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SUMMARY:Catana Chetwynd / Snug
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd\, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book\, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Snug and/or Little Moments of Love\, which are included with each ticket — it’s also possible\, in advance only\, to get 2 tickets with just 1 book — please be sure to read the ticketing information closely. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nWhy bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book of cozy\, cute comics. From the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes Snug\, a collection of comics that perfectly captures the honest\, playful\, and relatable snapshots of romantic life. \nChetwynds second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new\, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of usand the magic that happens when we find our matching puzzle piece. \n\nCatana Chetwynd is a self-taught traditional artist and the enthusiastic author of Catana Comics. She grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York\, where she spent her time creating art and pursing an education in psychology until accidentally stumbling into the world of comics. Not only is her boyfriend John the daily inspiration for her drawings\, but he was also the one who suggested a comic series about their relationship in the first place. Thanks to his idea and his inspiring daily antics\, Catana was able to pursue her childhood dream of being a cartoonist. She currently lives on the East Coast with John and their tiny\, angry dog Murph. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– To join the signing line\, you must purchase a book from Booksmith — no exceptions. If you already have a copy of Snug and Little Moments of Love\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted both of Catana’s books to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Candid photos will be allowed but due to timing we are unable to accommodate requests for posed photos. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Snug\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catana-chetwynd-snug/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Chapters Retablos\, The Way Over\, Consuelo\, El Judío\, La Migra\, La Llorona\, Nothing Happens\, The Quince\, Mexican Apology\, El Segundo\, Neto\, My Right Foot\, and Jeep in the Water\nFebruary 19 – March 15\nDirected by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave \nWord for Word’s latest full production is from author & playwright Octavio Solis. Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale\, verging on fable\, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood\, Solis says that he wrote these stories “to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated\, deeply beautiful and troubled world.” Octaviosolis.net \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n“A retablo is a devotional painting\, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written\, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir\, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life\, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural\, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing\, what more can I say?”\n—Greg Sarris\, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Evening with Octavio Solis\nJoin us on February 27. The evening’s performance of Retablos will be followed by a conversation with the author\, moderated by Greg Sarris. Both writers are longtime friends of Word for Word. Mr. Solis is a nationally renowned playwright in addition to being a prose author\, and Greg Sarris is Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The evening includes a reception and book signing to cap off the night. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-retablos-by-octavio-solis/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue. \n  \nFEATURING:\nal aguas\nKiyaan Abadani\nmadhvi trivedi-pathak\nManeo Refiloe Mohale
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-show-us-your-spines-resident-reading/
LOCATION:El Rio\, 3158 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Catana Chetwynd / Snug
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd\, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book\, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! \nPLEASE NOTE: \n>>  Due to popular demand\, we have added a second night with Catana and John! Wed\, Feb 19 is completely sold out.  \nTICKETS ARE NOW FOR SALE HERE for Thurs\, Feb 20. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \nWe have also moved both events up to a 6:30pm start time\, so Catana can have more time with each fan. If you have any questions or concerns\, please email us at events@booksmith.com. \n  \nWhy bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book of cozy\, cute comics. From the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes Snug\, a collection of comics that perfectly captures the honest\, playful\, and relatable snapshots of romantic life. \nChetwynds second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new\, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of usand the magic that happens when we find our matching puzzle piece. \n\nCatana Chetwynd is a self-taught traditional artist and the enthusiastic author of Catana Comics. She grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York\, where she spent her time creating art and pursing an education in psychology until accidentally stumbling into the world of comics. Not only is her boyfriend John the daily inspiration for her drawings\, but he was also the one who suggested a comic series about their relationship in the first place. Thanks to his idea and his inspiring daily antics\, Catana was able to pursue her childhood dream of being a cartoonist. She currently lives on the East Coast with John and their tiny\, angry dog Murph. \n  \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– To join the signing line\, you must purchase a book from Booksmith — no exceptions. If you already have a copy of Snug and Little Moments of Love\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted both of Catana’s books to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT Booksmith DOT com. \n– Candid photos will be allowed but due to timing\, we are unable to accommodate requests for posed photos. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Snug\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catana-chetwynd-snug-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Lucky Star: A Novel \npublished by Viking/Penguin \nThe National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society \nIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family\, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps\, prostitutes\, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In this new novel\, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves\, and who has to love them all back. \nAfter being initiated into a coven of island witches\, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard\, the introverted\, alcoholic\, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane\, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank\, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much\, Judy’s retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. \nCrafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic\, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture\, gender identity\, incest\, Christian sacrifice and\, most of all\, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way\, and stand up for who they are. \nPraise for The Lucky Star \n“[A] provocatively playful novel . . . As Neva evolves from an innocent to an icon on par with Marlene Dietrich\, at least in the eyes of the Y Bar circle\, she guides and mentors their sexual self-discovery\, helping define their boundaries and gain confidence . . . Vollmann’s challenging novel is full of memorable moments.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Vollmann pours his signature fascination with outcasts\, women’s sexuality\, violence\, and injustice into this gargantuan\, omnivorously explicit\, ravening orgy of trauma and resilience. Rooted in interviews with women survivors\, this is a molten amalgam of cynicism and compassion\, horror and beauty.” —Booklist \nWilliam T Vollmann is an award winning novelist\, journalist\, war correspondent\, short story writer\, essayist\, and painter. He is the author of ten novels\, four short story collections\, nine works of non-fiction\, and numerous limited special editions. His novel Europe Central won the 2005 National Book Award. He has won numerous honors for his work including the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket : Revenge
DESCRIPTION:There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and lust and backstabbing and danger and excitement and sex (there is has to be sex right?) and for some reason we think everything is covered in thick\, red velvet and dimly lit and maybe there’s a vampire because vampires are probably pretty vengeful but maybe that’s just because now we’re thinking thick\, red velvet and goblets full of red wine and maybe some of these stories will be set in castles with vampires… Could somebody please dump some ice on us so we can cool down? \nAnyways\, it’s going to be quite the evening. \nFree beer\, until it is not around anymore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-revenge/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event—the first of two evenings with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto—is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of Hindrances of a Householder (Chax 2016)\, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books\, 2014)\, lullaby without any music (Chax Press\, 2012)\, and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press\, 2007). Of her work\, Nathaniel Tarn writes\, “Jennifer Bartlett has created not a new form of surrealism\, nor of magical realism\, but a kind of supernal realism which leaves room for dreams\, visions\, and angels as well as the panoplies of both country and urban life.” \nBartlett is currently finishing a biography on the life of Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner. In 2017\, she cofounded Zoeglossia\, a literary organization pioneering an inclusive space for poets with disabilities. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen\, she also coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press\, 2011). Bartlett has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the University of Connecticut\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art; The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde; and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa\, Naropa University\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, the Breadloaf Poetry Fellowship in Sicily\, and the Queer Sugarloaf Art Residency. Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. The collaborative article\, “In Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation” with Sima Belmar was published in the December issue of In Dance. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDenise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett\nreading from their work\nFriday February 21\n7:00 pm @ The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street (at Gough)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \nZoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities \nIn Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation with Denise Leto (with Sima Belmar) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-jennifer-bartlett-and-denise-leto-reading-and-in-conversation/
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 E. Joseph in conversation with with Dr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. \npublished by Basic Books \n\nThis dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century’s most iconic African American leaders. \nTo most Americans\, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence\, black power vs. civil rights\, the sword vs. the shield. The struggle for black freedom is wrought with the same contrasts. While nonviolent direct action is remembered as an unassailable part of American democracy\, the movement’s militancy is either vilified or erased outright. In The Sword and the Shield\, Peniel E. Joseph upends these misconceptions and reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who\, despite markedly different backgrounds\, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography\, not only of Malcolm and Martin\, but also of the movement and era they came to define. \nPeniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan professor of political values and ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written several previous books on African American history\, including Stokely: A Life. He lives in Austin\, Texas. \nDr. Waldo E. Martin Jr. is a life long activist and educator. He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California\, Berkeley and the author of numerous important books on African American history which include: “No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America” and as co-author with Joshua Bloom “Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party”\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-e-joseph-in-conversation-with-with-dr-waldo-e-martin-jr-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Offill: Weather
