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America\, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade\, and ‘First they came for the homeless.’ Her poetry collections include I’m Not Thousandfurs\, The Blood About the Heart\, Human Star\, In Your Fish Helmet\, and Stella Umana (Italian & English)\, along with numerous chapbooks. She is a painter\, a photographer and journalist for The People’s Tribune\, with her articles and her poetry published widely in numerous political and literary journals and anthologies. She has worked in hospitals\, bars\, casinos\, offices\, day care centers and in many retail jobs\, including bookstores. She is currently semi-retired\, and works part-time as an artist’s model. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSarah Menefee\, “First They Came for the Homeless\,” at Cornell University Architecture Art Planning \nKB Kinkel\, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #115: Bao Phi \nRecipients of The Poetry Center Book Award\, 1980–present \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-book-award-bao-phi-with-sarah-menefee-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir\, Native Country of the Heart. \nPraise for Native Country of the Heart \n“I love A Native Country of the Heart‘s forthright blending of a bio of Moraga’s intriguing powerhouse mom\, Elivira\, with Moraga’s own queer evolution. And that the intimate facts of Cherríe Moraga’s family history get embedded alongside such valuable public secrets as the mass deportation of Mexican workers during the depression so that dust bowl farmers could have their jobs. This book is a coup.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Afterglow \n“A beautiful\, painful\, funny\, heartening and heartfelt immersion in the life of one of the leading voices of Latino/a literature\, our very own Cherríe Moraga. Part elegy\, part history and part testimonio rife with storytelling\, Native Country of the Heart\, like all of Moraga’s work\, charts the unmapped and unspoken territories of body\, mind\, heart and soul and refuses to be confined by any border or genre. Her memoir is a defiant\, deep and soulful book about all our mothers\, mother cultures\, motherlands and languages. Telling her own mother Elvira’s story is both a political and ceremonial act. “We were not supposed to remember\,” Moraga writes. She does remember\, and in this moving and brave book she gives us all a reckoning our country needs now. —Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies \n“Cherríe Moraga\, a foundational contributor to modern Feminism\, grapples with her fierce but withholding Mexican mother who—despite their struggles—remains her strongest touchstone of identification. A raw and vulnerable story of acceptance hard won.” —Sarah Schulman\, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse \n“This a great book. In telling her mother’s life-story Cherríe Moraga ruthlessly examines her own heart and the deep complications of growing up mixed race and lesbian in a racist culture. But she also lays bare the spiritual core that strengthens and sustains her. The heart\, the soul\, familia and tribe\, the native country is as narrow as the space between clenched fingers and as wide as the sightlines to the horizon.” —Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \nAbout Native Country of the Heart \nFrom the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back\, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline\, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. \nNative Country of the Heart: A Memoir is\, at its core\, a mother-daughter story. The mother\, Elvira\, was hired out as a child\, along with her siblings\, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter\, Cherríe Moraga\, is a brilliant\, pioneering\, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women\, and of their people\, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. \nAs a young woman\, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana\, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power\, sex\, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to\, later on\, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails\, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora\, its indigenous origins\, and an American story of cultural loss. \nPoetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma\, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga-native-country-of-the-heart/
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:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes at TLC
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Nov14\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, 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… while 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-at-tlc/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MFA in Writing Reading Series - Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:Jamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories\, a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction\, the Story Prize\, the John Leonard Prize\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize\, and winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. His writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2018\, Ploughshares\, Gulf Coast\, Glimmer Train\, American Short Fiction\, and Tin House. He is currently a 2018-20 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-in-writing-reading-series-jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Love With Accountability: Digging Up The Roots of Child Sexual Abuse
DESCRIPTION:Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence\, child sexual abuse\, most notably when it’s a family member or friend\, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors\, advocates\, and Simmons’s mother\, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse\, humanely.\n\n“With this brave and healing anthology of truth-telling about sexual abuse within Black families\, Aishah Shahidah Simmons sets an example for all families. If we could all raise just one generation of children without violence or the threat of violence\, who knows what might be possible?” – Gloria Steinem\n\n \nThese co-panelists (in alphabetical order) will join Simmons: Qui Alexander\, Rosa Cabrera\, Cecelia Falls\, Thea Matthews\, Loretta Ross and Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-with-accountability-digging-up-the-roots-of-child-sexual-abuse/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191118T203000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #36 : SOUND
