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SUMMARY:Dr. Kelsey Crowe
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Dr. Kelsey Crowe to the store to discuss and sign There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary\, Awful\, and Unfair to People You Love\, on Tuesday\, January 31st at 7:00 pm. Joining her in conversation will the executive director of the Greater Good\, Jason March. \nWhen someone you know is hurting\, you want to let her know that you care\, but many people don’t know what words to use or are afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. This thoughtful\, instructive guide from empathy expert Dr. Kelsey Crowe and greeting card maverick Emily McDowell\, blends well-researched\, actionable advice with the no-nonsense humor and the signature illustration style of McDowell’s immensely popular Empathy Cards\, to help you feel confident in connecting with anyone experiencing grief\, loss\, illness\, or any other difficult situation. \nWritten in a how-to\, relatable\, we’ve-all-been-that-deer-in-the-headlights kind of way\, There Is No Good Card for This isn’t a spiritual treatise on how to make you a better person or a scientific argument about why compassion matters. It is a helpful illustrated guide to effective compassion that takes you\, step by step\, past the paralysis of thinking about someone in a difficult time to actually doing something (or nothing) with good judgment instead of fear. There Is No Good Card for This features workbook exercises\, sample dialogues\, and real-life examples from Dr. Crowe’s research\, including her popular “Empathy Bootcamps” that give people tools for building relationships when it really counts. Whether it’s a coworker whose mother has died\, a neighbor whose husband has been in a car accident\, or a friend who is seriously ill\, There Is No Good Card for This teaches you how to be the best friend you can be to someone in need. \nDr. Kelsey Crowe is the founder of Help Each Other Out and is co-author of There Is No Good Card for This. She has her PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley and teaches social work at California State University. She hopes for a day when no one has to suffer a personal trial alone because the people around them just didn’t know what to do or say.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dr-kelsey-crowe/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
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SUMMARY:Oakland Crossroads: Last Tuesday's Reading and Open Mic Series
DESCRIPTION:TIME: Doors at 6:30pm; Open Mic Sign-up at 6:45pm; Reading at 7:00pm\nVENUE: Studio Grand Oakland\nAdmission: $5-15 Sliding Scale*\nEVENT TITLE: Oakland Crossroads :: Last Tuesday’s Reading and Open Mic Series featuring Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \n*No one turned away for lack of funds. Contribution to artists and space appreciated. \n“To survive the Borderlands you must live sin fronteras\, be a crossroads.”\n– Gloria Anzaldúa\n\nOakland Crossroads is a monthly reading series and open mic curated by Suzana Huerta. This series occurs on the last Tuesday of every month. This month\, our featured writers include Adela Najarro\, Cassandra Dallet\, and Javier Zamora \nEvery last Tuesdays of the month\, join us for Oakland Crossroads\, a monthly reading and open mic series curated and hosted by Suzana Huerta. It takes its name from the idea that living at a crossroads\, embracing community in all its rich complexity is the only way to resist borders that bind and confine us. Through poetry and story\, in the space of art and song\, we come to together to connect and express the multitude of voices that makes Oakland so rich. \nOakland Crossroads features local\, Bay Area poets and writers. This series seeks to bring together Bay Area based writers\, both established and emerging\, to share their stories\, their hearts—to reveal their own realities and dreams on the mic. Every reading will feature at least one poet or writer from Oakland and will provide an open mic for anyone who wants to read. We welcome all poets and writers\, all levels of experience\, all members of the community. \nSUZANA HUERTA\nSuzy Huerta was born and raised in San Jose\, California. She is an educator teaching full-time at Foothill College. Her writing is featured in Cheers from the Wasteland\, Poetry of Resistance: A Multicultural Anthology in Response to Arizona SB 1070\, Xenophobia and Injustice by University of Arizona Press\, Bordersenses\, La Bloga\, The Packinghouse Review\, La Bloga and other journals. Suzy is a two-time VONA alum\, a Lucille Clifton Scholar at the Community of Writers in Squaw Valley\, and a Macondo fellow. \nADELA NAJARRO\nAdela Najarro is the author of two poetry collections: Split Geography and Twice Told Over. She teaches creative writing\, literature\, and composition at Cabrillo College. This spring semester\, she will teach a poetry workshop\, “Poetry for the People in a Time of Division\,” where students explore personal voice and social justice through poetry and spoken word; English 12B and 14B is currently open for enrollment through Cabrillo College. More information about Adela can be found at her website:www.adelanajarro.com. \nCASSANDRA DALLET\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a Pushcart nominee and has published online and in many print magazines. She has authored eight books of poetry and reads often around the Bay Area. \nJAVIER ZAMORA\nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow\, 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellow\, and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-crossroads-najarro-dallett-zamora/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170131T022001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T022001Z
