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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T233000
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SUMMARY:2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:JUNE 1\, 2017 – JUNE 4\, 2017 \n2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival \nCastro Theatre | San Francisco\, CA \nJoin the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival! Each year the Center sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles. Stay tuned for more information. \nSFSFF recently announced the rediscovery of a lost Cecil B. DeMille production—Silence—which is being restored by the Cinémathèque Française and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival as we speak. Silence will have its world premiere at SFSFF 2017. \nAlso\, the cat is out of the bag: Alloy Orchestra will premiere its new score for one of the most intriguing films of the silent era\, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness\, in a new restoration. \nThe complete schedule will be revealed in late March 2017. \n\nCONTACT: \n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter \nlwoofter@catranslation.org \n(415) 512-8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/
LOCATION:Castro Theater\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T130000
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Juliana Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Juliana Delgado Lopera in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \n  \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Four Way Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, The Bold Italic\, Weird Sister\, Black Girl Dangerous\, and SF Weekly\, among others. Lopera has performed in countless venues around the West Coast and lectured at San Francisco State University\, Wayward Writers and 826 Valencia. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-juliana-delgado-lopera/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
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SUMMARY:Charmaine Craig
DESCRIPTION:National-bestselling author Charmaine Craig shares her masterful new novel\, Miss Burma. Based on Charmaine’s mother and grandparents\, Miss Burmais a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charmaine-craig/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Burlingame\, 1375 Burlingame Ave\, Burlingame\, CA\, 94010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170502T004123Z
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SUMMARY:Play: Exhibit + Reading
DESCRIPTION:The AfroSurreal Writers and the Kiss My Black Arts Collective will open Let’s Play: Intuition\, Imagination\, and Black Creativity on Fri.\, June 2 at Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank Ogawa Plaza). \n\n\n\nThis exhibit features more than a dozen Black writers and artists\, with digital and audio projections of their work\, and follows a year of readings/workshops\, cleanings and plantings along Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue. The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity. \nReaders include women from  Serenity House and the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop’s reading series on Intuition and Creativity\, as well as writers/artists Jacqueline Bishop\, Renee Alexander Craft\, Rachel Eliza Griffiths\, Jewelle Gomez\, Victor LaValle\, James Lee\, Kyla Marshell\, Sharan Strange\,  Sheree Renée Thomas\, and Dawnie Walton\, and artwork from the Members of the Kiss My Black Arts Collective\, who will create a mural inside the gallery based on their outdoor mural at San Pablo and Market.  \n  \n\nAbout the Kiss My Black Arts Collective: The Kiss My Black Arts Collective exists to help artists take your creativity to the next level Economically. Together\, they create social economics through Mural projects\, workshops and art exhibitions\, while encouraging participation and collaboration amongst their members\, local artists\, and community leaders through democratic controlled enterprises.  About the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop: The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop amplifies the voices of emerging and established writers and artists of color who create surreal\, futurist\, speculative fiction\, fantasy\, science fiction\, horror\, dystopian\, apocalyptic\, weird\, or absurdist literature and art\, centered in perspectives of people of color. About Serenity House: Serenity House was originally established as a recovery program for women suffering from addiction. Today\, we provide services for women who have been raped or molested as children\, suffer from addiction\, homelessness\, mental health\, and/or emotional issues caused by trauma.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/play-exhibit-reading/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:3 Minute Reads from San Francisco Grotto Writers • 50+ Writers\, 3 Minutes Each! \nJoin us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-2/
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:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170503T232455Z
