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SUMMARY:Dillon\, Hart\, + Hannibal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from poets Russell Dillon\, Matt Hart\, and Shauna Hannibal hosted by Jason Morris
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dillon-hart-hannibal/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release II: Dear Animal\, MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:If you couldn’t make the first release at Studio Grand\, please join us at our soon-to-be-additional-home at 2301 Telegraph Avenue with our dear friends and community partners\, Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, for the second release of Mk Chavez‘ much-anticipated full-length poetry collection\, Dear Animal\,. Readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Arisa White\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Ingrid Keir\, and of course\,Mk Chavez. Music by James Meder. Book signing to follow. \nGnosh\, wine\, beer\, and books—it’ll be another great night in a beautiful space! \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-ii-dear-animal-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: See You in the Morning Light
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://seeyouinthemorninglight.bpt.me\n$15 in advance and $15 at the door.\n(If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact ned@yg2d.com.) \nAn evening of music & art\, a communal grief release\, a live presentation of Deep Pools’ new album SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT. \n“See You In The Morning Light” is Scott Ferreter’s attempt to shine light on the beauty that grief offers when it is fully felt. In 2012\, he moved back to his hometown of Sacramento upon getting the news that his father was dying of stage 4 stomach cancer. During that time\, he played music constantly as he soaked up his father’s last days alongside his family\, and would spend 4 years trying to capture the vibrancy of those days in sound. His intention was to make an album that would invite listeners more deeply into the experience of being alive on a planet where everything eventually leaves. \nAll said and done\, the record has 22 musicians\, was recorded across 6 different studios\, and includes field recordings from around the world. The vision was to put as much care into the microscopic sounds as the major ones and to give as much space for the difficult feelings as the pleasant ones. Instead of planning out a normal recording process\, Scott continually listened to what the record was asking of him\, and this meant that the final trajectory of the record ended up being far more bizarre and magical than anything he could have planned. Some of his closest friends and favorite musicians recorded on the record\, including the legendary Suzanne Ciani. \nDeep Pools: http://www.deep-pools.com/ \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-see-you-in-the-morning-light/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Isa Efros
DESCRIPTION:Girls Gone Astray is a collection of short and shorter stories about women in their teens to eighties who venture off the traditional path to discover unexpected and potent truths about themselves. A high school student falls in love with her best girlfriend and promises not to tell anyone; a wealthy elderly woman with dementia goes for a drive with a homeless man; a psychic gets locked out of her office and with the help of her spirit guide talks her way back inside; a teenager idolizes her uncle until she finds out who he really is; a woman writer unaware that she has only twenty minutes to live is obsessed with getting a cup of coffee. These and other smart\, provocative\, humorous and emotionally charged stories will surprise and delight you. \nSusan Isa Efros‘ work has appeared in Amelia\, Ascent\, Christopher Street\, the Feminist Art Journal\, Narrative Magazine\, the Patterson Literary Review\, Paris Transcontinental\, Yellow Silk and is forthcoming in Juked. She is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Funny Times. She is the author of Walking Vanilla\, a novel\, and the editor of This Is Women’s Work\, an anthology. Susan was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Writers Grant in 2003 for her short fiction\, “The Ozzie and Harriet Factor.” She lives in Marin County with Jerilyn Gilbert\, her partner of 30 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-isa-efros/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Holidays w/ Poetry + Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Ring in the holidays with a swingin’ evening of poetry and jazz\, featuring: \n\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nJazz Poet Extraordinaire\nLucho\nCubano Saxophonist\n\n…and a lineup of poets and musicians from both sides of the Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-holidays-w-poetry-jazz/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Two-Faced Land: Tongo Eisen-Martin + Leila Farmjami
DESCRIPTION:“It is a backward version of birth / Which is better stated as a re-birth” (Sun Ra). Revolutionary poet Tongo Eisen-Martin (Someone’s Dead Already) and poet and translator Leila Farjami read from their work. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. \nLeila Farjami\, a poet\, psychotherapist\, and literary translator is the author of seven poetry books in Persian. As an immigrant who has lived mainly in US since an early age\, her poems capture her experiences in the diaspora in addition to the history of her formative years in Iran as a child witnessing war and daily violence. Farjami’s current projects include publication her translated texts and poems in English\, and the publication of a comprehensive volume of Sylvia Plath’s poetry in Persian. \nProgrammer Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker\, poet\, and visual artist who lives in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various publications such as Streetnotes\, Amerarcana\, Eleven Eleven\, and Dusie. Her chapbook Triangle Squared was published by Bootstrap Press. She is currently working on a project with poet Patrick James Dunagan involving translation of the poetry of Hafez into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-faced-land-tongo-eisen-martin-leila-farmjami/
