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SUMMARY:Janet Mock with Mia Birdsong
DESCRIPTION:Janet Mock is a writer\, TV host\, and advocate tackling stigma through storytelling. With a Master’s in journalism from New York University\, the Honolulu native began her career as an editor at People.com and went on to write cover stories for Marie Claire\, Interview\, and The Advocate as well as essays for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and Lenny. She produced HBO’s The Trans List\, hosts the podcast Never Before\, and serves as a columnist for Allure. Called a “fearless new voice” and “trailblazing leader” who “changed my way of thinking” by Oprah Winfrey\, Janet was a featured speaker at the historic Women’s March on Washington. She is the author of Surpassing Certainty and the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness.\nThis program is a benefit for the Transgender\, Gender Variant\, Intersex Justice Project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-mock-with-mia-birdsong/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rodrigo Fresán
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Fresán discusses his new novel\, The Bottom of the Sky. \n\nPraise for Rodrigo Fresán \n\n“It’s the book of the future\, the book that begins to write itself when everything has ended: the story of two young people in love with planets\, and of a disturbingly beautiful girl. Between Bioy Casares and Philip K. Dick\, but with a voice all its own\, it is both powerful and artistic.”—Enrique Vila-Matas \n\n“I’ve read few novels this exciting in recent years. Mantra is the novel I’ve laughed with the most\, the one that has seemed the most virtuosic and at the same time the most disruptive.”—Roberto Bolaño \n\n“A kaleidoscopic\, open-hearted\, shamelessly polymathic storyteller\, the kind who brings a blast of oxygen into the room.”—Jonathan Lethem \n\n“Rodrigo Fresán is a marvelous writer\, a direct descendent of Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges\, but with his own voice and of his own time\, with a fertile imagination\, daring and gifted with a vision as entertaining as it is profound.”—John Banville \n\nAbout The Bottom of the Sky \n\nAt its core\, The Bottom of the Sky is a novel about two young boys in love with other planets and a disturbingly beautiful girl. An homage to the history of American science fiction\, it’s also about the Gulf War\, 9/11\, and a mysterious “incident.” It’s like a Kurt Vonnegut novel told by David Lynch through the lens of Philip K. Dick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rodrigo-fresan/
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:Work & Workers
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Terry Lucas\, Jan Steckel\, Dennis Bernstein\, Barbara West. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/work-workers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications. \n\nAll readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month\nAdmission free • Morrison Library in Doe Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:ZYZZYVA 2018 Spring Issue Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Come join ZYZZYVA for a celebration of their newest issue\, “the Spring Issue” featuring readings by contributors Natalie Serber\, Christopher Adamson\, Greg Sarris\, Mackenzie Evan Smith\, and Tom Barbash. Emceed by Managing Editor Oscar Villalon. \nZYZZYVA is San Francisco’s acclaimed literary journal that’s been publishing since 1985. Featuring a dazzling array of past and current contributors\, it has been a vital publication in supporting the work of Bay Area and West Coast writers for decades.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zyzzyva-2018-spring-issue-celebration/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Kass and Paul S. Flores: a reading & performance celebrating 21 years by two founders of Youth Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the final event of The Poetry Center’s Spring 2018 season: an evening of reading and performance in celebration of San Francisco-based and nationally renowned organization Youth Speaks\, with two of its founders — James Kass and Paul S. Flores\, both SF State alumni and graduates of the MFA in Creative Writing program. (Rumor has it members of the Youth Speaks artists will also be in the house.) This event is free and open to the public. \nJames Kass is an award-winning writer\, educator\, producer and media maker. He is also the Founding Executive Director of Youth Speaks\, a position he held for 21 years (1996-early 2018)\, and is widely credited with helping to launch the global youth spoken word movement\, working with tens of thousands of young people from across the country — and helping launch close to 100 programs nationwide — to help them find\, develop\, publicly present\, and apply their voices as creators of change. \nCreator and Co-Executive Producer of the 7-part HBO series Brave New Voices and the Peabody-nominated HBO’s Brave New Voices 2010\, James also created the concept and served as the Artistic Director of the PBS series Poetic License and the independent documentary 2nd Verse\, as well as the NPR Series\, The Drop In. James created the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival\, serves as Executive Editor of First Word Press\, and was\, among many other things\, a founding member of the San Francisco Poet Laureate Selection Committee\, and helped