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SUMMARY:Dodie Bellamy and Anthony Huberman in conversation
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \n\n\n\n\nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind \nEdited by Jeanne Gerrity and Anthony Huberman \npublished by Semiotext(e) Books\, distributed by The MIT Press \nExamining the genre-bending writing of Dodie Bellamy\, whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. \nDodie Bellamy Is on Our Mind is the first major publication to address Bellamy’s prolific career as a genre-bending writer. Megan Milks made several trips to San Francisco in order to spend time with Bellamy and craft a provocative and fascinating profile of the writer. Originally delivered as a lecture at the Wattis Institute\, Andrew Durbin’s text takes the form of a personal essay\, expertly weaving anecdotes of his own encounters with Bellamy’s writing with insights into broader themes in her work. Academic Kaye Mitchell takes a close look at the role of shame and its relationship to femininity in particular texts by Bellamy. And Bellamy and her late husband Kevin Killian offer deeply personal\, emotionally wrenching ruminations on topics from the mundane (drawing) to the profound (mortality). These texts\, alongside archival photos and a complete bibliography\, make this book an important compendium on Bellamy. \nDodie Bellamy has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1978. A vital contributor to the Bay Area’s avant-garde literary scene\, Bellamy is a novelist and poet whose work has focused on sexuality\, politics\, feminism\, narrative experimentation\, and all things queer. In her words\, she champions “the vulnerable\, the fractured\, the disenfranchised\, the fucked-up.” \nAnthony Huberman is the Director and Chief Curator of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Founding Director of the Artist’s Institute in New York.city li
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dodie-bellamy-and-anthony-huberman-in-conversation/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jamel Brinkley
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Literary Arts is excited to welcome author of A Lucky Man and finalist for the National Book Award\, Jamel Brinkley in conversation with SJSU’s new fiction professor\, Keenan Norris on Thursday\, February 27\, 2020 in MLK Library Room 225/229 at 7PM. This event is free and open to the public. \nA debut that Entertainment Weekly saw “creating waves within the literary sphere\,” A Lucky Man explores the charged\, complex ties between men whose mistakes threaten their relationships with friends\, lovers\, and family members. The stories in this glittering collection reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them\, especially in a world shaped by race\, gender\, and class—where luck may be the greatest fiction of all. \nJamel Brinkley was raised in the Bronx and Brooklyn\, New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in California. \nKeenan Norris’s novel Brother and the Dancer won the 2012 James D. Houston Award for first books set in California. He is the editor of the critical volume Street Lit. His chapbook By the Lemon Tree was published in 2018 and his novella Luster will be published later this year. His short fiction appears in several literary journals\, as well as the anthologies Oakland Noir and Inlandia: A Journey Through the Literature of Southern California’s Inland Empire. He also serves as guest editor for the Oxford African-American Studies Center with a focus on improving the Center’s archive of California scholarship. \nTommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma\, he was born and raised in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jamel-brinkley/
LOCATION:SJSU MLK Library\, 150 E San Fernando St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Stein and Anne Lesley Selcer\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this reading and conversation with two poet/performers who each have worked and written extensively in relation to contemporary art practices. This event\, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts\, is free and open to the public. \nSuzanne Stein’s poetry publications and performance documents include New Sutras\, The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Passenger Ship. With the poet Steve Benson\, she is the author of DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011 and 2012. Suzanne was the founding editor\, and for eight years editor-in-chief\, of Open Space\, SFMOMA’s art and language platform and publication. After thirty years’ living and working in the Bay Area\, she resides now in San Diego\, California. \nAnne Lesley Selcer is author of Sun Cycle\, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize and Blank Sign Book\, a collection of essays on art. Her other publications include from a Book of Poems on Beauty\, winner of the Gazing Grain prize\, Banlieusard\, a commissioned book-length text for Artspeak\, and Untitled (a treatise on form) with 2nd Floor Projects. Anne Lesley’s work can be found in Jacket2\, Fence\, Hyperallergic\, Art Practical\, The Chicago Review\, Open Space\, and Gauss PDF\, as well as in art exhibition catalogs. Occasionally working in video\, performance\, or sound\, she is currently engaged in a series of collaborations with artists based on Sun Cycle. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nSuzanne Stein at Open Space \nSuzanne Stein and Steve Benson\, DO YOUR OWN DAMN LAUNDRY\, at Gauss PDF \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “What Imaginary Thing Is a Museum?” (on Ana Mendieta)\, at Art Practical \nAnne Lesley Selcer\, “A Playboy Bunny Navigates the Politics of Dystopia” (on Monet Clark)\, at Hyperallergic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/suzanne-stein-and-anne-lesley-selcer-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:Beau Beausoleil: A Glyphic House at Alley Cat Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Beau Beausoleil’s latest publication\, A Glyphic House. \nThis Day On The Calendar \nOn this day\nwe are trying to gather\nthe lives and moments\nthat need illuminating \nWe need to remember\nthe women who\nput their work down\non the factory floor \nand walked out\nto strike \nWe need to remember\nthe children\nwho were shot\nin their classrooms \nalong with\ntheir teachers \nThese two contradictory things\nare part of remembering\non this calendar day \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems\nof blood and salt \nTo help us  remember\nthe ones\nwho were spit on \nThe one who were\ndragged from\ntheir cars \nand beaten \nSmall  poems of blood\nand salt on this day \nto help us remember\nthose who were carried to\nthe rope \nAnd those\nwho gathered there\nand stood by\nwatching \nas close as\nmy arm to\nyours \nor even\na hundred cities\naway \nWe mark this day\nwith small poems of blood\nand salt \nshaped\nwith our hands \nPoems that when taken\ninto our lives\nmake us unable\nto swallow and forget \nall the lies that have carried\nus here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beau-beausoleil-a-glyphic-house-at-alley-cat-books/
