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SUMMARY:Jason Morris / Levon Helm
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the San Francisco launch for Jason Morris‘ first full-length collection of poetry\, Levon Helm. Reading with Jason is the poet Nicholas James Whittington. Please join us! \n  \nLevon Helm is Jason Morris’ first full-length collection\, a picaresque situated in the drum and voice of mind. Like the drummer-singer with whom it shares a name\, its influences are broad but firmly American. Along with bits torn from the edges of Moby-Dick and The Maltese Falcon\, it mines the margins of Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation. As it takes stock of the immediacy and scale of places in the American West like Pinnacles and the Puget Sound\, its psychic roots dig a haunted\, old New England. These lyric poems are takes on human memory in geological time\, as interested in their own asides and parentheticals as they are in the elements. \n  \n\n  \nAn excerpt\, courtesy Ugly Duckling Presse: \n  \nThin newsprint\, a little ripped\non which you wrote\nLANGUAGE IS THE THRONE OF THE OTHER\nI was able to get inside of the building\nbut I’d lost the piece of paper\non which I’d written all of the codes\noutside the day’s grays and greens\na fluid human movement we slipped into\nI grew confused & trusted in you\nyour honesty formed the spine\nof my mysterious neutrality\nThere are no vipers in this poem\nwe continued walking until\nwe were way out in the cuts\, collecting\nwildflowers by the highway abutment\nI’d gotten stuff for sandwiches\nyou were talking about feeling like\nyou should want something beyond\neven poetry or love\, can you\nname what that something is\nwanting to not want is more accurately\nreligious\, how now we’re where we were \n  \n\n  \n“With the publication of Levon Helm\, San Francisco poet Jason Morris’ long-awaited full length debut\, Ugly Duckling Presse has gifted clamoring fans and soon-to-be-fans a keen\, generous artifact of the life of a poet in the 21st century. A voracious reader of his daily surroundings and of the life of the mind\, Morris attends to landscapes both urban and wild with a relaxed yet exacting eye. These poems display a flowering generosity of attention very much in the present (“looking directly – / as poets often are – at what you name”). Each poem is a kind of gemlike honing amidst the “perpetual and beautifully obscene continuance” we call living\, now. It is a pleasure to be with Jason Morris “in this looking”. As the book itself astutely warns\, “You only get to read it / for the first time once: Slow down.” – Alli Warren \n  \n“Why didn’t I think of writing a book called Levon Helm? Go\, Jason! And thanks.” – Clark Coolidge \n  \n“Levon Helm reminds me of late Holderlin sculpture – its compact images\, spiritual fragments\, and shimmed\, crisp wording speak of an attainable fluidity between heartbeat and carved page\, where its map legends and state lines describe a divine closeness and granularity of detail\, all heart and repair. Humble\, gracious\, Morris knows that “wanting to not want is more accurately / religious\, how now we’re where we were.” This book is jagged and smooth\, its endurance\, overdue. I’ve often endeavored to see myself through Morris’ poems\, in its decades\, page by page; his is a truth I’ve craved and always known – applied for selfish purposes as a double to compare my own lines\, mind\, and heart. Spread across pages\, huddled in spots of crisp fuzz and harmony\, lumps taken\, his voice\, I know: “a kid // of crickets & lightning” “as ridiculous as me / welding my desire to your hair.” – John Coletti \n  \n\n  \nJason Morris was born and raised in Vermont and now lives in San Francisco. His chapbooks are Spirits & Anchors (Auguste Press\, 2010)\, From the Golden West Notebooks (Allone Co.\, 2011)\, Local News (Bird & Beckett Books\, 2013)\, Takes (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, and Late to Practice (Dirty Swan\, 2017). For seven years\, he was the editor of Big Bell magazine; with J Grabowski\, he founded the small press PUSH. \n  \n  \nNicholas James Whittington is a poet\, scholar\, educator\, editor\, printer\, and publisher born and raised in San Francisco. He now lives in Oakland\, but continues to edit and publish the roughly annual AMERARCANA along with the occasional small book under the auspices of his family bookshop\, Bird & Beckett\, here in the city\, and does letterpress printing and design work at Impart Ink\, an errant studio. His first full-length collection of poetry\, Creances\, is due out this year from Bootstrap Press. Recent chapbooks include Provisions (2017\, from PUSH Press) and Indefinite Sessions (2016\, from Gas Meter Books). \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Levon Helm\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jason-morris-levon-helm/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Parliament of Poets\, An Epic Poem\, at the Shelton Theater
DESCRIPTION:Shelton Theater – The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem. August 10\, Friday\, 7:30 to 9:00 pm. https://sheltontheater.org/the-parliament-of-poets-an-epic-poem/ \n\n\n\n\nThe Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 1977\, FREDERICK GLAYSHER took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry\, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day he might also revive the art of the rhapsode. \nThirty years in the making\, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem takes place partly on the moon\, at the Apollo 11 landing site\, the Sea of Tranquility\, an epic tale and shaman-like chant\, the story of humanity from Blombos Cave to the dark side of the moon. \nApollo calls all the poets of the nations\, ancient and modern\, East and West\, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character\, the Poet of the Moon\, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and wisdom traditions of humankind. On Earth and on the moon\, the poets teach a new global\, universal vision of life. One of the major themes is the power of women and the female spirit across cultures. \nFREDERICK GLAYSHER is an epic poet\, rhapsode\, poet-critic\, and the author or editor of ten books. \nGlaysher has performed more than twenty-five times from his epic poem in Metro Detroit\, universities\, cafes\, UU churches\, the Theosophical Society\, Albany and Buffalo New York\, Austin International Poetry Festival\, and elsewhere. In California\, last year\, he read at Tuesdays at North Beach Library\, Cafe International\, Floreys Books\, and at the Himalayan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-parliament-of-poets-an-epic-poem-at-the-shelton-theater/
LOCATION:Shelton Theater\, 533 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Neighborhood Event: PASEO ARTISTICO
DESCRIPTION:1-3pm Kid’s Craft Table \n4pm Peggy Reskin:  Dynamic Speaker and Author of Barefoot Frontrunners; Sex Women and Power \n6:30pm Poetry – Per-versions with your host Arturo Mantecon \nhttps://www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neighborhood-event-paseo-artistico/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Epic Poetry Reading\, Frederick Glaysher\, at Sacred Grounds
DESCRIPTION:In 1977\, Frederick Glaysher took a theatre course in the Interpretative Reading of Poetry\, learning that the Greek rhapsodes would travel throughout ancient Greece reciting Homer. Before long the idea of writing an epic poem became compelling and the dream that one day I might also revive the art of the rhapsode. \nThirty years in the making\, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem takes place partly on the moon\, at the Apollo 11 landing site\, the Sea of Tranquility\, an epic tale or chant\, the story of humanity from Blombos Cave to the dark side of the moon. \nIn a world of Quantum science\, Apollo calls all the poets of the nations\, ancient and modern\, East and West\, to assemble on the moon to consult on the meaning of modernity. The Parliament of Poets sends the main character\, the Poet of the Moon\, on a Journey to the seven continents to learn from all of the spiritual and wisdom traditions of humankind. On Earth and on the moon\, the poets teach a new global\, universal vision of life. \nGlaysher has read more than twenty-five times from his epic poem\, mostly in Metro Detroit\, at Detroit Public Library\, Troy Public Library\, universities\, cafes\, UU churches\, the Theosophical Society\, and elsewhere. In California\, last year he read at Tuesdays at North Beach Library\, Cafe International (SF)\, Florey’s Books (Pacifica)\, and at the Himalayan (Berkeley). \nDownload the Brochure for Epic Poetry Readings at https://earthrisepress.net \n“Like a story around a campfire.” —The Audience\n“Certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves.” —Albany Poets News\, New York \n“Glaysher has written an epic poem of major importance that is guaranteed to bring joy and an overwhelming sense of beauty and understanding to readers who will travel the space ways with this exquisite poet. While the poem reads like the classic poetry of Milton\, it has the contemporary edge of genius modernity. I am truly awed by this poet’s use of epic poetry that today’s readers will connect with\, enjoy and savor every word\, every line and every section. Frederick Glaysher is a master poet who knows his craft from the inside out\, and this is truly a major accomplishment and contribution to American Letters. Once you enter\, you will not stop until the end. A landmark achievement. Bravo!” —ML Liebler\, Poet\, Wayne State University\, Detroit\, Michigan​ \n“A remarkable poem by a uniquely inspired poet\, taking us out of time into a new and unspoken consciousness…” —Kevin McGrath\, Harvard University\, author on the Mahabharata​ \n​”A great epic poem of startling originality and universal significance\, in every way partaking of the nature of world literature.” —Hans Ruprecht\, Carleton University\, Canada\, author on Goethe\, Borges\, etc. \n“And a fine major work it is.” —Arthur McMaster\, Converse College\, South Carolina\, in Poets’ Quarterly \n“Don’t be intimidated by an epic poem. It’s really coming back to that image of the storyteller sitting around the campfires of the world\, dipping into and weaving the story of humanity\, in the most beautiful\, mellifluous language.” —New Consciousness Review Radio\, Portland\, Oregon \n​”I am in awe of the brilliance of this book! Everyone must read this book\, especially if you enjoy literature\, wisdom\, and philosophy.” —Anodea Judith\, Author\, Novato\, California​
URL:https://litseen.com/event/epic-poetry-reading-frederick-glaysher-at-sacred-grounds/
LOCATION:Sacred Grounds\, 2095 Hayes\, Sacred Grounds\, 94117
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nona Caspers
DESCRIPTION:Nona Caspers discusses her new novel\, The Fifth Woman. \n\nPraise for The Fifth Woman \n\n“The Fifth Woman is stealthily astonishing from its first line to its last. Over the course of twenty-three connected short fictions\, the writer marks out a trail of mourning that is both quite straightforward and miraculously layered\, strange\, and emotionally multifaceted. There is not a single sentence in these stories that is not as clear as water…. It is a wonderful book.”—Stacey D’Erasmo \n\n“Grief alters the world in ways that are both expected and less so. The Fifth Woman is a story of love\, loss\, and carrying on\, in language that is always precise and often transporting. There is a sadness here but also acute observation and magical happenings. Nona Caspers is a true original.”—Jean L. Thompson \n\nAbout The Fifth Woman \n\nAt the center of this book is the death of the narrator’s partner in a bicycling accident. Each short chapter serves as a brief vignette of\, or occasionally a magical-realist metaphor for\, the grieving process. A shadow of a dog appears in her apartment with no apparent source; a crack opens in the ceiling and splits her building down the middle. One day she notices in the alley below her window four women chatting together and a fifth\, with no features\, standing on the perimeter. She finds herself wondering: What did she want from me? What are the things that matter? At times dryly comical\, at other times radiantly surreal\, The Fifth Woman is a testament to the resurrecting power of memory and enduring love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nona-caspers/
