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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon: One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 30 is 2017’s global 100 Thousand Poets for Change Day (http:/www.100TPC.org)! \nCome to the Bay Area Poetry Marathon’s 100TPC event\, and join other poets\, musicians\, artists\, dancers\, photographers\, performing artists\, around the US and across the planet\, in a demonstration and celebration of poetry to promote social\, environmental\, and political change. \nThis year’s superb line-up: \n* May-lee Chai * Rachelle Linda Escamilla *\n* Edward Foster * Caroline Goodwin * Daphne Gottlieb *\n* Julie Lythcott-Haims * Melissa Ramos * \nDoors open at 7pm.\nReading begins at 7:30pm *SHARP* \nFor more info\, contact series curator Donna de la Perrière
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-one-hundred-thousand-poets-for-change/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:New Poetry From Rob Halpern
DESCRIPTION:Rob Halpern will read from his new book of poetry Touching Voids in Sense which\n\n “enters regions of the self that existing regimes of sense\, visible\, tactile\, and verbal\n keep hidden. What’s at stake is love\, care and the human body\, an abyss at which\n\nloving care of another’s body is the most explosive of concerns. The requirement\n\nis radical critique of the logics of meaning. Touching holes in sense is a reflection\n on the deeper sources of Halpern’s previous books and an investigation of how\n\nan end to mourning requires nothing less than a different ontology of life and death.”\n\n– William Rowe   Rob Halpern’s books include Common Place (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015) and Music  for Porn (Nightboat Books\, 2012). His chapbook called Touching Voids in Sense was  just published by Veer Books in London. He lives between San Francisco and  Ypsilanti\, Michigan\, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron  Valley Women’s Prison.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-from-rob-halpern/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon returns! Join us for the first reading of the 2017-2018 season. \nReadings by William Brewer\, Benjamin Gucciardi\, Dominic Russ-Combs\, Cintia Santana\, and Glori Simmons\nHosted by Peter Kline \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, which was selected for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, New England Review\, A Public Space\, and other journals. He lives in Oakland. \nBenjamin Gucciardi was born and raised in San Francisco. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Orion Magazine\, Forklift Ohio\, Radar Poetry\, upstreet\, Poetry East\, The California Journal of Poetics and other journals. A Best New Poets nominee\, he is a winner of a Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize and contests from The Maine Review and The Santa Ana River Review. He works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland. \nA native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Dominic Russ-Combs welded industrial models in Durham\, North Carolina\, before publishing his first stories and being awarded both a Stegner Fellowship and an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Kenyon Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, among others. He’s currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories. \nCintia Santana’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology\, edited by Mary Szybist. She is the recipient of Djerrassi\, CantoMundo and Hambidge Fellowships. Currently\, she teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. She is at work on her first poetry manuscript. \nGlori Simmons is the author of Suffering Fools\, recipient of the Spokane Prize from Willow Springs Editions (Eastern Washington University\, 2017) and Graft\, poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002). A former Stegner Fellow\, she currently lives in Oakland and is the director of the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-6/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:JB Frame & Dee Allen - POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-6/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and\, with Maira Kalman\, Why We Broke Up.  As Lemony Snicket\, he has written the best-selling series All The Wrong Questions as well as A Series of Unfortunate Events which was the basis of a feature film starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep\, with Jude Law as Lemony Snicket. Netflix has produced an original series based on A Series of Unfortunate Events which premiered January 2017.Handler’s newest novel\, All The Dirty Parts\, looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country\, he sketches\, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way\,” he says. “Draw a number line\, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is\, it’s all you think about\, and while you are drawing the line\, I am thinking about sex.”All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication\, where sex feels like love\, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison\, Daniel Handler gives us a tender\, brutal\, funny\, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. “There are love stories galore\,” Cole tells us\, “This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Celeste Ng w/ Bich Minh Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You) to the store for her new novel Little Fires Everywhere. With her in conversation will be Bich Minh Nguyen. Please join us! \nIn Shaker Heights\, a placid\, progressive suburb of Cleveland\, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads\, to the colors of the houses\, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson\, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. \nEnter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl\, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. \nWhen old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby\, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town–and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives\, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. \nLittle Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets\, the nature of art and identity\, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. \nCeleste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, and Shaker Heights\, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her husband and son. \nBich Minh Nguyen\, who also goes by Beth\, is the author of three books\, all with Viking Penguin: the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, which received the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, which received an American Book Award\, and most recently the novel Pioneer Girl. She teaches in and directs the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celeste-ng-w-bich-minh-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mazza