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SUMMARY:Scholes\, Loory\, + Bisson
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Sunday\, December 10\, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with authors Ken Scholes and Ben Loory\, moderated by Bay Area author\, editor\, and raconteur Terry Bisson. \nKen Scholes  is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories.  His series\, The Psalms of Isaak\, is published by Tor Books; Hymn\, the final volume in the series\, debuts on December 5. Ken’s short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award\, France’s Prix Imaginales\, the Endeavour Award and a scattering of others.  His eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman\, a sailor who never sailed\, a soldier who commanded a desk\, a preacher (he got better)\, a nonprofit executive\, a musician and a government procurement analyst.  He has a degree in History from Western Washington University. \nBen Loory is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying\, as well as a picture book for children\, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker\, Tin House\, READ Magazine\, and Fairy Tale Review\, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts\, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He lives in Los Angeles\, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Connie Willis\, Gene Wolfe\, Laurie King\, Nancy Kress\, Lev Grossman\, Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Cory Doctorow\, Peter S. Beagle\, and many others. We hope you will join us! \n$10 at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always\, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of both authors’ work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scholes-loory-bisson/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171211T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171211T200000
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SUMMARY:A Dyke\, a Pervert\, + a Transwoman Walk into a Bookstore...
DESCRIPTION:Authors Deb Busman\, Jordy Jones\, and Natasha Dennerstein read from their recent works.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-dyke-a-pervert-a-transwoman-walk-into-a-bookstore/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171212T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
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SUMMARY:Red Wheelbarrow 2017
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6:30pm and performance begins at 7:00pm.\nFree appetizers and affordable wine\, beer and soda.\nIssues of the new Red Wheelbarrow 2017 available for sale. \nAdmission: $2 Suggested Donation; No one turned away. \nFeatured readers from the new issue of Red Wheelbarrow and from the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize will include: \nLen Anderson\nRose Black\nDave Denny\nAlex Giardino\nRosie King\nLita Kurth\nPeter Nash\nDion O’Reilly\nLisa Allen Ortiz\nMcTate Stroman II\nDavid Allen Sullivan\nAimee Suzara\nRobert Sward\nCynthia White \nIn celebration of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize: \nPartridge Boswell\, from Vermont\nGary Young\nLauren Goldstein\, from New Mexico\nSusan Kelly-Dewitt
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-wheelbarrow-2017/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
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SUMMARY:Matthew McIntosh
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \ntheMystery.doc \npublished by Grove Press \nFunny\, highly inventive\, and deeply moving\, theMystery.doc is a vast\, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy\, a tragedy\, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11\, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel\, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become\, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads\, search results\, web chats\, snippets of conversation\, lines of code\, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts\, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is\, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy\, first love to artificial intelligence\, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell\, the memories we hold on to\, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story\, part memoir\, part documentary\, part existential whodunit\, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-mcintosh/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171214T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T064516Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171214T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents "Identity"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words for its last event of 2017 when the following acclaimed authors will read from their works on the theme of “Identity.” Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. There is a $10 cover charge at the door. Cash bar. \nSusan Kolodny’s latest book is Preserve\, just out from Finishing LIne Press. visit susankolodny.com \nKirk Landers‘ latest is the novel Alone on the Shield. Visit www.kirklanders.com \nRichard Levine‘s most recent book is the short story collection\, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife. Visit www.richardmichaellevine.com/ \nCalder Lorenz is the author of One Way Down (Or Another)\, his debut novel from Civil Coping Mechanisms (February\, 2017).Visit calderlorenz.com \nLily Iona MacKenzie‘s latest is the novel Curva Peligrosa (Regal House Publishing\, September 2017). Visit lilyionamackenzie.wordpress.com. \nTamer S. Mostafa‘s work has appeared in over twenty various journals and magazines such as Confrontation\, Monday Night Lit\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change\, among others. \nChristine No is an Oakland based poet\, essayist and producer. You can find her work in: The Rumpus\, Columbia Journal\, Story Online\, and more. Visit christineno.com \nAnastacia-Renee is a queer writer of color\, performance artist\, creative writing workshop facilitator\, and activist. Her lastest books are Forget It (Black Radish Books) and (v.). \nWhy There Are Words is part of WTAW Press\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. For more info see www.whytherearewords.com and www.wtawpress.org. Peg Alford Pursell is the founder and director of the national reading series and of the press. Visit www.pegalfordpursell.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-identity/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia St.\, Sausalito\, 94965
