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SUMMARY:Max Porter w/ Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Here he is\, husband and father\, scruffy romantic\, a shambolic scholar–a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden\, accidental death\, and there are his two sons who\, like him\, struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness\, while the boys wander\, savage and unsupervised.\nIn this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow–antagonist\, trickster\, goad\, protector\, therapist\, and babysitter. This self-described “sentimental bird\,” at once wild and tender\, who “finds humans dull except in grief”\, threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories\, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it\, grow up. \nPart novella\, part polyphonic fable\, and part essay on grief\, Max Porter’s extraordinary work combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths\, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. \nMax Porter works in publishing. He lives in South London with his wife and children. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is his first book. Watch a video teaser and read an excerpt from Grief is the Thing with Feathers. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter-w-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160623T200000
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SUMMARY:Word Performances: Private Parlor Show
DESCRIPTION:Word Performances with Arisa White\, Colleen McKee\, Pitta of the Mind\, Damien Alvarez\, Cybele Zufolo Siegel\, Todd Siegel\, Zarina Zabrisky\, Simon Roggue\, & Daniel Berkman – Private Parlor Show\nThursday Jun 23\, 2016\nDoors: 7:30 PM\nShow: 8:00 PM (ends at 10:30 PM) \n12 and over \n$10 in advance and $15 day of show online and at the door. \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-performances-private-parlor-show/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Terry McMillan: I Almost Forgot About You
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Marcus Books present: \nAn Evening with TERRY McMILLAN\nI Almost Forgot About You\nHosted by Sabrina Jacobs \nadvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or Marcus Books\, Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moes\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Diesel a Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloways S.F. – Modern Times. $15 door\, KPFA benefit www.kpfa.org/events \nTerry McMillans novels have always been about telling the uncensored truth about friends\, family\, lovers\, and oneself. Through addictively revealing conversations including an instructive one about the sexual prowess of men who made the A listMcMillans narrator is the ideal running commentator on what smart women do to reach the pinnacle of success and what they must do to get the hell out before its too late. Its a story about both reinvention and acceptances\, told in McMillans quintessential voice\, now even more expansive\, prismatically perceptive\, and laugh-aloud generous in how we talk about love and all its wonders.\nAmy Tan\, New York Times bestselling author\nof The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement \nThe warmth and wisdom we have come to expect from Terry McMillan are on full display and you wont be able to walk away from Georgia and her exuberant life. This is that thrilling kind of novel that reminds us how sometimes\, fairy tales happen when we least expect them\, if only we open ourselves to possibility.\nRoxane Gray\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist and An Unnamed State \nFor nearly thirty years Terry McMillan has been entertaining readers with novels bursting with warmth\, humor\, and a fearless\, tell-it-like-it-is honesty. Beginning with her acclaimed debut novel\, Mama\, her New York Times bestselling books include Waiting to Exhale\, A Day Late and a Dollar Short\, The interruption of Everything\, How Stella Got Her Groove Back\, Getting to Happy \, Disappearing Acts\, and now I Almost Forgot About You\, a bold\, inspiring story of second chances and next chapters. \nReaders will find her signature charm\, acerbic wit\, and spot-on depictions of modern life and culture on full display. \nHost Sabrina Jacobs is the volunteer host and producer of A Rude Awakening\, a cultural and political affairs show aired on KPFA. Prior to her own show\, she got her start as an intern six years ago and moved on to news reporting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-mcmillan-i-almost-forgot-about-you/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime INTERRUPTIONS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature Anne Germanacos (Tribute)\, Tony Robles (Cool Don’t Live Here No More)\, Makram Abu-Shakra (Interplay)\, Genine Lentine (Poses)\, and Luciano Aldana. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-interruptions/
LOCATION:Second Act\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Chinaka Hodge
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of \nDated Emcees \npublished by City Lights Books (Sister Spit Imprint). With Tongo Eisen-Martin & RyanNicole.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chinaka-hodge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Moby: Porcelain
