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SUMMARY:First Friday Teen Open Mic & Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:Our February First Friday Children’s Storyteller Series and Teen Poetry Open Mic is filled with literary magic. \n6pm-7pm\, featuring:\n– Children’s Storytelling with children’s book author Lashon Daley\, who will be reading from her book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\n– Chapter 510 young author Aida Ndiaye\, reading aloud from one of her published children’s books: Evil Burrito and the FBI\n– Recently awarded young authors from Oakland’s own We Write Here contest ! \nLashon A. Daley is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. As a scholar\, dancer\, storyteller\, and choreographer\, Lashon thrives on bridging communities together through movement and storytelling. Her children’s book\, Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\, was released in February 2016. Lashon is also the creator of Stories&Slams\, a podcast that focuses on every day stories. \nAida Ndiaye is ten years old and in the fifth grade at Piedmont Avenue Elementary. She loves to write\, read and go places (specifically Jack London Square). She believes she can fly. She dreams that she will write and publish 2\,000\,000 books. \n6pm-7pm:\nTeen Poetry Writing Workshop with Gabriel Cortez in our Room of Infinite Possibilities!\nFree and open to writers 13-19 years old \nGabriel Cortez is a poet\, educator\, and organizer. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, National Public Radio and Huffington Post. Gabriel is a VONA fellow\, grant recipient\, and winner of the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize! Gabriel Cortez currently works as Lead Poet Mentor at Youth Speaks\, one of the world’s leading presenters of spoken word performance\, education and youth development programs. \n7pm-9pm:\nTeen Poetry Open Mic\nSign ups begin at 7pm\nShow starts at 7:30pm \nFeaturing local poet\, Quinn Edlin: \nQuinn Edlin is a poet from Berkeley\, California. She is a Queer\, mixed Black woman who roots her work in the exploration of existing at the intersection of her identities. She was a finalist of the 2019 Teen Poetry Slam and performed at the Sydney Goldstein theatre for the 21st annual “Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\,” and at the Brava theatre for the 2019 Queeriosity showcase. \nCome out and share your story on the mic! \nDoors open at 6pm. There will be tiny bookmaking activities for the whole family\, smooth jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX and food available from Two Mamacitas pop up kitchen! \nThe Dept. of Make Believe store will be open for business as well. \nFREE FOR ALL!
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LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:February First Friday
DESCRIPTION:6pm-7pm\, featuring:\n– Children’s Storytelling with children’s book author Lashon Daley\, who will be reading from her book Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\n– Chapter 510 young author Aida Ndiaye\, reading aloud from one of her published children’s books: Evil Burrito and the FBI\n– Recently awarded young authors from Oakland’s own We Write Here contest ! \nLashon A. Daley is a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. Her research focuses on performances of Black cultural expressions in the U.S. As a scholar\, dancer\, storyteller\, and choreographer\, Lashon thrives on bridging communities together through movement and storytelling. Her children’s book\, Mr. Okra Sells Fresh Fruits and Vegetables\, was released in February 2016. Lashon is also the creator of Stories&Slams\, a podcast that focuses on every day stories. \nAida Ndiaye is ten years old and in the fifth grade at Piedmont Avenue Elementary. She loves to write\, read and go places (specifically Jack London Square). She believes she can fly. She dreams that she will write and publish 2\,000\,000 books. \n  \n7pm-9pm:\nTeen Poetry Open Mic\nSign ups begin at 7pm\nShow starts at 7:30pm \nFeaturing local poet\, Quinn Edlin: \nQuinn Edlin is a poet from Berkeley\, California. She is a Queer\, mixed Black woman who roots her work in the exploration of existing at the intersection of her identities. She was a finalist of the 2019 Teen Poetry Slam and performed at the Sydney Goldstein theatre for the 21st annual “Bringing the Noise for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\,” and at the Brava theatre for the 2019 Queeriosity showcase. \nCome out and share your story on the mic! \nDoors open at 6pm. There will be tiny bookmaking activities for the whole family\, smooth jams spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX and food available from Two Mamacitas pop up kitchen! \nThe Dept. of Make Believe store will be open for business as well. \nFREE FOR ALL!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/february-first-friday/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch / Verge
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery welcomes the fierce and fabulous Lidia Yuknavitch back for her first collection of stories\, Verge. Please join us! \nI tell you\, do not go near that place. Do not go near it. Graywolves guard the ground there. Girls are growing from guts\, enough for a body and language all the way out of this world. \nAn eight-year-old trauma victim is enlisted as an underground courier\, rushing frozen organs through the alleys of Eastern Europe. A young janitor transforms discarded objects into a fantastical\, sprawling miniature city until a shocking discovery forces him to rethink his creation. A brazen child tells off a pack of schoolyard tormentors with the spirited invention of an eleventh commandment. A wounded man drives eastward\, through tears and grief\, toward an unexpected transcendence. \nLidia Yuknavitch’s bestselling novels The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children\, and her groundbreaking memoir The Chronology of Water\, have established her as one of our most urgent contemporary voices: a writer with a rare gift for tracing the jagged boundaries between art and trauma\, sex and violence\, destruction and survival. In Verge\, her first collection of short fiction\, she turns her eye to life on the margins\, in all its beauty and brutality. A book of heroic grace and empathy\, Verge is a viscerally powerful and moving survey of our modern heartache life. \n\nLidia Yuknavitch is the nationally bestselling author of the novels The Book of Joan\, The Small Backs of Children\, Dora: A Headcase\, and the memoir The Chronology of Water. She is the recipient of two Oregon Book Awards and a Willamette Writers Award\, and has been a finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize and the PEN Center Creative Nonfiction Award. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with doors at 2pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Verge\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
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LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents Meng Jin and Mimi Lok
