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SUMMARY:Townsend Walker
DESCRIPTION:In La Ronde a Park Avenue woman puts a price on her brutish husband’s head. Tells her Jersey girlfriend to ask her connected brother for help. The brother talks to his accountant and lover\, who talks to her other lover\, a movie producer who tells his glam wife back in L.A.\, who tells her personal trainer while getting a massage. The personal trainer mentions it to his boyfriend who is in money trouble. The boyfriend hypes the price on the husband’s head to get the loan shark off his back\, after the guy breaks his leg. The loan shark flies to New York to hire a hit man cheap. Is out-foxed by hit man’s hot sister. Back to the husband with a price on his head. \nTownsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries\, foreign places\, violence and strong women. A novella in noir\, La Ronde\, was published by Truth Serum Press in June 2015. Some seventy short stories have been published in literary journals and included in nine anthologies. He won first place in the SLO NightWriters contest\, second place in Our Storiescontest\, and two nominations for the PEN/O.Henry Award. Four stories were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood. He is currently developing a screenplay based on La Ronde and a series of linked stories based on original collage works of Beverly Mills.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/townsend-walker/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s First Solo Show in Five Years Comes to The Dryansky Gallery in San Francisco in the Form of an Exhibition & Book Launch \nPlease join us at The Dryansky Gallery for the opening reception of “Close Enough for the Angels” on Thursday\, May 19\, 2016\, from 7-9 pm! Artist Paul Madonna will be in attendance. \nHaving recently ended his popular and enduring “All Over Coffee” series after 12 years and a total of 726 strips and two books\, Madonna has completed “Close Enough for the Angels”\, an illustrated novel that looks toRaymond Chandler and Haruki Murakami as inspirations; the drawings in the book will not “illustrate” the text per-se\, but rather—influenced by 19th Century woodcut artist Utagawa Hiroshige—tell their part of the story in graphic terms in the style Madonna is well known for; the exhibit will consist of all new work\, including framed originals from the book\, text panels on the wall\, and a limited edition of fifty hand-bound copies of the book produced by the artist. \nClose Enough for the Angels—an exhibition of original drawings and limited edition book launch—opens May 19 from 7-9pm and runs through July 14 at The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street in San Francisco \nFor more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/close-enough-for-the-angels \nAbout Paul Madonna\nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the series “All Over Coffee” (San Francisco Chronicle 2004-2015)\, and the author of two books\, “All Over Coffee” (City Lights Bookstore 2007)\, and Everything is its own reward (City Lights 2011)\, which won the 2011 NCBR Recognition Award for Best Book. Paul’s work is about pairing elements: text and images; concept and craft; thought and beauty. Paul’s drawings and stories have appeared in numerous international books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. He is the Comics Editor for The Rumpus.net\, has taught drawing at the University of San Francisco\, and frequently lectures on creative practice\, even when not asked. He holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and was the first (ever!) Art Intern at MAD Magazine (1993-94)\, for which he proudly received no money. For more information visit: http://www.thedryansky.com/paul-madonna-bio
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna/
LOCATION:The Dryansky Gallery\, 2120 Union Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Richardson\, Tess Taylor + Kimberly Grey
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Grey\, Rachel Richardson\, and Tess Taylor read poems from their new collections. \n\nAbout Kimberly Grey’s The Opposite of Light: \n  \nA revealing scrutiny of contemporary marriage; winner of the 2015 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry.\nCan the notion of Romantic love withstand our endless postmodern moment? In these extraordinary poems\, Kimberly Grey explores our abiding need for neatness\, order\, and symmetry in matrimony\, considering our ideals for love and language in this digital age―its weightless\, distracting\, and inescapable pressures. She portrays the ways in which love reflects us back to ourselves: familiar but strange\, predetermined but new. There is “a drop of blue light\,” she writes. “But no high-tech way / to say you’re mine. No way to love / each other but with these ancient bodies.” \n  \n“In The Opposite of Light the rapid momentum of invention plays against extremities of feeling\, system meeting sensation: “We keep inventing/ newfangled ways to be in the world” gives way to “No way to love each other/ but with these ancient bodies.” These poems are serious in their play\, love poems in a world of interlocking technologies and language\, tender buttons with a lot to say.  — Ken Fields \n  \nAbout Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave: \n  \nIn Rachel Richardson’s second collection of poems\, she juxtaposes the grand quests of Ahab and Melville with the quotidian journeys of contemporary life. Hundred-Year Wave launches stories of marriage and motherhood over the currents of a nearly mythological ancestry: women and men who built their possessions out of iron and flour and whalebone and wool. If reaching back into the past is akin to plumbing a depth\, then Richardson exhibits the rare abilities of craft to build\, from our language\, vessels light enough to travel on that element\, but sturdy enough to weather the storms we are likely to find there. \n  \n“Rachel Richardson’s Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath. The poet knits each poem with such care—stitch by stitch\, loop by loop\, word after word into an effortless collection of quiet yet haunting music lush with texture and feeling. Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/in the vast expanse of lostness.'” –Victoria Chang \n  \nAbout Tess Taylor’s Work and Days: \n  \nIn 2010\, Tess Taylor was awarded the Amy Clampitt Fellowship. Her prize: A rent-free year in a cottage in the Berkshires\, where she could finish a first book. But Taylor—outside the city for the first time in nearly a decade\, and trying to conceive her first child—found herself alone. To break up her days\, she began to intern on a small farm\, planting leeks\, turning compost\, and weeding kale. In this calendric cycle of 28 poems\, Taylor describes the work of this year\, considering what attending to vegetables on a small field might achieve now. Against a backdrop of drone strikes\, “methamphetamine and global economic crisis\,” these poems embark on a rich exploration of season\, self\, food\, and place. Threading through the farm poets—Hesiod\, Virgil\, and John Clare—Taylor revisits the project of small scale farming at the troubled beginning of the 21st century. In poems full of bounty\, loss and the mysteries of the body\, Taylor offers a rich\, severe\, memorable meditation about what it means to try to connect our bodies and our time on earth. \n  \n“Our moment’s Georgic.” –Stephen Burt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-richardson-tess-taylor-kimberly-grey/
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:HELLA CLOSE: Stories of Black Queer Intimacy
DESCRIPTION:Featuring\nJoshua Merchant\nJoshua Merchant is a writer\, and native of East Oakland. Combining a masterful eye for detail\, startling vulnerability\, and unflinching courage\, Joshua explores queer issues\, black identity\, and the complexities of their intersection.\nIn 2011\, he won the title of Youth Speaks champion and represented the Bay Area at Brave New Voices. Later that year\, he became the Berkeley Slam’s youngest Individual World Poetry Slam (IWPS) representative. He helped represent the New Shit Show’s first slam team in 2014 at the National Poetry Slam and was third in the nation in 2015 with the Berkeley Slam team. His writing has brought him the honor and privilege to perform alongside artists and activists such as Chuck D\, MC Lyte\, Angela Davis\, Michael Poland\, and Saul Williams. He continues to perform and work with youth in his community and across the country. \nJezebel Delilah X\nJezebel Delilah X is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Princess Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a co-managing editor for Everyday Feminism; co-host of the queer/feminist Open Mic\, Culture Fuck; creative director of queer\, Black\, multi-disciplinary performance troupe\, Congregation of Liberation; and one of the founding members of Deviant Type Press. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer and Queer People Of Color theatre projects and cabarets\, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate Facebook statuses about romance. \nBrontez Purnell\nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 10 years. He is the author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Young Lovers and co-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-2000’s\, Purnell recently published his first novella Johnny Would You Love Me (If My Dick Were Bigger) with Rudos and Rubes and will publish a second novel\, Since I Laid My Body Down…\, with the Sister Spit imprint of City Lights Books. He has currently been awarded the Creative Work Fund to begin work on a documentary about the life of the late Black experimental Bay Area choreographer Ed Mock. \nRamona “Mona” Webb\nScholar practitioner\, teaching performance artist\, and activist Ramona “Mona” Webb serves as the executive director of the Eden LGBTQ Youth Foundation\, the artistic director of Project ABLE and Lyrical Minded415\, which is an art-based learning for equity seasonal course implemented in various San Francisco Bay Area school districts\, and is the director of The State of Black Bodies by The Pr3ss Play Poets. For nine years\, Mona has served as slammaster and host of San Francisco’s The City Poetry Slam. She served on the 2014 and 2015 host city committee that produced the National Poetry Slam Festival in Oakland. Mona is a conservatory-trained artist who writes and performs in “docu-ritual- drama theater” and is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Integral Studies and Chichester University in London\, pursuing dual MFA degrees in Theater Performance Making. How to Catch a Rapist in 12 Parts\, her current work in progress\, has appeared at Piano Fight Theater and Brava Theater. This performance theater piece chronicles Mona’s journey to seeking justice for her rape that took place 20 years ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hella-close-stories-of-black-queer-intimacy/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Death Match 61st Event