DESCRIPTION:From one of the most iconic DJs of our time\, Porcelain is a funny and harrowing account of the NYC club scene in the ’80s and ’90s. When Moby arrived in New York\, he was not only a poor\, skinny kid from Connecticut\, but also a Christian\, a vegan\, and a teetotaler. This was during the time when dance music was still largely underground in clubs like Palladium\, Mars\, and Limelight. By the end of the decade\, Moby contemplated the end in his career and put everything into one last project―the multimillion-selling album Play. Porcelain is both a chronicle of a city and a time and a deeply intimate exploration of finding one’s place. \n  \nTickets must be purchased in advance\, at this link. Prices: \n>> $30 one book / one ticket \n>> $45 one book / two tickets \n  \nPorcelain will be available on May 17th\, and you can pick up your book at the event during check-in. If you would like to coordinate in-store pick up ahead of time\, please contact events at booksmith dot com. \n  \nImportant caveats: \n>> This is a program based around Moby’s memoir Porcelain\, not a musical performance. Moby will only be signing copies of Porcelain. He will not sign any merchandise. \n>> Regarding photos: You can take photos of Moby in the signing line or during the program\, but NO posed photos or selfies with him will be allowed. \n>> Doors open at 6pm\, the program will begin at 7pm\, the signing will be held after the program. Wristbands for the signing line will be given on a first come\, first served basis upon arriving at the venue. However\, please note\, the signing could takeseveral hours to complete. Personalizations are not guaranteed. \n>> This is an 18+ show. Please bring photo ID. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Tickets are for standing room only. \n>> To inquire about a seat\, or for any other questions\, please email events at booksmith dot com before June 19th. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/moby-porcelain/
LOCATION:DNA Lounge\, 375 11th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Zoe Zolbrod w/ Brian Hurley
DESCRIPTION:Zoe Zolbrod remained silent about her early childhood molestation for nearly a decade. When she finally decided to tell\, she wasn’t sure what to expect\, or what to say. In a kaleidoscopic series of experiences\, Zolbrod hitchhikes with a boyfriend from one coast to another\, hangs out in a strip club in Philadelphia\, meets and marries her husband\, and gives birth to her children. She traces the development of her sexuality\, her relationships with men\, and the cultivation of her motherhood in the shadow of her childhood sexual abuse. Bolstered with research\, Zolbrod argues passionately for the empowerment of sexual abuse victims and the courage it takes to talk about it. The Telling is an intimate examination of one woman’s reckoning with a past she can’t always explain\, and a life lived in search for the right words. \nZoe Zolbrod’s work has appeared in Salon\, The Nervous Breakdown\, The Weeklings\, and The Rumpus\, where she serves as the Sunday Editor. Her debut novel Currency won a 2010 Nobbie Award and received an honorable mention by Friends of American Writers. Zolbrod lives in Evanston\, Illinois\, with her husband and children. \nBrian Hurley is Books Editor at The Rumpus\, Curator of the Critical Hit Awards at Electric Literature’s blog The Outlet\, and Co-Editor of Fiction Advocate. \nCopies of The Telling will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zoe-zolbrod-w-brian-hurley/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ Emma Cline
DESCRIPTION:Emma Cline\, Author\, The Girls \nClaire Bidwell Smith\, Grief Therapist\, mother and author of “The Rules of Inheritance” and “After This: When Life is Over\, Where Do We Go?”–Moderator \nThe Girls\, the forthcoming\, highly-anticipated debut novel by Emma Cline\, tells the story of Evie\, a young woman who gets drawn into the mysterious world of a gang of girls and quickly finds herself immersed in their world and in over her her head. \nEmma’s writing has been praised by everyone from Lena Dunham to Mark Haddon for her deeply insightful observations about girls and the women they become. Emma rose to prominence when she signed a three book deal in 2014\, at the age of 25. \nJoin INFORUM at The Commonwealth Club of California for a riveting evening with Emma. \nThis is a Good Lit event\, underwritten by the Bernard Osher Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-emma-cline/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160620T190000
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SUMMARY:Natashia Deón in Conversation w/ Kaitlin Solimine
DESCRIPTION:Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Natashia Deón’s debut novel\, Grace. She will be in conversation with Kaitlin Solimine\, with book sales and signing to follow. \nFor a runaway slave in the 1840s south\, life on the run can be just as dangerous as life under a sadistic Massa. That’s what fifteen-year-old Naomi learns after she escapes the brutal confines of life on an Alabama plantation. Striking out on her own\, she must leave behind her beloved Momma and sister Hazel and takes refuge in a Georgia brothel run by a freewheeling\, gun-toting Jewish madam named Cynthia. There\, amidst a revolving door of gamblers\, prostitutes\, and drunks\, Naomi falls into a star-crossed love affair with a smooth-talking white man named Jeremy who frequents the brothel’s dice tables all too often. \nThe product of Naomi and Jeremy’s union is Josey\, whose white skin and blonde hair mark her as different from the other