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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
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SUMMARY:Buuck\, Troyan\, + LaFrance
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to host a night of poetry in celebration of new books by David Buuck\, Danielle LaFrance and Cassandra Troyan! \nDanielle LaFrance is a poet\, librarian\, and independent scholar. She is the author of Friendly + Fire (Talonbooks 2016)\, Species Branding (CUE\, 2010)\, and the chapbook Pink Slip (SIC\, 2013). Between 2012-2016 she organized the feminist materialist collective and journal series About a Bicycle. Since 1983 she has mostly resided on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Skxwú7mesh\, Úxwumixw\, Stó:lo\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \nCassandra Troyan is a writer living in Oakland\, CA. Recent publications include KILL MANUAL (Artifice Books 2014) and A THEORY IN TEARS (ANNOTATIONS & CASES FOR FREEDOM & PROSTITUTION) (Kenning Editions 2016). Currently they are writing with Maya Andrea Gonzalez on the intersections of sex work\, (clean vs. dirty) money\, state violence and the anti-trafficking movement under the purview of neoliberal ideology. They also organize and speak on issues of criminality and sex worker rights with St. James Infirmary in San Francisco\, CA. \nDavid Buuck lives in Oakland\, where he edits Tripwire\, a journal of poetics. Recent publications include Noise in the Face of (Roof Books 2016)\, SITE CITE CITY (Futurepoem\, 2015) and An Army of Lovers\, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights\, 2013).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/buuck-troyan-lafrance/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Poetry: Neruda\, Ferrer Lerín\, + Panero
DESCRIPTION:Come to Alley Cat Books in the Mission District to hear the poetry and prose of three great writers of the Spanish speaking world:\nPablo Neruda\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín and Leopoldo María Panero.\nTheir work of the Chileno and the two Spaniards will be read by their translators: William O’Daly and Arturo Mantecón.\nMusic will be provided by Arturo Balderrama.\nQ & A to follow\nLimited open mic \nWILLIAM O’DALY is a poet\, translator\, fiction writer\, and editor. His translations include eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda — Still Another Day\, The Separate Rose\, Winter Garden\, The Sea and the Bells\, The Yellow Heart\, The Book of Questions\, The Hands of Day\, and World’s End — all published with Copper Canyon Press. Copper Canyon will publish his translation of Crepusculario (1923)\, Neruda’s first book of poems\, in late 2017. A chapbook of poems\, The Whale in the Web\, was published by Copper Canyon Press\, and Folded Word Press released The Road to Isla Negra (poems) in June 2015. Folded Word will publish two more books— Water Ways (a collaboration with JS Graustein) and Yarrow and Smoke — in 2017. O’Daly was a finalist for the 2006 Quill Award in Poetry and was profiled on NBC’s The Today Show. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow\, his poems\, translations\, essays\, and reviews have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. With co-author Han-ping Chin\, O’Daly recently completed a historical novel\, This Earthly Life\, an excerpt from which was awarded as a Finalist in Narrative’s 2009 Fall Story Contest. He has received national and regional honors for literary editing and instructional design. To learn more\, please visit him at: www.williamodaly.com. \nARTURO MANTECÓN is a poet and translator born in Laredo\, Texas and raised in Detroit\, Michigan. His poetry has appeared in La Ventana Abierta\, Poetry Now and various anthologies. Recently published books of his translations include Chance Encounters and Waking Dreams (collected work of the great Spanish writer\, Francisco Ferrer Lerín) and The Sick Rose (the posthumous poems of Leopoldo María Panero\, the mad\, genius of Spanish letters). A collection of his short stories\, Memories\, Cuentos Verídicos\, y Otras Outright Lies\, was published by En Casa in 2014.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-neruda-ferrer-lerin-panero/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Raucous Realness
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of fab-collab readings by a selection of Nomadic Press and Foglifter Journal and Press authors. Music by TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raucous-realness/