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SUMMARY:Brian Hassett's Beat Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and keynote essayist in The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats\, Brian Hassett performs a comical collage of original and Beat works including a nobody’s-ever-done-it-before chapter from Kerouac’s final novel Pic. \nLongtime friend of Edie Kerouac-Parker\, Carolyn Cassady\, Henri Cru\, and numerous other Beat and Prankster luminaries\, Hassett is a natural and funny storyteller\, and has preformed Kerouac & the Beats on stage in Amsterdam\, London\, Toronto\, New York\, L.A. & at The Beat Museum’s own Beatnik Shindig in 2015. \nThis appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos\, bringing the total in the book to 70! \nThis will be his first Bay Area performance in two years and the only one this Summer of Love. \nSpecial guests are likely. \nLively guests are a certainty. \nCharming event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-hassetts-beat-cafe/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth real.stories.live
DESCRIPTION:Registration highly recommended. Registration will open Friday May 19th. \nFor Adults and High School Students only. \nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes.\nIt’s the 50th anniversary of the summer of love\, when tens of thousands of young people\, in search of something different\, came to San Francisco to find it. In honor of this very special moment in time\, our line-up of talented storytellers will share their own present-day stories of peace\, love\, and liberation. \nJosh Healey is back to emcee with storytellers Emily Epstein White\, Phil Surkis\, and others. \nIf you have a story to tell from the summer of love\, we want to hear it. Throw your name in the hat to tell a one minute story in our optional audience lightening round.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth-real-stories-live/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170515T234728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T234728Z
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SUMMARY:RHINO Poetry Magazine's 40th Anniversary Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Adobe Bookstore welcomes RHINO Poetry magazine and hosting a the reading as part of their 40 Readings in 40 Cities tour! A great series of readings to celebrate RHINO Poetry magazine’s 40th anniversary. \nSpecial guests: \nPeter Kline\, Brittany Perham\, Roy Mash and Cintia Santana. \nhttp://rhinopoetry.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhino-poetry-magazines-40th-anniversary-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170527T005609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T005609Z
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SUMMARY:Poets of Color Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser: Poets of Color Podcast\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017 | 7:00 pm \nFundraiser and Showcase for the upcoming Poets of Color Podcast. \nThe Poets of Color Podcast is dropping June 2017 and your host’s Asha Sudra & Chris “L7” Cuadrado need your help to make it happen! \nCome enjoy some poetry from local bay area poets of color\, find out what we have planned for the show\, and meet other folks in the community invested in PoC words and narratives. \nFeaturing: \nAsha Sudra \nChris “L7” Cuadrado \nFlavia Mora \nSharif Zakout \nHablo Rw \n\n& More TBA! \n$5 – $10 (NOTAFLOF)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-of-color-podcast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170425T012450Z
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SUMMARY:2017 Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear. \nAs a festival sponsor\, the Center will be participating in panels and events\, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet Center staff and purchase Two Lines Press publications at our booth. \nStay tuned for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170527T015247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T015247Z
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – EUREKA VALLEY LIBRARY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\nSan Francisco Public Library – Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch   •\n\n\n\n\nSaturday June 3\n12pm\nEureka Valley Library\nSan Francisco\nFREE\nFeaturing Panda Dulce\n \nABOUT DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR\nCreated by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT PANDA\nPanda Dulce is a drag queen who was born and raised in San Francisco. Sometimes Panda dresses like a girl\, and sometimes Panda dresses as a boy. (But she feels most special when you call her a girl). Panda believes that whatever makes you different\, is beautiful and powerful. Remember to be proud of yourself\, always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170518T113754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T001305Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Poetry Workshop w/ Kim Shuck + Dan Vera
DESCRIPTION:Poets Kim Shuck of San Francisco and Dan Vera of Washington\, DC will host a poetry workshop for young adults\, by drawing on the poetry anthology\, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books\, 2016). Students will have a chance to explore new voices and styles of poetry–concentrating on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa–and will write and share their own poetry over the course of the workshop. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but young\, aspiring Latino/a poets are especially encouraged to participate. This workshop will be held in Studio D\, in the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. \nHosted by Aunt Lute Books\, and underwritten by the NEA and CAC. \nSnacks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-poetry-workshop-with-kim-shuck-and-dan-vera/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T170000
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CREATED:20161223T023058Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
