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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Litquake: A Spring Poets Supper
DESCRIPTION:April is not the cruelest month when you can enjoy a spring-inspired feast of food and poetry at Gardenias restaurant in San Francisco! Litquake’s celebration of National Poetry Month features fabulous farm-to-table cuisine\, courtesy of the former owners of Woodward’s Garden\, as well as readings by two sensational new poets\, Kimberly Grey and Solmaz Sharif. \nGardenias is the new restaurant owned by Margie Conard and her wife Dana Tommasino\, who has been called “a poet on the page as well as on the plate.” Their former restaurant\, Woodward’s Garden\, earned a Michelin Guide notation and was a top SF pick by Martha Stewart\, who said that Tommasino and Conard “spearheaded the farm-to-table movement.” \nThe evening will include a sumptuous three-course meal with complimentary wine\, as well as performances by award-winning young poets\, curated by Guggenheim Fellow D.A. Powell. \nPoets’ price: $75 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine) \nPatrons’ price: $100 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine plus signed copies of books by each reader) \nBenefactors’ price: $125 per person\n(includes author readings\, three-course prix fixe\, wine\, signed books and invitation to private reception preceding the dinner) \nBios: \nKimberly Grey’s first book\, The Opposite of Light\, was awarded the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and will be published by Persea Books in 2016. Her work has appeared in many places including Tin House\, The Kenyon Review\, A Public Space\, PN Review\, Boston Review\, jupilat\, Black Warrior Review\, Southern Review\, TriQuarterly and other journals. A former Stegner fellow\, she teaches creative writing at Stanford University. \nD. A. Powell is the author of Tea\, Lunch\, Cocktails\, Chronic and Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2013. Repast\, Powell’s latest\, collects his three early books in a handsome volume introduced by novelist David Leavitt. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts\, Powell lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nSolmaz Sharif’s poetry has appeared in The New Republic\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, jubilat\, Gulf Coast\, Boston Review\, Witness\, and other media. She is recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award as well as a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. She is currently a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection\, LOOK\, will be published by Graywolf Press in 2016.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-a-spring-poets-supper/
LOCATION:Gardenias\, 1963 Sutter St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Intimacy by Sex Workers
DESCRIPTION:HELLA CLOSE IS BACK by popular demand!!! \nJoin RADAR Productions on our signature series\, Hella Close\, part of our year-long Queering the Castro program! \nCurated and Hosted by Cyd Nova\nFeaturing \nAria Sa’id\nAria Sa’id is the writer of Trans Sex In The City\, a concept blog of her essays and story telling of the experiences of cosmopolitan TS girls who weren’t invited to fish slumber parties. She resides in Oakland\, and in her spare time she browses style blogs; enjoys people watching\, habesha history\, listening to D’Angelo and Aaliyah\, run on sentences and intentionally bad punctuation\, drinking americanos and chain smoking\, memorizing James Baldwin and Picasso quotes on the steps in Union Square. \nLyric Seal aka Neve Be\nLyric Seal aka Neve Be is a mouthy\, queer\, multigender femme\, disabled black punk alter-disciplinary erotic artist and sex worker writing\, talking\, singing\, dancing\, touching (hearts\, themselves\, consenting creatures)\, and creating subversive\, disability justice centered queer eruptions and home in Oakland and Seattle. They are a Staff Writer at HARLOT Magazine (harlot.media)\, a columnist at maximumrocknroll\, a member of disability justice movement builder and performance project Sins Invalid (www.sinsinvalid.org)\, co-founder/co-facilitator of The Blueberry Jam\, a group and contact improvisational dance lab for queers and all genders of people dancing against misogyny\, and the voice behind the advice column SLUMBER PARTY which can be found on crashpadseries.com. You can be nice to them on Twitter and Instagram @littlebeasthood and you can find more of their work at littlebeasthood.tumblr.com. They are available for worship\, workshops\, performances\, porn\, and friend dates to punk shows. \nNatalia García\nNatalia García was born and raised in San Francisco Califaztlán. She reads from Sad Criolla Girl\, her in progress writings on her grandparents birthplace of Al Andalusia where she lives for several years of her life. Ella dedica suss escrituras a las que como ella no son ni de aquí\, ni de allá. \nTitiana Kumeh\nT. Kumeh is a Black queer art model\, a performance artist\, a writer\, and a ho-slash-professional lover. She fronts a punk rock band called Ugly\, a woman of color project that debuts May 2016. She has a BFA from San Francisco State University and a Master’s in Journalism from UC Berkeley. She hated grad school\, and her first reading was about that. In the past she’s written about communities of color\, education\, health\, and sex worker rights for publications such as the Los Angeles Times\, the New York Times\, and Mother Jones. Now she’s more interested in writing for and about herself. She’s performed at SomArts Cultural Center\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Lab\, Interface Gallery\, and with the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. She regularly poses for artists in studios and schools around the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hella-close-stories-of-intimacy-by-sex-workers/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Melander Magoon + Miguel Robles
