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SUMMARY:My Word Open MIC Welcomes Tureeda Mikell & Barbara Saunders
DESCRIPTION:Two amazing powerful women poets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-word-open-mic-welcomes-tureeda-mikell-barbara-saunders/
LOCATION:Cafe Leila\, 1724 San Pablo Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: In Common Writers Series: Dodie Bellamy and Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes poet Prageeta Sharma\, visiting from Los Angeles\, together with Dodie Bellamy\, of San Francisco\, reading and in conversation. This event\, the second of two evenings featuring these two writers\, is supported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, and is free and open to the public. \nDodie Bellamy’s writing focuses on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions among fiction\, the essay\, and poetry. She was the 2018–19 subject of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts’ On Our Mind program\, a yearlong series of public events\, commissioned essays\, and reading-group meetings inspired by an artist’s writing and lifework. Her most recent collection of hybrid essays is When the Sick Rule the World (Semiotext(e)\, 2015). A 17th-Anniversary editon of Cunt-Ups\, her long out-of-print poetry collection\, was released by Tender Buttons Press in 2018.  Her essay “The Beating of Our Hearts” was presented at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian\, she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977–1997 (Nightboat Books\, 2017). In February 2020\, Dodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind\, a compendium of essays examining her career and writing\, is forthcoming from Semiotext(e). \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of the poetry collections Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019)\, Undergloom (Fence Books\, 2013)\, Infamous Landscapes (Fence Books\, 2007)\, The Opening Question (Fence Books\, 2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize\, and Bliss to Fill (Subpress\, 2000). She is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies and Art. A recipient of the 2010 Howard Foundation Award\, she has taught at the University of Montana and now teaches at Pomona College. \n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nPrageeta Sharma and Dodie Bellamy\nreading and in conversation\nThursday March 12\n7:00 pm @ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by The Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFeatured: \n“States of flailing and difficulty”: A Conversation with Prageeta Sharma about Writing and Grieving (with Cassandra Cleghorn) \n“Interview with Dodie Bellamy” (interviewer: Lucy Ives) \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and ATA: Artists’ Television Access
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-dodie-bellamy-and-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T190000
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SUMMARY:On Astrology and Real Relationships
DESCRIPTION:When it comes to friendship\, family\, and romance\, we all want the same things: to love and be loved\, to communicate\, to fight fair\, and to feel okay in our own skin. \nBeloved Bay Area astrologer and host of the popular podcast\, Ghost of a Podcast\, Jessica Lanyadoo has turned her skills towards relationships and matters of the heart\, doing the math on why we are the way we are\, and why our actions might not reflect our desires. \nJessica’s first book\, Astrology for Real Relationships\, is a modern\, practical guide to relationships of all kinds designed to help everyone understand their blind spots\, blocks\, and fears so they can make choices that leave them happy and fulfilled. Jessica offers astrological tools to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family\, your friends\, and yourself. \nJoin Jessica for an evening full of real talk about attraction\, dating\, sex\, frenemies\, self-love\, and how to deal with family. Discover how to build and maintain strong connections-with your crushes\, your spouse\, your boss\, or your mom-and uncover and get what you really want in relationships\, not what you think you should want. \n$20. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs/full-calendar/lanyadoo-jessica-march-13-2020 publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-astrology-and-real-relationships/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200313T210000
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SUMMARY:Miah Jeffra's The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Reading and Release
DESCRIPTION:Help Alley Cat give a big congratulations to Miah Jeffra on their newest book\, The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! Featuring a star-studded slew of readers including: Carson Beker\, Jennifer Lewis\, Juli Delgado Lopera\, Monique Mero and Baruch Porras-Hernandez! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/miah-jeffras-the-fabulous-ekphrastic-fantastic-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Deb Olin Unferth: Barn 8
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nDeb Olin Unferth discusses her new novel\, Barn 8\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Barn 8 \n“Barn 8 is a novel like no other: An urgent moral fantasia\, a post-human parable\, a tender portrait of animal dignity and genius.”—Dana Spiotta \n“Deb Unferth’s hilarious\, off-kilter genius is on dazzling display in this novel. Come for the brilliant insights about our faltering civilization. Stay for the revolutionaries and the chickens. You are really really going to love these chickens . . .”—Jenny Offill \n“Like Flannery O’Connor\, Deb Olin Unferth does things entirely her own way\, and that way is impossible to describe. . . . This very funny and absurd novel is also as serious as the world.”—Zachary Lazar \n“I leap to read anything Deb Olin Unferth writes\, and her latest book\, Barn 8\, is further proof of her singular talent\, her gigantic heart. While Unferth’s characters try to save hens\, her miracle of a novel might\, in turn\, save you.”