DESCRIPTION:Literary Death Match returns to SF and the Elbo Room for our record 61st event for a duel fundraising effort\, as proceeds from the show will support our all-new web show — LDM Book Report\, and Lit Camp is raffling off book-skewed prizes to raise money for scholarships to their annual writer’s conference. \nWhat is Literary Death Match? Four writers read their own work for five minutes or less\, and are then judged by three all-star judges. Two finalists are chosen to compete in the Literary Death Match finale\, a vaguely-literary game to decide the ultimate winner. \nWhat is LDM Book Report?: Watch now to find out! LDM Book Report (and don’t forget to subscribe!) \nJUDGES:\nLiterary Merit: TBA\nPerformance: Rebecca Garza-Bortman\, visual designer and singer for Happy Fangs \nIntangibles: Mark Morford\, award-winning columnist for SF Chronicle\, author of The Daring Spectacle\n \nREADERS: \n* Janis Cooke Newman\, author of A Master Plan for Rescue (SF Chronicle Best Book 2015)\, Lit Camp founder\n* Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, writer\, performer\, visual artist\, storyteller & Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry\n* Na’amen Tilahun\, author of The Root\, co-creator of podcast The Adventures of Yellow Peril + Magical Negro\n* Sarah Ladipo Manyika\, lit professor at SF State and author of Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \nHosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga \nWhere: Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia St.\, SF (map)\nWhen: Show at 7:15pm sharp; doors at 6:30pm; afterdrinks at 9\nCost: $7 preorder ($10 for preorder + 3 raffle tickets); $10 at the door \nRaffle Prizes Include: \n* 1-hour studio portrait sitting—perfect for your author photo—from Ian Tuttle Photography\n* $130 salon service from Peter Thomas Hair (to get ready for that author photo or your big reading)\n* 2-night stay at The Crash Pad in Jacksonville Oregon — The perfect writing retreat\n* 5 artisanal\, hand-rolled Cuban cigars — Time to fulfill that Hemingway fantasy\n* Bottle of Writer’s Tears whiskey\n* $50 VaycayHero gift certificate — Another great writing retreat\n* 4-issue\, monthly subscription to Journal of the Month—A surprise literary journal each month.\n* $50 gift card from Out of Print Clothing http://www.outofprintclothing.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-death-match-61st-event/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Kay\, Choo\, Lau\, Booth\, + Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Guy Gavriel Kay (Children of Earth and Sky)\nYangsze Choo (The Ghost Bride)\nDavid Lau (Virgil and the Mountain Cat)\nKwan Booth (Black Futurists Speak: An Anthology of New Black Writing)\nAriel Waldman (What’s It Like in Space?) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-kay-choo-lau-booth-waldman/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Arlene Biala + Aida Salazar
DESCRIPTION:LUNADA 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. \nSat. May 21 Arlene Biala and Aida Salazar
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arlene-biala-aida-salazar/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alicia Jo Rabins: Songs + Poems
DESCRIPTION:Portland-based writer and musician Alicia Jo Rabins weaves together poetry\, violin\, a loop pedal\, and feminist Bible scholarship to create performances of unique and captivating beauty. This special evening celebrates the launch of OPEN THE GROUND\, Alicia’s third album of songs about women in the Bible with her musical project Girls in Trouble\, as well as her poetry book DIVINITY SCHOOL\, winner of the 2015 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. The New York Times calls Alicia’s voice “gorgeous”; the San Francisco Chronicle calls DIVINITY SCHOOL “an astonishing find: a poetry page-turner\, both sexy and humble.” \nSuggested $5-10 donation at the door / no one turned away for lack of funds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-jo-rabins-songs-poems/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160523T180000
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SUMMARY:Chris McCormick: The Desert Boys
DESCRIPTION:Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner\, growing up\, coming out\, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California’s Mojave Desert. This series of powerful\, linked stories illuminates Daley’s world—the family\, friends\, and community that have both formed and constrained him\, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home\, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school’s Confederate mascot; Daley’s mother\, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself\, introspective and queer. Meanwhile\, in another desert on the other side of the world\, war threatens to fracture Daley’s most meaningful—and most fraught—connection to home\, his friendship with Robert Karinger. \nChris McCormick was raised in the Antelope Valley. He earned his B.A. at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan\, where he was the recipient of two Hopwood Awards. He lives in Ann Arbor\, Michigan
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-mccormick-the-desert-boys/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nick Bantock: The Pharos Gate
DESCRIPTION:A love story for the ages\, the tale of Griffin and Sabine is an international sensation that spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and continues to beguile readers 25 years after its original publication. Here to celebrate that anniversary is the final volume in Griffin and Sabine’s story—a book that can be enjoyed as a singular reading experience or in conjunction with the series as a whole. The Pharos Gate rejoices in the book as physical object\, weaving together word and image in beautifully illustrated postcards and removable letters that reveal a sensual and metaphysical romance\, one full of mystery and intrigue. \nNick Bantock\, born and raised in England\, now lives in Victoria\, British Columbia. An acclaimed writer and artist\, he is the author of books ranging from fiction to creative inspiration. His art is publicly and privately collected throughout the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nick-bantock-the-pharos-gate/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Epicenter: Adam Haslett w/ Jane Ciabattari
