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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'JoyRide'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, Sept 13th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nWonder what this show is about? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling#Unedited#TheRealDeal\n\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nThis Evening of  ‘We need more Joy’ stories & songs includes:\n\n\n❤ Sexual Folklorist & Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs from the inimitable Rachel Lark\n\n❤ Wanna be part of this show? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by Aug 18th! \n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!\n\n\n \n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n \n\n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was signed last year to not a cult records with her new studio album\, They’ve Done Studies\, set to be released in Spring 2017. She recently debuted a new show at DNA Lounge that she successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign\, and is touring as Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods right now – but she’ll be back from tour and rocking Bawdy’s stage on July 12th! Find out more about Lark at www.rachellark.com\, www.facebook.com/larksongs & at @rachellarkmusic\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly)\nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling (a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible)\nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s own dating stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by Esquire.com as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-joyride/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us when Kim Shuck\, San Francisco’s seventh poet laureate\, is inaugurated.  Kim\, a life long resident of San Francisco\, will read her poetry and discuss her plans as poet laureate. \nA book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-shuck-poet-laureate-celebration/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170914T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-in-september/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T135225
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen Martin celebrates the release of Number 61 in the Pocket Poets Series Heaven Is All Goodbyes published by City Lights Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170914T190000
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SUMMARY:Martha Ronk + Paul Vangelisti
DESCRIPTION:Martha Ronk has published 11 books of poetry\, most recently the photography-focused Ocular Proof (Omnidawn\, 2016)\, Transfer of Qualities\, prose poems (named to long list for the National Book Award) and National Poetry Series selection Vertigo\, indebted to W.G. Sebald. Her most recent chapbook\, Familiar/Unfamiliar (Magra Books\, 2017)\, addresses Los Angeles. Recent poems appear in Volt\, Lana Turner and Conjunctions. She lives in Los Angeles. \nPaul Vangelisti has published more than 30 books of poetry and is a noted translator from Italian. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s S.O.S.: Poems 1961 – 2013\, for Atlantic-Grove\, and in the same year his book of sonnets\, Solitude\, appeared in a bilingual edition in Italy. In 2016 a new collection of poems\, Border Music\, was published by Talisman House. His translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems\, 1961 – 1992\, received the Academy of American Poets translation prize in 2010. Vangelisti lives and works in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-ronk-paul-vangelisti/
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:Paul Madonna: Close Enough for the Angels
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to present a special evening with Paul Madonna as he introduces his latest release Close Enough for the Angels\, along with a gallery showing of his iconic work. Please join us at The Bindery! \nEmit Hopper was a one-hit wonder—twice. First as a rock and roller in the 80s\, then as a literary darling in the 90s. Now it’s twenty years later\, and despite his desire to remain a simple laundromat owner\, stardom has found him once again. As he’s drawn back into the limelight he meets Julia\, a former celebrity chef with an enigmatic past. But when she disappears while hiking with two other women\, Emit finds himself chasing down a mystery that promises to leave him forever changed. \nFrom the artist and author of All Over Coffee and Everything is its own reward\, Paul Madonna uses his signature blend of drawing and storytelling to deliver a beautiful and entertaining novel filled with suspense\, surprise\, and humor. \nWith over one hundred lush and haunting drawings\, this full-length\, character-driven story is a fresh and innovative reinvention of the illustrated novel. \n— \n“Madonna captures snapshots in time as he explores the relationship between image and text… that’s so gorgeously rendered in Madonna’s precise yet fluid pen-and-ink style\, it feels like it could be anywhere and everywhere.” — Publisher’s Weekly \n— \nPaul Madonna is the award-winning artist and writer. He is the creator of the series All Over Coffee\, which ran in the San Francisco Chronicle for twelve years\, and is the author of four books. His drawings and stories have appeared internationally in numerous books and journals as well as in galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum\, the Oakland Museum of California\, and an upcoming solo exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Paul is a former editor fortherumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University\, and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD magazine\, for which he proudly received no money. \nMore info: http://www.booksmith.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-angels-bindery
