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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Carla Williams-Namboodiri\, open mic\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-carla-williams-namboodiri-open-mic-hosted-by-bruce-bagnell/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:POETS! YOU BET! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! YOU BET! – featured readers followed by an open mic \n\nWhenMon\, May 20\, 7pm – 9pm\nDescriptionNick\, Micah\, many more!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-you-bet-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Max Porter
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nLanny: a novel \nfrom Graywolf Press \n“An exhilarating\, disquieting\, joyous read. It will reach into your chest and take hold of your heart. . . . It’s a novel to press into the hands of everyone you know and say\, read this.”—Maggie O’Farrell \nThere’s a village an hour from London. It’s no different from many others today: one pub\, one church\, redbrick cottages\, some public housing\, and a few larger houses dotted about. Voices rise up\, as they might anywhere\, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it\, to the land and to the land’s past. \nIt also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort\, a mythical figure local schoolchildren used to draw as green and leafy\, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth\, who awakens after a glorious nap. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village\, to its symphony of talk: drunken confessions\, gossip traded on the street corner\, fretful conversations in living rooms. He is listening\, intently\, for a mischievous\, ethereal boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny. \nWith Lanny\, Max Porter extends the potent and magical space he created in Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. This brilliant novel will ensorcell readers with its anarchic energy\, with its bewitching tapestry of fabulism and domestic drama. Lanny is a ringing defense of creativity\, spirit\, and the generative forces that often seem under assault in the contemporary world\, and it solidifies Porter’s reputation as one of the most daring and sensitive writers of his generation. \nMax Porter is the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers\, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award\, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. \nvisit: www.maxporter.co.uk \nCritical praise for the work of Max Porter: \n‘Amazing and unforgettable.’ The Times \n‘Dazzlingly good.’ Robert MacFarlane \n‘I picked up Grief Is The Thing With Feathers in my local bookshop\, and thought\, Really? A prose-poem novel about grief and Ted Hughes? Isn’t it going to be precious and pretentious? Anyway: I think it’s brilliant. The opposite of precious\, it reads as though this were the only way it could have been done. It’s solid\, muscular\, moving\, funny and clever. I can’t wait to see what Max Porter does next. And by the way\, it takes about an hour to get through. I will read it again soon.’ Nick Hornby \n‘A luminous reading experience.’ TLS \n‘Utterly astonishing. Truly\, truly remarkable.’ Nathan Filer \n‘Compact and splendid.’ Adam Mars-Jones\, London Review of Books \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant.’ Guardian \n‘Porter has an excellent ear for the flexibility of language and tone\, juxtaposing colloquialisms against poetic images and metaphors. The result is a book that has the living\, breathing quality of the title’s ‘thing with feathers.’. . . One of the things this luminous novel insists upon is that loss endures\, even as grief departs. Our recoveries are always partial\, and this sense of having been splintered is what finally defines us.’ New York Times  \n‘I’m not sure I’ve read anything like Max Porter’s book before. It stunned me\, full of beauty\, hilarity\, and thick black darkness. It will stay with me for a very long time.’ Evie Wyld \n‘Unlike anything I’ve read before; part memoir\, part novel\, part experimental sound-poem\, the book is a physical\, living thing that shifts between humour and sadness with a deft beat of its wing.’ Andrew McMillan \n‘Heartrending\, blackly funny\, deeply resonant\, a perfect summation of what it means to lose someone but still to love the world – and if it reminds publishers that the best books aren’t always the ones that can be pigeonholed or precis-ed or neatly packaged\, so much the better.’ Sarah Crown\, Guardian \n‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers argues that books\, literature and poetry can help save us. This book is a sublime and painful conjuring of a family’s grief and the misfit creature with the power to both haunt and help them. It is a complex story\, not simply-told or sparse: Nothing is missing. Let it be a call for more great books of this length to be recognized for what they are — whole. Extraordinary is a book with feathers.’ Los Angeles Times \n‘An intense and startling reflection on sudden bereavement\, dark animism\, childhood and literary form.’ Brian Dillon \n‘orter’s poetic prose has infinite readings\, and demands you turn back to the beginning after each short sitting.’ Big Issue \n‘Shows us another way of thinking about the novel and its capabilities\, taking us through a dark and emotionally fraught subject\, one airy page after another\, as through transported by wings.’ Kirsty Gunn\, Guardian \n“Max Porter has written one of the only accurate representations of grief I have ever found in literature. He combines verse\, narrative\, essay\, myth\, drama\, jokes\, bad dreams\, and the language of therapy in a way that seems magical\, permanent\, utterly integrated\, as impossible to distill to its components as it would be impossible to remove or isolate grief from love\, or from life itself. Says Crow of grief\, ‘It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood.’ Sarah Manguso \n‘In this slyly funny and thrillingly original work\, Max Porter somehow pulls a brand new story out of the darkest despair.’ Jenny Offill \n‘Less a novel than a totally new and feathered thing—hilarious\, poetic\, cheeky\, postmodern\, I guess\, but in the most earnest and emotionally forthright way. I was as gripped as I was stunned by Porter’s linguistic daredevilry\, his intelligence\, his emotional go-for-the-gut-ness. I loved this book.’ Heidi Julavits \n‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . is a book to cherish. It has the perfect balance of being very sad and very funny\, full of darkness and full of light.’ Cecelia Ahern \n‘A small masterpiece.’ Listener \n‘I loved Max Porter’s Grief is the Thing with Feathers . . . Part prose\, part poetry\, the book is a lyrical exploration of grief and healing; exquisite passages of brilliance and beauty abound throughout.’ Thomas Morris \n‘It seems appropriate that the publishing firm for which T.S. Eliot once worked and wrote should put out this extraordinary book\, haunted as it is by two poets. This book is partly poetry\, partly drama\, partly fable\, and partly essay on grief. With its verbal inventiveness\, vivid imagery and profound but never swamping emotion\, this is as wild and gripping and original a book as Wuthering Heights.’ Sydney Morning Herald \n‘Art—in Porter’s witty\, sensitive\, outlandish expression of it—does not so much transport us to another world as alert us to the extraordinary beauty of our own.’ Music and Literature \nAnd here’s Jesse Ball: https://vimeo.com/167790359