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Tallent: Scratched
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Tallent launches Scratched: A Memoir of Perfectionism\, her bold and brilliant exploration of the ferocious desire for perfection which has shaped her writing life as well as her rich\, dramatic\, and constantly surprising personal life. \n\n\n\n\n “One of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist.”–Sigrid Nunez \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of Scratched by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 27\, 2020 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nScratched is an intimate account of the uses a child\, and the adult she becomes\, will find for perfectionism and the role it will play in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent’s story begins in a hospital in mid-1950s suburban Washington\, D.C.\, when her mother refuses to hold her newborn daughter\, shocking behavior that baffles the nurses. Imagining her own mother’s perfectionist ideal at this critical moment\, Tallent moves back and forth in time\, juxtaposing moments in the past with the present in this innovative and spellbinding narrative. \nTallent traces her journey from her early years in which she perceived herself as “the child whose flaws let disaster into an otherwise perfect family\,” to her adulthood\, when perfectionism came to affect everything. In the decade between 27 and 37\, she published five literary books with Knopf and her short stories appeared in The New Yorker. But this extraordinary start to her career is followed by twenty-two years of silence. She wrote\, or rather published\, nothing at all. Why? Scratched is the remarkable response to that question. \nTallent’s early publications secure her a coveted teaching job at Stanford University. As she toggles between Palo Alto and the Mendocino coast where she lives\, raises her son Gabriel\, and pursues an important psychoanalysis\, she grapples with the perfectionism that has always been home to her. Eventually\, she finds love and acceptance in the most unlikely place\, and finally accepts an “as is” relationship with herself and others. \nHer final triumph is the writing of this memoir\, filled with wit\, humor\, and heart\, and unlike any other you will read. Scratched is a brave book that repeatedly searches for the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence. \nElizabeth Tallent\, author of a novel and four story collections including Mendocino Fire\, has appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Tin House\, and ZYZZYVA as well as in the Best American Short Stories\, Best American Essays\, O. Henry Prize\, and Pushcart Prize award anthologies. She teaches in Stanford’s Creative Writing Program and lives with her wife\, an antiques dealer\, on the Mendocino Coast.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-tallent-scratched/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:E. J. Dionne: Code Red: How Progressives & Moderates Can Unite to Save Our Country
DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM \nHosted by Kris Welch \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006  or Marcus Books\, Pegasus Books (3 sites)\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, East Bay Books\, Mrs.Dalloway’s Books $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \nNew York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne sounds the alarm in Code Red\, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America’s future for the 2020 presidential election. \nBut if progressives and moderates are unable-and unwilling-to overcome their differences\, they could not only enable Trump to prevail again but also squander an occasion for launching a new era of reform. \nDionne calls for a shared commitment to decency and a politics focused on freedom\, fairness\, and the future\, encouraging progressives and moderates to explore common ground and expand the unity that brought about Democrat victories in the 2018 elections. He offers a unifying model for furthering progress with a Politics of Remedy\, Dignity\, and More: one that solves problems\, resolve disputes\, and moves forward; that posits a positive future for Americans with more covered by health insurance\, more with decent wages\, more with good schools\, more security from gun violence\, more action to roll back climate change. Because at this point in our national story\, change can’t wait. \n  \n“A thrilling book\, from one of America’s most universally respected minds.” — Rachel Maddow \n  \nE.J. DIONNE\, JR.\, is a columnist for The Washington Post\, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution\, visiting professor at Harvard University\, and professor at Georgetown University. He is a co-author of the recent New York Times bestseller One Nation After Trump and author of Why the Right Went Wrong. \nKRIS WELCH is a veteran\, very popular KPFA on-air host\, a mother\, and a devoted grandmother. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486314  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/e-j-dionne-code-red-how-progressives-moderates-can-unite-to-save-our-country/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - The Healthcare Edition
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition an Open Mic at The Lost Church – San Francisco w/Ned Buskirk \nWHILE THIS SPECIAL OPEN MIC IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC\, THE PARTICULAR CONVERSATION IS SPECIFIC TO THOSE INTERESTED & INVOLVED IN THE HEALTHCARE FIELD…\nOpen Mic sharing from where mortality meets the medical perspective & experience will be strongly encouraged! \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… – the Healthcare Edition is an open mic event for those people working in & with the healthcare field\, where the medical meets the mortal\, a communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\, to grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: http://bit.ly/YG2D_Healthcare_Feb27_SF\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – San Francisco\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \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-the-healthcare-edition/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Slam Jam!
