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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170105T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170105T223000
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose\, & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8:15pm\nTickets at http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1400455\n$10 in advance and $10 day of show online and at the door. \nYOU’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\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-5/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170103T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170103T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161223T024152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T024152Z
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SUMMARY:Family Noir: Coleman\, Press\, Dallett\, + Mash
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Sharon Coleman\, Tony Press\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Roy Mash. \nAn open mic follows the featured readers. \nEveryone welcome. There is always room. \nIt’s time to showcase your work. \nFree drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/family-noir-coleman-press-dallett-mash/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161222T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161222T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161223T024715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T024715Z
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:It’s the most wonderful time of the year\, and we’re closing out 2016 with a top-notch line up of readers featured in the newly released Lonely Planet anthology\, edited by our own Don George! The collection gathers stories from some of the best writers in the world and we are so fortunate to have many of them right here in the Bay Area including Marilyn Abildskov\, Natalie Baszile\, and Jeff Greenwald who will be reading for us this month. What a way to celebrate our wonderful community of travelers and writers\, and herald in the holiday season! \nCome for cheer\, and let us say cheers to you: our amazing travel writing tribe. Our readings start promptly at 7 pm but we can always be found in the Library Bar at 6 pm. We hope to see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161220T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161220T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T031658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T031658Z
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #19
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE \nFeatured lineup of writers include:  Naz Jameson\, Laura Eve Engel\, Ricardo Tavarez\, C. Anne Gardener\, Jason Wyman\, Terilynn Cantlon and MORE! \nMusical Guest:  Open MInds \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-19/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T020616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020616Z
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SUMMARY:100% Mixed Zine Release Party!
DESCRIPTION:100% Mixed Zine is by and for multi ethnic Asian and Pacific Americans\, featuring interviews\, visual art\, poetry\, and feelings ♥. \nAfter nearly a year of working on the zine and making new friends\, Monika and Jess are ready to release their project 🙂 We’d like to invite you all to join us for a lil party\, and to thank our contributors\, interviewees\, and all who helped us along the way. Bring your friends and family to join in on the fun\, all ages are welcome. \nThe event will include readings\, performances\, and bringing our mixed community together in one room! Some food and drink will be provided\, but if yall wanna turn this into a potluck\, feel free to bring something to share :^) \nLuv\,\nMonika & Jess
URL:https://litseen.com/event/100-mixed-zine-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161217T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T031534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T031534Z
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SUMMARY:George Oppen Memorial Lecture: Frances Richard
DESCRIPTION:The George Oppen Memorial Lecture\nFrances Richard \n“The Mind’s Own Place and Feminine Technologies: George Oppen and Possibilities of the Political” \nSaturday DEC 17\n6:00pm* @ Unitarian Center\n1187 Franklin (at Geary)\, San Francisco\,\nadmission: $10; low income $5\nfree for SFSU students and Poetry Center members \nsupported by the Dorothy A. Fowler Trust\n*Please note early 6pm start time \nThe Poetry Center’s annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, presented each year since 1985\, will be given this December by poet\, scholar\, and art writer Frances Richard. \nFrances Richard is the author of Anarch. (Futurepoem\, 2012)\, The Phonemes (Les Figues Press\, 2012) and See Through (Four Way Books\, 2003)\, as well as the chapbooks Shaved Code (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2008) and Anarch. (Woodland Editions\, 2008). She writes frequently about contemporary art and is co-author\, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi\, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” (Cabinet Books\, 2005). She has been a visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture\, and is the recipient of a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and an Editors Prize for Reviewing from Poetry magazine; currently she is editing a volume of essays titiled Joan Jonas Is On Our Mind (Wattis Institute). She teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. \nGeorge Oppen (April 24\, 1908 – July 7\, 1984) was an American poet\, best known as one of the members of the Objectivist group of poets. He abandoned poetry in the 1930s for political activism and later moved to Mexico to avoid the attentions of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He returned to poetry — and to the United States — in 1958\, and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. Early and late in his life\, Oppen lived in San Francisco\, where he befriended many of the younger poets active in the area. \nThe George Oppen Memorial Lecture\, established at The Poetry Center in 1985\, generally addresses the work of Oppen and his contemporaries. An edition of the Selected George Oppen Memorial Lectures\, edited by Michael Cross\, is scheduled for publication in 2017 by the National Poetry Foundation\, in Orono\, Maine.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-oppen-memorial-lecture-frances-richard/
