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SUMMARY:Meaghan O'Connell with Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Meaghan O’Connell discusses her new memoir\, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I was Ready with Lydia Kiesling. \n\nPraise for And Now We Have Everything \n\nI began And Now We Have Everything on a Friday evening and was finished with it by Saturday afternoon–and that was with house guests to entertain and two children to keep alive! Meaghan O’Connell’s honesty\, humor\, vulnerability\, and willingness to explore motherhood in all of its messy complexities made me feel understood in a way few books do. I never wanted it to end. A necessary\, brilliant debut.”—Edan Lepucki\, author of California and Woman No. 17 \n  \n“Meaghan O’Connell writes with bracing clarity about the milk-soaked days of pregnancy and early parenthood\, and I (truly) laughed and cried reading her account of crossing the great human divide. Maybe there are parents who don’t have to wrestle with themselves and their spouses for a free hour\, who dance out of the delivery room feeling sexy and serene\, but I want to throw them out a window and then stay inside and talk to Meaghan about how life really is. The biggest compliment of all: I used several hours of daylight childcare hours reading this book\, just because I didn’t want to put it down.”—Emma Straub \n\n“O’Connell’s honest\, heartbreaking\, and hilarious book about motherhood and identity is unlike anything I’ve ever read. And Now We Have Everything is a smart\, tell-it-like-it-is essay collection from a much-needed voice.”—Esmé Weijun Wang\, author of The Border of Paradise \n\nAbout And Now We Have Everything \n\nA raw\, funny\, and fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up. \n  \nWhen Meaghan O’Connell got accidentally pregnant in her twenties and decided to keep the baby\, she realized that the book she needed — a brutally honest\, agenda-free reckoning with the emotional and existential impact of motherhood — didn’t exist. So she decided to write it herself. \n  \nAnd Now We Have Everything is O’Connell’s exploration of the cataclysmic\, impossible-to-prepare-for experience of becoming a mother. With her dark humor and hair-trigger B.S. detector\, O’Connell addresses the pervasive imposter syndrome that comes with unplanned pregnancy\, the fantasies of a “natural” birth experience that erode maternal self-esteem\, post-partum body and sex issues\, and the fascinating strangeness of stepping into a new\, not-yet-comfortable identity.Channeling fears and anxieties that are still taboo and often unspoken\, And Now We Have Everything is an unflinchingly frank\, funny\, and a visceral motherhood story for our times\, about having a baby and staying\, for better or worse\, exactly yourself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meaghan-oconnell-with-lydia-kiesling/
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:Melissa Stein / Terrible Blooms
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is so excited to host the launch party for Melissa Stein’s second book of poems! Don’t miss it\, friends—more deets to come soon. \nIn this lush\, disturbing second collection from Melissa Stein\, exquisite images are salvaged from harm and survival. Set against the natural world’s violence—both ordinary and sublime—pain shines jewel-like out of these poems\, illuminating what lovers and families conceal. Stein uses her gifts for persona and lyric richness to build worlds that are vivid\, intricate\, tough\, sexy\, and raw: “over and over // life slapping you in the face / till you’re newly burnished / flat-out gasping and awake.” Breathless with risk and redemption\, Terrible Blooms shows how loss claims us and what we reclaim. \n— \n“Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” —The New York Times \nQuarry \nAs you slept\nI was thinking about the quarry\,\nabout light going deeper\ninto earth\, into rock\, the hurt\nof light hitting layers\nthat should be hidden\,\nthat should be buried\,\nand how when it rained\nfor a long time that absence filled\nwith suffering\, and we swam. \n— \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible blooms (Copper Canyon Press) and Rough Honey\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, selected by Mark Doty. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, The American Poetry Review\, Best New Poets\, Harvard Review\, New England Review\, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, and Yaddo. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/melissa-stein-terrible-blooms/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour Featuring Yves St. Croissant
DESCRIPTION:Created by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT YVES\nContrary to her picture perfect exterior Yves Saint Croissant is a rebel heart who’s always romping around with the punks\, queers and club kidz. She’s immersed herself in a culture-making crowd both past and present and is headed straight to the top with them right by her side.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour-featuring-yves-st-croissant/
LOCATION:Oakland Main Library\, 125 14th St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her new Maisie Dobbs mystery\, To Die But Once. \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of To Die But Once by calling the store (510) 704-8222 and speaking to one of our booksellers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the months following Britain’s declaration of war on Germany\, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public\, and the threat of invasion rises\, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. \nMaisie’s investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld’s most powerful men\, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. Yet when a final confrontation approaches\, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future–and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. \nJacqueline Winspear’s  bestselling Maisie Dobbs series includes In This Grave Hour\, Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a New York Times bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, Winspear now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Poems Under the Dome
DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars! \nSpeak in verse in the belly of the beast! \nAll are welcome to celebrate National Poetry Month inside beautiful San Francisco City Hall. This unique FREE event invites ALL AGES to share a poem or enjoy the magic of the spoken word. Put your name in the hat\, and reading slots will be drawn throughout the evening. \nSerious folks who want a chance to ‘win’ a guaranteed reading spot can check www.poemdome.net in April to see which open mics we’ll be visiting to draw names throughout the month. If you host an open mic in San Francisco\, and would like a Poem Dome volunteer to attend your event and do a drawing in April\, please leave a comment here. \nReaders are permitted ONE poem\, not to exceed 3 minutes. The shorter your piece\, the more people we can get up to the mic. \nThursday\, April 19th 2018\nSan Francisco City Hall – North Light Court\n5:30-8pm sharp!\nFREE & ALL AGES\nwww.poemdome.net \nNOTE:\nPoetry only. No music/songs.\nMusical instruments are not allowed into City Hall without prior registration\, which the hosts cannot accommodate.\nThank you for your cooperation 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/13th-annual-poems-under-the-dome/
LOCATION:San Franscico City Hall\, San Francisco City Hall
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Building Legacies: 45 Years of Art and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us at Building Legacies: 45 Years of Art and Resistance to celebrate 45 years of community\, art\, and social justice with Kearny Street Workshop on Thursday\, April 19\, 2018! \nThe evening includes a VIP dinner\, specially prepared by Sita Bhaumik ofPeople’s Kitchen Collective\, and presentation of the KSW Ignite Award to a contemporary artist who embodies KSW’s core values. \nA dessert reception follows featuring a conversation between celebrated novelist and playwright\, Jessica Hagedorn\, and award-winning journalist\,Bernice Yeung\, plus a special performance by Bay Area rising star\, rapper and poet\, Ruby Ibarra. \nVIP Dinner $50 | $40 (early bird): 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Dinner prepared by Sita Bhaumik of People’s Kitchen Collective\, KSW Ignite Award presentation. Plus entrance to the dessert reception featuring Jessica Hagedorn\, Bernice Yeung\, and Ruby Ibarra. \nReception $30 | $25 (early bird): 7:30 p.m. – 10 p.m. Jessica Hagedorn in discussion with Bernice Yeung\, special performance by Ruby Ibarra. \nA limited number of early bird tickets are available until February 28\, 2018. \nHosted by the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-legacies-45-years-of-art-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco\, 750 Kearny Street 3rd Floor\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Words and Music Double Bill\, Steve Dalachinsky ||| Cosmic Diaspora: Jake Marmer\, John Schott\, Joshua Horowitz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, as The Poetry Center Reading Room transforms into a one-night-only performance space\, for a very special evening of improvised music and poetry deployed out of the spirit of the music and related impulses. It’s unlikely that any one poet has been as immersed\, and for so long\, in the New York and European jazz and improvised music scenes\, or has collaborated in some manner with as many of its extraordinary artists\, as has Steve Dalachinsky. He\, among other participatory roles\, has written liner notes for the recordings of Anthony Braxton\, Charles Gayle\, James “Blood” Ulmer\, Rashied Ali\, Roy Campbell\, Matthew Shipp\, and Roscoe Mitchell\, among others. Tonight\, visiting San Francisco on a rare West Coast excursion\, he’ll share the bill with Bay Area poetry and music trio Cosmic Diaspora\, fresh from their own turn through New York City\, as part of guitarist/composer John Schott’s week-long residency at The Stone\, the famed improvised music space run by John Zorn\, now in its revived venue at The New School in Manhattan. Besides the extraordinary Mr Schott on guitars\, Cosmic Diaspora features Joshua Horowitz on keyboards and accordion\, and Jake Marmer\, voice and poetry. This event is free and open to the public. \n“He lives the music\, and his poems capture its heat and illumination.” —Francis Davis\, on Steve Dalachinsky \nSteve Dalachinsky was born in Brooklyn (1946) after the last big war and has managed to survive lots of little wars. His book The Final Nite & Other Poems: Complete Notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook 1987–2006 (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2006) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. His latest CDs are The Fallout of Dreams with Dave Liebman and Richie Beirach (RogueArt\, 2014) and ec(H)o-system with the French art-rock group\, the Snobs (Bambalam\, 2015). He has received both the Kafka and Acker Awards and is a 2014 recipient of a Chevalier D’ le Ordre des Artes et Lettres. His poem “Particle Fever” was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His books include: Fools Gold (feral press\, 2014). A Superintendent’s Eyes (revised and expanded\, Autonomedia/Unbearables\, revised and expanded\, 2013/14). flying home\, a collaboration with German visual artist Sig Bang Schmidt (Paris Lit Up Press\, 2015). “The Invisible Ray” (Overpass Press\, 2016) with artwork by Shalom Neuman.