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SUMMARY:December Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nMaya Pindyck\nMaya Pindyck is the author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books)\, Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, and Locket\, Master (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Series). A multidisciplinary artist\, she has received grants and fellowships in support of her work from the Historic House Trust of New York City’s Contemporary Art Partnerships Program\, the Abortion Conversation Project\, Squaw Valley Writers\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been recently published in Waxwing\, The Wide Shore\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Feminist Wire. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Teachers College\, Maya teaches at Parsons School of Design and Long Island University and facilitates youth writing workshops through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. \nKatherine Agard\nKatherine Agard is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently based in California. Her writing has been supported by Lambda Literary\, Kimbilio\, Callaloo and VONA/Voices\, the University of California – San Diego and Harvard University. She writes and performs her relationship to color – material\, socio-cultural\, spiritual – and the language which allows us to perceive it. You can find out more about her work at http://www.kmagard.com \nChloe Caldwell\nChloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women and two essay collections Legs Get Led Astray and I’ll Tell You in Person. Her work has appeared in the Sun\, Salon\, Vice\, Catapult\, Hobart\, Nylon\, the Rumpus\, Men’s Health\, and Lenny\, among others. She teaches personal essay and memoir writing in New York City and lives in Hudson\, NY. \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nBased in Oakland CA but having spent most of her life moving between city centers\, the Navajo Nation\, and the Gila River Indian Community\, Grace Rosario Perkins is interested in disassembling her personal narrative and reassembling it as one that layers words\, objects\, faces\, and signifiers built from cultural dissonance\, language\, and history. \nGrace is one of the core founders of Black Salt Collective\, an all women of color art collective that is a recent SFMOMA SECA Award nominee\, has had their collaborative work screened in six countries\, and recently curated a 30+ artist show titled “Visions into Infinite Archives” at SOMArts in SF which received press from publications such as the SFChronicle\, Dazed Magazine\, KQED\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T213000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit w/ Maria Popova
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nMaria Popova is the highly creative mind behind Brain Pickings. Founded in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven of Popova’s close friends\, Brain Pickings is now one of the fastest growing literary sites on the Internet. A resource for writings spanning art\, science\, psychology\, design\, philosophy\, history\, politics\, anthropology\, and more\, the site explores how these different disciplines illuminate one another to glean some insight into that grand question of how to live\, and how to live well. Popova has written for Wired UK\, The Atlantic\,The New York Times\, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab\, among others\, and is a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-w-maria-popova/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:2016-2017 Steinbeck Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange poetry winner and a Barbara Deming Fund grantee. Her work is published in crazyhorse\, CALYX\, The James Franco Review and Acentos Review\, and she is a cofounder of Women Who Submit. Her debut poetry collection\, Built with Safe Spaces\, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications. She plans to spend her fellowship year finishing Dear Lupe\,an epistolary novel that imagines the story of “Curley’s Wife\,” the nameless character from John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. \nGary Singh is a journalist who has published nearly 1\,000 articles in trade and consumer publications. For 530 straight weeks\, his newspaper columns have appeared in Metro\, the alternative weekly paper of San Jose and Silicon Valley. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (The History Press 2015). His poems have been published in The Pedestal Magazine\, Dirty Chai\, Maudlin House and elsewhere. He plans to spend his fellowship year working on a biography of A. D. M. Cooper (1856-1924)\, a controversial American painter who made the Old West his subject matter. He also plans to complete a contemporary novel already in progress and tangentially related to the nonfiction work. \nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-2017-steinbeck-fellows/
LOCATION:Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies\, SJSU\, 1 Washington Square \, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer welcomes Nomadic Press\, an innovative publisher based in Oakland and Brooklyn. The press publishes books\, chapbooks\, and periodicals and fosters community through frequent readings in both cities. Founder J.K. Fowler presents 3 Queer authors published by the press and Queer musician Azuah. M.K. Chavez reads from her new full-length poetry collection Dear Animal\, Arisa White from her poetry chapbook Black Pearl\, and Kwan Booth from selected writing. Azuah is a singer\, songwriter\, and guitarist. For more information on Nomadic Press\, see nomadicpress.org. Free admission\, refreshments\, and door prizes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-perfectly-queer/
