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SUMMARY:Andrew McAfee
DESCRIPTION:Andrew McAfee\, an MIT scientist and bestselling author\, studies how modern digital technologies are reshaping our world. \n  \nTickets will go on sale one month before the Seminar; you can follow Long Now on Twitter\, Facebook and through our blog for updates on our live events\, podcasts and videos on long-term thinking.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andrew-mcafee/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Love in the Time of Piñatas
DESCRIPTION:Written and Performed by Baruch Porras Hernandez\nDirected by Richard A. Mosqueda \nYou’ve been invited! Join the writer\, comedian\, and solo performer Baruch Porras Hernandez as he breaks open his life and lets all the candy fall out. Watch him wrestle with immigrant guilt\, make out with it a little\, and transform it into a wickedly funny and moving show that asks\, “what’s at the end of the Mexican immigrant road?” Baruch hopes it’s donuts. \nGrab your and party hat and get ready to chill with horny Piñatas\, hear stories about sex parties\, and hang out with the ghost of Frida Kahlo in a show that pushes past the stereotypes to bring you a unique story of a Queer Latino and his family struggling to thrive in America. \nThis show contains Adult Content and Partial Nudity. Intended for Mature Audiences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/love-in-the-time-of-pinatas/
LOCATION:Z Below\, 470 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree (Doubleday) is an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Buzzfeed\, Nylon\, and Guernica\, among others. Rojas Contreras has received awards and fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, VONA\, Hedgebrook\, The Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. She teaches writing at the University of San Francisco\, and is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds. \nBecause the reading immediately follows a class\, we kindly ask that attendees arrive as close to the 5 pm start time as possible\, but not before.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras/
LOCATION:Writing Studio @ CCA\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191119T210000
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SUMMARY:Savannah Shange
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nProgressive Dystopia: Abolition\, Antiblackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco \nfrom Duke University Press \nSan Francisco is the endgame of gentrification\, where racialized displacement means that the Black population of the city hovers just over 3 percent. The “Robeson Justice Academy” opened to serve the few remaining low-income neighborhoods of the city\, with the mission of offering liberatory\, social justice–themed education to youth of color. While it features a progressive curriculum where students read Frantz Fanon and Audre Lorde\, the majority Latinx school also has the district’s highest suspension rates for Black students. In Progressive Dystopia Savannah Shange explores the potential for reconciling the school’s marginalization of Black students with its sincere pursuit of multiracial uplift and solidarity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and six years of experience teaching at the school\, Shange outlines how the school fails its students and the community because it operates within a space predicated on antiblackness. Seeing San Francisco as a social laboratory for how Black communities survive the end of their worlds\, Shange argues for abolition over either revolution or progressive reform as the needed path toward Black freedom. \nSavannah Shange is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and principal faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nWhat has been said about Progressive Dystopia: \n\n\n“By locating the everyday mechanisms of the neoliberal state in a progressive school in San Francisco\, Savannah Shange brings the lived experiences of social actors often only talked about as ‘black and brown bodies’ into discussions of the afterlife of slavery. And in so doing\, she reveals the fissures in Afropessimism and critical anthropology. Progressive Dystopia is scholarship at its finest and an essential contribution.” — Aimee Meredith Cox\, author of Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship \n“Who’s afraid of dystopia? Not Savannah Shange\, whose provocative and audacious book exposes ‘progressive’ multiracial social justice initiatives for what they are: a golden noose. ‘Winning\,’ she argues\, does not disrupt state logics of captivity\, containment\, accumulation\, and antiblackness. And fighting for utopias yet to be without attending to the dystopian present that is for the folks trapped in this ongoing settler-colonial catastrophe\, will not make us free. Instead\, Shange applies an abolitionist frame to reveal how Black and Brown kids who defy their saviors\, disrupt liberal teleologies\, and map new territory\, make the road toward freedom by walking\, talking\, dancing\, fighting\, and thinking. Unsettling\, persuasive\, and beautiful\, Progressive Dystopia is one of those rare books that will make you rethink everything.” — Robin D. G. Kelley\, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination \n“At the center of Savannah Shange’s powerful analysis in progressive dystopia: abolition\, anthropology\, and race in the new San Francisco are the multiple and seemingly conflicting forces brought to bear on the Black girls and boys who attend the Robeson Justice Academy in the contested space that makes up Frisco. Shange theorizes a set of ‘common sense’ ‘progressive’ logics that reproduce the carceral—what she names progressive dystopia and carceral progressivism—and then the willful defiance that characterizes the refusals and political demands of the Black girl students\, in particular\, who refuse to bear and internalize what Hartman names as ‘burdened individualism.’ This is a profoundly important book.” — Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