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:20161203T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161130T031857Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday December 3\, Babylon Salon’s Winter Reading welcomes double Lambda Literary Award-winning novelist\, poet\, essayist and recipient of a 2016 Barbary Coast Award from Litquake Jewelle Gomez (The Gilda Stories); short story writer and recipient of a 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction Anne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us); poet and Kundiman fellow Jason Bayani (Amulet); author\, San Francisco Chronicle columnist and Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award recipient Vanessa Hua (Deceit and Other Possibilities); writer and teacher Zach Wyner (What We Never Had). \nOUR NEW LOCATION: The Armory Club [downstairs performance space]\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE admission – Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. More details: www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161118T025140Z
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SUMMARY:WHEN WE RISE Publication Launch
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the launch of Cleve Jones‘ new memoir and get your signed copies! \nHosted by Juanita More\nDJ Tweaka Turner \nFood from Harvey’s\, Catch\, and Le Mediterranee. \nBy turns tender and uproarious\, When We Rise is Jones’ account of his remarkable life. He chronicles the heartbreak of losing countless friends to AIDS\, which very nearly killed him\, too; his co-founding of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation during the terrifying early years of the epidemic; his conception of the AIDS Memorial Quilt\, the largest community art project in history; the bewitching story of 1970s San Francisco and the magnetic spell it cast for thousands of young gay people and other misfits; and the harrowing\, sexy\, and sometimes hilarious stories of Cleve’s passionate relationships with friends and lovers during an era defined by both unprecedented freedom and possibility\, and prejudice and violence alike. \nWhen We Rise is not only the story of a hero to the LQBTQ community\, but the vibrantly voice memoir of a full and transformative American life–an activist whose work continues today. \nPreorder on Amazon today! \nhttps://www.amazon.com/When-We-Rise-Life-Movement/dp/0316315435
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-we-rise-publication-launch/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Ellingham\, Stein\, + Caples
DESCRIPTION:Suzanne Stein\, Lewis Ellingham\, and Garrett Caples read at Alley Cat Books\, Saturday\, December 3\, 2016 at 3 p.m\, for an exciting event organized by San Francisco poet and novelist Kevin Killian. \nAlley Cat Books in located in the Mission District of San Francisco\, at 3036 24th Street (at Treat). \nGarrett Caples is the author of three full-length poetry collections\, including the brand-new Power Ballads (Wave Books\, 2016). He has also written a book of essays\, Retrievals (Wave\, 2014)\, and a pamphlet\, Quintessence of the Minor: Symbolist Poetry in English (Wave\, 2010). He co-edited Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems by Frank Lima (City Lights\, 2016)\, Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore (Omnidawn\, 2015)\, and Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (California\, 2013). A freelance writer\, he is also an editor at City Lights\, where he curates the Spotlight poetry series. He lives in San Francisco. \nLewis Ellingham: born February 27th\, 1933\, Fort Wayne\, Indiana. By age 21\, migrated to San Francisco\, after living in Chicago and New York; settled in North Beach. With Kevin Killian\, wrote a biography of Jack Spicer\, Poet Be Like God [1995]. “My The Birds and Other Poems was published in 2009; new writing continues with a series of self-published books. My blog: “The Ellingham Digest”: http://lewellingham.wordpress.com/” He has a brand new book we launch this afternoon\, SEEN\, UNSEEN. \nSuzanne Stein’s publications and performance documents include The Kim Game (Area Sneaks)\, TOUT VA BIEN (Displaced Press)\, and Passenger Ship (Ypolita). Poems\, talk performances\, and prose have appeared in War and Peace\, On: Contemporary Practice\, Counterpath; and at New Langton Arts\, the Poetry Project\, the Berkeley Art Museum\, and elsewhere; audio performances are archived at PennSound. She was the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nFacebook event is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/598929320310766/?active_tab=discussion
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellingham-stein-caples/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-8/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161203T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161201T022010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022010Z
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SUMMARY:Book Passage at 40!