DESCRIPTION:Kearny Street Workshop celebrates the latest book releases from Meng Jin and Mimi Lok!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOn Friday\, February 7th\, KSW Presents Meng Jin\, author of Little Gods (HarperCollins\, 2020)\, and Mimi Lok\, author of Last of Her Name (Kaya Press\, 2019). This reading is a celebration of their books\, powerful stories about Asian women that bend time and place in their journeys to seek answers and connection in the aftermath of grief\, displacement\, and diaspora. \n+++ \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information. Apply here: https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nWHEN: Friday\, February 7th\, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. \nWHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. \nHOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale\, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. \n*There is limited seating at the venue\, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event\, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll work to accommodate you. \nFEATURES \nMENG JIN was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco with her partner Neel and her puppy Tofu. A Kundiman Fellow\, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel. \nABOUT LITTLE GODS \nOn the night of June Fourth\, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan\, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past\, fighting what she calls the mind’s arrow of time. \nWhen Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later\, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya\, who grew up in America\, takes her mother’s ashes to China—to her\, an unknown country. In a territory inhabited by the ghosts of the living and the dead\, Liya’s memories are joined by those of two others: Zhu Wen\, the woman last to know Su Lan before she left China\, and Yongzong\, the father Liya has never known. In this way a portrait of Su Lan emerges: an ambitious scientist\, an ambivalent mother\, and a woman whose relationship to her own past shapes and ultimately unmakes Liya’s own sense of displacement. \nA story of migrations literal and emotional\, spanning time\, space and class\, Little Gods is a sharp yet expansive exploration of the aftermath of unfulfilled dreams\, an immigrant story in negative that grapples with our tenuous connections to memory\, history\, and self. \nMIMI LOK is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name. The title story was a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, a human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program. \nABOUT LAST OF HER NAME \nMimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate\, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales\, including ’80s UK suburbia\, WWII Hong Kong and contemporary urban California\, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them\, an elderly housebreaker\, wounded lovers and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience\, family and the nature of memory. \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \nWe are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. We will only be able to accept up to five readers. \nEligibility: We welcome writers of all genres\, and strive to spotlight those of the Asian Pacific diaspora and people of color. We are especially interested in showcasing emerging writers who have had little stage time or few publications. \nAt this time\, KSW Presents cannot provide payment for writers who submit to be a part of this reading series\, but we are actively pursuing funding for this program. \nHow to Apply: Submit work that explores this upcoming event’s theme\, that can be read or performed within 3 minutes or less. Apply here (no fee): https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/157639/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok \nABOUT KEARNY STREET WORKSHOP \nFounded in 1972\, during the height of the Asian American cultural movement\, Kearny Street Workshop (KSW) is the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary arts organization in the country. We offer classes and workshops\, salons\, and student presentations\, as well as professionally curated and produced exhibitions\, performances\, readings\, and screenings. KSW makes artists out of community members and community members out of artists. For the past 45 years\, KSW has nurtured the creative spirit\, offered an important platform for new voices to be heard\, and connected artists with community. \nSOCIAL MEDIA \nSocial media posts featuring images have a higher chance of being seen! \nPlease share any social media posts with our official event flyer. \nHandles to tag: \nTwitter: @kearnystreet \nInstagram: @kearnystreetworkshop
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-meng-jin-and-mimi-lok/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours - Naked Truth: real.stories.live.
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nCelebrate ten years of the Naked Truth with some of our favorite storytellers! \nEmcee Josh Healey is joined by David Nihill\, Kari Kiernan\, Don\nReed\, and Dhaya Lakshminarayanan for a special night of great stories. \nDavid Nihill is a bestselling author\, featured in Inc\, NPR\, Huffington Post\, Forbes\, and the Irish Times. David was recently part of the Irish Kings of Comedy Tour and SF Sketchfest. A Moth Storyslam winner and Grandslam finalist\, David has also told tales at Porchlight\, Fireside and Litquake. \nKari Kiernan is a writer and a storyteller\, and a bona fide local: she graduated from Tam\, holds a Master’s degree from Dominican University\, and spent a great deal of her young life at the Mill Valley Library. In addition to Naked Truth\, she’s been onstage at Porchlight\, the Throckmorton\, The Vent\, and Literary Death Match. \nDon Reed (HBO\, Pop Up Magazine) is an entertainer. Works include: “Unleashed” on Netflix\, a streaming comedy series “Bartlett\,” five solo shows Off Broadway and Bay Area – including “East 14th.” Other credits: I Miss Toni\, Snap Judgment 2016 Performance of the Year\, The Flintstones\, DMV\, A Different World\, Partners in Crime. \nDhaya Lakshminarayanan is an internationally recognized comedian and was the Grand Prize Winner of The Ultimate Comedy Challenge filmed in Singapore. She received the 2016 Liz Carpenter Political Humor Award\, previously awarded to Samantha Bee and Wanda Sykes. Dhaya’s stories have appeared on Snap Judgment and the Moth podcast. Dhaya also regularly acts as emcee at the monthly SF Moth Story SLAMs. \nEmcee: Josh Healey\nAward-winning writer\, performer and filmmaker\, Healy has been a regular performer on NPR’s Snap Judgment. His work has been featured in the New York Times\, Huffington Post\, and his nephew’s YouTube page\, where it has at least 27 ‘likes.’ He is the lead writer and producer of The North Pole\, a comedic web series that hits on today’s issues. \nRegistration recommended. Click here to register.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-naked-truth-real-stories-live-2/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Megan Fernandes with Sam Sax\, Jay Deshpande\, and Kai Carlson-Wee at City Lights Books!