\, Frozen Heatwave\, a collaboration with Yuko Otomo (Luna Bissonte Prods\, 2017) and Black Magic (New Feral Pressm\, 2017). His column “outtakes” appears regularly in The Brooklyn Rail. His most recent audio release is With Shelter Gone\, a full length 12-inch LP on the German label Psych.KG\, and his latest book is Where Night and Day Become One – the French Poems (a selection 1983-2017) (Great Weather for Media\, 2018). He lives\, with Yuko Otomo\, in New York City. \nCosmic Diaspora. Near the close of 2017\, in a burst of verbal improv\, John Schott wrote this: \n“I love my band Cosmic Diaspora with pianist/accordionist Josh Horowitz (Veretski Pass\, Budowitz) and poet Jake Marmer(Jazz Talmud). Josh and I come up with little loose compositions to serve as accompaniments to Jake’s poems\, which are mostly fixed but allow for spontaneous elaborations and disruptions. It’s a very tricky thing\, finding the right amount of activity and density\, so as not to overwhelm the listener\, but allow them to take in the words. I like Jake Marmer’s poetry very\, very much. He has the wonderful quality of savoring the English language from a non-Native speaker’s perspective — he immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine when he was a teenager. He also thoughtfully works through various Jewish and Rabbinic texts and tropes in his work\, which creatively stimulate me as well. Josh Horowitz is both a virtuoso pianist and accordionist with a jaw-dropping\, encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish music\, Jazz\, and Classical music — truly one of the most remarkable musicians I’ve ever met. Like\, he published an article in a learned German musical journal with a ground-breaking discovery about Bach’s puzzle canons. He is completely conversant with the McCoy/Herbie/Keith vocabulary\, and can casually quote the opening to Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in an improvisation. Also\, he’s one of the greatest authorities/educators on Jewish music in the world\, period. But in this project\, he’s totally out of all of his boxes\, and sort of free-floating in a world without definitions. \n“We recently played at a very special house concert venue in Palo Alto that was filmed. Here’s a selection:” \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCosmic Diaspora in performance:\n• Warp\n• Panic\n• Turbine\n• Cosmo-Chameleon\n• Purple Rocks \nVideos\, Interview\, Review:\n• John Tchicai and Steve Dalachinsky\n• Steve Dalachinsky and Dave Liebman at The Stone\n• Steve Dalachinsky and The Snobs\n• Steve Dalachinsky interviewed by Lisa Chau in The Huffington Post\n• Steve Dalachinsky in the New York Times \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/words-and-music-double-bill-steve-dalachinsky-cosmic-diaspora-jake-marmer-john-schott-joshua-horowitz/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Translator Walks into a Bar with Jessica Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Translator Jessica Cohen will discuss the joys and challenges of rendering the work of some of the finest Israeli writers into English. Translators are bridge-builders between different languages and cultures\, and the bridge between Hebrew and English can be particularly difficult. Cohen will consider different ways of contextualizing Israeli cultural references for English-language readers\, and the particular difficulties posed by jokes and humor. She will focus especially on David Grossman’s award-winning A Horse Walks into a Bar\, which employs humor (often of the dark variety) more to unsettle than to entertain. \nFree admission with free garage parking on Pierce Street between Ellis and Eddy streets. \nCo-presented with the Jewish Community Library and the Consulate General of Israel. \n  \n\n\n\n\nJessica Cohen translates contemporary Israeli prose and poetry. She has translated some of Israel’s finest writers\, including David Grossman\, Etgar Keret\, Assaf Gavron\, Rutu Modan\, Amir Gutfreund\, Yael Hedaya\, Ronit Matalon and Tom Segev\, as well as with prominent screenwriters such as Ari Folman and Ron Leshem.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-translator-walks-into-a-bar-with-jessica-cohen/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Library\, 1835 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94115\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Unrest
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime UNREST at Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St. San Francisco\, on Thursday April 19th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature Yang Huang (My Old Faithful)\, Sumiko Saulson (Somnalia)\, Dominica Phetteplace\, Caitlin Myer\, and Ishita Arora.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-unrest/
LOCATION:Cinnabar\, 397 Ellis St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joanna Scutts
DESCRIPTION:Joanna Scutts discusses her new book\, The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hills Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It. \n\nPraise for The Extra Woman \n\n“The fascinating and formidable Marjorie Hillis has at last found her rightful biographer\, champion\, and exegete in Joanna Scutts. This is a beautifully written\, insightful\, and wise account of the life and work of an important but heretofore largely unremembered writer\, wit\, and proto-feminist.” — Rosie Schaap\, author of Drinking with Men \n\n“Long before Girls\, Carrie Bradshaw\, and Mary Tyler Moore\, Marjorie Hillis inspired women to live more independently as ‘Live-Aloners\,’ and she deserves more recognition than she gets. Joanna Scutts’ account of Hillis and the cultural transformations she made possible is as witty\, forthright\, and elegant as its subject.” — Lauren Elkin\, author of Flâneuse \n\n“Scutts should feel proud that she did what she set out to do: return Hillis to her rightful place in the pantheon of women who made it possible for the rest of us to enjoy that freedom. ‘Recovering the spirit of daring that defined the Live-Alone heyday can remind us that a different story is always possible\,’ Scutts writes\, ‘and might just inspire us anew\, to resist and rebel against convention\, and to fight to create the life we really want.’ Here’s hoping every reader has the chance to do just that.” — Ellen McCarthy\, Washington Post \n\nAbout The Extra Woman \n\nFrom the flapper to The Feminine Mystique\, a cultural history of single women in the city through the reclaimed life of glamorous guru Marjorie Hillis. \n  \nYou’ve met the extra woman: she’s sophisticated\, she lives comfortably alone\, she pursues her passions unabashedly\, and—contrary to society’s suspicions—she really is happy. Despite multiple waves of feminist revolution\, today’s single woman is still mired in judgment or\, worse\, pity. But for a brief\, exclamatory period in the late 1930s\, she was all the rage. A delicious cocktail of cultural history and literary biography\, The Extra Woman transports us to the turbulent and transformative years between suffrage and the sixties\, when\, thanks to the glamorous grit of one Marjorie Hillis\, single women boldly claimed and enjoyed their independence. \n  \nMarjorie Hillis\, pragmatic daughter of a Brooklyn preacher\, was poised for reinvention when she moved to the big city to start a life of her own. Gone were the days of the flirty flapper; ladies of Depression-era New York embraced a new icon: the independent working woman. Hillis was already a success at Vogue when she published a radical self-help book in 1936: Live Alone and Like It: A Guide for the Extra Woman. With Dorothy Parker–esque wit\, she urged spinsters\, divorcées\, and “old maids” to shed derogatory labels and take control of their lives\, and her philosophy became a phenomenon. From the importance of a peignoir to the joy of breakfast in bed (alone)\, Hillis’s tips made single life desirable and chic. \n  \nIn a style as irresistible as Hillis’s own\, Joanna Scutts\, a leading cultural critic\, explores the revolutionary years following the Live-Alone movement\, when the status of these “brazen ladies” peaked and then collapsed. Other innovative lifestyle gurus set similar trends that celebrated guiltless female independence and pleasure: Dorothy Draper’s interior design smash\, Decorating Is Fun!transformed apartments; Irma Rombauer’s warm and welcoming recipe book\, The Joy of Cooking\, reassured the nervous home chef that she\, too\, was capable of decadent culinary feats. By painting the wider picture\, Scutts reveals just how influential Hillis’s career was\, spanning decades and numerous best sellers. As she refashioned her message with every life experience\, Hillis proved that guts\, grace\, and perseverance would always be in vogue. \n  \nWith this vibrant examination of a remarkable life and profound feminist philosophy\, Joanna Scutts at last reclaims Marjorie Hillis as the original queen of a maligned sisterhood. Channeling Hillis’s charm\, The Extra Woman is both a brilliant exposé of women who forged their independent paths before the domestic backlash of the 1950s trapped them behind picket fences\, and an illuminating excursion into the joys of fashion\, mixology\, decorating\, and other manifestations of shameless self-love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joanna-scutts/
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:Åsne Seierstad / Two Sisters
DESCRIPTION:Two Sisters\, by the international bestselling author Åsne Seierstad\, tells the unforgettable story of a family divided by faith. Sadiq and Sara\, Somali immigrants raising a family in Norway\, one day discover that their teenage daughters Leila and Ayan have vanished—and are en route to Syria to aid the Islamic State. Seierstad’s riveting account traces the sisters’ journey from secular\, social democratic Norway to the front lines of the war in Syria\, and follows Sadiq’s harrowing attempt to find them. \nEmploying the same mastery of narrative suspense she brought toThe Bookseller of Kabul and One of Us\, Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms\, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family’s crisis from the inside. Eventually\, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war\, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters\, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom—even after they marry ISIS fighters. Two Sisters is a relentless thriller and a feat of reporting with profound lessons about belief\, extremism\, and the meaning of devotion. \n— \nPraise for Åsne Seierstad’s One of Us (2015)\, a New York Times Book Review ‘10 Best Books of 2015’ selection: \n“Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood\, [One of Us] has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and\, by implication\, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written\, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling . . . The book attains an almost unbearable weight . . . One of Us must have been difficult to write\, and yet from the opening pages it has an irresistible force.” —Eric Schlosser\, The New York Times Book Review \n“‘Utøya’ and ‘July 22nd’ assume new meaning for me when I read [One of Us]. Once again\, that day becomes something concrete\, not a phenomenon\, not an affair\, not an argument in a political discussion but a dead body bent over a stone at the water’s edge.”—Karl Ove Knausgaard\, The New Yorker \n“One of Us reads like a true crime novel\, but it has the journalistic chops to back it up . . . [It] is the story of Norway\, its people\, and the lengths one will go to feel like they belong. Not only a stunning achievement in journalism\, it’s a touchstone on how to write about tragedy with detail\, honesty\, and compassion.”—Samantha Edwards\, The A.V. Club\n— \nÅsne Seierstad is an award-winning Norwegian journalist and writer known for her work as a war correspondent. She is the author of One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway—and Its Aftermath\, The Bookseller of Kabul\, One Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal\,Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War\, and With Their Backs to the World: Portraits of Serbia. She lives in Oslo\, Norway.