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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Charlie Jane Anders in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \nCharlie Jane Anders is the author of All the Birds in the Sky\, the organizer of the Writers With Drinks literary series\, and a founding editor of io9. Her fiction has appeared in Tin House\, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, ZYZZYVA\, Tor.com\, Asimov’s Science Fiction\, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction\, Lightspeed\, and a ton of anthologies. Her story “Six Months\, Three Days” won a Hugo Award\, and her novel Choir Boy won a Lambda Literary Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Contemporary Jewish Museum\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jenny Alton + Margaret Spilman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an excellent Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jenny Alton and Margaret Spilman. Emceed and curated by Reńe Vaz and music by Nkechi. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nJennifer Alton received her MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in Lumen\, Entropy\, and Vertebrae\, was a semi-finalist in Conium Review’s Innovative Short Fiction contest\, and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. A returned Peace Corps Volunteer\, you can find her at jennyalton.wordpress.com. \nMargaret Spilman was born in West Virginia\, raised in Kansas\, and is currently living in the Bay Area. She is a recent recipient of an MFA from San Francisco State University and was Fiction Editor for Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review. She was one of six writers chosen to receive the PEN Emerging Voices Fellowship in 2014. Her story “Muscle Memory” won the James Kirkwood Literary Prize. She has been most recently published in Indicia\, The Rattling Wall\, The New Flash Fiction Review\, and sParkle & bLink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-alton-margaret-spilman/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Courtney Morgan
DESCRIPTION:Book Description\nThe nineteen stories in The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman track the splintered trajectory of the title character\, tracing a chickenscratch line of psychosexual development from childhood to old age. Two schoolgirls culminate their sexual exploration in a surreal act of cannibalism. A sister molds her dead brother’s body into a bird. A woman gives birth to balls of twine and fur (among other things). A sex worker engages a version of herself in a brothel of prostituted body parts. Courtney E. Morgan tears apart a host of archetypes and tropes of femininity— dismembering them\, skinning them\, and then draping them one by one over her characters like fur coats—revealing them as ill-fitting\, sometimes comedic\, sometimes monstrous\, and always insufficient\, masks. In stories that range from fairy tale to horror story\, from confessional to erotica to creation myth\, mutability\, instability\, and liminality are foregrounded\, blurring the lines between birth and death\, death and sex\, tugging at the transitional spaces of adolescence and gestation. \nBio\nCourtney E. Morgan received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado\, Boulder\, where she has also taught creative writing workshops. Her collection of stories\, The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman\, was a semifinalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and was published by FC2 Press in Spring 2017. She is a recipient of the Thompson Award for Western American Writing\, and was longlisted for the Diana Woods Memorial Award at Lunch Ticket and Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Fiction. Morgan is the founder and managing editor of The Thought Erotic journal on sexuality and gender. She teaches at Lighthouse Writers Workshop and The Gathering Place women’s shelter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-morgan/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Black Aesthetic Season 1 Book Launch!
DESCRIPTION:The First Season Publication is finally here and we want to celebrate with you! \nAs an outgrowth of the series we sent out an open call for submissions based on the films screened. From that grew the Black Aesthetic: Season One publication. A short anthology that combines personal essay’s\, poetic criticism\, and mixed media into print. \nCome join us for a evening of music videos and readings from the publication\, bring your friends! \nThe Black Aesthetic was created order showcase rare\, unknown\, and influential films that highlight the creativity and generative imagination of black filmmakers. Over the course of 8 weeks we will used this film series to bring together a community of film buffs\, students\, community organizers\, and local citizens to discuss the importance of preserving these films\, to document the contemporary struggles that these films run parallel to\, and to experience the joy of the black imaginative force. \nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/ \nPre-Order Link:\nhttps://squareup.com/market/em-wolfman-books/item/black-aesthetic-magazine?t=modal-em\nhttp://www.theblkaesthetic.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-black-aesthetic-season-1-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anywhere Zines Closing Reception
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the closing reception of Anywhere Zines on June 24th from 2 pm – 5 pm. The show is a culmination of artist Raphael Villet’s 5 month residency at the Tenderloin Museum. The exhibition chronicles the 5 months that Raphael spent facilitating a space on the street for people to make art\, write stories\, and share knowledge through zines. In collaboration with the Tenderloin Museum\, Raphael released an Anthology book housing all the zines made by 45+ people in the Tenderloin during his residency. \nThis free community Saturday afternoon event features Tenderloin performances and refreshments. Also\, Raphael will set up outside the TL Museum and make zines with attendees and neighbors. An exhibition featuring zines and photographs chronicling the artist’s process will be on display in the Tenderloin Museum Gallery\, and the Zine Anthology will be available for viewing and purchasing. \nArtist Raphael Villet grew up in San Francisco and now lives and works in Oakland California. He incorporates his studies of Sociology into his artwork\, seeking to contextualize\, consider and break down social constructs relating to gender\, class and race. His artwork spans the realms of documentary\, social practice and visual arts. His last major exhibition was at the Oakland Museum of California\, in which he made photos and audio recordings of Bay Area residents who collect vinyl records. He also runs Play Press\, a small publishing house that focuses on printing artist books/zines by women and gender non binary people. Play Press provides free art book printing by splitting each edition with the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anywhere-zines-closing-reception/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:R-Dub Death
