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SUMMARY:Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning and Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the fourth annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! \nART: Curated by Modern Eden\nREADINGS: Curated by Quiet Lighning\nREACTIONS: Empowered by ArtSpan \nThis Artist Mixer showcases writers from Quiet Lightning as they share literary creations inspired by the artwork at Modern Eden. The audience will be equiped with sketch books and drawing materials from ArtSpan to react with drawings.\n\nPLUS MUSIC: A performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album is a mixtape of mixtapes. For music\, visuals\, and pre-orders: turkanddivis.com. \nDon’t forget snacks\, beverages\, and mingling with fellow artists! \nON DISAPLY ART MODERN EDEN GALLERY: \nBaby Mama: Portrait Invitational VI\, June 8–July 6\, 2018 \nModern Eden Gallery proudly presents the 6th edition of our portrait show. Baby Mama\, is inspired by medieval and renaissance religious depictions of the Madonna and Child. A hand-selected lineup of top contemporary figurative artists will bring this archetype into a modern context\, using present-day imagery and iconography to put a new twist on the classical icon\, and interpreting Madonna and Child through the modern lens. \nQUIET LIGHTNING READERS/WRITERS:\n> for author links: http://quietlightning.org/baby-mama/\n \n  \nLinda Norton: Linda is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome\, 2007) and The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer\, 2011; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a hybrid work of poetry and non-fiction and a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her second book\, Wite-Out (Love and Work)\, is scheduled for 2018-2019 publication. In 2014 Norton received a Creative Work Fund award and a Dickey Fellowship at SF State. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and other poets\, and have been exhibited at the Dock Arts Centre in Ireland.\n \n  \n \n\nThea Matthews: Born and raised in San Francisco\, CA\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black and Mexican American awarded poet\, spoken word artist\, activist\, curator\, bruja\, revolutionary\, collaborator\, and researcher. She writes on the complexities of trauma\, grief\, resiliency\, and ultimately\, the triumph over trauma. Her work can be found in For Harriet’s Soar\, Rag Queen Periodical\, as well as SoundCloud\, YouTube\, and Ello. As a seasoned performer\, Thea frequents the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene; and has featured at literary festivals such as Beast Crawl Oakland\, Lit Crawl San Francisco; and reading series such as Paseo Artístico\, Lyrics & Dirges\, Nomadic Press’s First Fridays and Get Lit\, as well as performances hosted by Still Here San Francisco. Currently\, Thea is working on her first volume of poetry–– a thematic collection incorporating flower medicine and city life. She will be at the Berkeley Poetry Festival this upcoming September. \n  \n \nCarla Trujillo: Carla is the editor of two anthologies published by Third Woman Press\, Living Chicana Theory and Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About\, winner of a Lambda Book Award & the Out/Write Vanguard Award. Her novel\, What Night Brings (Curbstone Press 2003)\, won the Marmol prize focusing on human rights\, along with the Paterson Fiction Prize\, the Latino Literary Foundation Book Award\, Bronze Medal from Foreword Magazine\, Honorable Mention for the Gustavus Meyers Books Award\, and was a LAMBDA Book Award finalist. Her latest novel\, Faith and Fat Chances (Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press 2015)\, was a finalist for the PEN-Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nChristine No: is a first-generation Korean American writer and filmmaker. She believes in the power of Radical Vulnerability and that Magic exists in all strange places. Christine is an advocate for ridding the stigma surrounding mental health; and creating education and dialogue in its place. She is a Sundance Alum\, VONA Fellow\, two-time Pushcart Prize nominee [2015 & 2017] and Best of the Net 2017 nominee. Her work can be found in The Rumpus\, sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, Apogee\, Atlas and Alice\, Vagabond Lit\, The Brooklyn Quarterly\, and various anthologies. She is a cohort of the Winter Tangerine Workshop\, the Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writer’s Lab\, and sits on the board of Quiet Lightning\, a literary non-profit based in San Francisco. Christine is an Assistant Features Editor at The Rumpus. \n  \n  \n  \n \nNatasha Dennerstein: Natasha was born in Melbourne\, Australia\, to a family originating in Belarus. She worked as a psychiatric nurse for many years\, which gave her an interesting perspective on the human condition. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Natasha has had poetry published in many journals including Landfall\, Shenandoah\, Bloom\, Red Light Lit\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Foglifter and North American Review. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nKim Shuck: Kim is the current Poet Laureate of San Francisco; her books include the poetry collections Smuggling Cherokee and Sidewalk NDN and the book of poetic fiction Rabbit Stories; her heritage is Tsulagi\, Sauk\, Fox\, and Polish. She is the first Native American poet laureate of a major American city. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nWith a musical performance by Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp)\, who on June 12 and June 16 launch the Quiet Lightning album: featuring 50 Bay Area writers performing live at last year’s QL shows\, a rough version of each track was scored and released each month last year. Now mixed\, mastered\, and cut to vinyl\, the album — their second — is a mixtape of mixtapes. \n————————–—- \n  \n  \n  \nAbout Modern Eden Gallery: Modern Eden is located in San Francisco’s historic North Beach Neighborhood since June of 2010. The gallery features monthly exhibitions of established and emerging artists. The gallery’s contemporary aesthetic ranges from realism to surrealism with a strong focus on illustrative painting and representational sculpture. \nAbout Quiet Lightning: A literary nonprofit based in San Francisco\, QL created the literary mixtape and since December 2009 has produced 120 events featuring 1200 readings by 800 authors in 80 venues\, from dive bars and art galleries to state parks and national landmarks. \nAbout ArtSpan Artist Mixers: ArtSpan produces Artist Mixer events throughout the year to give San Francisco artists a chance to meet\, mingle\, and make art with each other. Past events have included mixers at artist studios\, a Crochet Jam at a cafe\, a literary reading and sketchfest at a gallery\, a figure drawing session in the Dogpatch\, and much much more! All events are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-and-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta Presents: Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books on 24th Street in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District\, June 15 at 7 pm to hear the poetry of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro–Mexican literary outsider to the extreme. Anti-establishment with a punk rocker attitude\, Mario Santiago has gone virtually untranslated into English until now with the publication of Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth. \nArturo Mantecón will read the translations contained in the new book (to be for sale at the bookstore).