URL:https://litseen.com/event/savannah-shange/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Big Familia Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:I am both thrilled & nervous to announce the book release party for 💥Big Familia!! on November 19 at East Bay Booksellers / Diesel. \nIt’s a reading & conversation with Nancy Au. \nDrinks & mingling & celebration. \nKid Friendly (though it’s a school night!) \nTOMAS MONIZ edited Rad Dad\, Rad Families\, and the kids book Collaboration/Colaboración. He’s recently been published by Barrelhouse and Longleaf Review. In July 2019\, he released a chapbook with Mason Jar Press and his debut novel\, Big Familia\, on Acre Books\, will be out in November . He has stuff on the internet but loves letters and penpals: PO Box 3555\, Berkeley CA 94703. He promises to write back. \nNancy Au’s stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Redivider\, Gulf Coast\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Pinch\, among many others. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University and teaches creative writing at California State University–Stanislaus. She is co-founder of The Escapery\, a writing and art un-school. Her flash fiction\, which is included in the Best Small Fictions 2018\, also won The Vestal Review’s 2018 VERA Flash Fiction Prize as well as Redivider’s Blurred Genre Contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/big-familia-book-launch/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T190000
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SUMMARY:Raquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske
DESCRIPTION:AUTHOR\nRaquel Salas Rivera\n\n\n\nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the author of while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, published by Birds\, LLC in 2019\, and the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize from the Academy of American Poets for their book x/ex/exis. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books\, including lo terciario/the tertiary\, longlisted for the 2018 National book Award and winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. From 2016-2018\, they edited The Wanderer and Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, a collection of bilingual broadsides of contemporary Puerto Rican poets. They have received fellowships and residencies from Sundance Institute\, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts\, the Arizona Poetry Center\, and CantoMundo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAUTHOR\nCarina del Valle Schorske\n\n\n\nCarina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator living between New York City and San Juan\, Puerto Rico. Her first book\, No Es Nada: Notes from the Other Island\, a psychogeography of Puerto Rican culture is forthcoming from Riverhead.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNOVEMBER 20\, 2019 | 7:00PM\nRaquel Salas Rivera and Carina del Valle Schorske\n\nAlley Cat Books & Gallery | 3036 24th Street | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP
URL:https://litseen.com/event/raquel-salas-rivera-and-carina-del-valle-schorske/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T193000
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SUMMARY:Liska Jacobs: The Worst Kind of Want
DESCRIPTION:Liska Jacobs discusses her new novel\, The Worst Kind of Want with Rita Bullwinkel. \nAbout The Worst Kind of Want \nA trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood\, death\, and sex \nTo cool-headed\, fastidious Pricilla Messing\, Italy will be an escape\, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s starting to feel like one long decline. \nRescued from the bedside of her difficult mother\, forty-something Cilla finds herself called away to Rome to keep an eye on her wayward teenage niece\, Hannah. But after years of caregiving\, babysitting is the last thing Cilla wants to do. Instead she throws herself into Hannah’s youthful\, heedless world—drinking\, dancing\, smoking—relishing the heady atmosphere of the Italian summer. After years of feeling used up and overlooked\, Cilla feels like she’s coming back to life. But being so close to Hannah brings up complicated memories\, making Cilla restless and increasingly reckless\, and a dangerous flirtation with a teenage boy soon threatens to send her into a tailspin. \nWith the sharp-edged insight of Ottessa Moshfegh and the taut seduction of Patricia Highsmith\, The Worst Kind of Want is a dark exploration of the inherent dangers of being a woman. In her unsettling follow-up to Catalina\, Liska Jacobs again delivers hypnotic literary noir about a woman whose unruly desires and troubled past push her to the brink of disaster.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/liska-jacobs-the-worst-kind-of-want/
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:20191120T193000
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SUMMARY:Marilyn Chin & Genny Lim
DESCRIPTION:CO-SPONSORED BY PEN WEST \nMARILYN CHIN’s new book of poems is A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems. Adrienne Rich said\, “Marilyn Chin’s poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings\, their theatre of anger\, ‘fierce and tender\,’ their compassion\, and their high mockery of wit.” Born in Hong Kong\, currently living in San Diego\, she is the author of four previous poetry collections and a novel. Widely anthologized\, in Best American Poetry\, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women\, and elsewhere\, her honors include five Pushcart Prizes\, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and fellowships from the United States Artists Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. \nGENNY LIM—San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate\, born in San Francisco—is the author of the poetry collections Winter Place\, Child of War\, and Paper Gods and Rebels. She also wrote the plays Paper Angels and Bitter Cane and the children’s book Wings for Lai-Ho\, among other works. Winner of the American Book Award in 1981\, she founded the theater company Paper Angels Productions\, later known as XX Theater\, and produced many experimental performance pieces. Recipient of the Bay Guardian Goldie for Local Discovery in 1991\, she went on to record and collaborate with musician-composers Jon Jang\, Francis Wong\, Anthony Brown\, the late Max Roach\, and Herbie Lewis. Her new poetry book KRA! is a power house political and historical\, biographical work invoking figures such as James Baldwin\, Amiri Baraka\, Francisco X. Alarcon\, Fred Ho\, and Alfonso Texidor\, and is a salute to Flint\, Michigan\, Standing Rock\, and Black Lives Matter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marilyn-chin-genny-lim/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T213000
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 20\, 7:30 pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nLyrics & Dirges is our flagship monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. It’s aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nReading in November: \nKatherine Vaz\nJalyce Fairley\nCasey Walker\nJeffery Leong\nMonica Zarazua \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, November 20\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704\n\n\n\n\nEvent Category:\n\nShattuck Location
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-13/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T200000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam with Asha!