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SUMMARY:SJSU MFA Open House
DESCRIPTION:If you’re a Creative Writer considering applying to an MFA program\, you should check out SJSU’s dual-genre MFA. We offer tracks in Creative Nonfiction\, Fiction\, Poetry\, and Scripwriting. Meet SJSU’s core creative writing faculty\, and learn about our new two-year curriculum. Refreshments served. For more details click: http://www.sjsu.edu/english/graduate/mfa/creative/index.html
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sjsu-mfa-open-house/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="San Jose State University":MAILTO:alan.soldofsky@sjsu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170131T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170201T041318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170201T041318Z
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SUMMARY:Hari Kunzru
DESCRIPTION:Hari Kunzru reads from his new novel\, White Tears. \nPraise for White Tears \n“A compulsively readable ghost story that features masterly—tour de force—writing about early American blues.”—Rachel Kushner\, author of The Flamethrowers \n“White Tears is a masterful ghost story about a blues song which may or may not exist\, but is definitely alive. Sound\, in Kunzru’s hands\, is both force and material\, carrying fear\, power\, and revenge from body to body. When someone cries “Rewind\,” proceed with caution. History is audible.”—Sasha Frere-Jones \n“White Tears is a hallucinatory and eerily accurate journey into America’s racial unconscious—like an updated version of The Crying of Lot 49\, in which race itself is the secret and arcane system that controls all of us in ways we never fully understand. In an era when the past seems to be collapsing into the present on a daily basis\, you couldn’t find a more urgently necessary\, compulsively readable book.”—Jess Row\, author of Your Face in Mine \nAbout White Tears \nTwo twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America’s great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park\, Carter sends it out over the Internet\, claiming it’s a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real\, the two young white men\, accompanied by Carter’s troubled sister Leonie\, spiral down into the heart of the nation’s darkness\, encountering a suppressed history of greed\, envy\, revenge\, and exploitation. White Tears is a ghost story\, a terrifying murder mystery\, a timely meditation on race\, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hari-kunzru/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170131T051904Z
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SUMMARY:Bad Book Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 11th for a Bad Book Party\, hosted by I Don’t Even Own a Television and Friends\n– come together and celebrate all things related to Bad Books with America’s Favorite Bad Books Podcast(TM)\, I Don’t Even Own a Television!\n– your hosts\, J. W. Friedman and Chris Collision will be bringing a selection of their favorite (and least favorite!) bad books to read from and introducing a fun selection of very special guests (that we’re currently working on and will finalize as soon as we can)\n– want to join in the fun?  Bring your own favorite bad book to the event and we’ll read from it!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/24866/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170114T024911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062500Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Sherman
DESCRIPTION:Set in the early 1900s\, If You Are There follows young Lucia Rutkowski who\, thanks to the influence of her beloved grandmother\, escapes the Warsaw ghetto to work as a kitchen maid in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the bustling city of Paris. Too talented for her lowly position\, Lucia is thrown out on the street. Her only recourse is to take a job working for two disorganized\, rather poor married scientists so distracted by their work that their house and young child are often neglected. Lucia soon bonds with her eccentric employers\, watching as their work with radioactive materials grows increasing noticed by the world\, then rising to fame as the great Marie and Pierre Curie. \nSoon\, all of Paris is alit with the news of an impending visit from Eusapia Palladino\, the world’s most famous medium. It is through her now famous employers that Lucia attends Eusapia’s gatherings and eventually falls under the medium’s spell\, leaving the Curie household to travel with her to Italy. Ultimately\, Lucia is placed directly in the crosshairs of faith versus science what is more real\, the glowing substances of the Curie laboratory or the glowing visions that surround the medium during her seance? \nSusan Sherman is the author of The Little Russian. She is the former Chair of the Art Department of Whittier College and the co-creator of one of the most successful television shows for children in the history of the Disney Network.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-sherman-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170114T024507Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations Edition #41