launch the National\, SF and Oakland Youth Laureate Programs. He has also edited a number of books\, and has had much of his own fiction and poetry published\, while producing a number of nationally touring theater pieces and collaborating with choreographers Robert Moses and Sara Shelton Mann to stage his own writing through dance. He’s lectured and taught at numerous colleges\, including San Francisco State University\, Stanford\, and University of San Francisco\, and presented at NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity). Kass has received several awards for his writing\, his work in the nonprofit sector\, and his work as an educator. Having produced the first poetry slam for youth in the country\, he helped to develop a national network of nonprofits that believe the passion\, intelligence\, creativity and courage of young people can change the world. \nPaul S. Flores is a poet\, performance artist\, playwright\, and well known spoken word artist. He was raised in Chula Vista\, CA and spent much of his youth in Tijuana\, Mexico. Flores’ PEN Award-winning novel Along the Border Lies reflects this experience. Flores’ work explores the intersection of urban culture\, Hip-Hop and transnational identity. His spoken word poem “Brown Dreams” from Def Poetry on HBO has been viewed on YouTube 100\,000 times\, and continues to inform and influence young people all over the United States. \nAfter playing professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs\, Paul received his degree from University of California\, San Diego and then moved to San Francisco in 1995 to complete the MFA Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. In 1996\, he co-founded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados with Norman Zelaya and Darren de Leon and recorded a CD titled Word Descarga (Calaca Press\, 2000). Flores’ performance projects have taken him from HBO’s Def Poetry to Cuba\, Mexico\, and El Salvador. \nFlores was named The San Francisco Weekly’s 2011 Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist for his solo show You’re Gonna Cry\, which documents the demographic shift of The Mission District after the “dot-com” boom. Flores’ play Representa! features Cuban rapper Julio Cardenas\, directed by Danny Hoch\, and originally produced by La Peña Cultural Center and the San Francisco International Arts Festival at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2007 and later toured to 17 cities. His newest play PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo (2012) was directed by Michael John Garcés\, and starred Ric Salinas of Culture Clash. PLACAS premiered at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in Union Square\, San Francisco as a co-production of SFIAF and Central American Resource Center\, and later toured to The Los Angeles Theater Center\, and Off Broadway at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. \nA highly respected youth arts educator\, as co-founder of Youth Speaks Inc.\, he introduced spoken word to hundreds of thousands of youth all over the country\, and helped develop the national platform for young people to build peer relationships and strategize toward a better future through the Brave New Voices: National Teen Poetry Slam\, now seen on HBO. Flores currently manages the Latino Men & Boys Program\, funded by The California Endowment\, at The Unity Council in East Oakland. He is also adjunct faculty of Theater at the University of San Francisco. He lives in San Francisco with his children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYouth Speaks\nPaul S. Flores\n\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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-kass-and-paul-s-flores-a-reading-performance-celebrating-21-years-by-two-founders-of-youth-speaks/
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:The Apartment in Bab El-Louk: Elisabeth Jaquette
DESCRIPTION:Translator Elisabeth Jaquette discusses her translation of Donia Maher’s graphic novel\, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk. This “fabulous noir poem” has been simply described as “the reflections of an old recluse in busy downtown Cairo neighbourhood of Bab El-Louk” by Egyptian artist\, Ganzeer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisabeth Jaquette is a translator from Arabic\, instructor at Hunter College\, and Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-apartment-in-bab-el-louk-elisabeth-jaquette/
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:Mairghread Scott / The City on the Other Side
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Mairghread Scott for her new graphic novel illustrated by Robin Robinson\, The City on the Other Side\, which is set in early 20th century San Francisco. Please join us! \nIn The City on the Other Side\, a young girl stumbles into a pitched war between two fairy kingdoms\, and the fate of San Francisco itself hangs in the balance! \nSheltered within her high-society world\, Isabel plays the part of a perfectly proper little girl—she’s quiet\, well-behaved\, and she keeps her dresses spotlessly clean. She’s certainly not the kind of girl who goes on adventures. \nBut that all changes when Isabel breaches an invisible barrier and steps into another world. She discovers a city not unlike her own\, but magical and dangerous. Here\, war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Only Isabel\, with the help of a magical necklace and a few new friends\, stands a chance of ending the war before it destroys the fairy world\, and her own. \n  \n\n  \nMairghread Scott is an animation and comicbook writer specializing in action-comedy. Her animation work spans such titles as Guardians of the Galaxy\, Ultimate Spider-Man\, Transformers: Robots in Disguise\, and more. You can also read her work in comic book series such as: Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy\, Transformers: Till All Are One\, Wonder Woman 75th Anniversary Special\, and her creator-owned work Toil and Trouble. She is the author of the graphic novel Science Comics: Robots & Drones\, also from First Second. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nBar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marighread-scott/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chuck Palahniuk (signing only)
DESCRIPTION:Please join Green Apple Books on Clement on Friday\, May 4th at 12:00 p.m. as we welcome Chuck Palahniuk for a signing of his most recent book Adjustment Day. \n \nPlease note that Chuck will not be reading at this event\, and that admission to this event will be the cost of a book on or before day of the signing. Chuck will happily sign two additional items for fans of his\, which may include memorabilia or an additional book. For any and all other questions concerning this event please give us a call at 415-387-2272. \n \nAbout Adjustment Day \nIn this ingeniously comic work\, the author’s first novel in four years\, Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug\, geriatric politicians hatch a nasty fate for the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future. When it arrives\, Adjustment Day inaugurates the new\, disunited states. In this mind-blowing novel\, Palahniuk—an equal-opportunity offender—fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy\, alternative fact\, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche. \n  \nChuck Palahniuk is the best-selling author of more than seventeen fictional works\, including Fight Club\, Invisible Monsters\, Survivor\, Choke\, Lullaby\, Diary\, Haunted\, Rant\, Pygmy\, Tell-All\, Damned\, Doomed\, Beautiful You\, and\, most recently\, Make Something Up. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chuck-palahniuk-signing-only/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Night of Readings and A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of readings & writings\, words & language\, lit & luminosity in toast to Laura Ritland’s debut poetry collection\, EAST AND WEST (http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655032). Books will be sold\, readers will read\, feelings will be felt! \nFeaturing readings by: \nLAURA RITLAND \nJANE HU \nMAX KAISLER \nJARED ROBINSON \nLaura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and CNQ. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016)\, a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto\, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry. She currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area\, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. East and West is her debut collection. \nJane Hu is a Berkeley English PhD and freelancer who has published in The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl. \nMax Kaisler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English & Classics from Amherst College. She’s worked as an editor and intern at Ploughshares\, The Common\, Bare Journal\, and Cutbank\, her own poetry and nonfiction has been published online and in print\, and she’s received multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. \nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN and moved to the Bay to study Literature at Berkeley. He has never published nor left the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-readings-and-a-book-launch/
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:Oakland First Fridays at Nomadic Press!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by Rohan DaCosta\, Alexandra Naughton\, and Jesse Prado with music by Harriet Poznansky. Hosted by Zephir O’ Meara. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Aline Kominsky-Crumb
DESCRIPTION:Legendary cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses Love That Bunch. \n\nPraise for Aline Kominsky-Crumb \n\n“For over 40 years\, Kominsky-Crumb has chronicled agony and ecstasy through brutally honest portraits . . . She changed the game for women comics—not to mention women comedians\, authors and artists.”—The Huffington Post \n\n“Kominsky-Crumb’s line has a freshness and energy that make her strips feel more honest and closer to autobiography than self-mythologizing.”—The New Republic \n\nAbout Love That Bunch \n\nAline Kominsky-Crumb redefined the Bay Area’s underground comix scene with unabashedly raw\, dirty\, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn’t worry about self-flattery: her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were the fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego\, Bunch\, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell. \n  \nCollecting comics from the 1970s through today\, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud\, complicated feminism. Most important\, she does so without apology. \n  \nOne of the most famous and idiosyncratic cartoonists of our time\, Kominsky-Crumb traces her steps as a Beatles-loving fangirl\, an East Village groupie\, an adult grappling with her childhood\, and a 1980s housewife and mother. A new thirty-page story\, “Dream House\,” looks back on her childhood forty years later. Love That Bunch will be Kominsky-Crumb’s only solo-authored book in print. Originally published in 1990\, this new expanded edition follows her to the present\, including a foreword penned by the noted comics scholar Hillary Chute.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aline-kominsky-crumb/
