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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer-sf/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:reading from here new novel \nHazards of Time Travel \npublished by Harper Collins \n\n\nAn ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society\, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates \n“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-7/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. \n\nPraise for Wild Geese Sorrow \n“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet\, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced\, affecting\, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets\, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”— David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace \n“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island\, California\, from 1910-1940\, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly\, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment\, this book is important reading for all Americans.”—Arthur Sze\, author of The Red-Shifting Web \n“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing\, footnotes\, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention\, jailers\, and interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds. These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential contribution to American literary history.” — Elaine H. Kim\, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\nAbout Wild Geese Sorrow \nWild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island by Jeffrey Thomas Leong is the first new translation in almost 40 years and takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience\, the poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, deportation. Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, so essential to our contemporary policy debates. \nWild Geese Sorrow presents Leong’s 20+ years of writing experience into a moving collection that offers readers: \n• 70 newly-translated Angel Island Chinese wall poems presented in the original Chinese characters and with their English translations on facing pages\n• Brief foreword by David Wojahn\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet\, tying Angel Island poetry to the great World traditions of protest literature\n• A robust introduction contextualizing these poems with Chinese immigrant history at Angel Island\, classical T’ang poetry\, literary expressions of personal and political outrage\, and the difficulties of translation for the 21st century American reader\n• Extensive endnotes which provide essential cultural\, historical and linguistic context for the work\n• A small glossary of places\, names and terms\n• A full bibliography of resources on Chinese American immigrant history\, T’ang era poetry\, and the practice of literary translation\n• A complete finding list for the mostly untitled and anonymously-written poems\n• Chapter heading photographs of wall poems in situ\, historical events\, and physical site \n“But what purpose did these wall poems serve to their original authors? Given the basic education received by these new immigrants\, their act of writing poetry was transformational; by taking hardship and expressing it artistically\, they elevated it to the archetypal\,” says Leong. “An expression of personal feeling may be therapeutic in a Western sense\, but for these immigrants it was also communal\, literally on the walls of the barracks in which they were detained and for all their compatriots to see.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-leong-on-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
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:Regulatory Hacking: A conversation with Evan Burfield and Tim O’Reilly
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 13 for a discussion with Evan Burfield\, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups\, and Tim O’Reilly\, Code for America board member and founder of O’Reilly Media. \nAs startups use technology to shape the way we live\, work\, and learn\, they’re taking on challenges in sectors like healthcare\, infrastructure\, and education\, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong package on your doorstep. These startups inevitably have to interface with governments responsible for protecting citizens through regulation. \nIn his book\, Burfield explores how to scale a business in an industry deeply intertwined with government. He posits that “regulatory hacking” doesn’t mean “cutting through red tape”; it’s really about finding a creative\, strategic approach to navigating complex markets. \nEvan Burfield is the cofounder of 1776 and CEO of Union\, where he works with startups around the world tackling important challenges in areas like education\, health\, energy\, transportation\, food\, and financial services. As an angel investor and venture capitalist\, Evan has invested in more than 40 startups with world changing ideas\, from Silicon Valley to Nairobi. \nDATE & TIME \nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 \nNetworking 5:30-6 p.m. \nDiscussion 6-7 p.m. \nBook signing 7-7:30 p.m. \nLOCATION \nManny’s \n3092 16th St. (at Valencia) \nSan Francisco\, CA 94103
URL:https://litseen.com/event/regulatory-hacking-a-conversation-with-evan-burfield-and-tim-oreilly/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical\, thought-provoking contemporary fiction. \nThe February selection is Sing\, Unburied\, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones\, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner\, The Odyssey and the Old Testament\, Ward gives us an epochal story\, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discuss-the-contemporary-fiction-book-club/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:How 1960's Students Fought to Create A Better World - The Intriguing Story of the SDS
