BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20160101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170929T222708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T003413Z UID:28960-1507831200-1507842000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Eisen-Martin\, Zamora\, + Vaz DESCRIPTION:Join Voz Sin Tinta in the month of October for an epic reading\, featuring three writers with their new books fresh off the presses. \nWe will have light refreshments\, drinks\, and an open mic before the featured readers. Maximum of 6 open mic slots will be available with a time limit of 4 minutes.\nBooks will be available for purchase! \nReaders:\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book\, someone’s dead already\, and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).\nIn 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017)\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.\nZamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Latino Studies department and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. He holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. The Planet of the Dead is his debut book. URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-eisen-martin-zamora-and-vaz/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171001T001755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T001755Z UID:28939-1507834800-1507838400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer book reading "From Personal Experience" DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Kate Carroll de Gutes joins local authors Lynne Barnes and Kate Jessica Raphael for a Perfectly Queer Rainbow Reading\, “From Personal Experience\,” Thu.\, Oct. 12\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, in San Francisco. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and thematic door prizes. A reception and book signing follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/1665334820143726 \nAll three authors write from personal experience: Barnes poetry\, de Gutes essays\, and Raphael novels. Here is more information about them and their writing. \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards and as a librarian in San Francisco’s public libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She lives with her beloved partner\, Carole\, who created the cover art for Lynne’s poetic memoir\, Falling Into Flowers\, 2017. \nKate Carroll de Gutes‘ book\, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book\, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life\, was released in August\, 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes grief\, the drama of perimenopause and dating\, riding bikes\, and the joys and challenges of authentic living. You can learn more at www.katecarrolldegutes.com. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer\, feminist\, queer activist\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service\, and spent over a month in Israeli prison because of her activism. She has also done international solidarity work in Bahrain and Iraq. She was awarded a Hedgebrook residency and elected Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade. She produces the weekly radio show Women’s Magazine on KPFA. The first novel in her Palestine mystery series\, Murder Under the Bridge\, won the Independent Publishers Book Award silver medal for mystery. Her second book\, Murder Under the Fig Tree\, was released in September\, 2017. URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-book-reading-from-personal-experience/ LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170816T010007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010007Z UID:28367-1507834800-1507842000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing. URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/ LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170824T132923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170825T005224Z UID:28545-1507917600-1507926600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Havarie/Collision DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Litquake and Unnamed Press\, the Center for the Art of Translation presents a screening of the German “slow-cinema” film Havarie followed by a conversation about the film with director Philip Scheffner and a reading by author Merle Kröger Collision\, a crime novel inspired by research for the film. \nCollision – The Book\nThe research for the film Havarie was starting point and inspiration for the novel of the same title\, written by Merle Kröger\, and translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt and Alexandra Roesch as Collision (Unnamed Press November 2017). The book received the Radio Bremen Crime Novel Award 2015 and the German Crime Novel Award 2016. According to Kröger\, “Reality is much more dramatic\, violent and incomprehensible than fiction. I decided to take the encounter between the ships as the cause to freeze time\, to create a 3-D model from this situation which I can observe from all perspectives. In this kind of model space I now step into each character’s role and try to let him or her think and act on the basis of their individual biographies.” \nHavarie – The Film\nOn September 14\, 2012 at 2:56pm\, the cruise liner “Adventure of the Seas” reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past\, present and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.