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): Karen Melander Magoon & Miguel Robles
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-melander-magoon-miguel-robles/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime SUPERPOWERS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime SUPERPOWERS\, in the downstairs room at the Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday April 21st 2016\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Seanan McGuire (Indexing: Reflections)\, Charlie Anders (All the Birds in the Sky)\, Daryl Gregory (Harrison Squared)\, Elwin Cotman (Hard Time Blues)\, and Jessica May Lin. With guest MC Dhaya Lakshminarayanan. (Note: this event was originally to take place at the Make-out Room but had to relocate — apologies for any confusion.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-superpowers/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anna Pulley: The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)
DESCRIPTION:Lesbian sex has been confounding people since the dawn of time. What is it that two women do together exactly? The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)\, a humorous guide to lesbian sex\, dating rituals\, and relationships\, aims to dispel all myths. Haiku paired with hilarious watercolor illustrations of cats in various stages of sexual awkwardness will enlighten\, demystify\, remystify\, and most importantly entertain as you learn all the aspects involved in girl-on-girl action.\n\nThis laugh-out-loud book is the perfect gift to amuse and educate your friends\, loved ones\, and lovers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nANNA PULLEY is a writer in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in New York magazine and Mother Jones\, on BuzzFeed\, AlterNet\, The Toast\, and Salon\, and in zines tastefully peppered with Ani DiFranco lyrics. She’s been a repeat guest on Dan Savage’s podcast\, Savage Love\, and is a sex and relationship columnist for the Chicago Tribune and AfterEllen.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-pulley-the-lesbian-sex-haiku-book-with-cats/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160423T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160423T220000
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SUMMARY:Write of Way Literary Festival
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Art Institute will host the 1st annual Write of Way Literary Festival\, a series of readings and a bazaar featuring 25 of the best Bay Area independent literary organizations! Come celebrate independent literature! \nThe event is free and open to the public. \nList of Participating Literary Organizations \n826 Valencia\nAmbush Review\nBay Area Generations\nBazaar Writers Salon\nBeastCrawl\n¿Donde Esta Mi Gente?\nEleven Eleven\nThe Escapery: Your Writing Unschool\nFoglifter Press\nFourteen Hills\nThe God Particle\nLiminal\nLit Camp\nLyrics & Dirges\nManic D Press\nMilvia Street\nMixed Race Writers\nNomadic Press\nPandemonium Press\nPaper Press\nPassages on the Lake\nQueer Rebels\nRed Light Lit\nSF Creative Writing Institute\nSF Writers Grotto\nSanta Clara Review\nStudio 18: Spoken Word\nTransit Books\nUntitled Magazine\nVelRo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/write-of-way-literary-festival/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Explosive Poetry w/ Shiloh Jines\, Maxe Crandall & Jason Zuzga
DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY KEVIN KILLIAN \n/Shiloh Jines/ received her BA from the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) in creative writing with an emphasis in poetry. In 2014\, she did an internship at The Pioneer House of Letterpress and Design\, formerly known as Yee-haw Industries\, which inspired a love of antique wood type and the southern handmade aesthetic. Jines is currently an MFA canidate in creative writing and book art at Mills College in Oakland\, California. Shiloh makes poem-books\, printed matter\, experimental videos & installations that explore temporal\, tactile & sensual dissonance which manifest in queer feminine memory. https://www.tumblr.com/search/shiloh%20jines \n/Maxe Crandall/ is a Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University and a tutor in the Hume Center for Speaking and Writing. They hold a PhD in English and Gender Studies from the University of Michigan. Maxe is at work on a critical biography titled Gertrude Stein and Men and has co-authored several academic articles on transgender performance with fellow PWR lecturer Dr. Selby Wynn Schwartz. A playwright and poet\, Maxe is the author of the chapbooks Together Men Make Paradigms and Emoji for Cher Heart. The play Together Men Make Paradigms premiered at Dixon Place (NYC) with an all poet and activist cast and was a finalist for