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Doing What? Older Women's Tales
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nIn the basement\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nYOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure\, Compiled and Edited by Marjorie Penn Lasky. \n“You’re Doing What? is an inspirational and insightful call to action to its readers. These stories are certain to encourage women – and men – of all ages to view aging as an opportunity to act on long deferred or never before-imagined dreams.” – Congresswoman Barbara Lee \nIn my mid-70s\, I asked myself what was I\, Marjorie Lasky\, doing scrambling off-trail in Sedona\, Arizona\, traversing slick steep slopes\, climbing to intimidating heights\, and choosing between the narrow ledge and the prickly pear. Yet each day when the scrambling ended and I was (essentially) intact\, I was amazed at what I had accomplished. Eventually I called it “My Trip of Unintended Consequences” because it inspired new challenges. One endeavor birthed this project – my collecting stories by older women\, describing their achievements and adventures. \nThe book\, YOU’RE DOING WHAT? Older Women’s Tales of Achievement and Adventure is a compilation of 62 of these memorable first-person tales and photos. In the book\, you’ll read about and view photos of daring older women of different races\, classes\, sexual orientations\, and disabilities facing challenges and choices as they age. All are embracing new adventures and changing what it means to be an “older woman.” Celebrate them! And let them inspire you despite those voices that still might challenge\, “You’re Doing What!” \nPARTICIPANTS: \nCompiler\, Marjorie Lasky \nA professor in the Contra Costa Community College District from 1973-2008\, Marjorie Lasky taught Women’s\, United States\, and Latin American History. As an older woman\, she finished a PhD dissertation\, “Off Camera: A History of the Screen Actors Guild” and a degree in Labor History at UC Davis\, served as chief negotiator and president of her faculty union\, founded Grandmother’s Against War (Bay Area)\, and\, upon retiring\, took up the saxophone. \nThere will be readings by four contributors: \nEffie Dilworth \nEffie Hall Dilworth graduated from UC Berkeley in English literature. She worked for the university for 30 years with the campus’ natural history collections as a computer programer and the administrator of a database system. In June 2013\, the Chinese Historical Society of American published a booklet her cousin\, Connie Young Yu\, and she wrote about the family soy sauce enterprise\, “Wing Nien Brand\, A Story of Longevity.” \nLydia Gans \nLydia Gans was born in Berlin\, Germany\, in 1931. Her parents were fortunate to find a sponsor who made it possible to get visas and emigrate to America. They arrived in New York in January 1938. Lydia grew up in Manhattan\, went to Hunter High School\, graduated at 17 at took the train to Berkeley. \nRose Glickman \nRose Glickman’s first book\, Russian Factory Women: Workplace and Society\, 1880-1914\, was published in 1984. She has translated a historical biography\, Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory\, A Voice from Stalin’s Russia\, published in 2012. \nHelen Isaacson \nHelen Isaacson was born and brought up in Brooklyn\, New York. She met her husband when they were both reporters for the student newspaper at Brooklyn College. They have lived in Washington D.C.\, London\, England\, Oberlin\, Ohio\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan and Berkeley where they moved after both retired from teaching at the University of Michigan. \nLinda Slavin Kirby \nLinda Slavin Kirby continues to hike (although she’s not climbing any more mountains)\, took her daughters on a three-week African safari to celebrate their “significant” birthdays\, and recently returned to the world of tap dancing\, which she had previously left. \nKathy Labriola \nKathy Labriola is a nurse\, counselor\, and hypnotherapist in private practice in Berkeley\, providing affordable mental health services to alternative communities. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for more than 40 years. She has written and published Love in Abundance: A Counselor’s Advice on Open Relationships and The Jealousy Workbook. \nSherry Lou Macgregor \nAmerican Indian and Scottish\, Sherry Lou Macgregor is an elder in the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. Each summer she is a “puller” in the tribe’s canoe on the Tribal Canoe Journeys. Her experiences and observations on these Canoe Journeys have inspired her to document the history of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian Canoe Culture. She is currently writing a book on this subject. In 2012 she published Beyond Hearth and Home: Women in the Public Sphere in Neo-Assyrian Society. \nE. Kay Trimberger \nE. Kay Trimberger\, a sociologist\, is professor emerita at Sonoma State University. She is writing a book tentatively titled Creole Son: An Adoptive Mother’s Story of Nurture and Nature. She blogs occasionally on the Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-doing-what-older-womens-tales/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Memorial Tribute to Linda Gregg
DESCRIPTION:Falkirk Cultural Center\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis tribute celebrates Linda Gregg’s life and work\, with poems and stories from poets and friends. Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman\, Forrest Gander\, Jane Hirshfield and other poets and friends will gather to read and speak about Linda. Refreshments will be served. \nIf you plan to attend and/or read\, please RSVP to events@marinpoetrycenter.org so we can plan appropriately. \nDoors open at 6:30\, event starts at 7. Parking is in the lot below Falkirk Center. Please allow time to park and walk up the hill to the event. \n\n\n\nLinda was raised in Marin County\, went to Francis Drake high school and earned her BA and an MA from San Francisco State University. Her books include In the Middle Distance (2006); All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems (2008)\, a Los Angeles TimesFavorite Book of 2008 and winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; The Poets & Writers’ Jackson Prize; Things and Flesh (1999)\, finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Chosen by the Lion (1995); Sacraments of Desire (1992); Alma (1985); and Too Bright to See(1981).