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SUMMARY:Laura Kyriazis + Zaid Shlah
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laura-kyriazis-zaid-shlah/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170821T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170821T210000
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SUMMARY:Cassandra Dallett
DESCRIPTION:Cassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cassandra-dallett/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170821T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20170818T051520Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-5/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170820T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170820T150000
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SUMMARY:Doreen Stock + Kate Peper
DESCRIPTION:Talking With Marcelo is a bio-sketch of Argentine journalist Marcelo Holot\, a chapbook-length interview in which he answers six questions covering his early years\, his life as a student protester during the Dirty Wars\, and also his subsequent career as a journalist in Buenos Aires. Holot met and wrote about some of the most important people of his time\, including Juan Peron and the Argentine soccer hero\, Maradona. His interviewer\, the poet and memoir artist Doreen Stock\, first met him in Argentina in a tango palace\, Confiteria Ideal\, where the long conversation which was to become this interview\, began. Sixteen photographs complete the limited edition\, published by Mine Gallery\, Fairfax\, CA. \nDoreen Stock is a poet\, essayist\, and memoir practitioner who has been exploring creative nonfiction for thirty plus years from the feminine point of view as a wife\, mother of three\, single human\, and grandmother of eleven. Her first book of poems\, The Politics of Splendor\, was part of a New American Writers exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair that year. It combined poetry and prose poems with her translations from the work of Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova. A selection of Stock’s poetry and translations has been video-archived at Marin Poets\, Live! She was a founding member of the Marin Poetry Center and is currently living in Fairfax\, California. \nIn this collection of poems\, Dipped in Black Water\, Kate Peper explores the imperfect body\, the flawed spirit and the uneasy balance she strikes between the two. Horror and depression live side-by-side with humor and hope. These poems reveal how hidden losses do not so much define the person\, but once embraced\, lead to wholeness. \nKate Peper is a freelance designer and award-winning watercolor painter. She was a recipient of a Marin Arts Council Individual Artist Grant for poetry and her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including The Baltimore Review\, Cimarron Review\, Gargoyle\, The Lindenwood Review\, Rattle\, Spillway\, Tar River Review and others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/doreen-stock-kate-peper/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T220000
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SUMMARY:A Reading in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus
DESCRIPTION:Steve Arntson Presents:\nAn Evening in Support of the Rehabilitation of Venus (or\, What You Wanted All Along) \nBay Area writers and artists gather to create some good frickin energy. \nThe Lineup: Toreadah Mikell – Nazelah Jamison – Richard Loranger – Victor James Smith – Julian Mithra – Alison Luterman – Tom Stolmar – James Cagney – Allie Marini – Christine No \nAnd jazz with Karen Sudjian on voice and Jim Davidson on keyboards. \nHosted by the road demon himself\, Steve Arntson \nRefreshments will be served \nFree of charge \nPlease do stop by for a levitational experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-reading-in-support-of-the-rehabilitation-of-venus/
LOCATION:East Bay Media Center\, 1939 Addison St\,\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T210000
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SUMMARY:Cedar Sigo\, Peter Burghardt\, Anne McGuire
DESCRIPTION:A night of poetry with Cedar Sigo reading new works from his new books\, Peter Burghardt launches his new chapbook\, and Anne McGuire presents a mix of music and poetry
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cedar-sigo-peter-burghardt-anne-mcguire/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T160000
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CREATED:20170805T043316Z
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Raina J. León
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-raina-j-leon/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T160000
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-w-tongo-eisen-martin/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in the Mind and on the Page w/ Maya Chinchilla