\nMaceo Montoya\, Chicano master artist\, and novelist will give a brief presentation on the 10 original paintings he created to serve as illustrations for the book.\nArturo Balderrama\, multi-talented musician\, will provide musical backup for the reading. \nAn open mic follows this once in a lifetime presentation and performance! Bring a poem and friend! \nCurated by René Vazquez and Marguerite Muñoz!\nJune 15\, 7 pm\nAlley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-presents-poetry-comes-out-of-my-mouth/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Arturo Mantecon will be reading from his new translation of Mario Santiago Papasquiaro’s poetry. \nFeaturing artwork by Maceo Montoya.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-3/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jared A. Brock / The Road to Dawn
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Jared Brock\, in town to present his new book The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War and the corresponding 39-minute documentary film Josiah\, narrated by Danny Glover\, which we will screen before a Q&A and signing. Join us! \n  \nJosiah Henson (1789-1883) spent 41 years as a slave. He was a dynamic\, driven man with exceptional intelligence and unyielding principles who overcame incredible odds to escape his cruel masters and improve the lives of hundreds of freed people throughout his long life. Though immortalized by Harriet Beecher Stowe in her seminal\, society-changing novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin and catapulted to international fame in 1852\, his story has been largely lost to history. Until now. \n  \nIn The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson and the Story That Sparked the Civil War\, author and documentarian Jared A. Brock delivers the full narrative of a great man’s great life — a life that symbolized the definitive triumph of the human spirit over the brutality of slavery. In this excellent biography\, Brock chronicles Henson’s 41 years in bondage\, his eventual escape to freedom\, and his rise as a great preacher and orator who used his freedom to uplift his fellow man for the entirety of his life. \n  \nIn The Road to Dawn\, we witness Josiah as a child separated from his father and siblings; we see him beaten as a young man for trying to learn to read and write\, and see how this haunts him both physically and mentally all the days of his life. We watch him work hard for wicked\, deceitful men in Maryland and Kentucky\, and are relieved when he escapes to freedom and survives the 600-mile journey with his wife and 4 young children—two of whom he carried on his aching back—to settle as a free man across the border in Canada. But rather than simply lead a comfortable and safe life in a new nation\, Josiah understood his deep responsibility to his community. Throughout the course of his 93 years\, he would go on to rescue 118 slaves\, including his own brother\, and purchase land to build what would become one of the final stops on the Underground Railroad\, a 500-person freeman settlement called Dawn. \n  \nThe Road to Dawn travels through Baltimore\, New Orleans\, Cincinnati\, Boston\, and Buffalo\, to Canada and England where Josiah shares the gospel and his life’s story. He is surprised and humbled when Harriet Beecher Stowe confirms that he is the inspiration for the titular character in her bestselling novel despite his polite protests. Readers follow as Josiah encounters many recognizable people throughout his life including the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\, President Rutherford B. Hayes\, Frederick Douglass\, the prime minister of Great Britain Lord John Russell\, the archbishop of Canterbury\, and even Queen Victoria. Josiah lives to see the Civil War and the emancipation of his brothers and sisters in slavery. And at 71 years of age\, regretting that he is too old to fight\, he takes it upon himself to care for the families of the men of Dawn who take up arms. \n  \nDawn\, in present-day Dresden\, Ontario\, was more than a plot of land with defined borders. It was a spiritual idea and refuge. It was a place where ex-slaves could farm for their own profit and go to school. It’s a place that is still home to hundreds of descendants of slaves who first settled in Henson’s time and where Josiah’s house is now a museum. To this day Josiah has over 200 descendants\, many of whom still meet for the Henson family reunion in Michigan each year. \n  \nTo accompany The Road to Dawn and to be released simultaneously is Brock’s 39-minute documentary film Josiah. The film includes interviews with leading experts on slavery and abolition\, as well as two of Henson’s descendants. With both the book and the film\, Brock has created a comprehensive portrait that restores a hero of the abolitionist movement to his rightful place in history — a hero whose life speaks of a love of humanity and invites us to follow in his steps.  Check out the film’s trailer\, below: \n  \n \n  \n\n  \nJared A. Brock is a film producer and the director of Josiah\, a documentary about Josiah Henson. He is the author of two previous books\, A Year of Living Prayerfully and Bearded Gospel Men\, and his writing has appeared inEsquire\, Huffington Post and Writer’s Digest. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jared-a-brock-the-road-to-dawn/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Charles Curtis Blackwell followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-15/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lauren Groff
