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SUMMARY:Kaui Hart Hemmings
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Kaui Hart Hemmings returns with her new novel How to Party with an Infant. In this hilarious and charming story set in San Francisco\, food blogger and single mom\, Mele Bart finds herself involved in her ex-boyfriend’s wedding when he requests that their daughter be the flower girl. Mele has also agreed to attend the nuptials and finds herself quietly obsessing about Bobby and his fiancée. Out of desperation\, she enters the San Francisco Mother’s Club Cookbook competition and unexpectedly discovers the friends\, inspiration\, and comfort she needs to make it through. Author of The Descendants and The Possibilities\, Kaui Hart Hemmings has an uncanny ability to make disastrous romances and calamitous circumstances relatable\, funny\, and unforgettable. \nKaui Hart Hemmings has degrees from Colorado College and Sarah Lawrence\, and she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her first novel\, a New York Times bestseller\, The Descendants\, has been published in twenty-two other countries and is now an Oscar-winning film directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney. She is also the author of a story collection House of Thieves\, the novel The Possibilities and the YA novel Juniors. She lives in Hawaii.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaui-hart-hemmings/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160810T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160810T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
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SUMMARY:Drew Magary
DESCRIPTION:Drew Magary presents The Hike\, a wild\, thrilling fantasy saga that chronicles one man’s epic life-or-death quest to return to his family after getting lost on a wooded path that leads him into an alternate\, dreamlike world full of man-eating giants\, garish demons\, and colossal insects. As a columnist forDeadspin and correspondent for GQ\, Magary is known for his brash commentary on everything from professional football to politics. Though The Hike is penned in his trademark\, hilarious\, no-holds-barred prose\, the story is inspired by classic fairy tales like The Odyssey\, as well as children’s books like The Lion\, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The result is utterly imaginative\, deeply felt novel—like a Salvador Dali painting on amphetamines. \nDrew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. He is the author of the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt and the novel ThePostmortal. His writing has appeared in Maxim\, New York\, NPR\, NBC\, The Atlantic\, Bon Appétit\, The Huffington Post\, the Awl\, Gawker\, Penthouse\,Playboy\, Yahoo!\, ESPN\, Rolling Stone\, Comedy Central\, and more. He’s been featured on Good Morning America and has been interviewed by theAV Club\, the New York Observer\, USA Today\, US News\, and many others. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drew-magary/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160810T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160810T213000
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SUMMARY:Bruce Jenkins
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Bruce Jenkins reads from his memoir\, Shop Around: Growing up with Motown in a Sinatra Household\, a part of The Music That Changed My Life series. \nAbout Shop Around: \nBruce Jenkins was twelve years old\, living in Malibu with his parents\, when he heard the original Shop Around single\, by The Miracles featuring Bill Smokey Robinson\, the first Billboard No. 1 R&B single for Motown’s Tamla label. Released nationally in October 1960\, the single would ultimately make it into the Grammy Hall of Fame\, but for young Bruce\, the first times he heard the song were a revelation. Jenkins grew up surrounded by music. His father\, Gordon Jenkins\, was a composer and arranger who worked with artists from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Louis Armstrong and Johnny Cash\, but was best known for his close collaboration with Frank Sinatra. His mother\, Beverly\, was a singer.\nFor Bruce\, Shop Around ushered him into a new world of loving Motown. In “Shop Around\,” he brings to life the first thrill of having the music claim him\, provides the back story of the recording (and rerecording) of the hit single\, shares sketches from his life with his father and mother\, and traces how his love of music has grown and evolved over the years and how he still loves driving around San Francisco with Motown cranked up on his car stereo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bruce-jenkins/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160811T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160811T203000
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jennifer Barone
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-jennifer-barone/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160811T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160811T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
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SUMMARY:Joe McGinniss Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Joe McGinniss Jr. presents Carousel Court\, a novel about Nick and Phoebe Maguire\, a couple  who has recently moved from Boston to Los Angeles in search of a fresh start for themselves and their infant son. Both naïve in their actions and victims of the recent economic crisis\, they quickly become broke and desperate to claw their way back into the middle class where they feel they belong. Plotted in secret but under the same roof\, their separate agendas soon collide in spectacular fashion and leave them both wondering what the other is capable of. \nJoe McGinniss Jr. is the author of Carousel Court and The Delivery Man. He lives in Washington\, DC\, with his family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-mcginniss-jr/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160811T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160811T230000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
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SUMMARY:Porchlight’s 14th Anniversary Romp: Identity Crisis!