DESCRIPTION:Bringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nTwitter: @berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam\nPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nWe’ll be bringing Asha to feature for slam this week! \nAsha is an artist\, educator\, and revolutionary. Originally from LA\, she worked as a community organizer for workers/tenant rights\, and anti-police brutality\, as well as a coach with the non-profit Playworks in East-Oakland. Her passion for social justice informs her work educating youth and prospective teachers. She is currently an 8th grade teacher and adjunct professor at USF. As a performer\, she has toured London showcasing her poetry\, including at the famous Troy Bar\, Emceed the San Jose Womxn’s March in January 2017 and performed in 2018\, as well as performed at the March For Our Lives Event in 2018. She has also Emceed the San Jose Womxn’s Showcase for all 3 years\, featured at Cinequest Film Festival in 2017 and 2018\, and graced the cover of South Bay’s CONTENT magazine in August of 2017. KQED created a short documentary on Asha and her artistry. Her music\, art and spoken word act as a mirror into the passion and activism she lives out daily. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\n11/27: No slam\n—————�————- \nTHE STARRY PLOUGH\n3101 Shattuck Avenue\, 510-841-2082\n(1 block uphill from the Ashby BART).\nEVERY WEDNESDAY\n$7 – $10 sliding scale (most nights)\nCash Prizes!\nWorkshop: 6:30 p.m. Sign-up: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8:15 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m. \nDon’t have cash or Venmo? Like being extra prepared? Get a presale ticket while you can!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-with-asha/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T190000
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen Library
DESCRIPTION:Feature: Linda Lappin \nWillow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nLinda Lappin is a former Professor of English\, retired in 2018. Her latest collection tentatively called “Falling Home” is in the first round of editing and revision work with April Ossmann (formerly with Alice James Books). She has an MFA from San Jose State University where she was fortunate in meeting and taking classes with Ishmael Reed\, Naomi Shehab Nye\, Jane Hershfield (through the Montalvo seminars)\, Sam Mao\, and Alan Soldofsky. She has studied with Ellen Bass and Molly Fisk (poetry bootcamp). Through the MFA she published her first collection “Not Far from the Tree” and while there published individual poems in Convergence\, Coe Review\, Sanskrit\, and Schuylkill Valley Journal. Though many of her poems are narrated from Boulder Creek\, he now lives in San Jose\, California. Do not confuse her with the other Linda Lappin living in Italy\, please. \nupcoming at Third Thursdays:\nDecember: Laurence Snydal
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-library/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Jerome Rothenberg
DESCRIPTION:celebrating two new books \nThe President of Desolation & Other Poems from Black Widow Press\nThe Mystery of False Attachments from Word Palace \n\n\n\nJerome Rothenberg is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His more than ninety books include the multivolume Poems for the Millennium\, coedited with Pierre Joris\, Jeffrey Robinson\, and John Bloomberg-Rissman. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jerome-rothenberg-2/
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:20191121T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center’s In Common Writers Series welcomes two outstanding Latina poets\, Puerto Rican poet and activist Raquel Salas Rivera\, with us from her present home in Philadelphia\, and writer\, filmmaker\, and artist Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, here from Southern California. Both poets read from their work\, then join in conversation with one another and the audience. This evening at The Poetry Center—co-sponsored with Latina/Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State—will be followed by a second reading the next night\, Friday November 22\, across the Bay at Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, both events are free and open to the public. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Kielinski Photography. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Kielinski Photography. \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo by Beowulf Shehan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nFriday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Latina/Latino Studies\, and Women and Gender Studies\, SF State
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-raquel-salas-rivera-and-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #75: Literary Salon | Foster City
DESCRIPTION:Bay Area Generations: Literary Salon #75\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019\n7-9pm\nat Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\, Foster City \nA literary salon featuring curated works of Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers. Powered by California Writers Club SF Peninsula Branch. \nWith fine Poets & Authors\, featuring:\nJordan Sher + Neetal Parekh\nChuck Brickley + Aileen Cassinetto\nMegan McDonald + Korie Pelka\nCarole Bumpus + Lisa Meltzer Penn\nLaila Kramer + Dana Kwan \n& Special Musical Guest Karen Soohoo \nBay Area Generations: – Literary Salon #75\n@ Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\nComfy cafe | Food available for purchase \nGet Tickets! http://bit.ly/BAG75tx\nMap: http://bit.ly/BAGPenelope \nDoors Open: 6:30 p.m. Show: 7:00 p.m.\nSuggested donation $10\, includes chapbook\n*No one turned away for lack of funds.* \nBay Area Generations literary reading series features paired readers of differing generations in a curated submission based show. Since 2013\, over 400 hundred notable authors\, poets\, writers\, playwrights and musicians have read poetry and stories\, or performed at this celebrated literary salon. \nSubmit to our next show! http://bit.ly/BAG76fbs \nWebsite: www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nEvents: www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations/events \nHelp us keep presenting good literature readings.\nDonate here: www.paypal.me/BayAreaGenerations \n#reading #books #poetry #sflit #writers #openmic
