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SUMMARY:‘Heartbeat’\, A Film by Will Combs featuring Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline\, ‘Hube the Cube’ and others
DESCRIPTION:As a young film student immersed with the works of Godard and cinema verite’\, Will Combs barged into the backyard of the remaining Beats in San Francisco’s North Beach in the mid-1970’s. Using surplus film stock and a spring-wind Bolex\, he began to capture the temperament of the Era\, kabuki style. HEARTBEAT features rare and personal footage of Bob Kaufman\, Jack Micheline and Hube the Cube in their environment\, infusing poetry with a concise inquiry into the Beat Era.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/heartbeat-a-film-by-will-combs-featuring-bob-kaufman-jack-micheline-hube-the-cube-and-others/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200216T130000
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel on Poetry and Activism
DESCRIPTION:On February 16th the California Writers Club – Berkeley branch welcomes award-winning poet and activist Jan Steckel as a featured guest of the club. Steckel will speak on how poets and writers can effect change through their writing. She will speak on advocacy\, representation\, and documenting social conditions. Steckel has experience to share on using your writing to inspire empathy and using your notoriety to draw attention to injustice. She will share the ways poets and writers can participate in acts of resistance and move others to action. \nSteckel will briefly survey activist poets of the past. Many poets who rarely wrote overtly political poetry have felt moved to do so over the last few years. Online and print venues for political poetry have recently multiplied; a list of 22 journals that publish poetry about current events\, including poems that take a political stance\, will be provided. Local and national organizations of activist poets and publishers and ways to be an activist poet will be discussed. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. She is an activist for bisexual people’s\, disabled people’s and immigrants’ rights. Her latest book Like Flesh Covers Bone (Zeitgeist Press\, December 2018) won two Rainbow Awards (for LGBT Poetry and Best Bisexual Book) and was a finalist for the poetry category of the Bi Book Awards. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her writing has appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Rise Up Review\, Poetry Reading the News\, The New Verse News\, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland\, California and works as a medical editor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-on-poetry-and-activism/
LOCATION:Robinson Classroom A\, 1204 Preservation Park Way\, Oakland\, 94612-1201
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Gish Jen's The Resisters Book Talk with Helen Zia
DESCRIPTION:A moving and important story of an America that seems ever more possible\, The Resisters is also the story of one family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Gish will be in conversation with Helen Zia\, activist/author of Last Boat Out of Shanghai and Asian American Dreams. \n“The Resisters is palpably loving\, smart\, funny\, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen’s moment. She has pitched a perfect game.” –Ann Patchett \nGISH JEN is the author of four previous novels\, a story collection\, and two works of nonfiction\, the latest of which was The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nCo-presented by Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum Bay Area Chapter\, Asian Health Services\, and Eastwind Books of Berkeley. \nFREE\, $3-5 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jens-the-resisters-book-talk-with-helen-zia/
LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St Ste 290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clement: Schulkind\, McClung\, Grafton\, & Barnes
DESCRIPTION:About the Authors \nLynne Barnes was born in Georgia and moved to New York City in 1968 with a front row ticket\nto HAIR\, before migrating to San Francisco in 1969\, two years after the Summer of Love. She\nwas part of a commune that thrived for twenty years in the Haight Ashbury. She is a former\npsych nurse and librarian. Her beloved partner\, Carole\, created the cover art for her book.\nFALLING INTO FLOWERS was the recipient of the 2017 Rainbow Award for Best Gay and Lesbian\nPoetry\, a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Award\, and received Honorable Mention in both\nthe “Gay” and “Poetry” categories for the 2018 San Francisco Book Festival. \nGrace Marie Grafton’s latest book\, LENS\, from Unsolicited Press\, features poems inspired by\nthe art of California. Six additional collections of her poetry have been published. Her poems\nwon first prize in the Soul Making contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, in Bellingham Review\,\nand from The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a\nPushcart Prize. Ms. Grafton taught with CA Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve CA Arts Council\ngrants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s\nFountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nKathleen McClung is the author of two poetry collections\, The Typists Play Monopoly and\nAlmost the Rowboat. Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies including Southwest\nReview\, Naugatuck River Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, The MacGuffin\, Forgotten Women\,\nSanctuary\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. Winner of the Rita Dove\,\nMorton Marr\, Shirley McClure\, and Maria W. Faust national poetry prizes\, she is a Pushcart and\nBest of the Net nominee. Associate director of the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, she\nhas mentored hundreds of writers at Skyline College\, The Writing Salon\, and other colleges and\nhas taught/advised student teachers in the credential program at Mills College. For ten years\nshe has directed Women on Writing: WOW Voices Now on the Skyline campus. In 2018-2019\nshe is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.