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/asne-seierstad-two-sisters/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexis Rhone Fancher + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:** THIS IS A READING OF EROTIC POETRY. ADULTS ONLY. **\n\n\n\nAlexis Rhone Fancher is a professionally trained theatre actress who gave it all up for poetry. She is the author of How I Lost My Virginity To Michael Cohen and other heart stab poems\, (2014)\, State of Grace: The Joshua Elegies\, (2015)\, and her latest erotic collection\, Enter Here (2017). She is published in Best American Poetry 2016\, Rattle\, Slipstream\, Plume\, Nashville Review\, Diode\, Glass\, Tinderbox\, and elsewhere. Her photos are published worldwide\, including the covers of Witness\, Heyday\, The Chiron Review\, and Nerve Cowboy. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee\, Alexis is poetry editor of Cultural Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles. www.alexisrhonefancher.com\n\n\n\n\n\nD.A. Powell is the author of five collections\, including Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry\, the Shelley Memorial Prize\, and an Arts & Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.\n\nCritic Steph Burt\, writing in the New York Times\, said of D. A. Powell “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original\, and no poet as original is this accessible.” \nA former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University\, Powell has taught at Stanford\, Columbia\, University of Texas at Austin\, University of Iowa’s Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and Davidson College. He is a Professor at University of San Francisco and lives in San Francisco. \nPowell’s most recent book is Repast: Tea\, Lunch & Cocktails\, a reissue of his first three collections with an introduction by novelist David Leavitt.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexis-rhone-fancher-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's 'The Naughty Bits'
DESCRIPTION:••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••SHOW DETAILS \nThursday\, April 19th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Evening of Scandalous Stories\, Songs & Games includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ Pansexual Food Anthropologist Hannah Hoffman \n❤ Kinky & Blind storyteller Marco Salsiccia \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by the brilliant Rachel Lark \n❤ Pitch your Naughty Bits true story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com by March 30th \n❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ WIN Toyrific Pervy Grand Prizes from We-Vibe & B-Vibe \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \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! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a Sexual Folklorist\, Storyteller\, entrepreneur\, teacher\, catalyst\, coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling (“The nation’s original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about storytelling’s power to connect strangers. A former sex party producer & adult dating site community manager\, she founded Bawdy Storytelling\, a multi-city brand of sex-positive self advocacy that’s changing the world and making our relationships more authentic and accessible. Dixie has presented and hosted at Yale Sex Week\, Kink.com’s Bondage Awards\, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s series ‘Uninhibited: About Sex’\, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference\, Dark Odyssey kink conferences\, FetFest kink events\, and more\, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage\, Bona Fide Storytelling and BawdySlam shows. \nAs a storyteller\, Dixie’s stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own Bawdy Storytelling podcast (which was selected by both Esquire.com & Uproxx as a top 5 ‘Best Sex Podcast’) Ping her (she likes that) at @Bawdy\, facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Marco Salsiccia is a non-monogamous\, kinky\, geeky\, and silly Bay Area native who also happens to be fully blind. A San Francisco resident since 2002\, he was an accomplished animator and VFX artist before suddenly losing his vision in 2014. He now works as an accessibility specialist\, consulting and making apps and sites functional for the blind/visually impaired and other disabled people. Some of his interests include food\, playing and making board games accessible\, accessibility advocacy\, the San Jose Sharks\, the symphony\, checking out munches and parties with his partner\, fun dates\, and annoying his cat. FL: Magrittetf \n❤ Hannah Hoffman is a pansexual\, polyamorous food anthropologist who hosts her own quarterly vagina celebrations (no\, you can’t come :)) She’s still glowing from the success of her academic paper on Gay Men (specifically Bears) and Food\, which was the hit of the Association of Food Historians and Anthropologists conference\, and believes that you should know that food geeks are some of the sexiest\, most hedonistic people in existence. Born and raised in Berkeley but determined to see the world\, Hannah gleefully left for grad school in New York City and later LA\, but she kept returning to the Bay Area because it’s the most sex-positive city on Earth. She makes a mean donut. \n❤ Rachel Lark is a San Francisco based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast and Salon.com and she tours regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. In March 2017 she released her third album\, They’ve Done Studies\, and produced a multi-media rock opera to accompany the album\, which she brought on tour with her band\, The Damaged Goods. She is currently producing a concert film of the event and working on her next album. Find out more at rachellark.com. \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-the-naughty-bits/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy: "Hoarding as Écriture"