DESCRIPTION:Slam Jam! \nA series presenting original music and poetry featuring a rotating lineup of Bay Area Spoken Word Artists and Musicians. \nHeld on the Cabaret Stage at The Marsh Arts Center 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA. \n——————- \nBook Release Party for TUREEDA MIKELL!\nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine\nNomadic Press \nThe wordsmiths with us tonight: \nNOISE ALLSTAR BAND \nGENIUS WESLEY – drums\nDANNY BROWN – saxophone\nMICHAEL TINY LINDSEY – bass\nMANNY BERRY – keys \nON THE MIC \nTONGO EISEN-MARTIN\nKWAN BOOTH\nTUREEDA MIKELL\nJAMES CAGNEY\nABDUL KENYATTA\nMELISSA JONES——————- \nThere is a full bar on-site with great drink specials so this event is 21 & up. \nJoin us at the Marsh Arts Center: a breeding ground for new performance!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/slam-jam/
LOCATION:The Marsh Berkeley\, 2120 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Undocumented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading
DESCRIPTION:(Un)documented Black Poetics: Book Launch & Reading with Immigrant Poets \nFormer poet-in-residence\, Alan Pelaez Lopez\, will celebrate their debut book\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien\, at the Museum of the African Diaspora. Kemi Bello and Danyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe\, both key figures in the immigrant rights movement and the immigrant poetry community will read alongside Alan. Afterward\, the poets will share words about what it means to create art and prioritize care for one another in the midst of border violence. \nIntergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien is an experimental poetry collection that pushes the boundaries of the undocumented immigrant experience via the poet’s refusal to belong to United Statian society and the refusal of a structured poetics. In fact\, the chaotic geographies of the manuscript (collages + photographs + emails) formulate theories of fugitivity that position the transAtlantic slave trade and North American Indigenous dispossession as root causes of the poet’s “illegal entry” as a five-year-old to the U.S. In this refusal of national belonging and form\, the book asks for a critical kinship that the law can never account for\, and thus\, Alan Pelaez Lopez negotiates legal status for new imaginaries of care. \nAlan Pelaez Lopez is an AfroIndigenous poet\, installation\, and adornment artist from Oaxaca\, México. They are the author of the art and poetry collection\, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien (The Operating System\, 2020)\, and the chapbook\, to love and mourn in the age of displacement (Nomadic Press\, 2020). Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and “Best of the Net\,” and appears (or is forthcoming) in Best New Poets\, Best American Experimental Writing\, POETRY\, The Georgia Review\, and others. They have received fellowships and/or residencies from Submittable\, the Museum of the African Diaspora\, VONA/Voices\, and UC Berkeley. They live in Oakland\, CA. www.alanpelaez.com/ \nKemi Bello is a stubborn sometimes-writer and poet living in Oakland\, California. She believes in the power of narrative to reclaim and connect\, and her writings around the messiness of migration have been published in outlets like The Nation and Autostraddle. Kemi’s poetry performances have taken her to stages at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\, Galeria de la Raza\, Litquake SF\, and the University of Illinois\, Chicago. www.kemibello.com \nDanyeli Rodriguez Del Orbe is a formerly undocumented\, Afro-Dominican writer\, podcaster\, and activist raised in The Bronx\, New York. Her work centers themes of immigration\, race\, and gender. She has been featured on NPR\, Bronx Museum of Arts\, People En Español\, and her work has traveled as far as Aruba’s “Poetry is an Island Festival.” Danyeli has also been the recipient of several social justice fellowships including Immigrant Justice Corps\, Vera Fellowship\, and NYIC Dream Fellowship\, where she researched policy\, provided legal services\, and organized for immigrant rights. In 2019\, she co-founded loose accents\, a Latinx immigrant podcast highlighting stories of immigration from the East to the West Coast. She currently resides in South Los Angeles where she provides legal services to low-income immigrant communities. www.danyelirodriguezdelorbe.com \nThis program will include a wine reception
URL:https://litseen.com/event/undocumented-black-poetics-book-launch-reading/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:After Hours: Super Tuesday with Mark DiCamillo
DESCRIPTION:Wine reception at 6:30pm for registered guests. \nLongtime pollster Mark DiCamillo will discuss the California primary election\nand provide an overview of other elections taking place across the\ncountry on Super Tuesday. Currently Director of the UC Berkeley IGS\nPoll\, DiCamillo last spoke here before the 2016 Presidential election. \nRegistration recommended. Registration opens February 10th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/after-hours-super-tuesday-with-mark-dicamillo/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Richard Wolff: Understanding Socialism
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM and Democracy at Work present: \nRICHARD D. WOLFF\nUnderstanding Socialism\nWith Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores\, $15 door\, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM  info: kpfa.org/events \n“Richard Wolff’s book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is\, was\, and should be.” – Cornel West \nA blend of history\, analysis\, and theory\, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives\, confronts failures and the challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history\, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. The crises of global capitalism (inequality\, instability\, unsustainability\, and incipient fascism) deepen daily. Consider Trump’s and Boris Johnson’s desperate extreme-right efforts to be re-elected\, and consider that total global debts (of corporations\, governments\, and households) tripled between 1999 and 2019. Brazil’s Bolsonaro blames Leonardo di Caprio for burning the Amazon. Vast crowds in Chile\, Lebanon\, and France are in the streets demanding basic economic change. These and many other symptoms expose a declining system in mounting troubles. \n“In the same accessible style that has made his programs and lectures such a hit\, he explains his subject in a way that’s not only smart\, but makes the rest of us feel smart. It’s actionable intelligence for every person.” – Laura Flanders \n“Lucid\, brilliant and uncompromising in his dissection of the capitalist system\, he also provides a sane and just socialist alternative to capitalist exploitation\, one we must all fight to achieve.” – Chris Hedges \nSabrina Jacobs is host and producer of the popular A Rude Awakening\, aired on KPFA Radio Monday afternoons. She covers local breaking news as well as global events\, informing listeners about the latest social injustices. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nhttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4486333  510-967-4495
URL:https://litseen.com/event/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism/
LOCATION:First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley\, 2407 Dana St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
