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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'Size Queen'
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 12th\, 2017 \nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA) \nRemember: Bang-O at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM \nWonder what this show is about? Listen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nWe don’t limit you. Why are you limiting yourself? #storytelling#Unedited#TheRealDeal \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nThis Evening of ‘Size Matters’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Sexual Folklorist & Carnal Curator Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Bawdy podcast repeat offender Jeffrey Hayes \n❤ Standing O Storytelling Graduate Saren O’Grady \n❤ Longtime listener/First Time caller Dani Lyon \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs from the inimitable Rachel Lark \n❤ 2 spots left! Pitch your story at Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front\, in the action \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK#PublicLibationIsLegal \n\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \n\n No Refunds or Exchanges\n Lineup Subject to Change\n General Admission seating is first come\, first served. We recommend you arrive by 7:15 for best seating (Reserved Seating guarantees you a seat right up front)\n\nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dani Lyon is a public health geek by day and a sneaky introvert and militant bisexual 24/7. A new and enthusiastic face in the Bawdy crowd\, this is her first time telling a story on stage. And while she strongly believes the concept of virginity is overstated\, she is excited to be sharing this first with Bawdy. \n❤ Jeffrey Hayes is a former drama therapist who now works with LGBTQ+ seniors during the day and gets paid to run roleplaying games on nights and weekends. His hobbies include playing video games\, hiking\, cooking\, and making fantasies into realities. \n❤ Saren O’Grady is a writer\, an athlete\, an activist\, and a lover of stories. She hails from Milwaukee\, has lived in DC\, and now calls Oakland home. She had been a yoga teacher\, a competitive weightlifter and professional football player\, worked in urban farming & food justice\, and played in an all-woman Afro-Brazilian drum band. She had loved fiercely and screwed up royally and fully believes\, as long as it makes a good story\, it’s all been worth it. \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was signed last year to not a cult records with her new studio album\, They’ve Done Studies\, set to be released in Spring 2017. She recently debuted a new show at DNA Lounge that she successfully funded through a Kickstarter campaign\, and is touring as Rachel Lark and the Damaged Goods right now – but she’ll be back from tour and rocking Bawdy’s stage on July 12th! Find out more about Lark at www.rachellark.com\, www.facebook.com/larksongs & at @rachellarkmusic \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling with one idea: To bring people together to tell\, share\, and delight in each other’s stories of sex\, kink\, gender\, love\, and lust in a live setting. The nation’s premiere sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy is lauded for its inclusivity (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and more) as much as it’s celebratory attitude\, Bawdy Storytelling is driven to bring acceptance through live autobiographical storytelling to new communities\, cities\, and countries. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been recognized as a “masterful emcee\, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm\, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity\, salacious textures\, and moments of deep connection.” (Master Storyteller Mike Daisey). \nDixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week\, the Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francicso\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey\, FetFest\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She can be found at @Bawdy on Twitter\, Bawdy Storytelling on Facebook and always\, always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n\n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\n\nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \nwww.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-size-queen/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Sex
DESCRIPTION:Next Event: “Sex” \nYou may have heard of sex. Perhaps you’ve even had it. Who knows\, crazier things have happened. This month\, we invite six fine storytellers onto our stage to regale us with their tales of sexual exploits\, adventures\, misadventures\, and whatever other titillating details they wish to divulge. Join us! \nStorytellers:\nAllison Landa\nJeff Hanson\nSkji Conklin\nRon Hirsch\nDave Nihill\nDavid Michael Ker\nMore TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-sex/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Glass
