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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nJoin Voz Sin Tinta for our May reading! \n3 FEATURES as always and an open mic to follow!\nBring a friend\, a poem\, some snacks and some wine! \nOpen Mic list goes live at 6:30\, please keep pieces to only 1 and under 4 minutes. \nFeatured Writers this month are:\nAmanda Muniz\nDaniel Ari\nDiana Torres
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-14/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: "The Return"
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on May 10\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito as seven acclaimed authors read on the theme of “The Return. \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nPeter Neil Carroll’s newest collections of poetry are An Elegy for Lovers (Main Street Rag\, 2017)\, The Truth Lies on Earth (Turning Point Press\, 2017)\, and Fracking Dakota: Poems for a Wounded Land (Turning Point Press\, 2017). His poems have appeared in Southern Humanities Review\, Southern Quarterly\, Amsterdam Quarterly\, and many others. \nKirstin Chen‘s new novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle\, among others. Born and raised in Singapore\, she currently resides in San Francisco. www.kirstinchen.com \nWilliam Luvaas’ new novel\, Welcome To Saint Angel with Anaphora Literary Press was just published on March 15\, 2018.  He has also published three other novels and two story collections. www.williamluvaas.com \nLone Mørch is an award-winning author\, photographer and speaker whose work lives at the intersection of art\, body\, identity\, culture and change\, whose latest book is Embody: Intimate Photographic Encounters With Women (Narayana Press\, May 2018). Her photos and essays have been featured in Cosmopolitan\, People\, SF Chronicle\, and many others. www.lonemorch.com \nTim J. Myers’ children’s books have won recognition from the New York Times\, NPR\, and the Smithsonian; he has published three books of adult poetry\, as well as a book of nonfiction on fatherhood\, and has won a major prize in science fiction. www.TimMyersStorySong.com \nAnne Raeff‘s latest book is her second novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm (Counterpoint Press\, February 2018). Her short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us (University of Georgia Press\, 2015) won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. www.anneraeff.com \nBarbara Ridley’s debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017)\, historical fiction set in Europe during WWII\, is based on her mother’s experience as a refugee from the Holocaust. Her work has been published in Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review and Stoneboat\, among others. www.barbararidley.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S. with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:MARX NOW: Karl Marx @ 200 - A Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Opening Statement by Jale Yoldas (Goethe Institut San Francisco) with guest appearances by  Alan Black\, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz\, and Richard Walker. Moderator Frederick Young \nOn the occasion of the 200th Anniversary of Karl Marx’ birthday Goethe-Institut San Francisco and City Lights Booksellers and Publishers will pick up on the tradition of small group study focused on specific texts like Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto. We will concentrate on a few brief passages\, interpret and critically analyze them together with guest speakers well versed in the work of Karl Marx and the audience. The event will begin with readings followed by a moderated round table discussion and open up to the audience after. \nKarl Marx would have celebrated his 200th birthday in 2018. His criticism of capitalism appears even more pertinent today amidst climate crisis\, chronical unemployment and global inequality. A reason to look back and re-read. Marx’s idea that tools and the mode of production of a society determine its political and social structure\, and that human thought is formed by the use of tools and moral positions by interests – insights which Marx and Engels encapsulated in the concept of “historical materialism” – have found their way into many individual sciences\, into sociology\, educational theory\, psychology\, the study of religion\, law\, literary theory\, engineering and the cognitive sciences\, to name only a few. Join us in an evening of discussion examining where we stand in relation to marx and his ideas in contemporary times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marx-now-karl-marx-200-a-reading-discussion/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clemantine Wamariya / The Girl Who Smiled Beads
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Clemantine Wamariya for her extraordinary debut\, The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, and her coauthor Elizabeth Weil\, who collaborated intimately with Clemantine to write this luminescent book. Clemantine and Elizabeth will be in conversation — please join us! \nClemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers\, when neighbors began to disappear\, and when she heard the loud\, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. In 1994\, she and her fifteen-year-old sister\, Claire\, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years migrating through seven African countries\, searching for safety — perpetually hungry\, imprisoned and abused\, enduring and escaping refugee camps\, finding unexpected kindness\, witnessing inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead or alive. \nWhen Clemantine was twelve\, she and her sister were granted refugee status in the United States; there\, in Chicago\, their lives diverged. Though their bond remained unbreakable\, Claire\, who had for so long protected and provided for Clemantine\, was a single mother struggling to make ends meet\, while Clemantine was taken in by a family who raised her as their own. She seemed to live the American dream: attending private school\, taking up cheerleading\, and\, ultimately\, graduating from Yale. Yet the years of being treated as less than human\, of going hungry and seeing death\, could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and one hundred years old. \nIn The Girl Who Smiled Beads\, Clemantine provokes us to look beyond the label of “victim” and recognize the power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful\, and bracingly original\, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to constructing a life on her own terms. \n— \n“Extraordinary and heartrending. Clemantine Wamariya is as fiercely talented as she is courageous.”  — Junot Díaz\, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao \n  \n“Clemantine Wamariya has written a defining\, luminescent memoir that shines a sharp light on the dark forces that roil our age. If you read this book—and once you read the first page\, you will not put it down—you will never think about political violence\, displacement\, or the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship the same way again. Clemantine summons us to follow her fierce and unrelenting example to try to help build the world we wish to see.” —Samantha Power\, author of A Problem from Hell \n— \nClemantine Wamariya is a storyteller and human rights advocate. Born in Kigali\, Rwanda\, displaced by conflict\, Clemantine migrated throughout seven African countries as a child. At age twelve\, she was granted refugee status in the United States and went on to receive a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University. She lives in San Francisco. Author photo by Julia Zave. \nElizabeth Weil is a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine\, a contributing editor to Outside magazine\, and writes frequently for Vogue and other publications. She is the recipient of a New York Press Club Award for her feature reporting\, a Lowell Thomas Award for her travel writing\, and a GLAAD Award for her coverage of LGBT issues. In addition\, her work has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award\, a James Beard Award\, and a Dart Award for coverage of trauma. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two daughters. Author photo by Ana Homonnay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clemantine-wamariya-the-girl-who-smiled-beads/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kent Harrington
DESCRIPTION:Kent Harrington discusses his new novel\, Last Ferry Home\, with Kevin Hunsanger. \n\nPraise  for Kent Harrington \n\n\n“Strong\, hard-edged stuff by a writer in complete control of the narrative. Respected noir veteran Harrington returns with a tough and thoughtful novel about grief and its consequences.” ―Kirkus Reviews \n\n“Delivers quite a punch. The alternating time lines keep readers on their toes and do a stellar job of creating a sense of impending doom. The author also fleshes out several minor characters and story lines with depth and color that add greatly to this noir tale.”―Library Journal \n“Dark Ride is a gripping tale that takes you into the dark and violent heart of obsession. It reads like Jim Thompson interpreted by Quentin Tarentino. This one puts a chilling finger down your spine.” –Michael Connelly \n\nAbout Last Ferry Home \n\nSince his wife’s death at sea\, San Francisco Police Detective Michael O’Higgins has been paralyzed by grief and shame – unable to care for their teenaged daughter\, who saw her mother swept away\, and unable to deal with the daily requirements of his job. Almost a year after his wife’s death\, O’Higgins takes a ferry ride as part of his therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. On the boat\, he meets a charming Indian family: successful young husband\, two lovely daughters\, and a kind\, beautiful wife and mother. \nO’Higgins has no idea that he will meet this woman again on his first day back after bereavement leave\, when he and his partner are called to a Nob Hill mansion to investigate a homicide. The victim is the handsome man O’Higgins met on the ferry\, and his wife\, Asha Chaundhry\, is the obvious suspect. \nAsha Chaundhry becomes the center of O’Higgins’ investigation. The victim’s father\, a prominent Indian politician and business tycoon\, is anxious to keep his son’s death out of the public eye\, and to have the investigation resolved as quickly as possible. As O’Higgins digs into the Chaundhrys’ business and political dealings\, he becomes convinced of Asha’s innocence\, while her father-in-law seeks to isolate her from friends and defenders\, even sending her children back to extended family in India. Increasingly desperate\, Asha turns to O’Higgins for comfort\, in a way that threatens both his recovery and his career. \nLAST FERRY HOME is a riveting novel of grief\, obsession\, recovery and passion from acclaimed author Kent Harrington\, as well as a gripping portrait of a man torn apart by loss\, but looking for something\, anyone\, to believe in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kent-harrington/