DESCRIPTION:Megan Fernandes reads from her new collection of poetry \nGood Boys \npublished by Tin House Books \nIn an era of rising nationalism and geopolitical instability\, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys offers a complex portrait of messy feminist rage\, negotiations with race and travel\, and existential dread in the Anthropocene. The collection follows a restless\, nervy\, cosmically abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational markers of adulthood as she flips from city to city\, from enchantment to disgust\, always reemerging—just barely—on the trains and bridges and barstools of New York City. A child of the Indian ocean diaspora\, Fernandes enacts the humor and devastation of what it means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is accusatory\, messy. Her homelands are theoretical and rootless. The poet converses with goats and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane rides and has dark fantasies about the “hydrogen fruit” of nuclear fallout. Ultimately\, these poems possess an affection for the doomed: false beloveds\, the hounded earth\, civilizations intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully interrogates where to put our fury and\, more importantly\, where to direct our mercy. \nMegan Fernandes is a writer and academic living in New York City. She is the author of The Kingdom and After (Tightrope Books 2015). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the New Yorker\, Tin House\, Ploughshares\, Denver Quarterly\, Chicago Review\, Boston Review\, Rattle\, Pank\, the Common\, Guernica\, the Academy of American Poets\, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency\, among others. She is a poetry reader for the Rumpus and an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of California\, Santa Barbara and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. \nSam Sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \nJay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review\, AGNI\, Boston Review\, Denver Quarterly\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships from Kundiman and Civitella Ranieri and is a winner of the Scotti Merrill Award. He is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. (ISBN 9781936919338) \nKai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL\, published by BOA Editions in 2018. His photography has been featured in Narrative Magazine and his poetry film\, Riding the Highline\, has screened at film festivals across the country. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he lives in San Francisco and teaches poetry at Stanford University. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/megan-fernandes-with-sam-sax-jay-deshpande-and-kai-carlson-wee-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series Feb
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-feb/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo in conversation with Jose Antonio Vargas
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nJose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, Emmy-nominated filmmaker\, and Tony-nominated producer. His work has appeared internationally in Time magazine\, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle\, The New Yorker\, and the Washington Post. In 2014\, he received the Freedom to Write Award from PEN Center USA. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants\, he founded the non-profit media and culture organization Define American\, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. An elementary school named after him will open in his hometown of Mountain View\, California in 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-in-conversation-with-jose-antonio-vargas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Soul Food for Thought Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Manny’s monthly open mic! Everyone is welcomed. \nCome to Manny’s for our monthly open mic nights. Poets\, readers\, performers – all are welcome here! \nFebruary 7th\, the one and only Randy James will be organizing our monthly open-mic night for the community. Anyone with something to read in welcome to our strange. Be BRAVE and be BEAUTIFUL. \nSign-up at 7PM. \nSee you there!\n****event will be taking place at the front.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/soul-food-for-thought-open-mic-night-3/
LOCATION:Manny’s\, 3092 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA 94103\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Spoken Poetry with Afro-Mexican poet Jeremy Vasquez & Afro-Salvadoreña writer Olivia Peña
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books and Arts Coop in partnership with PASEO ARTISTICO: CELELBRACÍON AFRO-LATINX\nSaturday February 8\, 2pm\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlivia Peña is a Black-Salvadoran writer and storyteller. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review\, Primary Treasure Magazine\, and Spectrum Magazine. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeremy M. Vasquez is an entrepreneur\, published author\, San Francisco Educator\, healer\, artist and unapologetically Black. Jeremy Michael Vasquez is an artist\, author\, healer and educator in San Francisco. As a spoken word and musical artist\, he has performed at many community events as well as educational and correctional facilities. Serving as a keynote speaker at conferences\, colleges\, universities\, and public schools nationwide\, Jeremy continues to use his pain as a platform for change. With his poetry\, he has been called to free people through stories \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome celebrate and bring awareness to Latinos of African Descent through art\, performances\, workshops\, classes and historical archives in El Tecolote. Paseo Artistico honors The Mission District’s Ancestors of African Descent and the movements for racial justice both locally and throughout the Americas.   \nmore info at www.paseoartistico.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-poetry-with-afro-mexican-poet-jeremy-vasquez-afro-salvadorena-writer-olivia-pena/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Launch Reading for "Dear—"
DESCRIPTION:A community reading of letters commemorating “Day of Remembrance” and launching “Dear—” a new book project and online letter archive compiled by Brynn Saito with portraits by Dave Lehl. Visit https://www.youaremissing.com/ for details. \nLetter readings by Nikiko Masumoto\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Marion Masada\, Janelle Saito\, Gregg Saito\, Samina Najmi\, and others! \n“Dear—” was created with the support of an Artists Initiative grant from Densho\, a grassroots organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today; the Santa Fe Arts Institute’s (SFAI) “Truth and Reconciliation” residency; and the College of Arts and Humanities at California State University\, Fresno. \nDeep gratitude to Gregg Saito\, Janelle Saito\, Leigh Saito\, Marion Masada\, Saburo Masada\, Nikiko Masumoto\, Valarie Kaur\, Brandon Shimoda\, Devoya Mayo\, Akiko Miyake-Stoner\, Naser Nekumanesh\, Tess Taylor\, Lee Herrick\, Lisa Lee Herrick\, Nohemi Samudio Gamis\, Samina Najmi\, and Amy Uyematsu for engaging in correspondence with me. \nThank you\, Dave Lehl\, for the photographic portraits of my family and community.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-reading-for-dear/
