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SUMMARY:BINDERY: The Fight for a Free Press: Book Launch and Panel
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Alison Littman for the launch of her debut novel\, Radio Underground. Littman will join New York Times journalist Sheera Frenkel\, cybersecurity expert Bill Marczak (Larry King\, Washington Post\, Vanity Fair) and Camille Fischer from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to discuss the fight for a free press. \n  \nFrom combating fake news and censorship on social media to protecting journalists and activists abroad\, panelists will discuss the threats to our freedom online and in the press in a high-stakes political environment. Schmooze and booze with panelists and the author after the discussion. \n  \nRadio Underground follows a journalist in Budapest during the Cold War who manipulates news on Radio Free Europe to spark the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the Soviets. In Cold War Hungary\, journalism was used to ignite uprisings\, help people escape the country and persuade the masses to take action. The launch event will also include a short reading and Q&A with the author and panelists. \n  \n\n  \nAbout Radio Underground \n  \nEszter Turján is a mother and a fanatical underground journalist living in Budapest at the height of the Cold War. After years of suffering under the communist regime\, she’d sacrifice anything\, and anyone\, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe\, she ignites the vicious revolution\, commits a calamitous murder\, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison as her teenage daughter Dora watches in horror. \n  \nHaunted and hurt\, Dora vows to work against everything Eszter believes in. But\, it’s not that simple. After nine years\, Dora is unwittingly drawn back into Eszter’s circle when she falls hopelessly in love with a fan of The Beatles – and Radio Free Europe. At the same time\, she discovers Eszter\, driven mad by years of torture\, is headed toward a death sentence. To save her mother\, Dora will have to defy a vindictive and lethal regime\, and confront family ties she’s spent years denying. On the brink of losing Eszter again\, Dora must make a choice: to risk her life for the mother who discarded her—or leave it all to fate. \n  \nRadio Underground is a beautiful\, relevant novel that explores the lengths and limits of love\, family\, and the power of expression. \n  \n\n  \nAbout the Panelists \n  \nSheera Frenkel is a cybersecurity reporter at the New York Times. She spent over a decade in the Middle East as a foreign correspondent\, reporting for BuzzFeed\, NPR\, The Times of London and McClatchy Newspapers. \n  \nBill Marczak has appeared on Politicking with Larry King and in the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Vanity Fair and other major outlets for his work rooting out spyware used to stifle activists\, dissidents\, journalists and others speaking out against dictatorial regimes. A Senior Research Fellow at Citizen Lab\, a co-founder of Bahrain Watch\, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley\, Bill focuses on novel technological threats to Internet freedom\, including new censorship and surveillance tools. \n  \nCamille Fischer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation works on the organization’s free speech and government transparency projects. Previously\, Camille worked in the Obama White House and in the Department of Commerce advocating for civil\, human rights\, and due process protections in national security and law enforcement policies. \n  \n\n  \nAlison Littman is an author by day and stand up comedian by night. A former journalist\, she covered politics and education while also contributing articles on John F. Kennedy and The Beatles to various specialty magazines. Her feature stories focus on listening to rock ‘n’ roll behind the Iron Curtain and Cold War politics. Radio Undergroundis her first novel. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Radio Underground and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-the-fight-for-a-free-press-book-launch-and-panel/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Authors from Nothing Short of 100\, with Special Guest R.O. Kwon
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on November 8\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when authors from the anthology Nothing Short of 100 will read\, along with very special guest R.O. Kwon. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. \nNOTHING SHORT OF presents the best of 100WordStory.org\, the leader in short-short fiction and a popular go-to for great reading. Published by Outpost 19 in April 2018\, in these very short stories\, every word\, every detail\, every moment matters. These 100-word stories are authored by some of the best microfiction story writers around\, including WTAW’s own Peg Alford Pursell\, and the following readers. \nKaren Benke is the author of several creative writing adventure books from Shambhala Publications\, including Write Back Soon! Adventures in Letter Writing (2015). Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, Rattle\, West Marin Review\, The Bark\, Poetry Daily\, Hawaii Pacific Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her teenage son and leads writing workshops for children at Book Passage Bookstore and from The Writers Nest\, located in a converted lumber mill\, circa 1892. \nAndrew O. Dugas’ work has appeared in Unlikely Stories\, 100 Word Story\, Mayfly\, and many other places. His novel Sleepwalking in Paradise was published in 2014 by Numina Press. He recently snail-mailed 1\,001 original hand-inscribed haiku postcards to as many randomly selected recipients. Maybe you got one? \nJane McDermott is the 2014 Michael Rubin book award winner for her collection of microfiction Look Busy: One hundred 100-word stories by and for the easily distracted (14 Hills\, 2014). Her fiction can be found in Foglifter\, 100 Word Story\, Weirderary\, Reflex Fiction\, Reunion: The Dallas Review\, Red Light Lit\, and others. She earned an MFA in fiction from San Francisco State University. She lives in Oakland with her wife\, cats\, chickens\, and bees. \nLynn Mundell‘s writing has appeared in The Sun\, Booth\, Portland Review\, Permafrost\, Tin House online\, and elsewhere. Her story “The Old Days\,” originally published in Five Points (2018)\, is included in the W.W. Norton anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (August 2018). Her work has been recognized on the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions long lists of 2017 and 2018. She is co-editor of 100 Word Story and its anthology Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story (Outpost19\, April 2018). \nCornelia Nixon’s fourth novel\, The Use of Fame\, is out in hardcover from Counterpoint Press (2017). She is also the author of Jarrettsville (Counterpoint\, 2009)\, Angels Go Naked (Counterpoint\, 2000)\, Now You See It (Perennial\, 1992)\, and a book of literary criticism. She has won two O. Henry Awards (one of them the First Prize in 1995)\, two Pushcart Prizes\, a Nelson Algren Prize\, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She lives half the year in Berkeley\, California\, and half on an island in Puget Sound\, Washington. \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUEST:R.O. Kwon’s nationally bestselling first novel\, The Incendiaries\, was published in July 2018 by Riverhead (U.S.). Her writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Vice\, BuzzFeed\, Noon\, Playboy\, and elsewhere. She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press\, publisher of award-winning exceptional literary books.