DESCRIPTION:At Adobe Books\, Maya Chinchilla (2-3pm) and Raina León (3-4pm) will offer workshops that encourage participants to write resistance. \nTwo workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nFrom writing prompt to action with Maya Chinchilla \nHow do you cultivate a reflective stance in your writing and prompts to invigorate your writing and activism? This will be addressed in Maya Chapina’s workshop at 2pm. \nBIO: Maya Chinchilla is a Guatemalan\, Bay Area-based writer\, video artist\, educator and author of “The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética.” Maya received her MFA in English and Creative Writing from Mills College and her undergraduate degree from University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she also founded and co-edited the annual publication\, La Revista. Maya writes and performs poetry that explores themes of historical memory\, heartbreak\, tenderness\, sexuality\, and alternative futures. Her work —sassy\, witty\, performative\, and self-aware— draws on a tradition of truth-telling and poking fun at the wounds we carry. \nHer work has been published in anthologies and journals including: Mujeres de Maíz\, Sinister Wisdom\, Americas y Latinas: A Stanford Journal of Latin American Studies\, Cipactli Journal\, and The Lunada Literary Anthology. Maya is a founding member of the performance group Las Manas\, a former artist-in-residence at Galería de La Raza in San Francisco\, CA\, and La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley\, CA\, and is a VONA Voices\, Dos Brujas and Letras Latinas workshop alum. She is the co-editor of “Desde El Epicentro: An anthology of Central American Poetry and Art” and is a lecturer at San Francisco State University\, UC Davis and other Bay Area universities. \nResistBot Poems with Raina J. León \nIn this workshop at 3pm\, we will write poetry and prose of resistance and use the tool\, ResistBot\, to send these pieces to our representatives and senators. Bring your notebooks\, pens\, and phones (if you have them) to text through ResistBot. \nBIO: \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006) and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016).  She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nA portion of all proceeds will be donated to the Indigenous Environmental Network. From their website\, “IEN is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-the-mind-and-on-the-page-w-maya-chinchilla/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170819T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170819T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
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SUMMARY:Witness and Resistance in Body and Story w/ Sharon Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Two Workshops: Choose one or both to attend!  \nLifting Scars with Sharon Coleman  \nA somatic writing and movement workshop by Sharon Coleman. 2-3pm \nResilience depends on the quick scarring over of wounds\, both psychic and physical. And they remain with us usually forever. They are emblems of what has touched us. They mend muscle and thought but leave tissue that interferes with movement and neuro-plasticity. In this workshop\, we’ll use movement and writing to explore the shapes left by scars and to find movement\, resilience\, and determination from what has marked us. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook and pen. \nBIO: Sharon Coleman‘s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She has taught poetry\, creative writing and composition for fifteen years at Berkeley City College. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks (Paper Press 2016.) \nThe Composer’s Notebook with Tongo Eisen-Martin \nIn this workshop from 3-4pm\, community worker and poet\, Tongo Eisen-Martin explores how engagement in community can be channeled into music\, innovation\, and poetry. \nBIO: Born in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, which was nominated for a California Book Award. He has educated in detention centers from New York’s Rikers Island to California’s San Quentin State Prison. His work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He was also adjunct faculty at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. \nYOUR ENGAGEMENT WILL AFFECT OTHERS! \nA portion of proceeds from these workshops will be donated to East Bay Sanctuary Covenant and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). \nFrom East Bay Sanctuary Covenant’s website: “Founded in 1982\, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant is dedicated to offering sanctuary\, solidarity\, support\, community organizing assistance\, advocacy\, and legal services to those escaping war\, terror\, political persecution\, intolerance\, exploitation\, and other expressions of violence.” \nFrom the SURJ website: “SURJ IS A NATIONAL NETWORK OF GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS ORGANIZING WHITE PEOPLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE. Through community organizing\, mobilizing and education\, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships\, skills and political analysis to act for change. We envision a society where we struggle together with love\, for justice\, human dignity and a sustainable world.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/witness-and-resistance-in-body-and-story-coleman/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170818T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170818T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
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SUMMARY:Jessica Mejia + Natalie Enright
