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SUMMARY:Facades Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 4\, 2018\, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers\, Devi S. Laskar\, Claudia H. Long\,Crystal Jo Reiss\, and a surprise poet/novelist\, will ferry readers across borders\, around the world\, and through time. In an era of despotism\, misrepresentations\, fake news and “fake news\,” forced migrations\, and missing time\, facades fall away and bare the truth. Come find your truth with writers who don’t flinch when questions become inquisitions\, maps are revised\, and skies fall onto pages that will not turn anyone away. \n— \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, N.C. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York. A former newspaper reporter\, she is now a poet\, photographer and artist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review\, Fairy Tale Review\, Tin House and The Raleigh Review\, which nominated her for Best New Poets 2016. She is an alumna of both TheOpEdProject and VONA/Voices\, and poetry workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Finishing Line Press published the first of two poetry chapbooks\, “Gas & Food\, No Lodging” in March 2017 and has nominated her for a Pushcart Prize—and will publish Anastasia Maps in December. She now lives in California. \nClaudia H. Long is the author of three books about the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico: Josefina’s Sin\, The Duel for Consuelo\, and just out\, Chains of Silver. Her books have been described as “riveting”\, “beautifully researched and lyrically written\,” “spell-binding” and “very\, very sexy.” She grew up in Mexico City\, and makes her home in the East Bay\, with her husband\, nearby grown children\, perfect grandson\, and anywhere from three to five dogs\, depending on who’s home. When she isn’t writing she practices law\, mediating ugly business disputes and employment discrimination cases. \nCrystal Jo Reiss began her writing career with the publication of her first poem\, The Girl Who Pricked Her Finger\, in The Louisville Review’s anthology of children’s poetry. Years later\, while working on her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Columbia University\, she wrestled with narrative and drafted her first novel. Later\, she attended The Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference\, and spent a summer at The Edward Albee Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Between assisting a renowned physical anthropologist\, serving as a transcription editor for a law firm that represented members of the Cosa Nostra\, teaching college-level composition\, and working on spreadsheets for nurse practitioners\, she wrote for a variety of publications\, including a trade magazine focused on post-production houses in the advertising industry. She has since cofounded an editorial and design business\, and is celebrating the publication of her novel\, Jane is Everywhere. She lives with her husband and son in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/facades-everywhere/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran lives in Berkeley\, California. Her latest novel\, Lucky Boy\,was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Canteen Magazine\, Huffington Post and Best New American Voices. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and a Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College. www.shanthisekaran.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-5/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:'Every Note Played'
DESCRIPTION:“Every Note Played” vividly depicts ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). As author Lisa Genova did in her previous New York Times bestselling novels\, “Still Alice\,” “Inside the O’Briens\,” “Love Anthony” and “Left Neglected\,” she blends a neuroscience background with her literary skills to create a powerful story not only about a neurological condition\, but also about the human condition. Through the lens of ALS\, “Every Note Played” explores regret\, forgiveness\, letting go and redemption. \nAn accomplished concert pianist\, every finger of Richard’s hands was a finely calibrated instrument\, dancing across the keys and striking every note with precision. That was eight months ago. Richard now has ALS and his right arm is paralyzed. He knows his left arm is next. \nRichard’s ex-wife Karina is trapped in a prison of excuses and fear\, stuck in an unfulfilling life as an afterschool piano teacher\, blaming Richard and their failed marriage for all of it. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own\, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard’s muscles\, voice and breath fade\, the two struggle to reconcile their past before it’s too late. \nWith the same insight as her previous titles\, “Every Note Played” is informed by an understanding of classical music. Heartbreaking and profound\, it is achingly hard to read at moments. Genova delivers a novel that will linger and affect readers just as “Still Alice” did. \nLisa Genova graduated valedictorian\, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science\, Lisa has captured a special place in contemporary fiction\, writing stories that are equally inspired by neuroscience and the human spirit. \nBooks will on sale at the event\, provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/every-note-played/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="The Oshman Family JCC":MAILTO:info@paloaltojcc.org
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bearand Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books\, and from 2016-7 was Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180408T210000
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim // SFJAZZ Center
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-w-genny-lim-sfjazz-center/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live - Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm \nIn Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. \nToss your expectations aside and come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya — have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Presidio Trust":MAILTO:sbarry@presidiotrust.gov