—R.O. Kwon \nAbout Barn 8 \nAn unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers \nTwo auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night—an entire egg farm’s worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland—a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audits—assemble a precarious\, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues. \nDeb Olin Unferth’s wildly inventive novel is a heist story of a very unusual sort. Swirling with a rich array of voices\, Barn 8 takes readers into the minds of these renegades: a farmer’s daughter\, a former director of undercover investigations\, hundreds of activists\, a forest ranger who suddenly comes upon forty thousand hens\, and a security guard who is left on an empty farm for years. There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet. We hear what hens think happens when they die. In the end the cracked hearts of these indelible characters\, their earnest efforts to heal themselves\, and their radical actions will lead them to ruin or revelation. \nFunny\, whimsical\, philosophical\, and heartbreaking\, Barn 8 ultimately asks: What constitutes meaningful action in a world so in need of change? Unferth comes at this question with striking ingenuity\, razor-sharp wit\, and ferocious passion. Barn 8 is a rare comic-political drama\, a tour de force for our time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth-barn-8/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MCD Book Signing: Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Craft and Design is thrilled to welcome Bill Burnett and Dave Evans\, authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller “Designing Your Life”\, for a free book signing event in our museum store. On March 14\, 2020\, Burnett and Evans will be signing their brand new book “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Find Happiness”. \nCopies of “Designing Your Life”\, “Designing Your Work Life”\, and “The Designing Your Life Workbook” will be available to purchase in the museum store and online at sfmcd.org. The book signing will take place from 4-6 PM on Saturday\, March 14 and is free and open to the public. \nWhen “Designing Your Life” was published in 2016\, Stanford’s Bill Burnett and Dave Evans taught readers how to use design thinking to build meaningful\, fulfilling lives. The book became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Now\, in “Designing Your Work Life: How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness at Work”\, Burnett and Evans apply that transformative thinking to the place where we spend more time than anywhere else: work. \n“Increasingly\, it’s up to workers to define their own happiness and success in this ever-moving work landscape\,” writes Burnett and Evans. Chapter by chapter\, Designing Your Work Life shows us how to design and create positive changes wherever we are in our career. Whether you want to stay in your job and make it a more meaningful experience\, or you decide it’s time to move on\, Burnett and Evans show us how to visualize and build a work-life that is productive\, engaged\, satisfying\, and fun. \nFree \nhttp://sfmcd.org sbrosales@sfmcd.org 415-773-0303
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mcd-book-signing-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/
LOCATION:Museum of Craft and Design\, 2569 Third Street\, San Francisco\, 94107
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T200000
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SUMMARY:Canceled: Babylon Salon Spring 2020 Performance
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nJoin us on Saturday\, March 14 for Babylon Salon’s quarterly reading and performance series\, with readings from Deb Olin Unferth (Barn 8\, forthcoming in March; Wait Till You See Me Dance; Revolution)\, C. Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills is Gold\, forthcoming in April)\, Taymour Soomro (fiction in the New Yorker\, Southern Review\, and Ninth Letter)\, and more\, along with a musical performance by Rachel “Lightning” Rose (Jefferson Starship). \nWHERE: The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco. FREE ADMISSION. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. http://www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-2020-performance/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:An LGBTQ+ Open Mic hosted by the folks at Alley Cat Books!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200314T213000
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SUMMARY:Cancelled: Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Please note: this event has been cancelled. \n  \nSusan Fowler (Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber)\nStephen van Dyck (People I’ve Met from the Internet)\nMiah Jeffra (The First Church of What’s Happening) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 7 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-27/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zine Party ///Paula Salemme + Ariel Cooper
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/zine-party-paula-salemme-ariel-cooper/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T200000
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SUMMARY:Aaron Shurin at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Shurin launches his new book\, The Blue Absolute\, a collection of prose poetry that resembles hot boxes of lyrical language combusting with daily life. People move and think amidst a flurry of dots and dashes in a constant shift of perspective and action—urban and pastoral\, highly figured and fragmented\, grieving and dreaming—each poem a compressed but fluid zone of almost psychedelic intensity. The book closes with “Shiver\,” an American epic\, at once a lament for and vision of a great city on the edge: San Francisco past\, present\, and future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aaron-shurin-at-the-green-arcade/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200316T180000
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SUMMARY:Launch for Katie Burke / Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:To outsiders\, the Bay Area is intrinsically linked to tech hubs and counterculture. But what about San Francisco’s kid culture? In her new book\, “Urban Playground: What Kids Say About Living in San Francisco\,” Katie Burke explores the experience of kids ages five to nine living in one of the country’s most iconic cultural hubs. \nThe book also includes thoughtful discussion questions designed to draw laughs\, explore various topics from silly to serious\, and facilitate discussion. \nWriter of Noe Kids\, a column of kid profiles for San Francisco neighborhood newspaper The Noe Valley Voice\, Katie Burke brings city kids’ personalities and perspectives to the page\, leading readers to see the joys and challenges to being a San Francisco kid. \nOne five-year-old tries to articulate the city’s aroma\, “I smell a delicious smell\, and it always smells like San Francisco. I don’t know what the smell is\, so I can’t really tell it to people\, but it smells different from ice cream.” \nBut it isn’t all about parks and ice cream. Drawing on her experience being an aunt to six nieces and two nephews (all of whom