DESCRIPTION:“Adam Haslett’s second novel is about family\, love\, forgotten music\, and a despair that proves unbearable\, and has one of the most harrowing and sustained descriptions of a mind in obsessive turmoil and disrepair that I’ve ever read. Haslett is a marvelously lucid and intelligent writer.”—Joy Williams\, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Quick and the Dead \n“This is a book that tenderly and luminously deals with mental illness and with the life of the mind…hypnotic and haunting.”—Publishers Weekly\, starred\, boxed review \n“Imagine Me Gone is beautiful\, it’s terrifying\, it’s intimate and epic\, and it’s devastating—one of the great books about loss and mourning and the ineluctable laws that govern the political economy of families. I cannot describe the force or the depth of its accomplishment except to say that this magnificent work of art has overwhelmed me and broken my heart. It will take me a long time to come to terms with this novel.”—Tony Kushner \nLitquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Adam Haslett’s newest novel Imagine Me Gone. Haslett will be in conversation with Jane Ciabattari. Book sales and signing to follow. \nWhen Margaret’s fiancé\, John\, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London\, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition\, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son\, Michael\, a brilliant\, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades\, his younger siblings — the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec — struggle along with their mother to care for Michael’s increasingly troubled and precarious existence. \nTold in alternating points of view by all five members of the family\, this searing\, gut-wrenching\, and yet frequently hilarious novel brings alive with remarkable depth and poignancy the love of a mother for her children\, the often inescapable devotion siblings feel toward one another\, and the legacy of a father’s pain in the life of a family. \nWith his striking emotional precision and lively\, inventive language\, Adam Haslett has given us something rare: a novel with the power to change how we see the most important people in our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-epicenter-adam-haslett-w-jane-ciabattari/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Geoff Dyer + Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Geoff Dyer is the author of the novels Paris Trance\, The Search\, The Colour of Memory\, and Jeff in Venice\, Death in Varanasi; two collections of essays\, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and the genre-defying titles But Beautiful\,The Missing of the Somme\, Out of Sheer Rage\, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It\, and The Ongoing Moment. His book\, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition – a selection of essays from Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room – was awarded the 2011 National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism. His newest book is White Sands. \nPico Iyer was born in Oxford\, England in 1957\, to parents from India\, and educated at Eton\, Oxford and Harvard. Since 1986 he has been writing books and since 1992 he has been based in rural Japan with his longtime sweetheart\, while spending part of each year in a Benedictine hermitage in California. He is the author of numerous books including Video Night in Kathmandu\, The Lady and the Monk and The Global Soul\, The Man Within My Head an\,d The Art of Stillness. An essayist for Time since 1986\, he also publishes regularly inHarper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/geoff-dyer-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160526T180000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Dwight
DESCRIPTION:Recently widowed and adapting to the challenges of single motherhood\, Mercedes Bell is a paralegal at Crenshaw\, Slayne & McDonough when she meets Jack Soutane\, a dashing San Francisco lawyer who has recently begun leasing office space from the firm. It’s the 1980s. The crack epidemic\, homelessness\, and AIDS explode on the scene\, Jack’s law practice booms―and the Crenshaw firm eagerly shares his bounty. Meanwhile\, despite all the warning signs\, Mercedes falls under Jack’s spell. \nWhen calamity strikes and Jack succumbs to his own dark surprise\, Mercedes finds herself in a race to survive and to protect her daughter. In order to do so\, she must make sense of wildly inconsistent information―and face the truths that emerge. Compelling and full of suspense\, The Tolling of Mercedes Bell is a story about honesty in the face of deception\, courage in the pursuit of happiness\, and the unexpected places that quest can lead. \nJennifer Dwight has lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area’s legal community\, the setting for her upcoming suspense novel\, for more than 30 years. She has written and published several law practice-related nonfiction books\, many articles\, a sixty-segment fiction serial\, and numerous short stories. She received a B.A. in Religion from The Colorado College and has studied creative writing at U.C. Extension in Berkeley\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-dwight/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jose Gutierrez + Tracey Knapp
DESCRIPTION:Jose Gutierrez was born in Miami and raised in Panama. He’s been a poet of repute in San Francisco for a decade. We’re pleased to host a release reading of his new collection\, “A World Less Away.” Tracey Knapp\, whose book “Mouth” was published in 2015\, will open the reading.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-gutierrez-tracey-knapp/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160527T203000
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SUMMARY:Bookswap Goes Incognito w/ Carolina De Robertis
