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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, September 19\, 7:30pm\nThis Recurring Event is at Pegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series \nLyrics and Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading this month: Valerie Wallace\, Sarah Gladstone\, and Norma Smith. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Creative Writing Reading Series with Kevin Young\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, September 19\, 2018 –  \n7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nKevin Young is the Director for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, newly named a National Historic Landmark\, and Poetry Editor of the New Yorker. He is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose\, most recently Brow (2018); Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf\, 2016)\, longlisted for the National Book Award; and Book of Hours (Knopf\, 2014)\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry from the Academy of American Poets. His collection Jelly Roll: a blues (Knopf\, 2003) was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/creative-writing-reading-series-with-kevin-young/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new graphic novel\, Coyote Doggirl. \n\nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n\n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”  Sandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n  \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.” Patricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n  \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.” Kelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n  \nAbout Coyote Doggirl \n  \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \n  \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding andempowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt/
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:Peter Phillips discussing the subject of his new book  Giants: The Global Power Elite
DESCRIPTION:Giants: The Global Power Elite \nBy Peter Phillips \nIntroduction by William I. Robinson \npublished by Seven Stories Press \nWho holds the purse strings to the majority of the world’s wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our economic future\, and here former Project Censored director and media monitoring sociologist Peter Phillips unveils for the general reader just who these players are. The book includes such power players as Mark Zuckerberg\, Bill Gates\, Jeff Bezos\, Jamie Dimon\, and Warren Buffett. \nAs the number of men with as much wealth as half the world fell from sixty-two to just eight between January 2016 and January 2017\, according to Oxfam International\, fewer than 200 super-connected asset managers at only 17 asset management firms—each with well over a trillion dollars in assets under management–now represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class. Members of the global power elite are the management–the facilitors–of world capitalism\, the firewall protecting the capital investment\, growth\, and debt collection that keeps the status quo from changing. Each chapter in Giants identifies by name the members of this international club of multi-millionaires\, their 17 global financial companies—and including NGOs such as the Group of Thirty and the Trilateral Commission—and their transnational military protectors\, so the reader\, for the first time anywhere\, can identify who consitutes this network of influence\, where the wealth is concentrated\, how it suppresses social movements\, and how it can be redistributed for maximum systemic change. \nPeter Phillips\, director emeritus of Project Censored and president of the Media Freedom Foundation\, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. Known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide\, such as Z magazine and Social Policy\, Phillips is also the winner of the 2009 Dallas Smythe Award\, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication. He lives in Southern California. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-phillips-discussing-the-subject-of-his-new-book-giants-the-global-power-elite/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening of readings by Maxim Loskutoff (Come West and See) and Mikkel Rosengaard (The Invention of Ana). Please join us! \n  \n  \nCome West and See\nby Maxim Loskutoff \n  \nThis searing debut reimagines the American West through linked stories describing a violent rural separatist movement. \n  \nIn an isolated region of Idaho\, Montana\, and eastern Oregon known as the Redoubt\, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge is escalating into civil war. Against this backdrop\, twelve stories of ordinary lives explore the loneliness\, fragility\, and heartbreak inherent to love. Families feel the far-reaching shockwaves of displacement and division. A mother makes a hard choice for her sons when their father goes to lead a standoff with the federal government. An unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him and the first airstrikes raze the streets of his hometown. A former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm. \nRanging from the cities to the small towns of the West\, and imbued with its own brand of radical empathy\, Loskutoff’s fiction is both timely and timeless. Come West and See surges with rage\, longing\, and fear\, and offers startling insights into the wounds of the American people. \n  \nA graduate of New York University’s MFA program\, Maxim Loskutoff has been honored with the Nelson Algren Literary Award\, a Global Writing Fellowship in Abu Dhabi\, and the M Literary Fellowship in Bangalore. He lives in western Montana. \n  \n  \n\n  \nThe Invention of Ana\nby Mikkel Rosengaard \n  \nThe Invention of Ana illuminates the profound power of stories to alter the world around us—and the lives of the ones we love. \n  \nOn a rooftop in Brooklyn on a spring night\, a young intern meets the intriguing Ana Ivan who lives her life like a prime number: wild and unbroken and only divisible with herself. Before long\, the intern finds himself seduced by Ana’s enthralling stories—of her unlucky countrymen; of her parents’ romance during the worst years of Nicolae Ceaucescu’s dictatorship; of a Daylight Savings switchover gone horribly wrong. Ana also introduces him to her latest artistic endeavor. Following the astronomical rather than the Gregorian calendar\, she is trying to alter her sense of time—an experiment that will lead her to live in complete darkness for one month. \n  \nDescending into the blackness with Ana\, the intern slowly loses touch with his own existence\, entangling himself in the stories of Ana\, her starry-eyed mother Maria\, her math-prodigy father Ciprian\, and  their journey from Bucharest to Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to New York City. \n  \nA three-time recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Literary Fellowship\,Mikkel Rosengaard’s stories have appeared in the Architectural Review\, Bomb Magazine\, PBS’s Art21\, and many other publications. He grew up in Elsinore\, Denmark\, and lives in New York City. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxim-loskutoff-come-west-and-see-and-mikkel-rosengaard-the-invention-of-ana/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lisa Hanawalt: Coyote Doggirl
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 18\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLisa Hanawalt presents and signs Coyote Doggirl \nBoJack Horseman producer / production designer and award-winning cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt presents Coyote Doggirl. The graphic novel is a playful homage to and send-up of classic Westerns\, presenting the story of the goofy\, dramatic\, and fiercely independent Coyote as she journeys through the desert on horseback. With Coyote Doggirl\, Hanawalt documents the harsh realities of sexism\, her insatiable admiration of horses\, and the indispensability of a good crop top. \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.”–Abbi Jacobson\, Broad City\n \n  \n \nCOYOTE DOGGIRL (DRAWN & QUARTERLY\, 2018) \nCoyote is a dreamer and a drama queen\, brazen and brave\, faithful yet fiercely independent. She beats her own drum and sews her own crop tops. A gifted equestrian\, she’s half dog\, half coyote\, and all power. Together with her trusty steed Red\, there’s not much that’s too big for her to bite off\, chew up\, and spit out right into your face\, if you deserve it. But when Coyote and Red find themselves on the run from a trio of vengeful bad dogs\, get clobbered by arrows\, and are tragically separated\, our protagonist is left fighting for her life\, and longing for her displaced best friend. Taken in by a wolf clan\, Coyote may be wounded\, but it’s not long before she’s back on the open road to track down Red and tackle the dogs who wronged her. \nLisa Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\, Coyote Doggirl is a self-aware\, playful subversion of tropes. As our fallible hero attempts to understand the culture of the wolves\, we see a journey in understanding and misunderstanding\, adopting and co-opting. Uncomfortable at times but nonetheless rewarding and empowering\, the story of these flawed\, anthropomorphized characters is nothing if not relentlessly hilarious and heartbreakingly human. Told in Hanawalt’s technicolor absurdist style\, Coyote Doggirl is not just a send-up of the western genre\, but a deeply personal story told by an enormously talented cartoonist. \nLisa Hanawalt is the creator of the upcoming Netflix original series Tuca & Bertie\, as well as the producer and production designer of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman. Her quarterly food column for Lucky Peach won her a James Beard Award for humor. Hanawalt’s first collection with Drawn & Quarterly was the critically acclaimed My Dirty Dumb Eyes. She co-hosts the podcast Baby Geniuses with comedian Emily Heller. Her second book with D+Q\, Hot Dog Taste Test\, won her the Ignatz Award and appeared on best-of-the-year lists from The Washington Post\, The Guardian\, NPR\, and elsewhere. \nPraise for Coyote Doggirl \n“Coyote Doggirl is uppity\, cocky\, and occasionally profane\, but she is also smart\, clever\, and outrageously funny. Lisa Hanawalt’s comicbook tale of a half-coyote\, half-dog feminist and her trusty steed\, Red\, makes you think as well as laugh. You go\, Coyote Doggirl!”\nSandra Dallas\, New York Times best-selling author \n“A story of flight and vengeance\, sunsets and sagebrush\, love and leather underwear. Hanawalt’s blues could be set in the sky and belong there; her pinks are almost alive. These are the cave paintings I want them to find in 10\,000 years.”\nPatricia Lockwood\, author of Priestdaddy \n“Hanawalt is known for her ability to deliver genuinely hilarious visual gags and Coyote Doggirl is no exception. What’s especially interesting to me\, however\, is how Coyote’s tone refuses to stay put\, venturing from slapstick to poignant\, and finally into downright bleak territory\, appropriate for a Western. Her deftness with color is also worth study. I’m taken by how her characters contrast with the iconic and carefully studied features of the western landscape\, from mountain plateaus to bright and delicate wildflowers.”\nKelly Sue DeConnick\, author of Bitch Planet\, Captain Marvel \n“Lisa’s work is a reminder of the limitless boundaries of one’s imagination. She somehow creates fantastical worlds within our own\, commenting on some of our most timely issues while exploring our most minute absurdities. I could spend all day inside this heartfelt\, beautiful\, twisted take on a classic Western.” Abbi Jacobson\, co-creator of Broad City \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, September 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lisa-hanawalt-coyote-doggirl/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Roni Ben Hur - Harvie S - Sylvia Cuenca
DESCRIPTION:Roni Ben Hur – Harvie S – Sylvia Cuenca
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roni-ben-hur-harvie-s-sylvia-cuenca/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #40 (MUSIC BY TBD)
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nFeatured lineup of writers TBA \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-40-music-by-tbd/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall celebrating the release of  Time's Language: Collected Poems