DESCRIPTION:Julia Glass discusses her new novel\, A House Among the Trees. \n\nPraise for Julia Glass \n“The delight of reading Julia Glass turns out to be the connections we make with her generous characters\, who become as endearing—and exasperating—as the people we love in real life.” —The Miami Herald \n“Sophisticated and surprising. . . . Luminous.” —San Francisco Chronicle \n“Glass’ prose is so lovely and filled with felicitous phrases and insights that when she orchestrates a family reunion\, the reader is apt to just follow along like Kit\, knowing the music is bound to enthrall.” —The Dallas Morning News \n\nAbout A House Among the Trees \nIn Julia Glass’s fifth book since her acclaimed novel Three Junes won the National Book Award\, she gives us the story of an unusual bond between a world-famous writer and his assistant–a richly plotted novel of friendship and love\, artistic ambition\, the perils of celebrity\, and the power of an unexpected legacy \n \nWhen the revered children’s book author Mort Lear dies accidentally at his Connecticut home\, he leaves his property and all its contents to his trusted assistant\, Tomasina Daulair\, who is moved by his generosity but dismayed by the complicated and defiant directives in his will. Tommy knew Morty for more than four decades\, since meeting him in a Manhattan playground when she was twelve and he was working on sketches for the book that would make him a star. By the end of his increasingly reclusive life\, she found herself living in his house as confidante and helpmeet\, witness not just to his daily routines but to the emotional fallout of his strange boyhood and his volatile relationship with a lover who died of AIDS. Now Tommy must try to honor Morty’s last wishes while grappling with their effects on several people\, including her estranged brother; the lonely\, outraged museum curator to whom Lear once promised his artistic estate; and Nicholas Greene\, the beguiling British actor cast to play Mort Lear in a movie. When Greene arrives for a visit\, he and Tommy are compelled to look more closely at Morty’s past\, a process that undermines much of what Tommy believed she knew about her boss–and about herself. As she contemplates a future that will no longer include him\, her unlikely alliance with Greene–and the loyalty they share toward the great man–will lead to surprising upheavals in their wider relationships\, their careers\, and even their search for love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-glass-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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SUMMARY:Jonathan Safran Foer
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents best-selling and award-winning author Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated\, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) for a reading  and signing of his latest novel\, Here I Am. This offsite and ticketed event will be held at Santa Cruz High School Theatre (415 Walnut Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA 95060) and is co-sponsored by Temple Beth El and the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research. Ticket packages (available below) are $19.98 and include two tickets to the event and one copy of Here I Am in paperback (publication date: June 6th). \n“In Foer’s latest novel\, generations of history are laid on the shoulders of one modern Jewish-American family during a time of crisis. So much is endured\, revealed\, and lost that they seem inextricably bound to the reader. At the heart of it all is this: What does it mean to be fully present in one’s life? There are no easy answers\, but I am in awe at the skill with which Foer delves into the heart of familial life.” —Jax\, Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff \nUnfolding over four tumultuous weeks in present-day Washington\, D.C.\, Here I Am is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. As Jacob and Julia Bloch and their three sons are forced to confront the distances between the lives they think they want and the lives they are living\, a catastrophic earthquake sets in motion a quickly escalating conflict in the Middle East. At stake is the meaning of home—and the fundamental question of how much aliveness one can bear. One of the year’s most anticipated novels\, Here I Am is bestselling Safran Foer’s most searching\, hard-hitting\, and grandly entertaining novel yet. \nJonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close\, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and has been translated into thirty-eight languages. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jonathan-safran-foer/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz High School\, 415 Walnut Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170712T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170712T193000
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SUMMARY:Cara Black: Murder in Saint Germain
DESCRIPTION:Aimeé Leduc\, the fashionable doyenne of Parisian detectives\, is back on the case – this time juggling a trio of seemingly impossible jobs: the first of which has ties to her mother’s treacherous past\, the second and most dangerous\, involves a series of murders where the victims are all highly trained members of a Hague counterterrorism unit\, and last is caring for her eight month old bébé. How does she do it? Join us when author Cara Black discusses her new book Murder in Saint Germain. A book sale by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cara-black-murder-in-saint-germain/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:POETRY SANTA CRUZ featuring: \nEllen Grace O’Brian\, Kevin Opstedal\, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman\, Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts \nPoetry Santa Cruz is dedicated to nurturing the poetry community and bringing poetry to the larger community in Santa Cruz County\, and generally hold monthly meetings at Bookshop Santa Cruz on the second Tuesday of the month. Visit www.poetrysantacruz.org or contact Len Anderson for more information about the poets featured this month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170711T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T213000