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LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:L.A. Kauffman
DESCRIPTION:L.A. Kauffman \n\n\n\ndiscussing the subject of her new book \nHow to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance \npublished by University of California Press \nWhen millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 women’s marches\, there was an unmistakable air of uprising\, a sense that these marches were launching a movement. But the enduring work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It feels powerful to march\, but when and how does marching matter? \nIn this original and richly illustrated account\, activist and organizer L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America’s major demonstrations\, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington\, to reveal what protests accomplish and how their character has shifted over time. Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized\, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. How to Read a Protest sheds new light on the catalytic power of collective action and the bottom-up\, women-led model for organizing that’s transforming what movements look like and what they can win. \nL.A. Kauffman has been a grassroots organizer for more than thirty years and was the mobilizing coordinator for the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003–2004. She has covered social movement history and activism for The Guardian\, n+1\, and numerous other publications and is the author of Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. \nCritical praise for the work of L.A. Kauffman: \nffman is one of the people I look to most for the big picture about American activism—where it’s been\, where it’s going\, what works\, who’s doing the work\, and why. For How to Read a Protest\, you could paraphrase George Orwell to say that those who remember the past understand the present\, and those who understand the present (sometimes) shape the future. This swift-moving book equips us all to do exactly that\, as it revises and deepens and corrects what we know about past social movements in America and appraises what has made the women-led\, grassroots resistance to Trump unlike any movement that came before. The next chapter is something we will all write together if and when we rise to the promise and the legacy of the radical past that Kauffman so ably describes.”—Rebecca Solnit\, author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories\, Wild Possibilities \n“Kauffman’s new book offers critical historical analysis and strategic insights\, raising provocative and complex questions about the relationship between protests and movement building. Every organizer and social movement historian should read it.”—Barbara Ransby\, author of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century \n“How to Read a Protest is an incredible tool for understanding collective action: who is involved\, how it unfolds\, and what makes it successful\, with special emphasis on the often-overlooked role of women in making movements and how ideas of organization and leadership have shifted. L.A. Kauffman helps us understand and interpret the reasons behind\, and meanings of\, protest in our time\, giving us a valuable gift of insight and research.”—Marina Sitrin\, coauthor of They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy \n“L.A. Kauffman is a marvelous combination of mobilization-insider and historical commentator. No one else could bring so much fruitful commentary to bear on mass protests. The illustrations here are fascinating in themselves\, wonderful to observe and ponder. This is a splendid and much-needed book.”—Paul Buhle\, coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/l-a-kauffman/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at Green Apple Books on Clement street on Thursday\, November 8th at 7:00 p.m. as we welcome Hallie Iglehart Austen to discuss her newest book (from Monkfish Publishing) The Heart Of The Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations of the World’s Sacred Feminine.  \nPraise for The Heart of the Goddess. \nThis extraordinary compilation of the art\, values and living lessons of Goddess culture dating from 30\,000 years ago to the present\, from Africa to Hawaii\, Siberia to North America\, is a multicultural tapestry of artwork\, historical background\, and meditations organized by the themes of creation\, transformation and celebration\, bringing focus and expression to the myth and spirituality of the feminine. \n“A collection of more than 70 Goddess figures from cultures throughout the world. Each is a treasure…inspiring us to embody the Goddess’s virtues in our lives.”–Yoga Journal \n  \n“A beautiful book…an excellent resource for information and inspiration from many cultures.”–Starhawk\, author of The Spiritual Dance and \n  \n“…a mythical journey to every corner of the Earth…a delightful book of life-affirming legends\, rituals\, and images that help us envision a more balanced and creative world.”–Riane Eisler\, author of The Chalice and the Blade \n  \n“What a treasure! Decades of scholarship and oceans of love have been poured into gathering this exquisite collection of goddesses from all the world’s wisdom traditions. By gazing at the images and contemplating their stories\, I felt myself joyously reclaiming the feminine face of the Holy One…. I love love love this book.”–Mirabai Starr\, author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism\, Christianity & Islam \n  \n  \nHallie Iglehart Austen grew up on a farm and has lived close to the earth most of her life. After graduating from Brown University\, she drove from England to Nepal and back again over the course of a year. This journey\, described in her first book “Womanspirit” led to a synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she began teaching in the 1970s. Since then\, she has led workshops\, rituals and conferences at universities\, the United Nations\, and theological schools among other places. Hallie Iglehart Austen is cofounder of Seaflow: Protect Our Living Oceans\, which educates the public about the dangers of active sonars and other ocean noise to whales\, dolphins\, and all sea life. She also initiated All One Oceans\, establishing over fifty beach cleanup stations in California\, Hawai’i\, Iowa\, and Alabama and is starting a pilot project for grade school students on ocean plastic pollution. Hallie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and gives classes and private consultations on dream work\, life transition rituals\, and Wisdom Healing Qigong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-3/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
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SUMMARY:EILEEN MYLES
DESCRIPTION:EILEEN MYLES\nIn Conversation with Stephen Best\nThursday\, November 8\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: “On Arts” Benefiting 826 Valencia Scholarship Program \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nEileen Myles is the author of more than twenty books of essays\, fiction\, and poetry\, including Chelsea Girls\, Cool For You\, and I Must Be Living Twice. A counter-culture icon and activist\, Myles ran for president in 1992 as a “openly female & queer” candidate\, promising to refuse to live in the White House while there were still homeless people living in America\, to decrease defense spending by 75%\, and to offer free healthcare. Myles has described the campaign as part protest\, part performance art. This fall\, Myles returns to poetry with Evolution. “Poetry always\, always\, always is a key piece of democracy\,” they told The New York Times Magazine in 2016. “It’s like the un-Trump: The poet is the charismatic loser. You’re the fool in Shakespeare; you’re the loose cannon. As things get worse\, poetry gets better\, because it becomes more necessary.” \nStephen Michael Best is an associate professor of English at University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession\, and his work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation\, the Hellman Foundation\, the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and the Ford Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eileen-myles/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:What Future 2018