LOCATION:United Japanese Christian Church\, 136 N Villa Ave.\, Clovis\, CA\, 93612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Zora Neale Hurston | Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by MoAD & Litquake \nIn 1925\, Barnard student Zora Neale Hurston—the sole black student at the college—was living in New York\, “desperately striving for a toe-hold on the world.” During this period\, she began writing short works that captured the zeitgeist of African American life\, transforming her into one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Nearly a century later\, this singular talent is recognized as one of the most influential and revered American artists of the modern period. Released just in time for Black History Month\, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick (Amistad Press) unveils an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration\, gender and class\, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume\, they include eight of Hurston’s “lost” Harlem stories\, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting\, satiric humor\, as well as more serious tales reflective of the cultural currents of Hurston’s world. All are timeless classics that enrich our understanding and appreciation of this exceptional writer’s voice and her contributions to America’s literary traditions. \nWith readings and discussion from UC Berkeley African American studies professor Chiyuma Elliott\, poet and CCA professor Tonya M. Foster\, and bestselling novelist Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Moderated by writer and radio journalist Jenee Darden. Audience discussion and book sales to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zora-neale-hurston-stories-from-the-harlem-renaissance-3/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Two much loved authors. Two fabulous critically-acclaimed new books. One exceptional afternoon. The Red Tour is coming to Kepler’s! \nMeet Anna-Marie McLemore and Elana K. Arnold as they introduce their newest books Dark and Deepest Red\, a modern story of passion and betrayal paired with the forbidding magic of a fairy tale. And Red Hood\, a dark\, engrossing\, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power—and one girl’s journey to regain it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDark and Deepest Red: Summer\, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets\, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread\, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family\, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later\, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet\, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history better than anyone: Emil\, whose family was blamed for the fever five hundred years ago. But there’s more to what happened in 1518 than even Emil knows\, and discovering the truth may decide whether Rosella survives the red shoes. \nRed Hood: Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old\, Bisou Martel has lived a quiet life in a little house in Seattle. She’s kept mostly to herself. She’s been good. But then comes the night of homecoming\, when she finds herself running for her life over roots and between trees\, a fury of claws and teeth behind her. A wolf attacks. Bisou fights back. A new moon rises. And with it\, questions. About the blood in Bisou’s past\, and on her hands as she stumbles home. About broken boys and vicious wolves. About girls lost in the woods—frightened\, but not alone. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna-Marie McLemore is the author of The Weight of Feathers\, a finalist for the 2016 William C. Morris Debut Award; 2017 Stonewall Honor Book When the Moon Was Ours\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award in Young People’s Literature and was the winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award; Wild Beauty\, and Blanca & Roja . \nElana K. Arnold is the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning young adult novels and children’s books\, including the Printz Honor winner Damsel and the National Book Award finalist What Girls Are Made Of. Elana teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-marie-mclemore-and-elana-k-arnold/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:P: Carl Becoming a Man
DESCRIPTION:Renowned artist and activist P. Carl uncovers the intricacies of transitioning and finding himself anew in his memoir\, Becoming A Man. Carl is an award-winning producer and dramaturg\, and co-founder of Howlround\, a free and open platform for theater-makers worldwide. When working with Claudia Rankine on her new play “The White Card\,” Carl was transitioning\, and this book came from that experience. “On March 16 of 2017 I become a man\, a white man\,” writes Carl\, just months after Trump’s election\, two months shy of Carl’s fifty-first birthday\, and just a few more months away from the eruption of the #MeToo movement. \nAgainst the backdrop of our pivotal political moment\, Carl’s personal journey interweaves with a broader mission: Carl delivers a cutting\, clear-eyed dissection of gender and identity in America. Carl has a unique vantage point—having moved through the world for decades as a woman before walking those same streets as a man. And he uses his first-hand experience to shine a light on the subtle double standards and injustices that run through the daily lives of millions in America. Even as Carl is finally able to celebrate his arrival in the world as the man he has always known himself to be\, he must reimagine masculinity and challenge it. “To construct that man\,” he writes\, “knowing what I know as a woman\, is my work now.” \nCarl delivers a singular\, heart-baring story—about what it’s like to transition at age fifty\, to become oneself after waiting a lifetime\, and how this transformation ripples through all the habits and relationships (including his roles as spouse and sibling) he has built over half a century. \nP. Carl is a Distinguished Artist in Residence at Emerson College in Boston and was awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation\, the Berlin Prize fellowship from the American Academy for the Fall of 2018\, the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington\, and the Anschutz Fellowship at Princeton for spring of 2020. He made theater for twenty years and now writes and teaches. He resides in Boston and lives with his wife of twenty-one years\, the writer Lynette D’Amico\, and their dogs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBook Passage \n\n1 Ferry Building\nSan Francisco\, CA 94111