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations proudly presents\nShow #41 \nThis reading of authors and poets\, features live music within a curated show. \nWe are back in San Francisco on Monday\, January 30\, 2017 at Hotel Rex\, located on Gallery Row\, in the center of San Francisco’s Arts and Theater district. \nWe start the evening with our writer’s mixer at the bar at 6:30 pm. Come share a drink over lit chat and book babble with an intriguing gaggle of Bay Area poets\, authors and writers. \nThe show starts promptly at 7:30pm. \nJoin us\nMonday\, January 30\, 2017\nat Hotel Rex\n562 Sutter St.\, San Francisco \nBay Area Generations #41\nWriter’s mixer at the bar: 6:30 pm.\nDoors Open: 7 pm. Show Begins: 7:30 pm. \n$7.00 suggested donation\n$10.00 suggested with chapbook. \nBay Area Generations is a reading series that features paired readers of different generations. Since 2013\, it has featured over 200 notable authors\, poets\, writers and playwrights in this celebrated literary series: a salon of paired readers with musical guests in a curated\, submission-based show.www.bayareagenerations.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-edition-41/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170131T072115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170131T072115Z
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SUMMARY:Pola Oloixarac
DESCRIPTION:Argentinian writer Pola Oloixarac in conversation about her first novel translated into English\, Savage Theories. \n\nPraise for Savage Theories \n“A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac’s wit and ambition are evident on every page. By comparison\, most other contemporary fiction seems a little dull and simple-minded.” — Hari Kunzru\, author of “Gods Without Men” \n\n“Monstrously clever and terribly funny. More than a debut\, this book is one many of us would spend our lives trying to write.” — Javier Calvo \n\n“Pola Oloixarac’s prose is the great event of the new Argentinian narrative. Her novel is unforgettable\, philosophical and very serene.” — Ricardo Piglia \n\nAbout Savage Theories \nA novel of seduction and madness\, hate and love\, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein\, Rousseau\, Nabokov and Bolano. \nRosa Ostreech\, a pseudonym for the novel’s beautiful but self-conscious narrator\, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics\, struggles with her thesis on violence and culture\, sleeps with a bourgeois former guerrilla\, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly charged blend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus\, Pabst and Kamtchowsky tour the underground scene of Buenos Aires\, dabbling in ketamine\, sex\, video games\, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917\, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness and civilization by reference to our early primate ancestors animals\, who\, in the process of becominghuman\, spent thousands of years as prey. \n“Savage Theories” wryly explores fear and violence\, war and sex\, eroticism and philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess of impossible\, visionary theories\, searching for their place in our fragmented digital world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pola-oloixarac-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170130T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170130T170000
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CREATED:20170131T051314Z
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SUMMARY:Bass\, Hirshfield\, + Howe: A Benefit for SHE
DESCRIPTION:Ellen Bass: “Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetition—it becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” —Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \nJane Hirshfield: Jane Hirshfield’s poetry speaks to the central issues of human existence—desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty\, the many dimensions of our connection with others and the wider community of creatures and objects with which we share our lives. Demonstrating with quiet authority what it means to awaken into the full capacities of attention\, her work sets forth a hard-won affirmation of our human fate. \nMarie Howe: “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” —Stanley Kunitz \nAnd Kim Rosen\, on behalf of the S.H.E. College Fund
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bass-hirshfield-howe-a-benefit-for-she/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170129T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T180000
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CREATED:20161223T030951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030951Z
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SUMMARY:Paulette Jiles
DESCRIPTION:In the wake of the Civil War\, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas\, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them\, the captain enjoys his rootless\, solitary existence. \nIn Wichita Falls\, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier\, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl\, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army\, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. \nNews of the World follows their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain. Johanna has forgotten the English language\, tries to escape at every opportunity\, throws away her shoes\, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass\, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other\, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. \nArriving in San Antonio\, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man\, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. \nPaulette Jiles is a poet\, memoirist\, and bestselling novelist. Her books include Cousins\, a memoir; and the novels Enemy Women; Stormy Weather; The Color of Lightning; and Lighthouse Island. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paulette-jiles/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170129T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161223T033628Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T033628Z