LOCATION:The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T213000
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Launch party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in the new West Marin Review\, Volume 7. This award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, and art selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists\, several from San Francisco. West Marin Review is published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Radio Heart
DESCRIPTION:MC: PAUL OCAMPO\, KSW Board Member \nparty \nto gather artists\, activists\, citizens of the bay area\, in resistance and solidarity. we will dance\, drink\, and poetry. \nchapbook launch \nto celebrate the publication of radio heart; or\, how robots fall out of love (finishing line press\, 2016) by margaret rhee.\n\nmany of these poems were written with the guidance of truong tran and kearny street workshop. we want to take time to honor where the poetry emerged from\, we write together\, and not alone. \nfeaturing \nDEBBIE YEE\nVIRGIE TOVAR\nSEAN Y MANZANO\nMARIA FIANI\nDANIEL REDMAN\nISELA FORD with\nMARGARET RHEE \naward ceremony \nto honor artist and poet TRUONG TRAN for years of service\, mentorship\, and friendship to writers and artists of color in the bay area. to celebrate and express our gratitude for his indomitable\, gorgeous radical spirit fighting for what is fair and good. \nthis award will be given by CAPRE (Concerned Artists and Poets for Racial Equity) in light of the post-elections\, and the need for resistance. \nwe will celebrate truong with testimonials of his mentorship and impact of his art and poetry\, we also invite attendees to share their words of resistance in the space. \nALSO\, \non display\, speciality books by graphic design firm THE MYSTERY PARADE: themysterparade.com \nCAKE – DRINKS – PRETTY THINGS \nBIOS: \nIsela Ford\, born in Mexico and later emigrated to San Francisco\, in the mid-seventies\, is committed to improving the lives of marginalized peoples and creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. Growing up in the Mission District during the 1970’s and 1980’s set the foundation for learning\, growing\, and appreciating people and cultures from all walks of life. Her appreciation and committment uplifting disenfranchised people\, particularly people of color\, led her to work for the SF Department of Public Health\, specifically working with adults in SF jails for over 15 years. \nMaria is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her academic work focuses on P.T.S.D.\, moral injury\, and suicide; in addition to her academic life\, she is an ARC fellow\, a YBCA arts fellow\, co-founder of the Life Writing Student and New Scholar Network and co-founder of an art collective titled (Un)Forbidden: a Valediction \nPaul was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US at eleven years old. He earned a Master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA and MFA in creative writing at ASU. He has been published in anthologies and magazines including Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace and The New Engagement. He currently works at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. \nVirgie Tovar travels around the world lecturing on the social effects of fat discrimination and diet culture. She is the founder of Babecamp\, a 4 week online course designed for women who want to break up with diet culture but don’t know how. She started thr hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, Al Jazeera and NPR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistance-radio-heart/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: “Sugar”
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on December 8\, 2016\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito to hear the following acclaimed authors read from their works on the sweet theme of “Sugar.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10. \nJonathan Cardew’s stories\, interviews\, and articles appear or are forthcoming in Atticus Review\, Flash\, The Forge\, JMWW\, Rocky Mountain Revival\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and Segue\, among others. He holds an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University\, and he teaches English at Milwaukee Area Technical College\, where he co-edits The Phoenix Literary and Arts Magazine. He was a finalist in this year’s Best Small Fictions. \nRussell Dillon is the editor of Big Bell magazine and author of the chapbook\, Secret Damage\, as well as the full-length collection\, Eternal Patrol. Formerly a James Merrill fellow at the Vermont Studio Center\, he is also a regular participant in the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop\, and his work has appeared in Parthenon West\, Green Mountain Review\, Coldfront\, H_NGM_N\, Forklift Ohio\, and others.  He began life in New York\, continued it in San Francisco\, and now continues it further in New York. \nGrant Faulkner likes big stories and small stories. He is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, The Southwest Review\, PANK\, and Gargoyle. He’s recently published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, two of which are included in Best Small Fictions 2016. He has a book of essays on creativity coming out with Chronicle Books in the fall of 2017. \nChristine Hale is the author of A Piece of Sky\, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations (Apprentice House Press\, 2016)\, which the Los Angeles Review of Books calls “a portrait of a consciousness…[that] will bruise you…even leave you permanently marked.” Her prose has appeared in Role Reboot\, Arts & Letters\, Spry\, Shadowgraph\, Hippocampus\, and Watershed Review\, among other publications. Her debut novel Basil’s Dream (Livingston Press\, 2009) received honorable mention in the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. A fellow of MacDowell\, Ucross\, Hedgebrook\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Christine Hale earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Antioch University-Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA Program as well as the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville\, NC. \nMatt Hart’s most recent books are Radiant Action (H_NGM_N Books\, 2016) and Radiant Companion (Monster House Press\, 2016). A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift\, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry\, Cooking\, & Light Industrial Safety\, he lives in Cincinnati where he is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and the Chair of Liberal Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He plays guitar and shouts in the bands TRAVEL and THE LOUDEST SOUNDER. \nKristie Betts Letter‘s fiction is currently nominated for a Pushcart\, has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The North Dakota Quarterly\, Washington Square\, Passages North\, Pangolin Papers\, The Southern Humanities Review and KT Literary represents her novel The Three Marlena.  