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:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030316Z
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SUMMARY:Rosenthal\, Duncan\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Lizard (poetry\, Chax\, 2016) and Manhatten (cross-genre\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). Her interview collection A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area was published by Dalkey Archive in 2010. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Chicago\, she lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury. \nAja Couchois Duncan’s poetry collection Restless Continent was published by Litmus Press in 2016. Duncan\, a Bay Area educator\, writer and coach of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent\, is the recipient of a 2005 Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and a 2013 James D. Phelan Literary Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along. \nArisa White is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury\, 2016)\, Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Artists Collective\, 2012)\, and A Penny Saved (Willow\, 2012). In 2013–14 she received a Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera\, and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund a project called dear Gerald. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a BFA faculty member at Goddard College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosenthal-duncan-white/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:Beagle\, Raeff\, Yim Caples\, + Aggarwal
DESCRIPTION:Peter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nAnne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us)\nVariny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)\nGarrett Caples (Retrievals)\nVidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble with Humpadori) \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/beagle-raeff-yim-caples-aggarwal/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020247Z
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SUMMARY:Dillon\, Hart\, + Hannibal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from poets Russell Dillon\, Matt Hart\, and Shauna Hannibal hosted by Jason Morris
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dillon-hart-hannibal/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161129T061821Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release II: Dear Animal\, MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:If you couldn’t make the first release at Studio Grand\, please join us at our soon-to-be-additional-home at 2301 Telegraph Avenue with our dear friends and community partners\, Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, for the second release of Mk Chavez‘ much-anticipated full-length poetry collection\, Dear Animal\,. Readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Arisa White\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Ingrid Keir\, and of course\,Mk Chavez. Music by James Meder. Book signing to follow. \nGnosh\, wine\, beer\, and books—it’ll be another great night in a beautiful space! \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-ii-dear-animal-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: See You in the Morning Light
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://seeyouinthemorninglight.bpt.me\n$15 in advance and $15 at the door.\n(If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact ned@yg2d.com.) \nAn evening of music & art\, a communal grief release\, a live presentation of Deep Pools’ new album SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT. \n“See You In The Morning Light” is Scott Ferreter’s attempt to shine light on the beauty that grief offers when it is fully felt. In 2012\, he moved back to his hometown of Sacramento upon getting the news that his father was dying of stage 4 stomach cancer. During that time\, he played music constantly as he soaked up his father’s last days alongside his family\, and would spend 4 years trying to capture the vibrancy of those days in sound. His intention was to make an album that would invite listeners more deeply into the experience of being alive on a planet where everything eventually leaves. \nAll said and done\, the record has 22 musicians\, was recorded across 6 different studios\, and includes field recordings from around the world. The vision was to put as much care into the microscopic sounds as the major ones and to give as much space for the difficult feelings as the pleasant ones. Instead of planning out a normal recording process\, Scott continually listened to what the record was asking of him\, and this meant that the final trajectory of the record ended up being far more bizarre and magical than anything he could have planned. Some of his closest friends and favorite musicians recorded on the record\, including the legendary Suzanne Ciani. \nDeep Pools: http://www.deep-pools.com/ \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-see-you-in-the-morning-light/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
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SUMMARY:Susan Isa Efros