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SUMMARY:Far Out: Poems of the ’60’s
DESCRIPTION:Far Out: Poems of the ’60s features poems from 78 writers including work from several past poets laureate of the U.S. and several U.S. states\, as well as iconic cultural figures\, who remember that tumultuous decade from a wide range of vantage points. This collection covers the most important themes of the time; protest\, civil rights\, the counter-culture\, drugs\, sex\, rock & roll\, liberation\, and the Vietnam War. It brings to life the experiences of people who vividly remember the effects of the assassinations of Medgar Evers\, JFK\, Malcolm X\, and Martin Luther King\, and those who lived through the period of the Vietnam War and the protests against it. Also included are poems from those who experienced the rise of Second-Wave Feminism\, the Civil Rights Act and the emergence of the Black Power Movement\, as well as the Apollo 11 moon landing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/far-out-poems-of-the-60s/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170129T020000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170109T103143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T103143Z
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SUMMARY:Oakland Review #4
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the release of Oakland Review #4 with us! There will be a reading featuring authors published in issue #4 (lineup tba\, so please stay tuned). Hosted by OR eds Paul Corman-Roberts\, J de Salvo\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Laura Zink.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-review-4/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170128T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170109T102905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102905Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, An "Animal" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Night Special is ready to put 2016 to sleep and wake up in a shiny new 2017. (As a reminder\, December is our one hiatus of the year\, but we’re excited for a fresh and sexy January reading). \nGet out your grrr and your fur\, your teeth and tails\, your fierce and feral hearts; our theme for January is ANIMAL! \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur January features are: MK Chavez and Alexandra Kostoulas\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, January 28th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nOakland based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks\, including “Mothermorphosis.” “Dear Animal\,” was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Fruitvale Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she was awarded an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. \nALEXANDRA KOSTOULAS is an award-winning writer of poetry\, fiction and journalism. She is the founder of the San Francisco Creative Writing Institute and publisher of the Mid-Market News. She has performed her work on stage locally and nationally at Santa Barbara Book & Author festival\, Los Angeles Festival of Books\, UC Berkeley\, Beyond Baroque Bookstore in Venice\, CA\, Mills College\, the Lit Symposium at UC Santa Barbara\, June Jordan’s Poetry for the People in Berkeley\, Books and Books in Miami\, and the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and more. \nShe has just finished a book of poems called Leaving Los Angeles about a young poet’s coming-of-age. She is currently working on finishing up her novel\, “Persephone Stolen\,” which weaves in tales of the Persephone myth\, the immigrant experience and stolen artifacts. \nShe teaches people to find their voice and unblock themselves creatively every day at methodwritingsf.com and http://sfwriting.institute/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-an-animal-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170114T010857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062110Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Rachel Richardson + Martin Rock
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Richardson’s new book of poems is Hundred-Year Wave. Victoria Chang says\, “Hundred-Year Wave is a gorgeous book that borrows its vast subject matter from new parenthood\, marriage\, the ocean\, whales\, and Sylvia Plath….Her gifts are wide and deep like the ocean\, as she shows us that ‘we are not lost/ in the vast expanse of lostness.’” A former Stegner fellow at Stanford and a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts\, she coordinates poetry programming for the Bay Area Book Festival and co-directs Left Margin Lit\, a new literary arts center in Berkeley. \nMartin Rock’s collection Residuum was chosen for the Cleveland State Poetry Center’s 2015 First Book Award. Erin Belieu says\, “Martin Rock’s remarkable debut collection\, Residuum\, takes on nothing less than making the unsayable (as Heidegger perceives it) ‘legible.’ I find the partial erasure form of this book dynamic\, and lyrically fluid. Residuum is also genuinely moving and funny in spots.” A translator from the Japanese widely published in literary journals\, he has held senior editorial positions at several journals and is Founding Editor of Loaded Bicycle\, an online journal of poetry\, art\, and translation. Poet-in-Residence at Texas Children’s Hospital\, he helps young patients express themselves through writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-rachel-richardson-martin-rock/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170114T010458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170114T010537Z