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-tribute-to-linda-gregg/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:WOMEN’S HEALTH: TRUTH AND MISINFORMATION WITH DR. JEN GUNTER In Conversation with Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:WOMEN’S HEALTH: TRUTH AND MISINFORMATION WITH DR. JEN GUNTER\nIn Conversation with Ayelet Waldman\nTuesday\, May 21\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nDr. Jen Gunter is OB/GYN and a pain medicine physician\, writing on topics of sex\, science\, and social media. A fierce advocate for women’s health\, Gunter is devoted to correcting the myths and misinformation perpetuated by the internet around women’s well-being and reproductive health. She is the author of The Preemie Primer\, a guide for parents of premature babies. Her forthcoming book The Vagina (and Vulva) Bible\, seeks to correct the falsehoods about women’s health and reproductive systems commonly disseminated and accepted by men and women alike. Hailed as Twitter’s resident gynecologist\, Gunter has also written for The New York Times\, The Cut\, USA Today\, and more.\n\n\nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-health-truth-and-misinformation-with-dr-jen-gunter-in-conversation-with-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Megan Griswold discusses The Book of Help
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, May 21\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nMegan Griswold discusses and signs copies of The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK OF HELP \nThe Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love\, connection\, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies\, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents –– from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil\, to academia\, the Ivy League\, and the study of Eastern medicine. \nMegan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture ––  at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later\, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail\, Megan must accept that her many certificates\, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be\, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest\, most growth-insisting journey of her life. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMegan Griswold went to Barnard College\, received an MA from Yale\, and went on to earn a licentiate degree from the Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture. She has trained and received certifications as a doula\, shiatsu practitioner\, yoga instructor\, personal trainer\, and in wilderness medicine\, among others. She has worked as a mountain instructor\, a Classical Five Element acupuncturist\, a freelance reporter\, an NPR All Things Considered commentator and an off-the grid interior designer. She resides (mostly) in a yurt in Kelly\, Wyoming. \n  \nPRAISE\nGriswold’s debut…provides an exhaustive look at alternative treatments\, but wrapped up in that narrative is a personal tale about her own quest to find comfort and healing from the scars of her youth and the tragedy of her divorce….As remedies\, the results were decidedly mixed\, but vicariously living them through her telling makes for a fascinating book. Soul-searching has never been more comprehensive.\n–Kirkus  \nWhen Griswold discovers that her husband has an addiction to phone sex and prostitutes\, her mother tells her this is all good material. Given this\, readers won’t likely blame the author for seeking her own answers….This [book] will appeal to like-minded seekers.\n–Booklist \nGriswold’s vulnerability and deeply honest writing will captivate and bolster readers in their own search for improvement.\n–Publishers Weekly \n“In a world full of spiritual seekers\, Megan Griswold is an undisputed All-Star. She has spent her life examining her existence in patient\, courageous\, and microscopic detail\, and now she has written about her search with tender and comic honesty. What a delightful journey!”\n–Elizabeth Gilbert\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat\, Pray\, Love \n“Megan Griswold’s fantastic memoir is part-medicine for our time\, part-balm for our collective wounds\, part-instruction manual. Unexpectedly hilarious\, self-deprecating\, moving\, and a story for all women in this time\, I couldn’t put it down. I read it aloud to my fiancé\, to our daughter\, to my friends. It’s the book that makes you jog the elbow of the person sitting next to you and say\, ‘You’ve GOT to read this.’ You’ve got to read this. Megan is in touch with where the rest of us may have limped off course.”\n–Alexandra Fuller\, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Before the Rains Come \n“The Book of Help is a homecoming of healing. If you think you know what a memoir is\, this book subverts everything you know. In her honest\, openhearted prose\, Griswold examines her life through remedies\, from the simple to the wild. This book is a tender\, and at times\, a heartbreaking account of what it means to have relationships\, from your parents to your spouse. The Book of Helpwill split you open\, wrench your heart\, and offer a kind of redemption. Griswold’s compassion and humor is on every page\, as she logs her various endeavors to be a loving human in the world. This book is not about being lost and found\, it’s about the voyage our lives take. You are her fellow pilgrim on her journey of grace. A brave and insightful debut.”\n–Nina McConigley\, author of Cowboys and East Indians\, winner of the PEN Open Book Award \n“An inventive\, deeply original plummet into self-exploration that is part emotional repair manual\, part memoir and entirely wonderful. You’ll be wiser for having read it\, feel less alone in the world when you’re done\, and endlessly grateful to Megan Griswold for creating her one-of-a-kind life that lead to this one-of-a-kind book.”\n–Amanda Stern\, author of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life. \n“The Book of Help is a bright\, self-effacing\, celebratory\, gut-wrenching and hilarious chronicle of one woman’s attempt to heal both herself and the parts of the world she intersects. It reminds us\, in these dizzyingly corrupted times\, of the redemption to be found in good friends\, good dogs\, and good therapy\, and urges us to make the world we want to live in. This book is an all-night sleepover ouija board/tarot card/magic eight ball session of delight.\n–Pam Houston\, author of Deep Creek  \n“By turns funny and aching\, The Book of Help is Eat\, Pray\, Love on speed. Not even the Buddha was as determined as Griswold to find inner peace.”\n–Patricia Marx\, author of Let’s Be Less Stupid \n“Megan Griswold’s intimate\, chatty\, marvelous voice scooped me up on the first page of The Book Of Help and she never left my side until the last. This open hearted\, soul searching\, intensely readable memoir reminds us that we are far from alone on our journey and how ever much we might want them – there are no finish lines\, just resting stops where we can heal\, learn\, gather strength and\, most importantly\, keep going.”\n–Isabel Gillies\, New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Susie Linfield discusses The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