DESCRIPTION:Who am I? \nIt’s a queston that never fails to amuse\, confuse\, bewilder\, and humble us as we plunk along our journey on this earth. To what end\, no one knows. To paraphrase Oliver Sacks\, it is an enormous privilege and adventure to be a sentient being\, a thinking animal\, on this beautiful planet. And you are free to have canned fish for lunch every day\, if you wish. \nAs Porchlight celebrates fourteen years of personal storytelling onstage\, we look to a theme where storytellers can choose to reflect or freak out on the whats\, whys\, and hows of who they think they are. \nCousins author Mary Roach and bookbinder Dominic Riley\nMythbusters legend Adam Savage\nwriter and actor Moon Zappa
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlights-14th-anniversary-romp-identity-crisis/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160812T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160812T210000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Summer of Lust
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Summer Of Lust Festival\, Red Light Lit is collaborating with jANKzine to bring you its sexiest show yet. Featured performers include: Lara Coley\, Kathy Duby\, Juliana Delgado Lopera\, Terence Leclere\, Loria Mendoza\, Monique Mero\, Dirk Peterson\, Gabby Poccia\, Katie Wheeler-Dubin\, and Carolina De Robertis. The fabulous Cellista will be scoring the entire show with a blend of DJ’ing and live acoustic cello tracks. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians\, comedians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, comedy\, art and song. \nAll the images at the show will be from www.jankzine.com\, @jankzine \nAdvance tickets: $12 and $15 at the door
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-summer-of-lust/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160813T223000
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: Tom Rhodes
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE Presents Tom Rhodes…\n— Private Parlor Show at The Lost Church \nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at http://ticketf.ly/28S7KfT\n$10 in advance and $10 day of show online and at the door. \nTonight’s YG2D is an entirely curated show. There will be no open mic. \nFeaturing the special guest of the night: \nTom Rhodes \nThe 36-year-old Oakland\, California-based songwriter has spent more than a decade honing his honest\, heartfelt brand of Americana\, and learning to craft songs whose truth matches his passion as a performer. In that time\, he has performed all over the US and Europe\, released four albums\, and even appeared on season 9 of The Voice in 2015. Rhodes just released his fifth full-length album Who You Were – a stunning culmination of Rhodes’s search for his unique voice as a songwriter and singer. \nCheck out more here: http://tomrhodesmusic.com/ \n==================================================\nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (YG2D generally sells out in advance)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-tom-rhodes/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160814T180000
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SUMMARY:Blackwell\, Hernandez\, Serrano\, + Dang
DESCRIPTION:Gears Turning Poetry Series: Hosted by Kim Shuck with Charles Blackwell\, Leticia Hernandez\, and Nina Serrano with music by Ed Dang. \nThis is a Calle 24/Latino cultural heritage district\nSecond Sunday\, Paseo Artístico event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/blackwell-hernandez-serrano-dang/
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore Collective\, 2919 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160814T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160814T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets Upstairs: Chris Carosi + Amy K. Bell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Upstairs features Chris Carosi and Amy K. Bell. Read alongside them at the open mic. Come early to sign up\, stay late to jump in on our Exquisite Corpse! \nAbout the Authors: \nChris Carosi is from Pittsburgh and became fugitive to his family and friends to study at the University of San Francisco Creative Writing Program between 2009 and 2011. He is the author of two chapbooks\, bright veil (New Fraktur Press\, 2011) and FICTIONS (The Gorilla Press\, 2015). Some other work has appeared in Spring Gun\, Switchback (where he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize)\, Your Impossible Voice\, and a few others. He lives in San Francisco with Rebecca and his cat Georgina\, and he currently works as a book publicist & digital marketer for City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. \nAmy K. Bell lives in Oakland\, CA. Her chapbook\, Book of Sibyl\, was published in 2013 by The Gorilla Press. She has been published in JERRY\, Transfer\, Cura and elsewhere. In 2012\, she co-founded Drop Leaf Press\, a woman-run small publisher based in San Francisco. \nHosted by The Great Overland Book Company \nCurated by Susan Calvillo and Genie Cartier
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-upstairs-chris-carosi-amy-k-bell/
LOCATION:Great Overland Books\, 345 Judah Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160815T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160815T210000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays: So Much to be Done
DESCRIPTION:So Much to Be Done” The Writings of Breast Cancer Activist Barbara Brenner \nEdited by Barbara Sjoholm \nPresented by Susie Lampert and Elaine Elinson \nCollected in So Much to Be Done\, and framed by personal accounts of Barbara and her influential work\, Brenner’s columns and blog posts form a chronicle of breast cancer research and health care activism that is as inspiring as it is informative. \nFree admission!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-so-much-to-be-done/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160815T213000
