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SUMMARY:Magra Books Reading: Paul Vangelisti + Sean Pessin Host
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the first two seasons of titles from the independent publisher\, Magra Books (magrabooks.com). Gillian Conoley will read from her just published chapbook\, Preparing One’s Consciousness for the Avatar\, along with Martha Ronk reading from her 2016 title\, Unfamiliar Familiar; Art Beck from his new translation\, Martial\, Epigrams; Dennis Phillips from his Desert Sequence chapbook; and Neeli Cherkovski from his forthcoming Magra chapbook\, Odes for Ezra Weston Pound. Part of the presentation will also be a memorial tribute to Ray DiPalma (1943-2016)\, whose For a Curved Surface is one of Magra’s initial offerings. Based in Los Angeles and Tuscany\, Magra Books is a series of chapbooks\, printed in editions of 300 copies\, featuring unique works by important writers. Each volume\, typically 32 pages in length\, presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing work that strives to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language\, language that knows no borders. Hosting the event will be Paul Vangelisti and Sean Pessin\, part of Magra Book’s editorial staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/magra-books-reading-paul-vangelisti-sean-pessin-host/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170918T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170918T200000
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SUMMARY:About Alice: An Onstage Reading
DESCRIPTION:A reading of the two-character play that Calvin Trillin has adapted from the book he wrote about his late wife\, the educator Alice Stewart Trillin. Directed by Leonard Foglia. Cast to be announced. \nCalvin Trillin has been writing for The New Yorker since 1963. His many books include the comic novels “Floater” and “Tepper Isn’t Going Out”; the memoirs “Messages from My Father” and “About Alice\,” which he has recently adapted into a play; “The Tummy Trilogy\,” a collection of three books about food; and “Jackson\, 1964: And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America.” He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his book “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff.” \nLeonard Foglia has directed Broadway productions of “Master Class\,” “Thurgood\,” “The People In The Picture”; the Broadway revivals of “The Gin Game\,” “On Golden Pond\,” and “Wait Until Dark”; and opera productions\, including the world premières of “Moby Dick\,” “Everest\,” “Cold Mountain\,” “The End of the Affair\,” and “Three Decembers.” As a librettist\, he wrote and directed “El Pasado Nunca Se Termina\,” “Cruzar La Cara De La Luna” with composer Jose Martinez\, and “A Coffin in Egypt” with composer Ricky Ian Gordon. \nNOTE: Advance sales open to members only at this time. To become a City Arts & Lectures member\, click here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-alice-an-onstage-reading/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170918T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-robert-anbian-michael-koch/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell + Clyde Always
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-clyde-always/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
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SUMMARY:Brontez Purnell
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170604T223440Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Isabel Duffy. \nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program. \nAn “immensely gifted writer and magical prose stylist” (Michiko Kakutani\, The New York Times)\, Michael Chabon is celebrated for his remarkable ability to transport his readers.  His many novels include The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, and Telegraph Avenue. His most recent\, Moonglow\, is based on stories he was told by his ailing grandfather during a visit in 1989. It is part novel\, part memoir\, in which he has “stuck to facts except when facts refused to conform with memory\, narrating purpose\, or the truth as I prefer to understand it. Wherever liberties have been taken … the reader is assured that they have been taken with due abandon.”  The book follows his grandparents as their lives weave through much of the 20th century. \nYou can purchase tickets online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-3/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170919T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170919T213000
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SUMMARY:Josephine Rowe
DESCRIPTION:Josephine Rowe discusses her new novel\, A Loving\, Faithful Animal. \n\nPraise for A Loving\, Faithful Animal \n\n“A subtle and haunting meditation on childhood\, escape\, the bonds and the limits of family\, and the long reach of trauma. Rowe is a serious talent\, and her debut novel is both gorgeous and stunning.” —Emily St. John Mandel\, author of Station Eleven \n“A Loving\, Faithful Animal lured me in with astonishing\, poetic prose\, and a glimpse of an Australia I don’t always see in fiction. But the true thrill of the novel is the carousel of haunting characters Josephine Rowe creates with unbelievable precision. An unflinching look at the ways we fail the people we love\, at the cruelty of family\, its toxicity\, and beauty. The book is a deep\, multi-faceted portrait of the inheritance of damage\, one that left me aching and inspired.” —Stephanie Danler\, New York Times bestselling author of Sweetbitter \n“Josephine Rowe writes like someone who\, having been quiet a long time\, has thought carefully and viciously about what must be said. In this flinty debut\, Rowe fashions a string of refractory surfaces―the family members of a veteran―to remind us just how far\, into love and time\, the atrocity of war will reach.” ―Kathleen Alcott\, author of Infinite Home \n\nAbout A Loving\, Faithful Animal \nIt is New Year’s Eve 1990\, in a small town in southeast Australia. Ru’s father\, Jack\, one of thousands of Australians once conscripted to serve in the Vietnam War\, has disappeared. This time Ru thinks he might be gone for good. As rumors spread of a huge black cat stalking the landscape beyond their door\, the rest of the family is barely holding on. Ru’s sister\, Lani\, is throwing herself into sex\, drugs\, and dangerous company. Their mother\, Evelyn\, is escaping into memories of a more vibrant youth. And meanwhile there is Les\, Jack’s inscrutable brother\, who seems to move through their lives like a ghost\, earning both trust and suspicion. \n  \nA Loving\, Faithful Animal is an incandescent portrait of one family searching for what may yet be redeemable from the ruins of war. Tender\, brutal\, and heart-stopping in its beauty\, this novel marks the arrival in the United States of Josephine Rowe\, the winner of the 2016 Elizabeth Jolley Prize and one of Australia’s most extraordinary young writers. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josephine-rowe/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170920T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170920T210000
