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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171008T130000
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SUMMARY:Two Cheers for Hollywood/Breaking Into Screenwriting
DESCRIPTION:Two Cheers for Hollywood is an insightful chronicle of Joseph McBride’s decades of covering the American film industry and observing its decline. San Francisco State University Cinema Professor McBride talks about his career as a film critic and historian. \nBreaking Into Screenwriting follows at 1.45pm\nBack due to popular demand! McBride\, author of Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless\, and Sam Hamm co-writer of the screenplay for Batman and Batman Returns\, discuss the basic elements of the screenwriting craft and how an aspiring writer can break into that field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/two-cheers-for-hollywoodbreaking-into-screenwriting/
LOCATION:Charley’s Los Gatos\, 15 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171008T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T160000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
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SUMMARY:Rage\, Resistance and a Rejection of Resignation
DESCRIPTION:Ireland has long had a tradition of rebellion\, with resistance being a refusal to accept the condition we find ourselves in. Art can speak to power by subverting the rational and opening up new possibilities. Can writers and artists dream new worlds into existence that can stand against a monolithic globalized corporate consumer society? Emer Martin’s darkly comic work examines power and the abuse of it. Her characters have always been like the dogs howling at the edge of town. Emer reads from a selection of her work and opens up the conversation of what role artists can play in the new culture of rage and resistance in these darkly turbulent times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rage-resistance-and-a-rejection-of-resignation/
LOCATION:Whitney Modern Art Gallery\, 24 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171008T150000
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SUMMARY:Erica Goss
DESCRIPTION:Erica Goss served as Poet Laureate of Los Gatos\, 2013-2016. Author of Wild Place (2012) and Vibrant Words: Ideas and Inspirations for Poets (2014)\, her first full-length poetry collection\, Night Court\, recently won the 2016 Lyrebird Award.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/erica-goss/
LOCATION:Charley’s Los Gatos\, 15 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos CA\, 95030
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171008T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171008T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
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SUMMARY:How The Irish Won The West
DESCRIPTION:The historical focus on the Irish diaspora in the U.S. has always been on the east coast. Often ignored is the legion of ‘two boat Irish’ who made their way into the vast American West. These included fur trappers\, miners\, soldiers\, gangsters\, and prostitutes. A fair sprinkling made vast fortunes\, and a good proportion found their way to California. In his book How the Irish Won the West\, Myles Dungan has disinterred many of these narratives. If they weren’t verifiably true\, you probably wouldn’t believe most of them.\nMyles Dungan is an Irish historian\, broadcaster\, playwright and novelist. He is the author of a number of books on Irish and American history\, holds a PhD from Trinity College\, Dublin\, has taught in U.C. Berkeley as a Fulbright scholar\, and presents the weekly History Show on Irish National Radio (RTE). \nMyles will be introduced by Tony Bucher\, President of the Irish Literary & Historical Society. \nMartin Hayes’ soulful interpretations of traditional Irish music are recognized the world over for their exquisite musicality and irresistible rhythm. He has toured and recorded with guitarist Dennis Cahill for over twenty years\, and has collaborated with extraordinary musicians in the classical\, folk and contemporary music worlds including Bill Frisell\, Ricky Skaggs\, Jordi Savall\, Brooklyn Rider and the Irish Chamber Orchestra as well as many of the greatest Irish musicians over the past thirty years. Martin has contributed music\, both original and traditional arrangements to modern dance\, theatre\, film and television. He has performed on stage with Sting and Paul Simon and recently recorded with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/how-the-irish-won-the-west/
LOCATION:Charley’s Los Gatos\, 15 N Santa Cruz Ave\, Los Gatos\, CA\, 95030\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Writers' Festival Los Gatos":MAILTO:irishwriterslosgatos@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171009T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171009T213000
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SUMMARY:Writing the World: From Struggle to Joy
