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SUMMARY:Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay\, + Lorraine Lupo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 5th @ 7:30 pm\, for the release of Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s occident\, featuring Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, 최 Lindsay and Lorraine Lupo!\n\nGillian Olivia Blythe Hamel’s work has appeared in VOLT\, jubilat\, The Volta\, and The Offending Adam\, and was recently featured in the Aesthetic Blitz exhibition from the Asian American Women Artists Association. Her first book\, occident\, is forthcoming from Called Back Books in 2017. She is managing editor at Omnidawn Publishing and editor of OmniVerse. Gillian also co-publishes speCt!\, a chapbook series and book arts imprint\, with Peter Burghardt and Robert Andrew Perez.\n\n최 Lindsay is a diasporic Korean poet and a student at UC Berkeley\, where they study literature and philosophy\, and work as the managing editor of Berkeley Poetry Review. They were selected as a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2016 chapbook contest\, and have poems published or forthcoming in HOLD: A Journal\, The Felt\, Omniverse\, and Apogee’s print and online publications. They can be found on Twitter @chwelinji.\n\nLorraine Lupo is the author of By Way Of (Green Zone Editions). Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New England Review\, Fourteen Hills\, The Art Book Review and Across The Margin\, among others. She edits the Periodic Postcard series and lives in Oakland\, Ca.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gillian-olivia-blythe-hamel-%ec%b5%9c-lindsay-and-lorraine-lupo/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Pittsburghers by the Bay
DESCRIPTION:It’s no surprise that Pittsburghers (a.k.a. yinzers) feel at home in the Bay Area. With ample bridges\, a jaw-dropping skyline\, a top-notch food scene\, and Steelers-friendly sports bars to show off black-and-gold pride\, San Francisco has everything a Pittsburgh native needs to survive. \nJoin us as we celebrate the Steel City with a reading by four transplanted yinzers – Laura Davis\, Molly Prosser\, Turi Fesler Steffen\, and Laura Vrcek! \nEnjoy books for sale\, light refreshments\, and the emcee skills of Pittsburgh-at-heart Hannah Rothstein. \nWhether you’re a homesick ‘burgher or a yinzer groupie\, this afternoon will have you longing for those three rivers and that glorious “dahntahn.” \nREADERS: \nLaura E. Davis grew up on California Avenue and earned a bachelor’s from California University of Pennsylvania. While she may have been destined to move to San Francisco\, she first earned an MFA from Chatham University. Both sides of her family have lived in Southwestern Pennsylvania for over 100 years. \nLaura misses sandwiches with fries on them. \nMolly Prosser swapped the wilds of the Allegheny Forest for the traffic of Silicon Valley. She edits copy for eBay and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Carlow University. Her work has appeared in various publications and on the Prosody radio show (90.5 WESA Pittsburgh). Her poetry collection Rubbernecking is available from Word Poetry. \nMolly misses random Rick Sebak sightings. \nTuri Fesler Steffen was born in Alaska\, but her experience spans beyond halibut fishing. She has her MFA from Pitt\, where she was the editor of Hot Metal Bridge. And you may have seen her at readings around the Bay\, including Shipwreck and Voz sin Tinta. Last year\, deciding she yearned for the ‘Burgh\, Turi moved to Pittsburg\, California. \nTuri misses salads with french fries. \nLaura Vrcek has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University and works as a ghostwriter for Bay Area tech executives. Her nonfiction work has appeared on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog\, The Orange Dot\, and Perspectives\, a storytelling segment on KQED\, NPR’s San Francisco affiliate. \nLaura misses Pennsylvania’s summer thunderstorms. \nEMCEE: \nHannah Rothstein (@HRothsteinArt) is the author of Yoga for Bros and an artist whose work has been featured in TIME\, The Guardian\, Vogue Italia\, and more. Besides shamelessly namedropping\, Hannah enjoys painting\, punning\, and reminiscing about the wonderful year she spent in Pittsburgh. \nHannah misses church-lady-crafted\, kraut pierogis. \nImage by Molly Cockcroft\, http://missmoco.co.uk/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pittsburghers-by-the-bay/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:"Kill the Ampaya!" The Best Latin American Baseball Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Dick Cluster has done a masterful job of curating and translating this collection of short stories. Each reflects a passion for baseball and a recognition that the sport and its lessons are omnipresent\, reflecting and informing and mimicking real life. Most  also tend to be infused with a wonderful mysticism that both reflects and then slyly tweaks its gringo counterpart.” — Paul Hagen\, mlb.com \n“It may be that as this baseball season begins\, no book related to the game is more necessary than this one. The great bonus is that ‘Kill The Ampaya!’ is also great fun. An extraordinary collection.” — Bill Littlefield\, WBUR/NPR “Only a Game” \nOakland’s Dick Cluster will introduce Kill the Ampaya!: the Best of Latin American Baseball Fiction\, his newly published selection and translations of stories by writers from Cuba\, the Dominican Republic\, Mexico\, Nicaragua\, Puerto Rico\, and Venezuela.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kill-the-ampaya-the-best-latin-american-baseball-fiction/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library Temescal branch\,  5205 Telegraph Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-12/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mariko Tamaki