\nDirector: Philip Scheffner\, Color\, 97 minutes\, 2015/16\, Germany URL:https://litseen.com/event/havariecollision/ LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T002216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014324Z UID:28821-1507921200-1507928400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Three Distinguished Poets DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry featuring Al Young\, Floyd Salas & Andrena Zawinski. \nAl Young’s many books include poetry collections\, memoirs\, and novels. His honors include Wallace Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships\, the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poetry Fellowship\, and the Richard Wright Award for Excellence in Literature. He has twice received the American Book Award. A two-time California Poet Laureate\, he is currently Distinguished Professor at California College of the Arts’ MFA In Writing program. alyoung.org \nFloyd Salas is the author of nine books: five novels\, three volumes of poetry and a memoir. His first novel\, Tattoo the Wicked Cross\, along with his memoir Buffalo Nickel\, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins 1994). He was 2002-2003 Regent’s Lecturer at University of California\, Berkeley\, staff writer for the NBC drama series\, Kingpin and the recipient of NEA\, California Arts Council\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and other fellowships and awards. His work is archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library\, UC Berkeley. floydsalas.com \nAndrena Zawinski’s latest poetry collection\, Landings\, is from Kelsay Books. Previous collections include: Something About(Blue Light Press)\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient\, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press)\, a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. She has also authored four chapbooks. Zawinski runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Her poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, Progressive Magazine\, Pacific Review\, Rattle\, Quarterly West\, Mantis\, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized. Awards include those for lyricism\, free verse narratives\, formal poetry\, spirituality\, and social concern. URL:https://litseen.com/event/three-distinguished-poets-al-young-floyd-salas-andrena-zawinski/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171013T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171007T015037Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015037Z UID:29054-1507921200-1507930200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines Publication Party DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by United Booksellers of San Francisco \nA Manic D Press publication party \nArtist evictions\, tech invasions―where will it end? These San Francisco stories wrest wisdom from chaos and channel boundless energy into artful narratives\, demonstrating that grace and persistence are as much a measure of the city’s legacy as a determination of its future. The new anthology Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuing legacy as home and beacon to the literary vanguard. Hosted by editor Denise Sullivan and contributor Tony Robles\, with readings from Golden Sun writers Dee Allen\, Patsy Creedy\, Kelly Dessaint\, John Goins\, Raluca Ioanid\, Michael Koch\, Alvin Orloff\, Shizue Seigel\, Don Skiles\, and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon with music by Victor Krummenacher and Alison Faith Levy. URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-publication-party/ LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T005721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014402Z UID:28862-1507993200-1508000400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me. \nJoin us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me\, a collection of broken-hearted lesbian love poems that depict the lovers we’ve been and the lovers we’ve had. We haven’t always been fair; they haven’t always been kind. Get ready for Arellano to rip off her máscara and peel yours away\, too. \nSaturday Octorber 14th. 5-7PM\n$5 suggested donations NOTAFLOF \nRSVP on Facebook URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release/ LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T004901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014452Z UID:28848-1508000400-1508004000@litseen.com SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime Deluge DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DELUGE\, in phase 1 of the San Francisco Lit Crawl on Saturday October 14th\, 5-6 pm at Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia Street\, San Francisco CA\, will feature Erika Mailman (The Murderer’s Maid)\, Rob Davidson (Spectators)\, Rebecca Winterer (The Singing Ship)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, and Rajshree Chauhan. MCd by Ransom Stephens (The 99% Solution). URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-deluge/ LOCATION:Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170929T221554Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015726Z UID:28951-1508000400-1508004000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Red Light Lit DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for Leg 1 of LitCrawl\, featuring Lara Coley\, Matthew Clark Davison \, Shideh Etaat\, Loria Mendoza\, Joshua Mohr\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Kimmer Pierce\, alongside a live musical score by David Williams. \nDoors open at 4:30pm. FREE show starts at 5pm (Sharp) URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-2/ LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171001T002213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002213Z UID:29028-1508000400-1508004000@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Arts Resistance: Lit Crawl Leg 1 DESCRIPTION:“Everything’s sadder than it was\nAll earthly gods must wither\nWithin your voice laments the universe\nAnd three by three\nNew beings surge.” — Apollinaire. \n“There are times when silence is a crime.”