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SUMMARY:MariNaomi / Distant Stars
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes MariNaomi back for the final volume of her Life on Earth trilogy\, Distant Stars. Please join us! \nCelebrated cartoonist MariNaomi concludes her tale of growing up\, falling in and out of love\, and possible alien interventions. Shy\, self-deprecating Paula Navarro is coming into her own — and it’s making her new girlfriend\, Johanna\, a little nervous. Paula’s former friend Emily Baker is learning to look inward. Brett Hathaway\, Emily and Paula’s mutual ex-hook-up\, is torn about reconnecting with his estranged dad. And Nigel Jones is smitten with his tutor\, Claudia — whose disappearance and reappearance remains a mystery to everyone around her. As Claudia and her guardians put the final plan in motion\, they’ll reveal the truth that links everyone’s fate. \n\nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of four comic memoirs and creator of the Cartoonists of Color database. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and many cats and dogs. Visit her website at marinaomi.com. Author photo by Jolene Siana. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Distant Stars\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marinaomi-distant-stars/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Colum McCann & Isabel Allende
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets\nCo-presented with JCCSF\n\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book\, Apeirogon\, tells the story of two fathers – one Palestinian and one Israeli – who learn of each other’s grief and reach across borders to work towards peace. In conversation with Isabel Allende. $30\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nColum McCann\nIrish-born international bestselling author Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin) is among the world’s foremost storytellers\, moving seamlessly from the Troubles in Ireland to the Romani camps of Eastern Europe to the dizzying heights of the World Trade Center. His latest book… Read More →\n\n \nIsabel Allende\nIsabel Allende is the author of a number of bestselling and critically acclaimed books\, including The House of the Spirits\, Of Love and Shadows\, Eva Luna\, Paula\, In the Midst of Winter\, and the forthcoming A Long Petal of the Sea. Her books have been translated into more than… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colum-mccann-isabel-allende/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Happy 7th Birthday Voz Sin Tinta!
DESCRIPTION:Voz Sin Tinta is turning 7! To celebrate our special day\, we want YOU to come out and read or come and share space.\nWe will ONLY HAVE A COMMUNITY OPEN MIC. We would not have made it seven years without the community\, and we want to continue to support you all just like you support us.\nThat’s right! TWO HOURS OF OPEN MIC.\nBring food! Bring drinks! Bring adult drinks! Bring a friend! Bring some art to share! Bring yourself! Just come celebrate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-7th-birthday-voz-sin-tinta/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Cathy Park Hong with Vanessa Hua / Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nBooksmith hosts Cathy Park Hong for her new book\, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning\, a ruthlessly honest\, emotionally charged\, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human. She’ll be in conversation with Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities and A River of Stars). Please join us! \n\n“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.” – Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nPoet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir\, cultural criticism\, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism\, this collection is vulnerable\, humorous\, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship\, art and politics\, identity and individuality\, will change the way you think about our world. \nBinding these essays together is Hong’s theory of “minor feelings.” As the daughter of Korean immigrants\, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame\, suspicion\, and melancholy. She would later understand that these “minor feelings” occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality—when you believe the lies you’re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small\, they’re dissonant—and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. \nWith sly humor and a poet’s searching mind\, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language\, to shame and depression\, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art\, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche—and of a writer’s search to both uncover and speak the truth. \n\nCathy Park Hong is the author of three poetry collections including Dance Dance Revolution\, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize\, and Engine Empire. Hong is a recipient of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her poems have been published in Poetry\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, McSweeney’s\, Boston Review\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of The New Republic and full professor at the Rutgers University–Newark MFA program in poetry.\nVanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of the national bestseller\, A River of Stars\, and a short story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities.  For more than two decades\, she has been writing\, in journalism and fiction\, about Asia and the diaspora. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow\, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post\, and among other publications. The daughter of Chinese immigrants\, she teaches at the Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers\, and elsewhere. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Minor Feelings\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-park-hong-with-vanessa-hua-minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH for Juliana Delgado Lopera / Fiebre Tropical
