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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: YOU Are the Author!
DESCRIPTION:If you are a Queer-identified author and have a book (or similar media) to sell\, write to us at: PerfectlyQueerSF@gmail.com \nEach reader will have 5 minutes to discuss and read from their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-you-are-the-author/
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:20170711T123000
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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-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Devereaux Baker + Stephen Shur
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devereaux-baker-stephen-shur/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Deena Metzger
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps never before in the history of humankind has the disparity between Indigenous mind and Western mind been more on the pulse of what we must pay attention to in order to insure our survival. In A Rain of Night Birds\, Deena Metzger has written a novel in which two people\, who are from each side of this polarity\, begin a loving relationship. Sandra Birdswell is a student of climatology with an uncanny ability to sense weather events. Her mother\, who died in childbirth\, is a mystery to her. Her father\, John\, formerly a Reservation doctor\, faithfully raises her despite his limitations and obligations. She first meets Terrence\, a Native man and a professor of climatology\, at her university classes. Years later\, they are drawn together by the powerful forces of their love\, for the Earth\, for each other\, and their mutual need to seek out the broken links of their family histories. When the UN report on climate change is released in 2007\, the reality of the effects of the Anthropocene era sends a shockwave through both their lives. Their relationship to each other and to the elementals they are so intimate with lightning\, thunder\, rain\, mountain brings them deeply and violently into a quest to live their lives in ways that disengage from colonial mind\, the same mind that brought devastation to the Native peoples\, and now brings all of humanity to the brink of extinction. Through their love of and deeply felt intuitive connection to the Earth\, they each go to the brink of death to find their truth\, to gain strength and wisdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deena-metzger/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anna Redsand: A Creative Non-Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Anna Redsand will read from her memoir\, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond. “From Navajo dwellings in New Mexico to Scandinavia to the evangelical Midwest\, Anna Redsand’s beautiful\, heroic story is for anyone who has ever felt outcast from a community they love\, and tossed into the desert of doubt and despair. Here you will find spiritual hope embodied\, and the promise that\, no matter where we are lost\, it is possible to find our way home to new communities of faith\, compassion\, healing and belonging.” ~ John T. Price\, author of Daddy Longlegs: The Natural Education of a Father
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-redsand-a-creative-non-fiction-reading/
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:20170711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Bredie
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Nicholas Bredie in celebration of his debut novel Not Constantinople. Join us!\nThe story centers around Fred and Virginia\, two American expats living in Istanbul and working at the university who come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks. Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them\, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbul because the pay is good\, and with the property in limbo he can ignore the rent\, not to mention the paper-writing racket he starts with the Greek patriarch\, selling term papers to his own university students. \nBetween get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists\, Fred watches the transformation of his neighborhood from a place with a kind of sad romance to a generic megalopolis\, gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-bredie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170712T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170712T193000
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SUMMARY:Cara Black: Murder in Saint Germain
DESCRIPTION:Aimeé Leduc\, the fashionable doyenne of Parisian detectives\, is back on the case – this time juggling a trio of seemingly impossible jobs: the first of which has ties to her mother’s treacherous past\, the second and most dangerous\, involves a series of murders where the victims are all highly trained members of a Hague counterterrorism unit\, and last is caring for her eight month old bébé. How does she do it? Join us when author Cara Black discusses her new book Murder in Saint Germain. A book sale by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-murder-in-saint-germain/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Glass
DESCRIPTION:Julia Glass discusses her new novel\, A House Among the Trees. \n\nPraise for Julia Glass \n“The delight of reading Julia Glass turns out to be the connections we make with her generous characters\, who become as endearing—and exasperating—as the people we love in real life.” —The Miami Herald \n“Sophisticated and surprising. . . . Luminous.” —San Francisco Chronicle \n“Glass’ prose is so lovely and filled with felicitous phrases and insights that when she orchestrates a family reunion\, the reader is apt to just follow along like Kit\, knowing the music is bound to enthrall.” —The Dallas Morning News \n\nAbout A House Among the Trees \nIn Julia Glass’s fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award\, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant–a richly plotted novel of friendship and love\, artistic ambition\, the perils of celebrity\, and the power of an unexpected legacy \n \nWhen the revered children’s book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home\, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant\, Tomasina Daulair\, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades\, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life\, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet\, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty’s last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people\, including her estranged brother; the lonely\, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene\, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie. When Greene arrives for a visit\, he and Tommy are compelled to look more closely at Morty’s past\, a process that undermines much of what Tommy believed she knew about her boss–and about herself. As she contemplates a future that will no longer include him\, her unlikely alliance with Greene–and the loyalty they share toward the great man–will lead to surprising upheavals in their wider relationships\, their careers\, and even their search for love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-glass-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170712T193000