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a day of fun and celebration: \n10:00 am\nWe’re starting off with the kids\, inviting them to come up and read stories they have written or whatever they feel like reading. Among the many who will be there reading\, we expect the kids from INK to be there with their first book Dragon Mist and its new sequel. Come hear some of our local students read their work! We are showcasing the writers of tomorrow as part of our 40th Anniversary celebration. This is entirely selfish on our part. We’re hope that they will get the feel for how much fun it is to read in front of a bookstore audience. If so\, they might just be coming back for years to come with books they have written. Time will be limited. So please contact Joy (joy@bookpassage. com) to let us know you will be a reader! (But we warn you! Famous authors have told us it could be habit-forming.) \n3:00 pm\nIn the afternoon there will be a reception in the café for Tom Killion’s new collection of graphic arts that will be displayed both in the cafe and the gallery. Tom Killion is a native of Marin County who has been producing acclaimed Japanese-style woodcut prints of the California landscape for over forty years. Killion has created over 400 relief prints\, and has produced five handmade art books depicting landscapes from California to Europe and Africa. Killion’s most recent book\, California’s Wild Edge\, is a fresh collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder. \n4:00 pm\nIsabel Allende\, Anne Lamott and Don George will speak about the history of the bookstore and what it means to them and the community. Following that there will be a slide presentation about the store (shamelessly heaped in nostalgia!). And following that\, we will break out the bubbly and celebrate \nAnd here’s where you can help!\nWe are asking our friends to bring a “not too used” book to donate to our Hospice Used Book department. We will be donating a portion of the day’s new book sales to Hospice to help support their wonderful programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-passage-at-40/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Spoken Word at Naivasha
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the living legacy of spoken word in North Beach as we welcome our favorite local writers to share their work. \nFeaturing Brandon Loberg\, Charlie Getter\, Daniel Vaccerelli\, Kristin Kennedy\, Niko Van Dyke\, Jason Whitacre & Zach Roz. \nBYOB
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spoken-word-at-naivasha/
LOCATION:Naivasha Studio & Gallery\, 1499 Grant Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
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SUMMARY:Studio One: Perez\, Siegel\, Burghardt\, + Videtta
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, December 2nd @ 7:30 pm\nfor a reading featuring Robert Andrew Perez\, Matthew Siegel\nand Peter Burghardt\, plus art by Peg Videtta!\n\nEvent is FREE.\nLagunitas beer\, wine and snacks will be served.\n\n\n\nRobert Andrew Perez lives in Berkeley and is an associate editor & book designer for speCt! in Oakland\, where he also curates readings. He is an alum of the Lambda Literary fellowship & a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. His poetry has appeared in print & online in publications such as DIAGRAM\, The Awl\, The Laurel Review & The Cortland Review\, and has forthcoming work in Vinyl. His first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn in their pocket book series. He is currently writing a movie about a divorce and wine tasting; it’s a comedy. More at robertandrewperez.com. \nMatthew Siegel is the author of Blood Work (University of Wisconsin/CBe) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. His poems and essays have appeared in The Guardian\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, Ninth Letter\, The Rumpus and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, he teaches literature and writing at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. \nPeter Burghardt lives in Oakland\, California\, where he co-publishes speCt! books\, and edits OAR\, a print journal of poetry and prose. His recent work has appeared in such publications as the Offending Adam\, Tammy\, The Laurel Review\, and White Stag. His chapbook\, Cosmic American Music\, is forthcoming from Old Gold. \nPeg Videtta brings her experience of dance\, yoga\, and physics into making figurative sculpture. Her work explores the energetic components of the body\, especially while in movement.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-perez-siegel-burghardt-videtta/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T213000
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SUMMARY:Randa Jarrar
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Randa Jarrar: \n“Jarrar does what every brave storyteller should do-she makes sense of what other writers leave outside the bounds. She connects us with that which others have left unsaid.” – Colum McCann\, author of Transatlantic \n\n“Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali is a searing collection of short stories about loving\, lusting\, losing\, and surviving. Randa Jarrar is one of the finest writers of her generation. Her voice is assured\, fiercely independent\, laced with humor and irony–and always\, always\, honest.” – Laila Lalami\, author of The Moor’s Account \n\n“Randa Jarrar’s prose is bold and luscious and makes the darkly comic seem light.  