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SUMMARY:Sam Sax + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Sam Sax’s new poetry collection \nMADNESS \npublished by Penguin Books \nAn “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition \nIn this ­­­powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it. \nsam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n\nD. A. Powell is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, the trilogy of Tea\, Lunch\, and Cocktails\, and Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His last two books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the English department at University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-sax-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T190000
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SUMMARY:The Nocturnists Holiday Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The Nocturnists is a night of physicians telling stories about their most memorable\, moving\, humorous\, absurd\, and trying experiences. For more information\, read about us here. \nWe have great plans for 2018\, but in order to make them a reality\, we need your continued support! So please join us for a festive holiday party on the evening of Friday\, December 8th at The Bindery\, an intimate literary enclave in The Haight. We’ll have drinks\, finger food\, music\, a live Q&A with emergency medicine physician and writer Ben Lerman\, PLUS you’ll get an exclusive first listen to our upcoming podcast. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-holiday-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnists":MAILTO:emily@thenocturnists.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T213000
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SUMMARY:Karen + Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Karen and Jim Shepard discuss their new books from Tin House\, The Tunnel at the End of the Light and Kiss Me Someone. \nAbout Kiss Me Someone \nBold and unapologetic\, Karen Shepard’s Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood\, stability and uncertainty\, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class\, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex\, but for all of their rationality they’re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard’s stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters\, fiercely true to themselves\, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it’s exactly where they belong. \nAbout The Tunnel at the End of the Light \nGiven that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political\, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions\, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage\, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe\, for example\, that our country always means well when intervening abroad? The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions\, in that regard\, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness” captured in GoodFellas\, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a “portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders’ conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge\,” he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films–Chinatown\, The Third Man\, and Badlands among others–in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-jim-shepard/
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:20171209T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T180000
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SUMMARY:Paseo Artístico - How Do You Carry Home With You?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE neighborhood celebration that will bring an eclectic mix of music\, entertainment and art activities at venues along the 24th Street corridor. \n— DECEMBER 9 EVENT SCHEDULE — \nPrecita Eyes Muralists | 2981 24th Street\n11 AM to 12:30 PM\nBILINGUAL GUIDED MURAL TOUR\n– Trace decades of visual storytelling on our bilingual guided mural tour through the 24th Street Corridor. \nColibri | 2919 24th St\n1 PM to 4 PM\nBROWN SANTA CLAUS\n-With your family or friends\, take a picture with Brown Santa! \nAlley Cat Books | 3036 24th Street\n1 PM to 3 PM\nLIVE SCREEN PRINTING\n– A live screen printing workshop and demonstration lead by renowned Mission printmaker Calixto Robles. \nBook Mobile\n1 PM to 4 PM\nFREE BOOKS\n– The San Francisco Public Libraries Book Mobile will be accessible to the neighborhood and will be providing free books. \nGalería de la Raza |2857 24th St\n3 PM to 5 PM\nSCREEN PRINTING & POETRY READINGS\n-Suavecita Press\n– QR Hand\n– Thea Matthews\n– Rene Vaz\n– Joyce Lee \nBrava for Women in the Arts | 2781 24th Street\n2 PM to 4 PM\nLATINX POETRY READINGS\n– Juliana Lopera\n– Cathie Arrellano\n– Maya Chincilla\n– Denise Benevides \nDance Brigade’s Dance Mission | 3316 24th Street\n4:30 PM to 6 PM\nCENTRAL AMERICAN FOLKLÓRICO DANCE CLASS\n– Chavalos de Aquí y Alla’s folklórico dance group\, Danzas por Nicaragua and dance director\, Diana Aburto will be teaching the basics of folkloric dance\, a preview of the main regional dances from Nicaragua and dances from the pacific and Atlantic coast. Folkloric dance skirts will be provided to participants. \nMission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 2868 Mission Street\n12 PM to 3 PM\nART EXHIBIT & STENCIL MURAL WORKSHOP\n– EXHIBIT: Xanath Mirell\n– Otomí Stencil mural workshop\n– Screening of: Boy and The World \nAcción Latina | 2958 24th St\n1 PM to 3 PM\n– Free public reading and presentation by author Adriana Camarena of the first two issues of “Unsettled in the Mission.”\n4 PM\n-Screening of: Your Name \nArtillery AG | 2751 Mission Street\n1PM to 5PM\nMURAL WORKSHOP & LIVE MUSIC\n-1PM-3PM Mural Workshop\n-3PM Dj Leydis de Cuba\n-3:30PM Chhoti Maa from Mexico\n– 4PM Bocafloja from Mexico \n—\nTHANK YOU TO OUR 24TH STREET / MISSION DISTRICT PARTNERS\, SPONSORS\, MERCHANTS\, AND SUPPORTERS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-how-do-you-carry-home-with-you/
LOCATION:Latino Cultural District\, 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171209T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks December