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Groff reads from her new story collection\, Florida. \n\nAbout Florida \n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” –The New York Times Book Review \nIn her vigorous and moving new book\, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which storms\, snakes\, and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life\, but the greater threats and mysteries are of a human\, emotional\, and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy\, grown up; a restless\, childless couple\, a searching\, homeless woman; and an unforgettable\, recurring character — a steely and conflicted wife and mother. \nThe stories in this collection span characters\, towns\, decades\, even centuries\, but Florida — its landscape\, climate\, history\, and state of mind — becomes its gravitational center: an energy\, a mood\, as much as a place of residence. Groff transports the reader\, then jolts us alert with a crackle of wit\, a wave of sadness\, a flash of cruelty\, as she writes about loneliness\, rage\, family\, and the passage of time. With shocking accuracy and effect\, she pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain\, hope and despair\, love and fury — the moments that make us alive. Startling\, precise\, and affecting\, Florida is a magnificent achievement. \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFLORIDA (HARDCOVER)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$27.00\nISBN: 9781594634512\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Riverhead Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies. \n“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts.” —The New York Times Book Review \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFATES AND FURIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781594634482\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Riverhead Books – September 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nA FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD\nNPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK\nNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST\, NPR\, TIME\, THE SEATTLE TIMES\, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE\, SLATE\, LIBRARY JOURNAL\, KIRKUS\, AND MANY MORE \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nARCADIA (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434706\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n“Timeless and vast… The raw beauty of Ms. Groff’s prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book’s only kind of splendor.”—Janet Maslin\, The New York Times \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE MONSTERS OF TEMPLETON (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316434713\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – July 13th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER — the debut novel by the acclaimed author of Fates and Furies.\n“The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace\, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDELICATE EDIBLE BIRDS: AND OTHER STORIES (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Lauren Groff\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780316317771\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Hachette Books – August 30th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom Lauren Groff\, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies\, comes Delicate Edible Birds\, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety\, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-groff/
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:Porchlight: Neighborhood Stories The Tenderloin
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars! Details and ticket info coming! This will be a great show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-neighborhood-stories-the-tenderloin/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join us when San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck reads poetry with Ukiah Poet Laureate Linda Noel and Thea Matthews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-jam/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation with Rob Rosen
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman will sit in conversation with the author of “Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\,” “Fierce\,” “Hot Lava\,” “Queens of the Apocalypse\,” “Creature Comfort\,” “Southern Fried\,” “Midlife Crisis\,” and his most recent work\, “And God Belched.” He is also the editor of the “Best Gay Erotica” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-rob-rosen/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing
DESCRIPTION:David Stephen Calonne on Bukowski and writing\ncelebrating the release of\n\nThe Mathematics of the Breath and the Way: On Writers and Writing \nby Charles Bukowski \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nThe method behind the madness\, revealing the critical acumen of everyone’s favorite Dirty Old Man. \n“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way\, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”—Charles Bukowski \nIn The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way\, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing\, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories\, columns\, reviews\, introductions\, and interviews\, Mathematics finds him approaching the dynamics of his chosen profession with cynical aplomb\, deflating pretentions and tearing down idols armed with only a typewriter and a bottle of beer. Beginning with the title piece—a serious manifesto disguised as off-handed remarks en route to the racetrack—Mathematics runs through numerous tales following the author’s adventures at poetry readings\, parties\, film sets\, and bars\, and also features an unprecedented gathering of Bukowski’s singular literary criticism. From classic authors like Hemingway to underground legends like d.a. levy to his own stable of obscure favorites\, Bukowski uses each occasion to expound on the larger issues around literary production. The book closes with a handful of interviews in which he discusses his writing practices and his influences\, making Mathematics a perfect guide to the man behind the myth and the disciplined artist behind the boozing brawler. \nDavid Stephen Calonne has edited four previous books of uncollected prose by Charles Bukowski for City Lights: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He is the author of several books\, including the critical study Charles Bukowski\, and the editor of Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am/Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993. \n\nCharles Bukowski was born in Andernach\, Germany on August 16\, 1920\, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three\, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 to 1941\, then left school and moved to New York City to become a writer. His lack of publishing success at this time caused him to give up writing in 1946 and spurred a ten-year stint of heavy drinking. After he developed a bleeding ulcer\, he decided to take up writing again. He worked a wide range of jobs to support his writing\, including dishwasher\, truck driver and loader\, mail carrier\, guard\, gas station attendant\, stock boy\, warehouse worker\, shipping clerk\, post office clerk\, parking lot attendant\, Red Cross orderly\, and elevator operator. He also worked in a dog biscuit factory\, a slaughterhouse\, a cake and cookie factory\, and he hung posters in New York City subways. \nBukowski published his first story when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. His first book of poetry was published in 1959; he went on to publish more than forty-five books of poetry and prose\, including Pulp (Black Sparrow\, 1994)\, Screams from the Balcony: Selected Letters 1960-1970 (1993)\, and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992)\, and the following books with City Lights Publishers: Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1981)\, The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories (1983)\, Tales of Ordinary Madness (1984)\, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, 1944-1990 (2008)\, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays\, Vol. 2: 1946-1992 (2010)\, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns (2011)\, and The Bell Tolls for No One (2015). He died of leukemia in San Pedro on March 9\, 1994.