DESCRIPTION:The contributors in this book were mostly members of WSA. These accounts are both optimistic\, from those still inspired\, and bitter\, from those now critical of their involvement. The stories they tell speak across the years\, as a new generation–from Black Lives Matter to Fight for $15 to the Parkland students–faces decisions about how to organize and build alliances to stop wars abroad\, confront racial oppression at home\, fight for immigrant rights\, and end violence and neoliberal exploitation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday\, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is often portrayed as the drama of the good early 1960s SDS turning into Weatherman\, the small faction whose story ended in a bombed-out New York townhouse. \nIn his book You Say You Want A Revolution: SDS\, PL\, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance\, author John Levin shows the reality was quite different. SDS at its apex in 1968/69 numbered 100\,000 students whose political views reflected a rainbow of ideologies exploring what a new American left could be with a willingness to risk everything to stop the war in Vietnam and achieve social justice. When SDS splintered in June 1969\, a majority of the delegates supported the program of its Worker-Student Alliance caucus: building a strategic alliance between students and the working class to achieve the movement’s goals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-1960s-students-fought-to-create-a-better-world-the-intriguing-story-of-the-sds/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190213T210000
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SUMMARY:Reema Zaman
DESCRIPTION:Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir\, I Am Yours. \n\nPraise for I Am Yours \n“Tender\, fierce\, compassionate\, and wise . . . a moving story about how one woman found her voice—and her power.”—Cheryl Strayed\, #1 NYT bestselling author of Wild \n“My heart just burst into a thousand songs after reading I Am Yours by Reema Zaman. From the first word to the last\, this story is phenomenal triumph of one woman’s body and voice rising up and through a culture that would quiet her. Moving through experience and language without flinching\, Zaman reminds us that to have a body is to bring a soul to life. A stunning debut.”–  Lidia Yuknavitch\, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Joan. \n“More than a memoir\, I Am Yours is a spiritual guide . . . poetic\, healing\, and so necessary.”—Gemma Hartley\, author of FED UP \n\nAbout I Am Yours \nI Am Yours is the story of Reema Zaman’s unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh\, to Thailand\, to New York\, to Oregon\, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting\, poetic as it is political\, and healing as it is haunting\, Zaman explores the many difficulties\, dangers\, and ultimately\, the necessity for all women\, all people\, to own and use their voices. With astonishing courage and intimacy\, Zaman is a reader’s author\, offering up a memoir written to alleviate the loneliness that often arises from being human in this world. A voice of a new era\, a revolution in itself\, an iconic debut that promises to shake global literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reema-zaman/
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:MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMichael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton\, California\, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city of more than 100\,000 people. Born and raised in Stockton\, Tubbs was raised by his mother\, with an incarcerated father and without financial security. He earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University\, and\, following internships at Google and in the Obama White House\, Tubbs returned to Stockton to work as a City Council member in the district where he was raised. Since being elected Mayor in 2016\, Tubbs has worked to reinvent Stockton from a city that filed for bankruptcy in 2012 to a community of opportunity for everyone. Tubbs’ mayoralty focuses on violent crime\, economic development\, collective impact strategies\, and improved education. This fall\, Stockton will be the first city in America to implement a universal basic income pilot program. \nDan Pfeiffer is President Barack Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast\, Pod Save America. He is the author of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mayor-michael-tubbs-in-conversation-with-dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House
DESCRIPTION:Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present \nBarry Gifford \nin a talk and film screening \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nat Alamo Draft House\, 2550 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959 \nDoors at 8:30\, book signing \nTalk and film screening 9:30 p.m. \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information. \nAlamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work. \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-alamo-draft-house/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190218T213000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:Feb 14-18\, Thursday: 12 noon-9:30pm | Friday: 6:45am-9pm | Saturday: 7am-9pm | Sunday: 6:45am-4pm | Monday: 9am-5pm \n“San Francisco Writers Conference is a four-day event packed with 100+ sessions for writers-from the craft of writing to the business of publishing. There is copious networking with bestselling authors\, literary agents\, editors\, publishers from major publishing houses\, and other writers; two keynote luncheons and breakfasts; and evening open mic readings and pitch sessions. \nThursday: 12:00AM-9:30PM | Friday: 6:45AM-9:00PM | Saturday: 7:00AM-9:00PM | Sunday: 6:45AM-4:00PM | Monday: 9:00AM-5:0PM \nFor more information:\nepml@aol.com\n(415) 673-0939” \n850. \nPresented by San Francisco Writers Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-conference/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, James Cagney\, and Christine No for a special Valentine’s Day poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Main Library. Join us! \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-3/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190214T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260510T112923