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another talent-filled Uptown Fridays featuring readings by Jessica Mejia and Natalie Enright\, with musical guest TBD. Emceed by Paul Corman-Roberts and curated by René Vaz. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are calling for $10 at the door (plus whatever else you may be able to give)\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Nomadic Press\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about the performers: \nJessica Mejia is a scholar and poet based in San Francisco. She is finishing her MA in comparative literature at San Francisco State University with a focus on 20th Century Literature of the Americas\, and was selected by the California Pre-Doctoral Program as a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar for the 2017-18 academic year. She is an active performer and organizer for the Flor y Canto Literary Festival in the Mission. Her poetry explores the transformative nature of the family unit\, music as an element trauma and healing\, and the Salvadoran diaspora. She hopes one day to teach Latin American and U.S. poetry in any and every department possible\, all the while sharing her love of scholarship and the priceless experience of finding one’s local literary community. \nNatalie Enright is a poet in San Francisco\, originally from Kenya\, Africa. She writes and has published poetry in English\, French\, and Swahili. She is finishing her Master of Library and Information Science degree at San Jose State University with the goal of becoming a public children’s librarian. She currently volunteers at the Fisher Children’s Center in the Main library\, downtown San Francisco\, as a reading partner and provides homework help for grade school kids.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jessica-mejia-natalie-enright/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170817T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T223000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170815T120209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T120209Z
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nGET YOUR TICKETS HERE: http://ow.ly/9k4930emzkn\n$10 online or $10 at the door. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to 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-9/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170817T193000
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SUMMARY:Anita Barrows + Zach Wyner
DESCRIPTION:Anita Barrows was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and moved to the Bay Area in 1966.  She holds Master’s degrees in english and italian Literature and a PhD in Psychology.  Her translations of poetry\, plays\, fiction and non-fiction from the French\, Italian and German have been published in this country and in Great Britain; most recently\, she has collaborated with Joanna any on translations three volumes of work by Rainer Maria Rilke.  Six volumes of her poetry have been published\, including two by Kelsey Books (Exile and the current book\, We Are The Hunger).  Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including The Nation\, Bark\, Prairie Schooner\, and Bridges.  She has won awards from the national Endowment for the Arts and the Quarterly Review of Literature Contemporary Poetry Series.  Barrows lives in Berkeley\, where she is a tenured professor at the Wright Institute and maintains a private clinical practice.  She is a mother and a grandmother and she lives with a menagerie of dogs\, cats\, and birds. \nZach Wyner is a writer and educator who works with incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a contributor to The Good Men Project\, Curly Red Stories\, Unbroken Journal\, and Atticus Review. His debut novel\, What We Never Had\, was published in 2016 by Los Angeles-based Rare Bird Books.He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco and lives in Oakland with his wife and children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anita-barrows-zach-wyner/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T213000
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CREATED:20170621T130148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T130148Z
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SUMMARY:Chiara Barzini
DESCRIPTION:Chiara Barzini discusses her new novel\, Things That Happened Before the Earthquake\, with Kate Schatz. \n\nPraise for Chiara Barzini \n“Chiara’s stories are beautiful\, her voice powerful. She writes with a voice that is both tense and open. The effect is surprising\, subversive\, and singular.”—Jhumpa Lahiri \n  \n“Chiara Barzini has written a wild first novel\, full of sex\, violence\, and desperate prayers to the Virgin Mary. This is a brutal and bizarre coming of age story aptly set in one of America’s many crises.”—Catherine Lacey\, author of Nobody is Ever Missing \n\n“Chiara Barzini has pulled off that most dazzling balancing act: combining a deliciously entertaining plot with effortlessly elegant prose. She has an extraordinarily keen eye for cultural nuance. Through her alter-ego Eugenia we come to discover a California as wildly foreign to us as it is to her. A brilliant\, sexy\, and unexpected take on the immigrant bildungsroman.”