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SUMMARY:Be About It Zine #14 Release Party
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/madison-davis/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161201T023002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023002Z
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SUMMARY:Bookswap w/ Marian Palaia
DESCRIPTION:This January\, we have invited the incredible local author Marian Palaia to kick off the new year! Marian’s debut novel\, The Given World\, was shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Fiction\, longlisted for The PEN/Bingham First Novel Prize\, and recognized by Kirkus as a 2015 Best Novel. \nFrom a quiet family farm in Montana in the 60s to the grit and haze of San Francisco in the 70s to a gypsy-populated\, post-war Saigon\, The Given World spins around its unconventional and unforgettable heroine\, Riley. When her big brother is declared MIA in Vietnam\, young Riley packs up her shattered heart and leaves her family\, her first love\, and “a few small things” behind. By trial and error she builds a new life\, working on cars\, delivering newspapers\, tending bar. She befriends\, rescues\, and is rescued by a similarly vagabond cast of characters whose “‘unraveled souls’ sting hardest and linger the longest” (The New York Times Book Review). Foolhardy\, funny\, and wise\, Riley’s challenge as she grows into a woman is simple: survive long enough to go home again\, or at least figure out where home is\, and who might be among the living there. \nBring a book about being lost. As long as you love it\, bring it to Bookswap. You’ll talk about it in groups and hear about the books that other people brought. We’ll drink a bunch of free wine and beer and get to know our guest author. At the end\, we’ll have a big\, rowdy\, white elephant swap\, and you’ll leave with a new favorite (or ten). \n>>> Tickets are $10 and MUST BE purchased in advance. They do sell out! You can purchase them HERE. \n**** Admission includes an open bar\, swag\, and 20% off everything you buy that night.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-w-marian-palaia/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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CREATED:20161201T025052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025052Z
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA Winter Issue Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to host the release of ZYZZYVA: The Winter Issue on Thursday\, January 26th at 7:00 pm. Copies of this issue will be available for purchase at the event. \nCome celebrate ZYZZYVA‘s Winter issue with a reading featuring contributors Kathleen Alcott\, Ella Martinsen Gorham\, Matthew Zapruder\, and Scott O’Connor. We promise a night of exemplary prose and verse\, so please join us! \nKathleen Alcott is the author of the novels Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets\, which was translated into several languages. Her fiction\, criticism\, and essays appear in publications including The New York Times\, The Guardian\, The New Yorker Online\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Coffin Factory. Born in Northern California\, she currently resides in New York City. \nElla Martinsen Gorham‘s story\, I Have Jonah\, which is told from the perspective of a mother of a developmentally disabled child\, was nominated by Edan Lepucki for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program’s James Kirkwood Literary Prize\, and placed second. \nMatthew Zapruder is the author of author of the poetry collections Sun Bear\, Come On All You Ghosts\, The Pajamaist\, and American Linden\, and the forthcoming essay collection\, Why Poetry. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship\, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America\, and the May Sarton Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lives in Oakland\, where he is an instructor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA Program\, as well as editor-at-large for Wave Books. \nScott O’Connor is the author of the novella Among Wolves\, and the novels Untouchable and Half World. He has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award\, and his stories have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/EFG Story Prize and cited as Distinguished in Best American Short Stories. Additional work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Zyzzyva\, The Rattling Wall\, VLAK\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-winter-issue-release-party/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170126T203000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161223T021903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T021903Z
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SUMMARY:Disaster by Madison Davis Book Release
