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SUMMARY:REBECCA TRAISTER In Conversation with Lara Bazelon
DESCRIPTION:REBECCA TRAISTER\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nMonday\, February 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRebecca Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. In 2018\, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversations. But long before Pantsuit Nation\, the Women’s March\, and the #MeToo movement\, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic\, but politically problematic. Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel — from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their building after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist\, she has written about women in politics\, media\, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation\, The New York Observer\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vogue\, Glamour\, and Marie Claire. Her other books include All The Single Ladies and Big Girls Don’t Cry. \nLara Bazelon is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Previously\, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-traister-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales this month will benefit the library of Thurgood Marshall High School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-2/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A William S Burroughs Birthday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:with Steven Taylor\, Peter Hale\, Peter Carlaftes\, and V Vale \ncelebrating the release of \nDon’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg \nEdited by Stephen Taylor \nPublished by Three Rooms Press \nIn DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS\, the fathers of the Beat movement converse about deeply intimate and personal history while gathered at Burroughs’ house in Lawrence\, Kansas. The conversation includes discussion of: \n\nDavid Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch\nShamanism\, including a detailed description of the shamanic exorcism of the demon Burroughs believes forced him to kill his common-law wife in 1951\nLiterary associates\, influences\, techniques\, and insights\nPunk rock’s contributions to counterculture lore\n\nWith the current political landscape mirroring many aspects of the early Beat period\, DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS is particularly timely. Interest in both authors’ work is on the rise. Many consider these legendary icons’ perspectives to particularly prophetic. \nDON’T HIDE THE MADNESS features a newly-commissioned illustration of Burroughs and Ginsberg by celebrated artist R. Crumb on the cover\, as well as 17 rare photos by Ginsberg\, many taken during the session. \nWilliam S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas\, including Naked Lunch\, Junky\, and Queer\, as well as six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. In 1991\, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch for the screen in a film starring Peter Weller\, Judy Davis\, Roy Scheider\, and Ian Holm. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians\, and made many appearances as himself in films. \nAmerican poet\, philosopher\, and photographer Allen Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism\, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture\, such as his views on drugs\, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation\, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Among his many published poetry collections\, he is best known for Howl and Other Poems\, Kaddish and Other Poems\, and Collected Poems\, 1947-1997. \nSteven Taylor is a poet\, musician\, songwriter\, and ethnomusicologist. He has published two books of poems and a musical ethnography\, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground . He has composed music for the theater\, film\, radio drama\, and installations and made more than a dozen records with various artists His articles\, reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in various anthologies and zines. From 1976-1996 he collaborated on music and poetry works with Allen Ginsberg\, and has been a member of the seminal underground rock band The Fugs since 1984. He has also toured and recorded with Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, and the New York hardcore band False Prophets. From 1990-2008 he was on the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is senior editor at Reality Sandwich. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-william-s-burroughs-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark & Vincent Katz
DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\nTom Clark & Vincent Katz\nat The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-tom-clark-vincent-katz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Komal Kapoor / Unfollowing You
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Komal Kapoor\, to celebrate her first poetry collection Unfollowing You. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Unfollowing You\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n  \nAn anthem for the modern woman\, Unfollowing You serves as a true companion for those who seek a voice that explores the complexities and absurdity of contemporary romance. Komal Kapoor uses her personal experience and astute social awareness as mechanisms to empower self-acceptance and promote cultural transparency. \nAfter prolific growth on social media\, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present her first collection of poems. Unfollowing You tells a chronological tale of a modern love through a series of poems\, prose\, texts\, screen grabs\, and unsent letters. Exploring digital phenomena like swipe culture and technological realities\, Kapoors words affirm experiences and sentiment echoed across many media platforms. \nUnfollowing You is separated into two parts: Following You details how the two protagonists fall in love and Unfollowing You shares their heartbreak.  