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SUMMARY:Cherrie Moraga
DESCRIPTION:Internationally acclaimed artist\, Cherríe Moraga delivers a poetic\, heart-wrenching reflection on her mother’s complex relationship to America and the pioneering\, queer Latina feminist daughter who continues down the path of identity forged by her battle-tested matriarch. \nAs a child\, Elvira was hired out as a child by her own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. Leaving California in the late-1920s\, she became a cigarette girl in Jazz-age Tijuana\, meeting a wealthy white man who taught her life lesson of power\, sex\, and opportunity. In her old age\, she suffered under the yoke of Alzheimer’s. In relief against the extraordinary story of Elvira’s life\, is Cherríe’s own journey. Through Native Country of the Heart and her mother’s trials\, Moraga traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity\, as well as her passion for activism and the history of the pueblo. \nMeet Cherríe Moraga – co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back and cofounder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press – one of the most influential artist activists working today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cherrie-moraga/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190425T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190425T213000
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SUMMARY:Franny Choi and sam sax / Soft Science
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Franny Choi (Floating\, Brilliant\, Gone)\, in town to read from her second collection of poems\, Soft Science. Joining her is sam sax (Madness and Bury It). Don’t miss this evening of readings with these phenomenal young poets! \n  \nIn Franny Choi’s highly-anticipated collection\, Soft Science\, she uses the myth of the cyborg to explore queer\, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems guides readers as Choi asks questions not just of identity\, but of consciousness — of how to speak and love\, in a world filled with strange (and sometimes violent) distances. We are dropped straight into the tangled intersections of technology\, gender\, violence\, erasure\, agency\, and loneliness. And we’re asked to examine the biggest question: “What does it mean to be human?” \n  \n\n  \n“Wearing a crown of sonnets like a dime store tiara\, Franny Choi’s cyborg cephalopod is a creature of unending amazements\, unfurling tendril after tendril—some surgical\, some sensual\, some weaponized\, some rubberized—brandishing hypodermics\, vibrators\, cigarettes\, smartphones\, or simply snapping in time to the beat. With uncanny tonal and technical dexterity\, she can play upon your emotions\, tickle your sweet spot\, then press all of your buttons at once. At once raw and radiant\, these brilliant poems are at their most human when they assert their alienness\, at their most ferocious when they dare to be vulnerable.” – Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre  \n  \n“In Soft Science\, the reigning consciousness is split\, human teetering into machine\, machine forced to demonstrate its humanness via acts of ritual testing\, a passion play in which alienation seeks authenticity and dissociation pursues kin. Franny Choi’s generous inventiveness transmutes the book’s violent lore into a ferocious tenderness. In its conceptual heft\, formal virtuosity\, queer imagination\, multi-dexterous approach to language\, and tonal intricacy\, Soft Science is a crucial book for our time – perhaps the book for our time.” – Diane Seuss\, author of Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl \n  \n“Franny Choi’s Soft Science offers an exceptional exploration both of all that comprises the intimate and of all that consumes the communal in our lives. Whether tracking the adventures of the ‘cyborg’ or eavesdropping on conversations between sisters\, it’s all the same world. These striking poems ring through with a singular voice\, creating a society that helps us understand our own. When you open a book of poems\, ‘isn’t that what you came to see?’ Choi builds a world not only of striking beauty and lucid politics\, but also\, more importantly\, with love.” – A. Van Jordan\, author of The Cineste \n  \n\n  \nFranny Choi is a poet\, performer\, editor\, and playwright. She is the author ofFloating\, Brilliant\, Gone and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine\, American Poetry Review\, the New England Review\, and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Senior News Editor for Hyphen\, cohost of the Poetry Foundation’s podcast VS\, and member of the Dark Noise Collective. Her second collection\, Soft Science\, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in April 2018. A current Zell Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Michigan\, she is currently based near Detroit\, MI. Author photo by Qurissy Lopez. \n  \nsam sax is a queer\, jewish\, poet\, & educator. He’s the author of Madness(Penguin\, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press\, 2018) winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, & the MacDowell Colony. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion\, author of four chapbooks & winner of the Gulf Coast Prize\, The Iowa Review Award\, & American Literary Award. His poems have appeared in BuzzFeed\, The New York Times\, The Nation\, Poetry Magazine + other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press & will be a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University this Fall. Author photo by Hollis Rafkin-Sax. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Soft Science\, and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/franny-choi-and-sam-sax-soft-science/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190425T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190425T213000