–Vasyl Stus. \nJanina Glasov’s powerful voice will stay with us forever even though she is not with us anymore. A brilliant writer and journalist\, Yanina Glasov passed away at 25 in 2016 but her legacy lives. Her full bio is coming. \nGinger Murray is the editor in chief of Whore! magazine\, a once columnist for the SF Weekly Exhibitionist and a performance storyteller. She has been published by the 16th street Mission press\, The Skinny\, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Find her on Medium.com.\n\nRoman Rimer is a standup comedian and a host/DJ at Mutiny Radio. Full bio is coming. \nSimon Rogghe grew up in Belgium and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in French Literature at U.C.Berkeleу. He is an author of Green Lions\, a collaborative book of poetry. Simon Rogghe is a poet and fiction writer. He was born in Philadelphia\, grew up in Belgium\, and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. A polyglot\, he speaks English\, French\, Dutch\, German and Italian. After traveling in the US and Europe\, competing at horse shows as a professional rider\, he found a home in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not working on his Ph.D. in French literature\, he also translates French surrealism as well as contemporary fiction. His work is published in over thirty literary journals. He is the co-author of Green Lions\, a book of poetry written in collaboration with Zarina Zabrisky (Numina Press 2014). \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nTerry Taplin holds several local and national slam poetry championships and final-stage performances spanning 2006–2012 across the youth and collegiate circuits. By occupation he is a scholar of Classical and Medieval/Renaissance Art\, Literature\, History and Philosophy. Terry Taplin’s performance work has appeared on stages ranging from The San Francisco Opera House and The Masonic Auditorium to The Apollo Theater in Harlem and Da Poetry Lounge in Hollywood New. He performed at Poetry Mission\, Lyrics and Dirges\, Under the Influence\, Beast Crawl and the 10th Berkeley Poetry Festival. He is the co-recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize for undergraduate poetry and the Newman Award for undergraduate writing. \nZarina Zabrisky is the author of the short story collections Iron\, A Cute Tombstone\, and Explosion (Epic Rites Press)\, and the novel We\, Monsters (Numina Press). Her work has been published in the US\, UK\, Canada\, Ireland\, Hong Kong\, Nepal and Mexico. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of a 2013 Acker Award. Zabrisky has focused on the independent journalism since November 9\, 2017. She is a contributor to Indivisible Movement\, Crossing Genres\, Mosaic and other publications on Medium\, where she is a suggested writer in Politics and was featured as a top writer in Psychology and History genres in 2017. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-arts-resistance-lit-crawl-leg-1/ LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ORGANIZER;CN="The Arts Resistance":MAILTO:zarinazabrisky@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171010T115408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T115408Z UID:29089-1508000400-1508009400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Litquake at The Green Arcade: Beyond Boundaries + BentBoyBooks DESCRIPTION:We will host two Litcrawl events with local writers who delve into topics obscure\, naughty and San Franciscan. \n\n\n\n\nPhase 1 (5-6 pm) Beyond Boundaries: Mapping the Narrative Mirabel Street Writers in the Mission invites you to board the omnibus. Nightingales and runaways lead you through emotional dives and dangerous districts. Featuring: David Jefferies\, Sari Kossowsky\, Cynthia Kreuz-Uhr\, Richard Schwarzenberger\, William Torphy Phase 2 (6.30-7.30 pm) BentBoyBooks BentBoyBooks\, home to experimental writing that transgresses expectations\, delights in sensation and awakens language anew\, presents innovative new work. Featuring: Drew Cushing\, Jan Johnson Drantell\, Pam Martin\, Ronald Palmer \n\n\n\nFor more details check out Litquake.org URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-at-the-green-arcade-beyond-boundaries-bentboybooks/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171015T203000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171010T115515Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T115515Z UID:29091-1508094000-1508099400@litseen.com SUMMARY:New Narrative Now: Eileen Myles + Dennis Cooper DESCRIPTION:Directly following the Communal Presence conference\, Friday–Sunday Oct 13–15 at UC Berkeley and aligned venues on both sides of the Bay\, we are very pleased to be hosting a duo reading by versatile and renowned writers Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles\, at