The realism of this collection will encourage readers to normalize growth and indulge in their feelings\, even finding strength in them. \n  \n\n  \nKomal Kapoor is a writer\, business consultant\, and motivational coach who explores the messy business of feelings via social media. She has amassed over 200\,000 Instagram followers in less than a year through her writing and hopes to help even more people find strength in vulnerability. \n  \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Unfollowing You\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Unfollowing You to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– RSVP is not necessary\, but appreciated.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/komal-kapoor-unfollowing-you/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her new essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for The Collected Schizophrenias \n\n“This mesmerizing collection of essays has achieved the rarest of rarities—a meaningful and expansive language for a subject that has been long bound by both deep revulsion and intense fascination.”—Jenny Zhang \n\n“A brilliant guide to the complexities of thinking about illness\, and mental illness\, in particular. It will bring hope to others searching to understand their own diagnoses.”—Meghan O’Rourke \n\n“A masterful braiding of the achingly personal and the incisively researched. . . . This book is a vital\, illuminating window onto the world we all already live in\, but find all too easy to ignore.”—Alexandra Kleeman \n\n“You won’t find any pity-baiting\, sensationalism\, or false positivity here; Wang is so candidly aware that I’d trust her over my own diary.”—Tony Tulathimutte \n\n“Esmé Weijun Wang offers us an all-access pass to her beautiful\, unquiet mind. . . Rarely has a book about living with mental illness felt so immediate\, raw\, and powerful.”—Dani Shapiro \n\nAbout The Collected Schizophrenias \n\nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \n  \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-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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SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Johannes Lichtman
DESCRIPTION:Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel\, Such Good Work. \n\nPraise for Such Good Work \n\n“I honestly can’t think of a novel I would more want to be reading in the very particular now of our world. Lichtman’s narrator is an everyman (albeit a singular one) who just wants to be good—that slipperiest of ambitions—and yet his efforts pretty much always go wrong. But also they don’t. Wisely comic and tremendously moving\, Such Good Work thinks in detail about immigration\, addiction\, privilege\, power and loneliness; but it does so by mining the seemingly inconsequential for its true profundity. Lichtman never falls for the siren song of self-seriousness\, and that is part of what makes his novel feel so accurate\, and so important. In being open to complexity\, and sensitive to absurdity\, Such Good Work gets at the wholeness and difficulty and beauty of lives both ordinary and extraordinary.”—RIVKA GALCHEN\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Johannes Lichtman has given us a powerful\, unsparingly honest portrayal of a soul in torment\, trying to find his way to a decent life.  How to love\, how to work–how to live\, however modestly\, with meaning and purpose inside a self that for too long has used booze and drugs to avoid the hard work of being human.  Building a genuine self\, that’s an inside job\, and in Such Good Work Lichtman delivers a deeply affecting novel of one young man’s struggle to be whole.”—BEN FOUNTAIN\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n\nAbout Such Good Work \n\nA timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving\,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö\, Sweden\, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. \nJonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead\, at age twenty-eight\, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like\, visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it. \nJonas needs to do something drastic and\, as a dual American-Swedish citizen\, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö\, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good\,” Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man\, Aziz\, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person. \nSuch Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel\, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions—Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are\, as well as the person you hope to be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johannes-lichtman/
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:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy
DESCRIPTION:Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy discuss their new book\, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Your Emotions At Work. \n\nPraise for No Hard Feelings \n“A must-read that topples the idea that emotions don’t belong in the workplace\, No Hard Feelings offers a path towards a future I want to work in: an emotionally expressive\, yet respectful (and high-performing!) workplace.”—Susan Cain\, author of Quiet and Chief Revolutionary at Quiet Revolution \n“No Hard Feelings is both a charming\, sparkling read and a clear-eyed roadmap to harnessing the things that make us most human into tools that will make you more productive\, effective\, and happier at work. A must read for every leader and every aspiring leader.”  —Laszlo Bock\, CEO of Humu and author of Work Rules! \n“No Hard Feelings dispels the myth that there’s no place for emotions at work. You can’t communicate clearly unless you’re aware of your own emotions\, and the emotions you’re sparking in others. You can’t build productive relationships at work if you’re showing up like a robot. This book will help you build the emotional discipline you need to succeed.”--Kim Scott\,author of Radical Candor \n“If you’ve ever thought it’s best to check your emotions at the office door\, this book will change your mind. It’s full of lively illustrations and practical examples to show how you can harness emotions to become more creative\, collaborative\, and productive.”–Adam Grant\, New York Times bestselling author of Originals\, Give and Take\, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg \n\nAbout No Hard Feelings \nA visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional. \nHow do you stop the office grouch from ruining your day? How do you enjoy a vacation without obsessing about the unanswered emails in your inbox? If you’re a boss\, what should you do when your new\, eager hire wants to follow you on Instagram? \nThe modern workplace can be an emotional minefield\, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We’re expected to be authentic\, but not too authentic. Professional\, but not stiff. Friendly\, but not an oversharer. Easier said than done! \nAs both organizational consultants and regular people\, we know what it’s like to experience uncomfortable emotions at work – everything from mild jealousy and insecurity to panic and rage. Ignoring or suppressing what you feel hurts your health and productivity — but so does letting your emotions run wild. \nOur goal in this book is to teach you how to figure out which emotions to toss\, which to keep to yourself\, and which to express in order to be both happier and more effective. We’ll share some surprising new strategies\, such as:\n*   Be selectively vulnerable: Be honest about how you feel\, but don’t burden others with your deepest problems.\n*   Remember that your feelings aren’t facts: What we say isn’t always what we mean. In times of conflict and miscommunication\, try to talk about your emotions without getting emotional.\n*   Be less passionate about your job: Taking a chill pill can actually make you healthier and more focused. \nDrawing on what we’ve learned from behavioral economics\, psychology\, and our own experiences at countless organizations\, we’ll show you how to bring your best self (and your whole self) to work every day.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liz-fosslien-and-mollie-west-duffy/
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:JAD ABUMRAD In Conversation with Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nIn 2002\, Jad Abumrad began tinkering with an idea for a new kind of radio program\, an open-ended radio “laboratory” that would explore science\, philosophy\, and human experience. He created Radiolab\, which has since evolved into one of public radio’s most popular programs. In 2016\, Abumrad launched the podcast More Perfect\, a series about how the Supreme Court shapes everything from marriage and money to public safety and sex. More Perfect connects listeners to the decisions made inside the court\, and explains what those rulings mean for us. As described by The New Yorker\, “the show is often subtly astonishing. It’s both sobering in its thoughtful investigations of the United States government’s unfairness to many of its own citizens and quietly optimistic in its desire to make us understand.” \nAlexis Madrigal is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. He created and hosted Containers\, a podcast about the machinery of global capitalism and the city of Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jad-abumrad-in-conversation-with-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks - Be the first to buy Charlie Jane's new novel!
DESCRIPTION:Gayle Brandeis (The Book of Dead Birds)\nChris Denson (Crushing the Box)\nLisa Margonelli (Underbug)\nLaleh Khadivi (The Age of Orphans)\nCharlie Jane Anders (The City in the Middle of the Night) \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 7 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-be-the-first-to-buy-charlie-janes-new-novel/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poverty Scholarship 101
DESCRIPTION:with Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and friends \nPoverty Scholarship – Poor People-led Theory\, Art \, Words and Tears Across Mama Earth is a revolutionary poor people-led theory and solutions based text book that also comes with a downloadable curriculum is finally released by poet\, author and poverty skola Lisa Tiny Gray-Garcia and other POOR Magazine family in tandem with the six following POOR press publications: \nDear\, Godd By: Queennandi Xsheba\nDear\, Godd is a selection of intimate prayers between a uncrowned Queen enduring the Amerikkkan struggle and her relationship with the divine. \nThe Making of Aunti Vol II By: Aunti Frances Moore \nThe Making of Aunti Vol 2 is a compelling chronicle of a young black girl’s bitter sweet journey growing up in the 60s and 70s after the death of her mother. In her 2nd book\, the author recaps her pilgrimage thru racism\, self hatred & revolution in the 60s and 70s. \nIshy-Me’s Stranger Danger Saga  By: Ziair Cornish Hughes \nIllustrations by: Amir Hughes Cornish\nHey Fellow LoveLife Culture\, LoveOlutionary’s and LoveOloper’s join me and my brothers on my stranger danger quest. It’s an Anti-Bullying Campaign to keep us kids SAFE. IshyME wants to help you HAVE a voice… \nMass Driver: Disabled Detective’s Murder on the Moon – By Bruce Allison\nThis book is about two genres put together: Science Fiction and Hardboiled Detective. The