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SUMMARY:Sylvia Brownrigg w/ Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:discussing Brownrigg’s new novel\, Pages for Her\, the story of two women\, Flannery and Anne\, each at a personal turning point\, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. \n“Brownrigg . . . approaches her characters with clarity and sensitivity\, capturing the nuances in the women’s relationships to the people they love–as mother\, daughter\, sister\, friend\, wife\, or lover–and the power they give those people to define and inspire them . . . Brownrigg considers motherhood\, romance\, identity\, and the changes brought by time in this tender\, insightful novel.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwenty years after their brief but passionate affair\, chronicled in Brownrigg’s earlier novel\, Pages for You\, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne\, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love–then left her heartbroken. \nHaving long ago put their love behind them\, they live now on opposite coasts. Anne has been in a deep\, childless partnership with a fellow scholar\, Jasper\, who recently left her. Flannery\, to her own surprise\, married a charismatic artist named Charles\, with whom she has a young daughter. Submerged by her husband’s demands and personality and her adjustment to motherhood\, Flannery has lost sight of her self and her work. When the two women meet at a conference\, they find that the passion and understanding between them has endured\, though it has been hidden. In rediscovering each other\, they are able to rediscover themselves. \nPages for Her is an exhilarating\, passionate work that explores marriage\, sexuality\, and the transformative power of love over time. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction: four novels– Morality Tale\, The Delivery Room\, winner of the Northern California Book Award\, Pages for You\, winner of the Lambda Award\, and The Metaphysical Touch–and a collection of stories\, Ten Women Who Shook the World. She lives in Berkeley. \nPeggy Orenstein is the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter\, Waiting for Daisy\, Flux\, Schoolgirls and\, most recently\, Girls & Sex.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sylvia-brownrigg-in-conversation-with-peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Bredie
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is excited to host Nicholas Bredie in celebration of his debut novel Not Constantinople. Join us!\nThe story centers around Fred and Virginia\, two American expats living in Istanbul and working at the university who come home one night to find their apartment occupied by a family of Greeks. Barred by a quirk of Turkish law from evicting them\, Fred comes to a strange kind of understanding with their new squatters; he’s in Istanbul because the pay is good\, and with the property in limbo he can ignore the rent\, not to mention the paper-writing racket he starts with the Greek patriarch\, selling term papers to his own university students. \nBetween get-rich schemes and run-ins with Kurdish separatists\, Fred watches the transformation of his neighborhood from a place with a kind of sad romance to a generic megalopolis\, gobbled up by greedy developers and the city’s rapacious elite
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicholas-bredie/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170711T210000
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SUMMARY:Anna Redsand: A Creative Non-Fiction Reading
DESCRIPTION:Anna Redsand will read from her memoir\, To Drink from the Silver Cup: From Faith Through Exile and Beyond. “From Navajo dwellings in New Mexico to Scandinavia to the evangelical Midwest\, Anna Redsand’s beautiful\, heroic story is for anyone who has ever felt outcast from a community they love\, and tossed into the desert of doubt and despair. Here you will find spiritual hope embodied\, and the promise that\, no matter where we are lost\, it is possible to find our way home to new communities of faith\, compassion\, healing and belonging.” ~ John T. Price\, author of Daddy Longlegs: The Natural Education of a Father
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anna-redsand-a-creative-non-fiction-reading/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, July 11\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nfeature: Robert Perry and Joel Katz\ncelebrating the release of a book of English/Dutch poetry\nOpen reading follows the featured reading. \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance\nJoin the event on Facebook! \nJoel Thomas Katz has worked in Silicon Valley as a business software specialist. His poems have appeared in Sand Hill Review\, The Montserrat Review\, Disquieting Muses Quarterly\, Spillway and Red Wheelbarrow. His chapbook Away was published by Mayapple Press in 2008\, and his online poetry blog can be enjoyed at katz-poempair.blogspot.com. \nRobert Perry is a poet\, graphic designer\, and book artist who recently established Dutch Poet Press where he designs and publishes books of poetry and art as print and electronic books\, letterpress editions\, and artist books. In 2015\, the press published The Comfort of Potatoes by poet Janice Dabney and along with iets anders | something else\, later this year will release a collection of his own poetry\, The Art of Painting. \nAvailable for sale: iets anders | something else vertaling van gedichten | translation of poems Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer by Joel Katz and Robert Perry Dutch Poet Press\, 2017 \nUpcoming at Well-RED:\nAugust 8: Dennis Noren;\nSeptember 12: Parthenia Hicks and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian;\nOctober 10: Erica Goss and Adrian Matejka\nNovember 14: Caesura 2017 book release and reading\nDecember 12: Red Wheelbarrow release party and celebration of Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-reading-series/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Deena Metzger