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch party for Juliana Delgado Lopera and her debut novel\, Fiebre Tropical. More information to be announced\, but please do yourself a favor and save the date! \nUprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá\, Colombia\, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse\, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church\, replete with Christian salsa\, abstinent young dancers\, and baptisms for the dead. \nBut there\, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic\, head of the youth group\, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism\, Francisca falls more and more intensely in love with Carmen. To get closer to her\, Francisca turns to Jesus to be saved\, even as their relationship hurtles toward a shattering conclusion. \n\n“Fiebre Tropical is a literary explosion. In a rollicking\, multilingual prose both wise and irreverent\, brimming with snark and queer humor\, Juliana Delgado Lopera crafts a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” – Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir: Complaints\, Confessions & Criticisms \n“A magnificent novel\, by turns electric\, hilarious\, sexy\, thrilling\, wrenching\, and profound. Pa decirlo clarito: Juliana Delgado Lopera is a writer of explosive talent\, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution\, yes\, to queer literature\, Latinx literature\, and immigrant literature\, but also to literature\, punto.” –Carolina De Robertis\, author of Cantoras \n“When you drive around town\, when you stare out the window\, when you wake up in the middle of the night\, whether you know it or not\, you are waiting for a book like this. Fiebre Tropical is a triumph\, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” – Daniel Handler\, author of All the Dirty Parts \n\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer and historian based in San Francisco. She is the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and the illustrated\, bilingual oral history collection ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute Books 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary Award\, and has received fellowships from the Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Mag\, among others. Formerly\, she served as the creative director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary nonprofit in San Francisco. \n\n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Fiebre Tropical\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-juliana-delgado-lopera-fiebre-tropical/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Calico Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:In March 2020\, Two Lines Press will launch a new book series dedicated to capturing vanguard works of translated literature—curated around a particular theme\, region\, language\, historical moment\, or style—in vibrant\, collectible editions. \nWe’re calling it Calico.  \nThe first Calico book\, That We May Live: Speculative Chinese Fiction\, will be published on March 10th. This book collects seven short stories from mainland China and Hong Kong\, all of them erring on the side of the strange\, the speculative. Government mushroom housing? It’s got it. Uncanny fermented grandma teas? Oh yeah. An aging newscaster engaged in an illicit affair with her boss\, who just so happens to get off to her reading the news? Why\, but of course. \nIn a country where the government provides one narrative while real life is often very different\, That We May Live showcases how the speculative provides cover from which Chinese writers can challenge the government’s story and explore their own—and just how difficult it can be to discern reality from absurdity\, comedy from horror. With works from previously untranslated writers and rising stars of international literature—all translated by some of the best Chinese translators around—in addition to being delightfully absorbing\, can be thoughtfully uncomfortable reading experience when you look for the truths at the stories’ surreal edges.” \nThat We May Live features work from Dorothy Tse (translated by Natasha Bruce)\, Enoch Tam (translated by Jeremy Tiang)\, Zhu Hui (translated by Michael Day)\, Chan Chi Wa (translated by Audrey Heijns)\, Chen Si’an (translated by Canaan Morse) and Yan Ge (translated by Jeremy Tiang). \nWe’re excited. We hope you are too. \nMore information about our Calico celebration coming soon! \n  \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calico-launch-party/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Prageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the first of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation. She was the 2018-19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art’s On Our Mind program\, a year-long series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018. Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nDodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma\nreading and in conversation\nFriday March 13\n7:00 pm @ Artists’ Television Access\n992 Valencia Street (at 21st)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-prageeta-sharma-and-dodie-bellamy-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_March12_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-23/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Jessi Jezewska Stevens with Rita Bullwinkel: The Exhibition of Persephone Q