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/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-13/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T200000
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:  \nSaturday\, June 3 \nfeaturing\n\n\nBrenda Hillman\n\nMeron Hadero\n\nErin Byrne\n\nand many more…\n\n\n\nat our exciting new venue\nThe Armory Club \nin the \ndownstairs performance space\n1799 Mission St \n(across from the Armory Building)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170518T113912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015704Z
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SUMMARY:Imaniman: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras\, identity\, and art. \nFeatured poets: Dan Vera\, Kim Shuck\, Tomas Moniz\, Suzy de Jesus Huerta \nAppetizers and drinks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Imaniman will be available for purchase at this event. We take both cash and credit card. Imaniman: A Night of Poetry is a MAPP event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imaniman-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170527T011653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T011653Z
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SUMMARY:Tea with Mr. E
DESCRIPTION:Tea with Mr. E:\nA one-day class on T.S. Eliot with Nils Peterson\nSaturday\, June 3\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nNils Peterson will offer a class on T.S. Eliot discussing “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\,” “The Wasteland” and one of the Quartets. If there is time\, there will be a writing exercise.\n$25 PCSJ Members\, $35 general\, $15 Students\nVery limited space\, reserve now! \n \nEdwin Markham House in History Park\n1650 Senter Road\, San José\, CA 95112 \nNils Peterson is Professor Emeritus in English at San José State University. In 2009 he was chosen the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County. He has published poetry\, science fiction\, and articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare. Nils has been singing in chorales for more than 60 years. His chapbooks include: Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing\, Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango\, For This Day\, The Revenge of the Socks\, and For This Day II. A collection of poems\, The Comedy of Desire\, edited and introduced by Robert Bly\, was published by The Blue Sofa Press. His newest collection\, A Walk to the Center of Things\, was published by Poetry Center San Jose. An e-chapbook\, Talk In The Reading Room\, was published by Wordrunner Press early in 2014. Bring: Writing equipment; Sack Lunch and beverage. Parking and entrance to the campus is on Phelan Avenue.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tea-with-mr-e/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T033000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T121049
CREATED:20170519T025053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015740Z
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SUMMARY:3 Blues-y Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Intimate wordy emotive acoustic singer-songwriter and poet bookstore show! Starring: \nBanty Hen (Ester Kang) — Ukulele and voice. Clarion\, drowning\, knock-you-out-and-leave-you-for-dead beautiful. Like driving down the 1 in the fog. You’ve never heard a voice or songwriting quite like this. \nAndrea Passwater — Poet from Alabama\, by way of Taiwan\, will do a short reading that might make you cry. Like reading your great aunt’s teenage diary. Her poems are better than most blues singers at singing the blues. \nRosie Cima — Guitar and voice. Singer songwriter no.2\, with more gravel\, has lots of new stuff for this show\, not all of it sad. Been meditating a lot lately\, and listening to a lot of Nina Simone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-blues-y-ladies/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T160000
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CREATED:20170504T235728Z
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SUMMARY:Courtney Maum
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Touch\, on Sunday\, June 4th at 3:00 pm. \nSloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”)\, and global fashion\, lifestyle\, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated\, and with unemployment\, college costs\, and food prices all on the rise\, having children is an extravagant indulgence.\nSo it’s no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference\, celebrating the voluntarily childless. Not far into her contract\, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion\, empathy\, and “in-personism” again. She’s struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employer’s mission and that her closest personal relationship is with her self-driving car when her partner\, the French “neo-sensualist” Roman Bellard\, reveals that he is about to publish an op-ed on the death of penetrative sex–a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral. Despite the risks to her professional reputation\, Sloane is nevertheless convinced that her instincts are the right ones\, and goes on a quest to defend real life human interaction\, while finally allowing in the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.\nA poignant and amusing call to arms that showcases her signature biting wit and keen eye\, celebrated novelist Courtney Maum’s new book is a moving investigation into what it means to be an individual in a globalized world. \nCourtney Maum is the author of the novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and the chapbook Notes from Mexico. Her short fiction\, book reviews\, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times\, Tin House\, Electric Literature\, and Buzzfeed\, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life\, she has been a trend forecaster\, a fashion publicist\, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M-A-C cosmetics from her home in Litchfield County\, CT.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-maum/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T200000