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate our third year of existence we’ve decided to tap the senses\, to trod upon that which is most audible\, to get a bunch of people in a room to hear other people talk about SOUND. We are people who are into sound(s)\, be it music or the chirps and tweets and gusty winds of the great outdoors or just the varied beeps and boops of our cellphone alarms in the morning. We love the power of the sonic wave and damn it\, we wanted to ask some great writers to read about it. \nAlso\, free beer until there is no free beer. At the event\, not in the world. \nThe Readers (so far): \nRoy Dufrain Jr.\nSamantha Schoech\nDanielle Truppi\nAnnelies Zijderveld\nSarah Bethe Nelson\nJames Cagney\nSage The Poet \nMusical Performance by Bryson Schmidt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-36-sound/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew McAfee
DESCRIPTION:Andrew McAfee\, an MIT scientist and bestselling author\, studies how modern digital technologies are reshaping our world. \n  \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-mcafee/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T170000
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SUMMARY:Love in the Time of Piñatas
DESCRIPTION:Written and Performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez\nDirected by Richard A. Mosqueda \nYou’ve been invited! Join the writer\, comedian\, and solo performer Baruch Porras Hernandez as he breaks open his life and lets all the candy fall out. Watch him wrestle with immigrant guilt\, make out with it a little\, and transform it into a wickedly funny and moving show that asks\, “what’s at the end of the Mexican immigrant road?” Baruch hopes it’s donuts. \nGrab your and party hat and get ready to chill with horny Piñatas\, hear stories about sex parties\, and hang out with the ghost of Frida Kahlo in a show that pushes past the stereotypes to bring you a unique story of a Queer Latino and his family struggling to thrive in America. \nThis show contains Adult Content and Partial Nudity. Intended for Mature Audiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-in-the-time-of-pinatas/
LOCATION:Z Below\, 470 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T180000
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nBecause the reading immediately follows a class\, we kindly ask that attendees arrive as close to the 5 pm start time as possible\, but not before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Writing Studio @ CCA\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T210000
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SUMMARY:Savannah Shange
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nProgressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Antiblackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco \nfrom Duke University Press \nSan Francisco is the endgame of gentrification\, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers just over 3 percent. The “Robeson Justice Academy” opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city\, with the mission of offering liberatory\, social justice–themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum where students read Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde\, the majority Latinx school also has the district’s highest suspension rates for Black students. In Progressive Dystopia Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school’s marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and six years of experience teaching at the school\, Shange outlines how the school fails its students and the community because it operates within a space predicated on antiblackness. Seeing San Francisco as a social laboratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds\, Shange argues for abolition over either revolution or progressive reform as the needed path toward Black freedom. \nSavannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nWhat has been said about Progressive Dystopia: \n\n\n“By locating the everyday mechanisms of the neoliberal state in a progressive school in San Francisco\, Savannah Shange brings the lived experiences of social actors often only talked about as ‘black and brown bodies’ into discussions of the afterlife of slavery. And in so doing\, she reveals the fissures in Afropessimism and critical anthropology. Progressive Dystopia is scholarship at its finest and an essential contribution.” — Aimee Meredith Cox\, author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship \n“Who’s afraid of dystopia? Not Savannah Shange\, whose provocative and audacious book exposes ‘progressive’ multiracial social justice initiatives for what they are: a golden noose. ‘Winning\,’ she argues\, does not disrupt state logics of captivity\, containment\, accumulation\, and antiblackness. And fighting for utopias yet to be without attending to the dystopian present that is for the folks trapped in this ongoing settler-colonial catastrophe\, will not make us free. Instead\, Shange applies an abolitionist frame to reveal how Black and Brown kids who defy their saviors\, disrupt liberal teleologies\, and map new territory\, make the road toward freedom by walking\, talking\, dancing\, fighting\, and thinking. Unsettling\, persuasive\, and beautiful\, Progressive Dystopia is one of those rare books that will make you rethink everything.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \n“At the center of Savannah Shange’s powerful analysis in progressive dystopia: abolition\, anthropology\, and race in the new San Francisco are the multiple and seemingly conflicting forces brought to bear on the Black girls and boys who attend the Robeson Justice Academy in the contested space that makes up Frisco. Shange theorizes a set of ‘common sense’ ‘progressive’ logics that reproduce the carceral—what she names progressive dystopia and carceral progressivism—and then the willful defiance that characterizes the refusals and political demands of the Black girl students\, in particular\, who refuse to bear and internalize what Hartman names as ‘burdened individualism.’ This is a profoundly important book.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
URL:https://litseen.com/event/savannah-shange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\nRaquel Salas Rivera\n\n\n\nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, published by Birds\, LLC in 2019\, and the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their book x/ex/exis. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books\, including lo terciario/the tertiary\, longlisted for the 2018 National book Award and winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. From 2016-2018\, they edited The Wanderer and Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets. They have received fellowships and residencies from Sundance Institute\, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts\, the Arizona Poetry Center\, and CantoMundo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nCarina del Valle Schorske\n\n\n\nCarina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living between New York City and San Juan\, Puerto Rico. Her first book\, No Es Nada: Notes from the Other Island\, a psychogeography of Puerto Rican culture is forthcoming from Riverhead.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 20\, 2019 | 7:00PM\nRaquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske\n\nAlley Cat Books & Gallery | 3036 24th Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raquel-salas-rivera-and-carina-del-valle-schorske/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T210000
