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SUMMARY:Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
DESCRIPTION:Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians\, Yossi Klein Halevi directly addresses his Palestinian neighbors in his new taut and provocative book\, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor.” \nYossi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Together with Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University\, he co-directs the Institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative. Yossi is the author of “Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation\,” published by HarperCollins in 2013\, which won the Jewish Book Council’s Everett Family Foundation Jewish Book of the Year Award. \nYossi writes for the op-ed pages of leading American newspapers. He is also author of the 2001 book\, “At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden: A Jew’s Search for God with Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land\,” which has been called “a permanent masterwork” by author Cynthia Ozick and “extraordinary and heartbreaking…a book full of wonders” by the former Archbishop of Canterbury\, Dr. Rowan Williams. \nYossi’s first book\, “Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist\,” told the story of his teenage attraction to\, and subsequent disillusionment with Jewish militancy. The New York Times called it “a book of burning importance.” \nHe has been active in Middle East reconciliation work and serves as chairman of Open House\, an Arab Israeli-Jewish Israeli center in the town of Ramle\, near Tel Aviv. \nYossi was one of the founders of the now-defunct Israeli-Palestinian Media Forum\, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian journalists. He was a senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem from 2003-2009. \nBorn in New York\, Yossi has a BA in Jewish studies from Brooklyn College and an MS in journalism from Northwestern University. He moved to Israel in 1982 and lives in Jerusalem with his wife\, Sarah\, a landscape designer. They have three children. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $30.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor/
LOCATION:Cubberley Theatre\, 4000 Middlefield Road\, T2\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tapestries of Shadow and Light: Three Writers and the Legacy of the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Meet authors Rachel Hall\, Elizabeth Rosner and Hilary Zaid as they read from their work and discuss how the Holocaust continues to resonate in their lives and in their writing. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Laurel Book Store. \nMore about the authors: \nRachel Hall is the author of Heirlooms (BkMk Press)\, which was selected by Marge Piercy for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize. Winner of the Phillip McMath Post Publication Award\, Heirlooms was also the runner-up for the Edward Wallant award\, and finalist for the Balcones Prize for Fiction\, the Montaigne Medal\, and the Eric Hoffer Award. It was longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize. Rachel’s short stories and essays have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Black Warrior Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, Gettysburg Review\, Guernica\, and New Letters\, which awarded her the Alexander Cappon Prize for Fiction. She has received other honors and awards from Lilith\, Glimmer Train\, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences\, Ragdale\, the Ox-Bow School of the Arts\, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Her family’s wartime papers and photographs\, the inspiration for these stories\, are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington\, DC. \nElizabeth Rosner is an internationally award-winning novelist\, poet\, and essayist\, whose books have been translated into ten languages. Her national-bestselling first novel\,The Speed of Light\, won Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize of 2001\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Her second novel Blue Nude and her third novel Electric City were named by The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR among the best books of 2006 and 2014\, respectively. \nBorn in Schenectady\, New York\, Rosner is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors\, and much of her work is inspired by the impact of their experiences on her imagination and identity. Her newest book\, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, published in fall 2017\, was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and in The New York Times. She holds degrees from Stanford\, UC Irvine\, and the University of Queensland in Australia\, and she lives in Berkeley. \nHilary Zaid is the author of Paper is White\, a novel. A 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, she is also an alumna of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the Tin House Writers’ Workshop. Her short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Lilith Magazine\, The Southwest Review\, The Utne Reader\, CALYX\, The Santa Monica Review\, and The Tahoma Literary Review and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. An alumna of Harvard and Radcliffe\, she holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her family.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tapestries-of-shadow-and-light-three-writers-and-the-legacy-of-the-holocaust/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library\, 125 14th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books @ City Lights : Destruction of Man by Abraham Smith and The Terraformers by Dan Hoy
DESCRIPTION:Third Man Books @ City Lights\n\ncelebrating new books by Dan Hoy and Abraham Smith\n\n  \nDestruction of Man \nby Abraham Smith \n& \nThe Terraformers \nby Dan Hoy \n  \nabout Abraham Smith: \nAbraham Smith is the author of four poetry collections: Ashagalomancy (Action Books\, 2015); Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer (Action Books\, 2014); Hank (Action Books\, 2010); and Whim Man Mammon (Action Books\, 2007). In 2015\, he released Hick Poetics (Lost Roads Press)\, a co-edited anthology of contemporary rural American poetry and related essays. His creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center\, Provincetown\, MA\, and the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Presently\, he is at work upon a poetry manuscript about cranes–birds whose song and stature electrify him. Destruction of Man\, his book-length poem about farming\, is forthcoming in 2018 from Third Man Books. \n  \nabout The Terraformers: \nThe second title in Third Man Books “C” chapbook series\, Dan Hoy’s latest collection of poetry chronicles the last days of an expedition stranded on a desolate planet and beset by depression\, sabotage and failing equipment. In The Terraformers\, human life is mediated by domes and pressure suits\, and the history of human beings is buried in ecocide\, oppression and longing for the infinite\, even if (or because) “the infinite / is death for us.” \n  \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns. Visit http://thirdmanbooks.com/.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-city-lights/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Resoundings
