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InsideStorytime ATTRACTORS
2017-12-07 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | Martuni’s, 4 Valencia St, San Francisco , CA, 94103, United States
Will feature readings from: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun),
Raina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge),
Janine Kovac (Spinning),
Andrew J. Thomas (Strangeland),
and Sam Gong.

Sam Sax + D.A. Powell
2017-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
celebrating the release of Sam Sax’s new poetry collection
MADNESS
published by Penguin Books
An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition
In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
sam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, The MacDowell Colony, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry, and other journals.

D. A. Powell is the author of four previous collections of poetry, the trilogy of Tea, Lunch, and Cocktails, and Chronic, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His last two books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the English department at University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.

Collectivity, Intersectionality & Possibility: A Night of Poetry
2017-12-07 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Nomadic Press, 2926 Foothill Blvd, Oakland , CA, 94601, United States
Join us at Nomadic Press for a night of poetry, book readings and conversation on the themes of collectivity, intersectionality and possibility. We will be considering the role and experience of the individual in the collective; what intersectionality can mean for us today; and where we can possibly go from here.
How is the inflection of gender, race, class, sexuality and religion relevant to our feminisms and resistance efforts?
What does it mean to represent? Can anyone? Should anyone? Who never gets a chance?
There will be readings from an unpublished anthology of essays by women of color including Odelia Younge and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, as well as poetry, prose and conversation with Amber Butts.
Bring energy, critique, questions and good vibes. Its sure to be an enriching night.
Information about the performers:
Delia Younge is a San Francisco-based educator, writer, researcher, spiritualist, and builder residing in San Francisco. Her research focuses on black male youth identity, transgressions, and resistance, within spatial theory, critical youth studies, and radical black feminist theory. Her previous work has focused on black women collectives and historical memory. She believes that knowing is about forgetting what you have been taught to be true, and building anew. She is driven by the principle of doing well by those she loves and for who her research speaks to and helps provide a platform for. Delia is an editor at Blaqueerflow and many of her writings can be found on her personal blog on journeys, love and the durability of faith at www.footprintsinair.wordpress.com.
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a Muslim writer and spoken-word poet from Britain. She is interested in race, gender, Islamophobia, the construction of Muslims in Britain, intersectional feminism and knowledge production. She writes on these topics at her popular blog: www.thebrownhijabi.comand in her poetry which can be found on YouTube.
Amber Butts is a writer, educator and tenants rights organizer from Oakland, CA. Her work has appeared in Blaqueerflow, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Radio and 6×8 Press. She is currently at work on an afro-futurist novel focused on themes of intergenerational trauma, imagination, Black survival and environmental racism. Amber’s writing challenges multiple systems of oppression through the use of queer and womanist frameworks. She works to amplify the stories of poor Black folks, with an emphasis on mamas, children and elders. She believes in asking big and small questions that lead to tangible expressions of freedom and liberation.
Proverbs, a New York City native, is a preacher, poet, educator, and Emmy-award-winning media producer. She is passionate about ending male sexual violence against women and children, the arts, and being Black af. Proverbs lives and loves in Oakland with her hubby, Brandon, and can be found on the media of social: Lyvonne Proverbs Picou

The Nocturnists Holiday Party Fundraiser
2017-12-08 08:00 - 19:00 UTC | The Bindery, 1727 Haight St, San Francisco , 94117, United States
The Nocturnists is a night of physicians telling stories about their most memorable, moving, humorous, absurd, and trying experiences. For more information, read about us here.
We have great plans for 2018, but in order to make them a reality, we need your continued support! So please join us for a festive holiday party on the evening of Friday, December 8th at The Bindery, an intimate literary enclave in The Haight. We’ll have drinks, finger food, music, a live Q&A with emergency medicine physician and writer Ben Lerman, PLUS you’ll get an exclusive first listen to our upcoming podcast.
RSVP here.