grew up in major cities)\, Burke unearths an often hidden and unasked perspective on the city’s more complicated subjects –– from homelessness to immigrant parents. By leaning in and crouching down to see a child’s point of view\, Burke shows us a part of San Francisco we never knew. \n\nKatie Burke is a family law attorney and writer in San Francisco. Prior to entering law school\, she earned a master’s degree in counseling. She owns Burke Family Law and writes Noe Kids\, a monthly column for The Noe Valley Voice\, in which she spotlights children ages four to twelve who live in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood\, after interviewing them on various themes. She also regularly contributes judicial and attorney profiles to San Francisco Attorney\, the Bar Association of San Francisco’s magazine. Burke has been published by HarperCollins\, the L.A. Times\, The Journal of Law and Social Challenges\, Trial Insider\, BASF Bulletin (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s newspaper)\, Legal by the Bay (the Bar Association of San Francisco’s blog)\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Examiner\, The Fairfield Citizen-News\, The SoMa Literary Review\, Women’s Voices\, The Sitting Room\, The Compass\, Culture-Voice\, and The Street Spirit. She has been broadcast for KQED\, read at Litquake\, and taught writing at City College of San Francisco. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 5:30pm; event starts at 6pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Urban Playground\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-for-katie-burke-urban-playground-what-kids-say-about-living-in-san-francisco/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit / Recollections of My Nonexistence
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the inimitable Rebecca Solnit reading from and discussing her memoir\, Recollections of My Nonexistence. \nPlease note: This event is ticketed and will be at the Internet Archive HQ\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are on sale now. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged to ensure admission. Unless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nIn Recollections of My Nonexistence\, Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco\, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor\, hopeful\, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that\, when she was nineteen\, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. \nSolnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her\, the street harassment that unsettled her\, the trauma that changed her\, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women\, including her. Looking back\, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women\, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for womens rights. \nShe explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer — books themselves\, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender\, family\, and joy could be\, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since\, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others. \n\nRebecca Solnit is the author of fourteen books\, including A Paradise Built in Hell\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, River of Shadows\, Wanderlust: A History of Walking\, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape\, Gender\, and Art\, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003\, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n*** Please note *** \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to the author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you. \nIf you can’t attend the event but would like to order a signed copy of the book\, order below and put your request in the special field. \nFacebook RSVP is appreciated\, but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-recollections-of-my-nonexistence/
LOCATION:Internet Archive\, 300 Funston Ave.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Wyoming by JP Gritton Reading and Release!
DESCRIPTION:Alley Cat Books presents a reading of JP Gritton’s newest book\, Wyoming.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wyoming-by-jp-gritton-reading-and-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:William J. Drummond
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nPrison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News \nfrom University of California Press \nSan Quentin State Prison\, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest\, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008\, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News. \nPrison Truth tells the story of how prisoners\, many serving life terms\, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash called a living hell to an environment that fostered positive change in inmates’ lives. Award-winning journalist William J. Drummond takes us behind bars\, introducing us to Arnulfo García\, the visionary prisoner who led the revival of the newspaper. Drummond describes how the San Quentin News\, after a twenty-year shutdown\, was recalled to life under an enlightened warden and the small group of local retired newspaper veterans serving as advisers\, which Drummond joined in 2012. Sharing how officials cautiously and often unwittingly allowed the newspaper to tell the stories of the incarcerated\, Prison Truth illustrates the power of prison media to humanize the experiences of people inside penitentiary walls and to forge alliances with social justice networks seeking reform. \nWilliam J. Drummond is Professor of Journalism at the University of California\, Berkeley. His award-winning career includes stints at the Louisville Courier-Journal\, where he covered the civil rights movement\, and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was a local reporter\, then bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem\, and later a Washington correspondent. He was appointed a White House Fellow by then president Gerald R. Ford and later became Jimmy Carter’s associate press secretary. He joined NPR in 1977 and became the founding editor of Morning Edition. At UC Berkeley\, Drummond was awarded the 2016 Leon A. Henkin Award for his distinguished service and exceptional commitment to the educational development of students from groups who are underrepresented in the academy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-j-drummond/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200317T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200317T210000
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SUMMARY:Harry Dodge