slave children on the plantation. Having been taken in as an infant by a free slave named Charles\, Josey has never known her mother\, who was murdered at her birth. Josey soon becomes caught in the tide of history when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaches the declining estate and a day of supposed freedom quickly turns into a day of unfathomable violence that will define Josey—and her lost mother—for years to come. \nDeftly weaving together the stories of Josey and Naomi—who narrates the entire novel unable to leave her daughter alone in the land of the living—Grace is a sweeping\, intergenerational saga featuring a group of outcast women during one of the most compelling eras in American history. It is a universal story of freedom\, love\, and motherhood\, told in a dazzling and original voice set against a rich and transporting historical backdrop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/natashia-deon-in-conversation-w-kaitlin-solimine/
LOCATION:Alamo Drafthouse Cinema\, 2550 Mission Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Reek bell + Jai Arun Ravine
DESCRIPTION:Come see Reek bell and Jai Arun Ravine at our June 20th Cantíl reading! Entry is FREE and open to the public. Donations welcome. Qilombo is wheelchair accessible. \nJai Arun Ravine is a writer\, dancer and graphic designer currently living in Philadelphia. As a mixed race\, mixed gender and mixed genre artist\, their work arises from the simultaneity of text and body and takes the form of video\, performance\, comics and handmade books. Jai’s first full-length book\, แล้ว AND THEN ENTWINE: LESSON PLANS\, POEMS\, KNOTS\, re-imagines immigration history and attempts to transform cultural inheritances of silence. Their short film TOM/TRANS/THAI approaches the silence around female-to-male (FTM) transgender identity in the Thai context and has screened internationally. THE ROMANCE OF SIAM (Timeless\, Infinite Light) is their second book. jaiarunravine.com \nReek bell is a queer mixed-media artist based in Oakland\, from South Jersey. Her work reflects experiences within blackness\, resistance\, friendship\, and exhaustion. A poet since third grade\, she embraces melancholy\, values intimacy\, magic\, and militancy. twitter.com/reekokay \nCantíl is a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about Cantíl\nhere: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reek-bell-jai-arun-ravine/
LOCATION:Qilombo\, 2313 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Summer Solstice Season Closer
DESCRIPTION:featuring Denise Benavides and Trey Amos \nOpen Mic Sign up: 7:15pm / 8-10 spots on the list / 5 min. ea. \nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-summer-solstice-season-closer/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joe Clifford Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Pegasus Downtown hosts the launch party for December Boys – a new thriller by local author Joe Clifford  \nJay Porter\, the newest employee at NorthEastern Insurance in New Hampshire\, is investigating an accident claim when he learns the teenager behind the wheel was arrested for minor drug possession and sentenced to a hardcore behavioral modification center. At the county courthouse\, Jay meets Nicki\, a young college intern\, who tips him off to a possible scandal – first-time juvenile offenders being shipped to private institutions for political kickbacks. He learns that long-time family nemeses\, Adam and Michael Lombardi\, may have a stake in the scheme. Is Jay’s mission to help these kids a legitimate crusade? Or is his thirst for revenge driven by the guilt he feels over his own junkie brother’s death? These questions conspire to tear apart tranquility and drive a wedge between Jay and his wife Jenny. With help from new friend Nicki\, and a couple of old friends\, Jay finds himself thrust back into a past he had hoped to leave behind\, putting everything – and everyone he loves – at risk in pursuit of the truth. \nJoe Clifford is acquisitions editor for Gutter Books and managing editor of The Flash Fiction Offensive. He also produces Lip Service West\, a “gritty\, real\, raw” reading series in Oakland\, CA. Joe is the author of three books: Choice Cuts\, Wake the Undertaker\, and Junkie Love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joe-clifford-book-launch/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Bloom: Reading #50
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE EVENT\nMembers of MIXED WRITES\, a group of mixed race women writers\, will honor Father’s Day and the Summer Solstice—the most light-filled day of the year\, by reading work on the theme of fathers and inner light. \nWe will be celebrating the 50th Reading of The Bloom\, and the anniversary of Mixed Writes (Faith Adiele\, Maria T. Allocco\, Jackie Graves and Audrey T. Williams). \nABOUT THE WRITERS\nMARIA T. ALLOCCO is a South Korean and Italian Voices of Our Nation alum and was an Academy of American Poets Prize winner by age twenty. Her pieces have been featured on KPFA andMutiny Radio\, and performed for SOMArts\, LitQuake\, Kearny Street Workshop\, The Intersection For The Arts\, and The San Francisco International Arts Festival. Her work has been published inThe Lantern Review\, Fusion Magazine\, Monday Night\, Sparkle and Blink\, and in the new book Pariahs: Writing From Outside The Margins. She’s a co-founder of the bay area’s first mixed race meditation group\, and teaches yoga to ‘at-risk’ youth. Find her at: writetoheal.us \nJACKIE GRAVES believes in the transformative power of words. She is currently working on a memoir of healing that celebrates family\, spirituality\, and sisterhood. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including residencies at the Julia and David White Artist Colony\, Jentel Artist Residence Program\, Djerassi Resident Artist Program\, and Soapstone\, a Writing Retreat for Women. She received theCity of Oakland Spoken Word Fellowship\, the Ardella Mills Prize for Fiction\, and was a finalist in the Poets & Writers California Voices Contest. She teaches English at Laney College. \nAUDREY T. WILLIAMS is an Oakland-based writer. She is a VONA alum\, and working towards an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at CCA. Audrey is currently writing the manuscript for “Chutney and Chitlins\,” a mixed-race family memoir that makes use of hybrid creative nonfiction using narratives and images. The book begins with stories from her African-American father as he joined thenewly integrated US Marines in the late 1950’s (possibly the first African American US Marine sent to US embassy duty in Rangoon\, Burma). In Burma\, he mets Audrey’s mother\, whose heritage is a mixture of European and South Asian ancestry (Anglo-Indian-Burmese). Her website:audreyTwilliams.com. \nABOUT THE BLOOM\nThe Bloom is a literary series featuring Bay Area writers\, where a past reader curates five readers around a theme. It’s an entertaining evening of diverse voices and personal style\, bridging narratives and communities. It was founded by Margaret Bacon\, Tara Dorabji\, and Jason Wyman in the summer of 2012.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-bloom-reading-50/
LOCATION:Mercury Cafe\, 201 Octavia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Benefit Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, June 17\, 2016 acclaimed poets Kazim Ali\, Robert Hass\, Brenda Hillman\, Cathy Park Hong\, Patricia Spears Jones\, and Sharon Olds will read from their poetry in the First Congregational Church of Berkeley in the Bay Area. \nAt this gathering of the tribe\, all staff poets from this year’s Community of Writers Summer Poetry Workshop in Squaw Valley will raise money for the Poetry Programs financial aid and scholarships. Books by the poets will be available for purchase and signing. \nFor more information\, call  (530) 470-8440 or email info@communityofwriters.org. \nTickets are $25 advance/$30 at the door for general admission and $15 advance/$20 at the door for students (with current student ID). Group discounts are available in advance for $20. \nDirections \nThe venue is located on the south side of the UC Berkeley campus and just one block below (west) of historic Telegraph Avenue. \nPublic Transportation\nYou can reach the venue by a number of public transit options. They are about 6 blocks from the Downtown Berkeley BART Station. You can check their website for the schedule of BART trains that serve this area. \nA number of AC Transit bus routes pass close to the doors (click on the links for route maps: 1\, 51B\, 49\, 52\, 851\, and F. These routes would take you to the corner of Shattuck Avenue and Channing Way which is about three blocks west of the church: 18\, 800. \nParking \nThere is a parking lot behind the church with limited spaces available. It can be entered from the Channing Street side of the building. Otherwise street parking is nearby\, and there are several lots in downtown Berkeley a short walk away. \nSponsor \nThis Event is Underwritten by Deborah Dashow Ruth  Deborah is a poet\, playwright\, alum and long-time supporter of the Community of Writers. She is sponsoring the event to help poets who\, without the financial aid this even provides\, would be unable to attend the summer program. \nGet Involved! \nBecome a Sponsor or Give to the Poetry Scholarship Fund \nWe are looking for volunteers! We need help with: \nPromoting the event during the months of April and May.\nCrowd-wrangling on the evening of June 17.\nSelling Books at the event. \nIf you are interested in helping (and in a free ticket to the event)\, please contact us: info@communityofwriters.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/community-of-writers-at-squaw-valley-benefit-reading/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Negin Farsad: How To Make White People Laugh
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Malihe Razazan \nadvance tickets: $12 : brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006  or Books Inc (Berkeley)\, Pegasus (3 sites)\, Moes\, Walden Pond Bookstore\, Diesel a Bookstore\, Mrs. Dalloways   S.F. – Modern Times. $15 door\, KPFA benefit   kpfa.org/events \nHow To Make White People Laugh is the first book by the writer\, director and star of\nthe hit documentary The Muslims Are Coming! Her autobiographical essays about growing up Iranian-American in a post 9/11 world  reveal the power of comedy to combat racism.  