DESCRIPTION:The Main Children’s Center celebrates Children’s Book Week!\nRegister HERE \nJoin us for a special event: Graphic novel author Mariko Tamaki will discuss her book This One Summer\, acclaimed by reviewers as a powerful coming-of-age story. \nSaturday\, May 6\, at 4 p.m.\, in the Main Children’s Center \nMariko Tamaki is a Canadian writer. Her works include the graphic novels This One Summer  and Skim\, both with Jillian Tamaki\, and Emiko Superstar\, with Steve Rolston. Her first YA novel (You) Set Me on Fire  was published by Penguin Canada. She lives in Oakland\, California. Visit her website at marikotamaki.blogspot.com/. \nChildren’s Book Week is the annual celebration of children’s books and reading. Established in 1919\, it is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. The program is administered by Every Child a Reader and the Children’s Book Council (CBC) is the anchor sponsor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mariko-tamaki/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:James Meetze\, Claire Marie Stancek\, + Andrew Wessels
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-meetze-claire-marie-stancek-andrew-wessels/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Embodied Writing Workshop: Movement\, Writing + Tea
DESCRIPTION:with Jennifer Barone (innerlotusyoga.com) and Ingrid Keir (featherpress.org) \nDid you know the body has a story to tell? Using breath\, movement and meditation techniques from Yoga\, Kundalini\, Qi Gong and more\, we will bring awareness to our body and practice writing from a place of deep listening\, allowing our stories to rise through a series of writing exercises and movement. For writers and yogis of all levels. Stay after to mingle and enjoy The Center SF’s beautiful tea room and a variety of herbal teas. \nPlease bring:\n• Stretchy yoga / workout clothing to wear for comfort\n• Mats and props are available\, but feel free to bring your own mat\n• a notebook and pen to write with \nDesigned for: writers who want to move more and yogis who want to try creative writing\, all levels welcome.\nNot reccommended for: those with serious injuries\, or who may find it hard to sit on the floor. \n$35. Early Bird Rate if registered by April 26th\n$45. after April 26th and at the door \nRegister on EventBrite\, see link below. Or visit http://www.thecentersf.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/embodied-writing-workshop-movement-writing-tea/
LOCATION:The Center SF\, 548 Fillmore Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Truth to Power: Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate and Fear
DESCRIPTION:Cutthroat\, A Journal of the Arts has assembled and published this collection of works\, as powerful\, compelling and incisive as they are timely. Individually and collectively\, the pieces in this anthology trumpet a stirring call to action on today’s most crucial issues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/truth-to-power-writers-respond-to-the-rhetoric-of-hate-and-fear/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard Reads from Chien Lunatique
DESCRIPTION:Love\, Modernity\, and the Internet Just who\, or what\, is le chien lunatique? \nThe poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems – profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing – distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of postmodernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new – the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nPre-publication Comments on\nChristopher Bernard’s\nCHIEN LUNATIQUE \n“An extraordinary\, and extraordinarily strange\, accomplishment. It is bound to offend at least one of your friends.”\n– Jack Foley \n“. . . poems of diamond-like brilliance\, filled with despair\, passion\, and surreal beauty. The poet . . . in an act of intellectual courage\, climbs up on the rubble of western culture to speak truth to both power and powerlessness.”\n– Mary Mackey\, author of Sugar Zone and\nthe novel The Village of Bones \n“Another entrancing book from a poet and novelist of visionary authority\, whose imagination is at once brilliant and unsettling.”\n– Ernest Hilbert\, author of Caligulan \n“An attempt to right the world . . . a generous collection.” – Simon Perchik \n“ ‘The Wife of the Painter’ . . . takes my breath away . . . . ‘Midnight’ is . . . a masterpiece\, yet so modest as to almost escape notice.”\n– Curt Barnes \n“In this provocative collection of poems\, Christopher Bernard emerges as a maverick bucking current tastes and trends . . . balancing an unabashed prophetic fury with poems of great love and tenderness.”\n– Philip Fried
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-reads-from-chien-lunatique-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Adam Giannelli\, Ben Hoffman\, and Edgar Kunz\nMusic by Dana Kletter\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. \nBen Hoffman’s fiction has received the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award and been published by American Short Fiction\, Granta\, The Missouri Review\, Zoetrope\, and others. He lives in Oakland and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. \nDana Kletter is a writer and musician\, the only Wallace Stegner fellow/Jones Lecturer in Fiction (to date) with a gold record. Her work has appeared in The Sun\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, San Francisco Chronicle\, Boston Phoenix\, and Independent\, and on Mammoth\, Hannibal\, Interscope\, and Rykodisc Records. \nEdgar Kunz is a poet from Massachusetts. His work has been supported by fellowships and awards from the Academy of American Poets\, the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences\, Vanderbilt University\, Stanford University\, and\, most recently\, the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear in AGNI\, Narrative\, New England Review\, Best New Poets\, and other places. He lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-5/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Klages\, David D. Levine + Robyn Bennis