LOCATION:First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco\, 1187 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161215T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161215T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
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SUMMARY:Peter Dale Scott
DESCRIPTION:Peter Dale Scott is a poet and political researcher whose artistic works are shaped by the subjects of his nonfiction. \nNation correspondent Larry Bensky commented that Scott has spent his career documenting “an old-boy network of far rightists\, gonzo adventurers\, profiteers\, drug-and gunrunners\, religious fanatics\, and intelligence freelancers who intersect regularly with the various government agencies they once served.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-dale-scott-2/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161215T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T054956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T054956Z
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SUMMARY:Nils Peterson + Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Nils Peterson\, Professor Emeritus from San José State University\, was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County\, from 2009-2011. He is also one of the original founders of Poetry Center San José. He has melded his poetry with works of art and music\, and offered many workshops throughout his career as a poet. He has published poetry\, science fiction\, and articles as varying as golf and Shakespeare. Throughout his entire laureateship\, Nils Peterson put forth some interesting projects to inspire the whole community of Santa Clara County. They include\, a 100-line poem: A Family Album\, Santa Clara County\, 2009; Thirty Poems for Thirty days; and ‘Haiku-ish’ poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nils-peterson-open-mic/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T223000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T031301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T031301Z
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Happy Endings
DESCRIPTION:“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekl \nWednesday\, Dec 14th\, 2016\nat the Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa\, San Francisco\, CA)\nRemember: Party at 7:00 PM\, Stories at 8:00 PM\nTickets at http://bit.ly/happyendingsf\nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at\nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast\nInvite & Share this event – & Please JOIN US! \nThis Evening of ‘It’s All gonna be OK’ stories includes:\n❤ Bawdy Storytelling (storyteller!) First timer Jefferson Bergey\n❤ Got a story? Pitch it to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com\n❤ Dirty\, dirty – & Clever! – songs by Shirley Gnome\n❤ VIP includes Reserved Seating – & Sex Toys!\n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers\n❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up in the Splash Zone\n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal\n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nThe Nation’s Original Sex + Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage\n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••\nAbout Bawdy Storytelling:\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! \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ As a vocalist\, MC\, and band-leader\, Jefferson Bergey spends a majority of his musical life on his best behavior performing at private and corporate events all over Northern California. With numerous Bay Area creative projects he’s been featured at Sweetwater\, The Independent\, The John Steinbeck Association\, Special Olympics Summer Games in Long Beach\, Facebook\, and The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. As a family-friendly wedding-singer he was recently the cover-story in the San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook. Alongside his busy performance calendar he maintains a full schedule as a voice coach for beginning singers at the Starland School of Music in Alameda and privately at his studio in North Oakland.\nYet Bergey lives a musical double-life where he takes delight in singing songs that are clearly not for all-ages or the quietly conservative. From a mind that is clearly in the gutter of Tin Pan Alley\, Bergey combines the flavors of bluesy 1950’s soda-shop pop with the acoustic soft-rock sentiments of the 1970’s. He’s a self-proclaimed musical theater dork with a penchant for pornographic puns. Bergey shares his unique brand of polite vulgarity as one of the regular songwriters for Bawdy Storytelling\, San Francisco’s original sexual storytelling show. Thanks to Dixie De La Tour\, he’s released of an album of those sex-centric custom compositions titled ‘Come For Me’ and the title-song was recently heard on the RISK! podcast. You can find him on Spotify\, iTunes\, and at jeffersonbergey.com. \n❤ From the heart of the West coast of Canada comes internationally acclaimed cabaret comedian\, Shirley Gnome! Known for her clever