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SUMMARY:The Annotated Big Sleep
DESCRIPTION:The first fully annotated edition of Raymond Chandler’s 1939 classic The Big Sleepfeatures hundreds of illuminating notes and images alongside the full text of the novel and is an essential addition to any crime fiction fan’s library.\n\n“Nothing\, even a book as singular and archetypal as The Big Sleep\, comes from nowhere. What a gift\, to see in part how Chandler made it. Under just three names\, these annotators number among them two poets\, an archivist and literary scholar\, a gifted crime novelist\, and three sleuths; reading it conveys the vicarious thrill of their innumerable discoveries. Chandler lucked out.”  Jonathan Lethem\, from the forward \nThe three annotators will talk and read: \nOWEN HILL is the author of two mystery novels\, a book of short fiction\, and several books of poetry. He has reviewed crime novels for the Los Angeles Times and the East Bay Express. In 2005 he was awarded the Howard Moss residency for poetry at Yaddo. He is currently coediting the Berkeley Noir anthology\, forthcoming in 2020. \nPAMELA JACKSON is an editor\, scholar\, and librarian specializing in California literary and cultural history. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and an MLIS from UCLA and was coeditor\, with Jonathan Lethem\, of The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. \nANTHONY DEAN RIZZUTO is a professor of English at Sonoma State University\, where he teaches (among other things) California ethnic literature and hard-boiled fiction. He is also a bookseller at Moe’s Books in Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-annotated-big-sleep/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LABORFEST: REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE
DESCRIPTION:The dystopian world we live in will be challenged by words and music that will bring solidarity and unity of all working people. \n\nPOETS:\n\n\nMahnaz Badihian\nLisbit Bailey\nKristina Brown\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAgneta Falk\nMaria Cristina Herrera\nMartin Hickel\nJack Hirschman\nKaren M. Magoon\nRosemary Manno\nSarah Menefee\nBarbara Paschke\nGregory Pond\n\n\n\n\nMUSIC & SONG:\n\n\nFrancisco Herrera (Guitar)\nGeorge Long (Saxophone)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-revolutionary-poets-brigade/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bookswap at The Bindery: Antagonist Edition
DESCRIPTION:We’re feeling evil this summer\, so for July\, bring a book with a villain you love to hate. Maybe het’s a ring-bearer with an insatiable lust for power\, or perhaps a cult leader who took over a swath of South America\, or maybe he’s a slick nomad who kidnaps his landlord’s daughter (YES HUMBERT IS A VILLAIN): bring on your favorite literary monsters.  \n  \nAnd if that isn’t your cup of tea\, bring any book you love and want other people to love. Mostly\, Bookswap is a social event\, so bring a book and a friend\, enjoy a premium cocktail\, and relax in our cozy space. Tell your friends (and enemies).  \n  \n— \n  \n$15 admission includes a drink ticket\, swag\, and 20% off book purchases at The Bindery and Booksmith for the evening.  \n  \nSpace is limited\, and tickets do sell out\, so we encourage you to buy early. Bar opens at 6:30\, the fun starts at 7. \n  \nTickets on sale now!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-at-the-bindery-antagonist-edition-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Clement street on Thursday\, July 26th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Elizabeth Cooperman & Thomas Walton to celebrate the release of their new book (from Sagging Meniscus Press) The Last Mosaic! \n\n“Most current discussion in American literary culture regarding fragmentation\, collage\, bricolage\, braided narrative\, etc. is blinkered by the illusion that these are uniquely contemporary gestures\, but they go back to at least Heraclitus and probably to the first human who etched a list of words on stone and\, for poetic effect\, forgot to complete the list. To be human is to be broken. The Last Mosaic not only explains these ideas; it embodies them. It’s also extremely vivid\, precise\, smart\, and galvanizing. ‘With great art there’s nothing that can prepare you for the thing you’re about to see.’ “ \n—David Shields\, author of Other People: Takes and Mistakes \n\n“In this tessellated text we encounter a fractal poetics: juxtaposing witticisms and vignettes that illuminate Roman art and culture\, the authors reveal\, ‘when you look close enough\, there’s nothing that isn’t a cracked assemblage.’ Whether we’re peering at the strokes on a Caravaggio\, excavating cobblestones\, or looking more broadly at cities\, travel\, partnership\, and time\, we see that life is a series of shards that come together. A fragmented travelogue\, The Last Mosaic musters art history\, mythology\, etymology\, poetry\, and humor\, summoning the ghosts of Shelley\, Keats\, Giotto\, Nero\, and their kindred to a museum whose vivid lines resonate like the cicada’s song.” \n—Amaranth Borsuk\, author of Pomegranate Eater