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Aamina Ahmad\, Peg Alford Pursell\, Michael Shewmaker\, and Shelley Wong\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAamina Ahmad grew up in London. She completed her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her full length play\, The Dishonored\, toured the UK in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in The Normal School\, The Missouri Review\, Ecotone and the anthology\, And the World Changed. \n\nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, RHINO\, VOLT\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael Shewmaker is the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and author of Penumbra (Ohio UP\, 2017). Born in Texarkana\, Texas\, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University. His poems have recently appeared in Yale Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Sewanee Review\, Poetry Daily\, Parnassus\, Oxford American\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University. \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a winner of the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook award. Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse\, The Volta\, Sixth Finch\, and Southern Humanities Review. A Kundiman fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient\, she holds an MFA from Ohio State University and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-reading/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Now accepting submissions: 6/5 @ Clarion Music Performing Arts Center \nAll forms of writing are accepted. This will be a free show\, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission all authors will be paid\, and will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \nThe deadline is End of Day 5/17. SUBMIT NOW!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-2/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Lisa Ko
DESCRIPTION:One morning\, Deming Guo’s mother\, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly\, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. No one can find any trace of her. \nWith his mother gone\, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by two white college professors who move him from the Bronx to a small town upstate. They rename him Daniel Wilkinson in their efforts to make him over into their version of an “all-American boy.” But far away from all he’s ever known\, Daniel struggles to reconcile his new life with his mother’s disappearance and the memories of the family and community he left behind. \nSet in New York and China\, The Leavers is a vivid and moving examination of borders and belonging. It’s the story of how one boy comes into his own when everything he’s loved has been taken away–and how a mother learns to live with the mistakes of her past. \nThis powerful debut is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for fiction\, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social justice. \nLisa Ko’s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016\, Narrative\, Copper Nickel\, the Asian Pacific American Journal\, and elsewhere. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council\, Writers OMI at Ledig House\, the Jerome Foundation\, and Blue Mountain Center\, among others. A founding coeditor of Hyphen and a fiction editor at Drunken Boat\, Ko was born in Queens and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-ko/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Shut Up + Share
DESCRIPTION:Have you wondered what your fellow Shut Up & Write writers are up to?  Have you wanted to share your own work in a no-pressure environment? Join us at Adobe Books to read your own work and support your fellow SU&W writers. Here’s how it works:\n1) Readings are first come\, first serve and will last for up to seven minutes. \n2) You can read an excerpt from a story\, a poem\, blog post\, article you’re writing\, etc. We expect that you’ll use your best judgment about the type of material to read. \n3) Sign-ups are first come\, first serve on the night of the meetup at the bookstore. \nOpen to all! More info: i.magdaleno@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shut-up-share/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Locascio/Golden State 2017: New Writing from California
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host writer and editorLisa Locascio for the launch of Golden State 2017: New Writing from California. \nPlease join us\, along with contributorsSusanna Kwan\, Rebecca Baumann\, Alia Volz\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Olga Zilberbourg\,Jasper Henderson\, Kara Vernor\, andMicah Perkins\, in celebrating the publication of the fourth installment of this terrific annual collection. You can read Lisa’s introduction to the book here. \nLisa Locascio\, this year’s Golden State anthology editor\, is publisher of Joyland Magazine and editor of the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7. Her work has appeared in The Believer\, Bookforum\, Santa Monica Review\, n+1\, Western American Literature\, Tin House online\, and many other magazines. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-locasciogolden-state-2017-new-writing-from-california/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Diana Aehegma\, Claudia Cortese\, + Steffi Drewes