DESCRIPTION:Lineup\nSusannah Carlson\nCassandra Dallet\nNancy Davenport\nLucille Lang Day\nRoy Mash\nAndrew Sano\nNorma Smith\nSandra Wassilie\nLaura Zink \nMusic by Steven Kacsmar of Phantom City and Michael Crabtree
URL:https://litseen.com/event/r-dub-death/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kay Gabriel\, Chris Nealon\, + Jordan Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Verse from Kay Gabriel\, Chris Nealon\, and Jordan Reynolds. Hosted by KK.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-gabriel-chris-nealon-and-jordan-reynolds/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thomas Centolella
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first-person protagonists are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry. His awards include the American Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared widely in magazines\, anthologies\, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has been a visiting writer at many colleges\, universities and literary centers and has taught creative writing in the Bay Area for 30 years\, notably at College of Marin and in private Marin workshops.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thomas-centolella/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Family" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:As always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic).\nOur June features are: Rebecca Gaydos and Tomas Moniz.\nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm).\nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages.\nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself!\nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm. \nBring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!). \n21+ \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-family-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:June 2017 Poetry at Florey's
DESCRIPTION:The featured poets this month are Clifford Hunt and Christine Rodgers. \nFrom Sherri: \nI’m pleased to invite you to join Aaron and me as we welcome Half Moon Bay poet Clifford Hunt\, and San Francisco poet Christine Rodgers for an evening of their artistry\, and hope you will consider joining us. Remember that open mic comes first\, at 7:30\, followed by the break\, and featured poets. \nYou are invited to read at open mic (3 minutes\, please)\, either your own\, or a favorite poets’s work\, or come simply to revel in the luxury of artful language. If you can\, please bring a snack or beverage to share\, or supplies for the table (paper plates\, napkins\, cups); this is such a help in making a truly convivial evening. \nAbout the featured poets: \nClifford Hunt is a husband\, father\, and writer who lives and works in Half Moon Bay\, California. Before that\, he lived and worked in Bethel Alaska\, San Francisco\, Seattle\, Arcata\, San Diego\, and Beirut\, Lebanon. Clifford is co-founder\, editor\, and publisher with Tim Badger of Just Press\, small press publishers of poems\, essays\, and the periodical Violent Milk\, and co-curator of the Just Press Forums. Publications include Chapter Ø\, Outside & Elsewhere\, The Weekly\, You Amuse Yourself You Amass Yourself (with Tim Badger). \nChristine Rodgers is an actor and poet living in San Francisco. Her poetry has appeared in America\, Fellowship\, the National Catholic Reporter\, Radical Grace and on a variety of websites including The Jesuit Retreat Center\, The Witness\, Poets Against the War and Grace Cathedral. In 2000 she appeared as a panelist in The Forum at Grace Cathedral entitled “The Creative Spirit in Poetry” – with Francisco X. Alarcon\, Judy Grahn and Dean Alan Jones. She is grateful to the many Jesuits who have included her as a partner in their ministry. Her poems have been used in a number of retreat centers\, and some are still floating around Africa. She has published three books of poetry: Into the Great Green Heart of God\, Upon a Luminous Night and Embracing the Sacred Journey. She facilitates a Poetry Circle in the Tenderloin at the Healing Well. \n————————–——\nWe hope to see you!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-2017-poetry-at-floreys/
LOCATION:Florey’s Book Co.\, 2120 Palmetto Ave.\, Pacifica\, CA\, 94044\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Writing Workshop Reading
DESCRIPTION:The San Francisco Writing Workshop presents their annual reading of work from their authors to benefit Alley Cat! Food and drinks and good company!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-writing-workshop-reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash w/ Andrena Zawinski + Cathleen Calbert
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 25th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Andrena Zawinski and Cathleen Calbert. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews! \nAndrena Zawinski’s new book of poems is Landings. Rebecca Foust says\, “These poignant\, plainspoken poems span lifetimes and continents\, chronicling a childhood in Pennsylvania when Coal (or Steel) was King and furnaces glowed the night skies red and an adulthood in California where stunning natural beauty paints a chiaroscuro with the daily news…Part paean and elegy to what was\, part lyric and dirge to what is. Landings asks the question of what remains—where we land—after great loss.” Her two previous full-length collections are Something About\, which won a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award\, and Traveling in Reflected Light\, winner of a Kenneth Patchen competition. She has been a Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com and founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon\, and she also edited Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down: An Anthology of Women’s Poetry. \nCathleen Calbert’s new book of poems is The Afflicted Girls\, winner of the Vernice Quebodeaux “Pathways” Prize for Women. Thomas Lux calls it “a book filled with powerful voices. The poems are lush and textured\, subtle yet fierce…Cathleen Calbert is a poet who has learned her trade\, and her music is sure and original.” Her previous collections are Lessons in Space\, Bad Judgment\, and Sleeping with a Famous Poet. Her poetry and prose have appeared in such publications as The New Republic and The New York Times\, and her honors include a The Nation Discovery Award\, a Pushcart Prize\, and the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-andrena-zawinski-and-cathleen-calbert/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Racket #8: The Body
