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:20160101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171001T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T153000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170926T011113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013601Z UID:28880-1506862800-1506871800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Kevin Craft + Troy Jollimore: an Afternoon of Poetry DESCRIPTION:Craft Talk: “A Red Hot Half-Brick in an Old Sock: Tradition\, Subversion\, and the Sonnet” (1:00-2:00) \nWhy would anyone today choose to write a sonnet? In fact\, some of our best contemporary poets have taken a stab at the venerable form\, in order to explore (and\, at times\, explode) the limits of the form\, and to place the sonnet in the service of surprising\, at times radical ends. In this joint talk\, poets Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore discuss the sonnet form\, its history\, its poetic nature\, its particular capabilities and possibilities\, and talk about their own experiences reading and writing sonnets. (The craft talk will be followed by a break with wine and savory treats.) \nReading: “Burn After Reading: The Poetry of Kevin Craft and Troy Jollimore.” (2:30 pm) Come for one or both events! This is a unique chance to hear and learn from two illustrious out-of-town poets. \nThis event is a collaboration of the Mill Valley Library and Marin Poetry Center. \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley\, CA \n\n\n\nKevin Craft directs the Written Arts Program at Everett Community College. His first book\, Solar Prominence\, won the Gorsline Prize. His new collection is Vagrants & Accidentals. His work has appeared in Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, and The Stranger. He has received fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference\, MacDowell Colony\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy)\,the Camargo Foundation and many others. He is executive editor of Poetry NW Editions\, and a director of the UW Writers in Rome program. \n\n\n\n\nTroy Jollimore is the author of three books of poetry and three of philosophy\, as well as numerous articles. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and Fellowships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Stanford Humanities Center. Tom Thomson in Purgatory won the National Book Critics Circle award in poetry. Syllabus of Errors\, appeared on the New York Times‘ list of the best books of poetry in 2015. His reviews appear in the Chicago Tribune\, and the Washington Post. He is currently a Professor in the Philosophy Department at California State University\, Chico. URL:https://litseen.com/event/kevin-craft-troy-jollimore-an-afternoon-of-poetry/ LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171001T163000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T173000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170817T114704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T114704Z UID:28433-1506875400-1506879000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Julie Lythcott-Haims DESCRIPTION:Are we who we are through what we’ve accomplished or what we’ve endured? \nNew York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims is one of Kepler’s Literary Foundation’s favorite speakers. Known across the country for her probing\, no-nonsense insights into parenting today\, Lythcott-Haims has served as the dean of freshmen and undergraduate advising at Stanford and raised her family\, right here in the Bay Area. \nBut there’s more to her story. In stirring\, poetic detail\, Lythcott-Haims reveals the aggressions small and large of growing up Black and biracial in America. From the thousands of small slights to the blunt force insults\, from schools in white\, rural Wisconsin to the grand lawns of Stanford and Ivy League campuses to the backyards of Palo Alto race has followed her everywhere. In a stunning new memoir\, Real American\, Lythcott-Haims shares the events that made her the brave and strong-willed voice she is today. URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-lythcott-haims/ LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States CATEGORIES:North Bay END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170924T001329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170924T001329Z UID:28792-1506880800-1506886200@litseen.com SUMMARY:New Poetry From Rob Halpern DESCRIPTION:Rob Halpern will read from his new book of poetry Touching Voids in Sense which\n\n “enters regions of the self that existing regimes of sense\, visible\, tactile\, and verbal\n keep hidden. What’s at stake is love\, care and the human body\, an abyss at which\n\nloving care of another’s body is the most explosive of concerns. The requirement\n\nis radical critique of the logics of meaning. Touching holes in sense is a reflection\n on the deeper sources of Halpern’s previous books and an investigation of how\n\nan end to mourning requires nothing less than a different ontology of life and death.”\n\n– William Rowe Rob Halpern’s books include Common Place (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2015) and Music for Porn (Nightboat Books\, 2012). His chapbook called Touching Voids in Sense was just published by Veer Books in London. He lives between San Francisco and Ypsilanti\, Michigan\, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan University and Huron Valley Women’s Prison. URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-poetry-from-rob-halpern/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171001T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171001T200000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170926T001940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013703Z UID:28817-1506880800-1506888000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon DESCRIPTION:Bazaar Writers Salon returns! Join us for the first reading of the 2017-2018 season. \nReadings by William Brewer\, Benjamin Gucciardi\, Dominic Russ-Combs\, Cintia Santana\, and Glori Simmons\nHosted by Peter Kline \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, a winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, which was selected for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, New England Review\, A Public Space\, and other journals. He lives in Oakland. \nBenjamin Gucciardi was born and raised in San Francisco. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Orion Magazine\, Forklift Ohio\, Radar Poetry\, upstreet\, Poetry East\, The California Journal of Poetics and other journals. A Best New Poets nominee\, he is a winner of a Dorothy Rosenberg Memorial Prize and contests from The Maine Review and The Santa Ana River Review. He works with refugee and immigrant youth in Oakland. \nA native of Louisville\, Kentucky\, Dominic Russ-Combs welded industrial models in Durham\, North Carolina\, before publishing his first stories and being awarded both a Stegner Fellowship and an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council. His fiction has appeared in the Chicago Tribune\, Kenyon Review\, Carolina Quarterly\, among others. He’s currently at work on a novel and a collection of stories. \nCintia Santana’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal\, Kenyon Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Narrative\, Pleiades\, RHINO\, Spillway\, The Threepenny Review\, and other journals. Her work was selected for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2016 anthology\, edited by Mary Szybist. She is the recipient of Djerrassi\, CantoMundo and Hambidge Fellowships. Currently\, she teaches poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish\, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. She is at work on her first poetry manuscript. \nGlori Simmons is the author of Suffering Fools\, recipient of the Spokane Prize from Willow Springs Editions (Eastern Washington University\, 2017) and Graft\, poems (Truman State University Press\, 2002). A former Stegner Fellow\, she currently lives in Oakland and is the director of the Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco. URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-6/ LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170324T014121Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170929T061518Z UID:25626-1506970800-1506978000@litseen.com SUMMARY:JB Frame & Dee Allen - 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-6/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171002T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171002T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170621T001709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T001928Z UID:27484-1506972600-1506979800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Daniel Handler DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, and\, with Maira Kalman\, Why We Broke Up.  As Lemony Snicket\, he has written the best-selling series All The Wrong Questions as well as A Series of Unfortunate Events which was the basis of a feature film starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep\, with Jude Law as Lemony Snicket. Netflix has produced an original series based on A Series of Unfortunate Events which premiered January 2017.Handler’s newest novel\, All The Dirty Parts\, looks honestly at the erotic impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country\, he sketches\, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters next to the allure of sex. “Let me put it this way\,” he says. “Draw a number line\, with zero is you never think about sex and ten is\, it’s all you think about\, and while you are drawing the line\, I am thinking about sex.”All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication\, where sex feels like love\, but no one knows what love feels like. With short chapters in the style of Jenny Offill or Mary Robison\, Daniel Handler gives us a tender\, brutal\, funny\, intoxicating portrait of an age when the lens of sex tilts the world. “There are love stories galore\,” Cole tells us\, “This isn’t that. The story I’m typing is all the dirty parts.” URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-handler-2/ LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171003T173000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171003T193000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170816T003026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T003026Z UID:28335-1507051800-1507059000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lillian Howan DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of Lillian Howan’s novel The Charm Buyers\, a novel about Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing. Howan’s writings have been published in the Asian American Literary Review\, Café Irreal\, Calyx\, New England Review\, and the anthology Under Western Eyes. She is the editor of legendary playwright Wakako Yamauchi’s collection\, Rosebud and Other Stories. URL:https://litseen.com/event/lillian-howan/ LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170926T014359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002800Z UID:28916-1507143600-1507150800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Poetry of Witness DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Amos White\, Jan Steckel\, Fred Dodsworth\, and Peggy Morrison. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland. URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-poetry-of-witness/ LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171004T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171004T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170721T232435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T232435Z UID:28047-1507145400-1507150800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Celeste Ng w/ Bich Minh Nguyen DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You) to the store for her new novel Little Fires Everywhere. With her in conversation will be Bich Minh Nguyen. Please join us! \nIn Shaker Heights\, a placid\, progressive suburb of Cleveland\, everything is planned – from the layout of the winding roads\, to the colors of the houses\, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson\, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. \nEnter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl\, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. \nWhen old family friends of the Richardsons attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby\, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town–and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives\, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs. \nLittle Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets\, the nature of art and identity\, and the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. \nCeleste Ng grew up in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, and Shaker Heights\, Ohio. She attended Harvard University and earned an MFA from the University of Michigan. She lives in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, with her husband and son. \nBich Minh Nguyen\, who also goes by Beth\, is the author of three books\, all with Viking Penguin: the memoir Stealing Buddha’s Dinner\, which received the PEN/Jerard Award\, the novel Short Girls\, which received an American Book Award\, and most recently the novel Pioneer Girl. She teaches in and directs the MFA in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco. URL:https://litseen.com/event/celeste-ng-w-bich-minh-nguyen/ LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114027Z UID:28603-1507201200-1507498200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos DESCRIPTION:Join Irish and local authors for 4 days of poetry and fiction readings\, writing workshops\, panel discussions\, exhibitions and performances at various venues in Los Gatos California. URL:https://litseen.com/event/irish-writers-festival-los-gatos/ LOCATION:Los Gatos CA\, Los Gatos\, California\, CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Culture Bay Area":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T121000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T125000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170816T001902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001902Z UID:28319-1507205400-1507207800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Layli Long Soldier DESCRIPTION:Layli Long Soldier received a 2015 Lannan Fellowship for Poetry\, a 2015 National Artist Fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation\, and a 2016 Whiting Writers’ Award. She is the author of Chromosomory and WHEREAS and has served as contributing editor of Drunken Boat. “I am\,” she writes\, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe\, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work\, I must eat\, I must art\, I must mother\, I must friend\, I must listen\, I must observe\, constantly I must live.” She teaches at Diné College and lives in Santa Fe\, NM. URL:https://litseen.com/event/layli-long-soldier/ LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114136Z UID:28607-1507208400-1507215600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Seamus Heaney: The Berkeley Years DESCRIPTION:Seamus Heaney’s son\, Michael\, joins us for a discussion with UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus\, Robert Tracy\, who worked alongside Heaney during his Berkeley years. Visiting poets offer tributes\, and we share stories and insights into Heaney’s work and influences during his time in the Bay Area. Music by Fintan Vallely\, Irish traditional flute player\, researcher and writer. URL:https://litseen.com/event/seamus-heaney-the-berkeley-years/ LOCATION:Carriage House Theater\, Montalvo Arts Center\, 15400 Montalvo Rd\, Saratoga\, CA\, 95071\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170816T005652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T005652Z UID:28365-1507230000-1507237200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Mazza Writer in Residence DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin reads from his poetry\, as part of his weeklong stint as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center. “I don’t know that there is a living writer whose work loves black people as much as Tongo Eisen-Martin’s work loves us.” — Kiese Laymon\, author of Long Division and How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. \nEisen-Martin is a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, will be out soon from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. \nOriginally from San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the U.S. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum\, “We Charge Genocide Again\,” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nThe Poetry Center’s Mazza Writer in Residence program allows Eisen-Martin to work with students of poetry\, drama and other studies\, and present performances both on and off the SF State campus\, with intensive student and community involvement. The residency pairs classroom workshop situations aimed at students\, with performances open to the general public. \nThe Mazza Writer in Residence is made possible by a generous grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation. URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongo-eisen-martin-mazza-writer-in-residence/ LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170817T122337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T122337Z UID:28452-1507230000-1507237200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Ho Lin DESCRIPTION:Ho Lin\, co-editor of the long-running literary journal Caveat Lector\, joins us in the Marina for a Launch Party celebrating his dazzling fiction debut\, China Girl: And Other Stories. \nA modern woman adrift in modern China. Would-be lovers connected and separated by random chance. A drunken dissident and his less-then-happy minder. A researcher of war