DESCRIPTION:** It’s Debut Novel Drink Night!** \nHelp us raise funds for the American Bookbinders Museum by sampling a cocktail concocted just for this event! \nDoors and bar open at 5:30PM\nEvent begins at 6:30PM \n$10 at the door benefits the American Bookbinders Museum\nno one turned away for lack of funds / cash or Square\nAll proceeds benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEach author will read a selection of their work\, followed by Q&A with the audience moderated by author Terry Bisson. Books for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books – please feel free to bring your own books from home. \nAll proceeds from the event benefit the American Bookbinders Museum \nEllen Klages: Her short fiction has appeared in science fiction and fantasy anthologies and magazines\, both online and in print\, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction\, Black Gate\, Eclipse\, and Firebirds Rising. Her story\, “Basement Magic\,” won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005. A finalist for the John W. Campbell Award\, she is a graduate of the Clarion South writing workshop. Her first novel\, The Green Glass Sea\, about two misfit eleven-year-old girls living in Los Alamos during WWII\, while their parents are creating the atomic bomb\, came out in October 2006. Her second novel\, White Sands\, Red Menace\, was published in 2008\, also from Viking. A collection of her short fiction\, Portable Childhoods\, came out from Tachyon Publications in 2007. \nHer brand-new new collection\, Wicked Wonders\, also from Tachyon\, will be available for sale at this event. \nIn addition to her writing\, she serves on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree\, Jr. Award\, and was somewhat notorious as the past auctioneer/entertainment for the Tiptree auctions at Wiscon. When she’s not writing fiction\, she sells old toys and magazines on eBay\, and collects lead civilians. \nDavid D. Levine: Levine’s debut novel\, a Regency interplanetary airship adventure novel titled Arabella of Mars\, will be available at this event. His “Tk’Tk’Tk” won the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Short Story\, his story “Nucleon” won the James White Award\, and he has been shortlisted for awards including the Hugo\, Nebula\, Campbell\, Sturgeon\, and Locus. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s\, Analog\, F&SF\, Realms of Fantasy\, Tor.com\, numerous anthologies and websites\, and multiple Year’s Best anthologies\, as well as his collection Space Magic from Wheatland Press\, which won the Endeavour Award for the best SF or Fantasy book by a Pacific Northwest writer. A contributor to George R. R. Martin’s bestselling shared-world series Wild Cards\, Levine is also a member of Book View Cafe\, a writer-owned publishing cooperative\, and Oregon Science Fiction Conventions Inc.\, a nonprofit organization which produces OryCon. He has narrated podcasts for Escape Pod\, PodCastle\, and StarShipSofa and the audiobook of Space Magic\, and his video production “Dr. Talon’s Letter to the Editor” was a finalist for the Parsec Award. In 2010 he spent two weeks at the Mars Desert Research Station\, a simulated Mars base in the Utah desert. \nRobyn Bennis: Bennis is a scientist living in Mountain View\, California\, where she works in biotech but dreams of airships. She has done research and development involving human gene expression\, neural connectomics\, cancer diagnostics\, rapid flu testing\, gene synthesis\, genome sequencing\, being so preoccupied with whether she could that she never stopped to think if she should\, and systems integration. Her apartment is within sight of Hangar One at Moffett Airfield\, which was once the West Coast home to one of America’s largest airships\, the USS Macon. Her debut novel\, The Guns Above\, will be available at this event. \nFor over a decade SF in SF has offered readings\, films\, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction\, fantasy\, and speculative fiction. Moderated by Terry Bisson\, past guests have included Patrick Rothfuss\, Gail Carriger\, Jeffrey Ford\, Lev Grossman\, Brian & Wendy Froud\, Samuel R. Delaney\, Cory Doctorow\, Karen Joy Fowler\, and Nalo Hopkinson. We hope you will join us! \nThe American Bookbinders Museum’s entrance is located at 366 Clementina Alley\, off 5th Street\, between Howard and Folsom. Street parking is free; garages are located at 5th & Mission\, and 3rd & Folsom. The closest BART station is Powell Street — just turn down 5th Street\, cross Mission and Howard\, and turn left onto Clementina. NOTE: there is NO access to Clementina from 4th Street due to construction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-klages-david-d-levine-robyn-bennis/
LOCATION:American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Dark & The Surreal: Etgar Keret + Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION: \n\nEtgar Keret will discuss selections from his vast body of short stories\, focusing on “dark matter”: the absurdist humor and surreal thematic elements found in the extraordinary and mundane elements of daily life.  