—Taiye Selasi\, author of Ghana Most Go. \n\nAbout Things That Happened Before the Earthquake \n\nWelcome to LA? Nineties’ Hollywood gets an Italian makeover in this poignant and ruefully funny coming-of-age novel featuring a teenage girl who’s on shaky ground—in more ways than one.\nMere weeks after the 1992 riots that laid waste to Los Angeles\, Eugenia\, a typical Italian teenager\, is rudely yanked from her privileged Roman milieu by her hippie-ish filmmaker parents and transplanted to the strange suburban world of the San Fernando Valley. With only the Virgin Mary to call on for guidance as her parents struggle to make it big\, Hollywood fashion\, she must navigate her huge new public high school\, complete with Crips and Bloods and Persian gang members\, and a car-based environment of 99-cent stores and obscure fast-food franchises and all-night raves. She forges friendships with Henry\, who runs his mother’s movie memorabilia store\, and the bewitching Deva\, who introduces her to the alternate cultural universe that is Topanga Canyon. And then the 1994 earthquake rocks the foundations not only of Eugenia’s home but of the future she’d been imagining for herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chiara-barzini/
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:20170817T210000
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CREATED:20170720T051300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T051300Z
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SUMMARY:Danya Kukafka w/ Val Brelinski
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Danya Kukafka as she introduces her debut novel Girl in Snow. With Danya in conversation will be fellow author Val Brelinski (The Girl Who Slept With God). Please join us! \nSet in the small suburb of Broomsville\, Colorado\, this addictive thriller begins with the discovery of high school freshman Lucinda Hayes’s dead body near a playground carousel. With the town’s golden girl murdered\, accusations quickly spread\, drawing three outsiders from the shadows. \nOddball Cameron Whitley loved—still loves—Lucinda. Though they’ve hardly ever spoken\, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda’s stalker\, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death\, Cameron’s erratic behavior provides the town ample reason to suspect that he’s the killer. \nJade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from Jade: her babysitting job\, and her best friend. The worst part was Lucinda’s blissful ignorance to the damage she’d wrought. \nOfficer Russ Fletcher doesn’t know Lucinda\, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about\, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner’s son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda’s murder and keep a promise he made long ago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danya-kukafka-w-val-brelinski/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T210000
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CREATED:20170815T114423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T114423Z
UID:28292-1502996400-1503003600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Poetry Readings @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Persis Karim is poet\, editor\, and professor of literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. Her poems have appeared in Callaloo\, Porter Gulch Review\, Caesura\, Red Wheelbarrow\, HeartLodge\, and The New York Times\, as well as other publications. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diaspora literature and is the founding director of Persian Studies at San Jose State University. Her current project is a collection of poems called “When the World is Harsh\, Find Your Tenderness.” For more information: www.persiskarim.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-readings-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170817T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170815T112953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T112953Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime REDIRECTIONS\, on Thursday August 17th\, 7-9 pm\, in the basement room at Armory Club\, 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Meg Elison (The Book of Etta)\, Nancy Jane Moore (The Weave)\, Skye Allen (The Songbird Thief)\, Sunil Patel\, and Sean Craven. With guest MC Allison Mick.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-redirections/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170817T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170817T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170619T113700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T113700Z
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SUMMARY:Community Voices: Poets Speak
DESCRIPTION:For the past seven weeks\, every Thursday at 5pm from June 29 – August 10\, we have presented Community Voices: Poets Speak\, where Bay Area Cave Canem poets reflected on themes of our current exhibition. Now on view\, The Ease of Fiction presents the work of four African artists living in the United States as the foundation of a critical discussion about history\, fact and fiction. The readings and discussion of original work took place in the galleries. The series culminates today with a reception and an evening of poetry by the participating poets\, along with Arisa White and James Cagney\, on Thursday\, August 17\, 6-8pm. Free Admission. \nFounded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape\, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. \nCommunity Voices: Poets Speak is curated by Arisa White\, poet\, writer & educator.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-voices-poets-speak-2/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170720T051127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T051127Z
