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SUMMARY:Zachary Mason
DESCRIPTION:Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying\, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco\, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn’t rich\, not quite\, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various employers and their AIs\, which are complex to the point of opacity. It’s a good gig\, paying enough for the annual visits to the Mayo Clinic that keep her from aging. \n  \nKern has no such access; he’s one of the many refugees in the sprawling drone-built favelas on the city’s periphery\, where he lives like a monk\, training relentlessly in martial arts\, scraping by as a thief and an enforcer. Thales is from a different world entirely—the mathematically inclined scion of a Brazilian political clan\, he’s fled to L.A. after the attack that left him crippled and his father dead. \n  \nA ragged stranger accosts Thales and demands to know how much he can remember. Kern flees for his life after robbing the wrong mark. Irina finds a secret in the reflection of a laptop’s screen in her employer’s eyeglasses. None are safe as they’re pushed together by subtle forces that stay just out of sight. \n  \nVivid\, tumultuous\, and propulsive\, Void Star is Zachary Mason’s mind-bending follow-up to his bestselling debut\, The Lost Books of the Odyssey.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/zachary-mason/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Joyce Maynard
DESCRIPTION:Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the best-selling memoir\, At Home in the World. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo\, she founded the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop in 2001. Maynard makes her home in Lafayette\, CA\, where she is currently at work on the screenplay for her novel\, Under the Influence. A memoir about finding her husband at age 58\, marrying him at 59\, and losing him to cancer three years later\, will be published in Fall\, 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joyce-maynard/
LOCATION:Hagerty Lounge\, SMC\, 1928 Saint Mary's Road\, Moraga \, CA\, 94575\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:The Holloway Series of Poetry presents a reading with Morgan Parker.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker/
LOCATION:Hearst Field Annex\, Hearst Field Annex\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170419T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170419T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T234745
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SUMMARY:Eveline Kanes + MaryLee McNeal
DESCRIPTION:Poets Eveline Kanes (A Coin Worn Thin) and MaryLee McNeal (The Way We Fall) will read from their latest collections.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eveline-kanes-marylee-mcneal/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170418T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170418T213000
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sarah Ladipo Manyika
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host the launch for Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. Sarah will be in conversation with Daniel Handler. Please join us! \n‘Morayo Da Silva\, a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman\, lives in Cole Valley\, San Francisco. On the cusp of seventy-five\, she is in good health and makes the most of it\, enjoying road trips in her vintage Porsche\, chatting to strangers\, and recollecting characters from her favorite novels. Then she has a fall and her independence crumbles. Without the support of family\, she relies on friends and chance encounters. As Morayo recounts her story\, moving seamlessly between past and present\, we meet Dawud\, a charming Palestinian shopkeeper\, Sage\, a feisty\, homeless Grateful Dead devotee\, and Antonio\, the poet whom Morayo desired more than her ambassador husband. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is a subtle and mesmerizing meditation on aging\, friendship\, and loss. It is also a nuanced portrait of the erotic yearnings of an older woman. \n————————–————————–————– \nLike the dusty spines on Morayo’s bookshelves\, every character in this novel hides a vibrant\, teeming inner world behind an unspectacular façade. […] Ladipo Manyika’s book reminds us of the value of indulgence and delight – in sex\, in food\, in company\, and in reading. – The New Statesmen \nSarah Manyika’s Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is the rare sort of book that\, from the instant you pick it up\, you know that you will privy to the most intimate secrets. It is as if Dr. Morayo Da Silva is speaking directly into your ear. A real life-force of a character whose honesty\, warmth\, energy\, and bravery in the face of inevitable loss springs forth on the page. Chekhov once said that the ‘Russian loves to recall living\, but he does not love living.” Da Silva manages\, in her unique way\, to love both\, the remembering and life in the present tense. A beautiful\, important new novel\, and one that will continue to echo in a reader’s mind for a long time after. – Peter Orner \nDr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page – intelligent\, indomitable\, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose\, Manyika dips in and out of her present\, her past\, in a story that argues always for generosity\, for connection\, for a vigorous and joyful endurance. – Karen Joy Fowler \n————————–————————–————– \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and for several years taught literature at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves on the boards of Hedgebrook and the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. Sarah is a Patron of the Etisalat Prize for Literature and host to OZY’s video series “Write.” Her second novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun was shortlisted for the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-ladipo-manyika-2/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170418T220000