lyrics\, honest insights\, and gorgeous voice\, the naked truth never sounds so smooth. You may be thinking it – but this shameless songstress sings it loud and proud with “the voice of an angel dry-humping a cloud.” Fans of Garfunkel and Oats\, Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D\, get ready to be taken to the next level. It’s award-winning\, taboo\, sexually empowering comedy that is NOT for the faint of heart. More info at ShirleyGnome.com \n❤ Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour founded Bawdy Storytelling – the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series -a decade ago\, despite being told repeatedly that nobody would get onstage to tell their stories of sex\, kink and gender (Wrong!).This multi-city live storytelling event welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA\, kink\, polyamory\, swingers\, vanilla\, and many more) and is bringing sex-positive storytelling to new cities all the time. Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded 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.” Dixie 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• 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)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-happy-endings/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T025315Z
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SUMMARY:Daughter's Tongue
DESCRIPTION:Daughter’s Tongue is reading and re-releasing their chapbook “Body Collective” on December 14th at Wolfman Bookstore. \nAbout the Daughter’s Tongue Coalition:\nThe Daughter’s Tongue Coalition aims to redefine what it means to be a woman writer. Their goal is to work with and bring together communities of multi-racial\, multi-cultural and multi-identifying women. They want to create a safe space for women poets\, writers\, and lovers of literature to gather together and celebrate women’s art. Their aim is to create a space where women can gather together to create\, perform\, and support each other in their artistic endeavors in the Bay Area. \nAll of the members of The Daughter’s Tongue will explore the body in relationship to language\, arts\, politics and personal and communal empowerment through performance. A special edition chapbook will be on sale the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/daughters-tongue/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T020359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020359Z
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SUMMARY:Emily Carr
DESCRIPTION:McSweeney’s presents a reading of poetry by Emily Carr in her new book “Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them\, or a Sonnet.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-carr/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161214T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161214T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T024903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T024903Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland warmly welcomes Michael Chabon back to the store to discuss and sign his new book\, Moonglow on Wednesday\, December 14th at 7:00pm. **Please note** This is a ticketed event. Attendance to this event is free\, but each copy of Moonglow purchased reserves one seat. Reserved seats are held until the start of the event\, at which point standing guests are invited to fill vacant places. Please contact DIESEL at 510-653-9965 with questions. \nFollowing on the heels of his New York Times bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies\, family legends\, and existential adventure and the forces that work to destroy us. \nIn 1989\, fresh from the publication of his first novel\, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, Michael Chabon traveled to his mother’s home in Oakland\, California\, to visit his terminally ill grandfather. Tongue loosened by powerful painkillers\, memory stirred by the imminence of death\, Chabon’s grandfather shared recollections and told stories the younger man had never heard before\, uncovering bits and pieces of a history long buried and forgotten. That dreamlike week of revelations forms the basis for the novel Moonglow. \nMoonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as my grandfather. It is a tale of madness\, of war and adventure\, of sex and marriage and desire\, of existential doubt and model rocketry\, of the shining aspirations and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury\, and\, above all\, of the destructive impact and the creative power of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the narrator’s grandfather and his grandmother\, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination. \nFrom the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany\, a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of New York’s Wallkill prison\, and from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the American Century\, the novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth\, a work of fictional nonfiction\, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir\, Moonglow is Chabon at his most moving and inventive. \nMichael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh\, A Model World\, Wonder Boys\, Werewolves in Their Youth\, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay\, Summerland\, The Final Solution\, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Maps & Legends\, Gentlemen of the Road\, Telegraph Avenue\, and the picture book The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man. He lives in Berkeley\, California\, with his wife\, the novelist Ayelet Waldman\, and their children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T030447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030447Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Gevirtz w/ Lauren Shufran