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SUMMARY:Roy Scranton: War Porn
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Roy Scranton: \n“What impresses is the brutal immediacy of the writing\, its authority. Roy Scranton is a truth telling war writer.” — E.L. Doctorow\, author of Ragtime \n\n“I have never read a book like War Porn. Roy Scranton writes with unnerving power. There is much to admire here—the meticulous craftsmanship\, the hysterical comic passages\, the way the sheer audacity of vision is matched at every turn by the innovative skill to carry it out—but what I’m left with at the end is difficult to put into words. It’s intense and troubling. It’s what all truly excellent literature leaves you with. A sense of something shattering.” — Phil Klay\, author of Redeployment\n\n“War Porn is dire\, savage\, and brilliant\, a simmering fever-dream of a novel that’s as pure and true in its vision of the long war as anything I’ve read. Roy Scranton is merciless—and why should he be anything but? War’s corruption soaks through every layer of life\, and War Porn drives home that truth with unflinching\, and ultimately harrowing\, honesty.” — Ben Fountain\, author of Billy Flynn’s Long Halftime Walk\n\nAbout War Porn: \nThe term war porn refers to videos and images brought back from combat zones. IED explosions\, air strikes\, firefights\, images of death and gore largely shorn of context\, at times even evidence of potential war crimes (most famously\, the photos of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib). \n\nWar porn is also\, in Scranton’s searing debut\, a metaphor for the fragmentation and confusion of modern combat\, the broken shards of experience that form the wartime experiences of soldiers and civilians alike. The three sections of “War Porn” fit inside one another like nesting dolls: from an end of summer barbecue in the American Southwest; to the perspective of a young US soldier in the early months of the occupation of Iraq; to the story of Qasim al-Zabadi\, an Iraqi math professor who faces the American invasion with a blend of fear\, denial\, and perseverance. Through the eyes of the occupiers\, we watch Qasim become an interpreter for US forces\, then prisoner and victim. As the scene switches from America to Iraq and back again\, as home and hell merge\, Qasim reveals the fragile humanity that connects occupier and occupied\, torturer and tortured.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roy-scranton-war-porn/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160817T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160817T190000
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SUMMARY:John Lewis w/ Andrew Aydin + Nate Powell
DESCRIPTION:Together\, these three creators have turned the life of an exceptional human being into both a work of literature and a work of art. The words and images of March bring to life the story of John Lewis\, the power of youth\, and the power of nonviolence — making them accessible and urgently relevant to new generations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-lewis-w-andrew-aydin-nate-powell/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160817T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160817T220000
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: NERVE
DESCRIPTION:You ever been told “Wow\, you’ve got some NERVE …” Well\, we can assure you that storytellers who’ve stockpiled an armory of the craziest stories certainly have. This month\, Fireside welcomes six storytellers to our stage to share their tales of throwing steely nerve in the face of fear\, caution\, and (in some cases) reason. \nSTORYTELLERS:\nDave Nihill\nCherry Zonkowski\nScott Sanders\nSusan Wilhite\nLeyton Cassidy\nSarah Hunt \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-nerve/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160820T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160820T200000
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SUMMARY:Everything Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Submit here (follow link) for the Everything open mic on Saturday August 20th 6-7:50 PM. \nJust comment here with a link to your video\, or post a short piece of poetry/ prose etc.\, attach your soundcloud etc. \nWe will choose and book 20 performers for 5 min performance slots during this special open mic immediately following the Noise Pop Block Party on Satturday August 20th from 6-7:50pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/everything-open-mic/
LOCATION:Mutiny Radio Gallery\, 2781 21st Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160820T210000
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SUMMARY:David Colosi
DESCRIPTION:David Colosi is the author of the novel Miss Pumpernickel Bread\, the essay Towards A Three-Dimensional Literature and the collection of poems\, Laughing Blood. He went to CalArts in the ‘90s\, lives in Brooklyn\, NY and will be an artist-in-residence at Varda Artists Residency in Sausalito from Aug. 1-Sept. 1\, 2016. http://www.vardaartistsresidency.to/#varprogramabout \nDavid’s literature and artwork has been featured in New York at Cueto Project and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; in Brussels at Galerie Catherine Bastide; in Switzerland in Art Statements at Art Basel; in Los Angeles at Highways Performance Space Gallery; and Tokyo at the Proto Theater. He has been an artist-in-residence in New York at Pioneer Works and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Art Center on Governors Island; in Florida at the Fountainhead Residency and Atlantic Center for the Arts; and in France at Le Centre Du Monde in Belle-Ile-en-mer. At Adobe Books\, he will be reading from a new collection of writings.\nwww.davidcolosi.com & www.3dlit.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-colosi/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160821T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160821T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
