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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Kara Krewer\, Kim Magowan\, and Brynn Saito\nHosted by Peter Kline \nPoet\, essayist\, translator\, and immigration advocate Marcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico\, and emigrated from Tepechitlan with his family at age five to the California Central Valley. He earned a BA at Sacramento State University and is the first undocumented student to earn an MFA at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the chapbook DULCE\, winner of the 2017 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. His debut full-length collection is Cenzontle (BOA Editions\, 2018)\, which was chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin\, Jr. prize. \nKara Krewer was raised on an orchard in rural Georgia. She likes skee-ball\, horror movies\, and museums. She has a BA from Knox College and an MFA from Purdue University\, where she was editor-in-chief of Sycamore Review\, and has been a faculty member of Interlochen Arts Camp. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming from The Adroit Journal\, Best New Poets 2017\, The Georgia Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and elsewhere. She’s currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She lives in Santa Clara\, California\, with her husband and their cat. \nKim Magowan’s short story collection Undoing won the 2017 Moon City Press Fiction Award. Her novel The Light Source is forthcoming from 7.13 Books. Her fiction has been published in Atticus Review\, Bird’s Thumb\, Cleaver\, The Gettysburg Review\, Hobart\, New World Writing\, Sixfold\, and many other journals. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the Department of Literatures and Languages at Mills College. \nBrynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. She also co-authored\, with Traci Brimhall\, the chapbook Bright Power\, Dark Peace (Diode Editions\, 2016). Brynn is a recipient of the Kundiman Poetry Fellowship and a California State Library Civil Liberties Public Education grant. Originally from Fresno\, Brynn lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she is the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Saint Mary’s College of California and co-directs\, with Nikiko Masumoto\, the Yonsei Memory Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-9/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Legacy of Poetry Festival: Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading and conversation with Javier Zamora. \nMeet one of the most important younger poets emerging in the United States\, Javier Zamora. Author of the 2017 poetry collection Unaccompanied and 2016 – 2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford\, Zamora is also the recipient of a prestigious 2017 Lannan Fellowship. He earned his B.A. from University of California—Berkeley and his MFA in Creative Writing from NYU. \nBorn in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).In 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection\,Unaccompanied\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. \nCosponsored by Poetry Center San Jose
URL:https://litseen.com/event/legacy-of-poetry-festival-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Library\, 150 East San Fernando Street Room 590\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-12/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tananarive Due
DESCRIPTION:Tananarive Due is a screenwriter\, award-winning novelist\, and leading voice in black speculative fiction. Her most recent book\, Ghost Summer\, won a British Fantasy Award and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Due is the author of 12 novels and a civil rights memoir. She teaches Afrofuturism and black horror at UCLA and creative writing in the MFA program at Antioch University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tananarive-due/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Kaya Press @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Kaya Press @ City Lights\n\nSesshu Foster reads from City of the Future \nMax Yeh reads from Stolen Oranges \nabout City of the Future \nTwenty-one years after Kaya Press first published Sesshu Foster’s City Terrace Field Manual\, a powerful collection of prose poems that map the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Foster’s childhood\, comes a new collection of poetry and prose that takes on gentrification\, modernization and globalization\, as told from the same corner of this rapidly changing metropolis. \nThese poems are\, in the poet’s words: “Postcards written with ocotillo and yucca. Gentrification of your face inside your sleep. Privatization of identity\, corners\, and intimations. Wars on the nerve\, colors\, breathing. Postcard poems of early and late notes\, mucilage\, American loneliness. Postcard poems of slopes\, films of dust and crows. Incarceration nation ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcards 35 cents emerge from gentrified pants. You can’t live like this. Postcards sent into the future. You can’t live here now; you must live in the future\, in the City of the Future.” \nPoet\, teacher\, and community activist Sesshu Foster grew up in in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching\, writing\, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry\, City