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SUMMARY:Robert Reich with Mina Kim
DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration\, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books\, including the best sellers Aftershock\, The Work of Nations\, and Beyond Outrage\, Saving Capitalism\, and Economics in Wonderland. He is a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine\, chairman of Common Cause\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary\, Inequality for All. His forthcoming book is called The Common Good.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich-with-mina-kim/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Memoir & Prosecco"
DESCRIPTION:Memoirs are hot right now! At Memoir & Prosecco\, local authors of different types of memoir will read from their work. Following the readings\, moderator Mary Jo McConahay will lead the panel in a discussion of writing memoir\, the why and the how. Mary Jo is a Noe Valley resident\, a college instructor of memoir\, and an award-winning memoirist herself. Prosecco will be liberally served. Friday\, March 9\, 7pm-8:30pm at 4175 24th St. in Noe Valley. Free admission and refreshments. Books for sale and signing. A Word Week 2018 event. \nOur panel:\nModerator Mary Jo McConahay is an author and journalist. Her new book on World War II in Latin America\, The Tango War\, comes out in September from St. Martin’s Press. Her memoir Maya Roads\, One Woman’s Journey Among the People of the Rainforest received numerous awards\, including the Northern California Book Award and the Independent Publishers Award. Another short memoir\, Ricochet\, Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship Under Fire\, won a Global E-book award and is now a real print book published by waynegoodmanbooks. \nErika Atkinson\, from the prairies of central Canada\, has lived in San Francisco since 1978. She is the author of five books: the memoirs Happily Lost In Time And Place\, Frozen Stillness: A Journey to Antarctica\, More Miles and Moments\, and Ode to the Castro and Exhort the Goddesses\, a poetry collection. \nTsun Yuan Chen is a retired Head and Neck Surgeon. He was born in Mainland China and studied in Taiwan and Tokyo before arriving at these shores. He divides his time between San Francisco\, Umbria\, and Provence with his life partner\, at home everywhere and nowhere\, making alienation a fine art of his life. He has written Along Alien Roads\, which he calls an “autobiographical novel.” \nLinda Joy Myers‘s passion about memoir writing led her to create the National Association of Memoir Writers. Her two prizewinning memoirs Don’t Call Me Mother and Song of the Plains proved to her that creating a story is transformative and life changing. Author of The Power of Memoir and Journey of Memoir\, Linda teaches the intensive “Write Your Memoir in Six Months.” \nRamon Sender Barayon was born in Madrid\, Spain\, in 1934. San Francisco Tape Music Center (1963). Trips Festival (Jan 1966). Morningstar Ranch (1966). Articles in The Co-Evolution Quarterly\, Whole Earth Review. Being of the Sun (Harper & Row 1974). Novel\, Zero Weather (1980) Memoir A Death in Zamora (UNM Press 1988) He currently co-directs the Odd Mondays reading series at Folio Books with wife Judith Levy-Sender. Music: Other Minds “Gallivants and Garnishes.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-memoir-prosecco/
LOCATION:4175 24th Street\, Noe Valley\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christian Wiman\, poet and essayist
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, essayist and Yale Divinity School professor Christian Wiman will be featured at an event called the “The Art of Faith\, the Faith of Art” on Friday\, March 9 at 7:30 pm in the Sanctuary of First Church Berkeley. He will speak and then be interviewed by First Church’s Public Theologian in Residence and poet Marvin K. White. Audience questions will follow. Tickets available at christianwiman.brownpapertickets.com. \nFollowing Friday’s event\, on Saturday morning at 10:30a at All Souls Episcopal Parish in Berkeley\, Mr. Wiman will meet fellow poet and local bay area resident\, Nate Klug\, in conversation. Tickets may be purchased at the door for a $5 suggested donation. \n  \nChristian Wiman is the author\, editor\, or translator of ten books\, including his essays My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer\, and his poetry collection Every Riven Thing. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine\, the premiere magazine for poetry in the English-speaking world.  \nMr. Wiman has written for the New Yorker\, the New York Times Book Review\, the Atlantic Monthly\, and numerous other publications. His particular interests include modern poetry\, the language of faith\, “accidental” theology (that is\, theology conducted by unexpected means)\, and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christian-wiman-poet-and-essayist/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Word Week " Noe Valley Authors Festival"
DESCRIPTION:Local authors exhibit their books for sale and signing from 1pm to 5pm. Readings by some of the authors exhibiting occur at 2pm\, 3pm\, and 4pm. Free admission. A glass of Prosecco or Pellegrino for every purchase! A Word Week 2018 event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-noe-valley-authors-festival/
LOCATION:4175 24th Street\, Noe Valley\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Orlando Ortega-Medina
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Orlando Ortega-Medina for Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions\, which was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2017. Join us for an afternoon reading and discussion! \nFor fans of Hanif Kureishi and Margaret Atwood\, this collection of thirteen gripping and intriguing short stories are about sexuality\, death\, obsession\, and religion. Sometimes bleak\, occasionally violent\, and often possessed of a dark humor\, each story contains characters who are flawed individuals trying their best to make sense of their lives. \n“Ortega-Medina’s prose is elegant and potent throughout\, with visceral passages bathed in lyricism.”—Kirkus Reviews \n— \nOrlando Ortega-Medina was born in California and is of Judeo-Spanish descent via Cuba. He studied English Literature at UCLA and has a Juris Doctor law degree from Southwestern University School of Law. Orlando is now a British citizen and currently lives in London\, where he practices US immigration law. @OOrtegaMedina \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Jerusalem Ablaze\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orlando-ortega-medina/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word Week "Therapy Animals Change Lives!"
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Dr. Jennifer Henley\, Manager\, San Francisco SPCA Animal Assisted Therapy Program\, shares her insight on the Human-Animal bond. Free admission and refreshments. Saturday\, March 10\, 2018\, 4pm-5pm at Umpqua Bank\, 3938 24th St. in Noe Valley. A Word Week 2018 event. \nYou often think of the SPCA as a place for animal rescue\, however did you know they have one of the largest animal therapy programs in the World. With the help of 300 volunteers\, therapy animals touch the lives of such diverse groups as returning veterans with PTSD to children having challenges with reading. Each year over 100\,000 members of our community benefit from animal therapy which includes specially trained dogs and even a pig! \nOur speaker:\nDr. Jennifer Henley joined the Peace Corps (Cameroon). Upon completion of her service she relocated to SF and began working for the SF SPCA. Her primary interest is in the human-animal bond and its therapeutic benefits. This led to her current position as head of the Animal Assisted Therapy department at the San Francisco SPCA. The department works with nearly 300 volunteers\, whose pets go through extensive certification to be qualified to visit people in hospitals\, nursing homes\, psychiatric centers/behavioral health clinics\, schools\, libraries\, SF Jail\, and day programs for developmentally disabled persons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-week-therapy-animals-change-lives/
LOCATION:Umpqua Bank Noe Valley\, 3938 24th Street\, San Francisco\, 94114
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180310T210000
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SUMMARY:Literary Pop Takes Over Writers With Drinks!