DESCRIPTION:Co-editor Rose Eveleth\, and contributors Lauren Smiley\, and Annalee Newitz discuss What Future: The Year’s Best Ideas To Reclaim\, Reanimate And Reinvent Our Future. \n  \nRose Eveleth is a producer\, designer\, writer and animator. She’s dabbled in everything from research on pelagic invertebrates to animations about beer to podcasts about fake tumbleweed farms. These days\, she explores how humans tangle with science and technology. She’s been a columnist for BBC Future and Motherboard\, the producer of the Story Collider\, the special media manager at Nautilus\, a new digital magazine about science\, culture and philosophy and the managing editor for LadyBits\, a place where women are smart about science. She also edited the Smart News blog at Smithsonian Magazine\, and founded Science Studio\, a home for all the best science multimedia on the web. Even before that she was an editor of all things animated at TED Education\, and a contributing editor at Smart Planet. Most recently she helped ESPN’s award winning documentary series 30 for 30 launch their podcast and is currently the producer and host of Flash Forward\, a podcast about the future. \n  \nLauren Smiley is based in San Francisco and writes about humans in the tech age for WIRED\, San Francisco Mag\, California Sunday Magazine\, and New York Magazine. \n  \nAnnalee Newitz is the author of the Science Fiction novel\, Autonomous\, the non-fiction books Scatter\, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction and Pretend We’re Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture\, and is an editor-at-large for Ars Technica\, a freelance science journalist for magazines and newspapers as well as the co-host\, with Charlie Jane Anders\, of the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Newitz is the founder of io9\, and was the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo. Newitz’s writing has appeared in Slate\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Smithsonian Magazine\, The Washington Post\, 2600\, New Scientist\, Technology Review\, Popular Science\, Discover and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. \n\nAbout What Future \n\nThe future is here and\, frankly\, it sucks. Without doubt\, our culture is at a crossroads. Political strife and economic crises are byproducts of a larger looming challenge\, one in which we will have to ask ourselves what constitutes a meaningful life. We must do the hard work of imagining a different kind of reality for ourselves. It’s work that anticipates the worst but sees hope on the other side of catastrophe\, or at least possibility; that presumes disaster and says\, now what? A best-of-the-year anthology\, What Future is a collection of long-form journalism and essays published in 2016 that address a wide range of topics crucial to our future\, from the environmental and political\, to human health and animal rights\, to technology and the economy. What Future includes writing from authors Elizabeth Kolbert\, Jeff Vandermeer\, Bill McKibben\, Kim Stanley Robinson\, as well as the scientists\, journalists\, and philosophers who are proposing the options that lay not just ahead\, but beyond\, in prestigious magazines and journals such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-future-2018/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Micah Perks with Kate Schatz and Lucy Jane Bledsoe / True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Micah Perks for her linked story collection True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Joining here are Kate Schatz (Rad Girls Can) and Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Lava Falls). Save the date! \n  \n  \nMagical and funny\, profound and seductive\, the linked stories inTrue Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives\, ardent desire meets a keen sense of reality deep in the heart of progressive California. When Sadie opens a funky bookstore in Santa Cruz\, she is swept off her feet by Daniel\, a true-blue romantic — athletic\, bookish\, from Santiago\, Chile. Their connection is heady and erotic\, and it echoes through the love lives around them: from Harry Houdini’s first encounter with the widow Winchester to the threatening intimacy between a wife and her brother to a grumpy teenager who inspires her divorced parents. Years later\, when Sadie and Daniel take an overdue trip to Paris\, their blended family doesn’t blend so well\, sending them back to rediscover their roots. In these interconnected lives\, the desire for passion is as strong as the desire to escape\, and the terror of claustrophobic connection competes with the deepest human yearning. An intoxicating look at the complexity and simplicity of embracing and running from love. By the award-winning author of What Becomes Us. \n  \n\n  \n“What an enticing cast of characters readers get to meet here! Micah Perks writes so well of love in many of its forms and stages\, and she populates her book with such a memorable crew. No one is exempt from struggle and disappointment\, and yet there is always a chance for transcendence\, too.” – Aimee Bender\, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake andThe Color Master \n  \n“A writer whose stories are endearingly hard headed and tender hearted\, and whose characters are so very alive that they practically escape off the page when you encounter them. This collection will cure what ails you.” – Kelly Link\, author of Get In Trouble and Pretty Monsters \n  \n“The stories in True Love connect in the most satisfying way. You begin with a journalist who interviewed Harry Houdini about his night with lost souls in the Winchester House\, a light story that gains weight from the six million Jews who did not escape. Then you have the chance to follow his granddaughter in her sad affair with a lover from Chile\, a legacy. The stories are about escape in the deepest ways\, from marriage and family and self and even from time and place\, and the writing is beautiful\, believable\, disorienting. Sit down and watch the show\, because I guarantee you don’t know what’s coming. . .” – David Vann\, author of Bright Air Black and Aquarium \n  \nMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two other novels\, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here\, and a memoir\, Pagan Time. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in Epoch\, Zyzzyva\, Tin House\, The Toast\, OZY and The Rumpus\, amongst many journals and anthologies. She received her BA and MFA from Cornell University and now lives with her family in Santa Cruz where she co-directs the creative writing program at UCSC. More info and work at micahperks.com. \n  \nKate Schatz is the New York Times-bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z\, Rad Women Worldwide\, Rad Girls Can\, and the illustrated journal My Rad Life. She’s a writer\, activist\, public speaker\, and educator\, who’s been passionate about both writing and politics since she was a kid. She’s a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays\, a nationwide network of feminist activist groups\, and she lives with her kids\, cats\, and partner on the island of Alameda. More at radgirlscan.com. \n  \nLucy Jane Bledsoe‘s most recent novel\, The Evolution of Love\, came out in May 2018\, and her collection of short fiction—a novella and stories at the intersection of wilderness\, family\, and survival—will be released in September 2018. Her work has won many awards\, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Literature\, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize\, the American Library Association Stonewall Award\, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of True Love and/or any of the authors’ books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-micah-perks-with-kate-schatz-and-lucy-jane-bledsoe-true-love-and-other-dreams-of-miraculous-escape/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
