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SUMMARY:Bookswap\, Time Travel Edition
DESCRIPTION:Bookswap at The Bindery! Time Travel Edition \nWe can’t believe we’re booking events in March ALREADY\, so let’s talk about time travel books. Bring a book that goes backwards in time\, a book that jumps around in time\, literally just A Wrinkle In Time (just in time for the movie!)\, or something with a parallel universe: whatever jumps to mind. If that’s not your cup of tea\, just bring any book you love and want other people to love. \nMostly Bookswap is a social event\, so bring a friend\, relax in our new space\, enjoy a premium cocktail\, and leave with a reading list to last you months. \n$15 admission includes a drink ticket\, swag\, and 20% off book purchases at The Bindery and Booksmith for the evening. \nSpace is limited\, and tickets do sell out\, so we encourage you to buy early. Tickets on sale now at this link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bookswap-time-travel-edition/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Linor Goralik
DESCRIPTION:Linor Goralik discusses her new book\, Found Life: Poems\, Stories\, Comics\, a Play\, and an Interview a part of Columbia’s Russian Library series. \nAbout Found Life \nOne of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet\, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms\, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal\, including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose\, is on full display in this collection of poems\, stories\, comics\, a play\, and an interview\, here translated for the first time. \nIn Found Life\, speech\, condensed to the extreme\, captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world. Goralik’s works evoke an unconventional palette of moods and atmospheres—slight doubt\, subtle sadness\, vague unease—through accumulation of unexpected details and command over colloquial language. While calling up a range of voices\, her works are marked by a distinct voice\, simultaneously slightly naïve and deeply ironic. She is a keen observer of the female condition\, recounting gendered tribulations with awareness and amusement. From spiritual rabbits and biblical zoos to poems about loss and comics about poetry\, Goralik’s colorful language and pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of ridiculousness and the depths of grief.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/linor-goralik/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Your Story is Your Power: An Evening with Elle Luna and Susie Herrick
DESCRIPTION:Whether we realize it or not\, we define ourselves through stories. Understanding your own story is the key to understanding yourself\, your world and your capacity to act within that world. And in the heart of your story\, you will find you – your voice\, your power\, and your truth. \nIn Your Story is Your Power: Free Your Feminine Voice\, which comes out March 6\, Elle Luna\, bestselling author of The Crossroads of Should and Must and creator of the Instagram 100-Day Project\, and Susie Herrick\, acclaimed psychotherapist\, Enneagram expert and author of Aphrodite Emerges\, ask readers to discover their own stories\, challenging them to use that story to cultivate their own feminine power and move forward both as an individual and as part of a strong female community seeking positive change. \nThis inspiring and practical talk – for women and men – shows us how to collectively uncover and understand our own stories about feminine power in order to live more confident\, unapologetic lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-story-is-your-power-an-evening-with-elle-luna-and-susie-herrick/
LOCATION:Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati\, 650 Page Mill Rd.\, Palo Alto\, 94304
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Watermark":MAILTO:events@wearewatermark.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180314T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T203000
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Pre-order The Merry Spinster from Moe’s at http://www.moesbooks.com/the-merry-spinster-mallory-ortberg/ \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from their beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, The Merry Spinster\, takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and their best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature became among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. \nSinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, THE MERRY SPINSTER updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck\nourselves in for the night. \nMallory Ortberg is Slate’s “Dear Prudence”. Ortberg has written for Gawker\, New York Magazine\, The Hairpin\, and The Atlantic and is the co-creator of The Toast\, a general-interest website geared toward women. Ortberg lives in the Bay Area with their laptop and their cat.