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nTime’s Language: Collected Poems \nfrom Wings Press \nUltimately\, there are two kinds of poets: those who have a long vitae and those who have an amazing life. Just glancing at Margaret Randall’s list of works is enough to show us we are before a distinguished and prolific writer. Beginning with Giant of Tears in 1959\, she has published over forty poetry collections. To this we can add dozens more—works of oral history\, essays\, photography\, translations\, and anthologies—for a total of approximately one hundred books\, many of which have been translated into Bengali\, Bulgarian\, Dutch\, French\, German\, Italian\, Japanese\, Portuguese\, Slovenian\, Turkish\, and for over four decades\, Spanish. Yet this impressive catalog of publications pales in comparison to her life.(from prologue by Hedeen and Rodríguez Núñez) \nMargaret Randall is a feminist poet\, writer\, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936\, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque\, New York\, Seville\, Mexico City\, Havana\, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN\, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities. She was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s\, share the rebellion of the Beats\, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968\, live in Cuba during the second decade of that country’s revolution (1969-1980)\, reside in Nicaragua during the first four years of the Sandinista project (1980-1984)\, and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall-celebrating-the-release-of-times-language-collected-poems/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Terese Svoboda with Dean Rader / Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with NY-based Terese Svoboda\, in town as a Headlands Artist In Residence and to celebrate the publication of Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet. Joining her is Dean Rader (Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry). We’d love to see you there! \n  \nAnything That Burns You is the first full-length biography of Lola Ridge\, a trailblazer for women\, poetry\, and human rights. Terese Svoboda takes the reader on a fascinating journey that follows Ridge’s life from her childhood as an Irish immigrant in the mining towns of New Zealand to her years as a budding poet and artist in Australia\, and then to San Francisco\, Chicago\, and New York\, where she flourished as a poet and editor of the avant-garde journals Others and Broom. By the 1920s\, Ridge was at the center of modernism: good friends with William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore\, while promoting the careers of Hart Crane and Jean Toomer\, in addition to writing brilliant socially critical poems. At one time considered one of the most popular poets of her day\, Ridge later fell out of critical favor due to her impassioned verse that looked head-on at the major social woes of society\, infused with a radical belief in freedom that she gleaned from her mentors Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger. Certain to revive the legacy of this unique artistic figure-as unforgettable as Virginia Woolf or Frida Kahlo-this lively portrait gives a veritable who’s who of all the key players in the arts\, literature\, and radical politics of her time\, in which Lola Ridge stood front and center. \n  \n  \n\n  \n“Svoboda resurrects the fascinating life and work of Lola Ridge. A lively\, complex portrait emerges … of a talented\, driven woman for whom ‘art and activism were one’ and who deserves remembrance not just as ‘a fulcrum of modernism’ but a premier poet in her own right.” – Publishers Weekly \n\n“Radical\, modernist\, fiery\, glamorous\, feminist- adjectives and categories can only gesture toward the enduringly significant life and works of the poet Lola Ridge\, whose story has been gracefully told\, with her poems lucidly understood\, by Terese Svoboda.” – Robert Pinsky\, Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress \n\n“Anything That Burns You tells the riveting story of Lola Ridge\, a revolutionary and influential poet of her time\, now (like so many female artists) lost to history. Terese Svoboda has written a brilliant biography\, as original as it is compelling\, and a fascinating exploration of literary legacy… A poet herself\, Svoboda’s insights are startling and apt\, and she constructs a colorful\, well-researched background for re-considering Ridge’s considerable achievements. We need more books like this one.” – Rene Steinke\, Author\, Holy Skirts \n\n“Magisterial” – Ted Galloway\, Washington Post \n\n\n  \nA Guggenheim fellow\, Terese Svoboda is the author of 18 books\, including seven books of poetry. Professor Harriman’s Steam Air-Ship(poetry) is her most recent. Anything That Burns You: A Portrait of Lola Ridge\, Radical Poet (biography) appeared in paper in 2018\, andGreat American Desert (stories) will be published next year. She has won the Bobst Prize in fiction\, the Iowa Prize for poetry\, an NEH grant for translation\, the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize\, a Jerome Foundation prize for video\, the O. Henry award for the short story\, a Bobst prize for the novel\, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay. She is a three time winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship\, and has been awarded Headlands\, James Merrill\, Hawthornden\, Yaddo\, McDowell\, and Bellagio residencies. Her opera WET premiered at L.A.’s Disney Hall in 2005. “Terese Svoboda is one of those writers you would be tempted to read regardless of the setting or the period or the plot or even the genre.” –Bloomsbury Review.\n \nDean Rader published three books in 2017: Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon Press); Suture\, a collection of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence) and the anthology Bullets Into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon Press). He writes regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle\, Ploughshares\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Huffington Post and is a professor at The University of San Francisco. In their review of Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry\, Publishers Weekly wrote: “few poets capture the contradictions of our national life with as much sensitivity or keenness.” \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-terese-svoboda-with-dean-rader-anything-that-burns-you-a-portrait-of-lola-ridge-radical-poet/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