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Lecture Series]\nDodie Bellamy: “Hoarding as Écriture” \nThroughout her career\, Dodie Bellamy has undermined the fantasy of the autonomous subject. Her work compulsively explores the permeable boundaries between self and other\, the conflicting desires to merge with the outside and to protect oneself from invasion. Bellamy will discuss her use of appropriation to trouble the ever-wavering relation between self and culture. For her\, cut-ups\, collage\, citations\, and rewritings are more than literary techniques; they betray a libidinal urge to devour and spit up the world. \nDodie Bellamy writes genre-bending works that focus on sexuality\, politics\, and narrative experimentation\, challenging the distinctions between fiction\, essay\, and poetry. Her most recent collection is When the Sick Rule the World. Her chapbook\, The Beating of Our Hearts\, was published in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. With Kevin Killian she edited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative 1977-1997 (2017). Also with Killian she curated the 2018 exhibit There’s a Dark Secret in Me: Precarity\, Exposure\, Camouflage for di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art. \n—\nImage: Tariq Alvi\, “Two Hankies: Pony\, The Bandaged Lady\,” 2005; Linen hanky. Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-hoarding-as-ecriture/
LOCATION:San Francisco Art Institute\, 800 Chestnut St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180420T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180420T203000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann discusses No Immediate Danger
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann-discusses-no-immediate-danger/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180421T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180421T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
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SUMMARY:Full Color: A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION:Full Color: A Staged Reading \nAfro Urban Society and Studio Grand present ‘Full Color’\, a short story written by Itoro Udofia that has been adapted for the stage in a dynamic literary reading. The story follows Inem\, a first generation Nigerian woman returning home after five years of estrangement from her family. We follow her as she grapples with the fractured memories and loss she experiences when attempting to piece her life together amidst family tragedy. Ultimately\, the story is about finding reconciliation with one’s cultural and personal history as a survivor. This reading is to honor Sexual Assault Awareness month and all survivors attempting to find a road to recovery. \nMore Info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/full-color-a-staged-reading/
LOCATION:Studio Grand Oakland\, 3234 Grand Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180421T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180421T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
CREATED:20180303T072614Z
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SUMMARY:Muni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show
DESCRIPTION:Muni Diaries is celebrating 10 years of documenting life in our fair city\, as viewed through the eyes of everyday commuters like you. For the last decade\, more than 4\,000 San Franciscans submitted stories about the hilarity\, and the humanity\, that happens on our journeys between Point A and Point B. There were so many slices of life that needed to be told\, we expanded to include stories that happen all over the 7×7: on Muni and off. We couldn’t have done this without you\, so join us in lighting all 10 birthday candles\, listening to great stories\, and\, as always\, cheering our poets in the Muni Haiku Battle. \nA sneak peek of our birthday lineup: \n– Alexandria Love\, Muni Haiku Battle reigning champion \n– Gwen Carmen\, storyteller extraordinaire \n– Parker Gibbs\, “scene champion and loudmouth about town\,” who you may also know as “DJ Foodcourt” \nFull lineup coming soon! \nGrab a ticket\, and we’ll see you at the Elbo Room on April 21! \nMuni Diaries Live 10th Anniversary Show \nSaturday\, Apr 21\, 2018 \nDoors: 6 p.m.\nShow: 7 p.m. \nElbo Room\n647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \nTake Muni there: J-Church\, 12\, 14\, 22\, 33\, 49\, or BART: 16th or 24th St. Stations
URL:https://litseen.com/event/muni-diaries-live-10th-anniversary-show/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180421T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180421T223000
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CREATED:20180329T032815Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die presents Death is Real with Mount Eerie
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die Presents…\nDeath is Real with Mount Eerie\n+\nspecial appearances by\nScott Ferreter\n& words from\nDr. Michael Fratkin\n@\nThe Swedish American Hall\nDoors at 7pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets here: http://bit.ly/2tO3zBB \nAs a part of Reimagine End of Life . April 16-22\, You’re Going to Die offers another curated entertainment experience proudly presenting great artists as they deserve to be presented: in the concert context of acknowledging their brilliant beaming mortal magic. YG2D Presents curated shows steeped in the context of mortality\, showcasing inspiringly enlivening musical acts with movingly entertaining spoken word. \nYG2D presents Mount Eerie… \nIn 2015 Phil Elverum’s wife\, the French Canadian cartoonist & musician Geneviève Castrée\, was diagnosed with cancer just after giving birth to their first child. She died a year later. Elverum wrote & recorded his Mount Eerie album “A Crow Looked At Me” throughout the fall of 2016 in the same room where Geneviève died\, using mostly her instruments; her guitar\, her bass\, her pick\, her amp\, her old family accordion\, writing the words on her paper. \nThe songs are about the brutal details of that