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SUMMARY:Khaled Hosseini + Ellen Grace
DESCRIPTION:The times we live in require us to develop a literacy of the heart – a deeper quality of listening\, discerning\, and connecting heart to heart and soul to soul. Literature itself\, both poetry and prose\, plays a timeless role in awakening our hearts to deeper truths we may otherwise miss. \nAuthor Khaled Hosseini and Poet Ellen Grace O’Brian will talk about the ways reading\, writing\, and listening can bring forth profound questions\, surprising graces\, and the palpable presence of radical hope. Khaled will read selections from “And the Mountains Echoed\,” and Ellen will read from her recently released award-winning book of poems\, “The Moon Reminded Me.” \nPlease join us for this special evening as one of our favorite novelists introduces us to one of his favorite poets! \nYogacharya Rev. Ellen Grace O’Brian is a poet\, teacher\, writer\, and spiritual director of the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose\, California. Khaled Hosseini is the award winning author of “Kite Runner”\, “And the Mountains Echoed” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/khaled-hosseini-ellen-grace/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170329T213000
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival: Hua\, Sax\, and Scalise
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night two will feature Vanessa Hua\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise. \nVanessa Hua is the author of the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities\, which received the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award\, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award\, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists’ Association. Her work has appeared in the New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Washington Post\, and ZYZZYVA. \nSam Sax is the author of Madness (Penguin\, 2017)\, winner of The National Poetry Series. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, and The Michener Center where he served as the Editor-in-chief of Bat City Review. He’s a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion and his poems are forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, and POETRY. \nMike Scalise is the author of the memoir The Brand New Catastrophe (Sarabande Books\, 2017)\, which received the Christopher Doheny Award from the Center for Fiction. He has received fellowships Bread Loaf\, Yaddo\, the Ucross Foundation\, and was the Philip Roth Writer in Residence at Bucknell University. His work has appeared in The New York Times\, the Paris Review Daily\, and Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park-2/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Hand to Mouth/WORDS Spoken OUT #85
DESCRIPTION:Calling all geeks! We have sci fi/fantasy writers in the house again! Join us in welcoming Loren Rhoads and S.G. Browne. \nLoren Rhoads is the author of The Dangerous Type\, Kill By Numbers\, and No More Heroes: the In the Wake of the Templars trilogy. She’s the co-author of the As Above\, So Below series with Brian Thomas. In her secret life\, she’s a cemetery aficionado. Her book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die will be out in October. You can keep an eye on her atlorenrhoads.com. \nS.G. Browne is the author of Less Than Hero\, Big Egos\, Lucky Bastard\, Fated\, and Breathers\, as well as the short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel and the heartwarming holiday novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus. He lives in San Francisco. You can learn more about his writing at www.sgbrowne.com. \nWe will have light refreshments\, and our popular open mic after our features read. Also\, our partnership with neighborhood restaurants continue with a discount on the evening of the reading. Come in early if you want to grab a bite before the reading! \nParticipating restaurants are: \nWhipper Snapper– $3.00 Glass of Sangria\, or $3.00 off a pitcher. \nCafe Arrivederci– 10% off dinner. \nLotus Chaat and Spices– 10% off dinner. \nThe Mayflower Pub– 25% off dinner.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hand-to-mouthwords-spoken-out-85/
LOCATION:Rebound Bookstore\, 1611 4th Street\, San Rafael\, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Beat Poetry w/ Larry Beckett
DESCRIPTION:This is the poetry of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50s\, reconsidered as literature: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s lyrical cityscapes\, Jack Kerouac’s blues and haikus\, Allen Ginsberg’s saxophone prophecies\, Gregory Corso’s obsessive odes\, John Wieners’ true confessions\, Michael McClure’s physical hymns\, Philip Lamantia’s surreal passions\, Gary Snyder’s work songs\, Philip Whalen’s loose sutras\, Lew Welch’s hermit visions\, David Meltzer’s improvisations and discoveries\, and Bob Kaufman’s jazz meditations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beat-poetry-w-larry-beckett/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170329T180000