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Offill discusses her new novel Weather. \nPraise for Weather \n“This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy.”–Ocean Vuong \n“Jenny Offill conjures entire worlds with her steady\, near-pointillist technique. One feels a whole heaving\, breathing universe behind her every line. Dread\, the sensation of sinking\, lostness\, and being cast away from any sense of safety infiltrates every interaction and private moment in this book\, like ashes from the burning world she describes.”–Sheila Heti \n“Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it.  Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices\, because she writes about essential things\, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–Jonathan Dee \nAbout Weather \nFrom the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation–one of the New York Times Book Review‘s Ten Best Books of the Year–a shimmering tour de force about a family\, and a nation\, in crisis \nLizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment\, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor\, Sylvia Liller\, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast\, Hell and High Water\, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world\, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse\, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone\, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair\, conscience and collusion\, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny\, disturbing\, and increasingly mad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-offill-weather/
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:Diane Keaton
DESCRIPTION:Academy-award winning actress Diane Keaton has starred in some of the most memorable films of the past forty years\, including the Godfather trilogy\, Annie Hall\, Manhattan\, The First Wives Club\, and Something’s Gotta Give. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Then Again and the essay collection Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty. Her new memoir\, Brother & Sister\, explores Keaton’s relationship with her brother\, and their divergent life paths. Intertwined with photographs\, journal entries\, letters\, and poetry\, this insightful memoir contemplates the inner workings of a family\, the ties that hold it together\, and the special bond between siblings\,  even when they are pulled far apart. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diane-keaton/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200221T190000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Denise Leto and Jennifer Bartlett
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens for 2020 with a double program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event—the second of two evenings with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto—is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics. Her work has appeared in publications such as Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art; The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde; and Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa\, Naropa University\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, the Breadloaf Poetry Fellowship in Sicily\, and the Queer Sugarloaf Art Residency. Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. The collaborative article\, “In Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation” with Sima Belmar was published in the December issue of In Dance. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received a BA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from Vermont College. She is the author of Hindrances of a Householder (Chax 2016)\, Autobiography/Anti-Autobiography (theenk Books\, 2014)\, lullaby without any music (Chax Press\, 2012)\, and Derivative of the Moving Image (University of New Mexico Press\, 2007). Bartlett is currently finishing a biography on the life of Black Mountain poet Larry Eigner. In 2017\, she cofounded Zoeglossia\, a literary organization pioneering an inclusive space for poets with disabilities. With Sheila Black and Michael Northen\, she also coedited Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press\, 2011). Bartlett has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsel\, New York Foundation for the Arts\, and the University of Connecticut\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nJennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\nreading and in conversation\nThursday February 20\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \nZoeglossia: A Community for Writers with Disabilities \nIn Practice: A Dancer Poet Creature Conversation with Denise Leto (with Sima Belmar) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-denise-leto-and-jennifer-bartlett/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Remarkable Poets on Disability Poetics and Activism
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series opens 2020 with a program featuring two remarkable poet/writers\, each with significant work in disability poetics and activism. This event\, with Jennifer Bartlett and Denise Leto\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. \nJennifer Bartlett was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of her work\, Nathaniel Tarn writes\, “Jennifer Bartlett has created not a new form of surrealism\, nor of magical realism\, but a kind of supernal realism which leaves room for dreams\, visions\, and angels as well as the panoplies of both country and urban life.” She lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and she works part-time in the Office of the President of New York City Transit. Here she works with a team on bringing accessibility to the New York City transit system. In addition to being a poet and writer\, she is an activist for people with disabilities throughout New York. \nDenise Leto is a multidisciplinary poet\, writer\, editor\, and dance dramaturge. She wrote the book of poetry for the collaborative dance performance Your Body is Not a Shark\, exploring feminist embodiment\, voice\, and disability poetics.  Denise is a member of Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her current project is an ecopoetic exploration of the San Francisco Bay. New poems are forthcoming in Quarterly West and Rogue Agent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-remarkable-poets-on-disability-poetics-and-activism/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cliterary Salon: the Heart is a Meat Pump