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:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (A Kind of Freedom)\nHannah Pittard (Visible Empire)\nCassandra Khaw (A Song for Quiet\, Bearly a Lady)\nMarlee Jane Ward (Welcome to Orphancorp) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-14/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-5/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alice Bolin / Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Alice Bolinfor her superb debut\, Bad Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession. Please join us! \n  \nIn this poignant collection\, Alice Bolin examines iconic American works from the essays of Joan Didion and James Baldwin to Twin Peaks\, Britney Spears\, and Serial\, illuminating the widespread obsession with women who are abused\, killed\, and disenfranchised\, and whose bodies (dead and alive) are used as props to bolster men’s stories. Smart and accessible\, thoughtful and heartfelt\, Bolin investigates the implications of our cultural fixations\, and her own role as a consumer and creator. \n  \nBolin chronicles her life in Los Angeles\, dissects the Noir\, revisits her own coming of age\, and analyzes stories of witches and werewolves\, both appreciating and challenging the narratives we construct and absorb every day. Dead Girls begins by exploring the trope of dead women in fiction\, and ends by interrogating the more complex dilemma of living women – both the persistent injustices they suffer and the oppression that white women help perpetrate. \n  \nReminiscent of the piercing insight of Rebecca Solnit and the critical skill of Hilton Als\, Bolin constructs a sharp\, perceptive\, and revelatory dialogue on the portrayal of women in media and their roles in our culture. \n  \n\n  \n“Dead Girls is everything I want in an essay collection: provocative lines of inquiry\, macabre humor\, blistering intelligence… I love this book.” –Carmen Maria Machado\, author of Her Body and Other Parties \n  \n“Bracing and blazingly smart\, Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls could hardly be more needed or more timely.”  – Megan Abbott\, Edgar Award-winning author of You Will Know Me \n  \n\n  \nAlice Bolin is the author of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession\, a collection of essays forthcoming from Morrow/HarperCollins on June 26\, 2018. It was named one of the most anticipated nonfiction reads of 2018by Bitch magazine. Kirkus called it “an illuminating study on the role women play in the media and in their own lives.” \n  \n  \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, which begins at 4pm. The bar will be open. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alice-bolin-dead-girls-essays-on-surviving-an-american-obsession/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Queer Authors read other Queer Authors
DESCRIPTION:Queer authors Jim Provenzano\, Margo Perin\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and Nona Caspers read from their favorite Queer authors
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-queer-authors-read-other-queer-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Virgie Tovar / You Have the Right to Remain Fat
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Virgie Tovar for the launch of her first book\,You Have the Right to Remain Fat. Please join us! \n  \nGrowing up as a fat girl\, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt\, she was over it—and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since\, she’s been helping others to do the same. \nTovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally\, food is free from moral judgment\, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language\, she delves into unlearning fatphobia\, dismantling sexist notions of fashion\, and rejecting diet culture’s greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives. \n  \n\n  \n“The importance of Virgie Tovar’s perspective and identity cannot be understated. As we collectively deconstruct our society’s addiction to body negativity\, Virgie’s words provide crucial guidance\, clarity\, and support for all those who champion universal body liberation.”  — Jessamyn Stanley\, author of Every Body Yoga \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is the radical voice we need\, with a gift for expressing what so many women feel but cannot always articulate. In this bold new book\, she eviscerates diet culture\, proclaims the joyous possibilities of fat\, and shows us that liberation is possible.” — Sarai Walker\, author of Dietland \n  \n“Virgie Tovar is a vital voice in contemporary activism\, media\, and feminism. The joy she takes in her own body and life\, combined with the righteous anger she expresses at an oppressive world is a truly radical act. Virgie is deeply thoughtful\, but does not equivocate. She confronts bigotry\, but does not engage with bullshit.” — Kelsey Miller\, author of Big Girl \n  \n“Virgie does the thing we need to see more of in political writing: she shares every bit of her humanity\, right down to her feelings about her own nipple color\, without missing a beat on sharp critiques of the systems that oppress her. Her clear descriptions of antifat-bias and the social construction that is “diet culture\,” make it difficult to disagree with her main point: you are not the problem\, society is the problem. The world desperately needs to be told this truth—this book will be required reading for my clients going forward.” — Isabel Foxen Duke\, Coach and Creator of StopFightingFood.com \n  \n“Fierce\, passionate\, and poignant\, Virgie Tovar has written a manifesto that will inspire you and ignite the revolution.” — Linda Bacon\, PhD\, author of Health at Every Size \n  \n“You Have the Right to Remain Fat feels like spending a margarita-soaked day at the beach with your smartest friend. She shares juicy secrets and makes revolutionary ideas viscerally accessible. You’ll be left enlightened\, inspired\, happier\, and possibly angrier than when you started. If you’ve ever thought you’d heard it all about fat liberation and body acceptance\, Virgie Tovar has a few more light bulbs to switch on. Don’t miss this captivating\, eye-opening\, and hilarious book!” — Joy Nash\, actress \n  \n\n  \nVirgie Tovar is an author\, activist and one of the nation’s leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp\, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight\, and edited the groundbreaking anthology Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life\, Love and Fashion (Seal Press 2012). Virgie has been featured by the New York Times\, MTV\, Al Jazeera\, NPR\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, the Huffington Post\, Cosmopolitan\, and BUST. \n\n\n\nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7pm\, event begins at 7:30pm. The venue has no steps for entry from the street level\, is wheelchair accessible and has a mix of sofa seating and fold out chair seating. Sofa seating will be reserved for bigger bodied babes until 10 minutes before the event starts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-virgie-tovar-you-have-the-right-to-remain-fat/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Matthew Maisano
DESCRIPTION:Paul Matthew Maisano discusses his debut novel\, Bindi. \n\nPraise for Bindi \n\n“Reading Paul Matthew Maisano’s BINDI was a revelation.This is the prose I’ve been looking for―worldly and soulful\, enduring\, its surface beauty underwritten by adventure and excitement and a deep love of life.”―Rebecca Lee\, author of Bobcat and Other Stories \n  \n“Paul Matthew Maisano is an extraordinary writer\, and one we all should be hearing from right now\, with his thoughtful and nuanced view of the global stage. His unique\, compassionately drawn characters are ones you have not met before. He is a writer of the moment. BINDI is a book everyone should be reading.”―Karen Bender\, author of the National Book Award Finalist Refund \n\n“As the novel moves between Los Angeles\, London and India\, Maisano shows how loss and longing can be converted into hope\, meaningful work\, and love. His beautiful prose\, his immensely sympathetic characters\, and the wonderfully dramatic story he tells make BINDI a novel in which many readers will find a home.”―Margot Livesey\, New York Times bestselling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy \n\nAbout Bindi \n\nA richly imagined debut set against the backdrop of southern India\, London\, and Hollywood that tells the story of a young boy in India\, suddenly orphaned\, and the adults around him\, each of whom is also looking for a home in the world. \n  \nKerala\, 1993: Eight-year-old Birendra suddenly loses his mother\, but he refuses to believe he’s an orphan. He’s certain that his mother’s twin sister\, the troubled but winning Nayana\, will come for him all the way from West London. But when the letter informing Nayana of her sister’s death goes missing\, numerous lives are forever altered\, and Birendra is set adrift. \n  \nMadeline\, a Los Angeles native and interior designer to the stars\, is floundering in her personal life. In the aftermath of a failed attempt to get pregnant\, she flies to India where she finds herself face-to-face with Birendra. In a moment of sudden certainty\, she decides she must adopt the boy in order to save them both. \n  \nAs Nayana falls deeper into crisis at work and in her marriage in London\, Birendra learns to make himself at home in Los Angeles\, forging an especially close bond with Madeline’s younger brother\, Edward\, who begins to worry that his sister may have met her match in motherhood. When he learns of his adopted nephew’s family in London\, Edward is faced with an impossible choice. If he can find Nayana and reunite her with her nephew\, should he? Even if in doing so he would risk unwittingly setting the two women who love the boy most against each other?Written in stirring prose\, and infused with keen emotional insight\, Bindi is about our search for family and for home\, and an exploration of the ways that loss and longing can be converted into hope\, connection\, and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-matthew-maisano/
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:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Vanessa Hua / A River of Stars
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities) back to the store to launch her debut novel\, A River of Stars. Joining her in conversation is Zyzzyva managing editor Oscar Villalon. More information coming soon — please save the date\, and join us! \n  \nHoled up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles\, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China\, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner\, Boss Yeung. Now she’s carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters\, Boss Yeung is overjoyed because the doctors have confirmed that he will finally have the son he has always wanted. To ensure that his child has every advantage\, Boss Yeung has shipped Scarlett off to give birth on American soil. U.S. citizenship will open doors for their little prince. \n  \nAs Scarlett awaits the baby’s arrival\, she chokes down bitter medicinal stews and spars with her imperious housemates. The only one who fits in even less is Daisy\, a spirited teenager and fellow unwed mother who is being kept apart from her American boyfriend. \n  \nThen a new sonogram of Scarlett’s baby reveals the unexpected. Panicked\, she escapes by hijacking a van–only to discover that she has a stowaway: Daisy\, who intends to track down the father of her child. The two flee to San Francisco’s bustling Chinatown\, where Scarlett will join countless immigrants desperately trying to seize their piece of the American dream. What Scarlett doesn’t know is that her baby’s father is not far behind her. \n\n“Illuminates the lives of her characters with energy\, verve\, and heart. Hua tracks the minutest emotional terrain of these characters while simultaneously interrogating the cultural and economic forces that shape their worlds.” – Emma Cline\, New York Times bestselling author of The Girls \n  \n“A River of Stars splits the ‘Chinese immigrant story’ into a kaleidoscopic spectrum\, putting human faces to the many groups — rich and poor\, privileged and marginalized\, documented and not — who come to America. Vanessa Hua’s debut is an utterly absorbing novel about the ruthless love of parenthood and the universal truth that sometimes family runs deeper than blood alone.” – Celeste Ng\, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n  \n“How does Scarlett Chen — pregnant\, with her immigration status in peril — make her way in America without friends\, language\, and money? Vanessa Hua’s compelling A River of Stars is a story of resistance\, survival\, and self-determination in a world that is seemingly indifferent to the needs of the poor and disenfranchised.” – Min Jin Lee\, author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko \n  \n“A River of Stars is as pleasurable in its parts as it is profound in its sum. It is a road novel\, an immigrant narrative\, a family saga\, a mystery\, and the unlikeliest of love stories\, all animated by a magnificent cast of characters who bear out John Berger’s assertion that ‘never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.’ Vanessa Hua’s debut contains multitudes.” – Anthony Marra\, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and The Tsar of Love and Techno \n  \n\n  \nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities. For two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the Asian diaspora. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. A River of Stars is Vanessa Hua’s first novel. Her author photo is by Andria Lo. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-vanessa-hua-a-river-of-stars/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Porch light Storytelling Series: TATTOO TALES
DESCRIPTION:Stories by Shotsie Gorman\, TK Moyer\, Taemon Omololu\, Dominic Riley\, Karen Roze\, and Penelope Starr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porch-light-storytelling-series-tattoo-tales/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime WILDSTYLE
DESCRIPTION:will feature Kirsten Chen (Bury What We Cannot Take)\, Dickson Lam (Paper Sons)\, Peter Clarke (Apocryphal Pataphysics)\, Lisa Galloway\, and Lila Vasudevan. \nThe Thursday September 20th\, 7-9pm\, InsideStorytime at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar (The Map of Salt and Stars)\, Rita Bullwinkel (Belly Up)\, Kate Folk\, Steven Black\, and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-wildstyle/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Copenhaver and Paddy Hirsch
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nPaddy Hirsch and John Copenhaver discuss their new novels\, The Devil’s Half Mile and Dodging and Burning. \nAbout The Devil’s Half Mile \nSeven years after a financial crisis nearly toppled America\, traders chafe at government regulations\, racial tensions are rising\, gangs roam the streets and corrupt financiers make back-door deals with politicians… 1799 was a hell of a year. \n  \nThanks to Alexander Hamilton\, America has recovered from the panic on the Devil’s Half Mile (aka Wall Street)\, but the young country is still finding its way. When young lawyer Justy Flanagan returns to solve his father’s murder\, he exposes a massive fraud that has already claimed lives\, and one the perpetrators are determined to keep secret at any cost. The body count is rising\, and the looming crisis could topple the nation. \n  \nAbout Dodging and Burning \nIn the summer of 1945\, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy\, mourning the loss of her brother\, Robbie\, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story “A Date with Death” and spending time with his best friend\, Jay Greenwood\, in Royal Oak\, VA. One unforgettable August day\, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman\, but when they arrive\, the body is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder\, starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body As Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective\, Bunny becomes increasingly skeptical of Jay\, and begins her own investigation into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of clues that place doubt on Jay’s story about the photograph. She journeys to Washington\, D.C.\, where she is forced to confront the brutal truth about her dear friend–a discovery that triggers a series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of estrangement between her and Ceola.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-copenhaver-and-paddy-hirsch/
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\, August 16\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHIS IS A FRIDAY SHOW!!!!\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1728945 \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto 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-16/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio and Kate Folk
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Locascio discusses her new novel\, Open Me with Kate Folk. \n\nPraise for Open Me \n\n“Locascio’s story of a young American abroad is unflinching in its portrayal of sex\, desire\, racism\, and the excitement and confusion of youth. Infused with erotics and politics\, this is a novel that will haunt you.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer \n  \n“Through the care of her tremendous observations and the beauty of her prose\, Lisa Locascio writes a kind of love letter to the female body and all its power and visceral complexity. This is a story of many important layers\, but one of the many reasons it remains distinct in my mind is because of its honesty about our complicated\, yearning physical selves. A remarkable\, fearless debut.”—Aimee Bender\, author of The Color Master \n  \n“Captivating and darkly clever\, Locascio’s debut melds self-discovery and self-abnegation with raw\, muscular grace.  By turns beguiling\, guileless\, and penetratingly felt\, this book seethes with eroticism\, both physical and emotional—you won’t dare to pry yourself away from it.”—Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n  \n“An evocative and compelling remapping of Bluebeard’s Castle for our times. In Open Me\, Locascio offers a daring\, unapologetic\, and vital exploration of female desire.”—Emily Fridlund\, author of History of Wolves \n  \n“A lush\, evocative novel you won’t be able to put down. Open Me is a masterful debut.”—T.C. Boyle\, author of The Harder They Come \n\nAbout Open Me \n\nRoxana Olsen has always dreamed of going to Paris\, and after high school graduation finally plans to travel there on a study abroad program–a welcome reprieve from the bruising fallout of her parents’ divorce. But a logistical mix-up brings Roxana to Copenhagen instead\, where she’s picked up at the airport by Soren\, a twenty-eight year old guide who is meant to be her steward. Instantly drawn to one another\, Roxana and Soren’s relationship turns romantic\, and when he asks Roxana to accompany him to a small town in the north of Denmark for the rest of the summer\, she doesn’t hesitate to accept. There\, Roxana’s world narrows and opens as she experiences fantasy\, ritual\, and the pleasures of her body\, a thrilling realm of erotic and domestic bliss. But as their relationship deepens\, Soren’s temperament darkens\, and Roxana finds herself increasingly drawn to a mysterious local outsider whom she learns is a refugee from the Balkan War. \n  \nAn erotic coming-of-age like no other\, from a magnetic new voice in fiction\, Open Me is a daringly original and darkly compelling portrait of a young woman discovering her power\, her sex\, and her voice; and an incisive examination of xenophobia\, migration\, and what it means to belong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locascio-and-kate-folk/
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:David Corbett with Cara Black