atrocities who must come to grips with her own family tragedies. A princess of a kingdom that no longer exists. Actors placed at the service of comedies and tragedies\, depending on a filmmaker’s whim… These are the characters that populate Ho Lin’s short story collection China Girl. \nIn its nine tales\, China Girl documents the collisions between East and West\, the power of myth and the burden of history\, and loves lost and almost found. The stories in this collection encompass everything from contemporary vignettes about urban life to fable-like musings on memories and the art of storytelling. Wide-ranging and playful\, China Girl is a journey into today’s Asia as well as an Asia of the imagination. URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-ho-lin/ LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114439Z UID:28627-1507230000-1507239000@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Irish and the Jews: Jews in Irish Literature DESCRIPTION:From the Middle Ages and the Annals of Innisfallen to Leopold Bloom\, there has been a constant Jewish presence in a millennium of Irish writing. Join us for a fascinating look at this history in a landmark exhibit that has enjoyed a highly successful tour of Ireland this year. “Representation of Jews in Irish Literature” created by Professor Pól Ó Dochartaigh\, VP of Galway University\, uncovers a wealth of facts – some disconcerting\, some fun. For instance\, did you know that\, influenced by a 13th century illustration of the “Wandering Jew\,” Irish Gothic writer Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer was said to be the template for Irish author Bram Stoker’s Dracula? \nRuth Gilligan’s acclaimed novel Nine Folds to a Paper Swan spans three generations of Irish Jewish families in the 1900s. Hear how the writer came across and fictionalized stories of the little-known Jewish community in Ireland.\nPoet Simon Lewis\, reads from his Hennessy Award-winning poetry collection Jewtown and talks about the Jewish Quarter of the same name in Cork City. Settlers here moved up the ranks\, rapidly producing an educated community including a city mayor. \nValerie Lapin\, shows short clips of her film Shalom Ireland\, which profiles prominent Irish Jews including Robert Briscoe\, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin; Irish-born Rabbi Isaac Herzog\, the first Chief Rabbi of Israel. Shalom Ireland tells the untold story of how Irish Jews participated in the creation of both Ireland and Israel. \nPanel discussion moderated by Mashey Bernstein. Mashey was raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Dublin\, Ireland\, and has lived in Santa Barbara\, California\, for several years. He recently retired from the Writing Program and Film and Media Studies Dept at UCSB. URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-irish-and-the-jews-jews-in-irish-literature/ LOCATION:Los Gatos Lodge\, 50 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd\, Los Gatos CA\, CA\, 95032 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170926T005538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T013829Z UID:28860-1507230000-1507239000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge DESCRIPTION:Featuring Francisco Aragón and Nancy Morejón\, and 10 spots on the Open Mic. \nUnder the full Harvest Moon of Fall\, Lunada will host two award-winning Latinx and Caribbean literary luminaries for an historic reading entre dos maestros. FRANCISCO ARAGÓN\, San Francisco native and son of Nicaraguan immigrants\, and preeminent Cuban author NANCY MOREJÓN\, are both in town for brief visits\, and will feature their work at the next Lunada with the pueblo of the Mission\, in San Francisco. \nOPEN MIC: Sign up is at the entrance at 7pm\, 10 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. inviting poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates\, veteranos\, and first-timers to share their voices throughout the evening\, under the lunar spotlight. \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM. \n$5.00 Admission: \nHosted by Sandra García Rivera \nGALERÍA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nA native of San Francisco\, California\, Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. Educated in the city at St. James and Riordan\, he earned a B.A. in Spanish literature across the bay at UC Berkeley before relocating to Madrid\, where he obtained an M.A. in Hispanic Civilization from New York University (“NYU in Spain”). Upon his return to the United States after a ten-year stint in Europe\, Aragón began a period of activity that included his own writing\, editing\, translating\, and literary curating. After completing graduate degrees in creative writing from UC Davis (M.A.) and the University of Notre Dame (M.F.A.)\, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS)\, where he established the ILS’ literary initiative—Letras Latinas\, where he has conceived of and overseen programs for Latinx poets and writers. His work in this area led him to serve the literary community at-large\, including as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nominator for various literary distinctions\, and as a trustee of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) from 2008 to 2012. In 2010\, he was awarded the “Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Arts\, Literary Arts and Publications Award by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education and in 2015 a VIDO Award by VIDA\, Women in the Literary Arts. In 2017\, he was a finalist for Split This Rock’s Freedom Plow Award for poetry and activism. Aragón\, a CantoMundo Fellow and a member of the Macondo Writers’ Workshop\, is the author of two books: Puerta del Sol (Bilingual Press\, 2005) and Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press\, 2010) as well as editor of the anthology\, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (University of Arizona Press\, 2007). His third book\, After Rubén\, is forthcoming next year from Northern California publisher\, Blue Oak Press. His poems and translations have appeared in various print and online journals\, as well as numerous anthologies.  