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Susan Gevirtz‘ Hotel abc function as ethnographic notes\, exposing the fact that we are all under the thumb of circadian rhythm\, struggling to negotiate our shared condition. Reporters and hotel guests leave and enter the book\, revealing that the face of the beloved is also an icon\, that some sounds can only be heard in certain places and that the origins of language are impossible to locate. \nLauren Shufran is a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz\, where she is finishing her dissertation on the influence of Reformed theology on British love poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries. Her first book of poems\, Inter Arma\, won the Motherwell prize and was published by Fence Books in 2013.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-gevirtz-w-lauren-shufran/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T054826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T054826Z
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Red Wheelbarrow poets
DESCRIPTION:doors 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 \nOpen Mic to follow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-red-wheelbarrow-poets/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161213T174500
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161213T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T055448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T055448Z
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SUMMARY:December Queer Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Reading followed by artist Q&A\nDid we mention there will be cookies? \nFEATURING… \nMaya Pindyck\nMaya Pindyck is the author of Emoticoncert (Four Way Books)\, Friend Among Stones (New Rivers Press)\, and Locket\, Master (Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship Series). A multidisciplinary artist\, she has received grants and fellowships in support of her work from the Historic House Trust of New York City’s Contemporary Art Partnerships Program\, the Abortion Conversation Project\, Squaw Valley Writers\, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been recently published in Waxwing\, The Wide Shore\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Feminist Wire. Currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Teachers College\, Maya teaches at Parsons School of Design and Long Island University and facilitates youth writing workshops through Teachers & Writers Collaborative. \nKatherine Agard\nKatherine Agard is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago currently based in California. Her writing has been supported by Lambda Literary\, Kimbilio\, Callaloo and VONA/Voices\, the University of California – San Diego and Harvard University. She writes and performs her relationship to color – material\, socio-cultural\, spiritual – and the language which allows us to perceive it. You can find out more about her work at http://www.kmagard.com \nChloe Caldwell\nChloe Caldwell is the author of the novella Women and two essay collections Legs Get Led Astray and I’ll Tell You in Person. Her work has appeared in the Sun\, Salon\, Vice\, Catapult\, Hobart\, Nylon\, the Rumpus\, Men’s Health\, and Lenny\, among others. She teaches personal essay and memoir writing in New York City and lives in Hudson\, NY. \nGrace Rosario Perkins\nBased in Oakland CA but having spent most of her life moving between city centers\, the Navajo Nation\, and the Gila River Indian Community\, Grace Rosario Perkins is interested in disassembling her personal narrative and reassembling it as one that layers words\, objects\, faces\, and signifiers built from cultural dissonance\, language\, and history. \nGrace is one of the core founders of Black Salt Collective\, an all women of color art collective that is a recent SFMOMA SECA Award nominee\, has had their collaborative work screened in six countries\, and recently curated a 30+ artist show titled “Visions into Infinite Archives” at SOMArts in SF which received press from publications such as the SFChronicle\, Dazed Magazine\, KQED\, and more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/december-queer-reading-series/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161212T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit w/ Maria Popova
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nMaria Popova is the highly creative mind behind Brain Pickings. Founded in 2006 as a weekly email that went out to seven of Popova’s close friends\, Brain Pickings is now one of the fastest growing literary sites on the Internet. A resource for writings spanning art\, science\, psychology\, design\, philosophy\, history\, politics\, anthropology\, and more\, the site explores how these different disciplines illuminate one another to glean some insight into that grand question of how to live\, and how to live well. Popova has written for Wired UK\, The Atlantic\,The New York Times\, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab\, among others\, and is a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-w-maria-popova/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161017T232459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T232459Z