In this candid\, often hilarious book\, Farsad reveals her personal experience being the other in a contemporary American culture that often fears\nanything deemed foreign. She confides a youthful longing to be African-American or Mexican at various points. \nWriting bluntly about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss\, Farsad takes a long and clarifying look at the iconography that still shapes our concepts of Black or White or Muslim  and what  happens when white culture defines everything. She explores what it means to have a hyphenated identity. She discusses how we can effectively combat racism\, stereotyping\, and exclusion. Her particular genius is in openly confronting these issues with wit\, humor\, and incisive intellect. \nBorn in Connecticut\, Negin Farsad was raised in Southern California. Aspiring for a career in politics\, she attended Cornell University in New York\, majoring in government as well as theater arts\, until she realized that her deeper passion was for writing and performing. On graduating\, she settled in New York City and attended Columbias School of International and Public Affairs\, where she earned two masters degrees. Evenings she spent writing and performing comedy. In 2011 she was named by the Huffington Post one of the 50 Funniest Women.  Her comedic routines often featured frank\, sharp-witted views on politics\, sex and the culltural dynamics of navigating her Iranian family. In 2013 she gave a TED Talk in social justice comedy. Her first musical\, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival. Her solo show Bootleg Islam  appeared in the DC\, Dallas and Chicago Comedy Festivals.  She produced\, directed and performed on MTV and Comedy Central and was a regular contributor to The Young Turks television show. Her films include: The Muslims Are Coming\, Nerdcore Rising\, A Cricket in the Court of Akbar\, Hot Bread Kitchen\, and Iran-ing on Empty.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/negin-farsad-how-to-make-white-people-laugh/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\, 2501 Harrison St\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Series #3
DESCRIPTION:Candace Eros Diaz | Louise Mathias | The Bayonettes | Kamikaze Palm Tree \nCurated by Sara Mumolo\nhttp://www.proartsgallery.org/event/hybrid-series-3/ \nPro Arts Gallery is excited to announce the third of its Hybrid Series events—blurring the traditional boundaries between artistic disciplines. \nCandace Eros Diaz is the recipient of a 2015-2016 Steinbeck Fellowship out of The Steinbeck Fellows Program of San José State University. She is a former San Francisco Writer’s Grotto Fellow\, and will be a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow this summer. She is the Coordinator of Admissions and Student Services for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center residency and her work has appeared in MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, The East Bay Review\, and Huizache\, among others. She is currently at work on a historical creative nonfiction novel about her women ancestors. She lives in Oakland\, CA and can be found at www.candaceerosdiaz.com. \nLouise Mathias is the author of two books of poems\, Lark Apprentice\, which won the New Issues Poetry Prize\, and The Traps (Four Way Books)\, as well as a chapbook Above All Else\, the Trembling Resembles a Forest\, chosen by Martha Ronk for the Burnside Review Chapbook competition. Raised in England and Los Angeles\, for the last seven years she has lived in Joshua Tree\, California\, where she drives around the Mojave taking photos and writing poems about wildflowers\, desolation\, sex and trash. \nThe Bayonettes are a raw rock trio from the Bay Area. Check out their magic HERE: https://thebayonettes.bandcamp.com/ \nKamikaze Palm Tree is a two-person art experiment from Oakland. Check out their sound HERE: https://kamikazepalmtree.bandcamp.com/ \n*This event is made possible with matching grant by Poets & Writers\, Inc.\nBeverage sponsor: Ordinaire Wine
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hybrid-series-3/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Flynn Berry: Under the Harrow
DESCRIPTION:When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside\, she expects to find her waiting at the station\, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house\, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. \nStunned and adrift\, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police\, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets she unravels\, she is under the harrow—distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession\, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. \nA riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters\, the distortions of grief\, and the terrifying power of the past\, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. \nFlynn Berry is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers\, and has been awarded a Yaddo residency. This is her first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flynn-berry-under-the-harrow/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:ArtSpan Mixer: Art\, Readings\, & Reactions with Quiet Lightning + Modern Eden