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #23 (Music by Turk and Divis)
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only Christine No \nFeatured lineup of writers include: K.R. Morrison\, Evan Karp\, Kate Ambash\, Alex Ivey\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia\, Josey Duncan\, Preeti Vangani\, James Warner\, Garrett Murphy\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Charlie Getter\, Andrew J. Thomas\, Kelechi Marie and more TBA \nMusical Guest: Turk and Divis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-23-music-by-turk-and-divis/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night
DESCRIPTION:The WordParty Poetry & Jazz Night: Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month from 7:00-9:30pm\nNEXT: Tuesday April 18th\, 2017\nFeatured Poet: EK Keith for Nat’l Poetry & Jazz Month! \nat PianoFight: 144 Taylor Street (between Turk & Eddy)\, San Francisco\, CA 94102 – Powell Street BART \nHosted by Jennifer Barone\, Ingrid Keir. Live jazz with Daniel Heffez\, Geordie Van Der Bosch and friends. FREE admission\, all ages\, full menu and bar in the front room. Open Mic for poetry only – 3min time limit\, pick your best poem to read with live jazz accompaniment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-wordparty-poetry-jazz-night/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170418T200000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Morgan Parker to the store to discuss and sign There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé on Tuesday\, April 18th at 7:00 pm. \nThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance\, depression\, isolation\, exoticism\, racism\, femininity\, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism\, examining and confronting modern media\, consumption\, feminism\, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate\, folding in references from jazz standards\, visual art\, personal family history\, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies\, stories\, and histories of the past\, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present\, and actively probing toward a new self\, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow\, of vulnerability and posturing\, of desire and disgust\, of tragedy and excellence. \nMorgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies\, including Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, Morgan lives in Brooklyn\, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One\, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing\, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Eastridge Open Mic\nwith host Lorenz Dumuk\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeature: Michelle Lin\nopen mic follows \nBarnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\n2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\nNearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nMichelle Lin is a poet\, activist\, and author of A House Made of Water (Sibling Rivalry Press)\, a lyrical examination of Asian American identity\, gender and daughterhood\, the inheritance of stories\, and survival from trauma. Her poems can be found in HEArt\, Apogee\, Powder Keg Magazine\, Dusie\, Asian American Literary Review\, North American Review\, ZYZZYVA\, Adrienne\, Quaint Magazine\, Aster(ix)\, and more. Her work was showcased in Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Lo Writer of the Week” and the Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Public Poetry Project. She has performed for Kearny Street Workshop’s APAture\, grlhood\, Litquake\, and more. A former poetry teacher and editor\, she lives and works in the Bay Area for API Legal Outreach\, a social justice non-profit serving marginalized communities\, volunteers for Kearny Street Workshop\, the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the country\, and reads for Twelfth House Journal. She is a poetry fellow of Kundiman\, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature. Learn more at michellelinpoet.wordpress.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #1420\, San José\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Not Funny! Sad! Cartoonists Respond to Trump
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/not-funny-sad-cartoonists-respond-to-trump/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mpc-b-h-fairchild/
LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav
DESCRIPTION:The Booksmith welcomes Edie Meidav for her new story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. She’ll be in conversation with Zyzzyva’s managing editor Oscar Villalon. Join us! \nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceañera parties\, these stories—along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda—testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \n————————–————————–————————–—– \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the crônicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.” – Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n“These stories are dazzling\, full of knowledge of the world and of the heart\, and written with the pluck and thrum of a flamenco guitarist. Meidav draws you into world after world; she makes you want to sit by your window and listen all night.” – Paul La Farge\, author of Luminous Airplanes \n“Edie Meidav’s writing is a cascade of fireworks. Her ideas are little bombs—and these stories\, fast-spinning sparklers. Her hallucinatory prose flares with color and heart.” – Leela Corman\, author of Unterzakhn \n————————–————————–————————–—– \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels: The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. Work from Kingdom of the Young appeared in Conjunctions and American Literary Review\, among other places. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nOscar Villalon\, managing editor of ZYZZVA\, former books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle\, and a member of the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and The Believer. \n>>> More Info Here:\nhttp://www.booksmith.com/event/edie-meidav-kingdom-young
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170417T210000
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SUMMARY:Gabriel Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Editor Gabriel Thompson discusses the latest Voice of Witness book\, Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture. \nPrasie for Voice of Witness \n“To read a Voice of Witness book is to feel one’s habitual sense of disconnection begin to fall away.”—George Saunders\, author of The Tenth of December \n“[Voice of Witness] books are amazing… beautifully produced\, with incredible editing and literary sensibility. Voice of Witness has done a better job than I’ve seen anybody do with having people tell their stories in a way that really engages you.”—Rachel Maddow\, MSNBC \n“The Voice of Witness series is a megaphone for our country’s most marginalized voices.”—Van Jones\, former special advisor to the Obama White House\, author of Rebuilding the Dream \nAbout Chasing the Harvest \nMore than a million men\, women\, and children work in American agriculture\, and yet their stories are rarely told\, their low-wage jobs are not included in minimum-wage ordinances or campaigns\, and their work remains unorganized by labor unions. This book of oral histories restores to visibility these workers\, by telling stories of hardship but also bravery\, solidarity\, and improvization in California’s farm fields. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gabriel-thompson/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170417T210000
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SUMMARY:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the spring MFA in Writing Pop-Up Reading: \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo & Javier Zamora: Undocupoets Resist \nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo was born in Zacatecas\, Mexico. He is a CantoMundo fellow and the first undocumented student to graduate from the University of Michigan’s MFA program. He was a finalist for the New England Review Emerging Writer Award and his full-length manuscript\, Origin of Drowning\, was a finalist for the Alice James Book Prize and the National Poetry Series. He co-founded the Undocupoets campaign which successfully eliminated citizenship requirements from all major first poetry book prizes in the country and was recognized with the Barnes and Noble “Writers for Writers” award from Poets and Writers Magazine. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book\, Unaccompanied\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, Fall 2017. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Migration Studies. \nFree and open to the public. \nFor more information on the MFA in Writing Program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing213
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcelo-hernandez-castillo-javier-zamora-undocupoets-resist/
LOCATION:USF Lone Mountain Main – LM 100 – Handlery Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2017 Library Laureates: Library Love Stories
DESCRIPTION:Nion McEvoy and Camilla Smith are Co-Chairs of the 2017 Library Laureates Benefit Gala\, Library Love Stories\, which will take place on April 7\, 2017. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and following the 2016 sold-out event\, we will again gather under the nautilus at the Main Library. Join us as we celebrate and honor author\, publisher\, and Library championPeter Booth Wiley; poet and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti (our first Honorary Library Laureate); and 35 other luminaries of the literary world. \nFeaturing specialty cocktails\, fine wine and a spectacular dinner in intimate salons\, the highlight of this one-of-a-kind evening is mixing\, mingling and dining with an author at each table. \nPlease join host and supporters Sarah & Jason Jones\, Ruth & William Isenberg\, Barbro & Bernard Osher\, Roselyne Chroman Swig\, Peter Wiley\, Donna Miller Casey\, Helen & Allan Ridley\, Diane Wilsey and other philanthropists\, community leaders\, authors and corporate partners in support of the partnership of Friends and the San Francisco Public Library that makes the exceptional difference for our community by offering a premier library system in San Francisco. \nSponsorship Opportunities/Table Sales available now (please note the February 15 print deadline.) \nPlease contact Laurie Berk at laurie.berk@friendssfpl.org for more information \n– See more at: http://www.friendssfpl.org/events/librarylaureates/overview.html#sthash.rRR9YDcH.dpuf