McRoskey Mattress Co.’s 3rd floor loft space in San Francisco. Eileen Myles is a poet\, novelist\, performer and art journalist. Their twenty books include Afterglow (a dog memoir)\, a 2017 re-issue of the novel Cool for You\, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems\, and Chelsea Girls. Eileen is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant\, four Lambda Book Awards\, and the Shelley Prize from the PSA. In 2016\, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. Currently they teach at NYU and Naropa University and live in Marfa TX and New York. Dennis Cooper is the author of nine novels including the five-volume George Miles Cycle (1989–2000\, Grove Press)\, and The Marbled Swarm (2012\, Harper Perennial). His most recent books are three volumes of fiction composed of animated GIFs\, including the GIF novels Zac’s Freight Elevator (2016) and Zac’s Haunted House (2015)\, and the short GIF works collection Zac’s Control Panel (2015)\, all from Kiddiepunk Press. With the visual artist Zac Farley\, he has made two feature films\, Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015) and Permanent Green Light (forthcoming in 2018). Since 2004\, he has written the texts for the works of the French theater director Gisele Vienne. He lives in Paris and Los Angeles.\n\n \n$10 admission $5 low income\, free to SFSU students & Poetry Center members Hosted by McRoskey Mattress Co.\, co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, in conjunction with Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today www.communalpresence.com/ URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles-dennis-cooper/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171015T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171015T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170816T010211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010211Z UID:28369-1508094000-1508101200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Dennis Cooper + Eileen Myles DESCRIPTION:Versatile and renowned writers Dennis Cooper and Eileen Myles read from their work. Sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, in conjunction with the Communal Presence: New Narrative Writing Today conference. \nDennis Cooper is the author of nine novels including the five-volume George Miles Cycle(1989 – 2000\, Grove Press) and The Marbled Swarm (2012\, Harper Perennial). His most recent books are three volumes of fiction composed of animated GIFs\, including the novels Zac’s Freight Elevator (2016) and Zac’s Haunted House (2015)\, and the short-works collection Zac’s Control Panel (2015)\, all from Kiddiepunk Press. With visual artist Zac Farley\, Cooper has made two feature films\, Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015) and Permanent Green Light (2018). Since 2004\, he has written the texts for the works of the French theatre director Gisele Vienne. \nEileen Myles is a poet\, novelist\, performer and art journalist. Myles’ 20 books include Afterglow (a dog memoir)\, a 2017 reissue of the novel Cool for You\, I Must Be Living Twice/new and selected poems and Chelsea Girls. Myles is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers grant\, four Lambda Book Awards and the Shelley Prize from the Poetry Society of America. In 2016\, Myles received a Creative Capital grant and the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing. Myles teaches at New York University and Naropa University. URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-cooper-eileen-myles/ LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171016T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171016T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170324T014121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171013T063010Z UID:25627-1508180400-1508187600@litseen.com SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic DESCRIPTION: URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-7/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171016T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171016T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170621T001841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T001841Z UID:27486-1508182200-1508189400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Egan is the author of several novels and a short story collection. Her novel A Visit From the Goon Squad\, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Los Angeles Times book prize.  Also a journalist\, she has written frequently in the New York Times Magazine.  Manhattan Beach\, Egan’s first historical novel\, will be published in October 2017. Mesmerizing\, hauntingly beautiful\, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime\, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York\, it is a deft\, startling\, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men\, America and the world. URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-2/ LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170919T011059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T011059Z UID:28768-1508266800-1508270400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Queer Words: In Conversation w/ Lori Ostlund + Anne Raeff DESCRIPTION:SF award-winning authors Lori Ostlund & Anne Raeff discuss their literary works and recent travels through China with Wayne Goodman URL:https://litseen.com/event/queer-words-in-conversation-w-lori-ostlund-anne-raeff/ LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171017T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171017T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170621T233737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233737Z UID:27578-1508268600-1508275800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Daniel Handler w/ Matthew Zapruder DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses his new novel\, All the Dirty Parts\, with Matthew Zapruder. \n\nPraise for All the Dirty Parts \n“Take one sex-crazed teenage boy and take him seriously. Don’t make him the butt of an easy joke. Don’t make him the star of a humiliation comedy. Let him be an idiot\, a jerk\, a cad\, a hero. Make his desire into a rocket shooting him out of this too small life. Show his loneliness crash-landing him into pieces. It’s almost impossible to write tenderly and truthfully about such things. Somehow Handler has done it.” – Jenny Offill\, author of DEPT. OF SPECULATION \n\n“Sex\, desire\, love\, consent\, coercion\, sexual identity\, porn–Daniel Handler takes it all on in ALL THE DIRTY PARTS. Teenage Cole is simultaneously lovable and troubling\, but mostly he is real\, and his story not only compelling but a fantastic jumping off point for discussing ethical sexual behavior.” – Peggy Orenstein\, author of GIRLS & SEX \n\n“A spectacular portrait of teenage male desire. This beautifully concise novel\, literally composed of only the dirty parts\, had me blushing and laughing and squirming\, sometimes all at once. ALL THE DIRTY PARTS is so honest and eloquent about youthful yearning–the pent-up aggression\, the confusion\, the pure wonder–that it will surely be passed quietly around middle school locker rooms and back-alley libraries everywhere. A joyously lewd yet tender masterpiece.” – Isaac Fitzgerald\, Buzzfeed Books Editor \n\nAbout All the Dirty Parts \nCole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country\, he sketches\, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way\,” he says. “Draw a number line\, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is\, it’s all you think about\, and while you are drawing the line\, I am thinking about sex.” \n  \nCole fantasizes about whomever he’s looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls\, which is beginning to earn him a not-quite-savory reputation around school. This leaves him adrift with only his best friend for company\, and then something startling starts to happen between them that might be what he’s been after all this time-and then he meets Grisaille. \n  \nAll The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication\, where sex feels like love\, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison\, Daniel Handler gives us a tender\, brutal\, funny\, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. “There are love stories galore\,” Cole tells us\, “This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts.” URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-w-matthew-zapruder/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170722T011335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T011335Z UID:28103-1508349600-1508356800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Khary Lazarre-White DESCRIPTION:Passage tells the story of Warrior\, a young black man navigating the snowy winter streets of Harlem and Brooklyn in 1993. Warrior is surrounded by deep family love and a sustaining connection to his history\, bonds that arm him as he confronts the urban forces that surround him—both supernatural and human—including some that seek his very destruction. \nFor Warrior and his peers\, the reminders that they\, as black men\, aren’t meant to be fully free\, are everywhere. The high schools are filled with teachers who aren’t qualified and don’t care as much about their students’ welfare as that they pass the state exams. Getting from point A to point B usually means eluding violence\, and possibly death\, at the hands of the “blue soldiers” and your own brothers. Making it home means accepting that you may open the door to find that someone you love did not have the same good fortune. \nWarrior isn’t even safe in his own mind. He’s haunted by the spirits of ancestors and of the demons of the system of oppression. Though the story told in Passage takes place in 1993\, there is a striking parallel between Warrior’s experience and the experiences of black male youth today\, since nothing has really changed. Every memory in the novel is the memory of thousands of black families. Every conversation is a message both to those still in their youth and those who left their youth behind long ago. Passage is a novel for then and now. \nKhary Lazarre-White is a writer\, social justice advocate\, attorney\, and activist who has dedicated his life to the educational outcome and opportunities for young people of color at key life stages. His support base is far-reaching and diverse\, built over the past twenty-two years as co-founder and executive director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. He has received awards for his work\, including the Oprah Winfrey Angel Network Use Your Life Award\, the Ford Foundation Leadership for a Changing World Award\, awards from Black Girls Rock! and the Andrew Goodman Foundation\, and a Resident Fellowship Award to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Khary