DESCRIPTION:Cliterary Salon is a monthly literary show focusing on work not traditionally prioritized in the mainstream by writers who subvert convention. To learn more\, please visit cliterarysalon.com \nContent Warning: the themes explored by the writers of Cliterary Salon may contain discussion of sexual assault\, eating disorders\, trauma\, and other sensitive topics. \nProducers: \nMeg Elison is a Bay Area author and essayist. Her debut novel\, THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE won the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award and was listed as a Tiptree Committee recommendation. Her second novel\, THE BOOK OF ETTA\, was published in 2017 by 47North. She writes like she’s running out of time and lives in Oakland. \nMaggie Tokuda-Hall is the author of Also an Octopus. Her debut young adult novel is slated to come out in 2019. She is the host of the Drunk Safari podcast (@drunksafaripod). You can follow her on twitter @emteehall. \nLauren Parker is a writer based in Oakland. She is a graduate of Hiram College’s Creative Writing program. She has written for the Toast\, the Tusk\, Ravishly\, The Bold Italic\, Harlot Magazine\, Hoodline\, and plain china. She’s the winner of the Summer of Love essay contest in the Daily Californian\, the Vachel Lindsay poetry prize\, and a was featured in Bennington College’s Best Undergraduate Writing series in 2012. \nLouis E. is a dude who writes words sometimes and at other times\, he says them. Louis is the least qualified Cliterato to write about the clitoris\, but you have to give him points for enthusiasm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cliterary-salon-the-heart-is-a-meat-pump/
LOCATION:Perdita\, 323 Divisadero Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephen Ratcliffe and Kyle Schlesinger at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Ratcliffe (sound of wave in channel) and Kyle Schlesinger (A New Kind of Country) will be here reading from their newest books!  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-ratcliffe-and-kyle-schlesinger-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T143000
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SUMMARY:Ann Harleman Reading from TELL ME\, SIGNORA
DESCRIPTION:Ann Harleman will read from and discuss her new novel\, TELL ME\, SIGNORA.  Kate Hagesfeld\, a recent widow\, travels to Italy just after 9/11 to restart her career as an archaeologist.  Caught up in efforts to aid political refugees\, she must make the choice of a lifetime.  Ann is the author of four previous books: Happiness; Bitter Lake; Thoreau’s Laundry; The Year She Disappeared.   “A wonderful talent!” (The Washington Post); “Stellar” (O\, The Oprah Magazine); “verbal razzle-dazzle…mystery…a dexterous writer” (The New York Times)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-harleman-reading-from-tell-me-signora/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T191614
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SUMMARY:Alan Kaufman\, Maxine Chernoff\, and Jake Marmer – Three Jewish Writers at The Beat Museum
DESCRIPTION:ALAN KAUFMAN \nAlan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers\, Etgar Keret and Sapphire to David Mamet\, Hubert Selby Jr. and Thane Rosenbaum but has been compared by critics to such prose masters as Henry Miller\, I.B. Singer and Jack Kerouac. His books include The Berlin Woman\, Matches\, Jew Boy\, Drunken Angel and several anthologies\, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Art. \n\nMAXINE CHERNOFF \nMaxine Chernoff has written 17 books of poetry\, most recently Under the Music (MadHat Press\, 2019)\, and 6 works of fiction. An NEA fellow in poetry in 2013\, she is also recipient of the 2009 PEN Translation Award. She was a 2016 Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. She is a professor of Creative Writing at SFSU\, where she chaired the department for 20 years. \nMaxine Chernoff at SF State \n  \n\nJAKE MARMER \nJake Marmer is a poet\, performer\, and educator. His latest poetry collection Cosmic Diaspora is forthcoming from Station Hill Press in May 2020. He is also the author of The Neighbor Out of Sound (2018) and Jazz Talmud (2012)\, both published by the Sheep Meadow Press. His klez-jazz-poetry record Hermeneutic Stomp was released by the Blue Fringe Music 2013. Jake is the contributing editor and poetry critic for Tablet Magazine. Born in the provincial steppes of Ukraine\, in a city that was renamed four times in the past 100 years\, Jake considers himself a New Yorker\, even though he lives in the Bay Area. For more info\, see jakemarmer.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-kaufman-maxine-chernoff-and-jake-marmer-three-jewish-writers-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T210000
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SUMMARY:Sean Negus and Caroline Goodwin at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the publication of Hurricane Music (Sean Negus) and Custody of the Eyes (Caroline Goodwin). \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sean-negus-and-caroline-goodwin-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Lucky 13'th Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! \n  \nSaturday February 22nd\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA) \nRemember: Bang-O at 6:00 PM\, Stories at 7:00 PM \n(NOTE: This is our Early Show) \nTickets $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door \nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband! \nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Celebratory Stories\, Songs & S*x Toys includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Full Storyteller Lineup to be Announced – Stay Tuned! \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ WIN BIG prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Custom Bawdy beverages from Caged Heat Cocktails \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nOn Saturday February 22nd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate THIRTEEN YEARS of Groundbreaking\, Mindblowing\, Spincter-contracting Storytelling with an Edge… For this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy. \nEach month for 13 Years\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! Our VIP Table Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness & gifts to take home with you. Both our VIP Tables & Reserved Seating are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Live Event: Winner of SFist‘s Best Storytelling Show\, 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Bawdy Storytelling Podcast has been called the Best by Forbes\, Cosmopolitan\, Women’s Health\, Esquire\, TimeOut\, Marie Claire\, Buzzfeed\, Vox\, Cosmopolitan UK\, The Guardian\, Bloomberg\, Bust\, Thrillist & GQ Magazine\, & More! \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling 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\, that’s celebrating 12 years of transformative\, relatable\, carefully crafted and curated storytelling  (“The 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 the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, 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. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s stories & insights on Twitter at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \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“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-lucky-13th-anniversary/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Best of Bawdy 2020!