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Dewees with Jason Dewees\n\n  \ncelebrating \nA Life Among Fishes (from ORO Press) \nby Christopher Dewees \n& \nDesigning with Palms (from Timber Press) \nby Jason Dewees \nA Life Among Fishes explores the lifelong passion of fisheries by scientist and artist Christopher M. Dewees. The book features over 100 of his Japanese fish prints since 1969. Many of these are linked to stories about the journey\, and history and information about the art form are also described within. The book presents Dewees? half-century of printing fish and shellfish to full color. We follow his evolution from being exposed and fascinated to gyotaku as a graduate student to his status now as an internationally recognized master in the field. He documents his journey and growth by sharing fifty years of experiences and adventures. In recent years Dewees has focused more on writing stories and poems that are linked to his art. \nChristopher Dewees had a passion for fish since childhood. He is currently Marine Fisheries Specialist Emeritus at the University of California\, Davis. Since 1968 he has honed his skills in Japanese fish printing (gyotaku). His works have been featured in many individual and group exhibitions around the world. \nPalms are a landscape staple in warm\, temperate climates worldwide. But these stunning and statement-making plants are large\, expensive\, difficult to install\, and create unique design challenges. In Designing with Palms\, palm expert Jason Dewees shares every major aspect of designing and caring for palms. This definitive guide shares essential information on planting\, irrigation\, nutrition\, pruning\, and transplanting. A gallery of the most important species showcases the range of options available\, and stunning photographs by Caitlin Atkinson show examples of home and public landscapes that make good use of palms. \nJason Dewees is a staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Garden Design magazine\, and he blogs at The Palm Broker. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden\, he serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-dewees-with-jason-dewees/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum
DESCRIPTION:Works Gallery –  364 S. Market St. (street edge of the Convention Center)\, San José\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-6/
LOCATION:Works Gallery\, 364 S. Market St.\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Amos White
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. Our March author Amos White will present selections from his poetry and discuss the creative process and current projects. His book The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter is available on Amazon.com. Look for the event in the ballroom up the stairs from the front entrance. Free and open to the public. \nAbout the author: \nAmos White is an American haiku poet and author of “The Sound of the Web: Haiku and Poetry on Facebook and Twitter” (link:www.amazon.com/Sound-Web-Poetry-Facebook-Twitter/dp/1456581473/)\, recognized for his vivid imagery and breathless interpretations. He was a Finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and has works published in The Wittenberg Review\, Oakland Review\, Bones Journal\, San Francisco BayView\, Area 17\, World Haiku Association Anthology. He is President of Bay Area Generations literary reading series; Host of The Heart of the Muse arts salon; Producer of Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry show. Amos lives in Alameda with his family. www.about.me/amoswhite www.facebook.com/amoswhitehaiku www.twitter.com/aw3haiku
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amos-white/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Alameda AAUW":MAILTO:alameda-ca@aauw.net
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180314T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180314T210000
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SUMMARY:Salutations: Reconnecting
DESCRIPTION:The sixth installment of our event series\, Salutations\, returns with a night of letter-reading on Reconnecting. \nSponsored by Chronicle Books\, Letters to My series\, and Green Apple. \nFor more information or to submit your letter for inclusion\, email salutationsSF@gmail.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/salutations-reconnecting/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael David Lukas / The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to welcome The Oracle of Stamboul author Michael David Lukas back to the store to launch his anticipated second novel\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo. Please join us! \n  \nJoseph\, a literature student at Berkeley\, is the son of a Jewish mother and a Muslim father. One day\, a mysterious package arrives on his doorstep\, pulling him into a mesmerizing adventure to uncover the tangled history that binds the two sides of his family. For generations\, the men of the al-Raqb family have served as watchmen of the storied Ibn Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo\, built at the site where the infant Moses was taken from the Nile. Joseph learns of his ancestor Ali\, a Muslim orphan who nearly a thousand years earlier was entrusted as the first watchman of the synagogue and became enchanted by its legendary—perhaps magical—Ezra Scroll. The story of Joseph’s family is entwined with that of the British twin sisters Agnes and Margaret\, who in 1897 depart their hallowed Cambridge halls on a mission to rescue sacred texts that have begun to disappear from the synagogue. \n  \n— \n“A beautiful\, richly textured novel\, ambitious and delicately crafted\, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo is both a coming-of-age story and a family history\, a wide-ranging book about fathers and sons\, religion\, magic\, love\, and the essence of storytelling. This book is a joy.”– Rabih Alameddine\, author of the National Book Award finalist An Unnecessary Woman \n“Michael David Lukas has given us an elegiac novel of Cairo—Old Cairo and modern Cairo—with a bit of Berkeley thrown in. His prose is deeply evocative\, and a sense of mystery and profound tristesse pervade this unusual narrative\, which tells the story of a young California man on a quest to understand a puzzling gift left for him by his late father\, the descendant of generations of watchmen at the venerable Ben Ezra synagogue in the depths of Old Cairo. The novel is enhanced by Lukas’ impressive historical research on the Geniza and the colorful characters involved in rescuing its treasure trove of documents. But his greatest flair is in capturing the essence of that beautiful\, haunted\, shabby\, beleaguered\, yet still utterly sublime Middle Eastern city.”