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SUMMARY:Max Ritvo Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Read about Max’s life at NPR. \nPraise for Four Reincarnations: \n“Marked by intellectual bravado and verbal extravagance. . . .One of the most original and ambitious first books in my experience.” —Louise Glück \n\n“A Max Ritvo poem is:\nA map drawn by hand to show where the body is buried.\nA card trick with words. . . ‘Don’t show me how you did it.’\nLike reading the last sentence in a book first.\nDragging words across the page like a bow across a string.\nA piece of candy covered with ants.\nLike silverfish ate the words off a page . . . and left you a riddle.\nAll of the above.”\n—Tom Waits \n\nAbout Four Reincarnations: \nReverent and profane\, entertaining and bruising\, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.\nWhen Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen\, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied\, communicating pain\, violence\, and loss. And yet they are also erotically\, electrically attuned to possibility and desire\, to everything living / that won t come with me / into this sunny afternoon. Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity\, but he is also a poet of life and of lovea cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.\nRitvo writes to his wife\, ex-lovers\, therapists\, fathers\, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips\, Indian mythology\, wool hats. But in these poemsfrom the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of deathit’s Ritvo’s vulnerable\, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-ritvo-celebration/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161130T031450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T031450Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Levin + Eric Sneathen
DESCRIPTION:Please join Krupskaya Book for the release of our two new titles\, Lauren Levin’s THE BRAID and Eric Sneathen’s SNAIL POEMS! We are so thrilled to see these books in the world and celebrate with Lauren and Eric at Alley Cat Books! Doors are at 6PM\, reading at 7PM. \nLauren Levin grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. Her first full-length book The Braid is out now from Krupskaya Books\, and her second full-length\, Two Essays\, is forthcoming from Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2018. Recent work can be found in the chapbook Only the Dead Are Never Anxious (Mondo Bummer)\, on the Poetry Project website\, and forthcoming in the journal Hold. \nEric Sneathen splits his time between Oakland and UC Santa Cruz\, where he is a PhD student in Literature. His poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, littletell\, Faggot Journal\, and The Equalizer\, and his first collection\, Snail Poems\, is out now from Krupskaya. He is also the editor and producer of Macaroni Necklace\, a DIY literary zine and reading series featuring (mostly) writers who have not yet published a book-length manuscript.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-levin-eric-sneathen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161129T053801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T053801Z
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SUMMARY:Ambush Review Five
DESCRIPTION:Book release of the new Ambush Review Five\, with readings from the following contributors: \n\nDavid Beckman\nSharon Coleman\nGrace Marie Grafton\nJose Luis Gutierrez\nKen Saffran\nKim Shuck\n\n…and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ambush-review-five/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
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SUMMARY:Randa Jarrar
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Randa Jarrar: \n“Jarrar does what every brave storyteller should do-she makes sense of what other writers leave outside the bounds. She connects us with that which others have left unsaid.” – Colum McCann\, author of Transatlantic \n\n“Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali is a searing collection of short stories about loving\, lusting\, losing\, and surviving. Randa Jarrar is one of the finest writers of her generation. Her voice is assured\, fiercely independent\, laced with humor and irony–and always\, always\, honest.” – Laila Lalami\, author of The Moor’s Account \n\n“Randa Jarrar’s prose is bold and luscious and makes the darkly comic seem light.  The voices in Him\, Me\, Muhammed Ali are powerful individually\, and overwhelming as a chorus. This wonderful work isn’t just a collection: it’s a world.” – Mat Johnson\, author of Loving Day \n\n“Wow! These vibrant\, funny\, earthy\, and above all yearning (for love\, for family\, for home) stories are a revelation. Jarrar combines the invention of Calvino\, the sprung style of Paley\, the poetic imagery of Babel. But that mash-up isn’t mere stylistic exuberance; it’s a restless\, relentless and deeply affecting effort to forge identity out of fragments\, to make a whole out of halves. These are the stories we need right now.” – Peter Ho Davies\, author of The Welsh Girl \n\n“Fearless\, funny\, and sad\, soaring and earthly\, fable-like and visceral\, full of families\, lovers\, friends\, strangers and lonely children. These stories laugh with and think through and rise against\, which is just to say they brilliantly demonstrate Jarrar’s huge talent\, compassion and range. “Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali astonishes from start to finish.” – Sam Lipsyte\, author of The Ask \n\nAbout Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali: \nAward-winning novelist Randa Jarrar’s new story collection moves seamlessly between realism and fable\, history and the present\, capturing the lives of Muslim women and men across myriad geographies and circumstances. With acerbic wit\, deep tenderness\, and boundless imagination\, Jarrar brings to life a memorable cast of characters\, many of them “accidental transients”a term for migratory birds who have gone astrayseeking their circuitous routes back home. Fierce and feeling\, Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali is a testament to survival in the face of love\, loss\, and displacement.\nRanda Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel\, A Map of Home\, which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt\, and moved to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, the Utne Reader\, Salon.com\, Guernica\, the Rumpus\, the Oxford American\, Ploughshares\, and more. She blogs for Salon\, and lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/randa-jarrar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T031004Z