DESCRIPTION:Kathy D’Arcy\, Stephen Connolly\, and Stephen Sexton – will join Afro-Latinx writer\, Raina León\, in the rebellious act of telling their own stories. Each writer’s work reflects the dynamic and diasporic experiences of nostalgia\, resistance\, and home connectedness\, through language that defies erasure of self\, and dares us all to act. The reading will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Rosemary Graham.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writing-the-world-from-struggle-to-joy/
LOCATION:Saint Mary’s College of California\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga\, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171010T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171010T133000
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SUMMARY:Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake & Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays on the second Tuesday of each month at Jessie Square next to the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Guest curated by Litquake’s Brynn Saito\, Poetic Tuesdays run from 12:30pm-1:30pm and feature poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake-yerba-buena-gardens-festival-5/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Olstein\, Julie Carr\, + Amanda Nadelberg
DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to be hosting three three three amazing poets! We’ll be celebrating Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr’s new books\, and joining them is Oakland-native\, Amanda Nadelberg\, whose newest book is also still fairly\, well\, new! \nLisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently LATE EMPIRE (October 2017). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, the Hayden Carruth Award\, a Lannan Literary Residency\, an Essay Press chapbook prize\, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation\, Centrum\, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, she currently serves as a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. \nJulie Carr is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently 100 Notes on Violence (Ahsahta\, 2010)\, RAG(Omnidawn\, 2014)\, and Think Tank (Solid Objects\, 2015). She is also the author of two prose works: Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry (Dalkey Archive\, 2013) and Objects from a Borrowed Confession (Ahsahta\, 2017). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press\, 2015). A chapbook of prose\, “The Silence that Fills the Future\,” was released as a free pdf from Essay Press: http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/ \nCarr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory is due out from Commune Editions in 2018\, as will a mixed-genre work\, Reallife: An Installation. \nCarr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. She regularly collaborates with dance artist K.J. Holmes and is the co-founder of Counterpath Press\, Counterpath Gallery\, and Counterpath Community Garden (www.counterpathpress.org). \nAmanda Nadelberg is the author of three books\, most recently Songs from a Mountain. She lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-olstein-julie-carr-amanda-nadelberg/
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:Maggie Stiefvater
DESCRIPTION:Maggie Stiefvater has been called “a master storyteller” by USA Today and “wildly imaginative” by Entertainment Weekly. We fell for her writing in Lament and Ballad. Swooned over the New York Times bestselling Wolves of Mercy series. Loved The Scorpio Races\, which was named a Michael L Printz Honor Book by the ALA. Obsessed over the highly praised Raven Cycle series. And are wildly excited to welcome her back to launch All the Crooked Saints\, the extraordinary story of an extraordinary family\, a masterful tale of love\, fear\, darkness\, and redemption. \nMaggie Steifvater has been a wedding musician\, a technical editor\, a portrait artist\, a calligraphy instructor\, and\, for several fraught weeks\, a waitress. She is now a full time writer who plays several musical instruments and still makes art. \nMaggie will be in conversation with Chris Taylor of Mashable.com. Chris is a veteran journalist hailing from the U.K. He was San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine and in the past five years has served as senior editor for Business 2.0\, West Coast editor for Fortune Small Business and West Coast web editor for Fast Company. \nDon’t miss this opportunity to meet #1 New York Times bestselling author and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year-winner Maggie Stiefvater to launch All the Crooked Saints\, which follows the Soria family\, who can perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future. They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maggie-stiefvater/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T203000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Renee Gladman