URL:https://litseen.com/event/p-carl-becoming-a-man/
LOCATION:Book Passage\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass: Summer Snow
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass reads from Summer Snow\, his first collection of new poems in a decade. \nAbout Summer Snow\nA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event. In Summer Snow\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nAbout Robert Hass\nRobert Hass was born in San Francisco. His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema (Ecco\, 2010)\, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Time and Materials (Ecco\, 2008)\, Sun Under Wood (Ecco\, 1996)\, Human Wishes (1989)\, Praise (1979)\, and Field Guide (1973)\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz and authored or edited several other volumes of translation\, including Nobel Laureate Tomas Tranströmer’s Selected Poems (2012) and The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa (1994). His essay collection Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) received the National Book Critics Circle Award. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He lives in California with his wife\, poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches at the University of California\, Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-summer-snow-2/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Queerbound Queer Open Mic at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nFEB\n8\n\n\n\nOpen Mic\, Poetry\, Reading\nQueerbound Queer Open Mic\n\nSaturday\, February 8\, 2020\n6:00 PM 9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQueerbound open mic meets again!!!!!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queerbound-queer-open-mic-at-alley-cat-books/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel & Shazam at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A WOMEN-ONLY open mic featuring poet Jan Steckel and singer-songwriter Shazam. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Yale Medicine\, and elsewhere. \nSinger\, songwriter\, and consummate musician Suzanne Cimone\, aka Shazam\, is a magical weaver of music and words for healing. She is a member of the all-female California original country-rock band\, the “Bad Ass Boots.” Shazam can improv anything with her voice\, keyboard\, horn\, and harmonica. She is a delight to see and hear perform. \nOther wonderful artists will entertain and delight you!!\n$7 to $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of eight special prizes. Come celebrate with us! Adult women only please. Cis and trans women welcome. \n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\, Fireside Room \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser. Produced by Linda & Carolyn Zeiser. For information or to sign up to perform\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com. \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women artists: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. \nWIP is scent-free and wheelchair accessible (no accessible bathroom).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-shazam-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks featuring Charles Yu and Meng Jin!
DESCRIPTION:January’s Writers With Drinks features the long-awaited second novel by Charles Yu\, plus acclaimed debut author Meng Jin. Plus sex and feminism\, science fiction\, and poetry\, and tons more. We’re going to turn all your bodily fluids into bodily druids! \nWhen: Saturday\, Feb. 8\, 2020 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open 7 PM\nWho: Charles Yu\, Meng Jin\, Tracy Clark Flory\, Aaron Glantz\, Juliette Wade and Barbara Tomash\nHow much: $5 to $20 sliding scale\, all proceeds benefit a local non-profit TBA\nWhere: The Make Out Room\, 3225 22nd. St.\, San Francisco\, CA \nAbout the readers/performers: \nCharles Yu is the author of three books\, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award\, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series\, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX\, AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a number of publications including The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Wired. \nMeng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. Her first novel is Little Gods. \nTracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan\, Elle\, Esquire\, Marie Claire\, Salon\, The Guardian\, Women’s Health\, and the yearly “Best Sex Writing” anthology. She has appeared on “20/20\,” MSNBC and NPR. \nAaron Glantz is the author of Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins\, Hedge Fund Magnates\, Crooked Banks\, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream. He’s a journalist at Reveal\, whose work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings\, numerous laws\, and criminal probes by the DEA\, FBI\, Pentagon and Federal Trade Commission. A two-time Peabody Award-winner\, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, multiple Emmy nominee\, and winner of the Selden Ring and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award\, his work has appeared in New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, NBC Nightly News\, Good Morning America and the PBS NewsHour. His previous books include The War Come Home and How America Lost Iraq. He lives in San Francisco. \nJuliette Wade never outgrew of the habit of asking “why” about everything. This path led her to study foreign languages and to complete degrees in both anthropology and linguistics. Combining these with a fascination for worldbuilding and psychology\, she creates multifaceted science fiction that holds a mirror to our own society. The author of short fiction in magazines including Analog\, Clarkesworld\, and Fantasy & Science Fiction\, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her Aussie husband and her two sons\, who support and inspire her. Her debut novel\, Mazes of Power\, will come out from DAW publishing on February 4\, 2020. \nBarbara Tomash is the author of four books of poetry\, most recently\, PRE- (Black Radish Books) and Arboreal (Apogee). Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review\, Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, Verse\, VOLT\, and elsewhere. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, and teaches in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University. \nAbout Writers With Drinks: \nWriters With Drinks has won numerous “Best ofs” from local newspapers\, and has been mentioned in 7×7\, Spin Magazine and one of Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. The spoken word “variety show” mixes genres to raise money for local causes. The award-winning show includes poetry\, stand-up comedy\, science fiction\, fantasy\, romance\, mystery\, literary fiction\, erotica\, memoir\, zines and blogs in a freewheeling format.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-featuring-charles-yu-and-meng-jin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new book \nChildren of the Land \npublished by HarperCollins \n\n\nThis unforgettable memoir from a prize-winning poet about growing up undocumented in the United States recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize (BOA editions 2018)\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Abrevaya Stein