DESCRIPTION:SEE BOTH SHOWS WITH A FULL EVENING WRISTBAND! \n  \nSaturday February 22nd\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA) \n(NOTE: This is our Late Show) \nTickets $25 in Advance / $30 at the Door \nOr see BOTH SHOWS with a Full Evening Wristband! \nWant to sample Bawdy Storytelling? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Celebratory Stories\, Songs & S*x Toys includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Full Storyteller Lineup to be Announced – Stay Tuned! \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ WIN BIG prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Custom Bawdy beverages from Caged Heat Cocktails \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nSurvey to select your Favorite Storytellers of 2019 Coming Soon! \n\nOn Saturday February 22nd\, come to Bawdy – the birthday candle you just can’t blow out – to celebrate THIRTEEN YEARS of Groundbreaking\, Mindblowing\, Spincter-contracting Storytelling with an Edge… For this big Anniversary blowout\, we’ll have the notorious and heroic onstage to tell their own scandalously revealing tales\, so expect a star-slutted event that will leave no turn un-stoned\, go behind the green door\, and give you everything you’ve come to love about Bawdy. \n\nEach month for 13 Years\, Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together on the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! Our VIP Table Packages will be chock full of brand new bawdiness & gifts to take home with you. Both our VIP Tables & Reserved Seating are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone – our Anniversary shows always SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Live Event: Winner of SFist‘s Best Storytelling Show\, 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•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Bawdy Storytelling Podcast has been called the Best by Forbes\, Cosmopolitan\, Women’s Health\, Esquire\, TimeOut\, Marie Claire\, Buzzfeed\, Vox\, Cosmopolitan UK\, The Guardian\, Bloomberg\, Bust\, Thrillist & GQ Magazine\, & More! \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling 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\, that’s celebrating 12 years of transformative\, relatable\, carefully crafted and curated storytelling  (“The 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 the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, 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. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s stories & insights on Twitter at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 6:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \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“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-best-of-bawdy-2020/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join Silent Book Club for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n\nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nPhoto by Cody Pickens for O Magazine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-book-club-sf-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF in SF with Juliette Wade\, Tiffany Trent\, and Mike Chen
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Juliette Wade\, Tiffany Trent\, and Mike Chen\, in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nJuliette Wade’s first novel\, Mazes of Power\, is just out from Daw; a work of sociological science fiction\, it follows a deadly battle for succession in a world where brother is pitted against brother in a singular chance to win power and influence. Wade’s short fiction has been published in Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction magazines\, and she runs the popular Dive into Worldbuilding video series and blog. With a B.A. in Japanese\, an M.A. in Linguistics\, and a Ph.D. in Education\, Wade has spent time living in France and Japan. Now she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Australian husband and two teenage boys. \nTiffany Trent is the author of The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King\, and of the Hallowmere series. Her short stories have appeared in Clockwork Cairo\, Willful Impropriety\, After the Fall\, and others. With Stephanie Burgis she is the editor of the Locus Award finalist for Best Anthology\, The Underwater Ballroom Society. Trent teaches creative writing in the online MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. She lives with her husband and two awesome kids\, and geeks out over beekeeping\, suburban homesteading\, weird science\, pie\, and martial arts. \nMike Chen‘s new novel A Beginning at the End\, is set among people struggling to survive and connect in post-pandemic San Francisco; his first book\, Here and Now and Then\, followed a time-traveling secret agent–and father–torn between a life in the future and one in the past. In addition to writing fiction\, Chen has been a tech writer\, Word Press developer\, and sports journalist. He lives in the Bay Area with his family\, and is ready to explain why Jean-Luc Picard is the greatest human in real or fictional history. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-with-juliette-wade-tiffany-trent-and-mike-chen/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Sayles at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Yellow Earth \nfrom Haymarket Books \n\nRich layers of shale oil are discovered under Yellow Earth\, North Dakota and the neighboring Three Nations Indian reservation. All hell breaks loose. \n\n\nIn Yellow Earth\, the site of Three Nations reservations on the banks of the Missouri River in North Dakota\, Sayles introduces us to Harleigh Killdeer\, chairman of the Tribal Business Council. “An activist in his way\, a product of the Casino Era\,” Kildeer\, who is contracted by oil firm Case and Crosby\, spearheads the new Three Nations Petroleum Company. \nWhat follows\, with characteristic lyrical dexterity\, insight\, and wit\, introduces us to a memorable cast of characters\, weaving together narratives of competing worlds through masterful storytelling. \nSet shortly before Standing Rock would become a symbol of historic proportions of the brutal confrontation between native resistance and the forces of big business and law enforcement\, the fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times. \nJohn Sayles works as a fiction writer\, screenwriter\, actor and feature film director.  His novel Union Dues (1978) was nominated for the National Book Award and the National Critics’ Circle Award.  He has written over a hundred screenplays and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.  He has directed 18 feature films\, with another\, I Passed This Way\, currently in progress.  His films Matewan and Lone Star\, as well as his previous novel A Moment in the Sun\, are often used for instruction in History and American Studies courses.  Yellow Earth is his fifth novel. \nWhat has been said about the work of John Sayles: \n“John Sayles is a living master. Yellow Earth reminds me what novels are for.” —Jennifer Haigh\, author of Heat and Light \nFilmmaker Sayles … is also a highly imaginative short story writer with a sure ear for dialogue\, a keen eye for group dynamics\, a flair for quickly establishing intriguing mise-en-scènes\, and the ability to animate a great spectrum of flinty characters … Sayles expresses his compassion and concern for those who struggle with poverty and prejudice\, seeking both to provoke and entertain.” —Booklist\n“Many writers can render credible characters in a credible world\, but only a few can do so with a warmth and a humor that is as wise as it is true.” —Chicago Sun-Times\n“[Sayles’s] ancestry is more like the reportorial vigor Jack London on one side and a little of the sweet impressionism of Stephen Crane on the other.” —The New York Times\n“John Sayles is one of the most important public historians of our generation.” —William Cronon\, President of the American Historical Association\n“John Sayles is the very paradigm of the contemporary independent filmmaker. By raising much of the funding for his films himself\, Sayles functions more independently than most directors\, and he has used his freedom to write and produce films with a distinctive personal style and often clearly expressed political positions.From The Return of the Secaucus Seven to Sunshine State\, his films have consistently expressed progressive political positions on issues including race\, gender\, sexuality\, class\, and disability.”  —University of Illinois Press\nSayles is a terrific writer. His breathtaking precision and attention to detail can make E.L. Doctorow’s historical novels look puny and slapdash by comparison. His ability to map the intersections of scores of plots and hundreds of fictional and real-life characters is truly stunning.”  —Adam Langer\, San Francisco Chronicle
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-sayles-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Apogee Press at Lone Glen
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at 7 pm on Tuesday\, February 25th for a night of poetry revelry at The Bindery in San Francisco. The Lone Glen series will celebrate the beginning of its ninth year with Apogee Press\, featuring poets Elizabeth Robinson\, Barbara Tomash\, Laura Walker\, and Edward Smallfield\, who is also launching his latest book\, to whom it may concern. Whereas Smallfield explores the “lyric meditation\, [where] eros and erasure alternately fuse and efface until erasure becomes manifestation . . .”\, Walker assures us that narrative is “a music to live by”\, Tomash reminds us that “every word was once a poem”\, and Robinson allows us to “revel in the slippery meanings of common words as they pour through the security perimeters.” We look forward to witnessing each of these poets pour through their works and invite you to share their words with us. \nAbout the series: \nLone Glen\, now in its ninth year\, is a quarterly art-centric reading and performance series dedicated to creating a down-to-earth\, inclusive space among writers and artists of all genres. Suggested donation for this reading is $5-$10 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nAbout the Venue: \nThe Bindery\, an outcrop of The Booksmith\, is a magical bookstore/event space with a beer\, wine and cocktail bar\, located at 1727 Haight Street. The Bindery is wheelchair accessible. \nAbout the poets: \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor (Parlor Press/Free Verse Editions) and Blue Heron (Center for Literary Publishing).  Her nonfiction essays have appeared recently in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time.  Robinson has received grants from the Fund for Poetry\, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts\, and the Maison Dora Maar.  With Jennifer Phelps\, she co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press in 2019. \nEDWARD SMALLFIELD is the author of to whom it may concern\, equinox\, The Pleasures of C\, and americana. He is also the author of several collaborative projects\, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson)\, locate (with Miriam Pirone)\, and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in Barcelona INK\, Denver Quarterly\, e-poema.eu\, Five Fingers Review\, New American Writing\, Páginas Rojas\, Parthenon West Review\, 26\, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi\, Paou\, Paros\, and Sofia\, and lives in Barcelona with his wife\, the poet Valerie Coulton. \nBARBARA TOMASH is the author of four books of poetry: PRE- (Black Radish Books 2018)\, Arboreal (Apogee 2014)\, The Secret of White (Spuyten Duyvil 2009)\, and Flying in Water\, winner of the 2005 Winnow First Poetry Award. An earlier version of PRE- was a finalist for the Colorado Prize and the Rescue Press Black Box Poetry Prize. Before her creative interests turned her toward writing she worked extensively as a multimedia artist. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Web Conjunctions\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, OmniVerse\, and numerous other journals. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nLAURA WALKER is the author of story (Apogee Press\, 2016)\, Follow–Haswed (Apogee Press\, 2012)\, bird book (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press\, 2008)\, and swarm lure (Battery Press\, 2004). She grew up in rural North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley\, CA\, where she teaches creative writing. More information is available at laura-walker.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/apogee-press-at-lone-glen/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000
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SUMMARY:Emily Nemens: The Cactus League
DESCRIPTION:Emily Nemens discusses her new novel The Cactus League. \nPraise for The Cactus League \n“Emily Nemens’s magnificent debut is a masterwork of great empathy and detail\, uncovering the realms of incredible pain and beauty enmeshed within every level of America’s pastime. If you love baseball\, you won’t put it down\, and if you don’t love baseball\, you might by the end.” —J. Ryan Stradal\, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota and Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n“A debut? You’ve got to be kidding.The Cactus League reads like the work of a seasoned novelist. The way the story’s tension ramps\, the richly drawn characters\, the indelible imagery—you’ll never see a ball park the same—not to mention Emily Nemens’s knowledge of America’s pastime is downright encyclopedic. And while all those things are true\, absolutely true\, the heart of this amazing novel is Emily’s understanding of the crucibles faced by those both in the limelight and out of it. Goodyear and the rest of the gang are a cast for the ages. Hip hip hooray for this achievement.” —Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \n“The Cactus League is not just another baseball novel. I can’t think of another book that so carefully examines the complex ecosystem of professional sport. With both compassion and objectivity\, Emily Nemens deftly depicts the rich lives and stories that swirl beneath the ‘meaningless’ innings of spring training.” —Chris Bachelder\, author of The Throwback Special \nAbout The Cactus League \nAn explosive\, character-driven odyssey through the world of baseball from Emily Nemens\, the editor of The Paris Review \nJason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions\, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome\, famous\, and talented\, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches\, writers\, wives\, girlfriends\, petty criminals\, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why—as they hide secrets of their own. \nHumming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch\, Emily Nemens’ The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster\, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor\, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland\, a resourceful spring-training paramour\, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison\, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters\, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that\, like the Arizona desert\, brims with both possibility and destruction. \nAnchored by an expert knowledge of baseball’s inner workings\, Emily Nemens’s The Cactus League is a propulsive and deeply human debut that captures a strange desert world that is both exciting and unforgiving\, where the most crucial games are the ones played off the field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-nemens-the-cactus-league/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T210000
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SUMMARY:The Evolving Universe with Brian Greene in conversation with Gina Pell
DESCRIPTION:Brian Greene is widely recognized for his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory.  Greene is co-founder and director of Columbia’s Institute for Strings\, Cosmology\, and Astroparticle Physics\, and his many books include The Elegant Universe\, The Fabric of the Cosmos\, and The Hidden Reality. His newest\, Until the End of Time: Mind\, Matter\, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe\, explores how life and mind emerged from the initial chaos\, and how our minds\, in coming to understand their own impermanence\, seek in different ways to give meaning to experience: in narrative\, myth\, religion\, creative expression\, science\, the quest for truth\, and our longing for the eternal. \nGina Pell is the Content Chief of The What\, a lifestyle and culture publication with a global readership and engaged online community. She is an award-winning Creative Director and tech entrepreneur who was an early pioneer in the digital media space.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-evolving-universe-with-brian-greene-in-conversation-with-gina-pell/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T220000
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SUMMARY:Lit Flicks: Steven Soderbergh's "Out of Sight"