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:Jennifer Firestone and Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks\,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse\, forthcoming)\,Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books]\, forthcoming)\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books)\, Holiday (Shearsman Books)\, Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)\, from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics\, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems\, Plays\, Songs\, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-edited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-firestone-and-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th st\, Oakland\, near Broadway\, @ 6pm and will feature readings by a few of the poets to be published in our journal\, Lo Ferris\, Claire Marie Stnacek\, and Daniel Benjamin. Snacks and beverages will be included & we hope to see you there! \nReaders:\nClaire Marie Stancek\nBio: Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, Claire Marie Stancek now lives in Berkeley\, California. She is the author of MOUTHS (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions. These poems are taken from her second book of poetry\, Oil Spell\, which is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2018. \nLo Ferris\nBio: Lo Ferris is a poet and translator living in the East Bay. Their work can also be found in Fence\, Bombay Gin\, and The Atlas Review. \nDaniel Benjamin\nBio: Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley\, researching minoritarian forms of universality in lyric poetry. With Eric Sneathen\, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books\, 2017); with Claire Marie Stancek\, he is the co-editor of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba / Giramondo\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/2122238844723108/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-review-issue-48-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:After Hours: 7th Annual Poetry World Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11th – 7:00pm\nMain Reading Room \nDaniel Handler returns to emcee as baseball and poetry collide to create a fabulous and wacky literary event. Two teams of illustrious poets duke it out using words to swing for the fences. This boisterous slugfest of wordplay\, repartee\, and quips\, mixed with ballpark music\, beer and popcorn\, makes for a great outing. You don’t even have to like poetry or baseball to enjoy this animated and quirky program. \nFeatured Poets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin\, Kai Carlson-Wee\, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo\, Arisa White\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kathleen Winter \nFor adults and high school students only. Pregame refreshments starting at 6:30pm for registered guests. Program starts at 7:00pm. \nRegistration is strongly recommended. Click here to register. \nAdd to my:iCal/Outlook \nWhen:Friday\, May 11\, 2018 \nTime:7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nWhere:Mill Valley Public Library – Main Reading Room\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley\, California\, 94941 \nEvent Type:Library\, Teens \nContact:(415) 389-4292
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-7th-annual-poetry-world-series/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Reading - Eckes\, Seidenberg\, Spencer Smith
DESCRIPTION:  \nEckes\, Seidenberg\, and Spencer Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-eckes-seidenberg-spencer-smith/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brenda Hillman and giovanni singleton
DESCRIPTION:Brenda Hillman and Giovanni Singleton discuss recent work and the role poets can play as activists. \nAbout the poets: \nBrenda Hillman is an activist\, writer\, editor\, and teacher. She has published nine collections of poetry\, all from Wesleyan University Press\, including Practical Water\, for which she won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. Hillman serves on the faculty of Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California\, as the Olivia Filippi professor of poetry. \ngiovanni singleton is a poet\, teacher\, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brenda-hillman-and-giovanni-singleton/
LOCATION:Pt. Reyes Books\, 11315 CA-1\, Pt. Reyes Station\, CA\, 94956\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley\ncities\, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor\, current laureate of Sacramento\, and\nGillian Wegener\, former laureate of Modesto\, will read along with Alhambra students\,\nand other poets who have a long personal association with Martinez.  The theme will be\nthe evolution of ecological stewardship and poetry’s contribution to it. To root that\nevolution\, we will also express the essence of place\, specifically Martinez\, where John\nMuir settled as an adult.\nWHERE:  The John Muir National Historic Site\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\nWHEN:    Saturday\, May 12th\, 5-8 PM\nCOST:      Free\, but reservations required \nContact: Eliot Schain or James McDonald\nPhone: 925-228- 8860\, ext. 6431 (the John Muir House)\nEmail: eschain@martinez.k12.ca.us (Alhambra High School)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/5th-annual-ecopoetry-festival-at-the-john-muir-house/