DESCRIPTION:Diana Aehegma grew up on the Big Island of Hawaii\, and lives in Oakland\, CA. She earned her MA and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University\, where she won the Ann Fields Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Monday Night\, the Tinfish Press anthology Jack London is Dead\, The Press at CSU Fresno anthology Shadowed: Unheard Voices\, the Featherboard Writing Series / Aggregate Space Gallery chapbook Crossing Paths\, and at Bang Out SF\, among other venues. \nClaudia Cortese’s first book\, Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press\, 2016) explores the privilege and pathology\, trauma and brattiness of suburban girlhood. Cortese’s poems and stories have appeared in Blackbird\, Black Warrior Review\, Crazyhorse\, Gulf Coast\, Kenyon Review\, and The Offing\, among others\, and she writes reviews for Muzzle Magazine. The daughter of Neapolitan immigrants\, Cortese grew up in Ohio and lives in New Jersey. She also lives at claudia-cortese.com \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press\, 2016) and the poetry chapbooks Magnetic Forest\, Cartography Askew\, and History of Drawing Circles. Her poems have appeared in various journals and in the anthology It’s night in San Francisco but it’s sunny in Oakland (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2014). She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center and The Wassaic Project in New York. Currently\, she works as a freelance writer and editor in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/diana-aehegma-claudia-cortese-and-steffi-drewes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Beat Poetry: The Revolutionary Letters of Diane DiPrima
DESCRIPTION:Twice a month Mel Ash (http://www.melash.com/about_mel_ash.php) leads visitors in a very authentic Beat Poetry experience with a featured writer of the Beat Generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-poetry-the-revolutionary-letters-of-diane-diprima/
LOCATION:Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media\, 2454 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An evening of poetry w/ Hass\, Manuel\, + Hood
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Robert Hass\, Douglas Manuel\, and Charles Hood to the store to discuss and sign their latest works on Wednesday\, June 7th at 7:00 pm. \nIn addition to his magisterial poetry\, Robert Hass is beloved for his incisive\, meditative criticism. A Little Book on Form takes up the central contradiction between poetry as genre and the poetics of the imagination. A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about\, map\, and explain poetry in rigorous formal terms\, but the more intuitive\, creative aspects of a poet’s work and processes are more elusive: if the most interesting parts of form are those expressive\, essential gestures inside it\, how can we come to a better understanding of form as passion\, as art?\nA Little Book on Form brilliantly synthesizes Hass’s formidable gifts as both a poet and a critic. In suggestive\, informal notes\, Hass breaks the idea of a poem down to its barest building blocks\, from the one line haiku to the villanelle and sonnet. His approach singularly employs postmodern perspectives on shape\, thought\, feeling\, content\, and movement\, calling on Catullus and Allen Ginsberg\, Issa and Czeslaw Milosz. Begun as a project for students of poetry\, Hass investigates the ancient roots of the poetic impulse\, taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language.\nA Little Book on Form is a rousing reexamination of our most enduring mode of literature from one of our greatest living poets\, who writes prose every bit as zestful\, penetrating\, and sure-footed as his poetry. \nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials\, Sun Under Wood\, Human Wishes\, Praise\, and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Transtromer’s Selected Poems and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry  received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nA brave\, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race\, masculinity\, religion\, and class\, Testify\, in a very personal way\, confronts some of the most critical issues in today’s society.\nA book of elegiac ambivalence\, Testify’s speaker often finds himself trapped between received binaries: black and white\, ghetto and suburban\, atheism and Catholicism. In many ways\, this work is a bildungsroman detailing the maturation of a black man raised in the crack-laden 1980s\, with hip-hop\, jazz\, and blues as its soundtrack. Rendered with keen attention to the economic decline of the Midwest due to the departure of the automotive industry\, this book portrays the speaker wrestling with his city’s demise\, family relationships\, interracial love\, and notions of black masculinity. Never letting anyone\, including the speaker\, off the hook\, Testify refuses sentimentality and didacticism and dwells in a space of uncertainty\, where meaning and identity are messy\, complicated\, and multivalent. \nDouglas Manuel was born in Anderson\, Indiana. He received a BA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a MFA from Butler University where he was the Managing Editor of Booth a Journal. He is currently a Middleton and Dornsife Fellow at the University of Southern California where he is pursuing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing. He