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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160425T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160425T214500
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160430T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160501T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160501T170000
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SUMMARY:Stranger Than Fiction: Barbash\, Howard\, Scheeres\, Zeff + More
DESCRIPTION:Stranger Than Fiction is the Edinburgh Castle Pub’s new reading series\, co-produced by Alan Black and Frances Stroh. The next edition\, on Sunday\, May 1\, from 3-5pm\, presents new work from Tom Barbash\, Rachel Howard\, Julia Scheeres\, and Maury Zeff\, alongside hosts Black and Stroh. \nTOM BARBASH is the author of the novel The Last Good Chance\, a collection of short stories Stay Up With Me\, and the bestselling nonfiction work On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal. His fiction has been published in Tin House\, Story magazine\, The Virginia Quarterly Review and The Indiana Review. His criticism has appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. \nRACHEL HOWARD’S fiction and essays have appeared in Gulf Coast\, the Hudson Review\, ZYZZYVA\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker Online. Her memoir The Lost Night\, about her father’s unsolved murder\, was described as “enthralling” by the New York Times. She runs the acclaimed reading series Yuba Lit in the Sierra Foothills. \nJULIA SCHEERES is the author of the memoir JESUS LAND\, which was a New York Times and London Times bestseller. She is also the author of A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown\, which was recently optioned by a famous actor who wants to play Jim Jones (and whose name she can’t yet reveal). \nMAURY ZEFF’S fiction and plays have been published in American Fiction 2012\, Southern California Review\, the Best of PlayGround 2014\, and elsewhere. He has won a PlayGround Emerging Playwright Award and three PlayGround People’s Choice Awards. His play\, I Wanna Be So Dated\, about striving teenagers\, helicopter parents\, artistic expression\, and the Ramones\, premiered in March at the Vermont State Drama Festival. He has an MFA from the University of San Francisco and was a San Francisco Writers’ Grotto Fellow. \nFRANCES STROH is the author of BEER MONEY: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss (out May 3 from HarperCollins)\, which chronicles her coming of age in the midst of the Stroh’s Beer family’s decline coupled with the unraveling of Detroit. Publisher’s Weekly described BEER MONEY as “A compelling memoir that vividly portrays the aching permanence of loss and the palpability of hope that accompanies starting over.” \nALAN BLACK works on “Notes From a Dive Bar” like a bartender tossing a drunk into the alleyway. Reckless\, messy and all over the place\, it never ends. The Penguin Corporation published his two books. Made in Glasgow\, unmade in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stranger-than-fiction-barbash-howard-scheeres-zeff-more/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Ron Sauer + Dan De Vries
DESCRIPTION:Ron Sauer \nRon Sauer is a native New Yorker and a leading light of the North Beach art and poetry scene\, known for trenchant social satires and poignant love poems and for translations of Baudelaire\, Aloysius Betrand\, and Jacques Prevert. A troubadour of urban America\, Sauer is a musician\, collagist\, art collector\, teacher of film history and literature\, polymath critic\, and compulsive talker. The only formal education he admits to is a summa cum laude in Horizontal Angelology. He likes to spend his free time playing haberdasher to the happily impoverished. He is the co-founder\, with artist Rebecca Peters\, of Fly-By-Night Productions\, which stages art exhibitions\, and publishes Off the Cuff Press broadside editions of new poetry and prose. \nDan De Vries \nBorn in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, Dan De Vries has lived in San Francisco since ’91. Before then\, Denver\, Laramie\, Vancouver\, Ann Arbor\, and periodically up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Grad school in Wyoming and the University of Michigan (Hopwood prize in major fiction in 1980). Poems\, Past & Presently\, published in 2014 by IFSF. Author of three novels\, Trees for Tomorrow\, Blasphemous Rumors\, and Piggery\, and a short story collection\, The Mountain King.\nThe Secret is sacred\, but it is also somewhat ridiculous. The practice of the mystery is furtive and even clandestine\, and its adepts do not speak about it. There are no respectable words to describe it\, but it is understood that all words refer to it\, or better\, that they inevitably allude to it\, and thus\, in dialogue with initiates\, when I have prattled about anything at all\, they have smiled enigmatically or taken offense . . . Borges\, from “The Sect of the Phoenix\,” tr. Anthony Kerrigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-ron-sauer-dan-de-vries/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at the 41 Ross