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SUMMARY:The Writing Life Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Emerging Writers Festival: Writing Life Panel. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a panel. Writers Cortney Lamar Charleston\, Vanessa Hua\, Patricia Park\, Sam Sax\, and Mike Scalise will discuss their experiences in the writing industry and participate in a Q&A session. \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Programand the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-writing-life-panel/
LOCATION:USF McClaren Complex\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170328T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T213000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Swimsuit season is coming up! Better get beach-body ready! Work on those abs! Lift those butts! \n…Um\, or how about never mind to all that and just be a lump. Big Mushy Happy Lump!  \n  \n  \n  \nSarah Andersen‘s hugely popular\, world-famous Sarah’s Scribbles comics are for those of us who boast bookstore-ready bodies and Netflix-ready hair\, who are always down for all-night reading-in-bed parties and extremely exclusive after-hour one-person music festivals. \n  \nIn addition to the most recent Sarah’s Scribbles fan favorites and dozens of all-new comics\, this volume contains illustrated personal essays on Sarah’s real-life experiences with anxiety\, career\, relationships and other adulthood challenges that will remind readers of Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half and Jenny Lawson’s Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. The same uniquely frank\, real\, yet humorous and uplifting tone that makes Sarah’s Scribbles so relatable blooms beautifully in this new longer form. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sarah-anderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emerging Writers Festival: Charleston + Park
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring\, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival\, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night one will feature Cortney Lamar Charleston and Patricia Park. \nCortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies\, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem and The Conversation Literary Festival and his poems have appeared in POETRY\, New England Review\, Gulf Coast\, TriQuarterly\, and The Iowa Review. Charleston is from Chicago and lives in Jersey City\, NJ. \nPatricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking\, 2015)\, inspired by Brontë’s Jane Eyre. She has received fellowships from Fulbright\, The Center for Fiction\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Jerome Foundation\, and has written for The New York Times Book Review\, Guardian\, Salon\, and Slice. Park is a Queens native and lives in Brooklyn\, NY. \nReception to follow. Free and open to the public. \nThe Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Program and the English Department.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emerging-writers-festival-charleston-park/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170328T210000
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SUMMARY:Jon Raymond
DESCRIPTION:Jon Raymond discusses his new novel\, Freebird\, with Zoetrope’s Michael Ray. \n\nPrasie for Freebird \n\n“Freebird is such a timely book\, considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America.”—Kim Gordon \n\n“Jon Raymond has an impressive ability to recognize the tales that we all tell ourselves\, and then quietly lead us back to reality—excruciatingly familiar and unusually rainy.”—Miranda July \n\n“Freebird is an intelligent and absorbing multi-generational story of an American family\, written withgreat sensitivity\, insight\, and verve.”—Patrick deWitt \n\nAbout Freebird \n\nThe Singers are an all-American family\, and they’re about to lose everything. Anne\, who works in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability\, finds herself caught in a shady business deal for recycling wastewater. Her teenage son\, Aaron\, can’t decide between college and a road trip to Mexico\, but his plans are derailed by Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam\, whose untold experience of the Holocaust is revealed when he enlists Aaron’s help in retrieving some gold coins from a safe-deposit box in Oakland. Anne’s brother\, Ben\, a former Navy SEAL\, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD\, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence—one that changes the family’s course forever. In Freebird\, the narratives converge and expand as Oregon Book Award-winner Jon Raymond explores political\, environmental\, and ethical dilemmas particular to our contemporary moment and reveals how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jon-raymond/
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:20170328T200000
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SUMMARY:Folio Night\, Live!