He spends the fall semester on the Notre Dame campus where he teaches a literature course on Latinx poetry\, and spring in Washington\, D.C.\, where he teaches a poetry workshop featuring the work of local and visiting Latinx poets. \nNancy Morejón is Cuba’s preeminent living poet\, and is the recipient of multiple literary awards. Morejón graduated with honors at the University of Havana\, having studied Caribbean and French Literature\, and she is fluent in French\, English. The daughter of a stevedore of African descent and a mother of Chinese Cuban and European descent\, Nancy writes of Cuban mestizo culture. Also a daughter of the Cuban revolution\, her work explores a range of themes: the mythology of the Cuban nation\, the relation of the blacks of Cuba within that nation. In addition\, she also voices the situation of women within her society\, expressing concern for women’s experience and for racial equality within the Cuban revolution. Her work also treats the grievous fact of slavery as an ancestral experience. Her work treats political themes as well as intimate\, familial topics. She is a well-regarded translator of French and English into Spanish\, particularly Caribbean writers\, including Edouard Glissant\, Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire\, René Depestre. Her own poetry has been translated into English\, German\, French\, Portuguese\, Gallego\, Russian\, Macedonian\, and others. She has produced a number of journalistic\, critical\, and dramatic works. One of the most notable is her book-length treatments of poet Nicolás Guillén. In 1986 she won the Cuban “Premio de la crítica” (Critic’s Prize) for Piedra Pulida\, and in 2001 won Cuba’s National Prize for Literature\, awarded for the first time to a black woman. This national prize for literature was created in 1983; Nicolás Guillén was the first to receive it. She also won the Golden Wreath of the Struga poetry evenings for 2006. She has toured extensively in the United States\, Latin America\, and in other countries\, and Nancy will also be accompanied by Daisy Salas\, who works as a coordinator for Cuban artists and writers. URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-3/ LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171005T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171005T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170621T234624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T234624Z UID:27586-1507231800-1507239000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Laurie Ann Doyle DESCRIPTION:Reads from her short story collection\, World Gone Missing. URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-ann-doyle/ LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T153000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114524Z UID:28631-1507298400-1507303800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Masquerade: Treason\, Holocaust\, and an Irish Impostor DESCRIPTION:Phyllis Ursula James. Nora Ó Mara. Róisín Ni Mheara. Like her name\, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child\, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family\, to traitor during World War II\, to her emergence as an Irish citizen. \nLearn how this Irish imposter became close to writer Francis Stuart\, whose years in Nazi Germany led to a great deal of controversy. \nCo-author Mark M. Hull is an attorney and Professor of Military History at the U.S Army Command and General Staff College\, Kansas. Previous work includes Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland\, 1939–1945. \nPhyllis\, Nora\, Róisín or Ursula? You decide. \nThis event is co-presented with the Irish American Bar Association of Northern California URL:https://litseen.com/event/masquerade-treason-holocaust-and-an-irish-impostor/ LOCATION:C B Hannegan’s\, 208 Bachman Ave\, Los Gatos CA\, CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T180000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T200000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114227Z UID:28611-1507312800-1507320000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Women Writers from the North of Ireland DESCRIPTION:Short fiction is having a remarkable moment in Northern Ireland\, with a boom in women’s writing. Sinéad Gleeson edited the successful collection of Irish women writers\, The Long Gaze Back\, and then turned her editorial attention to Northern women\, after observing that little existed in terms of all-female anthologies in the North. \nGleeson\, a writer\, journalist and presenter of “The Book Show” on Ireland’s Radio Telefís Eireann (RTE). Sinéad is joined by Jan Carson and Evelyn Conlon\, contributors to the anthology. \n“The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland …one of the most multilayered and thought-provoking collections of stories I’ve read in a long while.” Elizabeth Day\, The Irish Times URL:https://litseen.com/event/women-writers-from-the-north-of-ireland/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171006T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171006T210000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170929T223246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T003114Z UID:28964-1507318200-1507323600@litseen.com SUMMARY:Mary Cisper\, Jane Lin\, + Iris Jamahl Dunkle DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, October 6th @ 7:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring \nMary Cisper\, Jane Lin and Iris Jamahl Dunkle! \n*Event is FREE* \nLagunitas beer\, wine & snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street \nOakland\, CA 94609 \nhere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \n* Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \n*Lagunitas Brewing Company \n*Clorox Company Foundation \nAmid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds\, Mary Cisper\, poet and sometime visual artist\, lives with her husband in northern New Mexico. Her first poetry collection\, Dark Tussock Moth\, won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press\, 2017).  