experience\, from the hospitalizations to the grieving\, the specific domestic banalities that become existential in the context of such huge & abrupt loss. These songs are devastating in their straightforward vulnerability. They are pretty & they are deep\, & they find a love that prevails beneath the overwhelming & real sorrow. It is unlike anything else in the Mount Eerie catalog in its unvarnished expressions of personal grief\, metaphor-free. \nYG2D presents Dr. Michael Fratkin… \nFather\, husband\, brother\, son\, and physician\, Dr. Fratkin is dedicated to the well being of his community. Since completing his training\, he has made his home and built his family in rural Northern California. He has served his community in primary care in a community clinic system\, as a medical director of our local hospice\, as a leader in the community hospital medical staff\, and a transformative voice for improving the experience of people facing the end of life. \nThis event is a part of ReImagine End of Life [https://www.letsreimagine.org/]\, co-created by a loose network of artists\, storytellers\, healthcare professionals\, innovators\, designers\, organizations & individuals\, banding together to amplify the end-of-life conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-death-is-real-with-mount-eerie/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180423T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180423T203000
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SUMMARY:BAY AREA GENERATIONS #56
DESCRIPTION:BAY AREA GENERATIONS\, EDITION #56\nMonday\, April 23\, 2018\nat Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland\, CA\n*Free on-street parking after 6pm\n* Beautiful location * Refreshments\n* Steps from 14th Street BART.\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Doors Open with Writers Mixer\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$10 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds\n  \nGuest Curators:  Kristin Cerda\nREADERS\n\nNatasha Dennerstein + Jack Foley\nBonnie McManis + Sara HaBa\nRaluca Ioanid + Mike Murray\nToReadah Mikell + Christine No \nMUSICAL GUEST\n\nTBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-56/
LOCATION:Joyce Gordon Gallery\, 406 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Luis Alberto Urrea: The House of Broken Angels
DESCRIPTION:Luis Alberto Urrea reads from and signs his new novel\, The House of Broken Angels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luis-alberto-urrea-the-house-of-broken-angels/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180423T210000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Kauffman discusses her new novel\, The Gunners. \n\nPraise for The Gunners \n\n“I recommend you read every single thing Rebecca Kauffman writes―start with this beautiful novel\, and start now.” ―Julie Buntin\, author of Marlena \n\n“Kauffman’s prose is restrained in a way that causes it to actually vibrate in places\, and her details are so richly observed they feel like gems\, impossible things mined from deep under the earth. Funny\, raw\, and deeply elegant\, The Gunners is ultimately a meditation on friendship\, that least examined\, most mysterious form of love\, perhaps more sacred for its incompleteness\, for the ways we can never fool ourselves completely into believing we truly know one another.” ―Rufi Thorpe\, author of Dear Fang\, with Love and The Girls from Corona del Mar \n\n“The Gunners explores what it means to have people crawl into your heart and settle in for a lifetime. In this lovely\, truthful novel of six people who have been friends since childhood\, Rebecca Kauffman strips enduring love of all its usual romantic costumery\, and shows us how it actually works.” ―Martha Woodroof\, author of Small Blessings \n\nAbout The Gunners \n\nFollowing her wonderfully received first novel\, Another Place You’ve Never Been\, called “mesmerizing\,” “powerful\,” and “gorgeous\,” by critics all over the country\, Rebecca Kauffman returns with Mikey Callahan\, a thirty-year-old who is suffering from the clouded vision of macular degeneration. He struggles to establish human connections―even his emotional life is a blur. \n  \nAs the novel begins\, he is reconnecting with “The Gunners\,” his group of childhood friends\, after one of their members has committed suicide. Sally had distanced herself from all of them before ending her life\, and she died harboring secrets about the group and its individuals. Mikey especially needs to confront dark secrets about his own past and his father. How much of this darkness accounts for the emotional stupor Mikey is suffering from as he reaches his maturity? And can The Gunners\, prompted by Sally’s death\, find their way to a new day? The core of this adventure\, made by Mikey\, Alice\, Lynn\, Jimmy\, and Sam\, becomes a search for the core of truth\, friendship\, and forgiveness. \n  \nA quietly startling\, beautiful book\, The Gunners engages us with vividly unforgettable characters\, and advances Rebecca Kauffman’s place as one of the most important young writers of her generation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-kauffman/
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:20180424T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180424T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Third Thursday of Every Month \nFeature: Mighty Mike McGee\nopen mic follows \nWillow Glen Library \n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public \nupcoming features:\nJune 21: Lisa Rosenberg\nSeptember 20: David Eisenbach\nOctober 18: David Denny
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library-2/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180424T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180424T190000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
CREATED:20180424T221507Z
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SUMMARY:Journal Release: Nomadic Journal 2017: Wonder (Retro!)