DESCRIPTION:WINNER of the 2017 Firecracker Award for Nonfiction from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) \nRenee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines\, crossings\, thresholds\, geographies\, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of ten published works\, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants\, the Ravickians; Calamities\, a collection of linked essays on writing and experience\, which won the 2017 Firecracker Award in Nonfiction; and a monograph of ink drawings\, Prose Architectures. She lives in New England with poet-ceremonialist Danielle Vogel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-renee-gladman/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T200000
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SUMMARY:Brian Rogers
DESCRIPTION:Brian Rogers reads from and discusses his novel The Whole of the Moon. The novel features six crisscrossing narratives set along the old Route 66 in Southern California\, from the Inland Empire to the terminus just off Sunset Boulevard. The stories span the years from the late 1950s to the present\, and the characters are bound by a fact unknown to them: they have each checked out the same public library copy of The Great Gatsby.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-rogers/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T204500
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Once again\, we’ll have a magnificent roster of flash fiction writers reading their work!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171011T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171011T220000
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CREATED:20170926T004223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T004223Z
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Best of Fireside
DESCRIPTION:more info TBA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-best-of-fireside/
LOCATION:San Francisco Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20170929T222708Z
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Eisen-Martin\, Zamora\, + Vaz
DESCRIPTION:Join Voz Sin Tinta in the month of October for an epic reading\, featuring three writers with their new books fresh off the presses. \nWe will have light refreshments\, drinks\, and an open mic before the featured readers. Maximum of 6 open mic slots will be available with a time limit of 4 minutes.\nBooks will be available for purchase! \nReaders:\nTongo Eisen-Martin is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry book\, someone’s dead already\, and his poetry has been featured in Harper’s Magazine. He is also a movement worker and educator whose work in Rikers Island was featured in the New York Times. He has been a faculty member at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University\, and his curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, “We Charge Genocide Again!” has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. \nJavier Zamora was born in La Herradura\, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992).\nIn 1999\, Javier migrated through Guatemala\, Mexico\, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. Before a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca\, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His book Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017)\, explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family.\nZamora is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and is a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. He holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University (Olive B. O’Connor)\, MacDowell\, Macondo\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. In 2016\, Barnes and Noble granted him the Writers for Writers Award for his work in the Undocupoets Campaign. \nRené Vaz is a Bay Area writer. He curates the reading series Voz Sin Tinta and Uptown Fridays. He is a lecturer at San Francisco State University for the Latino Studies department and is committed to providing space for POC/ marginalized voices. He holds an M.A. and M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. The Planet of the Dead is his debut book.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-eisen-martin-zamora-and-vaz/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171012T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171012T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171012T200000
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer book reading "From Personal Experience"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author Kate Carroll de Gutes joins local authors Lynne Barnes and Kate Jessica Raphael for a Perfectly Queer Rainbow Reading\, “From Personal Experience\,” Thu.\, Oct. 12\, 7pm at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St.