DESCRIPTION:Perhaps never before in the history of humankind has the disparity between Indigenous mind and Western mind been more on the pulse of what we must pay attention to in order to insure our survival. In A Rain of Night Birds\, Deena Metzger has written a novel in which two people\, who are from each side of this polarity\, begin a loving relationship. Sandra Birdswell is a student of climatology with an uncanny ability to sense weather events. Her mother\, who died in childbirth\, is a mystery to her. Her father\, John\, formerly a Reservation doctor\, faithfully raises her despite his limitations and obligations. She first meets Terrence\, a Native man and a professor of climatology\, at her university classes. Years later\, they are drawn together by the powerful forces of their love\, for the Earth\, for each other\, and their mutual need to seek out the broken links of their family histories. When the UN report on climate change is released in 2007\, the reality of the effects of the Anthropocene era sends a shockwave through both their lives. Their relationship to each other and to the elementals they are so intimate with lightning\, thunder\, rain\, mountain brings them deeply and violently into a quest to live their lives in ways that disengage from colonial mind\, the same mind that brought devastation to the Native peoples\, and now brings all of humanity to the brink of extinction. Through their love of and deeply felt intuitive connection to the Earth\, they each go to the brink of death to find their truth\, to gain strength and wisdom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deena-metzger/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Publication Party! Shani Raviv discusses and signs "Being Ana"
DESCRIPTION:Shani Raviv is a struggling adolescent living in an eccentric female household in Johannesburg\, South Africa. At fourteen\, influenced by her clique\, she gets hooked on dieting. Over the next decade\, she tries to find self-worth in sex\, happiness in drugs and alcohol\, comfort in cutting\, and above all\, salvation in starving. A spiritual epiphany one night awakens her to the fearful realization that she has lost her sense of self to anorexia (Ana)— and has to decide whether to surrender and risk losing Ana to go in search of nourishment and her true self in a sober world. \nBeing Ana is an exploration into the soul and psyche of a young woman wrestling with anorexia’s demons—one that not only exposes the real horrors of a day in the life of an anorexic girl but also reveals the courage it takes to stop fighting and find healing. \nShani Raviv is a published writer\, writing coach\, copywriter/content producer\, and speaker who was born and raised in South Africa. She disputes the belief that an anorexic mindset is a life sentence and considers herself fully recovered. She lives in the Bay Area with her son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/publication-party-shani-raviv-discusses-and-signs-being-ana/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Devereaux Baker + Stephen Shur
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devereaux-baker-stephen-shur/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-2/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170710T190000
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SUMMARY:Nadine Lockhart
DESCRIPTION:Nadine Lockhart received her MA and MFA from Arizona State University. She is currently working toward her PhD; for which she received the Lattie and Elva Coor Fellowship for Building Communities toward her research on the ability of poetry to transform into continued relevancy through hybridity and cultural relativism. This is serious stuff. Lockhart is an editorial assistant for Poetry Flash\, a Berkeley-based literary review and calendar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nadine-lockhart/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: YOU Are the Author!
DESCRIPTION:If you are a Queer-identified author and have a book (or similar media) to sell\, write to us at: PerfectlyQueerSF@gmail.com \nEach reader will have 5 minutes to discuss and read from their work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-you-are-the-author/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170629T060358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170707T002013Z
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SUMMARY:Curtis Chen + Megan O’Keefe
DESCRIPTION:CURTIS CHEN & MEGAN O’KEEFE \nWe also welcome guest moderator\, Cliff Winnig. Terry Bisson is taking a well-deserved vacation\, but will be back in August with Daryl Gregory and Lisa Mason. \nDoors and bar open at 6:00PM\nEvent begins at 6:30PM\n$10 at the door benefits the American Bookbinders Museum \nNo one turned away for lack of funds / cash or Square. All proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum. Cash bar on a donation basis benefits the ABM. \nEach author will read a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience\, moderated by author Cliff Winnig. \nBooks will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books — please feel free to bring your own books from home to be signed. \nAll proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum. \nCurtis Chen was once a Silicon Valley software engineer\, but now writes fiction and runs puzzle games near Portland\, Oregon. His debut novel\, Waypoint Kangaroo\, (Thomas Dunne Books) is a science fiction thriller about a super-powered spy facing his toughest mission yet: vacation. But he’s not your average spy….what sets Kangaroo apart is the pocket: a portal that opens into an empty\, seemingly infinite\, parallel universe\, and he’s the only person in the world who can use it. While on a mandatory vacation of a cruise to Mars\, two passengers are found dead. Kangaroo risks blowing his cover to investigate\, but it turns out he’s