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SUMMARY:POETS! - Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:POETS! – Sharon Doubiago + Bill Bradd\, followed by an open mic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-sharon-doubiago-bill-bradd-followed-by-an-open-mic/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” An Off the Page Reading
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 17  | 7 PM at Z Below\nDirected by Delia MacDougall \nOff the Page staged readings are the first step in developing a Word for Word production—taking a short story from the page to the stage. Join us for a special reading of the classic poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet\, literary critic\, philosopher and theologian who\, with his friend William Wordsworth\, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCome see the very first steps of our process\, and\, after the reading\, let us know what you think! \nSuggested donation of $20 per ticket—add a gift to Word for Word when reserving your tickets online\, or make a cash contribution at the door.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-samuel-taylor-coleridge-the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-an-off-the-page-reading/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-18/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jerry Ferraz's Trump Poem
DESCRIPTION:Jerry Ferraz’s Trump Poem
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerry-ferrazs-trump-poem/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patricia Polacco Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, September 16\, 1:00pm – 4:00pm\nPegasus Books Oakland \nBeloved author and illustrator Patricia Polacco will be signing her best-selling children’s books\, including the newly released Holes in the Sky. \nThe book signing will take place in the Pegasus Books tent (outside and adjacent to Pegasus Books Oakland) as part of the annual Rockridge Out & About Street Festival. \n \nABOUT HOLES IN THE SKY \nMiss Eula is back! In this heartwarming companion to Chicken Sunday\, young Trisha is devastated when her grandmother passes away\, but finds joy in bonds with a new friend\, her new California neighborhood–and the invincible Miss Eula. \nThere will never be anyone like her grandmother\, Patricia Polacco thinks\, when her grandmother passes away. But when she and her family move to California–in the middle of a drought–she meets a new friend\, the irrepressible Stewart\, and his amazing grandmother\, Miss Eula\, who not only takes Trisha under her wing\, but\, with Trisha and Stewart\, steps up to lead their entire extraordinarily diverse neighborhood to help a hurting neighbor–and her once lush garden–survive the drought. \nTrisha’s grandmother’s old saying about the stars being Holes in the Sky turns out to be Miss Eula’s\, too\, convincing Trisha that she has miraculously discovered another unforgettable grandmother.\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nStudying in the United States and Australia\, Patricia Polacco has earned an MFA and a PhD in art history\, specializing in Russian and Greek painting\, and iconographic history. She is a museum consultant on the restoration of icons. As a participant in many citizen-exchange programs for writers and illustrators\, Ms. Polacco has traveled extensively in Russia as well as other former Soviet republics. She continues to support programs that encourage Russo-American friendships and understanding. She is also deeply involved in inner-city projects in the United States that promote the peaceful resolution of conflict and encourage art and literacy programs. The mother of a grown son and a daughter\, she currently resides in Michigan\, where she has a glorious old farm that was built during the time of Lincoln. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, September 16\, 2018 – 1:00pm to 4:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Oakland\n5560 College Ave\n\nOakland\, CA
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patricia-polacco-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:poetry in parks 2018 @ samuel p. taylor state park
DESCRIPTION:sunday\, sept 16\n \n12pm potluck\, 2pm readings\n  \nJoin us for an afternoon of readings in the redwoods! \ncurated by Chris Cole\, Evan Karp\, and Scott Green \nfree\, all-ages show \nall the authors are paid \nthe first 100 people receive a copy of sPARKLE & bLINK 95 \n  \nThanks so much to everyone who sent in writing!!! \n  \nWe received 71 submissions and will announce the selected authors by Wed\, 8/22. \n  \nCheck out those trees!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-in-parks-2018-samuel-p-taylor-state-park/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Taylor State Park\, 8889 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.\, Lagunitas\, CA\, 34938\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Palooza\, Take 2
DESCRIPTION:Pride Poetry Palooza usually comes but once a year but everyone had so much fun in July we decided to do it all over again! Take 2 is Saturday\, September 15\, 7pm to 8:30pm at Strut\, 470 Castro St. in San Francisco. 8 poets will read 8 minutes each: Susan Dambroff\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Europa Grace\, Michael Tod Edgerton\, Philip Harris\, David Hathwell\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Randall Mann. Free admission. Better yet\, free fruit pies and cold glasses of milk will be served. (Nothing goes better with Queer poetry than fruit pie.) Eight–count em\, 8–door prizes awarded at 7pm to reward promptness. Book signing follow the readings. Come on out for Pride Poetry Palooza–and pie!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-palooza-take-2/
LOCATION:Strut\, 470 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Froderberg