DESCRIPTION:It’s the second edition of our local author open mic with sign-up sheet! Prepare to read for 5 minutes in this informal community reading series. Featured readers will be Patrick Cahill and Bob Booker of Ambush Review\, and Wayne Goodman as MC.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folio-night-live/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk’s books of poetry include My Daughter La Chola and This Isa Nice Neighborhood\, recipient of an honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award\, finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award\, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. His essays can be found in The Force of What’s Possible: Writers on Accessibility and the Avant-Garde\, The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind\, and others. His translations from Spanish have appeared widely\, and he serves as a poetry editor for FENCE. The recipient of Ford and Fulbright fellowships\, Matuk is an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T213000
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #43
DESCRIPTION:READERS \nAqueila M. Lewis + Rasheedah Sabreen Shakir\nClive Matson + Kwesi The Dreamer\, w/ Gael Alcock\nSebastian Snow + G Macias Gusman\nRaluca Ioanid + Shizue Seigel\nK.R. Morrison + Nancy Patrice Davenport\nJoan Baranow + David Watts \nMUSICAL GUEST \nTurk and Divis: Evan Karp + Miles Karp \n6:30 p.m. –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:00 p.m.  – Doors open to Public\n7:30 p.m.  – Show Starts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-43/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170327T210000
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard
DESCRIPTION:“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” (The Daily Beast)\, Jim Shepard delivers a new collection. The World to Come spans borders and centuries\, with voices belonging to — among others — English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \n“One of the most perceptive\, intelligent\, and fearless writers of fiction in America today.” — NPR \n“His genius resides in his omnivorous curiosity and imaginative inventiveness [and his] stories have the strangeness and bell-like clarity of truth…a vision of literature that is\, in its sideways fashion\, legitimately unique.” — The Washington Post \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of The World to Come\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Terry Tarnoff
DESCRIPTION:It was a different time in a different world. Terry Tarnoff spent eight years during the 1970s traveling throughout Europe\, Africa and Asia. It was the early days of exploring what were to become legendary spots on the traveler’s trail. Whether playing the clubs of Amsterdam\, skirting the Yakuza in Japan\, surviving the winters of Kathmandu\, or forming a band in Goa\, India\, Terry’s adventures are alternately engrossing\, hilarious and deeply moving. The Reflectionist is Tarnoff’s long-awaited follow-up to The Bone Man of Benares\, a highly acclaimed book and play that told the first half of the story. This new work continues the tale\, adding new meaning as it looks back from the perspective of modern times upon a period that continues to fascinate people of all generations across the globe. \nTerry Tarnoff was born in Rice Lake\, Wisconsin\, a small town in the northern United States. His family later moved to Milwaukee where\, at the age of twelve\, he became a cub reporter for The Northwest Reporter. He was paid a penny a word to write phony letters to the editor to help fill out a half-empty newspaper. He attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison during the political upheaval of the 1960s\, worked at the East Side Bookstore in New York’s East Village during the Summer of Love\, lived for several years in Berkeley\, then headed for Europe\, where he supported himself as a blues musician\, playing harmonica in bands from London to Amsterdam to Stockholm. \nSoon after\, he hooked up with an international brigade of travelers–a new generation of expatriates who took their cues from Henry Miller\, Paul Bowles and Jack Kerouac as they pushed further down the road. That road led to the coast of Kenya and the plains of Tanzania\, to the deserts of India and the mountains of Nepal\, to the war-torn villages of Laos and the islands of Indonesia. Along the way\, Terry explored the mysteries of Hinduism and Buddhism\, played with an African band in Mombasa\, performed as a singer-guitarist in the Far East\, and was a founding member of a rock band in Goa\, India. After eight years on the road\, he returned to San Francisco in 1978\, where he continued his musical career for several years before turning to writing. He has since worked as a screenwriter\, taught two film courses\, driven a taxi\, managed an African art gallery\, and written for an internet film site. \nTerry’s first book\, The Bone Man of Benares\, was published in the U.S. by St. Martin’s Press in 2004. It was subsequently published by Bantam Books in the U.K.\, by Allen & Unwin Publishers in Australia\, and has been translated into Italian\, Japanese\, and Chinese. The book was reprinted in the U.S. by Avian Press in 2013. A one-man show adapted from The Bone Man of Benares was produced shortly after its initial publication by the Encore Theatre Company in San Francisco\, where it had a very successful six-week run. The book and play were soon thereafter optioned for a feature film in Hollywood. Terry’s last three books\, The Thousand Year Journey of Tobias Parker\, The Chronicle of Stolen Dreams\, and The Reflectionist\, have been published by Avian Press. Terry lives in San Francisco with his wife\, artist Tina Tarnoff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/terry-tarnoff/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Fresh & Best: Farid Matuk & Tonya Foster