DESCRIPTION:Cultural critic Susie Linfield presents her lively intellectual history of the political left\, The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky. In conversation wtih Steve Wasserman\, publisher and executive director of Heyday. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout The Lions’ Den: \nIn this lively intellectual history of the political Left\, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism\, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political\, the book includes philosophers\, historians\, journalists\, and activists such as Hannah Arendt\, Arthur Koestler\, I. F. Stone\, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism\, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century’s most crucial political dilemmas: socialism\, nationalism\, democracy\, colonialism\, terrorism\, and anti-Semitism. In other words\, in probing Zionism\, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals\, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti-Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward. \nSusie Linfield teaches cultural journalism at New York University. A former editor at the Washington Post and the Village Voice\, she has written for a wide variety of publications\, including the New York Times\, the Nation\, Dissent\, and the New Republic. Her previous book\, The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nSteve Wasserman\, raised in Berkeley and a graduate of Cal\, is Heyday’s publisher and executive director. He is a former editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House and publisher of Hill & Wang and The Noonday Press at Farrar\, Straus & Giroux. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, May 22\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
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LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL & 826 VALENCIA: ‘WE BELONG HERE’ BOOK RELEASE
DESCRIPTION:REFLECTIONS ABOUT BORDERS FROM THE STUDENTS OF GALILEO HIGH SCHOOL\nTHURS. MAY 23RD\, 6:30PM \n \nJoin us for readings\, book signings\, and a celebration of our student authors. \n\n826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/galileo-high-school-826-valencia-we-belong-here-book-release/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET!
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edgar Kunz
DESCRIPTION:Edgar Kunz joins us to discuss his debut poetry collection\, Tap Out . \nPraise for Tap Out \n“A whirlwind debut.Stories of sclerotic lives told in wrought images\, Kunz arrives with real poetic talent…[he] pulls us into his poems and keeps us there through crisp detail…(A hint: trust poets who show back to you the images you’ve seen in glimpses and tucked in the back of your mind.)…Tap Out lives in a bittersweet world\, and does so well\, but there’s also fine touches here: a mother who has had enough\, a son who sees beauty in loss…”—Nick Ripatrazone\, The Millions\, “Must Read Poetry” \n\n“There is no ground of existence that does not require (or fail to sustain) its poet. This proposition\, requiring continual re-proving\, has found again its confirmation in Edgar Kunz’s first book. In the lineage of Levine\, Jordan\, and Laux\, Tap Out presents the data of blows received and taken in fully. Yet these poems do not return blow for blow; they offer instead an unflinching\, continued allegiance to abiding connection. Without summation or comment\, they remind us that all alchemies of being are possible. Kunz’s precision-tool language of memory and witness enlarges\, pivots\, pieces together the broken into a world made new\, survivable\, holdable\, forgiven.” — Jane Hirshfield\, author of The Beauty and Come\, Thief \n\n“Tap Out is an ardent and gorgeous refusal to scorn the aches and wounds that bring us closer to mercy. Rippling with both sorrow and wonder\, Edgar Kunz’s narratives sift through the intricacies of masculinity\, working-class lives\, and abandonment. The telling isn’t singed with nostalgia that obscures pain: his muscular lines make visible the scars that tether the self to hurt\, to hope. The language is deftly scored on the page—the diction itself is revelatory. ShopRite. Larch. Chamber-throat. This book reminds us the heart has its own intelligence.” — Eduardo C. Corral\, author of Slow Lightning
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edgar-kunz/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190523T213000
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CREATED:20190320T211830Z
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SUMMARY:Music of Remembrance Presents "The Parting"
DESCRIPTION:A new chamber opera by composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Mason commissioned by Music of Remembrance about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti. Starring: baritone Michael Mayes; mezzo soprano Catherine Cook; and soprano Laura Strickling. Director Erich Parce.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/music-of-remembrance-presents-the-parting/
LOCATION:San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, 50 Oak Street\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190523T213000
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SUMMARY:GEORGE PACKER In Conversation with Clara Jeffery
DESCRIPTION:GEORGE PACKER\nIn Conversation with Clara Jeffery\nThursday\, May 23\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Social Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nLongtime staff writer for The New Yorker\, George Packer has written on the Iraq war\, the civil war in Sierra Leone\, and a number of other foci of global unrest. He has written multiple books of nonfiction–including The Unwinding and The Assassin’s Gate–two novels\, and a play\, as well as essays\, articles\, and reviews for The New York Times Magazine\, Dissent\, Mother Jones\, and Harper’s\, among others. His new book\, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century\, tells the story of the life of the polarizing American diplomat through the lens of a fictional narrator with knowledge of the very real intimate details of Holbrooke’s life\, which Packer was able to garner from his exclusive access to diaries and personal papers. The jury of the Whiting Grant\, from whom Packer received a 2017 grant for creative nonfiction\, writes\, “Irreverent\, fast-paced\, and unfailingly rigorous\, this is nonfiction writing that breaks new ground…This masterly account reads like a literary novel of the highest order while providing an insightful look into the deeper nature of power and the lives of those who hold it.” \n  \nClara Jeffery is Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones\, a position she has held for over 10 years\, and a recipient of a PEN America award for editing. Before joining Mother Jones\, Jeffery was a senior editor for Harper’s Magazine. Jeffery began her journalistic career at Washington City Paper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-packer-in-conversation-with-clara-jeffery/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voice of Witness: Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