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJessi Jezewska Stevens discusses her new novel\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for The Exhibition of Persephone Q \n“A triumph of tone and intelligence. Percy Q’s perspective is skewed and searching at once\, and through her eyes\, we see afresh not only New York’s post-9/11 landscape but also the world of art\, and love\, and the process of becoming.” —Rivka Galchen\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Finally a book that exposes how dull Occam’s Razor has become after all these years. Adroitly crafted\, The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a fun\, urbane look at the faulty heuristics of perception and authenticity. Proof positive that in the age of Photoshop and Trumpian Denialism\, the simplest explanation no longer applies.” —Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n“The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a resonant and uncanny novel\, a moving meditation on “how casually one version of reality detaches from the truth; it peels away naturally\, like damp wallpaper in a neglected room.” Jessi Jezewska Stevens is a promising\, persuasive new writer\, and I will be surprised if this doesn’t turn out to be one of the strongest debut novels of 2020.” —Justin Taylor\, Bookforum \nAbout The Exhibition of Persephone Q \nPercy is pregnant. She hasn’t told a soul. Probably she should tell her husband—certainly she means to—but one night she wakes up to find she no longer recognizes him. Now\, instead of sleeping\, Percy is spending her nights taking walks through her neighborhood\, all the while fretting over her marriage\, her impending motherhood\, and the sinister ways the city is changing. \nAmid this alienation—from her husband\, home\, and rapidly changing body—a package arrives. In it: an exhibition catalog for a photography show. The photographs consist of a series of digitally manipulated images of a woman lying on a bed in a red room. It takes a moment for even Percy to notice that the woman is herself . . . but no one else sees the resemblance. \nPercy must now come to grips with the fundamental question of identity in the digital age: To what extent do we own our own image\, and to what extent is that image shaped by the eyes of others? \nCapturing perfectly the haunted atmosphere of Manhattan immediately after 9/11—and the simmering insanity of America ever since—Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s The Exhibition of Persephone Q is a darkly witty satire about how easy it is to lose ownership of our own selves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessi-jezewska-stevens-the-exhibition-of-persephone-q/
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:Bawdy Storytelling's 'ISLAGIATT'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12th\, 2020 \nat the Verdi Club \n2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWant a sample of Bawdy? \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Stories\, Songs & Sex Toys features: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Legendary Author/Speaker/Kinkster Race Bannon \n❤ Songs by Bawdy’s brilliant cohort\, Jefferson Bergey \n❤ Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for making new friends \n❤ Bang-O Grand Prizes from Good Vibrations \n❤ Bawdy’s new merchandise\, FINALLY #BawdyGotMeLaid \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front \n❤ Custom Bawdy Cocktails to help you get your flirt on #CBT #UnicornsButthole #EthicalSlut \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nFor Millions of Years\, Sexual Folklorist & Podcast host Dixie De La Tour has brought the Nation’s Perverrati together & onto the Bawdy Storytelling stage to tell their own infamously true tales of lust\, love\, kinky collisions\, gender redefinition\, sexual identity\, life-changing hook-ups\, educational one-night stands & everything in between. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert. Join the Bawdy Storytelling group there! \nhttps://fetlife.com/groups/46341 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, professional storyteller\, podcaster\, teacher\, coach\, community builder and most of all\, a facilitator. She is also the Founder\, Curator & Host of the Award-winning and NSFW storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\, “The Original Sex and Storytelling series” – Playgirl) that’s been lauded for its transformational\, relatable\, empowering performances. This live stage series is currently headed into its 13th year\, the groundbreaking Bawdy Storytelling podcast has had over 1.5 million downloads\, plus it’s been acknowledged as a ‘Best Of’ Sex podcast from Forbes\, GQ Magazine\, Marie Claire\, Uproxx\, Daily Mail UK\, Bustle and (twice!) by Esquire Magazine. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”) for her work to reduce stigma and eliminate shame\, and she recently became a Muppet. Discover more about Dixie De La Tour and Bawdy Storytelling at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling\, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling on Twitter at @Bawdy and always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \nIn addition to story and public speaking coaching for her own series\, Dixie coaches for TEDx\, Women in Technology\, offers custom Brand Storytelling coaching\, has led storytelling events in Libraries\, teaches Storytelling for the Classroom and has been a featured teller for the National Storytelling Conference. Ultimately\, this story-loving southerner is passionate about storytelling’s ability to keep people safe\, reduce social anxiety and connect us with strangers. Stories help you find your people! \n❤ Kinky sex has been one of Race Bannon’s passions as a practitioner\, organizer\, writer\, educator\, commentator\, activist and leader since his first explorations of the leather world starting in 1973. Race’s accomplishments include co-founder of the Kink Aware Professionals referral service; leader of The DSM Project that began to change how psychotherapy professionals view kink; author of the bestselling Learning The Ropes: A Basic Guide to Safe and Fun BDSM Lovemaking; founder of Daedalus Publishing Company\, the first company dedicated to publishing nonfiction leather/SM/fetish books; prolific writer; former sex advice columnist; former producer and host of the first kink internet talk show Bound To Talk; past Board member of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom\, Community-Academic Consortium for Research on Alternative Sexualities\, NLA International and Avatar Club Los Angeles; co-founder of NLA Los Angeles; and member of Chicago Hellfire Club\, The 15 Association\, and Society of Janus. Race is currently on the Board of the Leather Hall of Fame. Recently Race was inducted into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentaries Vice and Consent\, Out of the Darkness: The Reality of S&M and Folsom Forever\, was a BDSM consultant for the movie Exit to Eden\, and is currently an Executive Producer for Divine Deviance\, an upcoming documentary about the global kink/BDSM/fetish scene. Race is also a popular speaker who has delivered the keynote address for a number of events. He has been awarded the 2006 National Leather Association International’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, 2010 Mister Marcus Hernandez Lifetime Achievement Award (Man) Pantheon of Leather Community Service Award\, the 2011 Philip M. Turner Lifetime Achievement Award\, the 2013 National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Leather Leadership Award\, 2014 San Francisco Bay Area Leather Alliance Co-Man of the Year (tie)\, and the 2016 NorCal/Northwest Regional Pantheon of Leather Award. You can read some of Race’s writings at www.bannon.com or www.racebannon.com or in the Bay Area Reporter (ebar.com) where he is the leather/kink columnist. \n❤ Straddling the line between sentimental and sleazy\, Jefferson Bergey blends gritty\, soulful pop with elements of folk\, blues\, and country with a penchant for the ridiculous in his original compositions. \nThe Oakland based singer-songwriter performs his family-unfriendly music all over the Bay Area. He’s a frequent contributor\, writing custom songs for the award-winning\, San Francisco based\, Bawdy Storytelling. As a solo acoustic act\, Bergey’s sound is akin to folky musical theater in a coffee shop…if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. His polite vulgarity may not be for the very young and impressionable or the very old and conservative but he won’t tell you how to raise your kids or upset your grandparents. \nHe can be seen and heckled every Monday night at his Risqué residency at Scopo Divino in San Francisco. For well over two years straight\, he’s put on a unique and interactive show where he plays original music and cover songs suggested by those in attendance who haven’t already left in disgust. \nBergey’s music can be heard on the RISK! and Bawdy Storytelling podcasts. He has performed at The Independent\, Sweetwater\, Great American Music Hall\, Jewish Community Center in SF\, John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics in Long Beach\, Punchline SF\, and SF Sketchfest. \nHis newest EP titled ‘Always Up (To Go Down)’ was originally written for Bawdy Storytelling and is flanked by a few of his ‘inter-lewds’\, now fleshed out with piano\, bass\, and pedal steel. It also features the talents of Natalie Smith (Cape Weather) on vocals. \nwww.jeffersonbergey.com \nhttps://www.patreon.com/jeffersonbergey \nhttps://www.facebook.com/jefferson.bergey \nhttps://www.instagram.com/jeffersonbergey \n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• ASL Interpretation available with prior written notice. Contact BawdyStorytelling@gmail.com for more information \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-islagiatt/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T203000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
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SUMMARY:On Astrology and Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. \nBeloved Bay Area astrologer and host of the popular podcast\, Ghost of a Podcast\, Jessica Lanyadoo has turned her skills towards relationships and matters of the heart\, doing the math on why we are the way we are\, and why our actions might not reflect our desires. \nJessica’s first book\, Astrology for Real Relationships\, is a modern\, practical guide to relationships of all kinds designed to help everyone understand their blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so they can make choices that leave them happy and fulfilled. Jessica offers astrological tools to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nJoin Jessica for an evening full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family. Discover how to build and maintain strong connections-with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom-and uncover and get what you really want in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n$20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/full-calendar/lanyadoo-jessica-march-13-2020 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-astrology-and-real-relationships/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
