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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Raina J. León
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She 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. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cedar Sigo\, Peter Burghardt\, Anne McGuire
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry with Cedar Sigo reading new works from his new books\, Peter Burghardt launches his new chapbook\, and Anne McGuire presents a mix of music and poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cedar-sigo-peter-burghardt-anne-mcguire/
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:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170822T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170822T203000
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SUMMARY:Laura Kyriazis + Zaid Shlah
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/laura-kyriazis-zaid-shlah/
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:20170822T190000
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SUMMARY:Timothy McSweeney's Grand 50th Issue Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Did you know McSweeney’s glorious 50th issue is due August 29th? That’s right\, FIFTY! We’ve pulled all the stops for this one\, including can’t-miss new work from writers who we’ve long published — Jonathan Lethem\, Lydia Davis\, Sherman Alexie\, Etgar Keret\, Sheila Heti\, Diane Williams\, Sarah Vowell\, John Hodgman\, Steven Millhauser (among many others) — and fantastic new writing from authors who we’ve long admired\, including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, Thomas McGuane\, Kevin Young\, and Carrie Brownstein. The book itself will be hardback with a dust jacket that folds into two different covers\, and folds entirely open to a poster by Tucker Nichols. Choose whatever cover fits your mood\, or tack it to the wall and reveal the gem hidden underneath. OKAY\, we’ve said enough\, now to why we’re really here…. \nIt’s a party! There will be drinks (by Fort Point Beer Company) and mingling and happy moments to share. If we figure out the sound system\, there may even be music. (Group meditation is cool\, though\, right?)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-mcsweeneys-grand-50th-issue-release-party/
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:Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Bindery as we welcome Brontez Purnell for the release of his novel Since I Laid My Burden Down. \nDeShawn lives a high\, creative\, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral\, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome\, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood\, DeShawn ponders family\, church\, and the men in his life\, prompting the question: Who deserves love? \nA raw\, funny\, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane\, Brontez Purnell’s debut novel explores how one man’s early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. \n— \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie for Performance/Music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170825T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170825T200000
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-3/
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:20170825T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170825T210000
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CREATED:20170815T115052Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Summer of Lust
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit is thrilled to be part of the “Summer of Lust: Comedy and Arts Festival\,” featuring the photography of Shelbie Dimond. The show will be hosted by Luna Malbroux with musical guest\, Emily Jane White. Featured writers include Amber Flame\, Kar A. Johnson\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, Ari Moskowitz\, Sarah Bethe Nelson\, Christine No alongside a live musical score by David Williams. \nAdvanced tickets strongly suggested: $15 in advance\, $20 at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-summer-of-lust-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170828T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170828T200000
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CREATED:20170825T231101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T231101Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket #10: BIRTH
DESCRIPTION:Our monthly reading series returns with a bevy of writers talking about BIRTH. \nIs it pregnancy? Metamorphosis? A staggering change in life? Well\, we’ll find out. \nOur readers: KAR A. Johnson\, Miah Jeffra\, Mike Hsu\, Jennifer Lewis and Shideh Etaat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-10-birth/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Noah B. Sanders":MAILTO:sanders.noah@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTSTAMP:20260617T140302
CREATED:20170718T040545Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone\, host of the WordParty poetry and jazz series and author of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food and love” will be reading from new work along with poet James Cagney\, reading from his latest. Hosted by Jack Hirschman and the North Beach Library. \nvisit: www.jenniferbarone.wordpress.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-and-james-cagney/
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:20170829T190000
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SUMMARY:The Singing Ship Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Noe Valley Author Rebecca Winterer discusses her debut novel\, The Singing Ship\, in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell Tuesday\, August 29\, 7 p.m. at Folio Books\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Pursell is the organizer of the North Bay reading series Why There Are Words. The Singing Ship\, “a novel about traversing boundaries\,” is set in Winterer’s native Australia. It won the Del Sol Press First Novel Prize. It is the story of two sisters who fight an unorthodox battle for truth after an attack in the Australian Outback. Free admission\, champagne\, and cake. An author signing follows the discussion. www.facebook.com/events/124981894791558
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-singing-ship-book-launch/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170829T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170829T213000
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SUMMARY:Daniel Magariel