DESCRIPTION:Girls Gone Astray is a collection of short and shorter stories about women in their teens to eighties who venture off the traditional path to discover unexpected and potent truths about themselves. A high school student falls in love with her best girlfriend and promises not to tell anyone; a wealthy elderly woman with dementia goes for a drive with a homeless man; a psychic gets locked out of her office and with the help of her spirit guide talks her way back inside; a teenager idolizes her uncle until she finds out who he really is; a woman writer unaware that she has only twenty minutes to live is obsessed with getting a cup of coffee. These and other smart\, provocative\, humorous and emotionally charged stories will surprise and delight you. \nSusan Isa Efros‘ work has appeared in Amelia\, Ascent\, Christopher Street\, the Feminist Art Journal\, Narrative Magazine\, the Patterson Literary Review\, Paris Transcontinental\, Yellow Silk and is forthcoming in Juked. She is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Funny Times. She is the author of Walking Vanilla\, a novel\, and the editor of This Is Women’s Work\, an anthology. Susan was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Writers Grant in 2003 for her short fiction\, “The Ozzie and Harriet Factor.” She lives in Marin County with Jerilyn Gilbert\, her partner of 30 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-isa-efros/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Holidays w/ Poetry + Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Ring in the holidays with a swingin’ evening of poetry and jazz\, featuring: \n\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nJazz Poet Extraordinaire\nLucho\nCubano Saxophonist\n\n…and a lineup of poets and musicians from both sides of the Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-holidays-w-poetry-jazz/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161118T031323Z
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SUMMARY:Two-Faced Land: Tongo Eisen-Martin + Leila Farmjami
DESCRIPTION:“It is a backward version of birth / Which is better stated as a re-birth” (Sun Ra). Revolutionary poet Tongo Eisen-Martin (Someone’s Dead Already) and poet and translator Leila Farjami read from their work. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. \nLeila Farjami\, a poet\, psychotherapist\, and literary translator is the author of seven poetry books in Persian. As an immigrant who has lived mainly in US since an early age\, her poems capture her experiences in the diaspora in addition to the history of her formative years in Iran as a child witnessing war and daily violence. Farjami’s current projects include publication her translated texts and poems in English\, and the publication of a comprehensive volume of Sylvia Plath’s poetry in Persian. \nProgrammer Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker\, poet\, and visual artist who lives in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various publications such as Streetnotes\, Amerarcana\, Eleven Eleven\, and Dusie. Her chapbook Triangle Squared was published by Bootstrap Press. She is currently working on a project with poet Patrick James Dunagan involving translation of the poetry of Hafez into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-faced-land-tongo-eisen-martin-leila-farmjami/
LOCATION:The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Launch party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in the new West Marin Review\, Volume 7. This award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, and art selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists\, several from San Francisco. West Marin Review is published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Radio Heart
DESCRIPTION:MC: PAUL OCAMPO\, KSW Board Member \nparty \nto gather artists\, activists\, citizens of the bay area\, in resistance and solidarity. we will dance\, drink\, and poetry. \nchapbook launch \nto celebrate the publication of radio heart; or\, how robots fall out of love (finishing line press\, 2016) by margaret rhee.\n\nmany of these poems were written with the guidance of truong tran and kearny street workshop. we want to take time to honor where the poetry emerged from\, we write together\, and not alone. \nfeaturing \nDEBBIE YEE\nVIRGIE TOVAR\nSEAN Y MANZANO\nMARIA FIANI\nDANIEL REDMAN\nISELA FORD with\nMARGARET RHEE \naward ceremony \nto honor artist and poet TRUONG TRAN for years of service\, mentorship\, and friendship to writers and artists of color in the bay area. to celebrate and express our gratitude for his indomitable\, gorgeous radical spirit fighting for what is fair and good. \nthis award will be given by CAPRE (Concerned Artists and Poets for Racial Equity) in light of the post-elections\, and the need for resistance. \nwe will celebrate truong with testimonials of his mentorship and impact of his art and poetry\, we also invite attendees to share their words of resistance in the space. \nALSO\, \non display\, speciality books by graphic design firm THE MYSTERY PARADE: themysterparade.com \nCAKE – DRINKS – PRETTY THINGS \nBIOS: \nIsela Ford\, born in Mexico and later emigrated to San Francisco\, in the mid-seventies\, is committed to improving the lives of marginalized peoples and creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. Growing up in the Mission District during the 1970’s and 1980’s set the foundation for learning\, growing\, and appreciating people and cultures from all walks of life. Her appreciation and committment uplifting disenfranchised people\, particularly people of color\, led her to work for the SF Department of Public Health\, specifically working with adults in SF jails for over 15 years. \nMaria is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her academic work focuses on P.T.S.D.