Writer in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from his poetry\, as part of his weeklong stint as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center. “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length 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\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, will be out soon from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. \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 U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nThe Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence program allows Eisen-Martin to work with students of poetry\, drama and other studies\, and present performances both on and off the SF State campus\, with intensive student and community involvement. The residency pairs classroom workshop situations aimed at students\, with performances open to the general public. \nThe Mazza Writer in Residence is made possible by a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mazza-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Ho Lin
DESCRIPTION:Ho Lin\, co-editor of the long-running literary journal Caveat Lector\, joins us in the Marina for a Launch Party celebrating his dazzling fiction debut\, China Girl: And Other Stories. \nA modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies\, depending on a filmmaker’s whim… These are the characters that populate Ho Lin’s short story collection China Girl. \nIn its nine tales\, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West\, the power of myth and the burden of history\, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful\, China Girl is a journey into today’s Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-ho-lin/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Francisco Aragón and Nancy Morejón\, and 10 spots on the Open Mic. \nUnder the full Harvest Moon of Fall\, Lunada will host two award-winning Latinx and Caribbean literary luminaries for an historic reading entre dos maestros. FRANCISCO ARAGÓN\, San Francisco native and son of Nicaraguan immigrants\, and preeminent Cuban author NANCY MOREJÓN\, are both in town for brief visits\, and will feature their work at the next Lunada with the pueblo of the Mission\, in San Francisco. \nOPEN MIC: Sign up is at the entrance at 7pm\, 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. inviting poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates\, veteranos\, and first-timers to share their voices throughout the evening\, under the lunar spotlight. \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM. \n$5.00 Admission: \nHosted by Sandra García Rivera \nGALERÍA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nA native of San Francisco\, California\, Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. Educated in the city at St. James and Riordan\, he earned a B.A. in Spanish literature across the bay at UC Berkeley before relocating to Madrid\, where he obtained an M.A. in Hispanic Civilization from New York University (“NYU in Spain”). Upon his return to the United States after a ten-year stint in Europe\, Aragón began a period of activity that included his own writing\, editing\, translating\, and literary curating. After completing graduate degrees in creative writing from UC Davis (M.A.) and the University of Notre Dame (M.F.A.)\, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS)\, where he established the ILS’ literary initiative—Letras Latinas\, where he has conceived of and overseen programs for Latinx poets and writers. His work in this area led him to serve the literary community at-large\, including as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nominator for various literary distinctions\, and as a trustee of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) from 2008 to 2012. In 2010\, he was awarded the “Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Arts\, Literary Arts and Publications Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and in 2015 a VIDO Award by VIDA\, Women in the Literary Arts. In 2017\, he was a finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism. Aragón\, a CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, is the author of two books: Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press\, 2005) and Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press\, 2010) as well as editor of the anthology\, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press\, 2007). His third book\, After Rubén\, is forthcoming next year from Northern California publisher\, Blue Oak Press. His poems and translations have appeared in various print and online journals\, as well as numerous anthologies.  He spends the fall semester on the Notre Dame campus where he teaches a literature course on Latinx poetry\, and spring in Washington\, D.C.\, where he teaches a poetry workshop featuring the work of local and visiting Latinx poets. \nNancy Morejón is Cuba’s preeminent living poet\, and is the recipient of multiple literary awards. Morejón graduated with honors at the University of Havana\, having studied Caribbean and French Literature\, and she is fluent in French\, English. The daughter of a stevedore of African descent and a mother of Chinese Cuban and European descent\, Nancy writes of Cuban mestizo culture. Also a daughter of the Cuban revolution\, her work explores a range of themes: the mythology of the Cuban nation\, the relation of the blacks of Cuba within that nation. In addition\, she also voices the situation of women within her society\, expressing concern for women’s experience and for racial equality within the Cuban revolution. Her work also treats the grievous fact of slavery as an ancestral experience. Her work treats political themes as well as intimate\, familial topics. She is a well-regarded translator of French and English into Spanish\, particularly Caribbean writers\, including Edouard Glissant\, Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire\, René Depestre. Her own poetry has been translated into English\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Gallego\, Russian\, Macedonian\, and others. She has produced a number of journalistic\, critical\, and dramatic works. One of the most notable is her book-length treatments of poet Nicolás Guillén. In 1986 she won the Cuban “Premio de la crítica” (Critic’s Prize) for Piedra Pulida\, and in 2001 won Cuba’s National Prize for Literature\, awarded for the first time to a black woman. This national prize for literature was created in 1983; Nicolás Guillén was the first to receive it. She also won the Golden Wreath of the Struga poetry evenings for 2006. She has toured extensively in the United States\, Latin America\, and in other countries\, and Nancy will also be accompanied by Daisy Salas\, who works as a coordinator for Cuban artists and writers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-3/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