DESCRIPTION:Join ArtSpan and Quiet Lightning at Modern Eden Gallery for the third annual Art\, Readings\, & Reactions event! This Artist Mixer invites writers from Quiet Lightning to view Modern Eden’s exhibition\, Portraits of Friends\, and to write from its inspiration. The writers then share their literary creations by reading to an audience equipped with sketch books to react with drawings…! \nAll are weclome to join! ArtSpan will provide sketch books and drawing materials. \nQuiet Lighting Guest Curator: Tess Taylor \nWriters/Readings: Keith Ekiss\, Katie Peterson\, Dean Rader\, Brynn Saito\, and Tess Taylor \nFeatured Modern Eden Art Exhibition: \nPortraits of Friends: The ever-popular annual portrait show – Nearly 50 top contemporary artists interpret this theme to create portraits of their friends\, fans\, and/or acquaintances. \nParticipant Biographies: \nKeith Ekiss is the author of Pima Road Notebook (New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and the translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio forthcoming from Tavern Books in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio is recently out from The Bitter Oleander Press. He is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University where he teaches courses on poetry\, poetry and film\, fiction\, and the essay. \nKatie Peterson is the author of three books of poetry\, This One Tree\, Permission\, and The Accounts\, the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. She is back in her native California after years in Boston and lives in El Cerrito with her husband\, the photographer and filmmaker Young Suh\, with whom she collaborates. She teaches at the University of California at Davis. \nDean Rader’s debut collection of poems\, Works & Days\, won the 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize\, and Tess Taylor named his Landscape Portrait Figure Form one of the Best Books of Poetry of the year in The Barnes & Noble Review. He is also the editor of the 2014 anthology 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. Rader writes regularly for The Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle and is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco. Two collections of poetry are forthcoming\, including a book of collaborative sonnets written with Simone Muench\, entitled Suture (Black Lawrence Press) and Self-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry (Copper Canyon). \nBrynn Saito is the author of Power Made Us Swoon (Red Hen Press\, 2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (Red Hen Press\, 2013)\, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award. Brynn is a recipient of the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Fellowship and winner of the Key West Literary Seminar’s Scotti Merrill Memorial Award. Originally from Fresno\, CA\, Brynn lives in Los Altos and teaches and works in San Francisco. \nTess Taylor is the author of The Forage House\, finalist for the Believer Poetry Award\, and Work & Days. An avid gardener and cook\, she dropped out of Amherst College in her twenties to become a translator and chef’s assistant at L’Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris. Her poems and essays have appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, The Academy of American Poets\, and The New York Times. She is currently the on air poetry reviewer for NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” and was most recently visiting professor of English and creative writing at Whittier College. She lives in El Cerrito\, CA. \nWith ice cold beer\, courtesy of Lagunitas! \nMore about the exhibition\, Portraits of Friends:http://www.moderneden.com/pages/portraits-of-friends \nPhotos + vids from previous ArtSpan + Quiet Lightning mixers:\n• 2015: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-superhero/\n• 2014: litseen.com/quiet-lightning-fairy-tales/ \nArtwork Image: Archer Dougherty\, Every Person Sees Themselves\, 2016\, Oil on wood\, 18 x 24 in.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/artspan-mixer-art-readings-reactions-with-quiet-lightning-modern-eden/
LOCATION:Modern Eden Gallery\, 801 Greenwich St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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SUMMARY:Lyrics and Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Readers: \nJuliana Spahr \nJuliana Delgado Lopera \nRochelle Spencer \nJoy Elán \nRené Vazquez \nKay Nillson \nHosted and Curated by MK Chavez \nLyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-and-dirges-2/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Grady Hendrix w/ Katie Crouch
DESCRIPTION:Grady Hendrix celebrates the release of his new book My Best Friend’s Exorcism with his best friend from high school and local SF author Katie Crouch (Girls in Trucks\,Abroad). These two embarrassment experts are going to exorcise their high school humiliation demons and take the plunge into pure insanity. See! Grady and Katie talk about the bizarre alternate universe that was high school in the deep South in the 1980s. Hear! Katie and Grady read the most cringe-inducing passages from their teenage diaries. Weep! As Grady reads horrifying fan letters he wrote celebrities. Wonder! At how Katie manages to dress herself in the morning after listening to the poetry she submitted to the high school literary journal. Thank God! It’s not you up there revealing what a complete and total teenager you were. \nGrady Hendrix is a novelist and screenwriter based in New York City. His previous novel\,Horrorstör\, was named one of the best books of 2014 by National Public Radio. \n  \nKatie Crouch is the New York Times bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad\, among other novels. She has written for The Guardian\, McSweeney’s\, Tin House\,Slate\, Salon\, and has a regular column on the Rumpus called “Missed.” A MacDowell Fellow\, Crouch teaches at San Francisco State University and lives in Bolinas\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/grady-hendrix-w-katie-crouch/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit! Sonoma County CHAPBOOK LAUNCH Edition!
