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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). \nPLEASE NOTE: Due to public health concerns around the coronavirus\, this will be a virtual event live-streamed on our Facebook page. Please join us! \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. You can still support us in the usual ways: you can make donations; you can buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door; and did you know we keep our gift certificates on file and they never expire? Thank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n\nThis is a free\, all-ages event. \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: Ether Edition #2
DESCRIPTION:This week Lyrics & Dirges Ether Edition features Maw Shein Win\, Vernon Keeve III\, and Amanda Moore \nLearn about our readers by visiting their bio posts \nLyrics & Dirges is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. \nTime: Apr 8\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/161450681 \nMeeting ID: 161 450 681 \nOne tap mobile\n+17207072699\,\,161450681# US (Denver)\n+13462487799\,\,161450681# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 161 450 681\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/fdcVI4ceEZ
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-ether-edition-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Robert Williams at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Robert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination \npublished by Fantagraphics \nRobert Williams: The Father of Exponential Imagination is a comprehensive\, career-spanning collection of the iconic painter’s fine art\, including over 300 oil paintings as well as drawings\, sculptures\, and more. Simply put\, this is the definitive volume that Williams has been working towards his entire career. \nIn the late 20th and early 21st century\, diverse forms of commonplace and popular art appeared to be coalescing into a formidable faction of new painted realism. The new school of imagery was a product of art that didn’t fit comfortably into the accepted definition of fine art. It embraced some of the figurative graphics that formal art academia tended to reject: comic books\, movie posters\, trading cards\, surfer art\, and hot rod illustration\, to mention a few. \nThis alternative art movement found its most apt participant in one of America’s most controversial underground artists\, the painter\, Robert Williams. It was this artist who brought the term “lowbrow” into the fine arts lexicon\, with his groundbreaking 1979 book\, The Lowbrow Art of Robt. Williams. Williams pursued a career as a fine artist years before joining the art studio of Ed “Big Daddy” Roth in the mid-1960s. From this position he moved into the rebellious\, anti-war circles of early underground comix\, as one of the celebrated ZAP cartoonists. \nFeaturing an introductory essay by Coagula Art Journal founder Mat Gleason along with a new foreword and annotations by Williams himself\, as well as rare photos\, artifacts\, and ephemera. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-williams-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: We All Want to Change the World
DESCRIPTION:Fiction writers are often told – by teachers\, editors\, and agents – that politics and literature don’t mix. But in these times of political polarization and dissatisfaction\, many writers are reconsidering this conventional wisdom. How can ambitious writers find a space to explore the matters of life and death\, wealth and poverty\, war and governance\, that affect us all? How should art respond to the terrors of modern life? Join five accomplished writers as they share work that has grappled with these questions. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nAndrew Altschul\nAndrew Altschul’s third novel\, The Gringa\, was published in March. In a starred review\, Booklist called it “a captivating depiction of passion\, disenchantment\, and hope gone violently awry.” His previous novels are Deus Ex Machina and Lady Lazarus. His work has appeared in Best… Read More →\n\n \nRamona Ausubel\nRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book\, Awayland\, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection\, a Finalist for the California Book Award\, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA… Read More →\n\n \nDanielle Evans\nDanielle Evans is the author of the story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self\, and the forthcoming collection The Office of Historical Corrections. She is the winner of the PEN American Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Hurston-Wright award for fiction\, a National Book… Read More →\n\n \nJoshua Furst\nJoshua Furst’s critically acclaimed novel Revolutionaries was published last year.  He’salso the author of The Sabotage Café—named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune\, the Rocky Mountain News and the Philadelphia City Paper\, as well as being awarded the… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-we-all-want-to-change-the-world/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mari Coates with Peg Alford Pursell / Launch for The Pelton Papers