The voices in Him\, Me\, Muhammed Ali are powerful individually\, and overwhelming as a chorus. This wonderful work isn’t just a collection: it’s a world.” – Mat Johnson\, author of Loving Day \n\n“Wow! These vibrant\, funny\, earthy\, and above all yearning (for love\, for family\, for home) stories are a revelation. Jarrar combines the invention of Calvino\, the sprung style of Paley\, the poetic imagery of Babel. But that mash-up isn’t mere stylistic exuberance; it’s a restless\, relentless and deeply affecting effort to forge identity out of fragments\, to make a whole out of halves. These are the stories we need right now.” – Peter Ho Davies\, author of The Welsh Girl \n\n“Fearless\, funny\, and sad\, soaring and earthly\, fable-like and visceral\, full of families\, lovers\, friends\, strangers and lonely children. These stories laugh with and think through and rise against\, which is just to say they brilliantly demonstrate Jarrar’s huge talent\, compassion and range. “Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali astonishes from start to finish.” – Sam Lipsyte\, author of The Ask \n\nAbout Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali: \nAward-winning novelist Randa Jarrar’s new story collection moves seamlessly between realism and fable\, history and the present\, capturing the lives of Muslim women and men across myriad geographies and circumstances. With acerbic wit\, deep tenderness\, and boundless imagination\, Jarrar brings to life a memorable cast of characters\, many of them “accidental transients”a term for migratory birds who have gone astrayseeking their circuitous routes back home. Fierce and feeling\, Him\, Me\, Muhammad Ali is a testament to survival in the face of love\, loss\, and displacement.\nRanda Jarrar is the author of a highly successful novel\, A Map of Home\, which received an Arab-American Book Award and was named one of the best novels of 2008 by the Barnes & Noble Review. She grew up in Kuwait and Egypt\, and moved to the United States after the first Gulf War. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, the Utne Reader\, Salon.com\, Guernica\, the Rumpus\, the Oxford American\, Ploughshares\, and more. She blogs for Salon\, and lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/randa-jarrar/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T210000
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SUMMARY:Ambush Review Five
DESCRIPTION:Book release of the new Ambush Review Five\, with readings from the following contributors: \n\nDavid Beckman\nSharon Coleman\nGrace Marie Grafton\nJose Luis Gutierrez\nKen Saffran\nKim Shuck\n\n…and others
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ambush-review-five/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T203000
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SUMMARY:Laura Levin + Eric Sneathen
DESCRIPTION:Please join Krupskaya Book for the release of our two new titles\, Lauren Levin’s THE BRAID and Eric Sneathen’s SNAIL POEMS! We are so thrilled to see these books in the world and celebrate with Lauren and Eric at Alley Cat Books! Doors are at 6PM\, reading at 7PM. \nLauren Levin grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond\, CA with her family. Her first full-length book The Braid is out now from Krupskaya Books\, and her second full-length\, Two Essays\, is forthcoming from Timeless\, Infinite Light in 2018. Recent work can be found in the chapbook Only the Dead Are Never Anxious (Mondo Bummer)\, on the Poetry Project website\, and forthcoming in the journal Hold. \nEric Sneathen splits his time between Oakland and UC Santa Cruz\, where he is a PhD student in Literature. His poetry has been published by Mondo Bummer\, littletell\, Faggot Journal\, and The Equalizer\, and his first collection\, Snail Poems\, is out now from Krupskaya. He is also the editor and producer of Macaroni Necklace\, a DIY literary zine and reading series featuring (mostly) writers who have not yet published a book-length manuscript.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-levin-eric-sneathen/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161201T020947Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads/
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:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161201T030741Z
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SUMMARY:Mariela Griffor + Lynne Knight
DESCRIPTION:Mariela Griffor’s new book is a translation of Pablo Neruda’s Canto General: Song of the Americas\, edited by Jeffrey Levine\, perhaps Neruda’s most daring and ambitious project\, depicting history as a vast\, continuous struggle against oppression. Griffor was born in Concepción in southern Chile. She left Chile for an involuntary exile in Sweden and now lives in the U.S.\, in Michigan and Washington D.C.\, where she is Honorary Consul of Chile. She is the founder of Marick Press and is the author of three books of poems\,  Exiliana\, House\, and The Psychiatrist. \nLynne Knight’s new book of poems is The Persistence of Longing. Cecilia Woloch says\, “I’ve never read poems that seem to me more accurate about love and desire and sexual relationships and their almost-inevitable shattering—darkly gorgeous and expertly-crafted poems\, with a white-hot lyric intensity and a narrative pull that becomes cumulative\, an erotic veering toward doom.” She is the author of four full-length poetry collections and four chapbooks\, and translator of I Know (Je sais)\, by Ito Naga\, from the French. Among her honors are publication in Best American Poetry\, the Prix de l’Alliance Française 2006\, the 2009 Rattle Poetry Prize\, a Poetry Society of America Lucille Medwick Memorial Award\, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariela-griffor-lynne-knight/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