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Magariel discusses his new book\, One of the Boys. \n\nPraise for One of the Boys \n“Brilliant\, urgent\, darkly funny\, heartbreaking—a tour de force with startling new things to say about class\, masculinity\, addiction\, and family.  Daniel Magariel is an exciting new presence in American writing.” (George Saunders\, author of Tenth of December and Lincoln in the Bardo) \n“Precise and coiled and urgent. Magariel is able–as few writers can–to say so much in so little. A propulsive and intense debut.” (Hanya Yanagihara\, author of A Little Life) \n“With a charismatic\, macho\, drug-addicted dad\, the young narrator pays an awful price to be One of the Boys in the riveting debut novel by Daniel Magariel. Move over Great Santini\, this patriarch is rendered with such artful love\, you’ll be haunted by his presence long after you close this graceful and heartbreaking book.” (Mary Karr\, author of Lit and The Liar’s Club) \n\nAbout One of the Boys \nThe three of them—a twelve-year-old boy\, his older brother\, their father—have won the war: the father’s term for his bitter divorce and custody battle. They leave their Kansas home and drive through the night to Albuquerque\, eager to begin again\, united by the thrilling possibility of carving out a new life together. The boys go to school\, join basketball teams\, make friends. Meanwhile their father works from home\, smoking cheap cigars to hide another smell. But soon the little missteps—the dead-eyed absentmindedness\, the late night noises\, the comings and goings of increasingly odd characters—become worrisome\, and the boys find themselves watching their father change\, grow erratic\, then dangerous. \n\nSet in the sublimely stark landscape of suburban New Mexico and a cramped apartment shut tight to the world\, One of the Boys conveys with propulsive prose and extraordinary compassion a young boy’s struggle to hold onto the pieces of his shattered family. Tender\, moving and beautiful\, Daniel Magariel’s masterful debut is a story of resilience and survival: two foxhole-weary brothers banding together to protect each other from the father they once trusted\, but no longer recognize. With the emotional core of A Little Life and the speed of We the Animals\, One of the Boys is among the most remarkable debut novels you’ll ever read.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-magariel/
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:20170830T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T200000
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SUMMARY:An Expensive Hoax: Environmental Writers Respond to Trump
DESCRIPTION:“Snowing in Texas and Louisiana\, record setting freezing temperatures throughout the country and beyond. Global warming is an expensive hoax!” —Donald J. Trump\, Jan. 29\, 2014  \nAnd with that tweet\, the would-be President of the United States declared war on the environment. Donald Trump has also opined that climate change was invented by the Chinese to hurt U.S. manufacturing\, tweeted that wind power is dangerous for our health\, deregulated mining waste disposal\, forced the EPA to delete mentions of global warming on its website\, and taken aim at national monuments\, with an eye toward stripping them of their protected status. \nAnd that’s only in the first six months of his presidency. Where will this lead? What can writers and activists do to stem the tide of anti-environmental actions?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-expensive-hoax-environmental-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:20170830T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170830T213000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Tallent
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Tallent discusses his new novel\, My Absolute Darling. \n\nPraise for My Absolute Darling \n“There are books we like well enough to recommend\, but there are a very few— To Kill a Mockingbird\, Catch-22\, The Things They Carried— that we remember forever. To my own shortlist I can now add My Absolute Darling\, by Gabriel Tallent. Fourteen-year-old Turtle Alveston is a brilliantly rendered creation\, and her father is the most terrifyingly believable human monster to inhabit the pages of a novel since Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter. This book is ugly\, beautiful\, horrifying\, and uplifting.” —Stephen King \n“I read My Absolute Darling in one sitting\, well past midnight\, despite an early-morning flight: the book is that impossible to put down. Gabriel Tallent depicts Turtle’s battle for her independence–body\, mind\, and soul–with brutal honesty and overwhelming tenderness. The result is a heartrending debut that will shock\, then shake\, then inspire you.” —Celeste Ng\, New York Times-bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You \n“It is unreal how vivid and compelling this book is. Turtle Alveston is one of the most vibrant characters I’ve come across in a long time\, and every scene in this astonishing novel packs so much tension\, so much insight\, such beautiful prose and such masterful handling of detail\, I simply could not stop reading.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment \n\nAbout My Absolute Darling \nTurtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen\, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks\, tide pools\, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds\, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive\, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother\, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father\, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone\, student or teacher\, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. \nThen Turtle meets Jacob\, a high-school boy who tells jokes\, lives in a big clean house\, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time\, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush\, Turtle starts to imagine escape\, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. The reader tracks Turtle’s escalating acts of physical and emotional courage\, and watches\, heart in throat\, as she struggles to become her own hero–and in the process\, becomes ours as well. \nShot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting\, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told\, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-tallent/
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:Genny Lim + Nellie Wong