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Sex
DESCRIPTION:Next Event: “Sex” \nYou may have heard of sex. Perhaps you’ve even had it. Who knows\, crazier things have happened. This month\, we invite six fine storytellers onto our stage to regale us with their tales of sexual exploits\, adventures\, misadventures\, and whatever other titillating details they wish to divulge. Join us! \nStorytellers:\nAllison Landa\nJeff Hanson\nSkji Conklin\nRon Hirsch\nDave Nihill\nDavid Michael Ker\nMore TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-sex/
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:20170712T200000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Size Queen'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 12th\, 2017 \nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA) \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWonder what this show is about? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling#Unedited#TheRealDeal \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nThis Evening of ‘Size Matters’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist & Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Bawdy podcast repeat offender Jeffrey Hayes \n❤ Standing O Storytelling Graduate Saren O’Grady \n❤ Longtime listener/First Time caller Dani Lyon \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs from the inimitable Rachel Lark \n❤ 2 spots left! Pitch your story at Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal \n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n\n No Refunds or Exchanges\n Lineup Subject to Change\n General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dani Lyon is a public health geek by day and a sneaky introvert and militant bisexual 24/7. A new and enthusiastic face in the Bawdy crowd\, this is her first time telling a story on stage. And while she strongly believes the concept of virginity is overstated\, she is excited to be sharing this first with Bawdy. \n❤ Jeffrey Hayes is a former drama therapist who now works with LGBTQ+ seniors during the day and gets paid to run roleplaying games on nights and weekends. His hobbies include playing video games\, hiking\, cooking\, and making fantasies into realities. \n❤ Saren O’Grady is a writer\, an athlete\, an activist\, and a lover of stories. She hails from Milwaukee\, has lived in DC\, and now calls Oakland home. She had been a yoga teacher\, a competitive weightlifter and professional football player\, worked in urban farming & food justice\, and played in an all-woman Afro-Brazilian drum band. She had loved fiercely and screwed up royally and fully believes\, as long as it makes a good story\, it’s all been worth it. \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was signed last year to not a cult records with her new studio album\, They’ve Done Studies\, set to be released in Spring 2017. She recently debuted a new show at DNA Lounge that she successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign\, and is touring as Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods right now – but she’ll be back from tour and rocking Bawdy’s stage on July 12th! Find out more about Lark at www.rachellark.com\, www.facebook.com/larksongs & at @rachellarkmusic \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey). \nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \nwww.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-size-queen/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak DéLana R.A. Dameron
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nDéLana R.A. Dameron \nDéLana R.A. Dameron is a writer and arts and culture administrator living in Brooklyn\, NY. Dameron is the author of Weary Kingdom (2017) and her debut collection How God Ends Us was selected by Elizabeth Alexander for the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-delana-r-a-dameron/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Briscoe: The Lost Poems of Cangjie
DESCRIPTION:John Briscoe’s The Lost Poems of Cangjie\, published by RiskPress\, are translations of recently discovered poems of the Chinese historical figure Cangjie\, storied inventor of the Chinese system of writing during the reign of The Yellow Emperor\, Huangdi\, in the 27th century BCE\, approximately 4700 years ago. \n(Some scholars do not believe there was a Yellow Emperor\, just as they once believed there was no Xia dynasty. Evidence unearthed in the city of Yanshi in 1959\, however\, proved the existence of the Xia\, which ruled after the time of the Yellow Emperor from approximately 2100 to 1800 BCE. The discoveries of Cangjie’s poems may prove the existence of the Yellow Emperor.) \nJohn Briscoe’s Crush: Wine and California from the Padres to Paris was one of four finalists for the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award\, and will be published by the University of Nevada Press this fall. His essay The Judgment of Paris\, lavishly praised by California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia\, ran in Catamaran Literary Reader last year and is a nominee for both the Pushcart and Best American Essay awards. He has practiced law in San Francisco for 45 years\, tried and argued cases in the United States Supreme Court and the Permanent Court of International Arbitration in The Hague\, was Special Adviser to the United Nations for the environmental aftermath of the Gulf War\, and is a Distinguished Fellow at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-briscoe-the-lost-poems-of-cangjie/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170713T200000
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SUMMARY:RADAR Productions + Nomadic Press
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions and Nomadic Press come together for this epic reading!\n\nThursday\, July 13\, 2017\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\n6PM\nChildren’s Room on 2nd Floor*\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera\n \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \n*The Latino Room will be under construction in July so that month we have moved you to the children’s room which is on the 2nd floor. You were there once before many years ago. When you come into the SFPL\, walk past the info desk and there is a staircase on the right. Go up those stairs and you are there. Also the elevators on the right will take you to 2 – but only the elevators on the right.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-productions-nomadic-press/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170713T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170713T210000