DESCRIPTION:MK Chavez (Mothermorphosis\, Dear Animal)\nMaggie Tokuda-Hall (Also an Octopus)\nKelly Anneken (Twenty Minutes to Sell)\nNatalia Vigil (What Always Was)\nAmanda Muniz (KQED Presents: Bad Immigrants)\nSam DiSalvo (More Fun at Blondie’s) \nPlus guest host Wonder Dave!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-pop-takes-over-writers-with-drinks/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nEnjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nJohn Altman lives in Santa Barbara. He writes and translates poetry in English and Spanish. His translation of Section III — Los Conquistadores from Pablo Neruda’s Canto General will be published in 2018 by Modoc Books. \nAlan Bern is a poet\, short story writer\, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book\, greater distance and other poems\, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods\, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library. \nRebecca Radner is a writer and editor who has lived in the Bay Area most of her life. She now lives in Berkeley.  A volume of her poetry\, What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011\, was published in 2011 by Class Action Ink.  Her work has also appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, The New England Review\, The Journal of Popular Culture\, ArtWeek\, Inquiring Mind\, What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop\, and other publications. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals.  She has given poetry readings in a number of Bay Area venues. \nGlenn Ingersoll has been writing poetry seriously since turned on to it by a California Poets-in-the-Schools class at his high school in 1982. In the years since he’s had work in magazines (Seventeen\, Exquisite Corpse\, Poetry East) and ezines (Cortland Review\, The Opiate)\, and has published two chapbooks\, City Walks (1999) and Fact (2013). He currently hosts the reading and interview series Clearly Meant at the Claremont Branch of the Berkeley Public Library. Glenn keeps two blogs\, one on his reading http://dareiread. blogspot.com/ and one on his writing http://lovesettlement.blogspot.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Panel Discussion with Alan Bern
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy poetry readings by members of a North Berkeley writing group: Rebecca Radner\, Glenn Ingersoll and Alan Bern. Special guest John Altman\, Santa Barbara translator\, will read from his translations of Neruda. After the reading\, the poets will talk about marketing and publishing\, sharing stories about their own struggles\, pet peeves\, and delights. Q & A and discussion will follow: audience participation will be most welcome. \nABOUT BERKELEY ART CENTER  In 1967\, the Berkeley Art Center was built by the Rotary Club as a gift to the City of Berkeley. Ever since\, BAC has been a cutting-edge art gallery\, presenting the work of talented local and regional artists in many media\, expressing diverse points of view. As we celebrate our 50th anniversary\, we are proud of our role in the community. Over the past five decades we have presented exhibitions that reflect and shape what is happening now. We still seek to inspire positive cultural change by nurturing artists and encouraging our community to participate in creative expression.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-and-panel-discussion-with-alan-bern/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Gears Turning w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry reading with your host Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \nTo participate in the open mic session\, please plan to arrive by 4 and listen to all of the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gears-turning-w-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Monthly poetry event hosted by Kim Shuck \nDetails soon! \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman reads from and discusses her novels\, short stories and nonfiction. Her new book is Men and Apparitions (Soft Skull Press\, 2018). “Lynne Tillman has always been a hero of mine — not because I ‘admire’ her writing\, (although I do\, very\, very much)\, but because I feel it. Imagine driving alone at night. You turn on the radio and hear a song that seems to say it all. That’s how I feel.” — Jonathan Safran Foer. Free. \n  \n\nLocation: Humanities Building\, Room 211\n\n\nDirections: View on Google Maps\n\n  \nLynne Tillman \nTillman’s novel No Lease on Life was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction\, and her essay collection What Would Lynne Tillman Do? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Tillman’s writing appears often in artists’ books and museum catalogs\, including\, most recently\, those of Raymond Pettibon\, Joan Jonas\, Cindy Sherman and Carroll Dunham. Tillman is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation grant for arts writing\, and is a professor and writer-in-residence at University of Albany. She also teaches in New York City’s School of Visual Arts\, in its art criticism and writing Master of Fine Arts program. \n\nWriters on Writing \nThe Creative Writing Department opens its Writers on Writing course to the public this spring. Taught by Dodie Bellamy\, the course features faculty and visiting writers reading from their works and discussing their creative process.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-on-writing-lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peter Carey / A Long Way From Home