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live | Literary Reading: Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:In Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. On April 5\, come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries hailing from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya– have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-literary-reading-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics’ Institute Library and NYRB present\n\nHenri Cole celebrating the release of \n  \nOrphic Paris \nfrom New York Review Books \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography\, diary\, essay\, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop\, Cole\, an award-winning American poet\, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family\, poetry and solitude\, the self and freedom. \nCole writes of Paris\, “For a time\, I lived here\, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man\, I cared fully for myself\, and felt not guilt and confessed nothing\, and in this place\, I wrote\, I was nourished\, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic\, oracular\, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching\, original\, brilliant account of the city. \nWhat has been said about the work of Henri Cole \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris is a remarkable work—a poet’s most intimate diary\, written entirely in Paris\, in a sequence of visits that take us into the interior of the city as into the interior of the questing poet’s soul. The voice of the poet here is confiding\, erudite\, tender\, unexpected in its sympathies and discoveries; like Henri Cole’s extraordinary poetry\, it is both finely crafted and yet—seemingly—artless\, unpretentious. One of the great pleasures of Orphic Paris is the poet’s delight in the work and words of others—fellow poets\, artist-friends\, Parisians who drift into his ardently observant life\, and move on.\n—Joyce Carol Oates \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nVisit  https://www.milibrary.org for more info on ticket availability
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henri-cole/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents A WRINKLE IN TIME
DESCRIPTION:Climb in the tesseract and hold on to your Whatsits: we’re doing A Wrinkle in Time\, because Chris Pine is in the movie. \n  \nFeatured writers: Sarah Culver\, Annalee Newitz\, Feb & March winners\, and more TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+. Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nTickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \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.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-a-wrinkle-in-time/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nThursday\, April 5\, 7:00pm \nAl Young\, Arlene Biala & Brittany Biala\, Royal Kent with Copus Multimedia \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 5\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://ticketf.ly/2oVcGLP \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-2/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dan Bransfield / Pizzapedia
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield’sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet\, pizza (obviously)\, and a cash bar! \nA book for the pizza obsessed\, with 80 charming illustrations and information about the history\, ingredients\, and lore of everyone’s favorite food. \nPizza is a food that lends itself to legend and obsession\, spanning geography\, generations\, and gender. In lavish illustrations and hand-lettered text\, Pizzapedia celebrates all there is to fixate about: the stories behind its origin (we have the ancient Greeks to thank before the Italians); the delectable ingredients\, from San Marzano tomatoes to buffalo mozzarella; the failed and the famous inventions (like “the pizza saver\,” the piece of plastic that prevents a pizza delivery box top from drooping into the pie); the merits of Sicilian vs. New York vs. Chicago vs. new (Detroit?!) styles; and much more. Like the universally beloved food\, this art-driven book of miscellany is inviting\, colorful\, and a delicious gift to give and get. \n  \n— \nDan Bransfield is a food-loving illustrator and pun enthusiast. Much of his illustration work is made for the food and dining industry\, including True Story Foods\, Applegate Farms\, Beringer Winery ads in The New Yorker\, NOPA restaurant\, and regular contributions to the Rumpus and Edible San Francisco magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bransfield-pizzapedia/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Curtis White discusses Lacking Character
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white-discusses-lacking-character/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nFriday\, April 6\, 7:00pm \nPaul Flores\, Genny Lim\, Tongo Eisen-Martin with Broun Fellinis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-3/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth\, with readings and tributes\, at UC Berkeley’s Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion\, poet and editor of Raworth’s As When: A Selection (Carcanet\, 2015) will be flying in from New York City\, and other poet and artist friends from nearer by and far-flung places will be present\, the latter via audio recording or written memories and tributes. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English\, this event is free and open to the public. \nProgram \nWelcome: Lyn Hejinian \nStephen Emerson\nNorma Cole\nAlastair Johnston\nRita degli Esposti\nDavid Southern\nJean Day\nAlan Bernheimer\nMerrill Gilfillan\nArmando Pajalich\nStephen Vincent\nBruce Ackley\nFanny Howe\nJennifer Dunbar Dorn\nKit Robinson\nGian Antonio Pozzi\nJim Nisbet\nDuncan McNaughton\nLyn Hejinian\nClark Coolidge\nAndy Berlin\nSteve Dickison\nMiles Champion \nFinale: recording of Tom Raworth reading \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• In Memoriam: Tom Raworth\, by Martin Corless-Smith | Tarpaulin Sky\n• Tom Raworth 1938-2017\, by SJ Fowler | 3:AM Magazine\n• Tom Raworth obituary | The Guardian\n• Tom Raworth | Poetry Foundation \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-raworth-1938-2017-a-celebration-of-his-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mohsin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Pico Iyer \n  \n\nMohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel\, Moth Smoke\, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays\, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations\, have appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New York Review of Books\, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore\, Pakistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mohsin-hamid/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mohsin Hamid with Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel\, Moth Smoke\, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays\, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations\, have appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New York Review of Books\, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore\, Pakistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mohsin-hamid-with-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry/Karaoke Dinner