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-stephen-calonne-on-bukowski-and-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Richard Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nENERGY: A Human History \npublished by Simon and Schuster \n\n\nPulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. \n\n\n\nPeople have lived and died\, businesses have prospered and failed\, and nations have risen to world power and declined\, all over energy challenges. Ultimately\, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. \nThrough an unforgettable cast of characters\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil\, as we now turn to natural gas\, nuclear power\, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress\, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I\, King James I\, Benjamin Franklin\, Herman Melville\, John D. Rockefeller\, and Henry Ford. \nIn Energy\, Rhodes highlights the successes and failures that led to each breakthrough in energy production; from animal and waterpower to the steam engine\, from internal-combustion to the electric motor. He addresses how we learned from such challenges\, mastered their transitions\, and capitalized on their opportunities. Rhodes also looks at the current energy landscape\, with a focus on how wind energy is competing for dominance with cast supplies of coal and natural gas. He also addresses the specter of global warming\, and a population hurtling towards ten billion by 2100. \nHuman beings have confronted the problem of how to draw life from raw material since the beginning of time. Each invention\, each discovery\, each adaptation brought further challenges\, and through such transformations\, we arrived at where we are today. In Rhodes’s singular style\, Energy details how this knowledge of our history can inform our way tomorrow.\n\nRichard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Award\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series\, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-rhodes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omerta Publications Presents: KRA! & War in America  Genny Lim & William Cross reading from their new chapbooks
DESCRIPTION:Born in San Francisco\, Genny Lim\, San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, earned a BA and an MA from San Francisco State University.  The poems in KRA! invoke history\, myth\, biography\, political confrontations\, and personal experience. Lim writes about fellow writers\, musicians\, and radical cultural activists Francisco X. Alarcon\, James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor. “Odes” are dedicated to the people of Black Lives Matter\, Standing Rock\, and Flint\, Michigan. In their lyric fiber\, the poems themselves struggle for the survival of cultures of mutual respect and solidarity in the face of rapacious capitalism. \nWhen War in America was printed by Arroyo-Sheldon Publishers in 1993\, its battle-cry poems became an instant “hit” radical pamphlet—sold at human rights rallies and marches—and quickly disappeared as all copies of the small press run were snapped up. This 25th anniversary edition has those poems\, some revised\, and newer poems\, and an excerpt from the libretto of John Brown’s Truth\, William Crossman’s musical of récitatif\, improvised music\, and dance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omerta-publications-presents-kra-war-in-america-genny-lim-william-cross-reading-from-their-new-chapbooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday June 19th\, 2018\nOur featured artist is: James Zealous (Ellis)\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-7/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Yrsa Daley-Ward / The Terrible
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Yrsa Daley-Ward for her remarkable new book The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir. Please join us! \n  \nFrom the celebrated poet behind bone\, a lyrical memoir — part prose\, part verse — about coming-of-age\, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the wider world\, and redemption through self-discovery and the bonds of family \n“You may not run away from the thing that you are\nbecause it comes and comes and comes as sure as you breathe.” \n  \nThis is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward\, and all the things that happened–“even the terrible things. And God\, there were terrible things.” It’s about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful\, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun\, half frightening); and her little brother Roo\, who sees things written in the stars. \n  \nIt’s also about the surreal magic of adolescence\, about growing up and discovering the power and fear of sexuality\, about pitch-gray days of pills and powder and connection. It’s about damage and pain\, but also joy. Told with raw intensity and shocking honesty\, The Terrible is a memoir of going under\, losing yourself\, and finding your voice. \n  \n\n  \nYrsa Daley-Ward is a writer and poet of mixed West Indian and West African heritage. Born to a Jamaican mother and a Nigerian father\, Yrsa was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England. She splits her time between London and New York. \n  \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143132622\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBone (Paperback)\n\nBy Yrsa Daley-Ward\, Kiese Laymon (Foreword by)\n$15.00\nISBN: 9780143132615\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – September 26th\, 2017