– Lucette Lagnado\, author of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and The Arrogant Years \n  \n— \n  \nMichael David Lukas is the author of the international bestselling novel The Oracle of Stamboul\, which was a finalist for the California Book Award\, the NCIBA Book of the Year Award\, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize\, and has been published in fifteen languages. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey\, a student at the American University of Cairo\, and a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv. A graduate of Brown University\, he has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Oakland\, California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-david-lukas-the-last-watchman-of-old-cairo-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease at Moe's
DESCRIPTION:Moe’s welcomes poet Joseph Lease who will be reading from The Body Ghost\, due out soon from Coffee House Press. \nJoseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). His poems have appeared in many anthologies\, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology and The Best American Poetry. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and lives in Oakland with the poet Donna de la Perrière.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-at-moes/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Lines Launch Party: Celebrating Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual launch of Two Lines and a poetry reading focusing on women in translation\, both those being translated and those that do this important work. \nTickets are $10\, which includes a copy of Two Lines and an open cocktail bar. \nThe forthcoming Two Lines 28 features a diverse blend of poetry and fiction. Featuring poetry by Lulijeta Lleshanaku (tr. Ani Gjika)\, Luz Pichel (tr. Neil Anderson)\, and Monchoachi (tr. Patricia Hartland)\, and fiction by Natsuko Kuroda (tr. Angus Turvill)\, Johanne Lykke Holm (tr. Saskia Vogel)\, and Anna Katharina Hahn (tr. Marshall Yarbrough)\, Two Lines 28 is packed with thought-provoking literature. \nThe Fall 2017 Two Lines 27 is brimming with gripping fiction and provocative poetry. Featuring fiction by Zsuzsa Takács (tr. by Erika Mihálycsa)\, Ge Yan (tr. Jeremy Tiang)\, and Jokha al-Harthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)\, and poetry by Samira Negrouche (tr. Marilyn Hacker)\, Friederike Mayröcker (tr. Jonathan Larson)\, and Min Jeong Kim (tr. Ji Yoon Lee & Jake Levine)\, Two Lines 27 was a celebrated issue for its cutting-edge literature from countries such as Mexico\, Hungary\, Oman\, Bulgaria\, Korea\, and India. \nCo-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-lines-launch-party-celebrating-women-in-translation/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ramona Ausubel
DESCRIPTION:discusses her new story collection Awayland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ramona-ausubel/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Two Lines Launch Party: Celebrating Women in Translation
DESCRIPTION:This year we’re dedicating the annual launch of Two Lines to women in translation! \nJoin us for a poetry reading celebrating women in translation: both those being translated and those doing the hard work. Poets and translators are getting together to read their own poetry\, their translations\, and the great work you’ll find in Two Lines. \nCo-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America. \nReaders include: \nNorma Cole\nMaxine Chernoff\nGillian Conoley\nAni Gjika\nLizzie Davis \nTickets are $10\, which includes a copy of Two Lines and an open cocktail bar! \nGet your tickets online or at the door. Buy tickets for Two Lines Launch \n  \nNorma Cole‘s books of poetry include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside\, Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988 2008\, Spinoza in Her Youth and Natural Light\, and most recently Actualities\, her collaboration with painter Marina Adams. To Be at Music: Essays & Talks made its appearance in 2010 from Omnidawn Press. Her translations from the French include Danielle Collobert’s It Then\, Collobert’sJournals\, Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France (edited and translated by Cole)\, and Jean Daive’s A Woman with Several Lives and White Decimal. She lives in San Francisco. \nMaxine Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University and a 2013 NEA Fellow in poetry.  She is the author of six books of fiction and fourteen books of poetry. Her recent books of poetry are Here(Counterpath\, 2014)\, Without (Shearsman\, 2012)\, and To Be Read in the Dark(Omnidawn\, 2012). With Paul Hoover\, she translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin\,(Omnidawn Press\, 2008)\, which received the 2009 Pen U.S.A. Translation Award. \nGillian Conoley is the author of seven collections of poetry\, including Peace (2014)\, The Plot Genie (2009)\, Profane Halo (2005)\, Lovers In The Used World (2001)\, and Tall Stranger (1991)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been featured in many anthologies\, including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (2009)\, Lyric Postmodernisms: An Anthology of Contemporary Innovative Poetries (2008)\, and Best American Poetry (1997). Her translations of Henri Michaux\, collected in Thousand Times Broken: Three Books by Henri Michaux (2014)\, had never been brought into English before. \nAni Gjika is an Albanian-born writer\, literary translator\, and author of Bread on Running Waters (2013)\, a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize. She’s the recipient of an NEA fellowship and a Robert Pinsky Global fellowship. Her translation of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space is due in 2018 from Bloodaxe in the UK and New Directions in the US. \nLizzie Davis is a writer\, editor at Coffee House Press\, and translator from Spanish and Italian to English. Her recent projects include My First Bikini by Elena Medel (Jai-Alai Books 2015) and a co-translation with Valeria Luiselli of Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (Coffee House Press 2017). \n  \nThe forthcoming Two Lines 28 features a diverse blend of poetry and fiction. Featuring poetry by Lulijeta Lleshanaku (tr. Ani Gjika)\, Luz Pichel (tr. Neil Anderson)\, and Monchoachi (tr. Patricia Hartland)\, and fiction by Natsuko Kuroda (tr. Angus Turvill)\, Johanne Lykke Holm (tr. Saskia Vogel)\, and Anna Katharina Hahn (tr. Marshall Yarbrough)\, Two Lines 28 is packed with thought-provoking literature. \nThe Fall 2017 Two Lines 27 is brimming with gripping fiction and provocative poetry. Featuring fiction by Zsuzsa Takács (tr. by Erika Mihálycsa)\, Ge Yan (tr. Jeremy Tiang)\, and Jokha al-Harthi (tr. Marilyn Booth)\, and poetry by Samira Negrouche (tr. Marilyn Hacker)\, Friederike Mayröcker (tr. Jonathan Larson)\, and Min Jeong Kim (tr. Ji Yoon Lee & Jake Levine)\, Two Lines 27 was a celebrated issue for its cutting-edge literature from countries such as Mexico\, Hungary\, Oman\, Bulgaria\, Korea\, and India. \nCo-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-lines-launch-party-celebrating-women-in-translation-2/
LOCATION:Churchill’s Office\, 194 Church St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SISTER SPIT TOUR 2018: QTPOC Cruising the West
DESCRIPTION:🌙An evening of provocation\, feelings\, analysis\, astrology & shade🌙\nThursday\, March 15th\n7pm\nSLIDING SCALE $15-$20\n@ The STUD\n*************************************************\nIn 2018 Sister Spit celebrates its 21st year on the road with stops in California\, Arizona and New Mexico from March 2 – March 15 (homecoming @ The STUD)\, featuring 7 EXCEPTIONAL artists shaping the culture as we know it rn:\n🌙Mari Naomi\n🌙Jamal Lewis\n🌙Juliana Delgado Lopera\n🌙Wo Chan\n🌙jayy dodd\n🌙Virgie Tovar &\n🌙Andrea Abi-Karam\n*************************************************\nSome history:\nThe tour began in San Francisco in the 1990s as a weekly\, girls-only open mic that was an alternative to the misogyny-soaked poetry open mics popular around the city at that time. Sister Spit became the first all-girl poetry roadshow at the end of the 90s\, and toured regularly with such folks as Eileen Myles\, Beth Lisick and Nomy Lamm. \nThe tour was revived as Sister Spit: The Next Generation in 2007. In this next incarnation\, out of respect to the changing gender landscape of our queer communities\, the tour welcomed artists of all genders\, including Chinaka Hodge\, Dorothy Allison and Justin Vivian Bond. Sister Spit 2018 marks a new chapter in the tour’s history. \nAs Radar Productions\, the non-profit that houses Sister Spit\, has shifted its vision toward Queer & Trans People of Color (QTPOC) specifically\, so too has the tour shifted lineup and style.\n*************************************************\nConsider supporting Sister Spit’s GoFundMe campaign. Proceeds go directly to off-setting costs for artists\, the van\, gas\, hotels and insurance: https://www.gofundme.com/qtpoc-cruising-the-west-tour
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sister-spit-tour-2018-qtpoc-cruising-the-west/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Henderson\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as David Henderson makes a rare appearance back in San Francisco from his long-time home on New York’s Lower East Side\, reading and talking with the audience. This event is free and open to the public. \nDavid Henderson was connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop\, where he served as an editor of their magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998)\, and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress. Author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition “Love in Outer Space” (and the singer)\, he has also recorded with the saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (“Science Fiction”) and David Murray\, and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. He is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix\, Voodoo Child (2009)\, and wrote and produced an award-winning two-hour documentary on the African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation. Recent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009)\, Obama\, Obama (2012)\, Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013)\, and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York\, he has taught in CUNY’s SEEK Program and has been a visiting professor at the University of California\, Berkeley\, University of California\, San Diego\, State University of New York at Stony Brook\, and Wesleyan University\, Middleton\, Connecticut. Most recently he became the first Fellow of Lost and Found\, the Poetics Document Initiative at the Center for the Humanities\, The City University of New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event:\nDavid Henderson\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, QR Hand: Black Tradition in Present Time\nSaturday March 24\, 7pm at The Luggage Store\, 1007 Market Street\, San Francisco \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-henderson-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah McBride / Tomorrow Will Be Different
