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SUMMARY:Martin Seay + Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:Martin Seay will talk about The Mirror Thief (Melville House)\, one of the most talked-about debut novels of 2016\, with Robin Sloan. \nPraise for The Mirror Thief \n“A true delight\, a big\, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller\, a supernatural mystery\, and an enchanting historical adventure story…A splendid masterpiece\, to be loved like a long-lost friend\, an epic with near-universal appeal.”—Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed) \n“Matched in its ambition only by its accomplishment. This literary\, noir thriller–drenched in grit\, paranoia\, and desperation–pulls the reader inexorably through a Russian doll of mysteries that span centuries and cultures. One hell of a debut novel.” —Chris Phipps\, Diesel Books Oakland \n“An incredible feat of storytelling . . . A delicious stew of Los Angeles-type noir\, Da Vinci Code mystery\, Rebel Without a Cause toughness\, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance mechanical spirituality.” —Steve Salardino\, Skylight Books \n\nAbout The Mirror Thief: \nA globetrotting\, time-bending\, wildly entertaining masterpiece in the tradition of “Cloud Atlas.”\n“Publishers Weekly” raved that “with near-universal appeal . . .Seay’s debut novel is a true delight\, a big\, beautiful cabinet of wonders that is by turns an ominous modern thriller\, a supernatural mystery\, and an enchanting historical adventure story.”Set in three cities in three eras\, “The Mirror Thief” calls to mind David Mitchell and Umberto Eco in its mix of entertainment and literary bravado.\nThe core story is set in Venice in the sixteenth century\, when the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world’s most wondrous inventions: the mirror. An object of glittering yet fearful fascination was it reflecting simple reality\, or something more spiritually revealing? the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology\, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man\, however a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city’s terrifying enforcers of the edict\, the ominous Council of Ten . . .\nMeanwhile\, in two other Venices Venice Beach\, California\, circa 1958\, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas\, circa today two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret . . .\nAll three stories will weave together into a spell-binding tour-de-force that is impossible to put down an old-fashioned\, stay-up-all-night novel that\, in the end\, returns the reader to a stunning conclusion in the original Venice . . . and the bedazzled sense of having read a truly original and thrilling work of art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martin-seay-robin-sloan/
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:Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Noah Warren reads from his first collection\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, winner of the 110th Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. \n\nPraise for The Destroyer in the Glass: \n“The Destroyer in the Glass impresses at once with its wedding of intellect\, heart\, sly humor\, and formal dexterity\, all in the service of negotiating those moments when an impulse toward communion with others competes with an instinct for a more isolated self. The poems both examine and embody the nexus of joy and sorrow\, of certainty and confusion\, without which there’d be none of the restlessness that makes us uniquely human. Warren’s vision is a generous one indeed —and itself a gift.” –Carl Phillips\, Judge’s Citation \n\nAbout The Destroyer in the Glass: \nNoah Warren’s brilliant collection of poetry\, The Destroyer in the Glass\, is the 110th recipient of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize\, the oldest annual literary award in the United States. Warren explores universal themes of isolation and the desire for human connection in a series of tightly crystallized poems that question the damage we have done—to ourselves and to others—in the pursuit of knowledge and a stable idea of who we are. Balancing a tendency toward form\, rhyme\, and allusion with a freer\, expressive style\, this exceptional young poet charts the development of the self through\, by\, and in language.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noah-warren/
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:Cross Strokes\, Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the San Francisco Launch Party for the anthology Cross Strokes\, Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco on Saturday\, May 14th from 2 to 4 pm. \nReadings by: \nNeeli Cherkovski\nTim Donnelly\nSharon Doubiago\nPatrick James Dunagan\nBill Mohr\nPaul Vangelisti\nMaw Shein Win\n\nPlus readings of work by Francisco X. Alarcon\, Jack Hirschman\, and Lenore Kandel. \nBird & Beckett is located at 653 Chenery Street near the Glen Park Bart station. \nSee you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cross-strokes-poetry-between-los-angeles-and-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:35th Annual Northern California Book Awards celebrate writers\, readers\, and publishers of Northern California. Authors will be honored in Fiction\, Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature\, with brief celebratory readings and remarks by the winning authors. A lively reception with book signing follows\, all free and open to the public; Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Susan Griffin\, eco-feminist essayist\, novelist\, poet\, and playwright. NCBR Recogntion Award will be presented to California’s Wild Edge: The Coast in Poetry\, Prints\, and History\, by Tom Killion with Gary Snyder\, (Heyday). The NCBAs are presented by Northern California Book Reviewers\, an association of book reviewers and book review editors\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library. Visit Poetryflash.org (see NCBA feature on Front Page) for complete list of nominees to be announced in April: http://poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2016\, or email NCBR@poetryflash.org. Winners will be announced at the Awards ceremony!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: You’re So Wrong for Me