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore welcomes Farid Matuk and Tonya Foster to the store on Monday\, March 27th at 7pm as part of a Special Edition FRESH AND BEST poetry reading series. \nFarid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine) and\, most recently\, of the chapbook My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta). He serves on the editorial team at Fence\, on the board of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race & Creative Writing\, and on the MFA faculty at the University of Arizona. With the support of a New Works Grant from the Headlands Center for the Arts\, Matuk is currently at work on two books of poems that in their distinct ways consider the question with which Orlando Patterson’s ended 1982’s Slavery and Social Death: “must we challenge our conception of freedom and the value we place upon it?” \nTonya Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and coedited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. Foster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fresh-best-farid-matuk-tonya-foster/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170326T180000
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SUMMARY:Stories of Stranded Deportees
DESCRIPTION:Lives and Voices Not Heard—Stories of Stranded Deportees: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders’ Experiences Facing Deportation\nFeaturing Readings by Nghiep Lam and Eddy Zheng\nPanel to follow with lawyer and social justice advocate.\nOrganized with Bonnie Kwong\nSunday March 26th\n4pm \nListen to excerpts from journals kept while incarcerated and through the deportation process\, as well as a panel discussion about the reality of the prison to deportation pipeline in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities in Oakland. \nEddy Zheng is the Co-Director for the Oakland based Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC.) APSC provides support to Asians and Pacific Islander prisoners and educates the broader community about the growing number of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States being imprisoned\, detained\, and deported. Eddy spent 21 year of his life in prison for crimes he had committed at the age of 16. Since his return to the free world\, Eddy has dedicated his life to serving the youth and communities of the greater Bay Area. Eddy is the subject of the award winning documentary\, “Breathin’ The Eddy Zheng Story.” \nNghiep “Ke” Lam is the Reentry Coordinator of Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC)\, based in Oakland\, California. Ke and his parents fled Vietnam in 1978 and was rescued to Hong Kong Refugee Camp. Two years later he and his brother and parents were issued visas to enter America. At the age of 17\, Ke committed a crime that lead to his imprisonment for 23 years. Ke was active in social justice work on the inside and continues to do so upon returning home.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stories-of-stranded-deportees/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bird & Beckett: Walker Talks
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/bird-beckett-walker-talks/
LOCATION:Bird & Beckett Books and Records\, 653 Chenery St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94131\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Swan Day Feminist Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Bi-Monthly LIMINAL Showcase of 10-15 readers and performers falls on SWAN day! Support Women Artists Now! Wear anything with swans on it!!! \nFeaturing:\nGinger Cuervas\nEmily Butterfly\nAqueila M. Lewis\nSteffi Drewes\nLeslie Absher\nNana K. Twumasi\nNatalie Devora\nSara McAulay\nKathryn Kruse\nAi Ebashi\nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta\nMarguerite Munoz \nGinger Cuervas \nArt3mis//\nMother\, Emcee\, Painter\nAfro Borinquen\, carrying on the spirit of my grandmothers\nHija del sol y la agua\nThe Projects raised me\nHeart full of Brooklyn\nFeet planted in Oakland \nEmily Butterfly is an interstellar story teller who lives to delight children with her magically unique form of puppetry\, storytelling and song. She has had the honor of creating shows and performing for thousands and thousands of preschoolers and elementary school students and feels blessed to have the abilities to create her own puppet friends\, write and perform inspirational tales. Her voice has dazzled ears through her voice over career with Free Range Graphics and Cartoon Network and a three year stint as the producer and hostess of a children’s radio program.Her wide vocal range\, uniquely magical ideas and intuitive approach to entertaining young children has bloomed her into a very successful edutainer.