DESCRIPTION:Susan Froderberg discusses her new novel Mysterium. \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n\nPraise for Mysterium \n“Mysterium is a beautifully rendered exploration of the essential role that landscape plays in the long and difficult journey from grief to understanding and acceptance. Susan Froderberg’s feeling-driven narrative is filled with both suspense and tenderness. A life-enhancing experience.” —Jane Urquhart\, author of The Night Stages \n\n“An adventure at the top of the world; a narrative of reflection\, insight\, and survival.” —Paulette Jiles\, author of News of the World \n\n“First there is the superbly drawn cast of complex and compelling characters\, none more beguiling than Sarasvati ‘Sara’ Troy\, the young woman who\, with a vision of climbing the mountain that is her namesake\, puts the plot in motion. Then there is the masterfully executed suspense and drama of the climb. Finally there is the lovely and lyric writing about the mountain herself—as monolith and metaphor. These three pleasures combine to make Mysterium impossible to put down.” —Pam Houston\, author of Contents May Have Shifted \n\nAbout Mysterium \n\nMysterium\, known as Mount Sarasvati\, looms over the Indian Himalayas as the range’s tallest peak in the dazzling fictional world Susan Froderberg has created. \n  \nSarasvati “Sara” Troy is determined to reach the peak for which she was christened\, and to climb it in honor of her mother\, who perished in a mountaineering accident when Sara was just a child. She asks her father\, a celebrated mountaineer and philosophy professor\, to organize and lead the expedition.The six climbers he recruits are an uneasy mix. They include his longtime friend Dr. Arun Reddy\, a recent widower\, and Reddy’s son\, who often challenges his father; Wilder Carson\, the acclaimed climber who is tormented by the death of his brother; Wilder’s wife\, Vida\, a former lover of Dr. Reddy; and the distinguished scholar of climbing Virgil Adams and his wife\, Hillary. Porters and Sherpas are recruited in India to assist and be part of the team. \n  \nThe party’s journey is harrowing\, taking them from the mountain’s gorge\, into its sanctuary\, and finally onto the summit\, a path that evokes the hell\, purgatory\, and heaven of Dante’s Inferno. As the air thins and this unforgettable journey unfolds\, Sara emerges as a Beatrice-like figure\, buoying her companions up the mountain through the sheer strength and beauty of her being. Both monumental quest and dreamlike odyssey\, Mysterium is infused with the language of climbing and profound existential insight.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-froderberg/
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:Why There Are Words Sausalito Presents: A Collaboration with Black Lawrence Press
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito September 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 when the following five authors from Black Lawrence Press will read\, along with special guest Nona Caspers. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15\, $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. \nNona Caspers recently released a novel-in-stories\, The Fifth Woman (Sarabande Press\, August 2018)\, which was honored with the Mary McCarthy award from Sarabande Press. Earlier books include Little Book of Days (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009) and Heavier than Air (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2006)\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a NYTBR Editors’ Choice. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, and The Sun. In 2014\, she co-edited with Joell Hallowell Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century (Triton Books). Other awards include a NEA fellowship\, San Francisco Cultural Equity Grant\, and LAMBDA nomination. She is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. \nScott Shibuya Brown is the author of the novels The Traders (Black Lawrence Press\, 2017)\, named a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize for Fiction\, and Far Afield (Red Hen Press\, 2010)\, and is a former staff journalist at Time Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His reporting\, reviews\, and photos also have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, The Kartika Review\, and The LA Weekly\, among other publications. He has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and currently teaches at California State University\, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on a novel set in 1950s Japan. \nJacqueline Doyle‘s award-winning flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl was published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2017. Her essays\, stories\, and flash have appeared in The Gettysburg Review\, Post Road\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Pinch\, and Wigleaf.  Her work has earned numerous Pushcart nominations\, Best of the Net nominations\, finalist listings in Best Small Fictions\, and notable essay listings in Best American Essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she is a professor of English at California State University\, East Bay. \n  \n  \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days (Truman State University Press\, 2010)\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn\, 2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. His most recent projects\, all published in 2017\, include Suture\, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press)\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. \nSarah Suzor’s first full-length poetry collection\, The Principle Agent (Black Lawrence Press\, 2011)\, won the 2010 BLP Hudson Prize. Her second full-length collection\, After the Fox\, is a collaboration between Suzor and Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press\, 2014). Her poetry\, interviews\, and book reviews have been published and anthologized in a range of literary journals. She is the founder and owner of INK\, LLC\, a company that has successfully helped other writers complete their manuscripts and publish their books. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister (Black Lawrence Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from BLP. Twister was shortlisted for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. Her other work has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader\, Spry\, BLOOM\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs and is at work on another novel. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-presents-a-collaboration-with-black-lawrence-press/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Todd Stadtman