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-cooperman-and-thomas-walton/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Victoria Patterson
DESCRIPTION:Victoria Patterson discusses her new story collection\, The Secret Habit of Sorrow. \n\nPraise for The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\n“Patterson is on a mission to bring our ghosts out of the shadows. These stories shine with empathy and find the humanness in all our struggles.” —Joshua Mohr\, author of All This Life \n  \n“A darkly entertaining collection of stories all about the little sins we commit in the name of our desires and their myriad repercussions. Armed with sharp emotional insight and vision that penetrates and illuminates the modern condition\, Patterson’s newest offering is seductively sly and peculiarly carnal.” —Wesley Minter\, Third Place Books\, Lake Forest Park\, WA \n\nAbout The Secret Habit of Sorrow \n\nVictoria Patterson\, whose writing Vanity Fair has called “brutal\, deeply empathetic\, and emotionally wrenching\,” returns with a new collection of stories that contains echoes of Denis Johnson and Raymond Carver\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. \n  \nThere’s a pitch-perfect blend of linguistic dexterity\, emotional wisdom\, and wry observation in The Secret Habit of Sorrow. The characters in these stories feel like people you know\, their struggles real. Patterson’s prose has a Denis Johnson re-filtered through Raymond Carver-vibe\, along with the emotional depth and density of Elena Ferrante. Whether it be the ties between women and their own and each other’s infants\, the struggles of parenthood\, or the trials that come with excessive drinking and drug abuse\, Patterson has an amazing ability to convey relationships\, and how our bonds can both save and destroy us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/victoria-patterson/
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:Boris Rozenfeld Russian Bibliophiles Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Russian book club\, literary discussion\, and/or poetry recital. \n  \nKoret Auditorium \nMain Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/boris-rozenfeld-russian-bibliophiles-club/
LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Love
DESCRIPTION:~ an evening of love-themed music and lit ~ \n  \nWe are OPEN for literary submissions. \nGuidelines. This is an evening for music and literature on the theme of romantic love. Featured readers will get up to eight minutes at the mic (about 1\,200 words). This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Please paste your material into the body of an email with the subject line RW Love: [Your Name] addressed to the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind@sbcglobal.net \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us? \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-love/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reading & Chap Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of 3 special edition chapbooks by our current round of writers-in-residence! \nFeaturing readings by: \n  \nMK Chavez \nPhilip Harris \nEmily Pinkerton
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-chap-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R.O. Kwon Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, July 31st to celebrate the release of R.O. Kwon’s debut novel\, The Incendiaries. R.O. will be in conversation with Esmé Weijun Wang. \n\nPraise for The Incendiaries \n\n\n“The Incendiaries is a God-haunted\, willful\, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it before\, but now I’ll shout it from the rooftops: R. O. Kwon is the real deal.”—Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n\n“Every explosive requires a fuse. That’s R. O. Kwon’s novel\, a straight\, slow-burning fuse. To read her novel is to follow an inexorable flame coming closer and closer to the object it will detonate—the characters\, the crime\, the story\, and\, ultimately\, the reader.”—Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees \n\n“The Incendiaries probes the seductive and dangerous places to which we drift when loss unmoors us. In dazzlingly acrobatic prose\, R. O. Kwon explores the lines between faith and fanaticism\, passion and violence\, the rational and the unknowable.”