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SUMMARY:Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:Join Books Inc. in The Marina for an evening of lyrical prose with local poets Erin Rodoni\, reading from Body\, In Good Light; and Gillian Wegener\, reading from This Sweet Haphazard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170713T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170713T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabe Hudson
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Hudson discusses his new novel\, Gork\, The Teenage Dragon. \nGork isn’t like the other dragons at WarWings Military Academy. He has a gigantic heart\, two-inch horns\, and an occasional problem with fainting. His nickname is Weak Sauce and his Will to Power ranking is Snacklicious—the lowest in his class. But he is determined not to let any of this hold him back as he embarks on the most important mission of his life: tonight\, on the eve of his high school graduation\, he must ask a female dragon to be his queen. If she says yes\, they’ll go off to conquer a foreign planet together. If she says no\, Gork becomes a slave.\nVying with Jocks\, Nerds\, Mutants\, and Multi-Dimensioners to find his mate\, Gork encounters an unforgettable cast of friends and foes\, including Dr. Terrible\, the mad scientist; Fribby\, a robot dragon obsessed with death; and Metheldra\, a healer specializing in acupuncture with swords. But finally it is Gork’s biggest perceived weakness\, his huge heart\, that will guide him through his epic quest and help him reach his ultimate destination: planet Earth.\nA love story\, a fantasy\, and a coming-of-age story\, Gork the Teenage Dragon is a wildly comic\, beautifully imagined\, and deeply heartfelt debut novel that shows us just how human a dragon can be
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-hudson/
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:20170714T193000
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SUMMARY:Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Praise for A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause \n“Threading the subtle seam between what lives and what remains\, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause succeeds in conjuring the poetry of Marcel Marceau’s performance as both a character on stage and in history. . . . Like pulling a ghost from a dark room\, this is an accomplished work of historical portraiture: precise in its objects\, complex in its melancholy\, and insightful in its humor.” Thalia Field \n\nAbout A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause \nA fledgling radio producer\, Shawn Wen became fascinated by the one subject who seemed impossible to put on air: French mime Marcel Marceau\, the internationally acclaimed artist of silence. At the height of his fame\, Marceau was synonymous with Bip\, the red-lipped\, white-faced mute in a sailor suit who conjured scenes\, stories\, and sweeping emotion through the gestures of his body alone. Influenced by Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp\, credited with inspiring Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk\, Marceau attempted in his performances to reveal the fundamental essences of humanity.\nBeyond Bip\, Marceau was a Jewish Holocaust survivor and member of the French resistance; a bombastic iconoclast; a collector of failed marriages\, masks\, antique knives and doting fans; an impassioned workaholic who performed into his eighties and died deeply in debt two years after retiring from the stage. In precise\, jewel-like scenes and vignettes\, A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause pays homage to the singular genius of a mostly-forgotten art form. Drawing on interviews\, archival research\, and meticulously observed performances\, Wen translates the gestural language of mime into a lyric written portrait by turns whimsical\, melancholic\, and haunting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shawn-wen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T120000
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SUMMARY:Warehouse Sale Extravaganza at Books Inc. HQ!