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SUMMARY:2016-2017 Steinbeck Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange poetry winner and a Barbara Deming Fund grantee. Her work is published in crazyhorse\, CALYX\, The James Franco Review and Acentos Review\, and she is a cofounder of Women Who Submit. Her debut poetry collection\, Built with Safe Spaces\, is forthcoming from Sundress Publications. She plans to spend her fellowship year finishing Dear Lupe\,an epistolary novel that imagines the story of “Curley’s Wife\,” the nameless character from John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. \nGary Singh is a journalist who has published nearly 1\,000 articles in trade and consumer publications. For 530 straight weeks\, his newspaper columns have appeared in Metro\, the alternative weekly paper of San Jose and Silicon Valley. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (The History Press 2015). His poems have been published in The Pedestal Magazine\, Dirty Chai\, Maudlin House and elsewhere. He plans to spend his fellowship year working on a biography of A. D. M. Cooper (1856-1924)\, a controversial American painter who made the Old West his subject matter. He also plans to complete a contemporary novel already in progress and tangentially related to the nonfiction work. \nAll events are free\, open to the public\, and wheelchair accessible.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2016-2017-steinbeck-fellows/
LOCATION:Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies\, SJSU\, 1 Washington Square \, San Jose \, CA\, 95192\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161118T031822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T031822Z
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press at Perfectly Queer
DESCRIPTION:Perfectly Queer welcomes Nomadic Press\, an innovative publisher based in Oakland and Brooklyn. The press publishes books\, chapbooks\, and periodicals and fosters community through frequent readings in both cities. Founder J.K. Fowler presents 3 Queer authors published by the press and Queer musician Azuah. M.K. Chavez reads from her new full-length poetry collection Dear Animal\, Arisa White from her poetry chapbook Black Pearl\, and Kwan Booth from selected writing. Azuah is a singer\, songwriter\, and guitarist. For more information on Nomadic Press\, see nomadicpress.org. Free admission\, refreshments\, and door prizes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nomadic-press-at-perfectly-queer/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T030316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T030316Z
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SUMMARY:Rosenthal\, Duncan\, + White
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Rosenthal is the author of Lizard (poetry\, Chax\, 2016) and Manhatten (cross-genre\, Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009). Her interview collection A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Poets of the Bay Area was published by Dalkey Archive in 2010. From 2009–2011 she was an Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts. Originally from Chicago\, she lives in San Francisco where she works as a Life & Professional Coach and serves on the California Book Awards poetry jury. \nAja Couchois Duncan’s poetry collection Restless Continent was published by Litmus Press in 2016. Duncan\, a Bay Area educator\, writer and coach of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent\, is the recipient of a 2005 Marin Arts Council Award Grant for Literary Arts and a 2013 James D. Phelan Literary Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human. Great Spirit knew it all along. \nArisa White is the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened (Augury\, 2016)\, Hurrah’s Nest (Virtual Artists Collective\, 2012)\, and A Penny Saved (Willow\, 2012). In 2013–14 she received a Cultural Funding grant from the City of Oakland to create the libretto and score for Post Pardon: The Opera\, and a grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation to fund a project called dear Gerald. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a BFA faculty member at Goddard College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosenthal-duncan-white/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161018T004717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T004717Z
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SUMMARY:Beagle\, Raeff\, Yim Caples\, + Aggarwal
DESCRIPTION:Peter S. Beagle (Summerlong\, The Last Unicorn)\nAnne Raeff (The Jungle Around Us)\nVariny Yim (The Immigrant Princess)\nGarrett Caples (Retrievals)\nVidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble with Humpadori) \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/beagle-raeff-yim-caples-aggarwal/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T020247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T020247Z
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SUMMARY:Dillon\, Hart\, + Hannibal
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from poets Russell Dillon\, Matt Hart\, and Shauna Hannibal hosted by Jason Morris
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dillon-hart-hannibal/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161210T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161210T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T061821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061821Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release II: Dear Animal\, MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:If you couldn’t make the first release at Studio Grand\, please join us at our soon-to-be-additional-home at 2301 Telegraph Avenue with our dear friends and community partners\, Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, for the second release of Mk Chavez‘ much-anticipated full-length poetry collection\, Dear Animal\,. Readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Arisa White\, Nick Johnson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Cyrus Armajani\, Ingrid Keir\, and of course\,Mk Chavez. Music by James Meder. Book signing to follow. \nGnosh\, wine\, beer\, and books—it’ll be another great night in a beautiful space! \nDonations will be called for throughout the night\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-ii-dear-animal-mk-chavez/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T061324Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T061324Z