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, February 14\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-19/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190214T190000
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SUMMARY:Tom Barbash & Keith Scribner
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nreading from new work \nKeith Scribner reads from \nOld Newgate Road \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nTom Barbash reads from \nThe Dakota Winters \npublished by Ecco Press \nabout Old Newgate Road: \nFrom the author of The Oregon Experiment\, the story of a father’s return to his childhood home\, the site of unspeakable tragedy\, and of the complex and often warring obligations–not least forgiveness–we have to our family\, our friends\, and our past. \nOld Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It’s where Cole Callahan spent his youth\, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring–painstakingly\, relentlessly\, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can’t go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house\, to this street\, in thirty years–not since he was a teenager\, when one night his father murdered his mother in a fit of rage. Now\, however\, he finally dares to risk it\, ostensibly to collect precious material for his construction business on the west coast\, and is shocked to discover his elderly father\, freed from prison\, living alone in their old home\, and succumbing to dementia. Compelled by a sense of responsibility to a man he hates\, and confronted in middle age by everything he’d left unfinished when he fled this place in his aborted childhood\, he finds that the time for a reckoning has at last come. \nMatters grow even more complicated when his estranged wife calls to say their ultra-progressive\, rabble-rousing son has run up against the law and been expelled from high school. And so Cole summons Daniel to East Granby to work in the tobacco fields–his own job growing up–and soon their lives are enmeshed with the family legacy\, and with Cole’s boyhood sweetheart as well as his nemesis. What unfolds over this summer surprises and challenges them all\, as they contend with the sinister history they share and desperately try to invent a future that isn’t doomed by it. \nAbout The Dakota Winters \nAn evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters\, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination \nIt’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter\, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria\, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton’s father\, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter\, is there to greet him\, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long\, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy’s stalled career\, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York\, to the slopes of the Lake Placid Olympics\, to the Hollywood Hills\, to the blue waters of the Bermuda Triangle\, and brings him into close quarters with the likes of Johnny Carson\, Ted and Joan Kennedy\, and a seagoing John Lennon. \nBut the more Anton finds himself enmeshed in his father’s professional and spiritual reinvention\, the more he questions his own path\, and fissures in the Winter family begin to threaten their close bond. By turns hilarious and poignant\, The Dakota Winters is a family saga\, a page-turning social novel\, and a tale of a critical moment in the history of New York City and the country at large. \nTom Barbash is the author of the award-winning novel\, The Last Good Chance\, which was was awarded the California Book Award\, and the short story collection Stay Up With Me\, which was a national bestseller and was nominated for the Folio Prize. His nonfiction book\, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald\, Howard Lutnick\, and 9/11: A Story of Loss and Renewal\, was a New York Times bestseller. His stories and articles have been published in Tin House\, McSweeney’s\, VQR\, and other publications\, and have been performed on National Public Radio for their Selected Shorts Series. He currently teaches in the MFA program at California College of the Arts. \nKeith Scribner grew up in Troy\, New York\, and then East Granby\, Connecticut. His previous novels are The Oregon Experiment\, Miracle Girl\, and The GoodLife\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He currently teaches at Oregon State University in Corvallis\, where he lives with his wife\, the poet Jennifer Richter\, and their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-barbash-keith-scribner/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes Open Mic at The Lost Church w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance and at the door.\nTickets: https://sforce.co/2CWB45Q\nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is Cash Only at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).\n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, 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… while 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-18/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ms. Kathleen Beitiks to talk about her book entitled\, Westwood Park: Building a Bungalow Neighborhood in San Francisco. \nA SFMOMA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/westwood-park-building-a-bungalow-neighborhood-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:Ingleside Meeting Room\, 1298 Ocean Ave\, San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Land / Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother's Will to Survive
