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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne: Holding on to Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne discusses her new novel\, Holding on to Nothing. \nPraise for Holding on to Nothing \n“Holding On To Nothing is a resonant song of the South\, all whiskey\, bluegrass\, Dolly Parton\, tobacco fields\, and women who know better but still fall for the lowdown men whom they know will disappoint them. Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne writes with extraordinary love and compassion of the lives of her flawed characters; she shines a clear\, calm light on their tragedies\, their joys\, and their hard-won redemptions.”—Lauren Groff\, Florida and Fates and Furies \n“Forget Hillbilly Elegy and read this gorgeous novel instead. Every detail is exactly right. Contemporary themes of work and no work\, drinking\, sex\, guns\, music\, community\, and no future—along with in-depth character development and a hard-driving plot—make this a book you literally cannot put down.”—Lee Smith\, Dimestore and The Last Girls \n“With her immense empathy for her characters\, Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne refuses to give the reader a simple\, and stereotypical\, tale of Appalachian dysfunction. Instead\, we get a story of a seemingly star-crossed couple striving to create a better life in the most trying of circumstances. Holding On To Nothing is a gem.”—Ron Rash\, Serena \nAbout Holding on to Nothing \nLucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing\, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents\, Jeptha Taylor\, who becomes the father of her child. Together\, these two young people work to form a family\, though neither has any idea how to accomplish that\, and the odds are against them in a place with little to offer other than bluegrass music\, tobacco fields\, and a Walmart full of beer and firearms for the hunting season. Their path is harrowing\, but Lucy and Jeptha are characters to love\, and readers will root for their success in a novel so riveting that no one will want to turn out the light until they know whether this family will survive. \nIn luminous prose\, debut novelist Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne brings us a present-day Appalachian story in the tradition of Lee Smith\, Silas House\, and Ron Rash\, cast without sentiment or clich \, but with a genuine and profound understanding of the place and its people.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-chiles-shelburne-holding-on-to-nothing/
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:Ramesh Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:discussing his new book \nBeyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow \nPublished by The MIT Press \n\nHow to repair the disconnect between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. \nIn this provocative book\, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics\, economics\, and other inefficient\, inharmonious human activities. We may love the immediacy of Google search results\, the convenience of buying from Amazon\, and the elegance and power of our Apple devices\, but it’s a one-way\, top-down process. We’re not asked for our input\, or our opinions—only for our data. The internet is brought to us by wealthy technologists in Silicon Valley and China. It’s time\, Srinivasan argues\, that we think in terms beyond the Valley. \nSrinivasan focuses on the disconnection he sees between designers and users\, producers and consumers\, and tech elites and the rest of us. The recent Cambridge Analytica and Russian misinformation scandals exemplify the imbalance of a digital world that puts profits before inclusivity and democracy. In search of a more democratic internet\, Srinivasan takes us to the mountains of Oaxaca\, East and West Africa\, China\, Scandinavia\, North America\, and elsewhere\, visiting the “design labs” of rural\, low-income\, and indigenous people around the world. He talks to a range of high-profile public figures—including Elizabeth Warren\, David Axelrod\, Eric Holder\, Noam Chomsky\, Lawrence Lessig\, and the founders of Reddit\, as well as community organizers\, labor leaders\, and human rights activists.. To make a better internet\, Srinivasan says\, we need a new ethic of diversity\, openness\, and inclusivity\, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed\, who profits from them\, and who are surveilled and exploited by them. \nRamesh Srinivasan is Professor of Information Studies and Design Media Arts at UCLA. He makes regular appearances on NPR\, The Young Turks\, MSNBC\, and Public Radio International\, and his writings have been published in the Washington Post\, Quartz\, Huffington Post\, CNN\, and elsewhere. \nvisit: http://rameshsrinivasan.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramesh-srinivasan/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning in the Doolan-Larson Building
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, November 4 in the Doolan-Larson Building\n\n\n\n\na literary mixtape\, featuring: \nA.A. Vincent\nNoah Sanders\nAnna Allen\nChelsea Davis\nKelly Alsup\nAbe Becker\nEmilie Osborn\nGenie Cartier\nDiana Donovan\nFernando Meisenhalter\nSerena Chan\nLauren Ito\nJC Walker\nRichelle Lee Slota \nand the artwork of Zoltron \n\nCurated by Hadas Goshen & Kevin Madrigal and featuring all kinds of writing\, this one-night-only show is $15 to attend and includes a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 102 featuring all of the selected writing and covers by Zoltron. \nDue to space constraints\, only 50 guests are allowed. Tickets are for sale here\, with all proceeds going toward our 10th anniversary fundraiser. Door tickets are not guaranteed\, so we recommend you get your tickets now! Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets are still available. \nAbout the Doolan Larson Building\nRecently named the 100th National Treasure by the National Register of Historic Places\, the building is at the corner of Haight & Ashbury streets\, where the store Mnasidika opened in 1965 by an openly bisexual woman named Peggy Caserta. Caserta convinced Levi Strauss to make bell bottoms\, and was Janis Joplin’s ‘primary female love interest’ from ’66 until Joplin’s death in 1970. You can read more about it here (and in a biography Caserta has recently published). This is sure to be an intimate event – take a virtual tour if you’d like! \nUpstairs @ the Doolan-Larson Building\, photo by Evan Karp\nTaking a tour of the building\nSF Heritage will be conducting a tour of the building for up to 12 people at 6:45pm\, before the show\, and another tour of the same size following the show. Tickets for the tour must be purchased in advance. \n\nGet tickets! \nStatistics\nThanks to everyone who sent in writing. We received 60 submissions and accepted 14 (23%). Of those selected\, only 4 have read or performed with us before (29%). 10 (71%) of the selected authors will be reading for Quiet Lightning for the first time. \n\n\n\nSubmissions are open for the first show of our second decade! Curated by Disruptor Sophia Passin and her co-curator of choice\, Kathleen Torrez\, this show will be on January 6\, 2020 at a special location to be announced soon. Submissions are open through Wednesday\, December 11 @ 11:59pm. \n\nfeatured image: Norm Larson in the Doolan-Larson Building\, by Christopher Michel
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-in-the-doolan-larson-building/