DESCRIPTION:Harry Dodge discusses his new book\, My Metorite: Or\, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing. \nPraise for My Metorite \n“Dodge has offered a new\, luminous angle on autobiography that not only traces where the body has been–but also what it loves\, how it thinks and feels within the potent intellectual and physical detritus of its lived world. Reading this book is like being bathed in the bright\, gritty sear of a comet’s tail. But the mark it leaves is stunningly terrestrial: a thumbprint of a mind on paper–singular in erudition\, hurtfully wonder-struck\, and true.” —Ocean Vuong \n“Harry Dodge’s voice and vision are singular\, but his genius is for revealing how each of us is plural. This is a beautiful record of his loves and deaths and ways of making\, but even its most intimate moments open out\, become portals to other possible worlds. No genre can hold this book. It is a work of tender force\, prying open every category. My Meteorite is breathtaking—or breathgiving\, because the whole thing oxygenates discourse\, makes me feel alive.” —Ben Lerner\n \n“Captivating. My Meteorite holds you in its thrall like a brilliant friend—so vulnerable\, hot\, funny\, and casually weird that you don’t notice the profundity until you’re already walloped by it. Dodge juxtaposes the tenderest of human details with hungry\, brain-splitting inquiries into the very premise of life\, and these shifts in scale are incredibly moving and provocative. Don’t forget to notice that Dodge is a masterful writer; that’s how he pulls this whole thing off.” —Miranda July \n“A thought-filled\, deeply moving and personal book. The past\, present\, and future collide like Harry’s meteorite to earth. Life is tenderly felt\, questioned\, and affirmed within the pages of this exquisite prose.” —Catherine Opie\n \n“Riveting. A freewheeling\, feral romp through the wilderness of consciousness and connection!” —Eula Biss\n\n“Harry Dodge’s fierce intelligence and love permeates and shapes every line of this book which is redolent with loss\, desire\, and truth. Expansive in scope and intimate in detail\, Dodge’s account of becoming a self while living in a world defined by community\, lifts the spirit as it feeds the mind. A major achievement.” —Hilton Als\n\n“Harry’s book is ‘outside’ the book. Why should you read it? You’re out there too. I could say this is the smartest memoir I ever read but that’s pulling us back to the safe place. We are animals\, machines\, friends\, reading things and we’ve never been talked to this way before. Seductive and wise\, My Meteorite is the conversation you want.” —Eileen Myles  \nAbout My Metorite \nAn expansive\, radiant\, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know \nIs love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter\, the nature of consciousness\, and the bafflements of belonging. \nStructured around a series of formative\, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life\, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner\, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild\, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical\, the raw and the surreal\, the transgressive and the heartbreaking\, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world\, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/harry-dodge/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200317T213000
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Our featured poet is: Clara Hsu!\nfrom 7:30-9:30pm at PianoFight:\n144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\,\nSan Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. \nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 7:15pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-8/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T203000
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CREATED:20191227T025953Z
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SUMMARY:Lisa Robertson
DESCRIPTION:reading from \nThe Baudelaire Fractal \npublished by Coach House Books \nA debut novel by acclaimed poet Lisa Robertson\, in which a poet realizes she has written the works of Baudelaire. One morning\, the poet Hazel Brown wakes up in a strange hotel room to find that she’s written the complete works of Charles Baudelaire. Surprising as this may be\, it’s no more surprising to Brown than the impossible journey she’s taken to become the writer that she is. Animated by the spirit of the poète maudit\, she shuttles between London\, Vancouver\, Paris\, and the French countryside\, moving fluidly between the early 1980s and the present\, from rented room to rented room\, all the while considering such Baudelairian obsessions as modernity\, poverty\, and the perfect jacket. .. Part memoir\, part magical realism\, part hilarious trash-talking take on contemporary art and the poet’s life\, The Baudelaire Fractal is the long-awaited debut novel by the inimitable Lisa Robertson. \nPoet and essayist Lisa Robertson has held residencies at the California College of the Arts\, Cambridge University; University of California\, Berkeley; UC San Diego; and American University of Paris. Her books include Cinema of the Present\, Debbie: An Epic (nominated for the Governor General’s Award in Canada)\, The Men\, The Weather\, R’s Boat (poetry) and Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (essays). Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House) was named one of The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2010\, and was longlisted for the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. She currently lives in France.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-robertson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200318T210000
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CREATED:20191227T172950Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Altschul