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
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LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022229Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Gifted'
DESCRIPTION:Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change.\nDoors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm.\nCome early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7:15 PM\n\nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission.\nThis Evening of Kinky Stories & Songs includes: \n\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n❤ YOU? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Brillliantly Sex Songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front – grab em in advance\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-gifted/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
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SUMMARY:THERE 19
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 15\, 2017 –  featuring award-winning\, best-selling local author Tom Barbash\, the very funny Pamela Weymouth\, searing memoirist Dr. Vanessa Grubbs\, and musical guests TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-19/
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:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171215T230000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171208T030206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T030206Z
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SUMMARY:A Very Special Merry Mortal You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:A Very Special Merry Mortal \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… \nFEATURING JOHN ELLIOTT \n& his new album… \nAn open mike & concert… \nFriday\, December 15th!!! \nAt the Swedish American Music Hall! \nDoors at 7pm \nShow at 8pm \nTickets $15
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-very-special-merry-mortal-youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171216T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171216T223000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171208T025259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T025259Z
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Holiday Show
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit’s Holiday Show emceed by Jenn Stokes\, comedy by Emily Van Dyke\, musical guest Laura Weinbach\, and readings from Peter ThomasBullen\, JiaJing Liu\, Kimmer Pierce and Kimberly Reyes alongside a live score by David Williams and piano by accompaniment Sarah Dineen – Private Parlor Show at The Lost Church. \nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1595636\n$15 before and $20 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show. \nOnline sales are active until 9:30pm the night of show (unless sold out). You can purchase tickets right at the door using a card via your phone and the above Ticketfly.com link. Old-fashioned cash is also accepted. \nAges 12 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-holiday-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T073112Z
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SUMMARY:Poets Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate) & Jerry Ferraz - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic every first & third Monday
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171218T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171218T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171208T022616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T022616Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #52
DESCRIPTION:*Free off street parking in garage\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 pm  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$7.00 (admission)\n$10.00 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-52/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171215T073112Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-9/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T070030Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:CA
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180111T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180111T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20180107T033103Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180107T033103Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Celebrates 8 Years in Sausalito
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito to celebrate 8 years of live author readings on January 11\, 2018 at Studio 333 (333 Caledonia St.) Featured readers are Rob Davidson\, Lynn Freed\, Jared Joseph Harvey\, Shawna Kay Rodenberg\, Colin Winnette\, and Rebecca Winterer. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. Peg Alford Pursell will emcee.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-celebrates-8-years-in-sausalito/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180113T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171022T012819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T012819Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Rob Reid (After On\, Year Zero)\nFrances Stroh (Beer Money)\nBrontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-8/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180115T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171222T073027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180112T073027Z
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SUMMARY:Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stephen-kopel-and-clyde-always-poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180118T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180118T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170926T012411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T015649Z
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SUMMARY:Martha Ronk + Brian Turner