LOCATION:Doolan-Larson Building\, 557 Ashbury St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Release Party for New great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Bird & Beckett and great weather for MEDIA present an inspiring evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S.  They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with an interview with musician and artist Walter Steding. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Neeli Cherkovski (SF)\, Joan Gelfand (SF)\, Matthew Hupert (NYC)\, Deborah Kennedy (San Jose)\, Mira Martin-Parker (SF)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and SB Stokes (Oakland). \nHosted by great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of Birds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea to call your very own. \n  \nRelease party for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nBirds Fall Silent in the Mechanical Sea \n  \na reading by \nNeeli Cherkovski\nJoan Gelfand\nMatthew Hupert\nDeborah Kennedy\nMira Martin-Parker\nRichard Loranger\nand SB Stokes \nplus a brief open mic \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \n  \nPERFORMER BIOS \nNeeli Cherkovski was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books of poetry\, including Animal (1996)\, Leaning Against Time (2005)\, From the Canyon Outward (2009)\, and The Crow and I (2015). He is the co-editor of Anthology of L.A. Poets (with Charles Bukowski) and Cross-Strokes: Poetry between Los Angeles and San Francisco (with Bill Mohr). In addition\, Neeli has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski\, as well as the critical memoir Whitman’s Wild Children. His papers are held at the Bancroft Library\, University of California\, Berkeley. Neeli received the 2017 Jack Mueller Poetry Prize awarded at the Jack Mueller Festival in Fruita\, Colorado. He has lived in San Francisco since 1974. \nJoan Gelfand is the author of You Can Be a Winning Writer: The 4 C’s of Successful Authors (Mango Press)\, three volumes of poetry\, and an award-winning chapbook of short fiction. Joan’s novel set in a Silicon Valley startup is forthcoming from Mastodon  /  C&R Press. Recipient of numerous awards and honors\, Joan’s work appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Prairie Schooner\, Toronto Review\, Marsh Hawk Review\, Kalliope\, Rattle\, Levure littéraire\, and many other journals. \nMatthew Hupert is a writer and multi-media artist. He is the founder of the NeuroNautic Institute and its associated poetry workshop and of NeuroNautic Press which just released his latest collection\, Secular Pantheism. He is the author of Ism is a Retrovirus (Three Rooms Press) and several chapbooks\, and his writing has appeared in numerous publications including Midstream Magazine\, Maintenant\, and Sonnets: 150 Contemporary Sonnets. When not writing\, Matthew can be found cooking for his family. He lives in New York City. \nDeborah Kennedy is an author and artist whose recent book\, Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth\, combines illustrations and poetry focusing on the ecological themes of our time. The book’s honors include the 2016 Eric Hoffer Poetry Book Award and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Poetry Book Award. Her writing has appeared in First Literary Review-East and Canary: A Literary Journal of the Environmental Crisis. Deborah lives in San Jose and teaches college classes and poetry workshops. She often hikes in an urban riparian corridor where she spots osprey\, hawks\, and herons. In the evening she watches for moonbows\, earthshine\, and other modern miracles. \n Mira Martin-Parker earned an MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University. Her work has appeared in various publications\, including Istanbul Literary Review\, North Dakota Quarterly\, Mythium\, and Zyzzyva. \nRichard Loranger is a multi-genre writer\, performer\, musician\, visual artist\, and all-around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. He is the founder of Poetea\, a monthly literary conversation group. His publications include the books Sudden Windows\, Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, nine chapbooks\, and work in over 100 magazines and journals. He curates the reading series Babar in Exile\, and the queer talk and reading series #we. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nS B Stokes writes\, draws\, designs\, and produces in the hills behind a lake in Oakland\, California. His publications include a full-length poetry collection called A History of Broken Love Things (Punk Hostage Press\, 2014)\, a chapbook entitled DARK ENTRIES (Gorilla Press  / The Pedestrian Press\, 2014)\, and a self-published chapbook called Let’s Call This Nothing (2018). S  B is one of the founding producers of Beast Crawl\, an annual literary festival in Oakland which features over thirty readings and is 100% free. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shannon Pufahl: On Swift Horses
DESCRIPTION:Shannon Pufahl discusses hew new novel\, On Swift Horses. \nPraise for On Swift Horses \n“Once in a rare while you come across a novel of such transfixing beauty that it enlarges your faith in the medium itself. On Swift Horses is\, for me\, one of those books. As an exploration of life lived in the outer distances of plain sight\, it is suffused with hazard and touched by grace\, furnished with the longevity of a postwar classic and the immediacy of the present tense. It is\, simply put\, a masterpiece.”—Anthony Marra\, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena   \n“On Swift Horses is about both risk and the risqué\, about daring to know\, name\, and act on our own desires. Read this book for the adventure\, for the keening lyricism of the lost and searching\, but mostly read this book because no one writes like Shannon Pufahl. Her voice is muscular\, awesome\, and pure. This book knocked me flat on my back.” —Justin Torres\, author of We the Animals \n“On Swift Horses is a marvel\, a beautifully written novel that traces its raw\, guarded characters from California to Las Vegas to Mexico with grace and inevitability. Shannon Pufahl’s mid-century West is dead-on right\, as recognizable as a box of old photos and yet completely original in voice and scope.” —Jess Walter\, author of Beautiful Ruins \nAbout On Swift Horses \nA lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow divergent and dangerous paths through the postwar American West. \nMuriel is newly married and restless\, transplanted from her rural Kansas hometown to life in a dusty bungalow in San Diego. The air is rich with the tang of salt and citrus\, but the limits of her new life seem to be closing in: She misses her freethinking mother\, dead before Muriel’s nineteenth birthday\, and her sly\, itinerant brother-in-law\, Julius\, who made the world feel bigger than she had imagined. And so she begins slipping off to the Del Mar racetrack to bet and eavesdrop\, learning the language of horses and risk. Meanwhile\, Julius is testing his fate in Las Vegas\, working at a local casino where tourists watch atomic tests from the roof\, and falling in love with Henry\, a young card cheat. When Henry is eventually discovered and run out of town\, Julius takes off to search for him in the plazas and dives of Tijuana\, trading one city of dangerous illusions and indiscretions for another. \nOn Swift Horses is a debut of astonishing power: a story of love and luck\, of two people trying to find their place in a country that is coming apart even as it promises them everything.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shannon-pufahl-on-swift-horses/