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts the launch party for Mari Coates and her new novel The Pelton Papers. She’ll be in conversation with Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes into the Forest). Join us! \nA richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton\, whose life tracks the early days of modernism in America. Born into a family ruined by scandal\, Agnes becomes part of the lively New York art scene\, finding early success in the famous Armory Show of 1913. Fame seems inevitable\, but Agnes is burdened by shyness and instead retreats to a contemplative life\, first to a Long Island windmill\, and then to the California desert. Undefeated by her history—family ruination in the Beecher-Tilton scandal\, a shrouded Brooklyn childhood\, and a passionate attachment to another woman—she follows her muse to create more than a hundred luminous and deeply spiritual abstract paintings. \n\nMari Coates lives in San Francisco\, where\, before joining University of California Press as a senior editor\, she was an arts writer and theater critic. Her regular column appeared in the SF Weekly with additional profiles and features appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle\, East Bay Monthly\, Advocate\, and other news outlets. Her stories have been published in the literary journals HLLQ and Eclipse\, and she is grateful for residencies at I-Park\, Ragdale\, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods\, which allowed her to develop and complete The Pelton Papers. She holds degrees from Connecticut College and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Find her online at maricoates.com. Author photo by Lynn Shepodd. \n \nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of A Girl Goes into the Forest and of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow\, the 2017 Indies Book of the Year for Literary Fiction. Her work has appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Joyland Magazine\, and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of The Pelton Papers\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mari-coates-with-peg-alford-pursell-launch-for-the-pelton-papers/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cody Simpson / Prince Neptune
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts Cody Simpson for his first book\, Prince Neptune. Join us! \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, to be held at Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The price of admission is equal to the cost of Prince Neptune\, which is included with each ticket. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n \n\n  \nConjuring vivid imagery and drawing from the four elements: earth\, air\, fire\, and water\, Prince Neptune presents poems and prose on themes of life\, love\, fame\, escapism\, environmentalism\, with an overarching narrative of nature as a nod to the author’s passion for the earth and the environment. Simpsons poetry combines themes of freedom and the ocean with the wisdom of an old soul. \n\nCody Simpson is an LA-based Australian whose meteoric rise to fame is matched only by his incredible artistic talent. Simpson has progressed as a writer\, musician\, and celebrity at an astounding pace; from uploading videos on YouTube from his home in Australia to selling out tours around the world\, Cody is one of the most marketable artists of his generation. When he’s not touring or surfing\, he’s honing his craft on the typewriter creating new pieces of poetry. \nSimpson is an artist who brings an authentic and organic writing style well beyond his years. Still a massive force to be reckoned with in the world of music\, Cody is now ready to take on the world of writing as Prince Neptune. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the author. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– 1 ticket = 1 book\, no exceptions. The book must be purchased from Booksmith. If you already have a copy of Prince Neptune\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted Prince Neptune to all of your friends\, it’s ok to buy a different book from Booksmith instead — in that case\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com. \n– Signing\, photo\, and Q&A details to come. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Prince Neptune\, place an order below and be sure to include your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cody-simpson-prince-neptune/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:A fundraiser for Pegasus Books\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\nIt’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business. First up: Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon in conversation\, including a Q&A. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Plus the memoir A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life. \nMichael Chabon is the author of several novels\, including Moonglow\, Telegraph Ave.\, the Yiddish Policemen’s Union\, Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. \nBoth Chabon and Waldman wrote for the recent TV series\, Star Trek: Picard. \nThe beneficiary \nPegasus Books has been delivering books and dreams to the Berkeley area since 1969\, and they’re a vital part of our book-loving community. They have an amazing selection of new and used books and a warm\, friendly atmosphere\, complete with adorable cats. They give dog treats to dogs\, and stickers to kids\, and they have some of the most fun events in the city\, and we’d be lost without them. \nEvery penny you spend on tickets to this event goes directly to Pegasus Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-chabon-and-ayelet-waldman-in-conversation-2/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:C Pam Zhang: How Much of These Hills is Gold