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SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust\, outgoing poet laureate of Marin County will host this event\, welcoming the new poet laureate and honoring previous poets laureate. The evening will feature brief readings by all. \nRebecca’s books include Paradise Drive (Press 53 Award)\, reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement and The San Francisco Chronicle\, and the Georgia\, Harvard\, and Hudson Reviews. The Unexploded Ordnance Bin won the 2018 Swan Scythe chapbook prize and is forthcoming in 2019. Recognitions include the Cavafy and James Hearst Poetry Prizes\, the Lascaux and American Literary Review Fiction Prizes\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, and Sewanee. Passionate about literature for everyone\, not just the educated elite\, and about using it to further social justice\, Foust is happy to be able to promote these goals as Marin Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for the online magazine\, Women’s Voices for Change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-laureate-celebration-2/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190426T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190426T210000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Foust & Nicholas Friedman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Foust’s book Paradise Drive  won the 2015 Press 53 Prize for Poetry\, and was widely reviewed in such venues as the Times Literary Supplement\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, Huffington Post\, Georgia Review\, Harvard Review\, and Hudson Review.  Her other books include All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (2010)\, winner of the Many Mountains Moving Book Prize\, God\, Seed: Poetry & Art About the Natural World (Small Press Distribution\, 2010)\, winner of the Foreword Review Book of the Year Award for Poetry\, and Mom’s Canoe and Dark Card\, recipients of the Robert Phillips Chapbook Poetry Prize in consecutive years\, 2008 and 2009. Recognitions include the Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, the Lascaux Flash Fiction Prize\, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize\, and fellowships from Hedgebrook\, MacDowell\, Sewanee and the Frost Place.  She is Marin County Poet Laureate and Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change. \nNicholas Friedman’s debut book\, Petty Theft (Criterion Books\, 2018)\, is the winner of the The New Criterion Poetry Prize. B. H. Fairchild called Petty Theft a “brilliant\, beautifully crafted first book” by a poet “who remembers the art of poetry\, practices it superbly\, and so\, like Keats\, is able to offer us the music of Truth ‘proved upon our pulses’\,” and Charles Martin called it “a first book of exceptional achievement.” His poems have appeared in The New York Times\, POETRY\, Yale Review\, and other venues. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He lives with his wife and son in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where he works as a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-foust-nicholas-friedman/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190427T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190427T230000
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day 2019
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz will be celebrating Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday\, April 27th\, 2019\, all day long\, from opening at 9 am to close at 11 pm! Check back for our events and opportunities this year\, or sign up for our events emails. \nWhat is Independent Bookstore Day? \nIndependent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April.  Every store is unique and independent\, and every party is different. But in addition to authors\, live music\, cupcakes\, scavenger hunts\, kids events\, art tables\, readings\, barbecues\, contests\, and other fun stuff\, there are exclusive books and literary items that you can only get on that day. Not before. Not after. Not online. \nWhy are we celebrating independent bookstores? \nIndependent bookstores are not just stores\, they’re community centers and local anchors run by passionate readers. They are entire universes of ideas that contain the possibility of real serendipity. They are lively performance spaces and quiet places where aimless perusal is a day well spent. \nIn a world of tweets and algorithms and pageless digital downloads\, bookstores are not a dying anachronism.  They are living\, breathing organisms that continue to grow and expand. In fact\, there are more of them this year than there were last year. And they are at your service.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2019/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190427T230000
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SUMMARY:Independent Bookstore Day
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 27\, 2019 – 10:00am to 11:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIndependent Bookstore Day is two things: \n\nyour one & only chance to buy one-of-a-kind\, limited edition books and literary gifts.  Never again; never online. AND\nit’s a party in a bookstore!\n\nWe’re still developing the plans for the day\, but so far we know we’ll have: \n\nfree on-demand poetry by Silvi of The Poetry Store from noon to 2pm.  Her time is on us\, but tips are appreciated.\na free scavenger hunt around the store\nfree beer (locally made\, of course) from about 2pm onward\n\nMore detail tk!  Save April 27\, 2019! \n\n\n\n\nEvent Categories:\n\nClement St
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190427T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190427T180000
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SUMMARY:INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY!