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SUMMARY:You’re Going to Die: See You in the Morning Light
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://seeyouinthemorninglight.bpt.me\n$15 in advance and $15 at the door.\n(If you’re unable to pay the entry fee\, please contact ned@yg2d.com.) \nAn evening of music & art\, a communal grief release\, a live presentation of Deep Pools’ new album SEE YOU IN THE MORNING LIGHT. \n“See You In The Morning Light” is Scott Ferreter’s attempt to shine light on the beauty that grief offers when it is fully felt. In 2012\, he moved back to his hometown of Sacramento upon getting the news that his father was dying of stage 4 stomach cancer. During that time\, he played music constantly as he soaked up his father’s last days alongside his family\, and would spend 4 years trying to capture the vibrancy of those days in sound. His intention was to make an album that would invite listeners more deeply into the experience of being alive on a planet where everything eventually leaves. \nAll said and done\, the record has 22 musicians\, was recorded across 6 different studios\, and includes field recordings from around the world. The vision was to put as much care into the microscopic sounds as the major ones and to give as much space for the difficult feelings as the pleasant ones. Instead of planning out a normal recording process\, Scott continually listened to what the record was asking of him\, and this meant that the final trajectory of the record ended up being far more bizarre and magical than anything he could have planned. Some of his closest friends and favorite musicians recorded on the record\, including the legendary Suzanne Ciani. \nDeep Pools: http://www.deep-pools.com/ \nYou’re Going to Die is a communal exploration of death & dying\, one driven by creativity\, fueled by arts & entertainment\, writing & music\, interviews & stories\, through any means & all social forums available\, but always with the continued commitment to bring people creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, while helping to inspire & empower out of an unabashed embrace of our losses & mortality…
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-see-you-in-the-morning-light/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T022134Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T022134Z
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SUMMARY:Susan Isa Efros
DESCRIPTION:Girls Gone Astray is a collection of short and shorter stories about women in their teens to eighties who venture off the traditional path to discover unexpected and potent truths about themselves. A high school student falls in love with her best girlfriend and promises not to tell anyone; a wealthy elderly woman with dementia goes for a drive with a homeless man; a psychic gets locked out of her office and with the help of her spirit guide talks her way back inside; a teenager idolizes her uncle until she finds out who he really is; a woman writer unaware that she has only twenty minutes to live is obsessed with getting a cup of coffee. These and other smart\, provocative\, humorous and emotionally charged stories will surprise and delight you. \nSusan Isa Efros‘ work has appeared in Amelia\, Ascent\, Christopher Street\, the Feminist Art Journal\, Narrative Magazine\, the Patterson Literary Review\, Paris Transcontinental\, Yellow Silk and is forthcoming in Juked. She is a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Funny Times. She is the author of Walking Vanilla\, a novel\, and the editor of This Is Women’s Work\, an anthology. Susan was awarded a Marin Arts Council Individual Writers Grant in 2003 for her short fiction\, “The Ozzie and Harriet Factor.” She lives in Marin County with Jerilyn Gilbert\, her partner of 30 years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-isa-efros/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T053945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T053945Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the Holidays w/ Poetry + Jazz
DESCRIPTION:Ring in the holidays with a swingin’ evening of poetry and jazz\, featuring: \n\nCharles Curtis Blackwell\nJazz Poet Extraordinaire\nLucho\nCubano Saxophonist\n\n…and a lineup of poets and musicians from both sides of the Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/celebrating-the-holidays-w-poetry-jazz/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161209T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161118T031323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161118T031323Z
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SUMMARY:Two-Faced Land: Tongo Eisen-Martin + Leila Farmjami
DESCRIPTION:“It is a backward version of birth / Which is better stated as a re-birth” (Sun Ra). Revolutionary poet Tongo Eisen-Martin (Someone’s Dead Already) and poet and translator Leila Farjami read from their work. \nTongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker and educator who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of black people throughout the United States. He has taught in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California county jails. He is also a revolutionary poet who uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. His latest book of poems\, Someone’s Dead Already\, was nominated for a California Book Award. \nLeila Farjami\, a poet\, psychotherapist\, and literary translator is the author of seven poetry books in Persian. As an immigrant who has lived mainly in US since an early age\, her poems capture her experiences in the diaspora in addition to the history of her formative years in Iran as a child witnessing war and daily violence. Farjami’s current projects include publication her translated texts and poems in English\, and the publication of a comprehensive volume of Sylvia Plath’s poetry in Persian. \nProgrammer Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi speaker\, poet\, and visual artist who lives in San Francisco. Her poems have appeared in various publications such as Streetnotes\, Amerarcana\, Eleven Eleven\, and Dusie. Her chapbook Triangle Squared was published by Bootstrap Press. She is currently working on a project with poet Patrick James Dunagan involving translation of the poetry of Hafez into English.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-faced-land-tongo-eisen-martin-leila-farmjami/