not the only spy on the ship—and he’s just starting to realize that there is a massive conspiracy to unravel. Weren’t vacations supposed to be relaxing? \nThe story continues in his new novel\, the sequel\, Kangaroo Too\, which lands our hero on the Moon to confront long-buried secrets. \nSet in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo\, Curtis C. Chen’s Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure. Come hear him read from one of the most entertaining novels of 2017! \n(And a shout-out to his publisher\, Thomas Dunne — way to go with putting INDIEBOUND.ORG up as an option for purchase!) \nMEGAN O’KEEFE was raised among journalists\, and as soon as she was able to\, she joined them by crafting a newsletter which chronicled the daily adventures of the local cat population. She has worked in both arts management and graphic design\, and spends her free time tinkering with anything she can get her hands on. Megan lives in the Bay Area and makes soap for a living. It’s only a little like Fight Club. She is a first place winner in the Writers of the Future competition. \nO’Keefe’s trilogy — The Scorched Continent — began with her debut novel\, Steal the Sky\, in early 2016. The second book\, Break the Chains\, and the third book (which we celebrate at this event!) is Inherit the Flame (all from Angry Robot Books). In the first book\, Detan Honding is a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue; with his friend Tibs\, he may have pulled off one too many cons against the city’s elite. To make a quick escape\, they set their sights on the airship of the exiled commodore Thratia. But plans go awry…did Detan accidentally walk into a revolution and a crusade? He has to be careful — there’s a reason most people think he’s dead. \nBook two sees Detan undertake a more dangerous task…rescuing Nouli\, the infamous engineer who built the century gates that protect the imperial capital of Valathea. But Nouli is imprisoned on the Remnant Isles\, an impervious island prison run by the empire\, and it’s Detan’s fault. Detan doesn’t dare approach Nouli himself\, so his companions volunteer to get themselves locked up to make contact with Nouli and convince him to help. Now Detan has to break them all out of prison\, and he’s going to need the help of a half-mad doppel to do it. \nBook three….come to SF in SF and hear Megan bring you up to speed on what her characters are up to in Book 3! \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Moderated by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Jeffrey Ford\, Lev Grossman\, Brian & Wendy Froud\, Samuel R. Delaney\, Cory Doctorow\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Nalo Hopkinson. We hope you will join us! \nThe American Bookbinders Museum‘s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley\, off 5th Street\, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission\, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street – just turn down 5th Street\, cross Mission and Howard\, and turn left onto Clementina. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th Street due to construction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/curtis-chen-and-megan-okeefe/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:CWP COLLECTIVE
DESCRIPTION:CWP Collective Press (“Cringe-Worthy Poets”) is a small chapbook press on the West Side of Buffalo New York. They have been producing handmade chapbooks of fine poetry since 2016. In this short time\, they have published nearly 20 chapbooks of poetry by poets from New Jersey to Texas. \nCWP is also a small band of young poets who are attempting to keep the art of the chapbook alive while making poetry more accessible and approachable. CWP is a diverse group of poets with actualized voices that differ greatly yet complement each other. They have been featured poets from New Jersey to New Mexico. They have extensively toured the Rust Belt and the Midwest. \nJOHN DORSEY John Dorsey is the author of several collections of poetry\, including Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books\, 2010)\, Tombstone Factory (Epic Rites Press\, 2013) and most recently\, Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press\, 2015)\, and his work has appeared in multiple anthologies. He’s performed frequently with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg‡; in 2005 as part of “NOW: New Word Order”; in 2006 as the “Deciders\,” which included Ellyn Maybe; and as “Rebels Without Applause\,” which included David Smith\, in 2007. He’s also worked extensively in theatre and film. \nJULIO MONTALVO VALENTIN Julio Montalvo Valentine is the author of two chapbooks\, Don’t Give up the Shipand Ship Lost. He is an editor and founder of CWP Collective Press. He is a Blogger for Plurality Press. Julio is also an editor for Mutata Re\, Erie Community Colleges literary journal. He has been a featured reader from New Jersey to New Mexico and many a town in between. Julio has two forthcoming chapbooks in 2017. His poems have appeared in various journals and magazines. Julio is a reluctant heart. \nNATHANAEL WILLIAM STOLTE Nathanael William Stolte is the author of five chapbooks\, A Beggars Book of Poems\, Bumblebee Petting Zoo\, Fools’ Song\, Origami Creature\, & A Beggar’s Prayer Book. His poems have appeared in Ghost City Review\, Guide to Kulture Creative Journal\, Five:2:One Magazine‘s #thesideshow\, Rusty Truck\, Poems-For-All\, Your One Phone Call\, In Between Hangovers\, Le Mot Juste\, The Rising Phoenix Review\, The Buffalo News\, Iconoclast\, Foundlings Zine\, & Plurality Press. He is a founder and the Acquisitions Editor for CWP Collective Press. He was voted best poet in Buffalo by Artvoices’ “Best of Buffalo” in 2016. He is a madcap\, flower-punk\, D.I.Y. Buffalo bred & corn-fed poet. \nJENNI SKELTON Jennifer Skelton is a poet from Buffalo\, NY. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from SUNY Buffalo State. Her first chapbook Gin came out this year. The themes in her poetry include the comedies and tragedies of personal relationships\, from mother to lover\, from American to Japan and back again. She has been a featured reader at Innisfree Poetry\, Buffalo State College’s Rooftop Poetry Series\, Queen City Gallery\, and Words on the Rocks. She is the social media handler for CWP Collective Press. \nMISTRAL CELESTE KHAN-BECERRA Mistral Khan-Becerra is a poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Buffalo\, NY by her Chilean family\, she loves the city and finds nostalgia around its every corner. In her work Mistral frequently draws on the complex relationship between Mother and Daughter. She attempts to bridge the gap between what is expected of or from this relationship\, and how stark (or truly inspired) its reality can be. She also fiddles around with how this dynamic presents itself in romantic relationships. Mistral is a cofounder of Cringe Worthy Poets Collective\, and Editor in Chief of CWP Collective Press. Born a strict Taurus\, she is stubborn in her form\, but rages on. She is the author of Could I Stay Here? and Where Have You Been For So Long? \nWILLIAM TAYLOR JR.William Taylor Jr. is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction\, including So Much is Burning\, Words for Songs Never Written\, The Hunger Season\, An Age of Monsters\, Broken When We Got Here\, The Blood of a Tourist\, To Break the Heart of the Sun\, and most recently The Song of What’s Become of Us. He lives in San Francisco’s Tenderloin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cwp-collective/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Don Bogen + Joseph Di Prisco
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, July 9th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Don Bogen and Joseph Di Prisco. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.orgfor more events and reviews!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-with-don-bogen-and-joseph-di-prisco/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170709T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170622T015051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T015051Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Cohen + Mary Pacifico Curtis
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a musical and literary performance by poet\, novelist\, and editor Diane Frank and poet Ellaraine Locke\, Tripping with the Top Down\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-cohen-mary-pacifico-curtis/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T213000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170619T123444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T011243Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jade Chang (The Wangs vs. the World)\nSarah Gailey (River of Teeth)\nJackson Crawford (The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-6/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170708T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170604T225244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170604T225244Z
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SUMMARY:POETRY EVENT: Tender Buttons
DESCRIPTION:An afternoon of bay area poetry <3 \nHosted by Bloodflower.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-tender-buttons/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170708T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170627T113933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T104612Z
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SUMMARY:Ishmael Reed—Getting Outside Of Your Head: Poetry Exercises That Will Free Your Mind
DESCRIPTION:Poets don’t do themselves any favors when they struggle with every line\, attempting to make it perfect. Poetry should be about the unrestricted flow of ideas that spring from your mind. In this workshop\, poet/essayist/activist Ishmael Reed—recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships—will help you uncork the brilliance and let it flow more naturally onto the page. Come with ideas and prepare to workshop! \nEach Master Class Mixer is limited to just 15 students\, lasts for three hours\, and concludes with a reception with the author. If you are unable to attend your class\, please email info@litquake.org at least seven days prior to receive a refund or credit\, minus a $25 service charge.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ishmael-reed-getting-outside-of-your-head-poetry-exercises-that-will-free-your-mind/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T223000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170619T123938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T022741Z
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to 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-poetry-prose-everything-goes-8/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170630T014950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170701T122600Z
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews Event #2