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SUMMARY:Max Ritvo Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Read about Max’s life at NPR. \nPraise for Four Reincarnations: \n“Marked by intellectual bravado and verbal extravagance. . . .One of the most original and ambitious first books in my experience.” —Louise Glück \n\n“A Max Ritvo poem is:\nA map drawn by hand to show where the body is buried.\nA card trick with words. . . ‘Don’t show me how you did it.’\nLike reading the last sentence in a book first.\nDragging words across the page like a bow across a string.\nA piece of candy covered with ants.\nLike silverfish ate the words off a page . . . and left you a riddle.\nAll of the above.”\n—Tom Waits \n\nAbout Four Reincarnations: \nReverent and profane\, entertaining and bruising\, Four Reincarnations is a debut collection of poems that introduces an exciting new voice in American letters.\nWhen Max Ritvo was diagnosed with cancer at age sixteen\, he became the chief war correspondent for his body. The poems of Four Reincarnations are dispatches from chemotherapy beds and hospitals and the loneliest spaces in the home. They are relentlessly embodied\, communicating pain\, violence\, and loss. And yet they are also erotically\, electrically attuned to possibility and desire\, to everything living / that won t come with me / into this sunny afternoon. Ritvo explores the prospect of death with singular sensitivity\, but he is also a poet of life and of lovea cool-eyed assessor of mortality and a fervent champion for his body and its pleasures.\nRitvo writes to his wife\, ex-lovers\, therapists\, fathers\, and one mother. He finds something to love and something to lose in everything: Listerine PocketPak breath strips\, Indian mythology\, wool hats. But in these poemsfrom the humans that animate him to the inanimate hospital machines that remind him of deathit’s Ritvo’s vulnerable\, aching pitch of intimacy that establishes him as one
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-ritvo-celebration/
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:20161201T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161017T232845Z
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SUMMARY:Andrew Solomon w/ Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:Andrew Solomon’s books and essays explore politics\, culture\, and psychology with extraordinary humanity\, including The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression\, widely considered the definitive text on depression; and Far From the Tree: Parents\, Children & the Search for Identity\, an examination of the means by which families accommodate children with physical\, mental\, and social disabilities\, and how these unusual situations can be invested with love. Solomon is a frequent contributor to NPR and The New York Times. He is also an outspoken activist and philanthropist for many causes in LGBT rights\, mental health\, education and the arts. His latest book is a collection of essays examining his years of international travel titled Far and Away.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-solomon-w-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161201T022336Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022336Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
DESCRIPTION:No porn unread\, no wine untasted. \nFeatured writers: Meghann Hayes\, Kelly Anneken\, Pam Benjamin\, Rebecca Rubenstein\, Michael Howley\, & Danny Thanh Nguyen \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. Tickets on sale now\, and seats are almost gone. \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-victor-hugos-les-miserables/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161130T030725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T030725Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective Flashathon
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for our second annual end-of-the-year flashathon\, featuring a few of our amazing past readers! \nLynn Mundell\nAndrew O. Dugas\nThaisa Frank\nChad Koch\nChristopher Cook\nMolly Giles\nJane McDermott\nHeather Bourbeau\nMardi Louisell\nJenny Bitner\nNoah Sanders\nTony Press\nJon Sindell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective-flashathon/
LOCATION:Flash Fiction Collective\, 3036 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161025T012944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161025T012944Z
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SUMMARY:Kuwentuhan (Talkstory)
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes and Oscar Bermeo read from their poetry\, continuing a collaboration between artists\, audiences and The Poetry Center\, as a way of enlarging this circle beyond ethnic boundaries\, in contested urban spaces. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) takes the Tagalog term\, a phoneticized form adapted through the colonial Spanish\, as its title\, proposition\, and starting point. Kuwentuhan (“necessary step toward big talk\,” by one definition) is orally based\, informal in nature\, usually spontaneous\, and is always an opportunity for people to converge and share. It occurs in all kinds of social spaces as talkstory circle. \nThe project’s aim is to open up precisely the kind of human space that barely exists in our technological and “globalized” culture\, by allowing a select group of American poets out of widely disparate and polyglot cultural and geographic backgrounds to actually talk face to face\, sharing stories\, poetry and conversations among themselves and with audiences. They are interested in work that originates from a communal basis\, and in shaping a project that encourages collective creation\, by putting into action mechanisms for creating “live” person-to-person exchange between and among artists and audiences. \nKuwentuhan (Talkstory) is a project of The Poetry Center and Reyes\, supported by the Creative Work Fund.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kuwentuhan-talkstory/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20160922T004241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160922T004241Z
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SUMMARY:Cary Groner
DESCRIPTION:Cary Groner grew up in the Midwest and has worked as a journalist and photographer for many years. He earned his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Arizona in 2009\, and his debut novel\, Exiles\, was a Chicago Tribune “best book” of 2011. His short stories have won numerous awards\, including the Glimmer Train fiction open\, and have appeared there and in other venues including American Fiction\,Mississippi Review\, Sycamore Review\, and Southern California Review. Cary teaches at the Writing Salon and is completing a new novel and a story collection. His website is www.carygroner.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-groner/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161201T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161201T125000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161018T002614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T002614Z