LOCATION:The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161201T025439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161201T025439Z
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SUMMARY:West Marin Review Launch party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an informal evening featuring authors and artists reading from and talking about their work published in the new West Marin Review\, Volume 7. This award-winning literary and arts journal features prose\, poetry\, and art selected from contributors from across the nation\, but the focus this night is on local writers and artists\, several from San Francisco. West Marin Review is published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists\, writers\, and editors from West Marin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-launch-party/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20161208T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161130T032246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161130T032246Z
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SUMMARY:Resistance\, Radio Heart
DESCRIPTION:MC: PAUL OCAMPO\, KSW Board Member \nparty \nto gather artists\, activists\, citizens of the bay area\, in resistance and solidarity. we will dance\, drink\, and poetry. \nchapbook launch \nto celebrate the publication of radio heart; or\, how robots fall out of love (finishing line press\, 2016) by margaret rhee.\n\nmany of these poems were written with the guidance of truong tran and kearny street workshop. we want to take time to honor where the poetry emerged from\, we write together\, and not alone. \nfeaturing \nDEBBIE YEE\nVIRGIE TOVAR\nSEAN Y MANZANO\nMARIA FIANI\nDANIEL REDMAN\nISELA FORD with\nMARGARET RHEE \naward ceremony \nto honor artist and poet TRUONG TRAN for years of service\, mentorship\, and friendship to writers and artists of color in the bay area. to celebrate and express our gratitude for his indomitable\, gorgeous radical spirit fighting for what is fair and good. \nthis award will be given by CAPRE (Concerned Artists and Poets for Racial Equity) in light of the post-elections\, and the need for resistance. \nwe will celebrate truong with testimonials of his mentorship and impact of his art and poetry\, we also invite attendees to share their words of resistance in the space. \nALSO\, \non display\, speciality books by graphic design firm THE MYSTERY PARADE: themysterparade.com \nCAKE – DRINKS – PRETTY THINGS \nBIOS: \nIsela Ford\, born in Mexico and later emigrated to San Francisco\, in the mid-seventies\, is committed to improving the lives of marginalized peoples and creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. Growing up in the Mission District during the 1970’s and 1980’s set the foundation for learning\, growing\, and appreciating people and cultures from all walks of life. Her appreciation and committment uplifting disenfranchised people\, particularly people of color\, led her to work for the SF Department of Public Health\, specifically working with adults in SF jails for over 15 years. \nMaria is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnic Studies and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley. Her academic work focuses on P.T.S.D.\, moral injury\, and suicide; in addition to her academic life\, she is an ARC fellow\, a YBCA arts fellow\, co-founder of the Life Writing Student and New Scholar Network and co-founder of an art collective titled (Un)Forbidden: a Valediction \nPaul was born in the Philippines and immigrated to the US at eleven years old. He earned a Master’s degree in Asian American Studies at UCLA and MFA in creative writing at ASU. He has been published in anthologies and magazines including Veterans of War\, Veterans of Peace and The New Engagement. He currently works at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus. \nVirgie Tovar travels around the world lecturing on the social effects of fat discrimination and diet culture. She is the founder of Babecamp\, a 4 week online course designed for women who want to break up with diet culture but don’t know how. She started thr hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. Tovar has been featured by the New York Times\, Tech Insider\, Al Jazeera and NPR.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistance-radio-heart/
LOCATION:Kearny Street Workshop\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161129T060910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T060910Z
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: “Sugar”