DESCRIPTION:Genny Lim is the SFJAZZ poet laureate. She has performed in poetry and music collaborations with the late jazz legends Max Roach\, Herbie Lewis and Fred Ho\, and with Bay Area musicians John Santos\, Francis Wong and Jon Jang. She has also been featured at World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia and Italy. Her award-winning play Paper Angels aired on PBS’ American Playhouse in 1985 and was reprised in 2010 at San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square\, receiving the San Francisco Fringe Festival’s Best Site-Specific Award. Lim’s performance piece with drummer Marshall Trammell\, Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\, dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, premiered at Safe House this last April to sold-out houses and will be performed at next year’s SF Jazz Poetry Festival at the SFJazz Center. Lim is author of four poetry collections: Winter Place\, Child of War\, Paper Gods and Rebels and KRA!\, and she is co-author of the seminal Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. \nNellie Wong is the author of four books of poetry: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. Most recently she edited Talking Back: Voices of Color (Red Letter Press\, 2015)\, a collection of essays and interviews advancing the views of a multiracial\, intergenerational mix of 30 black\, Latina/o\, Indigenous\, Asian Pacific American\, Palestinian and LGBTQ community organizers. The first-born daughter of Chinese immigrants in Oakland\, Wong is active with Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party and has worked as a secretary and administrative assistant and affirmative action analyst. She was a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council for University Professional and Technical Employees. Wong has taught at Mills College and University of Minnesota. Wong has traveled with Alice Walker\, Tillie Olsen\, Paule Marshall and other delegates on the first U.S. Women Writers Tour to China\, and has read throughout the U.S. and in Australia and Cuba. Her work has been translated into Spanish\, Chinese\, French and Italian. She’s featured with Mitsuye Yamada in the documentary film\, Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets\, by Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-nellie-wong/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170831T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T213000
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SUMMARY:Michael Mazza
DESCRIPTION:Michael Mazza discusses his new novel\, That Crazy Perfect Someday. \nThe year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world’s wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky\, cars drive themselves\, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long\, UCSD marine biology grad\, champion surfer\, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave\, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame\, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike\, she’s intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father\, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower\, learns that his beloved supercarrier\, the USS Hillary Rodham Clinton\, is to be sunk\, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri’s personal life comes undone via social media\, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen\, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic\, brutal\, and at times funny\, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly\, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney\, Key West\, and Manila\, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope\, yearning and family bonds\, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mazza/
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:20170903T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170903T210000
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck (and KML!) present: A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Fairyland\, as we team up with the superstars at Killing My Lobster to bring you a Midsummer Night’s (Wet) Dream. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, seats usually sell out fast.Tickets on sale now. \nFeatured writers: Amanda Rosenberg\, Carla Lee\, Ken Grobe\, Rinee Shah\, Sam Bertken\, Ty & Gina Bardi \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-and-kml-present-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES: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-5/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T193000
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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s new story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. With language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives.\nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170905T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
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CREATED:20170505T001450Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder w/ Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Matthew Zapruder \n“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.”—The Boston Review \n\n“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.”—The New York Times \n\n“With dynamic\, logically complex sentences\, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.”—BOMB \n\nAbout Why Poetry \nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \n  \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry–and poetry alone–can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \n  \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, -possess the origin of all poems\, – without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \n  \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-w-natalie-baszile/
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:20170905T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170905T213000
DTSTAMP:20260617T140302
CREATED:20170822T071454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T071454Z