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-75-literary-salon-foster-city/
LOCATION:Penelope’s Coffee & Tea\, 3 Plaza View Ln\, Ste N\, Foster City\, CA\, 94404\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Eric Thurm: Avidly Reads Board Games
DESCRIPTION:Eric Thurm joins us to discuss his new book\, Avidly Reads Board Games. Historic board games including\, Busted!\, a game from the 1970s about trying to start a career dealing weed\, Class Struggle\, the world’s first socialist board game\, and The Grizzled\, a modern cooperative game about being in the trenches in World War I\, will be available to play. \nAvidly―the online magazine founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood & Sarah Mesle and supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)―specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to the intersection of expertise and passion.  Now\, Blackwood & Mesle are partnering with NYU Press to launch Avidly Reads\, an exciting new series of books that are part memoir\, part cultural criticism\, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. \nIn Board Games\, writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal\, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat\, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart\, Class Struggle\, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships―from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night\, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns\, trivia\, and nostalgia. \nEric Thurm is a writer whose work has appeared in\, among other publications\, Esquire\, WIRED\, Real Life\, and The New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eric-thurm-avidly-reads-board-games/
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:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121733
CREATED:20191016T034235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191016T034235Z
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SUMMARY:The Best Small Fictions 2019
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of The Best Small Fictions 2019 with readings by Lori Sambol Brody\, Natalie Hernandez\, Joy Lanzendorfer\, Kim Magowan\, J.L. Montavon\, and Kara Vernor. \nAbout The Best Small Fictions \nThe Best Small Fictions anthology\, now in its fifth year\, presents one hundred and forty-­six pristinely crafted pieces from an array of authors representing twenty-­six nations and six continents. These short\, elliptical works are varied and edgy\, sorrowful and triumphant\, provocative and visionary. The small fictions enclosed within this volume are always vibrant. They scintillate. They linger. With each story brief enough to savor at a stoplight or quick coffee break\, the tales contained within 2019’s The Best Small Fictions promise to leave a mark.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-best-small-fictions-2019/
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:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T210000
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SUMMARY:Ben Lerner
DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Maggie Nelson \nGenre-bending poet\, novelist\, essayist\, and critic Ben Lerner has received fellowships from the Fulbright\, Guggenheim\, Howard\, and MacArthur Foundations. His first novel\, Leaving the Atocha Station\, won the 2012 Believer Book Award\, and excerpts from 10:04 have been awarded The Paris Review‘s Terry Southern Prize. He has published three poetry collections: The Lichtenberg Figures\, Angle of Yaw\, and Mean Free Path. His new novel\, The Topeka School\, is a timely scrutiny of contemporary crises in the public sphere: collapse of public speech\, trolls of the New Right\, and crises of identity among white men. Lerner is a professor of English at Brooklyn College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ben-lerner-2/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T213000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121733
CREATED:20191002T000335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191002T000335Z
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SUMMARY:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart
DESCRIPTION:Elaine Sciolino in Conversation with Thad Carhart\n\n\n\n\n(and introduced by L. John Harris) discussing Sciolino’s new book The Seine: The River that Made Paris. \nA soulful\, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river.”–Lauren Collins \nTo reserve your seat\, please purchase a copy of The Seine by speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 21\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nElaine Sciolino came to Paris as a young foreign correspondent and was seduced by a river. In The Seine\, she tells the story of that river from its source on a remote plateau of Burgundy to the wide estuary where its waters meet the sea\, and the cities\, tributaries\, islands\, ports\, and bridges in between. \nSciolino explores the Seine through its rich history and lively characters: a bargewoman\, a riverbank bookseller\, a houseboat dweller\, a famous cinematographer known for capturing the river’s light. She discovers the story of Sequana–the Gallo-Roman healing goddess who gave the Seine its name–and follows the river through Paris\, where it determined the city’s destiny and now snakes through all aspects of daily life. She patrols with river police\, rows with a restorer of antique boats\, sips champagne at a vineyard along the river\, and even dares to go for a swim. She finds the Seine in art\, literature\, music\, and movies from Renoir and Les Misérables to Puccini and La La Land. Along the way\, she reveals how the river that created Paris has touched her own life. A powerful afterword tells the dramatic story of how water from the depths of the Seine saved Notre-Dame from destruction during the devastating fire in April 2019. \nElaine Sciolino is a contributing writer and former Paris bureau chief for the New York Times. She is the author of five books\, including The Seine\, The Only Street in Paris and La Seduction. Sciolino was decorated as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor\, the highest honor of the French state\, in 2010 for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States. She and her husband have lived in Paris since 2002. \nThad Carhart is the author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank and Finding Fontainebleau. A resident of Paris for 25 years\, he now lives in San Francisco. \nL. John Harris is the author/illustrator of Cafe French. He lives in Berkeley. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elaine-sciolino-in-conversation-with-thad-carhart/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121733