\nShe loves the stage and aspires to delight and inspire millions with her magic.\nwww.emilybutterfly.com \nNana K. Twumasi lives and writes in Oakland\, CA. An alum of California College of the Arts MFA Program in Writing\, her work has appeared in Zyzzyva\, Sou’Wester Journal\, Ballyhoo Stories\, and Eleven Eleven. She is the co-editor of Monday Night\, a journal of new literature. \nSara McAulay grew up in Virginia and did time in New Jersey\, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of her adult life. She is the author of three novels and numerous works of short fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Arroyo Literary Review\, Black Warrior Review\, California Quarterly\, The Literary Review\, Lodestar Quarterly\, North American Review\, Third Coast and ZYZZYVA\, among others. She edited the online journal Tattoo Highway from 1998 – 2013. Sara has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for her prose. From 1984 to 2008 she taught creative writing and literature at CSU East Bay. She is now retired\, a state that suits her very\, very well. Ten years ago she took up the sport of dog agility. Weekends often find her pretending to be much younger and much less politically engaged than she really is\, chasing after her two fast Australian Shepherd dogs. Sara has two grandchildren in Portland OR\, and a step-granddaughter in college in Hawaii. In 2014\, after 21 years together\, she and her partner made honest women of each other at last. \nAi Ebashi is a writer-translator-illustrator who is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at San Francisco State University. Originally from Japan\, she has spent the majority of her adult-life living in various parts of the United States as well as in Istanbul\, Turkey\, where she received her MA in English Literature and worked as a journalist\, translator/interpreter\, children’s book author\, yoga instructor and olive cracker (volunteer.) In 2015\, she decided to settle down in the Bay Area and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She is currently a member of the PlayGround writers’ pool. Her playwriting credits include One Day(Breach Once More\, Fringe\,) Puppet Show (GreenHouse Festival\, SFSU Fringe-Goes-Long\,) The Pursuit of Happiness (SFSU Fringe) Reversi and Reincarnation (Berkeley Rep School of Theater\,) and her publications include Öykü Denizi (National Geographic) and Colors\, translations of Shuntaro Tanikawa’s poetry (New American Writing.) \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist and doula. Their first book\, The Easy Body\, is due to be published this spring by Oakland press Timeless Infinite Light. They live in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swan-day-feminist-showcase/
LOCATION:LIMINAL\, 3037 38th Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94619\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special: Get Off My Lawn
DESCRIPTION:This month at Saturday Night Special\, we invite you to explore our theme: “Get off my lawn.” Because kids today\, am I right? And none of us is getting any younger. But also because tresspassing and guns and violence. Or childhood summers and sprinklers. And those pesky garden gnomes. You decide. \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur March features are: QR Hand & Paul Corman-Roberts\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself. Dance! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, March 25th\, 2017\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-get-off-my-lawn/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T210000
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CREATED:20170320T043359Z
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SUMMARY:Poets at Wolfman: Garnett\, Poppick\, Crawford\, + Ross
DESCRIPTION:Callie Garnett! Daniel Poppick! Marisa Crawford! So exciting! Poets at Wolfman! Saturday night! All three poets have new books! All three are from Brooklyn! And their first names all have six letters in them! What?! It’s fate! Come down to the bookstore and say what up to your destiny! Who knows\, we might even add a local poet to the mix! And stop using exclamation marks! Maybe! Eventually! \nOh wait! We did add a local poet! It’s Margaret Ross! She’s the author of A TIMESHARE\, selected by Timothy Donnelly for the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She lives in Berkeley and is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nCallie Garnett is the author of the chapbook Hallelujah\, I’m a Bum (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, a collaboration with illustrator Tallulah Pomeroy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prelude\, Public Books\, Jubilat\, and The Literateur. She lives in Brooklyn and works as an Assistant Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing. \nDaniel Poppick’s first book of poetry\, The Police\, is out this year from Omnidawn. His work has recently appeared in BOMB\, Granta\, the New Republic\, Hyperallergic\, and Fence. He lives in Brooklyn\, where he co-edits the Catenary Press with Rob Schlegel and Rawaan Alkhatib. \nMarisa Crawford is the author of the poetry collections Reversible (Switchback\, forthcoming 2017) and The Haunted House (Switchback\, 2010)\, and the chapbooks 8th Grade Hippie Chic (Immaculate Disciples\, 2013) and Big Brown Bag (Gazing Grain\, 2015). Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic\, Bitch\, The Hairpin\, and other publications\, and is forthcoming in Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia\, 2016). Marisa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the feminist literary/pop culture website WEIRD SISTER. She lives in Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-at-wolfman-garnett-poppick-crawford-ross/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:PADC Community Nite
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the values of diversity and inclusion at PADC’s 7th annual Community Night featuring our sellout lineup: Headliner Mingus Amungus\, led by Piedmont resident Miles Perkins\, builds on the complex bebop\, funk and classical rhythms of virtuoso bass player and composer Charles Mingus and adds their own modern twist. They are joined by Together We Slam\, a group of Piedmont high school and middle school students performing a provocative set of written word pieces on how we view and experience differences.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/padc-community-nite/
LOCATION:Impact Hub Oakland\, 2323 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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CREATED:20170320T041316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T041316Z
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SUMMARY:Open Mic: I Stand With Planned Parenthood
DESCRIPTION:On March 25th\, we are going to have an Open Mic night at Curvy Girl to benefit Planned Parenthood.  You are invited to read your favorite poem\, sing a song\, dance or whatever your heart desires. Open to the public. Please invite your friends. \nWe are asking for a $5 donation from people who want to have 3 to 5 minutes on stage (and by stage\, I mean you get the floor. Nothing too fancy here).  And\, for those of you who want to attend and join our celebration\, we are asking for a $5 donation. \n$5 Donation for Attending our Event and use this link to pay if you want to be a part of the performance. The donations will all be donated to Planned Parenthood.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/open-mic-i-stand-with-planned-parenthood/
LOCATION:Curvy Girl\, 2990 Meridian Ave\, San Jose\, CA\, 95124\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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CREATED:20170320T040201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170320T040201Z
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SUMMARY:Noe Valley Authors Festival
DESCRIPTION:20 neighborhood and nearby authors will present their books to the public at the 2017 Noe Valley Authors Festival Saturday\, March 25\, 2017. The time and place are 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez Street. Admission is free\, and everyone is welcome. There will be child-friendly events. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. \nAll genres will be represented–novels\, memoir\, biography\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, poetry\, short-story collections\, graphic novels\, self-help books\, illustrated books\, and more! \n10 of the authors will read from their work at free readings at 2:15\, 3:10\, and 4:15. Readers include Erika Atkinson\, Keven Bellows\, Laurie Barkin\, David Hathwell\, Eveline Kanes\, Judith Levy-Sender\, Dr. Bill McBride\, Marylee McNeal\, Louise Nayer\, and Ramon Sender. \nSeveral exhibitors will have giveaways and treats to offer attendees\, and some have activities planned for visitors to the free book exhibit. Chef Gigi Mon Ami will help you make some simple recipes at her table. Her memoir Moon on a Platter will be available\, as well as some edible goodies for sale. Children’s book author Corey M.P. will supervise a kid’s coloring area near her table. She’s supplying coloring sheets and crayons. \nThe Noe Valley Authors Festival is the final event of Word Week 2017 (March 19-26)\, the neighborhood’s annual literary festival. For a complete listing of Word Week 2017 events go to facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 and click on Events. Word Week is sponsored by the neighborhood association Friends of Noe Valley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noe-valley-authors-festival/
LOCATION:Noe Valley Ministry\, 1021 Sanchez St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jim Shephard + Ron Hansen