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with Sarah McBride\, who celebrates the launch of Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love\, Loss\, and the Fight for Trans Equality. \nBefore she became the first transgender person to speak at a national political convention in 2016 at the age of twenty-six\, Sarah McBride struggled with the decision to come out—not just to her family but to the students of American University\, where she was serving as student body president. She’d known she was a girl from her earliest memories\, but it wasn’t until the Facebook post announcing her truth went viral that she realized just how much impact her story could have on the country. \nFour years later\, McBride was one of the nation’s most prominenttransgender activists\, walking the halls of the White House\, advocating the passing of laws\, and addressing the country in the midst of a heated presidential election. And\, she’d found her first love and future husband\, Andy\, a trans man and fellow activist\, who complemented her in every way… until cancer tragically intervened. \nInformative\, heartbreaking\, and empowering\, Tomorrow Will Be Different is McBride’s story of love and loss\, a powerful entry point into the LGBTQ community’s battle for equal rights and what it means to be openly transgender. From issues like bathroom access to health care\, McBride weaves the important political and cultural milestones into a personal journey that will open hearts and change minds. \nThe fight for equality and freedom has only just begun.\n— \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Tomorrow Will Be Different\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-mcbride-tomorrow-will-be-different/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nicole Georges presents her graphic memoir FETCH\, with special guest Gemma Correll
DESCRIPTION:Lambda award-winner Nicole Georges presents and signs her graphic memoir FETCH. With special guest cartoonist and illustrator\, Gemma Correll. \nPugs and pups of all kinds welcome! \n  \nAbout FETCH \nWhen Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija\, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack\, just like teenaged Nicole herself. For the next fifteen years\, Beija would be the one constant in her life. Through depression\, relationships gone awry\, and an unmoored young adulthood played out against the backdrop of the Portland punk scene\, Beija was there\, wearing her “Don’t Pet Me” bandana. \nGeorges’s gorgeous graphic novel Fetch chronicles their symbiotic\, codependent relationship and probes what it means to care for and be responsible to another living thing—a living thing that occasionally lunges at toddlers. Nicole turns to vets\, dog whisperers\, and even a pet psychic for help\, but it is the moments of accommodation\, adaption\, and compassion that sustain them. Nicole never successfully taught Beija “sit\,” but in the end\, Beija taught Nicole how to stay. \nNicole J. Georges is a professor\, writer\, and illustrator\, who has been publishing her own zines and comics for twenty years. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura and the diary comic Invincible Summer. She lives in Portland\, Oregon. \n  \nGemma Correll is a young English illustrator\, cartoonist\, and generally quite small person. She and her trusty pug sidekicks\, Bella and Mr. Norman Pickles\, recently left the land of their births for a new life in the very large country of America. Wish them luck! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nicole-georges-presents-her-graphic-memoir-fetch-with-special-guest-gemma-correll/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Peggy Orenstein
DESCRIPTION:The author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays–funny\, poignant\, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces\, drawn from three decades of writing\, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nNamed one of the “40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review\, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent\, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage\, motherhood\, breast cancer\, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting\, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics. \nIn Don’t Call Me Princess\, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form\, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice\, the infertility industry\, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms\, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless–they have\, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale\, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. \nDon’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women–in our work lives\, sex lives\, as mothers\, as partners–illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go. \nA contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine\, Peggy Orenstein has been published in USA Today\, Parenting\, Salon\, the New Yorker\, and other publications\, and has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and daughter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peggy-orenstein-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Cheryl Dumesnil + Allison Joseph
DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Dumesnil‘s books include two collections of poems\, Showtime at the Ministry of Lost Causes and In Praise of Falling (winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and the Golden Crown Literary Society Prize for Poetry); a memoir\, Love Song for Baby X: How I Stayed (Almost) Sane on the Rocky Road to Parenthood; and the anthology Dorothy Parker’s Elbow: Tattoos on Writers\, Writers on Tattoos\, co-edited with Kim Addonizio. A freelance writer\, editor\, and writing coach\, she lives in Walnut Creek with her two sons and her partner\, Sarah. www.cheryldumesnil.com\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Joseph lives\, writes\, and teaches in Carbondale\, Illinois\, where she is part of the creative writing faculty at Southern Illinois University. She serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review\, moderator of the Creative Writers Opportunities List\, and director of Writers in Common\, a summer writers conference for writers of all ages. Her new chapbook press\, No Chair Press\, will launch in 2018.\n\nHer books and chapbooks include What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand Press)\, Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon University Press)\, In Every Seam (University of Pittsburgh Press)\, Worldly Pleasures (Word Tech Communications)\, Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon UP)\, Voice: Poems (Mayapple Press)\, My Father’s Kites(Steel Toe Books)\, Trace Particles (Backbone Press)\, Little Epiphanies (Imaginary Friend Press)\, Mercurial (Mayapple Press)\, Mortal Rewards (White Violet Press)\, Multitudes (Word Poetry)\, The Purpose of Hands (Glass Lyre Press)\, Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, Double Identity (Singing Bone Press) and What Once You Loved (Barefoot Muse Press). She is the literary partner and wife of poet and editor Jon Tribble.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cheryl-dumesnil-allison-joseph/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Teen Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:azz Hudson emcees as teens compete in an event that is part performance\, part spoken word. Contestants often draw upon racial\, economic\, and gender injustices and current events for subject matter. \nAdults and high school students only. Wine reception at 6:30pm for pre-registered guests. \nRegistration highly recommended. Registration opens February 26th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-teen-poetry-slam/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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SUMMARY:Hilary Zaid discusses PAPER IS WHITE (w/ Jane Mason)
DESCRIPTION:More info to come
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hilary-zaid-discusses-paper-is-white-w-jane-mason/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mallory Ortberg reads from The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror
DESCRIPTION:Mallory Ortberg\, co-creator of The Toast\, reads from her new book\, The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror. A collection of darkly playful stories based on classic folk and fairy tales (but with a feminist spin) that find the sinister in the familiar and the familiar in the alien–from the author of Texts From Jane Eyre. \n      \nAbout the Book \nFrom Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from her beloved “Children’s Stories Made Horrific” series\, “The Merry Spinster” takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and her best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become among the most popular on the site\, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views\, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg’s eye for deconstruction and destabilization. Sinister and inviting\, familiar and alien all at the same time\, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children’s stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror\, emotional clarity\, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. \nReaders of The Toast will instantly recognize Ortberg’s boisterous good humor and uber-nerd swagger: those new to Ortberg’s oeuvre will delight in her unique spin on fiction\, where something a bit mischievous and unsettling is always at work just beneath the surface. \nUnfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material\, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected\, and frequently\, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves\, and each other\, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. \nBed time will never be the same. \nMallory Ortberg is the co-creator of the Toast and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Texts From Jane Eyre.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mallory-ortberg-reads-from-the-merry-spinster-tales-of-everyday-horror/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Divining Triptychs: Printmaking\, Dance\, and Poetry Across Millennia
DESCRIPTION:Works by Robert Woods\, Lucinda Weaver\, and Alan Bern\nLive performances:\nFriday\, March 16\, at 7:30 pm\nSaturday\, March 17\, at 4:30 pm\nDoors open 30 min prior. \nPACES: dance and poetry fit to the space is the collaborative performance company of Dancer & Choreographer Lucinda Weaver and Poet and Storyteller Alan Bern. Bern and artist Robert Woods have worked together under the imprint of Lines & Faces for over forty years. All three come together in this one-of-a-kind performance “Divining Triptychs: Printmaking\, Dance\, and Poetry across Millennia.” \nLucinda Weaver grew up dancing in Berkeley\, California\, with Ruth Hatfield. She studied at UC Berkeley with David Wood and in New York City\, where she met Margaret Jenkins who invited her to be a founding member of the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in San Francisco. She then lived in Europe where she worked and performed as a solo dancer/choreographer. Currently\, she is on the guest faculty of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri\, a physical theater university in Switzerland. \nAlan Bern is a poet\, short story writer\, and performer. He has two books published by Fithian Press: No no the saddest (2004) and Waterwalking in Berkeley (2007). His third book\, greater distance and other poems\, with design and illustrations by Robert Woods\, was released by Lines & Faces in 2015. Alan worked for over 15 years in the commercial printing industry. He became a librarian in 1992 and is now a Children’s Librarian at Berkeley Public Library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/divining-triptychs-printmaking-dance-and-poetry-across-millennia/