Her poetry book Under-Worldly comes out from Editorial L’Aleph in early 2017. She’s won several teaching awards for forcing Hamlet on high school seniors\, and also plays a mean game of pub trivia. \nJaney Skinner is working on a novel about the struggle for dignity in the midst of war\, as one character fights to keep his community safe from violence\, and another throws himself into combat. This story draws on her experience working for human rights in Latin America. She is the author of several short stories\, including three published in KYSO Flash. One of those\, “Carnivores\,” is included in Best Small Fictions 2016\, edited by Stuart Dybek with Tara Masih. She has also written nonfiction\, most recently several chapters in the 2nd edition of Foundations for Community Health Workers (Jossey-Bass\, 2016). She was thrilled to attend San Francisco’s only juried writing conference\, LitCamp\, in 2013 and 2014\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference in 2011. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature (Brown University) and a Master’s in Public Health (U.C. Berkeley). She teaches at City College of San Francisco. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when people come from San Francisco\, the North Bay\, the East Bay\, the South Bay–everywhere–to crowd the house. The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for almost seven years. Why There Are Words is going national in 2017\, and is now an independent press\, WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sugar/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Chris Andrews on César Aira
DESCRIPTION:Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation\, Ema\, the Captive\, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. \nMore event details to come. \nChris Andrews is a translator and professor at the University of Western Sydney\, Australia. He has translated numerous books by César Aira and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño\, as well as a critical study of poetry and science and a collection of poems. \nCésar Aira is an Argentine author and translator who has written more than 80 novels and translated and edited works from multiple languages. Aira also writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship\, and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please join us for the final Salon of 2016!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-chris-andrews-on-cesar-aira/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T213000
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SUMMARY:West Side Stories Petaluma: The GrandSlam
DESCRIPTION:Tell everyone you know…\nSo what is the GrandSlam???\n13 Real People\, Telling Extraordinary (True) Stories\, About Their Real Life.\nOne walks away with this year’s title.\nJoin us for our 4th Annual GrandSlam\nDecember 7th\nShow starts at 7:30pm (doors open @ 6:30pm). Last year it was standing room only at The Mystic Theater.\nSo get your tickets now.\nHalf this year’s tickets will be sold on Brown Paper Tickets and the other half on The Mystic’s website http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6961645&pl=mystic\nBut you can get them here til they’re gone http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2641812\nSo go ahead tell your family\, your friends\, ah what the heck tell people you don’t even like\, (the room is big enough you won’t have to sit near them) and you’re gonna want to say you were there to crown this champion.\nAnd the audience will choose this year’s champ…\nThe audience votes to decide the winner!\nWho knows next year it could be you\nBecause everybody’s got a story.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-side-stories-petaluma-the-grandslam/
LOCATION:Mystic Theatre\, 23 Petaluma Blvd N\, Petaluma \, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Michael Goorjian
DESCRIPTION:“Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason\, I have not . . . ” \nIn What Lies Beyond the Stars\, these words ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard\, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen. On the verge of a psychotic break\, Adam begins to have a recurring dream of his early childhood and the hauntingly rustic town of Mendocino California where he grew up. Convinced he has left something behind there\, something vital to his present sanity\, Adam walks away from his current life to figure out what that is. \nOne night on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean\, lost in thoughts of suicide\, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious woman. Later he realizes that she is Beatrice\, a long forgotten childhood friend whose fiery spirit and red hair had filled his young heart with immeasurable wonder. The coincidence of their reunion only deepens as Adam discovers that Beatrice has returned to Mendocino also due to a recurring dream\, eerily similar to his own. \nAre they lost soul mates drawn together through time and space? As Adam begins to hope that his life could be more than a bleak virtual wasteland\, he finds himself a pawn in a game that pits dark forces against those few quixotic souls who still search for meaning\, beauty\, and magic in the world. \nMichael Goorjian is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, filmmaker\, and writer. His acting credits include Party of Five\, Leaving Las Vegas\, and SLC Punk. As a filmmaker\, he achieved widespread recognition for his first major independent film\, Illusion\, starring Kirk Douglas. Other directing credits include the Louise Hay documentary\, You Can Heal Your Life\, Wayne Dyer’s l’m The Shift\, and the Hay House film anthology\, Tales of Everyday Magic. Michael lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-goorjian/
