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SUMMARY:Hazel Reading Series is Back
DESCRIPTION:Hazel Reading Series is Back! Come celebrate our “return” on the lit scene and the beginning of Women’s History Month. \nPowerful women’s storytelling\, drinks\, and the beautiful community of the Mission Cultural Center. No one turned away for lack of funds\, but donations are very much appreciated ♥ \nFeaturing: \nMK Chavez\nOakland based writer\, MK Chavez is the author of several chapbooks\, including Mothermorphosis. Dear Animal\, her first full collection was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. In 2016 she received an Alameda County Arts Leadership Award. Recent and upcoming publications include Heavy Feather Review\, Story Magazine\, and Medium for a 100 days of Action. \nCassandra Dallett\nCassandra Dallett lives in Oakland\, CA. Cassandra is a two-time Pushcart nominee and Literary Death Match winner. She has been published online and in many print magazines\, such as Slip Stream\, Sparkle and Blink\, Chiron Review\, Stone Boat Review\, and Great Weather For Media and reads often around the San Francisco Bay Area. A full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless was released on Manic D Press May 2014. In 2015 she authored Bad Sandy (Lucky Bastard Press)\, Pearl Tongue (Be About It Press)\, The Water Wars (Pedestrian Poets Series)\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) which was nominated for a California Book Award\, and most recently Armadillo Heart (Paper Press) with MK Chavez. \nRaina León\nRaina J. León\, Cave Canem graduate fellow (2006)\, CantoMundo fellow\, Macondo fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. Her first collection of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, was a finalist for both the Cave Canem First Book Poetry Prize (2005) and the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize (2006). Her second book\, Boogeyman Dawn (2013\, Salmon Poetry)\, was a finalist for the Naomi Long Madgett Prize (2010). Her third book\, sombra : (dis)locate\, was published in 2016 as well as her first chapbook\, profeta without refuge. She has received fellowships and residencies with Cave Canem\, CantoMundo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latino and Latina arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier\nSoma Mei Sheng Frazier is an East Coast Native living in the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she presently serves as a 2017 San Francisco Library Laureate and final judge of the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest. Her award-winning fiction chapbooks\, Salve (Nomadic Press) and Collateral Damage: A Triptych (RopeWalk Press)\, have earned praise from Nikki Giovanni\, Daniel Handler (a/k/a Lemony Snicket)\, Antonya Nelson\, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum\, Molly Giles\, Michelle Tea and others. Frazier’s writing has placed in literary competitions offered by HBO\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, the Mississippi Review and more. You can find her work online at Eclectica Magazine\, Carve Magazine\, Eleven Eleven and Kore Press – or read her interviews with CBS\, SF Weekly and Women’s Quarterly Conversation. Recent work is available in Glimmer Train\, issue 96\, and ZYZZYVA\, issue 106. She is at work on a novel and a screenplay. Soma is Chair and Assistant Professor of English and the Humanities at Cogswell College; Founding Editor of COG\, a multimedia publication. \nMaw Shein Win\nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and the anthology Cross-Strokes: Poetry Between Los Angeles and San Francisco (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions). She is a poetry editor for Rivet: The Journal of Writing that Risks and a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Her most recent poetry chapbook Score and Bone (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a CLMP Firecracker Award. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. http://www.el-cerrito.org/poets \nAnd since we really want to celebrate and be exceptional\, curators Sara Marinelli and Shideh Etaat will also read from their work. \nSara Marinelli\nBorn in Naples\, Italy\, Sara Marinelli is a writer\, translator\, and educator. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Rome and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories appear in New American Writing\, Blue Mesa Review\, and many Italian publications. For her fiction\, she was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center\, Byrdcliffe Art Colony\, and BANFF Center for the Arts. Sara teaches Comparative Literature at the University of San Francisco and San Francisco State University. She is working on a novel about family grief\, set in a superstitious and religious Naples. \nShideh Etaat\nShideh Etaat is a writer and teacher at Mission High School in San Francisco. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. An excerpt from her novel can be found in Tremors\, New Fiction by Iranian Americans\, and she has published short stories in The Delmarva Review\, Amazon’s online journal\, Day One\, and Foglifter. She is a 2011 Breadloaf Work Study Scholar and a 2015 James D. Phelan Award recipient. Her first novel is about a love triangle\, Jews in Iran\, and other strange and wonderful things.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/hazel-reading-series-is-back/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die