—Celeste Ng\, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n\nAbout The Incendiaries \n\nA powerful\, darkly glittering novel about violence\, love\, faith\, and loss\, as a young Korean American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea. \n  \nPhoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who doesn’t tell anyone she blames herself for her mother’s recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy who transfers to Edwards from Bible college\, waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe. \n  \nGrieving and guilt-ridden\, Phoebe is increasingly drawn into a religious group–a secretive extremist cult–founded by a charismatic former student\, John Leal. He has an enigmatic past that involves North Korea and Phoebe’s Korean American family. Meanwhile\, Will struggles to confront the fundamentalism he’s tried to escape\, and the obsession consuming the one he loves. When the group bombs several buildings in the name of faith\, killing five people\, Phoebe disappears. Will devotes himself to finding her\, tilting into obsession himself\, seeking answers to what happened to Phoebe and if she could have been responsible for this violent act. \n  \nThe Incendiaries is a fractured love story and a brilliant examination of the minds of extremist terrorists\, and of what can happen to people who lose what they love most.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-o-kwon-book-release/
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:The Red Army Faction and West Germany's Debate Over Democracy and Authority
DESCRIPTION:Screening the Red Army Faction explores representations of the Red Army Faction (RAF) in print media\, film and art. The book contributes both a new history and a new cultural history of post-fascist era West Germany that grapples with the fledgling republic’s most pivotal debates about the nature of democracy and authority; about violence\, its motivations and regulation; and about its cultural afterlife.  \n\nChristina Gerhardt is Associate Professor of German at University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-red-army-faction-and-west-germanys-debate-over-democracy-and-authority/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Invocation to Daughters
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes \n  \nCelebrate the opening of PAL / The Pilipinx American Library at the Asian Art Museum with readings by Bay Area poets led by Barbara Jane Reyes. Browse through PAL’s collection of Filipino-authored books\, grab a drink at the cash bar and groove to music by DJ Jon Reyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/invocation-to-daughters/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, 200 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Winnie the Pooh
DESCRIPTION:Bring out your bear jokes. Sorry in advance! (Pants optional) \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. Tickets on sale now! \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-winnie-the-pooh/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch for Ingrid Rojas Contreras / Fruit of the Drunken Tree
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Ingrid Rojas Contreras‘ debut novel\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree. Joining Ingrid in conversation is our muse and yours\, Carolina De Robertis. More to be announced soon\, but please save the date and join us! \n  \nSeven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá\, but the threat of kidnappings\, car bombs\, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls\, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. \nWhen their mother hires Petrona\, a live-in-maid from the city’s guerrilla-occupied slum\, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona’s mysterious ways. But Petrona’s unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls’ families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict\, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. \nInspired by the author’s own life\, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different\, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose\, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation. \n  \n\n  \n“Set against the backdrop of Pablo Escobar’s stranglehold on the fate of a nation\, Fruit of the Drunken Tree is a spellbinding story of two girls whose realities collide and who are forced to make nearly unbearable choices in the name of survival. The thrum of mystery and danger haunts every page\, and you won’t be able to look away until you turn the last one.” – Cristina Henríquez\, author of The Book of Unknown Americans \n“A dazzling and heart-stopping portrait of the intimacy of violence\, how a nation’s wounds tear into families and betray its most innocent citizens. Fruit of the Drunken Tree pulses with reckoning\, rebellion\, and raw beauty. Rojas Contreras is a thrilling and brave new talent\, and it will be a long time before Chula’s and Petrona’s voices leave me.” – Patricia Engel\, author of The Veins of the Ocean \n“Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s gripping debut explores a complex and destructive friendship against the background of Colombia’s political violence. As terror creeps over the walls of Chula’s gated neighborhood\, the girls discover that betrayal and sacrifice are sometimes indistinguishable. Like the fragrant drunken tree that so discomfits Chula’s neighbors\, this beautiful novel draws the reader under its treacherous\, intoxicating spell.” – Kristin Valdez Quade\, author of Night at the Fiestas \n  \n“When women tell