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CREATED:20191018T074607Z
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SUMMARY:Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
DESCRIPTION:Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel\, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. \nAbout The Worst Kind of Want \nA trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood\, death\, and sex \nTo cool-headed\, fastidious Pricilla Messing\, Italy will be an escape\, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s starting to feel like one long decline. \nRescued from the bedside of her difficult mother\, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece\, Hannah. But after years of caregiving\, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah’s youthful\, heedless world—drinking\, dancing\, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked\, Cilla feels like she’s coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories\, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless\, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. \nWith the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith\, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina\, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liska-jacobs-the-worst-kind-of-want/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nReading in November: \nKatherine Vaz\nJalyce Fairley\nCasey Walker\nJeffery Leong\nMonica Zarazua \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-13/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books \nThe President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press\nThe Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace \n\n\n\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets\, Puerto Rican poet and activist Raquel Salas Rivera\, with us from her present home in Philadelphia\, and writer\, filmmaker\, and artist Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, here from Southern California. Both poets read from their work\, then join in conversation with one another and the audience. This evening at The Poetry Center—co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State—will be followed by a second reading the next night\, Friday November 22\, across the Bay at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Kielinski Photography. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Kielinski Photography. \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo by Beowulf Shehan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nFriday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Latina/Latino Studies\, and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-raquel-salas-rivera-and-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games
DESCRIPTION:Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book\, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including\, Busted!\, a game from the 1970s about trying to start a career dealing weed\, Class Struggle\, the world’s first socialist board game\, and The Grizzled\, a modern cooperative game about being in the trenches in World War I\, will be available to play. \nAvidly―the online magazine founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood & Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)―specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to the intersection of expertise and passion.  Now\, Blackwood & Mesle are partnering with NYU Press to launch Avidly Reads\, an exciting new series of books that are part memoir\, part cultural criticism\, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \nIn Board Games\, writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal\, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat\, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart\, Class Struggle\, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships―from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night\, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns\, trivia\, and nostalgia. \nEric Thurm is a writer whose work has appeared in\, among other publications\, Esquire\, WIRED\, Real Life\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-thurm-avidly-reads-board-games/
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:The Best Small Fictions 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody\, Natalie Hernandez\, Joy Lanzendorfer\, Kim Magowan\, J.L. Montavon\, and Kara Vernor. \nAbout The Best Small Fictions \nThe Best Small Fictions anthology\, now in its fifth year\, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short\, elliptical works are varied and edgy\, sorrowful and triumphant\, provocative and visionary. The small fictions enclosed within this volume are always vibrant. They scintillate. They linger. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break\, the tales contained within 2019’s The Best Small Fictions promise to leave a mark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-best-small-fictions-2019/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Ben Lerner
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Maggie Nelson \nGenre-bending poet\, novelist\, essayist\, and critic Ben Lerner has received fellowships from the Fulbright\, Guggenheim\, Howard\, and MacArthur Foundations. His first novel\, Leaving the Atocha Station\, won the 2012 Believer Book Award\, and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded The Paris Review‘s Terry Southern Prize. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures\, Angle of Yaw\, and Mean Free Path. His new novel\, The Topeka School\, is a timely scrutiny of contemporary crises in the public sphere: collapse of public speech\, trolls of the New Right\, and crises of identity among white men. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-lerner-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
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CREATED:20191107T174126Z
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "A History of Our Naming"