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SUMMARY:Miah Jeffra's The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Reading and Release
DESCRIPTION:Help Alley Cat give a big congratulations to Miah Jeffra on their newest book\, The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Featuring a star-studded slew of readers including: Carson Beker\, Jennifer Lewis\, Juli Delgado Lopera\, Monique Mero and Baruch Porras-Hernandez! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miah-jeffras-the-fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073553
CREATED:20191124T170241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200311T150649Z
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Deb Olin Unferth: Barn 8
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nDeb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel\, Barn 8\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Barn 8 \n“Barn 8 is a novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia\, a post-human parable\, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.”—Dana Spiotta \n“Deb Unferth’s hilarious\, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens . . .”—Jenny Offill \n“Like Flannery O’Connor\, Deb Olin Unferth does things entirely her own way\, and that way is impossible to describe. . . . This very funny and absurd novel is also as serious as the world.”—Zachary Lazar \n“I leap to read anything Deb Olin Unferth writes\, and her latest book\, Barn 8\, is further proof of her singular talent\, her gigantic heart. While Unferth’s characters try to save hens\, her miracle of a novel might\, in turn\, save you.”—R.O. Kwon \nAbout Barn 8 \nAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers \nTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious\, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. \nDeb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices\, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter\, a former director of undercover investigations\, hundreds of activists\, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens\, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters\, their earnest efforts to heal themselves\, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. \nFunny\, whimsical\, philosophical\, and heartbreaking\, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity\, razor-sharp wit\, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama\, a tour de force for our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth-barn-8/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T180000
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SUMMARY:MCD Book Signing: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Craft and Design is thrilled to welcome Bill Burnett and Dave Evans\, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Designing Your Life”\, for a free book signing event in our museum store. On March 14\, 2020\, Burnett and Evans will be signing their brand new book “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Find Happiness”. \nCopies of “Designing Your Life”\, “Designing Your Work Life”\, and “The Designing Your Life Workbook” will be available to purchase in the museum store and online at sfmcd.org. The book signing will take place from 4-6 PM on Saturday\, March 14 and is free and open to the public. \nWhen “Designing Your Life” was published in 2016\, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful\, fulfilling lives. The book became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now\, in “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work”\, Burnett and Evans apply that transformative thinking to the place where we spend more time than anywhere else: work. \n“Increasingly\, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving work landscape\,” writes Burnett and Evans. Chapter by chapter\, Designing Your Work Life shows us how to design and create positive changes wherever we are in our career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience\, or you decide it’s time to move on\, Burnett and Evans show us how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive\, engaged\, satisfying\, and fun. \nFree \nhttp://sfmcd.org sbrosales@sfmcd.org 415-773-0303
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcd-book-signing-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/
LOCATION:Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third Street\, San Francisco\, 94107
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T200000
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Babylon Salon Spring 2020 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJoin us on Saturday\, March 14 for Babylon Salon’s quarterly reading and performance series\, with readings from Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8\, forthcoming in March; Wait Till You See Me Dance; Revolution)\, C. Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills is Gold\, forthcoming in April)\, Taymour Soomro (fiction in the New Yorker\, Southern Review\, and Ninth Letter)\, and more\, along with a musical performance by Rachel “Lightning” Rose (Jefferson Starship). \nWHERE: The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco. FREE ADMISSION. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. http://www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-2020-performance/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T210000
