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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Headlands Center for the Arts presents their writers in residence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180607T193000
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SUMMARY:Kai Carlson-Wee
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nKai Carlson-Wee reads from his new poetry collection\, Rail. \n\nPraise for Rail \n\n“Rail is a lovely book\, strong and inspired.” ―Robert Bly \n“This is a wholly unique and powerful collection of poems. The sense of purpose puts one in mind of Whitman’s ‘Song of the Open Road.’ Encounters with fellow vagabonds recalls the tramp-poetry of Vachel Lindsay. But the darker need to search for meaning in the American plains and points farther west―a vastness forlorn and almost unknowable―belongs to the particular vision of this poet. His journey through our national ambiguity discovers a flicker in our roots\, a spark popping from obscurity that rises into the heavens. The lived experience behind these deft and subtle poems seems necessary\, and reiterates the fact that resilience is not only a feature of the American character\, it is a recurring tenet of American art.” ―Maurice Manning  \n“Brotherly love\, a sense of displacement and lost time\, and the deep care that reminds us of our humanity\, form the heart of this book. These poems are a scavengers guide\, a survivalist manifesto\, a reminder of the way our daily experiences can fuel and forge our faith. A hauntingly beautiful and unusual debut.” ―Dorianne Laux \n“Equal parts dithyramb and lament\, the great American bardic tradition celebrates lonesome wandering even as it hungers for enduring communion. Kai Carlson-Wee is a worthy inheritor of its dusty mantle\, worn by Whitman and Kerouac before him\, and Rail is a moving testament to the territories of freight trains\, Minnesota roads\, dumpster diving\, and brotherhood. ‘The road goes on. With or without us.’ Yes\, but how much better to have this unforgettable music to guide the way.” ―Campbell McGrath \n\nAbout Rail \n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival. These poems―a “verse novella” in documentary form―build momentum as they travel across the stark landscapes of the American West: hopping trains through dusty prairie towns\, swapping stories with mystics and outlaws\, skirting the edges of mountains and ridges\, heading ever westward to find meaning in the remnants of a ruined Romantic ideal. Part cowboy poet\, part prophet\, Carlson-Wee finds beauty in the grit and kinship among strangers along the road. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRAIL (POULIN #41) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Kai Carlson-Wee\n$16.00\nISBN: 9781942683582\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: BOA Editions – April 24th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSet against a landscape of rail yards and skate parks\, Kai Carlson-Wee’s debut collection captures a spiritual journey of wanderlust\, depression\, brotherhood\, and survival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kai-carlson-wee/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
CREATED:20180521T024945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T025023Z
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SUMMARY:Medea Benjamin Inside Iran: The Real History & Politics of Iran
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & Project Censored present \nMEDEA BENJAMIN\nInside Iran: The Real History & Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran \nHosted by Mickey Huff \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events\, wheelchair access \nMedea Benjamin\, one of America’s best-known and most effective activists\, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange\, is the author of Drone Warfare and Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S-Saudi Connection. In 2012 she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize\, and in 2014 the Gandhi Peace Award. \nNow Medea has written the first general-audience progressive book on Iran’s history and politics\, recounting Iran’s history from the pre-colonial period through the CIA-engineered coup that in 1953 overthrew the country’s democratic leadership\, to its emergence as the only nation (other than Russia\, of course) both Democrats and Republicans regularly denounce. Benjamin draws upon her firsthand experiences with Iranian politicians\, activists and everyday citizens to provide a deeper understanding of the extraordinary complexities of Iranian society and the national role in the region. \nIn 1979 the Iranian Revolution brought a Shia theocracy to the 80 million inhabitants of the Middle East’s second largest country. In the decades since\, bitter relations have persisted between the U.S. and Iran. Yet how is it that Iran has become the primary target of American antagonism\, when Saudi Arabia – a regime far more repressive – has become one of America’s closest allies? \nTackling the contradictions in Iran’s system of government\, its religion\, and its citizens’ way of life\, Inside Iran cuts sharply through the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding U.S.-Iranian relations to present a realistic and hopeful case for the two nations’ future.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/medea-benjamin-inside-iran-the-real-history-politics-of-iran/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180607T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180607T223000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: POETRY\, PROSE & EVERYTHING GOES...