\, moral injury\, and suicide; in addition to her academic life\, she is an ARC fellow\, a YBCA arts fellow\, co-founder of the Life Writing Student and New Scholar Network and co-founder of an art collective titled (Un)Forbidden: a Valediction \nPaul was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US at eleven years old. He earned a Master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA and MFA in creative writing at ASU. He has been published in anthologies and magazines including Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace and The New Engagement. He currently works at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. \nVirgie Tovar travels around the world lecturing on the social effects of fat discrimination and diet culture. She is the founder of Babecamp\, a 4 week online course designed for women who want to break up with diet culture but don’t know how. She started thr hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, Al Jazeera and NPR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistance-radio-heart/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: “Sugar”
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on December 8\, 2016\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito to hear the following acclaimed authors read from their works on the sweet theme of “Sugar.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10. \nJonathan Cardew’s stories\, interviews\, and articles appear or are forthcoming in Atticus Review\, Flash\, The Forge\, JMWW\, Rocky Mountain Revival\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and Segue\, among others. He holds an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University\, and he teaches English at Milwaukee Area Technical College\, where he co-edits The Phoenix Literary and Arts Magazine. He was a finalist in this year’s Best Small Fictions. \nRussell Dillon is the editor of Big Bell magazine and author of the chapbook\, Secret Damage\, as well as the full-length collection\, Eternal Patrol. Formerly a James Merrill fellow at the Vermont Studio Center\, he is also a regular participant in the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop\, and his work has appeared in Parthenon West\, Green Mountain Review\, Coldfront\, H_NGM_N\, Forklift Ohio\, and others.  He began life in New York\, continued it in San Francisco\, and now continues it further in New York. \nGrant Faulkner likes big stories and small stories. He is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, The Southwest Review\, PANK\, and Gargoyle. He’s recently published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, two of which are included in Best Small Fictions 2016. He has a book of essays on creativity coming out with Chronicle Books in the fall of 2017. \nChristine Hale is the author of A Piece of Sky\, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations (Apprentice House Press\, 2016)\, which the Los Angeles Review of Books calls “a portrait of a consciousness…[that] will bruise you…even leave you permanently marked.” Her prose has appeared in Role Reboot\, Arts & Letters\, Spry\, Shadowgraph\, Hippocampus\, and Watershed Review\, among other publications. Her debut novel Basil’s Dream (Livingston Press\, 2009) received honorable mention in the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. A fellow of MacDowell\, Ucross\, Hedgebrook\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Christine Hale earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Antioch University-Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA Program as well as the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville\, NC. \nMatt Hart’s most recent books are Radiant Action (H_NGM_N Books\, 2016) and Radiant Companion (Monster House Press\, 2016). A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift\, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry\, Cooking\, & Light Industrial Safety\, he lives in Cincinnati where he is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and the Chair of Liberal Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He plays guitar and shouts in the bands TRAVEL and THE LOUDEST SOUNDER. \nKristie Betts Letter‘s fiction is currently nominated for a Pushcart\, has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The North Dakota Quarterly\, Washington Square\, Passages North\, Pangolin Papers\, The Southern Humanities Review and KT Literary represents her novel The Three Marlena.  Her poetry book Under-Worldly comes out from Editorial L’Aleph in early 2017. She’s won several teaching awards for forcing Hamlet on high school seniors\, and also plays a mean game of pub trivia. \nJaney Skinner is working on a novel about the struggle for dignity in the midst of war\, as one character fights to keep his community safe from violence\, and another throws himself into combat. This story draws on her experience working for human rights in Latin America. She is the author of several short stories\, including three published in KYSO Flash. One of those\, “Carnivores\,” is included in Best Small Fictions 2016\, edited by Stuart Dybek with Tara Masih. She has also written nonfiction\, most recently several chapters in the 2nd edition of Foundations for Community Health Workers (Jossey-Bass\, 2016). She was thrilled to attend San Francisco’s only juried writing conference\, LitCamp\, in 2013 and 2014\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference in 2011. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature (Brown University) and a Master’s in Public Health (U.C. Berkeley). She teaches at City College of San Francisco. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when people come from San Francisco\, the North Bay\, the East Bay\, the South Bay–everywhere–to crowd the house. The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for almost seven years. Why There Are Words is going national in 2017\, and is now an independent press\, WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sugar/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Chris Andrews on César Aira