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street Thursday\, September 13th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Todd Stadtman as he reads from his newest novel\, So Good it’s Bad\, which is the second book of the trilogy he’s entitled\, SF Punk Trio.  \n\nAbout \nIn Please Don’t be Waiting for Me\, author Todd Stadtman introduced Scott\, Bridge\, Micah\, and Benny\, a tightknit band of teenage punk rockers whose loyalty is tested when one of their number is falsely charged with murder. In that book’s sequel\, So Good it’s Bad\, he picks up with those characters for another adventure that is every bit as terrifying\, suspenseful and unexpectedly hilarious as the first. \nSo Good it’s Bad catches up with Scott and Micah as they are wrapping up a zero-budget DIY tour with their band Fist Music. At their last show\, Scott becomes violently ill and awakes to find himself a virtual prisoner of a deranged super fan and her equally unbalanced mom. It is up to Bridge\, Benny\, Micah and Scott’s father to find and rescue him. Their efforts will be complicated by the exploits of a narcissistic serial killer called The Jackpot Killer. \n  \nPraise for So Good it’s Bad \n“Captures the unique\, bitter pathos—and dark comedy—of a vanished world: Bay Area youth culture at the dawn of the Reagan era.” \n-Andrew O’Hehir\, Executive Editor\, Salon.com \n“A slamming séance summoning early Eighties San Francisco\, a never-never land of mosh pits\, thrift shopping\, divorced dads\, police raids\, and white punks on dope.” \n– Grady Hendrix\, Author of My Best Friend’s Exorcism \n“Gritty and engaging.” \n– Nancy Davis Kho\, Midlife Mixtape \n“Captures the fun\, desperation\, grime\, confusion\, and joy of being a teen punk weirdo.” \n– Keith Allison\, Teleport City \n  \nTodd Stadtman is a musician-turned-author whose books include Funky Bollywood: The Wild World of 1970s Indian Action Cinema and the novel Please Don’t Be Waiting For Me. He is also the author of the blog Die\, Danger\, Die\, Die\, Kill! and a regular contributor to the perennial cult cinema website Teleport City. He has also contributed to Famous Monsters\, The Times of India\, and The World Directory of Cinema\, as well as the websites io9\, Mondo Macabro\, The Cultural Gutter\, and Monster Island Resort. He currently lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-stadtman/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:We’re looking forward to a terrific evening\, with friends and fellow Whiting Award 2018 recipients (respectively\, for poetry and fiction) Tommy Pico and Brontez Purnell\, reading and in conversation with one another and the audience. Please join us. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds LLC\, 2016)\, Nature Poem (Tin House Books\, 2017)\, and Junk (Tin House Books\, 2018). He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural Fellow\, Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry\, and NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, and he’s the winner of a 2018 Whiting Award and the Brooklyn Public Library’s Literature Prize. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker\, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot\, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. \nBrontez Purnell\, whose “explorations of blackness\, queerness\, maleness\, and Southernness take sharp\, confident turns between raunch and rhapsody\,” has been publishing\, performing\, and curating in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than ten years as founder of cult zine Fag School\, frontman for the band the Younger Lovers\, and the founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. He has performed at venues such as New York Live Arts Festival\, YBCA\, SFMOMA\, Counterpulse\, and The Lab. His most recent book\, Since I Laid My Burden Down (The Feminist Press at CUNY\, 2017) won a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUDIO: Junk\, The Podcast\, with Tommy Pico\nVIDEO: Tommy Pico\, How Not to Be One With Nature\nVIDEO: Free Jazz\, Brontez Purnell Dance Company\nVIDEO: Coming Out with Brontez Purnell \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tommy-pico-and-brontez-purnell-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:WHY THERE ARE WORDS – SAUSALITO COLLABORATES WITH BLP
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito September 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 when the following five authors from Black Lawrence Press will read\, along with special guest Nona Caspers. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15\, $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. \nNona Caspers recently released a novel-in-stories\, The Fifth Woman(Sarabande Press\, August 2018)\, which was honored with the Mary McCarthy award from Sarabande Press. Earlier books include Little Book of Days (Spuyten Duyvil\, 2009) and Heavier than Air (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2006)\, which received the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and was a NYTBR Editors’ Choice. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review\, Glimmer Train\, and The Sun. In 2014\, she co-edited with Joell Hallowell Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century (Triton Books). Other awards include a NEA fellowship\, San Francisco Cultural Equity Grant\, and LAMBDA nomination. She is a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. \nScott Shibuya Brown is the author of the novels The Traders (Black Lawrence Press\, 2017)\, named a finalist for the William Saroyan Prize for Fiction\, and Far Afield (Red Hen Press\, 2010)\, and is a former staff journalist at Time Magazine and The Los Angeles Times. His reporting\, reviews\, and photos also have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Washington Post\, The Kartika Review\,and The LA Weekly\, among other publications. He has an MFA in Writing from CalArts and currently teaches at California State University\, Northridge. He lives in Los Angeles and is currently working on a novel set in 1950s Japan. \nJacqueline Doyle‘s award-winning flash fiction chapbook The Missing Girl was published by Black Lawrence Press in fall 2017. Her essays\, stories\, and flash have appeared in The Gettysburg Review\, Post Road\, Southern Humanities Review\, The Pinch\, and Wigleaf.  Her work has earned numerous Pushcart nominations\, Best of the Net nominations\, finalist listings in Best Small Fictions\, and notable essay listings in Best American Essays. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she is a professor of English at California State University\, East Bay. \n  \n \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days (Truman State University Press\, 2010)\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize and Landscape Portrait Figure Form (Omnidawn\, 2014) was named by The Barnes & Noble Review as a Best Poetry Book. His most recent projects\, all published in 2017\, include Suture\, collaborative poems written with Simone Muench (Black Lawrence Press)\, Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon)\, and Bullets into Bells: Poets and Citizens Respond to Gun Violence\, edited with Brian Clements & Alexandra Teague (Beacon). He is a professor at the University of San Francisco. \nSarah Suzor’s first full-length poetry collection\, The Principle Agent(Black Lawrence Press\, 2011)\, won the 2010 BLP Hudson Prize. Her second full-length collection\, After the Fox\, is a collaboration between Suzor and Travis Cebula (Black Lawrence Press\, 2014). Her poetry\, interviews\, and book reviews have been published and anthologized in a range of literary journals. She is the founder and owner of INK\, LLC\, a company that has successfully helped other writers complete their manuscripts and publish their books. \nGenanne Walsh is the author of Twister (Black Lawrence Press\, 2015)\, awarded the Big Moose Prize for the Novel from BLP. Twister was shortlisted for the 2016 Housatonic Book Award in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Excerpts appeared in Puerto del Sol\, Blackbird\, and Red Earth Review. Her other work has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader\, Spry\, BLOOM\, and elsewhere. She lives in San Francisco with her wife and dogs and is at work on another novel. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-sausalito-collaborates-with-blp/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia St.\, Sausalito\, 94965
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Situationists and May 1968: An Evening with Ken Knabb
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nKen Knabb\, leading translator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International\, will discuss the situationists’ key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France\, and how that astonishing social eruption remains relevant to our present-day world. \n \nKen Knabb is a writer\, translator\, and radical theorist\, known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His own English-language writings\, many of which were anthologized in Public Secrets (1997)\, have been translated into over a dozen additional languages. He is also a respected authority on the political significance of the anarchist poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth. His other translations include Guy Debord’s film scripts (Complete Cinematic Works)\, Debord’s Society of the Spectacle\, and Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary. Knabb’s own writings include leaflets\, comics\, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich\, George Brassens\, and Gary Snyder. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-situationists-and-may-1968-an-evening-with-ken-knabb/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
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SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: America: The Farewell Tour
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents \nCHRIS HEDGES\nAmerica: The Farewell Tour\nHosted by Norman Solomon \nTickets: $15\, 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $18 door\, Benefit KPFA Radio\, Info: kpfa.org/events \nAmerica\, The Farewell Tour is a book that should disturb and anger all of us. It is a profoundly sobering\, upsetting portrait of our country as it is\, not as we wish it to be. \nChris Hedges shows us a country that should shame us\, a land of rampant and deadly drug addiction\, of escape into gambling and pornography\, of xenophobic scapegoating – a country where the super rich exploit the poor and vulnerable. He is calling us out for having become a corporate state where the dignity and worth of the individual no longer matter. \nThis is a profound and provocative examination of America in crisis\, convulsed by pathologies that have risen from the sense of hopelessness. Hedges examines our retreat into gambling\, pornography\, and drugs as Americans attempt to cope with an economic collapse that has left so many out of work and others working two or even three jobs just to stay afloat. As our society unravels\, we also must face global upheavals\, specifically the emerging catastrophes wrought by climate change. He argues that we must reverse the corporate coup d’etat destroying our country and combat the current crisis by waging a cultural\, moral and even spiritual resistance. \nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief. He is the author of twelve previous books\, including the bestselling American Fascists\, Death of the Liberal Class\, and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. \nNorman Solomon is a media critic and a journalist with ExposeFacts.org\, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is also the author of numerous books and a co-founder of RootsAction.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-hedges-america-the-farewell-tour/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Julie Bruck
DESCRIPTION:Julie Bruck reads from her new poetry collection\, How to Avoid Huge Ships. \n\nPraise for Jule Bruck \n\n“She is the poet laureate of aftermath\, of what we do in the wake of things. She picks up the broken pieces of what’s left\, and these she patches together\, as she can\, into beautifully-wrought poems that bear eloquent witness to what remains.” Seán Kennedy \n\n“Alert and precise\, perceptive and measured\, Julie Bruck’s poems calibrate situations both grave and brave\, serious and hilarious\, whilst avoiding the ‘large ships’ of heavy-handed conclusion. Here are genuine smarts\, mature talent\, and a wide-angle vision.” —Sharon Thesen \n\nAbout How to Avoid Huge Ships \n\nHow to Avoid Huge Ships\, Julie Bruck’s fourth collection of poetry\, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of age. This is\, of course\, a pointless exercise with a rich history. Bruck’s new poems excavate a middle zone?as old parents wither and regress\, while the young declare their independence. Parents grow down\, children up\, and it’s from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems peer into what Philip Larkin describes as “the long slide.” But what if we haven’t reached the end of the infinite adolescence we thought we’d been promised? We’re still here in this world of flying ottomans\, alongside a middle-schooler named Dow Jones\, and the prehistoric miracle of a blue heron’s foot. We may be afraid\, but we’re still amused–sometimes\, even awed. \n  \nLooking squarely at the way things are\, glossing over none of the absurdities and injustices of contemporary life\, Julie Bruck pays ardent attention to it all. This is a subtle art\, restrained. Its power often lies in what is not said right out but which fires up in a reader. The touch is light\, even when the subject is heavy. One has a steady sense of being trusted to catch and feel the intangible muchness housed in deceptively plain poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julie-bruck/
