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SUMMARY:Black Nature\, Poetry\, and Coexistence: Camille T. Dungy & Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming two extraordinary poets to ARC’s virtual stage for readings and conversation: Camille T. Dungy and Ross Gay. In addition to four collections of poetry\, Camille Dungy edited Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry\, the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets. By using social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry\, Dungy challenged and changed that framework to include poets writing out of slavery\, Reconstruction\, the Harlem Renaissance\, the Black Arts Movement\, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Ross Gay is interested in studying joy. His four books of poetry include the National Book Award winning Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015)\, and his latest\, Be Holding (2020)\, is the winner of the PEN /Jean Stein Book Award. Gay is also the author of the NYT bestselling collection of essays\, The Book of Delights\, and co-author\, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, of the chapbook Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens. A long time gardener and advocate for cultivating community\, Gay is a founding member of the food justice and joy project the Bloomington Community Orchard.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-nature-poetry-and-coexistence-camille-t-dungy-ross-gay/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry & the Senses Fall 2021 Fellows Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Arts Research Center will celebrate the 2021 Fall Poetry Fellows with a reading of work created during their fellowship semester. This event will feature undergrad fellows Anastasia Le and Gisselle Medina; graduate fellows Lindsay Choi and Vincente Perez; faculty fellows Ahmad Diab and Jesse Nathan; and community fellows Maurya Kerr and D’mani Thomas\, and be followed by a short conversation and Q&A with Chiyuma Elliott. \nDuring fall 2021\, these amazing poetry fellows will explore and push against the theme coexistence.  The word coexistence has a spatial component\, and implies the sharing of space or cohabitation within overlapping territories; it also has a temporal dimension\, suggesting simultaneous presence with others in the same moment in time. These fellows engage capaciously with issues of mutuality\, synchronicity\, interdependence\, and care – from enlivening exchanges between beings\, to the porous line between animate and inanimate\, to the challenges of living together on our planet\, to the uncanny shivers of coincidence. \nPlease read more about these fellows here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-the-senses-fall-2021-fellows-reading/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Quincy Troupe in Conversation with Danny Glover & Terry McMillan
DESCRIPTION:Quincy Troupe\, “Poet of the Deep Song\,” is joined in conversation by two lifelong friends\, actor Danny Glover and bestselling author Terry McMillan. Dr. Kim McMillon moderates this virtual program\, which celebrates the release of Troupe’s new collected poems\, DUENDE: Poems\, 1966-Now\, a gathering of more than 50 years of lyrical\, evocative writing. The program also honors Troupe’s years of collaboration with visual artists and musicians and features guest cameos and videos by Mildred Howard\, Will Calhoun and J.D. Parran. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/10/author-quincy-troupe-conversation-danny-glover-terry-mcmillan sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quincy-troupe-in-conversation-with-danny-glover-terry-mcmillan/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
DESCRIPTION:Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation\, Indigenous science is very rarely found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. While holistic land\, water\, and forest management practices born from a millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us\, Indigenous science has long been ignored\, otherized\, or perceived as “soft”-the product of a systematic\, centuries-long campaign of racism\, colonialism\, extractive capitalism\, and delegitimization. \nJessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ and Zapotec)\, environmental scientist and founder of environmental agency Pina Soul\, introduces and contextualizes Indigenous environmental knowledge and proposes a vision of land stewardship that heals rather than displaces and generates rather than destroys. She breaks down the failures of western-defined conservatism and shares alternatives-citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle\, her family’s fight against ecoterrorism in Latin America\, and holistic land management approaches of Indigenous groups across the continent. \nIn Dr. Hernandez’s latest book\, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science\, she breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies\, personal stories\, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. \nJoin Dr. Hernandez in a conversation about her life and work and explore how to stop the eco-colonialism ravaging Indigenous lands to restore our relationship with Earth to one of harmony and respect. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs \npublicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-healing-indigenous-landscapes-through-indigenous-science/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:The 54th California International Antiquarian Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:One of the world’s largest antiquarian book fairs with over 100 booksellers from the United States and around the globe.  The annual Book Fair features a rich selection of books\, manuscripts\, maps\, and other printed materials\, including incunabula; literature from all centuries and nationalities; fine bindings; children’s and illustrated books; ephemera; and antiquarian books on dozens of topics. \nALSO JOIN US FOR:\nVirtual Book Fair: California Edition\nFebruary 12-14: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm\nabaa.org/vbf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-54th-california-international-antiquarian-book-fair/
LOCATION:The Oakland Marriott City Center\, 1001 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607
CATEGORIES:East Bay,In-person,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Brian Tierney with William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 11th at 7pm PT when Brian Tierney celebrates his collection\, Rise and Float\, at 9th Ave! \nFeaturing fellow poets William Brewer\, Randall Mann\, and Noah Warren \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering at the link here \nPraise for Rise and Float \n“In these poems of turnpikes\, water\, and migraine light\, filled with grief and life\, the poet tells us it’s all right that ‘we don’t love / living.’ Here\, precision is a form of metaphor\, language a facet of experience; the poet writes with a kind of allusive purity and vulnerability—‘each thought a texture’—that I find moving. Rise and Float is that rare thing\, a book of one striking poem after another. If I could write something as tender and nearly perfect as ‘You’re the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With’—a lightning strike\, Randall Jarrell might have called it—then I’d consider giving up writing.”—Randall Mann \n“If the job of the poet is to make our interiority knowable and known\, then this book by Brian Tierney triumphs. In this magnificent debut\, a poet arrives to us fully formed\, and Tierney has found ways to transform the mundane into the mysterious\, and the mysterious into the transcendent. Readers will be swept away by the rigors of syntax\, the sparse and charged diction\, and the voice of these worldly\, humane\, sophisticated poems.”—Mark Wunderlich \n“Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float is resonant with the desire for rapture and the never-easing reality of loss. How do we go on living\, these poems seem to ask\, bearing what we must bear? And in lines by turns dolorous and defiant\, they answer: We watch\, we remember\, and we sing.”—Tracy K. Smith \nAbout Rise and Float \nChosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize\, Brian Tierney’s Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably\, miraculously—to make our most profound\, private wounds visible on the page. \nWith the “corpse of Frost” under his heel\, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness\, a struggle with disordered eating\, a father’s death from cancer\, the loss of loved ones to addiction and suicide—all of these compound to “month after / month” and “dream / after dream” of struck-through lines. Still\, Tierney commands poetry’s cathartic potential through searing images: wallpaper peeling like “wrist skin when a grater slips\,” a “laugh as good as a scream\,” pears as hard as a tumor. These poems commune with their ghosts not to overcome\, but to release. \nThe course of Rise and Float is not straightforward. Where one poem gently confesses to “trying\, these days\, to believe again / in people\,” another concedes that “defeat / sometimes is defeat / without purpose.” Look: the chair is just a chair.” But therein lies the beauty of this collection: in the proximity (and occasional overlap) of these voices\, we see something alluringly\, openly human. Between a boy “torn open” by dogs and a suicide\, “two beautiful teenagers are kissing.” Between screams\, something intimate—hope\, however difficult it may be.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-brian-tierney-with-william-brewer-randall-mann-and-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Joy Books and Resources for Youth
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Unified School District youth librarians team up to talk about Black Joy. Join BIPOC librarians Rachel Fiege (SFPL)\, Jason Hill (SFPL) and Ayana Thompson (SFUSD)\, for a virtual conversation about Black Joy in librarianship\, schools\, youth literature and beyond. They discuss how Black youth should have access to positive stories about their heritage that aren’t rooted in stereotypes or sidekick roles by sharing their personal insights about working with Black youth and how they spread Black Joy to their young patrons\, students and families. They share booklists\, online resources and their own personal favorites including Coretta Scott King award titles and more. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/16/dialogue-black-joy-books-and-resources-youth sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-joy-books-and-resources-for-youth/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Tobey Hiller with Thaisa Frank