DESCRIPTION:The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant\, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia\, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10\,000-mile race\, the Redex Trial. \nIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial\, a brutal race around the ancient continent\, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky\, fair-haired navigator\, Willie Bachhuber\, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them\, without warning\, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high-speed story that starts in one way\, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny\, more so as the world gets stranger\, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. \nSet in the 1950s\, this is a world every American will recognize: black\, white\, who we are\, how we got here\, and what we did to each other along the way. \nA Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece. \n— \nPeter Carey is the author of thirteen previous novels. In addition to the Booker Prize\, his honors include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia\, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-carey-a-long-way-from-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrick Nathan discusses Some Hell
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is very pleased to welcome Patrick Nathan to discuss his dynamic debut novel\, Some Hell\, on Tuesday\, March 13th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation with our dear friend\, Scott Esposito. \nA wrenching and layered debut novel about a gay teen’s coming-of-age in the aftermath of his father’s suicide \nMiddle school hasn’t been going well for Colin. His teenage sister teases him mercilessly\, his autistic brother lashes out at him\, and he has a crush on his best friend\, Andy. But after the tragic night when his father commits suicide\, none of that matters. Diane\, his mother\, seeks solace in therapy. Colin is awash in guilt\, and casts about for someone to confide in: first his estranged grandfather\, then a predatory science teacher. But nothing helps as much as the strange writing his father kept in a series of notebooks locked in his study. Colin looks for answers there–in fragments about disaster scenarios\, the violence of snow\, mustangs running wild in the west–but instead finds the writing infecting his worldview. Diane\, meanwhile\, has a miserable fling with a co-worker\, and leans more heavily on Colin for support as things go from bad to worse. But spring is unfolding\, and a road trip to Los Angeles gives them a tantalizing glimpse of what the future might hold. In Some Hell\, a debut novel of devastating intensity and aching\, pointillistic detail\, Patrick Nathan shows how unspeakable tragedy shapes a life\, and how imagination saves us from ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrick-nathan-discusses-some-hell/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nov'Ell Goes West: Oakland
DESCRIPTION:Eileen G’Sell reads from Life After Rugby and JoAnna Novak reads from Noirmania.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/novell-goes-west-oakland/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading in Celebration of Muni Art 2018: Kay Ryan
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Muni Art 2018\, hear a reading by participating poet#KayRyan at the San Francisco Public Library Presidio Branch. Bay Area poet #HilaryRand will introduce Ryan. Audience members will be invited to enter a raffle and the winner will receive a Muni Art 2018 print! Share your experience using #SFMuniArt. \nKay Ryan\, acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape\, has published several collections of poetry\, including Erratic Facts (Grove Press\, 2015) and The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press\, 2010)\, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. Ryan’s awards include a National Humanities Medal\, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, an Ingram Merrill Award\, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Union League Poetry Prize\, the Maurice English Poetry Award\, and three Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. \nCo-Sponsored by San Francisco Beautiful\, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\, San Francisco Public Library\, and the Poetry Society of America. \nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-in-celebration-of-muni-art-2018-kay-ryan/
LOCATION:Presidio Branch Library\, 3150 Sacramento St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Reading "Korima Press\, Queer Latinx Publisher"
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer San Francisco is proud to spotlight Korima Press\, a Queer Chicana/Chicano publishing house founded by poet and essayist Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano and based in San Francisco. Join us Tuesday\, March 13\, from 7pm to 8:30pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. 