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SUMMARY:Revolution Books 40th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Sahar Delijani\, Rafael Jesus Gonzalez\, Julia Scheeres and Andy Zee to Celebrate Revolution Books 40th Anniversary. \n6pm Reception with wine and light refreshments\n7pm Program & champagne toast \nThis is a celebration – as well as a renewed and urgent call for people to support the bookstore. Right as now we face a moment of stark contrast between our hopes and dreams for a better world and the stark reality that great catastrophe looms as fascist regimes rise\, and as we confront environmental disaster–Revolution Books embodies the potential bright future for humanity. \nYou feel this when you first walk through the door and find the literature\, poetry\, history\, science\, art\, and the revolutionary theory for a radically different world. You experience programs and engagements with us and with each other that percolate with emancipatory possibility. \nRevolution Books is alive with the scientific understanding that a different and better world is possible. RB is the political\, intellectual\, and cultural center of a movement for an actual revolution and that is why it is a unique\, incredible bookstore—a resource for the world. The heart of the store is the framework for unleashing the revolutionary potential of humanity: the breakthrough in scientifically knowing and radically changing the world through revolution\, the new communism developed by Bob Avakian. Avakian emerged from the 60s in Berkeley\, and is a leader who never gave up asking the hard questions of the road forward to human emancipation and developing the path to that future. \nThe store still concentrates and captures what was best in Berkeley in the 60s—the wildness and fury and intellectual\, cultural and scientific daring and rebellion of the times. At RB we seek to foster a culture of revolt against a revolting culture while nurturing art that imagines in the present what a future world and people could be. And at RB people experience and can take up the science of revolution in the extensive body of work of Bob Avakian that shatters demoralized defeatist preconceptions that the misery and spirit crushing world today is all that could be. \nThere is a reason the fascists who come to Berkeley have focused on Revolution Books and attacked it again and again. It has to do with how they hate the Enlightenment—hate critical thinking\, search for the truth; and how they see that revolutionary communism is fundamentally opposed to everything they are about. \nThere is all this and much more to celebrate about Revolution Books—both parts of its name. Join with the staff of Revolution Books and its broader community to make this anniversary\, and the future of this unique place all it needs to be. Keep Revolution Books the vibrant\, daring intellectual center for an actual revolution it must be now more than ever.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/revolution-books-40th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Revolution Books\, 2444 Durant Ave.\, Berkeley\, California\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200216T041119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200216T041119Z
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SUMMARY:MONDAY – A JOURNAL OF POETRY\, PROSE\, AND ART
DESCRIPTION:Launch party and reading event for a legendary underground literary publication founded in 1999 in the back of Covered Wagon Saloon\, San Francisco. \nCONTRIBUTORS READ AND PERFORM WORKS BY:\n\nSuzanne Day\nKenneth MacKillop\nVlad Pogorelov\nJane 69\nEric Robertson\nTim Donnelly\nMorgan Reilly\nMonique Marquisa de Magdalena\nStephen Elliot\nJames A. La Croix\, Jr.\nCleveland Wall\n\n…and others. \nART BY:\n\nDavid Kelley\nNicole Zach\nJesse Redpond\nAimee M. Patten\n\n…and others. \nDOCUMENTARY FILM FOOTAGE SCREENING\nSan Francisco underground spoken word at the turn of the\n21st century by Eddy Falconer. \nRefreshments provided. More information at mondayjournal@yandex.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/monday-a-journal-of-poetry-prose-and-art/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200221T004751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T004751Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special\, A Disobedient Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:February is the month of love and loneliness\, Pisces and Leap Year. But we’re doing our own thing. In honor of all that is wrong in the world\, we’re celebrating DISOBEDIENCE. Tell us about being naughty\, or just plain bad\, about subverting expectations\, talking back\, bucking the system\, civil or marital or animal disobedience\, about saying no. Or yes. Or don’t do any of that. I’m not the boss of you. I’m not even your real mom. \nFebruary featured writers: Yume Kim & Georgina Marie \nBring your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, February 29\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nYume Kim is an alumni of San Francisco State University\, with an MA in English and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is also a Kundiman fellow and has previously attended the Kundiman Asian-American Poetry Retreat during the summer of 2012 at Fordham University. Her recent chapbook\, Reserve the Right\, is now available through Nomadic Press. Additionally some of her works can also be found in the following journals: gesture\, sPARKLE + bLINK\, West Wind Review\, Transfer\, Sugared Water\, Writing Without Walls\, and The East Bay Review. \nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lake County\, Northern California. She was one of three finalists for the 2018-2020 Lake County Poet Laureate term and is in the running for the 2020-2022 term. She is involved in her literary community as a writer\, supporter of writers\, and organizer and participant of poetry events. She has participated in readings in Lake\, Mendocino\, Napa\, Alameda\, and San Francisco counties. In 2019\, she served as editor for RESTORE\, a collection of written word and visual arts for the Middletown Art Center\, was guest editor for author Nicole Gulotta’s online writers support group\, and had an ekphrastic poem in collaboration with Los Angeles artist Richard Chow featured at the Griffin Museum of Phptography in Boston\, Massachusetts. She currently hosts the Harbin Writers Collective at Harbin Hot Springs and aims to continue encouraging and promoting the literary movement in Lake County. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook\, Finding the Roots of Water\, in 2018 and recently completed her second chapbook\, Tree Speak\, in 2019. In 2020 she is working on her full-length manuscript to submit to publishers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-a-disobedient-open-mic/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
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SUMMARY:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Odell\, author of How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, will be in conversation with Art Table’s Jan Wurm. \n“How to Do Nothing is genuinely instructive\, elaborating a practical philosophy to help us slow down and temporarily sidestep the forces aligned against both our mental health and long-term human survival. You can knock the hustle — and you should.”—Akiva Gottlieb\, LOS ANGELES TIMES \n“Approachable and incisive. . . . The book is clearly the work of a socially conscious artist and writer who considers careful attention to the rich variety of the world an antidote to the addictive products and platforms that technology provides. . . . [Odell] sails with capable ease between the Scylla and Charybdis of subjectivity and arid theory with the relatable humanity of her vision.”—Nicholas Cannariato\, THE WASHINGTON POST \n“The sentiment behind How to Do Nothing is one of defiance.”—Casey Schwartz\, THE NEW YORK TIMES
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cafe-society-presents-jenny-odell/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T203000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Cafe Society Presents Jenny Odell on her book How to Do Nothing\, Resisting the Attnetion Economy. Jenny Odell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Oakland whose work mines second-hand imagery to bring into focus culture and economies for a clearer understanding of social structures. The author of How to Do Nothing – Resisting the Attention Economy\, her work has been featured in The Economist\, Wired\, Die Zeit\, and Le Soir. Jenny Odell teaches digital art and physical design at Stanford. \n“An erudite and thoughtful narrative about the importance of interiority and taking time to pay close attention to the spaces around us.”—Annie Vainshtein\, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE \n“An eloquent argument against the cult of efficiency\, and I felt both consoled and invigorated by it.”—Jennifer Szalai\, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jenny-odell-on-how-to-do-nothing/
LOCATION:Kaleidoscope Coffee\, 109 Park Place\, Point Richmond\, California\, 94801\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Cafe Society Presents":MAILTO:cafesociety.richmond@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200229T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200216T012912Z
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SUMMARY:Book Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:Copper Canyon Press presents…\nBook Release Party: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok\nSat Feb 29\, 7pm\nEastSide Cultural Center\n2277 International Blvd. Oakland\n& Bandung Books\n2289 International Blvd. Oakland\nFREE COMMUNITY EVENT • accessible venue \nJoin us for a special evening\, as we celebrate Monica Sok’s debut poetry collection\, A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON. Featuring a traditional blessing dance by Morodok Khmer Performing Arts & readings by poets Safia Elhillo\, Charif Shanahan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, sam sax \, Hieu Minh Nguyen\, and Charleen McClure. After the show\, there will be a book signing next door at Bandung Books. \nABOUT THE BOOK: In this staggering poetry debut\, Monica Sok illuminates the experiences of Cambodian diaspora and reflects on America’s role in escalating the genocide in Cambodia. A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON travels from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap\, where Tuol Sleng and other war museums reshape the imagination of a child of refugees; to New York City and Lancaster\, where the dailiness of intergenerational trauma persists on the subway or among the cornfields of a small hometown. Embracing collective memory\, both real and imagined\, these poems move across time to break familial silence. Sok pieces together voices and fragments—using persona\, myth\, and imagination—in a transformative work that builds towards wholeness. \nLearn more here: https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/ \nABOUT THE AUTHOR: Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the daughter of former refugees. She is the author of A NAIL THE EVENING HANGS ON (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020) and YEAR ZERO\, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, selected by Marilyn Chin. In 2018\, her work was recognized with a “Discovery” Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook\, Elizabeth George Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, Kundiman\, Jerome Foundation\, MacDowell Colony\, Saltonstall Foundation\, and others. Currently\, Sok is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland\, CA. She is originally from Lancaster\, PA. [Photo Credit: Andria Lo] \nVisit her website here: www.monicasok.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-party-a-nail-the-evening-hangs-on-by-monica-sok/
LOCATION:Eastside Cultural Center\, 2277 International Blvd\, Oakland\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T190000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200207T193013Z
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SUMMARY:Fellini Turns 100/ La Natura Morta De La Dolce Vita at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:On the 100th birthday of Federico Fellini\, with celebrations happening all over the world in 2020\, the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco in conjunction with Consulate General of Italy\, Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, and City Lights Booksellers present an evening with Mauro Aprile Zanetti exploring Fellini’s\, La Dolce Vita – A seminal film showcasing a microcosm of modern living. \nSicilian born\, San Francisco-based multidisciplinary published author\, Mauro Aprile Zanetti will discuss his book on Federico Fellini and Giorgio Morandi titled “La Natura Morta de La Dolce Vita – A Mysterious Morandi in the Matrix of Fellini’s Vision (NYC\, 2008)”\, originally illustrated by painter Piero Roccasalvo RUB. \nMore than a half-century after the release of the world renowned and iconic film La Dolce Vita (1960)\, Zanetti reveals for the very first time in the international literature panorama on Fellini’s filmmaking the poetic presence of a still-life painting (natura morta\, vanitas) by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio Morandi. \nWith an interdisciplinary approach\, Zanetti explores Fellini’s enchanted filmmaking to unearth the ultimate art of il Maestro del Cinema’s creation. \nRecognized as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time\, Frederico Fellini developed a distinct style of filmmaking that mixed fantasy with a baroque sensibility and explored the intersection where memory\, dreams\, and sensuality meet. Though not overtly political\, Fellini’s films often made social commentary on the effect of modernity on society. Having worked as an assistant director with Roberto Rossellini (Open City\, Paisan\, and The Flowers of St. Francis). Fellini went on to create an influential body of work that included films like Nights of Cabiria\, La Strada\, La Dolce Vita\, 8 1/2\, and many others. In a career than spanned over 50 year\, Fellini was honored for many of his films. He has received the Palme d’Or\, four Academy Awards\, a lifetime acheivment award from the Academy\, numerous Academy Award nominations\, and many other honors. He has influenced successive generations of filmmakers that include Terry Gilliam\, David Lynch\, Juan Antonio Bardem\, Wojciech Has\, Emir Kusterica\, and many others. \nMore Fellini celebrations: \nCinema Italia San Francisco will organize a one-day retrospective on Fellini showcasing some of his works. Visit: www.cinemaitaliasf.com \nBerkely Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will be presenting a series of lectures and film programs honoring Frederico Fellini in a festival during the month of March 2020. To learn more visit: BAMPFA/Fellini@100 \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fellini-turns-100-la-natura-morta-de-la-dolce-vita-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200301T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200131T185350Z
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SUMMARY:Kimberly Reyes: Running to Stand Still
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Reyes reads from her new book\, Running to Stand Still. Also featuring readings from Jennifer Lewis\, Truong Tran\, and Kar Johnson. \nPraise for Running to Stand Still \n“Rich in literary and pop culture references\, the voice of Running to Stand Still is both specific and wide-ranging. Quotations from artists as disparate as Frank Bidart and The Killers splice and introduce poems. In one section\, Reyes repurposes screenshots of text messages; in another\, partial strikethroughs enable multiple readings. Through this juxtaposing of different forms and language\, Reyes weaves a deeply intimate portrait out of impossibly expansive themes: modern life\, Black womanhood\, family history\, and technology.”— Poets & Writers \n“These poems\, with through lines of gender\, race\, adventure\, desire\, build into a deeply moving provocation of loss and discovery. The brilliance of these poems is their achievement of discomfit as they simultaneously travel distance and move inward. . . . The title of this collection is a promise: how poetry can at once run and stand still\, and why that matters.”— Valerie Wallace\, author of House of McQueen \n“Pinballing between family lore\, social media\, and pop culture discourse\, Reyes deconstructs the casual discourses of contempt her narrators are invited to embrace outside and within blood lines\, however much ‘birthright belonging / is the maim.’ And yet\, betrayed by the human desire to belong (‘To be kept is to / be kept\, and what you wanted’)\, they—she—never quite reach escape velocity: Running to Stand Still is thus the poignant record of an orbit\, both victory and impasse.”— Tyrone Williams\, author of As iZ \nAbout Running to Stand Still \nHistories\, stories\, lyrics\, aspirations\, dreams\, pressures\, and images are spun into a musical tale through a site of convergence: the Black female body. Swarmed by external gazes and narratives\, the inhabitant of this body uses her power to turn down this cacophony of noise and compose a symphonic space for herself. By breaching boundaries of racism\, sexism\, sizeism\, colorism\, and colonialism\, these poems investigate the memories and realities of existing as Black in America. Building from poetic\, journalistic\, and musical histories\, poet and essayist Kimberly Reyes constructs a complex and fantastic narrative in which she negotiates a path to claim her own power.\nThese poems teem with life\, a life rich with many selves and many histories that populate in the voice of Reyes’s poetic narrator. They sway between negotiations of hypervisibility and erasure\, the inevitable and the chosen\, and the perceived and the constructed. Reyes’s poems offer sharp observations and lyrical movement to guide us in a ballad of reconciliation and becoming. \nAbout the Authors \nKimberly Reyes is an award-winning poet\, essayist\, and second-generation New Yorker whose work has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Time.com\, The New York Post\, The Village Voice\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, Jane\, NY1 News\, The Best American Poetry blog\, poets.org\, American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Film Ireland and Columbia Journal\, among other places. She is the author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn\, 2019) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press\, 2018)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills\, 2019) won the 2018 Micheal Rubin Book Award. Kimberly currently lives in Cork as the 2019-2020 Fulbright fellow studying Irish Literature and Film at University College Cork. \nTruong Tran (b. 1969) received his MFA from San Francisco State University in 1995 in the field of writing. He is the author numerous volumes of poetry including the upcoming book 100 Words (Omnidawn) co-authored with Damon Potter. He is a self taught visual artist whose work has been exhibited in venues including the California Historical Society\, California Institute of Integral Studies\, SOMArts Gallery\, Telegraph Hill Gallery\, The San Francisco International Art Market Art Fair\, Avenue 12 Gallery and The Peninsula Museum of Art. He lives in San Francisco and teaches at Mills College. \nKar Johnson is a writer\, performer\, educator\, and bookseller in San Francisco. Their writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Northridge Review\, Foglifter\, and the anthology Love is the Drug and Other Dark Poems. Kar has performed their work for series Red Light Lit\, The Racket\, RADAR\, and many others. They received their MFA from San Francisco State University. \nJennifer Lewis is the editor of Red Light Lit. Her fiction has been published in Cosmonaut’s Avenue\, Eleven Eleven\, Fourteen Hills Press\, Midnight Breakfast\, sPARKLE & bLINK and X-Ray Lit Mag. She received her MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and she teaches at The Writing Salon in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kimberly-reyes-running-to-stand-still/
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=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200214T014039Z
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SUMMARY:DirtyMinds/OpenHearts Open Mic/Spoken word
DESCRIPTION:Dirty Minds/Open Hearts Poetry Society will present an OPEN MIC/SPOKEN WORD event on Monday\, March 2 at 7pm at The Laundry at 3359 26th Street in San Francisco\, CA. \nCross street is Mission street in the Mission District of San Francisco. \nAll musicians\, singers\, Orators\, poets\, Hip Hop\, even magicians\, jugglers\, are welcome to attend. \nFirst timers to Experienced Open Mic are welcome \nSign up is day of event. \nFirst come\, first served. \n22 spots available. \nChoose any number\, one to 22. \n5 minute sessions \n8 minute sessions assigned by the Host. \n15 Feature Performer assigned by the Host. \nStart at 7pm \nNo fee. \nPlease support The Laundry with purchase of beer\, wine\, soda. \nHost: Mose Betta \nContact: \n415 483 6905 \nEmail: dirtyminds0penhearts@gmail.com \nContact me at other Open Mic events such as Bird /Beckett\, Sacred Grounds\, Cafe Bazzaar.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dirtyminds-openhearts-open-mic-spoken-word/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200302T213000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200126T012514Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning @ Old Devil Moon
DESCRIPTION:March 2 @ Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St. @ Cortland\, 7pm\n\n\n\nGustavo Barahona-López\nJyoti Arvey\nNicole Henares\nJennifer Lewis\nKai Sugioka-Stone\nEmilie Osborn\nKeith Mark Gaboury\nMatt Leibel\nZephir O’Meara \nClyde Always\nJon Bennett\nKimi Sugioka\nDanielle Truppi\nTammy Zo Pollard\nPeter Bullen\nEmily Bornhop\nSerena Chan\nKelly Gray\nMackenzie Studebaker \n\n\n\nCurated by Sean Taylor & Jason Whitacre \nAdmission is a suggested $15 donation\, with all proceeds directly benefiting Bay Area artists. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds. sPARKLE & bLINK featuring cover art by Claire Rabkin for the first 100 people! \n\nfrom Tools for the Exchange of Force by Claire Rabkin\n\n\nThe Children’s Book Project will be at our show! The Children’s Book Project is a non-profit that takes books without children and gives them to children without books. With 138\,600 free books given to children in the San Francisco Bay Area last year\, the Children’s Book Project anticipates giving away its 3 millionth book this spring. Bring a new or gently-used children’s book to support equity in literacy\, learning\, and life!\n\n\nTickets / RVSP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-old-devil-moon/
LOCATION:Old Devil Moon\, 3472 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200131T203356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T203356Z
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SUMMARY:Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Lemony Snicket and Radio Silence. Bring a book to read to yourself in silence. Drinks and light snacks will be available. There is no admission cost and no reservations necessary. Proceeds from drink sales will benefit James Lick Middle School and Paul Revere Elementary\, public schools in San Francisco. \nSign up to receive emails about upcoming Silent Reading Parties here. \nSee you there\, readers!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/silent-reading-party-5/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T220000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200216T054328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T201157Z
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: MONUMENTAL
DESCRIPTION:~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, March 3 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities. Find out more> \n___ \nODD SALON: Stories from the odd corners of history\, science\, art\, and adventure. \n\nWHAT: Six storytellers bring strange-but-true stories from history\, science\, art and adventure\, to the stage\, over cocktails.\nWHAT KINDS OF STORIES: Badasses and crackpots\, history’s worst ideas and most interesting eccentrics\, things that exploded\, heists\, hoaxes\, hidden treasures\, epic explorations and upsetting animal facts. For example.\nWHO: Experts and amateurs\, scientists and poets\, musicians and medievalists\, artists\, tech workers\, baristas\, and you. Each salon features selected speakers from an open call for submissions. Join us!\nWHERE: Public Works\, on Erie Street – one block from the 16th and Mission BART stop.\nWHEN: We open the doors for cocktails and conversations at 6:30; talks begin at 7:30. Get there early if you want to nab a seat.\nWHY: San Francisco deserves weird\, independent events\, and real world gatherings in this increasingly digital age.\nHOW: Against many odds.\nSNACKS? Yes! Pop-up food vendors serve snacks during the pre-salon cocktail hour.\nDRINKS? But of course.\nOTHER QUESTIONS? Drop us a line>\n\nOdd Salon is a fiscally sponsored project of the InterCulture Foundation\, a 501c3 non-profit organization. \nwww.oddsalon.com | San Francisco Events Mailing List | Facebook | Twitter| |Instagram
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-monumental/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-2/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
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CREATED:20200203T223944Z
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SUMMARY:Joseph Lease and Hank Lazer Reading
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include The Body Ghost (Coffee House Press\, 2018)\, Testify (Coffee House Press\, 2011)\, and Broken World (Coffee House Press\, 2007). Lease’s poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” were anthologized in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology. Lease’s poem “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” was anthologized in The Best American Poetry (Robert Creeley\, Guest Editor). His poem “Free Again (Why don’t people)” was published in The New York Times. \nMarjorie Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken World are as cool as they are passionate\, as soft-spoken as they are indignant\, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained . . . Lease has complete command of his poetic materials. His poems are spellbinding in their terse and ironic authority: Yes\, the reader feels when s/he has finished\, this is how it was—and how it is. An exquisite collection!” \nOf The Body Ghost\, David Shapiro wrote: “When I was very young\, my father a ‘skin doctor’ would show gleaming models of body parts at medical fairs. They frightened my sisters but they were also illuminations of a whole world. Joseph’s poems are like\nthese terrifying wholes/holes. They travel into us. Joseph has been making an American Buddhist poetry\, and he is as maximalist as flesh and bone. He gives me the sensation that poetry is in gleaming hands\, healing and grasping and letting go. He is the future of poetry.” \nLease’s poetry is also collected at PennSound\, The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University\, KQED (NPR)\, The Scottish Poetry Library\, The Poetry Project\, Bay Poetics\, The AGNI 35th Anniversary Poetry Anthology\, Litscapes 2015\, The Colorado Review\, The Denver Quarterly\, New American Writing\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Interim\, and elsewhere. Lease has been asked to read at numerous colleges and universities. He has received The Academy of American Poets Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University\, Brown University\, Harvard University\, and California College of the Arts. Lease is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts. \nHank Lazer has published twenty-four books of poetry\, including Poems Hidden in Plain View (2016\, in English and in French)\, Brush Mind: At Hand (2016)\, N24 (2014) and N18 (2012)\, Portions (2009)\, The New Spirit (2005)\, Elegies & Vacations (2004)\, and Days (2002). Selected Poems and Essays of Hank Lazer\, completed by a group of translators\, was published by Central China Normal University Press in 2015. Lazer’s Selected Poems have also been published in Italy and will be appearing shortly in Cuba (including 11 tracks for jazz-poetry improvisations with soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar). Readings and interviews can be accessed through PennSound\, as well as in special issues of Plume (#34) and Talisman (#42). In 2015\, Lazer received Alabama’s most prestigious literary prize\, the Harper Lee Award\, for lifetime achievement in literature. His books of criticism include Opposing Poetries (two volumes\, 1996) and Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 (2008). With Charles Bernstein\, he edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lazer retired from the University of Alabama in January 2014 from his positions as Associate Provost for Academic Affairs\, Executive Director of Creative Campus\, and Professor of English
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-lease-and-hank-lazer-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200303T210000
DTSTAMP:20260412T035641
CREATED:20200126T013958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200221T201443Z
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SUMMARY:Opening celebration of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network Center\, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen\, Thi Bui\, and others tba
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special Tuesday evening event celebrating the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network—directed by Isabelle Pelaud\, writer and professor of Asian American Studies at SF State. Special guests will be DVAN co-founder and Pulitzer Prize novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen\, and Thi Bui\, author of the celebrated graphic ‘novel’ The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir. They will be joined by Isabelle Pelaud (in conversation with DVAN co-founder Viet Thanh Nguyen)\, She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan and Julie Thi Underhill\, and by Danny Nguyen—with emcee Philip Nguyen. \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts\, this event is co-sponsored by DVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE\, and is free and open to the public.\n“Refugee to Detainee” presentation: Thi Bui (author of The Best We Could Do) \nDiscussion with DVAN co-directors: Viet Thanh Nguyen (Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathiser) & Isabelle Thuy Pelaud (Professor in Asian American Studies) \nPoetry reading: She Who Has No Master(s) with Lan Duong\, Aimee Phan\, and Julie Thi Underhill \nA musical essay: Danny Nguyen \nEmcee: Philip Nguyen \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nDVAN: Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network \nLiving in Dreams: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud In Conversation with Vi Khi Nao (Feb. 7\, 2019) \nThi Bui with Lauren Markham\, One City One Book interview at the San Francisco Public Library (video\, posted Oct 29\, 2018) \nPaul Beatty in Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen (Fall 2017) \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\nDVAN\, The Poetry Center\, Vietnamese Students Association\, SFSU Department of Asian American Studies\, College of Ethnic Studies\, and ASPIRE