CREATED:20160810T013336Z
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SUMMARY:National Park Service Centennial: See America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special celebration of 100 years of our National Parks Service\, with Kati Schmidt of the National Parks Conservation Association\, and Max Slavin and Aaron Perry-Zucker of Creative Action Network\, instigators of the crowd-sourced See America art campaign and hardbound book. This family-friendly event will include presentations\, book signings\, tasty treats\, art\, and activities for all ages! Notably\, 1% of all the proceeds from See America book sales go to support NPCA\, and 40% go directly to the artists involved in its creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-park-service-centennial-see-america/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160822T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160822T210000
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CREATED:20160713T014144Z
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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Hannah Pittard
DESCRIPTION:“Winner of the Amanda Davis Award from McSweeney’s and author of the novels Reunion and The Fates Will Find Their Way\, Pittard now brings us the story of a young married couple\, Mark and Maggie\, on a road trip gone wrong. Maggie’s recently been robbed at gun point\, and by the time they stop for the night at an out-of-the-way inn (without power)\, the two aren’t even speaking to one another. Frederick Barthelme calls it ‘a positively Hitchcockian misadventure.’” —The Millions \nLitquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Hannah Pittard’s newest book\, the novel Listen to Me\, a modern gothic about a marriage and road trip gone hauntingly awry. She will be in conversation\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nMark and Maggie’s annual drive east to visit family has gotten off to a rocky start. By the time they’re on the road\, it’s late\, a storm is brewing\, and they are no longer speaking to one another. Adding to the stress\, Maggie — recently mugged at gunpoint — is lately not herself\, and Mark is at a loss about what to make of the stranger he calls his wife. When they are forced to stop for the night at a remote inn\, completely without power\, Maggie’s paranoia reaches an all-time and terrifying high. But when Mark finds himself threatened in a dark parking lot\, it’s Maggie who takes control.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-hannah-pittard/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160824T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160824T213000
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SUMMARY:Forrest Leo
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Forrest Leo: \n“An effervescent book with a cheerfully lunatic plot. Cavalier\, funny\, and totally engrossing. It’s a delicious crumpet of a novel that will leave you wondering if Forrest Leo drinks tea with the devil.”—Sara Levine\, author of Treasure Island!!! \n“Let us all bow down before the nutty and delightful romp that is The Gentleman. An assured stylist tells a hilarious story with perfect pacing and aplomb: yes\, please.”—Henry Alford\, author of Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?: A Modern Guide to Manners \n“Simultaneously very strange and very familiar\, The Gentleman has all the right echoes and influences – the ‘scientific romance\,’ the postmodernist novel\, the comedy of manners. It’s witty and erudite\, with great whiffs of Wells and Wilde and Wodehouse – all of it beautifully combined\, with one of the best opening sentences I’ve read in years. Go on—open up!”—Geoff Nicholson\, author of The Lost Art of Walking \n\nAbout The Gentleman: \nA funny\, fantastically entertaining debut novel\, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python\, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil–then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her. \n  \nWhen Lionel Savage\, a popular poet in Victorian London\, learns from his butler that they’re broke\, he marries the beautiful Vivien Lancaster for her money\, only to find that his muse has abandoned him. \n  \nDistraught and contemplating suicide\, Savage accidentally conjures the Devil — the polite “Gentleman” of the title — who appears at one of the society parties Savage abhors. The two hit it off: the Devil talks about his home\, where he employs Dante as a gardener; Savage lends him a volume of Tennyson. But when the party’s over and Vivien has disappeared\, the poet concludes in horror that he must have inadvertently sold his wife to the dark lord. \n  \nNewly in love with Vivian\,  Savage plans a rescue mission to Hell that includes Simmons\, the butler; Tompkins\, the bookseller; Ashley Lancaster\, swashbuckling Buddhist; Will Kensington\, inventor of a flying machine; and Savage’s spirited kid sister\, Lizzie\, freshly booted from boarding school for a “dalliance.” Throughout\, his cousin’s quibbling footnotes to the text push the story into comedy nirvana. \n  \nLionel and his friends encounter trapdoors\, duels\, anarchist-fearing bobbies\, the social pressure of not knowing enough about art history\, and the poisonous wit of his poetical archenemy. Fresh\, action-packed and very\, very funny\, The Gentleman is a giddy farce that recalls the masterful confections of P.G. Wodehouse and Hergé’s beautifully detailed Tintin adventures.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/forrest-leo/
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:Anita Cruz + John Landry
