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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170609T200000
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Raina Leon\, and James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Poetry! A reading from Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Raina Leon\, and James Cagney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-raina-leon-and-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T203000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170604T221128Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T015742Z
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SUMMARY:Science Fiction in SF
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, June 11\, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney\, moderated by Bay Area author and editor Terry Bisson.\n​\nEach author will read from a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience\, moderated by Terry B​isson. \nBorderlands Books will be on hand selling books\, and our event will be podcasted by SOMA FM. \nSteven R. Boyett‘s novels include the fantasy classic Ariel\, The Architect of Sleep\, Elegy Beach\, and Mortality Bridge. He has been a professional martial arts instructor\, paper marbler\, advertising copywriter\, proofreader\, writing teacher\, website designer & editor\, chapbook publisher\, and DJ who has played in major cities and Burning Man. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. His latest book\, Fata Morgana\, was written with Ken Mitchroney. \nKen Mitchroney’s film and television credits include director\, head of story\, director of photography\, and storyboard artist on Storks\, The Lego Movie\, The Ant Bully\, Toy Story 2\, Monsters Inc.\, The Annoying Orange Show\, Mighty Magiswords\, and more. His comic illustration includes Ren & Stimpy\, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\, Myth Conceptions\, and creating the influential Space Ark. He is an official artist for the Ed “Big Daddy” Roth estate\, and official illustrator for the Oakland Athletics and at one time the Baltimore Orioles. Mitchroney has been a professional race-car driver and pinstriper\, and restores and runs vintage locomotives. He is currently involved with the restoration of the Ward Kimball collection at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris\, California. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/science-fiction-in-sf/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170611T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170519T100317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170519T100317Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Julian Talamantez Brolaski with readers Sirama Bajo\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Evan Kennedy\, Erica Lewis\, Laura Moriarty\, Cedar Sigo\, Max Wolf Valerio\, and Ronaldo Wilson.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170425T013641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T013641Z
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SUMMARY:Mark Hull
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nMasquerade: Treason\, the Holocaust\, and an Irish Impostor \nco-authored by Mark Hull and Vera Moynes \nfrom University of Oklahoma Press \nPhyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mhéara. Like her name\, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child\, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family\, to traitor during World War II\, to her emergence as a full Irish woman afterward. In Masquerade\, authors Mark M. Hull and Vera Moynes tell James’s story as it unfolds against the backdrop of the most important events of the twentieth century. James’s life—both real and imagined—makes for an incredible but true story. \nBy altering her identity to suit the situation\, James manipulated almost everyone she encountered: the German intelligence service\, the Nazi propaganda broadcasting service\, British intelligence\, and various Irish cultural groups. She was in a liaison with Irish writer Francis Stuart and\, with him\, provided a voice for Nazi radio programs aimed at neutral Ireland\, served as the pseudo-Irish expert for German espionage missions\, and participated in the failed\, almost comical effort to recruit Irish prisoners of war to join the Nazis against Great Britain—quite a series of performances\, considering her only contact with Ireland had been a weeklong visit in 1937. \nImmediately after the war\, James was wanted by British intelligence as a “renegade” (traitor)\, but her case was quickly squelched by the British government. Drawing on an assumed wartime persona\, she became fluent in Irish Gaelic and organized a number of conferences for which she won grants from the Irish government. James garnered wider attention in 1992 with her autobiography\, published in Gaelic\, in which she claimed that the Holocaust was a myth—a belief she maintained until her death in 2013. \nIn documenting James’s life of deception\, Hull and Moynes masterfully analyze how an intellectually gifted child turned traitor to her country and convincingly rebranded herself as an Irish patriot and intellectual\, while denying historical reality. The story of Rosaleen James reminds us that reality may be much less—or more—than what meets the eye and ear. \nMark M. Hull\, Associate Professor of Military History at the U.S Army Command and General Staff College\, Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas\, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, an attorney\, and the author of Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland\, 1939–1945.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-hull/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170612T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170612T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170522T132015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020411Z
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SUMMARY:Philip Kobylarz + Renee Rettig
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Philip Kobylarz for his new book A Miscellany of Diverse Things. He’ll be in conversation with Renee Rettig. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. in San Francisco. It is free and open to the public. Join us! \nThe essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects\, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects\, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners. Kobylarz’s poetry may initially elevate the mundane\, but its deepest design is to ask what the human possession divulges about the human being. The quotidian isn’t only ecstatic; the quotidian is a book of revelations. \nWith nods to Flaubert’s Le Dictionnaire des IdEes Recues and Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary\, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities. Encyclopedic in its compilation (more than 400 entries in this dictionary volume)\, miscellany avoids the static inventory list of a storehouse to embody the world as theatre. There are no museum exhibits\, with objects isolated and preserved in glass cases. Instead\, Kobylarz places spotlights on the minute\, under-appreciated\, and even unloved. He regards common objects as pearls within the world of an oyster\, but never forgets their genesis of grit and irritant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/philip-kobylarz-and-renee-rettig/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T133000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170414T005844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011353Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170613T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170531T002152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170531T002152Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Mysteries at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:“Queer Mysteries” stars three Lambda Literary Award luminaries–Michael Nava\, who has won six times and is nominated again this year for Lay Your Sleeping Head—Jon Wilson\, a 2016 Finalist for Cheap as Beasts–and Katie Gilmartin\, the 2015 Winner for Blackmail\, My Love. PLEASE NOTE: We are meeting for mysteries on TUESDAY\, June 13 this month at Perfectly Queer\, 7pm\, Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Mysterious door prizes for the quick and easy\, free admission\, and free refreshments. Book signing follows the readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-mysteries-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170320T105304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T105304Z
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SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov + Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION:reading from new poetry \nTogether and by Ourselves \nby Alex Dimitrov  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \n& \nProprietary: Poems \nby Randall Mann \nfrom Persea Press \nAbout Together and by Ourselves: \nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism—whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017)\, Begging for It (Four Way Books\, 2013)\, and the online chapbook American Boys (Floating Wolf Quarterly\, 2012). He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry\, The Yale Review\, Kenyon Review\, Slate\, Tin House\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. He has taught creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, Marymount Manhattan College\, Bennington College\, and lives in New York City. \nvisit: http://alexdimitrov.tumblr.com/ \nAbout Proprietary: Poems: \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-randall-mann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170201T045300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020535Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Bad Decisions
DESCRIPTION:Nothing makes for a better story than a bad decision. Short of an Act of God\, that’s how the best (as in worst) things tend to come about\, really. So this month\, join us at Fireside as we celebrate six storytellers’ very bad decisions\, with the entertaining— for us\, anyway — tales that they led to. \nReaders:\nEmily Epstein-White\nDoug Cordell\nJake Arky\nMark Steinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-bad-decisions/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170614T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170614T213000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170504T234947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T234947Z
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard w/ Keith Ekiss\, Clara Hsu\, + David Wong
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts local poet Christopher Bernard for his new book Chien Lunatique. With Christopher will be poets Keith Ekiss and Clara Hsu\, who will be joined by David Wong on the guqin. Join us for a night of poetry and music! \nLove\, Modernity\, and the Internet. Just who\, or what\, is Le Chien Lunatique? The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems—profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing—distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of post-modernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new: the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nChristopher Bernard is author of the novels A Spy in the Ruins andVoyage to a Forgotten Planet\, the short-story collections Dangerous Stories for Boys and In the American Night\, and The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism. His poetry can be found online at The Bog of St. Philinte. He lives in San Francisco. \nKeith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook(New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio was published in 2016 by The Bitter Oleander Press. \nClara Hsu practices the art of multidimensional being: mother\, piano teacher\, director of Clarion Music Performing Arts Center in San Francisco\, traveler\, translator\, and poet. Henry W Leung wrote in Lantern Review on her work: “Hsu…remains faithful to the sense in Chinese while also refreshing our English idiom.” But Clara likes to experiment and transform her translations into unique poetic expressions\, stunning in sound and form. She is currently finishing her translations of Lao-Tze’s Tao-te Ching\, taking the ancient texts for a wild ride in the twenty-first century. \nHailing from a long line of Chinese scholars\, David Wong has studied guqin (seven string zither)\, guzheng (Chinese table harp)\, pipa (Chinese lute)\, traditional Chinese painting\, and tea culture under masters in the United States and China. As a member of the San Francisco Gu-zheng Music Society’s youth ensemble\, with the support of guzheng virtuoso Liu Weishan\, Wong’s passion for teaching and introducing traditional Chinese culture lead to the establishment of Tranquil Resonance Studio\, which carries on the mission of passing along these ancient traditions to the greater community through lessons\, performances\, workshops and lectures throughout the bay area. In 2004 he received Honor awards and Outstanding Performance awards at the First International Guqin Competition held in Beijing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-w-keith-ekiss-clara-hsu-david-wong/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170615T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170615T210000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170604T230042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T230042Z
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SUMMARY:Borderlands Lectura Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:The bi-monthly Borderlands Lectura reading series returns with writers exploring the issues of borders and boundaries. Featured readers: Scott Duncan\, Noam Zelaya\, Sara Campos\, Norma Liliana Valdez and John Jota Leaños.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/borderlands-lectura-reading-series/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170615T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170615T220000
DTSTAMP:20260508T045814
CREATED:20170519T111257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T020624Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:YOU’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-6/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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