main character is Bruce Allison\, a dyslexic private detective\, as he solves a murder case on the moon. \nSKELETAL BLACK – By Dee Allen\nPoverty. Arson. Gentrification. Combined with the unwritten law of American class society–in order for one to move up and win\,  Oakland performance poet Dee Allen returns with his 4th POOR Press book \nKrip Hop Komics: Graphic Novel Series #1 – By Leroy Moore\n1980’s Little Leroy has a physical disability and walks with a walker. He is always coming to a cypher in the Bronx\, NY from Hartford\, CT by Greyhound\, Flash-forward to 2018 Krip-Hop’s Superhero\,a Black teenage disabled girl named Roxanne… \nTiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a formerly unhoused\, incarcerated poverty scholar\, revolutionary journalist\, lecturer\, poet\, visionary\, teacher and single mama of Tiburcio\, daughter of a houseless\, disabled mama Dee\, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She has authored over 200 stories and blogs on poverty\, racism\, incaceration and displacement. With her Mama Dee- she co-founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a poor and indigenous people-led skool\, as well as several cultural projects such as the Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto\, welfareQUEENs\, the Theatre of the POOR/Teatro de los pobres\, Hotel Voices( to name a few. She is also the author of Criminal of Poverty: Growing Up Homeless in America\, co-editor of A Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution\, Born & Raised in Frisco and her second book- Poverty ScholarShip -Poor People Theory\, Arts\, words and Tears Across Mama Earth A PeoplesTeXt will be released in 2018-19. In 2011 she co-launched The Homefulness Project – a landless peoples\, self-determined land liberation movement in the Ohlone/Lisjan/Huchuin territory known as Deep East Oakland\, \,and co-founded a liberation school for children\, Deecolonize Academy
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poverty-scholarship-101/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A MOVEABLE FEAST
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our first poetry event of 2019! We’ll have 3 local poets telling tales of lands far away and the one you dearly love. \nhosted by Aakash Tayagi \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1381967425268268/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-moveable-feast/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190211T190000
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SUMMARY:Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate! A Valentine's Party at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:Red wine\, chocolate\, & words of love! Join Odd Mondays for its Valentine’s party Books\, Bitters\, & Chocolate!\, Monday\, February 11\, from 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Authors Jennifer Barone Poetry\, Rebekah Eppley\, and Peg Alford Pursell read about love\, illustrator Carmen Cortez prepares love bitters\, Michael’s Chocolates will have Valentine’s chocolates for sampling and sales\, and there’ll be free red wine for all! No-host dinner nearby at 5:30pm\, Haystack Restaurant\, 3881 24th St. \nHere’s more about the participants!\nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: SAPOROSO – POEMS OF ITALIAN FOOD & LOVE. She is the host of the monthly WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and has been a featured poet at LitQuake\, SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, and more. She won the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach\, where she resides\, and has been published in literary journals such as the Marin Poetry Center Anthology\, CCSF’s Forum\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit:jenniferbarone.wordpress.com \nMaria del Carmen Cortez (Carmen) is an Herbalist\, Permaculturalist\, and Medicine Maker. Her passions are gardening\, growing her own medicine\, and creating art. She was born in Purepero\, in the state of Michoacan\, Mexico\, with an extended family of storytellers who also instilled in her a love of plant medicine. She grew up as a migrant farm worker in the San Joaquin Valley and currently lives in Oakland. \nRebekah Eppley holds a Master’s of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University\, a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a BFA in Writing\, Literature & Publishing from Emerson College. She published a chapter in an oral history collection\, Nine Lives\, Uncovering the Wealth of Life Stories Within our Nursing Homes and her fiction and poetry have appeared in magazines such as the Santa Clara Review\, Watchword Press\, and Lodestar Quarterly. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, Carmen Cortez\, and works as a librarian at the Dimond Branch of the Oakland Public Library. \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of SHOW HER A FLOWER\, A BIRD\, A SHADOW\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction\, and selected for the annual “5 over 50” feature in Poets & Writers Magazine (2017). A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST\, a collection of stories\, will be published by Dzanc Books July 2019. Her work has been published in many journals and anthologies\, including Joyland magazine\, Connotation Press\, and Permafrost. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and the founder and director of WTAW Press\, an independent publisher of exceptional literary books. Learn more at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael’s Chocolates is a San Francisco-based chocolatier\, which makes small-batch handcrafted chocolates and confections. They proudly feature their Good Food Awards 2018 Winner\, Lemon Burst Bonbon Collection\, and also offer special Seasonal Collections\, in addition to popular items such as Salted Caramels and Old Potrero Rye Whiskey Bonbons. www.michaelschocolates.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-bitters-chocolate-a-valentines-party-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kim Hyesoon\, Don Mee Choi\, Forrest Gander\, and Brenda Hillman