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SUMMARY:Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Juan Felipe Herrera is currently the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012 to 2014\, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera’s many collections of poetry include Notes on the Assemblage\, Senegal Taxi\, and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems which received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161129T055241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055241Z
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS SPOKEN OUT #84
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our last reading of the year as we welcome writers Angelika Quirk\, who reads from her just released book\, Unspooling\, and Melanie Maier. \nAngelika Quirk was born and raised in Hamburg\, Germany. She immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 18 and received a degree in German literature from UC Berkeley. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies. She has published three books: After Sirens\, Of Ruins and Rumors\, and Unspooling which was published this year. Two of her books have been accepted for the library of the German American Heritage Museum\, in Washington DC. \nMelanie Maier’s poetry has been published in the Southern California Review\, and South Carolina Review. Her first chapbook\, The Land of Us\, was published by Pudding House Press. She is the author of two other chap books\, Scattering Wind\, and Night Boats\, from Conflux Press. \nWe will have light refreshments\, including hot apple cider to keep out the chill\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Tell your friends to come by\, and share the magic of words and friends in our welcoming salon. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before hand! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-84/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161129T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161129T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161129T060348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T060348Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop
DESCRIPTION:Literary Pop is the show where writers and performers read work inspired by their pop culture obsessions. Featuring Storytellers\, Poets\, Comedians\, Fiction authors and more! \n7pm doors 8pm Show \nThis Month’s episode features: \nLise Quintana on Star Trek\nRuby Gill on the Golden Girls\nYodassa Williams on the Baby Sitters Club\nMagnoliah Black on The Apocalypse\nJoshua Grannell (aka Peaches Christ) on John Waters \nAdvance Tickets available now at docslabsf.com only $9! $12 at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-3/
LOCATION:Doc’s Lab\, 124 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161129T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161129T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161019T001608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161019T001608Z
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SUMMARY:Eavan Boland + Ari Banias
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the release of two new books of poetry \nA Poet’s Dublin – by Eavan Boland \nAnybody: Poems – by Ari Banias \nboth published by W.W. Norton \nA rare evening of reading and discussion betweem teacher and student. \nabout A Poet’s Dublin: \nWritten over years\, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet’s Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful\, historic city\, studying how it forms and alters language\, memory\, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where the poet lived and raised her children to the inner-city bombing of 1974\, and include such signature poems as “The Pomegranate\,” “The War Horse\,” and “Anna Liffey.” Above all\, these poems weave together the story of a self and a city—private\, political\, and bound by history. The poems are supported by photographs of the city at all times and in all seasons: from dawn on the river Liffey\, which flows through Dublin\, to twilight up in the Dublin foothills. \nPraise for the work of Eavan Boland: \n“For Boland\, one feels poetry has to be honorable and natural\, though at times as terrifying as giving birth alone in the open meadow\, and that it is also made of blood and the guilt of being human.” — Yusef Komunyakaa \nabout Anybody:Poems: \nIn Anybody\, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed\, the ways he and she\, us and them\, here and elsewhere are kept separate\, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes\, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered\, queer\, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns—the cruising spaces of Fire Island\, a city lake\, a Greek island\, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop—he finds the charge of boundedness and signification\, the implications of what it means to be a this instead of a that. Witty\, tender\, and original\, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives. \nPraise for the work of Ari Banias: \n“I’m so impressed by the range and grace of Ari Banias’ Anybody. It’s discursive\, straight-talking\, and thinky\, then ghostlike\, elliptical\, and mischievous. It takes its time\, then rushes; it’s quiet\, then bold; it’s steeped in sociality\, then ringing with solitude. I happily recognize its arrival\, even if I know (as does Banias\, quoting Berlant) that recognition may be but the misrecognition we can bear.” — Maggie Nelson \n“Born late in the twentieth century\, tutored under the twin suns of Frank O’Hara and Guillaume Apollinaire\, vexed by ‘this set of meanings on my body\,’ Ari Banias is a poet for this hour—bewildered\, hopeful\, and