DESCRIPTION:Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century\nIn conversation with Janine Zacharia \n6:00 pm: Complimentary wine and cheese reception\n7:00 pm: Talk \nThe Levy family established itself in Salonica (now Thessaloniki\, Greece) in the 18th century and for two centuries published books and newspapers for the region’s Sephardic Jews. With the Ottoman Empire’s collapse\, the Levys scattered throughout the world but kept in touch through letters. Drawing on this rich correspondence\, Stein\, the award-winning author of Extraterritorial Dreams uses the family’s experience to trace the history of Sephardic Jews through the twentieth century\, showing how individual lives were affected by world wars\, shifting political boundaries and the Holocaust – which wiped out several branches of the Levy family. \nJanine Zacharia is the Carlos Kelly McClatchy Visiting Lecturer at Stanford University\, and writes regularly about foreign affairs\, the intersection of technology and national security\, and media trends for the San Francisco Chronicle\, Slate and other news outlets.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-abrevaya-stein/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Niloufar Talebi: Self-Portrait In Bloom
DESCRIPTION:Niloufar Talebi visits to share from her new hybrid and poetic memoir\, Self-Portrait In Bloom\, the literary accompaniment to her recent opera\, both inspired by the great Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou. This talented author will consider what it means to be an outsider\, insider\, woman in the #Metoo era\, an artist from a sanctioned country\, and a spectator of squashed uprisings in Iran—all while still cherishing a sense of humor.  \nMemoirist Firoozeh Dumas calls Self-Portrait In Bloom “A brutally honest memoir of a life built by words\, destroyed by words\, rebuilt by words.” Tamim Ansary says that the writing is “not just poignant\, it’s wrenching.” Released in the 40th anniversary year of the Iranian revolution\, this book is part-memoir\, part-biography\, and a part-history of literature in Iran that delves deep into culture and personal history. Talebi pays powerful homage to Tehran\, the city of her childhood. In fragments of prose\, poetry\, and photographs\, her lyrical exploration reimagines the memoir form. \nHow do monumental changes in culture and place impact the creation of art and self? In an interview with Firoozeh Dumas\, Talebi translates these rich questions and histories into an even richer artistic present. \nDon’t miss this utterly unique book in its full bloom\, at Kepler’s on February 10th. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nTickets to Kepler’s Literary Foundation events are not tax-deductible. Tax-deductible donations can be made online at keplers.org/donate \nPhoto of Niloufar Talebi by Devlin Shand Photography.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/niloufar-talebi-self-portrait-in-bloom/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Contemporary Writers Series: Brenda Shaughnessy
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa and raised in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections\, most recently The Octopus Museum. She’s the recipient of a 2018 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 2013 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She is currently writing an opera libretto for the composer Paola Prestini\, commissioned by The Atlanta Opera. Shaughnessy is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/contemporary-writers-series-brenda-shaughnessy/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernadez Castillo\, Children of the Land at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a nation that denies his existence. Castillo will be in conversation with Nathan Osorio at this event\, which is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. A portion of the sales of Children of the Land will be donated to the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County’s Immigration Program. \n“You were not a ghost even though an entire country was scared of you. No one in this story was a ghost. This was not a story.” \nWhen Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was five years old and his family was preparing to cross the border between Mexico and the United States\, he suffered temporary\, stress-induced blindness. Castillo regained his vision\, but quickly understood that he had to move into a threshold of invisibility before settling in California with his parents and siblings. Thus began a new life of hiding in plain sight and of paying extraordinarily careful attention at all times for fear of being truly seen. Before Castillo was one of the most celebrated poets of a generation\, he was a boy who perfected his English in the hopes that he might never seem extraordinary. \nWith beauty\, grace\, and honesty\, Castillo recounts his and his family’s encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe\, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster\, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family\, of his father’s deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to his wife and children only to be denied reentry\, and of his mother’s heartbreaking decision to leave her children and grandchildren so that she could be reunited with her estranged husband and retire from a life of hard labor. \nChildren of the Land distills the trauma of displacement\, illuminates the human lives behind the headlines and serves as a stunning meditation on what it means to be a man and a citizen. \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of Cenzontle\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\, winner of the 2019 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in poetry\, a finalist for the Norther California Book Award and named a best book of 2018 by NPR and the New York Public Library. As one of the founders of the Undocupoets campaign\, he is a recipient of the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” Award. He holds a B.A. from Sacramento State University and was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan. His work has appeared or is featured in The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, People Magazine\, and PBS Newshour\, among others. He lives in Marysville\, California where he teaches poetry to incarcerated youth and also teaches at the Ashland University Low-Res MFA program. \nNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse. His poetry and translations have appeared in BOMB\, The Offing\, The Grief