DESCRIPTION:Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation\, Ema\, the Captive\, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. \nMore event details to come. \nChris Andrews is a translator and professor at the University of Western Sydney\, Australia. He has translated numerous books by César Aira and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño\, as well as a critical study of poetry and science and a collection of poems. \nCésar Aira is an Argentine author and translator who has written more than 80 novels and translated and edited works from multiple languages. Aira also writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship\, and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please join us for the final Salon of 2016!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-chris-andrews-on-cesar-aira/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161207T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
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SUMMARY:West Side Stories Petaluma: The GrandSlam
DESCRIPTION:Tell everyone you know…\nSo what is the GrandSlam???\n13 Real People\, Telling Extraordinary (True) Stories\, About Their Real Life.\nOne walks away with this year’s title.\nJoin us for our 4th Annual GrandSlam\nDecember 7th\nShow starts at 7:30pm (doors open @ 6:30pm). Last year it was standing room only at The Mystic Theater.\nSo get your tickets now.\nHalf this year’s tickets will be sold on Brown Paper Tickets and the other half on The Mystic’s website http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=6961645&pl=mystic\nBut you can get them here til they’re gone http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2641812\nSo go ahead tell your family\, your friends\, ah what the heck tell people you don’t even like\, (the room is big enough you won’t have to sit near them) and you’re gonna want to say you were there to crown this champion.\nAnd the audience will choose this year’s champ…\nThe audience votes to decide the winner!\nWho knows next year it could be you\nBecause everybody’s got a story.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-side-stories-petaluma-the-grandslam/
LOCATION:Mystic Theatre\, 23 Petaluma Blvd N\, Petaluma \, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Michael Goorjian
DESCRIPTION:“Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason\, I have not . . . ” \nIn What Lies Beyond the Stars\, these words ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard\, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen. On the verge of a psychotic break\, Adam begins to have a recurring dream of his early childhood and the hauntingly rustic town of Mendocino California where he grew up. Convinced he has left something behind there\, something vital to his present sanity\, Adam walks away from his current life to figure out what that is. \nOne night on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean\, lost in thoughts of suicide\, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious woman. Later he realizes that she is Beatrice\, a long forgotten childhood friend whose fiery spirit and red hair had filled his young heart with immeasurable wonder. The coincidence of their reunion only deepens as Adam discovers that Beatrice has returned to Mendocino also due to a recurring dream\, eerily similar to his own. \nAre they lost soul mates drawn together through time and space? As Adam begins to hope that his life could be more than a bleak virtual wasteland\, he finds himself a pawn in a game that pits dark forces against those few quixotic souls who still search for meaning\, beauty\, and magic in the world. \nMichael Goorjian is an Emmy Award–winning actor\, filmmaker\, and writer. His acting credits include Party of Five\, Leaving Las Vegas\, and SLC Punk. As a filmmaker\, he achieved widespread recognition for his first major independent film\, Illusion\, starring Kirk Douglas. Other directing credits include the Louise Hay documentary\, You Can Heal Your Life\, Wayne Dyer’s l’m The Shift\, and the Hay House film anthology\, Tales of Everyday Magic. Michael lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-goorjian/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161201T030907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030907Z
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SUMMARY:Michael McClure + Garrett Caples
DESCRIPTION:A landmark work of bio-romanticism\, Mephistos and Other Poems is the first completely new collection in five years from legendary Beat and SF Renaissance poet  Michael McClure. The title sequence\, “Mephistos\,” stems from McClure’s ongoing “grafting” experiment\, growing new poems from fragments of his older works. “Some Fringes” is a series of haiku-like nature poems\, while the 17-part “Rose Breaths” derives from the poet’s practice of meditation. The freestanding poems grouped under the title “Being” pay homage to many of McClure’s collaborators and fellow travelers\, such as Bruce Conner\, Terry Riley\, and Dave Haselwood. The book climaxes with “Song Heavy\,” recounting McClure’s recent encounter with a beached whale in Rockport\, MA\, and recalling his classic “For the Death of 100 Whales\,” which he read at the Six Gallery in 1955—the inaugural moment of American eco-poetics. \n Garrett Caples is the author of Power Ballads  (forthcoming from Wave Books\, 2016)\, Retrievals (2014)\, The Garrett Caples Reader (1999)\, Complications (2007)\, and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013). He is the poetry editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He is also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and lives in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-mcclure-garrett-caples/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20160922T005006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T005006Z