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special Saturday afternoon event to welcome Stephanie Land for her remarkable memoir Maid: Hard Work\, Low Pay\, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. Please join us! \n  \n“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.” \nWhile the gap between upper middle-class Americans and the working poor widens\, grueling low-wage domestic and service work–primarily done by women–fuels the economic success of the wealthy. Stephanie Land worked for years as a maid\, pulling long hours while struggling as a single mom to keep a roof over her daughter’s head. In Maid\, she reveals the dark truth of what it takes to survive and thrive in today’s inequitable society. \nWhile she worked hard to scratch her way out of poverty as a single parent\, scrubbing the toilets of the wealthy\, navigating domestic labor jobs\, higher education\, assisted housing\, and a tangled web of government assistance\, Stephanie wrote. She wrote the true stories that weren’t being told. The stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. \nWritten in honest\, heart-rending prose and with great insight\, Maid explores the underbelly of upper-middle class America and the reality of what it’s like to be in service to them. “I’d become a nameless ghost\,” Stephanie writes. With this book\, she gives voice to the “servant” worker\, those who fight daily to scramble and scrape by for their own lives and the lives of their children. \n  \n\n  \n“If this book inspires you\, which it may\, remember how close it came to never being written. Stephanie might have given in to despair or exhaustion; she might have suffered a disabling injury at work. Think too of all the women who\, for reasons like that\, never manage to get their stories told. Stephanie reminds us that they are out there in the millions\, each heroic in her own way\, waiting for us to listen.” – From the Foreword to Maid by Barbara Ehrenreich\, New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed \n  \n“What this book does well is illuminate the struggles of poverty and single-motherhood\, the unrelenting frustration of having no safety net\, the ways in which our society is systemically designed to keep impoverished people mired in poverty\, the indignity of poverty by way of unmovable bureaucracy\, and people’s lousy attitudes toward poor people… Land’s prose is vivid and engaging… [A] tightly-focused\, well-written memoir… an incredibly worthwhile read.” – Roxane Gay\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir \n  \n“Marry the evocative first person narrative of Educated with the kind of social criticism seen in Nickel and Dimed and you’ll get a sense of the remarkable book you hold in your hands. In Maid\, Stephanie Land\, a gifted storyteller with an eye for details you’ll never forget\, exposes what it’s like to exist in America as a single mother\, working herself sick cleaning our dirty toilets\, one missed paycheck away from destitution. It’s a perspective we seldom see represented firsthand-and one we so desperately need right now. Timely\, urgent\, and unforgettable\, this is memoir at its very best.” – Susannah Cahalan\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness \n\n  \nStephanie Land‘s work has been featured in The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Vox\, Salon\, and many other outlets. She lives in Missoula\, Montana. \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Maid\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephanie-land-maid-hard-work-low-pay-and-a-mothers-will-to-survive/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Poets: One A Former ANC Militant; the Other a Theorist of Afro-Pessimism
DESCRIPTION:These two poets will read as part of The SF Poetry Center’s first annual Black Study Series. \nFrank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men (Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity (Rutgers\, 2007).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-poets-one-a-former-anc-militant-the-other-a-theorist-of-afro-pessimism/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Frank B. Wilderson\, III and D.S. Marriott read from their poetry as part of The SF Poetry Center's first annual Black Study Series
DESCRIPTION:Frank B. Wilderson\, III is an award-winning writer\, poet\, scholar\, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. His books include Incognegro: a Memoir of Exile and Apartheid  (Duke University Press\, 2015) and Red\, White\, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press\, 2010). Novelist Ishmael Reed called Incognegro “an important contribution to the African and African American canons and a rare American work that bridges two cultures [Black American and Black South African].” Wilderson’s collection of poems\, Sideways Between Stories\, was published as a pamphlet by Commune Editions. \nD.S. Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His poetry is often associated with the Cambridge school of poetry. And as a scholar\, he has been a leading theorist of afro-pessimism. In addition to Duppies\, just out in the US from Commune Editions\, his recent books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman\, 2008) and In Neuter (Equipage\, 2012). Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being  (Stanford University Press\, 2018) joining his earlier critical works\, On Black Men(Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life: Visual Culture and Black Modernity(Rutgers\, 2007). \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-b-wilderson-iii-and-d-s-marriott-read-from-their-poetry-as-part-of-the-sf-poetry-centers-first-annual-black-study-series/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Green Apple Books on the Park\, featuring Heather June Gibbons\, Randall Mann\,Barbara Jane Reyes and Michelle Brittan Rosado
