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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-9/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T213000
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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
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180119T213000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180123T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180123T213000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180128T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180128T170000
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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
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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
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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:20260409T100542
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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
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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:20260409T100542
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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
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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:20260409T100542
CREATED: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
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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:20260409T100542
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:20260409T100542
CREATED: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:20260409T100542
CREATED: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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180220T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180220T203000
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SUMMARY:Neeli Cherkovski
DESCRIPTION:Neeli Cherkovski reading from his new collection of poetry\n\nElegy For My Beat Generation \nfrom Lithic Press \n(Hilton Obenzinger will give an opening statement) \nElegy For My Beat Generation is a masterful river of lyricism\, spilling from one perception into the next. In these odes and elegies Cherkovski pays homage to his aging and gone friends from the heyday of all their lives\, contemplates his own dwindling days\, and attempts to come to grips with ultimate ends. \nPraise for Cherkovski’s work: \n“From Lithic Press a brave and poignant new book of poems by my friend Neeli Cherkovski. Here are tributes to Corso\, Ginsberg\, Kerouac\, DiPrima and even yours truly. He’s a skilled lyricist\, a portraitist of mood\, where the personal meets the historical.” –Alan Kaufman\, author of Jew Boy and editor of The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry \n“…in the end\, what stamps Cherkovski’s poetry as unique is its unbounded lyricism\, a lyrical gift easily greater than that of any other poet of his generation.” –Gerald Nicosia\, author of Memory Babe and Home To War
URL:https://litseen.com/event/neeli-cherkovski/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180220T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180220T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T100542
CREATED:20180219T081655Z
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:NEXT up: Tuesday February 20th\, 2017\nOur featured artist is: Afi Ayanna!\n\nat PianoFight: 144 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 at 6:45pm – 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 in the front room.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-6/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Aquinas McNally
DESCRIPTION:Robert Aquinas McNally\n\n  \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nMODOC WAR: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age \nfrom University of Nebraska Press \nOn a cold\, rainy dawn in late November 1872\, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s peoples and lands. Robert Aquinas McNally tells the wrenching story of the Modoc War of 1872–73\, one of the nation’s costliest campaigns against North American Indigenous peoples\, in which the army placed nearly one thousand soldiers in the field against some fifty-five Modoc fighters. \nAlthough little known today\, the Modoc War dominated national headlines for an entire year. Fought in south-central Oregon and northeastern California\, the war settled into a siege in the desolate Lava Beds and climaxed the decades-long effort to dispossess and destroy the Modocs. \nThe war did not end with the last shot fired\, however. For the first and only time in U.S. history\, Native fighters were tried and hanged for war crimes. The surviving Modocs were packed into cattle cars and shipped from Fort Klamath to the corrupt\, disease-ridden Quapaw reservation in Oklahoma\, where they found peace even more lethal than war. \nThe Modoc War tells the forgotten story of a violent and bloody Gilded Age campaign at a time when the federal government boasted officially of a “peace policy” toward Indigenous nations. This compelling history illuminates a dark corner in our country’s past. \nRobert Aquinas McNally is a freelance writer and editor based in Concord\, California. He is the author or coauthor of nine nonfiction books\, including So Remorseless a Havoc: Of Dolphins\, Whales\, and Men \n\nWhat has been said about the work of Robert McNally:\n\n“McNally provides a brutally frank and damningly well-documented account of the war’s sordid background.”—Bradley A. Scott\, Foreword Reviews\n“An excellent addition to Robert McNally’s body of work.”—Tombstone Epitaph\n“From the opening scene to the end\, The Modoc War unfolds with an unrelenting pace and engaging immediacy. One rarely comes across a historical account written with such verve\, truly deserving to be called a page-turner. Here is ethnohistory at its best\, an accounting of Indian-white relations from multiple perspectives.”—James J. Rawls\, author of Indians of California: The Changing Image \n“Robert McNally’s page-turning The Modoc War is one of the finest books ever written on this tragic history.”—Benjamin Madley\, author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe\, 1846–1873\n“Robert McNally’s history of the Modoc War\, convincingly told from engrossing start to finish\, tells the story of an American tragedy\, but not without powerfully illustrating the nobility and endurance of the people who suffered it.”—Greg Sarris\, chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and author of Grand Avenue and Watermelon Nights\n“Well paced\, with vividly drawn characters and exciting\, dramatic prose\, Robert Aquinas McNally’s narrative history of the Modoc War is the most thoroughly researched and historically accurate account of that tragedy to date. A tour de force of historical storytelling\, The Modoc War is an insightful exploration of one of America’s most important but forgotten Indian wars.”—Boyd Cothran\, author of Remembering the Modoc War: Redemptive Violence and the Making of American Innocence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-aquinas-mcnally/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Neiwert / Alt America
DESCRIPTION:Just as Donald Trump’s victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked the world\, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supremacists\, xenophobes\, militia leaders\, and mysterious “alt-right” figures mystifies many. But the American extreme right has been growing steadily in number and influence since the 1990s with the rise of patriot militias. Following 9/11\, conspiracy theorists found fresh life; and in virulent reaction to the first black US president\, militant racists have come out of the woodwork. Nurtured by a powerful right-wing media sector in radio\, TV\, and online\, the far right\, Tea Party movement conservatives\, and Republican activists found common ground. Figures such as Stephen Bannon\, Milo Yiannopoulos\, and Alex Jones\, once rightly dismissed as cranks\, now haunt the reports of mainstream journalism. \nInvestigative reporter David Neiwert has been tracking extremists for more than two decades. In Alt-America\, he provides a deeply researched and authoritative report on the growth of fascism and far-right terrorism\, the violence of which in the last decade has surpassed anything inspired by Islamist or other ideologies in the United States. The product of years of reportage\, and including the most in-depth investigation of Trump’s ties to the far right\, this is a crucial book about one of the most disturbing aspects of American society. \n— \nDavid Neiwert is a journalist and author and an acknowledged expert in American right-wing extremism. He has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360\, CNN Newsroom\, and The Rachel Maddow Show. His work has also appeared in the American Prospect\, the Washington Post\, MSNBC\, Salon\, and other publications. His previous books include The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right\, Strawberry Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese-American Community\, as well as And Hell Followed With Her: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border\, which won the 2014 International Latino Book Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-neiwert-alt-america/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:George Saunders with Dan Stone
DESCRIPTION:George Saunders is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo; Tenth of December; In Persuasion Nation; The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil; Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline; The Braindead Megaphone; and a children’s book\, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip. His work appears regularly in the New Yorker\, Harper’s and GQ. In 2006\, he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” In 2000\, The New Yorker named him one of the “Best Writers Under 40.”  He is a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. He teaches at Syracuse University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-saunders-with-dan-stone/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album
DESCRIPTION:Release Party for HOWL:The Record Album\n\n  \nConcord Music reissues Allen Ginsberg reading HOWL on vinyl \nOpening statement by Garett Caples (Poetry Editor\, City Lights)\, and Ann Charters (BEAT Scholar) \nAppearance by Bill Belmont (Producer Concord Music/Fantasy Records) and the Poet Laureate of San Francisco Kim Shuck \nReminiscences of Allen Ginsberg and readings from HOWL by Neeli Cherkovski \nCraft Recordings\, the Catalog division of Concord Music\, is pleased to announce a deluxe vinyl box set\, celebrating Allen Ginsberg’s iconic Howl And Other Poems\, one of the most important pieces of modern American literature. Due out February 23rd\, the collection offers Ginsberg’s recording of the poems\, pressed on translucent red vinyl – reproducing the original 1959 LP release\, as well as a replica of the synonymous book of poetry\, published in 1956 by City Lights for their Pocket Poets series. Also included in the box set is a photo of Ginsberg from the ’50s\, a reproduction of the original City Lights reading invite from 1956 and a booklet\, with new liner notes by Beat scholar Ann Charters\, as well as notes by poet Anne Waldman. \nAllen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was one of the best-known writers of the Beat Generation as well as a leading figure in the counterculture movement. Tirelessly prolific throughout his life\, Ginsberg was most closely associated with was Howl – a poetic rage against society’s conformism and capitalism\, which rocked the literary world upon its publication\, and has gone on to be one of the most widely performed poems of the 20th Century. \nHowl is also noteworthy\, as it was at the center of a high-profile 1957 obscenity trial\, resulting in the arrest of City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, and bookstore manager Shigeyoshi Murao. The trial stands today as a prominent case for First Amendment rights\, having set a legal precedent for the publication of controversial works. Murao and Ferlinghetti were ultimately acquitted of charges\, as Howl was proven to be of redeeming social importance. Two years later\, Berkeley’s Fantasy Records (home to Dave Brubeck and\, eventually\, Vince Guaraldi and Creedence Clearwater Revival) issued a recording of Ginsberg reciting the contents of the pocket poem.  Although “Howl” itself is the centerpiece of the program\, each additional reading by Ginsberg is full of passion\, showcasing his brilliance both as a poet and a performer. His vaudevillian delivery carries the full weight of his honest observations on life\, love\, spirituality and existence. \nIn his introduction\, box set producer Bill Belmont notes that Howl “established the Beat generation of poets…as a cultural movement.” He goes on to argue that “the Beats successfully transitioned the generation gap between the mid-century post-war Beatnik movement to the more culturally transformative ’60s generation. In many ways\, the Beats influenced the cultural and musical era that followed.” Indeed\, Ginsberg was closely associated with several musicians of the era – most famously with Bob Dylan\, with whom he collaborated; but his work also has been cited as an influence by the likes of the Clash and Patti Smith\, as well as more modern acts\, such as Lana Del Rey and U2. \nIn her new liner notes\, Ann Charters shares her own experiences of hearing a live reading of the poem by Ginsberg in the mid-’50s\, recalling that “Courtesy shown to his listeners\, and patience sharing his poetry with large audiences\, were as much a part of Ginsberg as his breath. They were all essential parts of his being\, a poet honored worldwide in his lifetime as the quintessential ‘rebel bard.’” Decades after its recording\, Howl And Other Poems remains a lively and intimate listen\, and a reminder of Ginsberg’s consummate genius as both a writer and a performer.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-howlthe-record-album/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roseann Lake / Leftover in China
DESCRIPTION:Roseann Lake visits The Bindery to discuss her new book\, Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower. Join us! \nForty years ago\, China enacted the one-child policy\, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences\, it resulted in both an enormous gender imbalance—with a predicted twenty million more men than women of marriage age by 2020—and China’s first generations of only-daughters. Given the resources normally reserved for boys\, these girls were pushed to excel in school and thrive in their careers\, as if they were sons. \nIn Leftover in China\, American journalist Roseann Lake chronicles the lives of these women\, who she first met during her years working as a television reporter in Beijing. Throughout China’s booming city centers\, Lake saw passionate\, highly-educated young Chinese women acquiring wealth\, property\, and a measure of independence in record numbers. Yet while her female colleagues ascended in their careers\, many struggled to find suitable romantic partners\, in spite of an overwhelmingly large male population and immense traditional\, parental\, and societal pressures to wed. \nKnown as “leftovers” if they’ve failed to marry by age twenty-five\, these women represent a China where gender roles have not evolved as vigorously as society itself\, and where new professional opportunities have made women less willing to compromise their careers or concede to marriage for the sake of it. Some find their potential suitors’ conservative expectations on the roles of women grating against their own sensibilities. Still others find themselves on the track to powerful careers\, surrounded exclusively by an older guard of already-married men and a dearth of compatible bachelors; the majority of China’s surplus men are poor\, uneducated\, and tied to the rural areas where they were born. \nThe result is a mounting social quagmire: a generation of millions in limbo\, torn between past and future\, born into a country advancing rapidly on the world stage while nevertheless remaining\, when it comes to matters of the heart\, caught in “a distant\, anachronistic realm that seem[s] straight out of a Jane Austen novel.” \nLeftover in China combines Lake’s rigorous reporting\, historical and demographic research\, and scores of touching (and often humorous) real life anecdotes from colleagues and friends to illuminate this curious and portentous moment in the history of the world’s most populous nation. Through her remarkably candid subjects\, Lake regales us with stories of desperate mothers hacking their daughters’ dating profiles to secure a quick proposal. She tells of professional mistresses and the extravagantly wealthy men who compete for them\, and the subtle art of saijiao\, or “the strategically executed temper tantrum.” One of Lake’s friends compares modern China to “a giant episode of Sex and the City\, except that instead of bawdy Samantha\, we have our practical and traditional Charlotte-like mothers.” \nUltimately\, Leftover in China reminds us that China’s population of young women will prove crucial for the country’s future. As Lake writes\, “Channeling their full economic engagement is not only a social imperative; it’s an economic necessity.” \n— \nRoseann Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing\, where she spent time as a television reporter and journalist. Her China coverage has appeared in Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, Salon and Vice\, among others. She divides her time between New York City and Havana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roseann-lake-leftover-in-china/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Morgan Jerkins / This Will Be My Undoing
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Morgan Jerkins for This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black\, Female\, and Feminist in (White) America. Please join us! \n  \nJerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture\, feminism\, black history\, misogyny\, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist\, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me\, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. \n  \nMorgan Jerkins is only in her twenties\, but she has already established herself as an insightful\, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough\, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing\, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as\, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women\, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. \nDoubly disenfranchised by race and gender\, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement\, black women are objectified\, silenced\, and marginalized with devastating consequences\, in ways both obvious and subtle\, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing\, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social\, cultural\, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white\, male-dominated world at large. \nWhether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement\, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory. \n  \n\n  \n“Morgan Jerkins is a star\, a force\, a blessing\, a scholar and a critic\, and now can add great American essayist to that list! I found myself sighing\, nodding\, gasping\, laughing\, and crying while reading this collection-but mostly cheering! We can all sleep well at night knowing this country will inherit heart\, mind\, and soul like this. It’s safe to say I’ve never read anyone this young-barely at quarter life!-who can understand herself\, those around her\, past and present\, with such dignity and clarity and generosity. Intersectionality in America is dissected\, investigated\, celebrated and challenged all without being pedantic or preachy or pretentious. And Jerkins is the sort of benevolent intellectual you want to spend time with-who will never lie to you\, but also will never let you lie to her. I’ve long known that feminism and arts and media owe so much to the excellent work of black women and This Will be My Undoing is yet another testament to that.” —Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sons & Other Flammable Objects\, The Last Illusion\, and Sick \n  \n\n  \nMorgan Jerkins is a twenty-something-year-old living and writing in New York. She graduated from Princeton with an AB in comparative literature\, specializing in nineteenth-century Russian and modern Japanese literature\, and has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jenkins is currently a contributing editor at Catapult and a Book of the Month judge. She has also written for Vogue\, the Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, the New Yorker\, the Guardian\, andthe New York Times\, among many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-jerkins-this-will-be-my-undoing/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:USF MFA Reading Series: Sam Lipsyte
DESCRIPTION:Sam Lipsyte is the author of five books of fiction\, including The Fun Parts\, Home Land\, and The Ask. A Guggenheim fellow and winner of the Believer Book Award\, he lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/usf-mfa-reading-series-sam-lipsyte/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An African American and Latinx History of the United States - With Author Paul Ortiz
DESCRIPTION:Paul Ortiz’ new book An African American and Latinx History of the United States is the latest in Beacon Press’s ReVisioning American History series. (Previous titles include Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.)\n \n\nOrtiz’ book examines U.S. history through the lens of African-American and Latinx activists. Much of the American history taught in schools is limited to white America\, leaving out the impact of non-European immigrants and indigenous peoples. The author corrects that error in a thorough look at the debt of gratitude we owe to the Haitian Revolution\, the Mexican War of Independence\, and the Cuban War of Independence\, all struggles that helped lead to social democracy. \n\n\n\n\nOrtiz shows the history of the workers for what it really was: a fatal intertwining of slavery\, racial capitalism\, and imperialism. He states that the American Revolution began as a war of independence and became a war to preserve slavery. Thus\, slavery is the foundation of American prosperity. With the end of slavery\, imperialist America exported segregation laws and labor discrimination abroad. As we moved into Cuba\, the Philippines\, and Puerto Rico\, we stole their land for American corporations and used the Army to enforce draconian labor laws. This continued in the South and in California.\n\nThe rise of agriculture in the US could not have succeeded without cheap labor. Mexican workers were often preferred because\, if they demanded rights\, they could just be deported. Convict labor worked even better. The author points out the only way success has been gained is by organizing; a great example was the “Day without Immigrants” in 2006. Of course\, as Ortiz rightly notes\, much more work is necessary\, especially since Jim Crow and Juan Crow are resurging as each political gain is met with “legal” countermeasures.\n\nThis book is a concise\, alternate history of the United States “about how people across the hemisphere wove together antislavery\, anticolonial\, pro-freedom\, and pro-working-class movements against tremendous obstacles.” It is a sleek\, vital history that effectively shows how\, “from the outset\, inequality was enforced with the whip\, the gun\, and the United States Constitution.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-african-american-and-latinx-history-of-the-united-states-with-author-paul-ortiz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shaina Hammerman / Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Shaina Hammerman as she launches her first book\, Silver Screen\, Hasidic Jews. Joining her in conversation is Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni). Don’t miss it! \n  \nMotivated by Woody Allen’s brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall\, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film\, television\, theater\, and photography. Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships\, Hammerman uses this ethnic imagery to ask meaningful questions about how Jewish identity\, multiculturalism\, belonging\, and relevance are constructed on the stage and silver screen. \n  \n— \n  \nShaina Hammerman teaches Jewish studies\, cultural history\, film\, and literature at the University of San Francisco\, Mills College\, and San Quentin State Prison. She holds a Ph.D. in Jewish History and Culture from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. \n  \nHelene Wecker grew up in suburban Chicago\, and received her Master’s in Fiction from Columbia University. Her first novel\, the New York Times bestseller\, The Golem and the Jinni\, was published by HarperCollins in 2013. Its sequel\, THE IRON SEASON\, will arrive in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shaina-hammerman-silver-screen-hasidic-jews/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #16 - Grief
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \nSarah Klineman\, Amy Harcourt\, Vincent Chu\, Galadrielle Allman\, Elizabeth Bernstein\, Jacqueline Hampton and Jennifer Lewis \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/165709004068905/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-16-grief/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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