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-close-enough-for-the-angels/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brutal Conditions of US Agriculture Workers Documented in Photo Essays
DESCRIPTION:The conditions of farm workers have deteriorated greatly since the 1970s and 80s.  Taking inflation into account\, wages are less than half. In photographs and testimonies\, In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte shows that these conditions are provoking a new wave of organizing efforts. It is the first book to do so visually\, and in the words of farm workers themselves.  It is a completely bilingual book\, with extensive captions for all the images and oral histories in accessible narrative form. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“What is distinctive about David Bacon´s work is his persistence and determination to be present at decisive moments in the lives of workers. His photo essays allow us to feel that we are there\, observing the events unfolding.  We are witnesses to intimate moments of farmers working at dawn in the onion fields.  We hear the testimonies of people participating in political action – with the strength of the community filling the air.”  Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\, professor of Chicano Studies\, UCLA David Bacon is a California-based writer and photographer.  He is the author of several books about migration\, including The Children of NAFTA\, Communities Without Borders and Illegal People – How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants. Bacon was a factory worker and union organizer for two decades with the United Farm Workers\, the International Ladies Garment Workers and other unions. Today he documents the changing conditions in the workforce\, the impact of the global economy\, war and migration\, and the struggle for human rights. His photography has been exhibited in the U.S. Mexico and Europe\, and his articles and photoessays have been published widely. As a photojournalist\, David Bacon has been documenting through photographs and stories the lives of farm workers since 1988.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brutal-conditions-of-us-agriculture-workers-documented-in-photo-essays/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170915T210000
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SUMMARY:The Junkyard 2017 Reading Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Simone Herko Felton and Esme Cohen\, currently two sophomores at Lowell High school in South San Francisco and the founders of the schools creative writing club and very own literary magazine\, Junkyard. \n“The whole idea behind it is like finding tools in a Junkyard. In the mess of humanity that is a junkyard or high school\, it’s about finding the things that are valuable which can be such a mixture of different things.” -Simone \n“The junkyard is all about celebrating the unique things that you find.” -Esme \nCome support a group of 12 who are keeping the arts alive and well\, at such a young age. Join us at the Beat Musuem to hear this literary staff read their own work featured in the publication. \nWill be selling hard copies: $5 for Lowell students and $7 for the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-junkyard-2017-reading-showcase/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Magra Books Reading: Paul Vangelisti + Sean Pessin Host
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the first two seasons of titles from the independent publisher\, Magra Books (magrabooks.com). Gillian Conoley will read from her just published chapbook\, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar\, along with Martha Ronk reading from her 2016 title\, Unfamiliar Familiar; Art Beck from his new translation\, Martial\, Epigrams; Dennis Phillips from his Desert Sequence chapbook; and Neeli Cherkovski from his forthcoming Magra chapbook\, Odes for Ezra Weston Pound. Part of the presentation will also be a memorial tribute to Ray DiPalma (1943-2016)\, whose For a Curved Surface is one of Magra’s initial offerings. Based in Los Angeles and Tuscany\, Magra Books is a series of chapbooks\, printed in editions of 300 copies\, featuring unique works by important writers. Each volume\, typically 32 pages in length\, presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing work that strives to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language\, language that knows no borders. Hosting the event will be Paul Vangelisti and Sean Pessin\, part of Magra Book’s editorial staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magra-books-reading-paul-vangelisti-sean-pessin-host/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T200000