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SUMMARY:Warren Ellis w/ Robin Sloan
DESCRIPTION:A Drop of Whiskey with Warren Ellis \nCome join us for a drink with the award-winning writer Warren Ellis to celebrate the publication of his thrilling new book\, Normal. After futurist Adam Dearden has a nervous breakdown in Rotterdam\, hes brought to a secluded recovery center in rural Oregon. As someone who stares into the abyss for a living\, Adam sees things that other cannot. As he finds himself caught between factions at Normal Head Research Station\, strange events start to overtake even the people who job is to predict the future. This crackling horror story was originally published as four digital originals and is collected in print here for the first time. Come join us for a very rare\, very limited event with one of the genres rarest talents. \nEach ticket includes one seat at the event\, one copy of Normal\, one beverage\, and a place in the signing line. The author will sign his prose novels\, but no graphic novels or memorabilia. \nRobin Sloan is the author of the best-selling novel “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.” He splits his time between San Francisco and the internet. \nWarren Ellis is the award-winning writer of the new novella Normal\, as well as the bestselling novels “Gun Machine” and “Crooked Little Vein” and the short story Dead Pig Collector\, which was read by Wil Wheaton for the audiobook. He publishes two very weird newsletters\, Morning Computer and Orbital Operations\, which give fans insight into his working process. Readers also know him from  graphic novels like “Transmetropolitan\,” “Fell\,” “Global Frequency” and “Planetary\,” as well as the movies Red and Iron Man 3\, which were adapted from his works. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the future of cities. A documentary about his work\, “Captured Ghosts\,” was released in 2012. He lives on the southeast coast of England\, way out on the Thames Delta. \nTicket Information: \n$25.00 — This includes one hardcover copy of “Normal” \nThe book will be available for pickup\, and for sale\, at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/warren-ellis-w-robin-sloan/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161129T054652Z
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SUMMARY:Day Without Art
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Janell Moon\, Dale Jensen\, Judy Wells\, Fred Dodsworth. Guitar: Hao C. Tran. An open mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. \nFree\, we pass the hat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/day-without-art/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161207T011208Z
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SUMMARY:December Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read in absolute silence. Cocktails and food will be available. This event is FREE to attend. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit the school library of the June Jordan School for Equity. \nThis month\, DJ Please Be Quiet I’m Trying to Read (AKA Lemony Snicket) will be spinning records by Joseph Haydn and Count Basie. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here: http://eepurl.com/bZXqKb
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161129T061519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061519Z
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SUMMARY:Equal Justice: Post-Obama
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Adachi has served as elected Public Defender of the City and County of San Francisco since March 2002 and has worked as a deputy public defender in San Francisco for 15 years. From 1998-2001\, he served as the Chief Attorney of the office. As the only elected Public Defender in the state of California\, Mr. Adachi oversees an office of 93 lawyers and 60 support staff. The office represents more than 23\,000 people each year and provides a panoply of innovative programs\, including Drug Court\, Mental Health Court\, Clean Slate expungement services\, and a full-service juvenile division. The public defender’s community MAGIC programs address the root causes of juvenile crime in San Francisco’s underserved neighborhoods by linking families with educational\, health and community services. \nDeRay Mckesson is a protestor\, activist\, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation\, equity\, and justice. Born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland\, he graduated from Bowdoin College and has advocated for issues related to children\, youth\, and families since he was a teen. Mckesson has served as an educator\, student leader\, and founding director of an after-school/out-of school program. He has also provided leadership to the executive teams of large urban school districts. Spurred by the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson\, Missouri\, Mckesson has become a leading voice in the effort to confront the system and structures that have led to the mass incarceration and police killings of black and other minority populations. He is co-founder of the Protestor Newsletter and Campaign Zero. \nW. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!\, a live radio show that transform the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America\, a documentary series in which Bell travels around the country exploring subjects and locations out of his comfort zone and digging into the complexities of race and culture in America. Before hosting for CNN and KALW\, Bell was best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In its brief time\, Totally Biased was nominated for both an NAACP Image Award and a GLAAD Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/equal-justice-post-obama/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