\, in San Francisco. Free admission\, free refreshments\, and thematic door prizes. A reception and book signing follow the readings. www.facebook.com/events/1665334820143726 \nAll three authors write from personal experience: Barnes poetry\, de Gutes essays\, and Raphael novels. Here is more information about them and their writing. \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket to Hair\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She has worked as a nurse on psych emergency units and oncology wards and as a librarian in San Francisco’s public libraries. She was part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She lives with her beloved partner\, Carole\, who created the cover art for Lynne’s poetic memoir\, Falling Into Flowers\, 2017. \nKate Carroll de Gutes‘ book\, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear\, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book\, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life\, was released in August\, 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes grief\, the drama of perimenopause and dating\, riding bikes\, and the joys and challenges of authentic living. You can learn more at www.katecarrolldegutes.com. \nKate Jessica Raphael is a San Francisco Bay Area writer\, feminist\, queer activist\, and radio journalist\, who makes her living as a law firm word processor. She lived in Palestine for eighteen months as a member of the International Women’s Peace Service\, and spent over a month in Israeli prison because of her activism. She has also done international solidarity work in Bahrain and Iraq. She was awarded a Hedgebrook residency and elected Community Grand Marshal of the San Francisco Pride Parade. She produces the weekly radio show Women’s Magazine on KPFA. The first novel in her Palestine mystery series\, Murder Under the Bridge\, won the Independent Publishers Book Award silver medal for mystery. Her second book\, Murder Under the Fig Tree\, was released in September\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-book-reading-from-personal-experience/
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:20171012T210000
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SUMMARY:Brit Bennett
DESCRIPTION:Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California\, Brit Bennett’s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community\, love\, and ambition. It begins with a secret. \n“All good secrets have a taste before you tell them\, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucked too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season.” \nIt is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken\, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide\, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone\, including Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soon\, Nadia\, Luke\, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer\, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. \nIn entrancing\, lyrical prose\, The Mothers asks whether a “what if” can be more powerful than an experience itself. If\, as time passes\, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves\, to the communities that have parented us\, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever. \nBrit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan\, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, and Jezebel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brit-bennett/
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:20171012T210000
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SUMMARY:Prose at The Poetry Center
DESCRIPTION:May-lee Chai is the author of eight books\, including the memoir Hapa Girl\, a Kiriyama Prize Notable Book; the novel Tiger Girl\, which won an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; and her original translation from Chinese to English of the 1934 Autobiography of Ba Jin. Her short prose has been published widely\, including in The Rumpus\, Missouri Review\, Seventeen\, Glimmer Train\, Dallas Morning News and San Francisco Chronicle. Chai joined SF State this fall as an assistant professor. \nLecturer Junse Kim is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize\, a Faulkner Short Story Award and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. His fiction and creative nonfiction has been published in Ontario Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Cimarron Review and Fourteen Hills\, as well as two anthologies: Pushcart Prize XXVII and Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/prose-at-the-poetry-center/
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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SUMMARY:Get Lit! October 2017
DESCRIPTION:Come join us October 12 for a fun night of literary storytelling with featured readers Amy Bess Cook\, Cameron Kelly and Alex Simand (and YOU on the open mic)! \n~~~~~~ \n* Amy Bess Cook has been a writer and editor for more than 15 years. She has left her mark on everything from travel guides to children’s manuscripts to gardening books. Her personal essays have appeared in Vela\, Entropy\, and Fiction Southeast. \nWith a background in book publishing\, Amy Bess also spent eight years helping to operate a boutique winery. Armed with a broad skill set that includes wordsmithing and oenology\, she recently launched a new experiment in art\, wine\, and giving. The project is called Sirsee\, which means “gift” in the Southern parlance. With a handcrafted wine and a literary journal–both created by Amy Bess–Sirsee raises funds for social justice organizations. In a few short months\, the project has raised $4\,000 for Southern Poverty Law Center and $1\,000 for other groups. \nAmy Bess will share poetry by contributors to the inaugural issue of Sirsee journal\, with the