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime RESOUNDINGS at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, on Thursday June 7th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. Readers will be Karen Bjorneby (Hurricane Season)\, Marianne Villanueva (Jenalyn)\, Nick Johnson (Music for Mussolini)\,                judy b (Stories For Airports)\, Edmund Zagorin (Craquelure)\, and others. With guest MC Lael Gold.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-resoundings/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Call Me By Your Name
DESCRIPTION:June is Pride\, so let’s do that one mainstream queer book that doesn’t end in tragedy! BYO Peach. \n  \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Bindery (1727 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. \n  \nTickets on sale now! \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nBooks:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCall Me by Your Name (Paperback)\n\nBy Andre Aciman\n$17.00\nISBN: 9780312426781\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Picador USA – January 22nd\, 2008\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLoose Lips: Fanfiction Parodies of Great (and Terrible) Literature from the Smutty Stage of Shipwreck (Paperback)\n\nBy Casey A. Childers\, Amy Stephenson\n$15.99\nISBN: 9781455566426\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now\nPublished: Grand Central Publishing – September 27th\, 2016
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-call-me-by-your-name/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan\, Manhattan Beach
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Egan\, Manhattan Beach\nThursday\, June 7\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan to town for a reading and signing of her fantastic novel\, Manhattan Beach. Tickets for this special offsite event (at Peace United Church) are on sale below and at Bookshop Santa Cruz. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute UC Santa Cruz and KAZU. \nArrive early and join us for a wine reception at 6:30! \nTicket packages are $20 and include one paperback copy of Manhattan Beach (paperback release: June 5th). A companion ticket (event only\, no book included) is available for $7 when purchasing a ticket package. PURCHASE TICKETS BELOW OR AT BOOKSHOP SANTA CRUZ. \n“Manhattan Beach is stunning. Read the first page and sigh with immense pleasure at having started something magnificent.” —Melinda\, Bookshop Head Book Buyer  \nMANHATTAN BEACH: \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \nYears later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \n“A magnificent achievement\, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” ( The Boston Globe)\, “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” ( Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men in a dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. \nJennifer Egan is the author of five previous books of fiction: A Visit from the Goon Squad\, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me\, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and The New York Times Magazine. \nThe Humanities Institute\, UC Santa Cruz\, event cosponsor: The Humanities Instituteis a hub for academic research\, cross-discipline collaboration\, and public engagement. We incubate ideas and foster innovation by funding projects\, centers\, and research clusters that enable faculty and students to work on some of the biggest problems of our day. \nKAZU\, event cosponsor: 90.3 KAZU NPR for Monterey\, Salinas\, and Santa Cruz. KAZU’s mission is to serve the communities in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties by broadcasting local\, national and international news and cultural programming that informs and enriches the lives of its listeners. \nJennifer Egan Book & Ticket Package\n$20.00 \nSKU: EGAN1FOR1 \nCompanion TicketNo Companion TicketPlease add one Companion Ticket to my Ticket Package Purchase \nYou may choose to purchase one additional companion ticket with your purchase of an event ticket package. \nManhattan Beach—GET IT SIGNED!\n$17.00 \nSKU: S9781476716749 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Manhattan Beach signed at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Wednesday\, June 6th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-manhattan-beach/
LOCATION:Peace United Church\, 900 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Headlands Center for the Arts presents their writers in residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nKai Carlson-Wee reads from his new poetry collection\, Rail. \n\nPraise for Rail \n\n“Rail is a lovely book\, strong and inspired.” ―Robert Bly \n“This is a wholly unique and powerful collection of poems. The sense of purpose puts one in mind of Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road.’ Encounters with fellow vagabonds recalls the tramp-poetry of Vachel Lindsay. But the darker need to search for meaning in the American plains and points farther west―a vastness forlorn and almost unknowable―belongs to the particular vision of this poet. His journey through our national ambiguity discovers a flicker in our roots\, a spark popping from obscurity that rises into the heavens. The lived experience behind these deft and subtle poems seems necessary\, and reiterates the fact that resilience is not only a feature of the American character\, it is a recurring tenet of American art.” ―Maurice Manning  \n“Brotherly love\, a sense of displacement and lost time\, and the deep care that reminds us of our humanity\, form the heart of this book. These poems are a scavengers guide\, a survivalist manifesto\, a reminder of the way our daily experiences can fuel and forge our faith. A hauntingly beautiful and unusual debut.” ―Dorianne Laux \n“Equal parts dithyramb and lament\, the great American bardic tradition celebrates lonesome wandering even as it hungers for enduring communion. Kai Carlson-Wee is a worthy inheritor of its dusty mantle\, worn by Whitman and Kerouac before him\, and Rail is a moving testament to the territories of freight trains\, Minnesota roads\, dumpster diving\, and brotherhood. ‘The road goes on. With or without us.’ Yes\, but how much better to have this unforgettable music to guide the way.” ―Campbell McGrath \n\nAbout Rail \n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems―a “verse novella” in documentary form―build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAIL (POULIN #41) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Kai Carlson-Wee\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781942683582\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: BOA Editions – April 24th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee/
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:Medea Benjamin Inside Iran: The Real History & Politics of Iran
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Project Censored present \nMEDEA BENJAMIN\nInside Iran: The Real History & Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran \nHosted by Mickey Huff \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access \nMedea Benjamin\, one of America’s best-known and most effective activists\, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange\, is the author of Drone Warfare and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S-Saudi Connection. In 2012 she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize\, and in 2014 the Gandhi Peace Award. \nNow Medea has written the first general-audience progressive book on Iran’s history and politics\, recounting Iran’s history from the pre-colonial period through the CIA-engineered coup that in 1953 overthrew the country’s democratic leadership\, to its emergence as the only nation (other than Russia\, of course) both Democrats and Republicans regularly denounce. Benjamin draws upon her firsthand experiences with Iranian politicians\, activists and everyday citizens to provide a deeper understanding of the extraordinary complexities of Iranian society and the national role in the region. \nIn 1979 the Iranian Revolution brought a Shia theocracy to the 80 million inhabitants of the Middle East’s second largest country. In the decades since\, bitter relations have persisted between the U.S. and Iran. Yet how is it that Iran has become the primary target of American antagonism\, when Saudi Arabia – a regime far more repressive – has become one of America’s closest allies? \nTackling the contradictions in Iran’s system of government\, its religion\, and its citizens’ way of life\, Inside Iran cuts sharply through the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations to present a realistic and hopeful case for the two nations’ future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/medea-benjamin-inside-iran-the-real-history-politics-of-iran/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2rOcW0A \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-13/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poe Ballantine
DESCRIPTION:Poe Ballantine discusses his new novel\, Whirlaway. \nPraise for Poe Ballantine \nPoe Ballantine is the most soulful\, insightful\, funny\, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America. He knocks my socks off\, even when I’m barefoot. —TOM ROBBINS\, Tibetan\nPeach Pie \nPoe Ballantine is brilliant. —CHERYL STRAYED\, Wild \nWhirlaway is a fever dream of my favorite things: horse racing\, records\, booze\, insanity\, and women. What a strange and crazed comedic ride. Ballantine’s writing is like no other. —WILLY\nVLAUTIN\, The Free \nAbout Whirlaway \nEddie Plum\, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital\, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run\, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets\, the telepathic dog\, laments the loss of Sofia\, his madhouse lover\, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend\, Shelly Hubbard\, a fellow horseplayer\, record collector/dealer\, and hardcore loner\, who tells him about his brother\, Donny\, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help\, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes\, the madhouse lover\, and the police\, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway\, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients\, horseplayers\, and record collectors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poe-ballantine/
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:Clearly Meant presents Bruce H. Feingold
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Haiku poet Bruce Feingold will read his poems\, then sit for an interview and discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-bruce-h-feingold/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180512T014522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180512T014522Z
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SUMMARY:Caroline Arden
DESCRIPTION:Launch for her debut YA novel\, The High Climber of Dark Water Bay \n“Arden has created the hero we have been waiting for in Young Adult Lit–Lizzie is authentic\, relatable and proves herself a force to be reckoned with. Engaging and immersive\, [her] writing is clean and crisp. Vivid imagery and concise storytelling combine to create a story for all ages.”–Kathleen Kaufman\, author of The Lairdbalor \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The High Climber of Dark Water Bay by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Lizzie is in trouble. She used to live a comfortable life with her loving father\, but after the stock market crash of 1929 and his sudden death\, she and her family now live in poverty. Lizzie is expected to help support the family\, but she can’t even cook without burning food. One day\, a letter arrives. Her wealthy uncle has offered her a paying job as a summer governess for her two young cousins at a remote logging camp\, so she travels alone into the wilderness of Vancouver\, British Columbia. To her horror\, she discovers that her uncle is missing from the camp. Penniless and stranded\, Lizzie’s worst fears are soon confirmed–she is being held hostage by the camp’s boss. “Accidents are easy to explain in the woods\,” he writes in a ransom letter to her uncle. Lizzie learns that in order to survive\, she will have to perform the most dangerous job at the camp–the high climber. She has one chance to save herself and return to her family. Her intelligence and bravery will be tested to the limit as she pulls on the climber harness to prove to everyone\, including herself\, what she is truly capable of. \nCaroline Arden holds an MFA in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. As a child she spent her summers at her grandparents’ home at a former logging camp in British Columbia. Now she lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-arden/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180521T025348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T025348Z
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SUMMARY:SHAZAM\, Linda and Carolyn at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event�\nFeaturing poets and birthday girls Linda Zeiser and Carolyn Stull-Zeiser as well as singer-songwriter SHAZAM\nHosted by Linda Zeiser\n$7 – $10 Admission includes raffle ticket for one of ten copies of THE HORIZONTAL POET by Jan Steckel\n6:30 – 7:30 Potluck: bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser.\nTo reserve open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, well in advance.\nWIP is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. Scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shazam-linda-and-carolyn-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180426T115949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180426T115949Z
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-bryant-and-cher-wollard/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180605T205353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T205353Z
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beloved poet Tinker Greene is being forced to leave San Francisco! Join us for a celebration of his work and contribution to the poetry community . Also featuring Carrie Hunter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180329T032307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T032307Z
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)\nChandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)\nNitasha Tiku (Wired)\nAdam Becker (What Is Real?) \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-12/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180425T001410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T001410Z
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Egan joins us on Saturday\, June 9th to celebrate the paperback release of Manhattan Beach. \n\nPraise for Manhattan Beach \n\n“A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time\, and our time\, differently; everything becomes freshly energized\, infused with humanity\, vital\, sad\, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved\, through language\, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more\, and better-grounded\, fondness for reality\, just as it is.”—George Saunders \n\n“Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds\, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life’s weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story\, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next.”—M.L. Stedman \n\n“An unusually well written\, well researched\, emotionally satisfying page-turner . . . Manhattan Beach is the kind of book you can immerse yourself in happily.” –Heller McAlpin\, San Francisco Chronicle \n\nAbout Manhattan Beach \n\nThe daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nWith the atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft\, dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad\, one of the great writers of our time. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMANHATTAN BEACH (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$17.00\nISBN: 9781476716749\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Scribner Book Company – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n* Winner of the New York City Book Award\n* New York Times Bestseller \n* A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780307477477\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – March 22nd\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\nPEN/Faulkner Award Finalist\nA New York Times Book Review Best Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE KEEP (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781400079742\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – July 10th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower\, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOOK AT ME (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780385721356\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 8th\, 2002\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA National Book Award Finalist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780307387523\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel\, set in 1978\, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor\, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith\, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEMERALD CITY (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780307387530\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing\, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives\, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-4/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180610T153000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
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SUMMARY:Follow the Money!  The Dennis J. Bernstein KPFA Interviews
DESCRIPTION:Riva Enteen\, editor of KPFA radio commentator Dennis J. Bernstein’s new book “Follow the Money: Radio Voices for Peace and Justice\,” will host guests who have appeared on Bernstein’s influential and long-running program. “Follow the Money” compiles 66 of Bernstein’s incisive\, insightful interviews\, all conducted during the Obama era\, that provide the writing on the wall for how we got to Trump today. Taken together\, these interviews paint a vivid picture of the state of things in present day America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/follow-the-money-the-dennis-j-bernstein-kpfa-interviews/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180610T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180610T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180425T070917Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180425T070917Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nSunday\, June 10\, 2018 \n4:00 PM  6:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180610T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180610T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180507T222711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180507T222711Z
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:There will be no SF in SF events in May due to convention travel. However\, we will be back on June 10th with Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages. More details to follow once we have our feet back on the ground. \nDoors open 6:00PM\nEvent begins 7:00 PM \nThe American Bookbinders Museum\n355 Clementina\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-meg-elison-ellen-klages/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180611T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180531T221958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180531T221958Z
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SUMMARY:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-abel-the-optimistic-decade/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180611T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180509T224747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T221906Z
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #20
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-20/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180611T210000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180424T234109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180510T002512Z
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SUMMARY:David Graeber