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SUMMARY:Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to have Jesmyn Ward in the store for her latest novel\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing. Please join us! \nCarrying the torch of Faulkner and As I Lay Dying\, Sing\, Unburied\, Sing tells the emotional journey taken by Leonie\, a single mother addicted to drugs\, her son Jojo\, 13\, and his toddler sister\, Kayla—who have been raised by their grandparents Pap\, who tries to teach Jojo how to be a man\, and Mam\, who is sick with cancer—to Parchman Farm\, the Mississippi State Penitentiary where Jojo and Kayla’s white father is being released from prison. Ghosts and spirits hover over Ward’s narrative\, which hums with ambition\, complexity\, heartache\, rich visuals\, and violence. \nIn Sing\, Unburied\, Sing\, Ward shows us life on the gulf coast of Mississippi—lush and menacing and marked by a precise rural vernacular—and life within a family weighted by history and poverty but bonded by love. Rich with Ward’s distinctive\, musical language\, it is a majestic new work and an essential contribution to American literature by a writer at the top of her game. \nJesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University. She is the author of the novelsWhere the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones\, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the editor of the anthology The Fire This Time and the author of the memoirMen We Reaped\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 2008-2010\, Ward had a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. She was the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi for the 2010-2011 academic year. In 2016\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters selected Ward for the Strauss Living Award. She lives in Mississippi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170920T213000
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SUMMARY:Elise Paschen + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Elise Paschen and Tess Taylor read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nPraise for Elise Paschen \n“The Nightlife is not only a beautiful and inventive collection\, it’s an important contribution to this period in American poetry. Paschen’s voice shows us how―given all the choices in form\, voice\, subject\, and vision―a poet might make the art her own through the force of her personal brilliance\, and a generous and idiosyncratic sensibility. In this work it is as if ‘. . . she unhinged every / window . . .’ These are poems you return to not only for the music and the detail―equally powerful through her wide-angle lens as under her magnifying glass―but to puzzle out how she managed it. So much craft in work that reads so freely\, seems to have issued forth so effortlessly\, but also from some supernatural source\, poems that read as if the poet were ‘. . . trying to put back / the wild fury she had released.’ This is poetry that reminds us of all the power and possibilities of poetry itself.”―Laura Kasischke\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Space\, in Chains \n\nPraise for Tess Taylor \n“(This) lapidary\, moving book . . . shows that across thousands of years\, these smallest acts―to grow\, harvest\, mourn―still remain central to lyric utterance. Is such a pastoral sensibility possible in the mediated world of 21st century American life? Taylor’s answer is not only yes\, but to focus on the thousands of workers both here and abroad who live a life based on laboring with the earth. These subtle poems\, like those that explore her lineage to the Jefferson family in her first book\, are not without harder-to-confront agonies. As she draws the world… proximate to touch\, the intuited sense of apocalypse―whether ecological disaster\, or global political chaos―draws closer . . . (as well.)”―LitHub’s “30 Poets You Should be Reading” \n  \nAbout The Nightlife \n\nIn Elise Paschen’s prize-winning poetry collection\, Infidelities\, Richard Wilbur wrote that the poems “. . . draw upon a dream life which can deeply tincture the waking world.” In her third poetry book\, The Nightlife\, Paschen once again taps into dream states\, creating a narrative which balances between the lived and the imagined life. Probing the tension between “The Elevated” and the “Falls\,” she explores troubled love and relationships\, the danger of accident and emotional volatility. At the heart of the book is a dream triptych which retells the same encounter from different perspectives\, the drama between the narrative described and the sexual tension created there. \n  \nThe Nightlife demonstrates Paschen’s versatility and formal mastery as she experiments with forms such as the pantoum\, the villanelle and the tritina\, as well as concrete poems and poems in free verse. Throughout this poetry collection\, she interweaves lyric and narrative threads\, creating a contrapuntal story-line. The book begins with a dive into deep water and ends with an opening into sky. \n  \nAbout Work and Days \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elise-paschen-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney + Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney has published six books\, most recently Buck Studies (Fence Books\, 2016)\, winner of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award in poetry. BOMB magazine states Kearney “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic\, personal and historical.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity\, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publishers Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Raised in Altadena\, he lives with his family in the Santa Clarita Valley and teaches at CalArts. \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist\, doula and the author of The Easy Body (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017). Luboviski-Acosta\, Matt Weathers and Carla Orendorff are founding members of strictlyyouth\, a decolonized punk dance collective for people of color. With Elana Chavez\, they are founding curators of the Cantil Reading Series. They have taught movement\, filmmaking and radical play to anarchists and children. Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles’ Eastside and now lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T210000