Lazarre-White is a highly influential presence among national policymakers and broadcast\, print\, and social media outlets. He has written for the Huffington Post\, NYU Press\, Nation Books\, and MSNBC.com\, and has edited three books\, The Brotherhood Speaks\, Voices of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol\, and Off the Subject. He lives in Harlem\, New York City. URL:https://litseen.com/event/khary-lazarre-white/ LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171018T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171018T210000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T002341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014558Z UID:28823-1508353200-1508360400@litseen.com SUMMARY:‘Huncke & Louis’ Film Screening w/ Laki Vazakas DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Laki Vazakas returns to the Beat Museum for a screening of his film Huncke & Louis\, shot in 1993\, and offering a tender\, candid glimpse into the lives of seminal (if under-acknowledged) Beat Generation writer Herbert Huncke\, and his longtime friend and companion Louis Cartwright. Tate Swindell will be joining Laki in a discussion of the film\, and Huncke’s life and work. URL:https://litseen.com/event/huncke-louis-film-screening-with-laki-vazakas/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170621T233918Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233918Z UID:27580-1508441400-1508448600@litseen.com SUMMARY:John Kaag DESCRIPTION:Paperback release for John Kaag’s new book\, American Philosophy. \n\nPraise for American Philosophy \n“Kaag’s accounts are accurate\, engaging and scrupulous. They show profound learning. They’re also genuinely entertaining\, recapturing lost details of thinkers’ personal lives without sensationalism. The further you go on in the book\, and the more of Kaag’s skillful miniatures you take in\, the deeper it becomes. You realize he is also making an unconventional argument for who was right\, and who was wrong\, in the classical tradition of American philosophy from about 1830 to 1930\, in Transcendentalism and Pragmatism and Idealism and beyond. It is an argument strikingly suited to our time . . . American Philosophy succeeds\, not as a textbook or survey\, but a spirited lover’s quarrel with the individualism and solipsism in our national thought.” ―Mark Greif\, The New York Times Book Review \n\n“John Kaag hits the sweet spot between intellectual history and personal memoir in this transcendently wonderful love song to philosophy . . . this is the most enthralling book of intellectual history I’ve read since David Edmonds’ and John Eidinow’s Wittgenstein’s Poker . . . With its lucid\, winning blend of autobiography\, biography\, and serious philosophical reflection\, American Philosophy provides a magnificently accessible introduction to fundamental ideas about freedom and what makes life significant. It’s an exhilarating read.” ―Heller McAlpin\, NPR \n\n“Is life worth living?” This is the age-old but forever timely question at the center of this remarkable and daring memoir. Part history of American philosophy\, part personal narrative\, American Philosophy: A Love Story\, takes us deeply into that ‘epic love affair with wisdom’ that is philosophy\, but it does so through the wonderfully intimate lens of the author himself\, a young and accomplished philosopher who has summoned the nerve to expose his flaws\, his failures\, his deepest doubts about it all\, a rare act of creative courage and generosity that leads us to where the heart of true philosophy lies: to a deep and abiding sense of wonder. This is an absolutely stellar memoir.” ―Andre Dubus III \n\nAbout American Philosophy \nJohn Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind\, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James\, the father of American philosophy and psychology\, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-kaag/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171019T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171019T223000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T001504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T001504Z UID:28811-1508443200-1508452200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Sexual Napalm DESCRIPTION:October brings Bawdy back to the Verdi Club with tales of unforgettable sexual chemistry. Got your own story to tell on our stage? Send a voice memo to dixie@bawdystorytelling.com. Check back for more info on this month’s San Francisco lineup! URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-sexual-napalm/ LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T160000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170911T231854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T231854Z UID:28730-1508590800-1508601600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bikes to Books 4-year Anniversary DESCRIPTION:Combining San Francisco history\, art\, literature\, cycling\, and urban exploration\, Bikes to Books began as an homage to the 1988 street-naming project spearheaded by City Lights founder and former San Francisco Poet Laureate\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, in which 12 San Francisco streets were renamed for famous artists and authors who had once made San Francisco their home. The resulting 7.1-mile tour is a diverting and unique way to celebrate both the literary and the adventurous spirit of San Francisco. Learn about the authors and neighborhoods that made San Francisco a known literary hub\, from South Park to North Beach\, Jack London to Jack Kerouac\, all from the comfort of your own bicycle seat!