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SUMMARY:Jarett Kobek
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith is pleased to bring Jarett Kobek\, author of I Hate the Internet\, into the store for his brilliant follow-up novel\, The Future Won’t Be Long\, a provocative\, ecstatic story of friendship\, sex\, art\, and ambition in the twilight days of New York City’s East Village (1986-1996). \n  \nThe story centers on Adeline—featured years later in I Hate the Internet—a wealthy art student in New York City who chances upon a young man from the Midwest known only as Baby in a shady East Village squat. The two begin a fiery friendship which propels them through a decade of New York life punctuated by the deaths of Warhol\, Basquiat\, Wojnarowicz\, by the Tompkins Square Park riots\, and by the rise of club kid culture. Adeline is fiercely protective of Baby\, but he soon takes over his own education. Once just a kid off the bus from Wisconsin\, Baby soon finds himself at the center of the club kid social scene\, cavorting with Michael Alig and James St. James at The Tunnel\, Limelight\, and Alig’s infamous “Outlaw Party” at a midtown McDonald’s. \n  \nAs Adeline and Baby both develop into the artists they never expected to become\, Kobek pays tribute to the last gasps of the gritty\, drug-fueled scene of the East Village as gentrifiers begin to trickle in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jarett-kobek/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170815T113359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T113359Z
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SUMMARY:Lucky Seventh Anniversary
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate our seventh year of presenting the diverse voices of the East Bay!!! The theme is luck! We’re popping bottles of champagn and serving special treats. It’s all on us. Come hear seven extraordinary readers: \nVernon Keeve III\nJulie Thi Underhill\nArisa White\nJulian Mithra\nThea Matthews\nJoshua Escobar\nLark Omura \nHosted and curated by the sparkling duo: Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucky-seventh-anniversary/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170816T200000
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CREATED:20170604T214118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021237Z
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SUMMARY:Tom Perrota: Mrs. Fletcher
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most popular and bestselling authors of our time\, a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex\, love\, and identity on the frontlines of America’s culture wars. \nEve Fletcher is trying to figure out what comes next. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college\, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number\, the mysterious sender tells Eve\, “U R my MILF!” Over the months that follow\, that message comes to obsess Eve. While leading her all-too-placid life—serving as Executive Director of the local senior center by day and taking a community college course on Gender and Society at night—Eve can’t curtail her own interest in a porn website called MILFateria.com\, which features the erotic exploits of ordinary\, middle-aged women like herself. Before long\, Eve’s online fixations begin to spill over into real life\, revealing new romantic possibilities that threaten to upend her quiet suburban existence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-perrota-mrs-fletcher/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T213000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170604T223927Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T021205Z
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #27
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only NO ‘HARE (Isobel O’Hareand Christine No.) \nFeatured lineup of writers include: and more TBA! \nMusical Guest: \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and coffee by our good friends next door\, Red Bay Coffee. \nDonations will be kindly requested\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-27/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170621T123201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170621T123201Z
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SUMMARY:Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Margaret Wilkerson Sexton to the store to discuss and sign\, A Kind of Freedom\, on Tuesday\, August 15th\, at 7:00pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend. \nEvelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of Black society\, and when she falls for no-account Renard\, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves.\nIn 1982\, Evelyn’s daughter\, Jackie\, is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband’s drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family\, he returns\, ready to resume their old life. Jackie must decide if the promise of her husband is worth the near certainty he’ll leave again.\nJackie’s son\, T.C.\, loves the creative process of growing marijuana more than the weed itself. He was a square before Hurricane Katrina\, but the New Orleans he knew didn’t survive the storm. Fresh out of a four-month stint for drug charges\, T.C. decides to start over–until an old friend convinces him to stake his new beginning on one last deal.\nFor Evelyn\, Jim Crow is an ongoing reality\, and in its wake new threats spring up to haunt her descendants. A Kind of Freedom is an urgent novel that explores the legacy of racial disparity in the South through a poignant and redemptive family history. \nMargaret Wilkerson Sexton was born and raised in New Orleans and studied creative writing at Dartmouth and law at UC Berkeley. A recipient of the Lombard fellowship\, she spent a year in the Dominican Republic working for a civil rights organization and writing her first manuscript\, A Kind of Freedom\, which received an honorable mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest. Her stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review\, Grey Sparrow Journal\, Limestone Journal\, and Broad! Magazine\, and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-wilkerson-sexton/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170622T012846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T012846Z
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SUMMARY:Mahnaz Badihian + Jorge Molina
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman. \nInterested in reading? Please contact Friends’ Literary Director Byron Spooner at byron.spooner@friendssfpl.org or call (415) 522-8602.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mahnaz-badihian-jorge-molina/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T200000
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CREATED:20170815T114227Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T114227Z
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Dumuk
DESCRIPTION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nNorm Mattox is a native Bronx\, New Yorker. He has been living on the ‘left’ coast for over thirty years. Norm is a bilingual educator in the San Francisco Unified School District for over 25 years. He is a mentor and math coach for middle school math teachers in the Math Department. Norm has been writing in journals\, notebooks\, on the backs of envelopes and on color coded\, post-it notes for decades. Norm crossed out of his comfort zone\, from writing in silence to speaking his peace on the Open Mic\, in 2015. His muse is inspired by the dance he does with students in the public education system\, by a tribal response to persistent aggressions in today’s society\, by family and by love. He recently published his first chapbook\, Get Home Safe! Poems for Crossing the Community Grid. One of his poems is included in El Tecolote’s Anthology\, Poetry in Flight/Poesia en Vuelo.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk-2/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170815T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170720T050022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170720T050022Z
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SUMMARY:Danzy Senna
DESCRIPTION:As the twentieth century draws to a close\, Maria is at the start of a life she never thought possible. She and Khalil\, her college sweetheart\, are planning their wedding. They are the perfect couple\, “King and Queen of the Racially Nebulous Prom.” Their skin is the same shade of beige. They live together in a black bohemian enclave in Brooklyn\, where Khalil is riding the wave of the first dot-com boom and Maria is plugging away at her dissertation\, on the Jonestown massacre. They’ve even landed a starring role in a documentary about “new people” like them\, who are blurring the old boundaries as a brave new era dawns. Everything Maria knows she should want lies before her—yet she can’t stop daydreaming about another man\, a poet she barely knows. As fantasy escalates to fixation\, it dredges up secrets from the past and threatens to unravel not only Maria’s perfect new life but her very persona. \nHeartbreaking and darkly comic\, New People is a bold and unfettered page-turner that challenges our every assumption about how we define one another\, and ourselves. \nDanzy Senna’s first novel\, the bestselling Caucasia\, won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award\, was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, and was translated into close to a dozen languages. A recipient of the Whiting Writers Award\, Senna is also the author of the novel Symptomatic\, the memoir Where Did You Sleep Last Night?\, and the story collection You Are Free. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband\, the novelist Percival Everett\, and their sons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/danzy-senna/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170814T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170725T110544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170725T110544Z
UID:28116-1502737200-1502740800@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer "It Aint Just Genre!"