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:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T213000
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure + Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:A landmark work of bio-romanticism\, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet  Michael McClure. The title sequence\, “Mephistos\,” stems from McClure’s ongoing “grafting” experiment\, growing new poems from fragments of his older works. “Some Fringes” is a series of haiku-like nature poems\, while the 17-part “Rose Breaths” derives from the poet’s practice of meditation. The freestanding poems grouped under the title “Being” pay homage to many of McClure’s collaborators and fellow travelers\, such as Bruce Conner\, Terry Riley\, and Dave Haselwood. The book climaxes with “Song Heavy\,” recounting McClure’s recent encounter with a beached whale in Rockport\, MA\, and recalling his classic “For the Death of 100 Whales\,” which he read at the Six Gallery in 1955—the inaugural moment of American eco-poetics. \n Garrett Caples is the author of Power Ballads  (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2016)\, Retrievals (2014)\, The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013). He is the poetry editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He is also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Warren Ellis w/ Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:A Drop of Whiskey with Warren Ellis \nCome join us for a drink with the award-winning writer Warren Ellis to celebrate the publication of his thrilling new book\, Normal. After futurist Adam Dearden has a nervous breakdown in Rotterdam\, hes brought to a secluded recovery center in rural Oregon. As someone who stares into the abyss for a living\, Adam sees things that other cannot. As he finds himself caught between factions at Normal Head Research Station\, strange events start to overtake even the people who job is to predict the future. This crackling horror story was originally published as four digital originals and is collected in print here for the first time. Come join us for a very rare\, very limited event with one of the genres rarest talents. \nEach ticket includes one seat at the event\, one copy of Normal\, one beverage\, and a place in the signing line. The author will sign his prose novels\, but no graphic novels or memorabilia. \nRobin Sloan is the author of the best-selling novel “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.” He splits his time between San Francisco and the internet. \nWarren Ellis is the award-winning writer of the new novella Normal\, as well as the bestselling novels “Gun Machine” and “Crooked Little Vein” and the short story Dead Pig Collector\, which was read by Wil Wheaton for the audiobook. He publishes two very weird newsletters\, Morning Computer and Orbital Operations\, which give fans insight into his working process. Readers also know him from  graphic novels like “Transmetropolitan\,” “Fell\,” “Global Frequency” and “Planetary\,” as well as the movies Red and Iron Man 3\, which were adapted from his works. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the future of cities. A documentary about his work\, “Captured Ghosts\,” was released in 2012. He lives on the southeast coast of England\, way out on the Thames Delta. \nTicket Information: \n$25.00 — This includes one hardcover copy of “Normal” \nThe book will be available for pickup\, and for sale\, at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/warren-ellis-w-robin-sloan/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Day Without Art
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Janell Moon\, Dale Jensen\, Judy Wells\, Fred Dodsworth. Guitar: Hao C. Tran. An open mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. \nFree\, we pass the hat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/day-without-art/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:December Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read in absolute silence. Cocktails and food will be available. This event is FREE to attend. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the school library of the June Jordan School for Equity. \nThis month\, DJ Please Be Quiet I’m Trying to Read (AKA Lemony Snicket) will be spinning records by Joseph Haydn and Count Basie. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here: http://eepurl.com/bZXqKb
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T213451
CREATED:20161129T061519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061519Z
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SUMMARY:Equal Justice: Post-Obama
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Adachi has served as elected Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco since March 2002 and has worked as a deputy public defender in San Francisco for 15 years. From 1998-2001\, he served as the Chief Attorney of the office. As the only elected Public Defender in the state of California\, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 93 lawyers and 60 support staff. The office represents more than 23\,000 people each year and provides a panoply of innovative programs\, including Drug Court\, Mental Health Court\, Clean Slate expungement services\, and a full-service juvenile division. The public defender’s community MAGIC programs address the root causes of juvenile crime in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods by linking families with educational\, health and community services. \nDeRay Mckesson is a protestor\, activist\, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation\, equity\, and justice. Born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he graduated from Bowdoin College and has advocated for issues related to children\, youth\, and families since he was a teen. Mckesson has served as an educator\, student leader\, and founding director of an after-school/out-of school program. He has also provided leadership to the executive teams of large urban school districts. Spurred