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit joins PianoFight! Listen to Bay Area writers Miah Jeffra\, Anna Pulley\, Hannah Wehr and comedian Emily Van Dyke perform material inspired by musical guest Angelina Moysov’s song “You’re So Wrong for Me\,” followed by an accousic set of her upcoming solo album. \nHOSTED BY: Jenn Stokes of Moonlighting SF\nPIANO ACCOMPANIMENT: Sarah Dineen \n***$12 in advance\, $15 at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-youre-so-wrong-for-me/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading
DESCRIPTION:Annual Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Reading. Cosponsored by the Lambda Literary Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lambda-literary-awards-finalists-reading/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:RADAR: Black Queer Artists in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:As part of our QUEERING THE CASTRO program we’re bringing a conversation with three Bay Area artists about the intersections of blackness\, queerness and art. \nFacilitated by Beatrice Thomas\n(Donations accepted!) \nFeaturing:\nAlicia Bell\nAlicia Bell is a Southern-Born\, Black\, Queer\, Femme. Her work\, mostly in the realm of performance art\, incorporates a multiplicity of realities and futures building freedom and liberation. In community\, Alicia works mostly with black.seed\, Critical Resistance’s Oakland Power Projects\, and Abundant Beginnings. \nReek bell\nReek bell is a black militant femme artist & organizer from South Jersey. Her work\, mostly in the realm of literary art\, reflects intersections of intimacy\, friendship\, and resistance within blackness. In community\, Reek works mostly with black.seed & Oakland SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally). \nMustafah Greene\nMustafah Greene is a stunning handsome collection of atoms from Brooklyn\, NY. His work\, mostly in the realm of visual art\, is built upon connecting the classic and the contemporary to synthesize art that speaks truth to the times. In community\, Mustafah works mostly with black.seed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-black-queer-artists-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The GLBT Historical Society\, 4127 18th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ken Kalfus w/ Rachel Monroe
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Headlands Center for the Artspresent Ken Kalfus in-conversation with Rachel Monroe \nKen Kalfus’ Coup de Foudre is a collection of short stories that includes the full text of the title novella that first appeared in Harper’s Magazine. Recalling news events with irony and compassion\, Kalfus writes the ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. The fifteen stories that follow vary boldly in theme\, setting\, and tone but all share the distinctive humor and intellect found throughout Kalfus’ award-winning work. \nKen Kalfus and Rachel Monroe are current Writers in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts. \nKen Kalfus is the author of three novels\,Equilateral\, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, and The Commissariat of Enlightenment. He has also published the story collections Thirst and Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies\, the latter a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the basis for the HBO film Pu-239. Kalfus recently received a Pew Fellowships in the Arts award and a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in Philadelphia. \nRachel Monroe has previously written for Oxford American\, the New York Times\, theLos Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ken-kalfus-w-rachel-monroe/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Louise Erdrich
DESCRIPTION:Louise Erdrich is one of the most gifted\, prolific\, and challenging of contemporary Native American novelists. Born in 1954 in Little Falls\, Minnesota\, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton\, North Dakota\, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools. Her fiction reflects aspects of her mixed heritage: German through her father\, and French and Ojibwa through her mother. She is the author of the many novels including Love Medicine; The Beet Queen\, and The Bingo Palace\, and The Round House\, two poetry collections and numerous short stories. Her newest book LaRose is her first novel since the publication of The Round House (winner of the 2012 National Book Award). She lives in Minnesota where she runs independent bookstore called The Birchbark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/louise-erdrich/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mark Binelli