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SUMMARY:Eleanor Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Booksmith as we welcome Eleanor Henderson for the debut of her forthcoming novel The Twelve-Mile Straight. \nSet in Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition\, The Twelve-Mile Straight is an American epic about race\, inequality\, and family that reads like a page-turner and is startlingly timely and relevant. It begins when two babies—one dark-skinned\, the other light—are born to the daughter of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery. The twins’ birth raises questions that have violent\, tragic consequences that continue to reverberate many years into the future. \nHenderson’s childhood was brimming with accounts from her grandparents’ and her father of the town where her grandparents were sharecroppers. She heard tales of her grandparents during the Great Depression and stories about the hard times on the farm\, and she also learned about the resilience and the ways in which families persevere together. Henderson was inspired to bring the world of Cotton County\, Georgia during the time of Jim Crow to the page\, and says she wanted “to capture the innocence of those country stories\, and also to fracture it. I knew there was a darker narrative running alongside this one\, like the quiet creek running along the [fictional] Twelve-Mile Straight.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-henderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T213000
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Fall 2017 MFA Reading featuring Vivian Gornick. \nVivian Gornick\, a born and bred New Yorker\, is an essayist and memoirist whose latest book\, aptly enough\, is entitled The Odd Woman and The City. Her other books include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\, and many other works that have garnered nominations for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gornick is a former staff writer for The Village Voice. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nThe MFA Reading Series is co-sponsored by the English department and presents literary readings and discussions that are free and open to the public. For more information on the MFA in Writing program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing\, or email: mfaw@usfca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170921T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170921T213000
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CREATED:20170817T041343Z
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SUMMARY:Swallowing Mercury: Wioletta Greg
DESCRIPTION:Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books\, Swallowing Mercury. \nLonglisted for The Man Booker International Prize\, Swallowing Mercury looks back on youth in a close-knit\, agricultural community in 1980s Poland through the eyes of Wiola. Her memories are precise\, intense\, distinctive\, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women\, rumored visits from the Pope\, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house\, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch\, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up. \nWioletta Greg is a Polish writer. She was born in a small village in 1974 in the Jurassic Highland of Poland. In 2006\, she left Poland and moved to the UK. Between 1998–2012 she published six poetry volumes\, as well as a novel\, Swallowing Mercury\, which spans her childhood and her experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Her short stories and poems have been published in Asymptote\, theGuardian\, Litro Magazine\, Poetry Wales\, Wasafiri and The White Review. Her works have been translated into English\, Catalan\, French\, Spanish and Welsh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swallowing-mercury-wioletta-greg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170922T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170922T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170816T005340Z
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SUMMARY:The New Talkies
DESCRIPTION:This evening of neo-benshi performances will showcase film clips rewritten and narrated live by authors from the Bay Area\, New York\, Los Angeles and Houston. Featuring excerpts from blockbusters such as The Sound of Music\, Mexican feature Lola La Trailera (Lola the Truck Driver)\, animated series Dora the Explorer\, the obscure The Assassination of Trotsky and cult classic Carnival of Souls. \nWriters/performers\n\nAnuj Vaidya\nDouglas Kearney\nJaime Cortez\nJennifer Tamayo\nKonrad Steiner\nNicole McJamerson\nStalina Villarreal\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nTongo Eisen-Martin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-new-talkies/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170923T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170923T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170815T111020Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Edith Eva Eger\, "The CHOICE: Embrace the Possible"