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:Tessa Fontaine\, author of The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. \nAdvance praise for The Electric Woman \n“With fearless grace and piercing intensity\, Tessa Fontaine juxtaposes the thrill of eating fire with the luminous mystery of her mother’s devastating strokes and harrowing transformations. I have never read a book more tender or more true. We all live in a World of Wonders\, a world of terror. The Electric Woman delivers us to the potent mercy of unmitigated love\, the passion of shared suffering\, the resilience of the spirit\, and the ecstasies of our transfigurations. The heart breaks\, and breaks open—in the divine light of despair\, we discover radiant joy: the hidden holiness of every breath\, every being\, every moment.”\n—Melanie Rae Thon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-author-of-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\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\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)\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-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alicia Mountain\, Steffi Drewes\, Tonya M. Foster\, and Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 5\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems! By four poets! We’re excited to welcome Alicia Mountain’s BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the world! With readings from three amazing Bay Area poets\, Steffi Drewes\, Mg Roberts\, and Tonya M. Foster\, as well! \nALICIA MOUNTAIN is the author of High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press\, April 2018) which was awarded the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Thin Fire\, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press. Mountain’s poems can be found in Guernica\, jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, Pleiades\, Witness\, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee\, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow and a resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a queer poet\, PhD candidate at the University of Denver\, and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Mountain earned her MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula. \n  \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press) and four poetry chapbooks\, most recently New Animal from dancing girl press. Her work has been featured in various journals and event series\, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, The Desert House in California\, and the Wassaic Project in New York\, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed personalized readings. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor. \nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans\, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, which Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art\, Foster has had work published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016)\, boundary2\, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015\, Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere.Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Pan African literary Festival\, and elsewhere. \nMg Roberts is a multimedia artist\, teacher\, publisher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). Mg is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo V.  Wilson; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, array of animals and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-steffi-drewes-tonya-m-foster-and-mg-roberts/
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:Tessa Fontaine with Shawn Wen
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine discusses her new memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts with Shawn Wen. \nPraise for The Electric Woman \nIn a word: wow. I read The Electric Woman in a hallucinatory fever filled with hospital beds and carnival rides\, gray eyes and biting boa constrictors\, brain bleeds and headless bodies\, fire eaters and electrified women. Tessa Fontaine is a real-life snake charmer—her writing hooked and hypnotized me from page one. I had to read just one more chapter\, just one more until I reached the end of her extraordinary memoir\, dismayed that it was over but so grateful for the unforgettable ride.” —Susannah Cahalan\, author of Brain on Fire \n“Somewhere between knives and fire beats the heart of a young woman daring herself to live. In her memoir\, The Electric Woman\, Tessa Fontaine weaves her way through a mother-death story and a daughter-coming-alive story against the backdrop of America’s last traveling sideshow. There are so many ways to bring ourselves back to life. So many people along the way who become our secular guardian angels. This story is a breathtaking\, fire-eating\, heart-stopping\, death-defying thrill.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Book of Joan \nA beautiful and ferocious book\, The Electric Woman comes packed with magnificent stories of carnival tricks\, transcending the limits of the body\, and the bravery of survivors and caretakers. Yet\, somehow no marvel is more wondrous than the writing itself. Fontaine’s memoir is a brilliant testament to family\, grief\, love\, and the astonishing trick of being—and feeling—alive.” —Annie Hartnett\, author of Rabbit Cake \nAbout The Electric Woman \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \n  \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \n  \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-with-shawn-wen/