DESCRIPTION:Book talk & signing with Lindsay Hatton for Monterey Bay. Event #2 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \nLocals\, do not miss this author visit at Discretion Brewing’s picture perfect beer garden! Born and raised in Monterey\, debut novelist Lindsay Hatton has written a book that pairs a mesmerizing plot with the beauty and history of the Monterey Bay shoreline. \nJoin us for a night of lovingly crafted beer\, a skillfully written story\, and get your copy of Monterey Bay signed! \nThis enchanting debut novel tells the tale of feisty\, fifteen-year-old Margot Fiske and her eccentric entrepreneur father\, Anders\, as they arrive on the shores of Monterey Bay\, the locale soon to be immortalized by John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row. Fans of Steinbeck will love the nods in this storyline! Young Margot quickly falls for Ed Ricketts\, the biologist known as “Doc” in Steinbeck’s novel\, setting in motion a chain of events that will affect not just them\, but the future of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Ms. Hatton will be in-conversation with essayist and novelist\, Ryan Sloan. \nRyan Sloan is a novelist and essayist. He is on the faculty at the University of California\, Berkeley’s College Writing Programs. Ryan is also a co-host of the long-running Babylon Salon reading series in San Francisco. He holds an MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York University. \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Discretion are generously offering 50% off one beer with book purchase!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/27796/
LOCATION:Discretion Brewing\, 2703 41st Avenue\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T210000
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CREATED:20170621T010715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T010715Z
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck's 50th Show Spectacular
DESCRIPTION:Guys\, it’s our 50th show\, and our 4-year anniversary. Let’s celebrate growing income inequality and wreck The Great Gatsby all to pieces again. \nExpect even more shenaniganery than usual. We’re throwing a party. \nTickets on sale now. Seating is limited and will sell out. \nFeatured writers: June winner Lauren Parker\, plus Andrea Grimes\, Vivenne Pustell\, Miles Klee\, Madeline Gobbo\, and one more TBA. \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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwrecks-50th-show-spectacular/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T210000
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CREATED:20170619T132925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T010929Z
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SUMMARY:Meredith May
DESCRIPTION:An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction\, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly\, it is a story that must be told\, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. I\, Who Did Not Die is the untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless\, barbaric wars. \nLittle has been written of the Iran-Iraq war\, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century\, one fought with chemical weapons\, ballistic missiles\, and cadres of child soldiers. \nThe numbers involved are staggering:\n—All told\, it claimed 700\,000 lives—200\,000 Iraqis\, and 500\,000 Iranians.\n—Young men of military service age—eighteen and above in Iraq\, fifteen and above in Iran—died in the greatest numbers.\n—80\,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed\, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.\n—The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war. \nRarely does this kind of reportage succeed so power- fully as literature. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle\, where her 2004 narrative series on a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170620T224454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170628T122750Z
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SUMMARY:Wayne + Rick's Big Oakland Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Goodman and Rick May celebrate the publication of their new books Friday\, July 7\, 7pm at Laurel Bookstore\, 1423 Broadway in Oakland with friends Natasha Dennerstein and Hilary Zaid. Goodman’s new novel Better Angels is a retelling for modern readers of the first known American Gay novel\, Joseph and His Friend by Bayard Taylor\, published in 1869. May’s new book is the paperback edition of his short-story collection Inhuman Beings: Monsters\, Myths\, & Science Fiction. Dennerstein reads from her two latest books\, Seahorse and Triptych Caliform\, and Zaid reads from her prose chapbook The Dark Between the Stars. Free refreshments\, door prizes\, and party favors! Signing by all four authors follows the readings.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wayne-ricks-big-oakland-publication-party/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170706T173000
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CREATED:20170619T113055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113055Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak Charif Shanahan
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, join us for Community Voices: Poets Speak at the Museum of the African Diaspora where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflect on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work will take place in the gallery for a maximum of 30 minutes. The series culminates with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6:30-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator. \nCharif Shanahan \nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, Prairie Schooner\, and A Public Space. A two-time Puschart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-charif-shanahan/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170705T210000
DTSTAMP:20260409T111930
CREATED:20170616T123253Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170616T123253Z
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Dennis J. Bernstein\, Sharon Coleman\, James Cagney\, and Sara McAulay. On guitar: Barry Ebner. Curated by Leila Rae. An open mic follows the featured readers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-reading/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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