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SUMMARY:About Alice: An Onstage Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading of the two-character play that Calvin Trillin has adapted from the book he wrote about his late wife\, the educator Alice Stewart Trillin. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Cast to be announced. \nCalvin Trillin has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963. His many books include the comic novels “Floater” and “Tepper Isn’t Going Out”; the memoirs “Messages from My Father” and “About Alice\,” which he has recently adapted into a play; “The Tummy Trilogy\,” a collection of three books about food; and “Jackson\, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America.” He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff.” \nLeonard Foglia has directed Broadway productions of “Master Class\,” “Thurgood\,” “The People In The Picture”; the Broadway revivals of “The Gin Game\,” “On Golden Pond\,” and “Wait Until Dark”; and opera productions\, including the world premières of “Moby Dick\,” “Everest\,” “Cold Mountain\,” “The End of the Affair\,” and “Three Decembers.” As a librettist\, he wrote and directed “El Pasado Nunca Se Termina\,” “Cruzar La Cara De La Luna” with composer Jose Martinez\, and “A Coffin in Egypt” with composer Ricky Ian Gordon. \nNOTE: Advance sales open to members only at this time. To become a City Arts & Lectures member\, click here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-alice-an-onstage-reading/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-robert-anbian-michael-koch/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T203000
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell + Clyde Always
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-clyde-always/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Isabel Duffy. \nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program. \nAn “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times)\, Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers.  His many novels include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, and Telegraph Avenue. His most recent\, Moonglow\, is based on stories he was told by his ailing grandfather during a visit in 1989. It is part novel\, part memoir\, in which he has “stuck to facts except when facts refused to conform with memory\, narrating purpose\, or the truth as I prefer to understand it. Wherever liberties have been taken … the reader is assured that they have been taken with due abandon.”  The book follows his grandparents as their lives weave through much of the 20th century. \nYou can purchase tickets online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-3/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
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SUMMARY:Josephine Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Josephine Rowe discusses her new novel\, A Loving\, Faithful Animal. \n\nPraise for A Loving\, Faithful Animal \n\n“A subtle and haunting meditation on childhood\, escape\, the bonds and the limits of family\, and the long reach of trauma. Rowe is a serious talent\, and her debut novel is both gorgeous and stunning.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“A Loving\, Faithful Animal lured me in with astonishing\, poetic prose\, and a glimpse of an Australia I don’t always see in fiction. But the true thrill of the novel is the carousel of haunting characters Josephine Rowe creates with unbelievable precision. An unflinching look at the ways we fail the people we love\, at the cruelty of family\, its toxicity\, and beauty. The book is a deep\, multi-faceted portrait of the inheritance of damage\, one that left me aching and inspired.” —Stephanie Danler\, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter \n“Josephine Rowe writes like someone who\, having been quiet a long time\, has thought carefully and viciously about what must be said. In this flinty debut\, Rowe fashions a string of refractory surfaces―the family members of a veteran―to remind us just how far\, into love and time\, the atrocity of war will reach.” ―Kathleen Alcott\, author of Infinite Home \n\nAbout A Loving\, Faithful Animal \nIt is New Year’s Eve 1990\, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father\, Jack\, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War\, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door\, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister\, Lani\, is throwing herself into sex\, drugs\, and dangerous company. Their mother\, Evelyn\, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les\, Jack’s inscrutable brother\, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost\, earning both trust and suspicion. \n  \nA Loving\, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender\, brutal\, and heart-stopping in its beauty\, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe\, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josephine-rowe/
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:Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to have Jesmyn Ward in the store for her latest novel\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing. Please join us! \nCarrying the torch of Faulkner and As I Lay Dying\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing tells the emotional journey taken by Leonie\, a single mother addicted to drugs\, her son Jojo\, 13\, and his toddler sister\, Kayla—who have been raised by their grandparents Pap\, who tries to teach Jojo how to be a man\, and Mam\, who is sick with cancer—to Parchman Farm\, the Mississippi State Penitentiary where Jojo and Kayla’s white father is being released from prison. Ghosts and spirits hover over Ward’s narrative\, which hums with ambition\, complexity\, heartache\, rich visuals\, and violence. \nIn Sing\, Unburied\, Sing\, Ward shows us life on the gulf coast of Mississippi—lush and menacing and marked by a precise rural vernacular—and life within a family weighted by history and poverty but bonded by love. Rich with Ward’s distinctive\, musical language\, it is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature by a writer at the top of her game. \nJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novelsWhere the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones\, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoirMen We Reaped\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010\, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elise Paschen + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Elise Paschen and Tess Taylor read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nPraise for Elise Paschen \n“The Nightlife is not only a beautiful and inventive collection\, it’s an important contribution to this period in American poetry. Paschen’s voice shows us how―given all the choices in form\, voice\, subject\, and vision―a poet might make the art her own through the force of her personal brilliance\, and a generous and idiosyncratic sensibility. In this work it is as if ‘. . . she unhinged every / window . . .’ These are poems you return to not only for the music and the detail―equally powerful through her wide-angle lens as under her magnifying glass―but to puzzle out how she managed it. So much craft in work that reads so freely\, seems to have issued forth so effortlessly\, but also from some supernatural source\, poems that read as if the poet were ‘. . . trying to put back / the wild fury she had released.’ This is poetry that reminds us of all the power and possibilities of poetry itself.”―Laura Kasischke\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space\, in Chains \n\nPraise for Tess Taylor \n“(This) lapidary\, moving book . . . shows that across thousands of years\, these smallest acts―to grow\, harvest\, mourn―still remain central to lyric utterance. Is such a pastoral sensibility possible in the mediated world of 21st century American life? Taylor’s answer is not only yes\, but to focus on the thousands of workers both here and abroad who live a life based on laboring with the earth. These subtle poems\, like those that explore her lineage to the Jefferson family in her first book\, are not without harder-to-confront agonies. As she draws the world… proximate to touch\, the intuited sense of apocalypse―whether ecological disaster\, or global political chaos―draws closer . . . (as well.)”―LitHub’s “30 Poets You Should be Reading” \n  \nAbout The Nightlife \n\nIn Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection\, Infidelities\, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book\, The Nightlife\, Paschen once again taps into dream states\, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls\,” she explores troubled love and relationships\, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives\, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. \n  \nThe Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum\, the villanelle and the tritina\, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection\, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads\, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky. \n  \nAbout Work and Days \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elise-paschen-tess-taylor/
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:Douglas Kearney + Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney has published six books\, most recently Buck Studies (Fence Books\, 2016)\, winner of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award in poetry. BOMB magazine states Kearney “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic\, personal and historical.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity\, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publishers Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Raised in Altadena\, he lives with his family in the Santa Clarita Valley and teaches at CalArts. \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist\, doula and the author of The Easy Body (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017). Luboviski-Acosta\, Matt Weathers and Carla Orendorff are founding members of strictlyyouth\, a decolonized punk dance collective for people of color. With Elana Chavez\, they are founding curators of the Cantil Reading Series. They have taught movement\, filmmaking and radical play to anarchists and children. Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles’ Eastside and now lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/
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:Eleanor Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Booksmith as we welcome Eleanor Henderson for the debut of her forthcoming novel The Twelve-Mile Straight. \nSet in Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition\, The Twelve-Mile Straight is an American epic about race\, inequality\, and family that reads like a page-turner and is startlingly timely and relevant. It begins when two babies—one dark-skinned\, the other light—are born to the daughter of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery. The twins’ birth raises questions that have violent\, tragic consequences that continue to reverberate many years into the future. \nHenderson’s childhood was brimming with accounts from her grandparents’ and her father of the town where her grandparents were sharecroppers. She heard tales of her grandparents during the Great Depression and stories about the hard times on the farm\, and she also learned about the resilience and the ways in which families persevere together. Henderson was inspired to bring the world of Cotton County\, Georgia during the time of Jim Crow to the page\, and says she wanted “to capture the innocence of those country stories\, and also to fracture it. I knew there was a darker narrative running alongside this one\, like the quiet creek running along the [fictional] Twelve-Mile Straight.