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SUMMARY:Samina Ali
DESCRIPTION:Samina Ali is an award-winning author\, activist and cultural commentator. Her debut novel\, Madras on Rainy Days\, won France’s prestigious Prix du Premier Roman Etranger Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award in Fiction. Ali’s work is driven by her belief in personal narrative as a force for achieving women’s individual and political freedom and in harnessing the power of media for social transformation. She is the curator of the groundbreaking\, critically acclaimed virtual exhibition\, Muslima: Muslim Women’s Art & Voices. Her current project\, a memoir of her near-death experience delivering her firstborn\, takes an unsparing look at gender bias and the crisis of preventable maternal deaths in the U.S. Ali is a former cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department and a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and Daily Beast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Economist\, The Guardian\, Vogue\, National Public Radio (NPR) and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/samina-ali/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley
DESCRIPTION:George Albon in conversation with Maxwell Shanley \ncelebrating the release of Lyric Multiples: Aspiration\, Practice\, Immanence\, Migration \n\n\n\nfrom Nightboat Press \nA poet’s capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society \nLyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call\, ascensional modes of thinking\, pop songs\, the built environment and its discontents\, the post-punk moment\, its fruitful aftermath\, and much else. Throughout this book\, Albon explores unencountered varieties of aesthetic experience and the contributions they make to an ideal of social interconnectivity. \nGeorge Albon’s most recent books are Fire Break\, winner of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Poetry in 2014\, and Aspiration. He lives in San Francisco. \nMaxwell Shanley\, author of There Are Trees (Drop Leaf Press)\, is the Sales & Marketing Assistant at Stanford University Press and a former used book buyer at Green Apple Books & Music. He is currently completing an MFA at San Francisco State University\, where he formerly served as the Managing Editor of Fourteen Hills. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, DIAGRAM\, CutBank\, MIDTERM\, Border Crossing\, Camas: The Nature of the West\, Slipstream\, Transfer Magazine\, The Burden of Light: Poems on Illness and Loss\, Four Ties Lit Review\, and has been performed by Theatrikos Theatre Company. He lives in San Francisco. \nWhat has been said about the work of George Albon: \n“Lyric Multiples is a triumph from beginning to end—a miracle of sustained argument and elaboration. In a process of continuous vision and revision\, words and images appear\, return\, slip around the corners\, only to return again to form multivalent entrances to truth.” —Kevin Killian \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-albon-in-conversation-with-maxwell-shanley/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Día de los muertos / Day of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Rafael Jesús Gonzáez\, Jess Medina\, Jan Steckel\, Andrena Zawinski. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-de-los-muertos-day-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Claire Grossman\, Terry Taplin\, Jacq Greyja
DESCRIPTION:Claire Grossman studies English literature at Stanford and is co-curator of Cantíl\, an Oakland-based reading series. \nTerry Taplin is an MFA in Creative Writing Candidate at Saint Mary’s College of California where he serves as an assistant poetry editor at MARY: A Journal for New Writing and is the inaugural Lambda Literary Fellow. He holds a Bachelor’s in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and is the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 14-15). Terry lives in Berkeley\, is an instructional assistant in the English Dept. at Berkeley City College\, and is interning as a marketing assistant at Omnidawn Publishing. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016). \nJacq Greyja is a nonbinary writer from California. They are a graduate student in the Creative Writing MFA program at San Francisco State University\, where they are a William Dickey Poetry Fellow. Jacq’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hold: A Journal\, BAMPFA\, Bushel Collective\, Bettering American Poetry Vol. II\, Columbia Poetry Review\, Apogee\, Peach Mag\, Berkeley Poetry Review\, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook\,
URL:https://litseen.com/event/claire-grossman-terry-taplin-jacq-greyja/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Jesse Jarnow / Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Jesse Jarnow (Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America) for his new book Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America. Please join us! \n  \nFollowing a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards\, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers\, the Blacklist\, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger’s unlikely band of folk heroes\, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts\, before a coordinated harassment campaign at the hands of Congress’s House Un-American Activities Committee and the emergent right-wing media saw them unable to find work and dropped by their label while their songs still hovered on Billboard’s lists. \nTurning the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color\, Wasn’t That a Time uses the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. Emerging while a highly divided populace was bombarded and further divided by fake news — and progressive organizations and individuals found themselves repressed under the pretenses of national security — the Weavers would rise\, fall\, and rise again. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People’s Songs\, both pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool\, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons. \nUsing previously unseen journals and letters\, unreleased recordings\, once-secret government documents\, and other archival research\, veteran music journalist and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes\, incredible pressures\, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. With a class and race-conscious global vision of music that now make them seem like time travelers from the 21st century\, the Weavers would transform material from American blues singer Lead Belly (“Goodnight Irene”)\, the Bahamas (“Wreck of the John B”)\, and South Africa (“Wimoweh”) into songs that remain ubiquitous from rock clubs to Broadway shows. \nFeaturing quotes about the Weavers’ influence from David Crosby\, the Beach Boys’ Al Jardine\, and the Byrds’ Roger McGuinn\, Wasn’t That a Time explores how the group’s innocent-sounding harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI — and how the band’s late ’50s reformation engendered a new generation of musicians to take up the Weavers’ non-violent weaponry: eclectic songs\, joyous harmonies\, and the power of music. \n  \n\n  \nJesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock and Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. His writing on music\, technology\, and culture has appeared in the New York Times\, Rolling Stone\, Pitchfork\, Relix\, Wired.com\, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York and hosts the Frow Showon the independent Jersey City radio station\, WFMU. \n\n\n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required.  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Wasn’t That a Time\, and/or any of Jesse’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-jesse-jarnow-wasnt-that-a-time-the-weavers-the-blacklist-and-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-america/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Caroline J Thibeaux