DESCRIPTION:Join one of the most ambitious voices in fiction today. \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four short story collections. For decades\, Shepard’s fiction has chronicled American lives and helped shape our national literature. In his most recent work\, Shepard has launched into outer reaches of Western cultures\, fusing the personal and political and covering lives from Arctic explorers\, workers on a crude-oil trains\, and mid-nineteenth century frontier women. \nShepard will be in conversation with Ron Hansen. Hansen is the author of stories\, essays\, and novels such as Mariette in Ecstasy\, Atticus\, and A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion.  With Jim Shepard he edited You’ve Got to Read This:  Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories That Held Them in Awe.  Ron teaches fiction writing and film at Santa Clara University.  His most recent novel is The Kid\, about the outlaw William H. Bonney. \nThis will be an unforgettable afternoon with one of the great voices of American literature.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shephard-ron-hansen/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170325T123000
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CREATED:20170320T033224Z
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SUMMARY:Pitch-O-Rama
DESCRIPTION:Pitch-O-Rama delivers the 4 Ps that lead to publication: \nPOLISH. You’ve polished your manuscript. Now polish your pitch with our pre-pitch coaches. \nPITCH. We’ve assembled top agents\, editors\, and publishers to hear your pitch.\n\nClick here for the current list! \nPROMOTE. Power up with social media secrets in the Author’s Guide to Success\, an ongoing session led by a bestselling author and an award-winning publisher. \nPARTICIPATE. From Page to Screen: Turn your book into a movie with authors who did it\, screenwriters and a Hollywood director. \n= PUBLICATION \nProgram\nClick here for Pitching Tips and Transportation Info\n8 to 9 am Continental Breakfast \n8 to 9 Pre-Pitch Practice Sessions  \n9 to 11:30 Pitch to agents & editors (2 one-hour sessions) \n11:45 to 12 pm Author’s Guide to Social Media Success \n12 to 12:30 From Page to Screen \nPre-registration required\, space limited to the first 60 ticketed attendees.\n \nHelp us promote this event\, our annual fundraiser\, by downloading the Pitch-O-Rama 2017 flyer \nCancellation Policy: Accepted through midnight March 11\, 2017. NO refunds after March 11\, 2017. Register in advance and pay by credit card (Paypal). Registration open until full. \n \n\n\nWNBA-SF Pitch-O-Rama: Meet the Agents & Editors\, Saturday\, March 25\, 2017\nYou will be sent a copy of this form. This will be your ticket to the event. Please print it and bring it with you. Thank you!\n\n\nPlease use calendar to select today’s date.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pitch-o-rama/
LOCATION:Women’s Building Auditorium\, 3543 18th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Omnidawn Reading
DESCRIPTION:More info coming soon!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/omnidawn-reading/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Uptown Fridays: Emji Spero + Shelley Wong
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Emji Speero and Shelley Wong\, with music by Blowdryer Punk Soul (with Jennifer Blowdryer & Michelle Gonazales). \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nEmji Spero is a performance artist and writer living in Oakland\, California. They are an editor at Timeless\, Infinite Light and the author of almost any shit will do. They are currently working on Exhaustion: A Retching\, a dry lyric essay that documents the affective weight of the accumulated\, subthreshold violences\, which daily permeate a body in transition. Code-switching between poetry and essay\, Spero explores Jose Muñoz’s notion that “utopia exists in the quotidian.” \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a poetry chapbook recently published by Diode Editions. She is a Kundiman fellow and lives in Oakland. (https://californiawong.wordpress.com/)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uptown-fridays-emji-spero-shelley-wong/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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CREATED:20170320T032039Z
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SUMMARY:Night of the Graphic Novelists
DESCRIPTION:For all you graphic novel fans\, Noe Valley Word Week and Folio Books are sponsoring an amazing panel of ultra-talented\, nationally-famous graphic novelists. Imagine having Paige Braddock author-illustrator of the Stinky Cecil series\, together with Beowolf series author-illustrator Alexis Fajardo and Judd Winick\, author-illustrator of the Hilo series. So much talent in the same room! Join us as they share insight as to what inspires their characters and storylines. It will be an action-packed presentation\, with plenty of time for you to ask your favorite novelist some questions. A book signing will follow. Free admission and free refreshments. A Word Week 2017 event www.facebook.com/Word-Week-314929538630095 \nBiographies:\nPaige Braddock is the creator of the long running\, Eisner-nominated series\, Jane’s World\, and co-creator of The Martian Confederacy. Recently\, she released a new graphic novel for kids titled Stinky Cecil. She has illustrated several “Peanuts” children’s books and the Snoopy U.S. postage stamp issued in 2001. More about her work can be found here:www.PB9.com. \nAlexis E. Fajardo is a student of the classics – whether Daffy Duck or Damocles – and has created a unique blend of the two in Kid Beowulf. When he’s not drawing comics\, Lex is working for them as senior editor at Charles M. Schulz Studio in Santa Rosa. His website iswww.kidbeowulf.com. \nJudd Winick has scripted bestselling characters\, including Batman\, Green Lantern\, Green Arrow\, and characters for Justice League and Star Wars. Judd also appeared as a cast member of MTV’s “The Real World: San Francisco” and is the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me about his Real World roommate and friend\, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Visit Judd and Hilo online at juddwinick.com and follow @JuddWinick on Twitter.