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-yrsa-daley-ward-the-terrible/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Feliciano Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Chris Feliciano Arnold discusses his new book\, The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon. \nAbout The Third Bank of the River \nA sweeping look at the war over the Amazon―as activists\,locals\, and indigenous tribes struggle to save it from the threat of loggers\, drug lords\, and corrupt cops and politicians \nFollowing doctors and detectives\, environmental activists and indigenous tribes\, The Third Bank of the River traces the history of the Amazon from the arrival of the first Spanish flotilla to the drones that are now mapping unexplored parts of the forest. Grounded in rigorous firsthand reporting and in-depth research\, Chris Feliciano Arnold reveals a portrait of Brazil and the Amazon that is complex\, bloody\, and often tragic. \n  \nDuring the 2014 world cup\, an isolated Amazon tribe emerged from the rain forest on the misty border of Peru and Brazil\, escaping massacre at the hands of loggers who wanted their land. A year later\, in the jungle capital of Manaus\, a bloody weekend of reprisal killings inflame a drug war that has blurred the line between cops and kingpins. Both events reveal the dual struggles of those living in and around the world’s largest river. As indigenous tribes lose their ancestral culture and territory to the lure and threat of the outside world\, the question arises of how best to save isolated tribes: Keep them away from the modern world or make contact in an effort to save them from extinction? As Brazil looks to be a world leader in the twenty-first century\, this magnificent and vast region is mired in chaos and violence that echoes the atrocities that have haunted the rain forest since Europeans first traveled its waters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-feliciano-arnold/
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:Ana Raquel Minian
DESCRIPTION:Ana Raquel Minian\nWednesday\, June 20\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nUndocumented Lives The Untold Story of Mexican Migration \nfrom Harvard University Press \n\nIn the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico. They took low-level positions that few Americans wanted and sent money back to communities that depended on their support. But as U.S. authorities pursued more aggressive anti-immigrant measures\, migrants found themselves caught between the economic interests of competing governments. The fruits of their labor were needed in both places\, and yet neither country made them feel welcome. \nAna Raquel Minian explores this unique chapter in the history of Mexican migration. Undocumented Lives draws on private letters\, songs\, and oral testimony to recreate the experience of circular migration\, which reshaped communities in the United States and Mexico. While migrants could earn for themselves and their families in the U.S.\, they needed to return to Mexico to reconnect with their homes periodically. Despite crossing the border many times\, they managed to belong to communities on both sides of it. Ironically\, the U.S. immigration crackdown of the mid-1980s disrupted these flows\, forcing many migrants to remain north of the border permanently for fear of not being able to return to work. For them\, the United States became known as the jaula de oro—the cage of gold. \nUndocumented Lives tells the story of Mexicans who have been used and abused by the broader economic and political policies of Mexico and the United States. \nAna Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. \n\nRelated Links: \n\nRead Ana Raquel Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States\nRead Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is whythere are so many Dreamers\nRead a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics\nWatch Minian discuss DACA on Univision\nAt the Atlantic\, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.\nAt Univision\, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives\nWatch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ana-raquel-minian/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jana Casale
DESCRIPTION:Jana Casale discusses her new novel\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky. \nPraise for The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \n“Casale writes with both energy and humor.  She is an exquisite storyteller.  In creating Leda and her story\, Casale magically weaves together the tiny moments in life\, allowing them to gain momentum and build off each other\, until they culminate into an extraordinary tale that has spunk and charm.” —Weike Wang\, author of Chemistry \n“As the perfect title suggests\, the books we don’t read can shape us just as much as the ones we do. However\, unlike our titular heroine and her copy of Problems of Knowledge and Freedom\, I guarantee you’ll fly through this one. It’s a rare gem of a debut–funny\, heartbreaking\, and genuinely profound.”--Ed Park\, author of Personal Days \n“How do you account for a life? In Jana Casale’s poignant debut\, the answer has as much to do with the things her protagonist\, Leda – college student\, wife\, writer\, temporary Orca expert\, mother – wanted to do and didn’t\, as what she actually lives. A funny\, tender and touching illumination of the extraordinary beauty contained in a seemingly everyday life. I can’t stop thinking about this book.”  —Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \nAbout The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky \nWe first meet Leda in a coffee shop on an average afternoon\, notable only for the fact that it’s the single occasion in her life when she will eat two scones in one day. And for the cute boy reading American Power and the New Mandarins.  Leda hopes that\, by engaging him\, their banter will lead to romance. Their fleeting\, awkward exchange stalls before flirtation blooms. But Leda’s left with one imperative thought: she decides she wants to read Noam Chomsky. So she promptly buys a book and never—ever—reads it. \nAs the days\, years\, and decades of the rest of her life unfold\, we see all of the things Leda does instead\, from eating leftover spaghetti in her college apartment\, to fumbling through the first days home with her newborn daughter\, to attempting (and nearly failing) to garden in her old age. In a collage of these small moments\, we see the work—both visible and invisible—of a woman trying to carve out a life of meaning. Over the course of her experiences Leda comes to the universal revelation that the best-laid-plans are not always the path to utter fulfillment and contentment\, and in reality there might be no such thing. Lively and disarmingly honest\, The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky is a remarkable literary feat—bracingly funny\, sometimes heartbreaking\, and truly feminist in its insistence that the story it tells is an essential one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jana-casale/
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:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. Doors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoé Samudzi