DESCRIPTION:Heather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and published by the University of Utah Press. She teaches at San Francisco State University. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is an adjunct professor in Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco and the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017)\, and four previous collections of poetry. \nMichelle Brittan Rosado is the author of Why Can’t It Be Tenderness\, winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (University of Wisconsin Press\, 2018). She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University\, Fresno\, and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing & Literature at the University of Southern California. \nRandall Mann is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently Proprietary (Persea Books\, 2017)\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Northern California Book Award. A book of criticism\, The Illusion of Intimacy: On Poetry\, is forthcoming from Diode Editions in March 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-green-apple-books-on-the-park-featuring-heather-june-gibbons-randall-mannbarbara-jane-reyes-and-michelle-brittan-rosado/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190218T183000
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents a solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch
DESCRIPTION:4:30pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\na solo reading and conversation with Annie Finch\nat The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-a-solo-reading-and-conversation-with-annie-finch/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190218T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-23/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ayesha Harruna Attah
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Hundred Wells of Salaga: A Novel \npublished by Other Press \n\nBased on true events\, a story of courage\, forgiveness\, love\, and freedom in precolonial Ghana\, told through the eyes of two women born to vastly different fates. \nAminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that transforms her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche\, the willful daughter of a chief\, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region\, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. \nThrough the experiences of Aminah and Wurche\, The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people. \nAyesha Harruna Attah grew up in Accra\, Ghana and was educated at Mount Holyoke College\, Columbia University\, and New York University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Asymptote Magazine\, and the 2010 Caine Prize Writers’ Anthology. Attah is an Instituto Sacatar Fellow and was awarded the 2016 Miles Morland Foundation Scholarship for nonfiction. She lives in Senegal. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ayesha-harruna-attah/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190219T213000
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SUMMARY:Marlon James
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMarlon James is the author of the novels A Brief History of Seven Killings\, John Crow’s Devil\, and The Book of Night Women\, all of which explore and retell twentieth-century Jamaica through a litany of perspectives.  His forthcoming novel\, Black Leopard\, Red Wolf is the first in the Dark Star Trilogy\, a fantasy series rooted in African legend\, which James describes as an “African Game of Thrones” (Entertainment Weekly). Born in Kingston\, James was the first Jamaican author to win the Man Booker Prize in 2015. He has published short pieces in Black Noir\, Esquire\, Granta\, Harper’s\, The Caribbean Review of Books\, New York Times Magazine\, and elsewhere. In his 2016 viral video Are you Racist? ‘No’ isn’t a good enough answer\, he makes a case for more rigorous anti-racism\, as opposed to mere non-racist complacency. James lives and teaches in Minnesota\, and spends the rest of his time in New York
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marlon-james/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection\, The Lumberjack’s Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! \n  \n“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be\, as it is here\, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is\, in its manner\, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment\, on loss\, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives\, myth and parable\, it is pithy\, magical\, its many insights\, its cautions and clarifications\, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy\, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” –Louise Gluck \nA boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition\, selected by Louise Gluck \nIn the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove\, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however\, instead of merely being severed\, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body\, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human\, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing\, time and memory\, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack\, his hand\, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story\, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love\,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled\, sliced to lumber\, & reassembled into a new body.” \nInflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points-of-view\, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise\, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chloe Aridjis