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: https://ticketf.ly/2rOcW0A \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-13/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poe Ballantine
DESCRIPTION:Poe Ballantine discusses his new novel\, Whirlaway. \nPraise for Poe Ballantine \nPoe Ballantine is the most soulful\, insightful\, funny\, and altogether luminous “under-known” writer in America. He knocks my socks off\, even when I’m barefoot. —TOM ROBBINS\, Tibetan\nPeach Pie \nPoe Ballantine is brilliant. —CHERYL STRAYED\, Wild \nWhirlaway is a fever dream of my favorite things: horse racing\, records\, booze\, insanity\, and women. What a strange and crazed comedic ride. Ballantine’s writing is like no other. —WILLY\nVLAUTIN\, The Free \nAbout Whirlaway \nEddie Plum\, who insists he’s been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital\, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run\, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets\, the telepathic dog\, laments the loss of Sofia\, his madhouse lover\, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually he meets up with an old friend\, Shelly Hubbard\, a fellow horseplayer\, record collector/dealer\, and hardcore loner\, who tells him about his brother\, Donny\, dead at the age of eighteen from a tragic dive off a thirty-foot La Jolla sea cliff known as the Clam. Eddie discovers a family secret and wants to help\, but by then he’s already embroiled in the psychotic incident with the Tijuana prostitutes\, the madhouse lover\, and the police\, who are hot on his tail. Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride has nothing on Whirlaway\, a hilarious novel of escaped mental patients\, horseplayers\, and record collectors.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poe-ballantine/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T150000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Bruce H. Feingold
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Haiku poet Bruce Feingold will read his poems\, then sit for an interview and discussion.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-bruce-h-feingold/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T180000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Arden
DESCRIPTION:Launch for her debut YA novel\, The High Climber of Dark Water Bay \n“Arden has created the hero we have been waiting for in Young Adult Lit–Lizzie is authentic\, relatable and proves herself a force to be reckoned with. Engaging and immersive\, [her] writing is clean and crisp. Vivid imagery and concise storytelling combine to create a story for all ages.”–Kathleen Kaufman\, author of The Lairdbalor \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of The High Climber of Dark Water Bay by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 4:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nTwelve-year-old Lizzie is in trouble. She used to live a comfortable life with her loving father\, but after the stock market crash of 1929 and his sudden death\, she and her family now live in poverty. Lizzie is expected to help support the family\, but she can’t even cook without burning food. One day\, a letter arrives. Her wealthy uncle has offered her a paying job as a summer governess for her two young cousins at a remote logging camp\, so she travels alone into the wilderness of Vancouver\, British Columbia. To her horror\, she discovers that her uncle is missing from the camp. Penniless and stranded\, Lizzie’s worst fears are soon confirmed–she is being held hostage by the camp’s boss. “Accidents are easy to explain in the woods\,” he writes in a ransom letter to her uncle. Lizzie learns that in order to survive\, she will have to perform the most dangerous job at the camp–the high climber. She has one chance to save herself and return to her family. Her intelligence and bravery will be tested to the limit as she pulls on the climber harness to prove to everyone\, including herself\, what she is truly capable of. \nCaroline Arden holds an MFA in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University. As a child she spent her summers at her grandparents’ home at a former logging camp in British Columbia. Now she lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-arden/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T220000
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SUMMARY:SHAZAM\, Linda and Carolyn at Works in Progress Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:a WOMEN-ONLY event�\nFeaturing poets and birthday girls Linda Zeiser and Carolyn Stull-Zeiser as well as singer-songwriter SHAZAM\nHosted by Linda Zeiser\n$7 – $10 Admission includes raffle ticket for one of ten copies of THE HORIZONTAL POET by Jan Steckel\n6:30 – 7:30 Potluck: bring your favorite dish to share.\n7:30 – 10:15 Performance\nProduced by Linda Zeiser & Carolyn Stull Zeiser.\nTo reserve open mic slot\, contact Linda at (510) 701-1022\, ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com\, well in advance.\nWIP is a creative space for women’s art: Poets\, Musicians\, Comediennes\, and Performance Artists. All are encouraged to share their works\, completed or evolving. Scent free and wheelchair accessible (bathroom unfortunately not completely accessible).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shazam-linda-and-carolyn-at-works-in-progress-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth Jazz and Justice Church\, 424 Monte Vista\, Oakland\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Linda Zeiser":MAILTO:ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T210000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
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SUMMARY:Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard
DESCRIPTION:Poetry reading by Cynthia Bryant and Cher Wollard\, followed by an open mic\, hosted by Jeanne Lupton every second Saturday monthly\, Frank Bette and Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 7:00 (510/523-6957\, www.frankbettecenter.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cynthia-bryant-and-cher-wollard/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading
DESCRIPTION:Beloved poet Tinker Greene is being forced to leave San Francisco! Join us for a celebration of his work and contribution to the poetry community . Also featuring Carrie Hunter
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reading-2/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180609T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Adam Smyer (Knucklehead)\nChandler Klang Smith (The Sky Is Yours)\nNitasha Tiku (Wired)\nAdam Becker (What Is Real?) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM.\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-12/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180609T213000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Egan
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 9\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\n\nJennifer Egan joins us on Saturday\, June 9th to celebrate the paperback release of Manhattan Beach. \n\nPraise for Manhattan Beach \n\n“A bounteous miracle that makes you feel that past time\, and our time\, differently; everything becomes freshly energized\, infused with humanity\, vital\, sad\, and full of importance. To see the world through Egan’s eyes is to be moved\, through language\, to new adoration of the world. I don’t know a better writer working today. There is a generosity in her prose that is vastly enlivening to its reader and brings about that beautiful effect fiction sometimes causes: more\, and better-grounded\, fondness for reality\, just as it is.”—George Saunders \n\n“Manhattan Beach is so rich in detail and atmosphere; such an exploration of underworlds of all kinds\, filled with lessons on lifelines and buoyancy and how to bear life’s weight by diving deep into it. Jennifer Egan has masterfully conjured an era we are on the cusp of losing. Her novel is an absorbing story\, beautifully written. Its strands of subtle intrigue and quiet heroism make you reluctant to leave each page while eager to get to the next.”—M.L. Stedman \n\n“An unusually well written\, well researched\, emotionally satisfying page-turner . . . Manhattan Beach is the kind of book you can immerse yourself in happily.” –Heller McAlpin\, San Francisco Chronicle \n\nAbout Manhattan Beach \n\nThe daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. \nAnna Kerrigan\, nearly twelve years old\, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles\, a man who\, she gleans\, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. \n‎Years later\, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard\, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men\, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver\, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations\, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub\, she meets Dexter Styles again\, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life\, the reasons he might have vanished. \nWith the atmosphere of a noir thriller\, Egan’s first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters\, sailors\, divers\, bankers\, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft\, dazzling\, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men\, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad\, one of the great writers of our time. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMANHATTAN BEACH (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$17.00\nISBN: 9781476716749\nAvailability: Coming Soon. Available for Pre-Order Now!\nPublished: Scribner Book Company – June 5th\, 2018\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction\n* Winner of the New York City Book Award\n* New York Times Bestseller \n* A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year\n* A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.00\nISBN: 9780307477477\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – March 22nd\, 2011\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNATIONAL BESTSELLER\nNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\nPEN/Faulkner Award Finalist\nA New York Times Book Review Best Book \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE KEEP (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9781400079742\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – July 10th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep -the tower\, the last stand -is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOOK AT ME (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780385721356\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 8th\, 2002\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA National Book Award Finalist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE INVISIBLE CIRCUS (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$16.95\nISBN: 9780307387523\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Jennifer Egan’s highly acclaimed first novel\, set in 1978\, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of Phoebe O Connor\, age eighteen. Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith\, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEMERALD CITY (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer Egan\n$15.95\nISBN: 9780307387530\nAvailability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships 1-10 business days from warehouse. ETA will be updated with email order confirmation.\nPublished: Anchor Books – October 9th\, 2007\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThese eleven masterful stories – the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan – deal with loneliness and longing\, regret and desire. Egan’s characters – models and housewives\, bankers and schoolgirls – are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-egan-4/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Follow the Money!  The Dennis J. Bernstein KPFA Interviews