4 Korima Press authors will read: Cathy Arellano\, Maya Chinchilla\, Dino Foxx\, and Michael Nava. A discussion of writing as a Queer Chincana/Chicano will follow the readings. The authors’ books will be available for sale and signing. Free admission and refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm sharp! \nABOUT KORIMA PRESS:\nKórima’s purpose is to infuse both the Chicana/o & Latina/o and Queer literary cannons with works by author’s whose craft\, stories\, and identities exist at the intersections of Queerness\, Chicanidad\, and Latinidad. Founded in 2010\, the Kórima catalogue\, which is expected to nearly double in the next two years\, counts 17 titles that have been taught in dozens of colleges\, high schools\, and universities across the United States\, Puerto Rico\, and Mexico. \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nCathy Arellano is a Mexican lesbian poet from The Mission. Cathy is the author of two collections of poetry: Salvation on Mission Street\, a memoir in poetry and prose about love and loss within her San Francisco-based family from the 1960s to the 2000s; and\, I Love My Women\, Sometimes they Love Me. In 2017\, Arellano was the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society award for Debut Author. \nMaya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, and educator with an MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College. She writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work–sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware-draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. Maya is the author of The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Centromariconadas: A Queer & Trans Central American Anthology. \nDino Foxx\, born and raised in San Antonio\, Texas\, is a nationally presented actor\, singer\, poet\, arts educator\, and activist. They are a founding member of a Queer Xicana/o Performance Poetry Collaborative and a company member with Jump-Start Performance Co. Their poetry has been published in such collections as Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry\, the 19th issue of Suspect Thoughts: A Journal of Subversive Writing\, and Queer Codex: Chile Love. Dino is the author of When the Glitter Fades and co-author of Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry. \nMichael Nava is the six-time Lambda Literary award-winning author of the Henry Rios novels and the historical novel\, The City of Palaces. In 2016\, he released Lay Your Sleeping Head\, a reimagining of the first Henry Rios novel\, which was hailed as “one of the literary events of the year\,” and earned him his tenth Lambda Literary award nomination. His most recent book\, released in 2017\, is titled Street People.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-reading-korima-press-queer-latinx-publisher/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lynne Tillman
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Tillman\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nMen and Apparitions: A Novel \nfrom Soft Skull Press \nWhy do human beings feel the need to create\, remake\, and keep images from and of everything? How are we supposed to live amid this glut of images? Men and Apparitions takes on a central question of our time through the wild musings and eventful life of Ezekiel Hooper Stark\, cultural anthropologist\, ethnographer\, specialist in family photographs. As Zeke goes from being a child obsessed with his family’s photo albums to a young and passionate researcher to a man broken by betrayal in love\, his academic fascinations reflect his course\, touching on such various subjects as discarded images\, pet pictures\, spirit mediums\, the tragic life of his long-dead cousin the semi-famous socialite Clover Adams\, and the nature of contemporary masculinity. Kaleidoscopic and encyclopedic\, madcap and wry\, Men and Apparitions showcases Lynne Tillman not only as a brilliantly original novelist but as one of our most prominent thinkers on visual art and culture today. \nLynne Tillman is a novelist\, short story writer\, and cultural critic. Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and American Genius\, A Comedy. Her nonfiction books include The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967\, with photographs by Stephen Shore; Bookstore: The Life and Times of Jeannette Watson and Books & Co.; and What Would Lynne Tillman Do?\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Her most recent short story collections are Someday This Will Be Funny and The Complete Madame Realism. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Tillman is Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. She lives in Manhattan with bass player David Hofstra. \nPraise for Men and Apparitions by Lynne Tillman \n“Lynne Tillman is still her established sui generis self. In this creation she gives us an emblematic (but unique) protagonist’s sharp observations and drive-by meditations on the many conundrums of identity and purpose of our time. This book is compelling and bracing and you read many sentences twice to get all the juice there is in them.” ―Norman Rush\, author of Mating and Subtle Bodies \n“No one anywhere writes more vibrantly and astutely into the gut of culture than Lynne Tillman. I always want to eat her books because her language is profoundly embodied. She is my secular art angel\, my intellectual and creative hope\, my full-blown galaxy. In Men and Apparitions\, readers take a ride on the back of Zeke Hooper through culture\, masculinity\, art\, being\, and knowing―like entering a language-and-experience kaleidoscope.” ―Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Misfit’s Manifesto and The Chronology of Water ​ \n“A powerful disquisition on memory\, media and melancholia.” ―Tom McCarthy\, author of Satin Island and Remainder \n“Lynne Tillman’s first novel in a dozen years crackles with pent-up energy. Brimming with her trademark wit and vibrancy\, Men and Apparitionsis a confirmation of a sadly under-acknowledged truth: Lynne Tillman is a genius.” ―Stephen Sparks\, Point Reyes Books (Point Reyes Station\, CA)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-tillman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bookswap\, Time Travel Edition