DESCRIPTION:C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel How Much of These Hills is Gold. \nPraise for How Much of These Hills is Gold \n“C Pam Zhang’s debut is ferocious\, dark and gleaming\, a book erupting out of the interstices between myth and dream\, between longing and belonging. How Much of These Hills Is Gold tells us that stories–like people\, like the rough and stunning landscape of California itself–are constantly in the process of being made\, broken\, and finally remade into something tender and new.” —Lauren Groff\, New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies\n \n“A haunting\, riveting and truly remarkable debut. Zhang writes with the clear-eyed lucidity of ancient myth-makers whose eyes are attuned to the vicissitudes of nature and humanity.”—Chigozie Obioma\, author of Booker Prize finalist An Orchestra of Minorities \n“This exhilarating novel unweaves the myths of the American West and offers in their place a gorgeous\, broken\, soulful\, feral song of family and yearning\, origin and earth. C Pam Zhang is a brilliant\, fearless writer. This book is a wonder.” —Garth Greenwell\, author of What Belongs to You \nAbout How Much of These Hills is Gold \nAn electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush\, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape—trying not just to survive but to find a home. \nBa dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants\, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town\, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way\, they encounter giant buffalo bones\, tiger paw prints\, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets\, sibling rivalry\, and glimpses of a different kind of future. \nBoth epic and intimate\, blending Chinese symbolism and re-imagined history with fiercely original language and storytelling\, How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a haunting adventure story\, an unforgettable sibling story\, and the announcement of a stunning new voice in literature. On a broad level\, it explores race in an expanding country and the question of where immigrants are allowed to belong. But page by page\, it’s about the memories that bind and divide families\, and the yearning for home. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/c-pam-zhang-how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold/
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:Chris Carlsson Book Launch at The Green Arcade
DESCRIPTION:Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Chris Carlsson (of Shaping San Francisco and Foundsf fame) peels back the layers of San Francisco’s history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries\, secret music and poetry venues\, forgotten terrorist bombings\, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area’s long prehistory\, examining the region’s geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything\, setting in motion the clash between capital and labor that shaped the modern city. Including maps\, walking guides and bike routes\, this vibrant guide brings to life the streets and hills of today’s San Francisco\, from the perspective of the students and secretaries\, longshoremen and waitresses who shaped its radical past. \nThe history of San Francisco I’ve been waiting for. It not only reorients our conceptions of the past\, it gives us walking tour itineraries so we can viscerally experience how we are participants in the region’s remaking.’ Sean Burns\, author of Archie Green: The Making of a Working Class Hero.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-carlsson-book-launch-at-the-green-arcade/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Ellen Bass\, Indigo at Bookshop Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:Indigo merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complex grey areas. Whether her subject is oysters\, high heels\, a pork chop\, a beloved dog\, or a wife’s return to health\, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin\,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger\, desire\, touch. In this book\, joy meets regret\, devotion meets dependence\, and most importantly\, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused\, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken\, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations\, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle\, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have\, even as it attempts to slip away. \nEllen Bass is co-author of the best-selling The Courage to Heal\, which has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into nine languages. She has also published several volumes of poetry\, including The Human Line\, and her poems have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies\, including The Atlantic Monthly\, The New Yorker\, and The New Republic. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she lives in Santa Cruz\, and teaches in the MFA program at Pacific University. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 18th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-bass-indigo-at-bookshop-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: ZYZZYVA's 35th Anniversary Issue Release