DESCRIPTION:Zoé Samudzi discussing the subject of her new book\n\nAs Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation \nby William C. Anderson and Zoé Samudzi with a foreword by Mariame Kaba \npublished by AK Press \n\nOver the course of United States history\, resistance against oppression and the gains made from various struggles for everyone’s equality have often been Black led. However\, liberal politics and the lack of strong leftist political power are two problems impeding the continued progress of Black America. Expanding on their original essay The Anarchism Of Blackness\, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for Black Americans\, one rooted in an anarchistic framework likened to the Black experience itself. This is not a compromising book that negotiates with intolerance. As Black as Resistance is a declaration for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation for all people. \nZoé Samudzi Zoé Samudzi is a writer and doctoral student in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her research focuses on the scientific logics that produce race and gender\, particularly focusing on transgender health and the ways Blackness is constructed. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, and Verso\, among others. She is also a member of the 2017/18 Public Imagination cohort of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Fellows Program\, and she is a member of the Black Aesthetic\, an Oakland-based collective and film series exploring the multitudes and diversities of Black artistic production & literary-visual culture. \nVisit http://www.zoesamudzi.com \nWilliam C. Anderson is a freelance writer. His work has been published by the Guardian\, MTV\, and Pitchfork\, among others. You can read many of his writings at Truthout or at the Praxis Center for Kalamazoo College\, where he’s a contributing editor covering race\, class\, and immigration. \nMariame Kaba is an organizer\, educator and the founder and director of Project NIA\, a grassroots organization with a vision to end youth incarceration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-samudzi/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: an evening with Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening with poets Kim Addonizio\, Donna Masini\, and Brittany Perham all reading from new work. Please join us! \n  \nMortal Trash by Kim Addonizio \n  \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth. \n  \n  \n  \nKim Addonizio has been called “one of our nation’s most provocative and edgy poets.” She is the author of six poetry collections\, two novels\, two story collections\, and two books on writing poetry.  Her latest are Mortal Trash: Poems (W. W. Norton) and  Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Penguin). She has received fellowships from the NEA and Guggenheim Foundations\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and other honors.  Her writing has appeared in New York Times\, Poetry\, The Sun\, and numerous literary journals and anthologies. She offers poetry workshops privately in Oakland and online \n. \n  \n\n  \n4:30 Movie by Donna Masini \n  \nIn poems that are by turns intimate and wild\, provocative and tender\, award-winning poet Donna Masini explores personal loss\, global violence\, and the consolations of art. She brings her wit\, grief\, fury\, and propulsive energy to bear on the preoccupations of our daily lives and our attempts to bargain with endings of every kind. Equal parts lament and praise\, 4:30 Movie is fueled by despair and humor\, governed by the ways in which movies enter our imaginations and frame our experiences. The movie theater becomes a presiding metaphor: part waiting room\, part childhood\, part underground depths where the self is a bit player\, riding the subway with “its engine of extras.” Masini’s exquisite word play shows the mind wrestling ferociously to forestall grief\, as if finding the right words might somehow allow us to extend our beautiful foreshortened run. \n  \n  \nDonna Masini is the author of two previous collections of poetry and one novel. She was awarded the Barnard Women’s Poetry Prize\, a Pushcart Prize\, and New York Foundation of the Arts grant and a grant from the National Endowment for the arts. She teaches at Hunter College and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nDouble Portrait by Brittany Perham \n  \nEach poem in Brittany Perham’s prize-winning collection links two portraits: lover and beloved\, child and parent\, citizen and country\, spirit and body\, living and dead. Each speaker investigates what it means to be in relationship to another: what does it mean to see and be seen\, to reflect and be reflected\, to address and be addressed? With musicality\, grit\, and humor\, these poems challenge our conceptions of identity and language. By questioning the ways we think and speak\, the ways we rehash and reshape our experience\, they formalize obsession. Emotionally stirring and unapologetic\, Double Portrait contemplates the nature of devotion. \n  \n  \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction (SHP\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. She lives in San Francisco. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of any of the authors’ books\, order below and be sure to put your request in the special field. \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMortal Trash: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393354348\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 1st\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780143128465\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Penguin Books – June 21st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrdinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780393334166\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – February 1st\, 2009\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucifer at the Starlite: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393335255\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – January 1st\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Palace of Illusions: Stories (Paperback)\n\nBy Kim Addonizio\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781593766252\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Soft Skull Press – September 15th\, 2015\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4:30 Movie: Poems (Hardcover)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$25.95\nISBN: 9780393635508\nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – May 29th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTurning to Fiction: Poems (Paperback)\n\nBy Donna Masini\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780393328448\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – April 1st\, 2006\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDouble Portrait (Hardcover)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$26.95\nISBN: 9780393354010\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: W. W. Norton & Company – August 8th\, 2017\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Curiosities (Free Verse Editions) (Paperback)\n\nBy Brittany Perham\n$14.00\nISBN: 9781602352391\nAvailability: Out of Stock – Usually Ships in 1-5 Days\nPublished: Parlor Press – November 3rd\, 2011
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-an-evening-with-kim-addonizio-donna-masini-and-brittany-perham/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling 'JACKPOT!'