theme: “Ripe for the Picking”. \n* Cameron Kelly’s articles and interviews have appeared in <proximity> magazine. She’s an Elizabeth George Foundation Scholar\, awarded in 2014. She’s working on a collection of essays\, and will graduate from Antioch University LA in 2017. \n* Alex Simand does not believe in the left brain / right brain dichotomy. He lives and works in San Francisco\, having arrived via the two socialist countries of Canada and Russia before that. His short story\, Election Cycle\, was a winner of the 2017 Best Small Fictions award. \n~~~~~ \nGet Lit is a free quarterly literary event hosted by Dani Burlison and Kara Vernor at Aqus Café in Petaluma. All ages are welcome but DISCLAIMER: our readers may share adult content and we don’t provide ear muffs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-october-2017/
LOCATION:Aqus Petaluma\, 101 H St\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Reckoning
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on October 12\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for “Reckonings” with the following six acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nWilliam Brewer is the author of I Know Your Kind (Milkweed Editions\, 2017)\, winner of the National Poetry Series\, and Oxyana\, selected for the Poetry Society of America’s 30 and Under Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry has appeared in Boston Review\, The Iowa Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Narrative (where it was awarded the 30 Below Prize)\, The Nation\, A Public Space\, and other journals. Currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he was born and raised in West Virginia. \nJacqueline Doyle’s flash chapbook The Missing Girl has just been published by Black Lawrence Press. She has recent flash in matchbook\, Monkeybicycle\, Quarter After Eight\, and The Pinch\, fiction in Phoebe and PANK\, and creative nonfiction in The Gettysburg Review\, Electric Literature\, and Superstition Review. She lives in the East Bay. \nErika Mailman is the author of historical novels Woman of Ill Fameand The Witch’s Trinity\, which was a Bram Stoker finalist and a San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book. Her latest\, The Murderer’s Maid\, looks at the Lizzie Borden murder case from the point of view of the maid\, the only other person in the house that day. Under the pen name Lynn Carthage\, she writes Y.A. fiction. Mailman holds a poetry MFA from the University of Arizona and has been a Yaddo fellow. \nBrittany Perham is the author of Double Portrait (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, which received the Barnard Women Poets Prize; The Curiosities (Free Verse Editions\, 2012); and\, with Kim Addonizio\, the collaborative chapbook The Night Could Go in Either Direction(Slapering Hol Press\, 2016). She is a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford University\, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. In 2016 she received the Elizabeth Matchett Stover Memorial Award given by Southwest Review; she has also received awards and fellowships from the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fund\, and the James Merrill House Foundation. She lives in San Francisco. \nElizabeth Rosner is a bestselling novelist\, poet\, and essayist living in Berkeley\, California. Her first book of non-fiction\, Survivor Cafe: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory\, publishes in September 2017. Her third novel\, Electric City\, published in 2014\, was named among the best books of the year by National Public Radio. The Speed of Light\, Rosner’s acclaimed debut novel in 2001\, was translated into nine languages. Short-listed for the Prix Femina\, the book won several literary prizes in both the US and Europe\, including the Prix France Bleu Gironde; the Great Lakes Colleges Award for New Fiction; and Hadassah Magazine’s Ribalow Prize\, judged by Elie Wiesel. Blue Nude\, her second novel\, was selected as one of the best books of 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her acclaimed poetry collection\, Gravity\, was also published in 2014. Rosner’s essays have appeared in the NY Times Magazine\, Elle\, the Forward\, Hadassah Magazine\, and several anthologies; her poems have been published by Poetry Magazine\, Catamaran\, Poetry East\, Southern Poetry Review\, and many other journals. Her book reviews appear frequently in the San Francisco Chronicle. \nMary Volmer is the author of two novels: Crown of Dust (HarperCollins UK\, 2006; Soho Press US\, 2010) and Reliance\, Illinois (Soho Press\, 2016). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in various publications\, including Mutha Magazine\, Women’s Basketball Magazine\, Fiction Writers Review\, Historical Novel Society Review\, and Ploughshares. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook and was the spring 2015 Distinguished Visiting Writer in Residence at Saint Mary’s College (CA) where she now teaches. \nWhy There Are Words is an award-winning reading series founded in Sausalito by Peg Alford Pursell. Over its seven years of presenting quality author readings\, the series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street in Sausalito\, and as of 2017\, has expanded to become a national neighborhood of readings in five major locations across the nation\, with more planned in 2018. WTAW Press\, a 501(c)3 non-profit\, is the new publishing arm of Why There Are Words.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-reckoning/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Havarie/Collision