cracklingly alive\, a citizen of the possible. How many utopias? (keep imagining them).” — Mark Doty \n“Here is Anybody with its syntax of rupture and suture\, its restless questions and metaphysical balloons. What a thrilling\, original\, generous\, openhearted book. A book we have waited for\, whoever we are.” — Donna Masini \n“Ari Banias has written one of the finest first books (OK\, any book!) that I’ve ever read… These poems stake a claim on the future: they give us a poet who understands to the bone how syntax and line and music embody emotion\, and how the integrity of the spirit is the maker’s integrity.” — Tom Sleigh\nEavan Boland is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry and nonfiction. A professor and the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University\, she is the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lives in Stanford\, California\, and Dublin\, Ireland. \nAri Banias has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing\, and Stanford University\, where he was most recently a Wallace Stegner Fellow. He received an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and lives in Berkeley\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eavan-boland-ari-banias/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161128T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161017T232719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T232719Z
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SUMMARY:Frances McDormand + Elizabeth Strout w/ Steven Winn
DESCRIPTION:With her complicated\, finely-drawn characters and incisive prose\, novelist Elizabeth Strout uses the quiet rhythms of the everyday and the natural beauty of northern New England to illuminate the depth of grief and the breadth of joy in even the most ordinary of lives. In her most recent novel\, My Name Is Lucy Barton\, a simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the relationship between mother and daughter. That tender relationship was a central exploration in Amy and Isabelle as well. In 2008\, Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for Olive Kitteridge\, a masterful work that wove together thirteen rich\, luminous narratives into one masterful novel anchored by the character of Olive. Olive Kitteridge was adapted into an HBO miniseries in 2014 produced by and starring Frances McDormand. The series won eight Emmy Awards. Stout is also the author of the The Burgess Boys and Abide with Me. \n  \nAcclaimed actress Frances McDormand has appeared in numerous films including Burn After Reading\, Mississippi Burning\, Moonrise Kingdom\, and The Man Who Wasn’t There.  While her Oscar-winning performance as a tenacious Minnesota police officer in the Coen brothers’ film Fargo brought her widespread fame\, her supporting roles and her uncompromising approach to acting had already earned her the respect of audiences and directors. Throughout her career\, McDormand has continued to work both on and off-Broadway\, in plays like The Country Girl\, A Streetcar Named Desire\, Good People\, for which she received a Tony Award\, and most recently in Macbeth at Berkeley Repertory Theater.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frances-mcdormand-elizabeth-strout-w-steven-winn/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161128T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161129T053547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T053547Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations
DESCRIPTION:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #39\, November 28 at the Hotel Rex. \nCommunity Guest Curator: Jennifer Lewis\nBay Area Generations Board Curators: Sandra Wassilie + Bonnie McManis \nREADERS \nShizue Seigel + April Yee\nJustice Morríghan + Ryanaustin Dennis\nJohn Haggerty + Katrin Gibb\nPeter Bullen + Sarah Bethe Nelson\nKeith Donnell + Lisa Alden\nJessica Hahn + Barbara Campbell \nMUSICAL GUEST \nJustin Frahm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-2/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161126T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161126T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161118T024609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T024609Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A "Surreal" Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:At Saturday Night Special\, we have always valued diversity\, inclusivity\, fairness\, and social justice. In the wake of recent events\, it feels important to reaffirm this commitment. \nWhen choosing the “surreal” theme for the final Saturday Night Special of 2016\, there was no way of knowing how appropos it would turn out to be. According to Merriam Webster\, “surreal” means “marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream; also : unbelievable\, fantastic.” Sound about right? \nIn a time when so many of us have been casting about for light\, let’s gather together in the stuffed afterglow of the Thanksgiving holiday\, to drink and share some words. This month\, you are invited to bring us your surreal poems\, your irrational rants\, your unbelievable stories\, or whatever you like. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur November features are: Hugh Behm Steinberg +TBA\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, November 26th\, 2016\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nHugh Behm-Steinberg is the author of two books of poetry: Shy Green Fields (No Tell Books) and The Opposite of Work (JackLeg Press)\, as well as three Dusie chapbooks\, Sorcery\, Good Morning! and The Sound of Music. His prose can be found in Psychopomp\, The East Bay Review\, Joyland\, Gravel\, Sand\, Vestal Review and Gigantic. His short story “Taylor Swift” won the 2015 Barthelme Prize from Gulf Coast. He is a member of the non-ranked faculty collective bargaining team at California College of the Arts in San Francisco\, where he edits the journal Eleven Eleven.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-surreal-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161122T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161122T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161118T024243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T024243Z