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the book release celebration of Unaccompanied by Salvadorean poet Javier Zamora\, and performance by Sophia Mabelitini\, with readings by Leticia Hernandez\, Javier Huerta\, Joseph Rios\, Solmaz Sharif\, Charif Shanahan\, and Monica Sok. \nLunada’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates and first-timers to shine under the lunar spotlight\, under the backdrop of Galería’s current exhibition Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us. Sign up at entrance / First 5 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted by Sandra Garcia Rivera\n \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM.\n$5.00 Admission:\n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his first poetry collection Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press September 2017. \nSophia Mabelitini is a queer androgynous photographer\, artist and musician\, born and raised in San Francisco\, CA.  At the age of 14\, Sophia was one of the original cast members of the San Francisco Paul Green School of Rock\, the program that inspired the movie School of Rock with Jack Black. Sophia has toured across the nation as a drummer\, vocalist and keyboard player and has made appearances in Singapore and Thailand. After completing their degree in Fine Art: Photography in Brooklyn\, New York\, Sophia’s love of travel brought them to teaching young students in Thailand on how to utilize technology with the arts. While Sophia is multifaceted in the arts\, music and holistic realms\, their true passion lies with the continual avenues of self-expression. Sophia will be relocating to the Portland Oregon area next month with their partner Marie Shier and dog\, Charlie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-2/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T200000
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CREATED:20170505T004147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T004147Z
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SUMMARY:Nancy Pearl
DESCRIPTION:George and Lizzie have radically different understandings of what love and marriage should be. George grew up in a warm and loving family—his father an orthodontist\, his mother a stay-at-home mom—while Lizzie grew up as the only child of two famous psychologists\, who viewed her more as an in-house experiment than a child to love. \nOver the course of their marriage\, nothing has changed—George is happy; Lizzie remains…unfulfilled. When a shameful secret from Lizzie’s past resurfaces\, she’ll need to face her fears in order to accept the true nature of the relationship she and George have built over a decade together. \nWith pitch-perfect prose and compassion and humor to spare\, George and Lizzie is an intimate story of new and past loves\, the scars of childhood\, and an imperfect marriage at its defining moments. \nNancy Pearl is known as “America’s Librarian.” She speaks about the pleasures of reading at library conferences\, to literacy organizations and community groups throughout the world and comments on books regularly on KUOW FM in Seattle\, as well as KWGS in Tulsa\, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Public Radio. Born and raised in Detroit\, she received her master’s degree in library science in 1967 from the University of Michigan. She also received an MA in history from Oklahoma State University in 1977. Among her many honors and awards are the 2011 Librarian of the Year Award from Library Journal; and the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. She also hosts a monthly television show\, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. She lives in Seattle with her husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-pearl/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T210000
DTSTAMP:20260617T140302
CREATED:20170817T050233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T050233Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Stephen King's IT
DESCRIPTION:Lucky you: Stephen King comes one month early\, thanks to 2017’s movie adaptation of the book with the shapeshifting title character that attacks children by appearing as Pennywise the clown. That’s right: It. \nLook forward to all the Stephen King staples you’ve come to expect from your humble Shipwreck crew: small town faux-quaintness\, childhood horrors\, and\, most importantly\, cocaine jokes. \nFeatured writers: July winner Ken Grobe\, Damian Ledbetter\, Lily Miller\, Jamie Real\, India Sabater\, and June winner Molly Sanchez. \n  \nTickets on sale now. $10 advance\, $12 door\, seating usually sells out fast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-stephen-kings-it/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170907T213000
DTSTAMP:20260617T140302
CREATED:20170621T232410Z
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SUMMARY:Robin Sloan Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Robin Sloan (bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore) celebrates the release of his new novel\, Sourdough. \n\nPraise for Robin Sloan \n“A real tour de force [and] a beautiful fable…The reader is swept along by Sloan’s enthusiasm.” ―George Saunders \n\n“A book about passion–for books\, for history\, for the future…There is nothing about Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore that I didn’t love.” ―Cory Doctorow \n\n“In a time when actual books are filling up tag-sale dollar boxes\, along with VHS tapes and old beepers\, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore reminds us that there is an intimate\, adventurous joy in the palpable papery things called novels\, and in the warm little secret societies we used to call ‘bookstores.’ Robin Sloan’s novel is delightfully funny\, provocative\, deft\, and even thrilling. And for reasons more than just nostalgia\, I could not stop turning these actual pages.” ―John Hodgman \n\nAbout Sourdough \nLois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity\, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night\, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then\, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop\, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture\, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive\, they tell her―feed it daily\, play it music\, and learn to bake with it. \n  \nLois is no baker\, but she could use a roommate\, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon\, not only is she eating her own homemade bread\, she’s providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer’s market\, and a whole new world opens up. \n  \nWhen Lois comes before the jury that decides who sells what at Bay Area markets\, she encounters a close-knit club with no appetite for new members. But then\, an alternative emerges: a secret market that aims to fuse food and technology. But who are these people\, exactly? \n  \nLeavened by the same infectious intelligence that made Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore such a sensation\, while taking on even more satisfying challenges\, Sourdough marks the triumphant return of a unique and beloved young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robin-sloan-book-launch/
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:20170909T170000
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CREATED:20170823T054444Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Parks 2017