DESCRIPTION:This is an informal monthly program on every second Friday of the month. You can recite your favorite poem or sing a song. Dinner is provided. The ticket is $10 per person if you buy or infrom us before Thursday Noon.\nPreregistration is requested by emailing to info@pacc-ca.org or pay at PayPal below. Pre-registration by email or PayPal will close right at noon the Thursday before. \nBring your friends and family. If you do not pre-register before Thursday noon\, it will be $15 at the door. \nThere will be two rounds\, time permitting. If you like to recite a poem or sing a song\, you will have 5 minutes in each round.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetrykaraoke-dinner/
LOCATION:PACC – Pakistani American Community Center\, 372 Turquoise St\, Suite # 4\, Milpitas\, CA\, 95035\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Hand\, De Leon\, Robles w/ Fellinis
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \n  \n\n\n\n\nAya de Leon is a novelist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley. She first came to national attention as a spoken word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and a hip-hop theater artist. de Leon is of Puerto Rican\, African American\, and West Indian heritage\, and much of her work explores issues of race\, gender\, socio-economic class\, body and nation. Part of San Francisco Slam Team (they won the Western Region Poetry Slam in 2000. In 2001\, she began to develop the hip hop theater show\, “Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop” focused on fighting sexism and consumerism in hip hop [1][2] She began her college teaching career at Stanford University in 2001. In 2006\, she was chosen as the Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley\, where she currently teaches poetry and spoken word. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Robles\, a self described “Friscopino”\, born and raised San Francisco\, is author of 2 poetry/short story collections\, Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike and Cool Don’t Live Here No More–A letter to San Francisco\, published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press. Tony was a short list finalist for Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, 2017\, and is the recipient of the individual literary artist grant from the SF Art Commission 2017. Says current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, “Tony speaks of the city as a relative with a life threatening illness\, with love and anger.” \n\n\n\n\n  \nThe Broun Fellinis are a jazz/hip-hop trio hailing from the Bay Area whose members include percussionist Professor Boris Karnaz (born Kevin Carnes)\, bassist Kirk the Redeemer\, and woodwind player Black Edgar Kenyatta. Their debut\, Aphrokubist Improvisations\, Vol. 9\, was released in 1995. The group has created their own mythology explaining their origins — they claim to be from the mythical land of Boohaabia\, which floats off the coast of Madagascar and is surrounded by the Phat Temple\, the Ministry of Imagination\, and the Oasis of Surprise\, which are all at equal distances from Boohaabia. Further\, Karnaz claims that Boohaabia may be reached through the group’s music\, or perhaps through Kirk the Redeemer’s bass cabinet if the pilgrim has brought him some cashews; Karnaz promises that the listener’s chair will then sink six inches into the sand and giraffes will appear\, ready to take the listener wherever he may want to go. – by Steve Hue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-de-leon-robles-w-fellinis/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale/Liz Laribee
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Occasionally Accurate Science by July Westhale and Liz Laribee! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the stars of the evening\, July Westhale and Liz Laribee. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($12 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-occasionally-accurate-science-by-july-westhaleliz-laribee/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nSaturday\, April 7\, 7:00pm \nQR Hand\, Aya De Leon\, Tony Robles with Broun Fellinis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-5/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nSaturday\, April 7\, 7:00pm \nQR Hand\, Aya De Leon\, Tony Robles with Broun Fellinis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-4/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lone Glen: Poetry w/Chernoff/Edgerton/Gibbons
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Temescal Art Center in Oakland for our first Lone Glen of the season at 8 pm on Saturday\, April 7th to celebrate the magnetic poetry of Maxine Chernoff\, Michael Tod Edgerton\, and Heather June Gibbons. Of Camera\, Chernoff’s recent release from Subito press\, Camille T. Dungy writes\, “[These poems] are precise in just the way art is precise. They frame the word as a camera’s lens might frame a portion of what the eye might apprehend\, adding a finely wrought filter of human feeling to the arbitrary world.” We’re thrilled to witness that frame\, and to listen to charismatic Heather June Gibbons read from her debut book of poems\, and to welcome poet Michael Tod Edgerton to the Bay Area.\n\nAbout the writers: \nMaxine Chernoff is the author of six works of fiction and 16 collections of poetry\, most recently Camera (Subito) and Here (Counterpath). Winner an NEA in poetry and the PEN Translation Prize\, she was a recent Visiting Writer at the American Academy in Rome. \nMichael Tod Edgerton is the author of Vitreous Hide (Lavender Ink 2013). His poems have appeared previously as the winner of the Boston Review and Five Fingers Review contests\, and in Coconut\, Denver Quarterly\, Drunken Boat\, EOAGH\, New American Writing\, New Orleans Review\, Sonora Review\, and Word For/Word\, among other journals. Tod holds an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. He lives with his husband\, Greg\, in San Francisco. You can check out Tod’s ongoing participatory text and sound project at WhatMostVividly.com. \nHeather June Gibbons is the author of Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and forthcoming from the University of Utah Press\, and the chapbooks Sore Songs and Flyover. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and in the community. \nAbout the series: \nLone Glen\, now in its seventh year\, is a quarterly art-centric reading and performance series dedicated to creating a down-to-earth\, inclusive space among writers and artists of all genres. Suggested donation for this reading is $5-$10 but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Learn more about Lone Glen and our history at https://loneglen.wordpress.com/ \nAbout the Venue: \nTemescal Art Center is located at 511 48TH street\, Oakland. The venue can be accessed via a wide ramp and its bathroom is equipped with hand rails. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lone-glen-poetry-w-chernoff-edgerton-gibbons/
LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nSunday\, April 8\, 3:00pm \nIshmael Reed\, Genny Lim\, Equipto with Marshall Trammell & Francis Wong
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-6/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:NoViolet Bulawayo\, Gina Berriault Award for Fiction\, reading
DESCRIPTION:Junot Díaz writes of Zimbabwean novelist NoViolet Bulawayo\, “I knew this writer was going to blow up. Her honesty\, her voice\, her formidable command of her craft\, all were apparent from the first page\, but it’s only when you reach the haunting conclusion of ‘Hitting Budapest’ that you realize just how tremendously talented NoViolet is.” \nThe Gina Berriault Award for 2018 is being given to NoViolet Buyawayo by the SF State Department of Creative Writing\, and the long-lived SF State literary journal Fourteen Hills. The award was inaugurated by former SF State Professor Peter Orner in conjunction with Fourteen Hills Press to pay homage to the writer Gina Berriault\, who taught at San Francisco State and who with every story embodied a certain selflessness and unflinching compassion. The award is given annually to a writer with a similar spirit who has shown a love for storytelling and a commitment to supporting emerging writers. Past recipients include Cristina García\, Yiyun Li and Adam Johnson. \nThis reading and celebration\, followed by a conversation with the audience\, is co-sponsored by the SF State Department of Creative Writing\, Fourteen Hills\, and The Poetry Center\, and is free and open to the public. \nNoViolet Bulawayo (nom de plume for Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) is the author of the novel We Need New Names (2013)\, which has been recognized with the LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction\, the Pen/Hemingway Award\, the Etisalat Prize for Literature\, the Barnes and Noble Discover Award (second place)\, and the National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Fiction Selection. We Need New Names was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award\, and selected to the New York Times Notable Books of 2013 list\, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers list\, among others. Her story “Hitting Budapest” (which became the opening chapter of her novel) won the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing. \nBulawayo\, who grew up in Zimbabwe\, earned her Master of Fine Arts at Cornell University where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where she now teaches as a Jones Lecturer in Fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• NoViolet Bulawayo \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nSF State Department of Creative Writing\, Fourteen Hills\, and The Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noviolet-bulawayo-gina-berriault-award-for-fiction-reading/
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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SUMMARY:Mills College MFA Alumnae Reading & Reception
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted graduate students\, followed by readings
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mills-college-mfa-alumnae-reading-reception/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andrea Abi-Karam
DESCRIPTION:Andrea Abi-Karam is an Arab American genderqueer punk poet cyborg. Their first full-length book Extratransmission is forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press in early 2018. Abi-Karam’s previous work\,The Aftermath (Commune Editions) attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Abi-Karam is also a printer and publisher whose small press project Mes Editions seeks to publish emerging writings from queers\, people of color\, and those involved in social movements yet uninvolved in poetry and art scenes. Catch them on the 2018 Sister Spit tour.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrea-abi-karam/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michelle Cruz Gonzales
DESCRIPTION:Michelle Cruz Gonzales is the author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band. Before attending Mills College\, Gonzales played drums in and wrote lyrics for the groundbreaking 90s femme punk band Spitboy— the subject of the 2017 documentary\, Turn it Around: Story of East Bay Punk. Gonzales holds a BA and MFA in English and creative writing from Mills and is an English instructor at Las Positas College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-cruz-gonzales/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Steve Zolno: The Future of Democracy
DESCRIPTION:What is democracy and where did it come from? Is it a new development or was it always present in human society? And perhaps the most important question: what can we do to preserve and strengthen democracy among the forces that oppose it? \nIn this book we explore trends throughout history that have brought democratic – and undemocratic – government to people wherever civilization exists. We discuss where democracy has been most\, and least\, successful and why. But our most important task is to clarify what each of us can do\, as politicians or ordinary citizens\, to bring the benefits of democracy more fully into the personal and political lives of those who cherish it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-zolno-the-future-of-democracy/
LOCATION:Rockridge Branch\, 5366 College Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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