DESCRIPTION:Books Inc. Midsummer Warehouse Sale Extravaganza!\nEverything 30-80% off of 1000’s of books. Greeting Cards 4 for $1. Toys and gift items marked down to extreme discounts. July 15 open 10am to 4pm\, one day only-come early for the best selection. Free swag with purchase!\nAll items on a first come\, first served basis\nNo special orders\nAll sales final\nBooks Inc. Warehouse is located at 1501 Vermont Street @ Cesar Chavez\nLimited parking available in the Books Inc. parking lot + street parking\n20 minute walk from 24th St. BART Station\nSF MUNI lines 9\, 10\, 19\, 27\, 48\nClose proximity to 22nd St Caltrain Station
URL:https://litseen.com/event/warehouse-sale-extravaganza-at-books-inc-hq/
LOCATION:Books Inc. HQ\, 1501 Vermont St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T150000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170712T032302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T035702Z
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SUMMARY:Brenda Peterson: Creative Nonfiction Reading/Talk
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Amaroq Weiss \nBrenda Peterson brings the full complement of science\, history\, and memoir to the century-long battle to save wild wolves\, the keystone species of our nation. \nIn the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold\, Wolf Nation tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history\, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now\, scientists\, writers\, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson\, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years\, makes the powerful case that without wolves\, not only will our whole ecology unravel\, but we’ll lose much of our national soul. \nBrenda Peterson is a novelist and nature writer whose curiosity about and for the respect of nature radiates through her twenty books. For the past two decades she has studied and written about animals\, especially marine animals and wolves. She has contributed environmental commentary to NPR and the Huffington Post. \nAmaroq Weiss has worked in wolf conservation for more than 20 years and is the West Coast Wolf Advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity\, a national nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-peterson-creative-nonfiction-readingtalk/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T183000
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SUMMARY:Laborfest
DESCRIPTION:NOT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS!\nAGAINST DEPORTATIONS AND RACISM \npresented by the Revolutionary Poets Brigade\nand The Juana Briones Cultural Committee \nFeaturing Readers: \n\nJorge Argueta\nMahnaz Badihian\nLisbit Bailey\nJudith Ayn Bernhard\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nBoadiba\nKristina Brown\nJames Cagney\nPauline Craig\nJohn Curl\nDiego De Leo\nAja Couchois Duncan\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nAgneta Falk\nMauro Fortissimo\nq.r. hand\nChristina Herrera\nFrancisco Hererra\nMartin Hickel\nJack Hirschman\nGenny Lim\nRosemary Manno\nSarah Menefee\nJorge Molino\nBarbara Paschke\nDottie Payne\nGregory Pond\nMaria Medina Serafin\nDavid Volpemdesta
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170715T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170715T210000
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CREATED:20170702T111433Z
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SUMMARY:David Brazil
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of David Brazil’s “Holy Ghost” new from City Light’s Spotlight poetry series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brazil/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170717T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170324T014120Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170714T043156Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-4/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T203000
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SUMMARY:Sharon Doubiago + Art Montecon
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharon-doubiago-art-montecon/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170619T113754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170701T122111Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Dr. Ajuan Mance
DESCRIPTION:It’s International Mandela Day!\nCome celebrate South Africa\, as well as 19th Century African-American Literature (“Before Harlem”) with Professor Ajuan Mance of Mills College. Also to be presented: “1001 Black Men” and “Gender Studies” series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-with-dr-ajuan-mance/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170604T231111Z
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SUMMARY:Janelle Brown w/ Vanessa Hua
DESCRIPTION:Essayist\, journalist\, and New York Times-bestselling author Janelle Brown shares her new novel\, Watch Me Disappear. Janelle will be in conversation with Vanessa Hua\, award-winning journalist and author of Deceit and Other Possibilities. \nThe disappearance of a beautiful\, charismatic mother leaves her family to piece together her secrets in this propulsive novel for fans of Big Little Lies–from the bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything.\n“Tantalizing and twisty . . . a spider’s web of a novel . . . You won’t be able to put it down.”–Megan Abbott\nWho you want people to be makes you blind to who they really are.\nIt’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found\, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot. Her husband and teenage daughter have been coping with Billie’s death the best they can: Jonathan drinks as he works on a loving memoir about his marriage; Olive grows remote\, from both her father and her friends at the all-girls school she attends.\nBut then Olive starts having strange visions of her mother\, still alive. Jonathan worries about Olive’s emotional stability\, until he starts unearthing secrets from Billie’s past that bring into question everything he thought he understood about his wife. Who was the woman he knew as Billie Flanagan?\nTogether\, Olive and Jonathan embark on a quest for the truth–about Billie\, but also about themselves\, learning\, in the process\, about all the ways that love can distort what we choose to see. Janelle Brown’s insights into the dynamics of intimate relationships will make you question the stories you tell yourself about the people you love\, while her nervy storytelling will keep you guessing until the very last page.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janelle-brown-with-vanessa-hua/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170709T123240Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit at The Armory Club