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT BAWDY STORYTELLING\nStorytelling is about building a connection. So is sex. \nFor the past 11 years\, Bawdy has featured true stories of sex\, kink\, body image\, gender and more to build community and bring people together. We do regular live storytelling events in two cities\, but that’s just one way to enjoy Bawdy. Our podcast and YouTube channel are great ways to get your Bawdy fix\, too. \nOur live events feature an eclectic mix of authors\, poets\, comedians and actors – along with real people just like you – sharing their adventures in ten minutes or less\, with no notes. This is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Storytellers submit their material online and are chosen for their panache and sense of (mis)adventure. Dixie curates submitted stories\, then works with experienced and first-time storytellers to create a one-of-a-kind evening for each and every Bawdy. Her coaching superpowers tease out surprisingly powerful stories of sex\, kink or gender. Then at showtime\, Dixie coaches the audience\, too – creating an emotionally supportive\, unintimidating\, and sex-positive atmosphere that’s unique\, engaging and fun. Add connecting games (like the ever-popular Bang-O) and you have a show that’ll be your new favorite social event EVER. \nCome see what LA Weekly calls “The Moth for pervs” and meet new\, open-minded people. Before you know it\, you’ll be wanting to share your stories\, too. \nABOUT DIXIE DE LA TOUR \nDixie has earned the title of America’s premier sexual folklorist. Once called “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, she is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. In addition to being the founder\, curator\, and host of the long-running Bawdy Storytelling series\, Dixie is also an accomplished storytelling coach and offers workshops for anyone who wants to communicate better and inspire others\, no matter what the subject matter. As a storyteller\, Dixie’s own stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast. She is based in San Francisco and hosts live shows across the United States. \nAWARDS \n\nBest Storytelling Show (SFist)\nBest of San Francisco (SF Weekly)\nBest of Los Angeles (LA Weekly)\nBest Literary Event (SF Bay Guardian)\nTop Ten Sex Podcast (Esquire Magazine)\n\nCONNECT \nHave questions about Bawdy Storytelling? Let us know! Or check us out on social media: \n\nBawdy Storytelling’s official website\n/r/bawdy for you Redditors\nInstagram\nThe Facebooks
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-jackpot/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CATHY CASSADY: TRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID
DESCRIPTION:SAT. JUNE 23RD\, 4-6PM \n\n\nTRAVEL TIPS FOR THE TIMID BY CAROLYN CASSADY\n\nJoin us for an afternoon with Cathy Cassady\, eldest daughter of Neal and Carolyn Cassady\, and editor of the newly published Travel Tips for the Timid\, written and richly illustrated by Carolyn. \nFor many years\, and somewhat unbeknownst to her children until after her passing\, Carolyn Cassady remained hard at work writing and painting\, and this book is part of the trove of art and writing she left behind. Travel Tips for the Timid follows Carolyn’s journeys abroad with her children\, dispelling the kind of surprises that often catch travelers—particularly first-time travelers—by surprise. \nThis event will include readings from the book\, as well as a discussion and Q&A with Cathy about Carolyn’s exceptional life and work. \n\nCarolyn Cassady (April 28\, 1923–September 20\, 2013)\, immortalized as “Camille” in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road\, graduated from Bennington College with a degree in Drama. She moved to Denver to pursue her Masters in Theater Arts; while there\, she met and married Neal Cassady\, who became known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, and Ken Kesey. But Carolyn was a prolific artist in her own right. Aside from enjoying painting\, sculpting\, drafting\, block printing\, embroidery\, upholstering\, and theater arts\, she also published two memoirs\, Heart Beatand Off the Road. She was fortunate enough to be able to pursue her passion for the theater as the Artistic Director for both the San Jose Light Opera Company and the Santa Clara University Drama Department. For many years\, she designed stage sets\, costumes\, and hairstyles for the local dance school. When her three kids were grown and gone\, Carolyn moved to England\, where she lived her remaining thirty years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-cassady-travel-tips-for-the-timid/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Rodney Koeneke\,  Dodie Bellamy\, and Ross Simonini \nHosted by Kevin Killian
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180624T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180624T200000
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SUMMARY:Wolff Translator’s Prize Winner Isabel Fargo Cole: Unearthing Wolfgang Hilbig
DESCRIPTION:Goethe-Institut San Francisco | ART-Lounge | 530 Bush Street (entrance street level) | San Francisco\, California \n\n\n\nJoin us for a double celebration at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco! We will toast Berlin-based translator Isabel Fargo Cole\, winner of this year’s Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize for her translation of Wolfgang Hilbig’s Old Rendering Plant\, and the recent publication of The Tidings of the Trees. Cole will discuss the translator as discoverer\, the challenges of recreating the experience of language\, and the artistic intimacy one cultivates by translating multiple works by the same writer with editor and critic Joseph Schreiber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolff-translators-prize-winner-isabel-fargo-cole-unearthing-wolfgang-hilbig/
LOCATION:Goethe Institut\, 530 Bush St #204\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180625T210000
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Joel Selvin / Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long\, Strange Trip