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate ZYZZYVA’s 35th anniversary issue\, to be released in early April\, with contributors from the issue which includes such authors and writers as Bryan Washington\, Lauren Markham\, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton\, Kristen Iskandrian\, Lysley Tenorio\, Dave Madden\, Peter Orner\, Meg Hurtado Bloom\, and many others. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-zyzzyvas-35th-anniversary-issue-release/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Benicia First Tuesday Poets
DESCRIPTION:Benicia Public Library in the Dona Benicia Room.\nHosted by Benicia Poet Laureate Tom Stanton.\nMystery Poet followed by open mic!\nFounded in 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/benicia-first-tuesday-poets-3/
LOCATION:Benicia Public Library\, 150 East L St.\, Benicia\, 94510
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon SF: System
DESCRIPTION:Early bird tickets go on sale on March 3 through Friday March 13 only. \n~ Salon details and speakers to be announced ~ \nTuesday\, April 7 at Public Works\, San Francisco \nDoors open for pre-salon cocktail hour at 6:30\, Talks begin at 7:30 \nReserved Seats available. General Admission seats are first come\, first served. \nOdd Salon Members always enjoy discounted Join our growing membership for ticket discounts and Members-only opportunities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-sf-system/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poet Tongo Eisen-Martin\, live streamed from Bird & Beckett
DESCRIPTION:Live Stream:  https://www.facebook.com/bird.and.beckett/ \nTongo Eisen-Martin\, a child of the Bay Area\, seemed to emerge full blown on the Bay Area poetry front in 2015 with his debut Someone’s Dead Already from Bootstrap Press and a cascade of uncanny readings\, hands in pockets\, gaze fixed in the middle distance of his mind. \nBut by that point he had already achieved deep hip hop/spoken word credibility and had gone full on into prison work that had taken him nationwide for years. City Lights’ Pocket Poets series followed up with Heaven is All Goodbyes in 2017\, #61\, and as a brilliant poet he’s been a presence to be reckoned with nationally since.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poet-tongo-eisen-martin-live-streamed-from-bird-beckett/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Alumni Reading Featuring mai c. doan & Aiden Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Reception at 5:15 pm for newly admitted Mills graduate students\, followed by readings. \n\n\nmai c. doan is poet and writer from Southern California. Her first full-length collection\, water/tongue\, was published by Omnidawn in 2019. She has published and performed her work though the National Queer Arts Festival\, RADAR Productions\, Entropy Magazine\, Mixed Up!: A Zine about Mixed Race Queer and Feminist Experience\, and more. She holds an MFA from Mills College\, where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow. \n\n\n\n\n\nAiden Thomas is a YA author with an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Originally from Oakland\, California\, they now make their home in Portland\, OR. As a queer\, trans Latinx\, Aiden advocates strongly for diverse representation in all media. Aiden’s debut novel\, Cemetery Boys\, is a Dia de Muertos paranormal romance about Yadriel (a gay\, trans brujo) who accidentally summons the wrong ghost. Cemetery Boys is forthcoming from Macmillan in July 2020.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-alumni-reading-featuring-mai-c-doan-aiden-thomas/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:WHY WE SWIM with Bonnie Tsui\, Daniel Handler\, and Andrew Sean Greer
DESCRIPTION:Join these three author-swimmers in a discussion of Bonnie Tsui’s fascinating new book\, Why We Swim. \nJoin us here at 5pm PDT on Tueday\, April 7! \nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/476150449?pwd=MGtobFBYWXFINHVOUTAzNWdiYXpidz09
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-we-swim-with-bonnie-tsui-daniel-handler-and-andrew-sean-greer/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200406T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T133220
CREATED:20200323T055211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T192543Z
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SUMMARY:Escape From Quarantine Reading - a weekly online thing
DESCRIPTION:a weekly digital gathering and poetry reading. \njoin our weekly zoom chat to meet with friends without having to leave your house. this is a space to just talk about what’s going on and how we feel about it and also share our work. \nTopic: escape from quarantine reading\nTime: Mar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nEvery week on Mon\, until May 4\, 2020\, 7 occurrence(s)\nMar 23\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMar 30\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 6\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 13\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 20\, 2020 07:00 PM\nApr 27\, 2020 07:00 PM\nMay 4\, 2020 07:00 PM \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us04web.zoom.us/j/293972268 \nMeeting ID: 293 972 268 \nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,293972268# US (Houston)\n+17207072699\,\,293972268# US (Denver) \nDial by your location\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 720 707 2699 US (Denver)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 293 972 268\nFind your local number: https://us04web.zoom.us/u/ftXvyehuU