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit entertains at The Armory Club! Join us for an intimate evening of live music\, storytelling and poetry set to a live score. Featured readers include: Devin Copeland\, Allyson Darling\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\,Christine No\, Kimberly Reyes and musical guest Nick Jaina. \n$10 in advance\, $15 at the door. We strongly suggest buying advanced tickets. The venue only seats 30 people. \nNick Jaina (www.nickjaina.com) is a musician and writer from Portland\, Oregon. He has recorded many albums and composed music for ballet and film. His book Get It While You Can is an Oregon Book Award finalist.\nAdvanced tickets are suggested.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-at-the-armory-club/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T213000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\n\nNEXT: Tuesday July 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: Avotcja!\n\nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. Open Mic for poetry only – 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 in the front room.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-5/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170718T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170718T213000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Khong
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Khong discusses her debut novel\, Goodbye\, Vitamin. \n\nPraise for Rachel Khong \n“Incredibly poignant . . . Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you ― just like life . . . and heartbreak. And love.”―Miranda July \n\n“The novel Goodbye\,Vitamin builds with humor\, with gusto and with such deceptive lightness that the reader wonders\, at its devastating end\, how in the world the debut author Rachel Khong managed to pull it off so beautifully. The only possible answer is this\, that Khong is a magician\, and that we are lucky to fall under her spell at the beginning of her brilliant writing life.” ―Lauren Groff\, author of Fates and Furies \n\n“Half stand-up comic\, half a seismographer of the human heart\, Khong writes with vulnerability and penetrating insight\, and with a gentle humor that moves you not only to care for her characters\, but also to care more fervently for the people in your life.”―Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine \n\nAbout Goodbye\, Vitamin \nFreshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned\, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job\, leaves town and arrives at her parents’ home to find that situation more complicated than she’d realized. Her father\, a prominent history professor\, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth’s mother\, meanwhile\, is lucidly erratic. But as Ruth’s father’s condition intensifies\, the comedy in her situation takes hold\, gently transforming all her grief. \nTold in captivating glimpses and drawn from a deep well of insight\, humor\, and unexpected tenderness\, Goodbye\, Vitamin pilots through the loss\, love\, and absurdity of finding one’s footing in this life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-khong-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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170719T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170719T213000
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SUMMARY:Yanara Friedland + Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Yanara Friedland and Claire Marie Stancek discuss their new books from Noemi Press\, Uncountry: A Mythology and Mouths. \n\nPraise for Uncountry \n “Deep in the ethical vision of these prose pieces (each so dreamlike it seems the dream itself is dreaming) arrives the suggestion that the events of history—the heart-nulling wars\, the Holocaust\, the refugees broken by their own resistance; but also the personal fact\, the harm of being anyone—reach back into the ancient tales and refuse them their pre-ordained eternity.” Dan Beachy Quick \n\n“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door\,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling us “There is no original past to redeem: there is the void.” Uncountry is an invitation to that void\, and Friedland serves as dream guide through this blend of the personal\, political\, and stunningly poetic.” Lily Hoang \n  \nAbout Uncountry \nWinner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction Award. UNCOUNTRY: A MYTHOLOGY is a collection of narratives that aim to expand creative pathways into historical space\, particularly histories of migration and displacement. It is divided into four Histories: Ash\, Breath\, Hunger and Blood. The four Histories explore the gaps between “remembered” official history and the more unreliable spaces of private memory and unspoken unofficial history. The storylines re–contextualize and re–imagine content from mythic spaces\, such as German folktales and Eastern European Jewish lore\, historical narratives as well as anecdotes from oral family memory. UNCOUNTRY furthermore explores the notion of invisible landscapes; an accumulation of stories\, memories\, dreams and desires\, over–layering the visible place: a record of the human\, animal and geographical history that we move through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanara-friedland-claire-marie-stancek/
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:20170720T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T173000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Raina León
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nRaina León \nRaina J. León is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others.  She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-raina-leon/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170616T121311Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESILIENCE\, on Thursday July 20th\, 7-9 pm\, at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster Street\, Oakland\, will feature Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth)\, September Williams (Chasing Mercury)\, Fisayo Adeyeye (Cradles)\, Andrea Passwater\, and Alex Ivey. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resilience/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Roe w/ Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Andrew Roe reading from his new book\, the collection of stories Where You Live. He’ll be in conversation with our friend and yours Ethel Rohan. Please join us! \nThe California of Where You Live might have sun\, surf\, and sand\, but it’s more densely populated with cracking marriages\, accidental pregnancies\, and shitty jobs. Andrew Roe’s Californians face sharp points of change: Stay or go? Love or leave? Run or get stuck? Their choices\, like our own\, reveal life’s stark limitations and its wide-open vistas all at once. \nFull of lush prose and unforgettable imagery\, the stories in Where You Live shine an unforgiving yet shimmering light on longing\, loss\, and the everyday catastrophes of life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-roe-with-ethel-rohan/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170720T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T213000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170621T124927Z
