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SUMMARY:Green Apple Books Staff Reading
DESCRIPTION:When our booksellers aren’t selling you other people’s words\, many of them are writing their own. \nJoin us for a night of readings featuring Green Apple booksellers. \nAdult beverages and childish snacks will be served.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/green-apple-books-staff-reading/
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:Does the Secret Mind Whisper?  Celebrating Bob Kaufman\, Poet
DESCRIPTION:The Before Columbus Foundation in association with the Oakland Book Festival and the African-American Center of the San Francisco Public Library presents: \nDoes the Secret Mind Whisper?\nCelebrating Bob Kaufman\, Poet \nFeaturing:\nAnne Waldman\nWill Alexander\nDavid Boyce\nKevin Carnes \nThe life and legacy of Bob Kaufman\, one of the most innovative and exciting voices in American poetry of the late 20th century\, is celebrated by a gathering of formidable talents.  \nAnne Waldman\, a towering presence in international arts and letters\, one of the pre-eminent poets of our times\, will be joined by African-American surrealist poet\, playwright\, and essayist Will Alexander\, presenting original work as well as classics from Kaufman himself. \nCollaborating with both Waldman and Alexander will be multi-instrumentalists David Boyce on saxophones and Kevin Carnes on drums and various percussion. Boyce and Carnes have been among the most fertile and imaginative improvisers in the world of the legendary Broun Fellinis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/does-the-secret-mind-whisper-celebrating-bob-kaufman-poet/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: Southern Sampler Artists Colony Poets
DESCRIPTION:The Left Coast Writers® and the Southern Sampler Artists Colony Poets invite you to join them for an evening of poetry readings in celebration of National Poetry Month! Poems of all shapes and sizes will be shared and recited\, so usher in the spring with a wonderful evening amongst talented friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-southern-sampler-artists-colony-poets/
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:20160411T190000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays: A Reading Honoring Jean Pumphrey
DESCRIPTION:Audrey “Jean” Pumphrey was a gifted poet and teacher who lived to share the joys of creative writing with others. She was born in Dayton\, Ohio in 1931 and attended Dennison University before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1953. Jean received her M.A. in English from San Francisco State University and in 1967 began a long career teaching English and Creative Writing at the college of San Mateo. AS the founding director of the College’s Poetry Center\, she brought internationally renowned poets to campus-wide events and classes. She also conducted highly successful creative writing workshops at mental hospitals and community senior centers for persons who had never written before. After Professor Pumphrey retired from the College of San Mateo in 1993\, she became a founding and active member of the Marin Poetry Center\, and also hosted many gatherings of poets and writers in her home in Sausalito. The beauty of the Bay and coastal waters and mountains of Marin County continually inspired her writing. Ms. Pumphrey died in 2014 while at work on this collection. This book came out via a collaborative effort by Jean’s friends. \nThe following poets have been invited to read poems from Jean’s book as well as one of their own\nBarbara Brauer\, Ella Eytan\, Susan Griffin\, Jackie Kudler\, Louise Nayer\, Kate Peper\, James Nihan\, Dr. Catharine Clark Sayles\, Judith Levy-Sender\, Ramon Sender\, Doreen Stock\, Al Young\, Joe Zaccardi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-a-reading-honoring-jean-pumphrey/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:April's Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Readings
DESCRIPTION:April’s Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Readings presents Trace Peterson and TC Tolbert\, editors of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics;Julian Talamantez Brolaski\, author of Advice for Lovers; Gr Keer\, author of Heterotextual; and Zoe Tuck\, author of Terror Matrix.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aprils-perfectly-queer-lgbtq-readings/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160412T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160412T194500
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SUMMARY:RADAR: Gabriel García Román\, Ajuan M. Mance\, Mira Gonzalez\, + Faith Adiele
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions Presents: APRIL QUEER READING SERIES at the San Francisco Library \nTuesday\, April 12\, 2016\nSan Francisco Public Library\n100 Larkin Street\nLatino/Hispanic Room (basement level)\n5:45 PM\n==FREE==\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nReading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING…\nGabriel García Román\nGabriel Garcia Roman was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico in 1973 and raised in Chicago. He received his B.A. from The City College of New York where he studied studio art. Garcia is a photo-based artist and craftsman. As an artist\, he is constantly looking for ways to counteract the flatness that’s inherent to the medium of photography: weaving\, folding\, cutting\, interlacing prints or collaging are all different attempts at realizing that goal. Photography allows him to explore aspects of his identity and decode the world he lives in. Queer. Mexican. American. Immigrant. Secular. Catholic. Urban Apartment dweller. Country nomad. Queer Icons\, his most recent body of work\, looks at the\nQTPoC community\, a disenfranchised community and turns them into heavenly beings. The work has been written up by media outlets like\, Fusion\, Huffington Post\, NPR and The Advocate\, to name a few. He currently lives and works in New York City. \nAjuan M. Mance\nA lifelong artist\, Ajuan Mance works in acrylic on paper and canvas\, ink on paper and\, for the 1001 Black Men project\, ink on paper and digital media. She began writing and illustrating the autobiographical comic series Gender Studies in 2014. Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Bay Area\, as well as at the University of Oregon\, the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago\, IL\, and the Reinhardt-Fisher Gallery in Trenton\, NJ. Her work has appeared in a number of publications\, including\, most recently\, Cog\, Transition\, and Mission at Tenth. A professor of English at Mills College in Oakland\, Ajuan art work is partly inspired by her teaching and research in U.S. Black literature and history. A 19th-century African American literature specialist\, she holds degrees from Brown University and the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Look for a full-color version of Ajuan’s “Requiem for a Hot Comb” in the upcoming Alphabet anthology\, from Prism Comics\, out this spring. \nMira Gonzalez\nMira Gonzalez is a writer from Los Angeles\, CA. She is the author of two books. Her first book was nominated for The Believer Poetry Award and The Goodreads Choice Award. She lost the latter to the guy who wrote Lord of The Rings\, who is dead. Her work has appeared widely in print and online\, including in Nylon\, VICE\, The Guardian\, Thought Catalog\, Hobart\, Muumuu House and others. \nFaith Adiele\nFaith Adiele is author of the memoirs\, THE NIGERIAN-NORDIC GIRL’S GUIDE TO LADY PROBLEMS and MEETING FAITH\, which won the PEN Open Book Award. She is also writer/narrator/subject of MY JOURNEY HOME\, a PBS documentary about her mixed family\, and editor of COMING OF AGE AROUND THE WORLD: A MULTICULTURAL ANTHOLOGY. She lives in Oakland\, where she runs an African Book Club at Octopus Literary Salon\, and teaches at VONA/Voices: Summer Workshops for Writers of Color\, California College of the Arts\, and The San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-gabriel-garcia-roman-ajuan-m-mance-mira-gonzalez-faith-adiele/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:wordWIND Chorus
DESCRIPTION:q. r. hand\, jr. (voice and poetry)\, moved to the SF Bay Area from NYC about forty years ago. Originally published in the 1968 classic\, Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro American Writing\, edited by Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) and Larry Neal\, which has recently been reproduced by Black Classics Press\, he is the author of three poetry books\, i speak to the poet in man (jukebox press)\,how sweet it is (Zeitgeist Press) and whose really blues: new & selected poems (Taurean Horn Press). \nLewis Jordan (saxophone and poetry) is producer of Music at Large (an interdisciplinary music and arts project). He focuses on creative structures for improvisation\, and his interest continues to be meeting and working with performers who delve into their deeper resources for modes of expression that honor their traditions while speaking to the urgency of the present. \nBrian Auerbach (voice and poetry) has published as a music journalist\, poet and photographer. He works as a communications and technology manager at a San Francisco-based university\, while pursuing writing and the visual arts. \nReginald Lockett passed away in 2008. wordWind chorus continues to perform his work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wordwind-chorus/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Crane w/ Eden Lepucki
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Crane in conversation with Eden Lepucki\, introduced by Matthew Zapruder \ncelebrating the release of Elizabeth Crane’s new novel \nThe History of Great Things \nfrom Harper-Perennial \nA witty and irresistible story of a mother and daughter regarding each other through the looking glass of time\, grief\, and forgiveness. \nIn two beautifully counterpoised narratives\, two women—mother and daughter—try to make sense of their own lives by revisiting what they know about each other.The History of Great Things tells the entwined stories of Lois\, a daughter of the Depression Midwest who came to New York to transform herself into an opera star\, and her daughter\, Elizabeth\, an aspiring writer who came of age in the 1970s and ’80s in the forbidding shadow of her often-absent\, always larger-than-life mother. In a tour de force of storytelling and human empathy\, Elizabeth chronicles the events of her mother’s life\, and in turn Lois recounts her daughter’s story—pulling back the curtain on lifelong secrets\, challenging and interrupting each other\, defending their own behavior\, brandishing or swallowing their pride\, and\, ultimately\, coming to understand each other in a way that feels both extraordinary and universal. \nThe History of Great Things is a novel about a mother and daughter who are intimately connected and not connected enough; it will make readers laugh and cry and wonder how we become the adults we always knew we should—even if we’re not always adults our parents understand. \nElizabeth Crane is the author of the novel We Only Know So Much\, and three collections of short stories: When the Messenger is Hot\, All this Heavenly Glory\, andYou Must Be This Happy to Enter. Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. She is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award\, and her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. A feature film adaptation of We Only Know So Much will be released in 2016. \nEdan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me originally published by Flatmancrooked\, and recently re-released by Nouvella Press.  The Los Angeles Times named her a Face to Watch for 2014. \nMatthew Zapruder is a poet\, editor\, translator\, and professor in the MFA program at the University of California\, Riverside-Palm Desert and at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst. His poetry has been published by Copper Canyon Press and his work has also appeared in The Boston Review\, The Believer\, Fence\, Bomb\, McSweeney’s\, Jubilat\, Conduit\, Harvard Review and many others. Together with Joshua Beckman he is co-editor of Wave Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-crane-w-eden-lepucki/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival Day 1
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s first day\, April 12\, will include readings from Abeer Hoque\, Lucas Mann\, and Sara Michas-Martin. \nAbeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She is the author of three books: Olive Witch\, a memoir; The Lovers and the Leavers\, a collection of linked stories\, photographs\, and poems; and The Long Way Home\, a coffee table book of travel photographs and poems. Her photographs have been featured in two solo exhibitions. Hoque has a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is an alumna of the University of San Francisco’s MFA Program in writing. \nLucas Mann is the author of Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere\, a 2013 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and Lord Fear: A Memoir\, named one of the best books of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews. His essays and stories have appeared in Gawker\, BuzzFeed\, TriQuarterly\,New South\, Wigleaf\, The Kenyon Review\, and elsewhere. He has an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently an assistant professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. \nSara Michas-Martin is the author of Gray Matter\, which received the 2014 Poets Out Loud Prize. Other awards include a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley Writers Conferences. Her poems and essays have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, The Believer\, Best New Poets\, Denver Quarterly\, Harvard Review\, Threepenny Review\, and elsewhere. She has taught at the University of Michigan\, Goddard College\, Stanford\, and the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-1/
LOCATION:FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jewelle Gomez: The Gilda Stories
DESCRIPTION:Release Party and Celebration for The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition.  \nCo-sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jewelle-gomez-the-gilda-stories/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin: The Skin of Meaning
DESCRIPTION:In The Skin of Meaning\, Aaron Shurin has collected thirty years’ worth of his provocative essays. Fueled by gender and queer studies and combined with radical traditions in poetry\, Shurin’s essays combine a highly personal and lyrical vision with a trenchant social analysis of poetry’s possibilities. \n“Reading these essays I’m struck by how fully Aaron Shurin combines a personal history with a prophetic\, conceptual\, strongly non-personal vision….His writing about AIDS\, brilliantly gathered here—rich\, fantastic\, and steely-eyed—encompasses the functions of a great novel: total immersion into a mysterious eco-political world.” –Kevin Killian \nAaron Shurin is Professor Emeritus and former Director of the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of more than a dozen books\, including Citizen\,King of Shadows\, and Involuntary Lyrics. His honors and awards include the Gertrude Stein Award\, the Bay Area Art Award\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-the-skin-of-meaning/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160413T193000
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SUMMARY:Molly Prentiss + Tom Barbash
DESCRIPTION:Molly Prentiss reads from and discusses her debut novel\, Tuesday Nights in 1980\, with Tom Barbash. \nPraise for Tuesday Nights in 1980: \n“It isn’t easy to write a novel about art\, and even harder to write a novel about art this good\, with this much energy and verve and sense of adventure — and Molly Prentiss has done it. ‘Tuesday Nights in 1980’ is much more than an accomplished first novel; it is a beautifully written story of creation and transformation\, set against a backdrop of urban decay and political violence. I loved this book.” – Daniel Alarcón\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles & Lost City Radio \n\n“For those of us who like our novels soulful and brainy\, ambitious and deeply felt\, Molly Prentiss has given us a first work of fiction to marvel at and then savor. This is a serious young writer in full command of her craft.” – Tom Barbash\, author of Stay Up With Me \n\n“Whether her canvas is as broad as the New York City art world in the good old days of glitz and excess\, or as small as the quiet\, deeply moving connection between brother and sister\, Molly Prentiss seems able to render any expression of humanity expertly onto the page. TUESDAY NIGHTS IN 1980 has worlds in it\, all wildly appealing\, and Molly Prentiss has chops to spare. I can’t imagine the soul who won’t love this book.” – Marie-Helene Bertino\, author of 2 A.M. at the Cat’s Pajamas\n \nAbout Tuesday Nights in 1980: \nAn intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic\, an artist\, and their shared muse as they find their way and ultimately collide amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.\nWelcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty\, quickly gentrifying playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett\, a synesthetic art critic for the “New York Times “whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound\, magical ways\, and Raul Engales\, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown arts scene\, dual tragedies strike\, and each is faced with a loss that acutely affects his relationship to life and to art.\nIt is not until they are inadvertently brought together by Lucy Olliason a small town beauty and Raul’s muse and a young orphan boy sent mysteriously from Buenos Aires that James and Raul are able to rediscover some semblance of what they ve lost.\nAs inventive as Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad “and as sweeping as Meg Wolitzer’s “The Interestings\, Tuesday Nights in 1980 “boldly renders a complex moment when the meaning and nature of art is being all but upended\, and New York City as a whole is reinventing itself. In risk-taking prose that is as powerful as it is playful\, Molly Prentiss deftly explores the need for beauty\, community\, creation\, and love in an ever-changing urban landscape.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/molly-prentiss-tom-barbash/
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:Emerging Writers Festival Day 2
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the English department and MFA program\, the Emerging Writers Festival features two days of readings by five up-and-coming writers of fiction\, poetry\, and nonfiction. On the second day of the festival\, the authors hold a panel discussion on their experiences navigating life as a writer and the complexities of the publishing industry. \nThe Festival’s second day\, April 13\, will include readings from Naomi J. Williams and Jill Talbot\, followed by the panel discussion. \nNaomi J. Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. Her debut novel\, Landfalls\, was long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and Best American Honorable Mention for her short fiction. Her work has appeared in Zoetrope\, A Public Space\, One Story\, The Southern Review and elsewhere. Williams has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and lives with her family in northern California. \nJill Talbot is the author of a memoir\, The Way We Weren’t\, and Loaded: Women and Addiction. She is the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity\,DIAGRAM\, Ecotone\, Fourth Genre\, The Normal School\, The Paris Review Daily\,Passages North\, and The Pinch. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-day-2/
LOCATION:Fromm Hall – FR 120 – Xavier Auditorium\, USF\, 2130 Fulton St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: ACHILLES HEEL
DESCRIPTION:Samson and his hair. Superman and kryptonite. Achilles and his … well … heel. We all have our strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes it’s that chink in the armor that makes all the difference. Join us at the next Fireside as six storytellers share their tales of that one … fateful … thing … that spelled their downfall. \nSTORYTELLERS: \nDoug Cordell\nJoe Klocek\nCaveat Magister\nMariko Tamaki\nEva D Struction\nAnne Ricketts \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-achilles-heel/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jessica Knoll: Luckiest Girl Alive
DESCRIPTION:As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School\, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking\, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now\, with a glamorous job\, expensive wardrobe\, and handsome blue blood fiance\, she’s “this close” to living the perfect life she’s worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There’s something else buried in her past that still haunts her\, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the surface and destroy everything. \nWith a singular voice and twists you won t see coming\, Luckiest Girl Alive explores the unbearable pressure that so many women feel to have it all and introduces a heroine whose sharp edges and cutthroat ambition have been protecting a scandalous truth\, and a heart that’s bigger than it first appears. The question remains: will breaking her silence destroy all that she has worked for or\, will it at long last\, set Ani free? \nJessica Knoll has been a senior editor at Cosmopolitan and the articles editor at SELF. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from The Shipley School in Bryn Mawr\, Pennsylvania\, and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, New York. This is her first book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-knoll-luckiest-girl-alive/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Write from the Gut #11