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SUMMARY:Filipino American Literary Readings
DESCRIPTION:There are three Filipino American Literary Readings at the Filipino American International Book Festival\, which will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, Civic Center\, SF\, CA 94102. \nFirst reading is on October 7 at 1:30-3 p.m.; \nSecond one at  4:20- 5:30 p.m.; \nThird reading on 8 at 1:45-3:05 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170817T044740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T044740Z
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SUMMARY:Paradigm Lost at Adobe Books
DESCRIPTION:Paradigm Lost is a collection of radical verse & visuals for the shift. A book that seeks to manufacture dissent through collaborative art and poetry. \nPoet and creative activist Eleanor Goldfield will perform a few pieces from the book as well as discuss the role of art in movements. \nBooks will be for sale and available for signing. \nFor more information on the book\, please visit artkillingapathy.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paradigm-lost-at-adobe-books/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20171007T014749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014749Z
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SUMMARY:Poet\, Musician Improvise Against Racism + Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin in collaboration with drummer/composer and writer Marshall  Trammell\, of the duo Black Spirituals\, appear in a first-time improvised duo performance at The Green Arcade. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center at SF State.   Tongo Eisen-Martin\, a movement worker and educator who has organized against  mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United  States\, has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California  county jails. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African- American Studies at Columbia University. His first full-length 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\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is  the latest from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series.   Marshall R. Trammell is the founder and Chief Investigator of Music Research  Strategies\, an interdisciplinary artist performing-ethnomusicology\, political  education\, and social engagement platform working with video\, sound\, music\, text\,  geography\, and data collection environments. Trammell’s work combines re- imaginings of ‘narratives of fugitivity\,’ tactical media and solidarity economics of the  Underground Railroad for today’s political landscape. Trammell is the percussionist  in Black Spirituals\, an interdisciplinary\, electro-acoustic artist collective. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-musician-improvise-against-racism-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170414T010048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T011510Z
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20171007T014916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Brian Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Brian Rogers reads from and discusses his novel The Whole of the Moon. The novel features six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66 in Southern California\, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present\, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-rogers/
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:20171011T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T220000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170926T004223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T004223Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Best of Fireside
DESCRIPTION:more info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-best-of-fireside/
LOCATION:San Francisco Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170929T222708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T003413Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Eisen-Martin\, Zamora\, + Vaz
DESCRIPTION:Join Voz Sin Tinta in the month of October for an epic reading\, featuring three writers with their new books fresh off the presses. \nWe will have light refreshments\, drinks\, and an open mic before the featured readers. Maximum of 6 open mic slots will be available with a time limit of 4 minutes.\nBooks will be available for purchase! \nReaders:\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book\, someone’s dead already\, and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).\nIn 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017)\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.\nZamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Latino Studies department and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. He holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. The Planet of the Dead is his debut book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-eisen-martin-zamora-and-vaz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T200000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20171001T001755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T001755Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer book reading "From Personal Experience"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Kate Carroll de Gutes joins local authors Lynne Barnes and Kate Jessica Raphael for a Perfectly Queer Rainbow Reading\, “From Personal Experience\,” Thu.\, Oct. 12\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, in San Francisco. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and thematic door prizes. A reception and book signing follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/1665334820143726 \nAll three authors write from personal experience: Barnes poetry\, de Gutes essays\, and Raphael novels. Here is more information about them and their writing. \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards and as a librarian in San Francisco’s public libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She lives with her beloved partner\, Carole\, who created the cover art for Lynne’s poetic memoir\, Falling Into Flowers\, 2017. \nKate Carroll de Gutes‘ book\, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book\, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life\, was released in August\, 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes grief\, the drama of perimenopause and dating\, riding bikes\, and the joys and challenges of authentic living. You can learn more at www.katecarrolldegutes.com. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer\, feminist\, queer activist\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service\, and spent over a month in Israeli prison because of her activism. She has also done international solidarity work in Bahrain and Iraq. She was awarded a Hedgebrook residency and elected Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade. She produces the weekly radio show Women’s Magazine on KPFA. The first novel in her Palestine mystery series\, Murder Under the Bridge\, won the Independent Publishers Book Award silver medal for mystery. Her second book\, Murder Under the Fig Tree\, was released in September\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-book-reading-from-personal-experience/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/