URL:https://litseen.com/event/escape-from-quarantine-reading-a-weekly-online-thing-3/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: DIY Flash with the Flash Fiction Collective
DESCRIPTION:A reading of dozens of tiny stories from micro-fictionistas\, including guest readers\, plus a discussion of the Art of Flash and prompts—including visual prompts—to write and submit your own\, with a selection to be published on the Flash Fiction Collective Facebook page. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nJane Ciabattari\nJane Ciabattari\, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire\, writes the Between the Lines column for BBC Culture. She is a former president of the National Book Critics Circle and a member of the Writers Grotto. Her reviews\, interviews and cultural criticism have appeared… Read More →\n\n \nGrant Faulkner\nGrant Faulkner is the Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and the co-founder of 100 Word Story. He has published two books on writing\, Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo\, and Brave the Page\, a teen writing guide… Read More →\n\n \nKirstin Chen\nKirstin Chen‘s second novel\, Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A\, March 2018)\, was named a best book of the year by Entropy\, Popsugar\, and Book Bub\, and a top pick of the season by Electric Literature\, The Millions\, The Rumpus\, Harper’s Bazaar\, and InStyle. She is also the aut… Read More →\n\n \nMeg Pokrass\nMeg Pokrass is the U.K. based author of six flash fiction collections\, an award-winning collection of prose poetry\, and a novella-in-flash from the Rose Metal Press. Her latest is a flash fiction collection called The Dog Seated Next To Me\, published in 2019 by Pelekinesis Press. A new novella in flash The Smell Of Good Luck will be published in 2020 by Flash: The International Short Short Story Press. Meg’s work has been recently anthologized in two Norton Anthology Readers: New Micro (W.W. Norton & Co\, 2018) and Flash Fiction International (W.W. Norton & Co.\, 2015)\, The Best Small Fict… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-diy-flash-with-the-flash-fiction-collective/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Malcolm Harris - - Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit w/Robin Sloane
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Malcolm Harristo read from his new book\, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit on Tuesday\, April 7th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Robin Sloane. \nFrom the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality\, student debt\, and exploitation have come to define our lives \nOur economic situation\, political discourse\, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said “Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit” to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? \nMalcolm Harris\, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics\, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces\, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism–and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way\, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and\, most comfortingly\, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we’re in. \nRarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is\, but Harris’s wry and biting essays do just that\, and help us laugh at what we see. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nMalcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, n+1\, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia. \nRobin Sloan grew up in Michigan and now splits his time between San Francisco and the Internet. He is the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/malcolm-harris-shit-is-fucked-up-and-bullshit-w-robin-sloane/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:D. A. Powell and Paola Capó-García
DESCRIPTION:Paola Capó-García is the author of CLAP FOR ME THAT’S NOT ME (Rescue Press\, 2018)\, selected by D.A. Powell as the winner of Rescue Press’ 2017 Black Box Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Volta\, Puerto Rico en mi corazón\, Latino Book Review\, jubilat\, Poetry Society of America\, Academy of American Poets\, and others. Originally from San Juan\, PR\, she now lives in San Diego\, CA\, where she teaches 12th grade English. \nD. A. Powell’s books include Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys and Repast\, both from Graywolf Press. He received the 2019 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at University of San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/d-a-powell-and-paola-capo-garcia/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Moe's Books":MAILTO:owenmoes@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Dinerstein Knight / Hex