DESCRIPTION:Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi join us to talk about reenacting trauma and narrating death in Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of  Death\, translated by Don Mee Choi. Special guests Forrest Gander and Brenda Hillman will also treat us to a reading of their poems and translations. Sponsored by The Center for the Art of Translation. \n\nAbout Autobiography of Death \nThe title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book\, Autobiography of Death (New Directions)\, consists of forty-nine poems\, each poem representing a single day during which the spirit roams after death before it enters the cycle of reincarnation. The poems not only give voice to those who met unjust deaths during Korea’s violent contemporary history\, but also unveil what Kim calls “the structure of death\, that we remain living in.” Autobiography of Death\, Kim’s most compelling work to date\, at once reenacts trauma and narrates death—how we die and how we survive within this cyclical structure. In this sea of mirrors\, the plural “you” speaks as a body of multitudes that has been beaten\, bombed\, and buried many times over by history. The volume concludes on the other side of the mirror with “Face of Rhythm\,” a poem about individual pain\, illness\, and meditation. \n\nAbout Kim Hyesoon \nKim Hyesoon is one of the most prominent poets of South Korea. Along with several female poets of the 1980s and 1990s\, Kim has developed a new terrain of poetry that has been described as “combative\, visceral\, subversive\, innovative\, and ontologically feminine\,” and which continues to flourish. \nAbout Don Mee Choi \nDon Mee Choi is the author of Hardly War(Wave Books\, 2016) and The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books\, 2010) and has translated the work of several contemporary Korean women poets\, such as Ch’oe Sŭng-ja\, Kim Hyesoon\, and Yi Yŏn-ju. Her translations include Anxiety of Words (Zephyr Press\, 2008)\, Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers(Action Books\, 2008)\, All the Garbage of the World\, Unite! (Action Books\, 2011)\, Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream (Action Books\, 2014)\, and I’m OK\, I’m Pig (Bloodaxe Books\, 2014). \nAbout Forrest Gander \nForrest Gander is the author of numerous books of poetry\, translation\, fiction\, and essays. He is the A.K. Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His 2011 collection Core Samples from the World was a NBCC and Pulitzer Prize finalist for poetry. \nAbout Brenda Hillman \nBrenda Hillman is the author of eight collections of poetry\, all published by Wesleyan University Press\, the most recent of which is Practical Water (2009). With Patricia Dienstfrey\, she edited The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood(Wesleyan\, 2003). Hillman teaches at St. Mary’s College\, where she is the Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-hyesoon-don-mee-choi-forrest-gander-and-brenda-hillman/
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:My Life\, My Stories: Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted byMy Life\, My Stories and sponsored by Blurb Books! \n  \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of seniors in our community. We match a volunteer with one senior\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give seniors a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. \nWe’ll be feeling all the love this evening. With Valentine’s Day right around the corner\, we’re asking our senior speakers to tell a story about their love for family\, a partner\, the city of San Francisco… you name it! You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \n  \n\n6:00pm: Doors open\n6:30pm-8:00pm: Four unique seniors tell their stories and MLMS volunteers talk about their experience working with their author\n8:00pm-8:30pm: Q&A\n\n  \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets can be purchased in advance for $12 here. If available\, tickets will be for sale at the door. All ticket sales from the event will go directly to My Life\, My Stories to help more seniors preserve their legacy. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nDoors open at 5:30pm. Show starts at 6pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a new monthly reading series that showcases new writing and offers a little sunshine for your soul. \nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a single prompt. (“Happy Endings” is a loooose directive for each writer to do with what they will.) A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and the panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nThis month’s prompt: Trust\, Betrayal\, Cheetos \nThis month’s participating writers: Jenny Xie\, TBDs\, and January’s winner
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-trust-betrayal-cheetos/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lesbian Love Stories at Perfectly Queer SF