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nSea Monsters: A Novel \npublished by Catapult Press \nPulsing to the soundtrack of Joy Division\, Nick Cave\, and Siouxsie and the Banshees\, an intoxicating portrait of Mexico in the late 1980s by this brilliant Guggenheim fellow and Prix du Premier Roman Étranger–winning author. \nOne autumn afternoon in Mexico City\, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead\, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás\, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness\, impulse\, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports\, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa’s surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies\, nudists\, beachcombers\, and eccentric storytellers\, Luisa searches for someone\, anyone\, who will “promise\, no matter what\, to remain a mystery.” It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar\, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite\, the “Beach of the Dead.” \nMeanwhile\, her father has set out to find his missing daughter. A mesmeric portrait of transgression and disenchantment unfolds. Sea Monsters is a brilliantly playful and supple novel about the moments and mysteries that shape us. \nChloe Aridjis is a Mexican-American writer who was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico. After completing her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in nineteenth-century French poetry and magic shows\, she lived for nearly six years in Berlin. Her debut novel\, Book of Clouds\, has been published in eight languages and won the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger in France. Aridjis sometimes writes about art and insomnia and was a guest curator at Tate Liverpool. In 2014\, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chloe-aridjis/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Center Book Award Reading: Lauren Levin and Melissa Mack\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 21 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, HUM 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI eat crumbs out of the baby’s neck\nI’m glad there are no great poems by women\nI’m glad there are no great poems by Jews\nI’m glad there are no great poems about motherhood\nI’m glad no great poems have ever been written. \n—Lauren Levin\, from The Braid \nThe Poetry Center presents Poetry Center Book Award winner Lauren Levin\, author of The Braid\, (Krupskaya Books)\, together with award judge Melissa Mack. Both poets read from their work\, then engage in conversation with each other and the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \n\nMany of the books I read for the Poetry Center Book Award spoke to me\, were doing urgent and interesting work\, shared vital rhythms\, sounds\, forms\, and concerns. But The Braid rose. It articulated and worried—as in worked\, as in worried—some of my (and I would venture to say ‘our’) most pressing concerns. What I’m looking for is a way to join with the world / and love won’t let me do that any more than hatred will. And the way it did so was expansive and specific\, so good at the vague grammar of consciousness and the precision of “personal” experience. Maybe I should call this poem that refuses to stop / ‘the care-giver’ / or ‘the shepherdess’ or ‘the murderess’… Levin’s long poems made of long lines allow tenderness and aggression to coexist\, like in the game Levin plays with daughter Alejandra\, “Little bee\, little bee\, don’t sting your mama” / while she nudges my face with her mouth and nose … / and shouts into my mouth\, STING! Also\, the principal of the braid as a combinatory form in which the source materials remain fully themselves\, even when brought together\, I found so respectful and responsible in this era of cooption\, merging\, networks. Different bodies at different times in different places have different experiences. The obvious things are worth saying instead. Once\, my niece\, five years old or so\, told me\, of a party she’d been to\, “There was a part where I didn’t feel included.” I felt included in this braid alright. Levin’s examination of whiteness as the pastoral—willful innocence and a desire to be soothed\, to be able to exit the scene at any time—and of persistent anxiety was gripping. But I do believe that it is meaningful / where relief and solace come from // If I am not afraid / because I have been listening to Reagan speeches / vs. if I am not afraid // Because the bravery of my murdered friends / has taken my fear away / That is a meaningful distinction. The Braid is rigorous and uncomfortable and beautiful and I am glad to have picked it for this award and I hope everyone reads it.\n—Melissa Mack\, judge’s citation for the Poetry Center Book Award\n\nLauren Levin is a poet\, mixed-genre writer and art critic\, author of The Braid (Krupskaya\, 2016) and Justice Piece // Transmission (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018). Their gender identity is some mix of belated queer\, Jewish great-aunt\, and aspirational Frank O’Hara. They are still figuring it out. They live in Richmond\, CA\, are from New Orleans\, LA\, and are committed to queer art\, intersectional feminism\, being a parent\, and anxiety. \nMelissa Mack is the author of The Next Crystal Text (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2018) and the chapbook Includes All Strangers (Hooke Press\, 2014). Her work has also appeared in a variety of anthologies\, journals\, poet’s theater\, and that most ephemeral of forms\, the public reading. She organizes with the Oakland Summer School\, a collaborative\, non-institutional space of gathering & study created by a group of activists\, artists\, and educators\, and she lives and works in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-center-book-award-reading-lauren-levin-and-melissa-mack-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Gloria Steinem: More Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