DESCRIPTION:Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit)\nDean Rader (Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry)\nDavid D. Levine (Arabella and the Battle of Venus)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-december/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171210T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171210T200000
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SUMMARY:Scholes\, Loory\, + Bisson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, December 10\, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with authors Ken Scholes and Ben Loory\, moderated by Bay Area author\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nKen Scholes  is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories.  His series\, The Psalms of Isaak\, is published by Tor Books; Hymn\, the final volume in the series\, debuts on December 5. Ken’s short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award\, France’s Prix Imaginales\, the Endeavour Award and a scattering of others.  His eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman\, a sailor who never sailed\, a soldier who commanded a desk\, a preacher (he got better)\, a nonprofit executive\, a musician and a government procurement analyst.  He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. \nBen Loory is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying\, as well as a picture book for children\, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, READ Magazine\, and Fairy Tale Review\, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts\, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Connie Willis\, Gene Wolfe\, Laurie King\, Nancy Kress\, Lev Grossman\, Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Cory Doctorow\, Peter S. Beagle\, and many others. We hope you will join us! \n$10 at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of both authors’ work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scholes-loory-bisson/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171211T200000
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SUMMARY:A Dyke\, a Pervert\, + a Transwoman Walk into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Authors Deb Busman\, Jordy Jones\, and Natasha Dennerstein read from their recent works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-dyke-a-pervert-a-transwoman-walk-into-a-bookstore/
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:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171213T210000
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SUMMARY:Matthew McIntosh
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \ntheMystery.doc \npublished by Grove Press \nFunny\, highly inventive\, and deeply moving\, theMystery.doc is a vast\, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy\, a tragedy\, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11\, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel\, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become\, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads\, search results\, web chats\, snippets of conversation\, lines of code\, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts\, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is\, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy\, first love to artificial intelligence\, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell\, the memories we hold on to\, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story\, part memoir\, part documentary\, part existential whodunit\, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-mcintosh/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171208T022229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022229Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Gifted'
DESCRIPTION:Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change.\nDoors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm.\nCome early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7:15 PM\n\nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission.\nThis Evening of Kinky Stories & Songs includes: \n\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ YOU? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Brillliantly Sex Songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front – grab em in advance\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-gifted/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T230000
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SUMMARY:A Very Special Merry Mortal You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:A Very Special Merry Mortal \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… \nFEATURING JOHN ELLIOTT \n& his new album… \nAn open mike & concert… \nFriday\, December 15th!!! \nAt the Swedish American Music Hall! \nDoors at 7pm \nShow at 8pm \nTickets $15
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-very-special-merry-mortal-youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171216T223000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171208T025259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025259Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Holiday Show
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit’s Holiday Show emceed by Jenn Stokes\, comedy by Emily Van Dyke\, musical guest Laura Weinbach\, and readings from Peter ThomasBullen\, JiaJing Liu\, Kimmer Pierce and Kimberly Reyes alongside a live score by David Williams and piano by accompaniment Sarah Dineen – Private Parlor Show at The Lost Church. \nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1595636\n$15 before and $20 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We 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. \nOnline sales are active until 9:30pm the night of show (unless sold out). You can purchase tickets right at the door using a card via your phone and the above Ticketfly.com link. Old-fashioned cash is also accepted. \nAges 12 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-holiday-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T210000