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-henderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Fall 2017 MFA Reading featuring Vivian Gornick. \nVivian Gornick\, a born and bred New Yorker\, is an essayist and memoirist whose latest book\, aptly enough\, is entitled The Odd Woman and The City. Her other books include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\, and many other works that have garnered nominations for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gornick is a former staff writer for The Village Voice. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nThe MFA Reading Series is co-sponsored by the English department and presents literary readings and discussions that are free and open to the public. For more information on the MFA in Writing program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing\, or email: mfaw@usfca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Swallowing Mercury: Wioletta Greg
DESCRIPTION:Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books\, Swallowing Mercury. \nLonglisted for The Man Booker International Prize\, Swallowing Mercury looks back on youth in a close-knit\, agricultural community in 1980s Poland through the eyes of Wiola. Her memories are precise\, intense\, distinctive\, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women\, rumored visits from the Pope\, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house\, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch\, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up. \nWioletta Greg is a Polish writer. She was born in a small village in 1974 in the Jurassic Highland of Poland. In 2006\, she left Poland and moved to the UK. Between 1998–2012 she published six poetry volumes\, as well as a novel\, Swallowing Mercury\, which spans her childhood and her experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Her short stories and poems have been published in Asymptote\, theGuardian\, Litro Magazine\, Poetry Wales\, Wasafiri and The White Review. Her works have been translated into English\, Catalan\, French\, Spanish and Welsh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swallowing-mercury-wioletta-greg/
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:The New Talkies
DESCRIPTION:This evening of neo-benshi performances will showcase film clips rewritten and narrated live by authors from the Bay Area\, New York\, Los Angeles and Houston. Featuring excerpts from blockbusters such as The Sound of Music\, Mexican feature Lola La Trailera (Lola the Truck Driver)\, animated series Dora the Explorer\, the obscure The Assassination of Trotsky and cult classic Carnival of Souls. \nWriters/performers\n\nAnuj Vaidya\nDouglas Kearney\nJaime Cortez\nJennifer Tamayo\nKonrad Steiner\nNicole McJamerson\nStalina Villarreal\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nTongo Eisen-Martin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-new-talkies/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170923T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T135225
CREATED:20170815T111020Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Edith Eva Eger\, "The CHOICE: Embrace the Possible"
DESCRIPTION:Inspiring Speaker Dr. Edith Eger\, eminent psychologist and acclaimed author. She shares her heroic story as indomitable survivor of Auschwitz and her highly anticipated memoir\, \n\n“THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible”  \nThe highly anticipated Memoir by Acclaimed Best Selling Author  \nDr. Edith Eva Eger \nInspiring Speaker\, Eminent Psychologist\, Expert in Trauma Recovery\, and Thriving Survivor of Auschwitz\, shares Her Remarkable Memoir of Survival\, Freedom\, and Forgiveness. \nMarines Memorial Theatre \nSeptember 23\, 2017 6 p.m. \nDr. Eger has appeared on numerous television programs including TED Talks\, The Oprah Winfrey Show\, The 2017 Annual California Legislative Caucus\, and a recent CNN special commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. \n“The Choice is a gift to humanity.  One of those rare and eternal stories that you don’t want to end and that leave you forever changed. Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others.  She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.”\n—DESMOND TUTU\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-edith-eva-eger-the-choice-embrace-the-possible/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Western Institute for Social Research":MAILTO:turningtide@pacific-ocean.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170924T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170924T133000
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CREATED:20170803T002628Z
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SUMMARY:Phonochrome: 9/24 Banned Books Solidarity Concert