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SUMMARY:Tamara Shopsin
DESCRIPTION:Tamara Shopsin discusses her new book from MCD\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal. \n\nPraise for Arbitrary Stupid Goal \n“Tamara Shopsin’s new memoir is hilarious. Just in like the West Village itself\, you zigzag along on a fun adventure never knowing who you are going to meet.  What a fun read!”—Amy Sedaris \n  \n“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world―when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.”―Miranda July  \n  \n“Tamara Shopsin’s memoir is a funny and absorbing portrait of the city in a grubbier\, less corporate incarnation. If you believe\, as she does—and I do—that New York is ‘matter-of-fact\, the best place on earth\,’ then read this book. And if you don’t believe that\, after you read this book\, you will.”—Roz Chast \n\nAbout Arbitrary Stupid Goal \nIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal\, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood\, a funky\, tight-knit small town in the big city\, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center of Tamara’s universe is Shopsin’s\, her family’s legendary greasy spoon\, aka The Store\, run by her inimitable dad\, Kenny a loquacious\, contrary\, huge-hearted man who\, aside from dishing up New York’s best egg salad on rye\, is Village sheriff\, philosopher\, and fixer all at once. All comers find a place at Shopsin’s table and feast on Kenny’s tall tales and trenchant advice along with the incomparable chili con carne. \n  \nFilled with clever illustrations and witty\, nostalgic photographs and graphics\, and told in a sly\, elliptical narrative that is both hilarious and endearing\, Arbitrary Stupid Goal is an offbeat memory-book mosaic about the secrets of living an unconventional life\, which is becoming a forgotten art.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tamara-shopsin/
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:20170721T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170721T213000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170621T125117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T125117Z
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SUMMARY:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell + Jacques Rancourt
DESCRIPTION:Mike Lala\, D.A. Powell and Jacques Rancourt read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Exit Theater \nWinner of the 2016 Colorado Prize for Poetry \nExit Theater casts classical elegy\, with dazzling formal innovation\, into a staggering work of contemporary\, political polyphony. Through monologues\, performance scripts\, and poems of exquisite prosody\, Mike Lala examines the human figure as subject and object\, enemy and ally in the context of a progressively defigured and hostile world. Catullus\, Shakespeare\, Cy Twombly\, and Lydia Delectorskaya echo across engagements with Israeli generals\, accused terrorists\, State Department employees\, nuclear scientists\, SaturdayNight Live actors\, war criminals\, malware\, and a host of mythic\, literary\, and half-extant spectral characters. Amid the cacophony\, Lala implicates every actor\, including himself\, in a web of shared culpability vis-a-vis consumerism\, representation\, speaking\, writing\, and making art against the backdrop of the endless\, open wars of a post Cold War\, post-2001 era. Exit Theater is a debut of and against its time\, a book about war\, art\, and what it means to make art in a time of war. \n  \nAbout Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys \nWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award \nD. A. Powell’s fifth book of poetry\, Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys\, explores the darker side of divisions and developments\, the interstitial spaces of boonies\, backstage\, bathhouse\, and bar. With witty banter\, emotional resolve\, and powerful lyricism\, this collection demonstrates Powell’s exhilarating range. \n  \nAbout Novena \nIn poems inspired by and sometimes borrowing their forms from the novena\, a nine-day Catholic prayer addressing and seeking intercession from the Virgin Mary\, Jacques Rancourt explores the complexities of faith\, desire\, beauty\, and justice. Novena is a collection that invites prayer not to symbols of dogmatic perfection but to those who are outcast or maligned\, LGBTQ people\, people in prison\, people who resist\, people who suffer and whose suffering has not been redeemed. In Novena\, the Virgin Mary is recast as a drag queen\, religious icons are merged with those who are abolished\, and spiritual isolation is scrutinized in a queer pastoral.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mike-lala-d-a-powell-jacques-rancourt/
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:20170722T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170722T000617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T000617Z
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SUMMARY:Wolfman @ The 2017 San Francisco Art Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:The 2017 SF Art Book Fair is an annual multi-day festival of artists’ publications. This event is FREE and OPEN to the public and will feature artists’ books\, art catalogs\, monographs\, periodicals\, zines\, printed ephemera\, and artists’ multiples. These works will be presented by over 100 independent publishers\, antiquarian dealers\, artists\, collectors\, and enthusiasts. Over the course of the weekend\, the fair will be complemented by a diverse range of talks\, discussions\, book launches\, on and off-site special projects\, exhibitions and signings. \nThe mission of the fair is to foster the unique art publishing community of the Bay Area while providing a platform for national and international publishers to exhibit their work to a new audience. \nThe SF Art Book Fair will be held at Minnesota Street Project. The project’s landmark location\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, houses 10 galleries\, a not-for-profit\, temporary exhibitions spaces\, media room\, and a recently opened restaurant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wolfman-the-2017-san-francisco-art-book-fair/
LOCATION:Minnesota Street Project\, 1275 Minnesota Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170722T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T220000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170621T005314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T005314Z
UID:27509-1500746400-1500760800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Adobe Bookstore's 28th Birthday Party!