He will be joined in conversation by the local New York Times-bestselling author\, Ayelet Waldman\, in an exploration of his work\, and how it reflects and refracts the world we currently inhabit. \n A book signing will follow the program. A selection of Keret’s books will be available for sale. \nUnderwritten by Brian and Caroline Lurie with support from the Haas Senior Fund\, Larry and Deborah Stadtner and The Peleh Fund\, in association with Congregation Rodef Sholom. \nABOUT ETGAR KERET \n“If Kafka has the power to smash through the frozen sea of our souls\, Keret perhaps can infiltrate our gray matter\, adding synapses where none existed before.” —San Francisco Chronicle \nInternationally acclaimed for his short stories\, Etgar Keret is hailed as the voice of young Israel and is one of its most radical and extraordinary writers. Rarely extending beyond three or four pages\, Keret’s stories fuse the banal with the surreal\, and offer a window on a surreal world that is both dark and comic. Keret’s books are bestsellers in Israel and have been published in over thirty languages. His books include The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God\, Missing Kissinger\, The Nimrod flipout\, The Girl on the Fridge\, and Suddenly a Knock on the Door\, which became an instant #1 bestseller in Israel. Keret is also the author of a memoir\, The Seven Good Years\, in which he contemplates moments of his life against a backdrop of constant conflict\, casting an absurd light on both the monumental and mundane. \nKeret has received the Book Publishers Association`s Platinum Prize several times\, the Chevalier medallion of France’s Order of Arts and Letters\, and has been awarded the Prime Minister`s Prize and the Ministry of Culture`s Cinema Prize. More than forty short movies have been based on his stories\, one of which won the American MTV Prize (1998). Keret’s stories have even inspired Polish architect Jakub Szczesny to build in Warsaw the narrowest house in the world (38 inches wide). The house was named after Keret\, who will be using the house for several years. \nAs a filmmaker\, Keret is the writer of several feature screenplays\, including Skin Deep (1996)\, which won First Prize at several international film festivals and was awarded the Israeli Oscar. Wrist Cutters\, featuring Tom Waits\, was based on Keret’s story Kneller’s Happy Campers. Jellyfish\, his first movie as a director along with his wife Shira Geffen\, won the coveted Camera d’Or prize for best first feature at the Cannes Film Festival 2007. The animated feature film $9.99\, based on several of Keret’s stories\, marries the tradition of Jewish self-flagellating humor with uncanny absurdity. Keret currently teaches at Ben Guryon University. \nABOUT AYELET WALDMAN \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children. \nAdvance Price: \n$15 Members / $20 Public / $10 Kids (17 & Under) \nDay-of Price: $25 (Members & Public)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-dark-the-surreal-etgar-keret-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:Osher Marin JCC\, 200 North San Pedro Road\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Battle of the Brains 2017: A Pub Quiz in Support of SPD
DESCRIPTION:~ YOU’RE INVITED! ~ \nMonday\, 8th May\, 2017\nDoors at 6:30\nEvent at 7 \n*Will you and your friends win bragging rights to become the BRAINIEST GANG IN THE BAY AREA* \n*Can you dethrone last year’s champions – Alan Bernheimer’s team\, the BFFs of Small Press Distribution?* \n*Are you looking forward to more brain-bending questions such as the 2016 classic\, “What is a LEMNISCATE?” (clue: it is not a lemon riding a skateboard)*\n\n~*~ \nJoin us at this classic pub quiz\, featuring teams of up to 8 at each table\, working together to answer trivia questions (some of them literary\, some not). \nWho can sport the nerdiest glasses? Who will be quickest to turn in their answer sheet? Who will snag all the pitchers of beer (we’re looking at you\, booksellers)? I can’t wait to find out what 2017’s Battle will bring. Can you? \nHOW IT WORKS: Each team captain gathers 8 people for your team. Each team will need to raise $500 prior to the event to get in. Of course\, each team member could just put in $65 or so\, but to lower that cost you can crowdsource donations for each team by creating a team page at our ~Crowdrise~. \nhttps://www.crowdrise.com/BATTLEOFTHEBRAINS2017 \nWant to be a ♥ TEAM CAPTAIN?\nLooking to join a TEAM? \nemail trisha@spdbooks.org and she can help. \nCome for canapes\, drinks\, lots of friendly competition. Stay for prizes – one for the team that raises the most money and\, of course\, one for the winner of the pub quiz itself!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/battle-of-the-brains-2017-a-pub-quiz-in-support-of-spd/
LOCATION:Lake Merritt Sailboat House\, 568 Bellevue Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Manic D Press Authors
DESCRIPTION:Authors representing Manic D Press will read from their works. Readers will be Daphne Gottlieb\, Thea Hillman\, Ailvin Orloff\, + Larry-Bob Roberts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-manic-d-press-authors/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alia Malek
DESCRIPTION:Alia Malek discusses her new book\, The Home That Was Our Country\, with Micheline Marcom. \n\nPraise for The Home That Was Our Country \n\n“In The Home That Was Our Country\, Alia Malek masterfully weaves together the personal and the political\, and in so doing creates an unforgettable portrait of modern Syria in all its complexities and tragedies. Malek renders multiple generations of family\, friends and neighbors vividly but unsentimentally\, and what emerges is a portrait of a great people held back by tyranny. As Syria suffers through its darkest days\, she reminds us of the humans behind the statistics. Completely engrossing and lucid\, the book explains Syria’s devolution better than anything I’ve read.”―Dave Eggers \n“What Alia Malek has done in The Home That Was Our Country is nothing short of extraordinary. With deep love and clear-eyed honesty\, she weaves together the story of a family and the history of a country. Malek addresses the personal and the political like no other writer I have read recently. This book is an urgent and necessary read.”