DESCRIPTION:SUBMIT to our May 2nd show and help us enrich that month’s Quiet Lightning – page to page\, wall to wall\, word to word\, with all languages\, all sounds\, and all stories. Help us embrace the rich patina of culture and history celebrated by our host space\, the 41 Ross and the Chinatown Community Development Center\, to create a literary mixtape that is as diverse as our beloved Bay Area community. \nThere is no theme that we are adhering to\, but this show as a whole will pay homage to CCDC’s vision of embracing home\, culture\, and community. \nCurated by Christine No + Bel Poblador! \nFree copy of sPARKLE & bLINK featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by Katie Jenkins-Moses for the first 100 people in attendance \nSubmit by Apr 13: https://quietlightning.submittable.com/submit/55842 \nCheap draft beer courtesy of Lagunitas Brewing Co.\nAll ages. This is a FREE show!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-the-41-ross/
LOCATION:41 Ross\, 41 Ross Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Mama Said
DESCRIPTION:Please join us here at Green Apple Books on Clement in welcoming the writers of Mama Said for an evening of laughs\, libations and light hors d’oeuvres. The fun begins on Monday\, May 2nd at 7:00pm at our Clement St. location (506 Clement). \nA gorgeous and heartfelt tribute to the joys and frustrations of motherhood\, Mama Said is a collection of personal narratives and artwork created by mothers\, for mothers. The beautifully illustrated text takes readers through the range of human emotions that come along with nurturing a tiny human. The stories invite mothers to join their hearts in the sacred sisterhood of creation and go beyond the personal choices of how one mothers\, and instead unearth the universal themes of love\, fear\, humanity and humor all mothers experience. \nThese brave women share their hopes\, dreams\, and doubts\, as well as their laughter\, tears\, and even a few bodily fluids\, on this journey through what it means to love another soul like you never thought possible. \nPraise for Mama Said \n“A brilliant tribute to what it means to be a mother. The overall tone is one of celebration\, but these mamas are not afraid to open their hearts and share the raw reality of pregnancy\, birth and humanity. A delightful and validating read for mothers everywhere.” \n  \nAs always\, this in store event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mama-said/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Sarah Fran Wisby
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Fran Wisby writes poetry\, short fiction\, memoir and essays\, preferring always to deepen and subvert genre by way of the hybrid form. Her book Viva Loss was published in 2008 by Small Desk Press. Recent work can be found in Eleven Eleven Journal and Rumpus Women Volume 1\, and heard on Invisible Cities Audio Tour No. 2: The Armada of Golden Dreams. She’s also been published in Instant City\, Sparkle and Blink\, Digital Artifact and The Encyclopedia Project Volume 2. She performs her work all over the Bay Area and beyond\, and was a Literary Death Match champion in December 2010.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-sarah-fran-wisby/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ali Eteraz w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Ali Eteraz will also read excerpts from \nNative Believer \npublished by Akashic Books \nAli Eteraz’s much-anticipated debut novel is the story of M.\, a supportive husband\, adventureless dandy\, lapsed believer\, and second-generation immigrant who wants nothing more than to host parties and bring children into the world as full-fledged Americans. As M.’s world gradually fragments around him—a wife with a chronic illness; a best-friend stricken with grief; a boss jeopardizing a respectable career—M. spins out into the pulsating underbelly of Philadelphia\, where he encounters others grappling with fallout from the War on Terror. Among the pornographers and converts to Islam\, punks\, and wrestlers\, M. confronts his existential degradation and the life of a second-class citizen.  \nDarkly comic\, provocative\, and insightful\, Native Believer is a startling vision of the contemporary American experience and the human capacity to shape identity and belonging at all costs. \nAli Eteraz is based at the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. He is the author of the coming-of-age memoir Children of Dust (HarperCollins) and the surrealist short story collection Falsipedies & Fibsiennes (Guernica Ed.). Eteraz’s short fiction has appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review\, storySouth\, and Crossborder\, and his nonfiction has been highlighted by NPR\, The New York Times\, and the Guardian. Recently\, Eteraz received the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize judged by Mohsin Hamid\, and served as a consultant to the artist Jenny Holzer on a permanent art installation in Qatar. Eteraz has lived in the Dominican Republic\, Pakistan\, the Persian Gulf\, and Alabama. Native Believer is his debut novel. \nVanessa Hua is an award-winning writer and journalist. For nearly two decades\, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora. She received a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award for Fiction\, and is a past Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, FRONTLINE/World\, Washington Post\, Guernica\, ZYZZYVA\, and elsewhere. A former staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle\, she has filed stories from China\, South Korea\, Panama\, Burma and Ecuador. Deceit and Other Possibilities\, her debut story collection\, will be published this fall (Willow Books). \nWhat has been said about the work of Ali Eteraz: \n“Ali Eteraz has written a novel\, both heartbreaking and exultant\, about how it feels to get scalded by the great melting pot. He is a writer of tremendous nuance\, sensitivity\, and insight. An enormous triumph in its own right\, Native Believer also points toward an even brighter future for American fiction.”\n—Andrew Ervin\, author of Burning Down George Orwell’s House
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ali-eteraz-w-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hollie Hardy + Mukta Sambrani
DESCRIPTION:Hollie Hardy\, recipient of the Poetry Center Book Award for her How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, reads from her book together with award judge Mukta Sambrani. \n‘Hollie Hardy’s poems in How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems are important: brave\, whimsical\, and wise. Hardy seeks dialog with other poets\, authors and artists\, burying borrowings like precious jewels\, skillfully planting Leonard Cohen and Virginia Woolf\, Thomas Pynchon and Sylvia Plath. While her use of form is consistent and understated in the less-is-more sort of way\, this quieter\, almost traditional manner allows Hardy to enhance the reader’s experience of her rich imagery and sensory detail: \nGlistening slices of moon\nSplash through the lattice of leaves… \nYour fingers find the textures of trees\nBarefoot in the moist earth\, a guidebook in Braille… \n(from “How to leave a trail for rescuers if you are lost in the wilderness”) \n‘Her poem for Oscar Grant\, “How to survive a riot\,” reminds us why it is important to be present to the most pressing need of our time: naming racial inequity before the law and doing something about police brutality and the murders of unarmed black boys and men. Hardy reminds us that we live in a war zone\, in a time where lessons in survival must become the business of poets and poetry.’\n—Mukta Sambrani \nHollie Hardy is the author of How to Take a Bullet\, And Other Survival Poems (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014). She holds an MFA in poetry from SFSU\, and teaches writing classes at the SF Creative Writing Institute\, San Francisco State University\, and Berkeley City College. An active participant in the Bay Area literary scene\, Hardy co-hosts the popular reading series Saturday Night Special\, an East Bay Open Mic. She’s a founder and core producer for the Beast Crawl Literary Festival in Oakland\, co-curator of Litquake’s Flight of Poets\, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary journals including Red Light Lit\, Ekphrastic California\, Fourteen Hills\, Eleven Eleven\, sPARKLE & bLINK\, The Common\, A Sharp Piece of Awesome\, Parthenon West Review\, One Ded Cow\, Transfer\, Milvia Street\, and other journals. She lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://www.holliehardy.com/ \nMukta Sambrani is an Indian born poet and educator based in the United States. Her first book of poems\, The Woman in this room isn’t lonely was published by Writer’s Workshop\, Calcutta in 1997. Her second book\, Broomrider’s book of the dead was published by Paperwall Media and Publishing\, Mumbai in 2015. Mukta’s work has appeared in Verse\, Em Literary\, Cipactli\, Fourteen Hills\, Hyphen Magazine\, Laundry Pen\, The Scribbler\, Poetry Chain and anthologies such as Bloodaxe book of contemporary Indian poets\, 60 Indian poets\, We Speak in Changing Languages\, The Dance of the Peacock\, Suvarnarekha and others. She is the recipient of the 2003 Audre Lorde creative writing award and an honorable mention for the Starcherone prize. Mukta lives in Oakland California\, where she is a school administrator. \nThis concert is FREE. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nPoetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hollie-hardy-mukta-sambrani/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:McSweeney’s Social Hour: Cowboy Disco