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:Jane Mount / Bibliophile
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts beloved artist and founder of Ideal Bookshelf Jane Mount for Bibliophile. Please join us! \nBook lovers\, rejoice! In this love letter to all things bookish\, Jane Mount brings literary people\, places\, and things to life through her signature and vibrant illustrations. Readers will: \n•  Tour the world’s most beautiful bookstores\n•  Test their knowledge of the written word with quizzes\n•  Find their next great read in lovingly curated stacks of books\n•  Sample the most famous fictional meals\n•  Peek inside the workspaces of their favorite authors \nA source of endless inspiration\, literary facts and recommendations\, and pure bookish joy\, Bibliophile is sure to enchant book clubbers\, English majors\, poetry devotees\, inspiring writers\, and any and all who identify as bookworms. \n  \nBonus: check out the profile of Booksmith\, and the accompanying illustration of Christin and Praveen\, to be found in the section Beloved Bookstores! \n  \n\n  \nJane Mount is an illustrator\, designer\, and founder of Ideal Bookshelf\, a company that makes things for people who love books. She lives on Maui\, in Hawaii. \n  \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nThis event is free and all ages.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jane-mount-bibliophile/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:GARY SHTEYNGART
DESCRIPTION:In Conversation with Isabel Duffy\nWednesday\, September 12\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nGary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and came to the United States seven years later. He is the author of the novels Super Sad True Love Story\, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by more than forty news journals and magazines around the world; Absurdistan\, which was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by The New York Times Book Reviewand Time magazine; and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, winner of the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Travel + Leisure\, Esquire\, GQ\, The New York Times Magazine\, and many other publications and has been translated into twenty-six languages. Shteyngart lives in New York City and upstate New York. \n\nAll $46 Orchestra tickets include copy of Gary Shteyngart’s new book\, “Lake Success”. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7 pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-club-2/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Marilyn Berlin Snell / Unlikely Ally
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Marilyn Berlin Snellfor her new book Unlikely Ally: How the Military Fights Climate Change and Protects the Environment. Please join us! \n  \nWhat do national security and defense mean in the ecologically destabilizing age of climate change? In California\, the US military has begun to redefine these concepts by taking on a largely unrecognized yet crucial role in renewable-energy innovation and in preserving cultural and natural treasures. Environmental stewardship is law on installations throughout the United States\, but a few bases in Southern California have taken a more comprehensive approach—one in which energy security and protection of threatened and endangered species are embedded in the practice of national defense. Unlikely Ally takes us through these bases to examine what twenty-first-century sustainable-energy infrastructure looks like; whether combat readiness and species protection can successfully coexist; how cutting-edge technology and water-conservation practices could transform life in a resource-constrained world; and how the Department of Defense’s scientific research into the metabolic secrets of the endangered desert tortoise could speed human travel to Mars. With investigative journalist Marilyn Berlin Snell as our guide\, we explore a martial culture in California informed by science\, strategic imperative\, state and federal law\, and visionary leadership. \n  \n\n  \n“Marilyn Berlin Snell brings the paradox of military sustainability into full view in this lively account from California’s desert and coastal training grounds\, showing how national security and natural security can manage to work together.” – David Havlick\, author of Bombs Away: Militarization\, Conservation\, and Ecological Restoration \n  \n“Uncovers a surprising bright spot on our fraught horizon.” – Mary Ellen Hannibal\, author of Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction \n  \n\n  \nMarilyn Berlin Snell is an independent journalist whose work focuses on the environment and politics. She was staff writer for Sierra\, the magazine of the Sierra Club\, from 2000 to 2008 and founding director of the magazine’s Investigative Journalism Project. Her freelance work has appeared in publications including the New York Times\, Mother Jones\, The Nation\, and Discover. Visit her website at www.marilynberlinsnell.com. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is a free and all-ages event\, with mature themes. The bar opens with doors at 7pm; event begins at 7:30. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Unlikely Ally\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-marilyn-berlin-snell-unlikely-ally/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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