―Laila Lalami\, author of THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT \n“Alia Malek’s beautiful\, arresting portrait of a Syrian family over generations takes you straight to the heart of that country’s agony. Malek brings you inside the intimate world of a Damascus apartment building\, while weaving in her own experiences as a journalist-laying bare the struggle for freedom like no other work I know. The Syrian war is perhaps the most profound moral and political crisis of our era\, and this unforgettable book will forever change the way you see it and the Middle East.”―Anand Gopal\, author of NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING \n\nAbout The Home That Was Our Country \n\nAt the Arab Spring’s hopeful start\, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother’s apartment\, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent’s decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who lived in the Tahaan building\, past and present\, Alia portrays the Syrians-the Muslims\, Christians\, Jews\, Armenians\, and Kurds-who worked\, loved\, and suffered in close quarters\, mirroring the political shifts in their country. Restoring her family’s home as the country comes apart\, she learns how to speak the coded language of oppression that exists in a dictatorship\, while privately confronting her own fears about Syria’s future.\nThe Home That Was Our Country is a deeply researched\, personal journey that shines a delicate but piercing light on Syrian history\, society\, and politics. Teeming with insights\, the narrative weaves acute political analysis with a century of intimate family history\, ultimately delivering an unforgettable portrait of the Syria that is being erased.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alia-malek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bayani\, Lee\, Rader\, Roberts\, + Lin
DESCRIPTION:Jason Bayani is the author of Amulet from Write Bloody Press. He’s an MFA graduate from Saint Mary’s College\, a Kundiman fellow\, and works as the Artistic Director for Kearny Street Workshop. Jason performs regularly around the country and recently debuted his solo show\, “Locus of Control” in 2016. \nJoyce Lee is a writer\, educator and performance poet. Joyce is an Oakland\, California native whose gift with words and expression have made her an international talent and a surprise to herself. Growing up ignorant to her own poverty and reared in a hyper-conservative religion that often silenced womyn is what made Joyce Lee the blunt activist and fierce womynist she is. Although Joyce was a late bloomer to performance poetry (she didn’t know it existed until 2008) Joyce Lee is the 2009 and 2010 Oakland Grand Slam champion\, the 2014 Ill List champion\, a storyteller for NPR’s Snap Judgement and is working on her first book of collected writings entitled My Soul Is A Witness. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book of the year. He has won numerous awards for his writing\, including the 2016 Common Good Books Prize\, judged by Garrison Keillor. Dean writes and reviews regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, and The Huffington Post. Two new collections of poetry appeared in 2017: A book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). Publisher’s Weekly writes “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \nMg Roberts is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). She is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum\, and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently\, she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo Wilson and Bhanu Kapil; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, two hens\, one puppy\, and geologist husband. \nMusical guest Cynthia Lin is a modern day jazz ukulele diva based in San Francisco\, California. The creator of the #100DaysofUkuleleSongs project\, Cynthia is known for her dazzling ukulele acoustic covers and tutorials on YouTube.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bayani-lee-rader-roberts-lin/
LOCATION:Esplande\, Yerba Buena Gardens\, 761 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Edan Lepucki
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Edan Lepucki back to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Woman No. 17\, on Tuesday\, May 9th at 7:00 pm. Edan will be in conversation with Lydia Kiesling\, editor at The Millions. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend! \nHigh in the Hollywood Hills\, writer Lady Daniels has decided to take a break from her husband. Left alone with her children\, she’s going to need a hand taking care of her young son if she’s ever going to finish her memoir. In response to a Craigslist ad\, S arrives\, a magnetic young artist who will live in the secluded guest house out back\, care for Lady’s toddler\, Devin\, and keep a watchful eye on her older\, teenage son\, Seth. S performs her day job beautifully\, quickly drawing the entire family into her orbit\, and becoming a confidante for Lady\, but in the heat of the summer\, S’s connection to Lady’s older son takes a disturbing\, and possibly destructive\, turn. As Lady and S move closer to one another\, the glossy veneer of Lady’s privileged life begins to crack\, threatening to expose old secrets that she has been keeping from her family. Meanwhile\, S is protecting secrets of her own\, about her real motivation for taking the job. S and Lady are both playing a careful game\, and every move they make endangers the things they hold most dear.\nDarkly comic\, twisty and tense\, this mesmerizing new novel proves Edan Lepucki to be one of the most talented and exciting voices of her generation. \nEdan Lepucki is the New York Times bestselling author of the novel California as well as the novella If You’re Not Yet Like Me. A contributing editor and staff writer at The Millions\, she has also published fiction and nonfiction in McSweeney’s\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The Cut\, and elsewhere. She is the founder of Writing Workshops Los Angeles. \nLydia Kiesling is the editor of The Millions. Her writing has appeared in a variety of outlets including The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker Page-Turner\, The Guardian\, and Slate\, and she was recognized in Best American Essays 2016. Her novel\, The Golden State\, is forthcoming from Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux’s MCD imprint. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, May 9\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edan-lepucki/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Well-RED