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:Alicia Mountain / High Ground Coward
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alicia Mountain reading from High Ground Coward\, winner of the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Joining her for a reading and conversation is Brittany Perham (Double Portrait)—join us! \nAlicia Mountain’s urgent and astonishing debut collection maps a new queer landscape through terrain alive and sensual\, defiant and inviting. With a voice that beckons while it howls\, Mountain nimbly traverses lyric\, confessional\, and narrative modes\, leaving groundbreaking tracks for us to follow. High Ground Coward offers fists full of soil\, leftovers for breakfast\, road trip as ritual\, twins of lovers and twins of ourselves. This world blooms with hunger-inducing detail\, its speakers asking us to consider what it will take to satisfy our own appetites while simultaneously trying to nourish one another. “Ferocious\, even the softest part\,” Mountain shows us “a way to fall in love with wanting\,” leaving us “ravenous\, but gradually.” \nBearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion\, High Ground Coward is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons. Mountain’s speakers question the meaning of inheritance\, illness\, violence\, mythology\, and family architecture. Whether Mountain is at work revealing the divinity of doubt\, the entanglement of devotion\, or the dominion that place holds over us\, High Ground Coward heralds a thrilling poetic debut. \n  \nfrom “Scavenger”  \nWe three eat food and are in love. This is the easy way to say \nthere are stores beneath the floor. \nPotatoes and shallots\, \nhard-necked garlic streaked purple\, \njars beside jars\, themselves \neach staving globes of suction. \nPreservation\, a guardian hunger. \n  \nIn the evening I whisper to the boiled beet\, \nlike a naked organ in my flushed hand: \nYou are ground blood\, \nyou are new born\, \nyou have never been nothing— \nthawfruit seedflower greenstart rootbulb \nhandpull shedscrub mouthsweet \nand again. \n  \n— \n“Alicia Mountain looks at every tiny thing very closely\, and in doing that conveys the big picture of a vast inner life with marvelous clarity and depth. Her voice is intimate\, brash\, always precise\, heartbreaking in both its vulnerability and its authority. These poems are carried away by both lust and intelligence. This poet understands desire: its expression lets loose while giving form. This book doesn’t detour\, it goes right to and through the overpowered\, relentless heart of its speaker and the reader is struck through too\, and good. High Ground Coward is a dazzling debut by a rare\, true talent.” – Brenda Shaughnessy\, judge\, Iowa Poetry Prize \n“High Ground Coward is raw and intimate. Alicia Mountain looks at what she loves and that foreground blurs into a backdrop of practical constraints and injustices. The poems press at those boundaries where desire starts to interfere with the opportunities of others and cast an unsparing eye on the cost. This is a book of hard\, shifting\, dreamlike gems.” – Joanna Klink\, author\, Excerpts from a Secret Prophecy 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-high-ground-coward/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by J. Bruce Fuller\, Jason Labbe\, Raina J. León\, and Matt W. Miller\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts. \nJ. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native\, and is currently a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. His chapbooks include The Dissenter’s Ground\, Notes to a Husband\, Lancelot\, and Flood which won the 2013 Swan Scythe Chapbook Contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming at The Southern Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Harpur Palate\, Pembroke Magazine\, Birmingham Poetry Review\, and Louisiana Literature\, among others. He is the editor and publisher of Yellow Flag Press. He received a MFA from McNeese and a PhD from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. \nBorn in New Britain\, Connecticut and raised by a machinist and a waitress\, Jason Labbe is the author of a full-length collection\, Spleen Elegy (BlazeVOX\, 2017)\, and a handful of chapbooks\, including Blackwash Canal (2011) and Dear Photographer (Phylum Press\, 2009). His poems\, reviews\, and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry\, Boston Review\, A Public Space\, Conjunctions\, DIAGRAM\, American Book Review\, Washington Square\, Gulf Coast\, and The Brooklyn Rail. He has taught writing at the University of Virginia\, the University of Connecticut\, and Southern Connecticut State University. Also a drummer and recording engineer\, he has worked with many artists in New England and New York City. He splits his time between Bethany\, Connecticut and Brooklyn\, New York. \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nMatt W. Miller is the author of the collections The Wounded for the Water (Salomon Poetry)\, Club Icarus\, selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize and Cameo Diner: Poems. He has published poems and essays in The Adroit Journal\, Harvard Review\, Narrative Magazine\, Notre Dame Review\, Southwest Review\, 32 Poems\, Memorious\, and crazyhorse\, among other journals. He was winner of the River Styx Microbrew/Microfiction Prize and Iron Horse Review’s Trifecta Poetry Prize. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches English at Phillips Exeter Academy and lives with his family in coastal New Hampshire.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-10/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-13/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carlo Rovelli
DESCRIPTION:Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli is the head of the Quantum Gravity group at the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille University and one of the founders of the loop quantum gravity theory. His previous books include Seven Brief Lessons on Physics–an international bestseller translated into more than forty languages–and Reality Is Not What It Seems. \nWhy do we remember the past and not the future? The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics\, takes to the Burlingame stage for a meditation on time. Do we exist in it or it in us? From quantum gravity to the world’s great literature join the lyrical and profound Italian scientist for an evening full of wonder\, surprise\, and timeless fun. \nDoors open at 6:30pm. \nThere are two seating areas:\nPremier Seating Area for Premier ticketholders in the first several rows.\nGeneral Seating Area behind the Premier section and in the balcony for general and student ticket holders. \nSeating within each section is not assigned — seating is first come\, first served in both sections. \nBooks will be for sale at the event
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carlo-rovelli/
LOCATION:Burlingame Theater\, 1 Mangini Way\, Burlingame\, CA\, 94010\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:curated by Sarah Carpenter and Gracie Malley! \nsubmissions are open through Apr 18 \nStudioToBe \, 906 Washington St.\, Oakland \nfree + all ages
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-on-may-7/
LOCATION:StudioToBe\, 906 Washington St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley / A Lucky Man
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the Bay Area launch for Jamel Brinkley and his debut book\, A Lucky Man: Stories. Please join us in celebration! \nIn the nine expansive\, searching stories of A Lucky Man\, fathers and sons attempt to salvage relationships with friends and family members\, and confront mistakes made in the past. An imaginative young boy from the Bronx goes swimming with his group from day camp at a backyard pool in the suburbs\, and faces the effects of power and privilege in ways he can barely grasp. A teen intent on proving himself a man through the all-night revel of J’Ouvert can’t help but look out for his impressionable younger brother. And at a capoeira conference\, two brothers grapple with how to tell the story of their family\, caught in the dance of their painful\, fractured history. \nThis stunning debut by Jamel Brinkley reflects the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \n  \n\n  \n“This is the rare debut that introduces not a promising talent but a major writer\, fully formed.” – Garth Greenwell \n  \n“An unmissable debut short story collection\, Jamel Brinkley’s poignant A Lucky Man is revelatory in its crafting of prose and language. A wonderful read.” – The Root \n  \n“Spectacular. . . . Quite simply stunning. . . . [Jamel Brinkley] shines a light on difficult truths.” – Nylon \n  \n\n  \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His work has received fellowships from Kimbilio Fiction and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Beginning this fall\, he will be a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University. \n  \n  \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of A Lucky Man\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley-a-lucky-man/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine / The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Tessa Fontaine for her first book\, The Electric Woman\, in conversation with Molly Giles. Please join us! \nThis astonishing memoir of pushing past fear follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discovery — through her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous\, spirited mother. \nTurns out\, one lesson applies to living through illness\, keeping the show on the road\, letting go of the person you love most\, and eating fire: \n  \nThe trick is there is no trick. \nYou eat fire by eating fire. \n  \nTwo journeys—a daughter’s and a mother’s—bear witness to this lesson in The Electric Woman. \nFor three years Tessa Fontaine lived in a constant state of emergency as her mother battled stroke after stroke. But hospitals\, wheelchairs\, and loss of language couldn’t hold back such a woman; she and her husband would see Italy together\, come what may. Thus Fontaine became free to follow her own piper\, a literal giant inviting her to “come play” in the World of Wonders\, America’s last