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is delighted to host Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley for Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long\, Strange Trip. Please join us! \nThe Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia\, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995\, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia’s vision for the group\, the surviving “Core Four\,” as they came to be called\, were reduced to conflicting agendas\, strained relationships\, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in shambles. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy\, the band made many attempts at restructuring\, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. \nAcclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia’s death\, and he’ll offer a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead\, but this final chapter of the band’s history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name\, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia’s passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band’s fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper\, and joyous\, sendoff of the group revered by so many. \n  \n\n  \nJoel Selvin is an award-winning journalist who has covered pop music for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1970. Selvin is the author of the bestselling Summer of Love and coauthor\, with Sammy Hagar\, of the #1 New York Times bestseller Red. He has written twelve other books about pop music. Selvin lives in San Francisco\, California. \n  \n  \nAtlanta-based freelance writer Pamela Turley was the founder and executive director of Square Globe Theater\, an award-winning educator and pioneer in the home schooling field\, producer-writer of “Blind Alley Radio Show” for Atlanta NPR outlet\, and author of a dating manual. Her articles on health\, beauty and science have appeared in a variety of newspapers\, magazines and Web sites. She attended more than 150 concerts by various editions of the post-Garcia Grateful Dead bands. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-joel-selvin-fare-thee-well-the-final-chapter-of-the-grateful-deads-long-strange-trip/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon
DESCRIPTION:Glen David Gold in conversation with Oscar Villalon\nTuesday\, June 26\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\ndiscussing Glen David Gold’s new memoir \nI Will Be Complete \nfrom Alfred Knopf \nThis event is co-sponsored by Zyzzyva \nFrom the best-selling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside\, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. \nGlen David Gold was raised rich\, briefly\, in southern California at the end of the go-go 1960s. But his father’s fortune disappears\, his parents divorce\, and Glen falls out of his well-curated life and into San Francisco at the epicenter of the Me Decade: the inimitable ’70s. Gold grows up with his mother\, among con men and get-rich schemes. Then\, one afternoon when he’s twelve\, she moves to New York without telling him\, leaving him to fend for himself. I Will Be Complete is the story of how Gold copes\, honing a keen wit and learning how to fill in the emotional gaps: “I feel love and then it’s like I’m driving on black ice with no contact against the road.” He leads us though his early salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore in Los Angeles in 1983; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale to the soundtrack of R.E.M.; and his attempts to forge a career as a writer. Along the way\, Gold becomes increasingly fascinated with his father’s self-described “cheerful amorality” and estranged from his mother\, who lives with her soulmate\, a man who threatens to kill her. Clear-eyed and heartbreaking\, Gold’s story ultimately speaks to everyone who has struggled with the complexity of parental bonds by searching for–and finding–autonomy. \nGlen David Gold’s first novel\, Carter Beats the Devil\, has been translated into fourteen languages.  His short stories and essays have appeared in McSweeney’s\, Playboy\, and The New York Times Magazine.  He lives in Los Angeles. \nAdvance praise for I Will Be Complete: \n“I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I’ve read in years. It’s likely the best memoir published in years. Gold’s a novelist and this book reads like the best fiction. It’s exciting\, beautiful\, and clear-eyed in a way most memoirs aren’t. Oh\, and you’ll never forget this charming\, intelligent\, unique narrator.” —Darin Strauss\, author of National Book Critics Circle Award winner Half a Life and Chang and Eng \n“We expect the story of a boy and his mother ought to go a certain way. I Will Be Complete goes in ways you’d never expect. The people shatter\, reassemble themselves\, and shatter all over again. The prose is crystalline\, hard as real diamonds\, flashing\, revealing. The story is simple\, just a boy and his mother’s long disintegration\, but the journey is darkly complicated\, heartbreaking\, beautiful as hell.”  —Mark Childress\, author of Crazy in Alabama \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/glen-david-gold-in-conversation-with-oscar-villalon/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, June 26th at 7:00 p.m. when we welcome editor Margot Kahn and award-winning author Pam Houston as they celebrate their new book This is the Place. \n\nPraise for This is the Place: \n\n“…an honest portrait of the U.S.\, pieced together like an imperfect American quilt. We need more books like this.” — BUST \n\n“This collection\, encompassing a spectrum of races\, ethnicities\, religions\, sexualities\, political beliefs and classes\, could not be timelier….open this book\, hear its chorus of voices and remember that we are a nation of individuals\, bound to each other by our humanity.” — The New York Times Book Review
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margot-kahn-and-kelly-mcmasters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about \n“Milena o el femur mas bello del Mundo” by Jorge Cepeda Patterson \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading with Neeli Cherkovski & Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski is the author of many books of poetry\, including his most recent collection\, Elegy for My Beat Generation (Lithic Press). He was the coeditor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Cherkovski also wrote biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children (1988). He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nBorn and raised in Providence\, Rhode Island\, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and sonic patterns to engage\, and generate\, meaning. In a 1968 poetics statement\, he noted\, “Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness\, Density\, Sound-Shape\, Vector-Force\, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.” Coolidge’s numerous collections of poetry include his Selected Poems 1962-1985.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetry-reading-with-neeli-cherkovski-clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180626T193000
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SUMMARY:DAN PFEIFFER
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDan Pfeiffer is Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast Pod Save America. In his forthcoming book\, Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump\, Pfeiffer tells never-before-told stories from Obama’s presidential campaigns to his time in the White House\, providing readers with an in-depth\, behind the-scenes look at life on the front lines of politics. In it\, Pfeiffer details how the “Decade of Obama” was one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways we are only now beginning to understand. \nMarisa Lagos reports for KQED’s California Politics and Government Desk and co-hosts a weekly show and podcast\, Political Breakdown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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