DESCRIPTION:Mark Binelli\, author of Green Apple staff favorite Detroit City is the Place to Be\, reads from his new novel\, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits. \n\nPraise for Mark Binelli: \n“At once hilarious and sharp\, sweeping and intimate\, Detroit City Is the Place to Be is an oddly delighted warning from the recent future. Mark Binelli writes with the tender scrutiny of a returning exile\, in a style that manages to infuse Rolling Stone vigor with Spy wit\, Baffler skepticism\, and n+1 intelligence. This is a nonfiction novel about our American experiment—grand and grandiose\, unprecedented and absurd—and it’s the most entertaining and persuasive book about this country I’ve read in a very long time.” —Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Detroit City is the Place to Be \n\n“A sweeping narrative encompassing everything from the struggles of Italian-American immigrants to the social dynamics of pie fights. . . [with] joyful nostalgia\, pinpoint characterizations and postmodern brio.” –New York Times Book Review on Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die! \nAbout Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits: \nMark Binelli turns his sharp\, forceful prose to fiction\, in an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins\, a bluesman with one hit and a string of inflammatory guises. \n  \nHe came on stage in a coffin\, carried by pallbearers\, drunk enough to climb into his casket every night. Onstage he wore a cape\, clamped a bone to his nose\, and carried a staff topped with a human skull. Offstage\, he insisted he’d been raised by a tribe of Blackfoot Indians\, that he’d joined the army at fourteen\, that he’d defeated the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska\, that he’d fathered seventy-five illegitimate children. \n  \nThe R&B wildman Screamin’ Jay Hawkins only had a single hit\, the classic “I Put a Spell On You\,” and was often written off as a clownish novelty act — or worse\, an offense to his race — but his myth-making was legendary. In his second novel\, Mark Binelli embraces the man and the legend to create a hilarious\, tragic\, fantastical portrait of this unlikeliest of protagonists. Hawkins saw his life story as a wild picaresque\, and Binelli’s novel follows suit\, tackling the subject in a dazzling collage-like style. \n  \nAt Rolling Stone\, Binelli has profiled some of the greatest musicians of our time\, and this novel deftly plays with the inordinate focus on “authenticity” in so much music writing about African-Americans. An entire novel built around a musician as deliberately inauthentic as Screamin’ Jay Hawkins thus becomes a sort of subversive act\, as well as an extremely funny and surprisingly moving one.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-binelli/
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:Jim Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them\, his father built and raced them\, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings\, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land\, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea\, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one\, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking\, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder\, and he himself—despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates—hasn’t even come close to finding a girlfriend. Before the Wind is a grand and idiosyncratic family saga. \nJim Lynch lives with his wife in Olympia\, Washington. His novels The Highest Tide\, Border Songs\, and Truth Like the Sunhave been adapted for the stage in Seattle. His prizes include the Indies Choice Honor Book Award\, the Washington State Book Award for Fiction\, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-lynch/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Appreciation of Ralph J. Gleason: Popular Music's Preeminent Commentator
DESCRIPTION:Toby Gleason in conversation with Al Young \ncelebrating the release of \nMUSIC IN THE AIR: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason \nCONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews \nboth edited by Toby Gleason \npublished by Yale University Press \nMUSIC IN THE AIR: The Selected Writings of Ralph J. Gleason\, collects in one volume the best cultural criticism and music writings from Gleason. With a foreword by Jann Wenner and introduction by Paul Scanlon\, the book collects the best of his essays\, interviews\, liner notes\, correspondence\, and books in sections covering Jazz and Blues; Folk\, Rock\, and Pop; Comedy; and Politics and Culture. \nThe co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine\, Ralph J. Gleason was among the most respected journalists\, interviewers\, and critics writing about popular music in the latter half of the twentieth century. As a longtime contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle\, Down Beat\, and Ramparts\, his expertise and insights about music\, musicians\, and cultural trends were unparalleled\, whether his subject was jazz\, folk\, pop\, or rock and roll. He was the only music journalist included on President Richard Nixon’s infamous “Enemies List\,” which Gleason himself considered “the highest honor a man’s country can bestow upon him.” \nThis sterling anthology\, edited by Gleason’s son Toby\, himself a forty-year veteran of the music business\, spans Ralph J. Gleason’s four decades as popular music’s preeminent commentator. Drawing from a rich variety of sources\, including Gleason’s books\, essays\, interviews\, and LP record album liner notes\, it is essential reading for writers\, historians\, scholars\, and music lovers of every stripe. \nTwo-time Grammy Award winner Ralph J. Gleason (1917–1975) was the author of numerous articles and three highly regarded books on music as well as an acclaimed TV and documentary film producer. Toby Gleason is a veteran jazz radio producer\, programmer\, and host\, and a former assistant editor at Rolling Stone. \nCONVERSATIONS IN JAZZ: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews brings together for the first time rare and never-before-seen interviews between Ralph Gleason and fourteen of the greatest jazz musicians. These informal sessions\, conducted mostly in Gleason’s Berkeley home\, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. With a foreword and introductory noted by Ted Gioia\, this collection gathers in one place remarkably candid