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Altschul discusses his new novel\, The Gringa. \nPraise for The Gringa \n“The Gringa bites off an impressive chunk of American—and Peruvian—history with dynamic prose. It’s an exciting addition to the literature of terrorism and revolution.” —KARAN MAHAJAN\, author of The Association of Small Bombs \n“What every even slightly conscious American writer is trying to figure out right now is how to write about the state of America without clambering atop a soapbox. This is the considerable achievement of Andrew Altschul’s The Gringa.” —DAVID SHIELDS\, author of Reality Hunger \n“An extraordinary novel…powerful and provocative\, stylish and smart\, culturally relevant and emotionally astute.” —MOLLY ANTOPOL\, author of The Unamericans \nAbout The Gringa \nLeonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad\, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression\, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades\, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest—until her capture in a bloody government raid\, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life. \nTen years later\, Andres—a failed novelist turned expat—is asked to write a magazine profile of “La Leo.” As his personal life unravels\, he struggles to understand Leonora\, to reconstruct her involvement with the militants\, and to chronicle Peru’s tragic history. At every turn he’s confronted by violence and suffering\, and by the consequences of his American privilege. Is the real Leonora an activist or a terrorist? Cold-eyed conspirator or naïve puppet? And who is he to decide? \nIn this powerful and timely new novel\, Andrew Altschul maps the blurred boundaries between fact and fiction\, author and text\, resistance and extremism. Part coming-of-age story and part political thriller\, The Gringa asks what one person can do in the face of the world’s injustice. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-altschul/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T150000
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CREATED:20200126T013405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T200605Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One): with Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n7:00 pm Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured video: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-am-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing-poetry-and-protest-a-day-in-honor-of-audre-lorde-and-pat-parker-part-one-with-judy-grahn-jewelle-gomez-and-avotcja/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T203000
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CREATED:20191231T204508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200215T021819Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Lisicky / Later: My Life at the Edge of the World with Ryan Van Meter
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Paul Lisicky back to the store for his new book\, Later: My Life at the Edge of the World. Please join us! \nWhen Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s\, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time\, known for its values of inclusion\, acceptance\, and art. In this idyllic haven\, Lisicky searches for love and connection and comes into his own as he finds a sense of belonging. At the same time\, the center of this community is consumed by the AIDS crisis\, and the very structure of town life is being rewired out of necessity: What might this utopia look like during a time of dystopia? \nLater dramatizes a spectacular yet ravaged place and a unique era when more fully becoming one’s self collided with the realization that ongoingness couldn’t be taken for granted\, and staying alive from moment to moment exacted absolute attention. Following the success of his acclaimed memoir\, The Narrow Door\, Lisicky fearlessly explores the body\, queerness\, love\, illness\, and belonging in this masterful\, ingenious new book. \n\nPaul Lisicky is the author of five books\, including The Narrow Door (a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts\, among others. He teaches in the MFA program at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Brooklyn. \n  \nRyan Van Meter is the author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now\, as well as other essays published in magazines and selected for anthologies including The Best American Essays. He is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco. Author photo by Bennett Honson. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book here — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Later\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-lisicky-later-my-life-at-the-edge-of-the-world/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200319T210000
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SUMMARY:CANCELED: “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest: a day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part Two): with Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Arisa White\, Leila Weefur\, and Angela Hume \nThis event\, supported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs\, is free and open to the public. \nPhoto: video stills\, Audre Lorde and Pat Parker\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco\, February 7\, 1986. \nDetails soon \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \n“I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing” Poetry and Protest\na day in honor of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker (Part One)\nThursday March 19\, 2020\n1:00 pm Judy Grahn\, Jewelle Gomez\, and Avotcja\n@ The Poetry Center\nHumanities 512\, San Francisco State University\nfree and open to the public\nsupported in part by a grant to the Academy of American Poets from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of Poetry Coalition programs \nFeatured: \nPat Parker and Audre Lorde\, reading at The Women’s Building\, San Francisco: February 7\, 1986 \nAudre Lorde\, Poetry Center reading at San Francisco State: September 26\, 1974 \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/i-am-deliberate-and-afraid-of-nothing-poetry-and-protest-a-day-in-honor-of-audre-lorde-and-pat-parker-part-two-with-arisa-white-leila-weefur-and-angela-hume/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chris Carlsson at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes\, Unsung Heroes and Radical Histories \nfrom Pluto Press \nSan Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city’s most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love\, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. \nHidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology\, labour\, transit and dissent\, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco’s history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries\, secret music and poetry venues\, forgotten terrorist bombings\, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area’s long prehistory as well\, examining the region’s geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything\, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. \nFrom the perspective of the students and secretaries\, longshoremen and waitresses\, San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked\, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today\, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing\, everyday process of making history together. \nChris Carlsson\, co-director of the “history from below” project Shaping San Francisco\, is a writer\, publisher\, editor\, photographer\, public speaker\, and occasional professor. He was one of the founders in 1981 of the seminal and infamous underground San Francisco magazine Processed World. In 1992 Carlsson co-founded Critical Mass in San Francisco\, which both led to a local bicycling boom and helped to incubate transformative urban movements in hundreds of cities\, large and small\, worldwide. In 1995 work began on “Shaping San Francisco;” since then the project has morphed into an incomparable archive of San Francisco history at Foundsf.org\, award-winning bicycle and walking tours\, and more than a decade of Public Talks covering history\, politics\, ecology\, art\, and more (see shapingsf.org). Beginning in Spring 2020\, Carlsson hosts “City Front” Bay Cruises leaving from Pier 40.