DESCRIPTION:Our eighth edition of our monthly reading series\, THE RACKET\, is coming to Adobe Books on Monday\, June 26th at 7:00PM. \nThe theme: THE BODY. \nWe’re gathering a talented cast of readers to share their thoughts on the body. Is it erotic? Is it repulsive? Is it a creepy arm of a futuristic government attempting to sway the leanings of a disenfranchised population? \nThe readers: \nJoe Wadlington\nKrista Varela Posell\nJared Roehrig\nChristina Gardner\nSarah Broderick\nChad Koch \nYou’ll have to come and find out. \nAdobe Books\, Monday\, June 26th\, 7:00PM. \nBe there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-the-body/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Thrity Umrigar
DESCRIPTION:In Everybody’s Son\, during a terrible heat wave in 1991–the worst in a decade–ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects\, alone\, for seven days\, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity\, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot\, hungry\, and desperate\, Anton shatters a window and climbs out. Cutting his leg on the broken glass\, he is covered in blood when the police find him. \nJuanita\, his mother\, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away\, nearly unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to\, she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton–she went out for a quick hit and was headed right back\, until her drug dealer raped her and kept her high. Though the bond between mother and son is extremely strong\, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail. \nThe Harvard-educated son of a US senator\, Judge David Coleman is a scion of northeastern white privilege. Desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son\, David uses his power and connections to keep his new foster son\, Anton\, with him and his wife\, Delores–actions that will have devastating consequences in the years to come. \nFollowing in his adopted family’s footsteps\, Anton\, too\, rises within the establishment. But when he discovers the truth about his life\, his birth mother\, and his adopted parents\, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most. \nThrity Umrigar is the author of six novels—The Story Hour\, The World We Found\, The Weight of Heaven\, The Space Between Us\, If Today Be Sweet\, and Bombay Time—and the memoir First Darling of the Morning. The Armington Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University and a journalist for nearly twenty years\, she is the winner of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard and was a 2006 finalist for the PEN/Beyond Margins Award. She lives in Cleveland\, Ohio.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/thrity-umrigar-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Johanna Ely
DESCRIPTION:Johanna Ely is a retired teacher who has been published in several anthologies and online journals including\, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily\, Poetry Breakfast\, California Quarterly\, and most recently\, The Poeming Pigeon. In 2015\, Johanna published a small collection of her poetry titled Transformation. Johanna is the host of a monthly poetry series in Benicia at Rosanna’s European Delights\, and also facilitates the First Tuesday Poetry Group at the Benicia Public Library. She is honored to be the current Poet Laureate of Benicia\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/johanna-ely/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Amelia Gray + Rosecrans Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is doubly excited to host a joint reading by Amelia Gray and Rosecrans Baldwin to celebrate their anticipated new books\, Isadora and The Last Kid Left. Don’t miss this! \nIsadora \nAmelia Gray’s Isadora is a shocking and visceral portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life; a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. Isadora seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits\, even in the darkest days of her life. \nThe Last Kid Left \nRosecrans Baldwin’s The Last Kid Left is loosely inspired by a true crime in 1930’s New England. After a double-murder kicks off a scandal in a beach town\, a young woman struggles to create a life for herself and escape the lurid interest of a tight-knit community. This novel is a sort of modern day witch hunt\, involving the precarious lives of two teens\, a small town sheriff\, a retired big-city police officer\, and an aspiring young journalist desperate to make the pages of the New Yorker— they all collide in a media firestorm that threatens to swallow them whole. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amelia-gray-and-rosecrans-baldwin/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #46
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations Show #46\nLiterary & Poetry Reading\nMonday\, June 26th\, 2017 \nA curated selection of\nSan Francisco Bay Area poets\,\nwriters & storytellers!\nREADERS\nPeter Bullen + Hollie Hardy\nAlexandra Naughton + Keeley Ann Finn\nDaniel Ari + Britt Peter\nEric Kurhi + Josey Rose Duncan\nLenore Weiss + Margaret Spillman\nNatasha Dennerstein + René Vaz\nCaeser Kent + Bronwyn Emery \nSPECIAL MUSIC GUEST\nGia\, of The Open Minds \nCURATORS\nJoel Landmine (Guest)\nSandra Wassilie + Thea Matthews (Board) \nat The Bellevue Club in Oakland\n525 Bellevue Ave.\, Oakland\, CA.\n(on Lake Merritt)\nMap: https://goo.gl/maps/pjv7KpvvWv62 \n**Free Parking in garage\n**Full bar + refreshments\n**Minutes from BART (19th St): http://bit.ly/2i8VgW9 \nDoors & Bar: 6:30 p.m.\nShow: 7:30 p.m.\nSuggested donation\, $7. With chapbook\, $10\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nGet Tickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 250 notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nTickets: http://bit.ly/2svijTT\nWebsite: http://www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: http://www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nBay Area Generations * literary reading * authors * poets * writers * playwrights\nmusic * poetry * reading * storytelling * short stories * plays * memoir * flash fiction
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-show-46/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Manga Club
DESCRIPTION:Manga lovers unite!  Bring your favorite book or just come to chat with other manga maniacs.  Delicious snacks included (or bring some to share) \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/manga-club/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170622T013423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T013423Z
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SUMMARY:Northern California Book Awards: Judy Grahn
DESCRIPTION:36th Annual Northern California Book Awards \nNorthern California authors are honored in Fiction\, General Nonfiction\, Creative Nonfiction\, Poetry\, Translation\, and Children’s Literature with brief readings and remarks \npresentation of the Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award to poet\, activist\, and cultural theorist Judy Grahn; NCBR Recognition Award to Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers\, by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames; master of ceremonies Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor\, presented by the Northern California Book Reviewers\, Poetry Flash\, San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library\, PEN West\, Women’s National Book Association-SF Chapter\, and Mechanics’ Institute Library\, Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Public Library\, 100 Larkin\, enter at Grove\, SF\, free\, 5:30\, book signing reception follows (510/525-5476\, NCBR@poetryflash.org\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/northern-california-book-awards-judy-grahn/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170622T011955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T011955Z
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SUMMARY:Patti Trimble + Toshi Washizu
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patti-trimble-toshi-washizu/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170619T132459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022132Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Paul Madonna’s popular comic\, All Over Coffee had been running for twelve years in the San Francisco Chronicle when he was evicted from his longtime home and studio in the Mission District\, ground-zero in the “tech wars” transforming the city. Suddenly finding himself yet another victim of San Francisco’s overheated boomtown housing market\, with its soaring prices and rampant evictions\, Madonna decided to use his comic as a cathartic public platform to explore the experience\, and to capture the complex\, highly charged atmosphere of a city—and a life—being forced through a painful transition. \nIn a series of drawings and stories\, On the Next Dream evokes the sense of vertigo induced by being forced from Madonna’s home\, and the roil of emotions that ensue as he enters into the city’s brutal competition for a place to live. The line between reality and surreality begins to blur almost immediately\, in real life and in his comic. Absurd\, maddening\, and all-too-poignant\, these drawings and stories capture the spirit of not just San Francisco\, but a cultural epidemic that has now spread to cities around the world. \nPaul Madonna is a San Francisco-based artist and writer. He is the creator of the comic series All Over Coffee and the author of two books\, All Over Coffee and Everything is Its Own Reward. His drawings and stories have appeared in numerous books and journals as well as galleries and museums\, including the San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Oakland Museum of California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-4/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170619T135035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022216Z
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SUMMARY:Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning African American poet debuts in prose with a stunningly graceful and honest exploration of race\, motherhood\, and history. \nAs a working mother whose livelihood as a poet-lecturer depended on travel\, Camille Dungy crisscrossed America with her infant\, then toddler\, intensely aware of how they are seen\, not just as mother and child\, but as black women. With a poet’s eye\, she celebrates her daughter’s acquisition of language and discoveries of the natural and human world around her. At the same time history shadows her steps everywhere she goes: from the San Francisco of settlers’ and investors’ dreams to the slave-trading ports of Ghana; from snow-white Maine to a festive\, yet threatening\, bonfire in the Virginia pinewoods. \nWith exceptional candor and grace\, Dungy explores our inner and outer worlds―the intimate and vulnerable experiences of raising a child\, living with illness\, conversing with strangers\, and counting on others’ goodwill. Across the nation\, she finds fear and trauma\, and also mercy\, kindness\, and community. Penetrating and generous\, Guidebook to Relative Strangers is an essential guide for a troubled land.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/camille-t-dungy/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170425T012915Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012915Z
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SUMMARY:Gabe Habash + Julie Buntin
DESCRIPTION:Gabe Habash and Julie Buntin discuss their new novels Stephen Florida and Marlena. \nGABE HABASH:\nFoxcatcher meets The Art of Fielding\, Stephen Florida follows a college wrestler in his senior season\, when every practice\, every match\, is a step closer to greatness and a step further from sanity. Profane\, manic\, and tipping into the uncanny\, it’s a story of loneliness\, obsession\, and the drive to leave a mark. \n“Stephen Florida is an unforgettable addition to the canon of great literary eccentrics. At once a chronicle of obsession\, a philosophical treatise\, and a deeply affecting love story\, this singular novel is perhaps most profoundly an anatomy of American loneliness. Gabe Habash is a writer of powerful gifts\, and this is a wonderful book.”—Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nJULIE BUNTIN:\nAn electric debut novel about love\, addiction\, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life\, and define the other’s for decades. \n“Julie Buntin captures that unique moment at the precipice of adulthood with emotional honesty and insight. She writes the kind of piercing\, revelatory sentences you have to read to whomever is near\, sentences you find yourself remembering years later.”–Jonathan Safran Foer
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabe-habash-julie-buntin/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170627T213000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170425T014844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T014844Z
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SUMMARY:Roxane Gay
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Roxane Gay for her new memoir Hunger. \nPlease note: this event will be held at the African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St. in San Francisco. \nTickets are available now—click here. \n“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big\, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her\, but she is still there\, somewhere.… I was trapped in my body\, one that I barely recognized or understood\, but at least I was safe.” \n New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies\, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure\, consumption\, appearance\, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined\,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial\, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger\, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood\, teens\, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers into the present and the realities\, pains\, and joys of her daily life. \nWith the bracing candor\, vulnerability\, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation\, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are\, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers\, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. \nTickets to this event must be purchased in advance. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of Hunger\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxane-gay/
LOCATION:African American Art & Culture Complex\, 762 Fulton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T064500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T204500
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170616T124636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170616T124636Z
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SUMMARY:Whistlestop Writers Reading
DESCRIPTION:Another Whistlestop Writers Open Mic at Swirl on the Square is rolling into town. The event is open to writers of all genres (and lit lovers).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/whistlestop-writers-reading/
LOCATION:Swirl on the Square\, 21 S Livermore Ave\, Livermore\, CA\, 94550\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T183000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170628T022752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T022752Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Speaks Turn UP (The Volume!) SUMMER Writing and Performance Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join M.C. K-Swift to learn how to speak truth to power and the Youth Speaks method at our Summer workshop series.  All programs at The Mix are for teens ages 13-18. \nThis is a Reading\, Writing & Poetry program from SFPL. We love reading/sharing/creating words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-speaks-turn-up-the-volume-summer-writing-and-performance-workshop/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170619T133300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T022257Z
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SUMMARY:Laura Kamoie + Stephanie Dray
DESCRIPTION:In the compelling\, richly researched America’s First Daughter\, a novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources\, bestselling authors Laura Kamoie and Stephanie Dray tell the fascinating\, untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s eldest daughter\, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph—a woman who kept the secrets of our most enigmatic founding father and shaped an American legacy \nFrom her earliest days\, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly\, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter\, she becomes his helpmate\, protector\, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death\, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France. \nIt is in Paris\, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution\, that fifteen-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings\, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile\, Patsy has fallen in love—with her father’s protégé William Short\, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Torn between love\, principles\, and the bonds of family\, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter. \nHer choice will follow her in the years to come\, to Virginia farmland\, Monticello\, and even the White House. And as scandal\, tragedy\, and poverty threaten her family\, Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father’s reputation\, in the process defining not just his political legacy\, but that of the nation he founded. \nLaura Kamoie has always been fascinated by the people\, stories\, and physical presence of the past\, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary\, published two non-fiction books on early America\, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction as the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books. \nStephanie Dray is an award-winning\, bestselling and two-time RITA award nominated author of historical women’s fiction. Her critically acclaimed series about Cleopatra’s daughter has been translated into eight different languages and won NJRW’s Golden Leaf. As Stephanie Draven\, she is a national bestselling author of genre fiction and American-set historical women’s fiction. She is a frequent panelist and presenter at national writing conventions and lives near the nation’s capital.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kamoie-and-stephanie-dray/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170619T112802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T112802Z
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza!
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer East Bay presents its annual celebration of Queer pride >>Pride Poetry Palooza!<< with amazing LGBTQ poets MK Chavez\, Thea Matthews\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, David Welper\, Arisa White\, and Shelley Wong Wednesday\, June 28\, 7-8:30pm at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave. in Oakland. Baruch leads a discussion of writing Queer poetry after the readings. Book signing\, door prizes\, and free donuts–the poetic fuel of the gods! As-you-will door donation helps keep the doors open at Nomadic Press: Uptown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170519T103032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170615T003123Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime DESECRATION
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DESECRATION\, on Wednesday June 28th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, will feature Angela Pneuman (Lay it on my Heart)\, Saqib Mausoof (The Warehouse)\, Youssef Alaoui (Fiercer Monsters)\, Lyndsey Ellis\, and Peter Clarke. MCd by James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns). This will be one of those BYOB midsummer roof-of-a-convent kinda readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-desecration/
LOCATION:Convent Arts Collective\, 660 Oak St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170628T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170628T210000
DTSTAMP:20260415T022416
CREATED:20170620T015428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T015428Z
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #87
DESCRIPTION:Welcome our June writers Terry Lucas and Joan Baranow. \nTerry Lucas is the author of two full-length poetry collections: In This Room (CW Books\, January 2016) and Dharma Rain (Saint Julian Press\, October 2016). In addition he is the author of two award-winning poetry chapbooks: Altar Call\, one of four winning chapbooks selected by the 2013 San Gabriel Valley Literary Festival for the anthology\, Diesel; and If They Have Ears to Hear\, winner of the 2012 Copperdome Chapbook contest (Southeast Missouri State University Press\, 2013). His work has received numerous other awards\, including the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Feature Award in Poetry\, the fifth annual Littoral Press Poetry Prize\, and six Pushcart Prize nominations. \nTerry’s poems\, reviews\, and essays have appeared in dozens of national literary journals\, including Best New Poets 2012\, Green Mountains Review\, Great River Review\, PoetryFlash\, and South 85 Journal. He has taught in the Chicago Public School System as a Master Poet in the Von Steuben Metropolitan Science Center’s Writing Center\, and is a guest lecturer for the Dominican University Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. Formerly the co-executive editor of Trio House Press\, he is currently serving the press as an assistant editor in order to spend more time on his own writing\, as well as his work as a freelance poetry coach. More about Terry can be found at www.terrylucas.com. \nJoan Baranow\, PhD\, is Director\, Graduate Humanities\, and Associate Professor\, English at Dominican University.\nJoan is also Director of the newly launched Dominican Low-Res MFA program. \nHer poetry has appeared in The Paris Review\, Western Humanities Review\, The Antioch Review\, Feminist Studies\, The Squaw Review\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Cider Press Review\, The Western Journal of Medicine\, and other magazines. Her poetry has also appeared in Women Write Their Bodies: Stories of Illness and Recovery\, issued by Kent State University Press. Her book of poetry\, Living Apart\, was published by Plain View Press. \nOur lively open mic follows our featured writers. We will have light refreshments\, and our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early and grab a flyer if you want to get a bite before the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-87/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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