LOCATION:John Muir House\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\, CA\, 94553\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release II: The Edge of Fruitvale by Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Rite Spot\, a cozy Mission District dive in San Francisco that has been around for 60 years\, as we celebrate the release of Rohan DaCosta‘s The Edge of Fruitvale. \nWith readings by Tongo Eisen-Martin\, Josiahluis Alderete\, Daniel Riddle Rodriguez\, TBD\, and the star of the evening\, Rohan DaCosta\, and music by Azuah\, it’ll be a night in the City to remember. Art work by TBD (for sale) will adorn the walls\, and the artist will speak to their work briefly at the outset of the event. \nDonations will be collected for the performers and the press (suggested $10-20 with no one turned away for lack of funds)\, and books will be available for sale and signature at the end of the event. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-ii-the-edge-of-fruitvale-by-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:The Rite Spot Cafe\, 2099 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:StageWrite presents: Drama\, Trauma\, Dance-O-Rama - Short Plays by Short People
DESCRIPTION:Come see original plays written by fifth graders from SFUSD\, inspired by works of visual art at the de Young Museum\, and performed as staged readings by professional actors with music by The Write-Ons. \nEnter a world where… \nSuperheroes speak secret languages \nFlowers fight nukes \nSilly string is not a plaything \nChimps are chumps \nBedtime meltdowns explode  \n& Old guys take a dirt nap. \n  \nWine reception before and after the show on Saturday to celebrate StageWrite’s 15th anniversary
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stagewrite-presents-drama-trauma-dance-o-rama-short-plays-by-short-people-2/
LOCATION:Brava Theater Center\, 2781 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body)\nAllegra Huston (Say My Name)\nCyrus Farivar (Habeas Data)\nMaw Shein Win (Invisible Gifts: New and Selected Poems)\nC.B. Lee (Not Your Villain)\nIrene Tu (Man Haters comedy show)\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. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-11/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180513T160000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-3/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virginia Eubanks talks about her book: Automating Inequality:  How High-Tech Tools Profile\, Police\, and Punish the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Virginia Eubanks is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University at Albany\, SUNY. She is also the author of Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age. Her writing about technology and social justice has appeared in The American Prospect\, The Nation\, Harper’s and Wired. For two decades\, Eubanks has worked in community technology and economic justice movements.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virginia-eubanks-talks-about-her-book-automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich / The Fact of a Body
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich for her murder-memoir ten years in the making\, The Fact of a Body. Please join us! \n  \nWhen she applied to Harvard Law School\, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich wrote her admissions essay about her staunch opposition to the death penalty. The child of two lawyers\, her position had always been clear in her mind. So when she finds herself at her first summer internship at a New Orleans law firm that is working on the re-trial of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley\, she feels ready to begin her life’s work. \nBut when she watches the tape of Ricky’s confession\, she is overcome by one thought: she wants him to die. Shocked by her reaction\, Alexandria digs deeper and deeper into the case and realizes that something about this story\, so seemingly distant from her own suburban upbringing in New Jersey\, is uncannily familiar. As she pores over the details of the trial and the complicated narrative of Ricky’s childhood\, she is forced to face her own story\, to unearth long-buried family secrets\, and to reckon with how her own past colors her view of Ricky’s crime. \nThrough Alexandria’s meticulously researched and vividly reconstructed telling of Ricky’s story and her deeply personal investigation into her own past\, it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one using her own memories to understand the case. Everyone—from the judge to the jury foreman to the defense attorney to Ricky’s own mother—sees what happened through the lens of their own experience. \n\n\n  \n“The balancing act here performed between autobiography and journalism\, documentary and imagination\, witnessing and reckoning\, the tender and the terrible\, is shrewd and graceful…Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich has given us an exquisite and exquisitely difficult work of art that makes a fierce claim on our attention\, conscience\, and heart.” — Maggie Nelson\, NBCC award-winning author of The Argonauts \n  \n\n\n  \nAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich was awarded numerous fellowships to write this book\, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship\, a Rona Jaffe Award\, and fellowships to the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in The New York Times\, Oxford American\, Salon\, and the anthology True Crime. She has a JD from Harvard\, an MFA from Emerson and a BA from Columbia University. Alexandria currently lives in Boston\, Massachusetts\, where she teaches memoir writing at Grub Street and graduate public policy students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandria-marzano-lesnevich-the-fact-of-a-body/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night Featuring Alan Harris