DESCRIPTION:Kara would be so excited to see your face at the Sonoma County launch of her chapbook\, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song\, out on Split Lip Press 6/15. No open mic this time\, but she will be joined by some fabulous readers\, including Ms. Dani Burlison\, who will be reading from her new zine Lady Parts\, Shirin Bridges\, Guy Biederman\, Leilani Clark\, Jessica Dur\, and Tricia McWorter. Let’s hang out!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-sonoma-county-chapbook-launch-edition/
LOCATION:Corkscrew Wine Bar\, 100 Petaluma Blvd N #103\, Petaluma\, CA\, 94952\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Well-RED: Kate Folk + Lisa Locascio
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6:30pm and performance begins at 7:00pm.\nFree appetizers and copies of Porter Gulch Review 2016.\nAffordable wine\, beer and soda.\nOpen mic will follow the performance. \nKate Folk’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Juked\, Colorado Review\, the Baltimore Review\, Puerto del Sol\, Tin House online\, and Joyland\, among other publications. Her work has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize\, has been profiled by the literary blogs Great Writers Steal and The Masters Review\, and for SF Weekly’s author interview series\, “The Write Stuff.” She was a 2014 San Francisco Writers’ Grotto fellow\, has received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center\, and was a 2016 fiction finalist for the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowships. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. Originally from Iowa\, she lived in New York for five years before moving to San Francisco in 2008\, where she still lives and works as a college English instructor and as a prose editor for the literary journal Your Impossible Voice. \nLisa Locascio was born in Chicago and raised in River Forest\, Illinois. Her writing appears in The Believer\, Salon\, n+1\, Tin House Flash Fridays\, Bookforum\, Santa Monica Review\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, and many other journals. She has held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program\, Prairie Center of the Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, and received honors and support for her writing from the National Association for the Advancement of the Arts\, New York University\, Western Michigan University\, the University of Southern California\, the Del Amo Foundation\, and many other institutions. Lisa is the first and only Anglophone writer to be granted an interview with Roberto Bolaño’s widow Carolina López. Her writing about Bolaño has received mention in The New Yorker and The Los Angeles Times. Her fiction and criticism has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, translated into Italian\, anthologized\, and honored with awards including the 2011 John Steinbeck Award for Fiction\, the 2014 Robbins Memorial Emerging Writer Award fromSou’wester\, and a 2014 Dorys Grover Award from the Western Literature Association. Lisa holds two degrees from New York University\, where her master’s thesis was advised by Lydia Davis\, and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California\, where her dissertation was advised by Aimee Bender. She has held teaching appointments in creative writing and literature at New York University\, the University of Southern California\, the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Colorado College\, Mount Saint Mary’s University\, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference\, and through various tutoring and mentorship organizations across the United States. \nWhile completing her doctorate\, Lisa cofounded the chapbook micropress Gold Line Press and its imprint Ricochet Editions. She is the editor of California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State\, Vol. 4\, which will be published in 2017 by Outpost19 Books\, as well as of the California editions of the fiction magazine Joyland and at the ekphrastic collaboration magazine 7×7. She lives in Los Angeles\, where she is Lecturer of Scandinavian Studies at UCLA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/well-red-kate-folk-lisa-locascio/
LOCATION:Works/San José\, 365 S Market St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Return to Butternut Lake with local author Mary McNear!
DESCRIPTION:Local author and New York Times bestseller Mary McNear returns to Butternut Lake with the fourth novel of her popular series. Space Between Sisters uncovers the complicated bond between two sisters during one memorable summer season. 10% of all store book sales from 6 pm to close will go to benefit The Women’s Building\, a community space for women in San Francisco\, http://womensbuilding.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/return-to-butternut-lake-with-local-author-mary-mcnear/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Panel
DESCRIPTION:Annual Pride Poetry Panel features MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein\, Nico Peck and James J. Siegel Monday\, June 13\, 7-8pm at Books Inc. Castro. Celebrate Queer pride\, these fabulous poets\, and 20-years of Books Inc. Castro! Door prizes at 7pm. Champagne and chocolates. A free event open to all.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pride-poetry-panel/
LOCATION:Books Inc. In the Castro\, 2275 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:California Book Awards
DESCRIPTION:Winners of the 85th Annual California Book Awards \nFICTION\nGold: Lucia Berlin\, A Manual for Cleaning Women\, Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\nSilver: Ernest J. Finney\, Elevation 6040\, Texas Review Press\n\nNONFICTION\nGold: Jill Leovy\, Ghettoside\, Spiegel & Grau\nSilver: Steve Silberman\, Neurotribes\, Avery Publishing\n\nYOUNG ADULT\nGold: Neal Shusterman\, Challenger Deep\, Harper Teen\nSilver: Andrew Smith\, The Alex Crow\, Dutton Books for Young Readers\n\nFIRST FICTION\nGold: Viet Thanh Nguyen\, The Sympathizer\, Grove Press; First Edition\n\nJUVENILE\nGold: Alex Gino\, George\, Scholastic Press\n\nPOETRY\nGold: Beth Murray\, Cancer Angel\, Belladonna Publishing\n\nCALIFORNIANA\nGold: Tom Killion\, California’s Wild Edge\, Heyday\n\nCONTRIBUTION TO PUBLISHING\nGold: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers\, Edited by James Karman\, Stanford University Press\n\nImportant Upcoming Dates \n#CBA85: 85th Annual California Book Awards Competition\nAwards Ceremony: June 13\, 2016 \n#CBA86 Submission Deadline: Submissions for The Commonwealth Club of California’s 86th Annual California Book Awards will be accepted starting in July 2016. Authors and publishers are invited to submit entries online for books published in 2016 to the 86th California Book Awards. Deadline is December 23\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/california-book-awards/