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in our Readers Bookstore Fort Mason for our weekly FREE poetry series! \nBrowse books while listening to internationally acclaimed poets and artists such as Jonathan Richman\, David Meltzer\, Diane di Prima and California Poet Laureate Al Young. The series is curated by Friends’ Resident Poet Jack Hirschman. (For a list of the scheduled readers\, please see the line up below.) \nProceeds from our bookstores benefit the San Francisco Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-john-landry/
LOCATION:Readers Bookstore\, Fort Mason Center\, Building C\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160825T200000
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SUMMARY:The Living Theatre
DESCRIPTION:The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985)\, painter and poet\, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926). From the very beginning the group’s activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment\, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. \nThe Living Theatre’s name expresses the whole force of its project: the idea of a theatre that is open to life\, politics and change without ever renouncing research and experiments with new forms of expression. \nThis performance\, “Seven Meditations on Political Sadomasochism\,” is celebrated as one of the company’s most significant pieces that explores Sacher-Masoch’s Six Houses of Bondage: Love\, Money\, Property\, State\, War and Death\, with a seventh meditation on Revolutionary Change. \nContent warning: this performance contains brief nudity and simulated torture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-living-theatre/
LOCATION:Great Star Theater\, 636 Jackson St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160825T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
CREATED:20160810T013720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T013720Z
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SUMMARY:Queens Read Celebrity Autobiographies!
DESCRIPTION:Trashy! Tawdry! Page after page of smut and gossip! We love to hate them —and can’t get enough of them —they are Celebrity Autobiographies! \nCome celebrate the BEST of the absolute WORST celebrity autobiographies to ever line a bookstore shelf. To celebrate this achievement in awful celebrity prose\, our guest readers for the night are some of the most iconic queens in the Bay Area! Donna Sachet\, Sue Casa\, Sugah Betes\, MuthaChucka\, Shane Zaldivar\, and Daft-nee Gesuntheit! Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel. \nAs always Literary Speakeasy is FREE. But for this evening\, we will be collecting donations and raffling off prizes to raise money for Strut in the Castro. So bring your donations\, order a martini\, and laugh along to some of the worst celebrity autobiographies these queens could find!! \nPerformer bios:\nDaft-nee Gesuntheit! has been a San Francisco staple since showing up on the scene six years ago. Since her inception\, she has performed at the legendary Marlena’s Bar in the Hayes Valley Follies\, Cookie Dough’s Monster Show at The Edge Bar\, Sunday’s A Drag at The Starlight Room\, and Oasis as Jo Polniaczek (pronounced Pole-nuh-check) in Facts of Life and Charlotte York in Sex and the City. Fond of fundraising\, she participates in galas for the Academy of Friends; she is a Princess of the Imperial Court\, a miracle worker and shiny gem in the community. Befriend her on Facebook for more fun and frivolity. \nDonna Sachet started her adventure in San Francisco over twenty years ago and the City has applauded her fun-loving spirit\, quick wit\, and musical talent ever since. Donna can be seen throughout the Community\, judging contests\, emceeing fund-raisers\, cutting ribbons\, and hosting parties and was featured in individual stories in The SF Chronicle\, SF Bay Guardian\, GLOSS magazine\, and on ABC television. Donna currently writes a biweekly column for the publication Bay Area Reporter and stars in the weekly Sunday’s A Drag brunch shows\, now in its eleventh year\, at the Starlight Room atop the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. In 2009\, Donna Sachet was the first drag personality in history to sing the National Anthem for a major league sports game at AT&T Park for the SF Giants. A short film about her\, named Sachet\, was completed in 2014 and included in the Frameline Film Festival. \nMuthaChucka is a tireless performer\, fundraiser and political dragtivist based in San Francisco\, host of her own show in the Castro\, Sex\, Drags & Rock n Roll at the Midnight Sun & SOMA party Try Some Thing at the Stud. Mutha has worked on behalf of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation\, AIDS Housing Alliance\, Tenderloin Tessies Holiday Dinners\, Project Open Hand\, and countless other charities in the Bay Area and beyond! Having discovered her love of performing at an early age MuthaChucka has been amazing audiences with her fierce lipsynch\, unique song choices\, and gracious hosting ever since! With a rubbery face of a thousand expressions and a clever sensibility that never fails to amuse\, she has made people laugh and cry with her riveting performances and twisted sense of humor! For calendar and booking information check out www.Muthachucka.com. \nShane Zalidvar has been living in San Francisco for nearly three years since moving from Florida and graduating from Oaksterdam University. During that time\, drag in the Bay area has become his art-therapy. He says\, “The performer community has incredible talent and invites authenticity to shine way beyond the stage. I’m lucky to be a part of it with a sensual\, androgynous\, and sometimes creepy style. Come see for yourself\, it’s so much fun!” \nSUE CASA is best described as the village idiot. With an amazing ability to paint the same exact face every time and wear the same exact wig\, her look is…well….recognizable. She is a hostess of the weekly Monster Show at the Edge Bar\, and Miss Trannyshack 2013. \nSugah Betes is an anachronism. She’s a larger than life character. Really she’s larger than most things in the room. She’s a funny girl with a real smart mouth on her. Her style is sequins and petticoats and her make-up is modified clown. She is a co-hostess of The Monster Show\, the Castro’s longest running drag show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queens-read-celebrity-autobiographies/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160826T210000