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word at Naivasha
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the living legacy of spoken word in North Beach as we welcome our favorite local writers to share their work. \nFeaturing Brandon Loberg\, Charlie Getter\, Daniel Vaccerelli\, Kristin Kennedy\, Niko Van Dyke\, Jason Whitacre & Zach Roz. \nBYOB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-word-at-naivasha/
LOCATION:Naivasha Studio & Gallery\, 1499 Grant Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T020140Z
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SUMMARY:Ellingham\, Stein\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Stein\, Lewis Ellingham\, and Garrett Caples read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, December 3\, 2016 at 3 p.m\, for an exciting event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAlley Cat Books in located in the Mission District of San Francisco\, at 3036 24th Street (at Treat). \nGarrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections\, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016). He has also written a book of essays\, Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and a pamphlet\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave\, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016)\, Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn\, 2015)\, and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California\, 2013). A freelance writer\, he is also an editor at City Lights\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco. \nLewis Ellingham: born February 27th\, 1933\, Fort Wayne\, Indiana. By age 21\, migrated to San Francisco\, after living in Chicago and New York; settled in North Beach. With Kevin Killian\, wrote a biography of Jack Spicer\, Poet Be Like God [1995]. “My The Birds and Other Poems was published in 2009; new writing continues with a series of self-published books. My blog: “The Ellingham Digest”: http://lewellingham.wordpress.com/” He has a brand new book we launch this afternoon\, SEEN\, UNSEEN. \nSuzanne Stein’s publications and performance documents include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks)\, TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press)\, and Passenger Ship (Ypolita). Poems\, talk performances\, and prose have appeared in War and Peace\, On: Contemporary Practice\, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts\, the Poetry Project\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound. She was the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nFacebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/598929320310766/?active_tab=discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellingham-stein-caples/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161118T025140Z
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SUMMARY:WHEN WE RISE Publication Launch
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the launch of Cleve Jones‘ new memoir and get your signed copies! \nHosted by Juanita More\nDJ Tweaka Turner \nFood from Harvey’s\, Catch\, and Le Mediterranee. \nBy turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS\, which very nearly killed him\, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing\, sexy\, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve’s passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and possibility\, and prejudice and violence alike. \nWhen We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life–an activist whose work continues today. \nPreorder on Amazon today! \nhttps://www.amazon.com/When-We-Rise-Life-Movement/dp/0316315435
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-we-rise-publication-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161130T031857Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday December 3\, Babylon Salon’s Winter Reading welcomes double Lambda Literary Award-winning novelist\, poet\, essayist and recipient of a 2016 Barbary Coast Award from Litquake Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories); short story writer and recipient of a 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us); poet and Kundiman fellow Jason Bayani (Amulet); author\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist and Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award recipient Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities); writer and teacher Zach Wyner (What We Never Had). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downstairs performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details: www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T020003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020003Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry: Neruda\, Ferrer Lerín\, + Panero
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books in the Mission District to hear the poetry and prose of three great writers of the Spanish speaking world:\nPablo Neruda\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín and Leopoldo María Panero.\nTheir work of the Chileno and the two Spaniards will be read by their translators: William O’Daly and Arturo Mantecón.\nMusic will be provided by Arturo Balderrama.\nQ & A to follow\nLimited open mic \nWILLIAM O’DALY is a poet\, translator\, fiction writer\, and editor. His translations include eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — Still Another Day\, The Separate Rose\, Winter Garden\, The Sea and the Bells\, The Yellow Heart\, The Book of Questions\, The Hands of Day\, and World’s End — all published with Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon will publish his translation of Crepusculario (1923)\, Neruda’s first book of poems\, in late 2017. A chapbook of poems\, The Whale in the Web\, was published by Copper Canyon Press\, and Folded Word Press released The Road to Isla Negra (poems) in June 2015. Folded Word will publish two more books— Water Ways (a collaboration with JS Graustein) and Yarrow and Smoke — in 2017. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, his poems\, translations\, essays\, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin\, O’Daly recently completed a historical novel\, This Earthly Life\, an excerpt from which was awarded as a Finalist in Narrative’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. He has received national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design. To learn more\, please visit him at: www.williamodaly.com. \nARTURO MANTECÓN is a poet and translator born in Laredo\, Texas and raised in Detroit\, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta\, Poetry Now and various anthologies. Recently published books of his translations include Chance Encounters and Waking Dreams (collected work of the great Spanish writer\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín) and The Sick Rose (the posthumous poems of Leopoldo María Panero\, the mad\, genius of Spanish letters). A collection of his short stories\, Memories\, Cuentos Verídicos\, y Otras Outright Lies\, was published by En Casa in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-neruda-ferrer-lerin-panero/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert + Cody-Rose Clevidence