DESCRIPTION:Riva Enteen\, editor of KPFA radio commentator Dennis J. Bernstein’s new book “Follow the Money: Radio Voices for Peace and Justice\,” will host guests who have appeared on Bernstein’s influential and long-running program. “Follow the Money” compiles 66 of Bernstein’s incisive\, insightful interviews\, all conducted during the Obama era\, that provide the writing on the wall for how we got to Trump today. Taken together\, these interviews paint a vivid picture of the state of things in present day America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/follow-the-money-the-dennis-j-bernstein-kpfa-interviews/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180610T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180610T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T083231
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nSunday\, June 10\, 2018 \n4:00 PM  6:00 PM
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-2/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages
DESCRIPTION:There will be no SF in SF events in May due to convention travel. However\, we will be back on June 10th with Lucy Jane Bledsoe\, Meg Elison & Ellen Klages. More details to follow once we have our feet back on the ground. \nDoors open 6:00PM\nEvent begins 7:00 PM \nThe American Bookbinders Museum\n355 Clementina\nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucy-jane-bledsoe-meg-elison-ellen-klages/
LOCATION:The American Bookbinders Museum\, 355 Clementina Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Heather Abel // The Optimistic Decade
DESCRIPTION:Heather Abel will read from her just-released novel\, The Optimistic Decade. The Optimistic Decade has received praise from the New York Times\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Kirkus\, New York Magazine\, BBC\, People Magazine\, EW.com\, Buzzfeed\, NY Post\, Library Journal. Bookpage says: “The Optimistic Decade deserves the elusive accolade of “original” for its believable construction and flawless attention to detail. Within the brilliant\, multilayered canopy of the novel’s world\, Heather Abel’s writing comes across as a sincere and tender channel for a story that must be told. \nBuzzfeed says: “I loved every minute I spent reading Heather Abel’s The Optimistic Decade\, a sharply rendered portrait of the United States in 1990. The novel is rich in the conflicting energies of the time — lingering resentments from the previous decade’s stark class divisions\, a renewed hope for the decade to come — and these clashes are played out over the course of one summer at a Colorado camp. … The result is an exuberant and nonjudgmental examination of the unique conflicts of the era.” \nPittsburg Post-Gazette says: Writing with both warmth and incisiveness\, Ms. Abel has crafted an engaging look at idealism and the difficulties in maintaining it…The Optimistic Decade is an exceptionally timely look at what it means to be politically aware and reminds readers of the intoxicating power of idealism\, particularly when we find ourselves on the precipice of independence.” \nMore info here: http://heatherabel.com/reviews/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heather-abel-the-optimistic-decade/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #20
DESCRIPTION:Details soon! \nhttps://www.facebook.com/theracketseries/ \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-20/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Graeber
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nBullshit Jobs \nfrom Simon and Schuster \nFrom bestselling writer David Graeber\, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless\, unfulfilling jobs\, and their consequences. \nDoes your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013\, David Graeber asked this question in a playful\, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After a million online views in seventeen different languages\, people all over the world are still debating the answer. \nThere are millions of people—HR consultants\, communication coordinators\, telemarketing researchers\, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless\, and\, tragically\, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. \nGraeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns\, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. Bullshit Jobs gives individuals\, corporations\, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values\, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation. \nDavid Graeber is a Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He is the author of the bestseller DEBT: The First 5\,000 Years\, and a contributor to Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The Baffler. He was a leading figure in the OCCUPY Wall Street movement\, He lives in London.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-graeber/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Janet Mock