DESCRIPTION:Come join art lovers\, book makers\, booksellers\, artists and neighbors for a celebration in a leftist\, cooperative\, used bookstore and gallery in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District. We’ll be celebrating our founder Andrew McKinley’s birthday\, our fourth anniversary in our space on 24th St.\, our 28th anniversary in the Mission\, and the beautiful work of booksellers and artists Kate Rosenberger and Justin Carder in the Backroom Gallery. Grab a burrito at Taqueria Vallarta\, a coffee at Philz\, and wander over to toast great people and great content in a long time Mission institution. See you soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adobe-bookstores-28th-birthday-party/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170702T111947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170702T111947Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic: Fiestas Fridas Edition
DESCRIPTION:All topics\, all styles\, all skill levels welcome! Come in at 2:30 to sign up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-fiestas-fridas-edition/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170702T110915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170703T072534Z
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SUMMARY:Fateme Banishoeib
DESCRIPTION:Adobe welcomes poet Fateme Banishoeib reading from her new book. \nThe Whisper  is a lyrical engagement with the intimacy and audacity of being human and it reminds of what it is to hide from the world\, and in doing so become hidden to our own selves. It speaks of leadership of self first before the leadership of others. \nFateme is a strategic leadership consultant. She defines herself many and multitudes.  She gives talks on leadership and human-centered business. Her book of poetry called The Whisper\,  charts the journey of leadership of self before the leadership of others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fateme-banishoeib/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170723T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170723T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170604T124006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T023058Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator: Chloe Veylit.\nReaders:  Brandon Brown\, Kazumi Chin\, Vanessa Flores\, Nick Johnson\, Joseph Lease\, Michelle Lin\, Carrie Murphy\, and Denise Newman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170724T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170724T210000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170709T115550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T115550Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #47
DESCRIPTION:OUR NEXT SHOW: Bay Area Generations Edition #47 on July 24\n\n\nBAY AREA GENERATIONS #47\nJuly in San Francisco\, California at Hotel Rex\n\nGuest Curator: Eileen Malone\nBay Area Generations Curators: TBD\nREADERS TBA\nMUSICAL GUEST TBA\n \nGet tickets \nBAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #47\nMonday\, July 24\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\n*On Street Parking * Full bar and refreshments * Walkable from Powell Street BART Station\n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook\nRSVP Today!\nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series features notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians in a paired reading show\, monthly. \nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati \nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-47/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170724T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170724T213000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170709T114953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T114953Z
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SUMMARY:Standing O Storytelling Graduate Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Standing O Storytelling Workshop Showcase \nJoin Standing O Storytelling’s brand new crop of storytellers as they step onstage to tell their own true stories – without notes – as part of our storytelling workshop graduation show. These brave tellers signed up a mere 6 weeks ago to learn the craft of story with Dixiem and have vowed to tell their tale onstage for you. \nThis is One Night Only and this intimate venue will sell out fast\, so buy your tickets in advance. \nTickets:\n$10 in advance (buy online)\n$15 at the door (if available) \nFeaturing Stories by: \n– Jeff Hanson\n \n– Gene Alston \n– Christina Olsen \n– Amy Butcher \n– Alan Marwill\n \n– Kristen Krauss \n– Gil Stancourt \n– Lokesh Rai \nHosted by Bawdy Storytelling /Bona Fide story maven Dixie De La Tou \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/standing-o-storytelling-graduate-showcase/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170503T234247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T234247Z
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SUMMARY:A Bunch of Bad Hombres: Immigrant Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:More details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-bunch-of-bad-hombres-immigrant-writers-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170622T012355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012355Z
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SUMMARY:Bob Anbian + Randy Fingland
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-anbian-randy-fingland/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260518T130449
CREATED:20170720T034356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T034356Z
UID:28003-1501007400-1501014600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Anita Cruz + Chris Carosi
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-cruz-chris-carosi/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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