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Litquake and Unnamed Press\, the Center for the Art of Translation presents a screening of the German “slow-cinema” film Havarie followed by a conversation about the film with director Philip Scheffner and a reading by author Merle Kröger Collision\, a crime novel inspired by research for the film. \nCollision – The Book\nThe research for the film Havarie was starting point and inspiration for the novel of the same title\, written by Merle Kröger\, and translated from the German by Rachel Hildebrandt and Alexandra Roesch as Collision (Unnamed Press November 2017). The book received the Radio Bremen Crime Novel Award 2015 and the German Crime Novel Award 2016. According to Kröger\, “Reality is much more dramatic\, violent and incomprehensible than fiction. I decided to take the encounter between the ships as the cause to freeze time\, to create a 3-D model from this situation which I can observe from all perspectives. In this kind of model space I now step into each character’s role and try to let him or her think and act on the basis of their individual biographies.” \nHavarie – The Film\nOn September 14\, 2012 at 2:56pm\, the cruise liner “Adventure of the Seas” reports to the Spanish Maritime Rescue Centre the sighting of a dinghy adrift with 13 persons on board. From a YouTube clip and biographical scenes evolves a choreography reflecting the past\, present and future of the voyagers on the Mediterranean.\nDirector: Philip Scheffner\, Color\, 97 minutes\, 2015/16\, Germany
URL:https://litseen.com/event/havariecollision/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20170926T002216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014324Z
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SUMMARY:Three Distinguished Poets
DESCRIPTION:An evening of poetry featuring Al Young\, Floyd Salas & Andrena Zawinski. \nAl Young’s many books include poetry collections\, memoirs\, and novels. His honors include Wallace Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships\, the Glenna Luschei Distinguished Poetry Fellowship\, and the Richard Wright Award for Excellence in Literature. He has twice received the American Book Award. A two-time California Poet Laureate\, he is currently Distinguished Professor at California College of the Arts’ MFA In Writing program. alyoung.org \nFloyd Salas is the author of nine books: five novels\, three volumes of poetry and a memoir. His first novel\, Tattoo the Wicked Cross\, along with his memoir Buffalo Nickel\, is featured in Masterpieces of Hispanic Literature (HarperCollins 1994). He was 2002-2003 Regent’s Lecturer at University of California\, Berkeley\, staff writer for the NBC drama series\, Kingpin and the recipient of NEA\, California Arts Council\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and other fellowships and awards. His work is archived in the Floyd Salas collection in the Bancroft Library\, UC Berkeley. floydsalas.com \nAndrena Zawinski’s latest poetry collection\, Landings\, is from Kelsay Books. Previous collections include: Something About(Blue Light Press)\, a PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award recipient\, and Traveling in Reflected Light (Pig Iron Press)\, a Kenneth Patchen competition winner. She has also authored four chapbooks. Zawinski runs the San Francisco Bay Area Women’s Poetry Salon and is Features Editor at PoetryMagazine.com. Her poetry has appeared in Blue Collar Review\, Progressive Magazine\, Pacific Review\, Rattle\, Quarterly West\, Mantis\, and elsewhere and has been widely anthologized. Awards include those for lyricism\, free verse narratives\, formal poetry\, spirituality\, and social concern.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/three-distinguished-poets-al-young-floyd-salas-andrena-zawinski/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
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CREATED:20170929T224554Z
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SUMMARY:Peninsula Literary readings
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, October 13 at 7 pm at Gallery House\, 320 California Avenue\, Palo Alto for a reading of poetry and prose\, featuring Lita Kurth and Brittany Perham\, with guests Jim Cole\, Gerard Sarnat\, Margaret Juhae Lee\, and Jeff Grinnell. \nFeatured readers in early February – Susanna Solomon\, plus Joel Thomas Katz and Robert Perry reading from their translation of Dutch poets Ingmar Heytze and Saskia Stehouwer; and fiction writer Pam Squyres.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-literary-readings/
LOCATION:Gallery House\, 320 California Ave.\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20171010T115700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171010T115700Z