\n \nLaura Schulkind\, an attorney by day\, is entrusted with others’ stories. Through poetry she tells\nher own. She has two poetry chapbooks\, both published by Finishing Line Press\, The Long Arc of\nGrief (2019) and Lost in Tall Grass (2014). Her writing has also appeared in numerous literary\njournals including: The Dallas Review\, Diverse Voices Quarterly\, Dos Passos Review\, Forge\, The\nMacGuffin\, and Reed Magazine.\nHer recent collection The Long Arc of Grief\, dedicated to her parents\, was impelled by suddenly\nfinding herself in a world without them. But it also moves beyond grief\, exploring how we all\nnot merely carry on\, but live. In telling these stories\, she has been described as\, “a fearless\ntruth-teller\, shining the light of her poetic language on details we well might have missed\notherwise–the small\, miraculous moments of discovery\, heartbreak and redemption.” Barbara\nQuick (Vivaldi’s Virgins) Her published work\, and additional reviews can also be found at:\nwww.lauraschulkind.com\, along with musings on why “lawyer-poet” isn’t an oxymoron.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clement-schulkind-mcclung-grafton-barnes/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books Clement Street\, 506 Clement Street\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Book Swap!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our semiannual Book Swap at Novel Brewing Co.! \nHow does it work?\nBring a book\, or a few books. We prefer ones from home that you finished reading and would like to share with others \nAND/OR come in to find the next book you want to read! \nEach book included in the Book Swap needs a BOOKMARK!\nBookmarks and writing utensils are provided. Please write (1) your first name and last initial\, and (2) the top 2 reasons someone should read the book. Place the books\, with the bookmark in it\, on the Book Swap Book Cart. \nNovel Brewing Company’s Book Swap host (Teresa) will push around the Book Swap Book Cart from 4 to 6 pm to get each book a new home! \nSuccess = Extra $1 off your next pint!\nIf your book is selected by someone to take home\, the bookmark will be given to the beer server SO ASK if you have a bookmark behind the bar during your next pint purchase to redeem an extra $1 off your pint! \nIf books remain at the end\, no worries\, they will be put in the Lending Library over the next few months. \nHave fun and READ MORE in your daily life!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-swap/
LOCATION:Novel Brewing Company\, 6510 San Pablo Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94608
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T190000
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty - Golden Gates w/Nellie Bowles
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Conor Doughertyto read from his new book\, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America on Monday\, February 17th at 7pm. He will be joined in conversation by Nellie Bowles. \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nConor Dougherty is an economics reporter at The New York Times. He previously spent a decade in New York covering housing and the economy for The Wall Street Journal. He grew up in the Bay Area and lives with his family in Oakland. \nNellie Bowles is a reporter for the New York Times.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates-w-nellie-bowles/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters: Thom Hartmann / The Hidden History of the War on Voting
DESCRIPTION:In today’s America\, only a slim majority of eligible voters register to vote and a large percentage of registered voters don’t bother to show up for elections. Is this their responsibility alone\, or is it the insidious result of policies made by our elected officials? Thom Hartmann unveils the hidden war on voting in America\, offering answers as to why the wealthy elite want to block people from voting\, where the idea that only smart people should vote originates\, and why convicts aren’t allowed to vote. Is voter fraud really that common\, or is it just a ploy to make it harder for people to vote? And most importantly\, how can we make voting easily accessible to every citizen? With a perspective that stretches all the way to the founding of our republic\, Hartmann shows how the war on universal suffrage has been waged for centuries—and is far from over. \n​——————- \nThom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers magazine named him America’s most important progressive host and has named his show one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award\, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four books\, translated into multiple languages. \n​\nPlease note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-thom-hartmann-the-hidden-history-of-the-war-on-voting/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200217T210000
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SUMMARY:Dia Felix and Matt Longabucco
DESCRIPTION:Come out for an impromptu reading featuring Dia Felix and their longtime pal Matt Longabucco!! Also featuring super surprise guests!! Come for the reading and stay for the surprise!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dia-felix-and-matt-longabucco/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T133000
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SUMMARY:Gish Jen at The Ruby: Potluck and Discussion!