DESCRIPTION:Lit Flicks is a new monthly collaboration between Litquake and Alamo Drafthouse\, presenting the best films adapted from written works\, and introduced by special guests. Lit Flicks bookstore\, operated by Borderlands Books\, will be open at all screenings. \nSpecial guest speaker: Eddie Muller (Noir City\, TCM’s Noir Alley). \nTalk at 7:30 pm\, screening at 7:50 pm. \n$16 \nGeorge Clooney. Handsome\, classy\, and undeniably the most suave man in Hollywood. His grin alone can melt every woman’s heart in a hundred mile radius\, and his cockiness is the envy of dudes the world over. He’s one smooth operator\, and no film exemplifies that better than OUT OF SIGHT. \nAs Jack Foley\, Clooney plays a bank robber who escapes from prison and winds up stuck in the trunk of his getaway car with U.S. Marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez\, in arguably her best role). After she’s released\, Sisco remains in hot\, and I mean HOT\, pursuit of Foley (and who can blame her?) \nWe all want to hunt down George Clooney for the crime of devastating us with his charm\, but Jennifer Lopez might be the only one sexy enough to catch him. Also starring the excellent male specimens of Don Cheadle\, Ving Rhames\, and Dennis Farina\, this film\, based on the novel by the legendary Elmore Leonard\, is guaranteed to give you plenty of opportunities to swoon\, fist pump\, and worship at the altar of Clooney. \n\n\n \n\n\n\nEddie Muller\nEDDIE MULLER is a second generation San Franciscan\, product of a lousy public school education\, a couple of crazy years in art school\, and too much time in newspaper offices and sporting arenas. No college\, but he’s compensated by always hanging around smarter people\, an effortless… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lit-flicks-steven-soderberghs-out-of-sight/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200225T213000
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SUMMARY:The MFA in Writing Program presents Cristina García in conversation with Omar. F. Miranda
DESCRIPTION:Cristina García is the author of seven novels\, including: Dreaming in Cuban\, The Agüero Sisters\, Monkey Hunting\, A Handbook to Luck\, The Lady Matador’s Hotel\, King of Cuba\, and\, most recently\, Here in Berlin; two Latinx anthologies: Cubanísimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature and Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a Literature; and a collection of poetry\, The Lesser Tragedy of Death. García’s work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University\, and an NEA grant\, among others. Currently\, she is playwright-in-residence at the Brava Theater Center in San Francisco. \nOmar F. Miranda is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Francisco. He teaches courses in British Romantic-era literature\, and his research focuses on exile and the birth of global celebrity culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a second-generation Cuban exile from Miami\, he grew up in a community that\, while attempting to recreate it abroad\, invariably longed for its true homeland across the Florida Straits.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-mfa-in-writing-program-presents-cristina-garcia-in-conversation-with-omar-f-miranda/
LOCATION:McLaren Complex – MC252\, USF\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:the system must be tried
DESCRIPTION:SF writer Kevin Simmonds reads from the system must be tried\, sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-system-must-be-tried/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200226T183000
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DTSTAMP:20260412T191614
CREATED:20200207T213351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T213351Z
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SUMMARY:Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Around the World
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 25th anniversary of the UN Conference of Women in Beijing\, but what kind of progress has really been made? One billion girls and women still lack the skills\, education\, and rights needed to participate in the labor market. Eighty percent of human trafficking victims are girls. Early marriage is still prevalent in many African countries and women’s economic participation rates are now on the decline globally. \nOne woman who has spent her life working to improve the lives of women and advocate for a just and fair world is Karen Sherman. Sherman has spent her life advocating for women in war-torn and transitional countries such as Iraq\, Afghanistan\, Bosnia\, Congo\, Nigeria\, Rwanda\, South Sudan\, Kosovo\, and the former Soviet Union. Sherman now serves as President of the Akilah Institute\, Rwanda’s only women’s college\, and was a senior executive at Women for Women International\, an organization that helps women survivors of war to rebuild their lives. \nIn her new memoir “Brick by Brick” Sherman tells\, not only her own story of moving her family to Kigali\, Rwanda in 2012\, but also those of women who survived the Rwandan genocide\, and how it forever changed her life. She’ll join us to discuss the book\, how economic empowerment brings choice for women\, what role governments and the private sector can play in supporting women\, and how women globally can be more connected to one another.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-hope-and-opportunity-for-women-around-the-world/
LOCATION:World Affaris Auditorium\, 312 Sutter Street\, Suite 200\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Abigail Welhouse":MAILTO:abigail@scottmanningpr.com
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