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s Publishing cordially invites you to a special evening of music\, drinks and dance as we celebrate another day of book/art/merrymaking in the zesty San Francisco bay. Mostly\, we just want to hear your stories about your great aunt’s three legged show poodle and cha-cha slide with you in between Dolly Parton and Abba songs. There might even be a fog machine. \nA few memorable histories & events that have also taken place on May 4: \n1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. \n1974 – An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu\, becoming the first women to climb an 8\,000-meter peak. \n2016 – You attend the McSweeney’s Night of Cocktails and Cowboy Disco. As expected\, you are magnetic and charming. Everyone loves you. You’re absolutely contagious. You have become\, The Life of the Party. \nLet us carry on the tradition of great and beautiful things to happen on May 4th as we journey into a night of revelry. Special guests and details to be announced. \nWarmly\, \nMcSweeney’s
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcsweeneys-social-hour-cowboy-disco/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Breaking Ground: Black British Writers
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books on the Park is proud to host Speaking Volumes’ Breaking Ground tour. \nFeaturing readings by: \nBernardine Evaristo\nColin Grant\nDiran Adebayo\nGabriel Gbadamosi\nJay Bernard\nJohny Pitts\nKaren McCarthy Woolf\nNick Makoha\nRoger Robinson \nAbout the Breaking Ground tour: \nThe Breaking Ground tour developed as a way to highlight the diversity of Black British writing\, and includes people who write novels\, poetry\, plays\, graphic stories\, travelogues\, non-fiction\, essays\, articles\, short stories\, reviews and more. It also includes people whose backgrounds may be Black British born and bred\, Caribbean\, African\, African American\, mixed race … women and men of various generations and at different stages of their careers. All of whom have had little access to American readers and audiences — until now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/breaking-ground-black-british-writers/
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:Two Voices Salon: Slaymaker on Furukawa
DESCRIPTION:Hideo Furukawa has built a name for himself as one of the titans of contemporary Japanese literature. His book Horses\, Horses\, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction that deeply entwines his own life and the disaster in Fukushima\, Japan\, as it was devastated by an earthquake\, tsunami\, and nuclear meltdown. \nTo better understand this powerful\, moving story\, we’ll talk with Doug Slaymaker\, who brought it from Japanese into English for Columbia University Press. We’ll talk about how he dealt with the various strands of fiction\, history\, and memoir in this book\, as well as touching on some authors whose work this book resembles\, including W.G. Sebald. We’ll also discuss the unique aspects of the Japanese language and culture that make this such and interesting book to translate. \nThis will be our last Salon until the fall\, so please do join us for a wonderful night of literature\, friends\, snacks\, and drinks.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slaymaker-on-furukawa/
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:Barbara Paschke + Jorge Argueta
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): Barbara Paschke & Jorge Argueta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-paschke-jorge-argueta/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
DESCRIPTION:The question is\, said Alice\, whether you can make words mean different things. \nFinally and at long last\, the Shipwreck crew heads down the rabbit hole. Featured writers: 3-Time Champ Vivenne Pustell\, Amanda Rosenberg\, Damian Ledbetter\, George Chen\, Eden Temple\, and Sarah Stanton. \n$10 advance tickets / $12 at the door. Ticket includes open bar for 21+. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title.\nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-lewis-carrolls-alice-in-wonderland/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brendan Jones: The Alaskan Laundry