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SUMMARY:Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in “The Chapel” at Nomadic Press. \nDonations will be kindly requested to help pay the features and cover the cost of the space. \nFYI the 10 slot open mic list starts at 7:30 and fills up pretty quick so if you plan on reading get there early \nFree parking in the back of the building and the closest BART station is 19th Street BART in Oakland (about a 15-minute walk straight down Broadway). \n!AQUI ESTAMOS Y NO NOS VAMOS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/speaking-axolotl-reading-and-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121733
CREATED:20191118T073950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T073950Z
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SUMMARY:Moscow Conceptualism: New Translations from the Russian
DESCRIPTION:Official Site:\nhttp://slavic.berkeley.edu/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/ \nA spate of new translations is bringing the writers and artists of Moscow Conceptualism to an English-language readership for the first time. Even as they drew on currents in western art\, the Moscow Conceptualists (1970s-1980s) were distinguished by a singular focus on the Soviet experience\, from the legacies of the avant-garde to the official culture of the Era of Stagnation. Serving as an ironic commentary on the entire arc of Soviet history\, Moscow Conceptualism continues to exert a powerful influence on performance art in Putin’s Russia. \nSchedule is as follows: \n1.30 p.m.\nWelcome: Prof. Harsha Ram\, Slavic Languages and Literatures \n1.45-3.00 p.m.\nThe Poets and their Verse\nModerated by Matvei Yankelevich\, editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse\nAinsley Morse and Bela Shayevich read Vsevolod Nekrasov\nYelena Kalinsky and Brian Droitcour read Andrei Monastyrski\nSimon Schuchat reads Dmitrii Prigov\nMatvei Yankelevich reads Lev Rubinstein \n3.15 p.m.\nMonastyrski and Prigov\nModerated by Prof. Edward Tyerman\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\nChristina Schwarz\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\n“Remontnye Raboty: Anamnesis in the life- writings of Andrei Monastyrski” \n3.40 p.m.\nProf. Olga Matich\, Slavic Languages and Literatures\n“Conceptualist Total Art Prigov” \n4.30-5.30 p.m.\nRoundtable Discussion\nModerated by Prof. Alexei Yurchak\, Anthropology \n5.30 p.m.\nProf. Lyn Hejinian\, English\n“The Eros of Russian-American Poetic Exchange” \nAll will take place in the Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities\, 220 Stephens Hall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moscow-conceptualism-new-translations-from-the-russian/
LOCATION:Geballe Room at the Townsend Center for the Humanities\, 220 Stephens Hall\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
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CREATED:20191002T140046Z
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SUMMARY:In Common Writers Series: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Raquel Salas Rivera\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 22 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nMoe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue (btw Haste and Dwight Way)\, Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe In Common Writers Series moves across the Bay\, to Moe’s Books on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley\, for what will be a powerful evening featuring poets Vanessa Angélica Villareal\, joining us from Southern California\, and—from Puerto Rico via Philadelphia\, Raquel Salas Rivera. The In Common Writers Series\, now in its second year\, is supported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund. Both this event and a reading and conversation by both poets the prior evening at The Poetry Center are free and open to the public. Join us! \nVanessa Angélica Villarreal is the author of Beast Meridian (Noemi Press\, 2017)\, a recipient of a 2019 Whiting Award\, a 2018 Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize\, and a 2019 Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, BuzzFeed\, The Boston Review\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Los Angeles\, where she is raising her son with the help of a loyal dog. More at vanessaangelicavillarreal.com Photo: Self-portrait. \nRaquel Salas Rivera es la Poeta Laureada de la ciudad de Filadelfia del 2018-19. Fue la recipiente inaugural del Premio Ambroggio  y la Beca de Laureada\, ambos de la Academia de Poetas Americanos. Cuenta con la publicación de seis plaquetas y cinco poemarios. Su cuarto libro\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, fue finalista para el Premio Nacional del Libro del 2018 y ganó el Premio Literario Lambda a una obra de poesía transgénero del 2018. Su quinto poemario\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, fue publicado por Birds\, LLC en el 2019. Recibió su Doctorado en Literatura Comparada y Teoría Literaria de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Raquel ama y vive por Puerto Rico\, Filadelfia y un mundo libre de la supremacía blanca. Por mas: raquelsalasrivera.com/es Foto por Paloma Alicea. \nRaquel Salas Rivera is the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia. They are the inaugural recipient of the Ambroggio Prize and the Laureate Fellowship\, both from the Academy of American Poets. They are also the author of six chapbooks and five full-length poetry books. Their fourth book\, lo terciario/the tertiary\, was on the 2018 National Book Award Longlist and won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Their fifth book\, while they sleep (under the bed is another country)\, was published by Birds\, LLC in 2019. They received their Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. Raquel loves and lives for Puerto Rico\, Philadelphia\, and a world free of white supremacy. More at raquelsalasrivera.com Photo by Paloma Alicea. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series: Raquel Salas Rivera and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal\, reading and in conversation\n\n\nThursday\, November 21 – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Humanities 512\, San Francisco State University\n\n\n\nFeatured:\n\n“Fierce as Fuck: The Future of Poetry is Brown and Queer\,” Vanessa Angélica Villarreal and Vickie Vértiz (interview by Sorayo Membreno)\, at Bitch Magazine\n\n“The Anti-Lineage of Raquel Salas Rivera\,” (interviewed by Candace Williams)\, at Shondaland\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Moe’s Books
URL:https://litseen.com/event/in-common-writers-series-vanessa-angelica-villarreal-and-raquel-salas-rivera-reading-and-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Avenue\, BERKELEY\, 94704-2322
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
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SUMMARY:KSW Presents "A History of Our Naming"
DESCRIPTION:Kearny Street Workshop’s bi-monthly reading series celebrates new poetry releases by Michelle Peñaloza and Đỗ Nguyên Mai.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nOn Friday\, November 22nd\, KSW Presents “A History of Our Naming” featuring poets Michelle Peñaloza\, author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire\, and Đỗ Nguyên Mai\, author of Battlefield Blooming. This reading is a celebration of their new collections of poetry. Their poems ask us to look at—and not away—from the histories\, hauntings\, and presences of colonialism\, conquest\, and imperialism. These poets find power in the work of gathering fragments and fractures\, and in what emerges from this naming for their families\, for their communities\, and for themselves. \nThe title of this event is inspired by a line from Michelle Peñaloza’s titular poem “Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire.” \n+++ \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: We are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. Please see below for more information. DEADLINE 11/15. APPLY HERE: https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/151954/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming \nWHEN: Friday\, November 22\, 2019\, from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM. \nWHERE: Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom Street\, San Francisco\, CA 94103. \nHOW MUCH: $8 Pre-sale\, $20 Support Level (reserved seats) available. \n*There is limited seating at the venue\, you may purchase supporter level tickets to reserve seats. If you have a disability and/or need to be seated during the event\, please contact us at info@kearnystreet.org and we’ll work to accommodate you. \nFEATURES \nMichelle Peñaloza is the author of Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire\, winner of the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk National Poetry Prize (Inlandia Books\, 2019) and two chapbooks\, landscape/heartbreak (Two Sylvias\, 2015)\, and Last Night I Dreamt of Volcanoes (OW! Arts\, 2015). The proud daughter of Filipino immigrants\, Michelle was born in the suburbs of Detroit and raised in Nashville. She lives in rural Northern California. \nĐỗ Nguyên Mai is a Vietnamese American poet and researcher from Santa Clarita\, California. Her debut poetry collection Ghosts Still Walking is available from Platypus Press and was a 2017 Elgin Award nominee\, and her second poetry collection\, Battlefield Blooming\, ​is now available from Sahtu Press. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in political science at the University of California\, Riverside. \nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS \nWe are opening up submissions for writers to be a part of this reading. We will only be able to accept up to five readers. \nEligibility: We welcome writers of all genres\, and strive to spotlight those of the Asian Pacific diaspora and people of color. We are especially interested in showcasing emerging writers who have had little stage time or few publications. \nAt this time\, KSW Presents cannot provide payment for writers who submit to be a part of this reading series\, but we are actively pursuing funding for this program. \nHow to Apply: Submit work that explores this upcoming event’s theme\, that can be read or performed within 3 minutes or less. Apply here (no fee). https://kearnystreet.submittable.com/submit/151954/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ksw-presents-a-history-of-our-naming/
LOCATION:Arc Studios & Gallery\, 1246 Folsom St.\, San Francisco\, California\, 94103
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191122T210000
DTSTAMP:20260406T121733
CREATED:20191118T073230Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191118T073230Z
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SUMMARY:The Bridge: Between Poetry and Improv
DESCRIPTION:Have your heart twisted and tickled by this hilarious and inspiring show that blends some of the best slam poetry and improvised comedy the Bay Area has to offer. \nMake sure to show up at 7:20pm at the latest\, so we can start on time! \nThe Bridge is: Caleb Lush\, Sahil Desai\, Conor Allen\, Rodd Naimi\, Taylor Couchois\, Lilly Conboy\, Teddy Myers and Danny Outlaw \nPoets for the night are Brandon Yip and Joseph Jason Santiago La Cour. \nThe Bridge is a ClusterFunk/Endgames Collaboration and produced by Mic Ting and Caleb Lush
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bridge-between-poetry-and-improv/
LOCATION:StageWerx\, 466 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191123T210000
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SUMMARY:A World Without Wars - Part 1