DESCRIPTION:Inspiring Speaker Dr. Edith Eger\, eminent psychologist and acclaimed author. She shares her heroic story as indomitable survivor of Auschwitz and her highly anticipated memoir\, \n\n“THE CHOICE: Embrace the Possible”  \nThe highly anticipated Memoir by Acclaimed Best Selling Author  \nDr. Edith Eva Eger \nInspiring Speaker\, Eminent Psychologist\, Expert in Trauma Recovery\, and Thriving Survivor of Auschwitz\, shares Her Remarkable Memoir of Survival\, Freedom\, and Forgiveness. \nMarines Memorial Theatre \nSeptember 23\, 2017 6 p.m. \nDr. Eger has appeared on numerous television programs including TED Talks\, The Oprah Winfrey Show\, The 2017 Annual California Legislative Caucus\, and a recent CNN special commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. \n“The Choice is a gift to humanity.  One of those rare and eternal stories that you don’t want to end and that leave you forever changed. Dr. Eger’s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and to use that suffering for the benefit of others.  She has found true freedom and forgiveness and shows us how we can as well.”\n—DESMOND TUTU\, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-edith-eva-eger-the-choice-embrace-the-possible/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Western Institute for Social Research":MAILTO:turningtide@pacific-ocean.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170924T113000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170924T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170803T002628Z
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SUMMARY:Phonochrome: 9/24 Banned Books Solidarity Concert
DESCRIPTION:Kick off Banned Books Week with critically acclaimed chamber ensemble\, Phonochrome\, on Sunday\, September 24th! Phonochrome presents a compelling array of music and songs in a timely\, musical exploration of artistic and literary censorship. This program features works by blacklisted artists Aaron Copland and Dorothy Parker\, controversial songs made famous by Billie Holiday and Maya Angelou\, and music inspired by banned literature such as Alice in Wonderland and Pierre Louys’ sensual Chansons de Bilitis\, among others. There will be free pre-concert coffee courtesy of Ritual Coffee Roasters\, and a post-concert book reception with The Green Arcade. [Doors at 11:30/concert at noon.]  \nProgram:\n“Song of the Birds\,” a traditional Catalonian folk song arr. by Pau Casals\n“Flute Sonata in E Major\, BWV 1035” by Johann Sebastian Bach\n“As It Fell Upon A Day\,” by Aaron Copland\nSongs by Maya Angelou\, TBD\n“Chansons de Bilitis\,” by Claude Debussy with poetry by Pierre Louys\n“Songs of Perfect Propriety\,” by Seymour Barab with poetry by Dorothy Parker\n“Advice from a Caterpillar\,” from Unsuk Chin’s opera Alice in Wonderland\n“Strange Fruit\,” by Abel Meeropol\, arr. by Jude Traxler \n*This concert features Anne Hepburn Smith\, soprano; Melinda Becker\, mezzo-soprano; Elizabeth Talbert\, flute; Sophie Huet\, clarinet; Natalie Raney\, cello; Anne Rainwater\, piano; and an arrangement by composer Jude Traxler. More information is available on our facebook event page or at www.talbertflute.com/phonochrome.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phonochrome-924-banned-books-solidarity-concert/
LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170924T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170924T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170902T052942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T052942Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Authors of Dzanc Books
DESCRIPTION:Authors Jason Tougaw and Deb Busman read from their works published by Dzanc Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-authors-of-dzanc-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170911T232001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T232001Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #11: SILENCE w/ Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 25th at 7:00PM\, The Racket #11: SILENCE will touch down at Adobe Books. We couldn’t be more excited to welcome Bay Area writer Shawn Wen\, the author of A Twenty Minute Silence\, Then Applause (Sarabande Books). She’ll be reading from her poetic essay on super mime Marcel Marceau\, answering questions and signing books. \nPreceding her will be Theresa Padden\, Janey Skinner\, Gary Singh andAndrew O. Dugas\, all reading on the subject of SILENCE. \nYou should be there. \nWe certainly will.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-11-silence-w-shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170621T232842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T232842Z
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SUMMARY:Karl Geary
DESCRIPTION:Karl Geary discusses his new novel\, Montpelier Parade with Ethel Rohan. \n\nPraise for Montpelier Parade \n“Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how\, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.” —Sunjeev Sahota\, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Year of the Runaways \n\n“Geary — who has previously worked as an actor and scriptwriter — is a genuine talent. The sense of intimacy created by the second-person narrative is brilliantly sustained and the dialogue throughout is pitch perfect\, seeming almost audibly to slice the always pregnant\, often suffocatingly toxic atmosphere.” —Daily Mail (UK) \n\n“The work of a deft\, fearless writer … evoking the subtly dark comedy of Patrick McCabe\, and the delicious lyricism of Peter Murphy\, Geary has a keen recollection of the folly and hunger of youth. Add in a gut-spinning plot twist\, and it’s safe to describe Montpelier Parade as one of the first significant releases of 2017.” —Irish Independent \n\nAbout Montpelier Parade \nMontpelier Parade is just across town\, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday\, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera\, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach. \n  \nHoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging―at high school\, in his part-time job at the butcher shop\, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family―Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time\, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future? \n  \nUnfolding over a bright\, rain-soaked Dublin spring\, Montpelier Parade is a rich\, devastating debut novel about desire\, grief\, ambition\, art\, and the choices we must make alone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karl-geary/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170817T122030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T122030Z
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SUMMARY:Claire Messud