conversations with many of the jazz greats of the twentieth century\, from Coltrane to Parker to Mingus and Gillespie. \nDuring his nearly forty years as a music journalist\, Ralph J. Gleason recorded many in-depth interviews with some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. These informal sessions\, conducted mostly in Gleason’s Berkeley\, California\, home\, have never been transcribed and published in full until now. \nThis remarkable volume\, a must-read for any jazz fan\, serious musician\, or musicologist\, reveals fascinating\, little-known details about these gifted artists\, their lives\, their personas\, and\, of course\, their music. Bill Evans discusses his battle with severe depression\, while John Coltrane talks about McCoy Tyner’s integral role in shaping the sound of the Coltrane quartet\, praising the pianist enthusiastically. Included also are interviews with Dizzy Gillespie\, Sonny Rollins\, Quincy Jones\, Jon Hendricks\, and the immortal Duke Ellington\, plus seven more of the most notable names in twentieth-century jazz. \nToby Gleason is the son of Ralph J. Gleason. \nAl Young is a poet\, novelist\, essayist\, screenwriter\, educator\, and former Poet Laureate of California. Muriel Johnson\, Director of the California Arts Council declared: “Like jazz\, Al Young is an original American voice.” Mr. Young’s has produced numerous novels\, collections of poetry\, essays\, and memoirs. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Paris Review\, Ploughshares\, Essence\, The New York Times\, Chicago Review\, Seattle Review\, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz & Literature\, Chelsea\, Rolling Stone\, Gathering of the Tribes\, and in anthologies including the Norton Anthology of African American Literature\, and the Oxford Anthology of African American Literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-appreciation-of-ralph-j-gleason-popular-musics-preeminent-commentator/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker
DESCRIPTION:In La Ronde a Park Avenue woman puts a price on her brutish husband’s head. Tells her Jersey girlfriend to ask her connected brother for help. The brother talks to his accountant and lover\, who talks to her other lover\, a movie producer who tells his glam wife back in L.A.\, who tells her personal trainer while getting a massage. The personal trainer mentions it to his boyfriend who is in money trouble. The boyfriend hypes the price on the husband’s head to get the loan shark off his back\, after the guy breaks his leg. The loan shark flies to New York to hire a hit man cheap. Is out-foxed by hit man’s hot sister. Back to the husband with a price on his head. \nTownsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries\, foreign places\, violence and strong women. A novella in noir\, La Ronde\, was published by Truth Serum Press in June 2015. Some seventy short stories have been published in literary journals and included in nine anthologies. He won first place in the SLO NightWriters contest\, second place in Our Storiescontest\, and two nominations for the PEN/O.Henry Award. Four stories were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood. He is currently developing a screenplay based on La Ronde and a series of linked stories based on original collage works of Beverly Mills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/townsend-walker/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s First Solo Show in Five Years Comes to The Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco in the Form of an Exhibition & Book Launch \nPlease join us at The Dryansky Gallery for the opening reception of “Close Enough for the Angels” on Thursday\, May 19\, 2016\, from 7-9 pm! Artist Paul Madonna will be in attendance. \nHaving recently ended his popular and enduring “All Over Coffee” series after 12 years and a total of 726 strips and two books\, Madonna has completed “Close Enough for the Angels”\, an illustrated novel that looks toRaymond Chandler and Haruki Murakami as inspirations; the drawings in the book will not “illustrate” the text per-se\, but rather—influenced by 19th Century woodcut artist Utagawa Hiroshige—tell their part of the story in graphic terms in the style Madonna is well known for; the exhibit will consist of all new work\, including framed originals from the book\, text panels on the wall\, and a limited edition of fifty hand-bound copies of the book produced by the artist. \nClose Enough for the Angels—an exhibition of original drawings and limited edition book launch—opens May 19 from 7-9pm and runs through July 14 at The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street in San Francisco \nFor more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/close-enough-for-the-angels \nAbout Paul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the series “All Over Coffee” (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2015)\, and the author of two books\, “All Over Coffee” (City Lights Bookstore 2007)\, and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011)\, which won the 2011 NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for The Rumpus.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 (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. For more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/paul-madonna-bio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna/
LOCATION:The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Richardson\, Tess Taylor + Kimberly Grey
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Grey\, Rachel Richardson\, and Tess Taylor read poems from their new collections. \n\nAbout Kimberly Grey’s The Opposite of Light: \n  \nA revealing scrutiny of contemporary marriage; winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.\nCan the notion of Romantic love withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems\, Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness\, order\, and symmetry in matrimony\, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age―its weightless\, distracting\, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves: familiar but strange\, predetermined but new. There is “a drop of blue light\,” she writes. “But no high-tech way / to say you’re mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancient bodies.” \n  \n“In The Opposite of Light the rapid momentum of invention plays against extremities of feeling\, system meeting sensation: “We keep inventing/ newfangled ways to be in the world” gives way to “No way to love each other/ but with these ancient bodies.” These poems are serious in their play\, love poems in a world of interlocking technologies and language\, tender buttons with a lot to say.  — Ken Fields \n  \nAbout Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave: \n  \nIn Rachel Richardson’s second collection of poems\, she juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary life. Hundred-Year Wave launches stories of marriage and motherhood over the currents of a nearly mythological ancestry: women and men who built their possessions out of iron and flour and whalebone and wool. If reaching back into the past is akin to plumbing a depth\, then Richardson exhibits the rare abilities of craft to build\, from our language\, vessels light enough to travel on that element\, but sturdy enough to weather the storms we are likely to find there. \n  \n“Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath. The poet knits each poem with such care—stitch by stitch\, loop by loop\, word after word into an effortless collection of quiet yet haunting music lush with texture and feeling. Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/in the vast expanse of lostness.'” –Victoria Chang \n  \nAbout Tess Taylor’s Work and Days: \n  \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. \n  \n“Our moment’s Georgic.” –Stephen Burt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-richardson-tess-taylor-kimberly-grey/
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:HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Black Queer Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Featuring\nJoshua Merchant\nJoshua Merchant is a writer\, and native of East Oakland. Combining a masterful eye for detail\, startling vulnerability\, and unflinching courage\, Joshua explores queer issues\, black identity\, and the complexities of their intersection.\nIn 2011\, he won the title of Youth Speaks champion and represented the Bay Area at Brave New Voices. Later that year\, he became the Berkeley Slam’s youngest Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS) representative. He helped represent the New Shit Show’s first slam team in 2014 at the National Poetry Slam and was third in the nation in 2015 with the Berkeley Slam team. His writing has brought him the honor and privilege to perform alongside artists and activists such as Chuck D\, MC Lyte\, Angela Davis\, Michael Poland\, and Saul Williams. He continues to perform and work with youth in his community and across the country. \nJezebel Delilah X\nJezebel Delilah X is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a co-managing editor for Everyday Feminism; co-host of the queer/feminist Open Mic\, Culture Fuck; creative director of queer\, Black\, multi-disciplinary performance troupe\, Congregation of Liberation; and one of the founding members of Deviant Type Press. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer and Queer People Of Color theatre projects and cabarets\, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate Facebook statuses about romance. \nBrontez Purnell\nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 10 years. He is the author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Young Lovers and co-founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000’s\, Purnell recently published his first novella Johnny Would You Love Me (If My Dick Were Bigger) with Rudos and Rubes and will publish a second novel\, Since I Laid My Body Down…\, with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights Books. He has currently been awarded the Creative Work Fund to begin work on a documentary about the life of the late Black experimental Bay Area choreographer Ed Mock. \nRamona “Mona” Webb\nScholar practitioner\, teaching performance artist\, and activist Ramona “Mona” Webb serves as the executive director of the Eden LGBTQ Youth Foundation\, the artistic director of Project ABLE and Lyrical Minded415\, which is an art-based learning for equity seasonal course implemented in various San Francisco Bay Area school districts\, and is the director of The State of Black Bodies by The Pr3ss Play Poets. For nine years\, Mona has served as slammaster and host of San Francisco’s The City Poetry Slam. She served on the 2014 and 2015 host city committee that produced the National Poetry Slam Festival in Oakland. Mona is a conservatory-trained artist who writes and performs in “docu-ritual- drama theater” and is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Chichester University in London\, pursuing dual MFA degrees in Theater Performance Making. How to Catch a Rapist in 12 Parts\, her current work in progress\, has appeared at Piano Fight Theater and Brava Theater. This performance theater piece chronicles Mona’s journey to seeking justice for her rape that took place 20 years ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hella-close-stories-of-black-queer-intimacy/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Death Match 61st Event