Karen + Jim Shepard
2017-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94122, United States
Karen and Jim Shepard discuss their new books from Tin House, The Tunnel at the End of the Light and Kiss Me Someone.
About Kiss Me Someone
Bold and unapologetic, Karen Shepard’s Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex, but for all of their rationality they’re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard’s stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters, fiercely true to themselves, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it’s exactly where they belong.
About The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Given that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe, for example, that our country always means well when intervening abroad? The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions, in that regard, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness” captured in GoodFellas, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a “portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders’ conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge,” he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films–Chinatown, The Third Man, and Badlands among others–in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.

Paseo Artístico - How Do You Carry Home With You?
2017-12-09 11:00 - 18:00 UTC | Latino Cultural District, 24th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Join us for a FREE neighborhood celebration that will bring an eclectic mix of music, entertainment and art activities at venues along the 24th Street corridor.
— DECEMBER 9 EVENT SCHEDULE —
Precita Eyes Muralists | 2981 24th Street
11 AM to 12:30 PM
BILINGUAL GUIDED MURAL TOUR
– Trace decades of visual storytelling on our bilingual guided mural tour through the 24th Street Corridor.
Colibri | 2919 24th St
1 PM to 4 PM
BROWN SANTA CLAUS
-With your family or friends, take a picture with Brown Santa!
Alley Cat Books | 3036 24th Street
1 PM to 3 PM
LIVE SCREEN PRINTING
– A live screen printing workshop and demonstration lead by renowned Mission printmaker Calixto Robles.
Book Mobile
1 PM to 4 PM
FREE BOOKS
– The San Francisco Public Libraries Book Mobile will be accessible to the neighborhood and will be providing free books.
Galería de la Raza |2857 24th St
3 PM to 5 PM
SCREEN PRINTING & POETRY READINGS
-Suavecita Press
– QR Hand
– Thea Matthews
– Rene Vaz
– Joyce Lee
Brava for Women in the Arts | 2781 24th Street
2 PM to 4 PM
LATINX POETRY READINGS
– Juliana Lopera
– Cathie Arrellano
– Maya Chincilla
– Denise Benevides
Dance Brigade’s Dance Mission | 3316 24th Street
4:30 PM to 6 PM
CENTRAL AMERICAN FOLKLÓRICO DANCE CLASS
– Chavalos de Aquí y Alla’s folklórico dance group, Danzas por Nicaragua and dance director, Diana Aburto will be teaching the basics of folkloric dance, a preview of the main regional dances from Nicaragua and dances from the pacific and Atlantic coast. Folkloric dance skirts will be provided to participants.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 2868 Mission Street
12 PM to 3 PM
ART EXHIBIT & STENCIL MURAL WORKSHOP
– EXHIBIT: Xanath Mirell
– Otomí Stencil mural workshop
– Screening of: Boy and The World
Acción Latina | 2958 24th St
1 PM to 3 PM
– Free public reading and presentation by author Adriana Camarena of the first two issues of “Unsettled in the Mission.”
4 PM
-Screening of: Your Name
Artillery AG | 2751 Mission Street
1PM to 5PM
MURAL WORKSHOP & LIVE MUSIC
-1PM-3PM Mural Workshop
-3PM Dj Leydis de Cuba
-3:30PM Chhoti Maa from Mexico
– 4PM Bocafloja from Mexico
—
THANK YOU TO OUR 24TH STREET / MISSION DISTRICT PARTNERS, SPONSORS, MERCHANTS, AND SUPPORTERS!

Writers With Drinks December
2017-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit)
Dean Rader (Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry)
David D. Levine (Arabella and the Battle of Venus)