DESCRIPTION:Bookswap at The Bindery! Time Travel Edition \nWe can’t believe we’re booking events in March ALREADY\, so let’s talk about time travel books. Bring a book that goes backwards in time\, a book that jumps around in time\, literally just A Wrinkle In Time (just in time for the movie!)\, or something with a parallel universe: whatever jumps to mind. If that’s not your cup of tea\, just bring any book you love and want other people to love. \nMostly Bookswap is a social event\, so bring a friend\, relax in our new space\, enjoy a premium cocktail\, and leave with a reading list to last you months. \n$15 admission includes a drink ticket\, swag\, and 20% off book purchases at The Bindery and Booksmith for the evening. \nSpace is limited\, and tickets do sell out\, so we encourage you to buy early. Tickets on sale now at this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-time-travel-edition/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Linor Goralik
DESCRIPTION:Linor Goralik discusses her new book\, Found Life: Poems\, Stories\, Comics\, a Play\, and an Interview a part of Columbia’s Russian Library series. \nAbout Found Life \nOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet\, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms\, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal\, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose\, is on full display in this collection of poems\, stories\, comics\, a play\, and an interview\, here translated for the first time. \nIn Found Life\, speech\, condensed to the extreme\, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik’s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres—slight doubt\, subtle sadness\, vague unease—through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices\, her works are marked by a distinct voice\, simultaneously slightly naïve and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition\, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry\, Goralik’s colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of ridiculousness and the depths of grief.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linor-goralik/
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:Your Story is Your Power: An Evening with Elle Luna and Susie Herrick
DESCRIPTION:Whether we realize it or not\, we define ourselves through stories. Understanding your own story is the key to understanding yourself\, your world and your capacity to act within that world. And in the heart of your story\, you will find you – your voice\, your power\, and your truth. \nIn Your Story is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice\, which comes out March 6\, Elle Luna\, bestselling author of The Crossroads of Should and Must and creator of the Instagram 100-Day Project\, and Susie Herrick\, acclaimed psychotherapist\, Enneagram expert and author of Aphrodite Emerges\, ask readers to discover their own stories\, challenging them to use that story to cultivate their own feminine power and move forward both as an individual and as part of a strong female community seeking positive change. \nThis inspiring and practical talk – for women and men – shows us how to collectively uncover and understand our own stories about feminine power in order to live more confident\, unapologetic lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-story-is-your-power-an-evening-with-elle-luna-and-susie-herrick/
LOCATION:Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati\, 650 Page Mill Rd.\, Palo Alto\, 94304
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Watermark":MAILTO:events@wearewatermark.org
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Pre-order The Merry Spinster from Moe’s at http://www.moesbooks.com/the-merry-spinster-mallory-ortberg/ \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees\n\n  \ncelebrating \nA Life Among Fishes (from ORO Press) \nby Christopher Dewees \n& \nDesigning with Palms (from Timber Press) \nby Jason Dewees \nA Life Among Fishes explores the lifelong passion of fisheries by scientist and artist Christopher M. Dewees. The book features over 100 of his Japanese fish prints since 1969. Many of these are linked to stories about the journey\, and history and information about the art form are also described within. The book presents Dewees? half-century of printing fish and shellfish to full color. We follow his evolution from being exposed and fascinated to gyotaku as a graduate student to his status now as an internationally recognized master in the field. He documents his journey and growth by sharing fifty years of experiences and adventures. In recent years Dewees has focused more on writing stories and poems that are linked to his art. \nChristopher Dewees had a passion for fish since childhood. He is currently Marine Fisheries Specialist Emeritus at the University of California\, Davis. Since 1968 he has honed his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku). His works have been featured in many individual and group exhibitions around the world. \nPalms are a landscape staple in warm\, temperate climates worldwide. But these stunning and statement-making plants are large\, expensive\, difficult to install\, and create unique design challenges. In Designing with Palms\, palm expert Jason Dewees shares every major aspect of designing and caring for palms. This definitive guide shares essential information on planting\, irrigation\, nutrition\, pruning\, and transplanting. A gallery of the most important species showcases the range of options available\, and stunning photographs by Caitlin Atkinson show examples of home and public landscapes that make good use of palms. \nJason Dewees is a staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Garden Design magazine\, and he blogs at The Palm Broker. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-dewees-with-jason-dewees/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:Works Gallery –  364 S. Market St. (street edge of the Convention Center)\, San José\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-6/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amos White