DESCRIPTION:IN CELEBRATION OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE 6TH OVERTHROWING CAPITALISM ANTHOLOGY\n\nMAHNAZ BADIHIAN\nJIM NORMINGTON\nJOHN CURL\nBARBARA PASCHKE\nNELLIE WONG\nRAFAEL JESUS GONZALEZ\nLYNNE BARNES\nCATHLEEN WILLIAMS\nGREGORY POND\nJUDITH BERNHARD\nGAYLIN WEST\nSCOTT BIRD\nVICTORIA BRILL\nDAVID VOLPENDESTA\nYOLANDA CATZALCO\nHAI PHAM\nKRISTINA BROWN\nDOREEN STOCK\nNEELI CHERKOVSKI\nKIM SHUCK\nJENNY WADE\nBOB COLEMAN
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-world-without-wars-part-1/
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:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:Egypt + Holiday Potluck
DESCRIPTION:Holidays can be difficult for many of us. Join us in Fellowship Hall (at the Oakland Peace Center—entrance off of 29th Street) as we band together for an early evening\, relaxed community celebration on Sunday and break bread together before the end of 2019. Publisher J. K. Fowler will share a few photos of\, and stories about\, his recent community-funded trip to the Tanta international festival of poetry. \nBring one of your favorite dishes\, a dish that speaks to a favorite book of yours\, or try your hand at an Egyptian dish: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15039/world-cuisine/african/north-african/egyptian \nWine and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/egypt-holiday-potluck/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press/Fairmount\, 111 Fairmount Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:William Gibson / Agency
DESCRIPTION:TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \nBooksmith presents visionary novelist William Gibson reading from the sharply imagined sequel to his New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. He will also be in conversation with Mother Jones editor-in-chief\, Clara Jeffery. \nPlease note: This event will be at Public Works\, 161 Erie St.\, San Francisco. \nUnless noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nVerity Jane\, gifted app-whisperer\, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up\, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant\, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice\,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses\, soon manifests a face\, a fragmentary past\, and an unnervingly canny grasp of combat strategy. Verity\, realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know this\, instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. \nMeanwhile\, a century ahead\, in London\, in a different timeline entirely\, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers\, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His employer\, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer\, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice have become her current project. \nWilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot\, just around the corner. And something else too: the roles they both may play in it. \n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n  \n\nWilliam Gibson\, debuting with the powerfully influential Neuromancer\, both coined the term cyberspace and introduced it to fiction. Neuromancer was the first novel to receive the Hugo\, Nebula\, and Philip K. Dick awards in one year. Gibson continued his career with numerous acclaimed and New York Times bestselling books including Count Zero\, Burning Chrome\, Mona Lisa Overdrive\, Virtual Light\, Idoru\, All Tomorrows Parties\, Pattern Recognition\, Spook Country\, Zero History\, and Distrust That Particular Flavor. Gibson lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia with his wife. You can find more information about William Gibson and his novels online at williamgibsonbooks.com. \nClara Jeffery is the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones\, which was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Magazine Editors in February 2017. During her tenure\, Mother Jones has won other National Magazine Awards\, including for general excellence\, reporting\, and video; redesigned its magazine and website; established bureaus in Washington and New York; and become a social-media powerhouse. Clara has edited stories that have been included in pretty much every “Best American” anthology. Along the way\, she also won a PEN award for editing\, became a mom\, and forgot what it’s like to sleep. It probably doesn’t help she’s on Twitter so much: @clarajeffery. \n\nPlease note:\n>> Doors open at 6:00 — come early and have a drink or two!\n>> The duration of this event is up to the speakers.\n>> This event is 21+. No exceptions.\n>> Signing details to be announced soon.\n>> Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \nFacebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated. \n\n  \nTICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW AT THIS LINK \n(If you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of Agency and/or any of his books\, place your order here and include your request in the comments section. Please note: a book purchase is not a ticket purchase.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-gibson-agency/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:D.S. Marriott reading from selected poetry
DESCRIPTION:DS Marriot is a poet and critic\, and Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and in the Department of Philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University\, University Park. His areas of interest and expertise include literature and literary theory; psychoanalysis; Black cultural theory and philosophies of race; African American/Black Studies; African Diaspora; Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; and Critical Theory. Marriott is the author of On Black Men (Edinburgh University Press\, Columbia University Press\, 2000) and Haunted Life (forthcoming from Rutgers University Press); he is currently working on Two Freedoms\, a critical study of C.L.R. James and Jules Marcel Monnerot. His volumes of poetry include Incognegro (Salt Publications\, 2006)\, The Bloods (Shearsman Books\, 2011)\, and Duppies (Commune Editions\, 2019).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-s-marriott-reading-from-selected-poetry/