DESCRIPTION:You’re Going To Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes — Private Parlor Show (($10 adv/$10 day of show)) at The Lost Church\nDoors at 7:30pm\nStarts at 8:15pm\nTickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1455860 \nPrivate Parlor Shows are open to all friends and fans of The Lost Church and the performers. \nSeating is first come\, first served. We recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (YG2D generally sells out in advance)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show. \nYG2D: Every 1st and 3rd Thursdays at The Lost Church \n================================================ \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival
DESCRIPTION:SFJAZZ Poetry Festival w/ Genny Lim: Poet Laureates Kick-Off Reading\n\n\n\nIshmael Reed\, former SFJAZZ Poet Laureate\nTennessee Reed\nAlejandro Murguía\, San Francisco Poet Laureate\nJanice Mirikitani\, American Sansei poet and activist
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfjazz-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:SFJAZZ Center\, 201 Franklin St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:John Oates
DESCRIPTION:As half of the iconic duo of Hall & Oates\, John Oates has achieved incredible success. Together\, he and Daryl Hall made over twenty albums\, sold more than 60 million records\, had 29 Top 40 hits\, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\, and have recently gotten stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. \nToday Oates is as an accomplished solo artist. For the first time\, he is sharing his story in Change of Seasons: A Memoir with Chris Epting. Based on journals hes kept throughout his life\, Change of Seasons contains never-before-shared anecdotesand picturesfrom a life lived on the road and in the studio. His legions of fans will finally hear the stories behind the songs\, the lessons from a life navigating the music industry\, and his reflections on a remarkable 50 year partnership. The first printing of the book will also include an exclusive five track album that includes a special live version of Maneater. \nJoining John in conversation is co-author of the book and award-winning journalist Chris Epting\, who has written for many publications including The Los Angeles Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Loudwire. \nJohn will also play some music! Join us! \n——————\nPLEASE NOTE:\n—————— \nThis event will be held at Swedish American Hall (2174 Market St.). \nTickets are on sale now and can be purchased here:https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1435012. Tix purchased in advance guarantee a seat and spot in the signing line. \nJohn will only sign books purchased at the event (including\, of course\, the books that come with each ticket). There is no limit to the amount of books he will sign. HOWEVER\, he will not sign ANY other merchandise\, of any kind — no exceptions. \nThank you! Hope to see you there.\n♥\, Booksmith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-oates/
LOCATION:Swedish American Hall\, 2174 Market Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck: 1984
DESCRIPTION:Shipwreck Presents George Orwell’s 1984 and uses some language to corrupt your thought. \nFeatured writers: two-time champ Lily Miller\, plus Kaeli Quick\, India Sabater\, Jared Schwartz\, and Natalie Warner. \n$10 advance\, $12 door\, open bar for 21+. Tickets on sale NOW. \n— \nWelcome\, Shipsters\, to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction event.\nSix Great Writers destroy six notable characters from one Great Book on the first Thursday of every month at our home base\, the Booksmith in San Francisco.\nFics are blind-read by our Thespian-in-Residence\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez\, and you choose the best ship before the writers are unmasked. The winner is cast off from polite society\, and invited back the next month to defend their title. \nCritics are saying:\n“… the most despicable literary event possible.”\n“… an affront to literature.”\n“It used to be we had to sit in dark\, sticky booths to get these kinds of sleazy thrills.”\n“Come if you are high on marijuana cigarettes and have done sex before.”\n“… a vile\, disgusting event.””Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.”\n“…punny sodomy and gross indecency.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. We’re not dicks\, we just like dick jokes.\nShipwreck tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-1984/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Outburst