DESCRIPTION:Date of event changed to June 11\, 2018 \nJanet Mock is a writer\, TV host\, and advocate tackling stigma through storytelling. With a Master’s in journalism from New York University\, the Honolulu native began her career as an editor at People.com and went on to write cover stories for Marie Claire\, Interview\, and The Advocate as well as essays for The New Yorker\, TheNew York Times\, and Lenny. She produced HBO’s The Trans List\, hosts the podcast Never Before\, and serves as a columnist for Allure. Called a “fearless new voice” and “trailblazing leader” who “changed my way of thinking” by Oprah Winfrey\, Janet was a featured speaker at the historic Women’s March on Washington. She is the author of Surpassing Certainty and the New York Times bestseller Redefining Realness. \nMia Birdsong is an activist\, writer\, and orator. She is a Family Centered Social Policy Fellow at New America and a Senior Fellow at the Economic Security Project. She is working on her first book\, How We Show Up. \nThis program is a benefit for the Transgender\, Gender Variant\, Intersex Justice Project
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-mock/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180612T170000
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SUMMARY:Porchlight Open Door
DESCRIPTION:Porchlight Open Door is a small stage open mic event launched by Porchlight in September \n2009. Storytellers add their names to a sign-up sheet\, receive a free drink\, and then have \nfive minutes to spiel on the monthly theme. The evening’s top storyteller\, as chosen by a \nrandom audience member\, receives $50 in cold\, hard\, United States greenbacks\, a bag of \nhot nuts\, and a pound of coffee from local roaster\nNomadic Ground\n  \nStorytelling has never been this potentially lucrative or fun!* \n\nOpen Door is back!\nHosted by Arline Klatte and Michael O’Brien \nThe second Tuesday of the month at The Hemlock Tavern \n\n  \n*Except on various occasions
URL:https://litseen.com/event/porchlight-open-door/
LOCATION:Hemlock Tavern\, 1131 Polk Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180612T133000
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SUMMARY:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival Presents Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake
DESCRIPTION:Yerba Buena Gardens Festival presents Poetic Tuesdays guest curated by Litquake\, Poetic Tuesdays features an array of poets and music.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yerba-buena-gardens-festival-presents-poetic-tuesdays-with-litquake/
LOCATION:Jessie Square\, 736 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Turk & Divis / Quiet Lightning album release party
DESCRIPTION:Turk & Divis (Evan and Miles Karp) launch the Quiet Lightning album\, featuring 11 tracks of original music scored to excerpts of 50 Bay Area writers performing live in last year’s QL shows. \nCome celebrate! Activities include: \n> A listening/screening party \n> Performances by a stout list of the album’s contributors: Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, Margaret McCarthy\, Matt Leibel\, Miah Jeffra\, AshleyRose Sanchez\, Matt Carney\, Roberto F. Santiago\, Rayan Mustafa\, Kristina Ten\, Linette Escobar\, Riss Rosado\, John Panzer\, Danielle Bero\, Abe Becker\, Cassandra Dallett\, and Paul Corman-Roberts: performer links and bios can be found here. \n> An open mic: sign up to read/perform during an improv set by Turk & Divis (more info soon) \nLimited edition lathe cut vinyl and cassettes will be available! \n> more info + to pre-order < \nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages. Doors at 6:30\, show at 7pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/turk-divis-quiet-lightning-album-release-party/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: Pride Zine Fest
DESCRIPTION:Guest curator Anand Vedawala presents four Bay Area queer Zine artists: Tyler Cohen\, Ajuan Mance\, Lee Marrs\, and Joshua Trujillo
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-pride-zine-fest/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer
DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Mattraw with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018\, 7:00 p.m.\, City Lights Booksellers\, 261 Columbus Avenue\, San Francisco\n\n \nAlexandra Mattraw launches her new book small siren with Tiff Dressen and Norman Fischer  \n \nAbout small siren: \nsmall siren believes the inanimate is alive. Here\, a speaker navigates music rendered from a terrain of fracture\, where emergency and becoming intertwine.  A family’s narrative threads and unthreads through the book\, as do the ethics of projection. What confrontations arise where people and objects are involuntarily constructed through a mutual process of projection? Truth is slippery but so is the ground. Here\, she listens for appendages of herself in nature and in the cities she encounters\, where she ritualistically attempts to distinguish between beauty and disaster. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nTiff Dressen was born and raised in St. Paul\, Minnesota. SONGS FROM THE ASTRAL BESTIARY (lyric& Press\, 2014) is their first full-length collection of poetry. They recently migrated from Oakland to the Portola neighborhood of San Francisco and work in the Office of Research at UC Berkeley. They are the author of Keeper (Woodland Editions\, 2005)\, Because Icarus-children (WinteRed Press\, December 2010) and for Aeolus: variations on the element (co-published by the g.e. collective and Poetry Flash\, 2011). Their work has appeared in many journals including New American Writing\, VOLT and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics\, and YewJournal. They enjoy spending time at the SF Center for the Book honing their typesetting and letterpress printing skills. \nNorman Fischer is a poet\, essayist\, and Zen Buddhist priest. The latest of his more than twenty-five prose and poetry titles are (poetry) any would be if (Chax\, 2017) and Magnolias All At Once (Singing Horse\, 2015). Forthcoming in 2018  from PURH in France is his serial poem On a Train at Night. And from Talisman the poem Untitled Series: Life As It is.  