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CREATED:20170630T054943Z
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SUMMARY:Dashiell Hammett w/ Don Herron
DESCRIPTION:Join us next Thursday July 18th at the Tenderloin Museum for a discussion of the Tenderloin’s preeminent author Dashiell Hammett\, and a screening of pre-code adaptations of his most famous novels. \nDescribed by The New York Times as one of Hammett’s “pre-eminent appreciators”\, Don Herron\, will lead a discussion about Hammett’s work in conjunction with a screening of selections from Hammett’s pre-code film The Maltese Falcon (1931)\, along with The Thin Man (1934) screened in its entirety. Providing historical reference for both films\, Don Herron will discuss Hammett’s relationship with the Tenderloin before the screening. \nThe Maltese Falcon is the most recognizable novel written by Hammett while he was living in the Tenderloin between 1920-1929. The original film adaptation of The Maltese Falcon (1931) was produced pre-code. Later releases of the film were notably revised catering to a sanitized version following the production code of the 1940s. For decades thereafter\, unedited versions of the film were not available in the United States. \nThe Thin Man was Dashiell Hammett’s final novel (1934). Adapted for film the same year and nominated for an Academy Award\, The Thin Man was later translated into a popular television series (1950). \nDon Herron has been leading The Dashiell Hammett tour since 1977 — that’s 40 years on the mean streets. Herron’s Dashiell Hammett Tour Book is currently in it’s fourth edition\, and his guidebook\, The Literary World of San Francisco\, was released by City Lights. Herron’s Dashiell Hammett’s tour is the longest lived literary tour covering the Tenderloin. \nReception at 6pm\, program at 6:30pm. $10 includes lecture & screening. \nTickets: //www.eventbrite.com/e/dashiell-hammett-with-don-herron-tickets-35799288636
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dashiell-hammett-with-don-herron/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170713T190000
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SUMMARY:Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in The Marina for an evening of lyrical prose with local poets Erin Rodoni\, reading from Body\, In Good Light; and Gillian Wegener\, reading from This Sweet Haphazard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170713T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170713T213000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170619T140957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T012101Z
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SUMMARY:Gabe Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Hudson discusses his new novel\, Gork\, The Teenage Dragon. \nGork isn’t like the other dragons at WarWings Military Academy. He has a gigantic heart\, two-inch horns\, and an occasional problem with fainting. His nickname is Weak Sauce and his Will to Power ranking is Snacklicious—the lowest in his class. But he is determined not to let any of this hold him back as he embarks on the most important mission of his life: tonight\, on the eve of his high school graduation\, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. If she says yes\, they’ll go off to conquer a foreign planet together. If she says no\, Gork becomes a slave.\nVying with Jocks\, Nerds\, Mutants\, and Multi-Dimensioners to find his mate\, Gork encounters an unforgettable cast of friends and foes\, including Dr. Terrible\, the mad scientist; Fribby\, a robot dragon obsessed with death; and Metheldra\, a healer specializing in acupuncture with swords. But finally it is Gork’s biggest perceived weakness\, his huge heart\, that will guide him through his epic quest and help him reach his ultimate destination: planet Earth.\nA love story\, a fantasy\, and a coming-of-age story\, Gork the Teenage Dragon is a wildly comic\, beautifully imagined\, and deeply heartfelt debut novel that shows us just how human a dragon can be
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-hudson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170714T213000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170505T001149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T001149Z
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SUMMARY:Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Praise for A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause \n“Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains\, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau’s performance as both a character on stage and in history. . . . Like pulling a ghost from a dark room\, this is an accomplished work of historical portraiture: precise in its objects\, complex in its melancholy\, and insightful in its humor.” Thalia Field \n\nAbout A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause \nA fledgling radio producer\, Shawn Wen became fascinated by the one subject who seemed impossible to put on air: French mime Marcel Marceau\, the internationally acclaimed artist of silence. At the height of his fame\, Marceau was synonymous with Bip\, the red-lipped\, white-faced mute in a sailor suit who conjured scenes\, stories\, and sweeping emotion through the gestures of his body alone. Influenced by Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp\, credited with inspiring Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk\, Marceau attempted in his performances to reveal the fundamental essences of humanity.\nBeyond Bip\, Marceau was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and member of the French resistance; a bombastic iconoclast; a collector of failed marriages\, masks\, antique knives and doting fans; an impassioned workaholic who performed into his eighties and died deeply in debt two years after retiring from the stage. In precise\, jewel-like scenes and vignettes\, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause pays homage to the singular genius of a mostly-forgotten art form. Drawing on interviews\, archival research\, and meticulously observed performances\, Wen translates the gestural language of mime into a lyric written portrait by turns whimsical\, melancholic\, and haunting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170622T011431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T011431Z
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SUMMARY:Warehouse Sale Extravaganza at Books Inc. HQ!