DESCRIPTION:Kearny Street Workshop’s bi-monthly reading series celebrates new poetry releases by Michelle Peñaloza and Đỗ Nguyên Mai.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOn Friday\, November 22nd\, KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming” featuring poets Michelle Peñaloza\, author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire\, and Đỗ Nguyên Mai\, author of Battlefield Blooming. This reading is a celebration of their new collections of poetry. Their poems ask us to look at—and not away—from the histories\, hauntings\, and presences of colonialism\, conquest\, and imperialism. These poets find power in the work of gathering fragments and fractures\, and in what emerges from this naming for their families\, for their communities\, and for themselves. \nThe title of this event is inspired by a line from Michelle Peñaloza’s titular poem “Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire.” \n+++ \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information. DEADLINE 11/15. APPLY HERE: https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/151954/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming \nWHEN: Friday\, November 22\, 2019\, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. \nWHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. \nHOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale\, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. \n*There is limited seating at the venue\, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event\, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll work to accommodate you. \nFEATURES \nMichelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire\, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books\, 2019) and two chapbooks\, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias\, 2015)\, and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (OW! Arts\, 2015). The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants\, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit and raised in Nashville. She lives in rural Northern California. \nĐỗ Nguyên Mai is a Vietnamese American poet and researcher from Santa Clarita\, California. Her debut poetry collection Ghosts Still Walking is available from Platypus Press and was a 2017 Elgin Award nominee\, and her second poetry collection\, Battlefield Blooming\, ​is now available from Sahtu Press. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in political science at the University of California\, Riverside. \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \nWe are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. We will only be able to accept up to five readers. \nEligibility: We welcome writers of all genres\, and strive to spotlight those of the Asian Pacific diaspora and people of color. We are especially interested in showcasing emerging writers who have had little stage time or few publications. \nAt this time\, KSW Presents cannot provide payment for writers who submit to be a part of this reading series\, but we are actively pursuing funding for this program. \nHow to Apply: Submit work that explores this upcoming event’s theme\, that can be read or performed within 3 minutes or less. Apply here (no fee). https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/151954/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Bridge: Between Poetry and Improv
DESCRIPTION:Have your heart twisted and tickled by this hilarious and inspiring show that blends some of the best slam poetry and improvised comedy the Bay Area has to offer. \nMake sure to show up at 7:20pm at the latest\, so we can start on time! \nThe Bridge is: Caleb Lush\, Sahil Desai\, Conor Allen\, Rodd Naimi\, Taylor Couchois\, Lilly Conboy\, Teddy Myers and Danny Outlaw \nPoets for the night are Brandon Yip and Joseph Jason Santiago La Cour. \nThe Bridge is a ClusterFunk/Endgames Collaboration and produced by Mic Ting and Caleb Lush
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bridge-between-poetry-and-improv/
LOCATION:StageWerx\, 466 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T210000
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nJIM NORMINGTON\nJOHN CURL\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nNELLIE WONG\nRAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ\nLYNNE BARNES\nCATHLEEN WILLIAMS\nGREGORY POND\nJUDITH BERNHARD\nGAYLIN WEST\nSCOTT BIRD\nVICTORIA BRILL\nDAVID VOLPENDESTA\nYOLANDA CATZALCO\nHAI PHAM\nKRISTINA BROWN\nDOREEN STOCK\nNEELI CHERKOVSKI\nKIM SHUCK\nJENNY WADE\nBOB COLEMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-1/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
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SUMMARY:William Gibson / Agency
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \nBooksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He will also be in conversation with Mother Jones editor-in-chief\, Clara Jeffery. \nPlease note: This event will be at Public Works\, 161 Erie St.\, San Francisco. \nUnless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nVerity Jane\, gifted app-whisperer\, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up\, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant\, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice\,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses\, soon manifests a face\, a fragmentary past\, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity\, realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know this\, instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. \nMeanwhile\, a century ahead\, in London\, in a different timeline entirely\, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers\, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His employer\, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer\, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project. \nWilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot\, just around the corner. And something else too: the roles they both may play in it. \n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n  \n\nWilliam Gibson\, debuting with the powerfully influential Neuromancer\, both coined the term cyberspace and introduced it to fiction. Neuromancer was the first novel to receive the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Philip K. Dick awards in one year. Gibson continued his career with numerous acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books including Count Zero\, Burning Chrome\, Mona Lisa Overdrive\, Virtual Light\, Idoru\, All Tomorrows Parties\, Pattern Recognition\, Spook Country\, Zero History\, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. Gibson lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia with his wife. You can find more information about William Gibson and his novels online at williamgibsonbooks.com. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery. \n\nPlease note:\n>> Doors open at 6:00 — come early and have a drink or two!\n>> The duration of this event is up to the speakers.\n>> This event is 21+. No exceptions.\n>> Signing details to be announced soon.\n>> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated. \n\n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n(If you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of Agency and/or any of his books\, place your order here and include your request in the comments section. Please note: a book purchase is not a ticket purchase.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-gibson-agency/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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