LOCATION:Inforum at the Commonwealth Club\, 555 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Rosa Lane + Nina Lindsay
DESCRIPTION:Rosa Lane is a native of coastal Maine\, with familial and ancestral roots in lobster fishing. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of the poetry chapbook Roots and Reckonings (Granite Press\, East\, 1980). Her work has won several awards and appeared in numerous journals\, including The Briar Cliff Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, New South\, and Ploughshares. After earning her second master’s and a PhD in sustainable architecture from UC Berkeley\, Lane works as an architect and divides her time between coastal Maine and the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she lives with her partner. \n“Rosa Lane’s poetry reminds us why\, at a certain time in our lives\, we’ve had enough of innocence. Here is a compendium of those so crucial\, chronology-defying self-revelations that we only know through our skin. Every line carries with it a resonant sense of what matters\, and why. Her voice is soft and sure\, mature and intimate\, the boldness of insight always subsumed by an extraordinary empathy for her demons. Each poem is a skiff sculling through sounds almost Hopkinsesque\, each measure of music anchored by the ground base we feel more than hear.” —Jeffrey Levine \nNina Lindsay’s first collection of poetry\, Today’s Special Dish\, was published by Sixteen Rivers Press in 2007. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and has been awarded the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Lindsay also writes children’s literary criticism and reviews for Kirkus\, The Horn Book Magazine\, School Library Journal\, and other publications. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she works for the Oakland Public Library. \n“Nina Lindsay’s Because is beautiful work. The poems pick through the things of the world\, her world\, exposing the unseen and intensifying the seen. They question what she calls ‘our multifrond uncertainties and errors’ and ‘hesitant happiness.’ She negotiates with great poise the push-pull of darkness and light\, presence and absence\, waking consciousness and the dream life. The familiar becomes\, in her telling\, unfamiliar and fraught. ‘February’s dust is rapturous\,’ she says. The poems\, too\, even in their melancholies\, are rapturous.” —W. S. Di Piero
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-rosa-lane-nina-lindsay/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Cohen + Hodges
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland hosts another installment of Poetry Flash on Sunday\, June 12th at 3pm. The featured guest poets will be Susan Cohen and Catherine Abbey Hodges. \nPoetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews! Poetry Flash has begun a Kickstarter campaign. Click here to learn more about helping them so they can better serve and support the literary communities of the West Coast and beyond. \nJoin us for the official book launch of Susan Cohen’s second full-length collection\, A Different Wakeful Animal\, winner of the 2015 Meadowhawk Prize from Red Dragonfly Press. Stephen Dunn says\, “Her descriptions constitute what I want to call intelligence—someone in the act of getting the world right\, making it ours as well as hers.” A former contributing writer for the Washington Post Magazine\, she was also a professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Her poems have been widely published in literary journals and anthologized in the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry. \nCatherine Abbey Hodges’s debut book of poems is Instead of Sadness\, winner of the 2015 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize from Gunpowder Press. Paulann Petersen says\, “Catherine Abbey Hodges offers us—inside each musical line\, within each vibrant trope—a luminous wisdom. Each poem gives us a world ‘replenished like a well // in blues and greens and wings.’” She is also author of the chapbook All the While\, and she is professor of English at Porterville College in central California. \nCopies of each book will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-cohen-hodges/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks: Dhompa\, Gross\, Valdivia\, + Morton
DESCRIPTION:Tsering Wangmo Dhompa (In the Absent Everyday)\nAnne Gross (The Conjured Woman)\nJuan Alvarado Valdivia (¡Cancerlandia!)\nJim Morton (Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films)\nGUEST HOST: Bucky Sinister (Black Hole) \nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-dhompa-gross-valdivia-morton/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kelechi Ubozoh at WIP Women's Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:A WOMEN-ONLY EVENT! \nFeatured Singer and Poet KELECHI UBOZOH\nplus open mic \nKelechi Ubozoh is a singer\, writer\, and mental health advocate. Published in The New York Times during her undergrad\, she strives to uncover truths in her poetry. She performed Beast Crawl and presented at 29th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference and was recently featured at Lyrics and Dirges. Currently\, she is working on a collection of poetry and will be featured in the “S” Word documentary\, around promoting awareness for suicide attempt survivors. \nJune birthday girls\, host and producer LINDA ZEISER and producer CAROLYN STULL ZEISER\, may do minifeatures and read a bit. \nContact Linda at 510-701-1022 or ZeiserpoetMC@aol.com WELL BEFORE READING to reserve open mic slot \n6:30 potluck\, 7:30 show.\n$7-$10 admission includes raffle ticket for 10 Ferron CDs.\nIf you can’t pay\, please just help set-up and clean-up.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kelechi-ubozoh-at-wip-womens-open-mic/
LOCATION:Plymouth United Church of Christ\, 424 Monte Vista Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94611\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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