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CREATED:20160823T014906Z
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception A Home For the Homeless: Artists and Poets in Search of An Answer
DESCRIPTION:Artists and Poets in Search of an Answer is a provocative response to the homeless crisis with art\, photography\, poetry\, critiques and perhaps an answer or two. Featuring photography by Joe Ramos and Cammie Toloui\, installations by the UNDERCOVER collective with video by Sietske Tjallingii\, art by Kate Akimbo\, painting by Annice Jacoby\, graphics from WRAP archive including work by Patrick Piazza\, Art Hazelwood\, Veronica Solis\, Ronnie Goodman\, and poems by Jack Hirschman\, Alejandro Murguía\, Alessandra Bava\, Tony Robles\, Norman Zelaya\, Cesar Love\, Virginia Barrett\, Michael Koch\, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others. \nClosing Reception on Friday August 26th\, 2016 from 6-9pm \nFeaturing LIVE PRINTING with master graphic community artists including Patrick Piazza\, Txutuo Perez\, Art Hazelwood & more. Original prints available from the show’s artists. See FREE POSTERS made on the spot or try printing one yourself. \nThe gathering will also include SOAPBOX\, a participatory performance event for advocates\, heartbreakers\, change makers\, everyone with a fresh idea. Come have your five minutes on the SOAPBOX along with local celebs & creative provocateurs. Let’s use imagination and celebration\, mingle dignity and rage with constructive here-and-now good ideas that break the impasse around chronic homelessness in our beautiful city. Let us banish the shame and the blame and build off the good work and sacrifice of decades of artist activism\, community outcry and valuable lives grossly crushed. The best ideas will be captured and shared.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/closing-reception-a-home-for-the-homeless-artists-and-poets-in-search-of-an-answer/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160830T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160830T213000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
CREATED:20160810T015403Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160810T015403Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop!
DESCRIPTION:Literature and Pop Culture collide!\nDoors at 7pm show at 8pm \nCome and listen as poets\, fiction writers\, essayists\, comedians and storytellers share their pop culture obsessions. This month we’ll feature; Kwan Booth on Pokemon Go\, Amy Stephenson on Murder She Wrote\, Danny Thanh Nguyen on Lifetime Made for TV Movies\, Tess Barry on Mike Tyson\, your host Wonder Dave on Loretta Lynn and\, special guest comedian and King of the Nerds reality TV Contestant Jacob Rubin!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-2/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160901T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160901T210000
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CREATED:20160824T000300Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective September Reading
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the end of summer / the start of SF summer with the Flash Fiction Collective and 11 amazing writers from the Grotto: \nHeather Bourbeau\nJenny Bitner\nJane Ciabattari\nChristopher Cook\nLaurie Doyle\nThaisa Frank\nVanessa Hua\nChad Koch\nJoshua Mohr\nEthel Rohan\nLizette Wanzer \nJenny Bitner’s short stories and flash fiction have been published in Best American Nonrequired Reading\, Writing That Risks\, PANK\, The Sun\, Mississippi Review and Fence magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia and teaches Flash Fiction at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Duende\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and Tupelo Press. Her piece “Hopscotch” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. Her journalism has appeared in The Economist\, The Financial Times\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: A Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nJane Ciabattari is the author of the story collections\, Stealing the Fire and California Tales\, and of stories published in 100WordStory and New Flash Fiction Review and many other publications. She writes the Between the Lines column for BBC.com\, a weekly column for the Literary Hub\, and contributes regularly to NPR. She is vice president /online and a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Flash Fiction Collective. \nChristopher Cook is an award-winning writer and author whose work has appeared in Harper’s\, Mother Jones\, the Atlantic\, The Nation\, and elsewhere. He is the author of Diet for a Dead Planet Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis\, and is completing a memoir about living and growing up on the road. Check him out at www.christopherdcook.com. \nLaurie Ann Doyle is the winner of Alligator Juniper’s National Fiction Award\, as well as nominations for Best New American Voices and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book of short stories\, World Gone Missing\, is a finalist for the Livingston Press (University of West Alabama) fiction prize\, and a story from the collection appears in their fiction anthology. Other stories and essays have been published in Jabberwock Review\, Arroyo Literary Review\, Dogwood Journal\, Under the Sun and elsewhere. She’s a co-founder of Babylon Salon\, San Francisco’s long running reading series\, and teaches writing at UC Berkeley. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nThaisa Frank’s sixth book\, Enchantment\, includes two semi-autobiographical novellas and thirty-three stories. Heidegger’s Glasses (2010)\, about the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, sold to ten foreign countries. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage. Her nonfiction book Finding Your Writer’s Voice has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish and is used in MFA programs. \nVanessa Hua\, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities and a forthcoming novel\, is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, New York Times\, ZYZZYVA\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. \nChad Koch is a founding editor of Foglifter\, San Francisco’s only queer literary journal. He recently received his MFA from San Francisco State University\, where he was editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His most recent stories were published in The North American Review and Sparkle & Blink. His story\, “Lost Boys” was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Raymond Carver Short Story Award. \nJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including “Damascus\,” which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written “Fight Song” and “Some Things that Meant the World to Me\,” one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as “Termite Parade\,” an Editors’ Choice on The New York Times Best Seller List. His novel “All This Life” recently won the Northern California Book Award. \nEthel Rohan is an award-winning flash and short story writer. Her first novel\, The Weight of Him\, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in February\, 2017. \nLyzette Wanzer is an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. A flash fiction connoisseur and essay aficionado\, her work has appeared in Callaloo\, Tampa Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ampersand Review\, Journal of Advanced Development\, Journal of Experimental Fiction\, Pleiades\, Flashquake\, Glossalia Flash Fiction\, Potomac Review\, International Journal on Literature and Theory\, Fringe Magazine\, Aesthetica Magazine\, and others. She is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie\, 2012) and 642 Tiny Things to Write About (Chronicle Books\, 2015). Lyzette is the 2016 First Place winner in the national Kay Snow Nonfiction Competition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-september-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books\, 900 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160902T220000
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CREATED:20160828T061544Z
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SUMMARY:Overexposure Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Do you have poetry\, prose\, hybrid monsters\, mutant works-in-progress locked away in your notebook? \nBring them to light at Overexposure! \nSign-up starts at 7\nPerformance at 7:30 SHARP featuring three special guests.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/overexposure-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160906T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T235551
CREATED:20160720T003038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160720T003038Z
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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Kim Addonizio
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Kim Addonizio’s newest books\, the memoir Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life\, and the poetry collection Mortal Trash . She will be in conversation\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nKim Addonizio is used to being exposed. As a writer of provocative poems and stories\, she has encountered success along with snark: one critic dismissed her as “Charles Bukowski in a sundress.” (“Why not Walt Whitman in a sparkly tutu?” she muses.) Now\, in this utterly original memoir in essays\, she opens up to chronicle the joys and indignities in the life of a writer wandering through middle age. \nAddonizio vividly captures moments of inspiration at the writing desk (or bed) and adventures on the road—from a champagne-and-vodka-fueled one-night stand at a writing conference to sparsely attended readings at remote Midwestern colleges. Her crackling\, unfiltered wit brings colorful life to pieces like “What Writers Do All Day\,” “How to Fall for a Younger Man\,” and “Necrophilia” (that is\, sexual attraction to men who are dead inside). And she turns a tender yet still comic eye to her family: her father\, who sparked her love of poetry; her mother\, a former tennis champion who struggled through Parkinson’s at the end of her life; and her daughter\, who at a young age chanced upon some erotica she had written for Penthouse. \nAt once intimate and outrageous\, Addonizio’s memoir radiates all the wit and heartbreak and ever-sexy grittiness that her fans have come to love—and that new readers will not soon forget. \nPassionate and irreverent\, Mortal Trash transports the readers into a world of wit\, lament\, and desire. In a section called “Over the Bright and Darkened Lands\,” canonical poems are torqued into new shapes. “Except Thou Ravish Me\,” reimagines John Donne’s famous “Batter my heart\, Three-person’d God” as told from the perspective of a victim of domestic violence. Like Pablo Neruda\, Addonizio hears “a swarm of objects that call without being answered”: hospital crash carts\, lawn gnomes\, Evian bottles\, wind-up Christmas creches\, edible panties\, cracked mirrors. Whether comic\, elegiac\, or ironic\, the poems in Mortal Trash remind us of the beauty and absurdity of our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-kim-addonizio/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Justin Chin Tribute