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special lunchtime conversation with award-winning novelist\, Gish Jen. Jen will be in conversation with our very own Mimi Lok about her latest novel\, The Resisters (Knopf\, February 2020)\, which Ann Patchett has called ‘a stone-cold masterpiece.’ The Resisters is a dystopian story set in the not-too-distant future in what has become known as AutoAmerica that follows a family struggling to maintain its humanity and normalcy in circumstances that threaten their every value–as well as their very existence. Books will be available for purchase! NOTE: this event is a potluck so bring a dish to share! \nAbout Gish Jen: Gish Jen has published short work in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic Monthly\, and dozens of other periodicals\, anthologies and textbooks. Her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times\, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century\, edited by John Updike. Nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award\, her work was featured in a PBS American Masters’ special on the American novel and is widely taught. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction\, a Guggenheim fellowship\, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship\, and a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living; she has also delivered the William E. Massey\, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. Her newest novel is her eighth book. Called THE RESISTERS\, it will be published by Knopf in February 2020. \nAbout Mimi Lok: Mimi Lok is the author of the story collection Last of Her Name\, published October 2019 by Kaya Press. The title story was a finalist for the 2018 Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award and an Ylvisaker Award for Fiction\, and was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Arts and Letters Prize for nonfiction. Her work can be found in McSweeney’s\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Nimrod\, Lucky Peach\, Hyphen\, the South China Morning Post\, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. Mimi is also the executive director and editor of Voice of Witness\, an award-winning human rights/oral history nonprofit she cofounded that amplifies marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gish-jen-at-the-ruby-potluck-and-discussion/
LOCATION:The Ruby\, 23rd and bryant street\, san francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Typewriter Art: Typestracts\, Artyping\, and Constellation Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Before ASCII art there was typewriter art. Taking advantage of a widely available office tool\, artists and poets used the typewriter to forge a new genre of art and poetry. Breaking the grid and exploding words\, these artists and poets used the limitations and practicalities of the typewriter to create beautiful and thought provoking pieces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/typewriter-art-typestracts-artyping-and-constellation-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
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SUMMARY:Lewis Watts - Harlem of the West
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Lewis Watts to read from is new book\, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era on Tuesday\, February 18th at 7pm. \nIn the 1940s and 50s\, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco’s Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne Supper Club; Chet Baker and Dexter Gordon jammed with the house band at Bop City; and T-Bone Walker rubbed shoulders with the locals at the bar of Texas Playhouse. The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay Area where people of color could go for entertainment\, and so many legendary African American musicians performed there for friends and family that the neighborhood was known as the Harlem of the West. Over a dozen clubs dotted the twenty-block-radius. Filling out the streets were restaurants\, pool halls\, theaters\, and stores\, many of them owned and run by African Americans\, Japanese Americans\, and Filipino Americans. The entire neighborhood was a giant multicultural party pulsing with excitement and music. In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians\, Harlem of the Westcaptures a joyful\, exciting time in San Francisco\, taking readers through an all-but-forgotten multicultural neighborhood and revealing a momentous part of the country’s African American musical heritage. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nLewis Watts is a photographer\, archivist\, and professor emeritus of art at UC Santa Cruz with a longstanding interest in the cultural landscape of the African diaspora in the Bay Area and internationally.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lewis-watts-harlem-of-the-west/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Baron at City Lights Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She \nPublished by Liveright \n\n\n\n\n\nAddressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation\, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to zie and hir and singular-they. \nLike trigger warnings and gender-neutral bathrooms\, pronouns are sparking a national debate\, prompting new policies in schools\, workplaces\, even prisons\, about what pronouns to use. Colleges ask students to declare their pronouns along with their majors; corporate conferences print name tags with space to add pronouns; email signatures sport pronouns along with names and titles. Far more than a by-product of the culture wars\, gender-neutral pronouns are\, however\, nothing new. Pioneering linguist Dennis Baron puts them in historical context\, noting that Shakespeare used singular-they; women invoked the generic use of he to assert the right to vote (while those opposed to women’s rights invoked the same word to assert that he did not include she); and people have been coining new gender pronouns\, not just hir and zie\, for centuries. Based on Baron’s own empirical research\, What’s Your Pronoun? chronicles the story of the role pronouns have played—and continue to play—in establishing both our rights and our identities. It is an essential work in understanding how twenty-first-century culture has evolved. \nDennis Baron\, professor emeritus of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois\, has long been a national commentator on language issues\, from the Washington Post to NPR and CNN. He is the author of A Better Pencil: Readers\, Writers\, and the Digital Revolution. A recent Guggenheim Fellow\, he lives in Champaign\, Illinois. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dennis-baron-at-city-lights-bookstore/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit # 57: (Music by: GALA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: GALA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-57-music-by-gala/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Oakland Poetry Slam and Wide Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Come join us at our new home! There will be music\, a writing workshop\, and Luka’s has 1/2 off burgers! You should come eat\, drink\, and be merry. And of course\, hop on our open mic or poetry slam list to flex your skills. \nYour Feature for the night is D’mani Thomas \n7:00 PM Doors Open \n7:20 PM Writing Workshop led by Tino V.H. Jr. \n7:30 Open mic and Slam lists open \n8:15 Show Begins! \nAbout the Feature: \nD’mani Thomas (he/him/they) is a writer\, horror film enthusiast\, and dance lover. A graduate of UC Berkeley\, D’mani is a two-time member of CAL Slam ( 2017 & 2018)\, earning the “Best Writing As a Team” accolade in 2018. They were a 2019 Pink Plastic House Resident\, a 2019 WUS GOOD Black Hogwarts workshop participant\, and will be a 2020 SHOW US YOUR SPINES resident as well as a 2020 Alley Cat resident . Their work can be found in Cerurove literary journal\, MARY: A Journal of New Writing\, and is forthcoming in Foglifter and elsewhere. \n$Cover$: \nGeneral Admission: $10 \nPerformers (door only): $5 \nBring yo friends\, Bring yo family\, Bring yo date\, but most importantly\, Bring YOSELF!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-poetry-slam-and-wide-open-mic/
LOCATION:Luka’s Taproom & Lounge\, 2221 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Oakland Poetry Slam & Open Mic":MAILTO:oakslambooking@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200218T210000
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CREATED:20191205T161124Z
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SUMMARY:Conor Dougherty: Golden Gates
DESCRIPTION: Conor Dougherty discusses his new book Golden Gates: Fighting For Housing in America. \nPraise for Golden Gates \n“Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay Area’s slow-burning housing crisis and deepening socioeconomic cleft\, and a finely reported exploration of some more recent accelerants: political infighting\, arcane policy\, the strictures and incentives of capitalism\, and\, of course\, the rapid growth and ascendance of Silicon Valley tech corporations. With precision\, insight\, and flashes of humor\, Conor Dougherty delivers intimate glimpses of a region in transition\, and a sobering reminder that San Francisco\, these days\, is not so much an exception as a harbinger of the future for America’s cities.”—Anna Wiener\, author of Uncanny Valley \n“Golden Gates is a terrific work of explanatory journalism. If you want to understand the colliding forces that have turned the San Francisco Bay Area into a housing powder keg and threaten to engulf many more cities across the country\, you need to read this book.”—John Carreyrou\, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood \n“How do we solve a problem like California\, with its three-hour commutes and sky-high rents? Deeply-reported and fast-paced\, Golden Gates introduces you to the people fighting for and against affordable housing in one of the world’s hottest real estate markets. In following the clashes between political leaders\, tenant activists\, developers\, and working families\, Dougherty brings a novel perspective to one of the nation’s most urgent problems.”— Matthew Desmond\, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City \nAbout Golden Gates \nA stunning\, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis \nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today\, however\, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. \nWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting\, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter\, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. \nTo tell this new story of housing\, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenaged girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \nSweeping in scope and intimate in detail\, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/conor-dougherty-golden-gates/
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:Devi S. Laskar discusses The Atlas of Reds and Blues
DESCRIPTION:Devi S. Laskar will be joined in conversation by Vijaya Nagarajan\, Christine O’Brien\, and Elizabeth Stark\, to celebrate the paperback release of The Atlas of Reds and Blues. \n  \nAbout the Book: \n“Devi S. Laskar’s The Atlas of Reds and Blues is as narratively beautiful as it is brutal. In prose that moves between cushioning characters’ falls and ushering our understandings of characters’ utopias\, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. I’ve never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages. Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation.” —Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy \n“The entire novel takes place over the course of a single morning\, as Mother lies waiting for help\, and the effect is devastatingly potent.” —Marie Claire \nWhen a woman—known only as Mother—moves her family from Atlanta to its wealthy suburbs\, she discovers that neither the times nor the people have changed since her childhood in a small Southern town. Despite the intervening decades\, Mother is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No\, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrants\, she finds that her answer—Here—is never enough. \nMother’s simmering anger breaks through one morning\, when\, during a violent and unfounded police raid on her home\, she finally refuses to be complacent. As she lies bleeding from a gunshot wound\, her thoughts race from childhood games with her sister and visits to cousins in India\, to her time in the newsroom before having her three daughters\, to the early days of her relationship with a husband who now spends more time flying business class than at home. \nThe Atlas of Reds and Blues grapples with the complexities of the second-generation American experience\, what it means to be a woman of color in the workplace\, and a sister\, a wife\, and a mother to daughters in today’s America. Drawing inspiration from the author’s own terrifying experience of a raid on her home\, Devi S. Laskar’s debut novel explores\, in exquisite\, lyrical prose\, an alternate reality that might have been. \n  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nDevi S. Laskar is a native of Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, and holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in Tin House and Rattle\, among other publications. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and is an alumna of The OpEd Project and VONA. The Atlas of Reds and Blues is her first novel. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. \nVijaya Nagarajan is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and in the Program of Environmental Studies at the University of San Francisco. She is the author of Feeding A Thousand Souls: Women\, Ritual and Ecology in India\, An Exploration of the Kolam (Oxford University Press\, 2019) \nChristine O’Brien’s lyrical essays and short stories have appeared in The Seneca Review and The Slush Pile Magazine\, among other publications. Her memoir\, CRAVE\, A Memoir of Food and Longing\, released in 2018\, was hailed as a “page turner” by Booklist and “a 20th Century fairytale” by The New York Times. She is currently an adjunct professor at Saint Mary’s College of California where she has taught composition for nine years. \nElizabeth Stark is host of the Story Makers Show podcast. She produced the 2019 film Lost in the Middle\, the documentary FtF: Female to Femme\, and the film short\, Little Mutinies. She has taught at UCSC\, Pratt\, St. Mary’s and more\, and is currently teaching at SonomaCountyWritersCamp.com and BookWritingWorld.com. Look out for Optical Illusions\, a forthcoming novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devi-s-laskar-discusses-the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T153000
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SUMMARY:Steve Almond Q&A with Matthew Zapruder
DESCRIPTION:DATE & TIME:\n\nWednesday\, February 19\, 2020 – 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:\nDe La Salle Hall: Hagerty Lounge\, 1928 Saint Mary’s Road\, Moraga\, CA 94575\nView a map and get directions.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION:\n\n\nQ&A and discussion with Steve Almond\, author of William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life. The plot of the John Williams’s 1965 novel Stoner is straightforward enough—“Stoner\, the only son of subsistence farmers\, attends college\, unexpectedly falls in love with literature\, and becomes a teacher; he endures a disastrous marriage\, a prolonged academic feud\, and a doomed love affair\, then falls ill and dies\,” Almond writes—but in William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life\, the author sees the novel as a personal reckoning\, a catalyst for sharing his own struggles as a writer\, father\, and husband grappling with his own mortality. \nSteve Almond is the author of ten books of fiction and non-fiction\, including the New York Times bestsellers Against Football and Candyfreak. His short stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, the Best American Mysteries\, and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, and elsewhere. He hosts the New York Times “Dear Sugars” podcast with Cheryl Strayed. Steve lives outside Boston with his wife and three children. \n  \n\n\n\n\nADD TO CALENDAR\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\n\nKrista Varela Posell ext. 4762 \nwriters@stmarys-ca.edu
URL:https://litseen.com/event/steve-almond-qa-with-matthew-zapruder/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T200000
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SUMMARY:Vincent Meis Reads at Dog Eared Books Castro
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Vincent Meis reads from his just off the presses new novel\, Four Calling Birds\, 7pm\, Wednesday\, February 19 from at Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro St. in San Francisco. The event is free. \nThe four Burd siblings head to Mexico to heal and regroup after the death of their mother. Midlife crises are revealed. At the age of forty-seven\, M wonders if she is too old to transition to the man she has been hiding inside her. Augie has a perfect gay family with a loving husband and an adorable bi-racial son. And yet\, something is missing. The charismatic Lio has squandered his marriage and relationship with his daughter in favor of a hedonistic lifestyle. The youngest sibling\, AJ\, is married to a man emboldened by the election of a fascist bully as president. It takes a kidnapping to shake them out of their self-absorption\, sending them on a new journey. \nMeis has published four previous novels: Eddie’s Desert Rose (2011)\, Tio Jorge (2012)\, and Down in Cuba (2013)\, and Deluge (2016). Tio Jorge received a Rainbow Award in the category of Bisexual Fiction in 2012. Down in Cuba received two Rainbow Awards in 2013\, and Deluge a Rainbow Award in 2016. Recently\, his stories have been published in three collections: With: New Gay Fiction\, Best Gay Erotica 2015\, and Best Gay Erotica\, Vol. 1. He has published pieces in publications such as The Advocate\, LA Weekly\, In Style\, and Our World. He lives in San Leandro\, California with his husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-meis-reads-at-dog-eared-books-castro/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T203000
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SUMMARY:Catana Chetwynd / Snug
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd\, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book\, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! \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 Snug and/or Little Moments of Love\, which are included with each ticket — it’s also possible\, in advance only\, to get 2 tickets with just 1 book — please be sure to read the ticketing information closely. Advance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nWhy bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book of cozy\, cute comics. From the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes Snug\, a collection of comics that perfectly captures the honest\, playful\, and relatable snapshots of romantic life. \nChetwynds second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new\, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of usand the magic that happens when we find our matching puzzle piece. \n\nCatana Chetwynd is a self-taught traditional artist and the enthusiastic author of Catana Comics. She grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York\, where she spent her time creating art and pursing an education in psychology until accidentally stumbling into the world of comics. Not only is her boyfriend John the daily inspiration for her drawings\, but he was also the one who suggested a comic series about their relationship in the first place. Thanks to his idea and his inspiring daily antics\, Catana was able to pursue her childhood dream of being a cartoonist. She currently lives on the East Coast with John and their tiny\, angry dog Murph. \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– To join the signing line\, you must purchase a book from Booksmith — no exceptions. If you already have a copy of Snug and Little Moments of Love\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted both of Catana’s books 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– Candid photos will be allowed but due to timing we are unable to accommodate requests for posed photos. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Snug\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catana-chetwynd-snug/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200315T210000