by the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson\, Missouri\, Mckesson has become a leading voice in the effort to confront the system and structures that have led to the mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is co-founder of the Protestor Newsletter and Campaign Zero. \nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transform the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/equal-justice-post-obama/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book \nThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson\, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and insightful analysis\, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context\, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. \n“Ultimately\, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is an essential read for anyone following the movement for Black Lives. The text chronicles a portion of history we rarely ever see\, while also bringing together data and deep primary source research in a way that lucidly explains the origins of the current moment.” Los Angeles Review of Books \nThis brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation. Dr. Cornel West \n“Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s searching examination of the social\, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation.” Michelle Alexander\, The New Jim Crow \nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylors writings on Black politics\, social movements\, and racial inequality in the United States have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics\, Culture and Society\, Jacobin\, New Politics\, the Guardian\, In These Times\, Black Agenda Report\, Ms.\, International Socialist Review\, Al Jazeera America\, and other publications. She is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. \nAnita Johnson began her journalistic career at Youth Radio in 1994. She was the senior producer for YR’s weekly talk show on WILD 94.9\, and served as senior producer for 106.1 KMELs Street Knowledge\, hosted by Davey D. By 1997\, she was submitting national segments to Marketplace and NPRs Morning Edition\, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. In 2000\, Anita co-founded KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio\, a public affairs program covering news\, views and Hip-Hop. In 2009\, with the assistance of The Association of Independents in Radio\, she founded Beyond The Odds\, a multimedia arts project created to illuminate the impact of HIV and AIDS on low-income and minority young adults (under 25)\, through the use of the Web. In 2010\, she co-produced the documentary film CoInTelPro 101. A well-respected Hip Hop artist as well\, she has performed with singer/guitarist Carlos Santana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation/
LOCATION:Impact Hub Oakland\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
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CREATED:20161018T230906Z
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Bill Ayers\, here on a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book\, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto. \n  \nIn an era defined by mass incarceration\, endless war\, economic crisis\, catastrophic environmental destruction\, and a political system offering more of the same\, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible. \nIn critiquing the world around us\, Ayers uncovers cracks in the system\, raising our sights for radical change\, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane\, balanced\, and peaceful world. \n  \n“For Bill Ayers\, it is the freedom of our collective imagination that links the contemporary world—ensconced as it is in pervasive militarism\, racist violence\, and environmental devastation—to the flourishing of our planet. This is a manifesto that should be read by everyone who wants to believe that “another world is possible.” — Angela Y. Davis\, author of Abolition Democracy and Freedom is a Constant Struggle \n“With huge numbers of us recognizing the need for transformative change\, this ambitious and exuberant book perfectly matches its historical moment. Ayers fearlessly confronts the intersecting crises of our age—endless war\, surging inequality\, unchecked white supremacy and perilous planetary warming—while mapping emancipatory new possibilities. From the first page\, his courage is contagious.” — Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine \n“Demand the Impossible is more than a book\, more than a manifesto. It is a torch. Bill Ayers’ vision for a humane future is incendiary—fire that incinerates old logics and illuminates new paths. If we do not end the violence of militarism\, materialism\, caging\, dispossession\, debt\, want\, ignorance\, and global warming\, our very survival is impossible. Read aloud.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-ayers/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T203000
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CREATED:20161118T025716Z
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SUMMARY:Sticky Pages
DESCRIPTION:Come to “Sticky Pages\,” three gay authors reading their erotic writing\, Monday\, December 5\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Free admission\, hot readings\, and sexy door prizes! Andrew Demcak reads erotic poetry from Zero Summer\, Rick May shares bedtime stories from Inhuman Beings: Encounters of Men and Not-Men\, and Rob Rosen excerpts the juicy bits from his latest novel Midlife Crisis. Want more? You know you do. See you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sticky-pages/
LOCATION:Center for Sex and Culture\, 1349 Mission St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T213451
CREATED:20161201T015819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T015819Z
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: The Racket
DESCRIPTION:Noah Sander‘s new monthly reading series – people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff… bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-reading-the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T213451
CREATED:20161129T054221Z
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SUMMARY:Kay DeMartiniPresents: Fruitcake!