DESCRIPTION:Outburst is a politically tinged reading and screening event celebrating the right to free expression and assembly. This will be our first event of what will hopefully be an ongoing series of events. Join us at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore for an evening of readings from local poets\, a healthy smattering of visual art\, a mysterious master of ceremonies and surprise guest star Emma Goldman. It’s goona be a hoot\, we’re all gonna yell\, then be very quiet\, and then go home and feel like we got out there and did something. \nPoets:\nTongo Eisen-Martin with Peck the Town Crier\nEvan Kennedy\nStephanie Young \nVisual artists:\nCaleb Duarte\nTheodore J.H. Hulsker\nJennie Ottinger\nAngela Willetts
URL:https://litseen.com/event/outburst/
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:Chris Felver
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits \nPhotographs by Christopher Felver; Foreword by Simon J. Ortiz; Introduction by Linda Hogan \npublished by Universtiy of New Mexico \nChristopher Felver’s Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in literature today. In these commanding portraits\, Felver’s distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each artist’s strength\, integrity\, and character. Accompanying each portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the origin of the poet’s language and legends. As the individuals share their unique voices\, Tending the Fire introduces us to the diversity and complexity of Native culture through the authors’ generous and passionate stories. \nFelver’s insightful epilogue reminds us that “Native Americans today are as modern as the Space Age\, and each in their own way carries forth the cultural heritage ‘from whence they came.’ Their abiding legacy as the first people of this continent has found its voice in the hard-won wisdom of their art and activism. Let’s learn from this belated opportunity to look and listen to these Native voices.” \nChristopher Felver’s previous books include American Jukebox: A Photographic Journey\, The Importance of Being\, The Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography\, The Poet Exposed\, and Ferlinghetti Portrait. His photographs are distributed worldwide and collected by museums and university libraries. They have been featured in international exhibitions\, including the Centre Pompidou\, London’s National Theatre\, the Whitney Museum of American Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, and MOCA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chris-felver/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Meredith May
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Meredith May to the store to discuss and sign I\, Who Would Not Die\, on Thursday\, April 6th at 7:00 pm. This will be her publication party and all are welcome to attend! As a special treat\, John Steven Morgan will be playing piano as part of the event. \nKhorramshahr\, Iran\, May 1982–It was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century\, and Najah\, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript\, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier\, Zahed\, who was ordered to kill him. Instead\, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life. \nThis is a remarkable story. It is gut-wrenching\, essential\, and astonishing. It’s a war story\, a love story\, and page-turner of vast moral dimensions. An eloquent and haunting act of witness to horrors beyond grimmest fiction\, and a thing of towering beauty. More importantly\, it is a story that must be told\, and a richly textured view into an overlooked conflict and misunderstood region. This is the great untold story of the children and young men whose lives were sacrificed at the whim of vicious dictators and pointless\, barbaric wars.\nLittle has been written of the Iran-Iraq war\, which was among the most brutal conflicts of the twentieth century\, one fought with chemical weapons\, ballistic missiles\, and cadres of child soldiers.\nThe numbers involved are staggering:\n-All told\, it claimed 700\,000 lives–200\,000 Iraqis\, and 500\,000 Iranians.\n-Young men of military service age–eighteen and above in Iraq\, fifteen and above in Iran–died in the greatest numbers.\n-80\,000 Iranian child soldiers were killed\, mostly between the ages of sixteen and seventeen.\n-The two countries spent a combined 1.1 trillion dollars fighting the war.\nRarely does this kind of reportage succeed so powerfully as literature. More rarely still does such searingly brilliant literature fit to stand beside Remarque\, Hemingway\, and O’Brien and emerge from behind “enemy” lines.\nZahed\, a child\, and Najah\, a young restaurateur\, are rare men\, not just survivors\, but masterful\, wondrously gifted storytellers. Written with award-winning journalist Meredith May\, this is literature of a very high order\, set down with passion\, urgency\, and consummate skill. This story is an affirmation that\, in the end\, it is our humanity that transcends politics and borders and saves us all. \nMeredith May spent sixteen years as a feature writer at The San Francisco Chronicle\, where her 2004 narrative series on a war-wounded Iraqi boy won the PEN USA Literary Award for Journalism and was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meredith-may/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Emil De Andreis