DESCRIPTION:events and special offers tba \nhttp://www.indiebookstoreday.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/independent-bookstore-day/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190428T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190428T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:Details to Come! \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, April 28\, 2019 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-3/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190428T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190428T173000
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SUMMARY:Bill McKibben
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years ago\, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he’s broadening that warning: the entire human game has begun to play itself out. \nJoin us for an event with one of America’s most outspoken climate activists. Since authoring his landmark 1989 book on climate change\, The End of Nature\, McKibben’s work continues to provoke authority. In 2007\, Deep Economy predicted the “shop local” movement while criticizing the too-rapid growth of multi-national corporations as they bleached away main streets across America. He founded Step It Up\, 350.org\, was outspoken against the building of the Keystone XL Pipeline\, and offered a frequent voice of dissent in the 2016 election. \nIn his new book\, Falter\, McKibben looks beyond the threat of climate change — to artificial technology\, robotics\, and a rampant onslaught of new technologies\, threatening the variety of human experience. At the core of McKibben’s most recent work is an essential question: What do we want our future to be?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-mckibben/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190428T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190428T180000
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SUMMARY:David Zeltser\, The Night Library
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, APRIL 28\, 2019 – 4:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updated information\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please e-mail info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 26th\, 2019. \nThe Polar Express meets The Night at the Museum in this fantastical picture-book adventure about the magic of books and libraries\, perfect for book lovers of all ages! \nAfter a young boy goes to sleep upset that he’s getting a book for his birthday\, he’s visited in the night by Patience and Fortitude\, the two stone lions who guard the New York Public Library. Soon\, he’s magically whisked away from his cozy home in the Bronx\, and the two mighty lions show him the wonder of the library. There\, the inquisitive Latino boy discovers the power of books and their role not only in his own life\, but also in the lives of the people he loves. \nRaul Colon’s gorgeous\, rich art creates an immersive world in this book about books\, which is sure to capture the imaginations of kids and adults and inspire them to grab their library cards and dive into the worlds of stories. \nDAVID ZELTSER emigrated with his family from the former Soviet Union at age five. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in physics\, he was admitted to vet school to study wildlife medicine\, but ultimately came back to his first love–storytelling. David and his friend Julia Chiapella cofounded the Santa Cruz Young Writers Program’s tutoring and writing center at the Museum of Art & History. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his wife\, Fiona; their daughter\, Naomi; and their dog\, Ella.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-zeltser-the-night-library/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190429T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190429T170000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Folsom Street Fair AfterParty (9/29\, SF)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 29th\, 2019 \nRemember: Games & Cocktails at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM – but we’ll party till Late! \nat the Re-bar Seattle\, 1114 Howell Street\, Seattle WA \nWant a sample? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Over-the-Top Folsom Street Fair Afterparty event includes: \n❤  Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Play Bang-O (& Sniff Test! & OKPervert!) & make new friends \n❤  Reserved Seating puts you right up in the action – Get yours in advance \n❤  Custom Cocktails like the C.B.T.\, the Ethical Slut\, Bawdy Got Me Laid & More! \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n\nPerformers to come – Stay Tuned \n\nAnd for One Night Only\,  join us for a rousing game(s) of \n❤ OKPervert – It’s like an Analog Craigslist Casual Encounters\, but everyone’s right there in the room with you #NoSpammers \n❤ Sniff Test – Bring your you-scented unmentionables and join us for a little pheromone dating. Man\, you smell GOOD \n❤ and Bang-O\, Bawdy’s trademarked way to make new friends and hear inspired stories from strangers \nP.S. We’re always the best date in town but this one – this one is mega-date material! This evening of stories features brand new bawdiness\, and recaps of winning stories. Our Reserved packages are sold only in advance\, so get yours before they’re gone\, cause this show is gonna SELL OUT. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \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. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s Original Sex and Storytelling series – a dozen years ago\, knowing that the world needed a place for people to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender.This multi-city live storytelling event (and Podcast!) welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n• No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n• General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive when doors open for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-folsom-street-fair-afterparty-9-29-sf/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190429T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190429T170000
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SUMMARY:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM
DESCRIPTION:ANI DiFRANCO presents NO WALLS AND THE RECURRING DREAM\nTuesday\, May 14\, 2019\, 7:00pm\nFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\nTickets available now! \nBerkeley Arts & Letters presents an evening with pioneering DIY artist\, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco for her new memoir\, No Walls and the Recurring Dream\, in which she recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom\, combining personal expression\, the power of music\, feminism\, political activism\, storytelling\, philanthropy\, entrepreneurship\, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank\, honest\, passionate\, and often funny pages is the tale of one woman’s eventful and radical journey to the age of thirty. \nAni’s coming of age story is defined by her ethos of fierce independence — from being an emancipated minor sleeping in a Buffalo bus station\, to unwaveringly building a career through appearances at small clubs and festivals\, to releasing her first album at the age of 18\, to consciously rejecting the mainstream recording industry and creating her own label\, Righteous Babe Records. In these pages\, as in life\, she never hesitates to challenge established rules and expectations\, maintaining a level of artistic integrity that has impressed many and challenged more than a few. Ani continues to be a major touring and recording artist as well as a celebrated activist and feminist\, standing as living proof that you can overcome all personal and societal obstacles to be who you are and to follow your dreams. \n—\nAni DiFranco is a Grammy-winning musical artist and feminist icon recognized for her poetry and songwriting which pierces social convention and challenges the status quo\, as well as for her social activism and political engagement. One of the first artists to create her own label in 1990\, she is the mother of the DIY movement and has sold over 5.5 million albums on her own Righteous Babe Records\, and recently released her twentieth studio album. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger\,” her music has embraced many genres and collaborators ranging from Bob Dylan to Chuck D to Prince. She lives in New Orleans. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details: Ani will be pre-signing 300 books for us. The first 300 people with tickets will get a signed book. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ani-difranco-presents-no-walls-and-the-recurring-dream/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:National Poetry Month Open Mic at Odd Mondays
DESCRIPTION:All poetry is local\, specific to one place and one person\, writing into the universal void\, but join with us to celebrate National Poetry Month Monday\, April 29\, 7pm to 8pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. Neighborhood poets Helen Dannenberg and Jeff Kaliss/Writer are the featured readers\, but anyone who lives\, works\, or goes to school in Noe Valley is invited to share poetry they’ve written or a favorite poem by someone else for 5 minutes at a time at the open mic. Sign up by oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com or at 6:45pm on the day. \nHere’s information on our featured poets:\nHelen Dannenberg has written with OWL (Older Writers Lab) this past year and participated in workshops with Sally Love Saunders. She has also received choreography fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, as well as support from the California Arts Council. As a choreographer/performer\, she used spoken word in her pieces. She will have a poem in the upcoming Inpluse Magazine. \nA longtime entertainment journalist and author specializing in music\, Jeff Kaliss has more recently published poetry and other genres in journals and periodicals. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and hosts the Poetry for the People Podcast at City College of San Francisco. He frequents open mics and concertizes poetry with jazz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/national-poetry-month-open-mic-at-odd-mondays/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Grace Schulman
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her book \nStrange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage \npublished by Turtle Point Press \nGrace Schulman is an award-winning poet and the author of seven collections of poems. She has had long posts as Poetry Editor of the Nation magazine\, Director of the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y\, and Distinguished Professor at CUNY’s Baruch College\, where she still teaches. But her love for her scientist husband and her care for him through his long illness proved to be among her greatest inspirations. It called forth her deepest grief at his loss. \nHow did Schulman maintain the independence\, solitude\, and freedom she required within the bounds of marriage? And what made her marriage endure through a decade of living apart? “In my experience\, the phrase ‘happy marriage’ is a term of opposites\, like ‘friendly fire’ or ‘famous poet.’ My marriage has been a feast of contradiction . . . ” Strange Paradise looks at this\, Schulman’s remarkable career\, her friendships with great writers\, her work as an historic impresario at the Y\, her religious and philosophical leanings\, and her grand love affair with New York―all in her magical prose. \nPraise for the writing of Grace Schulman: \n“One of the permanent poets of her generation.”—Harold Bloom \n“Grace Schulman makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to miss any of it.”—Wallace Shawn \n“In a graceful\, engaging memoir\, Schulman . . . writes candidly about her marriage to virologist Jerome Schulman\, her literary aspirations\, and her grief following her husband’s recent death. . . . An affecting recollection of a life rich in literature and love.” ―Kirkus Reviews \nGrace Schulman received the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry\, awarded by the Poetry Society of America. Her seventh collection of poems is Without a Claim\, (Mariner\, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2013). In prose\, her 2018 memoir is Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage (Turtle Point)\, and her collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures (U of Michigan Press\, 2010). \nAmong her honors are the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry\, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, New York University’s Distinguished Alumni Award\, and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has won five Pushcart Prizes and has been featured seven times on Poetry Daily. About her poems\, Harold Bloom has written\, “Grace Schulman has developed into one of the permanent poets of her generation.” And Wallace Shawn has said\, “When I read her\, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old\, because she makes me feel that there is so much out there\, and it’s unbearable to lose any of it.” \nEditor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking\, 2003)\, she is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College\, C.U.N.Y. Schulman is former director of the Poetry Center\, 92nd Street Y\, 1974-84\, and former poetry editor of The Nation\, 1971-2006. She lives in New York City and East Hampton\, N. Y. \nThe Hudson Review was one of the first literary journals to publish her poems\, essays\, and translations\, which have subsequently been published here and abroad. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grace-schulman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST In Conversation with Allison P. Davis