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. Our March author Amos White will present selections from his poetry and discuss the creative process and current projects. His book The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter is available on Amazon.com. Look for the event in the ballroom up the stairs from the front entrance. Free and open to the public. \nAbout the author: \nAmos White is an American haiku poet and author of “The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter” (link:www.amazon.com/Sound-Web-Poetry-Facebook-Twitter/dp/1456581473/)\, recognized for his vivid imagery and breathless interpretations. He was a Finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and has works published in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology. He is President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series; Host of The Heart of the Muse arts salon; Producer of Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry show. Amos lives in Alameda with his family. www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku www.twitter.com/aw3haiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amos-white/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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SUMMARY:Salutations: Reconnecting
DESCRIPTION:The sixth installment of our event series\, Salutations\, returns with a night of letter-reading on Reconnecting. \nSponsored by Chronicle Books\, Letters to My series\, and Green Apple. \nFor more information or to submit your letter for inclusion\, email salutationsSF@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salutations-reconnecting/
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:Michael David Lukas / The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome The Oracle of Stamboul author Michael David Lukas back to the store to launch his anticipated second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Please join us! \n  \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary—perhaps magical—Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \n  \n— \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history\, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons\, religion\, magic\, love\, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”– Rabih Alameddine\, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman \n“Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo—with a bit of Berkeley thrown in. His prose is deeply evocative\, and a sense of mystery and profound tristesse pervade this unusual narrative\, which tells the story of a young California man on a quest to understand a puzzling gift left for him by his late father\, the descendant of generations of watchmen at the venerable Ben Ezra synagogue in the depths of Old Cairo. The novel is enhanced by Lukas’ impressive historical research on the Geniza and the colorful characters involved in rescuing its treasure trove of documents. But his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful\, haunted\, shabby\, beleaguered\, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”– Lucette Lagnado\, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years \n  \n— \n  \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet Joseph Lease who will be reading from The Body Ghost\, due out soon from Coffee House Press. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies\, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and lives in Oakland with the poet Donna de la Perrière.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Lines Launch Party: Celebrating Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual launch of Two Lines and a poetry reading focusing on women in translation\, both those being translated and those that do this important work. \nTickets are $10\, which includes a copy of Two Lines and an open cocktail bar. \nThe forthcoming Two Lines 28 features a diverse blend of poetry and fiction. Featuring poetry by Lulijeta Lleshanaku (tr. Ani Gjika)\, Luz Pichel (tr. Neil Anderson)\, and Monchoachi (tr. Patricia Hartland)\, and fiction by Natsuko Kuroda (tr. Angus Turvill)\, Johanne Lykke Holm (tr. Saskia Vogel)\, and Anna Katharina Hahn (tr. Marshall Yarbrough)\, Two Lines 28 is packed with thought-provoking literature. \nThe Fall 2017 Two Lines 27 is brimming with gripping fiction and provocative poetry. Featuring fiction by Zsuzsa Takács (tr. by Erika Mihálycsa)\, Ge Yan (tr. Jeremy Tiang)\, and Jokha al-Harthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)\, and poetry by Samira Negrouche (tr. Marilyn Hacker)\, Friederike Mayröcker (tr. Jonathan Larson)\, and Min Jeong Kim (tr. Ji Yoon Lee & Jake Levine)\, Two Lines 27 was a celebrated issue for its cutting-edge literature from countries such as Mexico\, Hungary\, Oman\, Bulgaria\, Korea\, and India. \nCo-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-lines-launch-party-celebrating-women-in-translation/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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