DESCRIPTION:Bookswap Goes Incognito: Join us for a swanky party with Carolina De Robertis  \n  \nWe’re celebrating the paperback release ofThe Gods of Tango\, an unflinching story about Leda\, a young woman in Buenos Aires in 1913 who must disguise herself as a man so she can play violin to survive. Living as Dante\, Leda discovers hidden compartments within herself\, and a whole world inside tango. \n  \nPunctuated by sex\, grief\, longing\, the ever-present danger of being found out\, and\, of course\, tango\, Leda’s journey to build a life from the scraps of Argentina is not to be missed. \n  \nJoin us for the paperback release party! Your ticket includes a copy of The Gods of Tango\, an open bar and snacks\, delicious cheese from the California Artisan Cheese Guild\, discounts\, hang time with Carolina De Robertis\, and other surprises. \n  \nBring a book about someone in disguise. You’ll swap your book for another reader’s fave\, and leave with (at least) two new-to-you books to devour. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance and they do sell out.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-goes-incognito-w-carolina-de-robertis/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160527T210000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160527T003658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T003658Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Waldman + Friends
DESCRIPTION:POETRY READING: ANNE WALDMAN +\nshort opening readings by Dean Kritikos\, Laura Hinton\, Lee Ann Brown\nCelebrating the wild hybrid nature of Anne Waldman’s poetry \nFREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC \nIn conjunction with the American Literature Conference\nHyatt Regency\, 5 Embarcadero\, Room TBA \nThere are few living American poets today who bring to our literary table the artistic achievement\, influence\, and multi-faceted artistic production of Anne Waldman. \nPoet\, multi-media performer\, scholar\, editor\, teacher\, playwright\, feminist\, anti-war activist\, and innovator-builder of two major U.S. poetry institutions—Waldman has long been and continues to be into her 70s one of our most important and cherished contemporary avant-garde poetry figures. She is a verbal-performance powerhouse who has worked on countless stages and within multiple forms of poetry-hybrid collaborations as she struggles to reinvent genres and poetry itself through various new-media forms. \nAuthor of over forty volumes of poetry\, as well as well as books and essays on poetry and art criticism\, Waldman is a legendary experimenter of the hybrid\, multi-dimensional possibilities of poetry in performance\, a poetics that works both on and off the page. She recently stated in an interview\,”I love the book as a vibrational object. I also like to get up and activate the text energetically with my voice.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-waldman-friends/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160529T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160529T163000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160507T012839Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160507T012839Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition: Special Biennial Event
DESCRIPTION:BAPC presents a special biennial poetry event \nat the SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY \nin the H/L Room\, Grove Street at Market. \nPlease enter the building on Grove Street. \nA poster just beyond the lobby will direct you to the meeting hall. \nPersons from the East Bay taking BART will get off at CIVIC CENTER station\, \n1/4 block from the Grove Street entrance to the library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-special-biennial-event/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160529T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160529T203000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160527T005025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T005025Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press All Stars
DESCRIPTION:FREE. Please RSVP via ticket link to help us track numbers:http://ticketf.ly/1q8bkLn \nCentral Market NOW and The SF Creative Writing Institute will present local writers reading their work in a free presentation of Nomadic Press All Stars. \nReadings by Cassandra Dallett\, Mk Chavez\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Nick Johnson\, and Soma Mei Sheng Frazier. Music by Azuah! Curated by Nomadic Press Executive Director and Founder\, J. K. Fowler. www.nomadicpress.org \nThis event is FREE and OPEN to the public. There will also be light refreshments and the opportunity to meet and talk with the performers. \nCentral Market NOW celebrates another year of supporting neighborhood art in partnership with the SF Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development\, the California Arts Council and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. This year CMN has also partnered with The SF Creative Writing Institute to bring the best of the Bay Area’s writers and poets to our neighborhood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-all-stars/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160602T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160602T223000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160527T005936Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T005936Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:$10 now or at the door.\nTickets available now: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1183879\nProceeds go to the future of YG2D.\n[If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact me.] \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-2/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160603T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160527T010939Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Grotto: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening as we showcase new work from the students of the famed San Francisco Grotto Writing Program. On consecutive Friday evenings fiction and nonfiction writers from Grotto classes will read their work—but only for 3 minutes each. Their instructors (Writers Grotto authors) will be enforcing the time limit! Join us for some wine\, fun\, and a lot of fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-grotto-3-minute-reads/
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:20160604T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160527T013046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160527T013046Z
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Join Cathy Arellano\, Korima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading for Cathy’s new book published by Korima Press “Salvation on Mission Street.” \nBook description:\nThe poetry and prose in the collection explore the deep love instilled in a people for themselves and their homeland even as they battle loss in San Francisco’s Mission District. \nAuthor Bio:\nJust another Mexican lesbian writer from San Francisco’s Mission District\, Cathy Arellano grew up here in the late 1960s to early 80s surrounded by cousins\, aunts\, uncles\, and grandparents on her mother’s side. In 1983\, new owners evicted her mother from the flat they were renting\, and she passed away less than a year later. Arellano returned and taught youth in the neighborhood. “Salvation’s” poems and stories are her creative offering to a people and place she loves. \nReader Bios:\nEstela de la Cruz is a poet who lives in San Francisco. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley. She has read at Galeria de la Raza’s Lunada\, Voz Sin Tinta\, Pan Dulce Poets\, Flor y Canto (2015)\, and other Bay Area venues. She was published in Konch Magazine\, and she self-published a small chapbook called For the Hell of it. Her primary objective is to create art. That’s it. \nIngrid Aleja García is a Guatemalan jack of all trades and participant of many sf carnavals\, a Loco Bloco alumni and lover of all arts. Ingrid grew up in SF´s mission district (when taxis wouldn´t dare to enter the neighborhood). She immigrated back to the homeland and worked as a social justice activist & artist. Now she is a proud Visual Designer graduate of CCSF and has taught youth to express themselves through the arts in Guatemala and in San Francisco. \nLeticia Hernández-Linares is a poet\, interdisciplinary artist\, educator\, and author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl (Tía Chucha Press\, 2015). A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission grantee\, she lives\, works\, and writes in the Mission District. There was a time when she did not know Norman Zelaya. \nAndrea Rodriguez: Born and raised in SF\, received her B.A. from UCLA and M.F.A. from USC. Intersecting her worlds of dance\, fitness\, design\, production and technology\, she is a Game Producer for the Zumba Fitness Video Game Franchise\, Music Video Director for the Loco Bloco “From the Bay to Bahia\,” video\, and Theatrical Director for the LA Cumbia Festival. Andrea’s mission is to inspire you to move using dance\, art\, music\, technology and cultura! \nLito Sandoval is President of the Latino Democratic Club. He was a member of the queer Latino comedy troupe Latin Hustle and appeared in the production Full Frontal Rudity. His work has also been seen in the anthology Virgins\, Guerrillas y Locas: Gay Latinos Writing About Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160604T200000
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CREATED:20160527T013954Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Reading: Eteraz\, Shreve\, Khong\, Bernard + Mouton
DESCRIPTION:featuring\nAli Eteraz\ncritically acclaimed memoirist\n(Children of Dust)\,\nand author of the novel Native Believer\n“Merciless\, intellectually lacerating\, and brutally funny\, Native Believer is not merely a Gonzo panorama of Muslim America–it’s one of the most incisive novels I’ve ever read on America itself. Here\, sex\, money\, and violence all stake their claims on treacherously shifting identities–and neither love nor god is an escape.”\n–Molly Crabapple\, author of Drawing Blood \nPorter Shreve\nNew York Times notable\nauthor\, teacher\, and essayist\n(The End of the Book\, When The White House Was Ours)\n“Porter Shreve’s The End of the Book is audacious\, affecting and elegiac\, a terrific novel about a century of American letters that hums with the artist’s deep desire to last.” — Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nRachel Khong\n(California Sunday\, The Believer)\nExecutive Editor of Lucky Peach\nand author of the forthcoming novel\nGoodbye\, Vitamin\n“Rachel Khong’s first novel sneaks up on you — just like life\, illness and heartbreak. And love. A million small\, human and often deeply funny details gather force to tell a tale that is ultimately incredibly poignant.”\n—Miranda July\, author of The First Bad Man \nSean Bernard\nauthor of Studies in the Hereafter\nand\nDesert Sonorous\,\nwinner of the 2014 Juniper Prize\n“This collection works by stealth\, like alien lights sweeping over a desert plain. All the wreckage of American life\, Tucson style\, is here on display: the margaritas and air-conditioning\, the lost believers caught in a life most theirs the moment before it slips from their palms. What Sean Bernard does so well\, with his versatile rhythmic style\, is to get you to care about such overheated characters\, all of them aliens.”―Edie Meidav\, Juniper Prize for Fiction judge and author of Lola\, California \nTommy Mouton\npoet\, fiction writer\n& Steinbeck Fellow\nauthor of What We Do Cherish \nFree Admission\nCash Bar Exotica\nDoors at 5.30\,\nReading at 6.00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/summer-reading-eteraz-shreve-khong-bernard-mouton/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160606T210000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T010125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T010125Z
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SUMMARY:León\, Peters\, Gelman\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Raina J. León\, PhD is a CantoMundo fellow\, a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and a member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate (2016). She has received numerous fellowships and residencies including the Macdowell Colony\, the Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review and an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California.\nhttp://www.rainaleon.com/poems.html \nAnnelyse Gelman is a California Arts Scholar\, the inaugural poet-in-residence at UCSD’s Brain Observatory\, and recipient of the 2013 Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize. Her work has appeared in Indiana Review\, the PEN Poetry Series\, and elsewhere\, and she is the author of the poetry collection Everyone I Love is a Stranger to Someone (2014)\, shortlisted for the Believer Poetry Award.\nwww.annelysegelman.com. \nArisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst. She’s a Cave Canem fellow and the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. A 2013-14 recipient of an Investing in Artist Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the northwest regional representative for Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color\, Arisa is a BFA faculty advisor at Goddard College. Forthcoming from Augury Books in October 2016 is her third full-length collection\, You’re the Most Beautiful Thing that Happened.\narisawhite.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/leon-peters-gelman-white/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160606T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160606T213000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T005614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T005614Z
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SUMMARY:Jensen Beach + Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION:Colin Winnette talks with Jensen Beach about his short story collection\, Swallowed by the Cold (Graywolf Press). \n\nPraise for Jensen Beach: \n\n“The shocking accident in the first story of Swallowed by the Cold centers this collection like a knife. Jensen Beach understands the deep uneasiness of men and women\, and in his stories lie surprises—mortal surprises\, among others—that are revealed in vivid episodes of quiet harm. This book held me fast.”—Ron Carlson \n\n“Jensen Beach is a master of linguistic restraint\, a writer whose precision\, empathy\, and relentless honesty form the spine of this extraordinary work of fiction. Taken individually\, these stories are works of art. It’s when the collection is viewed as a whole\, however\, that an intricate fictional latticework emerges. Each story here is the progenitor of the next\, each life therein a quiet catastrophe\, each character both victim and witness\, bound to every other character in those unknowable ways that bind us all together. This is not just a book\, but a world.”—Jack Livings\, author of The Dog \n\n“Swallowed by the Cold moved me enormously. Jensen Beach renders his characters in a way that is both unsettling and deeply complex\, and he imbues the Swedish landscape that surrounds them with a layered personality. This is a wonderful book—graceful and assured\, spare and compassionate—and Jensen Beach is a fiercely talented writer.”—Molly Antopol \n\n\nAbout Swallowed by the Cold: \n\nThe intricate\, interlocking stories of Jensen Beach’s extraordinarily poised story collection are set in a Swedish village on the Baltic Sea as well as in Stockholm over the course of two eventful years.\nIn “Swallowed by the Cold\,” people are besieged and haunted by disasters both personal and national: a fatal cycling accident\, a drowned mother\, a fire on a ferry\, a mysterious arson\, the assassination of the Swedish foreign minister\, and\, decades earlier\, the Soviet bombing of Stockholm. In these stories\, a drunken\, lonely woman is convinced that her new neighbor is the daughter of her dead lover; a one-armed tennis player and a motherless girl reckon with death amid a rainstorm; and happening upon a car crash\, a young woman is unaccountably drawn to the victim\, even as he slides into a coma and her marriage falls into jeopardy.\nAgain and again\, Beach’s protagonists find themselves unable to express their innermost feelings to those they are closest to\, but at the same time they are drawn to confide in strangers. In its confidence and subtle precision\, Beach’s prose evokes their reticence but is supple enough to reveal deeper passions and intense longing. Shot through with loss and the regret of missed opportunities\, “Swallowed by the Cold” is a searching and crystalline book by a startlingly talented young writer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jensen-beach-colin-winnette/
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:20160607T213000
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CREATED:20160528T010740Z
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SUMMARY:Russ Franklin w/ Adam Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Cosmic Hotel is Russ Franklin’s quirky yet touching novel that follows Sandeep Sanghavi\, the son of an Indian businesswoman and a famous eccentric astronomer named Van Ray. Sandeep lives a nomadic life staying at different hotels across America with his mother and her hotel consulting firm. After not seeing them for many years\, Van Ray shows up broke with his pregnant astronaut ex-wife in tow\, claiming to have discovered a big secret that will change their lives. Sandeep must juggle his father’s scientific search\, his mother’s failing business\, and the tension of having family all together for the first time in decades. \nRuss Franklin has degrees in math\, physics\, and literature\, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University\, as well as a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. His work has appeared in Oxford American\, Alaska Quarterly Review\,Greensboro Review and other publications. He currently teaches writing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. \nAdam Johnson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Orphan Master’s Son and the National Book Award winning short story collection Fortune Smiles . He teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His fiction has appeared in Esquire\, The Paris Review\, Harper’s\, Tin House\, Granta\, and Playboy\, as well as The Best American Short Stories. His other works include Emporium\, a short-story collection\, and the novel Parasites Like Us. He lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/russ-franklin-w-adam-johnson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160607T213000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T010933Z