His latest prose works are What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind\, and Experience: Thinking\, Writing\, Language and Religion. He is the founder of the Everyday Zen Foundation (www.everydayzen.org)\, a network of Zen meditation groups and other projects. His books are distributed by Small Press Distribution in Berkeley\, CA. \nNorman Fischer’s new book\, On a Train at Night\, was published in March 2018 by Presse Universite de Rouen et Havre\, in France. This book-length serial poem explores consciousness\, meaning\, and what can’t be said or written of. June 1 is also the scheduled publication date of Untitled Series:Life As It Is (Talisman Press)\, also a serial poem in short fragments that describes the hidden\, underlying\, linguistic shape of ordinary daily events. \nAlexandra Mattraw is a Berkeley poet and fourth generation native of Northern California. Her debut full-length book\, small siren\, emerges this spring from Brooklyn’s Cultural Society. Alexandra is also the author of four chapbooks\, including flood psalm (2017)\, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her poems and reviews have appeared in American Letters and Commentary\, Denver Quarterly\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills\, The Poetry Project\, VOLT\, The Volta\, and elsewhere. In Oakland\, she curates an art centric writing and performance series called Lone Glen\, now in its seventh year. \nWhat has been said about small siren: \n“When good poetry hits\, it animates the actual\, it becomes the actual. That’s small siren: a serious romp of constructive music that is what it says. Science and nature unlock their mysteries by being precise; in small siren the words — cut\, spliced\, compressed — form units of attention enacting the physical world so precisely that even the sun and the moon ride their arcs untroubled. Across cities and seas\, Alexandra Mattraw’s language isn’t attached to images; it comes out of them\, like a birthright. The authenticity is declarative and unmistakable: ‘A sign is a block\, an island\, a cloud\, a clock.’  She makes it real.” \n—Aaron Shurin \n“Though cradled by earth\, Mattraw’s poems wander through a new human condition. Or are the songs of spirits who won’t tiptoe around their biographers. Through the unregistered versions of ourselves\, we can read these poems and worry about having regular bodies later. Here is a beautiful lesson or wager that on a page you can risk your dreams.” \n—Tongo Eisen-Martin \n“In Alexandra Mattraw’s much-awaited first book\, small siren\, we encounter a poet of extraordinary observation and inquiry. An enchantment and engagement with the world commences: “when is a voice a piano\,’ “repetition needs to believe\,’ “what grew before you could speak’ build a kind of groundswell where Mattraw puts her ear to the hardscape of 21st century America and its global environs: Sao Paolo\, Iceland\, New Zealand. Ultimately\, notions of country and categories break down. What we find is heresy\, hearsay\, and yes\, wishes. Throughout\, what survives is a relationship of love and courage\, of errors and triumph. A human relationship of lovers\, of family. This is a book of wonder and awe and strength. When the world goes down\, I want to be in Alexandra Mattraw’s boat.” \n-Gillian Conoley
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alexandra-mattraw-with-tiff-dressen-and-norman-fischer/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad
DESCRIPTION:Laurie R. King\, Island of the Mad\nTuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:00pm \nBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes beloved and best-selling author Laurie R. King back to the store for a reading and signing of her new novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes\, Island of the Mad. \nMary Russell and Sherlock Holmes untangle the slippery threads of insanity and deadly secrets as they investigate a disappearance in the New York Times bestselling series that Lee Child called “the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today.” \nA June summer’s evening\, on the Sussex Downs\, in 1925. Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are strolling across their orchard when the telephone rings: an old friend’s beloved aunt has failed to return following a supervised outing from Bedlam. After the previous few weeks–with a bloody murder\, a terrible loss\, and startling revelations about Holmes–Russell is feeling a bit unbalanced herself. The last thing she wants is to deal with the mad\, and yet\, she can’t say no. \nThe Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another\, yet she seemed to be improving–or at least\, finding a point of balance in her madness. So why did she disappear? Did she take the family’s jewels with her\, or did someone else? The Bedlam nurse\, perhaps? \nThe trail leads Russell and Holmes through a lunatic asylum’s stony halls to the warm Venice lagoon\, where ethereal beauty is jarred by Mussolini’s Blackshirts\, where the gilded Lido set may be tempting a madwoman\, and where Cole Porter sits at a piano\, playing with ideas…\nLAURIE R. KING is the award-winning\, bestselling author of fourteen Mary Russell mysteries\, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli\, and many acclaimed stand-alone novels such as Folly\, Touchstone\, The Bones of Paris\, and Lockdown. She lives in Northern California\, where she is at work on her next Mary Russell mystery. \n  \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. \nIsland of the Mad: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)\nBy Laurie R. King \n$28.00 \nISBN: 9780804177962 \nAvailability: Coming Soon – Available for Pre-Order Now \nPublished: Bantam – June 12th\, 2018 \nIsland of Mad—GET IT SIGNED!