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (The Sunlit Night) for her new novel Hex. Please join us! \nNell Barber\, an expelled PhD candidate in biological science\, is exploring the fine line between poison and antidote\, working alone to set a speed record for the detoxification of poisonous plants. Her mentor\, Dr. Joan Kallas\, is the hero of Nell’s heart. Nell frequently finds herself standing in the doorway to Joan’s office despite herself\, mesmerized by Joan’s elegance\, success\, and spiritual force. \nSurrounded by Nell’s ex\, her best friend\, her best friend’s boyfriend\, and Joan’s buffoonish husband\, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships\, grudges\, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition\, and as they collide on the university campus\, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak. \nMeanwhile\, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study\, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks\, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days\, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity. \n\n“In her brilliant second novel\, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight cannily explores both the poisons and the antidotes of love\, ambition\, mentorship\, and yearning\, and she does it all in prose so lively that I often found myself laughing with pleasure. Hex is some dark and joyous witchery.” – Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Rebecca has written a book that examines our natural and absolutely astounding reactions to each other. The language of this novel is so finely tailored\, so elegant yet organic\, so absorbing that it takes the reader a moment to realize that this is not just a deliciously engaging tale of what it is like to be social and sexual\, but that this writing is an actual incantation in itself. It is a beautiful\, spooky spell that divides and processes our innate potential for poison or pleasure.” – Jenny Slate\, actress and author of Little Weirds \n“Hex reads like a botanist’s cross-breeding of The Secret History and Department of Speculation\, full of brilliant and bodily obsession. Rebecca Dinerstein Knight is both a scientist and a magician\, and she conjures this beautiful spell of a novel with total control.” – Emma Straub\, author of Modern Lovers \n\nRebecca Dinerstein Knight is the author of the novel and screenplay The Sunlit Night\, and a collection of poems\, Lofoten. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker online\, among others. Born and raised in New York City\, she lives in New Hampshire. Photo by Nina Subin. \n  \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens at 6:30pm; event starts at 7pm. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. \nAs with all of our events\, seating may be limited; you can guarantee a seat by pre-purchasing the book below — when checking out\, just be sure to include a note that you’d like to attend the event. If you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Hex\, order below and be sure to put your request in the comments field. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-dinerstein-knight-hex/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: Met Cute--The Happy Side of Gay Romance
DESCRIPTION:In these stressful times\, everyone could use a little fun. Because sometimes loving goes best with laughter\, four bestselling authors of gay romance read from their lighter works–J. Scott Coatsworth\, Kim Fielding\, Angel Martinez\, and Amy Lane. Discussion and Q&A about why love stories help soothe frayed nerves and anxious minds to follow. \nAll authors’ books available from your favorite indie bookstores\, order from bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of!\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nKim Fielding\nKim Fielding is the bestselling author of numerous m/m romance novels\, novellas\, and short stories. Like Kim herself\, her work is eclectic\, spanning genres such as contemporary\, fantasy\, paranormal\, and historical. Her stories are set in alternate worlds\, in 15th century Bosnia\, in… Read More →\n\n \nJ. Scott Coatsworth\nScott lives with his husband Mark in a yellow bungalow in Sacramento. He was indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine. He devoured her library\, but as he grew up\, he wondered where all the people like him were. He decided that if there weren’t… Read More →\n\nAM \nAngel Martinez\nAngel Martinez is the pen name of a writer of several genres who writes both kinds of queer fiction – Science Fiction and Fantasy. (What? There are others?) Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware\, (and full time inside the author’s head) Angel has… Read More →\n\n \nAmy Lane\nAmy Lane has two kids who are mostly grown\, two kids who aren’t\, two cats\, and two Chi-who-whats at large. She lives in a crumbling crapmansion with most of the children and a bemused spouse. She also has too damned much yarn\, a penchant for action adventure movies\, and a need to… Read More →
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-met-cute-the-happy-side-of-gay-romance/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Smack Dab Queer Open Mic Online!
DESCRIPTION:We are giving ONLINE Smack Dab Queer & Trans Open Mic a try. Meet us on Zoom at our usual time 🙂 \nSmack Dab Queer Open Mic is a free LGBTQ2SIA community event. Our slogan? “All ages\, all genders\, all the time.” We’re the longest running Q/T Open mic in the bay and we welcome YOU to join us to share: stories\, poems\, a song\, dance\, your visual art or your latest manifesto. Want to simply join us as friends\, family and supportive allies in Queer and Trans community? Our hosts Larry-bob Roberts {he/him} and Dana Hopkins {she/her} welcome you to come on in! \nIf you’d like to perform at the open mic\, please come sign up at 4:45 pm and bring five minutes of whatever you want to share {we do pay attention to time.} \nFor Zoom details and instructions about how to join in message us here at Smack Dab Queer Open Mic OR stay tuned to this space for those details. We will post them here on Sunday .