was a recipient of the Chris McCarthy Scholarship for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and has been Poetry Editor for Gold Line Press as well as one of the Managing Editors of Ricochet Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Rhino\, North American Review\, The Chattahoochee Review\, New Orleans Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Many Mountains Moving\, and elsewhere. \nBrimming with natural history and bright flashes of language\, the poems in Partially Excited States take us from Paleolithic caves to modern movie theaters\, and along the way we fix time machines with Tom Hanks\, enter a Rousseau painting\, and collect diamonds from the moons of Neptune. \nCharles Hood is a writer of poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction\, a photographer\, and an artist. His many books include Mouth\, South x South\, Rio de Dios: 13 Histories of the Los Angeles River\, The Half-Life of Salt: Voices of the Enola Gay\, and Red Sky\, Red Water: Powell on the Colorado. A longtime animal spotter\, he has seen more than six hundred mammal species and more than five thousand species of wild birds. In his global travels\, he has trekked to the South Pole\, been lost in a Tibetan whiteout\, and recovered from bubonic plague. He lives in Palmdale\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-of-poetry-w-hass-manuel-hood/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jess Arndt
DESCRIPTION:Reading from her short fiction debut\, Large Animals. \nJess Arndt’s striking debut collection confronts what it means to have a body. Boldly straddling the line between the imagined and the real\, the masculine and the feminine\, the knowable and the impossible\, these fourteen stories are an exhilarating expression of voice and deliver a profoundly original punch to the gut. In “Jeff\,” Lily Tomlin confuses Jess for Jeff\, instigating a dark and hilarious identity crisis. In “Together\,” a couple battles a mysterious and unnamed STD that slowly undoes their relationship\, while outside a ferocious weed colonizes their urban garden. And in “Contrails\,” a character on the precipice of a seismic change goes on a tour of past lovers\, confronting their own reluctance to move on. \nArndt’s subjects are canny noticers even while they remain dangerously blind to their own truest impulses. Often unnamed\, these narrators challenge the limits of language—collectively\, their voices create a transgressive new formal space that makes room for the undefined\, the nonconforming\, the queer. And yet\, while they crave connection\, love\, and understanding\, they are constantly at risk of destroying themselves. Large Animals pitches toward the heart\, pushing at all our most tender parts—our sex organs\, our geography\, our words\, and the tendons and nerves of our culture.\nJess Arndt received her MFA at Bard and was a 2013 Graywolf SLS Fellow and 2010 Fiction Fellow at the New York Foundation of the Arts. She has written for Fence\, BOMB\, Aufgabe\, and the art journal Parkett\, among others. She is a co-founder of New Herring Press\, and lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jess-arndt/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moon Drop presents Prince
DESCRIPTION:Moon Drop is a quarterly reading series first Wednesdays.\nEach reading will have a theme\, June 7th being The Beautiful One’s Birthday will be a tribute to Prince.\nWith readings about or inspired by Prince’s life and music\, featured readers will include Cassandra Dallett\, Jenee Darden\, Ingrid Keir\, Joel Landmine\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Tomas Moniz\, Airial Clark\, James Cagney and Amber Flame. There willl also be seven open mic spots. Show up early and get your name on the list!!!!!!!!!!\nWe will feature purple everything!!\nLet’s Work!!!\nCassandra Dallett and Kelechi Ubozoh
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moon-drop-presents-prince/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Trina Robbins + Artists
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host author Trina Robbins for her new graphic novel\, A Minyen Yidn! Also in attendence will be a few of the artists that contributed to the work: Steve Leialoha\, Caryn Leschen\, and Robert Triptow. Please join us! \nA Minyen Yidn is based on the 1938 memoir of Trina Robbin’s father\, Muttel (Mutye) Perechudnik\, and was originally published in Yiddish. This memoir features a collection of 13 stories drawn from Muttel’s (later Max Perlson’s) life growing up in a shtetl in Belarus and immigrating to Brooklyn in the late 1910s at the age of 16. Here he became a journalist\, contributing short stories in Yiddish to Jewish newspapers. The memoir has been translated to English and adapted to graphic novel format by his daughter\, Trina Robbins\, who says of the stories within: “They are slyly humorous portraits of his little village in Belarus\, and of life in Brooklyn after he came to America. It’s a snapshot of a way of life that would end with the coming of the Nazis and WW2\, although none of them knew it yet.” \nThe cover was drawn by famed underground comic artist Barbara Mendes and each of the 13 stories was recreated visually by the following artists: Shary Flenniken\, Eve Furchgott\, Miriam Katin\, Miriam Libicki\, Michael Netzer\, Anne Timmons\, Robert Triptow\, Jen Vaughn\, Steve Leialoha\, Elizabeth Watasin\, Caryn Leschen\, Joan Steacy\, Ken Steacy\, and Terry Laban.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/trina-robbins-artists/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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