DESCRIPTION:Editors Steven Mayers and Jonathan Freedman discuss Solito\, Solita: Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America with Lauren Markham. \nAbout Solito\, Solita \nThey are a mass migration of thousands\, yet each one travels alone. Solito\, Solita (Alone\, Alone) is an urgent collection of oral histories that tells–in their own words–the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States. \nFifteen narrators describe why they fled their homes\, what happened on their dangerous journeys through Mexico\, how they crossed the borders\, and for some\, their ongoing struggles to survive in the United States. In an era of fear\, xenophobia\, and outright lies\, these stories amplify the compelling voices of migrant youth. What can they teach us about abuse and abandonment\, bravery and resilience\, hypocrisy and hope? They bring us into their hearts and onto streets filled with the lure of freedom and fraught with violence. From fending off kidnappers with knives and being locked in freezing holding cells to tearful reunions with parents\, Solito\, Solita‘s narrators bring to light the experiences of young people struggling for a better life across the border. \nThis collection includes the story of Adri n\, from Guatemala City\, whose mother was shot to death before his eyes. He refused to join a gang\, rode across Mexico atop cargo trains\, crossed the US border as a minor\, and was handcuffed and thrown into ICE detention on his eighteenth birthday. We hear the story of Rosa\, a Salvadoran mother fighting to save her life as well as her daughter’s after death squads threatened her family. Together they trekked through the jungles on the border between Guatemala and Mexico\, where masked men assaulted them. We also meet Gabriel\, who after surviving sexual abuse starting at the age of eight fled to the United States\, and through study\, legal support and work\, is now attending UC Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voice-of-witness-solito-solita-crossing-borders-with-youth-refugees-from-central-america/
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:Poetry at Pegasus: Cooperman | Kaupang | Ronda | George Bagdanov
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 23\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nPegasus Books Downtown welcomes Matthew Cooperman\, Aby Kaupang\, Margaret Ronda\, and Kristin George Bagdanov\, for a night of shared poetry from their collective works. \n— \nMatthew Cooperman is the author of\, most recently\, Spool\, winner of the New Measure Prize (Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press\, 2016)\, Disorder 299.00\, w/Aby Kaupang (Essay Press\, 2015)\, the text + image collaboration Imago for the Fallen World\, w/Marius Lehene (Jaded Ibis Press\, 2013)\, and numerous other books. A Professor of English at Colorado State University\, he is also co-poetry editor for Colorado Review. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife\, the poet Aby Kaupang\, and their two children. \nAby Kaupang is the author of Disorder 299.00 (w/Matthew Cooperman)\, Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me\, Absence is Such a Transparent House\, and Scenic Fences | Houses Innumerable. She holds Master’s degrees in both Creative Writing and Occupational Therapy and lives in Fort Collins where she served as the Poet Laureate from 2015-2017. \nMargaret Ronda is the author of two books of poems\, For Hunger (Saturnalia 2018) and Personification(Saturnalia 2019)\, and a critical study\, Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal\, The Columbia Poetry Review\, Pool\, Gulf Coast\, and other journals. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of California-Davis. \nKristin George Bagdanov earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Colorado State University and is currently PhD candidate in the literature program at U.C. Davis. Her poetry collection\, Fossils in the Making was a finalist in the 2017 National Poetry Series and will be published by Black Ocean in March 2019. Her poems have recently appeared in Colorado Review\, Boston Review\, Zone 3\, Ninth Letter\, Denver Quarterly\, and other journals. She is the poetry editor of Ruminate Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-cooperman-kaupang-ronda-george-bagdanov/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190524T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190524T210000
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SUMMARY:The Nomadic Press Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:The Nomadic Press Open Mic presents six open-mic slots filled on a first-come\, first-serve basis with to-be-announced music and features curated and emceed by Rene Vaz\, fourth Friday of every month\, Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Avenue\, $10 sliding scale\, sign up list opens 7:00 sharp\, 7:00-9:00 (www.nomadicpress.org)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nomadic-press-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets Jericho Brown and Dexter L. Booth
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 24\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at the store\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nJericho Brown reads from The Tradition \nJericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His first book\, Please (New Issues\, 2008)\, won the American Book Award\, and his second book\, The New Testament (Copper Canyon\, 2014)\, was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal and received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. His third collection is The Tradition (Copper Canyon\, 2019). His poems have appeared in The Nation\, The New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Time\, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry. \nBrown earned a PhD from the University of Houston\, an MFA from the University of New Orleans\, and a BA from Dillard University. He is an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing program at Emory University in Atlanta. \nDexter L. Booth\nDexter L. Booth is the author of one poetry collection\, Scratching the Ghost \, which won the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His poems have been published in Grist\, Willow Springs\, and New Delta Review. Booth teaches poetry and English composition at Arizona State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-jericho-brown-and-dexter-l-booth/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner
DESCRIPTION:May 24\, 2019: Robert Eastwood & Peter Weltner\nRobert Eastwood lives in San Ramon\, California. He is the author of Romer (Etruscan Press\, 2018)\, and Snare (Broadstone Books\, 2016). His prize-winning poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies\, such as Oxford Magazine\, New Zoo Poetry Review\, Ekphrasis\, The Dirty Napkin\, Wild Goose Poetry Review\, Full Of Crow\, Legendary\, Up The Staircase Quarterly\, Literary Yard\, Kentucky Review\, Bird’s Thumb\, The Hartskill Review\, Spry\, Loch Raven Review\, Halfway Down the Stairs\, Steel Toe Review and others. His chapbooks include Over Plainsong\, The Welkin Gate\, and Night of the Moth\, published by Small Poetry Press. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. \nPeter Weltner grew up in New Jersey and North Carolina\, graduated from Hamilton College\, and received a Ph.D. from Indiana University.  He taught English Renaissance poetry and prose\, and modern and contemporary British\, Irish\, and American fiction and poetry at San Francisco State University for thirty-seven years\, retiring in 2006. He has published six books of fiction\, most recently The Return of What’s Been Lost (Marrowstone Press\, 2017)\, and fourteen books or chapbooks of poetry including\, most recently\, The Light of the Sun Become Sea(BrickHouse Books\, 2017)\, Unbecoming Time (Marrowstone Press\, 2017)\, and You Wait For Me Where Mountain Peaks Are White As Your Hair (Marrowstone Press\, 2018).  His newest book\, Antiquary: Poems and Stories\, was release this April by Marrowstone Press. His work has been selected for numerous anthologies\, among them two O. Henry’s. He lives with his husband in San Francisco by the Pacific. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-eastwood-peter-weltner/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190525T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190525T200000
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SUMMARY:Rolling In The Aisles
DESCRIPTION:Rolling In The Aisles \nSaturday\, May 25   6 pm\nRolling Out\n1722 Taraval St.\, between 26th and 27th Avenues\nSan Francisco \nOur second annual evening of literary humor\, featuring: \nClyde Always\, Daniel Ari\, Peter Bullen\, Michael Crabtree\, \nB.Lynn Goodwin\, Kurt Luchs\, Colleen McKee\, Maw Shein Win\, Jon Sindell\, and James Warner. \nSubmissions closed \n  \nAbout Rolling Writers \nLike the baker Rageneau in Cyrano\, master baker Bruno Tsé supports the arts. And our pastry-preparing patron of poetry and prose shows love for the muse by giving his Taraval Street café up for lit readings\, with themed musical and gustatory accoutrements. \nRolling–Out: 1722 Taraval\, between 27th and 28th Avenues\, \nSan Francisco. The L-Taraval streetcar line stops at 26th Avenue. \nTo submit work for an upcoming theme\, please write the host\, Jon Sindell\, at jsind [at] sbcglobal [net]\, pasting your work into the body of the email\, and marking the subject line as follows: RW [Name Of Show]\, [Writer’s Name]. You must submit personally—no submissions by representatives will be considered. Unless otherwise indicated on the Upcoming Events page\, limit prose submissions to 1\,200 words; shorter submissions are preferred. This series primarily features complete works of fiction and memoir\, but poetry and reasonably self-contained novel excerpts are presented to a limited extent. Submissions are rolling—we generally consider submissions until a lineup is filled. \nWon’t you join us?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-in-the-aisles/
LOCATION:1722 Taraval St.\, between 26th and 27th Avenues San Francisco\, San Francisco\, CA
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190526T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190526T160000
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SUMMARY:Walker Talks!
DESCRIPTION:The last Sunday of each month\n(except June/July and December)\nfrom 2:30 to 4 pm \nThe last Sunday of every month (except the summer months and December)\, Walker Brents III holds his audience spellbound with his wide-ranging investigations into topics literary\, mythological and otherwise — in the past\, his subjects have ranged from William Blake to Bob Dylan\, Shakespeare to the Shahnameh\, the Kalevala to the story of Layla and Majnun…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/walker-talks/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190528T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190528T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-8/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190528T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190528T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T192208
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SUMMARY:Pablo d'Ors: Biography of Silence
DESCRIPTION:Spanish priest and Zen disciple Pablo d’Ors shares insights from his first English translation\, Biography of Silence\, at Pegasus Books Downtown. A publishing phenomenon in Spain\, Biography of Silence is a moving\, lyrical\, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence. \n\n\n\nABOUT BIOGRAPHY OF SILENCE \nWith silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us\, one man set out to become its intimate: Pablo d’Ors\, a Catholic priest whose life was changed by Zen meditation. With disarming honesty and directness\, as well as a striking clarity of language\, d’Ors shares his struggles as a beginning meditator: the tedium\, restlessness\, and distraction. But\, persevering\, the author discovers not only a deep peace and understanding of his true nature\, but also that silence\, rather than being a retreat from life\, offers us an intense engagement with life just as it is. Imbued with a rare beauty\, Biography of Silence shows us the deep joy of silence that is available to us all. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPablo d’Ors is a Spanish priest and writer. He was ordained in 1991 and received a doctorate in theology in 1996. In 2014\, he founded the Amigos del Desierto foundation with the aim of\npromoting the practice of meditation. In the same year\, Pope Francis made him a consultant of the Pontifical Council for Culture. He has published many books\, both fiction and nonfiction. This is his first English translation.\nPRAISE \n“In accessible language reminiscent of Thomas Merton\, d’Ors’s enchanting book\, a bestseller in Spain\, channels his Catholic spiritual heritage into a persuasive meditation guide for Western readers.” —Publishers Weekly\, Starred Review \n“Biography of Silence invites us to stop and catch our breath. Each chapter inspires a hunger for the contemplative silence the author has come to love with such contagious affection. The word ‘God’ is mentioned only a handful of times\, but few books have rendered me more vulnerable to a divine encounter. Pablo d’Ors has given us a literary and spiritual gift.” —Brian D. McLaren\, The Great Spiritual Migration \n“Biography of Silence is a poetic yet baldly honest account of what it means to persevere with meditation.” —Lion’s Roar \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 28\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\ngh silence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pablo-dors-biography-of-silence/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190529T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190529T210000