DESCRIPTION:Kick off Banned Books Week with critically acclaimed chamber ensemble\, Phonochrome\, on Sunday\, September 24th! Phonochrome presents a compelling array of music and songs in a timely\, musical exploration of artistic and literary censorship. This program features works by blacklisted artists Aaron Copland and Dorothy Parker\, controversial songs made famous by Billie Holiday and Maya Angelou\, and music inspired by banned literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Pierre Louys’ sensual Chansons de Bilitis\, among others. There will be free pre-concert coffee courtesy of Ritual Coffee Roasters\, and a post-concert book reception with The Green Arcade. [Doors at 11:30/concert at noon.]  \nProgram:\n“Song of the Birds\,” a traditional Catalonian folk song arr. by Pau Casals\n“Flute Sonata in E Major\, BWV 1035” by Johann Sebastian Bach\n“As It Fell Upon A Day\,” by Aaron Copland\nSongs by Maya Angelou\, TBD\n“Chansons de Bilitis\,” by Claude Debussy with poetry by Pierre Louys\n“Songs of Perfect Propriety\,” by Seymour Barab with poetry by Dorothy Parker\n“Advice from a Caterpillar\,” from Unsuk Chin’s opera Alice in Wonderland\n“Strange Fruit\,” by Abel Meeropol\, arr. by Jude Traxler \n*This concert features Anne Hepburn Smith\, soprano; Melinda Becker\, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Talbert\, flute; Sophie Huet\, clarinet; Natalie Raney\, cello; Anne Rainwater\, piano; and an arrangement by composer Jude Traxler. More information is available on our facebook event page or at www.talbertflute.com/phonochrome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phonochrome-924-banned-books-solidarity-concert/
LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170902T052942Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Authors of Dzanc Books
DESCRIPTION:Authors Jason Tougaw and Deb Busman read from their works published by Dzanc Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-authors-of-dzanc-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T200000
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CREATED:20170911T232001Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #11: SILENCE w/ Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 25th at 7:00PM\, The Racket #11: SILENCE will touch down at Adobe Books. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Bay Area writer Shawn Wen\, the author of A Twenty Minute Silence\, Then Applause (Sarabande Books). She’ll be reading from her poetic essay on super mime Marcel Marceau\, answering questions and signing books. \nPreceding her will be Theresa Padden\, Janey Skinner\, Gary Singh andAndrew O. Dugas\, all reading on the subject of SILENCE. \nYou should be there. \nWe certainly will.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-11-silence-w-shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T213000
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CREATED:20170621T232842Z
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SUMMARY:Karl Geary
DESCRIPTION:Karl Geary discusses his new novel\, Montpelier Parade with Ethel Rohan. \n\nPraise for Montpelier Parade \n“Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how\, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.” —Sunjeev Sahota\, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways \n\n“Geary — who has previously worked as an actor and scriptwriter — is a genuine talent. The sense of intimacy created by the second-person narrative is brilliantly sustained and the dialogue throughout is pitch perfect\, seeming almost audibly to slice the always pregnant\, often suffocatingly toxic atmosphere.” —Daily Mail (UK) \n\n“The work of a deft\, fearless writer … evoking the subtly dark comedy of Patrick McCabe\, and the delicious lyricism of Peter Murphy\, Geary has a keen recollection of the folly and hunger of youth. Add in a gut-spinning plot twist\, and it’s safe to describe Montpelier Parade as one of the first significant releases of 2017.” —Irish Independent \n\nAbout Montpelier Parade \nMontpelier Parade is just across town\, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday\, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera\, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. \n  \nHoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging―at high school\, in his part-time job at the butcher shop\, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family―Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time\, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? \n  \nUnfolding over a bright\, rain-soaked Dublin spring\, Montpelier Parade is a rich\, devastating debut novel about desire\, grief\, ambition\, art\, and the choices we must make alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-geary/
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:20170925T213000
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CREATED:20170817T122030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T122030Z
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SUMMARY:Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children\, was a New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel\, When the World Was Steady\, and her book of novellas\, The Hunters\, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel\, The Last Life\, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her forthcoming novel\, The Burning Girl\, is a bracing\, hypnotic\, coming of age story about the bond of best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-messud/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T135225
CREATED:20170926T001618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T001619Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #49
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-49/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20170720T035032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T035032Z
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SUMMARY:Kristina Brown + Stephen Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristina-brown-stephen-kessler/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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