DESCRIPTION:Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry\, including Ocular Proof\, Omnidawn\, 2016\, Transfer of Qualities\, Omnidawn\, long-listed for the National Poetry Award\, Partially Kept\, published by Nightboat Books\, Vertigo\, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press\, In a landscape of having to repeat\, a PEN USA best poetry book published by Omnidawn Press\, and Why/Why Not from UC Press. She has also published a quasi-memoir\, Displeasures of the Table\, from Green Integer\, and a collection of stories\, Glass Grapes and Other Stories\, BOA Editions. She has had several residencies at Djerassi and MacDowell\, is an NEA recipient\, and is the Irma and Jay Price Emeritus Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles.\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army. He is the author of two poetry collections\, Phantom Noise and Here\, Bullet\, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award\, the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection\, the 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award\, the 2007 Poets Prize\, and others. Turner’s work has been published in National Geographic\, The New York Times\, Poetry Daily\, Harper’s Magazine\, and other fine journals. Turner has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship\, an NEA Fellowship\, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship\, and more. His recent memoir\, My Life as a Foreign Country\, has been called\, “achingly\, disturbingly\, shockingly beautiful.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/martha-ronk-brian-turner/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180119T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180119T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170621T002404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T002404Z
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SUMMARY:Maggie Nelson
DESCRIPTION:“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today\, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. . .”  The Guardian \nMaggie Nelson is a poet\, critic\, and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial\, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning\, and The Argonauts– “a beautiful\, passionate and shatteringly intelligent meditation on what it means not to accept binaries but to improvise an individual life that says\, without fear\, yes\, and.”—Chicago Tribune. Nelson is also the author of four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the University of Southern California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-nelson-2/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180123T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180123T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170621T002245Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Alarcón
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles\, which was a finalist for the 2014 Pen-Faulkner Award\, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight\, the novel Lost City Radio\, and the graphic novel City of Clowns. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker\, the New York Times Magazine\, Granta\, n+1\, and Harpers\, and he was named one of the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” He is Executive Producer of “Radio Ambulante\,” distributed by NPR\, and is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daniel-alarcon/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180125T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180125T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171022T040953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T040953Z
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SUMMARY:phren-Z\, Live Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served! \nphren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes\, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association\, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/phren-z-live-reading/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180128T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180128T170000
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-5/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180128T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20180128T230104Z
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SUMMARY:David Henderson
DESCRIPTION:David Henderson makes a rare appearance in San Francisco to read his poetry and talk with the audience\, returning from his longtime home on New York’s Lower East Side. Free.\n\n\n\n\nHenderson became connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop\, where he served as an editor its magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998)\, and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. \nThe author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition Love in Outer Space\,Henderson has also recorded with saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (Science Fiction) and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. Henderson is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix\, Voodoo Child (2009)\, and the writer and producer of an award-winning documentary on African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation. \nRecent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009)\, Obama\, Obama (2012)\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013) and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York\, Henderson has taught in its SEEK program and has been a visiting professor at University of California\, Berkeley; University of California\, San Diego; State University of New York\, Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first fellow of lost and found at the Poetics Document Initiative at City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-henderson/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180201T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180201T125000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170816T002301Z
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert
DESCRIPTION:TC 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 and three chapbooks\, Tolbert is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. S/he is currently studying to be an EMT and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. Tolbert was recently named Tucson’s Poet Laureate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180205T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180307T000000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20180206T050149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T050149Z
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SUMMARY:MARY: A Journal of New Writing
DESCRIPTION:MARY: A Journal of New Writing is accepting submissions for our Spring 2018 issue. If you have poetry\, nonfiction\, or fiction you would like to share\, please send it our way! Authors of works selected for the Spring 2018 Issue will be offered a small honorarium. Submissions are open until March 7th. We look forward to reading your work! For more information about our submission guidelines\, please use the following link: https://www.stmarys-ca.edu/nod e/15842
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mary-a-journal-of-new-writing-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061639Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-10/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20170324T014543Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180202T070008Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-11/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20180206T045054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T045054Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents “Reparations”
DESCRIPTION:Why There Are Words Presents: Reparations \n  \nSAUSALITO\, CA (January 24\, 2018) – Join Why There Are Words on February 8th\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Reparations.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nLaurie Doyle‘s new collection of stories\, World Gone Missing (Regal House Publishing\, 2017)\, was named as a top book pick by The East Bay Express. Her stories and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review\, Jabberwock Review\, and Under the Sun\, among many other literary journals. www.laurieanndoyle.com \nScott Esposito is the author of four books\, most recently The Doubles from Civil Coping Mechanisms (2017). He is a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle\, and his work has appeared in BOMB Magazine\, Tin House\, The White Review\, The Lifted Brow\, The Believer\, The Washington Post\, and others. \nShauna Hannibal is the author of Hannibal (Forklift Books\, 2017)\, her debut collection of poetry\, with praise from Laura Kasischke and Dean Young. Her work has appeared in jubilat\, Big Bell\, Forklift\, Ohio\, and others. \nKevin McIlvoy’s published works include the story collections 57 Octaves Below Middle C\, published by Four Way Books in September 2017\, and The Complete History of New Mexico\, as well as the novels The Fifth Station\, Little Peg\, and Hyssop. www.mcthebookmechanic.com \nTomas Moniz edited Rad Dad and Rad Families. His novella Bellies and Buffalos is about friendship\, family and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. He’s the recipient of the SF Literary Arts Foundation’s 2016 Award\, the 2016 Can Serrat Residency\, the 2017 Caldera Residency and others. tomasmoniz.weebly.com \n  \nKathleen Winter is the author of two poetry collections\, I will not kick my friends (Elixir Press 2018)\, winner of the Elixir Poetry Prize\, and Nostalgia for the Criminal Past\, \nwhich received the 2013 Texas Institute of Letters first book award. Her poems are forthcoming in The New Statesman\, Yale Review\, Barrow Street\, Confrontation\, and others. \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to five additional major cities in the U.S. with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-reparations/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20171022T012927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T012927Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Steph Burt (Advice from the Lights\, Belmont)\nAngela Pneuman (Lay It on My Heart)\nEllen Klages (Passing Strange\, Wicked Wonders) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-9/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180211T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180211T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T052424
CREATED:20180206T045704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T045704Z
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SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines - Uniquely SF Stories By SF Writers
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by editor\, Denise Sullivan\, featuring contributors Sylvia J. Martinez\, Shizue Seigel\, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon\, Lynell George and special guests. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nArtist evictions\, tech invasions – where will it end? This collection of uniquely San Francisco stories from a wide range of voices wrests wisdom from chaos and channels boundless progressive energy into lyrical short Artist evictions\, stories and personal narratives. Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuance as home and beacon to the literary vanguard\, situated at the edge of the world.\n\n\n\nSylvia J. Martínez is a writer and adult school ESL teacher. Her work has appeared in In Media Res: Stories from the In-Between (WriteSpace 2016)\, The East Bay Review\, Cipactli\, Word Riot\, Tattoo Highway\, and the San Francisco Examiner\, among others. She earned her MFA from San Francisco State and is working on her first collection of stories.   Shizue Seigel is a third-generation Japanese American writer and visual artist who has lived in San Francisco since 1958. She loves the city’s ever-changing diversity\, but misses the Fillmore\, the old Mission and Japantown\, fog and foghorns\, working docks\, the Belt Line. Her books include In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment and Standing Strong: Fillmore and Japantown.  Her latest project\, Endangered Species\, will be out in 2018.   \n Barbara Stauffacher Solomon is a Swiss-trained graphic designer with a masters degree in architecture. An award-winning landscape artist\, she conceived the signage and supergraphics at The Sea Ranch and Ghirardelli Square and the Ribbon of Light along the Embarcadero in San Francisco. \n\n\nLynell George will be here for a rare SF reading. She is a Los Angeles-based journalist\, essayist and photographer. She has written for KCET’s Artbound\, The Los Angeles Times\, the LA Weekly\, and she taught journalism at Loyola Marymount University. She is the author of No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels (Verso/Doubleday).\n\n\n  \n Denise Sullivan is a fourth-generation San Franciscan. She writes about music\, arts\, and culture and her hometown\, and is the author of six titles\, including Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip Hop and a chapbook\, Awful Sweet. She is at work on the biography of singer-songwriter Eugene McDaniels\, composer of the contemporary jazz standard\, “Compared To What\,” and the San Francisco memoir\, Sunnyside Up\, set in the Ingleside District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-uniquely-sf-stories-by-sf-writers/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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