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir\, live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends.\nOpen Mic sign-up for poetry only starts at 6:45pm – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment\, a few open slots to read without music mid-set. FREE admission. Full menu and bar available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-featuring-alan-harris/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20180424T062352Z
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SUMMARY:Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers\, Longhairs\, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat by Jonathan Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:This enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan— traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements\, charismatic gurus\, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. \n“An outstanding food and cultural history…In this informative\, briskly paced first book…Kauffman is equally thorough in tracing how these early innovators inspired the food co-ops and whole food stores that exist today.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hippie-food-how-back-to-the-landers-longhairs-and-revolutionaries-changed-the-way-we-eat-by-jonathan-kauffman/
LOCATION:Mechanics Institute\, 57 Post St 4th Floor Boardroom\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus Book Reading "Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson joins local authors Andrew Demcak and Tim Floreen at a Perfectly Queer Plus San Francisco book reading\, “Murderous Fiction: 3 Novels About Death\,” on Tuesday\, May 15 from 7pm to 8pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, San Francisco. Author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7pm! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nAndrew Demcak is an American poet and novelist\, the author of four poetry collections and five young adult novels. His books have been featured by the American Library Association\, Verse Daily\, Lambda Literary Foundation\, The Best American Poetry\, and Poets & Writers. His new book Lazarus was a finalist for the prestigious 2018 Dorset Prize for Poetry. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Anatomy of a Murderer\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. To find out more about Tim and his secret obsession with Wonder Woman\, visit him online at timfloreen.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-book-reading-murderous-fiction-3-novels-about-death/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Giménez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Carmen Giménez Smith\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n  \ncelebrating the release of \nCruel Futures \nCity Lights Spotlight Series No. 17 \n\nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures\, the fifth collection from Latinx feminista Carmen Giménez Smith\, is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood—all in a late capitalist America. Like Joanne Kyger\, Giménez Smith deploys humor while depicting the quotidian and its function as sacrament. \nPraise for Cruel Futures: \n“Carmen Giménez Smith’s beautiful book\, Cruel Futures is one of those rare books\, rare pieces of art\, that manages to be extremely intimate\, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique. The poems can be tender or ironic\, and sometimes a blending of the two\, which is not easy\, but occasionally yields lines like these\, from the amazing and amazingly titled poem ‘Ravers Having Babies’: ‘So much to do so little skin / left for transformation . . .’ Somehow those lines for me get at the remarkable humanity in this book\, the remarkable wisdom\, which is ravenous\, sorrowful\, and dreaming. Like\, probably\, you are. Like me.”––Ross Gay \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\,’ this book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.’ Inheritor and conduit of an Latinx artistic tradition\, this primer on how to ‘feed the yearning’ Anzaldúa wrote of leaves us broken and stronger\, ‘Slick with lip gloss\, with legend.'”––Farid Matuk \n“Declamatory anthems to no nation\, these songs stride as they deal and wheel with skin and kin: history\, catastrophe\, the body\, love. ‘Upturned and defiant\, all types of shade\, no outskirt\, / vital like a saint\,’ the poems in Cruel Futures shimmer with Giménez Smith’s lyric attention: full of grit\, sharp and knowing.”––Hoa Nguyen
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-gimenez-smith-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #36 (MUSIC BY MICHAEL ALSO)
DESCRIPTION:IT’S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! \nCome celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press‘ Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago\, we have been graced with the brand-new words of over 450 writers\, the tunes of over 30 different musicians\, and some phenomenal hosts\, including Annelyse Gelman\, Joshua Merchant\, Claudette Dráca-Luna Davis\, Wonder Dave\, Isobel O’Hare\, Christine No\, Abe Becker\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, and Zephir O’Meara. \nDoors 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 Abe Becker with music by Michael Also. \nFeatured lineup of writers so far includes: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier\, Audrey T. Williams\, Zach Goldberg\, Zack Hanson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Gwen Schulte\, Chris “L7” Cuadrado\, Marguerite Munoz\, Fred Dodsworth\, Andrew Heald\, Danee Black-Queen D\, and others 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-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Genny Lim\, Kitty Tsui and Nellie Wong w/Bill Crossman on piano