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:20191124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T170000
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T163000
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CREATED:20191118T074428Z
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SUMMARY:Marcia Falk & Steven Rood
DESCRIPTION:MARCIA FALK’s new book is Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings\, which contains her own artwork side-by-side with her poetry and new blessings in English and Hebrew. She will be showing images of the artwork with her poetry at this event. Mark Podwal\, artist and scholar of Jewish culture\, says\, “Inner East is a symbiosis of word and image…Falk’s beautiful visual images are poems in paint that do not merely illustrate her written words but illuminate them.” A Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem\, she returned there four years later as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Among her many other books are The Days Between: Blessings\, Poems\, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season and The Book of Blessings: New English Prayers for Daily Life\, the Sabbath\, and the New Moon Festival. She is also the author of a classic verse translation of the biblical Song of Songs\, The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible\, about which Adrienne Rich said\, “it’s always a thrill when (as rarely happens) the scholar’s mind and the poet’s soul come together.” A translator from Yiddish as well\, she’s published The Spectacular Difference: Selected Poems of Zelda\, poetry of the twentieth century mystic\, Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky\, and With Teeth in the Earth\, poems of the Yiddish modernist Malka Heifetz Tussman. \nSTEVEN ROOD’s debut book of poems is I Say Your Name\, devoted to the memory of both the late\, great poet Jack Gilbert and Rood’s own psychotherapist. For these many years he’s been a member of the writing workshop that Gilbert founded at San Francisco State in 1967\, and he was a primary caregiver of Gilbert’s during his last Alzheimer days.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-falk-steven-rood/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191124T180000
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Poets Laureate on Social Justice at Alibi Bookshop in downtown Vallejo\, California. Part of the tour for Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice. \nPoets Laureate on Social Justice–Vallejo\nSunday\, Nov. 24\, 4PM at Alibi Bookshop in Vallejo; Napa County Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson\, former San Mateo Co. Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin\, former Sonoma Co. Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle\, Richmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton\, and hosted by Ron Reikki\n\nNapa Poet Laureate Jeremy Benson (2017-2021) writes poems; he has also written novels\, short stories\, articles\, personal essays\, stand-up comedy routines\, short films\, and many letters. Jeremy aims to cultivate a rich community of writers\, readers\, and artists\, whether as a participant\, patron\, or planner. He has emceed open mics\, curated readings\, hosted craft-ins\, led workshops\, and cof-founded the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual exchange of hand-made chapbooks.\n\nCaroline Goodwin moved to California in 1999 from Sitka\, Alaska to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. Her books are Trapline (2013)\, Peregrine (2015)\, The Paper Tree (2017) and Custody of the Eyes (2019). She teaches at UC Berkeley Extension\, CA College of the Arts and Stanford Continuing Studies. In fall 2013\, she was appointed San Mateo County’s first Poet Laureate\, and served for three years (2014 – 2016). http://carolinegoodw.com/\n\n\nSonoma County Poet Laureate Iris Jamahl Dunkle‘s (2017-2018) poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press\, 2017) Gold Passage (Trio House Press\, 2013) and There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech\, 2015). Her poem “Listening to the Caryatids on the Palace of Fine Arts” poem will be featured on 100 buses as part of the San Francisco Beautiful and Poetry Society of America Muni Art 2020 campaign. Her works have been published in Tin House\, San Francisco Examiner\, Fence\, Los Angeles Review of Books\,  Split Rock Review\, Taos Poetry Journal\, Pleiades\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market\, Women’s Studies and Chicago Quarterly Review. Her biography on Charmian London\, Jack London’s wife will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference.\n\n\n\n\nRichmond Poet Laureate Robert Lipton is helping develop a literary arts center for the city. He has been a Pushcart nominee and Gregory O’Donoghue Competition winner. His work has appeared in Interbang\, Jacaranda Review\, King Log\, Shades of Contradiction\, The Texas Observer\, Parthenon West\, New Orleans Quarterly\, Journal of Human Architecture\, Quillpuddle\, Opium Magazine\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Oberon\, Written Here\, and Southword. His book\, A Complex Bravery was published by Marick Press. He works as a spatial epidemiologist. \n\n\n\nRon Riekki wrote My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting in Extinction (Loyola University Maryland’s Apprentice House Press)\, U.P.: a novel (Ghost Road Press)\, and Posttraumatic: A Memoir (Small Press Distribution). He edited Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press)\, And Here: 100 Years of Upper Peninsula Writing\, 1917-2017 (MSU Press)\, Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (MSU Press\, Independent Publisher Book Award)\, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works (Wayne State University Press\, Michigan Notable Book)\, and The Many Lives of The Evil Dead: Essays on the Cult Film Franchise (McFarland). Riekki is contracted for seven upcoming books.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-laureate-on-social-justice/
LOCATION:Alibi Bookshop\, 624 Marin Street\, Vallejo\, 94591
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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