DESCRIPTION:Gloria Steinem in conversation with Favianna Rodriguez\, moderated by Lauren Schiller. \nThursday\, February 21\, 2019\, 7 p.m.\nThe Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94114\nGeneral Admission $20; Students $15 \nWhat is Gloria Steinem thinking about today in our era of #MeToo and intersectionality? How can today’s feminists learn from our foremothers\, and vice versa? We’ll celebrate an updated\, third edition of Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions\, originally published in 1983 – a book that has sold over half a million copies\, and counting. As author Susan Faludi (Backlash) put it\, Outrageous Acts “will always be… a required feminist reader.” From satires to moving tributes\, confessions (yes\, the Playboy bunny essay is in here) and analyses\, the book includes classics along with new material. \nSteinem will talk with artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez of CultureStrike\, and Lauren Schiller\, host of Inflection Point from KALW will moderate the conversation. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from an ever-relevant icon in a smart\, sassy conversation that will provoke and inspire you. \nSpecial promo! Join Women Lit at any level and receive many benefits\, including a complimentary ticket (more at higher donation levels!)\, priority seating\, and first access to the book signing line for the Steinem event. \n$20.00. \nPresented by Bay Area Book Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gloria-steinem-more-outrageous-acts-and-everyday-rebellions/
LOCATION:The Castro Theatre\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marina Mularz
DESCRIPTION:Marina Mularz discusses her new story collection\, Welcome to Freedom Point. \n\nPraise for Welcome to Freedom Point \n“Fresh\, witty\, delightfully weird\, Welcome to Freedom Point is equally infused with quirky charm\, youthful energy\, and the palpable sense of age-old loneliness that can sneak up and gut you. A collection of deeply human contradictions.”– GINA FRANGELLO Author of A Life in Men and Every Kind of Wanting \nAbout Welcome to Freedom Point \nIt’s all happening in the small town of Freedom Point\, Wisconsin Karlee Starr explores the rhythms of young love and snot-soaked heartache on a middle school dance floor. Thirteen-year-old Jacob Kentor suffers an identity crisis at Hooters. Desperate yeti hunting conceals the death of a marriage. A motivational speech ends in arrest. Equal parts humor and heartbreak\, Welcome to Freedom Point dissects the thrills and spoils of small-town adolescence in a series of linked stories that captures the essence of what it means to come of age…at any age. In the spaces between each uproarious episode\, the good people of Freedom Point collectively celebrate–or simply survive–the deeply human art of aiming for more one uncomfortable leap at a time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marina-mularz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny)
DESCRIPTION:Edna in a Bottle (tastes funny) is a new San Francisco comedy hour at The Bindery in the Haight district. Edna and her friends are trapped in a bottle and dying to perform! A colorful splash of sketch scenes\, story-telling\, circus talent and wacked-out adult comedy. And there’s nothing wrong with an eating contest here and there. Mark your calendars and come let us out of the bottle! \n  \nTickets can be purchased in advance for $12. If available\, tickets at the door will be $15. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is for mature audiences only. If you have any questions about the content\, don’t hesitate to reach out to events AT booksmith DOT com. Generally speaking\, we’d suggest the show is suitable for ages 18+. \n  \nDoors open at 7:30pm. Show starts at 8pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nMore details coming soon — save the date and join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edna-in-a-bottle-tastes-funny-3/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Creating Leonardo: Celebrating 500 Years of Leonardo’s Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Humanities West brings together a panel of noted scholars and performers for a two-day program of lectures\, dramatic readings and music to celebrate and explore the cultural contributions of Leonardo da Vinci and the mythologized legacy that has developed over the 500 since his death. In 1519 da Vinci died in France and a myth was born. Now considered the quintessential “Renaissance man” his paintings and drawings continue to inspire and his inventions still fascinate us. Presenters include Paula Findlen (Stanford)\, Martin Kemp (Oxford)\, Kip Cranna (SF Opera)\, Monica Azzolini (University of Bologna) Pamela O. Long (MacArthur Fellow) and Deborah Loft (College of Marin). The program features a performance by the men’s classical vocal ensemble Clerestory\, and a spoken word performance by acclaimed Bay Area actor James Carpenter.\n \nThe program takes place on Friday\, February 22\, from 7:30pm to 9:30pm\, and Saturday\, February 23\, from 10am to 4pm\, at Marines’ Memorial Theatre\, located in downtown San Francisco. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creating-leonardo-celebrating-500-years-of-leonardos-legacy/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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