DESCRIPTION:Well-RED\nReading Series\nTuesday\, May 9\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nfeatures: Tania Martin and Caesar Kent\nopen mic follows \nat Works/San José\n365 South Market Street\nin downtown San José\ndoors open 6:30pm\n$2 admission\, no one turned away\nWorks is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center\,\njust to the right of the parking garage entrance\nJoin the event on Facebook! \nUpcoming at Well-RED:\nJune 13: Arlene Biala celebrating the release of spring mother tongue anthology;\nJuly 11: Joel Katz and Robert Perry celebrating the release of a book of English/Dutch poetry released by Dutch Poets Press;\nAugust 8: Carlos Reyes and Dennis Noren;\nSeptember 12: Parthenia Hicks and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brian;\nOctober 10: Erica Goss and Adrian Matejka\nNovember 14: Caesura 2017 book release and reading\nDecember 12: Red Wheelbarrow release party and celebration of Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Irène Mathieu + special guests
DESCRIPTION:Irène Mathieu is a pediatrician\, writer\, and public health researcher. She is the 2016 winner of the Bob Kaufman Book Prize and author of the poetry chapbook the galaxy of origins (dancing girl press\, 2014) and book orogeny (Trembling Pillow Press\, 2017). Irène has been a Fulbright scholar and a Callaloo fellow\, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a poetry book reviewer for Muzzle Magazine\, an editor for the humanities section of the Journal of General Internal Medicine\, and a contributing author on the Global Health Hub blog. Irène holds a BA in International Relations from the College of William & Mary and a MD from Vanderbilt University. \nLisa Alden is a Mensan\, WashU alum\, and lecturer in creative writing at San Francisco State University. She lives in Berkeley with her sons. \nKimberly Reyes has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Callaloo\, and Columbia University\, and is currently a William Dickey Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at San Francisco State University. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\,Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, Honey\, NY1 News\, and The Best American Poetry blog. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Feminist Wire\, The Acentos Review\, Columbia Journal Online\, Moko Magazine\, Yemassee\, New American Writing\, and Belleville Park Pages. \nFisayo Adeyeye has works published in Noble / Gas Qtrly\, Nailed Magazine\, The Birds We Piled Loosely\, and work forthcoming in Print Oriented Bastards\, New American Writing\, and This Magazine. He is the former Poetry Editor of Fourteen Hills\, a Co-Curator of the VelRo Graduate Reading Series. His chapbook Blackfish was a finalist for the 2015 Best Prize Chapbook Contest (Big Lucks). His first full length book Cradles is forthcoming from Nomadic Press in April 2017. \n  \nAs always\, this reading is free and welcome to all who’d like to attend.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irene-mathieu-special-guests/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:EXIT Press Playwrights Panel
DESCRIPTION:San Francisco is a national epicenter of new theatre\, but most “world premieres” languish in a limbo of one-off productions\, never to be seen again. But local imprint EXIT Press is out to change that dynamic\, publishing the works of local playwrights in order to give them life beyond their initial run\, documenting our unique theatrical history one play at a time. Join a panel of EXIT Press playwrights and Lily Janiak\, lead theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle\, to discuss the process of playwriting–from page to stage to publication. With Allison Page\, Aren Haun\, Martin Schwartz\, Stuart Bousel\, and Terry Baum.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/exit-press-playwrights-panel/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MPC Stump the Laureate: Dana Gioia
DESCRIPTION:Stump the Laureate: Poetry Recitation with Dana Gioia\n\n\nMarin Poetry Center is proud to co-sponsor this wonderful event with the Mill Valley Public Library. \nCome and recite your favorite poem by a published author other than you. California Poet Laureate\, Dana Gioia will match the audience poem for poem until we or he runs out of poems! \nMill Valley Public Library 375 Throckmorton Ave Mill Valley CA 94941 \nBook Sales and Signing Afterward \n\n\n\nDana Gioia Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts\, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Gioia has published three full-length collections of poetry\, as well as eight chapbooks. Interrogations at Noon\, won the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic\, Gioia’s 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter?\, which was a finalist for the NBCC award\, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture. Gioia has published many literary anthologies and his poems\, translations\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Washington Post Book World\, The New York Times Book Review\, Slate\, and The Hudson Review. Gioia has written two opera libretti and is an active translator of poetry from Latin\, Italian\, and German. In 2015\, he was appointed the State Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-stump-the-laureate-dana-gioia/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Newest installment of the Flash Fiction Forum Reading Series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-forum-reading-series/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:José Gutiérrez + Dean Rader