stories\, they are finally at the center of the page. When women of color write history\, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree\, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story.” – Sandra Cisneros\, author of The House on Mango Street \n  \n“Ingrid Rojas Contreras captures the violent history of drug-torn Colombia as it affects the intimate lives of two characters\, a girl and the young maid in her household. She has spot-on command of both points of view\, their voices\, their secret hearts. What a range of insight\, compassion and understanding of the impact of violence on families and most especially on young women at different levels of society. A coming of age story\, an immigrant story\, a thrilling mystery novel\, thoroughly lived and felt—this is an exciting debut novel that showcases a writer already in full command of her powers. Make room on your shelves for a writer whose impressive debut promises many more.” – Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents \n  \n\n  \nIngrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Electric Literature\, Guernica\, and Huffington Post\, among others. She has received fellowships and awards from The Missouri Review\, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is the book columnist for KQED Arts\, the Bay Area’s NPR affiliate. \n  \nA writer of Uruguayan origins\, Carolina De Robertis is the author of the novels The Gods of Tango\, Perla\, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain. Her books have been translated into seventeen languages\, and have been named Best Books of the Year in venues including the San Francisco Chronicle\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, BookList\, and NBC. She is the recipient of a Stonewall Book Award\, Italy’s Rhegium Julii Prize\, and a 2012 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, among other honors. She is also an award-winning translator of Latin American and Spanish literature\, and editor of the anthology Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times\, which features essays by leading thinkers and writers in response to the shifting political atmosphere in the U.S. In 2017\, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts named De Robertis on its 100 List of “people\, organizations\, and movements that are shaping the future of culture.” She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University\, and lives in Oakland\, California\, with her wife and two children. She is currently at work on her fourth novel\, The Burning Edge of the World. \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. www.google.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-ingrid-rojas-contreras-fruit-of-the-drunken-tree/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Siobhan Adcock
DESCRIPTION:Siobhan Adcock discusses her new novel\, The Completionist. \n\nPraise for The Completionist \n\n“Thoughtful\, suspenseful\, and shot through with dark humor\, The Completionist creates a future world near enough to our own that the familiarity stings and sings. Violence\, climate change\, invasive technologies\, and the erosion of women’s freedoms–none of this is science fiction\, but the novel harnesses these destructive forces toward an original and imaginative end. And the people who inhabit these pages are vivid\, defiant reminders of the sustaining powers of purpose\, honor\, and family love.”—Miranda Beverly-Whittemore\, New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet and June \n  \n“Intense\, chilling\, visionary and compulsively readable\, Adcock’s dystopian literary thriller takes on environmental collapse and reproductive rights with passion and vivid world-building. Comparisons to The Handmaid’s Tale are inevitable\, though Adcock has her own things to say about the horrific costs of a society bent on controlling women’s freedoms.” —Sari Wilson\, Girl Through Glass \n  \n“How rare it is to find such a seamless\, brilliant combination of action and ideas\, unique world and complex characterization. The Completionist unfolds a compelling mystery within a disquieting but strangely familiar world\, with a tense\, taut atmosphere keeps you turning the pages\, and a family you can’t help but root for as they try\, and often fail\, to save each other.”—Julia Fierro\, bestselling author of Cutting Teeth and The Gypsy Moth Summer \n\nAbout The Completionist \n\nIn a near future in which plummeting birth rates have ominous political and personal implications for women\, a young man’s search for his missing sister leads him into a disturbing and desperate underworld\, where bitter freedoms are bought at a terrible price. \n  \nA young Marine\, Carter Quinn\, comes home from war to his fractured family\, in a near-future America in which water is artificially engineered and technology is startlingly embedded in people’s everyday lives. At the same time\, a fertility crisis has terrifying implications for women\, including Carter’s two beloved sisters\, Fred and Gardner. Fred\, accomplished but impetuous\, the eldest sibling\, is naturally pregnant—a rare and miraculous event that puts her independence in jeopardy. And Gardner\, the idealistic younger sister who lived for her job as a Nurse Completionist\, has mysteriously vanished\, after months of disturbing behavior. Carter’s efforts to find Gard (and stay on Fred’s good side) keep leading him back home to their father\, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself\, who may be concealing a painful truth that could save or condemn them all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/siobhan-adcock/