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SUMMARY:SPANISH LANGUAGE BOOK CLUB MEETING
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively discussion about: \n(author will not be present) \nTo join the book group please contact iranyi@me.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spanish-language-book-club-meeting-9/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190529T210000
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SUMMARY:Roof Books Night with Sara Larsen and Kit Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 29\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPlease join us as we celebrate two new titles from Roof Books. Come up to More Moe’s an hour before the basement reading for a glass of wine and to meet the poets. \nKit Robinson was born in Evanston\, Illinois\, grew up in Cincinnati\, went to Yale\, and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since. His new book of poetry is Thought Balloon from Roof Books. Other works include Leaves of Class (Chax\, 2017)\, Marine Layer (BlazeVOX\, 2015)\, A Mammal of Style (with Ted Greenwald\, Roof\, 2013)\, Determination (Cuneiform\, 2010)\, The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems\, 1976-2003 (Adventures in Poetry\, 2009) and more than 20 other books. \nSara Larsen is the author of Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Riot Cops En Route To Troy and The Hallucinated\, among others. With David Brazil\, she edited over sixty issues of the literary zine TRY! from 2008 to 2011. She lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roof-books-night-with-sara-larsen-and-kit-robinson/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:He’s back! John Waters presents his new book Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
DESCRIPTION:No one knows more about everything—especially everything rude\, clever\, and offensively compelling—than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache\, auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos\, Polyester\, the original Hairspray\, Cry-Baby\, and A Dirty Shame\, is one of the world’s great sophisticates\, and in Mr. Know-It-Allhe serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important\, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes\, how to cheat death itself. Through it all\, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: “Whatever you might have heard\, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.” \nTickets available mid–April.\nWatch this space for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hes-back-john-waters-presents-his-new-book-mr-know-it-all-the-tarnished-wisdom-of-a-filth-elder/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T213000
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SUMMARY:Chia-Chia Lin
DESCRIPTION:Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel\, The Unpassing. \n\nPraise for The Unpassing \n“In this spare\, deeply felt debut novel\, Lin resists received wisdom about the American dream to craft a family saga about the difficulty of grieving far from home.” —Adrienne Westenfeld\, Esquire \n“Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing is a searing\, open wound of a book\, marvelously alive and\, quite simply\, remarkable. Traversing the oftentimes brutal frontier of an isolated family living in an isolated environment\, I can’t think of another novel as of late that relentlessly tackles headlong our deepest struggles for a sense of place\, of home\, and belonging. How do we push through grief? How do we find peace with not only our loved ones but ourselves? What sacrifices must we endure for friendship and connection? This is a story for our times. And a story unlike any other.” —Paul Yoon\, author of The Mountain \n“The Unpassing is a devastating debut\, igneous\, aching as if with the glow of the great northern skies beneath which it is set. More than meditation on grief; more than immigrant saga\, or bildungsroman; more than new American gothic: here\, Chia-Chia Lin has written a novel of such strange\, brittle beauty as to resemble nothing else so much as living\, itself. Her prose—at once poetic and lucid\, by turns darkly comic and haunting—achieves something like the peculiar grammar of loss. I turned the last page with heartache and wonder\, a feeling of having been undone and remade.” —D. Wystan Owen\, author of Other People’s Love Affairs \n  \nAbout The Unpassing \nOne of Esquire\, The Rumpus\, The Millions\, Literary Hub and Electric Literature‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 \nA searing debut novel that explores community\, identity\, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in Alaska \nIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel\, The Unpassing\, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage\, Alaska. The father\, hardworking but beaten down\, is employed as a plumber and repairman\, while the mother\, a loving\, strong-willed\, and unpredictably emotional matriarch\, holds the house together. When ten-year-old Gavin contracts meningitis at school\, he falls into a deep\, nearly fatal coma. He wakes up a week later to learn that his little sister Ruby was infected\, too. She did not survive. \nRoutine takes over for the grieving family: the siblings care for each other as they befriend a neighboring family and explore the woods; distance grows between the parents as they deal with their loss separately. But things spiral when the father\, increasingly guilt ridden after Ruby’s death\, is sued for not properly installing a septic tank\, which results in grave harm to a little boy. In the ensuing chaos\, what really happened to Ruby finally emerges. \nWith flowing prose that evokes the terrifying beauty of the Alaskan wilderness\, Lin explores the fallout after the loss of a child and the way in which a family is forced to grieve in a place that doesn’t yet feel like home. Emotionally raw and subtly suspenseful\, The Unpassing is a deeply felt family saga that dismisses the American dream for a harsher\, but ultimately more profound\, reality.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chia-chia-lin-2/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190530T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190530T213000