Terrace Field Manual (1996)\, celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that representing his community as one of his central tasks. He is the author of American Loneliness: Selected Poems (2006). His third collection of poetry\, World Ball Notebook (2009)\, won an American Book Award and an Asian American Literary Award for Poetry. Foster is the author of the novel of speculative fiction Atomik Aztex (2005)\, which won the Believer Book Award and imagines an America free of European colonizers. Foster’s work has been published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry (2000)\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond (2008)\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems (2008). He co-edited the anthology Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry (1989). Foster has taught in East LA for 25 years as well as at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics\, Pomona University\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He lives in Los Angeles. \nabout Stolen Oranges \nA Chinese American historian discovers six anonymous documents in Spanish and Chinese in places ranging from the archives of Imperial China to a rare book shop in Mexico City and constructs a hitherto unknown correspondence between the Chinese Ming Emperor Wanli and Miguel Cervantes\, author of Don Quixote. Difficulties in translation and the years-long\, perilous voyages undertaken by conscripted letter couriers highlight the intensive labor and sheer serendipitous luck required to make this seemingly impossible 17th-century exchange possible. This reimagined history brings together the disparate histories of the Emperor\, Cervantes\, and the historian\, united through time by their deep interest in literature\, philosophy\, politics\, and the burden of demented mothers. As he did in his acclaimed previous novel\, The Beginning of the East\, Yeh continues to remap literary conventions. Layering documentary evidence\, conflicting translations\, and cultural contexts\, Yeh sends ripples through the idea of historical fiction in the vein of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Described as “a writer on a rampage\, with an appetite for history\,” by E.L. Doctorow\, Yeh’s Stolen Oranges reimagines the relationships of the past and the present. \nMax Yeh\, described as “a writer on the rampage” by E.L. Doctorow\, is the author of The Beginning of the East (FC2\, 1992). He was born in China\, educated in the United States and has lived in Europe and Mexico. He has taught at the University of California\, Irvine\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges\, and New Mexico State University. He lives in the New Mexico mountains with his wife and daughter\, where he works on a wide range of subjects including literary theory\, linguistics\, art history and science. \nFounded in 1994\, Kaya Press has established itself as the premier publisher of cutting-edge Asian and Pacific Islander diasporic writers in the United States. Their diverse list of titles includes experimental poetry\, noir fiction\, film memoir\, avant-garde art\, performance pieces\, “lost” novels\, and everything in between. Kaya and its authors have been the recipients of numerous awards\, including the Gregory Kolovakas Prize for Outstanding New Literary Press\, the American Book Award\, the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award\, the PEN Beyond Margins Open Book Prize\, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Award\, and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize. Their books have become cornerstone texts in American Studies and Asian American Studies curricula at major universities throughout the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kaya-press-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Curtis White
DESCRIPTION:Curtis White\n\n  \nreading from his new novel \nLACKING CHARACTER \nfrom Melville House \nThe man Paul Auster called “a master of bewitchments” and a founder of the Fiction Collective returns to the novel after twenty years \n\nIn the spirit of “transcendental buffoonery\,” Curtis White’s return to fiction is fun in the extreme. The story begins when a masked man with “a message both obscure and appalling” appears at the door of the Marquis claiming a matter of life and death\, declaring\, “I stand falsely accused of an atrocity!” \nDispatched by the Queen of Spells from the Outer Hebrides\, the Masked Man’s message was really just a polite request for the Marquis (a video game-playing burnout) to help him enroll in some community college vocational classes. But the exchange gets botched… badly. And our masked man is now lost in America\, encountering its absurdities at every turn\, and cursing those responsible for this cruel fate — including the author that created him. \nIn a time obsessed with the crisis du jour\, White asks us to remember what it’s like to laugh\, to be a little silly even\, in order to reclaim what used to be fundamental to us — the strength to create our own worlds. \nCURTIS WHITE has published seven earlier books of fiction\, including Memories of My Father Watching TV. His non-fiction includes The Middle Mind\, The Science Delusion\, and We\, Robots. His essays have appeared in Harper’s\, the Village Voice\, Orion\, Salon\, Tricycle\, and Playboy. \nPraise for the