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:Elizabeth Rush
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Rush discusses her new book\, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. \n\nPraise for Rising \n\n“Sea level rise is not some distant problem in a distant place. As Elizabeth Rush shows\, it’s affecting real people right now. Rising is a compelling piece of reporting\, by turns bleak and beautiful.”―Elizabeth Kolbert\, author of The Sixth Extinction \n\n“A smart\, lyrical testament to change and uncertainty. Elizabeth Rush listens to both the vulnerability and resiliency of communities facing the shifting shorelines of extreme weather. These are the stories we need to hear in order to survive and live more consciously with a sharp-edged determination to face our future with empathy and resolve. Rising illustrates how climate change is a relentless truth and real people in real places know it by name\, storm by flood by fire.”―Terry Tempest Williams\, author of The Hour of Land \n\n“A strange new kind of travel guide\, Rising is a journey through the turbulent forefront of climate change―the coastal communities\, rich and poor\, human and nonhuman\, that are already feeling the first effects of our rising seas. Elizabeth Rush sets out to put a face on a subject that is all too often depicted in abstract graphs and statistics\, and gives us a group portrait of the men and women who are fighting\, fleeing\, and adapting to the terrible disappearance of the land they live on.”―Charles C. Mann\, author of 1491 \n\n“In this moving and memorable book\, the voice of the author mingles with the voices of people in coastal communities all over the country―Maine\, Rhode Island\, Louisiana\, Florida\, New York\, California―to offer testimony: The water is rising. Some have already lost their homes; some will lose them soon; others are studying or watching or grieving. Though they haven’t met each other\, their commonality forms a circle into which we are inexorably pulled by Elizabeth Rush’s powerful words.”―Anne Fadiman\, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down \n\nAbout Rising \n\nHarvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. We live in a time of unprecedented hurricanes and catastrophic weather events\, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant―and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. \nIn this highly original work of lyrical reportage\, Elizabeth Rush guides readers through some of the places where this change has been most dramatic\, from the Gulf Coast to Miami\, and from New York City to the Bay Area. For many of the plants\, animals\, and humans in these places\, the options are stark: retreat or perish in place. Weaving firsthand accounts from those facing this choice―a Staten Islander who lost her father during Sandy\, the remaining holdouts of a Native American community on a drowning Isle de Jean Charles\, a neighborhood in Pensacola settled by escaped slaves hundreds of years ago―with profiles of wildlife biologists\, activists\, and other members of the communities both currently at risk and already displaced\, Rising privileges the voices of those usually kept at the margins. \nAt once polyphonic and precise\, Rising is a shimmering meditation on vulnerability and on vulnerable communities\, both human and more than human\, and on how to let go of the places we love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-rush-2/
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:Thor Hanson at the SF Botanical Garden
DESCRIPTION:Thor Hanson discusses his new book\, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees\, at the San Francisco Botanical Garden. This event will feature a talk in the Fragrance Garden followed by a signing. ***NOTE*** This is a free event but there is an $9.00 admission fee to the garden for Non-San Francisco residents. Seating will be limited. \n\nPraise for Buzz \n\n“Thor Hanson is a gifted story teller and naturalist. In Buzz\, he takes us along on a wondrous\, action-packed journey to discover the secret lives of bees\, flowers\, and the unconventional men and women who study them. This book really is the buzz about bees\, and it’s destined to become a natural history classic.”―Stephen Buchmann\, author of The Reason for Flowers \n\n“Thor Hanson is a magician at making entomology and taxonomy exciting\, highlighting the fascinating world of bees. Buzz hums with science and history\, exposing how bees have shaped our world. A delightful\, buzzworthy must-read!”