DESCRIPTION:A World Less Away is a honeycomb\, blackbox\, dream codex and memory palace. These poems traffic in the interstices of our lives where the quotidian is imbued with meaning and hums with metaphysical unrest. By turns existential\, surreal and elegiac\, the poems in this collection take swerves that are sure to transport the reader to the oneiric side of reality while never losing sight that “flesh was the first simile/we were given\,/to feel\, conjure\,/never truly inhabit. \nJosé Gutiérrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio\, Scythe\, Margie\, Poemeleon\, DMQ\, Kestrel\, Thrush Journal\, Jetfuel\, Caliban\, Gnarled Oak and the anthologies Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent and is forthcoming in Metonym\, Public Pool\, eleveneleven and Xavier Review\, among others. He works as an interpreter and translator in the medical and legal fields in the Bay Area. \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page — sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation. \nBorn in Oklahoma\, Dean Rader has published in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco\, and writes regularly on literature and politics for The San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jose-gutierrez-dean-rader/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with Vendela Vida about her new book\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. \nPraise for Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \n“Dr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance.” —Karen Joy Fowler\, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves\, shortlisted for 2014 Man Booker Prize \n“If aging be a lamp\, then Morayo\, the protagonist in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a mesmerising glow. Astute\, sensual\, funny\, and moving.” —NoViolet Bulawayo\, author of We Need New Names\, shortlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize \n“From the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. A beautiful\, important new novel. ” —Peter Orner\, author of Love and Shame and Love \nAbout Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun \nMorayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in hip San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favourite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband.\nA subtle story about ageing\, friendship and loss\, this is also a nuanced study of the erotic yearnings of an older woman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Call of the Wild
DESCRIPTION:The wonders of nature … the unbridled power of nature’s wrath … in the end\, we all know that no matter what we do\, nature ultimately has the last say. This month we venture into the wild to hear stories from six storytellers about their brushes with nature\, for better or worse. Join us at the next Fireside! \nStorytellers \nScott Sanders\nDhaya Lakshminarayanan\nAndy Sewell\nNeshama Franklin \nMore TBD
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-call-of-the-wild/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro reads from Hourglass: Time\, Memory\, Marriage\, the novelist’s most intimate and powerful work to date: a piercing\, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory\, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds\, and about the accretion\, over time\, of both sorrow and love. \n“Reading this book was like skating across a perfect piece of ice and then slowly noticing the cracks. Dark\, cold water shows through. We can’t see the depths. Be careful\, Shapiro warns\, be careful\, but still she skates on in the fading light with remarkable beauty and grace.”–Jenny Offill
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lunada Literary Lounge & Free Me Fast
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Mireya Ixchel A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, Aleja Cobarruviaz\, Joey B. Gomez\, singer/songwriter Astu\, and Special Guests. Open Mic sign-up at 7:15pm. \nLUNADA Literary Lounge & FREE ME FAST\nAt the height of Spring\, under the full moon\, Galeria de la Raza presents Lunada Literary Lounge in collaboration with Free Me Fast\, for an evening of youth spoken word & community Open Mic\, featuring: \n~ MIREYA IXCHEL a.k.a. ‘LIL’ DEYA\n~ ALEJA COBARRUVIAZ\n~ JOEY B. GOMEZ\n~ ASTU\nLUNADA’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, emcees\, musicians\, storytellers\, laureates and first-timers to share their voices under the lunar spotlight. SIGN-UP 7:15PM: 8 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted & curated by Sandra García Rivera & Maddy Clifford \nAlso featuring DJ Chris “L7” Cuadrado providing the musical backdrop\, and artwork and free posters by fine artist and illustrator Ozi Magaña.  \n$5.00 ADMISSION\nFree for youth under 18 \n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nFREE ME FAST is a project that highlights the voices and visions of incarcerated youth. Students at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center strengthened their writing skills in weekly literary arts workshops led by teaching artist MADDY CLIFFORD\, a WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence* grant recipient. Inspired by the students’ poems\, visual artist OZI MAGAÑA created unique paintings\, which resulted in a poster series that celebrates the bravery and creative imagination of youth. Free Me Fast honors the arts as a vital resource that stretches our imagination\, whether inside concrete walls or within our communities.  (@freeme.fast on Instagram) \n*The San Francisco Arts Commission’s WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence (WCTAIR) grant program supports teaching artists in community settings to teach free creative writing workshops to youth. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \nMireya Ixchel\, A.K.A. ‘Lil’ Deya\, is a 14-year old singer\, rapper\, and songwriter\, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She uses her music as a way to spread messages of hope to her people and express the experiences in her life. Mireya has been a featured performer for the Xicana Moratorium\, The Courage Awards- Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ) 5-Year Gala\, Reclaiming Cinco de Mayo\, and the California Alliance for Youth and Community Justice Convening. She thrives to help build a better community around her and for future generations. \nHome grown in the Bayview\, Aleja Cobarruviaz is an 11th grade Queen in training. She finds solace in writing\, rhyming\, and producing. She is also a published author in two different publications.  Her passions include: reading comic books\, rapping\, mixing and producing music as well as being a participant in the Artists as Activist Class at her high school. She is founder and co-leader of the Hip Hop is Culture Club at the Bay School of San Francisco. She wants to be a scriptwriter\, director\, and actor for DC Comics. \nJoey B. Gomez is an 18 year-old aspiring artist. He’s in search of new opportunities in order to create a better way of living.  He was born and raised in San Francisco and wishes to share past experiences with those who have faced similar situations. Making a difference in at least one person’s life is his main priority. \nAstu is an Eritrean singer/songwriter debuting out of Oakland\, CA. Her growing acclaim can be attested to her soulful r&b vocals and addictive melodies. Astu’s bold and honest lyrics explore her experiences of love\, redemption and black womanhood. Astu is currently recording her premiere album to be released in the summer of 2017.\nMADlines aka Maddy Clifford is a rapper\, educator and activist. She has been teaching poetry workshops at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center for the past four years.  She is also part of a band called FR333 and is co-founder of BrujaLyfe\, a curatorial platform that throws concerts\, leads workshops and facilitates healing forums.  madlinesinfo.com \nOzi Magaña is a Bay Area fine artist and illustrator. He draws upon the energy\, experience and aesthetic of his environment and community to create imaginative pieces. His work has appeared in galleries in Denver\, Oakland and San Francisco. ozimagana.com \nChris “L7” Cuadrado is a poet\, MC\, hip hop producer\, photographer\, graphic artist\, director\, and community organizer from Inglewood CA\, currently based in Santa Cruz\, CA. L7 centers his community and oppressed people’s within his work and seeks to challenge and dismantle structures/systems of power that reproduce our oppression. Follow: Lsiete.tumblr.com & https://soundcloud.com/lsiete
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-free-me-fast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Ludwig
DESCRIPTION:Readers who loved Christopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime\, Jack from Room\, and Bee from Where’d You Go\, Bernadette\, will be thrilled to get to know Ginny Moon in this unforgettable debut that affirms of how fiction has the power to change the way we look at the world. \nTold in an extraordinary and wholly unique voice that will candidly take you into the mind of a curious and deeply human character. \nFor the first time in her life\, Ginny Moon has found her “forever home”-a place where she’ll be safe and protected\, with a family that will love and nurture her. It’s exactly the kind of home that all foster kids are hoping for. So why is this 14-year-old so desperate to get kidnapped by her abusive\, drug-addict birth mother\, Gloria\, and return to a grim existence of hiding under the kitchen sink to avoid the authorities and her mother’s violent boyfriends? \nWhile Ginny is pretty much your average teenager-she plays the flute in the school band\, has weekly basketball practice and studies Robert Frost poems for English class-she is autistic. And so what’s important to Ginny includes starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast\, Michael Jackson\, bacon-pineapple pizza and\, most of all\, getting back to Gloria so she can take care of her baby doll. \nA compulsively readable and touching novel\, this story is about being an outsider trying to find a place to belong and making sense of a world that just doesn’t seem to add up. \nBenjamin Ludwig lives in New Hampshire with his family and is a life-long teacher of English and writing. He holds an MAT in English Education and an MFA in Writing. Shortly after he and his wife married they became foster parents and adopted a teenager with autism.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benjamin-ludwig/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Simon Wickhamsmith on Mongolian Poet Tseveendorjin Oidov
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with Mongolian translator Simon Wickhamsmith and Scott Esposito about Wickhamsmith’s translation of Tseveendorjin Oidov’s The End of the Dark Era. Wickhamsmith was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation grant for his work on the book\, and he’ll talk about how he became interested in Mongolian literature and the challenges of translating from the language. \nLight snacks and drinks will be provided. Come prepared to join the conversation!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/simon-wickhamsmith-on-mongolian-poet-tseveendorjin-oidov/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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