the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award. Prior to Stanford\, Maxe taught literature\, creative writing\, and academic writing at Columbia University\, Temple University\, and the Georgia Institute of Technology. In Columbia’s Undergraduate Writing Program\, Maxe began and co-directed the pilot program “Readings in Gender and Sexuality\,” where they developed courses grounded in activist writing\, intersectional feminism\, and social justice. http://maxecrandall.com/ \nAfter a series of jobs in New York publishing and a residential poetry fellowship year at the Fine Arts Work Center\, /Jason Zuzga/ completed an M.F.A. in poetry and nonfiction at the University of Arizona\, followed by a year as the poet-in-residence in the James Merrill House. He is currently a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania\, pursuing a Ph.D. in the English Department\, where he has taught classes such as “BAD KIDS” “SPOKEN ANIMAL” “HAUNTED HOUSES” and “20th C POETRY.” His debut book of poetry\, HEAT WAKE was published by Saturnalia Books in March 2016. His poetry and nonfiction has been published in numerous journals\, such as Tin House\, the Yale Review\, and the Paris Review. He is the Other/Nonfiction co-editor of FENCE. Words that appear in his new book include “queer\,” “Ava Gardner” and “tardigrade.” http://jasonzuzga.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/explosive-poetry-w-shiloh-jines-maxe-crandall-jason-zuzga/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance
DESCRIPTION:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) Collective Performance featuring: Arlene Biala\, Javier O. Huerta\, Urayoán Noel\, Barbara Jane Reyes\, Aimee Suzara\, Lehua M. Taitano\, Angela Narciso Torres \n“How one creates a poem is as interesting as the spaces in one’s life.” —Al Robles (1930–2009) \nOur three-day Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) residency culminates in a Collective Performance featuring all seven poet/performers utilizing the extent of the beautiful loft space on the 3rd Floor at McRoskey Mattress Co. in a simultaneous interpretation of their version of Kuwentuhan\, involving the audience in a participatory role. The evening’s performance will be documented for an experimental short film by SFSU’s DocFilm Institute. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) takes the Tagalog term\, a phoneticized form adapted through the colonial Spanish\, as its title\, proposition\, and starting point. Kuwentuhan (“necessary step towards big talk\,” by one definition) is orally based\, informal in nature\, usually spontaneous\, and is always an opportunity for people to converge and share. It occurs in all kinds of social spaces as talkstory circle. We envision this collaboration between artist(s)\, audiences\, and the Poetry Center\, as a way of enlarging this circle beyond ethnic boundaries\, in contested urban spaces. \nMany thanks to the Manilatown Heritage Foundation at I-Hotel\, Alley Cat Books\, the Bayanihan Community Center\, McRoskey Mattress Co.\, The Green Arcade\, DocFilm Institute\, poster artist Trinidad Escobar\, and the Creative Work Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kuwentuhan-talkstory-collective-performance/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yuri Herrera + Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera\, author of staff favorite Signs Preceding the End of the World\, discusses his new novel\, The Transmigration of Bodies\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Yuri Herrera: \n‘Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell\, and heaven\, and back again. He must have once been a girl\, an animal\, a rock\, a boy\, and a woman. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding.’ — Valeria Luiselli\, author of Faces in the Crowd \n‘In its hundred-odd pages\, Signs Preceding the End of the World manages to be many things at once: an allegory\, a dark myth\, an epic\, a compelling meditation on language.’ — Adam Levy\, Music and Literature \n‘Yuri Herrera is Mexico’s greatest novelist.’ — Francisco Goldman\, author of Say Her Name \n\nAbout The Transmigration of Bodies: \nA plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero\, The Redeemer\, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors\, but The Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.\nYuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet\, Roberto Bolano and Raymond Chandler\, “The Transmigration of Bodies” is a noirish tragedy and a tribute to those bodies loved\, sanctified\, lusted after\, and defiled that violent crime has touched. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yuri-herrera-aaron-bady/
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:Christos Ikonomou + Anne Germanacos
