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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
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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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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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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
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
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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:20260511T045041
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170720T210000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170721T213000
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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
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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170722T220000
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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
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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:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170702T110915Z
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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
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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:20260511T045041
CREATED: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
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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
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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:20260511T045041
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:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170720T034356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T034356Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170725T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170725T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170619T134555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T012320Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Richmond
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is elated to host a launch party for the one and only Michelle Richmond\, reading from her new novel The Marriage Pact. Join us! \nNewlyweds Alice and Jake are a picture-perfect couple. Alice\, once a singer in a well-known rock band\, is now a successful lawyer. Jake is a partner in an up-and-coming psychology practice. Their life together holds endless possibilities. After receiving an enticing wedding gift from one of Alice’s prominent clients\, they decide to join an exclusive and mysterious group known only as The Pact. \nThe goal of The Pact seems simple: to keep marriages happy and intact. And most of its rules make sense. Always answer the phone when your spouse calls. Exchange thoughtful gifts monthly. Plan a trip together once per quarter. . . .  \nNever mention The Pact to anyone.\n            \nAlice and Jake are initially seduced by the glamorous parties\, the sense of community\, their widening social circle of like-minded couples. \nAnd then one of them breaks the rules. \nThe young lovers are about to discover that for adherents to The Pact\, membership\, like marriage\, is for life. And The Pact will go to any lengths to enforce that rule. \nFor Jake and Alice\, the marriage of their dreams is about to become their worst nightmare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-richmond/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170619T134737Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T012356Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts one of our absolute favorite writers\, Andrew Sean Greer\, for the launch of his new novel Less. Please join us! \nArthur Less\, a mid-list novelist\, is approaching his 50th birthday\, and he needs to grow up. But first he needs to get out: Arthur’s much younger\, exceedingly beautiful ex-boyfriend is getting married\, and the last thing Arthur wants to do is attend the wedding. So he accepts every half-baked literary invitation that’s recently come his way\, slaps together his frequent flier miles\, leaves San Francisco\, and takes a trip around the world. \nHis travels take him to Mexico\, Spain\, Italy\, Germany\, Morocco\, Vietnam\, India\, and Japan. Along the way\, he finds love\, despair\, adventure\, and plenty of misadventure\, is forced to come to terms with the fleeting of youth and the realities of life—in often quite hilarious ways.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-sean-greer/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170726T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170726T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170621T125310Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T125310Z
UID:27551-1501097400-1501104600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Samantha Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Samantha Hunt discusses her new story collection\, The Dark Dark with Clara Sankey. \nPraise for Samantha Hunt \n“Samantha Hunt is astonishing. Her every sentence electrifies. Her characters demand our closest attention. Her new book contains everything that I want in a novel. If I could long-distance mesmerize you\, dear reader\, into picking up this book and buying it and reading it at once\, believe me: I would.”—Kelly Link\, author of Get in Trouble\, Magic for Beginners \n“I’m speechless. Mr. Splitfoot is so inventive\, so new; I haven’t read anything like it in years. On the surface it’s about false spirituality and the most demented road trip across New York State ever attempted\, but it’s also about the horrible ties that bind us and the small acts of redemption that make life almost okay. On top of that\, it’s a thrilling page-turner. I couldn’t stop reading it.”—Gary Shteyngart\, author of Little Failure\, Super Sad True Love Story \n“Mr. Splitfoot is lyrical\, echoing\, deeply strange\, with a quality of sustained hallucination. It is the best book on communicating with the dead since William Lindsay Gresham’s Nightmare Alley\, but it swaps out that novel’s cynicism for a more life-affirming sense of uncertainty.”—Luc Sante\, author of Low Life \n\nAbout The Dark Dark \nFrom the acclaimed author of Mr. Splitfoot\, Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories\, The Dark Dark\, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge―girls turning into women\, women turning into deer\, people doubling or becoming ghosts\, and more \n  \nStrange things happen all around us all the time\, but is it best to acknowledge or to turn away from moments when the weird pokes its way into our ordinary lives? \n  \nIn these marvelously inventive stories\, Samantha Hunt imagines numerous ways in which lives might be altered by the otherworldly. An FBI agent falls in love with a robot built for a suicide mission. A young woman unintentionally cheats on her husband when she is transformed\, nightly\, into a deer. Two strangers become lovers and find themselves somehow responsible for the resurrection of a dog. A woman tries to start her life anew after the loss of a child but cannot help riddling that new life with lies. Thirteen pregnant teenagers develop a strange relationship with the Founding Fathers of American history. A lonely woman’s fertility treatments become the stuff of science fiction. \n  \nMagic intrudes. Technology betrays and disappoints. Infidelities lead us beyond the usual conflict. Our bodies change\, reproduce\, decay\, and surprise. With her characteristic unguarded gaze and offbeat humor\, Hunt has conjured stories that urge an understanding of youth and mortality\, magnification and loss\, and hold out the hope that we can know one another more deeply or at least stand side by side to observe the mystery of the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samantha-hunt/