Scholes, Loory, + Bisson
2017-12-10 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | American Bookbinders Museum, 355 Clementina St, San Francisco , CA, 94103, United States
Join us on Sunday, December 10, for a lively evening of reading and discussion with authors Ken Scholes and Ben Loory, moderated by Bay Area author, editor, and raconteur Terry Bisson.
Ken Scholes is the author of five novels and over fifty short stories. His series, The Psalms of Isaak, is published by Tor Books; Hymn, the final volume in the series, debuts on December 5. Ken’s short fiction has been collected in three volumes published by Fairwood Press. Ken is a winner of the Writers of the Future Award, France’s Prix Imaginales, the Endeavour Award and a scattering of others. His eclectic background includes time spent as a label gun repairman, a sailor who never sailed, a soldier who commanded a desk, a preacher (he got better), a nonprofit executive, a musician and a government procurement analyst. He has a degree in History from Western Washington University.
Ben Loory is the author of the collections Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day and Tales of Falling and Flying, as well as a picture book for children, The Baseball Player and the Walrus. His fables and tales have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, READ Magazine, and Fairy Tale Review, been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts, and performed live at WordTheatre in Los Angeles and London. He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is an Instructor for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
For over a decade SF in SF has offered readings, films, and special events in the Bay Area for readers of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Hosted by Terry Bisson, past guests have included Connie Willis, Gene Wolfe, Laurie King, Nancy Kress, Lev Grossman, Patrick Rothfuss, Gail Carriger, Cory Doctorow, Peter S. Beagle, and many others. We hope you will join us!
$10 at the door (no one is turned away for lack of funds). As always, Borderlands Books will be on hand with copies of both authors’ work.

A Dyke, a Pervert, + a Transwoman Walk into a Bookstore...
2017-12-11 19:00 - 20:00 UTC | Dog Eared Books Castro, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco , CA, 94114, United States
Authors Deb Busman, Jordy Jones, and Natasha Dennerstein read from their recent works.

Red Wheelbarrow 2017
2017-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Works/San José, 365 S Market St, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Doors open at 6:30pm and performance begins at 7:00pm.
Free appetizers and affordable wine, beer and soda.
Issues of the new Red Wheelbarrow 2017 available for sale.
Admission: $2 Suggested Donation; No one turned away.
Featured readers from the new issue of Red Wheelbarrow and from the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize will include:
Len Anderson
Rose Black
Dave Denny
Alex Giardino
Rosie King
Lita Kurth
Peter Nash
Dion O’Reilly
Lisa Allen Ortiz
McTate Stroman II
David Allen Sullivan
Aimee Suzara
Robert Sward
Cynthia White
In celebration of the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize:
Partridge Boswell, from Vermont
Gary Young
Lauren Goldstein, from New Mexico
Susan Kelly-Dewitt

Matthew McIntosh
2017-12-13 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | City Lights Bookstore, 261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94133, United States
celebrating the release of
theMystery.doc
published by Grove Press
Funny, highly inventive, and deeply moving, theMystery.doc is a vast, shape-shifting literary novel that reads like a page-turner. It’s a comedy, a tragedy, a big book about America. It’s unlike anything you’ve read before. Rooted in the western United States in the decade post-9/11, the book follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel, searching for a form that will express the world as it has become, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning without any memory of who he is, his only clue a single blank document on his computer called themystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy, first love to artificial intelligence, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell, the memories we hold on to, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story, part memoir, part documentary, part existential whodunit, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.

Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
2017-12-14 18:30 - 21:00, 2018-01-11 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz.
This month’s readers TBD.

Why There Are Words Presents "Identity"
2017-12-14 19:00 - 21:30 UTC | Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito, 94965
Join Why There Are Words for its last event of 2017 when the following acclaimed authors will read from their works on the theme of “Identity.” Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. There is a $10 cover charge at the door. Cash bar.
Susan Kolodny’s latest book is Preserve, just out from Finishing LIne Press. visit susankolodny.com
Kirk Landers‘ latest is the novel Alone on the Shield. Visit www.kirklanders.com
Richard Levine‘s most recent book is the short story collection, The Man Who Gave Away His Organs: Tales of Love and Obsession at Midlife. Visit www.richardmichaellevine.com/
Calder Lorenz is the author of One Way Down (Or Another), his debut novel from Civil Coping Mechanisms (February, 2017).Visit calderlorenz.com
Lily Iona MacKenzie‘s latest is the novel Curva Peligrosa (Regal House Publishing, September 2017). Visit lilyionamackenzie.wordpress.com.
Tamer S. Mostafa‘s work has appeared in over twenty various journals and magazines such as Confrontation, Monday Night Lit, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, among others.
Christine No is an Oakland based poet, essayist and producer. You can find her work in: The Rumpus, Columbia Journal, Story Online, and more. Visit christineno.com
Anastacia-Renee is a queer writer of color, performance artist, creative writing workshop facilitator, and activist. Her lastest books are Forget It (Black Radish Books) and (v.).
Why There Are Words is part of WTAW Press, a 501(c)3 nonprofit. For more info see www.whytherearewords.com and www.wtawpress.org. Peg Alford Pursell is the founder and director of the national reading series and of the press. Visit www.pegalfordpursell.com.

