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SUMMARY:Petra Kuppers + Stephanie Heit
DESCRIPTION:At this unique event\, Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers will hold open spaces of healing by sharing scores and insights from Tendings\, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy\, eco-specific investigations\, somatic exercises\, and writing. They will follow these practical explorations with sample writings from Stephanie’s The Color She Gave Gravity\, and Petra’s PearlStitch\, feminist poetics in queer/crip/mad space.\nStephanie Heit is a poet\, dancer\, and teacher of somatic writing\, Contemplative Dance Practice\, and Kundalini Yoga. She lives with bipolar disorder and is a member of the Olimpias\, an international disability performance collective. Her debut poetry collection\, The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System 2017)\, was a Nightboat Poetry Prize finalist. Her work most recently appeared in Midwestern Gothic\, Typo\, Streetnotes\, Nerve Lantern\, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology\, Spoon Knife Anthology\, Theatre Topics\, and Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.\nstephanieheitpoetry.wordpress.com\nPetra Kuppers is a disability culture activist\, a community performance artist\, and a Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan\, teaching in performance studies. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. Her most recent poetry collection\, PearlStitch\, appeared with Spuyten Duyvil Press (2016). She is the Artistic Director of The Olimpias\, an international disability culture collective\, and in 2016/7 she was engaged in the Asylum Project\, co-led with her partner Stephanie Heit.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/petra-kuppers-stephanie-heit/
LOCATION:California College of Arts\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rise and Resist!
DESCRIPTION:Observe President’s Day and join the resistance. Say NO to Trump’s agenda of hate and division. Love and Solidarity. Amor y Solidaridad. Bring signs and banners. Castro Street and Market\, San Francisco. Regardless of weather. \nSpeakers will include some of the real activists portrayed in the ABC mini-series\, “When We Rise.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-and-resist/
LOCATION:Harvey Milk Plaza\, 2401 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170220T193000
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SUMMARY:Ian Rankin
DESCRIPTION:It’s the 30th anniversary of Ian Rankin’s Detective Inspector John Rebus! In his latest outing he may have stopped smoking and drinking\, but he hasn’t stopped flouting the rules. 2017 marks the thirtieth anniversary of one of crime fiction’s greatest characters\, John Rebus\, created by one of the world’s leading crime writers\, Ian Rankin. Rebus’s anniversary coincides with the release of the much-anticipated Rather Be the Devil\, Rankin’s 21st Rebus novel.\nRather Be the Devil finds John Rebus\, as incapable of settling into his retirement as he is of playing by the rules\, investigating a cold case from the 1970s involving a gorgeous and wealthy female socialite who was found dead in a bedroom at one of Edinburgh’s most luxurious hotels. No one was ever found guilty\, but the scandalous circumstances of the murder have kept the town talking for over forty years. Now\, Rebus has his own reasons to investigate\, but his inquiries—along with those of Malcolm Fox and Siobhan Clarke—quickly make him some very dangerous and powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the case remains unsolved and the gossip falls on deaf ears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ian-rankin-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170221T190000
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:A BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS \nfrom Ecco Press \nA BOOK OF AMERICAN MARTYRS intimately links the stories of two very different families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town. Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. As the story moves forward\, the daughters of these men—one a boxer\, the other a journalist—continue to be inextricably tied by the dramatic connection they share. As she alone can\, Oates renders whole these two very different families—with very different values and views. Epic and intimate\, the narrative explores their warring convictions with dazzling equanimity. A story as immediate as today’s headlines\, it also offers a larger perspective on the ways that issues tear us apart as individuals and as a nation. \nJoyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal\, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award\, the National Book Award\, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time\, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys\, Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize)\, and the New York Times bestsellers The Falls (winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and The Gravedigger’s Daughter. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature\, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:Green Apple Books and 826 Valencia present Valeria Luiselli and student writers for a special event for Tell Me How it Ends\, Luiselli’s new book-length essay about her work with undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation. \n\nPraise for Valeria Luiselli \n\n“Luiselli follows in the imaginative tradition of writers like Borges and Márquez\, but her style and concerns are unmistakably her own… Luiselli has become a writer to watch\, in part because it’s truly hard to know (but exciting to wonder about) where she will go next.” —The New York Times \n\n“Although buoyant\, Luiselli’s work never seems flippant\, perhaps because of her precise prose style . . . Linear at first glance\, it soon opens out into a world of stories\, like a mouth with one tooth from every artist in the world.” —Chicago Tribune \n\n“Valeria Luiselli is one of the most exciting new writers working today.” —Los Angeles Times \n\nAbout Tell Me How it Ends \n\nStructured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation\, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman’s essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear—both here and back home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:826 Valencia\, 826 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Word Party
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-word-party/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marc Bojanowski
DESCRIPTION:From the author of The Dog Fighter\, hailed by Geoff Dyer as “the most exciting debut…by an American writer since Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides\,” comes Journeyman\, a tightly wound novel by Marc Bojanowski about dwelling\, building\, belonging\, love\, and the value of a place to call home. \nNolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. Set in 2007\, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars\, Nolan builds tract homes across California\, traveling between jobs. Following a shocking workplace accident in his temporary home of Las Vegas\, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads west towards the ocean. On his way he passes through his brother’s town\, where circumstances force him to stay put. Bereft of his trailer and his tools\, Nolan turns to the task of building the foundations of a meaningful life. The specter of war and questions of the Western-film notions of masculinity are woven throughout the novel; from the damage to Nolan’s family by the Vietnam War in which his father fought\, to the ubiquity and consequence of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\, to slow unraveling of his brother’s marriage and mental state\, to the mysterious series of arsons being set around their small town. \nOne of “31 Brilliant Books That You Really Must Read This Spring.” — Buzzfeed\n“A rich but unrefined seam of allegorical meaningfulness [runs] through this pleasing tale.” — The Irish Times\n“Bojanowski keeps it simple … his direct\, unassuming style keeps the reader engaged in the ultimately optimistic story of Nolan’s attempt to overcome the contradictions in his life.” — Herald Scotland \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marc-bojanowski/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Roxane Gay w/ Anna Sale
DESCRIPTION:Roxane Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 2014\, Best American Short Stories 2012\, A Public Space\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\, Oxford American\, American Short Fiction\, The New York Times Book Review\, Bookforum\, Time\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Nation\, The Rumpus\, Salon\, and many others. She is an associate professor of English at Purdue University\, contributing op-ed writer at The New York Times\, founder of Tiny Hardcore Press\, essays editor for The Rumpus\, and co-editor of PANK\, a nonprofit literary arts collective. She is also the author of the books Ayiti\, An Untamed State\, and Bad Feminist. Her forthcoming publications include Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body\, a sharp\, honest memoir about food\, weight\, self-image and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself\, and the shot story collection\, Difficult Women\, slated to be released in January. \nAnna Sale is the host and managing editor of Death\, Sex & Money\, WNYC’s interview show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Death\, Sex & Money was named the number one podcast of 2015 by New York Magazine and is an iTunes Editors’ Choice podcast.  Before developing Death\, Sex & Money\, Anna covered politics for years\, including the 2013 New York City mayoral race\, the 2012 presidential campaign\, and the statehouse beat in Connecticut and West Virginia. She has contributed to Fresh Air with Terry Gross\, This American Life\, NPR News\, Marketplace\, Studio 360\, PBS Newshour\, and Slate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxane-gay-w-anna-sale/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:At thirty-two\, Faith Frankel has returned to her claustro-suburban hometown\, where she writes institutional thank-you notes for her alma mater. It’s a peaceful life\, really\, and surely with her recent purchase of a sweet bungalow on Turpentine Lane her life is finally on track. Never mind that her fiance is off on a crowdfunded cross-country walk\, too busy to return her texts (but not too busy to post photos of himself with a different woman in every state). And never mind her witless boss\, or a mother who lives too close\, or a philandering father who thinks he’s Chagall.When she finds some mysterious artifacts in the attic of her new home\, she wonders whether anything in her life is as it seems. What good fortune\, then\, that Faith has found a friend in affable\, collegial Nick Franconi\, officemate par excellence . . .Elinor Lipmanmay well have invented the screwball romantic comedy for our era\, and here she is at her sharpest and best. On Turpentine Lane is funny\, poignant\, and a little bit outrageous. \nElinor Lipman is the author of ten novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine;one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in Massachusetts and New York City. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Darnielle
DESCRIPTION:Bestselling author of Wolf in White Van John Darniellevisits the Booksmith to celebrate the publication of his second novel\, Universal Harvester. \n  \nJeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada\, Iowa — a small town in the center of the state\, the first “a” in Nevada pronounced “ay.” This is the late 1990s\, and while the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut\, there are still regular customers\, a rush in the late afternoon. It’s good enough for Jeremy: It’s a job\, quiet and predictable\, and it gets him out of the house\, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom\, who died six years ago in a car wreck. \n  \nBut when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets — an old movie\, starring Boris Karloff\, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: “There’s something on it\,” she says\, but doesn’t elaborate. Two days later\, a different customer returns She’s All That\, a new release\, and complains that there’s something wrong with it: “There’s another movie on this tape.” \n  \nJeremy doesn’t want to be curious. But he takes a look and\, indeed\, in the middle of the movie the screen blinks dark for a moment and She’s All That is replaced by a black-and-white scene\, shot in a barn\, with only the faint sounds of someone breathing. Four minutes later\, She’s All That is back. But there is something profoundly unsettling about that scene; Jeremy’s compelled to watch it three or four times. The scenes recorded onto Targets are similar\, undoubtedly created by the same hand. Creepy. And the barn looks much like a barn just outside of town. \n  \nThere will be no ignoring the disturbing scenes on the videos. And all of a sudden\, what had once been the placid\, regular old Iowa fields and farmhouses now feels haunted and threatening\, imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. For Jeremy\, and all those around him\, life will never be the same . . .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-darnielle-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rachel Aspen
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nGeneration Revolution:  On the Front Line\nBetween Tradition and Change in the Middle East \nfrom Other Press \nIn 2011 during the Arab Spring\, the government of Egypt transformed\nfrom a dictatorship to a democratic presidency. The chaos that\nresulted during this time erupted from a decade of social and\npolitical unrest among the Egyptian people. GENERATION REVOLUTION is\nthe story of the millennial generation in Egypt during the Arab\nSpring\, from the perspective of several different young men and women\nwhose different views explore the way Egypt has been shaped before\,\nduring\, and after the 2011 end of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency. \nAspden spent years in Egypt during the beginning of unrest in 2003 and\nmoved back again during the years following post-revolution in 2011.\nAspden offers a window into the world of the Middle East during the\nArab Spring\, before\, during\, and after Egypt’s chaotic overthrow of\ntheir President Mubarak and his successor\, the democratically elected\nMuslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi.\nThrough Aspden’s curious and unbiased gaze\, readers hear the Egyptian\nvoices of Amr\, an atheist university-educated software engineer\, Amal\,\na fiercely independent young woman who lives on her own in Cairo which\nis practically unheard of\, Ayman\, a devout Muslim teenager who chooses\nto follow ultraconservative Salafi Islam to the surprise of his\nmiddle-class parents\, and Mazen\, a fan of TV preacher Amr Khaled who\nfinds himself on the front lines during the revolution. With these\nperspectives along with others’\, readers learn that from atheists to\nultra-religious\, from conservative young men to liberal young women\,\nthe growing generation of Egypt is vastly different\, struggling to\nfind a place for various voices during chaotic government upheaval.\nAspden writes from the front lines of this new generation\, sharing\ntheir stories and harbouring their own doubts\, resentments\, and hope\nfor what is to come. \nRachel Aspden became literary editor of the New Statesman in 2006\, at\nthe age of 26. She now works at the Guardian\, and also writes on a\nfreelance basis for the New Statesman\, Observer\, Prospect and Think\nmagazine (Qatar). She lived in Cairo in 2003-4 and worked as an editor\nand reporter on the English-language Cairo Times. Since then\, from her\nUK base\, she has travelled to and reported from across the region and\nthe wider Muslim world: Yemen\, the UAE\, Turkey\, Lebanon\, Syria\,\nJordan\, the Palestinian territories\, Egypt\, Morocco\, Sudan\, Pakistan\nand north India. In 2010\, she was awarded a year-long travelling\nfellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust to research\nactivists working to fight extremism within Islam.Following the Arab\nspring uprisings in 2011\, she moved back to Egypt to research this book.\nShe is currently based in London and reports for the Guardian. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-aspen/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy: A Toast to Sylvia Plath
DESCRIPTION:This month Literary Speakeasy pays tribute to one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century –Sylvia Plath. Please join us as we raise a glass and celebrate the words of this iconic poet. Five Bay Area powerhouses will be on hand to read the poems of Sylvia Plath as well as their own original work. Our poets for the evening include Annah Anti-Palindrome\, Christian Gullette\, Robert Andrew Perez\, July Westhale\, and Maw Shein Win. Your host and curator each month is James J. Siegel \nAs always\, Literary Speakeasy is absolutely FREE with NO drink minimum. Also\, everyone in attendance will get a FREE raffle ticket for their chance to win the secret Speakeasy prize at the conclusion of the show. Please come out and celebrate Sylvia Plath with an evening of beautiful words and fantastic martinis! \nAnnah Anti-Palindrome is a queer/working-class/hard- femme/JewWitch sound-artist & writer currently living in the SF bay area. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow\, a staff writer for Everyday Feminism\, and a member of Oakland’s Deviant Type Press collective. Annah’s first book\, DNA Hymn\, is a collection of poems about rural\, working-class\, queer-femme survivor identity. Annah’s poems are performed through live\, musical soundscapes made w/ a loop pedal\, kitchen utensils\, gas-masks\, raw eggs\, blood pressure cuffs\, found objects\, her body (mostly my throat)\, and more! For more info about her\, see www.annahantipalindrome. com. \nChristian Gullette’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as New England Review\, Smartish Pace\, Meridian\, Colorado Review\, and Cimarron Review. He was recently a finalist for the Iowa Review Poetry Prize. Currently Christian is a doctoral candidate in Swedish literature and language at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is a poetry editor for the Cortland Review. \nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor and book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print and online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review\, Vinyl and The Cortland Review. His First collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. \nJuly Westhale is a poet and essayist living in Oakland\, CA. She is the author of the chapbook The Cavalcade\, (Finishing Line Press)\, and the children’s book\, Occasionally Accurate Science (Nomadic Press\, 2017). She has poems in Cimarron\, burntdistrict\, and Quarterly West\, among others. Her essays have appeared in the Huffington Post\, Autostraddle\, The Establistment\, and have been nominated for Best American Essays. She has been awarded grants and residencies from the Vermont Studio Center\, Sewanee\, Dickinson House\, Tin House and Bread Loaf. www.julywesthale.com. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nJames J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” published year by Spuyten Duyvil Press. He is also the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s Piano Bar in San Francisco\, which brings together poets\, writers\, and musicians for a night of performance and martinis. His work has appeared in several journals and anthologies\, including Assaracus\, The Cortland Review\, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review\, and Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men On Their Muses.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasy-a-toast-to-sylvia-plath/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hank Lazer + Andrew Maxwell
DESCRIPTION:Poets Hank Lazer and Andrew Maxwell present recent work\, then engage in conversation with one another and their audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume #34 and Talisman #42. In 2015\, Lazer was selected to receive Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English. \nAndrew Maxwell‘s recent collections include Candor is the Brightest Shield (Ugly Duckling\, 2015)\, Peeping Mot (Apogee\, 2013) and the ongoing Beggars of Life\, a collaboration with artist Nathan Gelgud. Increasingly interested in short-form literature\, much of Maxwell’s current work is epigrammatic in nature. A selection of his aphorisms is currently on display as an LED scroll in the installation THIS KNOWN WORLD at MOCA Los Angeles\, and Conversion Table\, a collection of small remarks without propositional attitudes\, was issued in September on Mindmade Books. He runs the Poetic Research Bureau with Joseph Mosconi in Los Angeles\, where he also hosts a weekly radio show of international roots music on KXLU 88.9FM\, “The Dream of Harry Lime.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hank-lazer-andrew-maxwell/
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:Meg Elison
DESCRIPTION:About The Book of Etta \nIn the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife\, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. \nEtta comes from Nowhere\, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is\, women are scarce and childbearing is dangerous yet desperately necessary for humankind’s future. Mothers and midwives are sacred\, but Etta has a different calling. As a scavenger. Loyal to the village but living on her own terms\, Etta roams the desolate territory beyond: salvaging useful relics of the ruined past and braving the threat of brutal slave traders\, who are seeking women and girls to sell and subjugate. \nWhen slavers seize those she loves\, Etta vows to release and avenge them. But her mission will lead her to the stronghold of the Lion a tyrant who dominates the innocent with terror and violence. There\, with no allies and few weapons besides her wits and will\, she will risk both body and spirit not only to save lives but also to liberate a new world’s destiny. \nAbout the Author \nMeg Elison is the author of THE BOOK OF THE UNNAMED MIDWIFE\, a post-apocalyptic feminist speculative novel\, Tiptree recommendation\, and winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. Her sequel\, THE BOOK OF ETTA\, will be published in early 2017. She has also been published in McSweeney’s\, The Establishment\, The Mary Sue\, Tor.com\, Compelling Science Fiction\, Motherboard\, and many other places. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. Find her online\, where she writes like she’s running out of time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meg-elison/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170223T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170223T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170131T065119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T065119Z
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SUMMARY:Calder G. Lorenz
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is excited to host Calder G. Lorenz for the launch of his debut novel\, One Way Down (Or Another)\, just out from Civil Coping Mechanisms. Calder will be in conversation withMicah Ballard – please join us! \nHell\, if I stay in San Francisco\, I’ll end up worse than dead\, I’ll end up working just so that I can afford to be broke. I’ll end up like the men who stood in line to build the Golden Gate Bridge\, only to fall from the heavens\, replaced by the next man in line\, just another asshole caught in a net\, suspended there\, broken back and all\, dangling\, hung out halfway to hell. \nThe voice above belongs to a young man who will cross every barrier he’d promised himself was un-crossable. He will have fistfights\, soul fights. He will relapse. He will try to go home. He will try his best to ruin his life and the question is this: will he succeed?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/calder-g-lorenz/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170224T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170224T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T035028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T035028Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Handler
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler discusses Three Masquerades\, a collection of novellas by Rachel Ingalls. Daniel Handler assembled this collection for Pharos Editions\, a press that is dedicated to bringing to light out-of-print\, lost or rare books of distinction. \n\nPraise for Rachel Ingalls \n\nSo deft and austere in its prose\, so drolly casual in its fantasy… – John Updike  \n\nShortly after beginning each of the novellas in this remarkable collection\, I was seized with a haunting conviction that I was reading works I would not easily forget. – Joseph Heller \n\nRachel Ingalls ‘ elegantly written tales mix reality and fantasy in surprising ways\, casting a dark light on the conventions of our lives\, our ideas about marriage\, youth and age… she deserves to be as well-known in America as she is in England.”  —Alison Laurie \n\nAbout Three Masquerades \n“I See a Long Journey” and “On Ice\,” novellas that Mr. Handler considers basically perfect\, originally appeared with a third\, “Blessed Art Though\,” a story that he considers to be in an entirely different tone. He felt that “Friends in the Country” from Ms. Ingalls later collection\, “The End of a Tragedy\,” was a more natural companion to the two earlier works. The author happily agreed. \n  \n“I See a Long Journey” introduces us to Flora who is induced by her husband\, James\, to take a vacation only because his chauffeur Michael\, custodian of their persons and their purse\, will accompany them. Things\, as they so often do in Ingalls world\, will go appalling awry.  “Friends in the Country” wherein a young couple drive outside of London for a Friday dinner and find themselves trapped for the weekend in a manner that surpasses Stephen King\, if not in outright horror then certainly in subtlety and suggestiveness. “On Ice” finds Beverley with her fiance at an elegant hotel where she is introduced to a grande dame whose funeral Beverley’s convinced she had witnessed 10 years before. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T035520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T035520Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's 'Decadent' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Our theme: ‘Decadent!’\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS – a decade of Sex and Storytelling – in San Francisco! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. \nHey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 6:30 PM; we recommend you arrive by 7:00 for good seating
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-decadent-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170225T220000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170225T235500
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T040508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T040508Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy's 'Best of Bawdy' 10 Year Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – celebrates TEN YEARS in San Francisco – Yes\, a Decade of Sex and Storytelling! We feature Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as an award-winning One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their true stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & sex-positive Locals as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n* Line-up subject to change\n* No refunds or exchanges\n* General Admission seating is limited. Doors open at 9:30 PM; we recommend you arrive early for good seating. Stories start at 10:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdys-best-of-bawdy-10-year-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170226T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170226T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T041428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T105718Z
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SUMMARY:Juan Pablo Villalobos
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos dicusses his new novel\, I’ll Sell You a Dog\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for I’ll Sell You a Dog \n“I’ll Sell You A Dog is a reminder of how effortless literature should be to love. This unexpected ride through a character’s second childhood\, his building\, neighbourhood and history is so magically twisted that it could be real. As ever Villalobos writes a peephole through politics and time\, to simply watch us dance in all our lurid whimsy.”—DBC Pierre \n“Short\, dark\, comic\, ribald and surreal . . . manic-impressive.”—Dwight Garner\, New York Times \n‘One of the wittiest\, most whimsical\, most enjoyable novels to have been published in Spanish for a long time.’ Alberto Manguel\, The Guardian \nAbout I’ll Sell You a Dog \nLong before he was the taco seller whose ‘Gringo Dog’ recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City\, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist\, that is\, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera\, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home\, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the literary salon that bumps about his building’s lobby and haunted by the self-pitying ghost of a neglected artist\, Villalobos’s old man can’t help but misbehave. \n  \nHe antagonises his neighbours\, tortures American missionaries with passages from Adorno\, flirts with the revolutionary greengrocer\, and in short does everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age . . . while still holding a beer. \n  \nA delicious take-down of pretensions to cultural posterity\, I’ll Sell You a Dog is a comic novel whose absurd inventions\, scurrilous antics and oddball characters are vintage Villalobos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-pablo-villalobos/
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:20170228T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T042250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T042250Z
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SUMMARY:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano + Cintia Santana
DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias\, Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano\, and Cintia Santana read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, January 28\, 2017 at 7:00 pm\, in support of Ari Banias’s new book\, Anybody (W.W. Norton). This event is organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAri Banias is the author of the book Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, and the chapbook What’s Personal is Being Here With All of You (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs). His poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Poetry\, A Public Space\, and the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics. The recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown & Stanford University\, he lives in Berkeley & works at Small Press Distribution.Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano is the author of the poetry collections\, Amorcito Maricón; Santo de la Pata Alzada; and\, Tragic Bitches\, which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. Lorenzo is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love; Queer Codex: Rooted; and\, the forthcoming Joto: An Anthology of Queer Chicano Poetry. A member of the Macondo Writers community and former writer for Change.org’s “Race in America” and “Gay Rights” blogs\, his work appears in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry; For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough; Queer in Aztlán; as well as the journals\, ZYZZYVA; and\, Yellow Medicine Review. Lorenzo is the founder of Kórima Press\, a queer Chicana/o Press; and\, Publisher and Executive Director of Justice Matters Press\, a multiracial social and racial justice press. \nCintia Santana’s poems\, fiction\, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Santana received her MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College\, and her MA and PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She is the recipient of a CantoMundo Fellowship and a Djerassi Resident Artist Program Fellowship. Mary Szybist selected Santana’s poetry for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology. Currently\, Santana teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias-lorenzo-herrera-y-lozano-cintia-santana/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170301T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170301T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T090933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T090933Z
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kaufman
DESCRIPTION:Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism \nfrom Verso Press \nA vibrant\, groundbreaking history of American radicalism since the Sixties \n\nWhat happened to the American left after the Sixties? This engrossing account traces the evolution of disruptive protest over the last 40 years to tell a larger story about the reshaping of American radicalism\, showing how the direct-action blockades\, occupations\, and campaigns of recent activist movements have functioned as laboratories for political experimentation and renewal. \nPropelled by more than 100 candid interviews conducted over a span of decades\, this elegant and lively history showcases the voices of key players in an array of movements – environmentalist\, anti-nuclear\, anti-apartheid\, feminist\, LGBTQ\, anti-globalization\, racial-justice\, anti-war\, and more – across an era when American politics shifted to the right\, and issue- and identity-based organizing eclipsed the traditional ideologies of the left.  \nAs Kauffman\, a longtime movement insider\, examines how groups from ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used direct action to catalyze change against long odds\, she details the profound influence of feminism and queerness on radical political practice and how enduring divisions of race have shaped the landscape of activism. Written with nuance and humor\, and revealing deep connections between movements usually viewed in isolation\, Direct Action is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how protest movements erupt — and how they can succeed. \nL.A. Kauffman has spent more than 30 years immersed in radical movements\, as an organizer\, strategist\, journalist\, and observer. Her writings on grassroots activism and social movement history have been published in The Nation\, Mother Jones\, n+1\, The Baffler\, and many other outlets. Kauffman was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive anti-war marches of 2003-2004; she has been called a “virtuoso organizer” by journalist Scott Sherman for her role in saving community gardens and public libraries in New York City from developers. Visit L.A. Kauffman’s twitter-feed \nWhat has been said of L.A. Kauffman’s work: \n“It is impossible to overstate the importance of this book. Chances are that even if you know something about the recent history of the left in America\, you probably only know a few isolated parts. L.A. Kauffman has connected a vast field of dots to create an overview\, and she has done with dispatch\, clarity\, and elegance. Her book is essential reading for today\, and will be for tomorrow.” \n– Luc Sante \n“You could not ask for a better guide through recent social movement history than L. A. Kauffman. A champion of radical causes with decades of experience on the frontlines of civil disobedience\, she chronicles the fascinating evolution of a set of protest tactics today’s activists take for granted. Kauffman has done a tremendous public service: by helping us better understand the past\, in all its glory and folly\, we can be more effective dissidents and rabble rousers tomorrow. This startling\, inspiring book is for anyone who has ever felt the urge to put their body on the line and shut things down for something they believe in.” \n– Astra Taylor\, author of The People’s Platform and co-founder of the Debt Collective
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kaufman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170301T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170202T050525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170202T050525Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170302T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20161223T030600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030600Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Hayes
DESCRIPTION:A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls “the evanescent\, the eavesdropped\, the unexpected” of life in New York City\, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late Oliver Sacks. \n“If you are lonely or bone-tired or blue\, you need only come down from your perch and step outside. New York—which is to say\, New Yorkers—will take care of you.” \nBill Hayes came to New York City in 2008 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But\, at forty-eight years old\, having spent decades in San Francisco\, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner\, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city’s incessant rhythms\, the sight of the Empire State Building against the night sky\, and New Yorkers themselves\, kindred souls that Hayes\, a lifelong insomniac\, encountered on late-night strolls with his camera. \nAnd he unexpectedly fell in love again\, with his friend and neighbor\, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks\, whose exuberance—“I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life\,” he tells Hayes early on—is captured in funny and touching vignettes throughout. What emerges is a portrait of Sacks at his most personal and endearing\, from falling in love for the first time at age seventy-five to facing illness and death (Sacks died of cancer in August 2015). Insomniac City is both a meditation on grief and a celebration of life. Filled with Hayes’s distinctive street photos of everyday New Yorkers\, the book is a love song to the city and to all who have felt the particular magic and solace it offers. \nBill Hayes is the author of The Anatomist\, Five Quarts\, and Sleep Demons. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and was a visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books and Salon\, among other publications. His photographs have been featured in Vanity Fair\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-hayes/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170302T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170131T073031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T073031Z
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SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier + Truong Tran
DESCRIPTION:Poets Layli Long Soldier and Truong Tran read from new work\, then engage with one another and their audience in conversation. Free and open to the public. \nLayli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard College. She is the author of the chapbook Chromosomory (2010) and\, new this March\, the book Whereas (Graywolf Press\, 2017)\, recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award for 2016. She has been a contributing editor to Drunken Boat and is poetry editor at Kore Press. In 2012 her participatory installation\, Whereas We Respond\, was featured on the Pine Ridge Reservation. In 2015\, Long Soldier was awarded a National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation ― and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” \nTruong Tran is an artist and writer living in San Francisco. His books include Placing the Accents\, Dust and Conscience\, The Book of Perceptions\, Within The Margins\, Four Letter Words\, I Meant To Say Please Pass The Sugar and the children’s book Going Home Coming Home. His works have been translated into Dutch\, French\, Spanish and Vietnamese. He has been twelve years a lecturer at SFSU and is currently The Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College where he teaches writing workshops at the intersection of poetry and the visual arts. His latest body of exploration\, entitled “The PreEmptive Works\,” will be forthcoming in 2018. \nBecause We Come from Everywhere: Poetry and Migration\nMarch 2017 Poetry Center programming appears under the sign of this line by Juan Felipe Herrera\, in conjunction with 20+ member organizations from across the country constituting the newly formed Poetry Coalition
URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier-truong-tran/
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=UTC:20170302T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170302T213000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20161201T025906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025906Z
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SUMMARY:Eric Puchner
DESCRIPTION:Eric Puchner will read from his newest collection of short stories Last Day on Earth. \nPraise for Eric Puchner: \n“Eric Puchner is an alchemist who captures the joy and danger in everyday life and\, with precision\, humor\, and empathy\, turns these moments into gold. These stories allow us to look at our own lives more closely and with more courage and understanding–a poignant and unforgettable collection from a great storyteller.” – Yiyun Li\, author of Dear Friend\, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n\nAbout Last Day on Earth: \nFrom the award-winning author of Music Through the Floor and Model Home\, a riveting and profoundly moving story collection by a writer uncannily in tune with the heartbreak and absurdity of domestic life (Los Angeles Times). \nA boy on the edge of adolescence fears his mother might be a robot; a psychotically depressed woman is entrusted with taking her niece and nephew trick-or-treating; a reluctant dad brings his baby to a coke-fueled party; a teenage boy tries to prevent his mother from putting his estranged father’s dogs to sleep. Ranging from a youth arts camp to an aging punk band’s reunion tour\, from a dystopian future where parents no longer exist to a ferociously independent bookstore\, Last Day on Earth revolves around the endlessly complex\, frequently surreal system that is family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-puchner/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170304T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170304T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T091816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T020402Z
UID:24691-1488650400-1488657600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Spring Reading
DESCRIPTION:Babylon Solan Spring Reading presents National Book Award-nominated author of seven novels Cristina García\, and Best-selling author and editor Josh Mohr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-solan-spring-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170307T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T093212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T093212Z
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SUMMARY:Megan Marshall
DESCRIPTION:From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast\, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired American poets \nSince her death in 1979\, Elizabeth Bishop\, who published only one hundred poems in her lifetime\, has become one of America’s most revered poets. And yet—painfully shy and living out of public view in far-flung locations like Key West and Brazil—she has never been seen so fully as a woman and artist. Megan Marshall makes incisive and moving use of a newly discovered cache of Bishop’s letters—to her psychiatrist and to three of her lovers—to reveal a much darker childhood than has been known\, a secret affair\, and the last chapter of her passionate romance with Brazilian modernist designer Lota de Macedo Soares. \nThese elements of Bishop’s life\, along with her friendships with fellow poets Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell\, both important champions of her work\, are brought to life with novelistic intensity. And by alternating the narrative line of biography with brief passages of memoir\, Megan Marshall\, who studied with Bishop in her storied 1970s poetry workshop at Harvard\, offers the reader an original and compelling glimpse of the ways poetry and biography\, subject and biographer\, are entwined. \nMegan Marshall is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for Margaret Fuller\, and the author of The Peabody Sisters\, which won the Francis Parkman Prize\, the Mark Lynton History Prize\, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2006. She is the Charles Wesley Emerson College Professor and teaches narrative nonfiction and the art of archival research in the MFA program at Emerson College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-marshall/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170307T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170307T200000
DTSTAMP:20260426T195349
CREATED:20170117T092956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170117T092956Z
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SUMMARY:Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \npublished by Random House \nIn her first nonfiction book\, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li explores a question we ask ourselves: How does one make life livable? \nStartlingly original and shining with quiet wisdom\, this is a luminous account of a life lived with books. Written over two years while the author battled suicidal depression\, Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life is a painful and yet richly affirming examination of what makes life worth living. \nYiyun Li grew up in China and has spent her adult life as an immigrant in a country not her own. She has been a scientist\, an author\, a mother\, a daughter—and through it all she has been sustained by a profound connection with the writers and books she loves. From William Trevor and Katherine Mansfield to Søren Kierkegaard and Philip Larkin\, Dear Friend is a journey through the deepest themes that bind these writers together. \nInterweaving personal experiences with a wide-ranging homage to her most cherished literary influences\, Yiyun Li confronts the two most essential questions of her identity: Why write? And why live? Dear Friend is a beautiful\, interior exploration of selfhood and a journey of recovery through literature: a long letter from a writer to like-minded readers. \nYiyun Li grew up in Beijing and came to the United States in 1996. She has received fellowships and awards from Lannan Foundation and Whiting Foundation. Her debut collection\, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers\, won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award\, PEN/Hemingway Award\, Guardian First Book Award\, and California Book Award for first fiction. Her novel\, The Vagrants\, won the gold medal of California Book Award for fiction\, and was shortlisted for Dublin IMPAC Award. Gold Boy\, Emerald Girl\, her second collection\, was a finalist of Story Prize and shortlisted for Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35\, and was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 20 writers under 40. MacArthur Foundation named her a 2010 fellow. She is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn-based literary magazine\, \nAdvance praise for Dear Friend\, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life \n“In this exquisite\, intimate\, lyrical memoir\, Yiyun Li reveals her life in flashes appended to an arrestingly coherent philosophy of time\, self\, and place. Uniting the discipline of a scientist with the empathy of a novelist\, she scatters profound and often difficult truths through these generous\, wise\, challenging pages.”—Andrew Solomon\, author of Far from the Tree \n“Yiyun Li has written a remarkable account of her literary life\, begun in her youth in China with the books that first engaged her in the great conversations of literature. In her own emergence as an important and gifted writer in English she has brought a new voice to that great world. She has also been\, in the deepest sense\, sustained by it. Her new book is a meditation on the fact that literature itself lives and gives life.”—Marilynne Robinson\, author of Gilead \n“Literature\, national identity versus the individual self\, the clash of public and private\, the mysterious nature of relationship\, indeed\, human nature itself—these subjects and more are explored with remarkable subtlety and rare\, limpid mental beauty. A must-read for anyone trying to stay sane in a world that might be perceived as insane.”—Mary Gaitskill\, author of The Mare \n“This extraordinary book is the story of a writer being made and making herself. It is the story of depression coming in waves and being beaten back through love and stubbornness. And also it is one of our finest writers scrutinizing the books that have mattered most to her.”—Akhil Sharma\, author of Family Life \n“Reading Yiyun Li feels like being inside a mind—a quietly forceful\, unrelenting mind. Within the limits of language\, which she all but touches\, she unfolds an argument with the self. She is suspicious of the very concept of the self\, but she does not\, ultimately\, refuse its possibilities. ‘What a long way it is from one life to another\,’ she writes\, while closing that space.”—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yiyun-li-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Asya Abdrahman\, Faith Adiele + Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of International Women’s Day and in collaboration with the Museum of the African Diaspora\, memoirist and travel writer Faith Adiele\, poet and essayist Tonya Foster\, and visual artist Asya Abdrahman will discuss the ways they make place and navigate the literary\, artistic and academic worlds in which they live and work. The event will include readings by the authors and offer opportunities for visual and literary artists to respond to each other’s work. The event takes place within in the context of the current MoAD exhibition\, Where Is Here\, curated by Jacqueline Francis and Kathy Zarur. Admission: $10 General | $5 Student/Senior | Free for MoAD Members and SFSU Students \nAsya Abdrahman is a San Francisco-based mixed media and installation artist who considers the intersection of cultural identity\, human rights and the environment in her work. Of Somali\, Eritrean\, and Ethiopian heritages\, she fled her East African homeland during a time of regional wars. Abdrahman’s work promotes cultural and ecological survival\, advanced through her use of human\, natural\, found\, and recycled resources. In addition to exhibiting her art throughout the Bay Area\, Abdrahman is the founder of Pay It Forward (PIF) Gallery in Oakland. She regularly produces and curates exhibitions at the historic Red Vic and contributes art and writing to Women Eco Artists Dialog. Her work is featured at MoAD in the current exhibition Where Is Here. \nFaith Adiele was raised in the Pacific Northwest\, and earned two MFAs from writing programs at the University of Iowa. She is the author of the travel memoir Meeting Faith\, which won the PEN Open Book Award\, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology. She’s completing a mixed-media family history inspired by My Journey Home\, her PBS documentary about finding her Nigerian family\, and her ebook/audiobook\, The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems. She is an Associate Professor at California College of the Arts and teaches at The Writers’ Grotto and VONA/Voices\, where she launched the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color. Adiele lives in Oakland and runs a monthly African Book Club. Visit her at adiele.com and @meetingfaith. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois and raised in New Orleans.  She holds an MFA from the University of Houston. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoiesis\, NYFA Arts Quarterly\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York\, Foster is an Assistant Professor of Writing & Literature and Graduate Writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asya-abdrahman-faith-adiele-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two Line Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Literature in Translation with Two Lines \nJoin us for an evening of literature at Amado’s\, in the Mission District in San Francisco! \nThe night will include music\, conversation\, and live readings from Issues 25 and 26. We’ll provide snacks and a cash bar. You’ll also get a chance to meet Two Lines staff and hear more about upcoming issues of the journal\, and grab a sneak peek at our forthcoming book. \nAll proceeds support Two Lines Press. Your $10/$15 ticket includes a free issue of the journal. Check back for ticket purchase details.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-line-press-reading/
LOCATION:Amado’s\, 998 Valencia\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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