DESCRIPTION:Christos Ikonomou in conversation with Anne Germanacos about his English-language debut\, Something Will Happen\, You’ll See. \nPraise for Christos Ikonomou: \n“A gripping collection of short stories… In Ikonomou’s concrete streets\, the rain is always looming\, the politicians’ slogans are ignored\, and the police remain a violent\, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution\, his men and women act for themselves\, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society\, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here\, deep faith — though little or none in those who habitually ask for it.” — Mark Mazower\, The Nation \n“Heart-wrenching and moving…deeply illuminating\, not only about working-class Greeks in the face of the crisis\, but\, more importantly\, about the human condition.” — Publishing Perspectives \n“The Greek Faulkner… one of the most touching chronicles of the economic crisis to have come out of Greece.” — La Republica \nAbout Something Will Happen\, You’ll See: \nSomething Will Happen\, You’ll See is a heart-wrenching elegy on the impoverished working-class Greeks populating the neighborhoods around Piraeus\, the large port southwest of Athens. Ikonomou’s luminous and poignant short stories center around laid-off steelworkers\, warehousemen\, families\, pensioners\, and young couples faced with sudden loss and turmoil. Between docks\, in tenement buildings\, and on city streets Ikonomou’s men and women sustain their traumas on flickers of hope in the darkness and on their deep faith in humanity. An illuminating examination of the human condition\, Ikonomou’s award-winning book has become the literary emblem of the Greek crisis; stories so real\, humane\, and haunting that they will stay with the reader long after the final page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christos-ikonomou-anne-germanacos/
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:Dastanhayeh-jadid (New Stories): Iranian Writers Reading + Discussion
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday (4/24) Siamak Vossoughi (Better Than War)\, Persis Karim (Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers)\, Jasmin Darznik (The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Life)\, and Shideh Etaat (recipient of the 2015 James D. Phelan Award) will be discussing the new narratives being shaped today in Iranian-American literature. \nbios: \nSIAMAK VOSSOUGHI was born in Tehran\, grew up in Seattle\, and lives in San Francisco. His work has been published in Kenyon Review Online\, Missouri Review\, The Rumpus\, and Glimmer Train. His short story collection\, “Better Than War”\, received a 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. \nPERSIS KARIM is a writer\, editor\, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State University. Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Reed Magazine\, HeartLodge\, Caesura\, Callaloo\, and other. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian-American literature and her most recent anthology “Tremors: New Fiction by Iranian-American Writers (with Anita Amirrezvani)”. To find out more information about her work\, go to: www.persiskarim.com. \nJASMIN DARZNIK is the author of a New York Times bestseller\, “The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life”. Jasmin’s book was published in thirteen countries and shortlisted for the 2012 Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She has contributed to the New York TImes\, Washington Post\, and Los Angeles Times\, among others. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature at Princeton University and now teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. \nSHIDEH ETAAT is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient and her short story “Take Us to Our Love” was published in The Delmarva Review’s Volume 6. An excerpt from her novel can be found in “Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans”. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things. For more information about Shideh’s work\, please go to: http://www.thebolditalic.com/users/shidehe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dastanhayeh-jadid-new-stories-iranian-writers-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mixed-genre reading w/ Hahn\, Morduchovich\, + O'Hare
DESCRIPTION:Giovanna Morduchovich is a recent addition to San Francisco. She earned her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. An Italian Jew from birth\, she writes breezy non-fiction about light topics such as ancestral grief\, shoplifting\, and gnomes. She is currently working on a book about her deaf mother’s obsession with small dogs and dolls. \nIsobel O’Hare is a poet and essayist who was born in Chicago\, Illinois but did most of her growing up in Ireland. She is the author of the chapbook Wild Materials\, published in 2015 by Zoo Cake Press. Her writing can be found in The Account\, Dirty Chai Magazine\, HOUND\, FORTH Magazine\, Numero Cinq\, The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review\, and Cease\, Cows among other publications. She received her MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and she was recently awarded a Helene Wurlitzer Fellowship. She lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mixed-genre-reading-w-hahn-morduchovich-ohare/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Hugo García Manríquez
DESCRIPTION:Hugo García Manríquez’s most recent book is Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Litmus Press/Aldus Editorial). He is the author of the chapbook Two Poems and Painting is Finite\, and two books in Spanish: No oscuro todaviaand Los materiales. Recent work has appeared in Dreamboat\, Dusie\, Spiral Orb\, Tierra Adentro\, the collective chapbook Field Work and in the collection of essays Escribir Poesía en México. His work as translator includes William Carlos Williams’ Paterson\, published in Mexico in 2009\, and\, in 2014\, Mecha de Enebros\, his translation of Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld by Clayton Eshleman. García Manríquez has also translated essays and poems by Charles Bernstein\, George Oppen and Myung Mi Kim. He is a graduate student in the Spanish and Portuguese Department at University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-hugo-garcia-manriquez/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shawn Vestal: Daredevils