Diaries\, Boston Review\, and elsewhere. His reviews and interviews featuring poets such as Juan Felipe Herrera and Rigoberto González have appeared in Columbia Journal\, UC Santa Cruz’s The Humanities Institute\, Publishers Weekly\, and Letras Latinas’ La Bloga. His chapbook\, The Last Town Before the Mojave\, was recently selected as a finalist for the 2019 Poetry Society of America 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship by Evie Shockley and was previously selected as a finalist for the 2016 Atlas Review Chapbook Contest. In 2019\, he was also selected as a semi-finalist for 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest. He is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative/Critical Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \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 email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by February 9th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernadez-castillo-children-of-the-land-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jean Day and Evan Kennedy
DESCRIPTION:Jean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Triumph of Life was published last spring by Insurance Editions. Her Late Human will follow from Ugly Duckling in 2021.Recent poems can also be seen in Brooklyn Rail\, Chicago Review\, The Delineator\, Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French). Earlier works include Daydream (Litmus\, 2016)\, Early Bird (O’Clock\, 2014)\, and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books. She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, a scholarly humanities journal\, and does advocacy work for members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE). \n  \nEvan Kennedy is a poet and bicyclist from San Francisco. Works he has authored include The Sissies (Futurepoem); Terra Firmament (Krupskaya); and a chapbook\, Jerusalem Notebook (O’clock Press).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-and-evan-kennedy/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:Reading Series\nTuesday\, February 11\, 7:00pm\nfeatures: Tshaka Campbell and James Cagney\nopen mic follows \nPoetry cat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$3 donation at the door\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San José Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nbios to come. \nUpcoming in Well-RED:\nFeb. 11: Tshaka Campbell & James Cagney\nMar. 10: Barbara Jane Reyes & Oscar Bermeo\nApr. 14: Poetry Month Open Mic\nMay 12: Mimi Ahern & Roger Abe of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society with Mary Lou Taylor\nJune 9: Andrena Zawinski & tba
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-tshaka-campbell-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Winter 2020 Reading
DESCRIPTION:Winter in San Francisco. Baby\, it’s cold outside–comparatively\, at least. Warm up with five Queer authors at Perfectly Queer Tuesday\, February 11\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in you-know-where. Dale Corvino is joining us from New York City! He’ll be joined by local glitterati Denise Conca\, Wayne Goodman\, Rob Rosen\, and Cass Sellars–each of them reading from new fiction. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and door prizes on the stroke of 7! http://bit.ly/2RjGosI \nMore about the authors:\nDale Corvino’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including online at the Rumpus and Salon. He received the 2015 Christopher Hewitt Award for Fiction\, was a finalist in the 2017 Saints + Sinners Short Fiction contest\, and won the 2018 Gertrude Press Fiction Chapbook contest. WORKER NAMES was published in 2019. Most recently\, he reflected on his visit to Santiago\, Chile during the massive popular uprising and the legacy of queer writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review. www.dalecorvino.com \nDenise Conca is an anti-capitalist artist\, writer\, and cashier living in San Francisco. Her short works have appeared in Sinister Wisdom’s “Dump Trump” issue and in RFD magazine. Her recently published book\, A RECURSIVE NATURE\, explores the sexual exploits of a middle-aged leather dyke living on the margins of a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco and is available at San Francisco Public Library and independent bookstores. Conca is featured in the short documentary film Refuse and Refashion which she wrote\, co-produced\, and directed. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He hosts Queer Words Podcast\, conversations with queer-identified authors about their works and lives. When not writing or recording\, Goodman enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, gay\, and Black composers. ALL THE RIGHT PLACES is a collection of short stories\, most written for submission to anthologies or collections. Starting in the near future and proceeding to the near past\, men interact with other men in the pursuit of love and companionship. \nRob Rosen is the author of the award-winning novels SPARKLE: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, DIVAS LAS VEGAS\, HOT LAVA\, SOUTHERN FRIED\, QUEERWOLF\, VAMP\, QUEENS OF THE APOCALYPSE\, CREATURE COMFORT\, FATE\, MIDLIFE CRISIS\, FIERCE\, AND GOD BELCHED\, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTCH\, and TED OF THE D’URBERVILLES\, and editor of the anthologies Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1\, 2\, Lust in Time 3 and 4. www.therobrosen.com \nCass Sellars is a certified fraud examiner and criminal justice professional living in the East Bay. She has led investigations in criminal\, theft\, corporate and financial fraud. Formerly an editor of a small magazine and creative journalist\, she’s always been a writer at heart. She loves writing about powerful women\, their adventures\, and searches for justice. FINDING SKY is her fourth novel and the first standalone after the Lightning Series. Sellars grew up in the Midwest and England but spent much of her on the East Coast. In addition to writing she works in interior design and event planning and loves everything wine. www.casssellarsauthor.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-winter-2020-reading-2/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Evelyn Skye: Cloak of Night w/ Stacey Lee