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:20171013T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170824T132923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T005224Z
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SUMMARY:Havarie/Collision
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Litquake and Unnamed Press\, the Center for the Art of Translation presents a screening of the German “slow-cinema” film Havarie followed by a conversation about the film with director Philip Scheffner and a reading by author Merle Kröger Collision\, a crime novel inspired by research for the film. \nCollision – The Book\nThe research for the film Havarie was starting point and inspiration for the novel of the same title\, written by Merle Kröger\, and translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt and Alexandra Roesch as Collision (Unnamed Press November 2017). The book received the Radio Bremen Crime Novel Award 2015 and the German Crime Novel Award 2016. According to Kröger\, “Reality is much more dramatic\, violent and incomprehensible than fiction. I decided to take the encounter between the ships as the cause to freeze time\, to create a 3-D model from this situation which I can observe from all perspectives. In this kind of model space I now step into each character’s role and try to let him or her think and act on the basis of their individual biographies.” \nHavarie – The Film\nOn September 14\, 2012 at 2:56pm\, the cruise liner “Adventure of the Seas” reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past\, present and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.\nDirector: Philip Scheffner\, Color\, 97 minutes\, 2015/16\, Germany
URL:https://litseen.com/event/havariecollision/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170926T002216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014324Z
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SUMMARY:Three Distinguished Poets
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry featuring Al Young\, Floyd Salas & Andrena Zawinski. \nAl Young’s many books include poetry collections\, memoirs\, and novels. His honors include Wallace Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships\, the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poetry Fellowship\, and the Richard Wright Award for Excellence in Literature. He has twice received the American Book Award. A two-time California Poet Laureate\, he is currently Distinguished Professor at California College of the Arts’ MFA In Writing program. alyoung.org \nFloyd Salas is the author of nine books: five novels\, three volumes of poetry and a memoir. His first novel\, Tattoo the Wicked Cross\, along with his memoir Buffalo Nickel\, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins 1994). He was 2002-2003 Regent’s Lecturer at University of California\, Berkeley\, staff writer for the NBC drama series\, Kingpin and the recipient of NEA\, California Arts Council\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and other fellowships and awards. His work is archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library\, UC Berkeley. floydsalas.com \nAndrena Zawinski’s latest poetry collection\, Landings\, is from Kelsay Books. Previous collections include: Something About(Blue Light Press)\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient\, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press)\, a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. She has also authored four chapbooks. Zawinski runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Her poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, Progressive Magazine\, Pacific Review\, Rattle\, Quarterly West\, Mantis\, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized. Awards include those for lyricism\, free verse narratives\, formal poetry\, spirituality\, and social concern.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/three-distinguished-poets-al-young-floyd-salas-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20171007T015037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015037Z
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SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by United Booksellers of San Francisco \nA Manic D Press publication party \nArtist evictions\, tech invasions―where will it end? These San Francisco stories wrest wisdom from chaos and channel boundless energy into artful narratives\, demonstrating that grace and persistence are as much a measure of the city’s legacy as a determination of its future. The new anthology Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuing legacy as home and beacon to the literary vanguard. Hosted by editor Denise Sullivan and contributor Tony Robles\, with readings from Golden Sun writers Dee Allen\, Patsy Creedy\, Kelly Dessaint\, John Goins\, Raluca Ioanid\, Michael Koch\, Alvin Orloff\, Shizue Seigel\, Don Skiles\, and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon with music by Victor Krummenacher and Alison Faith Levy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-publication-party/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170926T005721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014402Z
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me. \nJoin us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me\, a collection of broken-hearted lesbian love poems that depict the lovers we’ve been and the lovers we’ve had. We haven’t always been fair; they haven’t always been kind. Get ready for Arellano to rip off her máscara and peel yours away\, too. \nSaturday Octorber 14th. 5-7PM\n$5 suggested donations NOTAFLOF \nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T104548
CREATED:20170926T004901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014452Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime Deluge
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DELUGE\, in phase 1 of the San Francisco Lit Crawl on Saturday October 14th\, 5-6 pm at Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia Street\, San Francisco CA\, will feature Erika Mailman (The Murderer’s Maid)\, Rob Davidson (Spectators)\, Rebecca Winterer (The Singing Ship)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, and Rajshree Chauhan. MCd by Ransom Stephens (The 99% Solution).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-deluge/
LOCATION:Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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