\n \nBring bikes with gears\, snacks\, and enthusiasm. \nIn honor of the authors who inspired our tour\, we invite participants to bring small excerpts or quote from their favorites to be read on location throughout the ride. \nThis is an urban ride of moderate difficulty\, recommended for riders 16 years of age and older. URL:https://litseen.com/event/bikes-to-books-4-year-anniversary/ LOCATION:Jack London Street\, Jack London Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ORGANIZER;CN="Bikes to Books":MAILTO:bikes2books@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170926T002530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014725Z UID:28825-1508590800-1508695200@litseen.com SUMMARY:10th Annual Beat Museum Poetry Festival DESCRIPTION:HOSTED BY TERRY ADAMS\, LEAH LUBIN & FRED DODSWORTH \nFor the 10th year running\, we feature the living poets\, poets laureate\, former Stegner Fellows\, local published poets\, as well as brilliant old and new-timers\, plus musicians and performance artists from all over the Bay Area (including Europe this year). Diverse voices will resonate with the all-embracing spirit of the original San Francisco Beat Movement in the aura of memorabilia downstairs in the Beat Museum. \nDray Zera and Umor Hague\, young performers from the UK will join us\, along with Clive Matson\, Caroline Goodwin\, Avotcja\, Q.R. Hand\, Peter Kline\, Jack Foley (with Sangye Land)\, Gwen O’Gara\, William Taylor\, Chris Vannoy (from San Diego)\, Kim Adonizio\, Brittany Perham\, Sarah Kobrinsky\, The Word Music Continuum\, and 20 or so others. URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-annual-beat-museum-poetry-festival/ LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T180000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171022T015213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T015213Z UID:29208-1508598000-1508608800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Crossing Borders: Remembering Francisco X. Alarcón DESCRIPTION:The International Center of the San Francisco Public Library\, in collaboration with Carayan Press\, present Cruzando Fronteras/Crossing Borders poetry series first presented at the Main Library back in 2011. This special edition\, We Remember You\, features various poets reading their work in either Spanish or English and selections from the poetry of Francisco X. Alarcón (1954-2016) as an homage to the poet.\nGuest Poets: Camincha\, Avotcja\, Betty Sánchez\, Edwin Lozada\, Christina Lloyd\, and others.\nFor more information visit: fronteras.carayanpress.com \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words. URL:https://litseen.com/event/crossing-borders-remembering-francisco-x-alarcon/ LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T220000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171007T014955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014955Z UID:29051-1508605200-1508623200@litseen.com SUMMARY:This is not a reality party - presented by Poets Reading the News DESCRIPTION:A party worthy of San Francisco’s vibrantly absurd art & literary scene! \nPoets Reading the News is celebrating its FIRST YEAR publishing journalism in verse! Join us for the literary party of the century\, hosted at the gorgeous Royal Towers in San Francisco’s North Beach\, featuring stunning views of the city. Art installations\, dance\, and poetic performance will bring the night to life. The theme of the evening is that this is NOT a reality party – and no one is required to be themselves\, or anyone else for that matter. \nIf so in the mood\, dress like yourself from ten years ago. \nThe fun will go beyond this one night- all sales from tickets and the bar will go towards publishing the first Poets Reading the News book! Pre-sales will be available\, as well. \nMore details:\nEach ticket comes with one free drink\nPerformances are from 7-8 pm\nCash & Venmo bar\nWheelchair accessible\nLimited street parking- taxis or public transportation encouraged\nAll money goes towards creating a book!\nEarly bird tickets are gonna fly off the shelves (get the pun?) so act fast \nPOETS READING THE NEWS LOVES YOU!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-not-a-reality-party-presented-by-poets-reading-the-news/ LOCATION:Royal Towers\, 1750 Taylor St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ORGANIZER;CN="Poets Reading the News":MAILTO:editors@poetsreadingthenews.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171021T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171021T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170816T010640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010640Z UID:28375-1508614200-1508621400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Strange Romance DESCRIPTION:NOTE: THIRD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH DUE TO LITQUAKE \nDevorah Major (Brown Glass Windows\, and then we became)\nMargaret Rhee (Radio Heart; or\, How Robots Fall Out of Love)\nThomas Centolella (Almost Human) URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-strange-romance/ LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T123000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171020T023215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023215Z