DESCRIPTION:Brendan Jones reads from his debut novel\, The Alaskan Laundry. \nPraise for The Alaskan Laundry: \n\n“This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart.” — Adam Johnson\, author of The Orphan Master’s Son\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a gorgeous and powerful novel that succeeds both as a page-turning adventure story and an evocative exploration of the meaning of home. With acute psychological precision and a naturalist’s attention to detail\, Brendan Jones has created a hauntingly beautiful novel that will stay with me for a long time.” – Molly Antopol\, author of The Unamericans\n\n\n\n“The Alaskan Laundry is a novel of bracing air that gets deep into your lungs. As Tara Marconi reinvents herself in Alaska\, we see all facets of the American dream of self-reliance and boundless possibility play out on the stage of the Last Frontier. A strong\, singular person grows in these pages. Like a protagonist in a Daniel Woodrell novel\, she is stubborn\, heroic\, and capable of anything.” — Will Chancellor\, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall\n\nAbout the Alaskan Laundry: \nA fresh debut novel about a lost\, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself through the hard work of fishing\, as far as the icy Bering Sea.\nTara Marconi has made her way to The Rock\, a remote island in Alaska governed by the seasons and the demands of the world of commercial fishing. She hasn t felt at home in a long while her mother’s death left her unmoored and created a seemingly insurmountable rift between her and her father. But in the majestic\, mysterious\, and tough boundary-lands of Alaska she begins to work her way up the fishing ladder from hatchery assistant all the way to King crabber. She learned discipline from years as a young boxer in Philly\, but here she learns anew what it means to work\, to connect\, and in buying and fixing up an old tugboat how to make a home she knows is her own. A beautiful evocation of a place that can’t help but change us and a testament to the unshakable lure of home\, The Alaskan Laundry also offers an unforgettable story of one woman’s journey from isolation back to the possibility of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brendan-jones-the-alaskan-laundry/
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:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1167669\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Listen to Your Mother
DESCRIPTION:Listen To Your Mother is a national live reading series in celebration of Mother’s Day that showcases the voices of local storytellers. Entertaining and engaging\, this year’s cast hails from all corners of the San Francisco Bay Area to bring their diverse array of experiences that range from funny to poignant. The cast includes Veronica Derrick\, Virginia Duan\, Minna Dubin\, Nancy Fawson\, Harriet Heydemann\, Jilanne Hoffmann\, Janine Kovac\, Nicki Orser\, Tarja Parssinen\, Maria Ramos-Chertok\, and Pamela Weymouth. \nTen percent of ticket proceeds will go to benefit Oakland Elizabeth House\, a transitional program for women with children who have experienced homelessness\, violence\, addiction\, and/or poverty. To learn more visit http://www.oakehouse.org. \n  \nSan Francisco was selected by creator/National Director Ann Imig of Madison\, Wisconsin who named 41 cities to host their own LTYM productions in 2016. All 41 shows will be videoed for LTYM Show’s YouTube channel. This year’s LTYMSF show marks the Fifth Annual San Francisco production. The performance will be produced and directed by Bay Area writers and residents Janine Kovac\, Tarja Parssinen\, and Mary Hill.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/listen-to-your-mother/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160506T213000
DTSTAMP:20260505T195725
CREATED:20160420T013656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160420T013656Z
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SUMMARY:N+1 Issue 25 Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of N+1 Issue 25\, featuring readings by Anna Wiener\, Moira Weigel\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/n1-issue-25-launch-party/
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:20160507T160000
DTSTAMP:20260505T195725
CREATED:20160505T011251Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160505T011251Z
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SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Extension Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join students and teachers for a selection of readings from work produced through the UC Berkeley Extension program. Founded in 1891\, UC Berkeley Extension is the continuing education branch of the University of California\, Berkeley. Today they offer more than 2\,000 courses each year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uc-berkeley-extension-student-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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