\nCarlsson has written three books\, the most recent being Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes\, Unsung Heroes\, and Radical Histories (Pluto Press: 2020). His 2004 novel is set in a future “post-economic” San Francisco (After the Deluge\, Full Enjoyments Books: 2004)\, and his groundbreaking look at class and work in Nowtopia (AK Press: 2008) which uniquely examined how hard and pleasantly we work when we’re not at our official jobs. He has also edited six books including three “Reclaiming San Francisco” collections with the venerable City Lights Books. He redesigned and co-authored an expanded Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco’s Mission Bay after which he joined the board of the Mission Creek Conservancy; he is on the board of the San Francisco Community Land Trust\, and also serves as an advisor to the Shipyard Trust for the Arts at Hunter’s Point. He has given hundreds of public presentations based on Shaping San Francisco\, Critical Mass\, Nowtopia\, Vanished Waters\, and his “Reclaiming San Francisco” history anthologies since the late 1990s\, and has appeared dozens of times in radio\, television and on the internet. \nvisit: http://www.chriscarlsson.com/ \nPraise for Hidden San Francisco \nSan Francisco is long overdue for a history like this! Smart and accessible\, this is a book that everyone who has left a piece of their heart in the city needs to read. Its vibrant stories of the past are invaluable tools for charting a sustainable\, inclusive future’ —Barbara Berglund Sokolov\, historian at Presidio Trust \n‘The history of San Francisco I’ve been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past\, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in the region’s remaking.’ —Sean Burns\, author of ‘Archie Green: The Making of a Working Class Hero’ (University of Illinois Press\, 2011) \n‘Brings erudition\, curiosity and passionate progressivism to a remarkably wide range of subjects – from the city’s profaned natural glories\, to little-known episodes in its labor history\, to a Homeric list of people\, organizations and movements that have tried to throw a spoke in the grinding cogs of various incarnations of The Establishment.’ —Gary Kamiya \n‘Every city needs and deserves a Chris Carlsson. San Francisco is fortunate to have him and Hidden San Francisco not just because history from below is worth remembering\, but more importantly because it is full of possibilities we should never forget for the present and future of The City’ —Jon Christensen\, adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, the Department of History\, and the Center for Digital Humanities at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \n‘Few people know the streets of San Francisco as well as Chris Carlsson. Sadly\, gentrification is fast ripping the heart out of a city that generations of artists\, immigrants\, and working-class radicals have made into a unique and wondrous place. This book\, thus\, can be read as an obituary for his beloved home or\, perhaps\, a call to arms to renew the city again’ —Peter Cole\, Professor of History\, Western Illinois University \n‘Unlike your conventional guide books telling you where to shop\, eat\, and be entertained\, this is a dissenter’s guidebook that invites you into a holistic view of the City – bringing to life the stories of everyone from the hot politicians and their corporate paymasters to the streetcar conductors\, secretaries\, and construction workers who built the city and keep it running’ —Peter Booth Wiley\, publisher and author \n‘Scores of sparkling vignettes – from Mission Rock to the Haight\, Balmy Alley to Telegraph Hill – illuminate the city with the torch of social criticism and the sharp lens of a local sage. This is history from below at its best and a guidebook through the byways of collective memory’ —Richard Walker\, author of ‘Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area’ (PM Press\, 2018). \n‘An original\, vivid people’s history of the nation’s ‘Left Coast City’. Photos\, maps\, and self-guided tours of over one hundred of the most important and iconic historic places and spaces bring to life the authors’ beautifully crafted and well-informed San Francisco stories’ —Bill Issel \n‘With the city awash these days with more and more newcomers\, Hidden San Francisco is more vital than ever for keeping us all connected to the wild\, weird\, and radical histories that make this place so special. Dig into it\, it’s full of gold’ —Susan Stryker\, director of ‘Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria’
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-carlsson-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Representation in 2020: A Night of Artists Focusing on Equitable Representation
DESCRIPTION:Representation in 2020: A Night of Artists Focusing on Equitable Representation featuring Paolo Bicchieri\, reading from his new book Sword in the Darkness\, Nesley Rojo\, Rose Heredia and sh vogl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/representation-in-2020-a-night-of-artists-focusing-on-equitable-representation/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200320T193000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Phillips & George Albon
