BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Litseen - ECPv6.15.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Litseen X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://litseen.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Litseen REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20180101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T200000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T000917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T000917Z UID:49464-1549569600-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:'Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change' DESCRIPTION:The best-selling author of “Subliminal” and “The Drunkard’s Walk” teaches you how to tap into the hidden power of your brain. \nIn this startling and provocative look at how the human mind deals with change\, Leonard Mlodinow shows us how to unleash the natural abilities we all possess so we can thrive in dynamic and troubled times. Truly original minds capitalize when everyone else struggles. And most of us assume that these abilities are innate\, reserved for a select few. But Mlodinow reveals that we all possess them\, that we all have encoded in our brains a skill he terms elastic thinking-and he guides us in how to harness it. \nDrawing on groundbreaking research\, Mlodinow outlines how we can learn to let go of comfortable ideas and become accustomed to ambiguity and contradiction; how we can rise above conventional mindsets and reframe the questions we ask; and how we can improve our ability to solve problems and generate new ideas-critical skills for achieving professional and personal success in our quickly morphing world. \nLeonard Mlodinow’s previous books include the best sellers “Subliminal” (winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science writing award)\, “The Drunkard’s Walk” (a New York Times Notable Book)\, “War of the Worldviews” (with Deepak Chopra) and “The Grand Design” (with Stephen Hawking)\, as well as “The Upright Thinkers”\, “Feynman’s Rainbow” and “Euclid’s Window.” His most recent book is “Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change.” He also wrote for the television series “MacGyver” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” \nNamed to the 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards Longlist. \nPaperback copies of the book will be available for sale at the event for $16 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto. \n$18 General Public | $15 Members and J-Pass holders | $12 Students with ID. \nPresented by The Oshman Family JCC. URL:https://litseen.com/event/elastic-unlocking-your-brains-ability-to-embrace-change/ LOCATION:Oshman Family JCC\, Freidenrich Conference Center\, Room F-401\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303 CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/elastic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Oshman Family JCC":MAILTO:info@paloaltojcc.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190104T031407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T031407Z UID:49315-1549567800-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Barry Eisler DESCRIPTION:Barry Eisler served three years with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. He worked as a technology lawyer. He has been at various times a startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan. In his instantly bestselling John Rain series\, a lifetime of experience came to a crossroads. He followed with the un-put-downable stories of sharp-shooting assassin Dox; and sex-crimes detective\, turned martial arts expert\, Livia Lone. \nIn his new book THE KILLER COLLECTIVE\, Barry Eisler offers a true magnum opus. In this long-awaited novel\, Eisler assembles the most dangerous team yet: John Rain\, Livia Lone\, Dox\, and a cast of his most volatile characters travel across Seattle\, Paris\, and Japan to confront their most treacherous enemy yet … one who could sit at the highest levels of the U.S. Government. \nEisler’s thrillers have earned a range of awards from the Barry Award to the Gumshoe Award for Best Thriller. His work is included in numerous “Best of” lists and has been translated into nearly twenty languages. Don’t miss your chance to meet one of the Bay Area’s most exciting writers. URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-eisler-2/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Barry-Eisler.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190103T082447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T082447Z UID:49228-1549567800-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Johannes Lichtman DESCRIPTION:Johannes Lichtman discusses his new novel\, Such Good Work. \n\nPraise for Such Good Work \n\n“I honestly can’t think of a novel I would more want to be reading in the very particular now of our world. Lichtman’s narrator is an everyman (albeit a singular one) who just wants to be good—that slipperiest of ambitions—and yet his efforts pretty much always go wrong. But also they don’t. Wisely comic and tremendously moving\, Such Good Work thinks in detail about immigration\, addiction\, privilege\, power and loneliness; but it does so by mining the seemingly inconsequential for its true profundity. Lichtman never falls for the siren song of self-seriousness\, and that is part of what makes his novel feel so accurate\, and so important. In being open to complexity\, and sensitive to absurdity\, Such Good Work gets at the wholeness and difficulty and beauty of lives both ordinary and extraordinary.”—RIVKA GALCHEN\, author of Atmospheric Disturbances \n“Johannes Lichtman has given us a powerful\, unsparingly honest portrayal of a soul in torment\, trying to find his way to a decent life.  How to love\, how to work–how to live\, however modestly\, with meaning and purpose inside a self that for too long has used booze and drugs to avoid the hard work of being human.  Building a genuine self\, that’s an inside job\, and in Such Good Work Lichtman delivers a deeply affecting novel of one young man’s struggle to be whole.”—BEN FOUNTAIN\, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk \n\nAbout Such Good Work \n\nA timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving\,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö\, Sweden\, where drugs are scarce but the refugee crisis forces a very different kind of reckoning. \nJonas Anderson might be an excellent teacher if he weren’t addicted to drugs. Instead\, at age twenty-eight\, he’s been fired from yet another creative writing position after assigning homework like\, visit a stranger’s funeral and write about it. \nJonas needs to do something drastic and\, as a dual American-Swedish citizen\, he knows Sweden is an easy place to be a graduate student and a difficult place to be a drug addict. The year is 2015 when he arrives in Malmö\, a city trying to cope with the arrival of tens of thousands of Middle Eastern refugees. Driven by an existential need to “do good\,” Jonas volunteers with an organization that teaches Swedish to the desperate and idling young refugees. But one young man\, Aziz\, will force Jonas to question whether “doing good” can actually help another person. \nSuch Good Work is a darkly funny work of autofiction that asks us to consider how one should go about being a good person in our modern world. In his striking debut novel\, Johannes Lichtman’s uses pathos and humor to grapple with simple yet necessary questions—Such Good Work begs you to consider the person you are\, as well as the person you hope to be. URL:https://litseen.com/event/johannes-lichtman/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9781501195648.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T234346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T234346Z UID:49735-1549566000-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang - - The Collected Schizophrenias w/ Caille Millner DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Esmé Weijun Wang to discuss her new new book The Collected Schizophrenias\, on Thursday\, February 7th at 7pm. She will be joined by Caille Milner \nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. \nCaille Millner is the author of The Golden Road: Notes on my Gentrification(Penguin Press). Her short fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva and Joyland\, and Best American Short Stories 2016. Her essays have been in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and listed in Best American Essays 2017. Her awards include the Barnes and Noble Emerging Writers Award. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, February 7\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618 URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-the-collected-schizophrenias-w-caille-millner/ LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/collected.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T215850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T215850Z UID:49580-1549566000-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Analicia Sotelo DESCRIPTION:Analicia Sotelo: Reading and Conversation with Vanessa Fernandez – February 7\, 2019 // 7pm // San José Museum of Art \nTHURSDAY\nFebruary 7\, 2019\n7PM \nSan José\, Museum of Art\n110 S. Market Street\nSan José\, CA \nReading followed by an on-stage interview – conducted by SJSU Assistant Professor of Spanish Vanessa Fernandez – plus a book sale and signing. \nAnalicia Sotelo’s debut poetry collection Virgin is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. At every step\, these poems seduce with history\, folklore\, and sensory detail—grilled meat\, golden habañeros\, and burnt sugar—before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power\, deceit\, relationships\, and ourselves. URL:https://litseen.com/event/analicia-sotelo/ LOCATION:San Jose Museum of Art\, 110 Market St\, San José\, CA\, 95113\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Analicia_Sotelo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190112T045358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190112T045726Z UID:49399-1549566000-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:InsideStorytime SUBLIMATION DESCRIPTION:featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin (Heaven Is All Goodbyes)\, Anita Felicelli (Love Songs for a Lost Continent)\, Thea Matthews\, Ant Fraser Fujinaga\, and Albert Alexander\, will be at Laundry Gallery and Cafe\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday February 7th\, 7-9 pm. URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sublimation/ LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cropped-photo11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190101T053416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T053416Z UID:49180-1549566000-1549573200@litseen.com SUMMARY:A PEOPLE'S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES:Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAn evening of reading and discussion with contributors Charlie Jane Anders and Gabby Rivera \ncelebrating the release of \nA PEOPLE’S FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers \nedited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams \nPublished by One World \nA glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and imagine new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin\, Charles Yu\, Jamie Ford\, G. Willow Wilson\, Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugh Howey\, and more. \nIn the words of N.K. Jemisin: “Imagination is where revolutions begin.” Knowing that imagining a brighter tomorrow has always been an act of resistance\, editors Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams invited an extraordinarily talented group of writers to share stories that explore new forms of freedom\, love\, and justice. They asked for narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths\, release us from the chokehold of our history\, and give us new futures to believe in. \nThey also asked that the stories be badass. \nThe result is this extraordinary collection of twenty-five tales that blend the dark and the light\, the dystopian and the utopian. These tales are vivid with struggle and hardship—whether it’s the othered and the oppressed\, or dragonriders and covert commandos—but these characters don’t flee\, they fight. \nFeaturing stories by Violet Allen • Charlie Jane Anders • Lesley Nneka Arimah • Ashok K. Banker • Tobias S. Buckell • Tananarive Due • Omar El Akkad • Jamie Ford • Maria Dahvana Headley • Hugh Howey • Lizz Huerta• Justina Ireland • N. K. Jemisin • Alice Sola Kim • Seanan McGuire • Sam J. Miller • Daniel José Older • Malka Older • Gabby Rivera • A. Merc Rustad • Kai Cheng Thom • Catherynne M. Valente • Daniel H. Wilson • G. Willow Wilson • Charles Yu URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-peoples-future-of-the-united-statesspeculative-fiction-from-25-extraordinary-writers/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/City-Lights.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T203000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190104T031714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190104T031714Z UID:49321-1549566000-1549571400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Pam Houston\, Deep Creek DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome award-winning author Pam Houston (Cowboys Are My Weakness) for a reading and signing of her new memoir\, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country\, which tells the remarkable story of “that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch\, dared herself to dig in and care for it\, to work hard enough to pay for it\, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world ‘home.”’ \nAt 31 years old\, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection\, Cowboys Are My Weakness\, Pam Houston had “no job\, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent.” On an impulse and a good instinct\, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede\, Colorado. It was more than she could afford\, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet\, twenty-five years later\, it’s the piece of land that’s defined the largest part of her life. \nIn its chapters\, Houston spends her days walking along the fences on her property\, watching leaves on the aspens ignite into an eruption of fall colors\, and caring for the animals on her ranch: the horses\, sheep\, chickens\, Irish wolfhounds\, and a pair of miniature donkeys with outsized attitudes. Houston’s audacity and generosity are on full display as she cares for an elk calf abandoned by its herd and sleeps outside to comfort her old hound. Deep Creek raises concern about the many ways we endanger the natural world’s delicate balance\, and nature’s enigmatic powers to survive and to save. It’s also a chronicle of recovery. \nEncompassing Houston’s childhood\, her adventures\, and her details of everyday life at the ranch\, Deep Creek is\, above all\, a testament. In holding on to her ranch\, Houston carved a life to support her spirit and her talents\, and discovered that she could be the cowboy of her own story. “I know\,” she explains\, “that when I claimed these 120 acres they also claimed me. We are each other’s mutual saviors.” \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accessibility requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.comby February 5th. \nPam Houston is the author of the novels Contents May Have Shifted and Sight Hound\, the short story collections Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat\, and A Little More About Me\, a collection of essays. Her stories have been selected for volumes such as The Best American Short Stories\, The O. Henry Awards\, The 2013 Pushcart Prize\, and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award\, the WILLA Literary Award for contemporary fiction\, the Evil Companions Literary Award\, and multiple teaching awards. She cofounded the literary nonprofit Writing By Writers\, is a professor of English at UC–Davis\, and teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ low-residency MFA program and at writer’s conferences around the country and the world. URL:https://litseen.com/event/pam-houston-deep-creek/ LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Pam-Houston-Deep-Creek.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T193000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T002400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T002400Z UID:49523-1549562400-1549567800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tell Your Story\, Speak Your Truth: Make a Zine DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, make a one-page zine of your own with staff and volunteers from SF Zinefest. Everyone is invited to write\, draw\, cut\, paste\, staple and copy their way to self-expression. \nWould you like to have your work in the library? You’ll have the option to donate a copy to our new circulating collection of Zines. Some people will also be able to have their work exhibited at the Oakland Library table at this year’s SF Zinefest! \nAll supplies provided. \nRSVP optional but appreciated. Tell your story\, speak your truth. Let’s make some zines together! \nFounded in 2001\, San Francisco Zine Fest seeks to advance the do-it-yourself ethos by fostering community throughout the Bay Area. In our annual festival and its accompanying panels and workshops\, we celebrate and support independent writers\, artists and creators\, allowing them to share their work with an ever-growing audience in exhibitions and public events.   \nZines are self-published booklets which are easy to make and inexpensive to reproduce. There are no rules about form\, function or purpose. Due to their accessibility and alternative nature\, zines have been a medium of choice for folks who are otherwise underrepresented or marginalized.  \nAdditional Workshops: \nFor teens: January 8th\, 4:30PM Lakeview branch library \nFor families: March 12th\, 6:30PM Rockridge branch library URL:https://litseen.com/event/tell-your-story-speak-your-truth-make-a-zine/ LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sfzf.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T233005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T233005Z UID:49716-1549555200-1549566000@litseen.com SUMMARY:New Life Issue 4 Launch Party & Postcard Making Party DESCRIPTION:Oakland-based bookstore and downtown community arts hub\, Wolfman Books is pleased to announce the release of the latest issue of their art and culture magazine\, New Life Quarterly and the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” on February 7\, 2019\, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive! \nPRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF ISSUE 4 FOR HALF-OFF NOW AND PICK IT UP AT THE RELEASE! https://squ.re/2CiKl7Y \nOr get it full price at BAMPFA! \nNew Life Quarterly is a literary\, arts and culture magazine focused on the intersections of art and community—especially the exuberant\, overlooked\, and experimental margins—in the Bay Area and beyond. This issue is a special project dedicated to artist correspondence. Through emails\, WhatsApp messages\, Google Docs comments\, voice memos\, and actual letters\, artists (including BAMPFA’s very own Art Lab Archive) engage in conversation across mediums and across the globe. \nTo highlight the print collaboration between BAMPFA’s Art Lab and New Life Quarterly\, Wolfman Books invites museum-goers to take part in the first-ever “New Life Postcard Drive” in the Art Lab. The organizers’ intention is to gather the community to make 1\,200 one-of-a-kind postcards to be included with every copy of “Issue 4: Correspondence.” Attendees will be invited to create one\, or two\, or a dozen postcards\, with ready-made postcard templates and materials provided. By joining in the “Postcard Drive\,” participants will not only experience the intimate and generative spirit of artistic connection that animates New Life Quarterly\, but actively help create and amplify it. All are encouraged to join this conversation\, bring their community and create with the help of New Life editors\, contributors\, and Art Lab staff! \nBesides the “New Life Postcard Drive\,” the release party will feature onsite correspondence readings and performances featuring contributors and related artists. Attendees can grab copies of the magazine in the BAMPFA Bookstore and become a New Life contributor! \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE! And BAMPFA admission is also free every first Thursday! \nNew Life Quarterly “Issue 4: Correspondence” features new writing and art from: \nBarbara Browning • Avery Trufelman • MI Leggett • Jasmine Gibson • Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Emerson Whitney • Brandon Shimoda • Dot Devota • Dongyi Wu • Kwame Boafo • Mitsuko Brooks • Paul Mpagi Sepuya • Ra Malika Imhotep • Nicole Lavelle • Mary Welcome • Dorothy Santos • Jeannine Ventura • Thanh Hằng Phạm • Andrea Abi-Karam • Davey Davis • Claire Boyle • j.j. Mull • Sophia Dahlin • Julio Linares • Leora Fridman • Yosefa Raz • Vreni Michelini Castillo • Ana Karen • Hannah Kingsley-Ma • Claire Buss • Kate Robinson Beckwith • Amanda Davis • Chelsea A. Flowers • Philip Košćak • Jamie Townsend • Oki Sogumi • Margaret McCarthy • Till Krause • BAMPFA Art Lab \nThis project is supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. “Issue 4: Correspondence” is supported in part by BAMPFA\, The Exploratorium\, Mills College\, AWP 2019\, Jenny Lemons\, Mirro Editions\, The Key Print & Bindery\, Alley Cat Books\, PLAY Press\, and Fish Publishing. URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-life-issue-4-launch-party-postcard-making-party/ LOCATION:UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ArchiveUC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/em2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190207T121000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190207T125000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20180818T212856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T212856Z UID:47367-1549541400-1549543800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Ari Banias DESCRIPTION:Ari Banias is the author of Anybody (W.W. Norton\, 2016)\, which was named a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Literary Award. His poems have appeared in various journals\, in Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics\, and as part of the MOTHA exhibitionTransgender Hirstory in 99 Objects. He is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University’s Wallace Stegner program. Ari lives in Berkeley\, teaches poetry\, and works with small press books. URL:https://litseen.com/event/ari-banias/ LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Ari.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T000747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T000747Z UID:49463-1549481400-1549488600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Robert B. Reich: The Common Good DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nRobert B. Reich\nThe Common Good \nHosted by Kathryn Horsley \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: kpfa.org/events \nFor decades one of the most farseeing\, outspoken public intellectuals in the United States has been Robert B. Reich. Now he provides us with The Common Good\, his sixteenth book\, a passionate\, clear-eyed manifesto urging the recentering of our national economics and politics on the profound idea of the common good. Responding to the prevailing uproar of divisiveness\, cynicism and blind self-interest\, Reich makes a powerful case for expanding America’s moral imagination. Rooting his argument in common sense and everyday reality\, he demonstrates that a common good not only exists\, but in fact is the very essence of any functional society or notion. Societies\, he asserts\, undergo varying virtuous cycles that reinforce the common good as well as vicious cycles that undermine It – one of which this country has been experiencing for the past five decades. This can and must be reversed. \nFirst we must weigh the moral obligations of citizenship and carefully consider how as a country we should relate to honor\, shame\, patriotism\, truth and the meaning of leadership.\nThis is a heartfelt statement from a major political thinker devoted to saving America’s soul. \nRobert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California\, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books\, including The Work of Nations\, Saving Capitalism and Locked In the Cabinet. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Wall Street Journal. He is currently chair of the national governing board of Common Cause. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-b-reich-the-common-good/ LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/reich.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190103T082303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T082303Z UID:49223-1549481400-1549486800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Esmé Weijun Wang Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her new essay collection\, The Collected Schizophrenias\, with R.O. Kwon. \n\nPraise for The Collected Schizophrenias \n\n“This mesmerizing collection of essays has achieved the rarest of rarities—a meaningful and expansive language for a subject that has been long bound by both deep revulsion and intense fascination.”—Jenny Zhang \n\n“A brilliant guide to the complexities of thinking about illness\, and mental illness\, in particular. It will bring hope to others searching to understand their own diagnoses.”—Meghan O’Rourke \n\n“A masterful braiding of the achingly personal and the incisively researched. . . . This book is a vital\, illuminating window onto the world we all already live in\, but find all too easy to ignore.”—Alexandra Kleeman \n\n“You won’t find any pity-baiting\, sensationalism\, or false positivity here; Wang is so candidly aware that I’d trust her over my own diary.”—Tony Tulathimutte \n\n“Esmé Weijun Wang offers us an all-access pass to her beautiful\, unquiet mind. . . Rarely has a book about living with mental illness felt so immediate\, raw\, and powerful.”—Dani Shapiro \n\nAbout The Collected Schizophrenias \n\nPowerful\, affecting essays on mental illness\, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award \n  \nAn intimate\, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness\, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis\, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder\, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness\, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis\, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease\, Wang’s analytical eye\, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford\, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An essay collection of undeniable power\, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. URL:https://litseen.com/event/esme-weijun-wang-book-launch/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9781555978273.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190131T231911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T231911Z UID:49919-1549479600-1549486800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Left Margin LIT Reading at Novel Brewing in Oakland DESCRIPTION:We’re partnering with Novel Brewing Company\, the most literary brewery in the East Bay\, to celebrate the sublime tandem of books and beer! \nLeft Margin instructors and friends Shanthi Sekaran\, Porter Shreve\, Faith Adiele\, David Roderick\, and Melanie Abrams will read from their work. We’ll also have a table there so you can learn more about our programs\, events\, classes\, and work space for writers. \nWe’ve already sampled Novel’s winter lineup of beers\, including BOOK THIEF IPA\, DUST JACKET IPA\, and THE POET\, which is super-sour (of course). Delicious doesn’t even begin to describe what happens on your palate when you order a whole flight. \nThere’s also a BOOK SWAP! You can bring in as many books as you like\, and the ones that don’t find a new home will go into Novel’s book stash earmarked for their Little Lending Library. The swap begins at 7:00 pm and the rules are: (1) add your book(s) to the cart with an index card that has your name\, and a bit of why the book is a great read. (2) What’s the best part? If someone takes your book home to read\, you get $1 off your next pint! \nCome one\, come all. It’s going to be an epic event. URL:https://litseen.com/event/left-margin-lit-reading-at-novel-brewing-in-oakland/ LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608 CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/50989214_2230165767253514_5976700511418580992_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190101T033553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T033752Z UID:49151-1549479600-1549486800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Komal Kapoor / Unfollowing You DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Komal Kapoor\, to celebrate her first poetry collection Unfollowing You. This will be her only SF/Bay Area event. Please join us! \n  \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, to be held at The Bindery (1727 Haight St.) in San Francisco. The price of admission is equal to the cost of Unfollowing You\, which is included with each ticket. Tickets can be purchased here. \n  \nAn anthem for the modern woman\, Unfollowing You serves as a true companion for those who seek a voice that explores the complexities and absurdity of contemporary romance. Komal Kapoor uses her personal experience and astute social awareness as mechanisms to empower self-acceptance and promote cultural transparency. \nAfter prolific growth on social media\, Komal Kapoor is utilizing her perceptive understanding of romance in the digital age to present her first collection of poems. Unfollowing You tells a chronological tale of a modern love through a series of poems\, prose\, texts\, screen grabs\, and unsent letters. Exploring digital phenomena like swipe culture and technological realities\, Kapoors words affirm experiences and sentiment echoed across many media platforms. \nUnfollowing You is separated into two parts: Following You details how the two protagonists fall in love and Unfollowing You shares their heartbreak.  The realism of this collection will encourage readers to normalize growth and indulge in their feelings\, even finding strength in them. \n  \n\n  \nKomal Kapoor is a writer\, business consultant\, and motivational coach who explores the messy business of feelings via social media. She has amassed over 200\,000 Instagram followers in less than a year through her writing and hopes to help even more people find strength in vulnerability. \n  \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Unfollowing You\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Unfollowing You to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– RSVP is not necessary\, but appreciated. URL:https://litseen.com/event/komal-kapoor-unfollowing-you/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Unfollowing-You.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T203000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190131T231258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T231258Z UID:49912-1549477800-1549485000@litseen.com SUMMARY:H O L L O W A Y : R E A D I N G : S E R I E S presents Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren DESCRIPTION:Cedar Sigo / with Noah Warren \nREADINGS ARE FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\nReadings begin at 6:30pm unless otherwise noted. 2018-2019 Holloway events will be held in the MAUDE FIFE ROOM (315 Wheeler Hall)\nFor updates and event announcements\, join the Holloway Facebook group URL:https://litseen.com/event/h-o-l-l-o-w-a-y-r-e-a-d-i-n-g-s-e-r-i-e-s-presents-cedar-sigo-with-noah-warren/ LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/holloway.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T001100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T001100Z UID:49644-1549476000-1549483200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Featherboard Reading Series presents Sara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski DESCRIPTION:5:45pm doors; 6:15pm reading\nFeatherboard Reading Series presents\nSara Larsen\, Danny Thanh Nguyen & Ju lian Talamantez Brolaski\nat Aggregate Space Gallery\n801 West Grand Avenue (enter on West Street)\nOakland URL:https://litseen.com/event/featherboard-reading-series-presents-sara-larsen-danny-thanh-nguyen-ju-lian-talamantez-brolaski/ LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shampoo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T223104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T223104Z UID:49595-1549456200-1549459800@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Color of Law DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 6\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA forgotten history of how our government segregated America. \nRichard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California\, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-color-of-law-2/ LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/oli.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190206T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190206T133000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20181231T223325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T223342Z UID:49086-1549456200-1549459800@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Color of Law DESCRIPTION:The Color of Law\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 6\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA forgotten history of how our government segregated America. \nRichard Rothstein is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He lives in California\, where is a Fellow of the Haas Institute at the University of California–Berkeley. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-color-of-law/ LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OLLI.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T000722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000722Z UID:49640-1549395000-1549402200@litseen.com SUMMARY:a YesYes Books Tour reading featuring Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams DESCRIPTION:7:30pm\na YesYes Books Tour reading\nfeaturing Aricka Foreman\, Jay Deshpande\, Taryn Schwilling & Phillip B. Williams\nat Studio One Arts Center\n365 45th Street\nOakland\nfree URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-yesyes-books-tour-reading-featuring-aricka-foreman-jay-deshpande-taryn-schwilling-phillip-b-williams/ LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shampoo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T000533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000533Z UID:49638-1549393200-1549400400@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Tom Clark & Vincent Katz DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nThe Poetry Center presents\nTom Clark & Vincent Katz\nat The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street\nSan Francisco URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-tom-clark-vincent-katz/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shampoo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190101T053236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T053236Z UID:49177-1549393200-1549400400@litseen.com SUMMARY:A William S Burroughs Birthday Celebration DESCRIPTION:with Steven Taylor\, Peter Hale\, Peter Carlaftes\, and V Vale \ncelebrating the release of \nDon’t Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg \nEdited by Stephen Taylor \nPublished by Three Rooms Press \nIn DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS\, the fathers of the Beat movement converse about deeply intimate and personal history while gathered at Burroughs’ house in Lawrence\, Kansas. The conversation includes discussion of: \n\nDavid Cronenberg’s film adaptation of Burroughs’ classic novel Naked Lunch\nShamanism\, including a detailed description of the shamanic exorcism of the demon Burroughs believes forced him to kill his common-law wife in 1951\nLiterary associates\, influences\, techniques\, and insights\nPunk rock’s contributions to counterculture lore\n\nWith the current political landscape mirroring many aspects of the early Beat period\, DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS is particularly timely. Interest in both authors’ work is on the rise. Many consider these legendary icons’ perspectives to particularly prophetic. \nDON’T HIDE THE MADNESS features a newly-commissioned illustration of Burroughs and Ginsberg by celebrated artist R. Crumb on the cover\, as well as 17 rare photos by Ginsberg\, many taken during the session. \nWilliam S. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas\, including Naked Lunch\, Junky\, and Queer\, as well as six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. In 1991\, director David Cronenberg adapted Naked Lunch for the screen in a film starring Peter Weller\, Judy Davis\, Roy Scheider\, and Ian Holm. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians\, and made many appearances as himself in films. \nAmerican poet\, philosopher\, and photographer Allen Ginsberg is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism\, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture\, such as his views on drugs\, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation\, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Among his many published poetry collections\, he is best known for Howl and Other Poems\, Kaddish and Other Poems\, and Collected Poems\, 1947-1997. \nSteven Taylor is a poet\, musician\, songwriter\, and ethnomusicologist. He has published two books of poems and a musical ethnography\, False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground . He has composed music for the theater\, film\, radio drama\, and installations and made more than a dozen records with various artists His articles\, reviews\, essays\, and poems have appeared in various anthologies and zines. From 1976-1996 he collaborated on music and poetry works with Allen Ginsberg\, and has been a member of the seminal underground rock band The Fugs since 1984. He has also toured and recorded with Anne Waldman\, Kenward Elmslie\, and the New York hardcore band False Prophets. From 1990-2008 he was on the faculty at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He is senior editor at Reality Sandwich. He lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-william-s-burroughs-birthday-celebration/ LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DHTM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T203000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190103T084343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190103T084343Z UID:49255-1549393200-1549398600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Elizabeth Treadwell\, Charles Alexander\, and Karen Randall DESCRIPTION:Elzabeth Treadwell’s Penny Marvel & the book of the city of selfys is just out from Dusie. Her other books include LILYFOIL + 3 (O Books\, 2004)\, Wardolly (Chax\, 2008)\, and Virginia or the mud-flap girl (Dusie\, 2012). A selection from her earlier collections of poetry is included in Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). Materials from her current projects sometimes appear at instagram.com/vivian_rialto and Penny exists in another iteration at pennymarvel.tumblr.com. \nCharles Alexander is an artist\, poet\, bookmaker\, and the founder/director of Chax Press. He is the author of six full-length books of poetry and thirteen chapbooks\, editor of one critical work on the state of the book arts in America\, and author of multiple essays\, articles\, and reviews. Alexander’s most recent book of poetry is AT the Edge OF the Sea (Singing Horse Press 2018). Two Pushing Waters is his most recent chapbook\, from Little Red Leaves. He gave lectures and readings for US Poets in Mexico in 2016. In 2019 he will be a featured participant at the American Poetry Conference at The 7th International Conference of Chinese/American Poetry and Poetics in Wuhan\, China. He has taught literature and writing at Naropa University\, the University of Arizona\, the University of Houston-Victoria\, and elsewhere. Currently at work on Collected Essays and a new book of poetry\, he lives in Tucson\, Arizona\, with his partner\, the painter Cynthia Miller. \n  \nKaren Pava Randall is the proprietrix of Propolis Press and resides in Northampton\, Massachusetts. She is in San Francisco to participate in the Codex Book Fair where she is showcasing two interactive book sculptures: The Leyden Jar Project  with poems by Cole Swensen and The Apothecary of Amulets with poems by Laynie Browne. URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-treadwell-charles-alexander-and-karen-randall/ LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Moes.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190205T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190205T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190101T033321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190101T033321Z UID:49148-1549389600-1549396800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales this month will benefit the library of Thurgood Marshall High School\, a public school in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nMore information at this link. See you there\, readers! URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-2/ LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/SRP.Feb19.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T213000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20181231T233211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181231T233211Z UID:49130-1549308600-1549315800@litseen.com SUMMARY:REBECCA TRAISTER In Conversation with Lara Bazelon DESCRIPTION:REBECCA TRAISTER\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nMonday\, February 4\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nRebecca Traister is the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger. In 2018\, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversations. But long before Pantsuit Nation\, the Women’s March\, and the #MeToo movement\, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic\, but politically problematic. Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel — from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their building after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. Traister is writer at large for New York Magazine and a contributing editor at Elle. A National Magazine Award finalist\, she has written about women in politics\, media\, and entertainment from a feminist perspective for The New Republic and Salon and has also contributed to The Nation\, The New York Observer\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Vogue\, Glamour\, and Marie Claire. Her other books include All The Single Ladies and Big Girls Don’t Cry. \nLara Bazelon is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Previously\, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction. URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-traister-in-conversation-with-lara-bazelon/ LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rebeccatraister-headshot-e1543877976221.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T232607Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T232607Z UID:49713-1549306800-1549314000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tess Brown-Lavoie\, Leena Joshi\, Victoria Ruiz and others! DESCRIPTION:Come out for a night of poetry! \nTess Brown-Lavoie writes and farms in Providence\, RI. Lite Year\, winner of the Fence Modern Poets Series\, is her first book. Tess cofounded Sidewalk Ends Farm in 2011\, and is President of the National Young Farmers Coalition. \nLeena Joshi’s writing and art practice explore the relationship between the changing self and its environment through negotiations of genre and medium\, with a focus on feminist\, anti-colonial\, and immigrant ideation. Her written work has appeared in The Felt\, Monday\, Tagvverk\, La Norda Specialo\, Poor Claudia\, and bluestockings magazine\, among others. She is an MFA candidate in Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. www.leenajoshi.com URL:https://litseen.com/event/tess-brown-lavoie-leena-joshi-victoria-ruiz-and-others/ LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/em1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T000258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000258Z UID:49636-1549306800-1549314000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Paul Hoover & Joseph Lease DESCRIPTION:7:00pm\nPaul Hoover & Joseph Lease read\nat Alley Cat Books\n3036 24th Street\nSan Francisco URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-hoover-joseph-lease/ LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shampoo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T210000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20170324T014132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061838Z UID:25658-1549306800-1549314000@litseen.com SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic DESCRIPTION: URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-22/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T200000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190129T221324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190129T221324Z UID:49592-1549305000-1549310400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Immigration Reform + Being Undocumented in America with Jose Antonio Vargas DESCRIPTION:What is the state of the immigration reform movement in America? DACA\, the Border Wall\, Family Separation\, Asylum Limitation. How did we get here? What is the path forward? How can we organize until the nightmare is over? \nJoining us at Manny’s is Jose Antonio Vargas. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, Bay Area Native\, and a leading voice for the human rights of immigrants. \nJose is also undocumented. \nJose will also be discussing and signing his new book\, the New York Times bestseller: Dear America:\nNotes of an Undocumented Citizen \nJose is the founder of Define American\, the nation’s leading non-profit media and culture organization that fights injustice and anti-immigrant hate through the power of storytelling. His memoir\, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen\, was published by HarperCollins in fall 2018. \nIn 2011\, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later\, he appeared on the cover of TIME magazine worldwide with fellow undocumented immigrants as part of a follow-up cover story he wrote. He then produced and directed Documented\, a documentary feature film on his undocumented experience. It aired on CNN\, streamed on Netflix\, and received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary. Also in 2015\, MTV aired White People\, an Emmy-nominated television special he produced and directed on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America. \nAmong accolades he has received are: The Salem Award from the Salem Award Foundation\, which draws upon the lessons of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692; the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA; and honorary degrees from Colby College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Passionate about the role of arts in society and promoting equity in education\, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US\, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students. \nA product of the San Francisco Bay Area\, he is a proud graduate of San Francisco State University (’04)\, where he was named Alumnus of the Year in 2012\, and Mountain View High School (’00). \nAn elementary school named after Vargas will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019 URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigration-reform-being-undocumented-in-america-with-jose-antonio-vargas/ LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/immigration.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190204T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190204T183000 DTSTAMP:20260407T074712 CREATED:20190130T000120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190130T000120Z UID:49632-1549297800-1549305000@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Poetry Center presents Vincent Katz & Jane Gregory DESCRIPTION:4:30pm at The Poetry Center\nSan Francisco State University\n1600 Holloway Avenue\nSan Francisco\nfree URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-poetry-center-presents-vincent-katz-jane-gregory/ LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://litseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/shampoo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Shampoo Poetry":MAILTO:delraycross@gmail.com. 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