work of Curtis White: \n“Fun fact: Jonathan Swift spent four decades living incognito in the Midwest USA writing books under the name Curtis White.” —Joshua Cohen\, author of The Book of Numbers and Moving Kings \n“Raw\, rude and rowdy metaphysical slapstick\, packed with buffoonery\, frantic\, at times wistful — Lacking Character is meant to amuse\, piss off and\, above all\, distract from prevailing\, pandemic lunacies.” —Rikki Ducornet\, author of Brightfellow \n“Lacking Character is marvelous. It is what writing must be (what is required) in this very moment of the Kali Yuga.” —Mark Leyner\, author of The Sugar Frosted Nutsack and My Cousin\, My Gastroenterologist \n“The most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment.” —Will Blythe\, Elle \n“Cogent\, acute\, beautiful\, and true.” —David Foster Wallace \n“Absolutely indispensable.” —Slavoj Žižek \n“A master of bewitchments\, parodies\, and dazzling tropes.” —Paul Auster \n“Splendidly cranky.” —Molly Ivins
URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Andersen / Herding Cats
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith welcomes Sarah Andersen back for her new book\, Herding Cats! Please join us. \nMore #relatable comics from Sarah’s Scribbles! \n  \nPlease note: this is a free event\, but seating is limited. If you’d like to reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of Herding Cats below and put your request in the special field. \n— \nSarah Andersen is a young cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Portland\, Oregon. She’s actually really cool and collected in real life. Definitely.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-andersen-herding-cats/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Whan That Aprile . . .
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Judy Wells\, Kirk Lumpkin\, Mary Mackey\, Rafael Jesús González. 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/pandemonium-press-whan-that-aprile/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Michael Gazzaniga with Kara Platoni
DESCRIPTION:Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute\, the founding director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the National Academy of Medicine\, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of many popular science books\, including Tales from Both Sides of the Brain. He lives in California. \nKara Platoni is a science journalist. She teaches UC-Berkeley and has interviewed notable authors such as Yuval Noah Harari\, Steven Johnson\, and more for the Kepler’s Literary Foundation. \nFrom one of the leading Cognitive Neuroscientists in the field today\, comes one of the most insightful new works in years on human consciousness. Looking broadly\, from the writings of the Ancient Greeks to the cutting-edge research happening in labs around the world\, Michael Gazzaniga sets the course for what the future of neuroscience will be. His conclusion: Brains make machines; they cannot be reduced to one. The result of such bold thinking could reshape our future. Join us for an exciting evening inside the human mind with Michael Gazzaniga and Kara Platoni.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-gazzaniga-with-kara-platoni/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Elaine Castillo
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Castillo discusses her debut novel\, America Is Not The Heart. \n\nPraise for America Is Not The Heart \n\n“Elaine Castillo’s entrancing and magnificent debut is set to be a standout work of literature. Don’t say you were not told. What a dazzling book!”—NoViolet Bulawayo author of We Need New Names \n  \n“With the sheer propulsive power of her voice\, Elaine Castillo blasts readers into her story.”—John Freeman\, editor of Freeman’s \n  \n“The creative accomplishments of this story are incredible: this unexpected family\, this history\, this embrace of the sacred and the profane\, this easy humor\, this deeply felt human-ness\, this messy\, perfect love story. Elaine Castillo is a masterful\, heartfelt writer.”—Jade Chang author of The Wangs vs. the World \n\nAbout America Is Not The Heart \n  \nThree generations of women from one immigrant family trying to reconcile the home they left behind with the life they’re building in America. \n  \nHow many lives can one person lead in a single lifetime? When Hero de Vera arrives in America\, disowned by her parents in the Philippines\, she’s already on her third. Her uncle\, Pol\, who has offered her a fresh start and a place to stay in the Bay Area\, knows not to ask about her past. And his younger wife\, Paz\, has learned enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. Only their daughter Roni asks Hero why her hands seem to constantly ache. \n  \nIlluminating the violent political history of the Philippines in the 1980s and 1990s and the insular immigrant communities that spring up in the suburban United States with an uncanny ear for the unspoken intimacies and pain that get buried by the duties of everyday life and family ritual\, Castillo delivers a powerful\, increasingly relevant novel about the promise of the American dream and the unshakable power of the past. In a voice as immediate and startling as those of Junot Diaz and NoViolet Bulawayo\, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling\, soulful telenovela of a debut novel. With exuberance\, muscularity\, and tenderness\, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave home to grasp at another\, sometimes turning back.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-castillo/
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:Facades Everywhere
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, April 4\, 2018\, The Bindery will become a truth machine. Three writers\, Devi S. Laskar\, Claudia H. Long\,Crystal Jo Reiss\, and a surprise poet/novelist\, will ferry readers across borders\, around the world\, and through time. In an era of despotism\, misrepresentations\, fake news and “fake news\,” forced migrations\, and missing time\, facades fall away and bare the truth. Come find your truth with writers who don’t flinch when questions become inquisitions\, maps are revised\, and skies fall onto pages that will not turn anyone away. \n— \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, N.C. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York. A former newspaper reporter\, she is now a poet\, photographer and artist. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlanta Review\, Fairy Tale Review\, Tin House and The Raleigh Review\, which nominated her for Best New Poets 2016. She is an alumna of both TheOpEdProject and VONA/Voices\, and poetry workshops at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. Finishing Line Press published the first of two poetry chapbooks\, “Gas & Food\, No Lodging” in March 2017 and has nominated her for a Pushcart Prize—and will publish Anastasia Maps in December. She now lives in California. \nClaudia H. Long is the author of three books about the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico: Josefina’s Sin\, The Duel for Consuelo\, and just out\, Chains of Silver. Her books have been described as “riveting”\, “beautifully researched and lyrically written\,” “spell-binding” and “very\, very sexy.” She grew up in Mexico City\, and makes her home in the East Bay\, with her husband\, nearby grown children\, perfect grandson\, and anywhere from three to five dogs\, depending on who’s home. When she isn’t writing she practices law\, mediating ugly business disputes and employment discrimination cases. \nCrystal Jo Reiss began her writing career with the publication of her first poem\, The Girl Who Pricked Her Finger\, in The Louisville Review’s anthology of children’s poetry. Years later\, while working on her M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Columbia University\, she wrestled with narrative and drafted her first novel. Later\, she attended The Squaw Valley Writer’s Conference\, and spent a summer at The Edward Albee Foundation and Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. Between assisting a renowned physical anthropologist\, serving as a transcription editor for a law firm that represented members of the Cosa Nostra\, teaching college-level composition\, and working on spreadsheets for nurse practitioners\, she wrote for a variety of publications\, including a trade magazine focused on post-production houses in the advertising industry. She has since cofounded an editorial and design business\, and is celebrating the publication of her novel\, Jane is Everywhere. She lives with her husband and son in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/facades-everywhere/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran lives in Berkeley\, California. Her latest novel\, Lucky Boy\,was named an Indie Next Great Read and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Canteen Magazine\, Huffington Post and Best New American Voices. She’s a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto and a Distinguished Visiting Writer in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College. www.shanthisekaran.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-5/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:'Every Note Played'
DESCRIPTION:“Every Note Played” vividly depicts ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). As author Lisa Genova did in her previous New York Times bestselling novels\, “Still Alice\,” “Inside the O’Briens\,” “Love Anthony” and “Left Neglected\,” she blends a neuroscience background with her literary skills to create a powerful story not only about a neurological condition\, but also about the human condition. Through the lens of ALS\, “Every Note Played” explores regret\, forgiveness\, letting go and redemption. \nAn accomplished concert pianist\, every finger of Richard’s hands was a finely calibrated instrument\, dancing across the keys and striking every note with precision. That was eight months ago. Richard now has ALS and his right arm is paralyzed. He knows his left arm is next. \nRichard’s ex-wife Karina is trapped in a prison of excuses and fear\, stuck in an unfulfilling life as an afterschool piano teacher\, blaming Richard and their failed marriage for all of it. As he becomes increasingly paralyzed and is no longer able to live on his own\, Karina becomes his reluctant caretaker. As Richard’s muscles\, voice and breath fade\, the two struggle to reconcile their past before it’s too late. \nWith the same insight as her previous titles\, “Every Note Played” is informed by an understanding of classical music. Heartbreaking and profound\, it is achingly hard to read at moments. Genova delivers a novel that will