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:20170727T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170727T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170619T113408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113408Z
UID:27324-1501174800-1501176600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Indigo Moor
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. \nIndigo Moor \nCurrent Poet Laureate of Sacramento\, Indigo Moor is the author of three books of poetry: Tap-Root (Main Street Rag\, 2006)\, Through the Stonecutter’s Window (Northwestern University Press\, 2010)\, and In the Room of Thirsts & Hungers (Main Street Rag\, July 2017). His stage play\, Live! at the Excelsior\, was a finalist for the Images Theatre Playwright Award and has been optioned for a full-length film. Indigo is the Artist in Residence for 916 ink and on the advisory board for the Sacramento Poetry Center.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-indigo-moor/
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:20170727T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170727T200000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170720T032529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T032529Z
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SUMMARY:My Heart Hemmed In Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:Join us for happy hour at the CAT and Two Lines offices to celebrate the release of My Heart Hemmed In\, our third book by Marie NDiaye. Stop by after work for a drink and a snack and hear readings from the book by Two Lines staff. \nTranslated from the French by Jordan Stump\, My Heart Hemmed In tells the story of Nadia and her husband Ange\, two middle-aged schoolteachers who slowly realize they’re despised by everyone in their community. When a wound mysteriously appears on Ange’s stomach\, Nadia desperately tries to save her husband’s life. This leads Nadia on an adventure that propels her out of her small world and into a reality that is deeply troubling and at the same time all-too-familiar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-heart-hemmed-in-happy-hour/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170727T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170727T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170621T125457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T125457Z
UID:27553-1501183800-1501191000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Ian Stansel
DESCRIPTION:Ian Stansel discusses his new novel\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo. \n\nPraise for The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo \n“A taut and powerful modern Western. I picked up The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo and did not put it down again until I had read the last\, moving sentence. Follow Lena on horseback as she pursues a killer through the wilds of Northern California\, and in the end you will find yourself someplace unexpected. One of the most compelling novels I’ve read in a long time.”—Eowyn Ivey\, author of the To the Bright Edge of the World and the Pulitzer finalist The Snow Child \n\n“Although set in the twentieth-first century\, this fine novel has a mythic power and resonance. Ian Stansel is a gifted young writer who starts his novel at a gallop and never lets up until the story’s final reckoning.”—Ron Rash\, author of Serena\, Above the Waterfall \n\n“Ian Stansel’s debut novel is so rich in evocative detail and gripping incident that I thought at several moments I was riding fast next to its sharply drawn characters across rough ground.  Like All the Pretty Horses before it\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo inks an indelible portrait of a hard\, gorgeous world that is both timeless and in deep\, momentous flux. I’m grateful to Mr. Stansel for having written it.”—Laird Hunt\, author of Neverhome and The Evening Road \n\nAbout The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo \nA contemporary Western debut about two brothers locked in a deadly feud\, a woman on horseback trailing her husband’s killer\, and the inescapable ties of home and family\nWhen Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s murder\, he is soon followed by both the police and his brother’s wife\, Lena\, who is intent on exacting revenge. She reluctantly lets her trusted stable assistant join her in a journey across the wilds of Northern California in the hopes of catching Silas for one final showdown. Stansel follows the chase and shares the story of the brothers’ rise from hardscrabble childhood to their reign as the region’s preeminent horse trainers\, tracking the tense sibling rivalry that ultimately leads to the elder’s death. \n  \nA fully realized tale that challenges notions of the modern West\, The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo will satisfy fans of Kent Haruf\, Larry McMurtry\, Molly Gloss\, and Smith Henderson\, and establish Stansel as a new voice in this grand tradition.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-stansel/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170728T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170728T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170624T100621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T104853Z
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SUMMARY:Guqin\, Wong\, + Hsu
DESCRIPTION:An Elegant Tea Gathering \nGuqin is a scholarly Chinese musical instrument that traditionally accompanied poetry. In ancient China poets and musicians would often come together for an “elegant gathering.” Of course fine tea will be served in such an occasion. \nDavid Wong (guqin master and director of Tranquil Resonance Studio) together with Clara Hsu\, poet\, will present an evening of elegant gathering featuring guqin music set to the poetry and translations of William Blake and Lao-Tzu’s Tao-te Ching. Alan Yip and George Hokkanen will perform on the erhu (two-stringed fiddle)\, guzheng and guqin (both zithers) and Gongfu tea will be served by Kenneth Cannata. \nClara Hsu’s translation of Lao-Tzu’s Tao-te Ching and Infusions will be available for sale. An exhibition of Chinese brush paintings and calligraphy may be viewed at the adjoining Galeria Clarion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/guqin-wong-hsu/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Clarion Music Performing Arts Center":MAILTO:info@clarionmusic.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170729T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170729T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170721T231322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T231322Z
UID:28041-1501336800-1501347600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Cipactli release party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of a new volume of Cipactli\, SF State’s Latinx studies literary journal! Readers TBA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cipactli-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170729T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170729T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045041
CREATED:20170709T115851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170709T115851Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poetry Marathon
DESCRIPTION:* Saturday\, July 29\n____ Guest curators: Simon Craft & Raul Ruiz ____\nReaders:  Jennifer Cheng  *  Lorraine Lupo  *  Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nand more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poetry-marathon-3/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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