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:An LGBTQ+ Open Mic hosted by the folks at Alley Cat Books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T213000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nSusan Fowler (Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber)\nStephen van Dyck (People I’ve Met from the Internet)\nMiah Jeffra (The First Church of What’s Happening) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-27/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073553
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SUMMARY:Zine Party ///Paula Salemme + Ariel Cooper
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-party-paula-salemme-ariel-cooper/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T200000
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CREATED:20200221T221530Z
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin launches his new book\, The Blue Absolute\, a collection of prose poetry that resembles hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T073553
CREATED:20200203T212500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T212500Z
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SUMMARY:Launch for Katie Burke / Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:To outsiders\, the Bay Area is intrinsically linked to tech hubs and counterculture. But what about San Francisco’s kid culture? In her new book\, “Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco\,” Katie Burke explores the experience of kids ages five to nine living in one of the country’s most iconic cultural hubs. \nThe book also includes thoughtful discussion questions designed to draw laughs\, explore various topics from silly to serious\, and facilitate discussion. \nWriter of Noe Kids\, a column of kid profiles for San Francisco neighborhood newspaper The Noe Valley Voice\, Katie Burke brings city kids’ personalities and perspectives to the page\, leading readers to see the joys and challenges to being a San Francisco kid. \nOne five-year-old tries to articulate the city’s aroma\, “I smell a delicious smell\, and it always smells like San Francisco. I don’t know what the smell is\, so I can’t really tell it to people\, but it smells different from ice cream.” \nBut it isn’t all about parks and ice cream. Drawing on her experience being an aunt to six nieces and two nephews (all of whom grew up in major cities)\, Burke unearths an often hidden and unasked perspective on the city’s more complicated subjects –– from homelessness to immigrant parents. By leaning in and crouching down to see a child’s point of view\, Burke shows us a part of San Francisco we never knew. \n\nKatie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school\, she earned a master’s degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids\, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice\, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood\, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney\, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins\, the L.A. Times\, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges\, Trial Insider\, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s newspaper)\, Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s blog)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Examiner\, The Fairfield Citizen-News\, The SoMa Literary Review\, Women’s Voices\, The Sitting Room\, The Compass\, Culture-Voice\, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED\, read at Litquake\, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 5:30pm; event starts at 6pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Urban Playground\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-katie-burke-urban-playground-what-kids-say-about-living-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit / Recollections of My Nonexistence
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the inimitable Rebecca Solnit reading from and discussing her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at the Internet Archive HQ\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nIn Recollections of My Nonexistence\, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco\, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor\, hopeful\, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that\, when she was nineteen\, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. \nSolnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her\, the street harassment that unsettled her\, the trauma that changed her\, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women\, including her. Looking back\, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women\, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for womens rights. \nShe explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer — books themselves\, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender\, family\, and joy could be\, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since\, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. \n\nRebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books\, including A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, River of Shadows\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape\, Gender\, and Art\, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003\, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n*** Please note *** \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to the author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, order below and put your request in the special field. \nFacebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
LOCATION:Internet Archive\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wyoming by JP Gritton Reading and Release!