DESCRIPTION:Stories where you can pick out the nuts . . .\nThis gummified traditional treat with its mystery ingredients and non-expiration date\, is a sweet metaphor for this time of year. You can choose lots of things in life – but you really can’t pick which inappropriate outfit your niece will wear to dinner. She is family & you love her. It’s the holidays\, it’s required. \nDon’t miss this One Night FREE – but register\, because there are Fire Laws.\n \nStorytellers TBA \nKay DeMartini – Producer\, Emcee\, Storyteller\, and she can’t be trusted in the open bin section of Whole Foods \nYOU – bring your best 3min Family/Holiday Story – for a shot at possibly telling it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-demartinipresents-fruitcake/
LOCATION:The Golden Bull Bar\, 412 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T200000
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CREATED:20161130T032058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T032058Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Peter Thomas Bullen\, Grady Chambers\, and Tess Taylor\nHosted by Peter Kline \nPeter Thomas Bullen\, hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley\, began writing late\, not just late in life\, but also late at night. Later still he discovered that if you are standing in front of a room\, holding text and trembling slightly\, people will give you their attention. This made him happy. His work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, Red Light Lit\, and the LA Review of Books. In October\, his first chapbook\, Wallflower\, came out from Nomadic Press. He blogs at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com. \nGrady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. Poems of his have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Diode Poetry Journal\, Barrow Street\, Midwestern Gothic\, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland\, and is a 2015-2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nTess Taylor’s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. Her first book\, The Forage House\, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days\, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle\, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor recently was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to study and lecture at Queen’s University Belfast\, in Northern Ireland\, for six months in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-3/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
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CREATED:20161129T062037Z
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert + Cody-Rose Clevidence
DESCRIPTION:a reading & conversation with\nCODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE &\nTC TOLBERT \nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014) and 3 chapbooks\, TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). S/he is Core Faculty in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. His favorite thing in the world is Compositional Improvisation (which is another way of saying being alive). www.tctolbert.com \nCody-Rose Clevidence’s 1st book\, BEAST FEAST\, was published by Ahsahta press in 2014. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, Pearl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert-cody-rose-clevidence/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
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CREATED:20161201T025207Z
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SUMMARY:Buuck\, Troyan\, + LaFrance
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host a night of poetry in celebration of new books by David Buuck\, Danielle LaFrance and Cassandra Troyan! \nDanielle LaFrance is a poet\, librarian\, and independent scholar. She is the author of Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks 2016)\, Species Branding (CUE\, 2010)\, and the chapbook Pink Slip (SIC\, 2013). Between 2012-2016 she organized the feminist materialist collective and journal series About a Bicycle. Since 1983 she has mostly resided on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Skxwú7mesh\, Úxwumixw\, Stó:lo\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \nCassandra Troyan is a writer living in Oakland\, CA. Recent publications include KILL MANUAL (Artifice Books 2014) and A THEORY IN TEARS (ANNOTATIONS & CASES FOR FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION) (Kenning Editions 2016). Currently they are writing with Maya Andrea Gonzalez on the intersections of sex work\, (clean vs. dirty) money\, state violence and the anti-trafficking movement under the purview of neoliberal ideology. They also organize and speak on issues of criminality and sex worker rights with St. James Infirmary in San Francisco\, CA. \nDavid Buuck lives in Oakland\, where he edits Tripwire\, a journal of poetics. Recent publications include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books 2016)\, SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem\, 2015) and An Army of Lovers\, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights\, 2013).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/buuck-troyan-lafrance/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
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CREATED:20161201T020003Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry: Neruda\, Ferrer Lerín\, + Panero