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-library-laureates-library-love-stories/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Night
DESCRIPTION:Poets Night at Sunnyvale Library\nMonday\, April 17\, 2017\, 6:00pm\nFeatures: Charlotte Muse\, Riley O’Connell\, and Kim Johnson\nopen mic follows with host Bill Cozzini \nSunnyvale Public Library \n665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA 94086\nFree and open to the public \nCharlotte Muse received both her MA and MFA from San Francisco State\, where she taught poetry. Her most recent books include Violin (Blurb Books\, 2013)\, a series of poems illustrated by the artist Joyce Savre\, and A Story Also Grows (a Main Street Rag Editor’s Selection. A handmade letterpress edition by the Chester Creek Press is in both the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress rare book collections.) Her website is at www.charlottemuse.net. \nAn avid writer since the first grade\, Riley O’Connell served briefly as Denver’s inaugural Youth Poet Laureate before attending Santa Clara University\, where she founded both The Bronco Slam & Jam (a quarterly poetry slam/music open mic) and SCU’s first national CUPSI team during her studies in English and Communication. \nKim Johnson has been a member of several Bay Area slam teams and toured the US many times\, performing at slam venues\, clubs\, colleges\, festivals and performing arts centers. In 2009 she was an Individual World Poetry Slam finalist\, and in 2010 completed her first European poetry tour with performances in Germany\, Spain\, Austria and the Netherlands. She has been a poet mentor for Youth Speaks San Francisco\, Lyrical Minded SF and Future Arts Now.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-night/
LOCATION:Sunnyvale Public Library\, 665 W Olive Ave\, Sunnyvale\, CA\, 94086\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Wild Women: Soul-O w/Nina Wise\, Pamela Z + Amy X Neuburg
DESCRIPTION:An evening of solo performances by improv artist Nina Wise\, and two of the world’s most exciting vocalist-composers: Amy X Neuburg and Pamela Z. \nhttps://tickets.marincenter.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=210 \nNina Wise will weave events of the week into her always unpredictable and moving rendition of what it is like to be human.\nAmy X Neuburg and Pamela Z\, both internationally renowned pioneers in live electronics\, looping\, layered vocals and poetic narratives\, will each deliver original performances that astound\, uplift\, and revitalize our spirits. \n“No mere talking head\, Wise possesses a supple physique\, prodigious energy\, and nerve with which to render the shapes and souls of things. Loving kindness abounds in her work.” Village Voice \nPamela Z\, who uses an unpredictable combination of spoken and sung texts electronically reshaped and textured through digital delays is “like Meredith Monk gone wild.” — Stereo Review \n“Amy X Neuburg is a star — a brilliant one… A classically trained vocalist\, a composer\, an electronic musician\, a poet\, and an entertainer… satirical\, profound\, humorous\, and sexy…”\n— http://electro-music.com/ \nReserved seat tickets:\n$33.50 upper section or $42.50 lower section\nMarin Center box office in person\, phone 415-473-6800\, or online:https://tickets.marincenter.org/eventperformances.asp?evt=210 \nPresented by Lloyd Barde Productions. for info: 415.924.4848
URL:https://litseen.com/event/wild-women-soul-o-wnina-wise-pamela-z-amy-x-neuburg/
LOCATION:Showcase Theatre at Marin Civic Center\, 10 Avenue of the Flags\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94903\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Sponge: Cheena Marle Lo\, Angela Hume + Jacob Kahn
DESCRIPTION:Its the one-year anniversary of Sponge! We’re celebrating by having some great poets come out\, some of whom will be leaving the Bay Area\, heardbreaking but full of excitment. Just like Spring! Maybe we’ll even have some elderflower liqueur. \nCheena Marie Lo is the author of the full length title A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters (Commune Editions\, 2016). They co-edit the literary journal\, HOLD. \nAngela Hume has been a poet in Oakland for 11 years. But now she’s leaving town\, and having so many feelings! Angela is the author of the chapbooks Melos (Projective Industries\, 2015)\, The Middle (Omnidawn\, 2013) and Second Story of Your Body (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2011). Her first full-length book is Middle Time (Omnidawn\, 2016). \nJacob Kahn is a poet originally from the Rocky Mountains. He lives in Oakland\, CA\, where he works at E.M. Wolfman Books and teaches at an elementary school. A poetic guidebook\, ‘A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants’ (2015)\, is out from Wolfman Books. Other recent work can be found in Elderly\, Open House\, and Spork.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sponge-cheena-marle-lo-angela-hume-jacob-kahn/
LOCATION:976 21st st\, 976 21st st\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rolling Writers: Let's Jew It!
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Jew It!\nSaturday\, April 15\, 6 to 8 pm\nAt Rolling Out\nSubmissions open. See guidelines below\, bubie. \nAlready On Board \nSusan Cohen\nRick May\nColleen McKee\n[Your Name Here?] Submissions are rolling … we’ll keep accepting subs until the lineup is full.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rolling-writers-lets-jew-it/
LOCATION:Rolling Out Cafe\, 1722 Taraval St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94116\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170118T060639Z
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Kostova
DESCRIPTION:From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes The Shadow Land\, an engrossing novel that spans the past and the present and unearths the dark secrets of Bulgaria\, a beautiful and haunted country. \nA young American woman\, Alexandra Boyd\, has traveled to Sofia\, Bulgaria\, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city\, however\, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid\, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes. \nAs Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item\, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by oppression and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger. \nElizabeth Kostova’s new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written\, it explores the power of stories\, the pull of the past\, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss. \nElizabeth Kostova is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Historian\, for which she won the 2006 Book Sense Award for Best Adult Fiction and the 2005 Quill Award for Debut Author of the Year\, and The Swan Thieves. She graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan\, where she won the Hopwood Award for Novel-in-Progress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elizabeth-kostova/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Alejandro Murguía: The Power of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Starting with the word and advancing to a complete poem\, this workshop\, taught by San Francisco’s poet laureate Alejandro Murguía\, will focus on poetry for our times. Student poets will be encouraged to channel their rage\, anger\, politics\, doubts\, insecurities as well as love and compassion into their poetry—with a bit of irony and humor included. If time allows we will workshop the poems in class. Bring two pencils and paper to write with. For poets of all skill and experience levels.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alejandro-murguia-the-power-of-poetry/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Death & Taxes: A Comedy Show
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate tax day with jokes about the only things more taboo than sex – death and money! Featuring hilarious comedians Aja Glasco\, Alexandria Love\, Warhol Kaufman\, Mary Bushee\, Sean McKenzie\, Alejandro Ochoa\,Arjun Banerjee Jade Theriault\, Wendy M. Lewis\, & Annette Mullaney.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/death-taxes-a-comedy-show/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck + Jose Luis Gutierrez
DESCRIPTION:Bob Booker\, Sharon Coleman\, Kim Shuck\, and Jose Luis Gutierrez will read at 7 pm on Friday\, April 14th\, at Nefeli Caffe\, 1854 Euclid Avenue\, a little north of Hearst\, in Berkeley\, as part of the Last Word Reading Series. Cafe phone is 510-841-6374. There is also an open reading. \nThis reading is also a celebration of the latest issue of Ambush Review. \nSharon Coleman’s a fifth-generation Northern Californian with a penchant for languages and their entangled word roots. She writes for Poetry Flash\, co-curates the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-directs the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She’s the author of a chapbook of poetry\, Half Circle\, and a book of micro-fiction\, Paris Blinks\, that came out from Paper Press in 2016. Her most recent publications appear in Your Impossible Voice\, White Stag\, and Ambush Review. \nKim Shuck is a poet\, regalia maker and educator. Shuck is author of four solo books\, many works that have appeared in anthologies and literary journals\, and thousands of irritable postings on social media. She holds an MFA in Fine Art /textiles from San Francisco State University\, has won awards including a bay area Local Hero Award and a first book award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas and she is fascinated by shiny objects. Kim’s latest book is Clouds Running In which was published by Taurean Horn Press. \nJosé Luis Gutiérrez is a San Francisco-based poet. His work has appeared in Eratio\, Scythe\, Margie\, Poemeleon\, DMQ\, The Cortland Review\, Jetfuel\, Caliban and the anthologies Mutanabbi Street Starts Here and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent and is forthcoming in Metonym\, Xavier Review and Kestrel\, among others. His first poetry collection\, A World Less Away\, was published in 2016. \nBob Booker is a longtime contributor to the San Francisco-Bay Area poetry scene as a poet\, editor\, teacher\, performer and promoter: Co-editor of Tunnel Road\, Leanfrog\, A North American Haiku Publication\, Awaa-te Publications\, and Ambush Review; Co-Producer of “The Alchemy of the Word – Live at Venue 9”\, and Founder/Producer of the Poet’s Stage for the North Beach Festival\, 1996-2000. He is also the author of several collections of poetry\, including “First Poems & Other Things\,” “Moonlight on Paper\, Selected Haiku\,” “A Congenial Ear\,” “Sketching the Void” and “Fragments of a Dream\,” from No Press Publications. He presently conducts a poetry workshop for the elderly in Oakland and is the Event Coordinator for The Beat Museum\, North Beach\, SF. In his own words: “My whole approach to poetry is to transcend the words and get closer to the music.” \nThe Last Word Reading Series is presented by Nefeli Caffe\, a cafe/restaurant that serves dinners\, tapas\, coffee drinks\, beer\, wine\, and more in a beautiful and colorful atmosphere. Dinner here is wonderful and should not be missed. Admission is free.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bob-booker-sharon-coleman-kim-shuck-jose-luis-gutierrez/
LOCATION:Nefeli Cafe\, 1854 Euclid Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Laura Hinton + Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Laura Hinton’s new book of poems is Ubermütter’s Death Dance. Elizabeth Frost asks\, “How do we survive grief—let alone write it? Shattered by the inexplicable death of her only child at 32\, Laura Hinton miraculously gives us this lacerating work of witness\, “am I still a mother?” she asks\, refusing any answer…I feel privileged to read—to be—in these words.” She is a scholar\, editor\, literary critic\, and multi-media poet. Among her many scholarly books is the edited collection Jayne Cortez\, Adrienne Rich\, and the Feminist Superhero: Voice\, Vision\, Politics and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women’s Poetics. Her previous book of poems is Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub). She maintains a blog on hybrid poetics\, “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com). Her readings are performances\, often including dance.\nAngela Hume’s new full-length book of poems is Middle Time. Eveyn Reilly says\, “Mid-stream\, mid-era\, mid-construction of the notion of an Anthropocene extending into a multitude of future absences\, Hume is writing poetry that is both symptom and diagnosis. Querying vocabularies of mitigation\, of damage\, of ‘rage’s junk effects\,’ these intelligent\, visually and sonically acute fragments set forth an almost impossible lyric of a ‘possible earth capsizing toward you’ or\, rather\, us.” Widely published in literary journals\, she is also the author of the chapbooks Melos\, The Middle\, and Second Story of Your Body.\nFor more on Poetry Flash events\, see Poetryflash.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-laura-hinton-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:SpeCt Poets\, Ambr33zy Ba!: Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark
DESCRIPTION:A diverse selection of Bay Area musicians activate Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark \nThursday\, April 13\, 2017\, 7:00 PM\n$10-$20 sliding scale at door \nStart off your evening with local poets Gillian Olivia Blythe Hamel\, Peter Burghardt\, and Robert Andrew Perez. The three co-publish speCt!\, an artbook press that prints small-batch\, single-author chapbooks\, and each has been widely published in poetry journals. Perez\, whose first collection\, the field\, was published with Omnidawn Publishing\, is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for poetry. \nThen get the dance party started with Oakland’s own Ambr33zy BA! making the dance floor a safe space for all creative freaks\, oddballs\, and disco grannies to be themselves and shake their ass! For this special night\, Ambr33zy BA! with friends Ka’ra Kersey and Simmi will come together on one stage to bring high energy world music that will sweat your wig off in the name of LOVE! \nSee the full schedule of Black Ark performers:\nhttp://soex.org/blackark \nIn addition to an artist stipend in accordance with WAGE standards\, the performers will receive 50% of the proceeds from admissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spect-poets-ambr33zy-ba-recapturing-memories-of-the-black-ark/