DESCRIPTION:My book launch and signing for Hard To Grip will be at the historic Double Play Bar and Grill on Thursday\, April 6\, at 6:30. Come have a drink\, let’s talk baseball\, and let me sign your book!\nBooks will be available for purchase\, or:\nOrder here: amazon.com/Hard-Grip-Baseball-Chronic-Illness/dp/194315614X\nHope to see you there! \nAdvanced praise for Hard To Grip:\n“Emil’s passion for the game brings me back to childhood. I can smell the ballpark\, the grass\, the dirt. His love for the game is felt on every page\, and is contagious to us ‘last of the old dogs.'”\n—Tim Flannery\, Third Base Coach for three-time World Series champions the San Francisco Giants \n“A vibrant depiction of a ballplayer that finds his way despite losing his ability to play the game he loves. Emil is a total gamer and a wonderful writer. Grab some time\, and enjoy.”\n—Mike Krukow\, former Major League pitcher\, Chicago Cubs\, Philadelphia Phillies\, San Francisco Giants; color commentator\, San Francisco Giants
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emil-de-andreis/
LOCATION:The Double Play Bar and Grill\, 2401 16th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
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SUMMARY:devorah major
DESCRIPTION:devorah major served as San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate from 2002 to 2006. In addition to her four poetry books including where river meets ocean\, street smarts (winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Excellence Award)\, she has published four poetry chapbooks\, two novels including An Open Weave (winner of the ALA Black Caucus First Novel Award)\, and two biographies for young adults. In 2016\, City Lights Publishing will release her new poetry collection and then we became. major’s poetry has been recorded on four CDs and she performs nationally and internationally with and without musicians. She is Poet-in-Residence at San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums and a Senior Adjunct Professor in Diversity Studies at California College for the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/devorah-major/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CHAGRIN\, on Wednesday April 5th\, 7-9 pm\, at the Make-out Room\, 3325 22nd Street\, San Francisco\, will feature Ethel Rohan (The Weight of Him)\, Jon Sindell (Family Happiness)\, Peg Alford Pursell (Show Her a Flower\, a Bird\, a Shadow)\, Amy Berkowitz (Tender Points)\, and Christine No. With MC James Warner (All Her Father’s Guns).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-chagrin/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Literary Luncheon: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
DESCRIPTION:The Nest is a warm\, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives \nEvery family has its problems. But even among the most troubled\, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody\, Beatrice\, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother\, Leo\, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier\, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs’ joint trust fund\, “The Nest\,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement\, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. \nMelody\, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb\, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack\, an antiques dealer\, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband\, Walker\, to keep his store open. And Bea\, a once-promising short-story writer\, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and\, by extension\, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before\, Leo\, Melody\, Jack\, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments\, present-day truths\, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident\, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. \nThis is a story about the power of family\, the possibilities of friendship\, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender\, entertaining\, and deftly written debut\, Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships\, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time\, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love. \nCynthia D’Aprix Sweeney lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children. She has an MFA from Bennington.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-lincheon-cynthia-daprix-sweeney/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Bassem Youssef
DESCRIPTION:Dubbed the “Jon Stewart of Egypt\,” political satirist Bassem Youssef returns to Berkeley with his incisive wit and astute commentary. Named one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World” by Time\, the cardiac surgeon-turned television personality created the hilarious\, controversial\, and wildly popular Egyptian television program Al Bernameg (The Show)\, the first political satire show in the Middle East. “Satire brings awareness and breaks down taboos\,” Youssef told Rolling Stone magazine\, and in his talk\, he riffs on propaganda\, politics\, and the media\, in both the Middle East and in his adopted home\, the US.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bassem-youssef/
LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall\, UC Berkeley\, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Michael DeForge
DESCRIPTION:Join Michael DeForge for a live reading and book signing as he introduces the world to Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. Sticks has escaped her heritage for the refuge of the woods and through her story\, DeForge delivers another deeply humane work\, one that subtly questions the integrity of the political state and contemporary journalism\, all while investigating our relationship to the natural world. He will be in conversation with Ryan Sands. \n* in Conjunction with Comix Experience’s Graphic-Novel-of-the-monthclub \n— \nMichael DeForge was born in 1987 and grew up in Ottawa\, Ontario. His one-person anthology series Lose has been nominated for\, or won\, every major comics award including the Ignatz and Eisner awards. His previous graphic novels with Drawn & Quarterly are Ant Colony\, Big Kids\, and First Year Healthy. This March he releases Sticks Angelica\, Folk Hero. \nRyan Sands is a writer and zinemaker living in San Francisco. Along with his wife\, Ryan runs the publishing house Youth in Decline\, which publishes the award-wining monograph quarterly Frontier\, as well as graphic novels by unique creators from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-deforge/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Augusten Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:#1 New York Times-bestselling author Augusten Burroughs joins us at Opera Plaza to celebrate the release of the paperback edition of his newest memoir\, Lust & Wonder. With Augusten’s unique and singular observations and his own unabashed way of detailing both the horrific and the humorous\, Lust & Wonder is a hilariously frank memoir that his legions of fans have been waiting for. His story began in Running with Scissors\, endured through Dry\, and continues with this memoir\, the capstone to the life of Augusten Burroughs. \nFunny\, sweet\, alarming\, and ultimately\, moving and tender\, Lust & Wonder is an experience of a book that will resonate with anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/augusten-burroughs/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170404T210000
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CREATED:20161223T033459Z
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SUMMARY:Dean Radar
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new collection of poetry \nSelf-Portrait as Wikipedia Entry  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \nWikipedia articles are never finalized. In Dean Rader’s energized and inventive new book\, the poet considers identity of self and society as a Wikipedia page—sculpted and transformed by the ever-present push and pull of politics\, culture\, and unseen forces. And\, in the case of Rader\, how identity can be affected by the likes of Paul Klee’s paintings and the characters from the children’s stories about Frog and Toad. Rader’s cagey voice is full of humor and inquiry\, warmly inviting readers to fully participate in the creation. \nBorn in Oklahoma\, Dean Rader has published in the fields of poetry\, American Indian studies\, and popular culture. He is a professor of English at the University of San Francisco\, and writes regularly on literature and politics for The San Francisco Chronicle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dean-radar/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:When April Showers Come...
DESCRIPTION:Featured: Rafael Jesús González\, MK Chavez\, James Cagney\, and Rose Black. An Open Mic follows the featured readers. Everyone welcome. There is always room. It’s time to showcase your work. Free drawing for books\, broadside\, and Spice Monkey Gift Card. The series is on the first Tuesday of each month in The Loft at Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster Street\, Oakland\, 6:30-9:00 pm. Free\, we pass the hat.\ninformation: pandemoniumpress@gmail.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/when-april-showers-come/
LOCATION:Spice Monkey\, 1628 Webster St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170403T213000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192210
CREATED:20161223T034229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T034229Z
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SUMMARY:Safiya Sinclair
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Cannibal: \n“Stunning debut collection”—Publishers Weekly starred review \n\n“Reading (and rereading) Sinclair is an urgently necessary\, absolutely unparalleled experience.”—Diego Báez\, Booklist starred review \n\n“Safiya Sinclair writes strange\, mythological\, gorgeously elaborate lyric poems\, with a diction that is both arcane and contemporary. . . . Her language is distinctive\, assured\, and a marvel to read.”—Cathy Park Hong\, from her introduction to Safiya Sinclair in the Boston Review\n \n“Cannibal is nothing less than an entrancing debut that reveals the teeming intellect and ravishing lucidity of a young poet in full possession of her literary powers. Here is a poetry that richly interrogates power and history while also eloquently and furtively asserting the possibilities of nature\, desire\, and the body as ceremonial and spiritual sources of resistance and affirmation.”