DESCRIPTION:Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children\, was a New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Washington Post Best Book of the Year. Her first novel\, When the World Was Steady\, and her book of novellas\, The Hunters\, were both finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and her second novel\, The Last Life\, was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice at The Village Voice. All four books were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Messud has been awarded Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her forthcoming novel\, The Burning Girl\, is a bracing\, hypnotic\, coming of age story about the bond of best friends.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-messud/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170925T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170925T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170926T001618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T001619Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #49
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-49/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170720T035032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T035032Z
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SUMMARY:Kristina Brown + Stephen Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristina-brown-stephen-kessler/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170926T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170926T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170721T234452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T234452Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon (executive editor Zyzzyva Magazine) \ncelebrating the release of \nWhy Poetry \nfrom Ecco Press \n\n\nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, “possess the origin of all poems\,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of three collections of poetry\, American Linden\, The Pajamaist\, and Come On All You Ghosts. The Pajamaist was selected as the winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. Come On All You Ghosts was a New York Times Notable Book of the year\, and was also selected as the 2010 BooklistEditors’ Choice for poetry\, as well as the Northern California Independent Booksellers poetry book of the year.  Zapruder has been a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa\, Texas\, and a recipient of a May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship\, Zapruder lives in San Francisco\, where he is an editor at Wave Books. \nVisit: http://matthewzapruder.wordpress.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170817T050708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T050708Z
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SUMMARY:Josh Weil
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Age of Perpetual Light \nfrom Grove Press \nA dazzling new work that spans a century and eight tales of light\, human progress\, and the search for a better life from Josh Weil\, one of “the most gifted writers of his generation” (Colum McCann)\, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters \nFollowing his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel\, The Great Glass Sea\, Josh Weil brings together stories selected from a decade of work in a stellar new collection. Beginning at the dawn of the past century\, in the early days of electrification\, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night\, The Age of Perpetual Light follows deeply-felt characters through different eras in American history: from a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp\, to a 1940 farmers’ uprising against the unfair practices of a power company; a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990’s Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite\, to a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter’s autism during winter’s longest night. \nBrilliantly hewn and piercingly observant\, these are tales that speak to the all-too-human desire for advancement and the struggle of wounded hearts to find a salve\, no matter what the cost. This is a breathtaking book from one of our brightest literary lights. \nJosh Weil was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novella collection\, The New Valley. A National Book Award “Five Under Thirty-Five” author\, he has received fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation\, Columbia University\, the MacDowell Colony\, Bread Loaf\, and Sewanee. His fiction has appeared in Granta\, Esquire\, One Story\, and Tin House. \nPraise for The Age of Perpetual Light \n“A rich\, often dazzling collection of short stories linked by themes while ranging widely in style from Babel-like fables to gritty noir and sci-fi . . . engrossing\, persuasively detailed and written with a deep affection for the way language can\, in masterful hands\, convey us to marvelous new worlds.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/josh-weil/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170927T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170924T001211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T001211Z
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SUMMARY:Words: Readings in Two Languages
DESCRIPTION:A bicycle: \nthere is no poetry \nin stopping. \nSo writes Ahmed Al Mulla\, the groundbreaking Saudi poet whose vivid\, free-flowing prose has gained him critical acclaim across the Arab World. Diverging from the strict\, metered-style of Arabic poetry\, Al Mulla chooses to embrace free verse in his poems. Al Mulla will share a number of his poems in both the original Arabic and English translation alongside poet Mohammad Salama and musical accompaniment by Hafez Modirzadeh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/words-readings-in-two-languages/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Middle East Institute":MAILTO:exchanges@mei.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170816T005513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T005513Z