DESCRIPTION:Come to our final reading for Spring term at SF Creative Writing Institute. Event will take place at Wework Golden Gate: 25 Taylor Street. San Francisco\, CA 94102 in the 7th floor lounge. Beer and snacks will be provided. Amazing writers serving up their best works-in-progress for you to enjoy. Featured readers will be students and workshop participants of the Winter 2016 term from SF Creative Writing Institute. There will also be an open-mic for friends\, alumni and everyone else.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-from-the-gut-11/
LOCATION:Wework Golden Gate\, 25 Taylor St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker + Maria Medina Serafin
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books and enjoy a glass of wine while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library. \nFeatured poet(s): Bob Booker & Maria Medina Serafin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-maria-medina-serafin/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160414T210000
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CREATED:20160406T124716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T124716Z
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SUMMARY:Kemper Donovan: The Decent Proposal
DESCRIPTION:An addictively readable romantic comedy\, drama\, and mystery rolled into one\, about two very different strangers whose lives become intertwined when they receive an unusual proposition. This is a funny\, tender\, and enchanting story about love\, attraction\, and friendship: Jane Austen in Los Angeles. \nA struggling Hollywood producer\, Richard Baumbach is twenty-nine\, hung-over\, and broke. Ridiculously handsome with an innate charm and an air of invincibility\, he still believes good things will come his way. For now he contents himself with days at the Coffee Bean and nights with his best friend Mike (that s a woman\, by the way). \nAt thirty-three\, Elizabeth Santiago is on track to make partner at her law firm. Known as La Maquina The Machine to her colleagues\, she s grown used to avoiding anything that might derail her quiet\, orderly life. And yet recently she befriended a homeless man in her Venice neighborhood\, surprised to find how much she enjoys their early-morning chats. \nRichard and Elizabeth’s paths collide when they receive a proposal from a mysterious\, anonymous benefactor. They’ll split a million dollars if they agree to spend at least two hours together just talking every week for a year. Astonished and more than a little suspicious\, they each nevertheless say yes. Richard needs the money and likes the adventure of it. Elizabeth embraces the challenge of shaking up her life a little more. Both agree the idea is ridiculous\, but why not? \nWhat ensues is a delightful journey full of twists\, revelations\, hamburgers\, classic literature\, poppy music\, and above all love\, in its multitude of forms. The Decent Proposal is a heartfelt and often hilarious look at the ties that bind not just a guy and a girl but an entire\, diverse cast of characters situated within a modern-day Los Angeles brought to full and irrepressible life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kemper-donovan-the-decent-proposal/
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:20160415T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160415T200000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160406T125931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160406T125931Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Anne Waldman is a celebrated poet\, performer\, professor\, editor\, and cultural activist. She is the former director and founder of The Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery and cofounder with Allen Ginsberg of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder\, where she is a Distinguished Professor of poetics and artistic director of the Summer Writing Program. \nWaldman is the author of over 40 books of poetry including the hybrid narrative poemManatee/Humanity (2009) and the feminist 1\,000-page epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (2011)\, which won the 2012 PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. \nShe is known for her magnetizing public performances and frequently collaborates with musicians and dancers including Meredith Monk\, Thurston Moore\, and her son\, Ambrose Bye. \nWaldman will sign copies of her books following the lecture. \nThis event is cosponsored by the MFA in Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman/
LOCATION:Timken Lecture Hall\, CCA San Francisco Campus\, 1111 Eighth Street \, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T004620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T004620Z
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SUMMARY:Terrence Brewer + Youth Speaks
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Matinees- Terrence Brewer & Youth Speaks. \n\nThis is what SF/Arts curator Margo Crabtree had to say about Terrence Brewer & Youth Speaks : \n “April is National Poetry Month and SFJAZZ and Youth Speaks come together to present a family matinee of Jazz and Poetry. San Francisco’s own Terrence Brewer and his Quartet join Tammy Vaitai\, Youth Speaks Poet Mentor Fellow\, for an interactive program of music and verse. A family workshop with Doug Goodkin follows. “ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terrence-brewer-youth-speaks/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T004955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T004955Z
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Doubles