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/night-of-the-graphic-novelists/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Alfred Knopf in conjunction with City Lights Booksellers and Zoetrope Magazine present \nJim Shepard \ncelebrating the release of his new collection of stories \nThe World to Come \npublished by Knopf \nIntroduced by Michael Ray\, Managing Editor of Zoetrope Magazine \n“Without a doubt the most ambitious story writer in America\,” according to The Daily Beast\, Jim Shepard now delivers a new collection that spans borders and centuries with unrivaled mastery. \nThese ten stories ring with voices belonging to–among others–English Arctic explorers in one of history’s most nightmarish expeditions\, a young contemporary American negotiating the shockingly underreported hazards of our crude-oil trains\, eighteenth-century French balloonists inventing manned flight\, and two mid-nineteenth-century housewives trying to forge a connection despite their isolation on the frontier of settlement. In each case the personal is the political as these characters face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. In his fifth collection\, Shepard makes each of these wildly various worlds his own\, and never before has he delineated anything like them so powerfully. \nJim Shepard is the author of seven novels and four previous story collections. He lives in Williamstown\, Massachusetts\, with his wife\, three children\, and three beagles. He teaches at Williams College.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jim-shepard/
LOCATION:Zoetrope Cafe\, 916 Kearny Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170324T140000
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CREATED:20170117T105519Z
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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Lisa See
DESCRIPTION:A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. \nLi-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine\, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate—the first automobile any of them have seen—and a stranger arrives. \nIn this remote Yunnan village\, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, See introduced the Yao people to her readers. Here she shares the customs of another Chinese ethnic minority\, the Akha\, whose world will soon change. Li-yan\, one of the few educated girls on her mountain\, translates for the stranger and is among the first to reject the rules that have shaped her existence. When she has a baby outside of wedlock\, rather than stand by tradition\, she wraps her daughter in a blanket\, with a tea cake hidden in her swaddling\, and abandons her in the nearest city. \nAfter mother and daughter have gone their separate ways\, Li-yan slowly emerges from the security and insularity of her village to encounter modern life while Haley grows up a privileged and well-loved California girl. Despite Haley’s happy home life\, she wonders about her origins; and Li-yan longs for her lost daughter. They both search for and find answers in the tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations. \nA powerful story about a family\, separated by circumstances\, culture\, and distance\, Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane paints an unforgettable portrait of a little known region and its people and celebrates the bond that connects mothers and daughters. \nLisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane\, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan\, Peony in Love\, Shanghai Girls\, China Dolls\, and Dreams of Joy\, which debuted at #1. Ms. See is also the author of On Gold Mountain\, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. Ms. See was honored as National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women in 2001 and was the recipient of the Chinese American Museum’s History Makers Award in fall 2003.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-luncheon-lisa-see/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peg Alford Pursell
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is proud to host Peg Alford Pursell as she celebrates the publication of her debut book\,Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow. She’ll read and be in conversation with Grant Faulkner. Join us!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peg-alford-pursell/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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