UID:29123-1508670000-1508675400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poetry Festival DESCRIPTION:Come one and all and bring your friends\, partner and neighbors to a gathering in which favorite poems will be shared. Or you can come and simply listen and enjoy. The number of poems one can read will depend on the number of people attending who want to share their poetry. You may read one or several. The host Sally Love Saunders has a passion for poetry and gathering people around to write and read. Today we will simply read and listen. Hope to have you there. \nSally Love Saunders is a widely published Poet\, Poetry Therapist\, Lecturer\, Free-Lance Writer and Workshop Leader. Sally’s work has appeared in the New York Times\, Times International\, The London Times\, The Denver Post\, and among over three hundred other anthologies\, magazines and newspapers. She has received many prizes for her poetry. “A Johnny Appleseed Poet\,” Sally travels all over the country running workshops. It is her absolute conviction that “Everyone is a Poet!” Sally has developed fun techniques to help individuals to get in touch with their own unique creativity. URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-festival/ LOCATION:Cultural Integration Fellowship 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 2650 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, 94118 CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ORGANIZER;CN="Sally Love Saunders":MAILTO:slovesndrs@aol.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171020T023001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023001Z UID:29114-1508695200-1508700600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin DESCRIPTION:Poet Aaron Shurin will read from his new book Flowers & Sky: Two\n Talks which brings together two lectures and a suite of unpublished \npoems by one of our finest lyric poets. These intimate talks use \nShurin’s own work to illustrate the power and practice of image-\nmaking at the deepest level. \nShurin is the author of twelve books of poetry and prose\, most \nrecently The Skin of Meaning: Collected Literary Essays and Talks by\n University of Michigan Press (2016) and Citizen by City Light Books \n(2012). A master of the prose poem\, his career could be considered\n a love letter to San Francisco and the gay community there. URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171022T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171022T213000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20171022T025359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T025359Z UID:29249-1508700600-1508707800@litseen.com SUMMARY:CaConrad + Dara Wier DESCRIPTION:CaConrad and Dara Wier read from their new poetry collections from Wave Books\, While Standing in Line for Death and In the Still of the Night. \n\nAbout While Standing in Line for Death \nAfter his boyfriend Earth’s murder\, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression. This new book of 18 rituals and their resulting poems contains that success\, along with other political actions and exercises that testify to poetry’s ability to reconnect us and help put an end to our alienation from the planet. \n  \nAbout In the Still of the Night \n“That’s how one human leaves us” ends the first poem of Dara Wier’s startling new collection\, a surprisingly raw and fluid exploration of grief. Wier records her thoughts with clarity and immediacy\, showing us the unraveling and reconstruction of her world and consciousness after a significant loss. URL:https://litseen.com/event/caconrad-dara-wier/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171024T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171024T200000 DTSTAMP:20260415T143944 CREATED:20170722T011533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170722T011533Z UID:28105-1508868000-1508875200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Reza Farazmand DESCRIPTION:In the follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines\, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand returns with a new collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. Comics for a Strange World takes readers through time\, space\, and alternate realities\, reuniting fans with favorite characters and presenting even more ridiculous scenarios. A squirrel adapts to human society by purchasing a cell phone—and a gun. And an old man shares memories of the Internet with his granddaughter: “A vast network of millions of idiots. Together\, the idiots created endless shitty ideas. It was a true renaissance of shit.” In the world of Poorly Drawn Lines\, nothing is too weird or too outlandish for parody. \nFeaturing 50 percent brand-new content alongside some of the most popular comics of the past year\, Comics for a Strange World will be the perfect gift for your most sardonic friend or family member. \nReza Farazmand lives and draws in San Francisco. He started putting his comics on the Internet in college at pdlcomics.tumblr.com\, and was soon surprised to learn that this activity could make for an actual career. His work has since been featured in and around such places as television sets\, websites\, magazines\, and now this book. When he’s not writing or drawing\, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens. He is generally a pretty good guy. URL:https://litseen.com/event/reza-farazmand/ LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR