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SUMMARY:Andrés Barba
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Andrés Barba to the store to discuss and sign\, Such Small Hands\, on Wednesday\, April 26th at 7:00 pm. This is Transit Books inaugural book and we are so pleased to be a part of it! \nLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place\, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, alternating between Marina’s perspective and the choral we of the other girls\, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance. \nAndrés Barba is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books\, including August\, October and Rain Over Madrid. In addition to literary fiction\, he has written essays\, poems\, books of photography\, and translations of De Quincey and Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages. \nTransit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature\, based in Oakland\, California. Founded in 2015\, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 26\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:In honor of national poetry month\, Red Light Lit is having a FREE Happy Hour show at PianoFight. \nFeatured readers include: Peter Thomas Bullen\, Allyson Darling\, Fred Dodsworth\, Nick Jaina\, Ari Moskowitz\, Xan Roberti and more. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, art and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-happy-hour/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Isaac Sobin
DESCRIPTION:In The Last Machine in the Solar System\, life on Earth ended billions of years ago\, but the last machine carries on. \nNearly three billion years into the future\, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone\, and the sun is a gray\, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan—the last machine. \nCreated to survive Earth’s destruction by our ever-expanding sun\, Jonathan witnessed the end of life on Earth. This is his story and that of his creator\, Nikolai. It is also the story of the human race\, which failed to disentangle its destiny from the star that gave rise to all life-forms on Earth. \nMatthew Isaac Sobin grew up in Huntington\, New York\, and graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history\, with studies in astronomy and geology. He currently lives in Hayward\, California\, with his partner\, sculptor Patricia Gonzalez\, and works with the Peter Beren Literary Agency. This is his first published work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-isaac-sobin/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170425T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170425T213000
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs adventure\, In This Grave Hour. \n\n\n\n“A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander.”–Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 25\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nSunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany\, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs’ flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy\, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. \nIn a London shadowed by barrage balloons\, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion\, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war\,” a new kind of refugee — an evacuee from London — appears in Maisie’s life. The little girl billeted at Maisie’s home in Kent does not\, or cannot\, speak\, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the “Operation Pied Piper” evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. \nAs Maisie’s search for the killer escalates\, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour — and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own. \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series\, which includes Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, she now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anselm Berrigan + Hoa Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is delighted to host local literary nonprofit Small Press Traffic as they present two superb visiting poets\, Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen. Please join us! \nSmall  Press Traffic hosts poets Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen as part of its longtime reading series. Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene\, bringing together authors\, readers\, educators\, small presses\, and community members through talks\, readings\, workshops\, and performances. Its mission is to provide a local and national platform for experimental writing\, foregrounding underserved writers and those who identify as women\, people of color\, and/or from the LGBTQI community. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks. She lives in Toronto\, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series. \nAnselm Berrigan‘s recent books of poetry include Come In Alone (Wave\, 2016) and Primitive State (Edge\, 2015). A chapbook\, Degrets\, is forthcoming from Couch Press. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail\, and also editor of the just-about-released What Is Poetry? (Just kidding\, I know you know): Selected Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter\, 1983-2009. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of any of our featured authors’ works\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anselm-berrigan-hoa-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andres Barba + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Andres Barba discusses his new novel\, Such Small Hands\, with Yiyun Li\, followed by a party sponsored by Transit Books. \n\nPraise for Andres Barba \n\nEvery once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality\, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.—Edmund White \n\nBarba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast.—Idra Novey\, author of Ways to Disappear \n\nAndrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.—Mario Vargas Llosa \n\nAbout Such Small Hands \n\nShirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides\, set at an all-girls orphanage. It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. . . . Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place\, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance—a masterwork from the Spanish writer at the peak of his powers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba-yiyun-li/
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:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson \nwith Kim Addonizio\, Nick Petrulakis\, Jamie DeWolf\, Joe Loya \nA celebration of a new crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books \nOakland Noir \n\n\nCalifornia’s noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir\, which reveals all the dark complexities of this prominent city. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nBrand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis\, Kim Addonizio\, Keenan Norris\, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder\, Katie Gilmartin\, Dorothy Lazard\, Harry Louis Williams II\, Carolyn Alexander\, Phil Canalin\, Judy Juanita\, Jamie DeWolf\, Nayomi Munaweera\, Mahmud Rahman\, Tom McElravey\, Joe Loya\, and Eddie Muller. \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJERRY THOMPSON is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the coauthor of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. \nEDDIE MULLER\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kristen Radtke
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg talks with Kristen Radtke about her debut graphic novel\, Imagine Wanting Only This. \n\nPraise for Kristen Radtke: \n\n“Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This doesn’t tell a single story but a chorus of histories\, personal and familial and historical\, and invents its own marvelous language for their telling—a language forged from interior thought and visual imagination\, bringing together words and illustration in continually surprising and moving ways. The voice in these pages is eloquent in so many ways at once\, like a shape that exists in three dimensions rather than two\, and it’s utterly singular: visually alive\, attentive to details\, self-questioning and tender as it surveys variously haunted terrains of heart and landscape. Radtke’s world is so immersive\, and so sensitively conjured\, that once I entered the sketched chamber of her pages\, I didn’t want to leave again—or even pause for breath—until I reached the end.”\n—Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke’s hands\, nonfiction becomes poetry. A tremendous achievement.”\n—Tom Hart\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning \n\n“Cities\, ambitions\, romances\, and bodies come to ruin before our eyes\, as Kristen Radtke invites us\, in her beautifully understated way\, to be disturbed\, fascinated\, and yes\, even attracted to that ruin. A remarkable bildungsroman!”\n—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity \n\n“Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak—creation\, connection\, decay\, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.”\n—Ellen Forney\, New York Times bestselling author of Marbles \n\n\nAbout Imagine Wanting Only This: \n\nA gorgeous graphic memoir about loss\, love\, and confronting grief.\nWhen Kristen Radtke was in college\, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time\, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now\, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir\, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest\, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash\, islands in the Philippines\, New York City\, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way\, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations\, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual\, historical and personal\, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here\, and what will we leave behind?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-radtke/
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:Bay Area Generations #44
DESCRIPTION:READERS \nA curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers. and musical guest. Including: \nTerrilynn Cantlon + Aqueila Lewis\nRaluca Ioanid + Kathleen Wallace\nLiz Green + Reed Walker\nNatriece Spicer + Kwesi Wilkerson “the Dreamer”\nDavid Brehmer + Daniel Ari\nTasha Mini + Teri Lee Kline\nMk Chavez + Norma Smith \nSpecial Music Guest: Azuah! \nCURATORS\nKelechi Ubozo (Guest) + Sandra Wassilie + Amos White (Board) \n\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook \nDirections  The bellevue Club is located in Oakland\, CA at 525 Bellevue Dr. on Lake Merritt and walkable from 19th Street BART. The Bellevue Club offers a full service hotel with a full bar and stunning views of the jewel of Oakland\, Lake Merritt. Map\, Event Page. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-44/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Donna Seaman
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion—their lives fascinating\, their artwork a revelation. \nWho hasn’t wondered where—aside from Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo—all the women artists are? In many art books\, they’ve been marginalized with cold efficiency\, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase “identity unknown” while each male is named. \nDonna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists\, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie\, with her dark\, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton\, with her witty\, oddly beautiful constructions; Lois Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney\, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg\, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson\, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from most recent surveys of her era. \nThese women fought to be treated the same as male artists\, to be judged by their work\, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant\, compassionate prose\, Seaman reveals what drove them\, how they worked\, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects—not makers—of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work\, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field. \nDonna Seaman has degrees in the fine arts and English. An editor at Booklist\, she reviews books for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. She has written bio-critical essays for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers\, and has published in TriQuarterly and Creative Nonfiction. Seaman created\, hosted\, and produced Open Books\, a radio program about outstanding books and writers and the art of reading. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-seaman-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Racket #6: Drugz
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #6: DRUGZ is coming to Adobe Books\, on Monday\, April 24th at 7:00PM. \nWe’re gathering some fantastic writers to share their thoughts on\, well\, drugs. Be it psychedelic horseback riding or deep dives into the world of illicit pharmies\, we’re going to hear it. \nOur readers: \nPhilip Harris\nKar A. Johnson\nJoe Wadlington\nMatt Carney\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \nAnd more to come. \nJust write\, “Drugz” on your oversized wall-calendar for the 24th of April. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6-drugz/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: White\, Davis\, Ellis\, + McZeal
DESCRIPTION:The CJC is proud to present four local poets\, George Davis\, Amos White\, Amber McZeal\, and James Ellis for our final day of Poetry Weekend. George Davis will be hosting the event\, showcasing individual sets by each poet. \nGeorge W. Davis\nBorn on a ranch in Arizona\, raised on a farm in Indiana\, schooled in Indiana\, Virginia\, New York\, and Vermont. Professional work as teacher\, manager of Racesales\, cattleman\, consultant\, librarian\, merchant of books and records for Jazzschool\, poet\, speaker\, ranter and activist has led him to fishing\, tutoring in public schools\, and the joy and privilege of husbandhood and grandfatherdom. \nAmos White\nAmos White is an awarded haiku poet and author\, producer/director and activist recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos was a finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and published in several national reviews and anthologies. He serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards\, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show; and produces the Oakland Haiku and Poetry Festival. \nJames Ellis\nJames Ellis is a San Francisco Bay Area performance poet.  His work has appeared in numerous publications\, such as poetry magazines Out of Our and The 16th and Mission Review.  His poems\, at City Lights Books SF and University Press Books in Berkeley\, are sold inexpensively; through YouTube\, given freely; and archived at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. A Poets and Writers Foundation grant recipient\, his work with interpretive jazz band\, Nova Jazz\, is on display every third Tuesday at SF’s Piano Fight’s Word Party.  He knows life is good because he’s alive to see it. \nAmber McZeal\nAmber McZeal is an artistic scholar steeped in the improvisational traditions of New Orleans. Her current body of work\, Mudzimu\, is a combination of original music compositions and afro-futurist mythos explores the transgenerational inheritance of separation from land\, home and personhood\, and the subsequent psychic limbo that it conjures\, as well as the generative abyss that it promises. Through sound and word\, her sci-fi journey shifts the perception of this limbo from exile to chrysalis. \nShe relocated to the Bay Area in 2006 to complete her B.A. in Sound Therapy\, Trauma Studies\, and Sacred Intellectualism. Amber is currently a doctoral student of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Community Psychology\, Liberation Psychology\, and Ecological Psychology specialization.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-white-davis-ellis-mczeal/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Be About It Presents: Julie Mannell + Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon in Oakland! After the reading\, we will meet at the Fairlyland sign at Lake Merritt for open mic readings and a low-rent afterparty. BYOB. \nJulie Mannell is a writer of poetry\, fiction and essays\, and an editor at Matrix Magazine. She is the recipient of the HarperCollins/Constance Rooke Scholarship\, the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize\, the Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellency in Creative Writing\, and The Vagenius Award (presented by Roseanne Barr). Her work has been featured in the National Post\, Toronto Star and Huffington Post\, among others. At the moment\, Mannell is an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in English Literature and Philosophy. Originally from Fonthill\, Ontario\, she currently splits her time between Montreal and Toronto. She was recently named one of the Top 30 Poets Under 30. Twitter/insta/snap: @juliemannell. \nhttp://www.juliemannell.com/ \nKenta Maniwa is from Oakland\, California. His writing can be found in Hobart\, Metatron\, Spy Kids Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Bottlecap Press\, and Be About It Press. His new chapbook\, Japanese Tim Duncan\, will be published this year. \nJesse Prado lives in Hayward and blogs at thegreatcratsby.tumblr.com and tweets from @prado_jesse \nMark Cronin recently requested all of his work be deleted from various websites such as Atticus Review and Volume 1 Brooklyn. All of his previous books are out of print. His first novel was going to be published in May of 2017 by a major publisher but it is not anymore. He holds no degrees and has never won an award. His favorite word is “erasure”. \nThe Open Minds are a rock n’ roll sister duo based out of the Bay Area. They have created a distinguished and distinctive sound that is both reminiscent and all their own. Their performances are high-drive\, electric and spontaneous\, creating a unique experience every time that will leave you wanting more. \nJoined by: Jesse Prado\, Ken Ta\, Mark Cronin\, and The Open Minds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-presents-julie-mannell-friends-at-wolfman-books/
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:West Marin Review VII Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes contributors of the West Marin Review VII\, to the store on Sunday\, April 23rd at 3:00 pm. The reading participants include\, Claire Blotter\, Elaine Elinson\, Kathleen Goodwin\, Anuja Mendiratta\, Larry Ruth\, Vicki DeArmon\, and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman. \n The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and art journal published by Point Reyes Books and friends in the rural enclave of West Marin\, CA. It offers an intriguing variety of art\, poetry and prose from new\, as well as\, established contributors. The journal provides a blend of fiction and essays\, humor\, nature\, memoir\, poetry\, art\, and often\, music. Contributors hail from places near and far- from rural California to Paris and everywhere in between. This volume features prose by\, among others\, Rick Bass\, Stephanie E. Dickinson\, Elaine Elinson\, Blair Fuller and David Miller; poetry by Jody Farrell\, Roy Mash\, and others; and art by Mark Ropers\, Wendy Schwartz\, and others. This event will focus on local writers and artists with a list of participants to be named shortly. \nClaire Blotter teaches poetry writing to elementary and high school students as a Poet in the Schools. She has published three chapbooks and lives near Deer Island Preserve in Novato\, California. \nSan Francisco writer Elaine Elinson is coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California\, which won a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards in 2010. \nKathleen Goodwin is a painter\, photographer\, and publisher of fine art books. Born in South Africa\, she has lived in Inverness for twenty-five years drawn to the area’s open expanses and wildlife. \nAnuja Mendiratta is a poet\, a daughter of Indian immigrants\, an independent consultant\, and a walker of this beautiful earth. She resides in Berkeley\, California and loves being outdoors. \nAt fourteen\, Larry Ruth and a friend set out for Yosemite and hiked the John Muir Trail. They spent the last night on Mount Whitney in a snowstorm in July. \nVicki DeArmon is the Marketing & Events Director at Copperfield’s Books. She’s also the former publisher of Foghorn Press and a fiction writer. \nGabriel Schillinger-Hyman\, age seventeen\, attends Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. A classical and jazz pianist\, he also enjoys the visual arts\, including cartooning and landscape painting. He spends his free time in Point Reyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-vii-reading/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: Al Young + Dan Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Author of more than 22 books of poetry\, fiction and essays\, Al Young’s many honors include Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and NEA Fellowships. Active on writing and music scenes since his Detroit teens\, he has sung and played folk and blues guitar with rock legend Felix Pappalardi\, performed with Frank Zappa saxophonist Ian Underwood\, the avant-garde singer Jeanne Lee and pianist Ran Blake\, Tuck & Patti\, drummer Omar Clay\, Italian trumpet star Paolo Fresu in Milano\, French singing idol Joe Dassin\, pianist Kenny Cox\, bassist Marian Hayden\, and with David Murray at Yoshi’s. A two-time Grammy nominee for album liner notes\, his credits include George Benson’s Breezin’ album\, and all of Verve’s Jazz for Lovers series. As California poet laureate (2005-2008)\, Young tours the Golden State with gifted\, soulful bassist-guitarist Dan Robbins; their collaboration and friendship deepens. AlYoung.org \nDan Robbins has played and recorded in settings ranging from solo\, duo\, trio\, etc. to big band and orchestra\, and is known for driving\, creative\, harmonically and melodically rich background and lead parts on bass. He doubles on both acoustic bass\, and four\, five\, six\, and seven-string electric bass\, in styles ranging from solo jazz chord-melody arrangements\, to hard-swinging jazz double bass accompaniment\, acoustic and electric funk\, Brazilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Carribean\, rock\, R&B\, blues\, tango\, Indian\, and fusion styles\, as well as arco (played with the bow) classical and comtemporary interpretations of composed music. He is also known to employ looping and effects to create the impression of a “one man band”. \nHe brings a fiery improvisational spirit and energy to all the projects he is involved with.  Currently co-leading the funk trio Wasabi\, he also has an ongoing duo project with distinguished California Poet Laureate Al Young\, and plays bass for the Hristo Vitchev Quartet\, Idiot Fish 3\, Joe DeRose & Amici\, Primary Colors\, Vandivier\, and also does solo concerts.  He also teaches privately\, and for the Monterey Jazz Festival and San Jose Jazz Society.  His career has taken him to Europe and Asia\, and he also freelances in studios and venues in the Bay Area and beyond.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-al-young-dan-robbins/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
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:20170422T210000
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SUMMARY:Amy S. Peele
DESCRIPTION:In Cut\, a well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous. \nWhile the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution\, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon\, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend\, Jackie\, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami\, San Francisco\, and Chicago—a sometimes fun\, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives. \nAmy S. Peele was born and raised in the Chicago area\, where she graduated from South Chicago School of Nursing. She discovered her passion for organ donation and transplantation when she started as a transplant coordinator at University of Chicago\, and has since enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in transplantation in both Illinois and California. Peele has lived and worked in the San Francisco area since 1985 and has been writing creatively for over fifteen years. In addition to killing people in her murder mysteries\, she enjoys meditating\, yoga\, swimming\, and pursuing her spirituality by studying the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-s-peele/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gala celebrating 35 years of SF Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Marines’ Memorial Club on April 22 to celebrate 35 years of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Festivities inlcude passed hors d’oeuvres\, Freemark Abbey wine tasting\, 3-course dinner\, live and silent auction and more. Black tie optional\, dramatic accessories encouraged. \nEvery dollar raised will support San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ‘Hamlet’ and its vital arts-education programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gala-celebrating-35-years-of-sf-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170422T180000
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Sixteen Rivers Press poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener for an evening of reading and discussion. \nThe first section of Body\, in Good Light opens with the words\, “Between any two points\, there is a love story”: points on a compass\, points in time\, between lovers and strangers\, mother and child. Throughout this debut collection\, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \nErin Rodoni was born and raised in the small coastal community of Point Reyes\, California. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Rodoni holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Gillian Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. The second poem in the book\, “Chorus\,” establishes the multiple tensions that exist between person and place\, tensions that come under the scrutiny of a shrewd\, wry\, endlessly inventive eye. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook\, Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2008). Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007\, and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener\, a junior high teacher\, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto\, where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of the Modesto- Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-reading/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Ellen Sussman: Creativity + Writing
DESCRIPTION:You’ve stalled out on your writing. Or perhaps everything you’ve written feels like a retelling of the same story. Maybe you’re tired of your literary voice. How do you find the kind of creative energy that will take your writing in a new direction? Guided by New York Times bestselling novelist Ellen Sussman (French Lessons)\, in this three-hour seminar the focus will be on pushing your writing in new directions. A stronger voice? Braver characters? More exciting drama? It may be time to break the rules in your writing. We’ll grapple with structure\, character\, style\, and plot. We’ll blast through the boundaries of how we usually do things and explore new paths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-sussman-creativity-and-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Kao: The Dancing Girl & The Turtle
DESCRIPTION:A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of this powerful new novel. \nThis elegant novel breaks barriers with its brutally honest account of the courtesan culture in 1930s Shanghai. In a searing portrayal of women as commodities\, Song Anyi\, a rebellious young woman\, is thwarted by her conventional family\, the social mores of the day and the war with the Japanese that is about to engulf China. \nThe Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954\, collectively entitled The Shanghai Quartet. \n*Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event \nWHAT: Book Talk and Signing with Author Karen Kao on The Dancing Girl & the Turtle\nWHEN: Saturday\, April 22\, 2017 from 1:00pm-2:30pm\nWHERE: The Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\n*Light Refreshments will be provided. \nRSVP: On Eventbrite– tickets purchased for the event also include admission to the museum exhibit: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion \n*$3 parking is available at the Golden Gateway Parking Garage (250 Clay Street) from 9am-10pm on weekends with validation stamp provided at the front desk of CHSA \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren Kao was born in Los Angeles\, California\, USA on 21 September 1959 to Chinese immigrants who settled in the United States in the 1950s. She attended Catholic primary school in Montebello and an all-girls secondary school\, Ramona Convent.\nKaren obtained her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California Irvine in 1981\, graduating with honors. This was the phase in her life when Karen crossed paths with Charles Wright (U.S. Poet Laureate 2014-2015)\, her teacher\, and Yusef Komunyakaa (Pulitzer Prize winning poet)\, her friend. \nRather than pursue her dream of writing\, Karen followed her father’s advice and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated in 1984\, again with honors\, and immediately began practicing law in the Washington\, DC office of a Boston-based law firm. She fell in love with a Dutchman and abandoned her career as a fledging US lawyer to move with him to Amsterdam in 1989.\nUnfazed by the new language\, culture and legal system\, Karen launched a second career. She returned to school to obtain her Dutch law degree from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden\, while training on the job at a firm in Utrecht. Karen eventually became a partner and head of the corporate law department at an Amsterdam-based law firm. Her métier was cross-border mergers and acquisitions\, a field of law that requires hard-nosed negotiating skills and an ability to survive on very little sleep. \nIn 2011\, she abandoned the law\, embarking on a third career: a return to her love of writing and the stories she heard as a child of Old Shanghai. She has since taken fiction workshops from Lan Samantha Chang at the Paris Writers Workshop (2014) and Yiyun Li at the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2016).\nKaren holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands. She is married with two children and lives in Amsterdam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-kao-the-dancing-girl-the-turtle/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Historical Society of America":MAILTO:info@chsa.org
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry + Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night-2/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170413T213121Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: Ishmael Reed + Tennessee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Tennessee Reed is the author of seven poetry collections\, a memoir and a novel. Tennessee has read her work throughout the Continental United States\, Alaska\, Hawaii\, England\, the Netherlands\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Israel and Japan. She is the secretary of PEN Oakland and the managing editor of Konch Magazine. \nIshmael Reed is author of thirty books to date\, including his eleventh non-fiction work\, The Complete Muhammad Ali (Baraka Books\, July\, 2015); his tenth novel\, Juice! (2011); and New and Collected Poems\, 1964-2007 (2007). His seventh play\, The Final Version\, premiered at New York’s Nuyorican Poets Café in December 2013; his other six plays are collected in Ishmael Reed\, THE PLAYS (2009). In addition he has edited numerous magazines and fourteen anthologies\, of which the most recent is Black Hollywood Unchained (2015). He is also a publisher\, songwriter\, public media commentator\, lecturer\, and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation and PEN Oakland\, non-profit organizations run by writers for writers. After teaching at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, he retired in 2005 and now teaches at California College of the Arts. He is a MacArthur Fellow\, with other honors including the University of Buffalo’s 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award\, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominations\, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award\, and San Francisco LitQuake’s 2011 Barbary Coast Award. Awarded the 2008 Blues Songwriter of the Year from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame\, his collaborations with jazz musicians for the past forty years were also recognized by SFJazz Center with his appointment\, from 2012-2016\, as San Francisco’s first Jazz Poet Laureate and in Venice\, Italy\, where he became the first Alberto Dubito International awardee \, May\, 2016\, honored as “a special artistic individual who has distinguished himself through the most innovative creativity in the musical and linguistic languages.” His online international literary magazine\, Konch\, can be found at ishmaelreedpub.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-ishmael-reed-and-tennessee-reed/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wait Till You See Me Dance \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart\, fast\, full of heart\, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What anmportant and exciting talent.”—George Saunders \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are wild\, funny\, and wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer \n“This book is an astonishment—strange\, brainy\, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows\, with brilliant force\, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”—Ben Marcus \n\nAbout Wait Till You See Me Dance \nWait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling The First Full Thought of Her Life\, a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In Voltaire Night\, students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In Stay Where You Are\, two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent but the gunman has his own problems. \nAn Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted\, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal\, in terrifying clarity\, the rage\, despair\, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality\, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme\, Lorrie Moore\, and George Saunders\, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth/
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:Christine No + Jenee Darden
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Christine No and Jenee Darden\, with music by Nkechi. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nChristine No is a writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared at the Sundance Film Festival\, in sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Magazine\, APOGEE\, Atlas and Alice; and is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, Nomadic Journal and the anthology “If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration” by Sibling Rivalry Press. She is a VONA Alum\, a Pushcart Prize Nominee and the First Place Poetry Winner the 2016 Litquake Writing Contest. She lives in Oakland with her talking dog\, Brandy. \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker and proud East Oakland native. She has reported for NPR\, Time\, Ebony\, The LA Times and other outlets. Visit her website CocoaFly.com to read her research series Under the Covers: The Popularity and Debate Over Black Erotic Literature. Jeneé is a former National Book Foundation summer fellow. She has a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California and a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego. \nAs a singer-songwriter Nkechi’s voice and music explore a range of music territory\, from acoustic soul to folk rock and pop in a signature inspirational and lyrical sound. Nkechi’s rich vocal textures and knack for improvisation make her live performances a dynamic one-of-a-kind experience. She writes conscious messages delivered through verse\, rhyme\, and melody. Nkechi’s EP Soul Rock Butterfly is available on the Music page. \nOur musical guest Nkechi believes her Creator designed her to utilize an integration of her left and right brains which requires a daily practice of staying out of her own way and not taking herself too seriously. Nkechi’s passion is exploring Christ’s love\, the source of her joy\, gratitude and talent\, through the creative and entertainment arts. The website for Nkechi’s creative happenings is www.nkechi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-no-jenee-darden/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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CREATED:20170414T072930Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170422T011231Z
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SUMMARY:Rise: An Anthology of Power and Unity
DESCRIPTION:VAGABOND is very happy to announce the launch of our new publication\,\nRise (an anthology of Power and Unity) \nFeatured readers include: \n\nJack Hirschman\nDorothy “Dottie” Payne\nNina Serrano\nMahnaz Badihian\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nFred Dodsworth\nDee Allen\nTim Kahl\nIsaac J Torres\n\nHosts: Mark Lipman and Antonieta Villamil. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-an-anthology-of-power-and-unity/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="VAGABOND":MAILTO:editor@vagabondbooks.net
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170420T230000
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CREATED:20170413T214059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T214059Z
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SUMMARY:A Funny Thing Happened: Comedic Story Night at The Setup
DESCRIPTION:Every Thursday The Setup presents San Francisco’s only weekly storytelling show. We bring you bestselling authors\, Emmy-Award winning writers\, TED speakers\, stars of The Moth Radio hour\, Snap Judgment and accomplished comedic voices in an intimate setting right in the heart of San Francisco. \nThe show features six\, true\, 10-minute stories\, told live without notes in a beer basement that feels like your living room. Funny\, intimate (easy now\, not like that)\, and engaging it’s a great way to spend your Thursday. We always have an intermission so there is plenty time to chat\, meet new people and tell your own stories. \nSeating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis. Drinks are available throughout the venue\,. Ages 21 and up. \nLineup TBD \nwith your hosts Richard Sarvate (Punch Line San Francisco)\nDave Nihill (The Moth) and Abhay Nadkarni (SF Sketchfest)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-funny-thing-happened-comedic-story-night-at-the-setup/
LOCATION:The Setup: Stand-Up Comedy\, 222 Hyde St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170420T213000
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CREATED:20160908T001145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160908T001145Z
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SUMMARY:April Ossmann + Connie Post
DESCRIPTION:April Ossmann is the author of Event Boundaries (Four Way Books\, forthcoming 2017)\, and Anxious Music (Four Way Books) and has published her poetry widely in journals including Colorado Review and Harvard Review\, and in anthologies. Her poetry awards include a 2013 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant and a Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. Former executive director of Alice James Books\, she owns a poetry consulting business (www.aprilossmann.com)\, offering manuscript editing\, publishing advice\, tutorials\, and workshops. She is a faculty editor for the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Sierra Nevada College. She lives in West Windsor\, Vermont. \nConnie Post is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore (2005 to 2009). Her work has appeared in Calyx\, Spoon River Poetry Review\, Crab Creek Review\, Slipstream\, The Big Muddy\, and Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her awards include the Caesura Poetry Award\, 2nd prize in the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize\, and 1st place in the 2016 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Her chapbook And when the When the Sun Drops won the 2012 Aurorean Editor’s choice Award. Her first full-length book\, Floodwater\, was released by Glass Lyre Press in 2014 and won the Lyrebird Award. She is a two-time nominee for the California Poet Laureate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/april-ossmann-connie-post/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Lidia Yuknavitch for her much-anticipated novel The Book of Joan! \nA raucous celebration\, a searing condemnation\, and a fiercely imaginative retelling of Joan of Arc’s transcendent life. — Roxane Gay\, New York Times-bestselling author of Bad Feminist \nIn the near future\, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground\, a place to hide in caves and horde ammunition. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet’s now-radioactive surface\, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL\, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head\, the surviving humans becoming sexless\, hairless pale-white creatures floating in isolation\, inscribing stories upon their skin. \nOut of the ranks of the endless wars rises Jean de Men\, a charismatic cult leader who appoints himself to rule over CIEL as a kind of corporate police state. To combat de Men’s vicious acts and thirst for blood\, a group of rebels unite to dismantle his iron rule – galvanized by the heroic song of Joan\, a child-warrior who possesses an unnatural talent\, a force that lives within her and communes with the earth. When de Men and his armies fashion Joan into a martyr\, instead of the living\, breathing force of nature she is\, the consequences are astonishing. And no one – not the rebels\, Jean de Men\, nor even Joan herself – can foresee the ways her life story will\, in a brilliant instant\, forge the destiny of an entire world for generations. \nThe Book of Joan is a riveting tale of destruction and the beauty found in unlikely places—even at the extreme end of post-human experience. A book suffused with dirt\, sweat\, and blood\, it raises questions about what it means to be human\, the meaning of sex and gender\, and the role of art as means for survival. \n“It’s unfair to