DESCRIPTION:BOOK RELEASE FOR MADISON DAVIS’S DISASTER\nWe’re having a reading / we’re having a show / we’re excited to share this new book with all of you. \nPERFORMERS\nMadison Davis\nFisayo Adeyeye\nWendy Trevino\nOut of Pocket (Sharmi Basu & Angel Castellon) \nPerformer Bios:\n\n//Madison Davis//\nMadison Davis writes about family\, water\, mourning & disaster. Her recent work can be found in Elderly\, Hold: A Journal\, The Portable Boog Reader\, It’s Night in San Francisco but it’s Sunny in Oakland\, & Open House. She lives\, writes\, and works retail in Oakland\, CA. Disaster is her first book. \n//Fisayo Adeyeye//\nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in The Collapsar\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, The Wildness\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the current Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n//Out of Pocket//\nA performance that attempts to create a non narrative experience of the vibrational transition and tension between the material and immaterial that occurs within intimacy. \n//Wendy Trevino//\nWendy Trevino was born & raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She now lives and works in San Francisco. Her chapbook 128-131 was published by Perfect Lovers Press in 2013. Her chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race was published by Commune Editions in 2016. Her poems have appeared in various print and online journals\, including Abraham Lincoln\, Armed Cell\, the Capilano Review\, LIES\, Macaroni Necklace\, Mondo Bummer\, ELDERLY\, and Open House. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMore about the new release: Disaster is an investigation into what is possible when everything goes perfectly wrong; when planes crash\, trains derail\, and structures collapse. The details are put forward as a way to examine how each disaster is mourned as a catastrophic exception to the order of things. Ultimately\, looking at these events creates space to explore the connection between the collective trauma experienced in the wake of a large scale disaster and a personal story of mourning. \nDoors @ 5:30\nPerformances promptly @ 6
URL:https://litseen.com/event/disaster-by-madison-davis-book-release/
LOCATION:Aggregate Space Gallery\, 801 W Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T213000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161017T233319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T233319Z
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SUMMARY:Colson Whitehead w/ Alexis Madrigal
DESCRIPTION:COLSON WHITEHEAD takes on a multitude of issues with original wit and a rich imagination. In 1999\, he burst onto the literary scene with his award-winning debut novel\, The Intuitionist\, which concerned the travails of the first black woman elevator inspector in New York City. His second novel\, John Henry Days\, followed in 2001 and was met with much critical acclaim. John Updike wrote in a New Yorker review that the novel “does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world.” Whitehead is also the author of The Colossus of New York\, a collection of essays about his hometown\, Apex Hides the Hurt\, Sag Harbor\, and Zone One\, a zombie novel influenced by films Whitehead watched as a child. His long-awaited new novel\, The Underground Railroad\, is a magnificent and wrenching chronicle of a young slave’s journeys as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/colson-whitehead-w-alexis-madrigal/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170113T131749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T062003Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Cusk
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Cusk  discusses Transit\, the second volume in a trilogy that began with Outline (a NY Times 10 Best Books selection for 2015) with Caille Millner. \n\nPraise for Rachel Cusk: \n“[A] lethally intelligent novel . . . reading Outline mimics the sensation of being underwater\, of being separated from other people by a substance denser than air. But there is nothing blurry or muted about Cusk’s literary vision or her prose: Spend much time with this novel and you’ll become convinced that she is one of the smartest writers alive.” —Heidi Julavits\, The New York Times Book Review \nAbout Transit: \n The stunning second novel of a trilogy that began with Outline\, one of The New York Times Book Review’s ten best books of 2015.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-cusk/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170113T133818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061858Z
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SUMMARY:Gregg Hurwitz
DESCRIPTION:New York Times-bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz shares his latest critically-acclaimed thriller\, The Nowhere Man: An Orphan X Novel. \nSpoken about only in whispers\, the Nowhere Man can only be reached by the truly desperate\, he can He will do anything to save them. \nEvan Smoak is the Nowhere Man. \nTaken from a group home at twelve\, Evan was raised and trained as part of the Orphan Program\, an off-the-books operation designed to create deniable intelligence assets i.e. assassins. Evan was Orphan X. He broke with the Program\, using everything he learned to disappear and reinvent himself as the Nowhere Man. \nBut his new life is interrupted when a surprise attack comes from an unlikely angle and Evan is caught unaware. Captured\, drugged\, and spirited off to a remote location\, he finds himself heavily guarded and cut off from everything he knows. His captors think they have him trapped and helpless in a virtual cage but they don’t know who they re dealing with or that they ve trapped themselves inside that cage with one of the deadliest and most resourceful men on earth. \nContinuing his electrifying series featuring Evan Smoak\, Gregg Hurwitz delivers a blistering\, compelling new novel in the series launched with the instant international bestseller\, Orphan X.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gregg-hurwitz/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Palo Alto\, 74 Town & Country Village\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170113T132101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T132101Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit Reading Series: New Year Edition