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on December 8\, 2016\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito to hear the following acclaimed authors read from their works on the sweet theme of “Sugar.” Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10. \nJonathan Cardew’s stories\, interviews\, and articles appear or are forthcoming in Atticus Review\, Flash\, The Forge\, JMWW\, Rocky Mountain Revival\, Smokelong Quarterly\, and Segue\, among others. He holds an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University\, and he teaches English at Milwaukee Area Technical College\, where he co-edits The Phoenix Literary and Arts Magazine. He was a finalist in this year’s Best Small Fictions. \nRussell Dillon is the editor of Big Bell magazine and author of the chapbook\, Secret Damage\, as well as the full-length collection\, Eternal Patrol. Formerly a James Merrill fellow at the Vermont Studio Center\, he is also a regular participant in the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Workshop\, and his work has appeared in Parthenon West\, Green Mountain Review\, Coldfront\, H_NGM_N\, Forklift Ohio\, and others.  He began life in New York\, continued it in San Francisco\, and now continues it further in New York. \nGrant Faulkner likes big stories and small stories. He is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of publications\, including The New York Times\, Poets & Writers\, Writer’s Digest\, The Southwest Review\, PANK\, and Gargoyle. He’s recently published a collection of one hundred 100-word stories\, Fissures\, two of which are included in Best Small Fictions 2016. He has a book of essays on creativity coming out with Chronicle Books in the fall of 2017. \nChristine Hale is the author of A Piece of Sky\, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations (Apprentice House Press\, 2016)\, which the Los Angeles Review of Books calls “a portrait of a consciousness…[that] will bruise you…even leave you permanently marked.” Her prose has appeared in Role Reboot\, Arts & Letters\, Spry\, Shadowgraph\, Hippocampus\, and Watershed Review\, among other publications. Her debut novel Basil’s Dream (Livingston Press\, 2009) received honorable mention in the 2010 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. A fellow of MacDowell\, Ucross\, Hedgebrook\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Christine Hale earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. She teaches in the Antioch University-Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA Program as well as the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville\, NC. \nMatt Hart’s most recent books are Radiant Action (H_NGM_N Books\, 2016) and Radiant Companion (Monster House Press\, 2016). A co-founder and the editor-in-chief of Forklift\, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry\, Cooking\, & Light Industrial Safety\, he lives in Cincinnati where he is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and the Chair of Liberal Arts at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He plays guitar and shouts in the bands TRAVEL and THE LOUDEST SOUNDER. \nKristie Betts Letter‘s fiction is currently nominated for a Pushcart\, has appeared in The Massachusetts Review\, The North Dakota Quarterly\, Washington Square\, Passages North\, Pangolin Papers\, The Southern Humanities Review and KT Literary represents her novel The Three Marlena.  Her poetry book Under-Worldly comes out from Editorial L’Aleph in early 2017. She’s won several teaching awards for forcing Hamlet on high school seniors\, and also plays a mean game of pub trivia. \nJaney Skinner is working on a novel about the struggle for dignity in the midst of war\, as one character fights to keep his community safe from violence\, and another throws himself into combat. This story draws on her experience working for human rights in Latin America. She is the author of several short stories\, including three published in KYSO Flash. One of those\, “Carnivores\,” is included in Best Small Fictions 2016\, edited by Stuart Dybek with Tara Masih. She has also written nonfiction\, most recently several chapters in the 2nd edition of Foundations for Community Health Workers (Jossey-Bass\, 2016). She was thrilled to attend San Francisco’s only juried writing conference\, LitCamp\, in 2013 and 2014\, and the Napa Valley Writers Conference in 2011. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature (Brown University) and a Master’s in Public Health (U.C. Berkeley). She teaches at City College of San Francisco. \nWhy There Are Words takes place every second Thursday of the month\, when people come from San Francisco\, the North Bay\, the East Bay\, the South Bay–everywhere–to crowd the house. The brainchild of Peg Alford Pursell\, this literary goodness has been going strong for almost seven years. Why There Are Words is going national in 2017\, and is now an independent press\, WTAW Press.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sugar/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20161208T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T001033
CREATED:20161017T231913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161017T231913Z
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SUMMARY:Two Voices Salon w/ Chris Andrews on César Aira
DESCRIPTION:Chris Andrews joins us to talk about his newest translation\, Ema\, the Captive\, from the prolific Argentine writer César Aira. \nMore event details to come. \nChris Andrews is a translator and professor at the University of Western Sydney\, Australia. He has translated numerous books by César Aira and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño\, as well as a critical study of poetry and science and a collection of poems. \nCésar Aira is an Argentine author and translator who has written more than 80 novels and translated and edited works from multiple languages. Aira also writes regularly for the Spanish newspaper El País. In 1996 he received a Guggenheim scholarship\, and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. \nSnacks and beverages provided\, please join us for the final Salon of 2016!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-voices-salon-w-chris-andrews-on-cesar-aira/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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