compare Yuknavitch to only female authors. With her verve and bold imagination\, she’s earned the throne left empty since the death of David Foster Wallace.” — Chuck Palahniuk \n“Reading The Book of Joan is a meditation on art and sex and war. My brain is full-bloomed. Get ready\, it’s glorious.” — Amber Tamblyn\, author of Dark Sparkler \nLidia Yuknavitch is the author of the National Bestselling novel The Small Backs of Children\, winner of the 2016 Oregon Book Award’s Ken Kesey Award for Fiction as well as the Reader’s Choice Award\, the novel Dora: A Headcase\, and three books of short stories. Her widely acclaimed memoir The Chronology of Water was a finalist for a PEN Center USA award for creative nonfiction and winner of a PNBA Award and the Oregon Book Award Reader’s Choice. She founded the workshop series Corporeal Writing in Portland\, OR\, where she also teaches Women’s Studies\, Film Studies\, Writing\, and Literature. She received her doctorate in Literature from the University of Oregon. Her novel The Book of Joan is forthcoming from Harper\, as well as a book based on her recent TED Talk\, “The Misfit’s Manifesto.” She lives in Oregon with her husband Andy Mingo and their Renaissance man son\, Miles. She is a very good swimmer. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The Book of Joan\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lidia-yuknavitch/
LOCATION:Tenderloin Museum\, 398 Eddy St\, San Francisco \, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Janice A. Lowe\, Yohann Potico + Kevin Carnes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening of poetry and song in The Poetry Center\, featuring New York-based poet\, musician\, and Dark Room Collective co-founder Janice A. Lowe (text\, voice\, and piano) performing works from her debut book\, Leaving Cle (Miami University Press\, 2016)\, with Yohann Potico (bass) and Kevin Carnes (drums). \nCheck out their work in advance here: Edge-acation and Boy Flower Tamir. This event is free and open to the public. \nFred Moten writes: “Leaving Cle is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise\, it keeps giving home away\, disbursing and dispersing hard\, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere\, everywhere in a set of absolute specificities\, upSouth\, back east\, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of ‘difference without separation’ of which Denise Ferreira da Silva\, sociologist\, speaks. Janice A. Lowe\, poet\, sings it so hard\, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air\, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried\, which is fine\, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound\, her time\, is everything you do.” \nJanice A. Lowe is a composer and poet. She is the author of Leaving Cle: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press) and the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series.) Her poems have been published in Callaloo\, Best American Experimental Writing 2016\, The Poetry Project Online\, Pre) Conceivable Bridges\, American Poetry Review\, Radiant Re-Sisters\, The Hat and on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. She composed the musicals Lil Budda\, (Text by Stephanie L. Jones\,) Sit-In at the Five & Dime\, (Words by Marjorie Duffield) and Somewhere in Texas\, (Book and Lyrics by Charles E. Drew\, Jr.). Her works for musical theater have been performed extensively in New York City and regionally and have received developmental residencies from the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theater Conference and the National Alliance for Musical Theater. She has composed for the plays 12th and Clairmont by Jenni Lamb\, The Super Starlet Shero Show by The Jones Twins\, and Door of No Return by Nehassaiu deGannes. She is the composer of Make Some Learned Noise\, text by Randall Horton\, an interactive poem with music\, performed with the incoming freshman class\, University of New Haven\, 2015. Recently\, she was commissioned to compose a song cycle based on the “Millie-Christine” poems\, from the collection OLIO\, by Tyehimba Jess. She is a co-founder of The Dark Room Collective and a founding member of absolute theater co. She has performed with the experimental bands w/o a net\, HAGL\, and Digital Diaspora. She teaches songwriting workshops at White Bird Productions and has taught Poetry and Performance at Purchase College and at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics She holds an MFA in Musical Theater Writing from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts. More at janicelowe.com Photo: Eric Perl. \nYohann Potico grew up in a West Indian family in France. He brings a distinctive perspective to his bass playing\, producing and composing by blending an eclectic mix of influences—ranging from soul and jazz to funk and trip hop—with a unique melodic approach. He performed and recorded with Brooklyn-based independent rock trio California King from 2007 to 2014. With California King\, he recorded and co-wrote tracks on three albums—Adoration of the Boogie Bear\, 2008\, La Belle Epoque 2010\, and Sankofa\, 2015. He has performed and recorded as a session musician with numerous bands including Sierra Leone-based hip-hop group Dry Eye\, soul vocalist Annakei house/techno producer Michele Papa. For three years\, Yohann has been in residence as bass player for the Eastern European and North African influenced group Balkan Stomp. As a producer and sound engineer\, Yohann has worked with a wide range of artist including folk songwriter and performer Megan Palmer\, jazz pianist and composer Jesse Elder\, jazz vocalist Zack Foley and singer/artist Sabrina Iyadede. \n\nKevin Carnes is a drummer\, composer and producer based in the Bay Area since 1984. He founded the Afro-Punk-Industrial band Beatnigs and is celebrating 25 years as a founding member of Broun Fellinis. Carnes has served as musical director/composer for City Circus and the Marin Theater’s production of August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janice-a-lowe-yohann-potico-kevin-carnes/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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