DESCRIPTION:A Freaky Saturday criss–cross: writers pair up to read\neach other’s work\, songwriters cover each other’s songs.\nMichael Crabtree/Nancy Hall\nAndrew Demcak/Rick May\nFred Dodsworth/John Panzer\nJacqueline Doyle/Stephen D. Gutierrez\nPeg Alford Pursell/Olga Zilberbourg \nNo charge
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-doubles/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T010121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T010121Z
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SUMMARY:Macaroni Necklace #5.2: Woltag\, Hume\, Wilson + Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Come to San Francisco release and reading for Macaroni Necklace #5\, featuring new writing by Laura Woltag\, Angela Hume\, Mary Wilson\, and Ismail Muhammad! \nMacaroni Necklace is a Bay Area DIY literary zine dedicated to publishing (mostly) poets\, fiction writers\, and text-based artists who have yet to published a full-length collection. Reading and zines are free. \nMacaroni Necklace #5 was self-curated\, with writers picking and introducing other writers to bring into the Macaroni fold. \nLAURA WOLTAG lives in South Berkeley. Her most recent chapbook is Hush Hyletics (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). Her poems have been installed along the Deer Creek Trail in Nevada City by Unmanned Minerals\, and appear in print in Where Eagles Dare\, Try\, OMG!\, and the\nanthology It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny In Oakland. \nANGELA HUME lives in Oakland. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book of poetry is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). You can learn more about Angela at angelamhume.tumblr.com. \nMARY WILSON lives holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University\, and she is currently pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in Gobbet\, Sun’s Skeleton\, Everyday Genius\, Anomalous\, and Coconut. \nISMAIL MUHAMMAD is a writer and Ph.D. candidate living in Oakland. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Avidly\, and Public Books. Sometimes he tweets @trapmotives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/macaroni-necklace-5-2-woltag-hume-wilson-muhammad/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160416T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160416T213000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T005633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T005633Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks: Grand Slam Finals
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the twentieth edition of the Youth Speaks Teen Poetry Slam! Two decades ago\, we hosted the country’s first-ever teen poetry slam. Forty-three young poets participated\, with hundreds turned away at the door. Now\, the annual event features close to 200 youth writers\, emcees\, and performers from throughout the Bay Area and Northern California\, and attracts nearly 10\,000 audience members. Our first slam became the seed that sowed a global youth poetry movement. \nThe Olympic-style poetry competition kicked off on February 18\, 2016 the first preliminary bout at EastSide Arts Alliance in Oakland. Young writers and poets ages 13-19 have registered for preliminary bouts in San Francisco\, Oakland and Berkeley. All preliminary and semi-final bouts are free and open to the public. Grand Slam Finals will take place at the historic Davies Symphony Hall on Saturday\, April 16 at 7:30pm. This culminating event will serve as the catalyst to our milestone 20th Anniversary Celebration.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-grand-slam-finals/
LOCATION:Davies Symphony Hall\, 201 Van Ness Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160417T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160417T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T011454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T011454Z
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SUMMARY:Esme Wang + Amy Berkowitz
DESCRIPTION:Esme Weijun Wang will discuss her debut novel\, The Border of Paradise. \nAbout The Border of Paradise: \nIn booming postwar Brooklyn\, the Nowak Piano Company is an American success story. There is just one problem: the Nowak’s only son\, David. A handsome kid and shy like his mother\, David struggles with neuroses. If not for his only friend\, Marianne\, David’s life would be intolerable. When David inherits the piano company at just 18 and Marianne breaks things off\, David sells the company and travels around the world. In Taiwan\, his life changes when he meets the daughter of a local madame the sharp-tongued\, intelligent Daisy. Returning to the United States\, the couple (and newborn son) buy an isolated country house in Northern California’s Polk Valley. As David’s health deteriorates\, he has a brief affair with Marianne\, producing a daughter.\nIt’s Daisy’s solution for the future of her two children\, inspired by the old Chinese tradition of raising girls as sisterly wives for adoptive brothers\, that exposes Daisy’s traumatic life\, and the terrible inheritance her children must receive. Framed by two suicide attempts\, “The Border of Paradise” is told from multiple perspectives\, culminating in heartrending fashion as the young heirs to the Nowak fortune confront their past and their isolation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-wang-amy-berkowitz/