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Camille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade. Her recent collection of essays is Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys Into Race\, Motherhood and History. She has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, 100 Best African American Poems and many other print and online venues. Her honors include an American Book Award\, two Northern California Book Awards\, a California Book Award silver medal\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly a professor at San Francisco State University\, she is a professor at Colorado State University. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the U.S. when he was 9. He is a 2016 – 2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writers Award\, he will publish his first poetry collection Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press) in September.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy-javier-zamora/
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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170928T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170928T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170616T121830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T114527Z
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SUMMARY:Nathan Englander
DESCRIPTION:A political thriller that unfolds in the highly charged territory of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and pivots on the complex relationship between a secret prisoner and his guard. \nA prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman. And The General\, Israel’s most controversial leader\, who lies dying in a hospital\, the only man who knows of the prisoner’s existence. \nFrom these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful\, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict\, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined–a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished\, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians\, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides. Who is right\, who is wrong – who is the guard\, who is truly the prisoner?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nathan-englander/
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:20170929T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170929T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170929T223649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T223649Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes...
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 5\, 2017\n7:30pm  10:30pm\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1566858\n$10 online or $10 at the door.\nContact ned@yg2d.com if cost is an issue. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-10/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170929T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170621T233108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233108Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Airea D. Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Airea D. Matthews read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.”With poems that weave from Marrakesh to Zurich to London\, through history to the present day\, this book is\, on its surface\, an uncompromising exploration of identity in personal and collective terms. Yet the collection is\, most deeply\, about intimacy and love\, the inevitability of human separation and the challenge of human connection. Urging us to reexamine our own place in the broader human tapestry\, Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing announces the arrival of a powerful and necessary new voice. \n  \nAbout Simulacra \nWinner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize \nA fresh and rebellious poetic voice\, Airea D. Matthews debuts in the acclaimed series that showcases the work of exciting and innovative young American poets. Matthews’s superb collection explores the topic of want and desire with power\, insight\, and intense emotion. Her poems cross historical boundaries and speak emphatically from a racialized America\, where the trajectories of joy and exploitation\, striving and thwarting\, violence and celebration are constrained by differentials of privilege and contemporary modes of communication. In his foreword\, series judge Carl Phillips calls this book “rollicking\, destabilizing\, at once intellectually sly and piercing and finally poignant.” This is poetry that breaks new literary ground\, inspiring readers to think differently about what poems can and should do in a new media society where imaginations are laid bare and there is no thought too provocative to send out into the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-airea-d-matthews/
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:20170930T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170930T190000
DTSTAMP:20260414T213059
CREATED:20170926T002054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013102Z
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SUMMARY:100 Thousand Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Karen Melander Magoon & Philip Hackett \nJoin us for an open mic\, featuring the following readers\, under the banner of “100 Thousand Poets for Change.” \nFeatured readers: \n\nDee Allen\nDan Brady\nMahnaz Badihian\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAna Elsner\nAgneta Falk\nNahid Fattahi\nDavid Giesen\nQ R Hand\nNajia Karim\nRichard Loranger\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nBarbara Paschke\nRichard Sanderell\nDavid Volpendesta\n\nand others… \nPoets and artists all over the world are currently organizing events to promote environmental\, social\, and political change. \nPoets\, writers\, artists\, and humanitarians will create\, perform\, educate and demonstrate\, in their individual communities\, and decide their own specific area of focus for change within the overall framework of peace and sustainability\, which co-founder Michael Rothenberg stated\, “…is a major concern worldwide and the guiding principle for this global event.” \nAll those involved are hoping\, through their actions and events\, to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue of the day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace and sustainability.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-thousand-poets-for-change-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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