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SUMMARY:A Night in Venice Book Event
DESCRIPTION:Experience Venice without leaving the Bay Area. Hear Christine Evelyn Volker discuss her just-published mystery\, Venetian Blood\, listen to classical music by Vivaldi played by the Town Quartet\, and watch an interrogation scene from the book\, directed by the Masquers Playhouse. Hope you can join us\, and purchase a copy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-in-venice-book-event/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Christine Evelyn Volker":MAILTO:christine@christinevolkerauthor.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20171007T015037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171007T015037Z
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SUMMARY:Your Golden Sun Still Shines Publication Party
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by United Booksellers of San Francisco \nA Manic D Press publication party \nArtist evictions\, tech invasions―where will it end? These San Francisco stories wrest wisdom from chaos and channel boundless energy into artful narratives\, demonstrating that grace and persistence are as much a measure of the city’s legacy as a determination of its future. The new anthology Your Golden Sun Still Shines illustrates San Francisco’s continuing legacy as home and beacon to the literary vanguard. Hosted by editor Denise Sullivan and contributor Tony Robles\, with readings from Golden Sun writers Dee Allen\, Patsy Creedy\, Kelly Dessaint\, John Goins\, Raluca Ioanid\, Michael Koch\, Alvin Orloff\, Shizue Seigel\, Don Skiles\, and Barbara Stauffacher Solomon with music by Victor Krummenacher and Alison Faith Levy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/your-golden-sun-still-shines-publication-party/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20170926T005721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014402Z
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SUMMARY:Cathy Arellano Book Release
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me. \nJoin us in celebrating the release of poet Cathy Arellano’s second book I Love My Women\, Sometimes They Love Me\, a collection of broken-hearted lesbian love poems that depict the lovers we’ve been and the lovers we’ve had. We haven’t always been fair; they haven’t always been kind. Get ready for Arellano to rip off her máscara and peel yours away\, too. \nSaturday Octorber 14th. 5-7PM\n$5 suggested donations NOTAFLOF \nRSVP on Facebook
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cathy-arellano-book-release/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20170926T004901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T014452Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime Deluge
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime DELUGE\, in phase 1 of the San Francisco Lit Crawl on Saturday October 14th\, 5-6 pm at Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia Street\, San Francisco CA\, will feature Erika Mailman (The Murderer’s Maid)\, Rob Davidson (Spectators)\, Rebecca Winterer (The Singing Ship)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, and Rajshree Chauhan. MCd by Ransom Stephens (The 99% Solution).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-deluge/
LOCATION:Muddy Waters Coffee House\, 521 Valencia St.\, San Francisco\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit
DESCRIPTION:Join Red Light Lit for Leg 1 of LitCrawl\, featuring Lara Coley\, Matthew Clark Davison \, Shideh Etaat\, Loria Mendoza\, Joshua Mohr\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Kimmer Pierce\, alongside a live musical score by David Williams. \nDoors open at 4:30pm. FREE show starts at 5pm (Sharp)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-2/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
CREATED:20171001T002213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002213Z
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SUMMARY:The Arts Resistance: Lit Crawl Leg 1
DESCRIPTION:“Everything’s sadder than it was\nAll earthly gods must wither\nWithin your voice laments the universe\nAnd three by three\nNew beings surge.” — Apollinaire. \n“There are times when silence is a crime.”–Vasyl Stus. \nJanina Glasov’s powerful voice will stay with us forever even though she is not with us anymore. A brilliant writer and journalist\, Yanina Glasov passed away at 25 in 2016 but her legacy lives. Her full bio is coming. \nGinger Murray is the editor in chief of Whore! magazine\, a once columnist for the SF Weekly Exhibitionist and a performance storyteller. She has been published by the 16th street Mission press\, The Skinny\, Sparring with Beatnik Ghosts. Find her on Medium.com.