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, February 16th at 7pm PT when Tobey Hiller is joined by Thaisa Frank to celebrate her latest book\, Flight Advice: a fabulary\, at 9th Ave! \nMask and Proof of Vaccination Required for In-Person Attendance \nOr watch online by registering here \nPraise for Flight Advice \n“A delicious and dreamlike collection of stories\, filled with the best surprises. Hiller creates a witty\, pungent world\, in which words fly and change\, and stories swirl and go missing\, to arrive again in new forms\, with fresh power to enchant. A tour de force\, concocted of mischief\, insight and pure delight.”—Harriet Scott Chessman\, author of Someone Not Really Her Mother \n“In Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, fairy tales and myths of passion come alive in the modern world: Men with cigarettes that look like stars make love to mermaids\, a genie appears in a woman’s laundry room\, and a writer is transformed by mysterious words. Told by a narrator with a remarkable voice that ranges from vernacular clarity to dazzling lyricism\, Flight Advice is the best of contemporary magic realism.”—Thaisa Frank\, author of Heidegger’s Glasses and Enchantment \n“In Tobey Hiller’s magnificent collection of fables\, Flight Advice: A Fabulary\, these captivating short stories traverse otherworldly landscapes. An accomplished poet\, Hiller’s prose shines with mesmeric intensity and imagery. Singing mermaids\, a bejeweled dog\, one philosophical genie\, and Lillith and her bald children transport the reader on surrealist excursions through worlds of humor and invention. Flight Advice: A Fabulary crackles with energy and wildness and seduces with dreamscape narratives.”—Maw Shein Win\, author of Storage Unit for the Spirit House \nAbout Flight Advice \nUnlikely Books celebrates the release of Flight Advice: a fabulary by Tobey Hiller! Flight Advice is 130 pages of mythological\, weird\, and fabulist stories exploring the possibility of magic in our past and present. It wanders through creation myths\, relates naïve humans to animals wild and sophisticated\, considers the horrors of archetypical demagogues\, and spends time with the inexplicable in ordinary\, modern life. The art on the cover\, “Ghost Dogs\,” is a 2007 painting by Elizabeth Ennis. \nAbout Tobey Hiller \nTobey Hiller writes fiction\, flash and poetry. She’s the author of 4 books of poetry and one novel\, CHARLIE’S EXIT (Edgework Books\, 2002). Her stories and poems have appeared in many journals\, such as Ambush Review\, Askew\, Canary\, The Fabulist: Words & Art\, Shotglass Journal (MusePie Press)\, Here Comes Everyone\, 5 Fingers Review\, Mediterranean Poetry\, Milkweed Chronicle\, Sisyphus\, Sin Fronteras/Writers without Borders\, Spillway\, Unlikely Stories Mark V\, and in five anthologies\, most recently FIRE AND RAIN: ECOPOETRY OF CALIFORNIA (Scarlet Tanager Press\, October 2018)\, THE WILD (Marin Poetry Center\, 2019\, & TRANSFORMATION\, 2020). She writes both realist and fabulist fiction; one of her stories\, Splinter\, won First Prize in CRAFT’s 2020 Short Story Elements Contest for Conflict; two of her other stories have been short-listed for prizes. Her fiction collection PARTICLE TO WAVE: A FABULARY (now called FLIGHT ADVICE: A FABULARY) was recently named one of five finalists for Omnidawn’s Fabulist Collection Contest and will be published this winter by Unlikely Books. Her most recent book of poetry\, CROW MIND (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 is reviewed in The Los Angeles Review at http://losangelesreview.org/review-crow-mind-tobey- \nhiller/. She may be found at http://thiller.ag-sites.net \nAbout Thaisa Frank \nThe fiction of Enchantment is Thaisa Frank’s third collection of short fiction and includes two semi-autobiographical novellas as well as thirty-three stories. Her most recent novel\, Heidegger’s Glasses\, takes place in the mythical haven of an underground mine during WWII\, the safety of which is threatened forever. It was published in 2010\, reissued in paperback in 2011 and sold to ten foreign countries before publication. She is also the author of Sleeping in Velvet and A Brief History of Camouflage\, both on the Bestseller List of the San Francisco Chronicle. Thaisa has received two PEN awards and her stories have been widely-anthologized. She has published critical essays on writing and art and is the author of the Afterward to Viking/Penguin’s most recent edition of Voltaire. Her poetry\, which she writes secretly\, appears in small publications. Thaisa has also co-authored Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction\, translated into Portuguese and Spanish\, and used in numerous writing programs. Thaisa has taught writing in the graduate departments of San Francisco State\, the University of San Francisco and the University of California as Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-tobey-hiller-with-thaisa-frank/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:On the Intersection of Queerness and Neurodivergence
DESCRIPTION:Over the past 17 years\, Nick Walker has played a key role in the emergence of the neurodiversity paradigm–a framework for scholarship\, practice\, and social justice work where treating human neurocognitive variations such as autism\, dyslexia\, and ADHD as medical pathologies or “disorders” is understood to be a form of systemic oppression along the same lines as the pathologizing of homosexuality in the 19th and 20th centuries. \nJoin queer autistic author and educator Dr. Walker for an uplifting conversation exploring the edges and intersections of neurodiversity\, gender\, Queer Theory\, embodiment\, creativity\, somatic psychology\, and the human capacity for transformation. Dr. Walker shares insights from her latest book\, Neuroqueer Heresies\, a decade’s worth of her most influential writings on the neurodiversity paradigm and autistic empowerment along with her radical conceptualization of Neuroqueer Theory–which applies a Queer Theory lens to neurodiversity. \nDiscover how queerness and neurodivergence intersect\, and how we can liberate ourselves from the strictures of both heteronormativity and neuronormativity. \nFree\, suggested donation of $10. \n  \nhttps://www.ciis.edu/public-programs publicprograms@ciis.edu 415-575-6175
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-intersection-of-queerness-and-neurodivergence/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Sheila Heti with Elif Batuman
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, February 18th at 6pm PT when Sheila Heti is joined virtually by Elif Batuman to celebrate the release of her latest novel\, Pure Colour! \nPresented in proud partnership with our friends at Elliott Bay Books\, Skylight Books\, A Room of One’s Own\, and Seminary Co-op. \nTickets include access to the virtual event with Heti and a soon to be selected interlocutor\, as well as a copy of Pure Colour with signed bookplate. Audience Q+A to follow. \nPlease note this is a ticketed event \nTickets can be purchased here \nAbout Pure Colour \nThe world is failing to remain a world. It is coming apart. The ice cubes are melting. Species are dying. People\, too—of different things. But what if this world is just a first draft\, made by some great artist in order to be destroyed? \nIn this first draft of the world\, a woman named Mira leaves home to study. There\, she meets Annie\, whose tremendous power opens Mira’s chest like a portal—to what\, she doesn’t know. When Mira is older\, her beloved father dies\, and his spirit passes into her. Together\, they become a leaf on a tree. But photosynthesis gets boring\, and being alive is a problem that cannot be solved\, even by a leaf. Eventually\, Mira must remember the human world she’s left behind\, including Annie\, and choose whether or not to return. \nPure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive\, celestially bright\, huge\, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible\, an atlas of feeling\, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (and terrible) things about being alive. Sheila Heti is a philosopher of modern experience\, and she has reimagined what a book can hold. \nAbout Sheila Heti \nSheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction\, including Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?\, which New York magazine called one of the “New Classics of the 21st Century.” She was named one of “The New Vanguard” by the book critics of The New York Times\, who\, along with a dozen other magazines and newspapers\, chose Motherhood as a top book of 2018. Her books have been translated into twenty-one languages. \nAbout Elif Batuman \nElif Batuman’s first novel\, The Idiot\, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize\, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in the UK. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them\, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her second novel\, Either/Or\, will publish in May. \nFAQs \nCopies of the book will be shipped on or as close to publication date (2.15.22) as possible. Ticket holders will receive tracking via email. \nTicket holders will receive a login link closer to event start date with Crowdcast password. \nThis is a ticketed live-stream event\, and a recording will be available for one week after event date for those unable to watch live. \nTo attend the event\, you must purchase a ticket through the Eventbrite page linked above. Purchase of Pure Colour made through the bookstore website does not grant entry to the event. \nWe cannot ship books outside of the U.S. We apologize for any inconvenience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sheila-heti-with-elif-batuman/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Emily Maloney with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, February 21st at 6pm PT when Emily Maloney celebrates her book\, Cost of Living\, with Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Zoom! \nZoom Registration \nPraise for Cost of Living \n“In Cost of Living\, Emily Maloney explores from many perspectives\, and with deep empathy\, intelligence\, and humor the real suffering caused by medical debt and the underpayment of healthcare workers. Like Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Atul Gawande’s Complications\, Maloney’s memoir is at once illuminating and alarming. It will leave readers asking: why has no one ever written a book like this before?” \n—Suzanne Koven\, MD\, author of Letter to a Young Female Physician \n“Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living is a brilliant book\, a staggering indictment of a brutal and arbitrary healthcare system that shapes our days in ways so small it often goes right over our heads. On top of that\, it’s gorgeously written–clear\, exacting\, rigorous\, compassionate–in sentences that lift off the page like song.” \n—Paul Lisicky\, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World \n“I’ve never read anything like Emily Maloney’s Cost of Living\, a devastatingly precise\, thoughtful accounting of what it costs to stay alive in capitalist America. In essays rife with vivid characters in unforgettable scenes and stitched through with vulnerability\, Maloney offers a clear-eyed assessment of our disastrous medical system. From the years-long medical debt of surviving a suicide attempt to the deadly fate facing untreated pain patients\, Maloney’s writing indicts the system while honoring the humanity of those caught in it. Everyone with a mortal body should read this book. I hope it creates change.” \n—Alex Marzano-Lesnevich\, author of The Fact of a Body \nAbout Cost of Living \nThe searing intimacy of Girl\, Interrupted combined with the uncomfortable truths of The Empathy Exams in a collection of essays chronicling one woman’s experiences as both patient and caregiver\, giving a unique perspective from both sides of the hospital bed. \nWhat does it cost to live? \nWhen we fall ill\, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg\, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents\, breast cancers\, blood diseases\, and dark depressions. \nWhen Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only cost a great deal personally\, but also financially\, sending her down a dark spiral of misdiagnoses\, years spent in and out of hospitals and doctor’s offices\, and tens of thousands owed in medical debt. To work to pay off this crippling burden\, Emily becomes an emergency room technician. Doing the grunt work in a hospital\, and taking care of patients at their most vulnerable moments\, chronicling these interactions in searingly beautiful\, surprising ways. \nShocking and often slyly humorous\, Cost of Living is a brilliant examination of just what exactly our troubled healthcare system asks us to pay\, as well as a look at what goes on behind the scenes at our hospitals and in the minds of caregivers. \nAbout Emily Maloney \nEmily Maloney’s work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. She has worked as a dog groomer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and has sold her ceramics at art fairs. Maloney has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship. She lives in Evanston\, Illinois.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-emily-maloney-with-alex-marzano-lesnevich/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T200000
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Isaac Fellman with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Tuesday\, February 22nd at 7pm PT when Isaac Fellman celebrates the launch of his new novel\, Dead Collections\, with Charlie Jane Anders at 9th Ave! \nThis event is free to attend\, but registration is required for those attending in person. \nRegister on Eventbrite for in-person here \nMasks and Proof of Vaccination are Required for In-Person Attendance. \nOr watch online by registering here \n(No need to register via Eventbrite for online attendance) \nPraise for Dead Collections \n“This book kept delighting and astonishing me with little insights and conversations that felt like I was eavesdropping on people I desperately wanted to be friends with. Utterly refreshing and thrilling. Dead Collections is a marvel that left me feeling as if miracles might lurk behind every doorway and inside every old box of papers.” –Charlie Jane Anders\, author of Victories Greater Than Death \n“There’s something of the feeling that comes from hanging out at your friend’s work after-hours – a little fuzzy\, a little surreal\, a sense of getting away with something without a commensurate sense of what\, if any\, rules one is breaking. A remarkably efficient book about untidyness.” –Daniel M. Lavery\, author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You \nAbout Dead Collections \nA whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever\, humorous\, and heartfelt novel. \nWhen archivist Sol meets Elsie\, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who’s come to donate her wife’s papers\, there’s an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism\, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love\, the two traverse grief\, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared\, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the “vampire disease.” \nThen\, when strange things start happening at the collection\, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy\, that celebrates the journey\, the difficulties and joys\, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies. \nAbout Isaac Fellman \nIsaac Fellman is the author of The Breath of the Sun (published under his pre-transition first name)\, which won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction\, Fantasy\, and Horror. He is an archivist at a queer historical society in San Francisco. \nAbout Charlie Jane Anders \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death\, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy\, along with the forthcoming short story collection Even Greater Mistakes. She’s also the author of Never Say You Can’t Survive (August 2021)\, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Slate\, McSweeney’s\, Mother Jones\, the Boston Review\, Tor.com\, Tin House\, Teen Vogue\, Conjunctions\, Wired Magazine\, and other places. Her TED Talk\, “Go Ahead\, Dream About the Future” got 700\,000 views in its first week.With Annalee Newitz\, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-isaac-fellman-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T203000
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SUMMARY:Kristi Yamaguchi with Forum
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area native\, Olympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars winner\, Kristi Yamaguchi\, joins Forum to talk figure skating\, the winter Olympics\, life after competition and how she’s supporting children’s literacy through her nonprofit Always Dream. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1616 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristi-yamaguchi-with-forum/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="KQED Live":MAILTO:live@kqed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220226T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220226T114500
DTSTAMP:20260403T142715
CREATED:20220210T181949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T181949Z
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SUMMARY:Alphabet Rockers\, You Are Not Alone
DESCRIPTION:Listen as the Grammy-nominated team read You Are Not Alone\, a debut picture book that empowers kids to love their beautiful selves\, celebrate their identities\, stand up to hate and have each other’s backs no matter what. Then\, move the furniture to create a dance floor or bring your device outside to continue the celebration with movement. For kids and their families. \nFree \nhttps://sfpl.org/events/2022/02/26/authors-alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone sfplcpp@sfpl.org 415-557-4400
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alphabet-rockers-you-are-not-alone/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220227T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142715
CREATED:20220210T182011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T182011Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Shayda Kafai in conversation with Zena Sharman
DESCRIPTION:Shayda Kafai\, author of Crip Kinship\, and Zena Sharman\, author of The Care We Dream Of\, discuss how disability justice is foundational to combating legacies of cis-heteropatriarchy\, white supremacy\, classism and capitalism in LGBTQ+ health and crip cultural productions. \nASL and CART services are available for this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-shayda-kafai-in-conversation-with-zena-sharman/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of SFPL":MAILTO:hormel@sfpl.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142715
CREATED:20220210T182044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T182044Z
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SUMMARY:Faux Queen: A Life in Drag with Fauxnique
DESCRIPTION:Iconic Bay Area drag artist and choreographer Monique Jenkinson\, better known to many as Fauxnique\, joins host Peaches Christ for an evening of stories from her new memoir\, which chronicles her journey through ballet\, fake eyelashes and San Francisco’s nightlife underground to become the first cisgender woman crowned as a pageant-winning drag queen. \nIn Person: $10 / Livestream: Free. \nhttps://www.kqed.org/event/1621 live@kqed.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/faux-queen-a-life-in-drag-with-fauxnique/
LOCATION:The Commons\, KQED Headquarters\, 2601 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="KQED Live":MAILTO:live@kqed.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220505T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142715
CREATED:20220504T163632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T163632Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Jennif(f)er Tamayo + Aline Mello + Alan Pelaez Lopez \nThursday May 5\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T142715
CREATED:20220504T163727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T163727Z
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SUMMARY:Migrant Futures: Undocumented Poets Series
DESCRIPTION:Poetry\, performance\, and conversation with curator and host Javier O. Huerta \nfeaturing: Javier Zamora + Gladys Wangeci Gitau-Damaskos + Yosimar Reyes \nFriday May 6\nDoors 7PM\, event & livestream begin 7:30PM pacific \n@ Medicine for Nightmares\, 3036 24th Street\, SF\n+ livestream \nMore info \nHosted by Small Press Traffic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/migrant-futures-undocumented-poets-series-2/
LOCATION:Medicine For Nightmares\, 3036th 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,In-person,San Francisco,Virtual
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