DESCRIPTION:SAMIN NOSRAT & LINDY WEST\nIn Conversation with Allison P. Davis\nMonday\, April 29\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \nTickets Sold Out! \n\n\n\nSamin Nosrat is a cook\, teacher\, and author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Salt\, Fat\, Acid\, Heat. She is an Eat columnist at The New York Times Magazine and the host and executive producer of the Netflix original documentary series based on her book. Nosrat learned to cook at Chez Panisse\, alongside Benedetta Vitali and Dario Cecchini in Italy\, and at the former restaurant Eccolo in Berkeley. As an undergrad at UC Berkeley\, Nosrat studied poetry with Bob Hass\, Shakespeare with Stephen Booth\, and journalism with Michael Pollan. \n\nLindy West is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and the author of the New York Timesbestselling memoir Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman\, as well as the forthcoming essay collection The Witches Are Coming. In 2018 West adapted Shrill as a half-hour comedy for Hulu. Set to air in 2019\, the show stars Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant.  West’s work has also appeared in This American Life\, The Guardian\, Cosmopolitan\, GQ\, Vulture\, Jezebel\, The Stranger\, and others. She is the founder of I Believe You\, It’s Not Your Fault\, an advice blog for teens\, as well as the co-founder of the reproductive rights destigmatization campaign #ShoutYourAbortion. \nAllison P. Davis is a senior culture writer for New York Magazine’s The Cut\, and a contributor to GQ.   She’s profiled artists ranging from Lena Dunham to Michael B. Jordan\, and written on subjects ranging from the first female rapper to sex robots. Davis is a graduate of the University of California\, Berkeley School of Journalism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samin-nosrat-lindy-west-in-conversation-with-allison-p-davis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:D. Watkins
DESCRIPTION:D. Watkins discusses his new book We Speak For Ourselves: A Word From Forgotten Black America. \nPraise for We Speak for Ourselves \n“D. Watkins is uniquely equipped to communicate our political and social challenges of urban America\, not only through the lens of academia but through empirical knowledge as well. He is the voice of the future seamlessly blending the wisdom of the streets and intellectual prowess in a way I have never experienced before.” —Jada Pinkett Smith \n“Reading We Speak for Ourselves\, I can’t help but admire D Watkins. He is not another elite voice for the voiceless. He is\, this book is\, an amplifier of low income Black voices who have their own voices and have no problem using them. He dares us to listen.” —Ibram X. Kendi\, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  \n“In a time of blunt-bladed posturing and hyperbolized impact\, We Speak For Ourselves\, is a sharp gash into the psyche of America. Written as a relentless slice of his own life\, Watkins avoids pretense as he puts language to his jagged experiences\, not to encourage voyeurism\, but to instead push people to grapple and wrestle with the real lives so many talking heads attempt to muzzle\, then fictionalize. Watkins has come to remind us\, everyone deserves the opportunity to speak for themselves. Everyone.”  – Jason Reynolds\, New York Times bestselling author & National Book Award finalist\, Long Way Down \n“We Speak for Ourselves is full of insight into the America that serves as grist for the American dream. Its pages are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love\, not to mention enough laughs for a stand-up comedy routine.Over and over again\, I found myself saying ‘yes\, yes\, he’s right’ and ultimately finished feeling inspired to do better\, to be more. D Watkins proves\, once again\, why he isn’t just a writer of the people but a people’s literary champ for the here\, now\, and tomorrow.” –Mitchell S. Jackson\, author of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family \nAbout We Speak for Ourselves \nFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn\, with searing conviction and full compassion\, D. Watkins\, New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up and The Beast Side lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their raw\, intimate stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening\, We Speak for Ourselves makes us listen\, feel\, and create a course toward change that starts right where we are. \nWatkins introduces you to Down Bottom\, the storied community of East Baltimore that holds a mirror to America’s poor black neighborhoods—“hoods” that could just as easily be in Chicago\, Detroit\, Oakland\, or Atlanta. As Watkins sees it\, the perspective of people who live in economically disadvantaged black communities is largely absent from the commentary of many top intellectuals who speak and write about race. \nUnapologetic and sharp-witted\, D. Watkins is here to tell the truth as he has seen it. We Speak for Ourselves offers an in-depth analysis of inner-city hurdles and honors the stories therein. We sit in underfunded schools\, walk the blocks burdened with police corruption\, stand within an audience of Make America Great Again hats\, journey from trap house to university lecture\, and rally in neglected streets. And we listen. \nWatkins shares the lessons he has learned while navigating through two very distinct worlds—the hood and the elite sanctums of prominent black thinkers and public figures—serving hope to fellow Americans who are too often ignored and calling on others to examine what it means to be a model activist in today’s world. We Speak for Ourselves is a must-read for all who are committed to social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-watkins/
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:Foucault in California
DESCRIPTION:Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade \ncelebrating the release of \nFoucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death \nby Simeon Wade\, Foreword by Heather Dundas \npublished by Heyday Books \n\n\n\n\nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.'” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. \nSimeon Wade was born July 22\, 1940\, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969\, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975\, an experience Foucault described as “one of the most important in my life.” Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard\, California\, on October 3\, 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foucault-in-california/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Norman Fischer - -The World Could Be Otherwise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Norman Fishcher to discuss his new new book The World Could Be Otherwise\, on Tuesday\, April 30th at 7pm. \nAn imaginative approach to spiritual practice in difficult times\, through the Buddhist teaching of the six paramitas or “perfections”–qualities that lead to kindness\, wisdom\, and an awakened life. \nIn frightening times\, we wish the world could be otherwise. With a touch of imagination\, it can be. Imagination helps us see what’s hidden\, and it shape-shifts reality’s roiling twisting waves. In this inspiring reframe of a classic Buddhist teaching\, Zen teacher Norman Fischer writes that the paramitas\, or “six perfections”—generosity\, ethical conduct\, patience\, joyful effort\, meditation\, and understanding—can help us reconfigure the world we live in. Ranging from our everyday concerns about relationships\, ethics\, and consumption to our artistic inspirations and broadest human yearnings\, Fischer depicts imaginative spiritual practice as a necessary resource for our troubled times. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nNorman Fischer is a Zen priest\, poet\, translator\, and director of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His numerous books include What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, Training in Compassion: Zen Teachings on the Practice of Lojong\, and Opening to You: Zen-Inspired Translations of the Psalms. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/norman-fischer-the-world-could-be-otherwise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI In Conversation with May Boeve
DESCRIPTION:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI\nIn Conversation with May Boeve\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, the first planet-wide\, grassroots climate change movement. His first book\,The End of Nature\, is considered the first book about climate change written for a general readership. McKibben has been awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, The Gandhi Prize\, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and has a species of woodland gnat (Megophthalmidia mckibbeni) named in his honor. A former staff writer for The New Yorker\, McKibben regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, National Geographic\, and Rolling Stone\, and teaches at Middlebury College. His forthcoming debut novel\, Radio Free Vermont\, follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. \nMustafa Santiago Ali is the senior vice president of Climate\, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus\, a national non-profit organization that brings together members of the Hip Hop community to enact political change. Before joining the Hip Hop Caucus\, Ali worked for twenty-four years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, most recently as a Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization. His work focuses on cases of social and environmental justice\, and brings a holistic approach to the revitalization of vulnerable communities. A renowned speaker\, policy maker\, community liaison\, trainer\, and facilitator\, Mustafa Santiago Ali has worked with over 500 domestic and international communities to improve people’s lives by addressing environmental\, health\, and economic justice issues. \nMay Boeve is the Executive Director of 350.org\, an international climate change campaign. She has been active in the climate movement since her days at Middlebury College. In 2006\, she co-founded and led the Step It Up 2007 campaign\, which brought together communities from 1\,400 places for a National Day of Climate Action. Four years later\, Boeve\, a self-proclaimed activist\, was handcuffed and arrested in front of the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through it all she has maintained her commitment to fighting for what’s right and in 2015\, Time Magazine recognized her\, as a “Next Generation Leader.” Boeve is a t
URL:https://litseen.com/event/combating-climate-change-with-bill-mckibben-mustafa-santiago-ali-in-conversation-with-may-boeve/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lunch + Learn: Self-Publishing 101 by Author L.B. Lewis
DESCRIPTION:Thought about writing a book yourself but don’t know where to start?\nTired of people always telling you\, “You should write a book”?\nThink you’ve got something good to publish? \nWhen I tell people I’m a self-published author\, the most common response I get is “I want to write a book.” \nBut there’s so much more… \nThis Lunch + Learn is dedicated to sharing more about my journey to self-publishing including what I’ve learned\, pubilshing resources and marketing \nLunch provided. Spaces limited. RSVP on Eventbrite required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-learn-self-publishing-101-by-author-l-b-lewis/
LOCATION:Industrious\, 345 California St\, San Francisco\, 94104
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Berkeley 2050
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley 2050\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, May 1\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate change is a pressing and urgent global issue and a challenge that needs planet and human focused solutions. Join UC Berkeley’s Director of Sustainability and UC Berkeley’s Executive Director\, Center for Environmental Public Policy\, for a lively discussion highlighting policy and implementation action happening in the state\, bay area cities\, and the UC system to reduce carbon emissions. \nThe state has signed into law numerous policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emission from buildings\, industrial processes\, vehicles\, agricultural and solid waste management\, electric power and fossil fuel production and freight transport.  Those policies are continuously evolving to reflect change in technology\, markets and public opinion In similar suit\, UC Berkeley and the UC system have pledged to be carbon neutral from building and fleet energy use by 2025 and from transportation and other sources by 2050. The presenters will cover what is underway in green building\, energy efficiency\, clean electricity\, resource management\, and behavior-based programs\, and how these can help meet these ambitious but achievable goals. \nKira Stoll was the 2016 recipient of The Sustainability Champion Award at this year’s California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. Kira was celebrated for recognizing the critical role staff play in transforming campus operations as well as providing leadership for UC system-wide initiatives. At the campus level\, Kira spearheaded a solar energy procurement project to bring 1MW of photovoltaic energy to campus\, through a collaborative RFQ with 19 other public agencies.  She has also worked diligently to improve alternative transportation options on campus as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions from operations. In her system-wide role as co-chair of the Climate Change Working Group and representative to the UC Global Climate Leadership Council\, Kira has advocated for staff engagement and climate action planning that has driven progress towards UC’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2025. \nDavid Wooley is a Visiting Professor at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy and Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Public Policy. He has over 30 years’ experience with electric power regulation\, climate policy and Clean Air Act implementation.  David is also Of Counsel at the Oakland firm of Keyes & Fox LLP\, a law practice focused on distributed energy resources and is a consultant to the Energy Foundation.  Previously\, David served as an Assistant Attorney General in NY\, taught energy and environmental law at Pace University Law School and was a founder of and Executive Director of the Pace Energy Project.  Later he directed the American Wind Energy Association’s Northeast Policy Project\, served as Counsel to the Clean Air Task Force and as Vice President for Domestic Policy Initiatives at the Energy Foundation in San Francisco.  David is co-author of West Group’s Clean Air Act Handbook (2017).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-2050/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Alan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nPoets and audience will gather upstairs at More Moe’s one hour before the reading. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren-2/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:READING Jenn McCreary and Norma Cole
DESCRIPTION:READING\nJenn McCreary and Norma Cole\nMay 1\, 2019 7:00 PM\nArtists’ Television Access\n992 valencia street\, san francisco\, ca\nFREE\nFree for members
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-jenn-mccreary-and-norma-cole/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Bernheimer and Alli Warren
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 01\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nAlan Bernheimer’s latest collection of poetry is From Nature (Cuneiform Press\, 2019). Recent work has appeared at Across the Margin and at SFMOMA’s Open Space and in The Equalizer\, The Delineator\, and Hambone. The Spoonlight Institute was published by Adventures in Poetry in 2009. Born and raised in Manhattan\, he has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s. He produces a portrait gallery of poets reading on flickr. His translation of Philippe Soupault’s memoir\, Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism\, Dada\, and Surrealism\, was published by City Lights in 2016. More information is at The Electronic Poetry Center. \nAlli Warren is the author of I Love It Though (Nightboat)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award. Other recent publications include Little Hill (The Elephants)\, Moveable C (Push Press)\, Don’t Go Home With Your Heart On (Faux Press)\, and Here Come the Warm Jets (City Lights)\, which was nominated for the California Book Award and won the Poetry Center Book Award. Her writing has been published in many venues\, including Harpers\, Poetry\, Jacket\, The Brooklyn Rail\, and Feminist Formations. Alli has lived and worked in the Bay Area since 2005.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-bernheimer-and-alli-warren/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day: One Big Union
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Andrena Zawinski\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Lenore Weiss\, Dennis Bernstein. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-one-big-union/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:DAVID BROOKS In Conversation with Ryan Bauer
DESCRIPTION:DAVID BROOKS\nIn Conversation with Ryan Bauer\nWednesday\, May 1\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nDavid Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour\, NPR’s All Things Considered\, and Meet the Press. He is the author of The Road to Character; The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love\, Character\, and Achievement; Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There; and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense. In The Second Mountain\, Brooks explores our human relations within our societies — to our families\, careers\, faith\, and community — and how these commitments help us to lead more meaningful lives. \n\nRabbi Ryan Bauer joined Congregation Emanu-El in 2005 where he has helped create and oversee the community engagement department. He supervises the Preschool and B’nai-Mitzvah program and is nationally recognized for his work with Syrian refugees. Before attending rabbinical school\, he studied psychology with an emphasis in Political Economies of Industrialized Societies at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-brooks-in-conversation-with-ryan-bauer/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Barry Gifford
DESCRIPTION:Seven Stories and City Lights present \nBarry Gifford \ncelebrating the release of \nSouthern Nights Trilogy: Night People\, Arise and Walk\, Baby Cat Face \nfrom Seven Stories Press \nBarry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels\, Night People\, Arise and Walk\, and Baby Cat-Face\, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious\, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow cohabit—affably—with the genuine pathos and loveliness of the unforgettable characters that live in these books and the things they say so easily that we’ve never heard anyone say before. God in these Southern Nights is only another possibly deranged near relative\, cast in the only nonspeaking part in this human drama. Everyone else talks and talks. And it’s the dialogue in these novels that make them some of Gifford’s best\, reminders of the author’s seemingly unlimited range and versatility\, a comic-tragic genius for our time. \nAs a character in Night People says\, “Safety first ain’t never been my motto.” \nBarry Gifford is the author of more than forty works of fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry\, which have been translated into over twenty-five languages. From screenplays and librettos to his acclaimed Sailor and Lula novels\, Gifford’s writing is as distinctive as it is difficult to classify. Born in the Seneca Hotel on Chicago’s Near North Side\, he relocated in his adolescence to New Orleans. The move proved significant: throughout his career\, Gifford’s fiction—part-noir\, part-picaresque\, always entertaining—is born of the clash between what he has referred to as his “Northern Side” and “Southern Side.” Gifford has been recipient of awards from PEN\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the American Library Association\, the Writers Guild of America\, and the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. His novel Wild at Heart was adapted into the 1990 Palme d’Or-winning film of the same name. Gifford lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barry-gifford-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon: SAN FRANCISCO: BRAINSTORMING FOR JUNE
DESCRIPTION:MAY 2 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM\nFree! \n\n\n\n\n \nOnce again we come together to pool brains ! Bring your mathematical quandaries\, sweet solutions\, high octane spirits and tales of sleuthing genius for Odd Salon PROOF\, curated by Isolde Honore. \nBrainstorming sessions are free open to all! Come out and grab a drink\, meet the Oddlings\, and share your ideas around the table. \nThursday\, May 2nd at 7pm.\nWe’ll be in the back room at Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, drinking and thinking. Just a couple of doors down from the 24th and Mission BART stop. \nNo formal RSVP needed  – just come out and join us! 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-san-francisco-brainstorming-for-june/
LOCATION:Beer Nerds\, 3331 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Juliana Delgado Lopera with Joseph Cassara\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Juliana Delgado Lopera and Joseph Cassara\n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada”\nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nFor the concluding event as Mazza Writer in Residence at The Poetry Center for Spring 2019\, Juliana Delgado Lopera will be reading and in conversation with novelist Joseph Cassara\, author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, an acclaimed debut novel that “follows the lives of the major players in New York’s 1980s drag ball scene\, made famous by Jennie Livingston’s 1990 film Paris Is Burning.” (full review at The Guardian) Supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation\, this event is free and open to the public. \n“I could write simply\, pero tengo la lengua salada” (*) is the title for Juliana Delgado Lopera’s Mazza Residency with The Poetry Center. Prior to this evening with Joseph Cassara\, she’ll by joined by special guest Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\, for an “afternoon of literary drag\,” Saturday April 27 at The Bindery\, annex of The Booksmith and just across Haight Street\, and will be visiting multiple classes at SF State\, in Women and Gender Studies\, Sexuality Studies\, and Creative Writing\, throughout the week of April 22. \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian\, speaker\, and performance artist based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo!\, an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, and The SF Grotto\, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. She’s the recipient of the 2016 Jeanne Córdova Words Scholarship. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, Four Way Review\, Broadly\, and TimeOut Magto name a few. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco. Much more at julianadlopera.com \n• Make sure to check out Juliana Delgado Lopera’s recent Ted Talk\, “The Poetry of Everyday Speech\,” which took place early this year at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \nJoseph Cassara is the author of The House of Impossible Beauties\, which won the National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for Best Fiction Book of 2018\, is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction\, and was chosen by Barnes & Noble as a Discover Great New Writers selection. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and has received fellowships from the Macdowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He currently lives in Fresno\, where he is an Assistant Professor of English at the California State University\, Fresno. More at josephcassara.com \n(*”but my tongue is salty”) \nRelated event: \nMazza Writer in Residence\nJuliana Delgado Lopera with Monique Jenkinson\, aka Fauxnique\nan afternoon of literary drag\nSaturday APRIL 27\n3:00 pm @ The Bindery (door + bar at 2:00 pm)\n1727 Haight Street (at Cole)\, San Francisco\nfree and open to the public\nsupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nEvent contact:\nThe Poetry Center\nEvent email:\npoetry@sfsu.edu\nEvent phone:\n415-338-2227\nEvent sponsor:\nThe Poetry Center\, Mazza Writer in Residence project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mazza-writer-in-residence-juliana-delgado-lopera-with-joseph-cassara-reading-and-in-conversation/
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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