Bawdy Storytelling's 'Gifted'
2017-12-14 20:00 - 22:30 UTC | Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa St, San Francisco , CA, 94110, United States
Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa, San Francisco, CA)
No refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change.
Doors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm.
Come early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7:15 PM

Tickets: $30 reserved premium seating, $20 advance general admission.
This Evening of Kinky Stories & Songs includes:

❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour
❤ YOU? Pitch your story to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com
❤ Brillliantly Sex Songs by Shirley Gnome
❤ Play Bang-O & WIN Prizes, just for talking to sexy strangers
❤ Reserved Seating puts you right up front – grab em in advance
❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #ItsOK #PublicLibationIsLegal
About Bawdy Storytelling:
Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors, Porn Stars, Sex Educators, Comics & More, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.

THERE 19
2017-12-15 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Octopus Literary Salon, 2101 Webster St #170, Oakland , CA, 94612, United States
Friday, December 15, 2017 – featuring award-winning, best-selling local author Tom Barbash, the very funny Pamela Weymouth, searing memoirist Dr. Vanessa Grubbs, and musical guests TBA.
THERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!

A Very Special Merry Mortal You're Going to Die
2017-12-15 19:00 - 23:00 UTC | Swedish American Hall, 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114, United States
A Very Special Merry Mortal
You’re Going to Die: Poetry, Prose & Everything Goes…
FEATURING JOHN ELLIOTT
& his new album…
An open mike & concert…
Friday, December 15th!!!
At the Swedish American Music Hall!
Doors at 7pm
Show at 8pm
Tickets $15

Red Light Lit Holiday Show
2017-12-16 19:30 - 22:30 UTC | The Lost Church, 65 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Red Light Lit’s Holiday Show emceed by Jenn Stokes, comedy by Emily Van Dyke, musical guest Laura Weinbach, and readings from Peter ThomasBullen, JiaJing Liu, Kimmer Pierce and Kimberly Reyes alongside a live score by David Williams and piano by accompaniment Sarah Dineen – Private Parlor Show at The Lost Church.
Doors at 7:30pm
Show at 8:15pm
Tickets at https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1595636
$15 before and $20 day of show online and at the door.
Private Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers.
Seating is first come, first served. We 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.
Online sales are active until 9:30pm the night of show (unless sold out). You can purchase tickets right at the door using a card via your phone and the above Ticketfly.com link. Old-fashioned cash is also accepted.
Ages 12 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events).

Poets Kim Shuck (SF Poet Laureate) & Jerry Ferraz - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic every first & third Monday
2017-12-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Bay Area Generations #52
2017-12-18 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | The Bellevue Club, 525 Bellevue Drive, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
*Free off street parking in garage
* Full bar and refreshments
* On major transit lines
6:30 pm – Writers Mixer at the bar
7:00 pm – Doors open to Public
7:30 pm – Show Starts
Suggested Donation
$7.00 (admission)
$10.00 (admission + souvenir chapbook)
No one turned away for lack of funds

POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
2018-01-01 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Why There Are Words Celebrates 8 Years in Sausalito
2018-01-11 19:00 - 22:00 UTC | Studio 333, 333 Caledonia Street, Sausalito , CA, 94965, United States
Join Why There Are Words in Sausalito to celebrate 8 years of live author readings on January 11, 2018 at Studio 333 (333 Caledonia St.) Featured readers are Rob Davidson, Lynn Freed, Jared Joseph Harvey, Shawna Kay Rodenberg, Colin Winnette, and Rebecca Winterer. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. Peg Alford Pursell will emcee.

Writers With Drinks
2018-01-13 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd St, San Francisco, CA, 94110, United States
Rob Reid (After On, Year Zero)
Frances Stroh (Beer Money)
Brontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down)
Cost: $5 to $20, no-one turned away
All proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.
At The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St., San Francisco CA, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM.