DESCRIPTION:MB Austin\, Giovanna Capone\, Kathy Knowles\, and Cass Sellars read love stories from their work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco\, Tuesday\, February 12\, 7pm-8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. Free admission. Free red wine and chocolate\, too! Door prizes awarded to the prompt at 7pm. A collection for voluntary donations to Emily’s List will be taken at the end of the program. \nMB reads from Strictly Need to Know\, Giovanna from unpublished love stories\, Kathleen from Taking Sides\, and Cass from her brand-new novel\, Unexpected Lightning. \nHere’s more about the authors:\nMB Austin\, a mild-mannered civil servant by day\, spends her discretionary time playing with imaginary friends on the computer and real ones in the dojo. She writes the about women in love and danger — because saving the world is sexy.\nThe Maji Rios novels are inspired by real people\, in and out of uniform\, who work to make their communities and the world safer. MB lives with her fabulous wife in Seattle\, an excellent town for coffee-fueled writers who don’t need too much sun. Learn more at http://www.mbaustin.me \nGiovanna Capone is a poet\, fiction writer\, and playwright. She has been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies. Her most recent books include DISPATCHES FROM LESBIAN AMERICA: 42 short stories and memoir by lesbian authors\, and IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD: Poetry & Prose from an Italian American. Her first play\, “Her Kiss\,” was produced and performed to sold-out audiences in San Francisco by Luna Sea Women’s Performance Project. She is working on two documentary films\, one about lesbian life and the other about the Colombo Club\, an Italian social club in Oakland\, soon to be celebrating 100 years. She’s a librarian and lives in Oakland\, CA. More at http://giovannacapone.com. \nKathleen Knowles grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, but has lived in San Francisco for more than thirty years. She finds the city’s combination of history\, natural beauty\, and multicultural diversity inspiring and endlessly fascinating. Her first novel\, Awake Unto Me\, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for best historical romance novel of 2012. She lives with her spouse and their pets atop one of San Francisco’s many hills. She recently retired after twenty years as a health and safety specialist at the University of California\, San Francisco. \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner living near San Francisco. She considers knowing the best people\, having great experiences\, and drinking fabulous wine to be tickets to a magnificent life. Her goal is to create dynamic characters with the same zest for the human experience with whom women identify. Formerly an editor of a small magazine\, a creative journalist\, and a public speaker\, she’s always been a writer at heart. The Lightning Series has allowed her to explore the world of romantic suspense fiction. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and in Great Britain\, but spent much of her adult life on the East Coast. She dabbles in home renovation and design\, event planning\, singing\, and travel. https://casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lesbian-love-stories-at-perfectly-queer-sf/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:reading from here new novel \nHazards of Time Travel \npublished by Harper Collins \n\n\nAn ingenious\, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society\, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates \n“Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America — “Wainscotia\, Wisconsin”—that existed eighty years before.  Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of “rehabilitation”—but cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. \nArresting and visionary\, Hazards of Time Travel  is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction\, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls\, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-7/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Leong on the Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Thomas Leong discusses his new book of translations Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island. \n\nPraise for Wild Geese Sorrow \n“Jeffrey Thomas Leong is a fine poet\, and his translations of 70 of the poems are nuanced\, affecting\, and informed by a haunting but astringent music. They do commendable justice to the Angel Island poets\, writers who were not welcomed to these shores—but who nevertheless made a crucial and indelible contribution to our national literary culture.”— David Wojahn\, author of Interrogation Palace \n“Jeffrey Leong’s Wild Geese Sorrow is a marvelous translation of the wall poems written by Chinese held at Angel Island\, California\, from 1910-1940\, during their immigration review. His keenly nuanced translations follow the lineation of the original poems and juxtapose images that show their classical poetic lineage. Most importantly\, he humanizes each speaker by articulating the emotional pressure behind each poem. In a time of antiimmigrant sentiment\, this book is important reading for all Americans.”—Arthur Sze\, author of The Red-Shifting Web \n“This beautiful book is haunted by the sad and angry presence of nameless men who carved their feelings into Angel Island walls. Leong’s translations and sequencing\, footnotes\, and historical contextualization gift us with a glimpse into a world we might otherwise never know. Why did these men leave home? What were their thoughts about families and villages they left behind? How did they view their detention\, jailers\, and interrogators? Leong unveils the diversity of their personalities and social backgrounds. These poems are at the foundation of Asian American literature and are an essential contribution to American literary history.” — Elaine H. Kim\, Professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies\, University of California\, Berkeley \n\nAbout Wild Geese Sorrow \nWild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island by Jeffrey Thomas Leong is the first new translation in almost 40 years and takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by the Chinese immigrant detainees at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate the detainee experience\, the poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, deportation. Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, so essential to our contemporary policy debates. \nWild Geese Sorrow presents Leong’s 20+ years of writing experience into a moving collection that offers readers: \n• 70 newly-translated Angel Island Chinese wall poems presented in the original Chinese characters and with their English translations on facing pages\n• Brief foreword by David Wojahn\, Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet\, tying Angel Island poetry to the great World traditions of protest literature\n• A robust introduction contextualizing these poems with Chinese immigrant history at Angel Island\, classical T’ang poetry\, literary expressions of personal and political outrage\, and the difficulties of translation for the 21st century American reader\n• Extensive endnotes which provide essential cultural\, historical and linguistic context for the work\n• A small glossary of places\, names and terms\n• A full bibliography of resources on Chinese American immigrant history\, T’ang era poetry\, and the practice of literary translation\n• A complete finding list for the mostly untitled and anonymously-written poems\n• Chapter heading photographs of wall poems in situ\, historical events\, and physical site \n“But what purpose did these wall poems serve to their original authors? Given the basic education received by these new immigrants\, their act of writing poetry was transformational; by taking hardship and expressing it artistically\, they elevated it to the archetypal\,” says Leong. “An expression of personal feeling may be therapeutic in a Western sense\, but for these immigrants it was also communal\, literally on the walls of the barracks in which they were detained and for all their compatriots to see.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-leong-on-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
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:Regulatory Hacking: A conversation with Evan Burfield and Tim O’Reilly
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 13 for a discussion with Evan Burfield\, author of Regulatory Hacking: A Playbook for Startups\, and Tim O’Reilly\, Code for America board member and founder of O’Reilly Media. \nAs startups use technology to shape the way we live\, work\, and learn\, they’re taking on challenges in sectors like healthcare\, infrastructure\, and education\, where failure is far more consequential than a humorous chat with Siri or the wrong package on your doorstep. These startups inevitably have to interface with governments responsible for protecting citizens through regulation. \nIn his book\, Burfield explores how to scale a business in an industry deeply intertwined with government. He posits that “regulatory hacking” doesn’t mean “cutting through red tape”; it’s really about finding a creative\, strategic approach to navigating complex markets. \nEvan Burfield is the cofounder of 1776 and CEO of Union\, where he works with startups around the world tackling important challenges in areas like education\, health\, energy\, transportation\, food\, and financial services. As an angel investor and venture capitalist\, Evan has invested in more than 40 startups with world changing ideas\, from Silicon Valley to Nairobi. \nDATE & TIME \nWednesday\, February 13\, 2019 \nNetworking 5:30-6 p.m. \nDiscussion 6-7 p.m. \nBook signing 7-7:30 p.m. \nLOCATION \nManny’s \n3092 16th St. (at Valencia) \nSan Francisco\, CA 94103
URL:https://litseen.com/event/regulatory-hacking-a-conversation-with-evan-burfield-and-tim-oreilly/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Discuss! The Contemporary Fiction Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new book group at the Main Library. We meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month. Discuss! focuses on topical\, thought-provoking contemporary fiction. \nThe February selection is Sing\, Unburied\, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones\, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner\, The Odyssey and the Old Testament\, Ward gives us an epochal story\, a journey through Mississippi’s past and present that is both an intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/discuss-the-contemporary-fiction-book-club/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:How 1960's Students Fought to Create A Better World - The Intriguing Story of the SDS
DESCRIPTION:The contributors in this book were mostly members of WSA. These accounts are both optimistic\, from those still inspired\, and bitter\, from those now critical of their involvement. The stories they tell speak across the years\, as a new generation–from Black Lives Matter to Fight for $15 to the Parkland students–faces decisions about how to organize and build alliances to stop wars abroad\, confront racial oppression at home\, fight for immigrant rights\, and end violence and neoliberal exploitation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nToday\, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) is often portrayed as the drama of the good early 1960s SDS turning into Weatherman\, the small faction whose story ended in a bombed-out New York townhouse. \nIn his book You Say You Want A Revolution: SDS\, PL\, and Adventures in Building a Worker-Student Alliance\, author John Levin shows the reality was quite different. SDS at its apex in 1968/69 numbered 100\,000 students whose political views reflected a rainbow of ideologies exploring what a new American left could be with a willingness to risk everything to stop the war in Vietnam and achieve social justice. When SDS splintered in June 1969\, a majority of the delegates supported the program of its Worker-Student Alliance caucus: building a strategic alliance between students and the working class to achieve the movement’s goals.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-1960s-students-fought-to-create-a-better-world-the-intriguing-story-of-the-sds/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reema Zaman