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nBullshit Jobs \nfrom Simon and Schuster \nFrom bestselling writer David Graeber\, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless\, unfulfilling jobs\, and their consequences. \nDoes your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013\, David Graeber asked this question in a playful\, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages\, people all over the world are still debating the answer. \nThere are millions of people—HR consultants\, communication coordinators\, telemarketing researchers\, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless\, and\, tragically\, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. \nGraeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns\, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals\, corporations\, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values\, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation. \nDavid Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the bestseller DEBT: The First 5\,000 Years\, and a contributor to Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The Baffler. He was a leading figure in the OCCUPY Wall Street movement\, He lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-graeber/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180611T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180611T213000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180521T211203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T211203Z
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SUMMARY:Janet Mock
DESCRIPTION:Date of event changed to June 11\, 2018 \nJanet Mock is a writer\, TV host\, and advocate tackling stigma through storytelling. With a Master’s in journalism from New York University\, the Honolulu native began her career as an editor at People.com and went on to write cover stories for Marie Claire\, Interview\, and The Advocate as well as essays for The New Yorker\, TheNew York Times\, and Lenny. She produced HBO’s The Trans List\, hosts the podcast Never Before\, and serves as a columnist for Allure. Called a “fearless new voice” and “trailblazing leader” who “changed my way of thinking” by Oprah Winfrey\, Janet was a featured speaker at the historic Women’s March on Washington. She is the author of Surpassing Certainty and the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness. \nMia Birdsong is an activist\, writer\, and orator. She is a Family Centered Social Policy Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project. She is working on her first book\, How We Show Up. \nThis program is a benefit for the Transgender\, Gender Variant\, Intersex Justice Project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-mock/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180612T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180612T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180521T044857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T045027Z
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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door
DESCRIPTION:Porchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September \n2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have \nfive minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, as chosen by a \nrandom audience member\, receives $50 in cold\, hard\, United States greenbacks\, a bag of \nhot nuts\, and a pound of coffee from local roaster\nNomadic Ground\n  \nStorytelling has never been this potentially lucrative or fun!* \n\nOpen Door is back!\nHosted by Arline Klatte and Michael O’Brien \nThe second Tuesday of the month at The Hemlock Tavern \n\n  \n*Except on various occasions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180612T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180612T133000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180422T232554Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180422T232554Z
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180612T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180612T220000
DTSTAMP:20260414T182111
CREATED:20180509T234627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180522T015045Z
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows. \nCome celebrate! Activities include: \n> A listening/screening party \n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Margaret McCarthy\, Matt Leibel\, Miah Jeffra\, AshleyRose Sanchez\, Matt Carney\, Roberto F. Santiago\, Rayan Mustafa\, Kristina Ten\, Linette Escobar\, Riss Rosado\, John Panzer\, Danielle Bero\, Abe Becker\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Paul Corman-Roberts: performer links and bios can be found here. \n> An open mic: sign up to read/perform during an improv set by Turk & Divis (more info soon) \nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available! \n> more info + to pre-order < \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 6:30\, show at 7pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/turk-divis-quiet-lightning-album-release-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, and Joshua Trujillo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nAlexandra Mattraw launches her new book small siren with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer  \n \nAbout small siren: \nsmall siren believes the inanimate is alive. Here\, a speaker navigates music rendered from a terrain of fracture\, where emergency and becoming intertwine.  A family’s narrative threads and unthreads through the book\, as do the ethics of projection. What confrontations arise where people and objects are involuntarily constructed through a mutual process of projection? Truth is slippery but so is the ground. Here\, she listens for appendages of herself in nature and in the cities she encounters\, where she ritualistically attempts to distinguish between beauty and disaster. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018  from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is.  His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nNorman Fischer’s new book\, On a Train at Night\, was published in March 2018 by Presse Universite de Rouen et Havre\, in France. This book-length serial poem explores consciousness\, meaning\, and what can’t be said or written of. June 1 is also the scheduled publication date of Untitled Series:Life As It Is (Talisman Press)\, also a serial poem in short fragments that describes the hidden\, underlying\, linguistic shape of ordinary daily events. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nWhat has been said about small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’  She makes it real.” \n—Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n-Gillian Conoley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-norman-fischer/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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