DESCRIPTION:Books Inc. Midsummer Warehouse Sale Extravaganza!\nEverything 30-80% off of 1000’s of books. Greeting Cards 4 for $1. Toys and gift items marked down to extreme discounts. July 15 open 10am to 4pm\, one day only-come early for the best selection. Free swag with purchase!\nAll items on a first come\, first served basis\nNo special orders\nAll sales final\nBooks Inc. Warehouse is located at 1501 Vermont Street @ Cesar Chavez\nLimited parking available in the Books Inc. parking lot + street parking\n20 minute walk from 24th St. BART Station\nSF MUNI lines 9\, 10\, 19\, 27\, 48\nClose proximity to 22nd St Caltrain Station
URL:https://litseen.com/event/warehouse-sale-extravaganza-at-books-inc-hq/
LOCATION:Books Inc. HQ\, 1501 Vermont St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T150000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170712T032302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T035702Z
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SUMMARY:Brenda Peterson: Creative Nonfiction Reading/Talk
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Amaroq Weiss \nBrenda Peterson brings the full complement of science\, history\, and memoir to the century-long battle to save wild wolves\, the keystone species of our nation. \nIn the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold\, Wolf Nation tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history\, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now\, scientists\, writers\, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson\, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years\, makes the powerful case that without wolves\, not only will our whole ecology unravel\, but we’ll lose much of our national soul. \nBrenda Peterson is a novelist and nature writer whose curiosity about and for the respect of nature radiates through her twenty books. For the past two decades she has studied and written about animals\, especially marine animals and wolves. She has contributed environmental commentary to NPR and the Huffington Post. \nAmaroq Weiss has worked in wolf conservation for more than 20 years and is the West Coast Wolf Advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity\, a national nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-peterson-creative-nonfiction-readingtalk/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T203000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170615T002414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T002414Z
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SUMMARY:Laborfest
DESCRIPTION:NOT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS!\nAGAINST DEPORTATIONS AND RACISM \npresented by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade\nand The Juana Briones Cultural Committee \nFeaturing Readers: \n\nJorge Argueta\nMahnaz Badihian\nLisbit Bailey\nJudith Ayn Bernhard\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nBoadiba\nKristina Brown\nJames Cagney\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAja Couchois Duncan\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nAgneta Falk\nMauro Fortissimo\nq.r. hand\nChristina Herrera\nFrancisco Hererra\nMartin Hickel\nJack Hirschman\nGenny Lim\nRosemary Manno\nSarah Menefee\nJorge Molino\nBarbara Paschke\nDottie Payne\nGregory Pond\nMaria Medina Serafin\nDavid Volpemdesta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170702T111433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170706T223923Z
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SUMMARY:David Brazil
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of David Brazil’s “Holy Ghost” new from City Light’s Spotlight poetry series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brazil/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170324T014120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T043156Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-4/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T203000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170622T012253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012253Z
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SUMMARY:Sharon Doubiago + Art Montecon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-doubiago-art-montecon/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T200000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170619T113754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170701T122111Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Dr. Ajuan Mance
DESCRIPTION:It’s International Mandela Day!\nCome celebrate South Africa\, as well as 19th Century African-American Literature (“Before Harlem”) with Professor Ajuan Mance of Mills College. Also to be presented: “1001 Black Men” and “Gender Studies” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-dr-ajuan-mance/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170604T231111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021052Z
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SUMMARY:Janelle Brown w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Essayist\, journalist\, and New York Times-bestselling author Janelle Brown shares her new novel\, Watch Me Disappear. Janelle will be in conversation with Vanessa Hua\, award-winning journalist and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \nThe disappearance of a beautiful\, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies–from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.\n“Tantalizing and twisty . . . a spider’s web of a novel . . . You won’t be able to put it down.”–Megan Abbott\nWho you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are.\nIt’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found\, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie’s death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote\, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends.\nBut then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother\, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability\, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Who was the woman he knew as Billie Flanagan?\nTogether\, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truth–about Billie\, but also about themselves\, learning\, in the process\, about all the ways that love can distort what we choose to see. Janelle Brown’s insights into the dynamics of intimate relationships will make you question the stories you tell yourself about the people you love\, while her nervy storytelling will keep you guessing until the very last page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janelle-brown-with-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170709T123240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T123240Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit at The Armory Club
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit entertains at The Armory Club! Join us for an intimate evening of live music\, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featured readers include: Devin Copeland\, Allyson Darling\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\,Christine No\, Kimberly Reyes and musical guest Nick Jaina. \n$10 in advance\, $15 at the door. We strongly suggest buying advanced tickets. The venue only seats 30 people. \nNick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland\, Oregon. He has recorded many albums and composed music for ballet and film. His book Get It While You Can is an Oregon Book Award finalist.\nAdvanced tickets are suggested.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-at-the-armory-club/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T213000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170709T124132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T124132Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\n\nNEXT: Tuesday July 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Avotcja!\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic for poetry only – 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 in the front room.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-5/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T213000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170621T124601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T124601Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Khong
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Khong discusses her debut novel\, Goodbye\, Vitamin. \n\nPraise for Rachel Khong \n“Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you ― just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love.”―Miranda July \n\n“The novel Goodbye\,Vitamin builds with humor\, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders\, at its devastating end\, how in the world the debut author Rachel Khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. The only possible answer is this\, that Khong is a magician\, and that we are lucky to fall under her spell at the beginning of her brilliant writing life.” ―Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n\n“Half stand-up comic\, half a seismographer of the human heart\, Khong writes with vulnerability and penetrating insight\, and with a gentle humor that moves you not only to care for her characters\, but also to care more fervently for the people in your life.”―Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine \n\nAbout Goodbye\, Vitamin \nFreshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned\, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job\, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father\, a prominent history professor\, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother\, meanwhile\, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth’s father’s condition intensifies\, the comedy in her situation takes hold\, gently transforming all her grief. \nTold in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight\, humor\, and unexpected tenderness\, Goodbye\, Vitamin pilots through the loss\, love\, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-khong-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T213000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170621T124752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T124752Z
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SUMMARY:Yanara Friedland + Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Yanara Friedland and Claire Marie Stancek discuss their new books from Noemi Press\, Uncountry: A Mythology and Mouths. \n\nPraise for Uncountry \n “Deep in the ethical vision of these prose pieces (each so dreamlike it seems the dream itself is dreaming) arrives the suggestion that the events of history—the heart-nulling wars\, the Holocaust\, the refugees broken by their own resistance; but also the personal fact\, the harm of being anyone—reach back into the ancient tales and refuse them their pre-ordained eternity.” Dan Beachy Quick \n\n“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door\,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling us “There is no original past to redeem: there is the void.” Uncountry is an invitation to that void\, and Friedland serves as dream guide through this blend of the personal\, political\, and stunningly poetic.” Lily Hoang \n  \nAbout Uncountry \nWinner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction Award. UNCOUNTRY: A MYTHOLOGY is a collection of narratives that aim to expand creative pathways into historical space\, particularly histories of migration and displacement. It is divided into four Histories: Ash\, Breath\, Hunger and Blood. The four Histories explore the gaps between “remembered” official history and the more unreliable spaces of private memory and unspoken unofficial history. The storylines re–contextualize and re–imagine content from mythic spaces\, such as German folktales and Eastern European Jewish lore\, historical narratives as well as anecdotes from oral family memory. UNCOUNTRY furthermore explores the notion of invisible landscapes; an accumulation of stories\, memories\, dreams and desires\, over–layering the visible place: a record of the human\, animal and geographical history that we move through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanara-friedland-claire-marie-stancek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T173000
DTSTAMP:20260515T231520
CREATED:20170619T113300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113315Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Raina León
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nRaina León \nRaina J. León is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others.  She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-raina-leon/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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