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nJustin Chin: Selected Works \nEdited by Jenifer Joseph\, with commentary by R. Zamora Linmark\, Michelle Tea\, Tim Liu\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka \nfrom Manic D Press \nHosted by Jennifer Joseph \nwith colleagues & writers who will be reading Justin’s work:  Kevin Killian (Spreadeagle) and Rabih Alameddine (An Unnecessary Woman)\, filmmaker Henry Machtay\, Larry-Bob Roberts (The International Homosexual Conspiracy)\, Thea Hillman (Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word))\, Maw Shein Win (Ruins of a Glittering Palace)\, Alvin Orloff (Why Aren’t You Smiling?)\, and Daphne Gottlieb (15 Ways to Stay Alive). \nJustin Chin’s fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview\, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American\, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian\, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals\, Chin’s early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works\, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane\, saints and sinners\, health and illness\, hope and despair\, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV\, which progressed into AIDS in his final years. \nThis unique collection of Chin’s literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works\, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best. Notable literary figures pay tribute to the poet/writer with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books. \nAmong many others\, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark (Rolling the R’s)\, Michelle Tea (How To Grow Up)\, Timothy Liu (Don’t Go Back To Sleep)\, and Lois-Ann Yamanaka (Night at the Pahala Theatre). \nJustin Chin (1969-2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books\, two essay collections\, one book each of short fiction\, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines\, including Beloit Poetry Journal\, and anthologies\, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council\, Djerassi Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Fund\, PEN American Center\, and PEN Center USA West\, among others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/justin-chin-tribute/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T210000
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CREATED:20160828T061755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160828T061755Z
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin + Jasmine Gibson
DESCRIPTION:HUM 512\, SFSU\, free\nGetting here: http://poetry.sfsu.edu/contact-us \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He is also arevolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nJasmine Gibson is a Philly jawn now living in Brooklyn and soon to be psychotherapist for all your gooey psychotic episodes that match the bipolar flows of capital. She spends her time thinking about sexy things like psychosis\, desire and freedom. She has written for Mask Magazine and LIES Vol II: Journal of Materialist feminism and has now published a chapbook\, Drapetomania\, off of Commune Editions. \nThe Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\nhttp://poetry.sfsu.edu/\nStreaming video at Poetry Center Digital Archive\nhttps://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/poetrycenter\nVideo clips at Poetry Center Video Highlights\nhttps://vimeo.com/channels/poetrycenter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-jasmine-gibson/
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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160908T213000
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CREATED:20160810T235014Z
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SUMMARY:John Jodzio w/ Folk\, Madden\, + Vernor
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith presents John Jodzio\, celebrating the release of Knockout with a night of readings from local writers Kate Folk\, Dave Madden\, author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There\, and Kara Vernor\, author of Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song. \nKnockout is the unified collection of stories that create flawless portraits of deeply flawed figures on the edge of the American Dream. \nJohn Jodzio‘s work has been featured in This American Life\, McSweeney’s\, and One Story\, among others. He’s the author of three short story collections — Knockout\, Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. He lives in Minneapolis. \nKate Folk’s stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Colorado Review\,Puerto del Sol\, Joyland\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco. Visit her on Twitter @katefolk. \nDave Madden is the author of If You Need Me I’ll Be Over There and The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy. His shorter work has appeared in Harper’s\, Prairie Schooner\, The Rumpus\, DIAGRAM\, Rappahannock Review\, The Normal School\, Denver Quarterly\, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. \nKara Vernor’s fiction has appeared in Wigleaf\, No Tokens\, PANK\, The Los Angeles Review\, and elsewhere. She is an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar at the Northwest Institute for Literary Arts and was a Best Small Fictions 2015 finalist. Her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, is available from Split Lip Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-jodzio-w-folk-madden-vernor/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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