DESCRIPTION:a reading & conversation with\nCODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE &\nTC TOLBERT \nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014) and 3 chapbooks\, TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). S/he is Core Faculty in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. His favorite thing in the world is Compositional Improvisation (which is another way of saying being alive). www.tctolbert.com \nCody-Rose Clevidence’s 1st book\, BEAST FEAST\, was published by Ahsahta press in 2014. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, Pearl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert-cody-rose-clevidence/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161130T032058Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Peter Thomas Bullen\, Grady Chambers\, and Tess Taylor\nHosted by Peter Kline \nPeter Thomas Bullen\, hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley\, began writing late\, not just late in life\, but also late at night. Later still he discovered that if you are standing in front of a room\, holding text and trembling slightly\, people will give you their attention. This made him happy. His work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, Red Light Lit\, and the LA Review of Books. In October\, his first chapbook\, Wallflower\, came out from Nomadic Press. He blogs at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com. \nGrady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. Poems of his have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Diode Poetry Journal\, Barrow Street\, Midwestern Gothic\, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland\, and is a 2015-2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nTess Taylor’s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. Her first book\, The Forage House\, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days\, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle\, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor recently was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to study and lecture at Queen’s University Belfast\, in Northern Ireland\, for six months in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-3/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T210000
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: The Racket
DESCRIPTION:Noah Sander‘s new monthly reading series – people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff… bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-reading-the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T203000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161118T025716Z
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SUMMARY:Sticky Pages
DESCRIPTION:Come to “Sticky Pages\,” three gay authors reading their erotic writing\, Monday\, December 5\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Free admission\, hot readings\, and sexy door prizes! Andrew Demcak reads erotic poetry from Zero Summer\, Rick May shares bedtime stories from Inhuman Beings: Encounters of Men and Not-Men\, and Rob Rosen excerpts the juicy bits from his latest novel Midlife Crisis. Want more? You know you do. See you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sticky-pages/
LOCATION:Center for Sex and Culture\, 1349 Mission St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
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CREATED:20161018T230906Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Bill Ayers\, here on a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book\, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto. \n  \nIn an era defined by mass incarceration\, endless war\, economic crisis\, catastrophic environmental destruction\, and a political system offering more of the same\, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible. \nIn critiquing the world around us\, Ayers uncovers cracks in the system\, raising our sights for radical change\, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane\, balanced\, and peaceful world. \n  \n“For Bill Ayers\, it is the freedom of our collective imagination that links the contemporary world—ensconced as it is in pervasive militarism\, racist violence\, and environmental devastation—to the flourishing of our planet. This is a manifesto that should be read by everyone who wants to believe that “another world is possible.” — Angela Y. Davis\, author of Abolition Democracy and Freedom is a Constant Struggle \n“With huge numbers of us recognizing the need for transformative change\, this ambitious and exuberant book perfectly matches its historical moment. Ayers fearlessly confronts the intersecting crises of our age—endless war\, surging inequality\, unchecked white supremacy and perilous planetary warming—while mapping emancipatory new possibilities. From the first page\, his courage is contagious.” — Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine \n“Demand the Impossible is more than a book\, more than a manifesto. It is a torch. Bill Ayers’ vision for a humane future is incendiary—fire that incinerates old logics and illuminates new paths. If we do not end the violence of militarism\, materialism\, caging\, dispossession\, debt\, want\, ignorance\, and global warming\, our very survival is impossible. Read aloud.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-ayers/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
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SUMMARY:Equal Justice: Post-Obama
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Adachi has served as elected Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco since March 2002 and has worked as a deputy public defender in San Francisco for 15 years. From 1998-2001\, he served as the Chief Attorney of the office. As the only elected Public Defender in the state of California\, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 93 lawyers and 60 support staff. The office represents more than 23\,000 people each year and provides a panoply of innovative programs\, including Drug Court\, Mental Health Court\, Clean Slate expungement services\, and a full-service juvenile division. The public defender’s community MAGIC programs address the root causes of juvenile crime in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods by linking families with educational\, health and community services. \nDeRay Mckesson is a protestor\, activist\, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation\, equity\, and justice. Born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he graduated from Bowdoin College and has advocated for issues related to children\, youth\, and families since he was a teen. Mckesson has served as an educator\, student leader\, and founding director of an after-school/out-of school program. He has also provided leadership to the executive teams of large urban school districts. Spurred by the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson\, Missouri\, Mckesson has become a leading voice in the effort to confront the system and structures that have led to the mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is co-founder of the Protestor Newsletter and Campaign Zero. \nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transform the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/equal-justice-post-obama/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
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CREATED:20161207T011208Z
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SUMMARY:December Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read in absolute silence. Cocktails and food will be available. This event is FREE to attend. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the school library of the June Jordan School for Equity. \nThis month\, DJ Please Be Quiet I’m Trying to Read (AKA Lemony Snicket) will be spinning records by Joseph Haydn and Count Basie. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here: http://eepurl.com/bZXqKb
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161207T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T020825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020825Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Goorjian
DESCRIPTION:“Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason\, I have not . . . ” \nIn What Lies Beyond the Stars\, these words ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard\, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen. On the verge of a psychotic break\, Adam begins to have a recurring dream of his early childhood and the hauntingly rustic town of Mendocino California where he grew up. Convinced he has left something behind there\, something vital to his present sanity\, Adam walks away from his current life to figure out what that is. \nOne night on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean\, lost in thoughts of suicide\, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious woman. Later he realizes that she is Beatrice\, a long forgotten childhood friend whose fiery spirit and red hair had filled his young heart with immeasurable wonder. The coincidence of their reunion only deepens as Adam discovers that Beatrice has returned to Mendocino also due to a recurring dream\, eerily similar to his own. \nAre they lost soul mates drawn together through time and space? As Adam begins to hope that his life could be more than a bleak virtual wasteland\, he finds himself a pawn in a game that pits dark forces against those few quixotic souls who still search for meaning\, beauty\, and magic in the world. \nMichael Goorjian is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, filmmaker\, and writer. His acting credits include Party of Five\, Leaving Las Vegas\, and SLC Punk. As a filmmaker\, he achieved widespread recognition for his first major independent film\, Illusion\, starring Kirk Douglas. Other directing credits include the Louise Hay documentary\, You Can Heal Your Life\, Wayne Dyer’s l’m The Shift\, and the Hay House film anthology\, Tales of Everyday Magic. Michael lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-goorjian/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161017T231913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T231913Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Chris Andrews on César Aira
DESCRIPTION:Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation\, Ema\, the Captive\, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. \nMore event details to come. \nChris Andrews is a translator and professor at the University of Western Sydney\, Australia. He has translated numerous books by César Aira and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño\, as well as a critical study of poetry and science and a collection of poems. \nCésar Aira is an Argentine author and translator who has written more than 80 novels and translated and edited works from multiple languages. Aira also writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship\, and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please join us for the final Salon of 2016!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-chris-andrews-on-cesar-aira/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161130T032246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T032246Z
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Radio Heart
DESCRIPTION:MC: PAUL OCAMPO\, KSW Board Member \nparty \nto gather artists\, activists\, citizens of the bay area\, in resistance and solidarity. we will dance\, drink\, and poetry. \nchapbook launch \nto celebrate the publication of radio heart; or\, how robots fall out of love (finishing line press\, 2016) by margaret rhee.\n\nmany of these poems were written with the guidance of truong tran and kearny street workshop. we want to take time to honor where the poetry emerged from\, we write together\, and not alone. \nfeaturing \nDEBBIE YEE\nVIRGIE TOVAR\nSEAN Y MANZANO\nMARIA FIANI\nDANIEL REDMAN\nISELA FORD with\nMARGARET RHEE \naward ceremony \nto honor artist and poet TRUONG TRAN for years of service\, mentorship\, and friendship to writers and artists of color in the bay area. to celebrate and express our gratitude for his indomitable\, gorgeous radical spirit fighting for what is fair and good. \nthis award will be given by CAPRE (Concerned Artists and Poets for Racial Equity) in light of the post-elections\, and the need for resistance. \nwe will celebrate truong with testimonials of his mentorship and impact of his art and poetry\, we also invite attendees to share their words of resistance in the space. \nALSO\, \non display\, speciality books by graphic design firm THE MYSTERY PARADE: themysterparade.com \nCAKE – DRINKS – PRETTY THINGS \nBIOS: \nIsela Ford\, born in Mexico and later emigrated to San Francisco\, in the mid-seventies\, is committed to improving the lives of marginalized peoples and creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. Growing up in the Mission District during the 1970’s and 1980’s set the foundation for learning\, growing\, and appreciating people and cultures from all walks of life. Her appreciation and committment uplifting disenfranchised people\, particularly people of color\, led her to work for the SF Department of Public Health\, specifically working with adults in SF jails for over 15 years. \nMaria is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her academic work focuses on P.T.S.D.\, moral injury\, and suicide; in addition to her academic life\, she is an ARC fellow\, a YBCA arts fellow\, co-founder of the Life Writing Student and New Scholar Network and co-founder of an art collective titled (Un)Forbidden: a Valediction \nPaul was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US at eleven years old. He earned a Master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA and MFA in creative writing at ASU. He has been published in anthologies and magazines including Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace and The New Engagement. He currently works at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. \nVirgie Tovar travels around the world lecturing on the social effects of fat discrimination and diet culture. She is the founder of Babecamp\, a 4 week online course designed for women who want to break up with diet culture but don’t know how. She started thr hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, Al Jazeera and NPR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistance-radio-heart/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T025439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025439Z
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Launch party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in the new West Marin Review\, Volume 7. This award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, and art selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists\, several from San Francisco. West Marin Review is published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161129T053945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T053945Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Holidays w/ Poetry + Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Ring in the holidays with a swingin’ evening of poetry and jazz\, featuring: \n\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nJazz Poet Extraordinaire\nLucho\nCubano Saxophonist\n\n…and a lineup of poets and musicians from both sides of the Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-holidays-w-poetry-jazz/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T220000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161129T061324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061324Z
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: See You in the Morning Light
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://seeyouinthemorninglight.bpt.me\n$15 in advance and $15 at the door.\n(If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact ned@yg2d.com.) \nAn evening of music & art\, a communal grief release\, a live presentation of Deep Pools’ new album SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT. \n“See You In The Morning Light” is Scott Ferreter’s attempt to shine light on the beauty that grief offers when it is fully felt. In 2012\, he moved back to his hometown of Sacramento upon getting the news that his father was dying of stage 4 stomach cancer. During that time\, he played music constantly as he soaked up his father’s last days alongside his family\, and would spend 4 years trying to capture the vibrancy of those days in sound. His intention was to make an album that would invite listeners more deeply into the experience of being alive on a planet where everything eventually leaves. \nAll said and done\, the record has 22 musicians\, was recorded across 6 different studios\, and includes field recordings from around the world. The vision was to put as much care into the microscopic sounds as the major ones and to give as much space for the difficult feelings as the pleasant ones. Instead of planning out a normal recording process\, Scott continually listened to what the record was asking of him\, and this meant that the final trajectory of the record ended up being far more bizarre and magical than anything he could have planned. Some of his closest friends and favorite musicians recorded on the record\, including the legendary Suzanne Ciani. \nDeep Pools: http://www.deep-pools.com/ \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-see-you-in-the-morning-light/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T020247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020247Z
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SUMMARY:Dillon\, Hart\, + Hannibal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from poets Russell Dillon\, Matt Hart\, and Shauna Hannibal hosted by Jason Morris
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dillon-hart-hannibal/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161018T004717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T004717Z
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SUMMARY:Beagle\, Raeff\, Yim Caples\, + Aggarwal
DESCRIPTION:Peter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nAnne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us)\nVariny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)\nGarrett Caples (Retrievals)\nVidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble with Humpadori) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beagle-raeff-yim-caples-aggarwal/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T030316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030316Z
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SUMMARY:Rosenthal\, Duncan\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Lizard (poetry\, Chax\, 2016) and Manhatten (cross-genre\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). Her interview collection A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area was published by Dalkey Archive in 2010. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Chicago\, she lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury. \nAja Couchois Duncan’s poetry collection Restless Continent was published by Litmus Press in 2016. Duncan\, a Bay Area educator\, writer and coach of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent\, is the recipient of a 2005 Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and a 2013 James D. Phelan Literary Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along. \nArisa White is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury\, 2016)\, Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Artists Collective\, 2012)\, and A Penny Saved (Willow\, 2012). In 2013–14 she received a Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera\, and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund a project called dear Gerald. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a BFA faculty member at Goddard College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosenthal-duncan-white/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161118T031822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T031822Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer welcomes Nomadic Press\, an innovative publisher based in Oakland and Brooklyn. The press publishes books\, chapbooks\, and periodicals and fosters community through frequent readings in both cities. Founder J.K. Fowler presents 3 Queer authors published by the press and Queer musician Azuah. M.K. Chavez reads from her new full-length poetry collection Dear Animal\, Arisa White from her poetry chapbook Black Pearl\, and Kwan Booth from selected writing. Azuah is a singer\, songwriter\, and guitarist. For more information on Nomadic Press\, see nomadicpress.org. Free admission\, refreshments\, and door prizes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161129T061652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061652Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit w/ Maria Popova
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nMaria Popova is the highly creative mind behind Brain Pickings. Founded in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven of Popova’s close friends\, Brain Pickings is now one of the fastest growing literary sites on the Internet. A resource for writings spanning art\, science\, psychology\, design\, philosophy\, history\, politics\, anthropology\, and more\, the site explores how these different disciplines illuminate one another to glean some insight into that grand question of how to live\, and how to live well. Popova has written for Wired UK\, The Atlantic\,The New York Times\, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab\, among others\, and is a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-w-maria-popova/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161129T055448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055448Z
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SUMMARY:December Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nMaya Pindyck\nMaya Pindyck is the author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books)\, Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, and Locket\, Master (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Series). A multidisciplinary artist\, she has received grants and fellowships in support of her work from the Historic House Trust of New York City’s Contemporary Art Partnerships Program\, the Abortion Conversation Project\, Squaw Valley Writers\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been recently published in Waxwing\, The Wide Shore\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Feminist Wire. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Teachers College\, Maya teaches at Parsons School of Design and Long Island University and facilitates youth writing workshops through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. \nKatherine Agard\nKatherine Agard is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently based in California. Her writing has been supported by Lambda Literary\, Kimbilio\, Callaloo and VONA/Voices\, the University of California – San Diego and Harvard University. She writes and performs her relationship to color – material\, socio-cultural\, spiritual – and the language which allows us to perceive it. You can find out more about her work at http://www.kmagard.com \nChloe Caldwell\nChloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women and two essay collections Legs Get Led Astray and I’ll Tell You in Person. Her work has appeared in the Sun\, Salon\, Vice\, Catapult\, Hobart\, Nylon\, the Rumpus\, Men’s Health\, and Lenny\, among others. She teaches personal essay and memoir writing in New York City and lives in Hudson\, NY. \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nBased in Oakland CA but having spent most of her life moving between city centers\, the Navajo Nation\, and the Gila River Indian Community\, Grace Rosario Perkins is interested in disassembling her personal narrative and reassembling it as one that layers words\, objects\, faces\, and signifiers built from cultural dissonance\, language\, and history. \nGrace is one of the core founders of Black Salt Collective\, an all women of color art collective that is a recent SFMOMA SECA Award nominee\, has had their collaborative work screened in six countries\, and recently curated a 30+ artist show titled “Visions into Infinite Archives” at SOMArts in SF which received press from publications such as the SFChronicle\, Dazed Magazine\, KQED\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T110637
CREATED:20161201T030447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030447Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Gevirtz w/ Lauren Shufran
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Susan Gevirtz‘ Hotel abc function as ethnographic notes\, exposing the fact that we are all under the thumb of circadian rhythm\, struggling to negotiate our shared condition. Reporters and hotel guests leave and enter the book\, revealing that the face of the beloved is also an icon\, that some sounds can only be heard in certain places and that the origins of language are impossible to locate. \nLauren Shufran is a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz\, where she is finishing her dissertation on the influence of Reformed theology on British love poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries. Her first book of poems\, Inter Arma\, won the Motherwell prize and was published by Fence Books in 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-gevirtz-w-lauren-shufran/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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