\n$28.00 \nSKU: S9780804177962 \nName (optional) \nIf you cannot attend this event\, you can still have a copy of Island of Madsigned at the event. Books must be paid for in advance and can either be shipped or held for pick-up in the store. Internet orders must be placed by Monday\, June 11th. After that\, please call the store to inquire about signed editions. \nMost authors will be happy to add a name to their signature\, but this service is at their discretion and isn’t guaranteed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laurie-r-king-island-of-the-mad/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Weekday Wanderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! It’s coming that time again…the most wanderlust time of the year. Weekday DONderlust. Mark your calendar for Tuesday JUNE 12. It’s our LAST event before our summer hiatus. We will celebrate great travel writing\, readings\, summer\, our fantastic community\, and of course the birthday of our own Don George. Champagne toasts and funny Don stories are welcome. Don has invited three of his besties\, who happen to be extraordinary writers\, too. Please come to welcome Larry Habegger\, Amanda Jones\, and Jeff Greenwald. There will be stories. There will be laughter. There will be giveaways. This is is Donderlust. Readings start at 7pm but we will be at the bar by 6 pm at the Mystic Hotel (417 Stockton). See you then.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-wanderlust-4/
LOCATION:mystic hotel\, 417 Stockton St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Well-RED with features: ASHA and Joseph Jason Santiago LaCour
DESCRIPTION:at 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 \nAn Artist\, Educator\, and Revolutionary\, Asha is an 8th grade teacher in San Jose at Monroe Middle school. She is an international poet\, striving to use art to create radical change. Recently on the cover of Content Magazine\, a feature at many of the prominent poetry events in the Bay Area\, as well as active speaker\, emcee and performer at numerous rallies and marches for civil and human rights including both years of the Women’s March and The March For Our Lives\, Asha consistently uses her platform to voice out against injustice and to speak up for those who have been marginalized and silenced for centuries. \nJoseph Jason Santiago LaCour is a poet\, artist\, and emcee from the MIdwest now living in Santa Cruz. Born 40 years ago into a Filipino and French Creole fiasco\, he has been writing and reciting for more than half his life. In contrast\, he has struggled as a young parent–working countless jobs (mostly technology-related) only honing his artistic skills on the side as a means of escape from the rigors of commitment. That storm has passed. Today\, his beautiful daughters are grown. He has true love in his life. And he feels compelled to share his art\, his heart\, with you. As a member of The Legendary Collective and co-curator of The Santa Cruz Word Church\, a well-attended\, weekly poetry event at The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History\, he is consciously working to contribute to a strong community of poets and writers in the Bay Area and Central Coast. His first and greatest ever self-published\, feature-length book\, LEDDITGO: a recollection of poem\, verses and visualshas been printed and is available in Bookshop Santa Cruz. He is also releasing an album of songs via CD or download both available through his website www.josephjasonsantiagolacour.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-with-features-asha-and-joseph-jason-santiago-lacour/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:This is Now with Angie Coiro presents: Ken Jennings on humor and the media
DESCRIPTION:Ken Jennings grew up in Seoul\, South Korea\, where he became a daily devotee of the quiz show Jeopardy! In 2004\, he successfully auditioned for a spot on the show and went on an unprecedented seventy-four game victory streak worth $2.52 million. Jennings’s book Brainiac\, about his Jeopardy! adventures\, was a critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller\, as were his follow-up books Maphead and Because I Said So! He is also the author of Planet Funny. Jennings lives in Seattle with his wife Mindy and two children. \nFrom John Stewart to Donald Trump\, Chaucer to Sumerian Tablets\, fart jokes to Cable TV “zingers\,” Ken Jennings lends his signature wit and whizzing\, encyclopedic perspective to the history of humor and how it came to dominate our modern world. Today\, an unprecedented number of people get their news from comedy shows. Newspapers race to find the catchiest headline with an avidity that forgets the need to inform. In our democracy\, showmanship has replaced good-nature debate. Jennings looks at the foundations of these current manifestations and what this says for where we might be headed.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-with-angie-coiro-presents-ken-jennings-on-humor-and-the-media/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Jennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 12\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our 9th Ave. location. \n\n\n\nJennifer S. Cheng and Vi Khi Nao join us on Tuesday June 12th to celebrate the release of their new collections\, Moon: Letters\, Poems\, Maps and Sheep Machine. \n\nPraise for Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems \n  \n“What are the secret aspects of a book\, which cannot be spoken of and that unfold in ways that nobody can describe to us in advance? In a world where ‘boundaries are slipping\,’ what modes of metamorphosis now become possible? Can radical change be read as a ‘map of the body in motion’? I am interested in Cheng’s idea of story as the place where we come to ‘forget something\, as much as remember.’ This is a formulation that precipitates the artifacts and deities of the book: ‘the logic of dust cloud\, spiral.’ Everything that’s left behind. If reading is a form of pilgrimage\, then Cheng gives us its charnel ground events\, animal conversions\, guiding figures and elemental life. ‘I want to mark a new map for a body opening\,’ she writes\, and then she does.” —Bhanu Kapil \n  \n“…What distinguishes this study of the Self in proximity to Other and to the World is the way Cheng refuses to tell stories and instead\, insists on asking them. With curiosity and attention\, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art\, asking as making. In the tradition of Fanny Howe’s poetics of bewilderment\, Cheng gives us a poetics of possibility.” —Jennifer Tseng \n\nAbout Moon: selected by Bhanu Kapil as winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards:  \n  \nMixing fable and fact\, extraordinary and ordinary\, Jennifer S. Cheng’s hybrid collection\, MOON: Letters\, Maps\, Poems\, explores the feminine monstrous as it draws on various Chinese mythologies about women\, particularly that of Chang’E (the Lady in the Moon)\, uncovering the shadow stories of our myths — with the belief that there is always an underbelly. MOON explores bewilderment and shelter\, destruction and construction\, unthreading as it rethreads\, shedding as it collects. \n\nPraise for Sheep Machine \n\n“The unglamorous labor of ‘logging’ footage is\, like childbirth\, often seen as a necessary torment best forgotten once its productive work is done . . . Vi Khi Nao empowers this deceptively objective art of time-coded naming with a wild heart\, a deep ethics\, and the slant-philosophical poetics that returns me continuously to her gorgeous\, necessary (and frankly addictive) work.” —Anna Moschovakis \n  \n“Vi Khi Nao’s poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton’s Sheep Machine is a visceral companion to an optical theatre of ordinary and extraordinary images that rub off the burning edge of consciousness . . . This is hallucinatingly generative work.” —Dong Li \n  \nAbout Sheep Machine \n  \nSHEEP MACHINE is a textual inscape\, a poetically painted nonfictional pasture where mechanical violence and visceral fear coalesce into a kind of science prosody\, a post-human panorama whose beauty liesr in the ruins of reality it depicts. Influenced by Leslie Thornton’s film of sheep feeding in a field as a conveyor belt of cable cars ascend and return from a mountain in the Swiss Alps\, Vi Khi Nao takes perception into tumultuous terrains\, into a pastoral-celestial void in which temporality is transcended\, progress is a bourgeois invention\, and god is a liability for our life spent in hunger and grazing. Vi Khi Nao’s SHEEP MACHINE is grace said at the ontological last supper. \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFISH IN EXILE (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy VI Khi Nao\n$16.95\nISBN: 9781566894494\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Coffee House Press – November 1st\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for Vi Khi Nao: \n“Here I was allowed to forget for a while that that is what books aspire to tell\, so taken was I by more enthralling and mysterious pleasures.” –Carole Maso \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHOUSE A (OMNIDAWN 1ST/2ND BOOK CONTEST) (PAPERBACK)\n\nBy Jennifer S. Cheng\n$17.95\nISBN: 9781632430236\nAvailability: On Our Shelves Now. Call store for up-to-the-minute availability.\nPublished: Omnidawn – October 4th\, 2016\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHouse A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home\, and vice versa?
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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:Darnell L. Moore: Coming of Age Black & Free in America
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present \nDARNELL L. MOORE\n“No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America”\nHosted by Greg Bridges \nwheelchair access advance tickets: $12 : : T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit \nWhat happens to the black boys who come of age in neglected\, heavily policed\, and economically desperate cities that the War on Drugs and mass incarceration have created? How do they learn to live\, love\, and grow up? Where should they turn when history rejects their very existence? Darnell explores these questions in NO ASHES IN THE FIRE. When Darnell Moore was fourteen years old\, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school\, harassed him because they assumed he was gay\, and poured gasoline on him. He barely escaped with his life. On many other occasions there were terrifying confrontations\, including some within his family… \nThree decades later\, Moore is an award-winning writer and activist\, a leader in the Movement for Black Lives\, and a tireless advocate for justice and liberation. No Ashes in the Fire is his compelling account of how that bullied\, frightened teenager not only survived\, but found such a unique calling. An editor-at-large at the content distributor Urban One\, and a columnist at Logo\, Darnell L. Mooore describes his bold\, candid memoir as “snapshots of my life” molded by forces of “brutality\, poverty\, and self-hatred.” \nDarnell L. Moore (born in 1976 in Camden\, NJ) is an American writer and activist whose work is characterized by anti-racist\, feminist\, queer\, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. His essays\, social commentary\, poetry and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues\, including The Feminist Wire\, Ebony Magazine\, and The Huffington Post.
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LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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