DESCRIPTION:Caroline J Thibeaux discusses her new book The Dragonglass Bowl: The Dream Walker’s Path. \n\nAbout The Dragonglass Bowl \n\nIs a dream a thing of Shadow or Light? \n\nIf you knew the truth would you dare to dream again? \n\nFor a thousand years the Light of Ashar has protected the land of Ellaria because the people of Ellaria have protected the secret\, forgotten through time\, of Dragonglass. \n\nAs an apprentice scribe\, all Bhryen ever wanted was to prove that his blood was true and that he served his land and his people with honor\, hoping to one day become a Defender of the Light. When he is drawn into the mystery of a strange artifact\, the safe world he knows starts to fall apart. His sleep becomes threatened by dreams\, dreams that are surely touched by a dark and forbidden magic. \n\nWhile the threat of war draws closer\, Bhryen is pulled into the center of this vortex of chaos\, all the while struggling to keep a dangerous knowledge he shares with only a fey\, young boy. The lives of those he loves depends on safeguarding the secret. \n\nA darkness stirs and\, despite the advice of well-meaning friends\, only Bhryen alone has the ability to find and stop it though it might risk discovery of what he has become. The price of becoming a hero is the risk of a fall from grace.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-j-thibeaux/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:election Night with ZYZZYVA
DESCRIPTION:Election Night with Zyzzyva\nHosted by Oscar Villalon\, ZYZZYVA Managing Editor \nwith Nestor Gomez\, Matthew Zapruder\, Caille Millner\, Dean Rader\, Ismail Muhammad\, Vanessa Hua\, and D.A. Powell \nCome join a roster of ZYZZYVA contributors and friends of the journal as we follow the returns on the various congressional elections around the country and in our state. Featuring short readings spread out through the night. \nIssue No 13 – Of & About the Environment (the fall 2018 installement of Zyzzyva) will be on hand for sale that evening. \nThe issue includes work by: \nHéctor Tobar on living in Los Angeles\, before and after air quality regulations; Lauret Edith Savoy traces “the geology of us”; Juli Berwald on “the blob\,” the mysterious oceanic phenomenon that left destruction in its wake; Obi Kaufmann on the importance of reframing the language of conservation. \nArundhati Roy discusses with John Freeman her work as an activist and a writer\, and examines the great danger before us all. \nPoems by Jane Hirshfield\, John Sibley Williams\, Rebecca Foust\, Daniel Neff\, Maggie Millner\, Sophie Klahr\, and Emily Pinkerton. \nFiction by Ben Lasman (ceding the field of work to the robots)\, Manuel Muñoz (the vulnerability of those who work our fields)\, and Louis B. Jones (the tea compost isn’t the only rancidness found living off the grid). \nAnd More Fiction and Poetry: \nStories by Emma Copley Eisenberg\, Elena Graceffa\, and\, marking his First-Time-in-Print\, David Paul; poetry by Ruth Madievsky\, Jennie Malboeuf\, and Paul Wilner. \nArt: Featuring Obi Kaufmann’s watercolors of California’s fauna and flora. \n \nZYZZYVA’s first issue was published in 1985\, under founding editor Howard Junker. In 2011\, Laura Cogan became ZYZZYVA’s first new editor in more than 25 years. She and Managing Editor Oscar Villalon make up ZYZZYVA’s editorial team. Every issue is a vibrant mix of established talents and new voices\, providing an elegantly curated overview of contemporary arts and letters with a distinctly San Francisco perspective. \nTheir publishing history is as illustrious as it is groundbreaking. This is the journal that first published Jim Gavin and Jill Soloway\, F.X. Toole and Po Bronson—and introduced American readers to Haruki Murakami (in issue No. 13). Their list of contributors includes\, among many others\, Peter Orner\, Kay Ryan\, David Guterson\, Tom Bissell\, Tatjana Soli\, Ron Carlson\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Amy Hempel\, D.A. Powell\, Matthew Dickman\, Herbert Gold\, Daniel Sada\, Adam Johnson\, Karl Taro Greenfeld\, Sandow Birk\, Richard Misrach\, Aimee Bender\, Diego Enrique Osorno\, Sherman Alexie\, Daniel Handler\, Adrienne Rich\, Robert Hass\, Czeslaw Milosz\, Wanda Coleman\, Raymond Carver\, Tom Barbash\, William T. Vollmann\, Dagoberto Gilb\, Lawrence Ferlinghetti\, Ed Ruscha\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Ursula K. Le Guin\, Robert Creeley\, and M.F.K. Fisher. \nVisit: www.zyzzyva.org \nto learn more
URL:https://litseen.com/event/election-night-with-zyzzyva/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, Quiet Lightning returns for a series of 9 surprises: \nPeter Bullen\nShirley Huey\nFernando Meisenhalter\nMaia Bull\nCassandra Dallett\nSarah Henry\nSean Taylor\nPaolo Bicchieri\nBrian Kirven \n  \nThis is a FREE\, all-ages show! WHERE IS IT? Ok ok: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou get it: Cupid’s Span in Rincon Park!!! \nMonday\, November 5\, 2018\nReadings begin at 7:30pm \nBut come early\, bring some dinner or a drink if you want\, it’s turn back the clock the night before so sunset will be *just after 5pm* … let’s do this together\, taking in the Bay Lights with a monster mixtape! \nThe first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and photography by Evan Karp. \nRSVP / invite a friend
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-5/
LOCATION:RIncon Rark\, The Embarcadero & Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Tim Mohr in conversation with Penelope Houston
DESCRIPTION:Cosponsored by Rock ‘n Roll Book Club in conjunction with City Lights and Algonquin Books \ncelebrating the release of \n\nBurning Down the Haus: Punk Rock\, Revolution\, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall \nby Tim Mohr \nPublished by Algonquin Books \n\nIt began with a handful of East Berlin teens who heard the Sex Pistols on a British military radio broadcast to troops in West Berlin in 1980\, and it ended with the collapse of the East German dictatorship. Punk rock was a life-changing discovery. The buzz-saw guitars\, the messed-up clothing and hair\, the rejection of society and the DIY approach to building a new one: In their gray surroundings\, where everyone’s future was preordained by some communist apparatchik\, punk represented a revolutionary philosophy—quite literally\, as it turned out. \nBut as the East German punks became more numerous\, more visible\, and more rebellious\, security forces—including the dreaded secret police\, the Stasi—targeted them. They were spied on by friends and even members of their own families; they were expelled from schools and jobs; they were beaten by police and imprisoned. Instead of backing down\, the punks fought back\, playing an indispensable role in the underground movements that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. \nThe story of East German punk rock is about much more than music; it is a story of extraordinary bravery in the face of one of the most oppressive regimes in history. Rollicking\, cinematic\, deeply researched\, highly readable\, and thrillingly topical\, Burning Down the Haus brings to life the young men and women who successfully fought authoritarianism three chords at a time—and is a fiery testament to the irrepressible spirit of resistance. \nTim Mohr is an award-winning literary translator of authors such as Alina Bronsky\, Wolfgang Herrndorf\, and Charlotte Roche. He has also collaborated on memoirs by musicians Gil Scott-Heron\, Duff McKagan of Guns n’ Roses\, and Paul Stanley of KISS. His own writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review\, New York Magazine\, and Inked\, among other publications\, and he spent several years as a staff editor at Playboy magazine\, where he edited Hunter S. Thompson\, John Dean\, and Harvey Pekar\, among others. Prior to starting his writing career he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin. \nPenelope Houston is one of the pioneering women of American punk music. As the lead singer and songwriter for the seminal San Francisco Punk band The Avengers\, she trailblazed the first wave of American punk influencing many future musicians. Music critic Greil Marcus described The Avengers as “San Francisco’s best punk band – in their moments\, they were\, you knew\, better than any other band playing that night anywhere in the world.” Penelope’s later solo forays into acoustic and electric music blended the influences of punk\, folk\, rock\, blues and americana leading to the release of over 11 albums. She makes her home in San Francisco. \nAbout the Rock ‘n Roll Book Club \nAdvance praise for Burning Down the Haus: \n“The Best Punk Book since Please Kill Me.”