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CREATED:20161118T030805Z
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SUMMARY:Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book \nThe eruption of mass protests in the wake of the police murders of Michael Brown in Ferguson\, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City have challenged the impunity with which officers of the law carry out violence against Black people and punctured the illusion of a postracial America. The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened a new generation of activists. In this stirring and insightful analysis\, activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context\, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation. \n“Ultimately\, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is an essential read for anyone following the movement for Black Lives. The text chronicles a portion of history we rarely ever see\, while also bringing together data and deep primary source research in a way that lucidly explains the origins of the current moment.” Los Angeles Review of Books \nThis brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation. Dr. Cornel West \n“Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s searching examination of the social\, political and economic dimensions of the prevailing racial order offers important context for understanding the necessity of the emerging movement for black liberation.” Michelle Alexander\, The New Jim Crow \nKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylors writings on Black politics\, social movements\, and racial inequality in the United States have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics\, Culture and Society\, Jacobin\, New Politics\, the Guardian\, In These Times\, Black Agenda Report\, Ms.\, International Socialist Review\, Al Jazeera America\, and other publications. She is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University. \nAnita Johnson began her journalistic career at Youth Radio in 1994. She was the senior producer for YR’s weekly talk show on WILD 94.9\, and served as senior producer for 106.1 KMELs Street Knowledge\, hosted by Davey D. By 1997\, she was submitting national segments to Marketplace and NPRs Morning Edition\, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. In 2000\, Anita co-founded KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio\, a public affairs program covering news\, views and Hip-Hop. In 2009\, with the assistance of The Association of Independents in Radio\, she founded Beyond The Odds\, a multimedia arts project created to illuminate the impact of HIV and AIDS on low-income and minority young adults (under 25)\, through the use of the Web. In 2010\, she co-produced the documentary film CoInTelPro 101. A well-respected Hip Hop artist as well\, she has performed with singer/guitarist Carlos Santana.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation/
LOCATION:Impact Hub Oakland\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T213000
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SUMMARY:Bill Ayers
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Bill Ayers\, here on a national tour to celebrate the release of his latest book\, Demand the Impossible!: A Radical Manifesto. \n  \nIn an era defined by mass incarceration\, endless war\, economic crisis\, catastrophic environmental destruction\, and a political system offering more of the same\, radical social transformation has never been more urgent. We must imagine a world beyond what this rotten system would have us believe is possible. \nIn critiquing the world around us\, Ayers uncovers cracks in the system\, raising our sights for radical change\, and envisioning strategies for building a movement to create a more humane\, balanced\, and peaceful world. \n  \n“For Bill Ayers\, it is the freedom of our collective imagination that links the contemporary world—ensconced as it is in pervasive militarism\, racist violence\, and environmental devastation—to the flourishing of our planet. This is a manifesto that should be read by everyone who wants to believe that “another world is possible.” — Angela Y. Davis\, author of Abolition Democracy and Freedom is a Constant Struggle \n“With huge numbers of us recognizing the need for transformative change\, this ambitious and exuberant book perfectly matches its historical moment. Ayers fearlessly confronts the intersecting crises of our age—endless war\, surging inequality\, unchecked white supremacy and perilous planetary warming—while mapping emancipatory new possibilities. From the first page\, his courage is contagious.” — Naomi Klein\, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine \n“Demand the Impossible is more than a book\, more than a manifesto. It is a torch. Bill Ayers’ vision for a humane future is incendiary—fire that incinerates old logics and illuminates new paths. If we do not end the violence of militarism\, materialism\, caging\, dispossession\, debt\, want\, ignorance\, and global warming\, our very survival is impossible. Read aloud.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bill-ayers/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T203000
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CREATED:20161118T025716Z
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SUMMARY:Sticky Pages
DESCRIPTION:Come to “Sticky Pages\,” three gay authors reading their erotic writing\, Monday\, December 5\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Free admission\, hot readings\, and sexy door prizes! Andrew Demcak reads erotic poetry from Zero Summer\, Rick May shares bedtime stories from Inhuman Beings: Encounters of Men and Not-Men\, and Rob Rosen excerpts the juicy bits from his latest novel Midlife Crisis. Want more? You know you do. See you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sticky-pages/
LOCATION:Center for Sex and Culture\, 1349 Mission St.\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161205T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161205T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161201T015819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T015819Z
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SUMMARY:Live Reading: The Racket
DESCRIPTION:Noah Sander‘s new monthly reading series – people making noise\, people pulling one over on you – typical reading series stuff… bringing together some fantastic writers (to be announced shortly) and hoping that you\, friends and lovers of reading alike\, will come and celebrate great writing and maybe buy some books or just stand there awkwardly sipping a Tecate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-reading-the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T210000
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CREATED:20161129T054221Z
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SUMMARY:Kay DeMartiniPresents: Fruitcake!
DESCRIPTION:Stories where you can pick out the nuts . . .\nThis gummified traditional treat with its mystery ingredients and non-expiration date\, is a sweet metaphor for this time of year. You can choose lots of things in life – but you really can’t pick which inappropriate outfit your niece will wear to dinner. She is family & you love her. It’s the holidays\, it’s required. \nDon’t miss this One Night FREE – but register\, because there are Fire Laws.\n \nStorytellers TBA \nKay DeMartini – Producer\, Emcee\, Storyteller\, and she can’t be trusted in the open bin section of Whole Foods \nYOU – bring your best 3min Family/Holiday Story – for a shot at possibly telling it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kay-demartinipresents-fruitcake/
LOCATION:The Golden Bull Bar\, 412 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161130T032058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T032058Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Peter Thomas Bullen\, Grady Chambers\, and Tess Taylor\nHosted by Peter Kline \nPeter Thomas Bullen\, hairdresser and co-founder of Peter Thomas Hair in Berkeley\, began writing late\, not just late in life\, but also late at night. Later still he discovered that if you are standing in front of a room\, holding text and trembling slightly\, people will give you their attention. This made him happy. His work has appeared in sparkle & blink\, eleven eleven\, Red Light Lit\, and the LA Review of Books. In October\, his first chapbook\, Wallflower\, came out from Nomadic Press. He blogs at wetriedourbest.wordpress.com. \nGrady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. Poems of his have appeared in or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal\, Ninth Letter\, Diode Poetry Journal\, Barrow Street\, Midwestern Gothic\, and elsewhere. He lives in Oakland\, and is a 2015-2017 Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nTess Taylor’s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. Her first book\, The Forage House\, was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book is Work & Days\, which Stephen Burt called “our moment’s Georgic.” Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle\, is currently the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered\, and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor recently was awarded a Fulbright US Scholar Award to study and lecture at Queen’s University Belfast\, in Northern Ireland\, for six months in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-3/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161204T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161204T190000
DTSTAMP:20260425T222334
CREATED:20161129T062037Z
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SUMMARY:TC Tolbert + Cody-Rose Clevidence
DESCRIPTION:a reading & conversation with\nCODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE &\nTC TOLBERT \nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014) and 3 chapbooks\, TC is also co-editor (along with Trace Peterson) of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). S/he is Core Faculty in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and spends his summers leading wilderness trips for Outward Bound. His favorite thing in the world is Compositional Improvisation (which is another way of saying being alive). www.tctolbert.com \nCody-Rose Clevidence’s 1st book\, BEAST FEAST\, was published by Ahsahta press in 2014. They live in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, Pearl.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tc-tolbert-cody-rose-clevidence/
LOCATION:Artists’ Television Access\, 992 Valencia St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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