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:20160417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T012943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T012943Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Quantum Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is thrilled to be part of the Jewish Community Center’s UNINHIBITED: ABOUT SEX series. Smack in the middle of a progressive city known for its pride and sex-positivity\, the JCCSF offers a safe space to explore topics that matter – in this case sex\, in all of its fascinating and multifaceted glory. \nOur theme for the evening explores the magic of Quantum Entanglement. Listen to special guest\, the 2016 Oregon Book Award finalist\, Nick Jaina\, read from his memoir “Get It While You Can” and play music alongside Bay Area Writers Lisa Alden\, Peter Bullen\, Loria Mendoza\, Dirk Petersen\, Xan Roberti\, and Katie Wheeler-Dubin as they play off Jaina’s love letter with musical acommpanment by Cellista\, Sarah Dineen\, and David Williams. Hosted by Jenn Stokes and featuring comedian Luna Malbroux. \n“Do you know about quantum entanglement? It’s when you have two particles that have interacted in some special way (I can’t figure out exactly what special way\, because all the writing on this subject is by physicists and they speak about these things very unsentimentally.) But these particles interact somehow and effect each other so much that if you separate them\, their movements continue to correlate to each other. You could be in Los Angeles with one of these particles and I could be in New York\, and if your particle spins a certain way\, my particle will spin that way too. And this connection happens instantaneously\, which is to say that it’s faster than the speed of light. It happens with bigger collections of particles too\, like diamonds.”\n–Nick Jaina\, “Get It While You Can”\nwww.nickjaina.com \nRed Light Lit explores love\, romance\, desire\, and sensuality in the form of poetry\, prose\, art and song. \nThe show will be in the beautiful Kanbar Hall and tickets are $20.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-quantum-entanglement/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160418T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160418T214500
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CREATED:20160407T013230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T013230Z
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Jandy Nelson
DESCRIPTION:Young adult fiction writer Jandy Nelson reads from and discusses her work. Free. \nJandy Nelson\, like her characters in I’ll Give You the Sun (Penguin)\, comes from a superstitious lot. She was tutored from a young age in the art of the four-leaf clover hunt; she knocks wood\, throws salt and carries charms in her pockets. Her debut novel\, The Sky is Everywhere (Penguin)\, was on multiple best books of the year lists\, was a Yalsa Best Fiction for Young Adults pick\, earned numerous starred reviews\, has been translated widely and continues to enjoy great international success. Nelson\, a literary agent for many years\, received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and Master of Fine Arts degrees in poetry and children’s writing from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-jandy-nelson/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160419T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160419T203000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T014355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T014355Z
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SUMMARY:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, Vincent Kobelt\, + The All Star Revue
DESCRIPTION:Charles Curtis Blackwell\, jazz poet\, painter\, and playwright\, was born in San Francisco in 1950. His lifelong love for jazz and blues has helped him overcome the obstacle of near-blindness. He is published both nationally and internationally in a variety of magazines and publications including The New York Times\, appeared on PBS television\, and has been the recipient of many local awards. Blackwell is the author of The Fiery Response to Love’s Callings\, Is\, the Color of Mississippi Mud\, If a Pigeon Can’t Fly\, Blind Alley Cats Dream Jazz and his new album release\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. His captivating performance reinvents the intriguing sound of jazz into transcendent poetry. \nVincent Kobelt has written poetry for the page\, the stage\, and the mic. His early work explored the murals of the Mission where he grew up\, the music of jazz\, the milk weed that cracks concrete\, the beauty of the earth\, and a cry for justice. For some time now he has been experimenting with poetry that lends itself to musical accompaniment. He has taught creative writing and California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA or Inner Spark) and has written numerous chapbooks: Peppers from my Tongue\, Volumes 1 and 2\, Textures of Pregnancy\, The Way Light Ripples on Water\, and Pinch of Salt. Recently he has collaborated with poet Charles Curtis Blackwell and musician Brian Kendricks on their poetry album\, Catch the First Thing Smokin’. \nThe All-Star Revue includes:\nRussell Brown as a musician plays acoustic and electric guitar\, electric bass\, and piano. Born in St. Louis educated in California\, music became a part of his life when he began playing drums in elementary school (4th grade\, age 8). In middle school (7th grade\, age 11) he started playing trombone\, which he played throughout high school. Inspired by the sound of the electric guitar\, Russell started teaching himself how to play at 13 years old. Today\, the passion and inspiration that fueled that young man still burns bright. \nSandra Poindexter’s musical experience expands