DESCRIPTION:Dennis Phillips and George Albon read from their latest works\, Mappa Mundi and Lyric Multiples. \nAbout Mappa Mundi \nLike the medieval maps from which MAPPA MUNDI takes its title\, Dennis Phillips’ 16th volume of poetry is a survey of territory as subjective as it is tangible. Riffing off the unstable certainty of medieval world maps\, MAPPA MUNDI builds on\, refracts\, distills\, distorts and reexamines Phillips’ past works and recurring themes\, relying on\, among other techniques\, repeated motifs\, narrative tensions and lyrical condensations. Its three parts charting the key elements of city\, desert and islands\, MAPPA MUNDI sets a predicate to be expanded in its sequel\, The Cartographer’s Lament. \nAbout Lyric Multiples \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-phillips-george-albon/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ALAN KAUFMAN\, JOE CLIFFORD\, AND JOSHUA MOHR – NEW FICTION AT THE BEAT MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:ALAN KAUFMAN\nAlan Kaufman is a novelist and memoirist known for his storytelling power and who’s been not only praised by everyone from Dave Eggers\, Etgar Keret and Sapphire to David Mamet\, Hubert Selby Jr. and Thane Rosenbaum but has been compared by critics to such prose masters as Henry Miller\, I.B. Singer and Jack Kerouac. His books include The Berlin Woman\, Matches\, Jew Boy\, Drunken Angel and several anthologies\, including The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and The Outlaw Bible of American Art. \n\nJOE CLIFFORDJoe Clifford is the author of several books\, including Skunk Train\, The One That Got Away\, Junkie Love\, and the Jay Porter thriller series\, as well as editor of the anthologies Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen; Just to Watch Them Die: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Johnny Cash; and Hard Sentences\, which he co-edited. Joe’s writing can be found at joeclifford.com. \n\nJOSHUA MOHRJoshua Mohr is the author of five novels\, including Damascus\, which The New York Times called “Beat-poet cool.” He’s also written Fight Songand Some Things that Meant the World to Me\, one of O Magazine’s Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle best-seller\, as well as Termite Parade\, an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times. His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He’s written a memoir\, Sirens\, and is under contract with FSG for the second installment. His next novel\, Get Rich\, will be published by FSG in winter 2021 and has already been optioned by Circle of Confusion Television Studios. Recently\, AMC bought his noir show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-kaufman-joe-clifford-and-joshua-mohr-new-fiction-at-the-beat-museum/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200322T160000
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SUMMARY:My Life\, My Stories / Real life. Told by SF seniors.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of learning and listening\, hosted by My Life\, My Stories! The theme is Family. \nMy Life\, My Stories is a local non-profit that preserves the life legacies of older adults in our community. We match a volunteer with one older adult\, and over the course of several months\, the senior’s memories are recorded and transcribed into memoirs. We focus on helping underserved populations in the Bay Area including minorities\, immigrants\, homeless seniors\, vets\, and LGBTQ elders. \nOur volunteers hear inspiring\, heartbreaking\, and touching stories that\, otherwise\, would be left untold and lost forever. My Life\, My Stories wants to give older adults a public platform to share their amazing memories with the young SF community in a live event. You may be surprised with what you learn and how much you can relate to someone who may be decades older than you. \nCheck back soon for bios of each of our speakers. \nAll ticket sales go directly back to the organization. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nBar opens with the store at 2pm. Show starts at 4pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/my-life-my-stories-real-life-told-by-sf-seniors-4/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200323T193000
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SUMMARY:Robert Reich with Astra Taylor
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS \nTo purchase over the phone: 415-392-4400 \nThis event appears in the series\nSocial Studies \n\n\nRobert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, he has written fifteen books\, including Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Saving Capitalism. In The System\, Reich shows how wealth and power have interacted to install an elite oligarchy\, eviscerate the middle class\, and undermine democracy. \nAstra Taylor’s engagement with philosophy\, democracy\, and political organizing transcends form\, emerging through documentary films\, books\, essays\, and social activism. Her feature documentaries include What is Democracy? (2018)\, Zizek! (2005)\, and An Examined Life (2008). Taylor is also the author of Democracy May Not Exist\, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone\, and the American Book Award-winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich-with-astra-taylor/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200324T190000
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SUMMARY:Hilary Moore & James Tracy
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nNo Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements \nby Hilary Moore and James Tracy (forward by Robin D.G. Kelley) \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nThe story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years\, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements. \nIn June 1977\, a group of white anti-racist activists received an alarming letter from an inmate at a New York state prison calling for help to fight the Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to recruit prison staff and influence the people incarcerated. In response\, the activists founded the first chapter of what would eventually become a nationwide grassroots network\, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, dedicated to countering the rise of the KKK and other far-right white nationalist groups\, and to building support for movements fighting for self-determination. \nNo Fascist USA! tells the story of that network and how its members emerged from the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s to combat racism and state repression throughout the 1980s. Featuring dozens of graphics\, posters\, and materials from the time\, the book follows the group’s trajectory through its political actions\, engagement with punk rock youth culture\, and involvement with underground splinter groups\, concluding with an exploration of what tactical lessons their efforts offer those dedicated to fighting white supremacy today. \nHilary Moore is an anti-racist political education trainer and teaches with generative somatics. She works on the Leadership Team of Showing Up for Racial Justice\, and is the co-author of Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis (PM Press\, 2011). \nJames Tracy is an author\, organizer\, and an Instructor of Labor and Community Studies at City College of San Francisco. He is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists\, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times and the author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes From San Francisco’s Housing Wars. \nPURCHASE NOW \nPraise for No Fascist USA!: \n“Smash fascism! Read this book!”