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books in the Mission District to hear the poetry and prose of three great writers of the Spanish speaking world:\nPablo Neruda\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín and Leopoldo María Panero.\nTheir work of the Chileno and the two Spaniards will be read by their translators: William O’Daly and Arturo Mantecón.\nMusic will be provided by Arturo Balderrama.\nQ & A to follow\nLimited open mic \nWILLIAM O’DALY is a poet\, translator\, fiction writer\, and editor. His translations include eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — Still Another Day\, The Separate Rose\, Winter Garden\, The Sea and the Bells\, The Yellow Heart\, The Book of Questions\, The Hands of Day\, and World’s End — all published with Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon will publish his translation of Crepusculario (1923)\, Neruda’s first book of poems\, in late 2017. A chapbook of poems\, The Whale in the Web\, was published by Copper Canyon Press\, and Folded Word Press released The Road to Isla Negra (poems) in June 2015. Folded Word will publish two more books— Water Ways (a collaboration with JS Graustein) and Yarrow and Smoke — in 2017. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, his poems\, translations\, essays\, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin\, O’Daly recently completed a historical novel\, This Earthly Life\, an excerpt from which was awarded as a Finalist in Narrative’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. He has received national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design. To learn more\, please visit him at: www.williamodaly.com. \nARTURO MANTECÓN is a poet and translator born in Laredo\, Texas and raised in Detroit\, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta\, Poetry Now and various anthologies. Recently published books of his translations include Chance Encounters and Waking Dreams (collected work of the great Spanish writer\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín) and The Sick Rose (the posthumous poems of Leopoldo María Panero\, the mad\, genius of Spanish letters). A collection of his short stories\, Memories\, Cuentos Verídicos\, y Otras Outright Lies\, was published by En Casa in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-neruda-ferrer-lerin-panero/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
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CREATED:20161130T031710Z
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SUMMARY:Raucous Realness
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of fab-collab readings by a selection of Nomadic Press and Foglifter Journal and Press authors. Music by TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raucous-realness/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
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CREATED:20161130T031857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T031857Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday December 3\, Babylon Salon’s Winter Reading welcomes double Lambda Literary Award-winning novelist\, poet\, essayist and recipient of a 2016 Barbary Coast Award from Litquake Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories); short story writer and recipient of a 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us); poet and Kundiman fellow Jason Bayani (Amulet); author\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist and Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award recipient Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities); writer and teacher Zach Wyner (What We Never Had). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downstairs performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details: www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T200000
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CREATED:20161118T025140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T025140Z
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SUMMARY:WHEN WE RISE Publication Launch
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the launch of Cleve Jones‘ new memoir and get your signed copies! \nHosted by Juanita More\nDJ Tweaka Turner \nFood from Harvey’s\, Catch\, and Le Mediterranee. \nBy turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS\, which very nearly killed him\, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing\, sexy\, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve’s passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and possibility\, and prejudice and violence alike. \nWhen We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life–an activist whose work continues today. \nPreorder on Amazon today! \nhttps://www.amazon.com/When-We-Rise-Life-Movement/dp/0316315435
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-we-rise-publication-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
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CREATED:20161201T020140Z
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SUMMARY:Ellingham\, Stein\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Stein\, Lewis Ellingham\, and Garrett Caples read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, December 3\, 2016 at 3 p.m\, for an exciting event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAlley Cat Books in located in the Mission District of San Francisco\, at 3036 24th Street (at Treat). \nGarrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections\, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016). He has also written a book of essays\, Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and a pamphlet\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave\, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016)\, Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn\, 2015)\, and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California\, 2013). A freelance writer\, he is also an editor at City Lights\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco. \nLewis Ellingham: born February 27th\, 1933\, Fort Wayne\, Indiana. By age 21\, migrated to San Francisco\, after living in Chicago and New York; settled in North Beach. With Kevin Killian\, wrote a biography of Jack Spicer\, Poet Be Like God [1995]. “My The Birds and Other Poems was published in 2009; new writing continues with a series of self-published books. My blog: “The Ellingham Digest”: http://lewellingham.wordpress.com/” He has a brand new book we launch this afternoon\, SEEN\, UNSEEN. \nSuzanne Stein’s publications and performance documents include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks)\, TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press)\, and Passenger Ship (Ypolita). Poems\, talk performances\, and prose have appeared in War and Peace\, On: Contemporary Practice\, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts\, the Poetry Project\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound. She was the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nFacebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/598929320310766/?active_tab=discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellingham-stein-caples/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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