DESCRIPTION:You know Evelyn Skye from the wonderful New York Times bestselling The Crown’s Game\, The Crown’s Fate\, and Circle of Shadows. \nThe wait for her sequel is finally over! We are so very excited to invite you to the launch party of Cloak of Night\, the exciting end to this thrilling duology that is full of dangerous action\, heartbreaking romance\, and incredible magic. \nAfter the devastating Ceremony of Two Hundred Hearts\, Sora\, Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick are truly alone in the fight to save their kingdom. Empress Aki is missing\, and everyone else who could help them is a prisoner to Prince Gin’s mind control. At least Sora understands what they’re up against. Or so she believes\, until she overhears Gin bargaining with the god of war for immortality and learns that ryuu magic may be a more insidious danger than she realized. Suddenly\, the stakes are higher and even more personal for Sora—not only must she stop a seemingly indestructible Prince Gin\, but she must also unravel the secrets of ryuu magic before it is too late for nearly everyone she loves. Sora Daemon\, Fairy\, and Broomstick face dangerous obstacles at every turn\, but the greatest challenge may be discovering who they truly are and what\, if anything\, they are capable of. The fate of a kingdom rests in their hands. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoining Evelyn on stage is Stacey Lee\, author of The Downstairs Girl\, Outrun the Moon\, Under a Painted Sky\, and The Secret of a Heart Note
URL:https://litseen.com/event/evelyn-skye-cloak-of-night-w-stacey-lee/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Happy Endings: February
DESCRIPTION:HAPPY ENDINGS is a monthly reading series that showcases new writing and wants to shine a little sun on your soul.\nWhat’s gonna happen? Five writers will come with a piece they’ve prepared in response to a monthly prompt. A panel of judges will be selected from the audience\, and that panel will pick a winner!\n$10/Pay what you can\, NOTAFLOF
URL:https://litseen.com/event/happy-endings-february/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amina Cain: Indelicacy
DESCRIPTION:Amina Cain discusses her new novel\, Indelicacy\, with Rita Bullwinkel. \nPraise for Indelicacy \n“In Indelicacy we meet a woman who spends time studying landscape paintings and then walking inside the landscapes where she lives. She looks at a landscape then moves inside another\, and as we read it begins to seem that the landscapes in paintings and in fiction are eerily the same. In a deeply pleasing way\, reading this novel is a bit like standing in a painting\, a masterful study of light and dark\, inside and out\, freedom and desire. Amina Cain is one of my favorite writers. I loved reading this book.” —Danielle Dutton\, author of Margaret the First \n“Acutely observed\, Indelicacy is an exquisite jewel box of a novel with the passion and vitality found only in such rare and necessary works as The Hour of the Star and The Days of Abandonment. Through this timeless examination of solitude\, art\, and friendship\, Amina Cain announces herself as one of the most intriguing writers of our time.” —Patty Yumi Cottrell\, author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace \n“Amina Cain redefines strangeness and freedom in this beautiful and unusual novel that resembles fairy tales and ghost stories but feels intensely contemporary.” —Alejandro Zambra\, author of Multiple Choice \nAbout Indelicacy \nA ghostly feminist fable\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is the story of a woman navigating between gender and class roles to empower herself and fulfill her dreams. \nIn “a strangely ageless world somewhere between Emily Dickinson and David Lynch” (Blake Butler)\, a cleaning woman at a museum of art nurtures aspirations to do more than simply dust the paintings around her. She dreams of having the liberty to explore them in writing\, and so must find a way to win herself the time and security to use her mind. She escapes her lot by marrying a rich man\, but having gained a husband\, a house\, high society\, and a maid\, she finds that her new life of privilege is no less constrained. Not only has she taken up different forms of time-consuming labor—social and erotic—but she is now\, however passively\, forcing other women to clean up after her. Perhaps another and more drastic solution is necessary? \nReminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature\, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys\, Octavia Butler\, Clarice Lispector\, and Jean Genet\, Amina Cain’s Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost\, a fable without a moral\, and a down-to-earth investigation of the barriers faced by women in both life and literature. It is a novel about seeing\, class\, desire\, anxiety\, pleasure\, friendship\, and the battle to find one’s true calling.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amina-cain-indelicacy/
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:Arthur Kleinman
DESCRIPTION:The Department of History\, Anthropology\, and Social Medicine at UCSF in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Viking Books present \nArthur Kleinman \ndiscussing the subject of his new book \nThe Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor \nfrom Viking Books \nA moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world. \nWhen Dr. Arthur Kleinman\, an eminent Harvard psychiatrist and social anthropologist\, began caring for his wife\, Joan\, after she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease\, he found just how far the act of caregiving extended beyond the boundaries of medicine. In The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor\, Kleinman delivers a deeply humane and inspiring story of his life in medicine and his marriage to Joan\, and he describes the practical\, emotional and moral aspects of caretaking. He also writes about the problems our society faces as medical technology advances and the cost of health care soars but caring for patients no longer seems important. \nCaregiving is long\, hard\, unglamorous work–at moments joyous\, more often tedious\, sometimes agonizing\, but it is always rich in meaning. In the face of our current political indifference and the challenge to the health care system\, he emphasizes how we must ask uncomfortable questions of ourselves\, and of our doctors. To give care\, to be “present” for someone who needs us\, and to feel and show kindness are deep emotional and moral experiences\, enactments of our core values. The practice of caregiving teaches us what is most important in life\, and reveals the very heart of what it is to be human. \n\nArthur Kleinman\, MD\, is one of the most renowned and influential scholars and writers on psychiatry\, anthropology\, global health\, and cultural issues in medicine. Educated at Stanford University and Stanford Medical School\, he has taught at Harvard for over forty years. He is currently professor of psychiatry and of medical anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Having spent decades doing field research in China and Taiwan\, he is also a leading expert on East Asia\, and was the Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard’s Asia Center from 2008 to 2016. He is also the author of The Illness Narratives: Suffering\, Healing\, and the Human Condition\, now widely taught in medical schools. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/arthur-kleinman/
LOCATION:UCSF Parnassus Campus\, 530 Parnassus Avenue\, 5th Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94143\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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