A former chemist\, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers in search of ultra-low detection limits.  Her poems and reviews have been published in various journals including Denver Quarterly\, ZYZZYVA\, Lana Turner\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Terrain\, Water-Stone Review\, Newfound\, FIELD\, and Omniverse.  She is a graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program where she studied with Brenda Hillman and Matthew Zapruder.  Of all the places she’s lived\, she misses the Bay Area the most. \nJane Lin is a poet and software engineer for an environmental consulting company in Northern New Mexico. Her debut poetry collection Day of Clean Brightness was published by 3: A Taos Press this year. She received her BA and BS from Stanford University where she studied under Denise Levertov\, and her MFA from New York University where she was a New York Times fellow. Her poem “Signs and Portents” was transformed into an art song by Emmy Award winning composer Glen Roven for his composition “The Santa Fe Songs” for soprano and piano and appears on Talise Trevigne’s album At the Statue of Venus. Other poems have appeared in Cura\, Five Points\, jmww\, New Madrid\, Slant\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, The Collagist\, The Harwood Poetry Anthology\, and The Mas Tequila Review. Her honors include a fellowship from Kundiman and scholarships from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. For many years she taught creative writing at UNM-Los Alamos and facilitated the Mesa Public Library Poetry Gathering series. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her second poetry collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, is about the untold history of Sonoma County\, CA\, and was published in November 2015 by Word Tech Editions. Her third collection\, Interrupted Geographies\, will be published by Trio House Press in 2017. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW. and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. She received her B.A. from the George Washington University\, her M.F.A. in Poetry from New York University\, and her Ph.D. in American Literature from Case Western Reserve University. URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-cisper-jane-lin-iris-jamahl-dunkle/ LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T130000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114306Z UID:28619-1507381200-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:New Irish Poetry: Daring Us to Act DESCRIPTION:Representing a new generation of voices in Irish literature\, meet Stephen Connolly\, Stephen Sexton\, Caroline Bracken\, Simon Lewis and Kathy D’Arcy. St. Mary’s College professor Raina Leon moderates the session\, helping us examine how a writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. \nStephen Connolly is a Belfast-based poet and a postgraduate student at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University.\nSimon Lewis’s Hennessy Award-winning poetry collection\, “Jewtown\,” chronicles the experiences of  Jewish settlers in Cork.\nBelfast native Stephen Sexton’s poem “The Curfew” recently scooped the UK National Poetry Society Competition Award.\nCaroline Bracken’s poems have been published in The Irish Times\, Hennessy New Irish Writing among several other publications.\nRaina Leon’s fellowships and residencies have included Cave Canem and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. She is Associate Professor of Education at St. Mary’s College of California. URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-irish-poetry-daring-us-to-act/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T133000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170915T015518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170915T015518Z UID:28747-1507383000-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Filipino American Literary Readings DESCRIPTION:There are three Filipino American Literary Readings at the Filipino American International Book Festival\, which will be held at the Koret Auditorium of the San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, Civic Center\, SF\, CA 94102. \nFirst reading is on October 7 at 1:30-3 p.m.; \nSecond one at  4:20- 5:30 p.m.; \nThird reading on 8 at 1:45-3:05 p.m. URL:https://litseen.com/event/filipino-american-literary-readings/ LOCATION:Koret Auditorium\, San Francisco Main Library\, 100 Larkin Avenune\, SAN FRANCISCO\, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T140000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170902T053107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170902T053107Z UID:28706-1507384800-1507388400@litseen.com SUMMARY:Sim Warkov DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading\, interview\, and Q&A when Sim Warkov visits Claremont. Sim was born in Chicago\, raised in Manitoba\, and educated in New York and Connecticut. Warkov has four books of poetry\, a new one out this year\, Island Dreams (with Margaretta K. Mitchell)\, and three earlier books\, Reaching\, Thin Soils\, and Grandchildren. Host: Glenn Ingersoll URL:https://litseen.com/event/sim-warkov/ LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170816T001033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001033Z UID:28309-1507388400-1507395600@litseen.com SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂 URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-first-saturday-reading-2/ LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114342Z UID:28623-1507388400-1507395600@litseen.com SUMMARY:The Long-Winded Lady: Maeve Brennan\, Forgotten Irish Writer DESCRIPTION:Sinéad Gleeson and Robert West discuss the life and work of Irish writer and journalist\, Maeve Brennan. Born in Dublin in 1917\, Brennan moved to the U.S. with her family in 