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Nomadic Journal 2017 (Retro!): Wonder! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by TBA and pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA! \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/journal-release-nomadic-journal-2017-wonder-retro/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180424T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180424T200000
DTSTAMP:20260430T165210
CREATED:20180219T072557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T072557Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Brenda Hillman with Jane Gregory
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-brenda-hillman-with-jane-gregory/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180424T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180424T203000
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SUMMARY:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell
DESCRIPTION:Beth Pickens with Brontez Purnell\n\n  \ndiscussing \nYour Art Will Save Your Life \nA candid guidebook about art-making in the midst of oppression \nfrom Feminist Press \n\n\nAs a teenager visiting the Andy Warhol Museum\, Beth Pickens realized the importance of making art. As an adult\, she has dedicated her life to empowering working artists. Intimate yet practical\, Your Art Will Save Your Life helps artists build a sustainable practice while navigating the world of MFAs\, residencies\, and institutional funding. \nBeth Pickens is a Los Angeles-based consultant for artists and arts organizations. She provides career consultation\, grant writing\, fundraising\, and financial\, project\, and strategic planning services for clients across the US. Before relocating to Los Angeles in 2014\, Pickens was based in San Francisco and served as Senior Program Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Managing Director of both RADAR Productions and the Queer Cultural Center. \nBrontez Purnell has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School\, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers\, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!\, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s\, Purnell’s other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film\, “I Want Your Love” (dir. Travis Mathews\, 2012). He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012\, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency\, honored by OutMagazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List\, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian‘s Goldie for Performance/Music. \nWhat has been said about Your Art Will Save Your Life: \n“Offers modest and straightforward suggestions for surviving and thriving in creative endeavors.” —Publishers Weekly \n“I’ve already recommended Your Art Will Save Your Life to all my students and friends. I myself consult it regularly\, for discipline\, inspiration\, and wisdom. This book is crucial\, and Beth Pickens is exactly the person to write it—tough\, friendly\, experienced\, politically incisive\, spiritually wise. A slim\, necessary revelation.” —Maggie Nelson\, author of The Argonauts \n“A survival guide for the creatives among us.” —Nicole Georges\, author of Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home \n“I’m so grateful for this book! I’m buying it for every single creative person in my life.” —Ann Friedman\, host of Call Your Girlfriend \n“If you are a person who needs to make art in order to function\, this book is from your best\, smartest\, coolest\, most insightful\, wise\, learned\, practical\, savvy\, no-bullshit friend who knows you and loves you anyway.” —Lucy Corin\, author of One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses \n“An electrically inspiring\, politically fresh\, and class-conscious guide for artists who wish to engage more deeply with their process\, their careers\, and their lives.” —Michelle Tea\, author of Modern Tarot \n  \n“The self-help book every artist needs! Wish I’d had this book my entire life.” —Ali Liebegott\, author of Cha-Ching!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beth-pickens-with-brontez-purnell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Copper Canyon Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:This reading\, featuring four wonderful poets with new collections from Copper Canyon Press\, is a collaboration between Marin Poetry Center and the Mill Valley Library and will be held at: \nMILL VALLEY LIBRARY\n375 Throckmorton Avenue\nMill Valley \n\n\nDana Levin fourth book is Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press\, 2016). Previous collections include In the Surgical Theatre and Sky Burial\, which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Best American Poetry 2015\, Poem-a-day\, Boston Review\, and Poetry. Levin is a grateful recipient of honors from the National Endowment for the Arts\, PEN\, the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Library of Congress\, as well as the Rona Jaffe\, Whiting and Guggenheim Foundations. She serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.\n\n\n\n\n\nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.”\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Stein is the author of Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, 2018). Her debut collection\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize selected by Mark Doty. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, New England Review\, Tin House\, The Southern Review\, Best New Poets\, and others\, and she has received fellowships from the NEA\, Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, and MacDowell. She is a freelance editor and writer in San Francisco.\n\n\n\n\n\nJavier Jose Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his poems appear or are forthcoming in APR\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press Fall 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/copper-canyon-press-reading/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Laurie Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers. Her work\, encompassing music\, visual art\, poetry\, film and photography\, has challenged and delighted audiences around the world for 40 years. Join Anderson at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for a special performance of her new work\, “All the Things I Lost in the Flood”\, which includes visual images and performances\, along with commentary on some of her iconic work with voice\, electronics\, codes\, narrative styles and digital language.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-anderson/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center of San Francisco\, 3200 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #36 (Music by Michael Also)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. Hosted by TBA with music by Michael Also. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).  \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-36-music-by-michael-also/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate National Poetry Month
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Poetry Month with Europa Grace\, M.I.\, Miyuki\, and Gabriel Christian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Laurel Book Store\, 1423 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Hand To Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #94
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating National Poetry Month with host Marin County Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust\, and teen writers from ForWords Literacy Lab. \nForWords provides instruction and resources to help students develop the ability to write\, speak\, and read effectively and publish their work in print\, video and digital media. \nForWords works with students to foster self-awareness\, confidence\, personal voice and pride in community and culture. \nForWords provides professional development for teachers and direct assistance to our students by partnering with the Bay Area Writing Project at the University of California\, Berkeley and is staffed and advised by an exceptional community of writers\, educators\, artists and digital media experts. \nRebecca Foust’s five books of poetry include Paradise Drive\, reviewed in theTimes Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Recent Recognitions include the CP Cavafy Prize\, the James Hearst Poetry Prize\, American Literary Review’s Fiction Prize\, and the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize as well as fellowships from MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and The Frost Place. Foust is Poet Laureate of Marin County and writes a weekly column for Women’s Voices for Change\, https://womensvoicesforchange.org/category/arts-culture/poetry. \nTime allowing\, we will have our open mic following the reading. Our West End Village restaurant neighbors kindly offer a discount on the evening of the reading. \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouth-words-spoken-out-94/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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