from classical to jazz\, Cuban\, mariachi\, and flamenco. She is a former member of alto sax player John Handy’s group\, John Handy with Class. Some highlights over the last 15 years include The Village Vanguard in New York; The 1989 Monterey Jazz Festival; Oakland Paramount (Black Filmmaker Awards honoring Dizzy Gillespie); San Francisco\, San Mateo\, San Jose\, Russian River Jazz Festivals; and touring extensively throughout Japan. \nPoindexter is currently a member of Orquesta La Moderna Tradicion. This group has performed for over 10 years\, playing engagements such as the Summer Festival at Lincoln Center in New York; John Ford Theater in Los Angeles; San Jose and San Francisco Jazz Festivals; Stern Grove; the Smithsonian Institute in D.C.; Yoshi’s San Franciso/Oakland and La Peña in Berkeley. Sandra is currently also a member of Avotcja and Modupue as well as Idris Ackamoor and the Pyramids\, with whom she toured Germany\, England\, Czechoslovakia\, Denmark\, Sweden and Switzerland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charles-curtis-blackwell-vincent-kobelt-the-all-star-revue/
LOCATION:Top of the Mark at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160419T210000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T015036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T015036Z
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SUMMARY:Julien Poirier: Out of Print
DESCRIPTION:Release party for the new poetry collection \nOut of Print by Julien Poirier. With Elaine Kahn\, author of Women in Public. \nNo. 14 in the Spotlight Poetry Series published by City Lights Books \nThe third full-length collection by Julien Poirier\, Out of Print is a truly bicoastal volume\, reflecting the poet’s years in New York as well as his return to his Bay Area roots. Consider it a meetinghouse between late New York School and contemporary California surrealism\, a series of quips intercepted from America’s underground poetry telegraph\, or an absurdist mirror held up to consumerist culture. \n“Welcome Julien Poirier! What a distinct inspired voice. His work is abundant in surprise. His musical\, often bonkers play of language is\, for me\, a source of delight & revelation.”––David Meltzer \nJulien Poirier is the author of several poetry collections\, including El Golpe Chileño (Ugly Duckling\, 2010)\, Stained Glass Windows of California (Ugly Duckling\, 2012)\, and Way Too West (Bootstrap\, 2015) and Out of Print (City Lights). In 2005\, he published an experimental newspaper novel\, Living! Go and Dream (Ugly Duckling). He is also the editor of an anthology of writing by Jack Micheline\, One of a Kind (Ugly Duckling\, 2008)\, and a book of travel journals by Bill Berkson\, Invisible Oligarchs (Ugly Duckling\, 2015). A founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse Collective\, Poirier edited the newspaper New York Nights from 2001 to 2006. He has taught poetry in New York City public schools and at San Quentin State Prison. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and two daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julien-poirier-out-of-print/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160419T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160419T220000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160407T014852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160407T014852Z
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SUMMARY:Write Club SF Chapter 50: Only Happy When It Rains
DESCRIPTION:WRITE CLUB SF returns April 19th with guest host and curator\, Danielle Truppi. \nThe writers: Ismail Muhammad\, Danielle Truppi\, Roz Sternberg\, Loria Mendoza\, Louis Evans\, and Elwin Cotman. \nThe theme: April Showers \nThe bouts: POUR vs. DRAW\, SOAK vs. STEAM\, and ROOT vs. RUN \nWRITE CLUB is 3 rounds of 2 writers going head to head over a pair of opposing topics with 7 minutes each—7 MINUTES ONLY—to sway the crowd. \nYou pick the winner. Winner’s charity gets money.\n\n$5-15 Pay what you can\n21+ cash bar\, ATM available\nDoors at 7pm — Show at 8pm\nBaby-Makin’ Slow Jamz by 9:30 \n*that Garbage song from 1995 that everybody’s talking about still
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-club-sf-chapter-50-only-happy-when-it-rains/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160421T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260505T210837
CREATED:20160408T005351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160408T005351Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon: Chris Clarke on Modiano
DESCRIPTION:Two Voices Salon with Chris Clarke on Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. \nWe’ll talk with Chris Clarke about his translation of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Cafe of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). A short\, pensive novel of bohemian Paris just after the war\, Kirkus Reviews calls it “Evocative and perfectly written—trademark Modiano\, in other words.” \nClarke is a PhD student in French at City University of New York (CUNY)\, and together with Barbara Wright\, translator of Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition\, a collection of fiction by Raymond Queneau. \nWe’ll kick off the evening as usual with a short discussion of what’s new in translation and what we’re reading now. Come prepared to join the conversation!\nFREE food and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-chris-clarke-on-modiano/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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