linger and affect readers just as “Still Alice” did. \nLisa Genova graduated valedictorian\, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science\, Lisa has captured a special place in contemporary fiction\, writing stories that are equally inspired by neuroscience and the human spirit. \nBooks will on sale at the event\, provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/every-note-played/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Zapruder is the author most recently of Sun Bearand Why Poetry\, a book of prose about poetry. An Associate Professor in the MFA program at Saint Mary’s College of California\, he is also Editor at Large at Wave Books\, and from 2016-7 was Editor of the Poetry Column for the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, CA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim // SFJAZZ Center
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-w-genny-lim-sfjazz-center/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180325T081124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T081124Z
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live - Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:PRESIDIO LIVE – Thursday Evenings at 7 pm \nIn Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. \nToss your expectations aside and come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya — have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Presidio Trust":MAILTO:sbarry@presidiotrust.gov
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T200000
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CREATED:20180325T082353Z
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SUMMARY:Presidio Live | Literary Reading: Western Hemisphereans
DESCRIPTION:In Presidio Live\, experience live music\, theatre\, dance\, film\, and dialogues that offer a contemporary take on the history and nature of the Presidio and the culture of our diverse Bay Area community. On April 5\, come hear contemporary work from teachers and visionaries hailing from many parts of this side of the planet. All of these writers — Avotcja\, Linda Noel\, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, Rene Voz and Norman Zelaya– have indigenous connections to the western hemisphere. \nPhoto: San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck
URL:https://litseen.com/event/presidio-live-literary-reading-western-hemisphereans/
LOCATION:Presidio Officers’ Club\, 50 Moraga Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94129\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Presidio Trust":MAILTO:publicrelations@presidiotrust.gov
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T203000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180219T024048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T024048Z
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SUMMARY:Henri Cole
DESCRIPTION:City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with Mechanics’ Institute Library and NYRB present\n\nHenri Cole celebrating the release of \n  \nOrphic Paris \nfrom New York Review Books \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography\, diary\, essay\, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop\, Cole\, an award-winning American poet\, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family\, poetry and solitude\, the self and freedom. \nCole writes of Paris\, “For a time\, I lived here\, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man\, I cared fully for myself\, and felt not guilt and confessed nothing\, and in this place\, I wrote\, I was nourished\, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic\, oracular\, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching\, original\, brilliant account of the city. \nWhat has been said about the work of Henri Cole \nHenri Cole’s Orphic Paris is a remarkable work—a poet’s most intimate diary\, written entirely in Paris\, in a sequence of visits that take us into the interior of the city as into the interior of the questing poet’s soul. The voice of the poet here is confiding\, erudite\, tender\, unexpected in its sympathies and discoveries; like Henri Cole’s extraordinary poetry\, it is both finely crafted and yet—seemingly—artless\, unpretentious. One of the great pleasures of Orphic Paris is the poet’s delight in the work and words of others—fellow poets\, artist-friends\, Parisians who drift into his ardently observant life\, and move on.\n—Joyce Carol Oates \nHenri Cole was born in Fukuoka\, Japan\, to a French mother and an American father. He has published nine collections of poetry\, including Middle Earth\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer.  He has received many awards for his work\, including the Jackson Prize\, the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Rome Prize\, the Berlin Prize\, the Lenore Marshall Award\, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent collection of poetry is Nothing to Declare. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Boston. \nVisit  https://www.milibrary.org for more info on ticket availability
URL:https://litseen.com/event/henri-cole/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T210000
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CREATED:20180219T033150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T033150Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents A WRINKLE IN TIME
DESCRIPTION:Climb in the tesseract and hold on to your Whatsits: we’re doing A Wrinkle in Time\, because Chris Pine is in the movie. \n  \nFeatured writers: Sarah Culver\, Annalee Newitz\, Feb & March winners\, and more TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+. Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nTickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-a-wrinkle-in-time/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180325T081523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180325T081523Z
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nThursday\, April 5\, 7:00pm \nAl Young\, Arlene Biala & Brittany Biala\, Royal Kent with Copus Multimedia \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-2/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180405T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180405T223000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180329T032536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T032536Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 5\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://ticketf.ly/2oVcGLP \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-2/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T200000
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SUMMARY:Dan Bransfield / Pizzapedia
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is excited to host a launch for Dan Bransfield’sPizzapedia. Join us for a meet and greet\, pizza (obviously)\, and a cash bar! \nA book for the pizza obsessed\, with 80 charming illustrations and information about the history\, ingredients\, and lore of everyone’s favorite food. \nPizza is a food that lends itself to legend and obsession\, spanning geography\, generations\, and gender. In lavish illustrations and hand-lettered text\, Pizzapedia celebrates all there is to fixate about: the stories behind its origin (we have the ancient Greeks to thank before the Italians); the delectable ingredients\, from San Marzano tomatoes to buffalo mozzarella; the failed and the famous inventions (like “the pizza saver\,” the piece of plastic that prevents a pizza delivery box top from drooping into the pie); the merits of Sicilian vs. New York vs. Chicago vs. new (Detroit?!) styles; and much more. Like the universally beloved food\, this art-driven book of miscellany is inviting\, colorful\, and a delicious gift to give and get. \n  \n— \nDan Bransfield is a food-loving illustrator and pun enthusiast. Much of his illustration work is made for the food and dining industry\, including True Story Foods\, Applegate Farms\, Beringer Winery ads in The New Yorker\, NOPA restaurant\, and regular contributions to the Rumpus and Edible San Francisco magazine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dan-bransfield-pizzapedia/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T200000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T014523Z
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SUMMARY:Curtis White discusses Lacking Character
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-white-discusses-lacking-character/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180325T082136Z
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \nFriday\, April 6\, 7:00pm \nPaul Flores\, Genny Lim\, Tongo Eisen-Martin with Broun Fellinis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival-3/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T025429Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Raworth (1938–2017): A Celebration of His Life and Work
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we remember poet and friend Tom Raworth\, with readings and tributes\, at UC Berkeley’s Maud Fife Room in Wheeler Hall. Miles Champion\, poet and editor of Raworth’s As When: A Selection (Carcanet\, 2015) will be flying in from New York City\, and other poet and artist friends from nearer by and far-flung places will be present\, the latter via audio recording or written memories and tributes. \nCo-sponsored by The Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English\, this event is free and open to the public. \nProgram \nWelcome: Lyn Hejinian \nStephen Emerson\nNorma Cole\nAlastair Johnston\nRita degli Esposti\nDavid Southern\nJean Day\nAlan Bernheimer\nMerrill Gilfillan\nArmando Pajalich\nStephen Vincent\nBruce Ackley\nFanny Howe\nJennifer Dunbar Dorn\nKit Robinson\nGian Antonio Pozzi\nJim Nisbet\nDuncan McNaughton\nLyn Hejinian\nClark Coolidge\nAndy Berlin\nSteve Dickison\nMiles Champion \nFinale: recording of Tom Raworth reading \n\n\n\n\n\n\n• In Memoriam: Tom Raworth\, by Martin Corless-Smith | Tarpaulin Sky\n• Tom Raworth 1938-2017\, by SJ Fowler | 3:AM Magazine\n• Tom Raworth obituary | The Guardian\n• Tom Raworth | Poetry Foundation \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and UC Berkeley Department of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-raworth-1938-2017-a-celebration-of-his-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T210000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180129T101111Z
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SUMMARY:Mohsin Hamid
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Pico Iyer \n  \n\nMohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel\, Moth Smoke\, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays\, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations\, have appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New York Review of Books\, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore\, Pakistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mohsin-hamid/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T040038Z
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SUMMARY:Mohsin Hamid with Pico Iyer
DESCRIPTION:Mohsin Hamid is the author of the international bestsellers Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist\, both finalists for the Man Booker Prize. His first novel\, Moth Smoke\, won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. His essays\, a number of them collected as Discontent and Its Civilizations\, have appeared in The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, The New York Review of Books\, and elsewhere. He lives in Lahore\, Pakistan.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mohsin-hamid-with-pico-iyer/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180406T233000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180303T063632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T063632Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry/Karaoke Dinner
DESCRIPTION:This is an informal monthly program on every second Friday of the month. You can recite your favorite poem or sing a song. Dinner is provided. The ticket is $10 per person if you buy or infrom us before Thursday Noon.\nPreregistration is requested by emailing to info@pacc-ca.org or pay at PayPal below. Pre-registration by email or PayPal will close right at noon the Thursday before. \nBring your friends and family. If you do not pre-register before Thursday noon\, it will be $15 at the door. \nThere will be two rounds\, time permitting. If you like to recite a poem or sing a song\, you will have 5 minutes in each round.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetrykaraoke-dinner/
LOCATION:PACC – Pakistani American Community Center\, 372 Turquoise St\, Suite # 4\, Milpitas\, CA\, 95035\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260503T071851
CREATED:20180219T070657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T070657Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n\nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n\nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-2/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Hand\, De Leon\, Robles w/ Fellinis
DESCRIPTION:Curated by SFJAZZ Poet Laureate Genny Lim\, this year’s festival will again feature the greatest poets of the Bay Area and beyond\, centered on the concept of “wordology.” \n  \n\n\n\n\nAya de Leon is a novelist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley. She first came to national attention as a spoken word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and a hip-hop theater artist. de Leon is of Puerto Rican\, African American\, and West Indian heritage\, and much of her work explores issues of race\, gender\, socio-economic class\, body and nation. Part of San Francisco Slam Team (they won the Western Region Poetry Slam in 2000. In 2001\, she began to develop the hip hop theater show\, “Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop” focused on fighting sexism and consumerism in hip hop [1][2] She began her college teaching career at Stanford University in 2001. In 2006\, she was chosen as the Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley\, where she currently teaches poetry and spoken word. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Robles\, a self described “Friscopino”\, born and raised San Francisco\, is author of 2 poetry/short story collections\, Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike and Cool Don’t Live Here No More–A letter to San Francisco\, published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press. Tony was a short list finalist for Poet Laureate of San Francisco\, 2017\, and is the recipient of the individual literary artist grant from the SF Art Commission 2017. Says current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck\, “Tony speaks of the city as a relative with a life threatening illness\, with love and anger.” \n\n\n\n\n  \nThe Broun Fellinis are a jazz/hip-hop trio hailing from the Bay Area whose members include percussionist Professor Boris Karnaz (born Kevin Carnes)\, bassist Kirk the Redeemer\, and woodwind player Black Edgar Kenyatta. Their debut\, Aphrokubist Improvisations\, Vol. 9\, was released in 1995. The group has created their own mythology explaining their origins — they claim to be from the mythical land of Boohaabia\, which floats off the coast of Madagascar and is surrounded by the Phat Temple\, the Ministry of Imagination\, and the Oasis of Surprise\, which are all at equal distances from Boohaabia. Further\, Karnaz claims that Boohaabia may be reached through the group’s music\, or perhaps through Kirk the Redeemer’s bass cabinet if the pilgrim has brought him some cashews; Karnaz promises that the listener’s chair will then sink six inches into the sand and giraffes will appear\, ready to take the listener wherever he may want to go. – by Steve Hue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-de-leon-robles-w-fellinis/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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