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SUMMARY:Word for Word presents: RETABLOS By Octavio Solis
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Chapters Retablos\, The Way Over\, Consuelo\, El Judío\, La Migra\, La Llorona\, Nothing Happens\, The Quince\, Mexican Apology\, El Segundo\, Neto\, My Right Foot\, and Jeep in the Water\nFebruary 19 – March 15\nDirected by Sheila Balter and Jim Cave \nWord for Word’s latest full production is from author & playwright Octavio Solis. Retablos is a coming of age memoir; each chapter a memory tale\, verging on fable\, which paints a dreamlike picture of life in El Paso in the 60’s and ’70’s. Drawing from his own childhood\, Solis says that he wrote these stories “to see how that skinny brown kid riding his bike out there in the desert made sense of his complicated\, deeply beautiful and troubled world.” Octaviosolis.net \n\n\n\n\nTICKETS\n\n\n\n\n“A retablo is a devotional painting\, playwright Octavio Solis tells us. In this poignantly written\, heart-warming coming-of-age memoir\, Solis pays tribute to those cornerstone moments in his life\, negotiating borders at once personal and cultural\, with such color that the reader is left spellbound. Astonishing\, what more can I say?”\n—Greg Sarris\, author of How a Mountain Was Made and longtime Word for Word friend \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn Evening with Octavio Solis\nJoin us on February 27. The evening’s performance of Retablos will be followed by a conversation with the author\, moderated by Greg Sarris. Both writers are longtime friends of Word for Word. Mr. Solis is a nationally renowned playwright in addition to being a prose author\, and Greg Sarris is Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The evening includes a reception and book signing to cap off the night. \n\n\n\n\nPURCHASE TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/word-for-word-presents-retablos-by-octavio-solis/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges is a monthly reading series featuring a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. Hosted and curated by Sharon Coleman and Mk Chavez. \nEvery third Wednesday of the month at Pegasus Books Downtown.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-14/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T210000
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SUMMARY:Month of Love: February Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Bring a date to this lit reading by five Northern Californian writers. We are feature local talent along with refreshments and a book store cat. All free!! Come enjoy and warm your winter bones. \nAntmen Pimentel Mendoza\nGrace Loh Prasad\nApollo Papafrangou\nWill Preston\nLisa Rosenberg \nHosted and curated by Sharon Coleman \nantmen pimentel mendoza (he\, him\, his & she\, her\, hers) is a scorpio\, bakla\, and writer. antmen is based in Huichin Ohlone Land (the San Francisco Bay Area) where he talks about pop music nearly all day and plays with friends. She works at a cultural center where she conspires with undergraduate students of color toward more free and just worlds\, manages a community lending library\, and geeks on curriculum development and workshop facilitation. \nApollo Papafrangou is the author of the acclaimed debut novel Wings of Wax (Olive Leaf Editions\, 2016) and the story collection Concrete Candy\, published by Anchor Books/Doubleday in 1996\, with French and Danish editions. He has also written for HBO Films\, which optioned the film rights to his story The Fence (2000-2004). His fiction and poetry has appeared in ZYZZYVA magazine\, Oakland Review\, The Bookends Review\, Sparkle & Blink\, and the Simon & Schuster anthology Trapped. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. \nGrace Loh Prasad was born in Taiwan and raised in New Jersey and Hong Kong before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area. Grace received her MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College\, and is an alumna of the VONA workshop for writers of color along with residencies at Hedgebrook and the Ragdale Foundation. Her essays have appeared in Longreads\, Catapult\, Jellyfish Review\, Ninth Letter\, Blood Orange Review\, X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine\, Memoir Mixtapes\, The Manifest-Station\, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. She is a contributor to the anthology Six Words Fresh Off the Boat: Stories of Immigration\, Identity and Coming to America and has work forthcoming in Panorama\, and the anthologies Ms. Aligned 3 and Chrysanthemum: Voices of the TaiwanesDiaspora\, Vol. II. Grace is a member of The Writers Grotto and Seventeen Syllables\, an Asian Pacific American writers collective. She is currently finishing her memoir entitled The Translator’s Daughter (www.translatorsdaughter.com). \nWill Preston was born in Oakland where he is now a middle school teacher\, and will complete the MFA program in creative writing at St. Mary’s College where he is also the Senior Fiction Editor for the literary journal Mary. His short fiction appears in Milvia Street. \nPoet and recovering engineer\, Lisa Rosenberg is the author of A Different Physics\, winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. She holds degrees in physics and creative writing\, and worked for many years in the space program. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford\, she served as the 2017/2018 Poet Laureate of San Mateo County. Lisa’s poems explore natural and cultural landscapes\, the art of making\, and the drive to question inherited models. She was recently named a MOSAIC Fellow with Sangam Arts\, and has been awarded a 2020 Djerassi Residency for Scientists and Artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/month-of-love-february-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T200000
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Slam ft. Terry Taplin!