DESCRIPTION:Daredevils is the thrilling new book by Shawn Vestal\, who won last year’s PEN Bingham prize for his story collection\,Godforsaken Idaho. \nAt the heart of this exciting novel\, set in Arizona and Idaho in the mid-70s\, is fifteen-year-old Loretta\, who slips out of her bedroom every evening to meet a so-called gentile. Her strict Mormon parents catch her returning one night\, and promptly marry her off to Dean Harder\, a devout yet materialistic fundamentalist who already has a wife and a brood of kids. Then Dean’s teenage nephew\, Jason\, falls for Loretta. A Zeppelin and Tolkien fan\, Jason worships Evel Knievel and longs to leave his close-minded community. He and Loretta make a break for it. They drive all night\, stay in hotels\, and relish their dizzying burst of teenage freedom as they seek to recover Dean’s cache of “Mormon gold.” But someone Loretta left behind is on their trail… \nShawn Vestal made his literary debut with Godforsaken Idaho\, a story collection that won the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. A graduate of the Eastern Washington University MFA program\, his stories have appeared in Tin House\, Ecotone\, McSweeney’s\, The Southern Review and other journals. He writes a column for The Spokesman-Review in Spokane\, Washington\, where he lives with his wife and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shawn-vestal-daredevils/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim w/ Jon Jang
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is a noted poet performer who’s collaborated with the late Max Roach and bassist\, Herbie Lewis. Lim has performed at numerous jazz festivals and venues coast to coast\, including the SF Jazz Poetry Festival and World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Her poetry and vocals can be heard on Asian ImprovArts recordings with her long time collaborators Francis Wong on Devotee and Child of Peace and Jon Jang on Immigrant Suite.  Her collaboration with Anthony Brown and the Asian American Orchestra\, A Day of Infamy\, premiered in 2015 at Herbst Theater and other SF venues. Lim is also the author of the award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, the first Asian American play to be featured on PBS’s American Playhouse in 1985. The drama shed light on Chinese immigrants held on Angel Island and will be presented at the Seattle Fringe Festival in Feb and March 2016. She co-authored\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island and several poetry collections\, including Paper Gods and Rebels. Her upcoming collaboration\, Liminal Space\, with drummer Marshall Trammell is set to premiere at the San Francisco International Performing Arts Festival in May 2106. Lim is the subject of a feature documentary\, The Voice\, which aired on PBS in 2002; and was featured in the five-part PBS series\, The United States of Poetry\, and San Francisco Chinatown. \nJon Jang (composer\, pianist) created the idea of SenseUS –Rainbow Anthems\, a collaboration of poets and composers who collectively reimagine the National Anthem as multiple poems in anthems as opposed to a singular song. This work featured poets Genny Lim\, Sonia Sanchez and Victor Hernandez Cruz with musicians Jon Jang\, Max Roach\, John Santos and a large music ensemble that premiered at Davies Symphony Hall in 1990. Jon Jang has also performed with Amiri Baraka Transbluesency and Janice Mirikitani Shadow in Stone. Jang has recorded with Max Roach\, James Newton\, David Murray and Island: The Immigrant Suite No. 1 featuring Genny Lim and the Jon Jang Octet on Soul Note\, a recording company based in Milano\, Italy. His ensembles have toured at major concert halls and music festivals in Europe\, China\, Canada\, United States and South Africa\, four months after the election in April 1994 to end apartheid. During 1999-2001\, Jang toured with Max Roach as part of the Beijing Trio at the Library of Congress in Washington DC\, Chicago\, San Francisco\, Boston\, Zurich\, Berlin\, Milan and the Royal Festival Hall in London. As a scholar\, Jang has taught at Stanford University\, University of California at Berkeley and UC Irvine. In 2012\, Jon Jang was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr.-Cesar Chavez-Rosa Parks Visiting Professor recognition at the University of Michigan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-w-jon-jang/