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-reading-series-new-year-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170113T131231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T131231Z
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SUMMARY:Jon Else
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-else-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170109T102709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102709Z
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SUMMARY:Funny Bits: Humorous Stories from East Bay Queer Writers
DESCRIPTION:Ajuan Mance\, Willy Wilkinson\, and Anna Pulley read Funny Bits from their works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/funny-bits-humorous-stories-from-east-bay-queer-writers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170124T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161201T023830Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T023830Z
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:in conversation with Oscar Villalon \ncelebrating the release of \nLucky Boy \nfrom G.P. Putnam & Sons \nA gripping tale of adventure and searing reality\, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. \nSolimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin’s doorstep in Berkeley\, CA\, dazed by first love found then lost\, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity\, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession\, you guard it with your life. For Soli\, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy at her breast her hearth. \nKavya Reddy has always followed her heart\, much to her parents’ chagrin. A mostly contented chef at a UC Berkeley sorority house\, the unexpected desire to have a child descends like a cyclone in Kavya’s mid-thirties. When she can’t get pregnant\, this desire will test her marriage\, it will test her sanity\, and it will set Kavya and her husband\, Rishi\, on a collision course with Soli\, when she is detained and her infant son comes under Kavya’s care. As Kavya learns to be a mother–the singing\, story-telling\, inventor-of-the-universe kind of mother she fantasized about being–she builds her love on a fault line\, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. \nLucky Boy is an emotional journey that will leave you certain of the redemptive beauty of this world. There are no bad guys in this story\, no obvious hero. From rural Oaxaca to Berkeley’s Gourmet Ghetto to the dreamscapes of Silicon valley\, author Shanthi Sekaran has taken real life and applied it to fiction; the results are moving and revelatory. \nShanthi Sekaran teaches creative writing at California College of the Arts\, and is a member of the Portuguese Artists Colony and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her work has appeared in Best New American Voices and Canteen\, and online at Zyzzyva and Mutha Magazine. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, was published by MacAdam Cage. \nOscar Villalon is the Managing Editor of Zyzzyva Magazine. He has formerly served as book editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. A member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle\, he’s also a long-time juror of the California Book Awards\, sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer\, and his reviews have aired on KQED’s The California Report. \nWhat has been said about the work of Shanthi Sekaran: \n“Remarkably empathetic . . . Deeply compassionate . . . Delivers penetrating insights into the intangibles of motherhood and indeed\, all humanity.” —Booklist (starred) \n“How lucky the reader who gets to devour Shanthi Sekaran’s extraordinary\, necessary novel. Lucky Boy is both timely and timeless\, depicting the comedy and delights of the world as well as its brutalities and injustices. It’s a story about immigration\, privilege\, and parenthood\, and shows us how we are connected\, and how we are\, perhaps irreparably\, divided. It swept me away and took a little piece of my heart with it. It’s a perfect book.” —Edan Lepucki\, New York Times bestselling author of California
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20161223T030720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T030720Z
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SUMMARY:Deborah Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:In Nature Speaks\, Deborah Kennedy’s captivating poetry and illustrations bring to life the profound bond between ourselves and the larger natural world. Kennedy focuses on the ecological themes of our time\, infusing art and science with insight and passion. Her powerful poetry and earth-toned ink illustrations feature the elegance of birds and strength of redwood trees\, appealing to the eye\, the mind\, and the heart. Kennedy invites us to listen to the earth to appreciate nature’s grace\, complexity\, and vigoras we move toward pathways for healing ourselves and the earth. \nAn artist and poet\, Deborah Kennedy’s work has exhibited in the United States and Europe. Her art appeared on The Berlin Wall shortly before it was torn down and was an inspiration to thousands who witnessed art at the service of social change. She lives in San Jose\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deborah-kennedy/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170123T210000