––Tom Morello\, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine \n“Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of deconstructing the weapon of white supremacy from the inside out. Thank you Hilary and James for the precision of this analysis\, and the true north of this star.”––adrienne maree brown\, author of Pleasure Activism and Emergent Strategy \n“Hilary Moore and James Tracy have written a magnificent book that not only corrects the record but helps explain the mercurial rise of white supremacist organizations in the 1970s\, how the Klan was (temporarily) defeated\, and why this period has been largely ignored. No Fascist USA! radically shifts our perspective\, challenging the prevailing wisdom that racist terrorism rises in response to economic downturns\, white downward mobility\, or in a vacuum created by progressive alternatives. I love this book.”––Robin D.G. Kelley\, from the foreword \n“No Fascist USA! is not only timely\, but also essential in the present period of accelerated white supremacist activity and anti-racist organizing to combat it. In telling the story of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee\, the authors\, without romanticizing or condemning\, draw important lessons from the fifteen-year history of the group.”––Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\, author of Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-moore-james-tracy/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200325T190000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Mah Shein Win
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Alexandra Mattraw’s new poetry collection \nWe fell into Weather \nPublished by Cultural Society \nWhat has been said about We fell into Weather: \n“What you can’t see is what brings you\,” Alexandra Mattraw writes: “We throttle out of rent\, ash CFC storming lung shifts.” An uncanny\, raw awareness embodies the space of perception and opening. Mattraw’s primary language becomes action\, becomes our phenomenology\, our neurodivergence\, our fullness: “When allergies heave and blister. When CFC wind. Decibels shake cinder pink jostling pink pill.” There is surprise everywhere in these poems. This is a magical book. \n–Joseph Lease\, author of Broken World and The Body Ghost \n“Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather is not only essential reading for its presentation of how an individual’s experiences can offer insight into some of the most critical challenges we face today. Her use of image\, detail\, the placement of language on the page\, her diction choices\, and her variations regarding syntax—each formal choice contributes to creating a constellation of difference that exposes not only unexpected revelations regarding the speaking agent’s interior perceptions\, but also the social environment in which these scenes of intimacy and obsession\, history and fantasy\, are set. While one tends to see forms as abstract organizing principals\, in Mattraw’s poems forms become actors in the drama and members of a chorus offering insight. They can be received in what I’ll call a language of physical dimension\, of gesture\, of shape and spatial relations. Thus\, as we read\, we can begin to perceive how\, in our own lives\, the forms which we each use to create our understanding of ourselves and our place in the culture we inhabit are as active in opening or limiting our lives as anything in the world we face today.” \n–Rusty Morrison\, Omnidawn editor and author of the true keeps calm biding its story \n“At heart conceptual and formally experimental\, Alexandra Mattraw’s We fell into weather creates visual and sonic textures that link toxicity — environmental\, historical\, domestic — with neurodivergence and disease. These poems are alive with musicality and internal rhyme\, “the way hay rips scars into wrists the way granite / field bloom back bruises\,” while offering glimpses into the stuff of everyday life – the toddler’s cough\, the broken lamp taped back together. In Mattraw’s spare and elegant lines\, an image will crystallize briefly as a family drives away from California wildfires\, but then disperse like vapor\, like “ash . . . Rend[s] the visibility of air.” Attuned to the sublime in nature and in language\, this is a poet who invites our close and sustained attention\, who invites us to improve ourselves.” \n–Mary-Kim Arnold\, writer and visual artist\, author of Litany for The Long Moment \nAbout the readers: \nTiff Dressen lives in the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco. Songs from the Astral Bestiary\, a (slender) full length collection of poetry emerged from lyric& Press in 2014. In 2019\, they played the role of Earl of Kent in the Milkwood Theater’s production of King Lear. In their spare time\, they enjoy playing the role of urban flâneur as well as setting type and printing at the SF Center for the Book. \nAlexandra Mattraw is Berkeley poet and critic who has authored several books. small siren is available at Cultural Society (2018)\, and two of her chapbooks can be found at Dancing Girl Press (2013\, 2017). Other poems and reviews have appeared in Denver Quarterly\, Jacket2\, Interim\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. A mother and ecofeminist\, Alexandra curates an art-centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its ninth year. We fell into weather is her second full-length book of poems. \nMaw Shein Win is a Burmese American poet and and educator who lives and teaches in the Bay Area. Her poetry chapbooks are Ruins of a glittering palace (SPA/Commonwealth Projects\, 2013) and Score and Bone (Nomadic Press\, 2016). A full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems was published by Manic D Press in 2018. Maw is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito (2016 – 2018)\, and her full-length book of poetry Storage Unit for the Spirit House will be published by Omnidawn in Fall 2020. Win often collaborates with visual artists\, musicians\, and other writers. She was a 2019 Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley and is a member of The Writers Grotto. mawsheinwin.com \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-mah-shein-win/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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