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SUMMARY:Poets Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate) & Jerry Ferraz - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic every first & third Monday
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171022T012819Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Rob Reid (After On\, Year Zero)\nFrances Stroh (Beer Money)\nBrontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-8/
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:20180115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171222T073027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T073027Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-kopel-and-clyde-always-poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20170621T002404Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today\, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. . .”  The Guardian \nMaggie Nelson is a poet\, critic\, and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, and The Argonauts– “a beautiful\, passionate and shatteringly intelligent meditation on what it means not to accept binaries but to improvise an individual life that says\, without fear\, yes\, and.”—Chicago Tribune. Nelson is also the author of four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180123T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20170621T002245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T002245Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Alarcón
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles\, which was a finalist for the 2014 Pen-Faulkner Award\, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight\, the novel Lost City Radio\, and the graphic novel City of Clowns. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, Granta\, n+1\, and Harpers\, and he was named one of the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” He is Executive Producer of “Radio Ambulante\,” distributed by NPR\, and is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-alarcon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180128T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
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SUMMARY:David Henderson
DESCRIPTION:David Henderson makes a rare appearance in San Francisco to read his poetry and talk with the audience\, returning from his longtime home on New York’s Lower East Side. Free.\n\n\n\n\nHenderson became connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop\, where he served as an editor its magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998)\, and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. \nThe author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition Love in Outer Space\,Henderson has also recorded with saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (Science Fiction) and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. Henderson is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix\, Voodoo Child (2009)\, and the writer and producer of an award-winning documentary on African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation. \nRecent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009)\, Obama\, Obama (2012)\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013) and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York\, Henderson has taught in its SEEK program and has been a visiting professor at University of California\, Berkeley; University of California\, San Diego; State University of New York\, Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first fellow of lost and found at the Poetics Document Initiative at City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-henderson/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T210000
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180206T045054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T045054Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents “Reparations”
DESCRIPTION:Why There Are Words Presents: Reparations \n  \nSAUSALITO\, CA (January 24\, 2018) – Join Why There Are Words on February 8th\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Reparations.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nLaurie Doyle‘s new collection of stories\, World Gone Missing (Regal House Publishing\, 2017)\, was named as a top book pick by The East Bay Express. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Jabberwock Review\, and Under the Sun\, among many other literary journals. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nScott Esposito is the author of four books\, most recently The Doubles from Civil Coping Mechanisms (2017). He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle\, and his work has appeared in BOMB Magazine\, Tin House\, The White Review\, The Lifted Brow\, The Believer\, The Washington Post\, and others. \nShauna Hannibal is the author of Hannibal (Forklift Books\, 2017)\, her debut collection of poetry\, with praise from Laura Kasischke and Dean Young. Her work has appeared in jubilat\, Big Bell\, Forklift\, Ohio\, and others. \nKevin McIlvoy’s published works include the story collections 57 Octaves Below Middle C\, published by Four Way Books in September 2017\, and The Complete History of New Mexico\, as well as the novels The Fifth Station\, Little Peg\, and Hyssop. www.mcthebookmechanic.com \nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad and Rad Families. His novella Bellies and Buffalos is about friendship\, family and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency and others. tomasmoniz.weebly.com \n  \nKathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections\, I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018)\, winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize\, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past\, \nwhich received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. Her poems are forthcoming in The New Statesman\, Yale Review\, Barrow Street\, Confrontation\, and others. \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to five additional major cities in the U.S. with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-reparations/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171022T012927Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Steph Burt (Advice from the Lights\, Belmont)\nAngela Pneuman (Lay It on My Heart)\nEllen Klages (Passing Strange\, Wicked Wonders) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-9/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180211T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180206T045704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T045704Z
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SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines - Uniquely SF Stories By SF Writers
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by editor\, Denise Sullivan\, featuring contributors Sylvia J. Martinez\, Shizue Seigel\, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon\, Lynell George and special guests. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nArtist evictions\, tech invasions – where will it end? This collection of uniquely San Francisco stories from a wide range of voices wrests wisdom from chaos and channels boundless progressive energy into lyrical short Artist evictions\, stories and personal narratives. Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuance as home and beacon to the literary vanguard\, situated at the edge of the world.\n\n\n\nSylvia J. Martínez is a writer and adult school ESL teacher. Her work has appeared in In Media Res: Stories from the In-Between (WriteSpace 2016)\, The East Bay Review\, Cipactli\, Word Riot\, Tattoo Highway\, and the San Francisco Examiner\, among others. She earned her MFA from San Francisco State and is working on her first collection of stories.   Shizue Seigel is a third-generation Japanese American writer and visual artist who has lived in San Francisco since 1958. She loves the city’s ever-changing diversity\, but misses the Fillmore\, the old Mission and Japantown\, fog and foghorns\, working docks\, the Belt Line. Her books include In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment and Standing Strong: Fillmore and Japantown.  Her latest project\, Endangered Species\, will be out in 2018.   \n Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is a Swiss-trained graphic designer with a masters degree in architecture. An award-winning landscape artist\, she conceived the signage and supergraphics at The Sea Ranch and Ghirardelli Square and the Ribbon of Light along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. \n\n\nLynell George will be here for a rare SF reading. She is a Los Angeles-based journalist\, essayist and photographer. She has written for KCET’s Artbound\, The Los Angeles Times\, the LA Weekly\, and she taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso/Doubleday).\n\n\n  \n Denise Sullivan is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. She writes about music\, arts\, and culture and her hometown\, and is the author of six titles\, including Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop and a chapbook\, Awful Sweet. She is at work on the biography of singer-songwriter Eugene McDaniels\, composer of the contemporary jazz standard\, “Compared To What\,” and the San Francisco memoir\, Sunnyside Up\, set in the Ingleside District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-uniquely-sf-stories-by-sf-writers/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180206T044528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T044528Z
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Valentine's Day Romance
DESCRIPTION:Authors Anna Pulley\, Meg Elison\, and Monica Nolan read romantic passages from their books in honor of Valentine’s Day
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-valentines-day-romance/
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:20180213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20171022T024627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024627Z
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff celebrates the release of her new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \nAbout Winter Kept Us Warm \nA bold and haunting novel that sets love against the brutality of WWII and post-war life \nUlli is a young woman\, half-English and half-German\, squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between Berlin-based GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two American soldiers: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia and then Paris for New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff/
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:20180215T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180218T163000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180206T044712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T044712Z
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SUMMARY:2018 San Francisco Writers Conference
DESCRIPTION:2018 SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE. February 15th-18th at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Get published and become a more professional writer. The 15th Annual Celebration of Craft\, Commerce and Community for writers features keynoters Shanthi Sekaran (Lucky Boy)\, Dana Gioia (CA Poet Laureate/former NEA Chairman)\, and New York Times bestselling thriller author Sheldon Siegel. Open to the public—FREE—events include Exhibitor Talks and a YA workshop with Mitali Perkins. SFWC offers quality interaction with 120+ literary agents\, editors\, publishers and bestselling authors. SFWC Master Classes (Feb. 15 & 19) are open to non-attendees. Get details\, register and opt-in for the SFWC newsletter at www.SFWriters.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2018-san-francisco-writers-conference/
LOCATION:mark hopkins hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco\, 94108
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180218T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180218T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180219T040717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T040717Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet As They Come & Birds Of Paradise Lost: Viet-Lit In SF
DESCRIPTION:The Tenderloin Museum is thrilled to collaborate with the Asian Art Museum on hosting a literary reading featuring renowned Vietnamese-American authors\, Andrew Lam and Angie Chau. Both authors have written extensively about coming of age in San Francisco in the ‘80s through the lens of the Vietnamese immigrant experience. As members of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN)\, they have contributed to a body of work that gives voice to the immigrant experience in the Bay Area and beyond. Their personal narratives are in dialogue with the current special exhibition at the Tenderloin Museum\, Voice of the Central City: The Tenderloin Times\, 1977-94\, which explores the history and impact of the Pulitzer Prize nominated\, polyglot Tenderloin community newspaper. \nLam and Chau both grew up in San Francisco and are among the few Vietnamese-Americans who have translated their localized experience into fiction. Their stories often unfold in the space between states\, between cultures\, and between generations. They explore how writers can tap gritty\, soul-deep truths to imbue highly specific\, often unprecedented life experience with a universality. In a 2011 interview with Lam on KALW\, Chau reflects that she seeks to portray “both the Vietnam side of things and what it means to be a person in the modern world who happens to have been from Vietnam trying to make it and find their way in this complicated\, complex\, messy urban environment of SF.” \nThis humanizing pursuit in Chau and Lam’s fiction is paralleled in the work of The Tenderloin Times\, where Lam was a regular contributor. The space between fact and fiction is fruitful ground for negotiating identity; both of these authors possess decades-long perspective and insight that enables them to navigate this space with gripping narrative finesse. This reading will be the final piece of programming for Voice of the Central City: The Tenderloin Times\, 1977-94\, on view at the Tenderloin Museum through April 2018. Published in English\, Vietnamese\, Cambodian and Lao\, the trailblazing neighborhood newspaper provided a vital service the Tenderloin’s Southeast Asian population during the pivotal years after the Fall of Saigon. Created in collaboration with community historian Sara Colm\, this exhibition showcases extremely rare archival images\, articles\, and political cartoons documenting our vibrant community. \nJoin the Tenderloin Museum at the Asian Art Museum’s Education Studios (200 Larkin St.) for this special reading and discussion. Free with admission to the Asian Art Museum. Get tickets here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-as-they-come-birds-of-paradise-lost-viet-lit-in-sf/
LOCATION:Asian Art Museum\, 200 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180219T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180219T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180206T044914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T044914Z
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SUMMARY:SFWC 2018: WRITING YOUR LIFE: Personal Essay + Memoir
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is for everyone who thinks “I should write about that!” but isn’t sure where to start…or where to go after the story/memory/experience has been described. A novel or a memoir? A journal or a screenplay? Whatever your preference or your dream\, you will take a vignette from your life\, or the life of someone who came before you\, and turn it into the heart of your work. The focus in this course is the story\, yes\, but also the depth and breadth of emotions and creativity that you bring to your work. We’ll discuss elements of voice\, point of view\, character and plot development\, continuity and conflict. You will be encouraged to read your work aloud\, although you may choose not to. By the end of this three-hour course\, you will have a good part of your work on the page!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfwc-2018-writing-your-life-personal-essay-memoir/
LOCATION:Mark Hopkins Hotel\, 999 California St\, San Francisco
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="San Francisco Writers Conference":MAILTO:Registrations@SFWriters.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20170324T014124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T050454Z
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SUMMARY:A Day of Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Traditionally\, members of the Japanese-American community and their allies observe February 19th\, the date in 1942 when Executive Order 9066 was signed by President Franklin Roosevelt\, leading to the internment of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps spread throughout the country. \nTonight\, Shizue Seigel and Hiroshi Kashiwagi will read prose and poetry\, respectgively\, in observation of this dark chapter in American history — a chapter which seems to be rewritten from time to time\, seemingly endlessly\, as it is being rewritten today in this era of unspeakable travesties and cruelty. \nAn open mic follows the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-day-of-remembrance/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180219T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180219T072759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T072759Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180220T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180220T193000
DTSTAMP:20260422T123221
CREATED:20180219T071655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T071655Z
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SUMMARY:A Reading of Song of a Captive Bird with Jasmin Darznik
DESCRIPTION:Nave Alcove\, San Francisco Campus\n\n\n\n\n\nMFA in Writing Faculty Jasmin Darznik reading from and in discussion around her new novel Song of a Captive Bird. \nRSVP Now >> \nFor more information\, contact Ben Austin-Docampo\, b.austin-docampo@cca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-of-song-of-a-captive-bird-with-jasmin-darznik/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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