DESCRIPTION:Reema Zaman discusses her new memoir\, I Am Yours. \n\nPraise for I Am Yours \n“Tender\, fierce\, compassionate\, and wise . . . a moving story about how one woman found her voice—and her power.”—Cheryl Strayed\, #1 NYT bestselling author of Wild \n“My heart just burst into a thousand songs after reading I Am Yours by Reema Zaman. From the first word to the last\, this story is phenomenal triumph of one woman’s body and voice rising up and through a culture that would quiet her. Moving through experience and language without flinching\, Zaman reminds us that to have a body is to bring a soul to life. A stunning debut.”–  Lidia Yuknavitch\, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Joan. \n“More than a memoir\, I Am Yours is a spiritual guide . . . poetic\, healing\, and so necessary.”—Gemma Hartley\, author of FED UP \n\nAbout I Am Yours \nI Am Yours is the story of Reema Zaman’s unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh\, to Thailand\, to New York\, to Oregon\, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting\, poetic as it is political\, and healing as it is haunting\, Zaman explores the many difficulties\, dangers\, and ultimately\, the necessity for all women\, all people\, to own and use their voices. With astonishing courage and intimacy\, Zaman is a reader’s author\, offering up a memoir written to alleviate the loneliness that often arises from being human in this world. A voice of a new era\, a revolution in itself\, an iconic debut that promises to shake global literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reema-zaman/
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:MAYOR MICHAEL TUBBS In Conversation with Dan Pfeiffer
DESCRIPTION: Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nMichael Tubbs is the first African American Mayor of Stockton\, California\, and the youngest mayor in American history of a city of more than 100\,000 people. Born and raised in Stockton\, Tubbs was raised by his mother\, with an incarcerated father and without financial security. He earned a scholarship to attend Stanford University\, and\, following internships at Google and in the Obama White House\, Tubbs returned to Stockton to work as a City Council member in the district where he was raised. Since being elected Mayor in 2016\, Tubbs has worked to reinvent Stockton from a city that filed for bankruptcy in 2012 to a community of opportunity for everyone. Tubbs’ mayoralty focuses on violent crime\, economic development\, collective impact strategies\, and improved education. This fall\, Stockton will be the first city in America to implement a universal basic income pilot program. \nDan Pfeiffer is President Barack Obama’s former communications director and current co-host of the popular political podcast\, Pod Save America. He is the author of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama\, Twitter\, and Trump.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mayor-michael-tubbs-in-conversation-with-dan-pfeiffer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford @ Alamo Draft House
DESCRIPTION:Alamo Draft House and City Lights Booksellers present \nBarry Gifford \nin a talk and film screening \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nat Alamo Draft House\, 2550 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA 94110 Phone: (415) 549-5959 \nDoors at 8:30\, book signing \nTalk and film screening 9:30 p.m. \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information. \nAlamo Draft House will be screening the short film American Falls and the directors cut of Wild at Heart. The films will be introduced by Barry Gifford and he will offer a short discussion about his work. \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nTickets available from Alamo Draft House. Visit https://drafthouse.com/sf for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-alamo-draft-house/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:Feb 14-18\, Thursday: 12 noon-9:30pm | Friday: 6:45am-9pm | Saturday: 7am-9pm | Sunday: 6:45am-4pm | Monday: 9am-5pm \n“San Francisco Writers Conference is a four-day event packed with 100+ sessions for writers-from the craft of writing to the business of publishing. There is copious networking with bestselling authors\, literary agents\, editors\, publishers from major publishing houses\, and other writers; two keynote luncheons and breakfasts; and evening open mic readings and pitch sessions. \nThursday: 12:00AM-9:30PM | Friday: 6:45AM-9:00PM | Saturday: 7:00AM-9:00PM | Sunday: 6:45AM-4:00PM | Monday: 9:00AM-5:0PM \nFor more information:\nepml@aol.com\n(415) 673-0939” \n850. \nPresented by San Francisco Writers Conference.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writers-conference/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency San Francisco\, 5 Embarcadero Center\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Writers Conference":MAILTO:Registrations@SFWriters.org
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SUMMARY:Poem Jam
DESCRIPTION:Join San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck and guests Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, James Cagney\, and Christine No for a special Valentine’s Day poetry jam. The Main Library’s monthly Poem Jam poetry reading series takes place on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Main Library. Join us! \n  \nMain Library\nLatino/Hispanic Community Room A/B
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poem-jam-3/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, Main Branch\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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