1934. She worked at Harper’s Bazaar\, and in the 1950s and 1960s at The New Yorker where she wrote under the pseudonym “The Long-Winded Lady.” Brennan’s short stories and New Yorker collections have been unearthed in recent years\, with 2017 editions published by The Stinging Fly in Ireland. \n“Brennan is\, for a new generation of Irish women writers\, a casualty of old wars not yet won.” – Anne Enright URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-long-winded-lady-maeve-brennan-forgotten-irish-writer/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T170000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T180000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170817T044740Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170817T044740Z UID:28404-1507395600-1507399200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Paradigm Lost at Adobe Books DESCRIPTION:Paradigm Lost is a collection of radical verse & visuals for the shift. A book that seeks to manufacture dissent through collaborative art and poetry. \nPoet and creative activist Eleanor Goldfield will perform a few pieces from the book as well as discuss the role of art in movements. \nBooks will be for sale and available for signing. \nFor more information on the book\, please visit artkillingapathy.com URL:https://litseen.com/event/paradigm-lost-at-adobe-books/ LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T190000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T203000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20171007T014749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T014749Z UID:29047-1507402800-1507408200@litseen.com SUMMARY:Poet\, Musician Improvise Against Racism + Mass Incarceration DESCRIPTION:Tongo Eisen-Martin in collaboration with drummer/composer and writer Marshall Trammell\, of the duo Black Spirituals\, appear in a first-time improvised duo performance at The Green Arcade. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center at SF State. Tongo Eisen-Martin\, a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States\, has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African- American Studies at Columbia University. His first full-length book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already (Bootstrap Press)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self- determination in Jackson\, Mississippi. His second book\, Heaven Is All Goodbyes\, is the latest from City Lights Books’ venerable Pocket Poets series. Marshall R. Trammell is the founder and Chief Investigator of Music Research Strategies\, an interdisciplinary artist performing-ethnomusicology\, political education\, and social engagement platform working with video\, sound\, music\, text\, geography\, and data collection environments. Trammell’s work combines re- imaginings of ‘narratives of fugitivity\,’ tactical media and solidarity economics of the Underground Railroad for today’s political landscape. Trammell is the percussionist in Black Spirituals\, an interdisciplinary\, electro-acoustic artist collective. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-musician-improvise-against-racism-mass-incarceration/ LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T193000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T213000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170621T233458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T233458Z UID:27576-1507404600-1507411800@litseen.com SUMMARY:Cisper\, Cole\, + Lin DESCRIPTION:Mary Cisper\, Norma Cole and Jane Lin read from their latest poetry collections. URL:https://litseen.com/event/cisper-cole-lin/ LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171007T210000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171007T223000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T115141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T115141Z UID:28663-1507410000-1507415400@litseen.com SUMMARY:David Nihill: “A Mother\, A Son\, A City” DESCRIPTION:At the heart of many an Irish story is an Irish mammy-usually doing something pretty entertaining. Join us for an evening of comedic storytelling with David Nihill\, one of the funniest storytellers around\, who actually had an Irish mammy. This show is not to be missed! \nBorn and raised in Dublin\, David is a bestselling author\, whose work has been featured on NPR\, and in the Huffington Post\, Forbes\, and The Irish Times. He was recently part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour\, San Francisco Sketchfest\, the Ventura Comedy Festival and the Kansas City Irish Festival. A multiple Moth Storyslam winner\, Grandslam finalist and occasional host\, David has also told tales at Porchlight\, The Naked Truth\, The Marsh\, Fireside and LitQuake. \n  URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-nihill-a-mother-a-son-a-city/ LOCATION:C. B. Hannegan’s\, 208 Bachman Ave\, Los Gatos CA\, 95030 CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171008T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T143000 DTSTAMP:20260419T231510 CREATED:20170828T114614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170828T114614Z UID:28639-1507465800-1507473000@litseen.com SUMMARY:Irish Women\, New Writing: Jan Carson\, Ethel Rohan\, Caroline Bracken DESCRIPTION:Each day of 2015\, Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Join us for a “Tiny Stories” session with Jan who reads and discusses her recent collection\, Postcard Stories. San Francisco-based Irish writer Ethel Rohan will read and discuss her 2017 acclaimed novel\, The Weight of Him. The story about loss and reliance is set against a backdrop of rural\, contemporary Ireland\, lauded as “…a brave and moving book” by John Banville. Caroline Bracken reads a selection of her poems\, including recent award winners. URL:https://litseen.com/event/irish-women-new-writing-jan-carson-ethel-rohan-caroline-bracken/ LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States CATEGORIES:South Bay ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR