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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Sally McGrane
DESCRIPTION:Sally McGrane\n\n\nClement: Sally McGrane\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, November 1\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held at our Clement St. location. \nSally McGrane discusses her new novel\, Moscow at Midnight. \n\nPraise for Moscow at Midnight \n\n“Everyone’s talking about Russia but this is a book that really takes you there\, a crime thriller with a truly documentary eye\, full of insights about Russian people\, politics and culture- while never failing to intrigue and excite.” —Peter Pomerantsev\, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible \n\n“A worthy successor to John le Carré . . . A fast-paced spy thriller\, full of unexpected twists and turns.” —Buchbord  \n\n“Great! Tense right up to the final page . . . A multi-layered\, thrilling novel that is difficult to resist and hard to put down\, even at the end.” —Süddeutsche Zeitung \n\nAbout Moscow at Midnight \n\nDownsized by the CIA\, Max Rushmore is re-hired by a private contractor—operating on a tightened budget in a world of ratcheting tensions—to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. But Max\, whose non-transferable skills include never having met a Russian he couldn’t drink under the table\, soon uncovers all sorts of inconsistencies: could it be that she is not dead at all? So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes the agent across Russia as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. With all the breathless tension of classic espionage novels\, Moscow at Midnight is both humorous and utterly enthralling—a fast-paced page-turner of the old school. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sally-mcgrane/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nLessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays \npublished by University of California Press \nIn this rich collection\, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison\, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic\, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves\, from Mark Twain to John McPhee\, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written\, what bookshelves tell us about their owners\, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. \nWith the skills of a journalist\, the knowledge of a historian\, and the heart of an activist\, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism\, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance\, and dared to dream of a better and more just world. \nAdam Hochschild is a journalist and author who has written on issues of human rights and social justice. His books include the bestselling King Leopold’s Ghost. He has been a finalist twice for the National Book Critics Circle Award and once for the National Book Award. He has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and is a two-time recipient of the Gold Medal of the California Book Awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Adam Hochschild: \n“Adam Hochschild’s brilliant and sprawling books on inhumanity and injustice have made him an international treasure. Now\, with Lessons from a Dark Time\, we have Hochschild in more bite-sized (well\, meal-sized) form. His journalism ranges widely\, literally around the world\, but it’s always written with the same careful craft and indignant eloquence that we’ve come to admire so much.”—Jeffrey Toobin\, author of American Heiress; staff writer\, New Yorker;and chief legal analyst\, CNN \n“This book reveals Adam Hochschild’s journalism in all its glory. His facts are like jewels\, luminous in their importance. As a reporter and historian\, he turns facts into stories so dynamic and vivid that I couldn’t put the book down. This is important work by a gifted writer at the top of his game.”—Elizabeth Farnsworth\, author\, filmmaker\, former chief correspondent\, PBS NewsHour \n“Lessons From a Dark Time is an elegant collection that showcases all of Adam Hochschild’s singular talents as a master essayist\, historian\, literary critic\, and narrative writer. In search of a fair and humane world\, he tackles big issues of social injustice by focusing on particular people\, giving us their lives and travails with the grace and nuance of a wise storyteller. These pieces are special and enduring—a chronicle of our time\, past and present\, told always on an intimate human scale.”—Barry Siegel\, Pulitzer Prize winner; Director\, Literary Journalism Program\, University of California\, Irvine \n“Lessons from a Dark Time offers us an inspiring but clear-eyed perspective on what has been—and what can be—accomplished through resistance\, persistence\, and vision. A wonderful book for our time.”—Eric Stover\, Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center at the University of California\, Berkeley and coauthor of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror \n“One wanders through this collection like the proverbial kid in a candy store. All the essential issues of our time are here\, from colonialism to surveillance to development to McCarthyism to the life of the revolutionary\, all shaped brilliantly into unforgettable stories\, all brightly illuminated by Hochschild’s bracing intelligence and sparkling prose. Start at Kerala or the Congo and finish in Catalonia or Berkeley. Dip in here and there\, or read straight from first page to last. Whatever path you take\, Lessons from a Dark Time is a delightful\, vital book.”—Mark Danner\, author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War \n“These timely\, trenchant essays offer a concentrated sample of Adam Hochschild’s unique gift for illuminating the history of present-day moral conflicts. Their range is amazing\, from the Congo to Siberia to Berkeley\, but they are united by Hochschild’s wry\, compassionate sensibility and voice.”—Robert Worth\, author of A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil\, from Tahrir Square to ISIS \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-hochschild-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents: Stephen King's Greatest Hits
DESCRIPTION:Strap in for six of Stephen Kings terrifyingest\, coke-iest\, popular-iest books: The Shining\, Misery\, Carrie\,It\, Christine\, and\, of course\, his seminal text on craft\, On Writing. \nFeatured writers TBA. \n$12 advance\, $15 door\, ticket includes *open bar* for 21+\, and admission to the afterparty at The Alembic (1725 Haight). Seats tend to sell out fast; we encourage you to buy early. \nPlease remember: Shipwreck tickets are non-transferable and non-refundable. Tickets on sale now. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event. \nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco. \nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-stephen-kings-greatest-hits/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:great weather for MEDIA Book Party & Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of great weather for MEDIA’s latest anthology\, Suitcase of Chrysanthemums and meet an indie press looking for new voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing contributors and special guests Cathyann Cusimano\, Cassandra Dallett\, Carol Dorf\, Heikki Huotari\, Kit Kennedy\, and Richard Loranger\, plus editors David Lawton and Jane Ormerod. \nWe start with a short open mic. Please arrive early to sign up. \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 15th 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/great-weather-for-media-book-party-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Tyehimba Jess
DESCRIPTION:Tyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry\, Leadbelly and Olio which won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry\, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.  Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series and named one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005” by both The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tyehimba-jess/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The Residents
DESCRIPTION:Appearing Live and In Person at City Lights on All Hallows Eve ! \n  \nsigning copies of their new book \nThe Brickeaters  \npublished by Feral House \nTHE RESIDENTS will only be signing copies of The Brickeaters. Please refrain from bringing other memorabilia into the store. Thank you. \nThe Brickeaters is an absurdist buddy movie of a story featuring a very tall and young internet content screener teamed up with an aging career criminal whose primary companions are an oxygen bottle and .44 Magnum. After a short crime spree cementing their unhinged parternship\, they work together to prevent a middle-aged lottery winner from polluting the LA water supply with massive amounts of fluoride. Their adventures unfold via a wholly unreliable alcoholic narrator desperately avoiding the reality of spousal abandonment. \nAlternately seen as a rock band\, an arts collective\, and a spirit\, THE RESIDENTS are regarded as iconic in the world of experimental music. In addition to their groundbreaking work in the areas of trance\, world fusion\, electronica\, punk\, industrial and lounge music\, the group has also been credited with being among the originators of performance art and music video. Their early videos are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art\, and their Freak Show CD-Rom was featured in MOMA’s “Looking at Music 3.0” exhibition. Their four-decade-long career has also taken them into the world of film and television music\, having scored numerous films and TV series as well as several projects for MTV.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-residents/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit at lille æske
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 1\, 2018\n8pm | Doors at 7:30pm\nTickets: $10-$20 Sliding Scale \nRed Light Lit is a mashup of live music and poetry set to a live score by David Williams. The evening celebrates its debut poetry anthology\, Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-at-lille-aeske/
LOCATION:lille æske\, 13160 Central Avenue\, Boulder Creek\, CA\, 95006\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181030T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181030T213000
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SUMMARY:Peter Phillips + Mickey Huff: GIANTS: The Global Power Elite & Censored 2019
DESCRIPTION:Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM \nThis is a searing expose of the 300 most powerful players in world capitalism\, and the costs of their unyielding grip on our economic future. \n“A tour de force of research and analysis on a frequently ignored but crucial topic affecting humanity’s future: the Transnational Capitalist Class power elite. An extraordinary contribution.” -Dr. Laurence Shoup\, author of Wall Street’s Think Tank \n“Who exactly are the masters? This remarkable inquiry lifts the veil\, providing detailed and often shocking revelations about the astonishing concentration of private wealth and corporate power.” -Noam Chomsky \n“Peter Phillips thoroughly identifies the members of the “transnational capitalist class” that largely runs the world today\, through the mammoth instruments of Western military force\, and the international intelligence community\, and-not least-our free press.” -Mark Crispin Miller PhD\, Professor Media Studies New York University \nPeter Phillips\, a professor of political sociology at Sonoma State University\, was the director of Project Censored from 1996-2010\, and the president of Media Freedom Foundation from 2003-2017. He has edited fourteen editions of Censored\, two editions of Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism. He was a co-host of the weekly Project Censored show on Pacifica Radio with Mickey Huff from 2010-2017. He has won numerous book and media awards. \nCensored 2019: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2017-2018 is edited by Mickey Huff & Andy Lee Roth and illustrated by Khalil Bendib. \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 \n$12 advance\, $15 door. \nPresented by KPFA Radio 94.1 FM.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peter-phillips-mickey-huff-giants-the-global-power-elite-censored-2019/
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\, 2345 Channing Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181030T213000
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SUMMARY:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen
DESCRIPTION:Kim Adrian discusses her new memoir\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet with Amy Wallen. \n\nPraise for The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\n“A stunning merger of form and content; a remarkable portrait-becomes-self-portrait; andsomething like a master class in complicity.”—David Shields\, author of Reality Hunger \n\n“The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is a revelation. By structuring the book in the unconventional form of a glossary\, Adrian allows the reader into the very intimate mechanics of her memory. Each page I read pulled me deeper under the book’s peculiar spell. Through Adrian’s rigorous attention to detail I found myself involuntarily drawn into her perspective\, both as a child and a grown woman\, hungry to make sense of this troubled family and this vibrantly unstable mother.”—Alysia Abbott\, author of Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father \n\n“This is desperately serious work\, an exacting memoir that excavates\, with compassion for all involved\, the harrowingly repetitive patterns of abuse as well as moments of something like hope\, crushable and delicate\, thwarted\, and yet renewable. An agonized\, beautiful\, unflinching account.” —Lee Upton\, author of Visitations: Stories \n\nAbout The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet \n\nClear-sighted\, darkly comic\, and tender\, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet is about a daughter’s struggle to face the Medusa of generational trauma without turning to stone. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs of the 1970s and 1980s in a family warped by mental illness\, addiction\, and violence\, Kim Adrian spent her childhood ducking for cover from an alcoholic father prone to terrifying acts of rage and trudging through a fog of confusion with her mother\, a suicidal incest survivor hooked on prescription drugs. Family memories were buried–even as they were formed–and truth was obscured by lies and fantasies. \nIn The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet Adrian tries to make peace with this troubled past by cataloguing memories\, anecdotes\, and bits of family lore in the form of a glossary. But within this strategic reckoning of the past\, the unruly present carves an unpredictable path as Adrian’s aging mother plunges into ever-deeper realms of drug-fueled paranoia. Ultimately\, the glossary’s imposed order serves less to organize emotional chaos than to expose difficult but necessary truths\, such as the fact that some problems simply can’t be solved\, and that loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean saving them. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kim-adrian-discusses-her-new-memoir-the-twenty-seventh-letter-of-the-alphabet-with-amy-wallen/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181030T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181030T210000
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SUMMARY:Jasmine Guillory - THE PROPOSAL
DESCRIPTION:[more info to come] \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, October 30\, 2018 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jasmine-guillory-the-proposal/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Juliana Spahr
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of her new book \nDu Bois’s Telegram : Literary Resistance and State Containment \npublished by Harvard U. Press \n\nIn 1956 W. E. B. Du Bois was denied a passport to attend the Présence Africaine Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris. So he sent the assembled a telegram. “Any Negro-American who travels abroad today must either not discuss race conditions in the United States or say the sort of thing which our State Department wishes the world to believe.” Taking seriously Du Bois’s allegation\, Juliana Spahr breathes new life into age-old questions as she explores how state interests have shaped U.S. literature. What is the relationship between literature and politics? Can writing be revolutionary? Can art be autonomous\, or is escape from nations and nationalisms impossible? \nDu Bois’s Telegram brings together a wide range of institutional forces implicated in literary production\, paying special attention to three eras of writing that sought to defy political orthodoxies by contesting linguistic conventions: avant-garde modernism of the early twentieth century; social-movement writing of the 1960s and 1970s; and\, in the twenty-first century\, the profusion of English-language works incorporating languages other than English. Spahr shows how these literatures attempted to assert their autonomy\, only to be shut down by FBI harassment or coopted by CIA and State Department propagandists. Liberal state allies such as the Ford and Rockefeller foundations made writers complicit by funding multiculturalist works that celebrated diversity and assimilation while starving radical anti-imperial\, anti-racist\, anti-capitalist efforts. \nSpahr does not deny the exhilarations of politically engaged art. But her study affirms a sobering reality: aesthetic resistance is easily domesticated. \nJuliana Spahr is Professor of English at Mills College. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry\, including The Winter the Wolf Came\, Well Then There Now\, and Response\, winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is also the editor\, with Claudia Rankine\, of American Women Poets in the 21st Century and received the O. B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library. \n\nWhat has been said about Du Bois’s Telegram: \n“This book is thrilling. Spahr develops a truly original\, even clarion\, account of the relationship of social movements\, avant-garde and politically charged writing\, and the foreign policy arm of the U.S. A great deal of the power of Du Bois’s Telegram has to do with the way it makes totally unexpected connections among separate discourses\, and makes the connections seem necessary and obvious\, at a stroke. It is common to praise a book for being potentially field-changing; this book suggests the possibility of changing several fields.“—Christopher Nealon\, Johns Hopkins University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/juliana-spahr-2/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181030T190000
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SUMMARY:Poets Wendy Trevino and Melissa Merin
DESCRIPTION:Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco\, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend\, friend & two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press\, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. Brazilian no es una raza – a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions – was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. Her first book-length collection of poems will be published by Commune Editions in September 2018. Wendy is not an experimental writer. \nMelissa has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and a consistently retiring punker. She is too Black to ever be considered a snowflake. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish”\, though many zines and many blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa in no way identifies as butch and she recently bought a new impact drill and sawzall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-wendy-trevino-and-melissa-merin/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181029T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T213000
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SUMMARY:BOOKSMITH: Anne-Marie Kinney / Coldwater Canyon
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Los Angeles-based Anne-Marie Kinney (Radio Iris) for her new novel Colwater Canyon. More details to be announced — please save the date and join us! \n  \nShep has been dealt a bad hand in life. Halfheartedly raised by a cold grandmother and chronically ill following his deployment in Desert Storm\, he self-medicates with alcohol and daydreams of salvation at the hands of women—ultimately landing on one woman in particular: Lila\, the young actress he believes is his daughter despite all evidence to the contrary. As Shep navigates the mystically rendered streets and strip malls of the San Fernando Valley with his only companion\, his dog Lionel\, he takes increasingly desperate measures to insinuate himself into her life. Kinney’s precise and considered prose examines the insistence on reshaping the past through the lens of one’s own trauma and conceived desires as a means of moving forward. Why do we so often look for solace and redemption through others\, pushing ourselves to do anything for them\, even when it harms everyone involved? \n  \n\n  \n“Hot\, gritty\, swirling\, hypnotic and sensual… an unhinged\, sweetly sinister sun-baked noir; all danger\, doomed love\, and compassion.” – Ben Loory\, author of Tales of Falling and Flying \n  \n“A stunning journey through the hard-beating heart of a California everyone needs to see and know\, and now they can through Anne-Marie Kinney’s evocative\, heartbreaking\, hopeful and hilarious novel. Her landscape is singular\, and her voice a welcome new addition to American fiction. I loved this book – and the people\, and dog\, in it.” – Susan Straight\, author of Highwire Moon and Between Heaven and Here \n  \n“Kinney’s beautiful writing propels this story of a traumatized Nebraska man navigating the diffuse loneliness of Los Angeles. Coldwater Canyon is haunting.” – J. Ryan Stradal\, author of Kitchens of the Great Midwest \n  \n\n  \nAnne-Marie Kinney is the author of two novels\, Radio Iris (2012\, Two Dollar Radio) and Coldwater Canyon (forthcoming from CCM in 2018). A New York Times Editor’s Choice pick\, Radio Iris was called “a spiky debut” and “‘The Office’ as scripted by Kafka” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Her shorter work has been published in journals including Joyland\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Rattling Wall\, The Collagist\, Fanzine and Black Clock\, for which she also served as Production Editor from 2011-2016. She lives in Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP is appreciated\, but not required. 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/booksmith-anne-marie-kinney-coldwater-canyon/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181029T200000
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays "Central America: Why the Surge in Asylum Seekers?"
DESCRIPTION:We have all seen the horrific recent images of children separated from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border and heard stories of people from Central American countries seeking asylum in the U.S. because of dangerous conditions back home. But what are those conditions and why have so many asylum seekers been coming of late? \nActivist Trebor Healey\, Professor Susanne Jonas\, and journalist Mary Jo McConahay will discuss this topic and read a bit of their writing on the issue Monday\, October 29\, 7pm at Folio Books San Francisco\, 3957 24th St. in Noe Valley. Admission and refreshments are free. A book signing will follow the event. \nHere is more about the panelists:\nTrebor Healey is the recipient of a Lambda Literary award\, two Publishing Triangle awards and a Violet Quill award. He is the author of three novels\, a book of poetry and three collections of stories. He co-edited the anthologies Beyond Definition and Queer & Catholic. www.treborhealey.com. \nTrebor works for Scalabrinianas Mision Con Migrantes Y Refugiados\, which houses about 50 Central American refugees at a time for a period of 3 months and helps them gain asylum from the Mexican Government. https://www.facebook.com/Scalabrinianas-Misi%C3%B3n-con-Migrantes-y-Refugiados-1709823382589599/ \nSusanne Jonas has been an internationally recognized writer/expert on Latin America\, particularly Guatemala/ Central America\, for five decades. She has taught Latin American & Latino Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since 1967\, she has written and co-edited 22 books and over 100 articles and OpEds — many translated into Spanish. Her book Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a Choice “Outstanding” book. Since the 1990s\, she is also a specialist on Central American migration and broader Latino immigration issues\, and co-authored Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (2014). She collaborates with Latin American colleagues and U.S.-based Latino community rights organizations. Her colleagues have honored her long writing/advocacy career at conferences in Latin America and the U.S. \nMary Jo McConahay is an award-winning reporter who covered the wars in Central America and economics in the Middle East. As a journalist\, her work has appeared in Time\, Newsweek\, Vogue\, Rolling Stone\, Ms.\, Salon\, Sierra\, Los Angeles Times Magazine\, Parenting\, The Progressive\, National Catholic Reporter\, and more than two dozen other magazines and periodicals. Most recently\, she has written on emotional border issues for The Texas Observer. Her books include Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey among the People of the Rainforest\, Ricochet: Two Women War Reporters and a Friendship under Fire\, and the just-released The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts\, Minds and Riches of Latin America during World War II. Maya Roads received the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. She covers Latin America as an independent journalist.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-central-america-why-the-surge-in-asylum-seekers/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181028T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181028T220000
DTSTAMP:20260420T042414
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SUMMARY:3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
DESCRIPTION:Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song\, one new song inspired by an original poem\, and one piece of pure collaboration. \nFEATURING:\nHeather Bourbeau – poet\nRaman Osman – musician\nMaw Shein Win – poet\nEvan Karp – musician\nNick Johnson – poet\nArula – musician \nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nHeather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a contributing writer for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. \nRaman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr (saz) musician from Al-Hasaka\, Syria. In his early age\, he was exposed to a variety of music and cultural sources like Kurdish\, Persian\, Arabic\, Turkish\, Armenian\, Assyrian\, and more. Osman has performed at a variety of venues\, including the Damascus Opera House\, several universities in Syria\, and throughout the Bay Area. \nMaw Shein Win‘s writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, and Poetry International. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone (Nomadic Press)\, and her new full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press) was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nEvan Karp is the creator and executive director of Quiet Lightning\, founding editor of Litseen\, and half of Turk & Divis—a musical collaboration with his brother Miles. He developed the interdisciplinary performance series Under the Influence and Call and Response\, as well as the interview profile series The Write Stuff. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. Johnson’s work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Eleven Eleven\, Metazen\, and other fine journals. His book\, music for mussolini\, was released by Nomadic Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award. \nArula has been singing and composing songs since childhood. She views sound and movement as sacred expressions of a universal language—a language that connects\, empowers\, and unites people from all backgrounds. Music and dance have been central themes in her life; of all her gurus\, they are the most revered teachers. With haunting vocals amid sensual beats\, Arula creates a cohesive yet dynamic spectrum of sound. Her music is a rich interplay of her many influences; her sultry vocals and downtempo melodies take and hold shape as they blend with global music rhythms and become ancestral and grounded while dancing over trap and hip-hop beats.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-3-a-collaboration-between-3-poets-3-musicians-2/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181028T220000
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SUMMARY:3 + 3: A Collaboration Between 3 Poets & 3 Musicians
DESCRIPTION:Three musician-poet pairs each perform a set—one new poem inspired by an original song\, one new song inspired by an original poem\, and one piece of pure collaboration. \nFEATURING:\nHeather Bourbeau – poet\nRaman Osman – musician\nMaw Shein Win – poet\nEvan Karp – musician\nNick Johnson – poet\nArula – musician \nABOUT THE ARTISTS:\nHeather Bourbeau’s writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthology Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was a contributing writer for Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. \nRaman Osman is a Kurdish composer and master tembûr (saz) musician from Al-Hasaka\, Syria. In his early age\, he was exposed to a variety of music and cultural sources like Kurdish\, Persian\, Arabic\, Turkish\, Armenian\, Assyrian\, and more. Osman has performed at a variety of venues\, including the Damascus Opera House\, several universities in Syria\, and throughout the Bay Area. \nMaw Shein Win‘s writing has appeared in many journals and several anthologies\, including MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, Cimarron Review\, and Poetry International. Win’s most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone (Nomadic Press)\, and her new full-length collection Invisible Gifts: Poems (Manic D Press) was a City Lights Books bestselling paperback. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nEvan Karp is the creator and executive director of Quiet Lightning\, founding editor of Litseen\, and half of Turk & Divis—a musical collaboration with his brother Miles. He developed the interdisciplinary performance series Under the Influence and Call and Response\, as well as the interview profile series The Write Stuff. \nNick Johnson was born and raised near the brackish Chesapeake Bay but now calls the Bay Area waters home. He received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. Johnson’s work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Eleven Eleven\, Metazen\, and other fine journals. His book\, music for mussolini\, was released by Nomadic Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award. \nArula has been singing and composing songs since childhood. She views sound and movement as sacred expressions of a universal language—a language that connects\, empowers\, and unites people from all backgrounds. Music and dance have been central themes in her life; of all her gurus\, they are the most revered teachers. With haunting vocals amid sensual beats\, Arula creates a cohesive yet dynamic spectrum of sound. Her music is a rich interplay of her many influences; her sultry vocals and downtempo melodies take and hold shape as they blend with global music rhythms and become ancestral and grounded while dancing over trap and hip-hop beats. \n  \nhttp://redpoppyarthouse.org/event/3-3-20181028/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-3-a-collaboration-between-3-poets-3-musicians/
LOCATION:Red Poppy Art House\, 2698 Folsom St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Toward a Calculus of Transgression: Appreciating Jean Patrick-Manchette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by City Lights Booksellers in conjunction with New York Review Books \nDonald Nicholson-Smith and James Brook discuss the life and work of the seminal genre-bending writer \ncelebrating the recent release of \nIvory Pearl \nby Jean-Patrick Manchette \npublished by New York Review Books \nJean-Patrick Manchette (1942–1995) was a genre-redefining French crime novelist\, screenwriter\, critic\, and translator. Born in Marseille to a family of relatively modest means\, Manchette grew up in a southwestern suburb of Paris\, where he wrote from an early age. While a student of English literature at the Sorbonne\, he contributed articles to the newspaper La Voie communiste and became active in the national students’ union. In 1961 he married\, and with his wife Mélissa began translating American crime fiction—he would go on to translate the works of such writers as Donald Westlake\, Ross Thomas\, and Margaret Millar\, often for Gallimard’s Série noire. Throughout the 1960s Manchette supported himself with various jobs writing television scripts\, screenplays\, young-adult books\, and film novelizations. In 1971 he published his first novel\, a collaboration with Jean-Pierre Bastid\, and embarked on his literary career in earnest\, producing ten subsequent works over the course of the next two decades and establishing a new genre of French novel\, the néo-polar (distinguished from traditional detective novel\, or polar\, by its political engagement and social radicalism). Manchette had been as equally influenced by the work of Guy Debord and the Situationists as he had by Dashiel Hammett. During the 1980s\, Manchette published celebrated translations of Alan Moore’s Watchmen graphic novels for a bande-dessinée publishing house co-founded by his son\, Doug Headline. In addition to Fatale\, Ivory Pearl\, and The Mad and the Bad\, Manchette’s novels Three to Kill and The Prone Gunman\, as well as Jacques Tardi’s graphic-novel adaptations of them (titled West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot\, respectively)\, are available in English. \nBorn in Manchester\, England\, Donald Nicholson-Smith is a longtime resident of New York City. A sometime Situationist  (1965-67)\, he has translated Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Zone) and Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (Blackwell)\, as well as works by Guillaume Apollinaire\, Antonin Artaud\, Jean-Patrick Manchette\, Thierry Jonquet\, Paco Ignacio Taibo II\, etc. His film work includes the English-language version of René Viénet’s anti-Maoist classic Peking Duck Soup(1977). \nJames Brook is a poet and the principal editor of Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information (City Lights) and the translator of many works\, including My Tired Father by Gellu Naum and Panegyric by Guy Debord. He translated Jean Patrick Manchette’s The Prone Gunman for City Lights Books. \nPraise for Ivory Pearl and the work of Jean-Patrick Manchette: \nIvory Pearl is the kind of bold female that Virginia of Black Wings Has My Angel or my own Perdita Durango might have become had their lives taken a different turn. Manchette sets Ivory Pearl loose in perilous 1950s Cuba and smartly allows her to survive\, a master stroke by a daring\, innovative writer.\n—Barry Gifford \nThe opening chapter in particular is as sharp and brutal as anything Manchette wrote\, including his masterpiece\, The Prone Gunman. The obsessive details…might make even Ian Fleming feel uninformed…Noir fans won’t want to miss this one.\n—Publishers Weekly \nIn his final\, unfinished novel\, available for the first time in English\, Manchette departs from crime fiction—but not extreme violence—to deliver a saga of high adventure…Thanks to New York Review Books’ translations\, the English-speaking world has a generous sampling of [Manchette’s] unique fiction to enjoy. Idiosyncratic French novelist Manchette…went out in style. Short but sprawling\, the novel packs a mean punch.\n—Kirkus Reviews \n[Manchette’s] writing is lean and relentless.\n—David L. Ulin\, Los Angeles Times \nIn France\, which long ago embraced American crime fiction\, thrillers are referred to as polars. And in France the godfather and wizard of polars is Jean-Patrick Manchette…. [H]e’s a massive figure…. There is gristle here\, there is bone.\n—The Boston Globe \nManchette is legend among all of the crime writers I know\, and with good reason: His novels never fail to stun and thrill from page one.\n—Duane Swierczynski\, author of Expiration Date \nManchette called crime novels ‘the great moral literature of our time.’ Manchette pushes the Situationist strategy of derive and détournement to the point of comic absurdity\, throwing a wrench into the workings of his main characters’ lives and gleefully recording the anarchy that results.\n—Jennifer Howard\, Boston Review \nNew York Review Books also publishes: \nFatale – by Jean Patrick Manchette\, afterward by Jean Echenoz\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith \nThe Mad and the Bad – by Jean Patrick Manchette – introduction by James Sallis\, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Sm
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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:From the Ice Age to the present\, from Nigeria to Hawaii\, images of the Goddess are reemerging\, bringing renewed attention and expression to mythical and spiritual inner and outer guides. The Heart of the Goddess presents a worldwide selection of the art\, values\, and living lessons of Goddess culture. To author Hallie Iglehart Austen\, respect for the Earth\, restoration of community\, and regaining the long lost power of Woman are inseparable. Through the presence of the Goddess in daily life\, the reader finds wisdom\, serenity\, and guidance. The Heart of the Goddess is an invaluable addition to the literature of feminist spirituality. \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 over the course of a year. is journey\, described in her book Womanspirit: A Guide to Women’s Wisdom (HarperCollins\, 1983)\, led to her synthesis of spirituality and feminism\, which she has been teaching since 1974. She has led workshops\, rituals\, and conferences at the University of California\, United Nations Conferences on Women\, the Graduate Theological Union\, and other venues.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-heart-of-the-goddess-art-myth-and-meditations-on-the-worlds-sacred-feminine/
LOCATION:Book Passage Corte Madera\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd.\, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash
DESCRIPTION:More Info To Come \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nSunday\, October 28\, 2018 – 3:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Literary Arts Showcase | APAture 2018 - RE:place
DESCRIPTION:What better way to spend your Saturday night none other than at our Literary Arts Showcase for APAture 2018! Come through to Arc Gallery & Studios. Featuring Janice Lobo Sapigao. Showcase artists: TBA. \n*Supporter level and Festival Passes (with reserved seats) can be acquired by donating to our Indiegogo campaign! \nWe’ve asked artists to explore ‘place\,’ including but not limited to: displacement\, reclaiming space\, relationship or orientation to place\, movement and migration\, the loss or lack of place\, or the various dimensions of place (spatial-emotional\, past-present\, individual-communal\, etc.). How does ‘place’ resonate with you? \nAPAture is Kearny Street Workshop’s annual multidisciplinary arts festival celebrating emerging Asian and Pacific American (APA) artists of the San Francisco Bay Area. For 16 years\, APAture has been a site of dialogue\, collaboration\, and political action between artists and community members around contemporary issues affecting the Asian and Pacific Islander community. \nAPAture 2018: RE:place will showcase over 60 artists in book arts\, film\, literary arts\, music\, performing arts\, and visual arts\, and will present their work to approximately 1\,000 festival-goers across multiple dates and venues in the South of Market neighborhood. \nCome join us and help us celebrate our local emerging APA artists for the 17th year! You don’t want to miss this! \n$10-$12. \nPresented by Kearny Street Workshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-arts-showcase-apature-2018-replace/
LOCATION:Arc Gallery & Studios\, 1246 Folsom St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Renowned Afro-Canadian Poet\, Writer\, Lawyer M. NourbeSe Philip Appears at McRoskey Mattress Company
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in the newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work and will respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Co. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong! (Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nDoors at 6:30pm\, event begins at 7:00pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/renowned-afro-canadian-poet-writer-lawyer-m-nourbese-philip-appears-at-mcroskey-mattress-company/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:M. NourbeSe Philip: the Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series
DESCRIPTION:Owing to a generous gift from the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund\, The Poetry Center very happily presents renowned poet\, essayist\, novelist and dramatist M. NourbeSe Philip\, appearing as the first featured writer in our newly-launched Leslie Scalapino 21st Century Innovative Writers Series. Ms. Philip will read from her work\, in the 3rd Floor loft space at McRoskey Mattress Co.\, on Market Street (at Gough)\, and respond to questions from the audience. This event is co-sponsored by The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade\, and is free and open to the public. \nM. NourbeSe Philip\, Tobago-born Afro-Canadian poet\, writer\, and lawyer—author of the extended poetry cycle Zong!(Wesleyan\, 2011)\, and Blank: Essays & Interviews (Bookthug\, 2018)\, among numerous other works—is recognized as a crucial poet of our collective history and our shared present time. She visits San Francisco from her home in Toronto\, Ontario. \nAfter earning a BSc from the University of the West Indies and an MA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario\, Philip was a practicing lawyer for seven years before turning full-time to writing. She is the author of works of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction. Her collections of poetry include Thorns (1980); Salmon Courage (1983); She Tries Her Tongue (1989); Her Silence Softly Breaks (1988)\, which won a Casa de las Américas Prize for Literature; and Zong! (2008)\, a polyvocal\, book-length poem concerning slavery and the legal system. Fred Wah has noted that Zong! “is legal poetry. This is\, legally\, poetry. … The poetry displays the agonizing tension of an exploration through the minute particulars and silences locked within the legal text\, the precise and cautious movement that tries to not tell the story that must be told.” Like much of Philip’s work\, the book asks readers to actively engage the text at the level of syllable\, fragment\, sound\, and space. \nIn addition to poetry\, Philip has published two novels: the young adult novel Harriet’s Daughter (1988)\, a runner-up for both a Canadian Library Association Prize for children’s literature and a Max and Greta Abel Award for Multicultural Literature\, and Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (1991). Philip’s short story “Stop Frame” received a Lawrence Foundation Award in 1994. Her play Coups and Calypsos (1999) has been produced in both Toronto and London. \nPhilip’s essay collections include Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture (1992)\, Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (1993)\, CARIBANA: African roots and continuities—Race\, Space and the Poetics of Moving (1996)\, Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997)\, and Blank: Essays and Interviews (2018). \nPhilip’s numerous honors and awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, Rockefeller Foundation\, and MacDowell Colony. She is the recipient of awards from the Canada Council for the Arts\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Toronto Arts Council. In 2001\, she was recognized by the Elizabeth Fry Society with its Rebels for a Cause Award\, and the YWCA awarded her its Women of Distinction in the Arts Award. Philip has received a Chalmers Fellowship in Poetry and has been writer-in-residence at Toronto Women’s Bookstore and McMaster University. In 2012\, she received a NALIS Lifetime Literary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore info at nourbese.com \nOn M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! \nVIDEO: Fred Moten and M. NourbeSe Philip. A story that cannot be told\, yet must be told. Zong! and its context \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip reads “Discourse on the Logic of Language” from She Tries Her Tongue\, Her Silence Softly Breaks \nVIDEO: M. NourbeSe Philip on Belonging\, Race\, Politics\, and Art \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and The Green Arcade
URL:https://litseen.com/event/m-nourbese-philip-the-leslie-scalapino-21st-century-innovative-writers-series/
LOCATION:McRoskey Mattress Company\, Inc\, 1687 Market St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Storytellers: A Benefit for Chapter 510
DESCRIPTION:Please join Chapter 510 and some of your favorite storytellers for an only-in-Oakland night to remember. \nWe’re thrilled to announce that our line-up this year includes rapper\, writer\, and filmmaker Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You); writer and filmmaker Nijla Mu’min whose new movie Jinn will be released in November; and award-winning poet and activist Tongo Eisen-Martin (American Book Award-winning Heaven Is All Goodbyes). \nOur esteemed guests will be interviewed by Chapter 510’s very own young author Aissaade Negus (Mila Scott and the Dance Debacle). 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate Leila Motley will emcee the evening. We’re also in for a special treat with a guest performance by Oakland’s very own Fantastic Negrito! Finally\, get ready to dance the night away to tunes spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX. \nFilipino food from the Jeepney Guy and beverages will be available for purchase. \nHave any burning questions for our headliners? With the purchase of the VIP package you can attend an exclusive Meet and Greet with these incredible Oakland storytellers and enjoy complimentary food and drink tickets. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss! \nSeats for last year’s fundraiser at Chapter 510 sold out in hours; don’t wait to purchase your ticket this year! \nThis is a fundraiser\, but you get to choose your ticket price/donation level. Tickets are limited at each level from $50-$250. \nGet your ticket at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oakland-storytellers-a-benefit-for-chapter-510-tickets-50373349043 \nDoors open at 6:00pm\n6:15-6:45: VIP Meet & Greet\n7:00-8:00: Program\n8:00 on (and on): Music & Dancing \nProceeds from the event will benefit Chapter 510’s free writing programming for Oakland’s children and youth in the 2018-2019 school year\, helping publish 13 books\, host 25 Storytelling Field Trips\, run 3 writing workshop\, run one spring-break Children’s Book Writing Camp\, and tutor over 100 high school students. \nEvent poster art by Miriam Stahl. Design by Alvaro Villanueva.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-storytellers-a-benefit-for-chapter-510/
LOCATION:7th West\, 1255 7th Street\, Oakland\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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