traveling sideshow. How could she resist? \nTransformed into an escape artist\, a snake charmer\, and a high-voltage Electra\, Fontaine witnessed the marvels of carnival life: intense camaraderie and heartbreak\, the guilty thrill of hard-earned cash exchanged for a peek into the impossible\, and\, most marvelous of all\, the stories carnival folks tell about themselves. Through these\, Fontaine trained her body to ignore fear and learned how to keep her heart open in the face of loss. \nA story for anyone who has ever imagined running away with the circus\, wanted to be someone else\, or wanted a loved one to live forever\, The Electric Woman is ultimately about death-defying acts of all kinds\, especially that ever constant: good old-fashioned unconditional love. \n  \n\n  \nTessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. Author photo by Claire Marika. \n  \n  \n  \nMolly Giles has published a novel\, Iron Shoes\, and four award winning collections of short stories\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, Bothered\, and All the Wrong Places. She taught Creative Writing for many years at San Francisco State University and the University of Arkansas. \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Electric Woman\, and/or any of Molly’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San Jose Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:First Monday of each month with host Scorpiana Xlent
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam/
LOCATION:Gordon Biersch\, 33 E. San Fernando St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series - May 2018 Edition
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Red Poppy Art House for the last Hazel Reading Series before summer break with our incredible line-up of women writers. \nFeaturing:\nAbigail Thompson nominated by Raina León\nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett nominated by Sara Marinelli\nSasha Wright nominated by Nancy Au\nSimmi Aujla nominated by Dominica Phetteplace\nSophia Aguiñaga nominated by Hazel Reading Series\nTianna Bratcher nominated by Ashley Davis \nHosted by Sara Marinelli\n\n5-10$ Suggested donations. No one turned away for lack of funds. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of the chapbooks Unseasonable Weather (dancing girl press\, 2018) and Congress of Mud (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). Her work can be found in Third Coast\, Granta\, Quarterly West\, DIAGRAM\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She serves as poetry editor for Foglifter Press and lives in sunny Oakland\, California. \nSimmi Aujla is an Indian-American speculative fiction writer working on short stories featuring female protagonists of color in a near-future Bay Area. She is a 2017 alum of the VONA / Voices of Our Nation Workshop\, where she studied genre fiction. Currently a fellow at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto\, in the fall she will attend a funded residency at Marble House Project. While working as a political journalist in her 20s\, Simmi observed the exchange of money and power in Washington up close — but managed to get out with her soul intact (mostly). \nTianna Bratcher s a very Queer\, Afro-Dominican woman\, sister\, daughter. As a slam poet she has competed at NPS 2017\, CUPSI 2013-2016 and Brave New Voices 2014. She was a Queer Emerging Artist Resident at Destiny ARTS\, 2017. Has opened for Alicia Garza and Cornel West. She is currently studying to get a B.A. integral studies and is on a path to becoming an art therapist and teaching artist. Her ultimate goal is open up a creative arts and healing youth center. Her writing lives for her mother\, who taught her how to tell the truth. Her writing also lives for her ancestors who continuously guide her to her voice and her loudest opportunities. \nSophia E. Aguinaga is a writer and philosopher. In her debut memoir\, “Letters of Fear & Love\,” Sophia draws on personal experience\, and philosophical and scientific studies to share her journey through bridging the chasms between pain and pleasure\, fear and love. \nSasha Wright is a fiction writer and social justice activist from Oakland\, CA. She is an MFA candidate at San Francisco State University\, where she is writing a novel about time-traveling lesbians and other speculative fiction stories filled with queers and magic. \nAbigail Grace is an intersectional artist and undergraduate student in the Bay Area. She is a versatile artist\, primarily writing poetry and drama\, in addition to acting. Her work focuses on the intricate nature of human relationships and the illusion of separation\, while managing to stay contemporary\, well-rooted\, and accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-may-2018-edition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:features: Deborah Kennedy and Ken Weisner\nopen mic follows \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance \nBios to come. \nUpcoming at Well-RED:\nJune 12: ASHA and Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-2/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:EPIC
DESCRIPTION:Tales of great undertakings and heroic deeds\, world changers\, story spinners\, and tales passed down through time\nCurated by Isolde Honore \nArtwork by Imogen Speer\nTuesday\, May 8\nPublic Works SF: 161 Erie St\, San Francisco \nDoors at 6:30 for pre-salon cocktails\, conversation and gallery show; talks begin at 7:30\nGeneral Admission $15\nLimited Reserved tickets $25\nAges 21+