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:Martinis & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy is celebrating National Poetry Month with some amazing Bay Area talent. Coming up this month — Amy Berkowitz\, Robin Ekiss\, Nazelah Jamison\, Nick\, Johnson\, and Richard Loranger. Your host for the night\, James J. Siegel. \nEach of the night’s poets will not only be reading their own work\, but they will share some of their favorite poems from the poets who inspire them. It will be a celebration of poetry past and present. So come out and raise a glass to poetry! \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is a FREE event with NO drink minimum. Also\, every attendee will get a FREE raffle ticket for a chance to win the night’s secret speakeasy prize. \nAmy Berkowitz is the author of Tender Points\, the editor of Mondo Bummer Books\, and the host of the Amy’s Kitchen Organics reading series. She recently co-organized Sick Fest\, and she was a 2014 Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, VIDA\, and Uprooted: An Anthology on Gender and Illness\, among other places. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco. More at amyberko.com. \nRobin Ekiss is a former Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford\, a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for emerging women writers\, and author of the book\, The Mansion of Happiness (University of Georgia Press)\, winner of the 2010 Shenandoah / Glasgow Prize\, and finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize\, Northern California Book Awards\, and Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards. Robin’s poems have appeared widely\, in The Atlantic Monthly\, POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, Ploughshares\, Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her husband\, the poet Keith Ekiss\, their son\, and their cats\, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. \nNazelah Jamison is a gifted poet\, emcee\, and vocalist who has graced the stage with some of the finest people in entertainment today. After performing in various artistic mediums\, she began playing music in 1992 and moved from Philadelphia to San Francisco in 1994 to play keyboards and sing on tour with the hip hop band Spearhead. Nazelah settled in the SF Bay Area in 1996\, and for a time studied acting at Jean Shelton’s Actors’ Studio. Since then\, Nazelah has competed on and/or coached 12 National Slam teams. She has hosted and co-produced The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic\, an on-going monthly poetry slam in Oakland\, CA\, as well as performing at venues around the SF Bay Area and the country. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, and other fine journals. His first book of poems Music for Mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. Additionally\, he wants you to know\, he enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always. Learn more at his website\, www.nickjohnsonpoetry.com. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the author of Poems for Teeth\, as well as The Orange Book and nine chapbooks. He has a book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows\, being released by Zeitgeist Press later this year. Recent work can be found in Oakland Review #2\, Overthrowing Capitalism vol. 2 (Revolutionary Poets Brigade)\, and the anthology I Let Go of the Stars in My Hand (great weather for MEDIA). You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martinis-poetry/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Percival Everett\, Brynn Saito\, + Maxine Hong Kingston
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Brynn Saito’s new collection of poetry \nPower Made Us Swoon \nfrom Red Hen Press \nA lyrical journey through family legacies\, silenced histories\, and the possibilities of transformation\, guided by the ruthless\, witty\, and vulnerable voice of a mythic woman warrior. \nGuided by the character of the Woman Warrior–witty\, swift\, and ruthless in her wonder–readers of Brynn Saito’s second collection of poetry travel the terrain of personal and historical memory: narrative poems about family\, farming towns\, and the bravery of girlhood are interspersed with lyric poetry written from the voice of a stone found in a Japanese American internment camp during the wartime incarceration. What histories can be summoned with poetry? What are the forces shaping an American life in the 21st century? Car accidents\, patriarchy\, and television fall under this poet?s gaze\, along with the intergenerational reverberations of historical trauma. As with The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, Saito’s first award-winning collection\, Power Made Us Swoon strives for wonder and speaks–in edgy and vulnerable tones–of the fraught journey toward a more just world. “Learn to lie to survive\,” sings the woman warrior\, “Learn to outlast the flame / learn the art of surprise.” \nBrynn Saito is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Contemplating Desire\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award and forthcoming from Red Hen Press in March\, 2013. Her poetry has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Ninth Letter\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Pleiades\, andDrunken Boat. Brynn was born in the Central Valley of California to a Korean-American mother and a Japanese-American father. She received an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in religious studies from NYU. Currently\, Brynn lives in the Bay Area and teaches in San Francisco. \nPercival Everett is the author of fourteen novels and three collections of short fiction including re:f(gesture)\, published by Red Hen Press. He is the recipient of the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story collection Big Picture) and a New American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel Zulus). His stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize anthology and Best American