DESCRIPTION:Alley Cat Books presents a reading of JP Gritton’s newest book\, Wyoming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wyoming-by-jp-gritton-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William J. Drummond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nPrison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News \nfrom University of California Press \nSan Quentin State Prison\, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest\, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008\, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. \nPrison Truth tells the story of how prisoners\, many serving life terms\, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars\, introducing us to Arnulfo García\, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News\, after a twenty-year shutdown\, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers\, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated\, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform. \nWilliam J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal\, where he covered the civil rights movement\, and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was a local reporter\, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem\, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley\, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-j-drummond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200317T193000
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SUMMARY:Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Harry Dodge discusses his new book\, My Metorite: Or\, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing. \nPraise for My Metorite \n“Dodge has offered a new\, luminous angle on autobiography that not only traces where the body has been–but also what it loves\, how it thinks and feels within the potent intellectual and physical detritus of its lived world. Reading this book is like being bathed in the bright\, gritty sear of a comet’s tail. But the mark it leaves is stunningly terrestrial: a thumbprint of a mind on paper–singular in erudition\, hurtfully wonder-struck\, and true.” —Ocean Vuong \n“Harry Dodge’s voice and vision are singular\, but his genius is for revealing how each of us is plural. This is a beautiful record of his loves and deaths and ways of making\, but even its most intimate moments open out\, become portals to other possible worlds. No genre can hold this book. It is a work of tender force\, prying open every category. My Meteorite is breathtaking—or breathgiving\, because the whole thing oxygenates discourse\, makes me feel alive.” —Ben Lerner\n \n“Captivating. My Meteorite holds you in its thrall like a brilliant friend—so vulnerable\, hot\, funny\, and casually weird that you don’t notice the profundity until you’re already walloped by it. Dodge juxtaposes the tenderest of human details with hungry\, brain-splitting inquiries into the very premise of life\, and these shifts in scale are incredibly moving and provocative. Don’t forget to notice that Dodge is a masterful writer; that’s how he pulls this whole thing off.” —Miranda July \n“A thought-filled\, deeply moving and personal book. The past\, present\, and future collide like Harry’s meteorite to earth. Life is tenderly felt\, questioned\, and affirmed within the pages of this exquisite prose.” —Catherine Opie\n \n“Riveting. A freewheeling\, feral romp through the wilderness of consciousness and connection!” —Eula Biss\n\n“Harry Dodge’s fierce intelligence and love permeates and shapes every line of this book which is redolent with loss\, desire\, and truth. Expansive in scope and intimate in detail\, Dodge’s account of becoming a self while living in a world defined by community\, lifts the spirit as it feeds the mind. A major achievement.” —Hilton Als\n\n“Harry’s book is ‘outside’ the book. Why should you read it? You’re out there too. I could say this is the smartest memoir I ever read but that’s pulling us back to the safe place. We are animals\, machines\, friends\, reading things and we’ve never been talked to this way before. Seductive and wise\, My Meteorite is the conversation you want.” —Eileen Myles  \nAbout My Metorite \nAn expansive\, radiant\, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know \nIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter\, the nature of consciousness\, and the bafflements of belonging. \nStructured around a series of formative\, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life\, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner\, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild\, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical\, the raw and the surreal\, the transgressive and the heartbreaking\, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world\, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-dodge/
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:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Our featured poet is: Clara Hsu!\nfrom 7:30-9:30pm at PianoFight:\n144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. \nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-8/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Baudelaire Fractal \npublished by Coach House Books \nA debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson\, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning\, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be\, it’s no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she’s taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit\, she shuttles between London\, Vancouver\, Paris\, and the French countryside\, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present\, from rented room to rented room\, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity\, poverty\, and the perfect jacket. .. Part memoir\, part magical realism\, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet’s life\, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the inimitable Lisa Robertson. \nPoet and essayist Lisa Robertson has held residencies at the California College of the Arts\, Cambridge University; University of California\, Berkeley; UC San Diego; and American University of Paris. Her books include Cinema of the Present\, Debbie: An Epic (nominated for the Governor General’s Award in Canada)\, The Men\, The Weather\, R’s Boat (poetry) and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (essays). Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House) was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010\, and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. She currently lives in France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andrew Altschul
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Altschul discusses his new novel\, The Gringa. \nPraise for The Gringa \n“The Gringa bites off an impressive chunk of American—and Peruvian—history with dynamic prose. It’s an exciting addition to the literature of terrorism and revolution.” —KARAN MAHAJAN\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“What every even slightly conscious American writer is trying to figure out right now is how to write about the state of America without clambering atop a soapbox. This is the considerable achievement of Andrew Altschul’s The Gringa.” —DAVID SHIELDS\, author of Reality Hunger \n“An extraordinary novel…powerful and provocative\, stylish and smart\, culturally relevant and emotionally astute.” —MOLLY ANTOPOL\, author of The Unamericans \nAbout The Gringa \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-altschul/
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:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n7:00 pm Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured video: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-am-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing-poetry-and-protest-a-day-in-honor-of-audre-lorde-and-pat-parker-part-one-with-judy-grahn-jewelle-gomez-and-avotcja/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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