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smack-dab-queer-open-mic-online/
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale / The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor of Welcome to Night Vale for their new novel\, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home. Join us! \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, with each ticket including a book\, and will take place at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St. Tickets are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \nIn the town of Night Vale\, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home\, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from…until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks\, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century\, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe\, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers\, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her\, and ultimately her death and its aftermath\, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale. \nInterspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale\, as The Faceless Old Woman guides\, haunts\, and sabotages a man named Craig. In the end\, her current day dealings with Craig and her swashbuckling history in nineteenth century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way. \nPart The Haunting of Hill House\, part The Count of Monte Cristo\, and 100% about a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home. \n\nJoseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead podcasts. He lives with his wife in the Hudson River Valley and Los Angeles. He is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead.  Jeffrey Cranor co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also co-creates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York. Together\, they are the authors of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale\, It Devours!\, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void\, Partially Stars\, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe\, The Buying of Lot 37\, and Who’s a Good Boy? In 2016\, Fink and Cranor announced their podcast network “Night Vale Presents” which has produced 14 original fiction and non-fiction podcasts. For more on Welcome to Night Vale\, upcoming events\, and the books\, visit: www.welcometonightvale.com. \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is a free\, all-ages event. The bar opens with the store at 2pm; event starts at 4pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joseph-fink-and-jeffrey-cranor-of-welcome-to-night-vale-the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Litquake on Lockdown: "Home Baked" Booty Shake
DESCRIPTION:In the seventies\, when author Alia Volz was tucked into in her stroller\, her parents ran Sticky Fingers Brownies\, an underground bakery that delivered more than 10\,000 marijuana edibles each month in San Francisco. From the frothy 1970s through the depths of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of medical marijuana\, Volz’s new memoir Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a city in the throes of change and the community that came together when things fell apart. \nPour yourself a tequila sunrise\, twist a doobie\, and join Volz and luminaries Rebecca Skloot and Marke Bieschke for a taste of home-baked San Francisco love. Followed by a funkalicious living-room dance party with special guest DJs. \nBook is released on April 20\, 2020\, pre-order it from your favorite indie bookstore\, at bookshop.org! \nLivestream link to be posted the morning of the event!\n\n\nModerators \n\n \nRebecca Skloot\nRebecca Skloot is author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller\, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, which was made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film. Lacks took more than a decade to research and write\, and instantly hit the New York Times bestseller list\, where it has remained for… Read More →\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n \nMarke Bieschke\nMarke Bieschke is the publisher and arts editor of 48 Hills and the SF Bay Guardian\, and the author most recently of Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens (Zest Books\, 2019) and the forthcoming Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States (Lerner… Read More →\n\n \nAlia Volz\nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco\, due for release on 4/20 of this year. You’ll find her work in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Tin House\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/litquake-on-lockdown-home-baked-booty-shake/
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Kate Radford / Drought
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts a special evening with Kate Radford\, a sonic poetry performance and book release. Drought is fusing contemporary poetry\, cinematic landscapes and electronic harmonic compositions. This is the premiere performance in San Francisco – please join us! \n \nPlease note: This is a ticketed event\, with tickets on a sliding scale from $0-15. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as door tickets are not guaranteed. Unless otherwise noted here\, tickets will be available at the door. \n\nDrought is a compositional performance piece using cinematic landscapes\, contemporary poetry and sound to create and explore art space as part ritual and place of transformation\, using language\, mythology and folklore to transmute collective pain inflicted on women throughout fiction and non-fiction\, the real world and our cultural subconscious\, with a focus on the orchestra of language in a fine art performance context. \n“It is challenging. But above all\, it is redemptive. It is a love song. Through pain\, beyond heartache\, and into the sun itself. The bright can burn\, but it also – illuminates….” – Kate Radford \nExploring characters hidden deep within Ovid’s metamorphoses\, transformed into original poetry\, fusing mythological narratives\, part-autobiography\, part compositional ritual. \nWritten and Performed by Kate Radford\nOriginal Compositions by Kate Radford\nLandscape Imagery by Bryony Good \n\nKate Radford is a multi-award winning poet and artist working internationally to transform women’s stories and embed cultural narratives with a legacy of possibility and transformation. \n\nREVIEWS \n★ ★ ★ ★ ‘Hauntingly beautiful!’ (Ask The Ushers) ‘A visually impressive feminist cry’ – Broadway World \n‘Radford re-tells using lyrical writing\, her own extraordinary voice and digital projections’ – Lyne Gardner\, Stagedoor \n‘A mesmerising punch in the gut’ – Voila! Festival \n“Kate is a storyteller\, a songstress\, a performance artist and a poet. The amazing thing is I think she really had no idea how brilliant she is\, she simply is THIS. She is what the best of artists are—a person bringing art—her art—to the world with no artifice.” – Grace Jasmine\, Hollywood Fringe \n“Kate will take you on a spiritual journey\, using mythological narrative to examine violence women have suffered and will suffer at the hands of man. It is not an attack but a look at old truths rooted in ancient and modern-day storytelling. Kate’s use of her foot to control the electronic music became its own form of poetry as her voice soared and roared through the dark space\, as footage of old ruins swelled the tiny theatre\, Drought became a new religion.” – Constance Hall\, LA Female Playwrights Initiative. \n“Drought begins quite disarmingly with mythic riffs on the historic ocean of female oppression. Then Kate Radford opened her mouth to sing and became that ocean. Vast and deep\, powerful and personal\, her loops lured me in and pulled me under until I surrendered. Then she returned me to the surface and laid me breathless on the shore. I almost died. I wanna do it again.” – Jonathan Liptake\, Hollywood Fringe \n\nPlease note: this event will be held at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \nThis is an all-ages event. The bar opens at 7pm; event starts at 7:30pm. \nFacebook RSVP appreciated but not required. \nAccessibility is important to us! If you have special needs please let us know and we’ll do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-kate-radford-drought/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY 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 🙂\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:About Last Night: A One Night Stand Storytelling Series April
DESCRIPTION:About Last Night – Join us for an evening of laughter\, sex positivity and of course hilariously true one night stand stories. 7 brave souls will once again climb on our stage to share true tales of their most intimate and embarrassing one night stands. \nAbout Last Night is a monthly San Francisco one night stand / poor life choice storytelling series. This event features real people sharing hilarious (way too personal) stories about horrifying one night stands\, awkward hookups\, and embarrassing sexual adventures. Come join us for a night of complete and utter hysteria\, and unlike most of your one night stands\, we can promise you that you won’t regret it! \nHave a story you’d like to tell? Visit our website: www.aboutlastnightstorytelling.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/about-last-night-a-one-night-stand-storytelling-series-april/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry with Jeanne Heuving\, Eleni Stecopoulos and Susan Gevirtz
DESCRIPTION:Jeanne Heuving’s latest book is Mood Indigo\, selva oscura press (2019) and she is the co-editor\, along with Tyrone Williams\, of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry (Recencies Series\, University of New Mexico Press\, 2019. \nEleni Stecopoulos is the author of Visceral Poetics (ON Contemporary Practice\, 2016)\, Armies of Compassion (Palm Press\, 2010)\, and Daphnephoria (Compline\, 2012) \nSusan Gevirtz is the author of seven books of poetry\, including Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger\, Thrall\, and Hourglass Transcripts. Her critical works include Narrative Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson and Coming Events (Collected Writings)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-with-jeanne-heuving-eleni-stecopoulos-and-susan-gevirtz/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Luiza\, Colleen\, and Audra Have a Book Party at Wolfman Books
DESCRIPTION:Luiza Flynn-Goodlett\, winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize\, and Colleen McKee and Audra Puchalski\, finalists for the Charlotte Mew Prize\, read from their chapbooks\, all published in January by Headmistress Press. \nLuiza Flynn-Goodlett’s chapbook Tender Age won the 2019 Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew contest. She is also the author of the forthcoming collection Look Alive\, winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize from Southeast Missouri State University Press\, along with five other chapbooks\, most recently Shadow Box\, winner of the 2019 Madhouse Press Editor’s Prize. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast\, Pleiades\, TriQuarterly\, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/luiza-colleen-and-audra-have-a-book-party-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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