URL:https://litseen.com/event/opening-celebration-of-the-diasporic-vietnamese-artists-network-center-featuring-viet-thanh-nguyen-thi-bui-and-others-tba/
LOCATION:Jack Adams Hall\, César Chavez Student Center\, SFSU\, SFSU\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T200000
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CREATED:20200126T010920Z
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Magdalena Zurawski
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-magdalena-zurawski/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T200000
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SUMMARY:Fred Moten: Approaching Buenaventura
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Fred Moten in reflection and dialogue on his most recent journey towards Buenaventura\, navigating the deep affinities and differences between Black and Indigenous radical struggle in Colombia and the United States. \n“The problem of our “relations” to institutions will surely arise but outside the framework of normal understandings of equity and inclusion and by way of a radicalization of the notion of diversity.” —Dr. Fred Moten \nFred Moten studies the black radical tradition. He works collaboratively with Stefano Harney\, Laura Harris\, Wu Tsang\, Manolo Callahan and many others. His latest book is all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions\, 2019). He teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. \nMATATU artist and percussionist Marshall R. Trammell performs at 6:30pm to open the space\, followed by the talk and response. Audience participation guides the course of the conversation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fred-moten-approaching-buenaventura/
LOCATION:African American Museum and Library\, 659 14th St.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T190000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Launch for Lisa Brown / The Phantom Twin\, with Wendy Macnaughton
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts our favorite illustrator\, Lisa Brown\, for her new book The Phantom Twin. She’ll be in conversation with Wendy Macnaughton. Please join us! \nA young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin in Lisa Brown’s The Phantom Twin\, a sweetly spooky graphic novel set in a turn-of-the-century sideshow. Isabel and Jane are the Extraordinary Peabody Sisters\, conjoined twins in a traveling carnival freak show—until an ambitious surgeon tries to separate them and fails\, causing Jane’s death. Isabel has lost an arm and a leg but gained a ghostly companion: Her dead twin is now her phantom limb. Haunted\, altered\, and alone for the first time\, can Isabel build a new life that’s truly her own? \n\nLisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator\, author\, and cartoonist. Her work includes a slew of illustrated books including Goldfish Ghost by Lemony Snicket; The Airport Book\, Picture the Dead with Adele Griffin; and Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert. For adults\, Long Story Short is a collection of comic strips about classic novels. She lives in San Francisco and teaches in the illustration department of the California College of the Art. \nWendy Macnaughton is a NYT best-selling illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. Her books include Meanwhile in San Francisco\, The City in its Own Words\, Lost Cat: A True Story of Love\, Desperation\, and GPS Technology\, Pen and Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them\, Knives & Ink: Chefs and The Stories Behind Their Tattoos\, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert\, The Essential Scratch & Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All and the forthcoming Leave Me Alone with the Recipes\, The Life\, Art and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles. Wendy is the back page columnist for California Sunday Magazine\, and co-founder of  Women Who Draw. Before all that stuff\, she studied art and social work\, worked as a copywriter in advertising\, a campaign director for non-profits\, a bookseller in a used bookstore\, and a counselor on a suicide hotline. She also created the national campaign for the first democratic elections in Rwanda\, health education materials for nomadic tribes in Northern Kenya\, and a short film in Eastern Congo. She lives in Potrero Hill with her partner (and frequent collaborator) the writer Caroline Paul\, two cats and a dog. \n\nThis event is free and all ages. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Phantom Twin\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-launch-for-lisa-brown-the-phantom-twin-with-wendy-macnaughton/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T203000
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SUMMARY:Javad Djavahery
DESCRIPTION:The Cultural Services of the Consul General of France in conjunction with Restless Books and City Lights Booksellers present \nJavad Djavahery \nreading from his new novel \nMy Part of Her \ntranslated by Emma Ramadan\, published by Restless Books \nFor our unnamed confessor\, the summer months spent on the Caspian Sea during the 1970s are a magically transformative experience. There\, he is not the “poor relative from the North\,” but a welcome guest at his wealthy cousin Nilou’s home and the gatekeeper of her affections. He revels in the power of orchestrating the attentions of her many admirers\, granting and denying access to her would-be lovers. But in a moment of jealousy and youthful bravado\, he betrays and humiliates an unlikely suitor\, setting into motion a series of events that will have drastic repercussions for all of them as the country is forever transformed by the Iranian Revolution a few short years later.\nOver the next twenty years\, the lingering effects of that betrayal set the friends on radically different paths in the wake of political\, religious\, and cultural upheaval. Their surprising final reunion reveals the consequences of revenge and self-preservation as they each must decide whether and how to forget the past. Urgent and gorgeously written\, My Part of Her captures the innocence of youth\, the folly of love\, and the capriciousness of fate as these friends find themselves on opposing sides of the seismic rifts of history. \nIranian novelist and short story writer\, Javad Djavahery currently resides in Paris after being forced to flee Iran and claim refuge in France at the age of 20. For many years he lived as a political refugee\, waiting to return to his home country. During these years\, he owned nothing more than what could fit in a suitcase. When asked where he’s from\, Javad responds by saying that he was born once in Iran\, and then a second time at the age of 20 in Rennes\, his adoptive city. He have not returned to Iran since his departure\, which allows him “to preserve in my memory images of a country that no longer exists.” Shifting between literature and film\, he has produced many films and co-written numerous screenplays including Red Rose (directed by Sepideh Farsi). A bilingual author\, he has two short story collections in Persian. His first novel Soupir de l’Ange was published by Éditions de l’Aube. His second novel\, Ma part d’elle (My Part of Her) was published in 2017 by Gallimard. \nEmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence\, RI where she is the co-owner of Riffraff\, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of an NEA Translation Fellowship\, a PEN/Heim grant\, and a Fulbright scholarship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javad-djavahery/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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