Short Stories. He has served as a judge for\, among others\, the 1997 National Book Award for fiction and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1991. He teaches fiction writing\, American studies\, and critical theory\, and he has taught at Bennington College\, the University of Wyoming\, and the University of California at Riverside. He is currently at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a musician\, a ranch hand\, and a high school teacher. \nMaxine Hong Kingston is the aclaimed author of three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States. She is the winner of the National Medal of the Arts and was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special Award in Publishing for her anthologyVeterans of War\, Veterans of Peace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/percival-everett-brynn-saito-maxine-hong-kingston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Boadiba + Neeli Cherkovski
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): Boadiba & Neeli Cherkovski
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boadiba-neeli-cherkovski/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jason Schneiderman: Primary Source
DESCRIPTION:With work published in numerous journals and anthologies\, including American Poetry Review and The Best American Poetry\, award-winning poet Jason Schneiderman shares his new collection\, Primary Source. Jason’s most exuberant volume of poetry yet\, Primary Source plays with the literary canon and explores his own personal archive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-schneiderman-primary-source/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160429T210000
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SUMMARY:A Celebration of Haiku
DESCRIPTION:This special event\, hosted by Lean Frog & Mother’s Hen Publications\, will both inform and entertain you about the birth of the San Francisco Bay Area haiku movement of the 1950s. Jack Kerouac\, Allen Ginsberg\, Gary Snyder\, and others\, through their avid interest in Zen Buddhism\, adapted this unique Japanese form to the new free-verse of the American poetic voice. Jack Kerouac would call them “Western Haiku” in his Scattered Poems\, published by City Lights Books. \nFeaturing: \nan invocation by Wes “Scoop” Nisker\nMC Louis Cuneo\nBob Booker\nTobey Kaplan\nJeanne Lupton\nClive Matson\nFlorence Miller\nAmos White \nand other special guests w/ music by Lucho on sax and Toku Woo on guitar\nLean Frog was founded by Louis Cuneo in 1978 as a monthly newsletter to encourage others in the haiku spirit\, and to write their own haiku by forming an understanding of Zen Buddhism and “The Way” through informal workshops conducted by Lean Frog in Oakland and Berkeley\, California. \nThis will also be a book release party and book signing for Haiku Revisited\, Volume 2. \nLawrence Ferlinghetti\, in reviewing the original Haiku Revisited in 1975\, said “They are true haiku worth revisiting over and over…”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-celebration-of-haiku/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:For Franco Beltrametti w/ Joanne Kyger\, Duncan McNaughton\, + more
DESCRIPTION:Reading from Franco Beltrametti\, From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995\, ed. Stefan Hyner + a screening of Claudio Tettamanti’s short film “Ultime cose (d’après CHOSES qui voyagent)” (1995) \nFriday APRIL 29 @ The Green Arcade 7:00 pm\, 1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\, free co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade \nJoin us for a celebratory reading of the poetry of Swiss-Italian poet/artist/world traveler Franco Beltrametti (1937–1995) by Bay Area poet friends and German poet Stefan Hyner\, editor of Beltrametti’s From Almost Everywhere: Selected Poems 1965–1995 (Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Blackberry Books\, 2016). We’ll also screen a brief film featuring Franco Beltrametti in conversation\, made by Claudio Tettamanti\, shortly before the poet’s unexpected death in 1995. \n“From ‘a crowded place called future’ Franco Beltrametti arrives\, once again\, with subtle eloquence to surprise us with his unexpected nuances and turns. These poems give us his presence in the USofA\, calling up poets and ancestors of every sort; and show us the transparency and modesty of his world: ‘I am my only visitor.’ But one with many friends — ‘boot tracks in and out’ — and the muse always under his roof of the moment.” —Joanne Kyger \n“You are the poet.” —John Cage
URL:https://litseen.com/event/for-franco-beltrametti-w-joanne-kyger-duncan-mcnaughton-more/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:National Indie Bookstore Day: Naughton\, Prado + Lake Lady
DESCRIPTION:AND ANOTHER ONE! \nApril 30\, 2016 is National Indie Bookstore Day. To celebrate\, Alley Cat Books is hosting the release party for I’ve Been on Tumblr by Jesse Prado\, American Mary by Alexandra Naughton\, and Better Day by Lake Lady. Poetry\, prose\, and music. \nFeaturing performances by Jesse Prado\, Alexandra Naughton\, and Lake Lady\, along with special guests: \n– Fisayo Adeyeye\n– Amy Berkowitz\n– Geri Yong-Whee \nMore TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-indie-bookstore-day-naughton-prado-lake-lady/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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