\n—Legs McNeil\, author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk \n“Burning Down the Haus is not just an immersion into the punk rock scene of East Berlin\, it’s the story of the cultural and political battles that have shaped the world we live in today.  Tim Mohr delivers the soundtrack for the revolution that we’ve all been waiting for.”\n—DW Gibson\, author of The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century \n“In East Germany\, where non-conformity meant jail time\, punks’ ripped clothes and spiked hair were a show of courage and defiance. Squatting in derelict apartments and burning their lyrics before the secret police could get ahold of them\, these teenagers wrote the soundtrack for a rebellion that helped bring down the Berlin Wall. Tim Mohr tells the story of their DIY revolution with the thoroughness of a historian and the panache of a cultural insider. Burning Down the Haus is a riveting cultural history that also serves as a rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere.”\n—Ruth Franklin\, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life \n“The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous research and impassioned prose\, Tim Mohr brings to life the saga of a bunch of East German punk rock kids who broke the state that wanted to break them. A book to warm an old punk’s heart.”\n—Claire Dederer\, author of Love and Trouble \n“Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating\, Burning Down the House is a fabulously alive history of punk rock behind the Iron Curtain\, where simply dressing like a punk could get you hauled in by Stasi\, the dreaded East German secret police. Mohr ties the fearless music-driven resistance to authoritarianism and mass surveillance in the 1980s to our current fraught times\, showing how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated\, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat. A thrilling\, inspiring read.”\n—Rob Spillman\, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow’s Parties \n“An appealing\, lively cultural history worth reading in an era of corporate punk nostalgia.”\n—Kirkus Reviews \n“You say you want a revolution? Tim Mohr’s spellbinding Burning Down the Haus reveals how a bunch of young East German punks in the 1980s made their wild music into a clarion loud enough to topple the Berlin Wall. With a sharp eye for the prosaic brutality of the repressive state and an ear locked on the furies in the music\, Mohr has crafted an unforgettable story that is part cultural history\, part political thriller and entirely true.”\n—Peter Ames Carlin\, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon \n“Berlin has always been a crazy city\, and a dramatic stage for the epic struggle between powerful ideological forces and the individual desire to be free. In case you weren’t sure just how political music\, fashion\, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful.”\n—Norman Ohler\, author of Blitzed \n“This is a crazily inspiring\, strange\, beautiful story that deserves to be remembered\, and Mohr is a wonderfully compassionate writer. What a combination!”\n—Johann Hari\, NYT bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections \n“Tim Mohr’s book details a fascinating period of time in the history of punk music. I am so glad he documented that moment in history for punk rock and for the world.”\n—Greg Gaffin\, singer/songwriter for Bad Religion and author of Population Wars and Anarchy Evolution
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tim-mohr-in-conversation-with-penelope-houston/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Talking About Theatre with Lily Janiak & Joel Mullennix"
DESCRIPTION:Theatre lovers everywhere! Come by Folio Books\, 3957 24th St.\, Monday\, November 5 at 7pm for a special treat. Maxine Einhorn will be speaking with critic Lily Janiak and director/actor Joel Mullennix about their individual perspectives on theatre at Odd Mondays’ “Talking About Theatre.” Janiak is the theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Mullennix is a director and performer at the Word for Word Performing Arts Company in San Francisco. How does a professional reviewer/critic watch and evaluate a production? How and why does the director choose to work with a particular play? How does the performer get into character? Bring questions and hear about upcoming Bay Area productions. Free admission. Free refreshments. \nABOUT THE PANELISTS:\nLily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously\, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area\, American Theatre\, SF Weekly\, the Village Voice\, and HowlRound. She holds a B.A. in theater studies from Yale and an M.A. in drama from San Francisco State University. \nJoel Mullennix is a performer and director with numerous performance credits\, especially with Word for Word Performing Arts Company\, both at the Magic Theater and Z Space in San Francisco. He won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for directing Olive Kitteridge and has directed numerous Word for Word productions\, such as Stories by Alice Munro\, Which is More Than I Can Say About Some People\, and most recently Deep Kiss by Tobias Wolff at Word for Word’s 25-Year Anniversary Performance at Z Space. \nMaxine Einhorn is a Londoner\, an educator\, having lectured and managed a department in colleges in inner London for over 25 years before coming to San Francisco and joining the Education Department at KQED Public Media. She has a B.A. in History from the University of Sussex and an M.A. in Film and TV from the University of London and has taught film studies\, communications\, and media literacy. She has researched and written education guides for independent film productions in London and San Francisco and\, now retired\, is a senior programmer with the Mostly British Film Festival.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-talking-about-theatre-with-lily-janiak-joel-mullennix/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Clark Coolidge reads from Poet (Pressed Wafer) and other works. \nAuthor of more than twenty books of poetry\, Clark Coolidge has occupied a singular place in American letters since the mid-1960s. An unparalleled influence on the wider avant- garde—the Language Poets\, the second and third generation New York School\, and whole movements of visual artists\, musicians\, and linguists\, Coolidge is from Providence\, Rhode Island. Since 1997 he has lived in Petaluma\, California. \n“When I was a Poet / I had no doubt / knew the Ins & Outs of / All & Everything”–so wrote David Meltzer in the title poem of his 2011 collection\, When I Was a Poet. Clark Coolidge heard this poem many times\, in different versions\, over the years\, often as a result of giving readings with Meltzer. He began to ask himself\, What is a poet? Pressed Wafer is proud to present the fruits of Coolidge’s ruminations: a 310-page serial poem\, the bulk of which was written between 2014 and 2016\, titled POET and dedicated to Meltzer. “I give instructions in my poems / you must follow them to the ends of / tura lura independence platform / forget any leaden attempts along the way / this is fortissimo serious / there’ll be no popcorn.” Luckily for us\, “fortissimo serious” means altogether too exuberant to pay bashful court to the muse. These delightful–and frequently hilarious–meditations on the ontologically precarious condition of poethood could only have been written by someone who has spent a lifetime productively writing and reading poems–someone\, moreover\, who is as uninterested in self-regard as they are in penning a lifeless line. Coolidge follows the direction of the music\, keeping his poems just beyond him but within reach. “The poet steps to the beat of his own length.” And his pearls of advice are beyond price: “won’t get far with a title like / Heaven’s Penis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge-3/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Five Fingered Being" by Grace Rosario Perkins