—Major Jackson\, author of Roll Deep \n\n“With exquisite lyrical precision\, Safiya Sinclair is offering us a new muscular music that is as brutal as it is beautiful. Intelligent and elemental\, these poems mark the debut of a poet who is dangerously talented and desperately needed.”—Ada Limón\, author of Bright Dead Things \n\nAbout Cannibal: \nColliding with andconfrontingThe Tempestand postcolonial identity\, the poems in Safiya Sinclair’s Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and history\, race relations in America\, womanhood\, otherness\, and exile. She evokes a home no longer accessible and a body at times uninhabitable\, often mirrored by a hybrid Eve/Caliban figure. Blooming with intense lyricism and fertile imagery\, these full-blooded poems are elegant\, mythic\, and intricately woven. Here the female body is a dark landscape; the female body is cannibal. Sinclair shocks and delights her readers with her willingness to disorient and provoke\, creating a multitextured collage of beautiful and explosive poems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/safiya-sinclair/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192210
CREATED:20170329T092346Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION: April 3 @ Elbo Room\nAdam Moskowitz\nKatie Wheeler-Dubin\n Kazumi Chin\nPeter Bullen\nJeff Bostic\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nGoldie Negelev\nLinette Escobar \nw/music by\nKristina Dutton + Holly Muñoz \n+ \nrelease party for vitriol 3 \nFREE SHOW • 21+ • 7pm doors \ncurated by Evan Karp\, Brianna Nelsun + Hannah Rubin \nRSVP \n^ sPARKLE & bLINK 84 for the first 100 people\nw/art by Peter Max Lawrence
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning/
LOCATION:Elbo Room\, 647 Valencia Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170403T190000
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CREATED:20170329T092041Z
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SUMMARY:Founder's Night: Mark States + Chris Chandler
DESCRIPTION:Founders Night – Mark States returns to feature! Chris Chandler Co-features!\nThis session will be held at Monkey House so as to accommodate more people. 1638 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA 94703\nNote: No food. Beverages OK.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/founders-night-mark-states-chris-chandler/
LOCATION:Monkey House\, 1638 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170402T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170402T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T192210
CREATED:20170324T011350Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lovely night of writing and music at the Bazaar Writers Salon\, coming up on Sunday\, April 2nd in San Francisco at the Bazaar Café. \nBazaar Writers Salon\nReadings by R. O. Kwon\, Margaret Ross\, and Essy Stone\nMusic by Armando Alcaraz\nHosted by Peter Kline \nSunday\, April 2nd\, 6:00 p.m.\nBazaar Café\, 5927 California St.\, SF \nArmando Alcaraz’s original songs are in English and his native Spanish and have influences from both Latin American\, traditional Mexican and American folk. Armando uses his songs and music to facilitate transformation\, integration\, and healing in contemplative contexts and as a tool for his leadership consulting practice. \nR. O. Kwon’s first novel\, Heroics\, is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is a 2016 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her writing has appeared in Noon\, The Guardian\, VICE\, Electric Literature\, Time\, The Believer\, and elsewhere. Named one of Narrative’s “30 Below 30” writers\, she has received fellowships from Yaddo\, Omi International\, the Norman Mailer Writers Colony\, the Steinbeck Fellows Program\, and the Elizabeth George Foundation\, as well as scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Born in South Korea\, she’s mostly lived in the United States. \nMargaret Ross is the author of A Timeshare (Omnidawn\, 2015). Her poems have appeared in Boston Review\, Fence\, jubilat\, The New Republic and The New Yorker. She is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. \nEssy Stone has recently published her first collection of poetry\, What It Done to Us\, with Lost Horse Press. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University\, Essy spent most of her life as a waitress in East Tennessee before receiving her MFA in Poetry from the University of Miami. Her poetry has been published in Prairie Schooner\, 32 Poems\, and the New Yorker. She will be pursuing a PhD in the fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-4/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170402T170000