LOCATION:Southern Exposure\, 3030 20th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:A Sixteen Rivers Press Launch Celebration with Poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener\n\n\n\n\nreading from new collections\, Body\, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 13\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Erin Rodoni’s Body\, in Good Light: \nThroughout this debut collection\, Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a  caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \n“Here is a book that journeys out into the world\, and also inward\, into the mysteries of private life\, of the body\, where ‘bliss\, like a memory\, can be unearthed by scent.’ I love how the wisdom enters the moment of passion in these poems\, where we see ourselves living here\, on this earth\, ‘believing // in these bodies.’ This is a marvelous debut.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Dancing In Odessa \nErin Rodoni’s work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Born and raised in Point Reyes\, Rodoni currently lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Gillian Wegener’s This Sweet Haphazard: \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \n“Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems— rivers\, bees\, the Old Mill Café\, forest fires\, churches\, Neville Bros. Service\, the ghosts of Humboldt County…and most importantly\, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative\, Wegener charts past and present\, interior and exterior\, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave.”—Dean Rader\, author of Works & Days \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance. Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener lives in Modesto where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto. \nAbout Sixteen Rivers Press: \nSixteen Rivers Press is poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Bay Area poets. The press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clark Coolidge
DESCRIPTION:Reading from his poetry and celebrating the release of Selected Poems: 1962-1985 \nfrom Station Hill Press \nEdited by Larry Fagin \nClark Coolidge is a revered figure in the world of American and world experimental poetry. SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985 will be how Coolidge’s revolutionary early works will be read for generations to come. Lyn Hejinian writes\, “Reading through the still incredible work collected in this exemplary SELECTED POEMS\, I marvel all over again at the force of even the ‘smallest’ of Clark Coolidge’s poems. Coolidge’s sonic expertise has often been noted\, and music—especially bebop and what has followed it—clearly has suggested to him ways to generate rhythmic clusters\, to ride accelerations\, to invent scales. No other poet ever has so exquisitely\, and sometimes also turbulently\, written sheer sonic wonder into poetry.” This volume includes an introduction by Bill Berkson\, entitled “The Spools of Clark Coolidge\,” recounting Coolidge’s coming up and influences as well as eloquently expressing the visionary nature of his poetic enterprise. \nClark Coolidge is the author of more than forty books\, including SELECTED POEMS: 1962-1985\, Space\, Solution Passage\, The Crystal Text\, At Egypt\, NOW IT’S JAZZ: WRITINGS ON KEROUAC & THE SOUNDS\, THE ACT OF PROVIDENCE\, and most recently 88 SONNETS and A BOOK BEGINNING WHAT AND ENDING AWAY. In 2011 he edited a collection of Philip Guston’s writings and talks for University of California Press. Initially a drummer\, he was a member of David Meltzer’s Serpent Power in 1967 and Mix group in 1993-94. Currently he has returned to active drumming with Thurston Moore and the free jazz band Ouroboros.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clark-coolidge/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170413T210000
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic/
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