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SUMMARY:Yaa Gyasi Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Yaa Gyasi reads from her highly touted debut novel\, Homegoing\, at this book launch party. \n\nPraise for Homegoing: \n\n“A marvelous novel.” — Publishers Weekly *starred review* \n\n“Gyasi’s characters are so fully realized\, so elegantly carved—very often I found myself longing to hear more. Craft is essential given the task Gyasi sets for herself—drawing not just a lineage of two sisters\, but two related peoples. Gyasi is deeply concerned with the sin of selling humans on Africans\, not Europeans. But she does not scold. She does not excuse. And she does not romanticize. The black Americans she follows are not overly virtuous victims.  Sin comes in all forms\, from selling people to abandoning children.  I think I needed to read a book like this to remember what is possible.  I think I needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epic task. Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates\, National Book Award winning author of Between the World and Me \n\n“Homegoing is a remarkable feat—a novel at once epic and intimate\, capturing the moral weight of history as it bears down on individual struggles\, hopes\, and fears. A tremendous debut.” —Phil Klay\, National Book Award winning author of Redeployment \n\n\nAbout Homegoing: \n\nA riveting\, kaleidoscopic debut novel and the beginning of a major career: a novel about race\, history\, ancestry\, love\, and time that traces the descendants of two sisters torn apart in eighteenth-century Africa across three hundred years in Ghana and America. \n  \nTwo half sisters\, Effia and Esi\, unknown to each other\, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle\, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi\, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America\, will be sold into slavery. Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America\, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem\, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures–with outstanding economy and force– the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yaa-gyasi-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:20160608T220000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T011610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T011610Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: NAKED
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all had that nightmare of finding ourselves naked at school. Being naked can be as powerful as it is vulnerable. How do you react when you’re laid bare for all to see? Embrace it\, shirk from it\, or own it? At this month’s Fireside\, six storytellers will explore being — literally or figuratively — naked. (Note: our event is not clothing optional\, thank you.) \nSTORYTELLERS: \nRon Jones\nMore TBD \n********** \nFireside is a monthly storytelling series\, taking place the second Wednesday of the month in San Francisco. Come watch six storytellers tell 10-minute true stories on a particular theme\, without the aid of notes or a script\, keeping the art of storytelling alive.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-naked/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160608T220000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T012036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T012036Z
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SUMMARY:Witching Hour: An Intimate Benefit for Radar Productions
DESCRIPTION:Purchase tickets:\nhttp://witchinghour.brownpapertickets.com/\n8pm – This event immediately follows Radar Superstar (to be held at 6pm in the Koret Auditorium)\nPerformances by: Maya Songbird and vainhein. Tarot by: Miss Ben McCoy. There WILL BE PUPUSAS. \nThe Witching Hour is an intimate benefit held at the Luggage Store Gallery immediately following ▽▽ RADAR Superstar ▽▽. \nJOIN US!\nHave your tarot read by the talented MISS BEN MCCOY\, sip wine and mingle with superstar artists – GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PENA and JESS BALITRONICA from La Pocha Nostra\, XANDRA IBARRA (La Chica Boom)\, AYA DE LEON\, CHINAKA HODGE and special guest vainhein – while being enchanted by the sounds of Oakland-based chanteuse Maya Songbird. \nAll proceeds go to the continued efforts of RADAR Productions to offer free and low cost literary events of substance that center the lived experiences of queers in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witching-hour-an-intimate-benefit-for-radar-productions/
LOCATION:The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160611T213000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160602T014516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160602T014516Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Dhompa\, Gross\, Valdivia\, + Morton
DESCRIPTION:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (In the Absent Everyday)\nAnne Gross (The Conjured Woman)\nJuan Alvarado Valdivia (¡Cancerlandia!)\nJim Morton (Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films)\nGUEST HOST: Bucky Sinister (Black Hole) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-dhompa-gross-valdivia-morton/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160612T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160612T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T061842
CREATED:20160528T013734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160528T013734Z
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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