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SUMMARY:ABBW Presents: The Hydra #8
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) eighth experimental\, flash\, and science fiction reading series at the beautiful Woods Bar & Brewery on 17th and Telegraph in Uptown\, Oakland. \nThis month features science-fiction author TBD and our Outsider of the Month TBD and five (5) open mic slots! Emceed by Elwin Michael Cotman and Vernon Keeve III. Music by the ever-so-talented Oakland Future Trio. \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nGenesis \nAt one time it was believed that Hercules downed the six-headed beast\, discovering in the process that the removal of one head meant that two would grow in its place. It was only with help from Iolaus that the death of the beast was exposed in the marrying of decapitation and cauterization\, so that more heads could not sprout. Hercules buried the taproot of the beast under a huge rock\, known today as Mount Diablo. \nFor 27 centuries\, the Hydra has remained dormant\, until the 1940s when copious amounts of poetry began to stir the sleeping heart of the behemoth\, and slowly but surely the heads of the beast began to grow back despite the sealed wounds. \nOctavia Butler\, Samuel R. Delaney\, and Ursula K. Le Guin were knighted as keepers of the beast\, but the trio’s powers were greatly weakened with the passing of Octavia. \nUrsula recently said\, “with the popularity of poetry readings in the Bay Area the heads of the beast are growing back at an alarming rate\, and the only thing that will slow down the beast is the inclusion of more fiction in the literary scene. We need stories of mythical beasts stronger than the Hydra. We need stories of worlds that is not the world it remembers\, or maybe stories of lands the Hydra knows all too well. We need stories of heroes that can destroy it\, and villians greater than it. We need experimental stories\, we need short stories\, we need fiction. Fiction is the only thing that will down the beast for once and for all. Counteract the poetry that is making the beast grow\, and do it now.” \nThe Setup \nWith all that being said\, we would like to invite you all to The Association of Black and Brown Writers’ (Nomadic Press’) The Hydra: A Reading Series of Experimental\, Flash\, and Science Fiction. This event will come to you on the last Tuesday of every month at Woods Bar & Brewery in Uptown Oakland. \nHydra will always have a featured reader who writes within the genre of fiction\, as well as\, an Outsider of the Month. The Outsider of the Month is someone who usually writes what cannot be classified as fiction\, but who will be asked to write a piece of fiction and share it with the audience. We’ve learned that this sacrifice is one that slows down the growth of the heads the most. \nThere will also 5 slots available for sacrificial (open-mic) readings (4 minutes per reading)\, so come out to listen\, to share\, to join us in ceremony. \nPSA: This series is still not affiliated with H.Y.D.R.A. the criminal organization\, but they want in
URL:https://litseen.com/event/abbw-presents-the-hydra-8/
LOCATION:Woods Bar & Brewery\, 1701 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161121T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260425T233628
CREATED:20161018T232806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T232806Z
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SUMMARY:Henrietta Rose-Innes + Julie Shigekuni w/ Aaron Bady
DESCRIPTION:About Nineveh: \nKatya Grubbs is Cape Town’s only ethical pest removal specialist. She expertly wrangles every manner of wild critter\, creature or beast with the help of her unwitting nephew\, Toby. When she is hired to remove the exotic beetles that have overrun Nineveh\, a new luxury housing development on the coast\, Katya finds that bugs aren t the only unwelcome creatures hiding in the new (but inhabited) apartments. As she investigates further\, it becomes clear that Nineveh is fast becoming an environmental\, not to mention architectural\, blunder. With marshlands encroaching on its borders\, and the nearby seaside more menace than attraction\, Katya becomes immersed in the world of Nineveh’s few residentsthe mysterious caretakers and scavenger crews that survive in its shadow. It is only when her estranged fathera professional exterminator fallen on hard timesreappears in her life\, that Nineveh’s deeper secrets are exposed. \n\nAbout In Plain View: \nDaidai and her husband Hiroshi have what many of their friends believe is a perfect life. Daidai has recently left her job as curator of the Japanese American Museum in Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo so that she and Hiroshi\, a university professor\, can try for a baby. Frustrated by their lack of success so far\, and by their increasingly clinical love life\, Daidai befriends Satsuki\, one of Hiroshi’s graduate students. Newly arrived from Japan\, Satsuki clings to her friendship to Daidai and quickly becomes a mainstay in their household.\nSpurred by a revelation concerning Satsuki’s estranged mother and a disturbing trip to Japan where Daidai discovered Satsuki’s father was engaged in illegal\, and illicit\, activities\, Daidai begins to seriously question Satsuki’s seemingly innocent connection to three possible murders.\nDaidai’s concerns about Satsuki are dismissed as jealousy by her husband until Daidai’s investigation will lead to a harrowing confrontation between the two women\, and Satsuki’s true intentions will be revealed. At once a taut psychological thriller and examination of cultural divides\, Shigekuni’s “In Plain View” is never as it appears.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henrietta-rose-innes-julie-shigekuni-w-aaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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