DTSTAMP:20260424T215456
CREATED:20170113T124906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061750Z
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SUMMARY:John Hart
DESCRIPTION:John Hart’s second poetry volume\, Storm Camp\, draw a lot on his experiences as a rock climber and mountaineer — a scenery in which some readers find religious overtones. Library Journal said of Hart’s work: “The tough-mindedness and technical excellence of these poems demand and deserve discriminating readers. Religious poetry of the first intensity can still be written: Allen Tate\, Geoffrey Hill\, and now John Hart have done it.” \nSince 1970\, love of land and love of language have met in the work of poet and environmental journalist John Hart. He is the author of sixteen books and several hundred other published works. Hart was awarded the James D. Phelan Award\, the Commonwealth Club Medal in California\, and the David R. Brower Award for Service in the Field of Conservation. \nAlso featuring additional readers: \nPatricia Nelson is an attorney and a board member of the Marin Conservation League. She studied for many years with the “Activist” group of poets in California\, led by Lawrence Hart and John Hart. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Her debut book\, Among the Shapes that Fold and Fly\, appeared in 2013 with Sugartown Publishing. \nJudith Yamamoto\, a long-time Marin coastal resident now a San Franciscan\, has periodical publication including Partisan Review\, worked with Lawrence Hart for many years. Her book\, At My Table\, appeared in 2014 with Sugartown. She is also an accomplished quilter. \nBonnie Thomas of Berkeley created the “Poetry of the Heart” series at Open Secret Books in San Rafael while living in Kentfield. As board member of the Marin Poetry Center\, she met John Hart and began studies with the “Activist” technique in The Lawrence Hart Seminars. She is recipient of the Sui Generis Foundation 2016 Achievement Award for her 2015 Sugartown debut\, Sun on the Rind.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hart/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T190000
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CREATED:20170113T093333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061654Z
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SUMMARY:Kim Stanley Roberts + Cecelia Holland
DESCRIPTION:This event will now be on Sunday January 22nd\, but we’ll still be at The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco. Doors and cash bar open at 5:30pm – program begins at 6:30pm. $10 donation at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of the authors’ work. Further details will follow soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-stanley-roberts-cecelia-holland/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
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CREATED:20170113T092214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T061552Z
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SUMMARY:Will Schwalbe
DESCRIPTION:From the author of the beloved New York Times bestselling The End of Your Life Book Club comes an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. \nWhy is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality? \nFor Will Schwalbe\, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world\, to become a better person\, and to find the answers to the big (and small) questions about how to live his life. In this delightful celebration of reading\, Schwalbe invites us along on his quest for books that speak to the specific challenges of living in our modern world\, with all its noise and distractions. In each chapter\, he discusses a particular book what brought him to it (or vice versa)\, the people in his life he associates with it\, and how it became a part of his understanding of himself in the world. These books span centuries and genres (from classic works of adult and children’s literature to contemporary thrillers and even cookbooks)\, and each one relates to the questions and concerns we all share. Throughout\, Schwalbe focuses on the way certain books can help us honor those we ve loved and lost\, and also figure out how to live each day more fully. Rich with stories and recommendations\, Books for Living is a treasure for everyone who loves books and loves to hear the answer to the question: What are you reading? \nWill Schwalbe has worked in publishing; digital media\, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist\, writing for various publications\, including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The End of Your Life Book Club and co-author\, with David Shipley\, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-schwalbe/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170122T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170122T180000
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CREATED:20170109T102520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170109T102520Z
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SUMMARY:Resist! A Postmodern Times Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join us as some of our favorite San Franciscans offer their writings on resistance in the new year.\nWith\nTony Robles\nKim Shuck\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nJennifer Joseph\nThea Matthews\nhosted by Denise Sullivan and United Booksellers of San Francisco in cooperation with San Francisco Vision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resist-a-postmodern-times-reading/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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