―Daniel Chamovitz\, author of What a Plant Knows \n\n“As he did for feathers and seeds\, Thor Hanson has written a wonderfully engaging work of natural history that will delight readers with its elegant prose\, surprising stories\, and deep humanity. Bees\, so important to life on earth\, are fortunate to have someone as passionate and knowledgeable as Hanson tell the tale of their evolutionary past\, turbulent present\, and precarious future. After reading Buzz\, you will look at bees with a profound mixture of awe and gratitude.”―Eric Jay Dolin\, author of Black Flags\, Blue Waters\, and Leviathan \n\nAbout Buzz \n\nFrom the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers\, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. \nBees are like oxygen: ubiquitous\, essential\, and\, for the most part\, unseen. While we might overlook them\, they lie at the heart of relationships that bind the human and natural worlds. In Buzz\, the beloved Thor Hanson takes us on a journey that begins 125 million years ago\, when a wasp first dared to feed pollen to its young. From honeybees and bumbles to lesser-known diggers\, miners\, leafcutters\, and masons\, bees have long been central to our harvests\, our mythologies\, and our very existence. They’ve given us sweetness and light\, the beauty of flowers\, and as much as a third of the foodstuffs we eat. And\, alarmingly\, they are at risk of disappearing. \nAs informative and enchanting as the waggle dance of a honeybee\, Buzz shows us why all bees are wonders to celebrate and protect. Read this book and you’ll never overlook them again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thor-hanson-at-the-sf-botanical-garden/
LOCATION:San Francisco Botanical Garden\, 1199 9th Ave\, San Francisco\, CA - California\, 94122
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:STARTING FROM SAN FRANCISCO: THE BABY BEAT GENERATION AND THE SECOND SAN FRANCISCO RENAISSANCE
DESCRIPTION:SAT. AUG. 4TH\, 6-9PMJoin Third Mind Books to celebrate the release of Starting from San Francisco: The Baby Beat Generation and the Second San Francisco Renaissance\, a Beat literary reunion and reading with: \n\n\n\nThomas Rain Crowe\nNeeli Cherkovski\nKaye McDonough\nJack Hirschman\nPhilip Daughtry\nSharon Doubiago\nClive Matson\nB. Alexandra Szerlip\nAnne Valley-Fox\nJim Dallesandro\nand Joe Provenzano\n\n\n\n…also featuring Third Mind Books founder Arthur S. Nusbaum’s pioneering presentation on the Baby Beat Generation and the Second San Francisco Renaissance\, “Beat Mentors & Their Progeny” as delivered at the 2017 European Beat Studies Network Conference in Paris\, France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/starting-from-san-francisco-the-baby-beat-generation-and-the-second-san-francisco-renaissance/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-16/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CONTRAPTION
DESCRIPTION:Stories of mad makers & ingenious inventors; marvelous machinery\, implements of wonder & infernal devices\nCONTRAPTION\nTuesday\, Aug 7\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \n\nAvani Wildani neé Gadani ~ Karakuri Dolls: The Original Mecha\n\n\nBill Paul ~ A Bridge Too Far: The Origins and Workings of the E-Meter\n\n\nEva Galperin ~ Bicycle My Nemesis\n\n\nMichael Brodhead ~ Leon Theremin: Electronic Music Pioneer\n\n\nLynne Rutter ~ The Eisinga Planetarium: It Koe Minder!\n\n\nZander ~ Eruvim: The Invisible Religious Walls That Surround Us\n\nCurated by Odd Salon Fellow John Adams \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/contraption/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE SF POWDER KEG
DESCRIPTION:AN EVENING OF POETRY  WITH \n\n\n\nCathy Arellano \nTanea Lunsford Lynx \nAsh Tré Phillips \nTongo Eisen-Martin \nTUESDAY\, AUGUST 7th \n@ 7PM\nFREE ENTRY \n@ INSTITUTE OF advanced UNCERTAINTY \n@ 296 IVY STREET\, SAN FRANCISCO
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-sf-powder-keg/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Verange
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Wednesday\, August 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Sylvia Verange as she discusses her newest book (from Rare Bird Books)\, Two Breath\, One Step: Hiking Across the Himalayas. \n\nPraise for Two Breaths\, One Step \n” Two Breaths\, One Step is a weave of extraordinary natural beauty\, personal determination\, intriguing cultural encounters\, and magical spiritual moments–a significant personal odyssey coming together during a few months trekking the Himalayas. Sylvia writes with candor and the kind of descriptive detail that makes you feel you are walking right along with her.”\n— Joseph Selbie\, author of The Yugas \n“Rich with cultural\, geographical and personal details\, Sylvia Verange’s Two Breaths\, One Step is a sensual encounter with the beauty and danger of the Himalayas. Like the artist she is\, Verange paints a vivid picture of the sounds\, smells and the challenges of traveling in the highest mountains in the world.”\n— Nancy Anderson\, author of Work with Passion \n\nBorn in California\, Sylvia Verange has long wandered remote corners of the world\, using her journeys to further understand both herself and the world in which she lives. When not on an adventure in wild and beautiful places\, Ms. Verange paints\, writes\, and teaches in northern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sylvia-verange/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen Seedstarters: Readings & Propagations