DESCRIPTION:Literary Death Match returns to SF and the Elbo Room for our record 61st event for a duel fundraising effort\, as proceeds from the show will support our all-new web show — LDM Book Report\, and Lit Camp is raffling off book-skewed prizes to raise money for scholarships to their annual writer’s conference. \nWhat is Literary Death Match? Four writers read their own work for five minutes or less\, and are then judged by three all-star judges. Two finalists are chosen to compete in the Literary Death Match finale\, a vaguely-literary game to decide the ultimate winner. \nWhat is LDM Book Report?: Watch now to find out! LDM Book Report (and don’t forget to subscribe!) \nJUDGES:\nLiterary Merit: TBA\nPerformance: Rebecca Garza-Bortman\, visual designer and singer for Happy Fangs \nIntangibles: Mark Morford\, award-winning columnist for SF Chronicle\, author of The Daring Spectacle\n \nREADERS: \n* Janis Cooke Newman\, author of A Master Plan for Rescue (SF Chronicle Best Book 2015)\, Lit Camp founder\n* Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, writer\, performer\, visual artist\, storyteller & Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry\n* Na’amen Tilahun\, author of The Root\, co-creator of podcast The Adventures of Yellow Peril + Magical Negro\n* Sarah Ladipo Manyika\, lit professor at SF State and author of Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \nHosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga \nWhere: Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia St.\, SF (map)\nWhen: Show at 7:15pm sharp; doors at 6:30pm; afterdrinks at 9\nCost: $7 preorder ($10 for preorder + 3 raffle tickets); $10 at the door \nRaffle Prizes Include: \n* 1-hour studio portrait sitting—perfect for your author photo—from Ian Tuttle Photography\n* $130 salon service from Peter Thomas Hair (to get ready for that author photo or your big reading)\n* 2-night stay at The Crash Pad in Jacksonville Oregon — The perfect writing retreat\n* 5 artisanal\, hand-rolled Cuban cigars — Time to fulfill that Hemingway fantasy\n* Bottle of Writer’s Tears whiskey\n* $50 VaycayHero gift certificate — Another great writing retreat\n* 4-issue\, monthly subscription to Journal of the Month—A surprise literary journal each month.\n* $50 gift card from Out of Print Clothing http://www.outofprintclothing.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-death-match-61st-event/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Kay\, Choo\, Lau\, Booth\, + Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Guy Gavriel Kay (Children of Earth and Sky)\nYangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride)\nDavid Lau (Virgil and the Mountain Cat)\nKwan Booth (Black Futurists Speak: An Anthology of New Black Writing)\nAriel Waldman (What’s It Like in Space?) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-kay-choo-lau-booth-waldman/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160521T213000
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SUMMARY:Arlene Biala + Aida Salazar
DESCRIPTION:LUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. \nSat. May 21 Arlene Biala and Aida Salazar
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arlene-biala-aida-salazar/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160522T220000
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CREATED:20160506T015932Z
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SUMMARY:Alicia Jo Rabins: Songs + Poems
DESCRIPTION:Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins weaves together poetry\, violin\, a loop pedal\, and feminist Bible scholarship to create performances of unique and captivating beauty. This special evening celebrates the launch of OPEN THE GROUND\, Alicia’s third album of songs about women in the Bible with her musical project Girls in Trouble\, as well as her poetry book DIVINITY SCHOOL\, winner of the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. The New York Times calls Alicia’s voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls DIVINITY SCHOOL “an astonishing find: a poetry page-turner\, both sexy and humble.” \nSuggested $5-10 donation at the door / no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-jo-rabins-songs-poems/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160523T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160523T200000
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SUMMARY:Chris McCormick: The Desert Boys
DESCRIPTION:Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner\, growing up\, coming out\, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California’s Mojave Desert. This series of powerful\, linked stories illuminates Daley’s world—the family\, friends\, and community that have both formed and constrained him\, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home\, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school’s Confederate mascot; Daley’s mother\, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself\, introspective and queer. Meanwhile\, in another desert on the other side of the world\, war threatens to fracture Daley’s most meaningful—and most fraught—connection to home\, his friendship with Robert Karinger. \nChris McCormick was raised in the Antelope Valley. He earned his B.A. at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan\, where he was the recipient of two Hopwood Awards. He lives in Ann Arbor\, Michigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-mccormick-the-desert-boys/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160524T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160524T200000
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CREATED:20160506T020412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160506T020412Z
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SUMMARY:Nick Bantock: The Pharos Gate