DESCRIPTION:Why is fiction a wrestling match\, with literary fiction in one corner and genre fiction in another? Isn’t a mystery or a romance or science fiction as much literature as non-genre fiction? We’ll thrash those questions and more out at “It Aint Just Genre!”–Perfectly Queer’s August 14 event\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro (489 Castro St.\, San Francisco). Three writers will read from their new books: Ralph Josiah Bardsley (romance)\, Tim Floreen (horror)\, and Bonnie J. Miller (speculative fiction). The readings will be followed by a panel discussion and book signing. Door prizes awarded. Wine\, edibles\, and good cheer provided for free. \nRalph Josiah Bardsley is the author of three books – Brothers\, The Photographer’s Truth\, and A Careful Heart. Brothers was a Forward Reviews Book of the Year and a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. I was born in a small town outside of Boston. My dad was in the Coast Guard so I grew up in a lot of different places – New Orleans\, Cape Cod\, North Carolina\, and Sitka\, Alaska. When I wasn’t in school\, I spent most of my time in Coast Guard hangers or reading. Today\, he lives in San Francisco\, where my hobbies include writing\, running\, and reading. \nTim Floreen writes young adult science fiction. The New York Public Library named his first novel\, Willful Machines\, one of the best teen books of 2015 and\, in a starred review\, Kirkus described it as “gothic\, gadgety\, and gay\,” which is an accurate assessment. Booklist called his second novel\, Tattoo Atlas\, “incisive\, startling\, and intense.” Tim lives in San Francisco with his partner\, their two cat-obsessed daughters\, and two very patient cats. \nBonnie J. Morris is a professor of women’s history\, a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist and the author of fifteen books\, as well as an archivist of the lesbian music movement. She recently hosted the first exhibit of radical lesbian albums at the Library of Congress and will now be working with the Bay Area Lesbian Archives. Her new book\, SAPPHO’S BAR AND GRILL\, is a sexy time-travel romp across women’s history rebellions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-it-aint-just-genre/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170814T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170803T003359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T003359Z
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SUMMARY:A Word for Word Staged Reading: Off the Page: Tobias Wolff Featuring "The Night in Question"
DESCRIPTION:Directed by Joel Mullennix \nOff the Page staged readings are the first step in developing a Word for Word production—taking a short story from the page to the stage. \nIn preparation for our 25th Anniversary in 2018 we’re bringing back one of our favorite writers: Tobias Wolff\, with a reading on “The Night in Question.” \nCome see the very first steps of our process\, and\, after the reading\, let us know what you think!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-word-for-word-staged-reading-off-the-page-tobias-wolff-featuring-the-night-in-question/
LOCATION:Z Below\, 470 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170813T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170813T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170803T004114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170803T004114Z
UID:28166-1502647200-1502654400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Cary Cordova's "Heart of the Mission" Reading + Release!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Cary Cordova’s “Heart of the Mission” newly published by The University of Pennsylvania Press. Book signing to follow. \nIn “The Heart of the Mission” Cary Cordova combines urban\, political\, and art history to examine how the Mission District\, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco\, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before the anointment of the “Mission School” by art-world arbiters at the dawn of the twenty-first century\, Latino artists\, writers\, poets\, playwrights\, performers\, and filmmakers made the Mission their home and their muse. \nThe Mission\, home to Chileans\, Cubans\, Guatemalans\, Mexican Americans\, Nicaraguans\, Puerto Ricans\, and Salvadorans never represented a single Latino identity. In tracing the experiences of a diverse group of Latino artists from the 1940s to the turn of the century\, Cordova connects wide-ranging aesthetics to a variety of social movements and activist interventions. The book begins with the history of the Latin Quarter in the 1940s and the subsequent cultivation of the Beat counterculture in the 1950s\, demonstrating how these decades laid the groundwork for the artistic and political renaissance that followed. Using oral histories\, visual culture\, and archival research\, she analyzes the Latin jazz scene of the 1940s\, Latino involvement in the avant-garde of the 1950s\, the Chicano movement and Third World movements of the 1960s\, the community mural movement of the 1970s\, the transnational liberation movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador\, and the AIDS activism of the 1980s. Through these different historical frames\, Cordova links the creation of Latino art with a flowering of Latino politics.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cary-cordovas-heart-of-the-mission-reading-release/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170813T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170813T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T202507
CREATED:20170622T015636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170622T015636Z
UID:27676-1502636400-1502640000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Katharine Harer + Judy Bebelaar
DESCRIPTION:The Bay Area Writing Project presents a poetry reading by Katharine Harer Jazz and Other Hot Subjects\, and BAWP poet Judy Bebelaar\, Walking Across the Pacific\, open mic follows\, light refreshments available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katharine-harer-judy-bebelaar/
LOCATION:Expressions Gallery\, 2035 Ashby Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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