DESCRIPTION:Join us at The Growlery in San Francisco to celebrate Grace Rosario Perkins’ new book of paintings\, “Five Fingered Being”. The book is 52 pages\, 8×11″ and includes a short essay by Grace at the end. This book turned out so rad\, and we’re really excited to share it with you! We’ll have some drinks and snacks to share\, and Grace will be hanging some new work for the occasion. \nThe gallery at The Growlery itself will be open from 1 pm onward with the actual book launch 6-9 pm! \nCome hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-five-fingered-being-by-grace-rosario-perkins/
LOCATION:The Growlery\, 235 Broderick\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20181029T012913Z
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Silent Book Club SF
DESCRIPTION:Bring a book\, bring a friend\, and join us at the Bindery for an afternoon of reading! At Silent Book Club\, there’s no assigned reading. All books and all ages are welcome. \n  \nWe’ll kick off introvert happy hour at 4pm with some light chatter and informal book recommendations before settling in to read quietly\, but if you’d rather just pull up a chair and read\, by all means do so. No one will be shushed or shamed. The bar will be open for late afternoon libations. \n  \nHappy reading and hope to see you there! \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-silent-book-club-sf/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181103T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181103T213000
DTSTAMP:20260421T121219
CREATED:20180923T234954Z
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SUMMARY:The Heart of the Goddess: Art\, Myth and Meditations on the World’s Sacred Feminine
DESCRIPTION:The Sacred Feminine is rising all over the planet\, and with it\, the values of compassion\, peacemaking\, nurturance and love of the Earth. There is renewed awareness of feminine expressions that have been revered for millenia. \nHallie Iglehart Austen shares a wide-reaching selection of art\, meditations\, poetry\, prayers\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. Respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long-lost power of women are inseparable. Immerse yourself in a rich\, multi-media experience of Goddesses from around the world and throughout time\, for a transmission of healing\, teaching\, and the Sacred Feminine in all of us. \nAusten began studying ancient Greek language and mythology in her youth. She has been teaching spirituality and the wisdom of the divine feminine since 1974\, and is author of Womanspirit Meditations and The Heart of the Goddess.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine-2/
LOCATION:East West Bookstore\, 324 Castro Street\, Mountain View\, 94041
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poets Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Hey! Poets! Friends of poets! People dragged to poetry readings for various personal and professional reasons! You know what time it is! It’s time for an amazing reading\, courtesy of Cody-Rose Clevidence\, Margaret Ross\, and Rohan DaCosta. \nCody-Rose Clevidence lives in the Arkansas Ozarks with their dog\, pearl. Their most recent book is FLUNG THRONE from Ahsahta (2018). Their first book\, Beast Feast\, also from Ahsahta\, was a finalist for the 2016 CLMP Firecracker award in poetry and their little chapbook\, Perverse\, All Monstrous\, is out from Nion Editions. \nMargaret Ross was born in New York City. She holds degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program\, the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference\, Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. She is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa\, the International Writing Program and Yale. Her first book\, A Timeshare\, was selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. \nRohan DaCosta is a multi-disciplinary artist from the city of Chicago\, working primarily through photography\, writing\, and song. Often approaching his work with great emotional sensitivity\, Rohan explores complex dilemmas\, and frequencies found in lovers\, in families\, in ecosystems\, and in places. In his candid street photography and in his poetry\, Rohan keenly examines intimacy and relativity\, often finding the personal angle to political problems. In verse\, he expresses the profound joy and quandary of black life in America. He is the founder of and curator for GRACEGOD The Collective\, which celebrates the unique work of artists\, craftsmen\, and activists from all over the world. His work in graphic design and clothing has been featured as limited edition merchandise at The Koppel Project in London. His photography has been featured at The Flight Deck Gallery as a solo exhibition titled Ordinary People (2018). His photography has also been featured at Root Division Gallery as part of a group exhibition titled Let Me Be a Witness (2018). His book of photography\, poetry\, and song\, The Edge of Fruitvale\, was published by Nomadic Press on April 28\, 2018. He was recently awarded the Individual Artist Funding Grant by the City of Oakland for his upcoming show\, Trap : Trauma : Transformation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-cody-rose-clevidence-margaret-ross-and-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181103T170000
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SUMMARY:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING
DESCRIPTION:Upcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nOctober 6\, November 3\, December 1\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181103T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities West presents Late Czarist Russian Artistic Brilliance
DESCRIPTION:Nov 2\, 7:30-9:30pm\, and Nov 3\, 10am-4pm \nLate Czarist Russian Artistic Brilliance is a two-day program of lectures\, discussions\, and musical performances exploring the enduring contributions of Russian art\, music\, and literature created during the twilight years of Czarist Russia. \nThe phrase “European with Asian characteristics” expresses an continuing fascination with the prolific contributions to world culture created during the late 1800’s by Russian artists\, including the music of Tchaikovsky\, Scriabin\, Rachmaninoff\, Stravinsky\, and Prokofiev; the artwork of Kramskoy\, Repin\, and Levitan; and the writings of Pushkin\, Gogol\, Turgenev\, Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, and Chekhov. This program will examine the cultural and historical influences that helped Russians\, and then the rest of the West\, to recognize and to reward the gifts of these Russian artists. \nThe Friday evening program opens with A Russian Success Story\, a lecture/performance by Robert Greenberg\, confirming the emergence of a concert music tradition in 19th-century Russia as one of the great success stories in the history of European art. Russia began the 19th century with virtually no native tradition of concert\, or “literate music.” This talk shows how\, by the end of the century\, Russia was able to export music across the globe and boast two of the world’s greatest schools of music\, while producing composers who would change the nature of European literate music. \nSaturday presenters are Luba Golburt (UC Berkeley) with a presentation on Pushkin or Gogol: Two Blueprints for 19th-Century Russian Literature\, Gary Hamburg (Claremont-McKenna College) with Dostoevsky and the Golden Age of Russian Literature\, and Molly Brunson (Yale) on Painting the Russian Word. \nThe program includes a musical performance introduced by Clifford ‘Kip’ Cranna (SF Opera). Excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s brilliant operatic setting of Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin will be performed by soprano Rhoslyn Jones and baritone Eugene Brancoveanu. \n$25-$80. \nPresented by Humanities West.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/humanities-west-presents-late-czarist-russian-artistic-brilliance/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ROSHI JOAN HALIFAX Standing At the Edge: Finding Freedom where Fear and Courage Meet