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SUMMARY:Beast Crawl 2017 Hat Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:This is a fundraiser for Beast Crawl 2017. \nWear your most amazing hat! Bowler\, princess\, fez\, sailor\, sexy-30’s-feather\, baseball\, cowboy\, pork pie\, witch\, church lady\, viking\, ten gallon\, beer can\, Beach Blanket Babylon\, Burning-Man-extra-furry-glow-stick-fun-time. Yes. Do it. \nSunday\nApril 2\, 2017\n5:00 PM \nTelegraph Beer Garden\n2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\n(between 23rd & 24th St)\n\nAll ages! \nWin fabulous raffle prizes donated by local businesses! \nHat Party sponsored by Telegraph Beer Garden\nSuggested donation $5 \n10% of sales at Telegraph are donated to the Beast! \nBEAST CRAWL is Uptown Oakland’s free annual literary festival\, featuring over 150 poets\, writers and performance artists in a single night\, spread out over three hours and 40 local galleries\, bars\, restaurants\, cafés\, and storefronts. \nBeast Crawl 2017 is Saturday\, September 2\, in Uptown Oakland!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/beast-crawl-2017-hat-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:Telegraph Beer Garden\, 2318 Telegraph\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Signals & Intersections
DESCRIPTION:Tickets: $15 General\, $10 Members\nBuy Tickets Online\nTickets also available at the door \nWriter/musician Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong leads an afternoon of poetic contemplation\, in collaboration with musician/writer Tessa Brinckman and other artists: writers Javier Huerta\, Evan Karp\, Danny Thanh Nguyen\, and musicians Gael Alcock\, Jean Robertson and Miles Karp. Signals & Intersections is an exploration of our bodies in communication\, from within\, to one another\, in stillness\, in motion\, within and across borders. The codes\, signs and signals of our technologies and politics meet in a tender\, experimental mix of music\, words and more.\nPoets\, writers\, and acoustic musicians are welcome to join in this dialogue in an open mic. Sign up at the beginning of the program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/signals-intersections/
LOCATION:Center for New Music\, 55 Taylor Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T213000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Life's Too Short
DESCRIPTION:Red Light Lit returns to lille æsketo celebrate Loria Mendoza new book\, “Life’s Too Short\,” with performances by Stelth Alexander\, Nick Jaina\,Jennifer Lewis\, Dirk Petersen\, Dorota Szuta and David Williams. Join us inBoulder Creek\, California in a beautiful venue for an intimate night of poetry and music. \nRed Light Lit (www.redlightlit.com) is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through spoken word\, art and song. \nTickets: $10-$20 (Sliding Scale)\nThis is a limited seating engagement. Please buy your tickets in advance.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-lifes-too-short/
LOCATION:lille æske\, 13160 Central Avenue\, Boulder Creek\, CA\, 95006\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Paul Madonna
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the release of my third book! Join me for a party\, gallery show\, and book signing at the fabulous 3 Fish Studios on April 1st (no joke!)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-madonna-2/
LOCATION:3 Fish Studios\, 4541 Irving Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170401T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T170000
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CREATED:20161223T022856Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
DESCRIPTION:Addison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot) \nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden) \nAll Ages Welcome \nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-11/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170401T020000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170401T153000
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CREATED:20170320T060005Z
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SUMMARY:Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico
DESCRIPTION:In observance of National Poetry Month\, Charles Sullivan\, author and editor of America in Poetry and other volumes\, reads and discusses selections of poems from his book\, Santa Fe Voices: Poems of New Mexico.  An “Easterner\,” Sullivan wrote the poems during visits to “The Land of Enchantment\,” where he spoke with its people and listened to and imagined their stories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/santa-fe-voices-poems-of-new-mexico/
LOCATION:Merced General Floor Area\, 155 Winston Drive\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Margaret Randall