DESCRIPTION:A love story for the ages\, the tale of Griffin and Sabine is an international sensation that spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and continues to beguile readers 25 years after its original publication. Here to celebrate that anniversary is the final volume in Griffin and Sabine’s story—a book that can be enjoyed as a singular reading experience or in conjunction with the series as a whole. The Pharos Gate rejoices in the book as physical object\, weaving together word and image in beautifully illustrated postcards and removable letters that reveal a sensual and metaphysical romance\, one full of mystery and intrigue. \nNick Bantock\, born and raised in England\, now lives in Victoria\, British Columbia. An acclaimed writer and artist\, he is the author of books ranging from fiction to creative inspiration. His art is publicly and privately collected throughout the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-bantock-the-pharos-gate/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160506T020819Z
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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Adam Haslett w/ Jane Ciabattari
DESCRIPTION:“Adam Haslett’s second novel is about family\, love\, forgotten music\, and a despair that proves unbearable\, and has one of the most harrowing and sustained descriptions of a mind in obsessive turmoil and disrepair that I’ve ever read. Haslett is a marvelously lucid and intelligent writer.”—Joy Williams\, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Quick and the Dead \n“This is a book that tenderly and luminously deals with mental illness and with the life of the mind…hypnotic and haunting.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred\, boxed review \n“Imagine Me Gone is beautiful\, it’s terrifying\, it’s intimate and epic\, and it’s devastating—one of the great books about loss and mourning and the ineluctable laws that govern the political economy of families. I cannot describe the force or the depth of its accomplishment except to say that this magnificent work of art has overwhelmed me and broken my heart. It will take me a long time to come to terms with this novel.”—Tony Kushner \nLitquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Adam Haslett’s newest novel Imagine Me Gone. Haslett will be in conversation with Jane Ciabattari. Book sales and signing to follow. \nWhen Margaret’s fiancé\, John\, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London\, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition\, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son\, Michael\, a brilliant\, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades\, his younger siblings — the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec — struggle along with their mother to care for Michael’s increasingly troubled and precarious existence. \nTold in alternating points of view by all five members of the family\, this searing\, gut-wrenching\, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children\, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another\, and the legacy of a father’s pain in the life of a family. \nWith his striking emotional precision and lively\, inventive language\, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-adam-haslett-w-jane-ciabattari/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer + Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer is the author of the novels Paris Trance\, The Search\, The Colour of Memory\, and Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi; two collections of essays\, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and the genre-defying titles But Beautiful\,The Missing of the Somme\, Out of Sheer Rage\, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It\, and The Ongoing Moment. His book\, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition – a selection of essays from Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room – was awarded the 2011 National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism. His newest book is White Sands. \nPico Iyer was born in Oxford\, England in 1957\, to parents from India\, and educated at Eton\, Oxford and Harvard. Since 1986 he has been writing books and since 1992 he has been based in rural Japan with his longtime sweetheart\, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in California. He is the author of numerous books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul\, The Man Within My Head an\,d The Art of Stillness. An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly inHarper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoff-dyer-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Dwight
DESCRIPTION:Recently widowed and adapting to the challenges of single motherhood\, Mercedes Bell is a paralegal at Crenshaw\, Slayne & McDonough when she meets Jack Soutane\, a dashing San Francisco lawyer who has recently begun leasing office space from the firm. It’s the 1980s. The crack epidemic\, homelessness\, and AIDS explode on the scene\, Jack’s law practice booms―and the Crenshaw firm eagerly shares his bounty. Meanwhile\, despite all the warning signs\, Mercedes falls under Jack’s spell. \nWhen calamity strikes and Jack succumbs to his own dark surprise\, Mercedes finds herself in a race to survive and to protect her daughter. In order to do so\, she must make sense of wildly inconsistent information―and face the truths that emerge. Compelling and full of suspense\, The Tolling of Mercedes Bell is a story about honesty in the face of deception\, courage in the pursuit of happiness\, and the unexpected places that quest can lead. \nJennifer Dwight has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area’s legal community\, the setting for her upcoming suspense novel\, for more than 30 years. She has written and published several law practice-related nonfiction books\, many articles\, a sixty-segment fiction serial\, and numerous short stories. She received a B.A. in Religion from The Colorado College and has studied creative writing at U.C. Extension in Berkeley\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-dwight/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160526T210000