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with David Corbett (The Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday) and Cara Black (Murder on the Left Bank) for their new books. Please join us! \n  \nThe Long-Lost Love Letters of Doc Holliday\nby David Corbett \n  \nThe most notorious love letters in American history–supposedly destroyed a century ago—mysteriously reappear and become the coveted prize in a fierce battle for possession that brings back to life the lawless world evoked in the letters themselves. \n  \nLisa Balamaro is an ambitious arts lawyer with a secret crush on her most intriguing client: former rodeo rider and reformed art forger\, Tuck Mercer. In his newfound role as an expert in Old West artifacts\, Tuck gains possession of the supposedly destroyed correspondence between Doc Holliday and his cousin and childhood sweetheart\, Mattie—who would become Sister Mary Melanie of the Sisters of Mercy. \n  \nGiven the unlikelihood the letters can ever be fully authenticated\, Tuck retains Lisa on behalf of the letters’ owner\, Rayella Vargas\, to sell them on the black market. But the buyer Tuck finds\, a duplicitous judge from the Tombstone area\, has other\, far more menacing ideas. \n  \nAs Lisa works feverishly to make things right\, Rayella secretly enlists her ex-marine boyfriend in a daring scheme of her own. \n  \nWhen the judge learns he’s been blindsided\, he rallies a cadre of armed men for a deadly standoff reminiscent of the moment in history that made Doc famous: The Gunfight at the OK Corral. \n  \n  \nDavid Corbett worked for the San Francisco private investigation firm of Palladino & Sutherland\, and played a significant part in a number of high-profile criminal and civil litigations\, as well as numerous other drug\, murder\, and fraud cases. Corbett is the author of The Devil’s Redhead\, Done for a Dime\, Blood of Paradise\, Do They Know I’m Running? The Mercy of the Night\, The Devil Prayed and Darkness Fell. His short fiction stories have appeared twice in Best American Mystery Stories. He also contributed chapters to The Chopin Manuscript and The Copper Bracelet\, serial audio thrillers that now have been combined into a single hard cover version titled Watchlist. In 2013 he published his writing guide The Art of Character\, which national bestseller Elizabeth Brundage called “a writer’s bible that will lead to your character’s soul.” He teaches and gives seminars and workshops at conferences throughout the United States\, Canada\, and Mexico; he’s a regular contributor to the writers’ blog Writer Unboxed; and his articles on craft and theory have appeared in the New York Times\, Narrative\, Writer’s Digest (where he is a contributing editor)\, The Writer\, Zyzzyva\, MovieMaker\, Bright Ideas\, Crimespree and other outlets. \n  \n\n  \nMurder on the Left Bank\nby Cara Black \n  \nA confession fifty years in the making puts everyone’s favorite Paris d t ctive tr’s chic\, Aim e Leduc\, on a collision course with the “Hand\,” a cabal of corrupt Parisian cops among who masterminded her father’s murder–and among whose ranks he might have once found membership. When a friend’s child is kidnapped while wearing her daughter’s hoodie\, Aim e realizes that the case has crossed into the realm of the personal in more ways than one. \n  \nA dying man drags his oxygen machine into the office of ric Besson\, a lawyer in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. The old man\, an accountant\, is carrying a dilapidated notebook full of meticulous investment records. For decades\, he has been helping a cadre of dirty cops launder stolen money. The notebook contains his full confession–he’s waited 50 years to make it\, and now it can’t wait another day. He is adamant that Besson get the notebook into the hands of La Proc\, Paris’s chief prosecuting attorney\, so the corruption can finally be brought to light. But en route to La Proc\, Besson’s courier–his assistant and nephew–is murdered\, and the notebook disappears. \n  \nGrief-stricken ric Besson tries to hire private investigator Aim e Leduc to find the notebook\, but she is reluctant to get involved. Her father was a cop and was murdered by the same dirty syndicate the notebook implicates. She’s not sure which she’s more afraid of\, the dangerous men who would kill for the notebook or the idea that her father’s name might be among the dirty cops listed within it. Ultimately that’s the reason she must take the case\, which leads her across the Left Bank\, from the Cambodian enclave of Khmer Rouge refugees to the ancient royal tapestry factories to the modern art galleries. \n\n  \nCara Black is the author of eighteen books in the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc series. She has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards\, and her books have been translated into German\, Norwegian\, Japanese\, French\, Spanish\, Italian\, and Hebrew. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens with doors at 2\, event begins at 4pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-corbett-with-cara-black/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-17/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - August 2018 edition
DESCRIPTION:It’s August\, and Hazel Reading Series is back after the summer break!\nJoin us for a late-summer night of poetry and prose by women. \nFeaturing\nCharity Yoro nominated by Sophia Aguinagua\nCiera-Jevae Gordon nominated by Hazel Series\nMei Li Ooi nominated by Sasha Wright\nVenuri Siriwardane nominated by Simmi Aujla\nWesley Cohen nominated by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\nGuest reader: Heather June Gibbons \nHosted by Sara Marinelli \n5-10$ Suggested donations. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize from the University of Utah Press. She is also the author of two chapbooks\, Sore Songs and Flyover\, and her poems have appeared widely in literary journals. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she lives in San Francisco\, where she teaches Creative Writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \nCiera-Jevae Gordon is a Richmond native Spoken Word teaching artist. She serves her community as Poet Laureate while facilitating poetry workshops for both 10-13 year olds\, and 14-21 year olds. Her mission is bring liberation\, light\, and love to every space she is blessed to be in\, while uplifting the lives of Black women and girls in particular. \nWesley Cohen is a writer and editor living in Davis\, California. Her work has been featured by Joyland Magazine\, Entropy\, and some other places. She is a 2017 Writing By Writers fellow. She is the marketing coordinator at Yellow Pear Press\, and serves as prose editor of Foglifter Journal. Wesley’s work lives at wesleyocohen.com. \nVenuri Siriwardane is a writer and researcher with an eye on immigration policy\, social media culture\, and South Asian-American affairs. She spent five years as a business journalist in the New York area\, then switched gears to earn her master’s degree in Politics and Communication from the London School of Economics. She lives in San Francisco and dreams of writing a novel that validates the experiences of young women of color. \nCharity Yoro is a freelance writer raised in Hawai’i and based in San Francisco. She is the founder of Women of Words\, a global community of women-identified writers; Gathering of Wands\, an online writing circle series; and the co-host of HerMana\, a forthcoming podcast featuring curious conversations with women artists & entrepreneurs. Charity is currently writing a poetry collection on the theme of belonging while pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing at USF. \nHaving grown up in a muslim country in the 80’s\, Mei Li Ooi is especially interested in exploring the ways women are policed and the ways they police themselves. She’s currently working on a novel that looks at how women try to gain control of their bodies in ways that are considered morally wrong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-august-2018-edition/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:an evening with williwaw
DESCRIPTION:The highly protracted world tour lives ever on\, as our amp’d uke comrade williwaw applies a sonic salve to the Paris of the West with some fine films as visual counterpoint. Sounds\, sights and perpetual fog. \n  \nTranslation: live scores of Scottish film\, with processed ukelele! Come grab a drink or two and settle in for a squall. \n  \nHere’s an example of what a williwaw experience might look like: \n  \n \nwilliwaw : www.donkeyscratch.com\nwillicamp : williwaw.bandcamp.com\nwillicloud : www.soundcloud.com/williwaw\nwillitube : www.youtube.com/user/donkeyscratch \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 8pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-williwaw/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds by Rachel Levin
DESCRIPTION:Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds is a lighthearted but legitimately helpful illustrated field guide for what to do in the face of 50 of our most feared—or frustrating—animals. From mountain lions to moose\, bears to bees\, rats\, raccoons\, mice… even lice!  As humans encroach on wild places\, encounters with animals have become increasingly commonplace. But what are the rules for facing a moose up close? Do you run from a coyote or stand your ground? How deadly\, really\, are black widow spiders\, rattlesnakes\, and sharks? \nPacked with expert tips\, fascinating animal facts\, and harrowing true tales (from writers like Peter Orner and Samin Nosrat)\, Look Big is a must-have survival guide for outdoor\, urban\, and suburban adventurers alike. If you have ever feared the approach of a grizzly\, the spray of a skunk\, or an army of cockroaches in the kitchen\, this book is for you. \nRachel Levin is the first San Francisco restaurant critic for Eater and a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times\, the New Yorker\, Outside\, Sunset\, and elsewhere. Look Big is her first book. byrachellevin.com \n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Levin
URL:https://litseen.com/event/look-big-and-other-tips-for-surviving-animal-encounters-of-all-kinds-by-rachel-levin/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:North Beach Poetry Reading with Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray
DESCRIPTION:Come listen to Heather Bourbeau and Steven Gray read their works as part of Tuesdays at North Beach\, a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. \nSteven Gray has lived in San Francisco since the 1970s and reads his work all over town. Sometimes he accompanies other poets on guitar. He has two books of poetry: Shadow on the Rocks (2011)\, and Jet Shock and Culture Lag (2012). He also writes reviews for Litseen. \nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in 100 Word Story\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and her work has been featured in several anthologies\, including “Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story” (Outpost 19) and the upcoming “I Just Wanna Testify: Poems About Detroit Music” (Michigan State University Press) and “America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience” (Sixteen Rivers Press). \nThe library in North Beach is at 850 Columbus.  After the reading some of us will go to Specs to recover from a rarified exposure to the spoken word. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/north-beach-poetry-reading-with-heather-bourbeau-and-steven-gray/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of the San Francisco Public Library":MAILTO:info@friendssfpl.org
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR
DESCRIPTION:Tales of alchemical brews & magical medicines; marvelous mixtures\, dubious concoctions & potions passed as perfect remedies\nELIXIR\nTuesday\, Aug 21\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \n~Speakers & Stories TBA~ \nCurated by Tre Balchowsky \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails and conversation; talks begin at 7:30 \nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21 \nArtwork by Imogen Speer \nGET TICKETS>
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elixir/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night : Kelechi Ubozoh
DESCRIPTION:at PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-kelechi-ubozoh/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Wystan Owen