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Studio\, San Francisco Campus\n\n\n\n\n\n195 De Haro Street\nFree and open to the public\nReception to follow (Writers’ Studio)\nMore info: Naomi Washer\, nwasher@cca.edu or 415.551.9237 \nMargaret Randall is a poet\, essayist\, oral historian\, translator\, photographer\, and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (Mexico\, Cuba\, and Nicaragua). \nFrom 1962 to 1969\, she and Mexican poet Sergio Mondragón coedited El Corno Emplumado (The Plumed Horn)\, a bilingual literary quarterly that published some of the best new work of the sixties. \nWhen she came home in 1984\, the government ordered her deported because it found some of her writing to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” With the support of many writers and others\, she won her case in 1989. \nThroughout the late 1980s and early 1990s\, she taught at several universities\, most often Trinity College in Hartford\, Connecticut. \nRandall’s most recent works of poetry include She Becomes Time\, About Little Charlie Lindbergh\, My Town\, Como si la Silla Vacia (As if the Empty Chair)\, The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones\, and Daughter of Lady Jaguar Shark (Wings Press). \nSolo El Camino (Only the Road)\, a large bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry\, is forthcoming this year. \nRandall lives in New Mexico with her partner (now wife) of almost 30 years\, the painter Barbara Byers\, and travels extensively to read\, lecture\, and teach. \nAbout the Writers Series\nCCA’s MFA Program in Writing proudly offers the Writers Series\, a year-round literary series that features a continuum of talented\, successful\, and\, in many cases\, world-renowned writers and poets. \nThe series is both a curricular requirement (Friday Seminar) for our first-year graduate students and an integral part of the college’s celebrated public programs schedule.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/margaret-randall/
LOCATION:Writers’ Studio\, SF Campus\, 195 De Haro Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170331T150000
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CREATED:20161201T021845Z
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SUMMARY:Lauren Grodstein
DESCRIPTION:“In Our Short History\, Lauren Grodstein breaks your heart\, then miraculously pieces it back together so it’s bigger–and stronger–than before. This novel will leave you appreciating both the messiness of life and the immense depths of love.” —Celeste Ng\, author of Everything I Never Told You \nIn Our Short History\, Karen Neulander\, a successful New York political consultant\, has always been fiercely protective of her son\, Jacob\, now six. She’s had to be: when Jacob’s father\, Dave\, found out Karen was pregnant and made it clear that fatherhood wasn’t in his plans\, Karen walked out of the relationship\, never telling Dave her intention was to raise their child alone. \nBut now Jake is asking to meet his dad\, and with good reason: Karen is dying. When she finally calls her ex\, she’s shocked to find Dave ecstatic about the son he never knew he had. First\, he can’t meet Jake fast enough\, and then\, he can’t seem to leave him alone. \nWith just a few more months to live\, Karen resists allowing Dave to insinuate himself into Jake’s life. As she tries to play out her last days in the “right” way\, Karen wrestles with the truth that the only thing she cannot bring herself to do for her son–let his father become a permanent part of his life–is the thing he needs from her the most. With heart-wrenching poignancy\, unexpected wit\, and mordant humor\, Lauren Grodstein has created an unforgettable story about parenthood\, sacrifice\, and life itself. \nLauren Grodstein is the author of four previous works of fiction\, including the New York Times bestselling novel A Friend of the Family\, which was a Washington Post Best Book Pick\, a New York Times Editor’s Pick\, a BookPage Best Book\, and an Indie Next Pick. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lauren-grodstein/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170330T213000
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CREATED:20170320T055050Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Katherine Hastings + G.P. Kratz
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Hastings’s new book of poems is Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into a Bar. Annie Finch says\, “Katherine Hastings’ poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature\, literature\, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.” Her two previous full-length collections are Nighthawks and Cloud Fire. A former poet laureate of Sonoma County\, she is the curator of WordTemple Poetry Series and host of WordTemple on NPR affiliate KRCB FM. \nG. P. Skratz’s new book of poems is Sundae Missile: the Mass of the Church of the Center that will not Hold\, a homophonic translation of the “pre-Vatican Council Latin version” of the Roman Catholic Mass. Andrei Codrescu says\, “Until they ever improve the wine and put some jam in the wafers\, Catholics will have to be content with GP Skratz’ sound translation of the Mass. It doesn’t beat Bach but it would work for Sinatra.” His previous publications are The Gates of Disappearance and Fun\, and Everything Else\, co-authored with the late poet Darrell Gray\, with drawings by Dave Morice and photographs by Shelly Vogel. With a long history as a poet-performer\, he is probably most noted for his production of “The Actualist Conventions” with Darrell Gray\, Jim Nisbet\, and David Schein. He currently performs poetry and music with Arundo and “twisted roots” music with Smooth Toad.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-katherine-hastings-g-p-kratz/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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