DESCRIPTION:Nellie Wong was born and raised in Oakland. A long-time activist for radical social change and a retired office worker\, Nellie was honored by Oakland High School with a building in her name. She is the author of four poetry books: Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park\, The Death of Long Steam Lady\, Stolen Moments and Breakfast Lunch Dinner. She is co-featured in the documentary film\, “Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets\,” by Allie Light and Irving Sarah. Genny Lim is San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate. She has been featured at Jazz Festivals and World Poetry Festivals in the U.S. and around the world. Her award-winning play “Paper Angels\,” was the first Asian American play to be aired on PBS’s American. Lim’s performance piece\, “Don’t Shoot! A Requiem in Black\,” dedicated to Black Lives Matter\, recently premiered at Safe House. She is author of five poetry collections and co-author of the seminal\, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island. Kitty Tsui’s WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE was the first book by a Chinese American lesbian; her second BREATHLESS – EROTICA won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award. WORDS OF A WOMAN WHO BREATHES FIRE will be out as a Sapphic Classic along with new poems from NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON’T in July\, 2019. Bill Crossman is a pianist\, composer\, human rights activist\, philosopher/educator\, poet\, playwright\, and author. As a pianist\, Crossman’s specialty is free jazz/free improvisation. His musically improvised “John Brown’s Truth” musical premiered at the 2009 International Society of Improvised Music Festival at UC Santa Cruz\, and has since been performed throughout northern California and in New York City.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/genny-lim-kitty-tsui-and-nellie-wong-w-bill-crossman-on-piano/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rahna Reiko Rizzuto / Shadow Child
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Hiroshima in the Morning and Why She Left Us) for her new novel\, Shadow Child. Please join us! \nShadow Child is a gorgeous novel about three strong women\, the dangerous ties of family and identity\, and the long shadow our histories can cast. Twin sisters Hana and Kei grew up in a tiny Hawaiian town in the 1950s and ‘60s\, so close they shared the same nickname. Mixed-race and fatherless\, they were raised in dreamlike isolation by their loving yet unstable mother. But when their cherished threesome with Mama is broken\, and then further shattered by a violent betrayal that neither young woman can forgive\, it seems their bond may be severed forever—until\, six years later\, Kei arrives on Hana’s lonely New York City doorstep with a secret that will change everything. Flashing back to 1942\, readers meet Lillie\, a young Japanese woman orphaned as a baby on the steps of a rural church in California. After she falls in love with Donald\, the only other Japanese person Lillie has known\, the young couple weds and moves in with his parents in Los Angeles\, only to find that in that time of war\, Japanese Americans were viewed with distrust and hostility. From the internment camps in World War II America\, to the exotic beaches and caves of Hawaii\, to the bustling metropolis of New York City\, Shadow Child follows these extraordinary women as they search for acceptance\, family\, and a truer sense of identity and happiness than what they’d known. \nRahna Reiko Rizzuto is the author of the memoir Hiroshima in the Morning\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle. Her debut novel\, Why She Left Us\, won an American Book Award. The first woman to graduate from Columbia College with a BA in Astrophysics\, she was raised in Hawaii and lives in Brooklyn.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rahna-reiko-rizzuto-shadow-child/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Julia Dixon Evans
DESCRIPTION:Julia Dixon Evans discusses her new novel\, How to Set Yourself on Fire. \n\nPRAISE FOR HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\n“How to Set Yourself on Fire is a family mystery that slowly reveals itself\, illuminating a poignant emptiness in its lovable but complicated main character. Sheila is funny\, depressed\, searching\, and unpredictable. Her story will move you long after its lovely final scene.”—Lindsay Hunter\, author of Eat Only When You’re Hungry \n\n“This book had me glued. I came for the intrigue buried in the treasure hunt of letters\, but I stayed for the unlikely friendship of thirty-five-year-old Sheila and twelve-year-old Torrey. I would read a whole series of these two having adventures together\, but I’ll have to relish this singularly heartbreaking and hilarious story of lost and found love\, in all its guises.”—Jac Jemc\, author of The Grip of It \n\n“This book features my favorite type of protagonist: the creepy\, socially awkward woman who you can’t help but fall in love with. It’s also the best kind of reading experience: a book that is funny and difficult to put down\, and builds to something that is disarmingly touching.”—Juliet Escoria\, author of Witch Hunt \n\nABOUT HOW TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE \n\nSheila’s life is built of little thievings.  Adrift in her mid-thirties\, she sleeps in fragments\, ditches her temp jobs\, eavesdrops on her neighbor’s Skype calls\, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand\, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows.  Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory.  Her only friends are her mysterious\, slovenly neighbor Vinnie and his daughter Torrey\, a quirky twelve-year-old coping with a recent tragedy. \nWhen her grandmother Rosamond dies\, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr—a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself\, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair\, piecing together her grandmother’s past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamond’s shoebox. \nAs they get closer to unraveling the truth\, Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them.  Somewhere\, there’s an answering stack of letters—written in Rosamond’s hand—and Sheila can’t stop until she uncovers the rest of the story.  Threaded with wry humor and the ache of love lost or left behind\, How to Set Yourself on Fire establishes Julia Dixon Evans as a rising talent in the vein of Shirley Jackson and Lindsay Hunter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-dixon-evans/