DESCRIPTION:Lone Glen is thrilled to present Seedstarters: An Evening of Readings and Propagations\, guest curated by poet Genine Lentine. Join us to celebrateBidisha Banerjee\, Emilie Lygren\, and Lauren Shufran\, who will be reading new writing and works-in-progress. $5-10 donations will be taken at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \n  \nLone Glen is a quarterly writing\, art\, and performance series dedicated to collaboration and community\, now in its seventh year. Usually based in Oakland\, we are happy to return to our birthplace in San Francisco for this special event. \n  \nAbout these seedstarting writers and artists: \n  \nBidisha Banerjee is a sustainability innovator\, embodied leadership coach\, and author of Superhuman River: A Biography of the Ganga. It’s a multi-strand narrative about following the river over eight years from source to sea in an attempt to reconcile science and spirituality–or\, at least\, spot the elusive Ganges river dolphin. It’s due out from Aleph Books in New Delhi in 2018. Many thanks to loved ones\, the Middlebury Environmental Journalism Fellowship\, Triple Canopy\, Hedgebrook\, the Mesa Refuge\, the Yerba Buena Arts Center’s Future Soul Think Tank\, and Yale’s Tropical Resources Institute for supporting this work. Make a journaling date with her on Instagram @bidishaban\, Twitter @bidishabanerjee\, and LinkedIn. \n  \nEmilie Lygren is an educator\, curriculum designer\, and poet who delights in shaping learning experiences that connect people to one another and their surroundings. She is the co-author of several pieces of curriculum and books\, including The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling and the forthcoming Nature Journal Teacher’s Guide. Her poems have been published in journals such as Askew\, The English Leadership Quarterly\, and The New South. Her writing practice and daily interactions are rooted in attention and curiosity. \n  \nLauren Shufran is a poet and the Lead Writer for Zoho Academy. Prior to working in software\, she received a PhD in early modern British literature from UC Santa Cruz. Her book Inter Arma won the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books and was published in 2013. Since then\, she’s been working on a translation of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass—a project she began as a Lambda Literary Fellow. She’s also recently been musing on two of her favorite things on Instagram\, @shakespeare_and_mindfulness. \n  \nAbout the curator: \n  \nGenine Lentine is the author of Poses: An Essay Drawn from the Model\, and the chapbooks\, Archaeopteryx; Found Dharma Talks\, and Mr. Worthington’s Beautiful Experiments on Splashes.  She is co-author with Stanley Kunitz and photographer\, Marnie Crawford Samuelson\, of The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden. She teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute\, where she also tends a meadow. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-seedstarters-readings-propagations/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kessler
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Kessler joins us on Thursday\, August 9th to read from his collection\, Garage Elegies. \n\nAbout Garage Elegies \nIn Garage Elegies\, Stephen Kessler records with grief and wit\, documentary realism and ranging imagination\, poignancy and irony\, a journey through the gains and losses of a lifetime.  From the twenty-four numbered poems of the title (composed in the poet’s garage) to fanciful inventions like “My Gym at Midnight\,” passionate meditations like “River Lovers” and nightmarish visions like “Bedless in Bedlam\,” his emotional honesty\, conversational lyricism and wry melancholy are at once dazzling and down to earth\, heart-opening and consciousness-wrenching\, retro-romantic and totally contemporary.  Open this book to any page and find an unmistakably authentic voice.  \n  \nStephen Kessler’s poems\, translations\, essays\, criticism\, and journalism have appeared over the last fifty years in hundreds of literary magazines\, newspapers\, anthologies and books. His translations of Luis Cernuda have received the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Poetry\, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets\, and the PEN Center USA Translation Award. His version of Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cortázar received a Northern California Book Award. He has edited numerous magazines and newspapers\, most notably Alcatraz\, an international journal; The Sun\, a Santa Cruz newsweekly; and The Redwood Coast Review\, four-time winner of the California Library Association’s PR Excellence Award. He is also the editor and principal translator of The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges\, and the author of a novel\, The Mental Traveler.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-kessler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Keith Gessen / A Terrible Country
