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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Paramour'
DESCRIPTION:•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWednesday\, April 12th\, 2017\n\n\n\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\n\n\nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\n\n\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\n\n\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\n\n\nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling #Unedited #TheRealDeal\n\n\n\nThis Evening of “Love stories includes:\n\n\n❤ Online Dating Prankster Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n❤ YOU! Pitch your story to Dixie!\n\n\n\n❤ Musical act to come (do songs about sex? Email Dixie!)\n\n\n\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n\n\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action\n\n\n\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal\n\n\n❤ Hosted by Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour\n\n\n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nSexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour brings her true dirty storytelling show back to the Verdi Club’s stage and this month\, we intertwine Love and Sex. : stories of wild abandon that left to true love\, tales of the search for more than orgasm or finding that you\, on your own\, are what you’ve been looking for all along. Hey… isn’t that your story?! Let’s find out: email Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com and pitch her your story to be part of this show. Bawdy Storytelling promises you a Wednesday night of true\, funny\, poignant\, shocking tales – each told without notes by the sexual adventurer who lived to tell the tale. \n\n\n\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\n\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a 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 stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.\n\n\n \n\n\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 & hand-picked Rockstars 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\n\n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges\n\n\n• Lineup Subject to Change\n\n\n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nPerformer Bios:\n\n\n\n❤ Marga Gomez is a GLAAD Award winner and was named “Best Bay Area Comedian” by the SF Weekly\, Bay Area Reporter and The SF Bay Guardian. Robin Williams called her “Amazing..a lesbian Lenny Bruce.” Gomez’s comedy has been featured on HBO\, LOGO\, Showtime\, Comedy Central and PBS. She is also the author/performer of twelve solo plays which have been presented Off-Broadway\, nationally and internationally. Gomez can be seen in season two of the Netflix series “Sense8” She has been a guest on leading comedy podcasts Marc Maron’s “WTF\,” “The Keith and The Girl Show” and Kevin Allison’s “Risk.” Her website is margagomez.com\n\n\n \n\n\n❤ Ash Fisher is a comedian\, actor and writer. She is not a comedienne\, an actress or a writeress. She co-hosts the popular Oakland comedy show “Man Haters\,” named 2016 Best Comedy Show by East Bay Express. She was the 2012 Newcomer Runner-Up in Ladies of Laughter at Gotham Comedy Club NYC\, won the Oakland Storytelling Showdown\, won the Shipwreck Erotic Fan Fiction Competition\, and performed in San Francisco Sketchfest 2016 and 2017. She writes for Wear Your Voice Mag and has been published in The Huffington Post and The Advocate. She does illustration and voiceovers whenever someone lets her. Ash holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts\, and Sallie Mae will never let her forget it. Find her at ashfisherhaha.com & on twitter & instagram: @ashfisherhaha\n\n\n\n❤ Online dating prankster & Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey).\n\n\nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show of 2016\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly\n\n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n\nWant more Bawdy?\n\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com\n\n\nTwitter: @Bawdy\n\n\n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-paramour/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Brushes with Fame
DESCRIPTION:Fame is such an odd thing. Everybody wants a piece of it\, though many who get it\, ultimately regret it. This month\, Fireside brings to the stage six storytellers to tell true tales about their brushes with fame: whether it’s encounters with famous people\, or finding themselves in the middle of their 15 minutes of fame — or infamy. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-brushes-with-fame/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Carol Oates
DESCRIPTION:Joyce 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. \nIn this striking\, enormously affecting novel\, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town\, while Augustus Voorhees\, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed\, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. \nIn her moving\, keenly observed portrait\, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely—but with great empathy—confronts an intractable\, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning\, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-carol-oates-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yrsa Daley-Ward
DESCRIPTION:Yrsa Daley-Ward contemplates her role in the world in which she lives and loves\, reading pieces from Alice Walker and other writers. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members\, and opens with a reading by Oakland writer\, Christian Johnson. \nDUENDE\nWednesday\, April 12 • 7PM\nhttp://matatu.eventbrite.com/ \n__________\nYrsa Daley-Ward was raised by her devout Seventh Day Adventist grandparents in the small town of Chorley in the North of England\, and is of mixed West African and West Indian heritage. After moving to London\, Yrsa began a full-time career in modeling and acting\, visible on runways and magazine covers in Angola\, Cameroon\, Nigeria and South Africa. In 2013\, her first collection of stories ‘On Snakes and Other Stories\,’ was published while living between Cape Town and Johannesburg\, followed up with Yrsa’s widely acclaimed\, ‘Bone.’ \n__________\nBorn in Oakland\, California\, Christian Johnson is a writer\, image maker\, and film curator. His work aims to create multi-layered revolutionary images of the black body in motion. Johnson is one half of the brain trust behind last years Black Atheistic film series\, and as the artist in residence at E.M. Wolfman he is in preproduction on the short film “A Moment of Truth + Sin.” A forthcoming book of essays on last years film series entitled “Black Asthetic Season 1” will be released later this year. \n__________\nThe Kenyan matatu\, the Thai tuk-tuk\, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation\, rooted in local community and global diasporas\, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next. \nMATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts\, and supported by KQED\, East Bay Express\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yrsa-daley-ward/
LOCATION:DUENDE\, 468 19th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome contributors of Oakland Noir to the store to celebrate this new release on Wednesday\, April 12th at 7:00 pm. The participants for this evening include editors Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller and authors Dorothy Lazard\, Nick Petrulakis\, and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder . \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJerry Thompson is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the co-author of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nEddie Muller\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies. He is the co-editor of Oakland Noir. \n  \nDorothy Lazard grew up in West Oakland and was an early fan of the library. She has worked at the Oakland Main Library since 1983 and is now the reference librarian of the Main Library’s Oakland History Room. \n  \nNick Petrulakis is a bookseller and self-taught mixologist –  what could be a more natural pairing? Inspired by books\, characters\, settings\, and authors\, he uses all of these elements for inspiration when creating a new drink. Check out his blog\, Drinks with Nick to see his latest cocktails. \n  \nKeri Miki-Lani Schroeder is a visual artist and writer based in Oakland. A fan of all things odd\, experimental\, or transgressive\, Schroeder creates artist books and dark short fiction. After earning an MFA in book art and creative writing from Mills College in 2015\, Schroeder now works for Flying Fish Press\, an independent publisher of limited-edition artists’ books\, and teaches book art workshops and classes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Reese Jones
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Ingrid Contreras Rojas \ndiscussing his new book \nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move \nfrom Verso Books \nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis\, focusing on how borders are formed and policed \nForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade\, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. \nReece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional\, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization\,” he writes\, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.” \nIn Violent Borders\, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world\, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization\, the wealthy travel without constraint\, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures\, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change\, environmental degradation\, and the growth of global wealth inequality. \nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa\, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States\, India\, and Israel. \nIngrid Rojas Contreras is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from Bread Loaf\, Hedgebrook\, the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto\, Djerassi Artist Residency\, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures\, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Currently\, she is working on a memoir about her grandfather\, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move clouds. \nCrtitical praise for the work of Reese Jones: \n“I’d like an endless supply of Reece Jones’ Violent Borders to hand out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that we live in\, an argument for a world of humanity.” \n– Vijay Prashad\, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South \n“A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us to secure our borders\, Reece Jones’ Violent Borders goes beyond the headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis. Borders\, Jones convincingly argues\, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue.” \n– Arun Kundnani\, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia\, Extremism\, and the Domestic War on Terror \n“From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state formation to the current fortification of the US–Mexico frontier\, Reece Jones explains what a boundary is\, and how national sovereignty is being reinforced\, in an age of capital mobility\, by the crackdown on human movement across borders.” \n– Jeremy Harding\, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World \n“With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news\, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.” \n– Kirkus Reviews \n“In an era of terrorism\, global inequality\, and rising political tension over migration\, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse\, not better.” \n– Boston Globe \n“Reece Jones\, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa\, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion…This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.” \n– Darwin BondGraham\, East Bay Express
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reese-jones/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series in Poetry presents a reading with Douglas Kearney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic/
LOCATION:Albany Library\, 1247 Marin Ave\, Albany\, CA\, 94706\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Yesika Salgado
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, April 11\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Yesika Salgado\nopen mic follows \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance\nJoin the event on Facebook! \nYesika Salgado is a Los Angeles based Salvadoran poet who writes about her family\, her culture\, her city and her brown body. Yesika has shared her work in venues and campuses throughout the country. In 2013 she published her first collection of poetry titled The Luna poems. She is a member of the 2014 and 2016 Da Poetry Lounge Slam Team and placed top 10 in the nation both years. Her work has been featured in Latina Magazine\, Univision\, Vibe Magazine\, Neon Magazine\, Huffington Post\, Buzzfeed and many other digital platforms. She is the Co-founder of the Latina feminist collective Chingona Fire\, a Huffington Post contributor and recently released her second collection of poetry titled WOES. To keep up with Yesika follow her on Instagram (@yesikastarr). \nNext at Well-RED:\nMay 9: Tania Martin and Caesar Kent
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-yesika-salgado/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170411T190000
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SUMMARY:Mills MFA Alumni Reading
DESCRIPTION:MFA Alumni Reading featuring Christine Hyung Oak-Lee and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-mfa-alumni-reading/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Stand Up for Choice: A Benefit for NARAL Pro-Choice America
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a night of stand-up comedy to benefit NARAL Pro-Choice America and the fight for reproductive freedom! \nFeaturing:\nNato Green\nFrancesca Fiorentini\nMatt Lieb\nZahra Noorbakhsh\nNicole Calasich\nNatasha Muse\nDrew Platt\nand special guests!\n\nTickets are $20\, get them before they’re gone! \nAll shows are 18 & over with valid photo ID.\nThere is a two drink minimum per person.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stand-up-for-choice-a-benefit-for-naral-pro-choice-america/
LOCATION:Punch Line San Francisco\, 444 Battery St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170410T193000
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \n\nPraise for White Tears \n\n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n\n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n\n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \n\nAbout White Tears \n\nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Meltzer Memorial Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebration of maestro David Meltzer’s life and work\, Monday evening\, April 10th from 7 to 9:30 pm at Bird & Beckett Books. Diane di Prima\, Duncan McNaughton and others (TBA) will read and speak in honor of our friend David Meltzer. Please check back here and on the B&B website for more details soon. \nDAVID MELTZER MEMORIAL READING: Monday\, April 10th\, 2017 – 7:00 pm\nBird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94131\n(2 blocks from Glen Park BART\, MUNI lines J\, 23\, 35\, 36\, 44\, 52\, and Interstate 280)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-meltzer-memorial-reading/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carol Sheldon
DESCRIPTION:Exposed: The Poetry of Carol Sheldon is an open\, honest and revealing account of author Carol Sheldon’s feelings\, experiences and musings in the form of poetry. Sheldon has previously published two books of poetry and many assorted other works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carol-sheldon-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SF JAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: “We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite”\n\n\n\nDevorah Major & Destiny Muhammad\nMajor served as San Francisco’s Third Poet Laureate (2002-2006). In addition to her four poetry books she has four poetry chapbooks\, two novels\, two biographies for young adults\, and a host of short stories\, essays\, and individual poems published. In November 2016\, City Lights Publishing will release her fifth volume of poetry. Devorah Major performs nationally and internationally\, with and without musicians. \nDestiny Muhammad is a recording/performing artist\, band leader\, composer and producer. Her genre “Celtic to Coltrane” is cool and eclectic with a feel of jazz and storytelling to round out the sonic experience. \nGenny Lim w/ Anthony Brown & the Asian American Orchestra\nGenny Lim is a noted poet performer who’s collaborated with the late Max Roach and bassist\, Herbie Lewis. Lim has performed at numerous jazz festivals and venues coast to coast\, including the SFJAZZ Poetry Festival and World Poetry Festivals in Venezuela\, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Italy. Her poetry and vocals can be heard on Asian ImprovArts recordings with Francis Wong\, Devotee and Child of Peace and on Jon Jang’s Immigrant Suite. She is the author of the award-winning play\, Paper Angels\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island\, as well as several poetry collections\, including Paper Gods and Rebels. Lim is the second SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. \nAnthony Brown is a composer\, percussionist\, ethnomusicologist\, Guggenheim fellow\, Smithsonian Associate Scholar\, and Artistic Director of the GRAMMY nominated Asian American Orchestra and the nonprofit organization\, Fifth Stream Music. He has composed music for critically acclaimed\, award winning film documentaries\, theater productions\, dance companies and musical ensembles internationally\, and has collaborated with Max Roach\, Cecil Taylor\, Zakir Hussain\, Steve Lacy\, Anthony Davis and the San Francisco Symphony. Dr. Brown has served as Curator of American Musical Culture and Director of the Jazz Oral History Program at the Smithsonian Institution\, and as a Visiting Professor of Music at UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-jazz-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:32x6 Feminist SciFi Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Save the date!\nTwice a year\, a merry band of roving feminists get together for a weekend of flash fiction about time travel.\nThe entire process\, from prompt to book release party\, takes 32 hours\, and you’re invited to help usher the beautiful books into the world!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/32x6-feminist-scifi-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Argentine Poetry and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Two touring Argentine poets\, Luisa Futoransky and Claudia Schvartz\, Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amara\, with two noted translators\, John Oliver Simon and Stephen Kessler bring to life the “Coast of Silver” for one evening in San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood! \nJoin us for an incredible night of word play and language\, with complimentary beverages and snacks provided!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-argentine-poetry-and-translation/
LOCATION:SAFEhouse Arts\, 1 Grove St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Martha Rhodes + Bruce Willard
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, April 9th at 3pm featuring Martha Rhodes and Bruce Willard. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! \n  \nMartha Rhodes’s new book of poems is The Thin Wall. Susan Wheeler says\, “The Thin Wall—between care and resentment\, protectiveness and rage\, betrayal and abandonment–marks the furious\, vital poems in Martha Rhodes’s fifth collection…Martha Rhodes has long been one of our finest poets\, and now she has written her best and most moving book.” Her previous collections are At the Gate\, Perfect Disappearance\, Mother Quiet\, and The Beds. She directs the summer Conference on Poetry at the Frost Place and is the director of Four Way Books in New York City. \nPhoto Credit- Rachel Eliza Griffiths \nBruce Willard’s new book of poems is Violent Blues. Juan Felipe Herrera says\, “Willard plays the notes in-between—the awakenings\, loves and losses\, the slippages between two blurred bodies of life\, of sending and receiving­ that is the ‘ununderstandable\,’ perhaps like Thelonius Monk’s fractured piano\, the one that flames in the center of being\, meaning\, and enlightenment.” His earlier collection is Holding Ground. He spends his time in Maine\, Colorado\, and California and runs several clothing businesses. \n  \nCopies of The Thin Wall and Violent Blues will be available for purchase at the event. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 9\, 2017 – 3:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-martha-rhodes-bruce-willard/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SF JAZZ Poetry Festival: Black Lives Matter
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival\n\n\n\n\nw/ Genny Lim \n\n\nSaturday\, April 8\, 8:00pm\nat SFJAZZ Center\, Joe Henderson Lab\n\n\n\nGenny Lim\nPOETRY MATTERSSERIES: SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: Black Lives Matter\n\n\n\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph (+ musicians)\nln the Fall of 2007\, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine after being named one of America’s Top Young lnnovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the 7-part HBO documentary Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship\, which annually recognizes 50 of the country’s “greatest living artists”. He is the 2011 Alpert Award winner in Theater and in April 2012\, he was one of 21 artists to be named to the inaugural class of Doris Duke Artists. He currently is completing new works for the Philadelphia Opera and South Coast Repertory Theater while serving as Director of Performing Arts at YBCA. \nLewis Jordan\nLewis Jordan is an international touring and recording musician; poet; actor and playwright. He was a founding member of United Front\, the seminal San Francisco Bay Area ensemble known for its originality\, aggressive imagination and cultural synthesis. Jordan founded Music at Large in 1976\, dedicated to interdisciplinary and multicultural productions\, with presentations incorporating music\, theater\, dance\, poetry and visual art. \nAVOCTJA \nAvoctja is an award winning Poet & multi-instrumentalist who has opened for Betty Carter in New York City\, Peru’s Susana Baca at San Francisco’s Encuentro Popular & Cuba’s Gema y Pável\, played with Rahsaan Roland Kirk\, Bobi & Luis Cespedes\, John Handy\, Sonido Afro Latina\, Dimensions Dance Theater\, Black Poets With Attitudes
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sf-jazz-poetry-festival-black-lives-matter/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Variety is more that just the name of Prince’s favorite girl-singer sidekick. It’s more than just having sex dressed as Alien Greenspan every once in a while. It’s also a Literary Imperative! Which is why Writers With Drinks combines erotica with literature\, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery\, romance\, memoir\, rants and “other.” \nAll proceeds benefit local non-profits. Charlie Jane Anders MCs and vamps. \nSaturday\, April 8\, 2017:\n \nPeter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nHari Kunzru (White Tears)\nIlana C. Myer (Fire Dance)\nShelley Wong (Rare Birds) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-3/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Denise Benavides
DESCRIPTION:Join Denise Benavides\, Kórima Press and Galería de la Raza for a book release party and reading of Denise’s new book published by Korima Press “Split.” \nBook description:\nDenise Benavides’ debut collection Split is a dedication to motherlessness and abandon—to a nightly killing and rebirths. At its worst\, it is all teeth masticating through the body in an attempt to interrogate and cut out what no longer serves the Self. It is a collection not meant for the weak\, but for those willing to walk through what haunts them the most. \nAuthor Bio:\nDenise Benavides is a queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She uses the stage/page to confront themes of xenophobia\, relocation\, sexuality\, religion\, and love. Always\, love. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. \nHer work has recently been published in Third Woman Press\, Foglifter Journal\, and The Feminist Wire. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the fall of 2016 by Kórima Press. \nFree and Open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/denise-benavides/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Resist Reading + Art Show
DESCRIPTION:With Readings from Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Rene Vaz\, MK Chavez joel Landmine Thea Mathews\, and the goddess Vanessa Rochelle Cassandra Dallett
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-reading-art-show/
LOCATION:63 Bluxome St. Gallery\, 63 Bluxome Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Release Party: Foglifter Vol. 2 Issue 1
DESCRIPTION:Announcing the launch party for Volume 2\, Issue 1 of Foglifter! \nWe’ll be loud & queer at Strut next month with plenty of snacks\, beverages\, and\, of course\, a gaggle of incredible readers. \nSpeaking of — behold our featured contributors for the evening! \nChristopher J Adamson\nSevanKelee Boult\nStacy Nathaniel Jackson\nClara McLean\nDanny Thanh Nguyen\nD.A. Powell\nDaniel Riddle Rodriguez\nBrenda Usher-Carpino \nThe event is free and open to the public\, with a suggested donation of 15.00\, that buys you a copy of the publication. If you are subscribed to Foglifter and wish to pick up your copy at the event\, please let us know! \nWatch this space for more info\, contributor bios\, and more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/release-party-foglifter-vol-2-issue-1/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov w/ Noah Warren
DESCRIPTION:As part of our National Poetry Month reading series Alex Dimitrov discusses his new collection\, Together and By Ourselves\, with Noah Warren. \n\nPraise for Alex Dimitorv \n\n“Dimitrov is that rarest of creatures\, a true poet and a truly contemporary poet. Thank god he’s here.” —Michael Cunningham \n\n“Alex Dimitrov’s passionate\, headlong poems seem to want to carve beneath the surface of gestures\, beneath the skin\, to the warm and dangerous blood beneath.” —Mark Doty \n\n“Dimitrov is a vital new energy in American poetry.” Los Angeles Review of Books \n\nAbout Together and By Ourselves \n\nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-w-noah-warren/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:April at Cleave: Bay Area Women Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for April with Thea Matthews\, Meghan Elison\, Norma Liliana Valdez\, and Lluvia de Milagros Carrasco. There will be a dynamic reading\, a Q&A session\, AND Gluten Free Double Dare Chocolate Cake from James and the Giant Cupcake in celebration of Raina León’s 36th birthday.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-at-cleave-bay-area-women-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates  Gala: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join us April 7th as we once again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library for the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala! This year’s theme is Library Love Stories\, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. \nDATE:  April 7\, 2017\nTIME:  7:00 PM Reception followed by Dinner\nLOCATION:  Main Library — 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco \nAt Library Laureates\, the art of conversation is practiced in intimate salons within the heart of San Francisco’s Main Library\, as you and your guests enjoy drinks and dinner with one of the 30-plus authors scheduled to attend. An event like no other\, Library Laureates allows you unprecedented access to explore and discover the seeds of inspiration from a wide array of experiences\, complimented by exquisite food\, exceptional cocktails and extraordinary company. The evening’s woven tapestry of tales will stay with you long after our gala ends\, as you’ll be furnished with a copy of a book from your table’s author. We suspect that work will resonate on a more personal level now that you’ve spent the evening with a treasured wordsmith. \nGuests of honor include author\, publisher\, and Library champion Peter Booth Wiley\, poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate)\, along with more than 30 other luminaries of the literary world. \nCo-chaired by Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith\, the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, made possible by our sponsors and other supporters (listed below)\, benefits the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nLast year’s event sold out. Make sure to take advantage of the Sponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now. \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information. \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/#sthash.fBcn8xBG.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-gala-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Siel Ju\, Brynn Saito\, + Andrew Lam
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Siel Ju to the store to discuss and sign her novel-in-stories\, Cake Time on Friday\, April 7th at 7:00 pm. Joining her in conversation will be fellow Red Hen Press poets\, Brynn Saito and Andrew Lam\, both finalists for California Book awards . \nDaring yet aimless\, smart but slightly strange\, Cake Time’s young female protagonist keeps making slippery choices\, sliding into the dangerous space where curiosity melds with fear and desires turn into dirty messes. In How Not to Have an Abortion\, the teenaged narrator looks for a ride from the clinic between her AP exams. In Easy Target\, the now-college-grad agrees to go to a swingers party with a handsome stranger. A decade later\, in Glow\, she is suddenly confronted by the disturbing and thrilling fact of her lover’s secret daughter. Ultimately\, this unflinching novel-in-stories grapples with urgent\, timeless questions: why intelligent girls make terrible choices\, where to negotiate a private self in an increasingly public world\, and how to love madly without losing a sense of self. \nSiel Ju is a Korean-American writer who grew up in Kenya and now lives in Los Angeles. Her novel-in-stories\, Cake Time\, was the winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Fiction Manuscript Award. She is also the author of two poetry chapbooks: Feelings Are Chemicals in Transit and Might Club. Her stories and poems have appeard in ZYZZYVA\, The Missouri Review (Poem of the Week)\, The Los Angeles Review\, and Denver Quarterly\, among others. She holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California and is the editor of Flash Flash Click\, a weekly email lit zine for fast fiction. \nBrynn Saito is the author of The Palace of Contemplating Departure\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and finalist for the 2013 Northern California Book Award. Her work has been anthologized by Helen Vendler and Ishmael Reed; it has also appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review\, Ninth Letter\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and Pleiades. Brynn is the recipient of a Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship\, the Poets 11 award from the San Francisco Public Library\, and the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Recently\, Brynn served as the Kundiman Writer-in-Residence at Sierra Nevada College. Born and raised in Fresno\, CA\, Brynn currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nAndrew Lam is the author of Birds of Paradise Lost\, finalist for the California Book Award\, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora\, which won the 2006 PEN Open Book Award\, and East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres. He was a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered for many years\, and was the subject of a 2004 PBS documentary called My Journey Home. His essays have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The New York Times\, The LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Baltimore Sun\, The Atlanta Journal\, The Chicago Tribune\, Mother Jones\, and The Nation\, among many others. His short stories have been widely taught and anthologized. He lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, April 7\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/siel-ju-brynn-saito-andrew-lam/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Oracle Speaks: Dreams from the Dreamers
DESCRIPTION:We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with House/Full of Blackwomen this spring. \nWe are hosting two writing workshops\, one for black girls 8-12 and another for black girls 13-18\, which will culminate in a reading and book release on April 7: THE ORACLE SPEAKS:\nDREAMS FROM THE DREAMERS. \nThe night will feature readings from our youth and women dreamers participating in House/Full’s Ritual Rest—a durational performance ritual for black women to sleep\, rest and dream intentionally over the period of seven continuous days and nights. \nHouse/Full will also be installing a multi-media and performance-based exhibit here at 2301 Telegraph that will be open to the public from March 26 to April 8. \nHouse/Full of Blackwomen is a performance ritual that addresses the displacement\, well being\, and sex-trafficking of black women and girls in Oakland performed as a series of episodes throughout Oakland through 2018. To find out more about House/Full\, and all the events for Black Women Dreamin visit http://housefullofblackwomen.com/\n—\nThere are still spot available in our spring break workshop: \nBlack Girls Dreaming Spring Writing Camp (Ages 8-12) \nMonday\, April 3 – Thursday April 6\n9:30am-12:00pm\nSnacks Provided \nRegister at chapter510.org/students
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-oracle-speaks-dreams-from-the-dreamers/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series is Back
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is Back! Come celebrate our “return” on the lit scene and the beginning of Women’s History Month. \nPowerful women’s storytelling\, drinks\, and the beautiful community of the Mission Cultural Center. No one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥ \nFeaturing: \nMK Chavez\nOakland based writer\, MK Chavez is the author of several chapbooks\, including Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal\, her first full collection was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she received an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Recent and upcoming publications include Heavy Feather Review\, Story Magazine\, and Medium for a 100 days of Action. \nCassandra Dallett\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez. \nRaina León\nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast Native living in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she presently serves as a 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate and final judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her award-winning fiction chapbooks\, Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)\, have earned praise from Nikki Giovanni\, Daniel Handler (a/k/a Lemony Snicket)\, Antonya Nelson\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum\, Molly Giles\, Michelle Tea and others. Frazier’s writing has placed in literary competitions offered by HBO\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, the Mississippi Review and more. You can find her work online at Eclectica Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Eleven Eleven and Kore Press – or read her interviews with CBS\, SF Weekly and Women’s Quarterly Conversation. Recent work is available in Glimmer Train\, issue 96\, and ZYZZYVA\, issue 106. She is at work on a novel and a screenplay. Soma is Chair and Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at Cogswell College; Founding Editor of COG\, a multimedia publication. \nMaw Shein Win\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 \nAnd since we really want to celebrate and be exceptional\, curators Sara Marinelli and Shideh Etaat will also read from their work. \nSara Marinelli\nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. \nShideh Etaat\nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. An excerpt from her novel can be found in Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans\, and she has published short stories in The Delmarva Review\, Amazon’s online journal\, Day One\, and Foglifter. She is a 2011 Breadloaf Work Study Scholar and a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-is-back/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going To Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes — Private Parlor Show (($10 adv/$10 day of show)) at The Lost Church\nDoors at 7:30pm\nStarts at 8:15pm\nTickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1455860 \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (YG2D generally sells out in advance)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show. \nYG2D: Every 1st and 3rd Thursdays at The Lost Church \n================================================ \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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