LOCATION:berkeley art center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Divining Triptychs: Printmaking\, Dance\, and Poetry Across Millennia
DESCRIPTION:Lucinda Weaver\, who danced with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company\, and poet Alan Bern have performed together for fifteen years as PACES: dance & poetry. Bern and Weaver will perform a dance/poetry collaboration based on broadsides by Robert Woods and Alan Bern. Performances take place March 16 & 17. All funds donated to the BAC by the performers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n$15 advance/$20 at the door; $10 BAC Members & youth under 18\nDoors open 30 min prior. A brief reception will follow the performances.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/divining-triptychs-printmaking-dance-and-poetry-across-millennia-2/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Center\, 1275 Walnut Street\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Berkeley Art Center":MAILTO:info@berkeleyartcenter.org
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Talks: W. Kamau Bell
DESCRIPTION:Cultural commentator\, radio and television host\, and comedian W. Kamau Bell combines humor with astute social commentary. The Berkeley resident and self-proclaimed “blerd”–or\, black nerd– is host of the Emmy-winning CNN series United Shades of America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-talks-w-kamau-bell/
LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall\, UC Berkeley\, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:KASSIDAT: Spoken word and music
DESCRIPTION:With your host Bloodflower \nDetails soon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kassidat-spoken-word-and-music/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Go Home! A Celebration of a New Anthology of Asian Diasporic Writing
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Press in conjunction with Asian American Writers’ Workshop present \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan and Esmé Weijun Wang celebrating: \nA book Release Party for \nGo Home! \nEdited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan \nForeword by Viet Thanh Nguyen \npublished by The Feminist Press \nAsian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction\, memoir\, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative\, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. \nGo Home! is published in collaboration with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Established in 1991\, AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating\, publishing\, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans through a New York events series and online editorial initiatives. \nRowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You. She has a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was an Asian American Writers’ Workshop fellow\, and her short work has appeared in Grant\, the Guardian\, Guernica\, Apogee\, and the White Review\, among other places. She has received residencies from the Gladstone Library and Hedgebrook. \nEsmé Weijun Wang is an essayist\, the author of The Border of Paradise: A Novel\, and the recipient of the 2016 Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan and has been awarded the Sudler Award\, Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. Her work has appeared in Salon\, Elle\, Catapult\, Hazlitt\, the Beliver\, and Lenny Letter. \nWhat has been said about Go Home! \n“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories\, poems\, and testaments\, perhaps home is not so much a place\, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel\, in our collective outsiderhood\, at home.” —Ocean Vuong\, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds \n“There is a whole range of expression in this book\, delving deeply into the manifold experiences of being a perpetual alien. To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora\, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated\, rarely counted\, hardly seen. Here\, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang\, author of Sour Heart \n“Go Home! is a bold\, eclectic chorus that provides an invigorating antidote to the xenophobia of our times.” —Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being \n“This anthology displays the colors of the liminal—half-tones and undertones mixing the wry\, the irreverent\, the outraged\, the lyric\, and the longing. A composite portrait of the Asian diasporic experience today.” —Monica Youn\, author of Blackacre: Poems \n“Hats off to Rowan Hisayo Buchanan for putting together such a rich and diverse anthology. In these dark times\, we need these voices and stories more than ever.” —Jessica Hagedorn\, author of The Dogeaters \n“In this new and daring collection\, I find myself reliving moments of heartbreak that can only come from living in between two cultures—but also feeling profound relief in discovering I am not alone in these private burdens and joys. Go Home! should be celebrated\, as reading it is a homecoming in itself.” —Yumi Sakugawa\, author of There Is No Right Way to Meditate: And Other Lessons \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/go-home-a-celebration-of-a-new-anthology-of-asian-diasporic-writing/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-12/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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