\n\nRoman Rimer is a standup comedian and a host/DJ at Mutiny Radio. Full bio is coming. \nSimon Rogghe grew up in Belgium and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. He is currently pursuing Ph.D. in French Literature at U.C.Berkeleу. He is an author of Green Lions\, a collaborative book of poetry. Simon Rogghe is a poet and fiction writer. He was born in Philadelphia\, grew up in Belgium\, and studied philosophy in Netherlands\, France\, and New York. A polyglot\, he speaks English\, French\, Dutch\, German and Italian. After traveling in the US and Europe\, competing at horse shows as a professional rider\, he found a home in the San Francisco Bay Area. When not working on his Ph.D. in French literature\, he also translates French surrealism as well as contemporary fiction. His work is published in over thirty literary journals. He is the co-author of Green Lions\, a book of poetry written in collaboration with Zarina Zabrisky (Numina Press 2014). \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nTerry Taplin holds several local and national slam poetry championships and final-stage performances spanning 2006–2012 across the youth and collegiate circuits. By occupation he is a scholar of Classical and Medieval/Renaissance Art\, Literature\, History and Philosophy. Terry Taplin’s performance work has appeared on stages ranging from The San Francisco Opera House and The Masonic Auditorium to The Apollo Theater in Harlem and Da Poetry Lounge in Hollywood New. He performed at Poetry Mission\, Lyrics and Dirges\, Under the Influence\, Beast Crawl and the 10th Berkeley Poetry Festival. He is the co-recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize for undergraduate poetry and the Newman Award for undergraduate writing. \nZarina Zabrisky is the author of the short story collections Iron\, A Cute Tombstone\, and Explosion (Epic Rites Press)\, and the novel We\, Monsters (Numina Press). Her work has been published in the US\, UK\, Canada\, Ireland\, Hong Kong\, Nepal and Mexico. She is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of a 2013 Acker Award. Zabrisky has focused on the independent journalism since November 9\, 2017. She is a contributor to Indivisible Movement\, Crossing Genres\, Mosaic and other publications on Medium\, where she is a suggested writer in Politics and was featured as a top writer in Psychology and History genres in 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-arts-resistance-lit-crawl-leg-1/
LOCATION:Clarion Alley\, Clarion Alley\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Arts Resistance":MAILTO:zarinazabrisky@gmail.com
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T005735
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SUMMARY:Litquake at The Green Arcade: Beyond Boundaries + BentBoyBooks
DESCRIPTION:We will host two Litcrawl events with local writers who delve into topics obscure\, naughty and San Franciscan. \n\n\n\n\nPhase 1 (5-6 pm)  Beyond Boundaries: Mapping the Narrative   Mirabel Street Writers in the Mission invites you to board the omnibus. Nightingales  and runaways lead you through emotional dives and dangerous districts.   Featuring: David Jefferies\, Sari Kossowsky\, Cynthia Kreuz-Uhr\, Richard  Schwarzenberger\, William Torphy   Phase 2 (6.30-7.30 pm)  BentBoyBooks   BentBoyBooks\, home to experimental writing that transgresses expectations\,  delights in sensation and awakens language anew\, presents innovative new work.   Featuring: Drew Cushing\, Jan Johnson Drantell\, Pam Martin\, Ronald Palmer \n\n\n\nFor more details check out Litquake.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-at-the-green-arcade-beyond-boundaries-bentboybooks/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171014T223000
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CREATED:20171001T001938Z
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SUMMARY:Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY open mic for poetry\, prose\, music and more\nfeaturing singer/songwriter and fiction writer Beth Elliott \n$7 – $10 Admission includes a raffle ticket for one of 10 pieces of Peruvian jewelry.\n6:30 – 7:30 Pot Luck –– Bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance \nHosted by Feminist Author & Poet Linda Zeiser\, Produced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser. To reserve your open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, in advance. \n“If Melissa Etheridge had a hippie big sister who hangs out with Lucinda Williams\, that would be Beth Elliott.” Still on the flower power/Goddess counterculture fringe of the women’s community after decades of making music and many publication credits\, this Renaissance woman’s original songs are full of wit and humor that shine through even the darkest lyrics. She has one self-produced “checkered career retrospective” CD\, “Buried Treasure.” Her work has been included in Linda Zeiser and Trena Machado’s “What I Want From You: Voices of East Bay Lesbian Poets\,” and in Lynx Canon’s anthology “Dirty Old Women: Erotica by Women of Experience.” Come hear a true (and very entertaining) original at Works In Progress. \nOther wonderful artists will thrill and delight you!! \nWorks In Progress is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving.\nWIP is scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately is not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth United Church of Christ\, 424 Monte Vista Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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