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck kicks off the day with a poem and a curated series of youth readings\, followed by a set of performances organized by Vasileia; a submission-based literary mixtape\, curated through a blind selection process by Kelsey Schimmelman and Lisa Church; Quiet Lightning’s annual Neighborhood Heroes show (TBA soon); an interdisciplinary performance by LOAN; live music by Classical Revolution; live painting and an interactive art station by ArtSpan; children’s activities by Bread & Roses; a book swap; books for sale; delicious local food and drink by D’Maize Catering\, Stirm Wine Co.\, Lagunitas Brewing Co. and House Kombucha\, and (ok we can tell you one of our Heroes)\, Jason Bayani spinning some records! \nLiterary mixtape readings by: Gracia Mwamba\, Rich Baiocco\, Lisa Piazza\, Kimberly Gomes\, Raina J. Leòn\, Linda Michel-Cassidy\, Tomas Moniz\, Peter Kline\, William Vlach\, Lenore Weiss\, Abbie Jeanne Amadio\, Yael Hacohen\, and Jill Bronfman! \nSpecial thanks to Poetry in Parks’ sponsors: the San Francisco Arts Commission\, Zellerbach Family Foundation\, SOMArts Cultural Center\, and Booksmith. \nFull schedule + more info coming soon. \nRSVP not required but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2017/
LOCATION:Candlestick Point SRA\, 1150 Carroll Ave.\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94124\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T200000
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CREATED:20170817T035010Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Fall Reading
DESCRIPTION:Laleh Khadivi\n(A Good Country; The Walking; The Age of Orphans) \nLaleh Khadivi was born in Esfahan\, Iran. Her debut novel\, The Age of Orphans\, received the Whiting Award for Fiction\, the Barnes and Nobles Discover New Writers Award and an Emory Fiction Fellowship. Her debut documentary film 900 WOMEN aired on A&E and premiered at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She has worked as director\, producer and cinematographer of documentary films since 1999. Her fiction and non-fiction can be found in The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, VQR\, The Sun and other publications. She is the recipient of a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Grant and a 2016 Pushcart Prize for her story Wanderlust. \nLee Daniel Kravetz\n(Strange Contagion; Supersurvivors) \nLee Daniel Kravetz is the bestselling author of Supersurvivors (Harpercollins/Harper Wave). His work has been translated into ten languages. He has written for print and television\, including The New York Times\, Psychology Today\, The San Francisco Chronicle\,and PBS. He has been featured in Time Magazine\, theHarvard Business Review\, and Fast Company\, and is a founding board member of the Lit Camp Writers Conference. \nShanthi Sekaran\n(Lucky Boy; The Prayer Room)\nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nand more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-fall-reading-2/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170909T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170909T213000
DTSTAMP:20260617T140302
CREATED:20170816T010525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010707Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks September
DESCRIPTION:Daniel H. Wilson (The Clockwork Dynasty\, Robopocalypse)\nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir)\nMeredith May (I\, Who Did Not Die)\nCeleste Chan (Queer Rebels)\nNatasha Dennerstein (Triptych Caliform)\nJuba Kalamka (Oogabooga Under Fascism)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-september/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170910T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170910T200000
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CREATED:20170810T034240Z
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SUMMARY:Saporoso - Book Release Party + Reading
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Feather Press to celebrate the book release of the new\, second edition of “Saporoso – poems of Italian food & love” by Jennifer Barone and artist Lam Khong. Food\, wine\, music and tasty poems will be read by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Adrian Arias\, Norma Smith and more … \nSaporoso (Italian for “tasty”) – is the latest collection of poems by Jennifer Barone in collaboration with artist Lam Khong. Saporoso reads like a robust\, Italian dinner menu that explores the sensual nature of Italian culture\, mythology\, family\, sex and love through Italian food and its natural\, aphrodisiac qualities. As she states in her poem\, “it is no small thing to eat” – through making and sharing food\, we find the basic thread of our humanity\, connection to each other and ultimately an expression of love. \nThis newly updated\, Second Edition by Feather Press – includes three new poems\, an additional section of the author’s family recipes and features beautiful drawings by artist Lam Khong. Visit featherpress.org for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saporoso-book-release-party-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170911T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T200000
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CREATED:20170722T011207Z
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SUMMARY:Left Coast Writers: David Hathwell
DESCRIPTION:The French entre chien et loup describes moments at dusk when the eye\, no longer to be trusted\, can’t distinguish between a dog and a wolf. The poems in David Hathwell’s second collection take place on the threshold between light and darkness: between the familiar and the unknown\, the expected and the unforeseen\, safety and danger. Erica Dawson calls the poems “sharp and unsettling\,” and Between Dog and Wolf “an important book for times like these.” \nDavid Hathwell published Muses\, his debut collection\, in 2016\, to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines. A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia\, and a degree in music theory from Queens College of CUNY. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco and the San Francisco Choral Society.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-coast-writers-david-hathwell/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170911T200000
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CREATED:20170816T011100Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Teachers on Parade
DESCRIPTION:Two of San Francisco’s favorite English professors read from works that are relevant to today’s national climate. Come hear Daniel Curzon and Margo Perin at Dog Eared Books Castro.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-teachers-on-parade/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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