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM & St. John’s Presbyterian Church & Mindful Schools present \nROSHI JOAN HALIFAX\nStanding At the Edge: Finding Freedom where Fear and Courage Meet\nHosted by Gaetano Maida \nWheelchair access. Advance tickets: $12: T: 800-838-3006 Books Inc/Berkeley\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moe’s\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloway’s. East Bay Books\, $15 door\, KPFA benefit more info: kpfa.org/events \nJoan Halifax has enriched countless lives of millions around the world through her work as a social activist\, anthropologist\, and Buddhist teacher. Over many decades\, she has also collaborated with neuroscientists\, clinicians\, and psychologists to understand how contemplative practice can be a vehicle for social transformation. This work led her to an understanding of how our greatest challenges can become the most valuable source of our wisdom-and how we can transform suffering for the benefit of others. \n“Roshi Halifax embodies what she teaches: equanimity\, dedication to benefiting others\, and putting compassion into action. Her no-nonsense approach to the emotions that push us to our edge-and can also propel our greatest good-truly inspires. In Standing At the Edge she offers us all a fascinating read and a practical roadmap to fulfilling our personal good work.”\n– Daniel Goleman\, author of Altered Traits and Emotional Intelligence \nRecounting the experiences of caregivers\, activists\, humanitarians\, politicians\, parents\, and teachers\, incorporating the wisdom of Zen traditions and mindfulness practices\, and rooted in Halifax’s groundbreaking research on compassion\, STANDING AT THE EDGE is destined to become a contemporary classic. \nRoshi Joan Halifax\, Ph.D.\, is a Buddhist teacher\, Zen priest and anthropologist. \nGaetano Kazuo Maida is the founder and executive director of Buddhist Film Foundation. \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roshi-joan-halifax-standing-at-the-edge-finding-freedom-where-fear-and-courage-meet/
LOCATION:St. John’s Presbyterian Church\, 2727 College Avenue\, Berkeley\, 94705
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:great weather for MEDIA Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great sweather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \nFeaturing contributors and special guests Zoë Christopher\, Kit Kennedy\, Calder G. Lorenz\, Richard Loranger\, Mary Mackey\, and William Taylor Jr.\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nSuitcase of Chrysanthemums is an exhilarating collection of contemporary poetry and fiction from established and emerging writers across the United States and beyond. Submissions for our next anthology are open until January 15 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-release-party/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass and Essy Stone Mill Valley Library
DESCRIPTION:This event is cosponsored by Poetry Society of America and the Mill Valley Library. This is sure to be a packed event\, so register on the Mill Valley Library website starting on October 15. \n \nRobert Hass\, former United States Poet Laureate\, has illumined the poetic landscape with his many books of poetry\, translation\, and essays. His honors include the National Book Award\, and the Pulitzer Prize. His celebrated books of essays include A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry and What Light Can Do: Essays on Art\, Imagination\, and the Natural World\, the recipient of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Hass translated many of the works of Czeslaw Milosz\, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer; The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His many honors include the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship\, the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (twice)\, and the Wallace Stevens Award. His poetry is deeply reflective of the California landscape\, domestic life\, and spiritual awareness. To hear him read or speak is transformative\, whether a Haiku from Issa\, a mediation from Miłosz\, or his own lyric work. \n\n\n\n\nEssy Stone is a PhD student in poetry at the University of Southern California. She holds an MFA from the University of Miami\, and recently completed a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her work has been published in the New Yorker\, 32 Poems\, and Prairie Schooner. Her first book\, What It Done to Us\, was awarded the Idaho Prize in Poetry and was published by Lost Horse Press in 2017. For much of her life she supported herself as a waitress. Her work reflects the East Tennessee culture in which she grew up\, an often oppressive world\, especially for women or minorities. The freshness of her language and imagery reflect and transform that environment just as she has transformed herself.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-essy-stone-mill-valley-library/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,North Bay
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SUMMARY:9th Ave: Anita Felicelli and Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Anita Felicelli discusses her debut story collection\, Love Songs for a Lost Continent with Peg Alford Pursell. \n\nPraise for Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is an expansive\, inventive meditation on the shifting landscape of identity\, on how people can be shaped and reshaped by violence and power and love. Anita Felicelli has a singular eye for the moments that transfigure lives\, and this tremendous debut collection announces the arrival of a stunning new voice.”– Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n  \n“Love Songs for a Lost Continent is the kind of work that we all need to be reading right now. Filled with heart and heat\, these beautiful stories pursue and reinvent ideas of home and self in ways that push our national conversation on identity.”- Bich Minh Nguyen\, author of Pioneer Girl and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner \n  \n“[This is] the book we needed to read yesterday… a book we will still be reading tomorrow.”- Porochista Khakpour\, author of Sick and Sons and Other Flammable Objects \n\nAbout Love Songs for a Lost Continent \n\nAnita Felicelli’s debut collection delivers a dazzling array of precisely drawn characters searching for identity in the seemingly narrow spaces of their everyday lives. \n  \nFrom the glittering heat of India to the palm-lined streets of Silicon Valley\, the backwoods of Kentucky to the vanilla-bean fields of Madagascar\, immigrants\, daughters\, and lovers explore what it means to lose and to love\, to continually reinvent oneself while honoring the personal histories and lost continents that shape us all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-ave-anita-felicelli-and-peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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