Stephen Kopel and Clyde Always - POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
2018-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Martha Ronk + Brian Turner
2018-01-18 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Falkirk Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave, San Rafael , CA, 94901, United States
Martha Ronk is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Ocular Proof, Omnidawn, 2016, Transfer of Qualities, Omnidawn, long-listed for the National Poetry Award, Partially Kept, published by Nightboat Books, Vertigo, a National Poetry Series selection published by Coffee House Press, In a landscape of having to repeat, a PEN USA best poetry book published by Omnidawn Press, and Why/Why Not from UC Press. She has also published a quasi-memoir, Displeasures of the Table, from Green Integer, and a collection of stories, Glass Grapes and Other Stories, BOA Editions. She has had several residencies at Djerassi and MacDowell, is an NEA recipient, and is the Irma and Jay Price Emeritus Professor of English at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Brian Turner is a poet and memoirist who served seven years in the US Army. He is the author of two poetry collections, Phantom Noise and Here, Bullet, which won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award, the New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, the 2006 PEN Center USA “Best in the West” award, the 2007 Poets Prize, and others. Turner’s work has been published in National Geographic, The New York Times, Poetry Daily, Harper’s Magazine, and other fine journals. Turner has been awarded a United States Artists Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, and more. His recent memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, has been called, “achingly, disturbingly, shockingly beautiful.”

Maggie Nelson
2018-01-19 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Nourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
“Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation. . .” The Guardian
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, and The Argonauts– “a beautiful, passionate and shatteringly intelligent meditation on what it means not to accept binaries but to improvise an individual life that says, without fear, yes, and.”—Chicago Tribune. Nelson is also the author of four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles where she teaches at the University of Southern California.

Daniel Alarcón
2018-01-23 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Nourse Theatre, 275 Hayes Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117, United States
Daniel Alarcón is the author of At Night We Walk in Circles, which was a finalist for the 2014 Pen-Faulkner Award, as well as the story collection War by Candlelight, the novel Lost City Radio, and the graphic novel City of Clowns. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, n+1, and Harpers, and he was named one of the New Yorker’s “20 Under 40.” He is Executive Producer of “Radio Ambulante,” distributed by NPR, and is an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.

phren-Z, Live Reading
2018-01-25 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz , CA, 95060, United States
Join Santa Cruz’s online literary magazine phren-Z who will host local writers as they read their new and recent work. Reading authors will be announced soon. Refreshments will be served!
phren-Z is a quarterly online literary magazine dedicated to showcasing Santa Cruz writers. phren-Z is a publication of Santa Cruz Writes, a grass roots organization dedicated to promoting the local literary community. Santa Cruz Writes is a sponsored project of the William James Association, a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Visit www.phren-z.org for more information.

Flash Fiction Forum
2018-01-28 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | Works Gallery, 364 S. Market St., San Jose, CA, 95113, United States

David Henderson
2018-01-28 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco , CA, 94132, United States
David Henderson makes a rare appearance in San Francisco to read his poetry and talk with the audience, returning from his longtime home on New York’s Lower East Side. Free.

Henderson became connected to the Black Arts Movement through the Umbra Workshop, where he served as an editor its magazine and the three Umbra anthologies. His best-known books of poetry are De Mayor of Harlem (1970) and Neo-California (1998), and he has read a selection of his poetry for the permanent archives of the Library of Congress.
The author of the lyrics to Sun Ra’s composition Love in Outer Space,Henderson has also recorded with saxophonists and composers Ornette Coleman (Science Fiction) and David Murray and the cornetist and composer Butch Morris. Henderson is the author of ’Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child (2009), and the writer and producer of an award-winning documentary on African American beat poet Bob Kaufman for National Public Radio and the Pacifica Foundation.
Recent publications include prose and poetry in the anthologies Beats at Naropa (2009), Obama, Obama (2012), Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry (2013) and Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics (2014). A poet-in-residence at the City College of New York, Henderson has taught in its SEEK program and has been a visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley; University of California, San Diego; State University of New York, Stony Brook; and Wesleyan University. Most recently he became the first fellow of lost and found at the Poetics Document Initiative at City University of New York’s Center for the Humanities.