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SUMMARY:Congresswoman Jackie Speier discusses UNDAUNTED: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 30\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nCongresswoman Jackie Spier discusses her inspiring and powerful memoir\, Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown\, Summoning Courage\, and Fighting Back. \n“Few people embody resilience like Jackie Speier. She faced unthinkable trauma with courage—and came through it with an unshakable sense of purpose. UNDAUNTED is a remarkable story of survival and strength.” —Sheryl Sandberg\, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.org and OptionB.org \n“Jackie Speier’s life has been nothing short of harrowing and triumphant. UNDAUNTED will move women to persist and have their voices heard in government. It will inspire young women to be our future leaders who serve with conviction and compassion.”\n—Amy Tan\, author of The Joy Luck Club \n“Jackie Speier has lived an incredible life and has passionately dedicated much of it to public service. UNDAUNTED is honest\, eye-opening\, and truly inspiring.”\n—Congressman John Lewis\, civil rights leader\n \nAn inspiring and powerful memoir of surviving the Jonestown massacre and becoming a fearless voice against injustice and inequality by California congresswoman Jackie Speier. \nJackie Speier was twenty-eight when she joined Congressman Leo Ryan’s delegation to rescue defectors from cult leader Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple in Jonestown\, Guyana. Ryan was killed on the airstrip tarmac. Jackie was shot five times at point-blank range. While recovering from what would become one of the most harrowing tragedies in recent history\, Jackie had to choose: Would she become a victim or a fighter? The choice to survive against unfathomable odds empowered her with a resolve to become a vocal proponent for human rights. \nFrom the formative nightmare that radically molded her perspective and instincts to the devastating personal and professional challenges that would follow\, Undaunted reveals the perseverance of a determined force in American politics. Deeply rooted in Jackie’s experiences as a widow\, a mother\, a congresswoman\, and a fighter\, hers is a story of true resilience\, one that will inspire other women to draw strength from adversity in order to do what is right—no matter the challenges ahead. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 30\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/congresswoman-jackie-speier-discusses-undaunted-surviving-jonestown-summoning-courage-and-fighting-back/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190531T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190531T213000
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SUMMARY:Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
DESCRIPTION:Editors Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos discuss Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture. \nPraise for Original Plumbing \n“Over the course of its ten-year run\, Original Plumbing made thousands of us queer and trans people laugh\, cry\, and gasp out loud. This is how we talked with each other\, inspired each other\, and gave each other the strength to keep on living outside the box. This collection is an invaluable\, unapologetic archive of a multiplicity of queer and trans experiences.” —Kate Bornstein\, author of Gender Outlaw: On Men\, Women\, and the Rest of Us \n“When Original Plumbing burst onto the scene a decade ago\, it was an absolute game changer in trans media and representation. Mac and Kayiatos created something revolutionary. This collection is a beautiful tribute to that treasured publication\, and an authentic and moving representation of trans male culture. I’ll be revisiting its stories and images for years to come. An essential book for both longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” —Jill Soloway\, creator of Transparent \n“More than merely aesthetically inspiring\, Original Plumbing is life-saving. It has been at the forefront of the trans revolution\, providing thoughtful\, cheeky documentation of the vibrancy of queer lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Against Memoir \n“For over a decade\, Original Plumbing did the Lord’s work of documenting and proliferating the stories of trans men and transmasculine folks. This book is so much more than a retrospective; it is a testament. Rocco and Amos have preserved a brilliant\, precious slice of trans history that will be revered and cherished for generations to come.” —Jacob Tobia\, author of Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story \n“A powerful realization of high def and punk rock\, Original Plumbing is the kind of book you’ll devour in one sitting\, immersing yourself in the beauty of each page.” —C. Riley Snorton\, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity  \nAbout Original Plumbing \nIndependently published from 2009 to 2019\, Original Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. For nearly ten years\, the magazine was the premier resource focused on their experiences\, celebrations\, and imaginations\, featuring writing on both playful and political topics like selfies\, bathrooms\, and safer sex; interviews with queer icons such as Janet Mock\, Silas Howard\, Margaret Cho\, and Ian Harvie; and visual art\, photography\, and short fiction. \nIn celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run\, this essential collection compiles the best of all twenty issues. Selections are reprinted in full color\, with an introduction by activist Tiq Milan and a new preface by the founding editors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/original-plumbing-the-best-of-ten-years-of-trans-male-culture/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190601T170000
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CREATED:20190430T020328Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2019:\n \n June 1\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 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-7/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190601T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190601T200000
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SUMMARY:Enrique Chagoya: Aliens
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, Jun 01\, 2019 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM \nLocation: \nUpstairs on the 4th floor\, at More Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nPlease join us upstairs at More Moe’s as we celebrate the publication of Aliens (Kelly’s Cove Press\, paperback\, $25.00). Mr. Chagoya will speak and autograph copies of the book. \nAliens is a timely new monograph of art and pithy texts by the eminent San Francisco artist and Stanford professor Enrique Chagoya. The 128-page book features paintings\, drawings\, lithographs\, and twelve of Chagoya’s singular codices\, with sixteen foldout pages. \nAliens explores some of the artist’s pioneering themes: “Reverse Anthropology” and “Reverse Modernism\,” and is filled with the artist’s brash\, spot-on humor. Aliens is divided in halves\, with two front covers. One half proceeds from left to right and showcases single-page works\, while the other half unfolds from right to left\, in the traditional manner of codices. Although the book is printed on heavy stock in a wide\, landscape format\, it sells for twenty-five dollars. \nChagoya’s art reminds us that we are all aliens; it speaks directly to the absurd and horrifying return to tribalism in our time\, as many lives are threatened and numerous freedoms curtailed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/enrique-chagoya-aliens/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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