DESCRIPTION:D. Wystan Owen discusses his new story collection\, Other People’s Love Affairs. \n\nPraise for Other People’s Love Affairs \n\n“I think this is an absolutely brilliant book from an extraordinarily gifted writer…The stories are patient\, exquisite\, written with an attention to and reverence for character that astonishes me. D. Wystan Owen writes…stories that lodge somewhere in my chest and keep detonating—loudly\, devastatingly—again and again.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \n\n“D. Wystan Owen’s sentences are so breath-catchingly elegant\, his paragraphs so honed for gut-punching power and depth\, reading him is a full body experience. The stories of Glass\, as subtle as they are profound\, reveal us to ourselves in all our emotional complexity\, all our loneliness and striving. Think Munro\, think Welty\, think even\, Mansfield—and understand that like the collections by those masters of the short form\, this book is strong medicine for a heart-broken world.”—Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\n“D. Wystan Owen has a keen eye for what falls outside the spotlight and what’s hidden underneath the surface. Writing in the tradition of Chekhov\, William Trevor\, and Alice Munro\, Owen’s stories remind us that the thrills and the dangers of living oftentimes go hand-in-hand with the everydayness of life. In these stories no loss is too small\, each moment counts. Owen is not a trendy writer\, but a classic one.”—Yiyun Li\, author of Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n\nAbout Other People’s Love Affairs \n\nIn the ten luminous stories of D. Wystan Owen’s debut collection\, the people of Glass\, a picturesque village on the rugged English coast\, are haunted by longings and deeply held secrets\, captive to pasts that remain as alive as the present. Each story takes us into the lives of characters reaching earnestly and often courageously for connection to the people they have loved. Owen observes their heartbreaks\, their small triumphs\, and their generous capacity for grace. \nA young nurse\, reeling from the disappearance of her mother\, forges an unlikely friendship with a local vagrant. A young boy is by turns dazzled and disillusioned by a trip to the circus with a family friend. A widower revisits the cinema where\, as a teenager\, he and an older woman shared trysts that both thrilled and baffled him. A woman is offered fragile\, uneasy forgiveness for a cruel act from years ago. And in the title story\, a shopkeeper’s vision of the woman she loved is upended by the startling revelation of a secret life. Surprising and powerful\, and in the classic tradition of fiction by James Joyce\, William Trevor\, and Elizabeth Strout\, Owen’s interconnected stories strike a deep and resounding emotional chord.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-wystan-owen/
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:20180823T190000
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SUMMARY:The Racket #22: PETS
DESCRIPTION:We love pets. We love videos of other people’s pets licking lemons or getting stuck in boxes or smiling like they’ve just huffed down a special cigarette. We love them dearly and we can’t wait to see what dark or devious or delightful paths our readers take us down in terms of them. \nThe Readers: \nDB Finnegan\nJared Roehrig\nKrista Varela Posell\nMk Chavez\nThea Sullivan\nJ. K. Fowler\nAyodele Nzinga \nAlso\, free beer. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-22-pets/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Russell Hill
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 23\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement street location. \n \nPlease join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, August 23rd at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Russell Hill to read from his new novel\, The Egret. \n\nA hit and run driver pinwheeled his daughter’s car into the waters of Tomales Bay and his life is turned upside down. Then the sheriff’s detective tells him he may have found the driver\, a rich man who lives nearby. Fueled by his anger and an overwhelming desire for revenge\, he plots ways to make his daughter’s killer suffer and die. Like the predatory egret\, he stalks his victim\, waiting for the right moment to strike. Drowning in the sea\, rattlesnakes and crude bombs are parts of his obsessive pursuit\, leading to the inevitable violence of what he imagines to be the final strike of the egret’s sharp beak. \n  \nRussell Hill is the author of three Edgar-nominated novels as well as several other books. His work has been translated into French\, German\, Polish\, Japanese\, and Spanish\, and one novel\, The Lord God Bird\, had been optioned for a movie. Hill is an avid fly fisherman\, has written for outdoor magazines\, and has taught writing for forty years. He and his wife still live in California where he has spent most of his life. \n  \nPraise for The Egret \n“I was so engrossed by The Egret that I read it in one straight sitting. It’s brilliant\, concise\, poetic\, gritty and deceptively simple with all the dark undercurrents of anger and nostalgia.” – Max Jourdan\, London filmmaker
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russell-hill/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ada Limon and Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:   \n\nAda Limon discusses her new poetry collection\, The Carrying\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for The Carrying \n\n“[Ada Limón’s] new collection is her best yet\, a much needed shot of if not hope\, then perseverance amidst much uncertainty.”―NPR \n\n“In her dazzling\, precise\, transformative collection\, The Carrying\, Ada Limón offers us meditations on mortality\, womanhood\, the body\, and that which grows in the earth\, all the while slyly positing: How we should treat each other in this precarious life? Like humans\, is her answer. Like humans.”―Jami Attenberg\, author of The Middlesteins \n\n\n“Ada Limón teaches me that language can still surprise me. She shows me that the juxtaposition of words not previously joined can catch me off-guard\, make me feel that shimmer of resonance\, of curiosity.”―Signature \n\nAbout The Carrying \n\nFrom National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying―her most powerful collection yet. \nVulnerable\, tender\, acute\, these are serious poems\, brave poems\, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging parents. A woman struggles with infertility―“What if\, instead of carrying / a child\, I am supposed to carry grief?”―and a body seized by pain and vertigo as well as ecstasy. A nation convulses: “Every song of this country / has an unsung third stanza\, something brutal.” And still Limón shows us\, as ever\, the persistence of hunger\, love\, and joy\, the dizzying fullness of our too-short lives. “Fine then\, / I’ll take it\,” she writes. “I’ll take it all.” \nIn Bright Dead Things\, Limón showed us a heart “giant with power\, heavy with blood”―“the huge beating genius machine / that thinks\, no\, it knows\, / it’s going to come in first.” In her follow-up collection\, that heart is on full display―even as The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream\, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-limon-and-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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