DESCRIPTION:THE LONGEST RUNNING POETRY SLAM ON THE WEST COAST!\nBringing you some of the best poetry from across the world every week since 1999\, and third in the nation at the 2015 National Poetry Slam! \nhttp://berkeleyslam.org/\nhttps://twitter.com/berkeleyslam\nInstagram: @berkeleyslam \n—————�————-\nGet ready for our feature Terry Taplin! \nTerry Taplin holds an MFA from Saint Mary’s College where he served as the Lambda Literary Fellow. He is the former Poetry Editor of MARY: A Journal for New Writing\, and is Social Media Managing Editor at Fruity Feline Press. He holds a BA in Classical Languages: Greek and Latin. He is a former slam champion and the recipient of the Ina Coolbrith Prize for Undergraduate Poetry (academic year 2014-15). Terry’s work has appeared in PARADISE NOW and Baest: A Journal of Queer Forms and Affects. He is the author of fragmenta (Marigold 2016)\, and has a chapbook forthcoming from Nion Editions. \n—————�————-\nUPCOMING\n2/26: Ashia Ajani\n—————�————- \nTHE STARRY PLOUGH\n3101 Shattuck Avenue\, 510-841-2082\n(1 block uphill from the Ashby BART).\nEVERY WEDNESDAY\n$7 – $10 sliding scale (most nights)\nCash Prizes!\nWorkshop: 6:30 p.m. Sign-up: 7:30 p.m. Show: 8:30 p.m.\nALL AGES before 10 p.m.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-slam-ft-terry-taplin/
LOCATION:The Starry Plough\, 3101 Shattuck Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20200126T014929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T014929Z
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SUMMARY:Radar: Show Us Your Spines Resident Reading
DESCRIPTION:SHOW US YOUR SPINES is a month-long writer residency + reading in collaboration with the SF Public Library’s Hormel Center. For a month QTIPOC writers work with Hormel Center LGBTQIA archives around a specific queer theme\, writing/producing a piece that will then be read/presented the following month at a local venue. \n  \nFEATURING:\nal aguas\nKiyaan Abadani\nmadhvi trivedi-pathak\nManeo Refiloe Mohale
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-show-us-your-spines-resident-reading/
LOCATION:El Rio\, 3158 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20200131T200233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T200444Z
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SUMMARY:Catana Chetwynd / Snug
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith presents Catana Chetwynd\, in San Francisco for the first time to present her new book\, Snug. Come meet Catana and her boyfriend John! \nPLEASE NOTE: \n>>  Due to popular demand\, we have added a second night with Catana and John! Wed\, Feb 19 is completely sold out.  \nTICKETS ARE NOW FOR SALE HERE for Thurs\, Feb 20. \nAdvance tickets are highly encouraged — tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \nWe have also moved both events up to a 6:30pm start time\, so Catana can have more time with each fan. If you have any questions or concerns\, please email us at events@booksmith.com. \n  \nWhy bother getting out of bed when you could stay bundled up with that special someone and a book of cozy\, cute comics. From the author of the bestselling Little Moments of Love comes Snug\, a collection of comics that perfectly captures the honest\, playful\, and relatable snapshots of romantic life. \nChetwynds second book has the same charming and inviting style as her first and includes 50 percent new\, never-before-shared comics. Snug is a celebration of the quirks and peculiarities of every one of usand the magic that happens when we find our matching puzzle piece. \n\nCatana Chetwynd is a self-taught traditional artist and the enthusiastic author of Catana Comics. She grew up in Saratoga Springs\, New York\, where she spent her time creating art and pursing an education in psychology until accidentally stumbling into the world of comics. Not only is her boyfriend John the daily inspiration for her drawings\, but he was also the one who suggested a comic series about their relationship in the first place. Thanks to his idea and his inspiring daily antics\, Catana was able to pursue her childhood dream of being a cartoonist. She currently lives on the East Coast with John and their tiny\, angry dog Murph. \n  \n\n** Please note ** \n– This is an all-ages event. \n– The duration of this event is up to the authors. \n– Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. \n– To join the signing line\, you must purchase a book from Booksmith — no exceptions. If you already have a copy of Snug and Little Moments of Love\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve already gifted both of Catana’s books 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– Candid photos will be allowed but due to timing\, we are unable to accommodate requests for posed photos. \n– Accessibility is important to us! Please let us know in advance if you have any special needs and we will do our absolute best to accommodate you: events@booksmith.com. \n– If you can’t attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Snug\, order below and be sure to enter your request in the special field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/catana-chetwynd-snug-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20200126T012909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T012909Z
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SUMMARY:Third Thursdays @ Willow Glen featuring Kaecey McCormick
DESCRIPTION:Willow Glen Library\n1157 Minnesota Avenue\, San José\, CA\, 95125\n(408) 808-3045 or (408) 266-1361\nFree and open to the public. \nKaecey McCormick is an author\, artist\, and educator whose mission is to help people access creativity as a tool for effecting change in their lives. Named the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate for the City of Cupertino\, she enjoys helping the community celebrate poetry. Kaecey works as a writer and creativity coach\, and her writing appears in her book Pixelated Tears (Prolific Press) and numerous journals and anthologies. When not creating\, Kaecey enjoys time with her husband and four daughters..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-thursdays-willow-glen-featuring-kaecey-mccormick/
LOCATION:Willow Glen Library\, 1157 Minnesota Ave\, San Jose \, CA\, 95125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20191120T041223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191120T041223Z
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SUMMARY:“Poetry from Prisoners”
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to present a sampling of “Poetry from Prisoners” incarcerated in California. Readers will include poets Rose Black and Ken Weisner\, currently teaching at the Salinas Valley State Prison poetry workshop. \nRose and Ken are also two of the founders of Right to Write Press – Promoting the growth of emerging writers incarcerated in California State prisons.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-from-prisoners/
LOCATION:Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20191227T022011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T022011Z
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SUMMARY:William T. Vollmann
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nThe Lucky Star: A Novel \npublished by Viking/Penguin \nThe National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory–the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco–with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society \nIn such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family\, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps\, prostitutes\, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. In this new novel\, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves\, and who has to love them all back. \nAfter being initiated into a coven of island witches\, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin dive bar. Her worshippers include Richard\, the introverted\, alcoholic\, occasionally omniscient narrator; a profane\, aggressive transgender sex worker named Shantelle; the brisk but motherly barmaid Francine; and the former Frank\, who has renamed herself after her idol Judy Garland. When Judy starts to love Neva too much\, Judy’s retired policeman boyfriend embarks on a mission of exposure and destruction. \nCrafted out of language by turns spiritual and sexually graphic\, The Lucky Star aches with compassion as it explores celebrity culture\, gender identity\, incest\, Christian sacrifice and\, most of all\, the quotidian and sometimes faltering heroism of marginalized people who in the face of humiliation and outright violence seek to love in their own way\, and stand up for who they are. \nPraise for The Lucky Star \n“[A] provocatively playful novel . . . As Neva evolves from an innocent to an icon on par with Marlene Dietrich\, at least in the eyes of the Y Bar circle\, she guides and mentors their sexual self-discovery\, helping define their boundaries and gain confidence . . . Vollmann’s challenging novel is full of memorable moments.” —Publishers Weekly \n“Vollmann pours his signature fascination with outcasts\, women’s sexuality\, violence\, and injustice into this gargantuan\, omnivorously explicit\, ravening orgy of trauma and resilience. Rooted in interviews with women survivors\, this is a molten amalgam of cynicism and compassion\, horror and beauty.” —Booklist \nWilliam T Vollmann is an award winning novelist\, journalist\, war correspondent\, short story writer\, essayist\, and painter. He is the author of ten novels\, four short story collections\, nine works of non-fiction\, and numerous limited special editions. His novel Europe Central won the 2005 National Book Award. He has won numerous honors for his work including the Whiting Foundation Award and the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Award for his fiction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/william-t-vollmann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20191227T165803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191227T165803Z
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SUMMARY:PEOM: Poetry Every Other Month
DESCRIPTION:Join us every other month at 7pm for a featured poet\, an open mic and great drinks and treats! \nAlameda Poet Laureate Gene Kahane hosts. All attendees are encouraged to make a donation to the Alameda Food Bank that night to support those needing help this holiday season. \nAs Charles Dickens wrote\, “it is a time\, of all others\, when Want is keenly felt\, and Abundance rejoices.” Let’s all rejoice by sharing our cultures\, our words\, and our hearts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peom-poetry-every-other-month-2/
LOCATION:Julie’s Coffee and Tea Garden\, 1223 Park St.\, Alameda\, CA\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Julie's":MAILTO:julie@juliestea.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T125807
CREATED:20200126T015239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200126T015239Z
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SUMMARY:The Racket : Revenge
DESCRIPTION:There are themes and then there are THEMES and no one is surprised that REVENGE is absolutely a THEME. We imagine tales of murder and lust and backstabbing and danger and excitement and sex (there is has to be sex right?) and for some reason we think everything is covered in thick\, red velvet and dimly lit and maybe there’s a vampire because vampires are probably pretty vengeful but maybe that’s just because now we’re thinking thick\, red velvet and goblets full of red wine and maybe some of these stories will be set in castles with vampires… Could somebody please dump some ice on us so we can cool down? \nAnyways\, it’s going to be quite the evening. \nFree beer\, until it is not around anymore.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-revenge/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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