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts All the Sad Young Literary Men author Keith Gessen for his new novel A Terrible Country. With Keith in conversation will be The Millions’ Lydia Kiesling. Please join us! \n  \nWhen Andrei Kaplan’s older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother\, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It’s the summer of 2008\, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn\, packs up his hockey stuff\, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother\, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia’s violent capitalist transformation\, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home\, even if she can’t always remember who he is. \n  \nAndrei learns to navigate Putin’s Moscow\, still the city of his birth\, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly–but surprisingly sharp!–grandmother\, finds a place to play hockey\, a café to send emails\, and eventually some friends\, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year\, his grandmother’s health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists\, Andrei’s politics and his allegiances are tested\, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid. \n  \nA wise\, sensitive novel about Russia\, exile\, family\, love\, history and fate\, A Terrible County asks what you owe the place you were born\, and what it owes you. Writing with grace and humor\, Keith Gessen gives us a brilliant and mature novel that is sure to mark him as one of the most talented novelists of his generation. \n  \n\n  \n“A cause for celebration: big-hearted\, witty\, warm\, compulsively readable\, earnest\, funny\, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia and its writers.” – George Saunders\, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo \n  \n“Keith Gessen is one of my favorite writers and A Terrible Country is even better than I hoped. By turns sad\, funny\, bewildering\, revelatory\, and then sad again\, it recreates the historical-psychological experience of returning\, for twenty-first-century reasons\, to a country one’s parents left in the twentieth century. It’s at once an old-fashioned novel about the interplay between generational roles\, family fates\, and political ideology\, and a kind of global detective mystery about neoliberalism (plus a secret map of Moscow in terms of pickup hockey). Gessen is a master journalist and essayist\, as well as a storyteller with a scary grasp on the human heartstrings\, and A Terrible Country unites the personal and political as only the best novels do.” – Elif Batuman\, author of The Idiot and The Possessed \n  \n“A Terrible Country is an engaging and entertaining novel\, full of humor and humility\, and always after one thing–the truth of contemporary life. Gessen gives us the people of Moscow–businessmen\, anarchists\, grandmothers\, dissidents\, baristas\, hockey goalies\, prostitutes\, and FSB agents–not as fanciful characters but with the full force of the real. His affectionate\, clear-eyed portrait of one terrible country has plenty to teach us about our own.” – Chad Harbach\, author of The Art of Fielding \n  \n\n  \nKeith Gessen is the author of All the Sad Young Literary Men and a founding editor of n+1. He is the editor of three nonfiction books and the translator or co-translator\, from Russian\, of a collection of short stories\, a book of poems\, and a work of oral history\, Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices from Chernobyl. A contributor to The New Yorker and The London Review of Books\, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife and son. \n  \nLydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions and the author of The Golden State\, a novel publishing September from FSG/MCD. Her essays and criticism have appeared at outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The Guardian\, Slate\, and The New Yorker online\, and have been recognized in Best American Essays 2016. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Author photo by Andria Lo. \n  \n  \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Terrible Country and/or any of Keith’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-keith-gessen-a-terrible-country-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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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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