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:ANDRÉ ACIMAN & ANDREW SEAN GREER In Conversation with Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:Andre Aciman is a memoirist\, essayist\, novelist\, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. Call Me By Your Name\, Aciman’s best-known novel\, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film. The sequel\, Find Me\, catches up with beloved characters Elio and Oliver in adulthood. Aciman is the editor of The Proust Project and teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. \nNovelist Andrew Sean Greer is the author of six books including The Confessions of Max Tivoli (“enchanting\, in the perfumed\, dandified style of disenchantment brought to grandeur by Proust and Nabokov”  – John Updike) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Less\, a comedy about a man fleeing the humiliations of love\, middle-age\, and failure by accepting invitations that lead to a trip around the world and back. \nSteven Winn is a fiction writer and award-winning arts journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Southern Poetry Review\, and Sports Illustrated. Winn spent 28 years at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and the last six as the Arts and Culture Critic. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Sally Mann\, Zadie Smith\, Michael Chabon\, and Edward St. Aubyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-andrew-sean-greer-in-conversation-with-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series continues in its second year\, as welcome Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press\, dedicated to work in translation from Latin America and Spain\, and its offshoot\, Cartonera Collective\, “a team of book makers devoted to the production of bilingual book art from Latin American authors.” This event at The Poetry Center is co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies\, SF State. The following evening the poets will be reading and conversing at The Green Arcade\, on Market at Gough\, in San Francisco. Both events are free and open to the public. Please come! \n• For this occasion\, Tripwire journal will be producing a new Cardboard House/Cartonera Collective volume in its Tripwire Pamphlet Series! \nGiancarlo Huapaya (Lima\, Peru) has published three collections of poetry\, the most recently\, Taller Sub Verso (Sub Verse Workshop) (2011\, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in the anthologies 4M3R1C4 (Chile)\, Aguas Móviles (Peru)\, Cholos (Guatemala)\, OOMPH! (US)\, and in the journals Erizo (Mexico-EEUU)\, Buenos Aires Poetry (Argentina)\, Poesía (Venezuela)\, Zunái (Brazil)\, Jacket2 (US)\, Anomaly (US)\, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM (México)\, among others. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press\, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. As a curator of visual poetry\, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco and the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. In 2016\, he edited the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States for Hostos Review. As literary translator\, he has translated into Spanish work by C.D Wright\, Susan Briante\, Ross Gay\, Carmen Giménez Smith and Alli Warren. Currently\, he is MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. \nOmar Pimienta is a writer/artist who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity\, trans-nationality\, emergency poetics\, sociopolitical landscape and memory. He has published four books of poetry in U.S\, México and Spain. Album of Fences\, translated by José Antonio Villarán\, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. He won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. His work as a visual artist has been recently shown\, at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc\, and was part of the Getty Foundation\, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. More here. \nJose Antonio Villarán (parent/writer/teacher) is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (Matalamanga\, 2006) & el cerrajero (Album del Universo Bakterial\, 2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences\, by Omar Pimienta (Cardboard House Press\, 2018); and creator of the AMLT project\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship\, which was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2019. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego\, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-cardboard-house-press-cartonera-collective-giancarlo-huapaya-omar-pimienta-jose-antonio-villaran/
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:Give Us The Word
DESCRIPTION:Give Us The Word\, Queer Rebels present an evening of words of wisdom\, words of resistance\, words to inspire\, words that heal. Words that help QTPoC folks get to the other side. We need US. QTPOC writers\, readers\, singers\, talkers\, storytellers and thought makers speak to our lives\, loves and desires in this world and in this crazy moment. Our very Special Guest: Blackberri Singer\, Chibueze Crouch\, Mason Jairo\, Carolyn Wysinger and Dazie Grego-Sykes. This is A Free Event \nQueer Rebels is supported by The California Arts Council\, SFAC\, The Zellerbach Foundation Grants for The Arts and Intersection For The Arts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/give-us-the-word/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CHRIS HUGHES In Conversation with Courtney E. Martin
DESCRIPTION:In 2002\, Chris Hughes met Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard\, in his freshman year\, and the two co-founded what would become Facebook. In 2007\, Hughes left Facebook to volunteer for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign\, and went on to found his own non-profit social network organization\, Jumo. He later purchased a majority stake in The New Republic and became editor-in-chief of the magazine. In May of 2019\, Hughes published an Op-Ed in the New York Times\, entitled “It’s Time to Break Up Facebook\,” calling for government regulation of the platform\, and reflecting on the troubling directions that he believed Facebook to have moved since his departure. Hughes is also the author of Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality\, an exhortative book arguing for a guaranteed income for working people\, to be paid for by one percenters like himself. \nCourtney E. Martin is the author of five books\, including Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists and The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream. She is the co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and has collaborated with a wide range of organizations\, including TED\, The Aspen Institute\, and the Obama Foundation. She won the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics and holds an honorary doctorate from ArtCenter College of Design.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-hughes-in-conversation-with-courtney-e-martin/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eves at the Beat: Womxn Reading at The Beat Museum
DESCRIPTION:During Women’s History month a constellation of events brought together a group of fabulous womxn+ writers. The meeting of these hearts and minds exploded into something powerful and a new monthly reading series concept was born\, “Eves at the Beat”. \nThis months Eves at the Beat is curated by the fabulous Thea Matthews And MC’d Shelley Wong \nReaders for this event: \nAudrey T. Williams is a Poet|Writer|Activist. In 2018\, she earned her MFA in Writing from CCA. She writes through a lens of Black\, multi-cultural ancestry infused with flights of fantasy. Current projects: Of Chutneys and Chitlins: Stories from a Multi-cultural American Girl and Liberation Spells: What to Say to Center Yourself. \nMarguerite Munoz writes mostly in East Bay and from her sickbed when she has a cold. Her work speaks to interconnectedness sensed through spirit\, blurred boundaries between inner and outer worlds\, and the nameless desires she holds as a woman surviving in today’s modern world. Under the sponsorship of Alley Cat Books and Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia\, she co-curates the six-year-old multilingual reading series Voz sin Tinta\, which is committed to showcasing writers whose voices may otherwise go unheard. \n@Katie Aliferis is the Poet Laureate of feta cheese and Greek seas. She has been a featured performer at Greek Writers Night\, the SFSU Center for Modern Greek Studies\, VelRo’s Global Voices: A Celebration of Translation and International Creative Writing\, and other events. Find Katie (in person) to commune over Greek coffee or (online\, if that’s your thing) at KatieAliferis.com and @Katie_Aliferis (Twitter and Instagram). \nConnie Zheng is a project-based artist\, writer and filmmaker who was born in China\, grew up in the Northeastern United States\, and is currently based out of Berkeley\, California. Her work is interested in developing new language around the apocalypse\, the difference between “disaster porn” and “disaster erotica”\, diasporic place-making\, and the political potentials enabled by fantasy as a means of community- building amidst climate change. She received an MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley\, as well as a BA in Economics and English (Creative Nonfiction) from Brown University. Currently\, she is a Graduate Fellow at the Headlands Center for the Arts. \nLisa Galloway is a queer San Francisco-based poet\, Litquake’s Elder Project Director\, and Foglifter Press’ Development Director. She is a graduate of Pacific University’s MFA program in Poetry and was a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow. She is the author of Liminal: A Life of Cleavage from Lost Horse Press. In her free time\, she enjoys riveting conversations with her best editor\, a wily\, orange\, polydactyl cat named Snacks. \nAmanda Moore‘s poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies including ZZYZVA\, Cream City Review\, and Best New Poets\, and her essays have appeared in The Baltimore Review\, Hippocampus Magazine\, and on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. She is a Contributing Poetry Editor at Women’s Voices for Change\, a Board member for the Marin Poetry Center\, a 2019 Fellow at The Writers Grotto\, and a new recipient of the Brown-Handler Writer’s Residency through the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Amanda is a high school teacher and lives by the beach in the Outer Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco with her husband and daughter. More at http://amandapmoore.com \n@Yeva Johnson\, a Black American Jewish queer Lesbian feminist mother and musician\, is an emerging poet whose day job is in the health professions. \n“Eves at the Beat” is a monthly first Thursday reading series at The Beat Museum with occasional readings in Kerouac Alley featuring womxn and non-binary people. Each first Thursday there will be a new curator and MC invited from the previous month. This will give many people the opportunity to step into these roles and make the culture of the readings more equitable and circular\, rather than hierarchal. \nThis is a donation based event. We will pass a hat so bring a contribution for the readers. \nWe will also be accepting packages of dry goods\, new socks\, and sanitary items for the local homeless community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eves-at-the-beat-womxn-reading-at-the-beat-museum-2/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Cardboard House Press/Cartonera Collective: Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, José Antonio Villarán
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center’s Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series welcomes Giancarlo Huapaya\, Omar Pimienta\, and José Antonio Villarán—all three poets involved in the outstanding literary small publisher Cardboard House Press\, dedicated to work in translation from Latin America and Spain\, and its offshoot\, Cartonera Collective\, “a team of book makers devoted to the production of bilingual book art from Latin American authors.” Thursday November 7 they present their work at The Poetry Center\, co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies\, SF State. Then Friday evening we’ll all be at The Green Arcade\, on Market at Gough\, in San Francisco. Both events are free and open to the public. Please join us! \n• For this occasion\, Tripwire journal will be producing a new Cardboard House/Cartonera Collective volume in its Tripwire Pamphlet Series! \nGiancarlo Huapaya (Lima\, Peru) has published three collections of poetry\, the most recently\, Taller Sub Verso (Sub Verse Workshop) (2011\, 2013). His poems and translations have appeared in the anthologies 4M3R1C4 (Chile)\, Aguas Móviles (Peru)\, Cholos (Guatemala)\, OOMPH! (US)\, and in the journals Erizo (Mexico-EEUU)\, Buenos Aires Poetry (Argentina)\, Poesía (Venezuela)\, Zunái (Brazil)\, Jacket2 (US)\, Anomaly (US)\, Periódico de Poesía de la UNAM (México)\, among others. He is Founder and Editor of Cardboard House Press\, a nonprofit publishing house for Latin American and Spanish literature in translation. As a curator of visual poetry\, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco and the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson. In 2016\, he edited the anthology Pulenta Pool: Peruvian Poets in the United States for Hostos Review. As literary translator\, he has translated into Spanish work by C.D Wright\, Susan Briante\, Ross Gay\, Carmen Giménez Smith and Alli Warren. Currently\, he is MFA candidate in Creative Writing at The University of Texas at El Paso. \nOmar Pimienta is a writer/artist who lives and works in the San Diego / Tijuana border region. His artistic practice examines questions of identity\, trans-nationality\, emergency poetics\, sociopolitical landscape and memory. He has published four books of poetry in U.S\, México and Spain. Album of Fences\, translated by José Antonio Villarán\, was published by Cardboard House Press in 2018. He won the Emilio Prado 10th International Publication prize from the Centro Cultural Generación del 27 Malaga Spain. His work as a visual artist has been recently shown\, at the 3ème Biennale Internationale de l’Art Contemporain de Casablanca Maroc\, and was part of the Getty Foundation\, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. In 2017-18 he was awarded an Art Matters Grant. More here. \nJose Antonio Villarán (parent/writer/teacher) is the author of two books of poetry: la distancia es siempre la misma (Matalamanga\, 2006) & el cerrajero (Album del Universo Bakterial\, 2012); one book of translation\, Album of Fences\, by Omar Pimienta (Cardboard House Press\, 2018); and creator of the AMLT project\, an exploration of hypertext literature and collective authorship\, which was sponsored by Puma from 2011-2014. His third book\, titled open pit\, is forthcoming from AUB in 2019. He holds an MFA in Writing from the University of California San Diego\, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tripwire-cross-cultural-poetics-series-cardboard-house-press-cartonera-collective-giancarlo-huapaya-omar-pimienta-jose-antonio-villaran-2/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFCohenFest: A Night of Cohen Poetry\, Literature\, and Music
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival – A Celebration of Leonard’s Music\, Poetry\, Insight & Humor – Night #1 \nReadings\, recitations\, and reflections on Leonard’s body of work\, as well as a few musical interludes.\nDoors 7pm – Show 8pm \nFriday\, November 8 – Cafe Du Nord\nBobby Coleman – Host\nAgneta Falk Hirschman\nJack Hirschman\nKim Shuck\nPeter Dale Scott\nSilvi Alcivar\nSoheyl Dahi\nCharith Premawardhana\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nStuart Schuffman aka Broke-Ass Stuart\nJohn Avalos\nDaryl Henline\nElaine Ryan\nPeter Whitehead\nKarlyn DeSteno\nSmitty and Julija\nJosé Lobo \nMore info at https://www.sfleonardcohenfest.com\nAlso check out:\nSF Cohen Fest Night #2 – https://www.facebook.com/events/2346341708918616/\nSF Cohen Fest Night #3 – https://www.facebook.com/events/3296745007032231/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfcohenfest-a-night-of-cohen-poetry-literature-and-music/
LOCATION:Cafe du Nord\, 2174 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T153000
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SUMMARY:Esti Skloot: Uprooted
DESCRIPTION:Esti Skloot discusses her new book\, Uprooted: A Memoir of a Marriage. \nAbout Uprooted \nWhen pregnant Esther–a young\, adventurous\, British-born Israeli–follows her new husband\, Steve\, to America\, she has no idea what she’s getting herself into. Even before their baby is born\, Esther discovers the dark side of her charming film production manager husband\, and learns that she must cope with his moodiness and domineering personality. Left alone day after day in a high-rise apartment in Queens\, Esther struggles with culture shock\, homesickness\, and adapting her husband’s whims–like the baby goat he brings home to their eighth-floor apartment to keep as a pet. Ten years and two more children later\, thirty-four-year-old Steve is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Despite aggressive treatments\, he succumbs to the disease\, leaving Esther to care for their three children alone\, Esther at first feels lost and bewildered; as time goes on\, however\, she discovers that there is a freedom in her new situation–and that she has a greater inner strength than she ever before realized. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/esti-skloot-uprooted/
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:20191109T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch for Heidi Van Horn's Belated Poem\, with Sarah Heady and Nancy Au
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts San Francisco poet Heidi Van Horn for her debut collection\, Belated Poem. Reading with her are poet Sarah Heady and fiction writer Nancy Au. Please join us! \nBelated Poem (Drop Leaf Press\, 2019) is a book-length sequence of text + image diptychs distilling landscape\, color\, and language into a poetics of interiority. Van Horn’s spare lines and arresting photographs are narratively linked yet marked by rupture\, elusion\, and unsettledness. Deploying vocabularies of intimacy and ephemerality as deftly as those of abstraction\, physics\, and geologic time (volcanic island-building; fault-block mountains)\, Belated Poem ultimately speaks in human terms: perception and consciousness\, shadow states\, and severance at the seam of Self and Other. \nHeidi Van Horn is a poet who takes lots of photographs. Her multi-disciplinary practice explores the complexity of selfhood and the space of the encounter. Heidi recently joined the editorial staff at Drop Leaf Press\, where she will be focusing on artist + poet collaborative works. She is also co-authoring\, with David Makaaha Kwon\, “House of David\,” a poetic assemblage exploring the personal and political geography of mass incarceration. Heidi received her BA in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University. She has worked as the assistant director of the UC Berkeley Public Service Center and currently serves as a youth justice mentor. She lives in San Francisco with her children. More at hvanhorn.com. \nSarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place\, history\, and the built environment. She is the librettist of Unfinished: An Opera\, a new work about the death and life of a women’s college\, currently in development with composer Joshua Groffman and producer Vital Opera. Sarah is also the author of Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills)\, winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award\, and Tatted Insertion\, a letterpress collaboration with book artist Leah Virsik. Her manuscript “Comfort” was a finalist for the 2019 Ahsahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize and the 2017 National Poetry Series. Sarah is a co-editor of Drop Leaf Press\, a small women-run poetry collective. More at sarahheady.com. \nNancy Au is an Oakland-based writer and co-founder of The Escapery. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. She teaches creative writing (to biology majors!) at California State University Stanislaus. Her writing appears in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Jellyfish Review\, Lunch Ticket\, Pithead Chapel\, The Forge Literary Magazine\, SmokeLong Quarterly\, and elsewhere. She is the winner of Redivider’s 2018 Blurred Genres Contest and The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize\, and her flash fiction is included in The Best Small Fictions 2018. Her debut full-length collection\, Spider Love Song and Other Stories\, published by University of Cincinnati’s Acre Books\, just launched this September. More at peascarrots.com. \n“Belated Poem speaks in a mesmerizing incantation of precision and haunting as it seeks to observe and record the vast geographies of the interstices between people. A poet with a barometer\, a scientist in a fugue state\, Van Horn converges photography\, text\, and space in order to trace the complicated textures of intimacy and distance\, attachment and rupture\, amid the debris of an altered relationship. From the subtle doubling in her photographs and the spatial undertow of her lines emerges a lyrical sequence that\, in its unearthing of “your body next to mine at the event horizon\,” also unearths the inconsolable beauty of the interior terrain and those places that are hardest to voice.”  – Jennifer S. Cheng \n“Belated Poem greets time after its becoming – exceeding a certain intensity – a relational experience or a lesson that befalls us in space. In the aftermath of “the jade- / blue slope of a line” or “the cusp of the caldera\,” we become offspring of the “event horizon.” Here are vital forces – landscape\, creative\, combinatorial – shifting\, intimate\, foreshadowing and spilling us into “catastrophic events” or “a nest / out of dark matter.” Image and poem in this beautiful sequence confirm the open-ended aliveness of traces and our distributed brave interface with the world.” – Hazel White
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-for-heidi-van-horns-belated-poem-with-sarah-heady-and-nancy-au/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T213000
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Variety is more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It’s more than occasionally cosplaying as Yeoman Ayn Rand instead of Slave Leeloo. It’s also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature\, stand-up comedy with science fiction\, and poetry with essays. Plus mystery\, romance\, memoir\, rants and “other.”\nAll proceeds benefit local non-profits. Charlie Jane Anders MCs and vamps.\nUpcoming events:\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, 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.\nSaturday\, Nov. 8\, 2019:\n \nAnnalee Newitz (The Future of Another Timeline)\nNathaniel Popkin (The Year of the Return)\nAubrey Hirsch (Why We Never Talk About Sugar)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, 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. \nSaturday\, Dec. 14\, 2019:\n \nAlvin Orloff (Disasterama! Adventures in the Queer Underground)\nOlga Zilberbourg (Like Water and Other Stories)\nMegan E. O’Keefe (Velocity Weapon)\nFEATURING SPECIAL GUEST HOST Maggie Tokuda-Hall!\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit a local nonprofit\, 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. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-25/
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:20191109T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191109T210000
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SUMMARY:Heather Christle: The Crying Book
DESCRIPTION:Heather Christle discusses her new book\, The Crying Book. \nPraise for The Crying Book  \n“In The Crying Book\, Heather Christle makes a poignant and piercing examination of the phenomenon of tears—exhaustive\, yes\, but also open-ended\, such that I was left clutching this book to my chest with wonder\, asking myself when the last time was that I cried\, and why. A deeply felt\, and genuinely touching\, book.” —Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Collected Schizophrenias \n“This is a wonderful and profound look at the act of crying–something human and yet hidden\, common and yet mysterious. I found myself reading with a thirst for the tears Heather Christle collects here–instances within literature\, film\, history\, and the author’s own life all add up to a greater understanding of what makes us human.” —Chelsea Hodson\, author of Tonight I’m Someone Else \nAbout The Crying Book \nWhy do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific\, cultural\, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood. \nHeather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood\, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it\, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way\, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen-tear-shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear-collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. \nHonest\, intelligent\, rapturous\, and surprising\, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science\, history\, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life\, loss\, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-christle-the-crying-book/
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:20191110T143000
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SUMMARY:The Short Stories of Ethel Rohan
DESCRIPTION:As well as being an accomplished novelist — her 2017 debut\, The Weight of Him was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book — Ethel Rohan is also a master of that very Irish (and Russian\, and American) format\, the short story. She has two well-received short story collections to her credit (Goodnight Nobody and Cut Through the Bone). Ethel will in conversation with Hinterland director Tony Bucher.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-short-stories-of-ethel-rohan/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T160000
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SUMMARY:Mary Ladd in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with SF Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik at The Bindery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-sf-chronicle-columnist-leah-garchik/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191110T200000
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SUMMARY:SF in SF with Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with authors Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz\, in conversation with Bay Area writer\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of The City in the Middle of the Night and the Nebula Award-winning All the Birds in the Sky. She’s the organizer of the Writers With Drinks reading series\, and she was a founding editor of io9\, a website about science fiction\, science and futurism. Her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Tor.com\, Lightspeed\, Tin House\, ZYZZYVA\, and several anthologies. Her novelette “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo award. She has also won the Emperor Norton Award\, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” \nAnnalee Newitz writes science fiction and nonfiction. They are the author of the novels The Future of Another Timeline\, and Autonomous\, which won the Lambda Literary Award. As a science journalist\, they are a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times\, and have a monthly column in New Scientist. They have published in The Washington Post\, Slate\, Popular Science\, Ars Technica\, The New Yorker\, and The Atlantic\, among others. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously\, they were the founder of io9\, and served as the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm; event begins at 6:30 pm. As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ works for sale. \n$10 at the door; proceeds go to support the American Bookbinders Museum (no one turned away for lack of funds).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-in-sf-with-charlie-jane-anders-and-annalee-newitz/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T193000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Non-Fiction November: Three Histories
DESCRIPTION:November is non-fiction month at Odd Mondays! November 11\, three authors read from their brand-new histories at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Join us at 6:30 p.m. for this free event. Tamim Ansary reads from THE INVENTION OF YESTERDAY: A 50\,000-Year History of Human Culture\,  Brandon Brown from THE APOLLO CHRONICLES: Engineering America’s First Moon Missions\, and Julia Flynn Siler from THE WHITE DEVIL’S DAUGHTERS: Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown. A book signing follows the readings. \nHere’s information on the authors: \nTamim Ansary grew up in Afghanistan and grew old in America. His grandparents were Slavic\, Finnish\, Arab\, and Mongolian.  His books include West of Kabul\, East of New York\, San Francisco’s One City One Book for 2008\, and Destiny Disrupted\, A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes\, which won an NCBA Award in 2009. His new book\, The Invention of Yesterday\, explores how we humans got to be so interconnected and why we’re still fighting. \nBrandon R. Brown is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of San Francisco. He writes about science through such outlets as Smithsonian\, Slate\, and Scientific American. His books include a biography\, Planck\, winner of the 2016 Housatonic Award for non-fiction\, and The Apollo Chronicles\, an immersive engineering history. \nJulia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. Her most recent book\, The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown\, is a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other books are Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen\, the Sugar Kings\, and America’s First Imperial Adventure andThe House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty\, which was a finalist for a James Beard Award and a Gerald Loeb Award for distinguished reporting. A veteran journalist\, Siler is a longtime contributor and former staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and has been a guest commentator on the BBC\, CNBC\, and CNN. She lives in Northern California with her husband and their two sons. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-non-fiction-november-three-histories/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191111T203000
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SUMMARY:Teaching Resistance: Radicals\, Revolutionaries and Cultural Subversives in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teaching-resistance-radicals-revolutionaries-and-cultural-subversives-in-the-classroom/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Editor John Mink talks about his book Teaching Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Teaching Resistance is a collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field. Written in accessible language\, this book is for anyone who wants to explore new ways to subvert educational systems and institutions\, collectively transform educational spaces\, and empower students and teachers alike to fight for genuine change.\n\nJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels and refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including Slingshot\, Absolutely Zippo\, and Collapse Board. Editor of the Maximum Rocknroll monthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands\, John lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his partner Megan March\, who is also his bandmate in the truewave/punk group Street Eaters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/editor-john-mink-talks-about-his-book-teaching-resistance/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patty Seyburn & Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:Patty Seyburn and Dean Rader read from their new poetry collections\, Threshold Delivery and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nAbout Threshold Delivery \nThreshold Delivery takes a lyrical look at how we approach the death of our loved ones – and how we confront the various thresholds in our lives. These poems guide the reader through ritual\, tradition\, and mystical interpretations of how and why we mourn\, and how we conduct our lives after knowing grief. Though referencing Jewish tradition\, these poems ask the reader to confront their own strategies and observance. They call upon pathos\, personal history and humor\, confronting the everyday with no shortage of joy\, irony\, and bafflement. Poems range from short personal meditations and anecdotal narratives to associative flights of imagination and winding explorations\, replete with historical oddities and popular culture. Densely musical and voice driven\, poems take the reader on journeys through personal and family history\, mapping the movement of the heart and mind through life’s most challenging moments. A series of poems\, on the surface about Mah Jongg\, look at interweaving cultural histories and how the social world affects our behavior\, while asking us to consider what we inherit\, what we bring with\, and what we pass down\, as we “draw and discard.” \nAbout Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page–sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patty-seyburn-dean-rader/
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:20191112T213000
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: I Can't Thank You Enough
DESCRIPTION:Gratitude is the moment. But we’re kind of bad at it\, right? Like\, whenever someone says\, “we should go around and say one thing we are thankful for.” I always say\, “this meal?” But *being* thanked feels so boss. So we’re asking our writers to meditate on people who helped them in big ways. And by the end of the night we’ll all feel like pumpkin pie on the inside.\nSee you there\, Sunbeams ♥ \n_____ \nHAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can \nWe’re thinking about scale\, my little Sunbeams. How does the size of a place\, a person\, or a feeling effect us?? Our cast of five v different and interesting writers will tell us just that! With\, likely\, the most joyous of conclusions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-i-cant-thank-you-enough/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary Party for Wherever There Is A Fight with co-authors Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi
DESCRIPTION:We had a great and deep time for the release of the first edition of this book ten years ago\, and this history of the gaining—and retaining—of civil rights in California could not be timelier. Join as we celebrate the process:  Wherever There’s a Fight\, 10th Anniversary Edition: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers\, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California. \nElaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines\, which was banned by the Marcos regime. Her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, Poets and Writers\, and numerous other periodicals. \nStan Yogi is also coauthor\, with Laura Atkins\, of the children’s book Fred Korematsu Speaks Up. He managed development programs for the ACLU of Northern California for fourteen years and is the coeditor of two books\, Highway 99: A Literary Journey through California’s Great Central Valley and Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle\, MELUS\, Los Angeles Daily Journal\, and several anthologies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/10th-anniversary-party-for-wherever-there-is-a-fight-with-co-authors-elaine-elinson-and-stan-yogi/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matt Saincome & Bill Conway: The Hard Times
DESCRIPTION:Matt Saincome and Bill Conway discuss The Hard Times: The First 40 Years. \nA sharp\, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture\, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.net. \nThe Hard Times: The First 40 Years is the first book from The Hard Times.net\, the Internet’s favorite music satire site. Often referred to as “The Onion for punk rock\,” the site has developed a sizable\, devoted following for its razor-sharp takes on underground music and alternative culture. And with headlines like “Man Magically Transforms into Music Historian While Talking to Women” and “Pretentious Friend Only Listens to Podcasts on Vinyl\,” you don’t have to be a punk rock diehard to appreciate their hilarious commentary. \nNow\, in this ’zine-style “historical retrospective\,” the writers behind the site document its development alongside the rise of punk rock\, with original articles from their ‘archives’ commenting upon ’70s\, ’80s\, and ’90s punk\, and site-specific fan favorites from the aughts-onward. With its unique aesthetic and laugh-out-loud humor\, The Hard Times will be the perfect gift book for music nerds and pop culture devotees everywhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matt-saincome-bill-conway-the-hard-times/
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:GLORIA STEINEM In Conversation with Amy Richards
DESCRIPTION:Orchestra and loge tickets include a copy of Steinem’s new book \nGloria Steinem is a writer\, speaker\, activist and feminist organizer. She co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine\, where she remains a consulting editor. She produced an HBO documentary on child abuse\, a Lifetime film about the death penalty\, and WOMAN\, a series of eight Viceland documentaries about violence against women across the world. Steinem is the subject of The Education of a Woman\, a biography by Carolyn Heilbrun\, and HBO’s Gloria: In Her Own Words. Her own books include My Life on the Road\, Revolution from Within\, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions\, and Moving Beyond Words. In 2013\, President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom\, the highest civilian honor. \nAmy Richards is a writer\, producer\, and organizer. Most recently\, she produced the Emmy-nominated series WOMAN for Viceland and curated a series of talks to accompany Annie Leibovitz’s traveling exhibition WOMEN. Richards was a consulting producer on the HBO documentary Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words and an advisor on the PBS documentary MAKERS: Women Making America. She is the author of Manifesta: Young Women\, Feminism\, and the Future. She works closely with Gloria Steinem on her writing
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gloria-steinem-in-conversation-with-amy-richards/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Poetry Center Book Award: Bao Phi with Sarah Menefee\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 14 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center Book Award Reading\, co-sponsored this year by the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN)\, features award winner Bao Phi\, from Minneapolis\, selected for his book Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press\, 2017)\, reading and in conversation with the award judge\, Sarah Menefee. The Poetry Center Book Award has been presented annually since 1980 by The Poetry Center to a single outstanding book of poetry published in the previous year. The award carries a cash prize and an invitation to read\, along with the award judge\, at The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University. Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is free and open to the public. \n  Judge’s Statement: for Thousand Star Hotel\, by Bao Phi \n\nFrom the first poem in Bao Phi’s Thousand Star Hotel I was taken into a real world\, particular to the poet but a shared world\, in the best way\, written with a sure and generous ear. A confidence by one retail worker to another in the first poem of this fine collection: a scene certainly familiar to me\, and I know right off that the ways of the world and the heart are being masterfully revealed. The particulars of life\, which constitute both poetry and the shared experience called ‘history\,’ are here with their beautiful and brutal truths. In this case the war that was waged against the Vietnamese people\, something that reverberates forever here\, as part of this patched-together and unequal society of all of us from everywhere\, where the truths told by father to son and father to daughter are freighted with love\, ultimate innocence and experience. All these things weave through these poems\, which are a pleasure and an adventure to read\, best instances of the visionary real. At a time when there is so much dimensionless fantasy throughout this amnesiac culture\, how refreshing to be told the real story! — revelation and recognition. “That a raindrop can weep inside of itself so hard it drowns and\, looking at it\, you would never know.” —Sarah Menefee\n\nBao Phi is a multiple-time Minnesota Grand Slam poetry champ and National Poetry Slam finalist\, and the author of two collections of poetry\, Thousand Star Hotel and Sông I Sing\, both from Coffee House Press\, and both of which are taught in classrooms across the country. He is also author of A Different Pond\, a picture book which received a Caldecott honor\, an Ezra Jack Keats new author honor\, the Charlotte Zolotow award for excellence in children’s book writing\, and six starred reviews\, and He was Minnesota Monthly’s Author of the Year 2017 and City Pages’ Best Author 2018. He continues to tour as a featured guest speaker and artist across the country. He is the program director of events and awards at the Loft Literary Center\, in Minneapolis. Photo: Anna Min. \nSan Francisco poet Sarah Menefee\, originally from Reno\, Nevada\, is a homeless and poor people’s rights activist\, a founding member of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America\, the Revolutionary Poets Brigade\, and ‘First they came for the homeless.’ Her poetry collections include I’m Not Thousandfurs\, The Blood About the Heart\, Human Star\, In Your Fish Helmet\, and Stella Umana (Italian & English)\, along with numerous chapbooks. She is a painter\, a photographer and journalist for The People’s Tribune\, with her articles and her poetry published widely in numerous political and literary journals and anthologies. She has worked in hospitals\, bars\, casinos\, offices\, day care centers and in many retail jobs\, including bookstores. She is currently semi-retired\, and works part-time as an artist’s model. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSarah Menefee\, “First They Came for the Homeless\,” at Cornell University Architecture Art Planning \nKB Kinkel\, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #115: Bao Phi \nRecipients of The Poetry Center Book Award\, 1980–present \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 Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-book-award-bao-phi-with-sarah-menefee-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cherríe Moraga: Native Country of the Heart
DESCRIPTION:Cherríe Moraga discusses her new memoir\, Native Country of the Heart. \nPraise for Native Country of the Heart \n“I love A Native Country of the Heart‘s forthright blending of a bio of Moraga’s intriguing powerhouse mom\, Elivira\, with Moraga’s own queer evolution. And that the intimate facts of Cherríe Moraga’s family history get embedded alongside such valuable public secrets as the mass deportation of Mexican workers during the depression so that dust bowl farmers could have their jobs. This book is a coup.” —Eileen Myles\, author of Afterglow \n“A beautiful\, painful\, funny\, heartening and heartfelt immersion in the life of one of the leading voices of Latino/a literature\, our very own Cherríe Moraga. Part elegy\, part history and part testimonio rife with storytelling\, Native Country of the Heart\, like all of Moraga’s work\, charts the unmapped and unspoken territories of body\, mind\, heart and soul and refuses to be confined by any border or genre. Her memoir is a defiant\, deep and soulful book about all our mothers\, mother cultures\, motherlands and languages. Telling her own mother Elvira’s story is both a political and ceremonial act. “We were not supposed to remember\,” Moraga writes. She does remember\, and in this moving and brave book she gives us all a reckoning our country needs now. —Julia Alvarez\, author of In the Time of the Butterflies \n“Cherríe Moraga\, a foundational contributor to modern Feminism\, grapples with her fierce but withholding Mexican mother who—despite their struggles—remains her strongest touchstone of identification. A raw and vulnerable story of acceptance hard won.” —Sarah Schulman\, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse \n“This a great book. In telling her mother’s life-story Cherríe Moraga ruthlessly examines her own heart and the deep complications of growing up mixed race and lesbian in a racist culture. But she also lays bare the spiritual core that strengthens and sustains her. The heart\, the soul\, familia and tribe\, the native country is as narrow as the space between clenched fingers and as wide as the sightlines to the horizon.” —Dorothy Allison\, author of Bastard Out of Carolina \nAbout Native Country of the Heart \nFrom the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back\, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline\, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. \nNative Country of the Heart: A Memoir is\, at its core\, a mother-daughter story. The mother\, Elvira\, was hired out as a child\, along with her siblings\, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter\, Cherríe Moraga\, is a brilliant\, pioneering\, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women\, and of their people\, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. \nAs a young woman\, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana\, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power\, sex\, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey—from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to\, later on\, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s—she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails\, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora\, its indigenous origins\, and an American story of cultural loss. \nPoetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma\, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga-native-country-of-the-heart/
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:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes at TLC
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Nov14\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-at-tlc/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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