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:Mark Greenside
DESCRIPTION:Mark Greenside\n\n\n\n\nReads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a sequel of sorts to I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)\, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Imagine Larry David . . . spending a summer in a French village–against his will\, of course–and you get some sense of what Mark Greenside goes through.” \nTo reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year upon arriving in Plobien\, the small Breton town where he spends his summers\, Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled\, but not daunted (OK\, slightly daunted)\, he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all\, when can he touch the tomatoes? \nDespite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life\, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France\, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses\, he learns the rules of engagement\, how he gets what he needs–which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants–and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails\, which is more often than he can believe. \nMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of a collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. Greenside resides in Alameda and Brittany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-greenside/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island
DESCRIPTION:Wild Geese Sorrow is based upon new translations of the mostly anonymous poems carved into the men’s barracks walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station. The first new translation of this wall poetry in 40 years takes readers through the deep anger\, sorrow\, and loneliness felt by Chinese immigrants detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station between 1910-1940. Sequenced to narrate their experiences\, these poems tell of arrival\, long detentions\, medical exams\, political outrage\, and for some\, eventual deportation.Readers will also learn the nuances of literary translation and about a critical period of American immigrant history\, information essential to our contemporary policy debates. These poems are a powerful testament to human resiliency and perseverance everywhere. \nJeffrey Thomas Leong is a poet and writer raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. While earning his MFA at the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, he began to translate anew the Chinese wall poems found at Angel Island. For over two decades\, he worked as a public health administrator and attorney for San Francisco. He earned his MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. His writing has focused on the Asian American experience including adoption\, multiracial families\, and student activism during the 1960s. His poetry and prose have appeared in many publications including Bamboo Ridge\, Crab Orchard\, Hyphen\, Spillway\, and other publications. In past lives he has been a singer-songwriter\, disc jockey\, high school teacher\, and open mic host. He lives with his wife and daughter in the East Bay. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-geese-sorrow-the-chinese-wall-inscriptions-at-angel-island/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
DESCRIPTION:Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko Ono\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699189570134160/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-yoko-ono/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fundraiser for STREET SHEET SF
DESCRIPTION:Street Sheet\, a local newspaper produced and distributed by homeless and/or low-income people. Adobe Bookstore is honored to host a fundraiser that will showcase the talents of the musicians\, poets\, and performers who contribute to the paper while bringing in funds for the project. Open mic session\, space is limited. \nMore details soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fundraiser-for-street-sheet-sf/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180512T004824Z
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SUMMARY:radical  poesies: Steven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:radical poesies \nSteven Seidenberg + A’aron Heard + Tongo Eisen-Martin \nCurated by Tongo Eisen-Martin \nWednesday! May 16th \nDoors 6:30PM \nProgram7PM \nFREE \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radical-poesies-steven-seidenberg-aaron-heard-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]\, 296 Ivy Street\, btwn. Gough and Franklin\, San Francisco\, 94102
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Institute Of advanced Uncertainty [I.O.U.]":MAILTO:advanceduncertainty@gmail.com
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