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SUMMARY:Jose Gutierrez + Tracey Knapp
DESCRIPTION:Jose Gutierrez was born in Miami and raised in Panama. He’s been a poet of repute in San Francisco for a decade. We’re pleased to host a release reading of his new collection\, “A World Less Away.” Tracey Knapp\, whose book “Mouth” was published in 2015\, will open the reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-gutierrez-tracey-knapp/
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:20160527T203000
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CREATED:20160507T012109Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap Goes Incognito w/ Carolina De Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Bookswap Goes Incognito: Join us for a swanky party with Carolina De Robertis  \n  \nWe’re celebrating the paperback release ofThe Gods of Tango\, an unflinching story about Leda\, a young woman in Buenos Aires in 1913 who must disguise herself as a man so she can play violin to survive. Living as Dante\, Leda discovers hidden compartments within herself\, and a whole world inside tango. \n  \nPunctuated by sex\, grief\, longing\, the ever-present danger of being found out\, and\, of course\, tango\, Leda’s journey to build a life from the scraps of Argentina is not to be missed. \n  \nJoin us for the paperback release party! Your ticket includes a copy of The Gods of Tango\, an open bar and snacks\, delicious cheese from the California Artisan Cheese Guild\, discounts\, hang time with Carolina De Robertis\, and other surprises. \n  \nBring a book about someone in disguise. You’ll swap your book for another reader’s fave\, and leave with (at least) two new-to-you books to devour. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance and they do sell out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-goes-incognito-w-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman + Friends
DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING: ANNE WALDMAN +\nshort opening readings by Dean Kritikos\, Laura Hinton\, Lee Ann Brown\nCelebrating the wild hybrid nature of Anne Waldman’s poetry \nFREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC \nIn conjunction with the American Literature Conference\nHyatt Regency\, 5 Embarcadero\, Room TBA \nThere are few living American poets today who bring to our literary table the artistic achievement\, influence\, and multi-faceted artistic production of Anne Waldman. \nPoet\, multi-media performer\, scholar\, editor\, teacher\, playwright\, feminist\, anti-war activist\, and innovator-builder of two major U.S. poetry institutions—Waldman has long been and continues to be into her 70s one of our most important and cherished contemporary avant-garde poetry figures. She is a verbal-performance powerhouse who has worked on countless stages and within multiple forms of poetry-hybrid collaborations as she struggles to reinvent genres and poetry itself through various new-media forms. \nAuthor of over forty volumes of poetry\, as well as well as books and essays on poetry and art criticism\, Waldman is a legendary experimenter of the hybrid\, multi-dimensional possibilities of poetry in performance\, a poetics that works both on and off the page. She recently stated in an interview\,”I love the book as a vibrational object. I also like to get up and activate the text energetically with my voice.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman-friends/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160529T163000
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CREATED:20160507T012839Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition: Special Biennial Event
DESCRIPTION:BAPC presents a special biennial poetry event \nat the SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY \nin the H/L Room\, Grove Street at Market. \nPlease enter the building on Grove Street. \nA poster just beyond the lobby will direct you to the meeting hall. \nPersons from the East Bay taking BART will get off at CIVIC CENTER station\, \n1/4 block from the Grove Street entrance to the library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-special-biennial-event/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20160527T005025Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press All Stars
DESCRIPTION:FREE. Please RSVP via ticket link to help us track numbers:http://ticketf.ly/1q8bkLn \nCentral Market NOW and The SF Creative Writing Institute will present local writers reading their work in a free presentation of Nomadic Press All Stars. \nReadings by Cassandra Dallett\, Mk Chavez\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Nick Johnson\, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Music by Azuah! Curated by Nomadic Press Executive Director and Founder\, J. K. Fowler. www.nomadicpress.org \nThis event is FREE and OPEN to the public. There will also be light refreshments and the opportunity to meet and talk with the performers. \nCentral Market NOW celebrates another year of supporting neighborhood art in partnership with the SF Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development\, the California Arts Council and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. This year CMN has also partnered with The SF Creative Writing Institute to bring the best of the Bay Area’s writers and poets to our neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-all-stars/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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