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LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer SF Book Reading "Contrasts: Poetry & Prose"
DESCRIPTION:Poets Susan Dambroff and David Hathwell and novelists Anne Raeff and Rob Rosen will read from new work at Perfectly Queer San Francisco’s “Contrasts: Poetry & Prose\,” Tuesday\, May 8\, 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. Author signing follows. Admission is free\, and free refreshments will be provided. Door prizes awarded at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nSusan Dambroff is a poet\, performer and teacher\, living in San Francisco. Her poetry chapbook Conversations With Trees was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her first book of poetry\, Memory in Bone\, was published by Black Oyster Press. Her poems have appeared in Stoneboat\, Earth’s Daughters\, and Red Bird Chapbooks\, among other literary venues. She performs in Spoken Duets\, a poetic and improvisational collaboration with performance artist Chris Kammler. Throughout her creative work\, she is drawn to the detailed placement of words\, the alchemy of sequence and timing. \nDavid Hathwell published Between Dog and Wolf\, his second poetry collection\, in 2017. Muses\, his debut collection\, appeared in 2016 to acclaim from\, among others\, Richard Wilbur\, Dana Gioia\, and Edmund White. His poems have appeared in more than a dozen literary magazines .A former English teacher\, he has degrees in English from Stanford and Columbia and a degree in music theory from the City University of New York. He has studied piano at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and sung baritone in two Bay Area choruses. \nAnne Raeff’s second novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm\, just came out in February\, 2018. Her short story collection The Jungle Around Us won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and on The San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Best Books of 2017 list. Her first novel\, Clara Mondschein’s Melancholia\, was published in 2002. Anne’s stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She is proud to be a high school teacher and works primarily with recent immigrants. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and two cats. \nRob Rosen (www.therobrosen.com) is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Sparkle: The Queerest Book You’ll Ever Love\, Divas Las Vegas\, Hot Lava\, Southern Fried\, Queerwolf\, Vamp\, Queens of the Apocalypse\, Creature Comfort\, Fate\, Midlife Crisis\, Fierce\, and And God Belched. His short stories have appeared in more than 200 anthologies. You can find 20 of them in his erotic romance anthology Good & Hot. He is also the editor of Lust in Time: Erotic Romance Through the Ages\, Men of the Manor\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica of the Year\, Volumes 1 and 2 and 3.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-sf-book-reading-contrasts-poetry-prose/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown
DESCRIPTION:Rita Bullwinkel and Lisa Brown\n\nRita Bullwinkel celebrates the release of \nBelly Up: Stories \nfrom A Strange Object Press \nLisa Brown presents a sneak preview of an upcoming new graphic novel forthcoming in late 2018 \nRita and Lisa will also discuss the creative process in an evening of readings accompanied by talks. \nabout Belly Up: \nThe stories of Belly Up occupy the space between the familiar and the surreal. Through fiercely intelligent prose and quotidian moments\, a receptionist becomes fascinated with harp music\, two high school girls debate taking gym class and a bored beauty corresponds with an inmate. Fantastical stories filled with ghosts\, mediums and carnivorous churches find humanity and warmth in the grotesque. The characters and voices of Belly Up\, whether a sentient snake who eats children or a widow building a life without her husband\, are all seeking to find a way to cope with the bodies they’ve been given and the bodies they must encounter. \nRita Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area\, she now lives in the Richmond and works in the Mission. This is her first book. \nLisa Brown draws things like illustration and comics\, writes things like books and book reviews\, and teaches things to kids and college students. Her debut picture book\, How to Be\, was one of the Thirteen Best Children’s Books for Family Literacy. Since then she has published a ton more books\, including Vampire Boy’s Good Night and The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming\, a New York Times bestseller by elusive author Lemony Snicket. She co-authored Picture the Dead\, an illustrated young adult novel\, with acclaimed writer Adele Griffin\, and created the award-winning Baby Be of Use series of board books for McSweeney’s. Lisa draws the Three Panel Book Review cartoon strip\, and is a comics contributor at The Rumpus. She teaches illustration at the California College of the Arts\, and is a long-time workshop instructor and field trip leader at the 826 Valencia tutoring center. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son\, but can usually be found wandering around the internet.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-bullwinkel-and-lisa-brown/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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