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SUMMARY:Ericka Huggins
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 27 for one evening with activist\, former political prisoner\, and poet Ericka Huggins as she reaches into her own history\, reading the words of sheroes and heroes that span the last 50 years of her life. Inspired by the Civil Rights Movement\, she made a commitment to the Human Rights Movement and is a witness to movements across formations today. \nEricka is introduced by writers Chinaka Hodge and Zoé Samudzi\, both sharing their thoughts and works in criticism of the moment. The entire evening features open dialogue with audience members. \nGrand Lake Theatre\nThursday\, April 27 • 7PM\nhttp://matatu.eventbrite.com/\nco-presented by the Oakland Book Festival\n__________\nERICKA HUGGINS is a human rights activist\, poet\, educator\, Black Panther leader and former political prisoner. Her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak to audiences around the world on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women\, children and youth\, whole being education\, over-incarceration\, and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change. \nAs a result of her 14-year tenure as a leader of the Black Panther Party (the longest of any woman in leadership)\, Ericka brings a unique\, complete and honest perspective to the challenges and successes of the Black Panther Party and its significance today.\n__________\nCHINAKA HODGE is a poet\, educator playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Oakland\, California\, she​ ​graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in May of 2006\, and was honored to be the​ ​student speaker at the 174th Commencement exercise. Chinaka was a 2012 Artist in Residence at The​ ​Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin\, CA. In early 2013\, Hodge was a Sundance Feature Film lab​ ​Fellow for her script\, 700th& Int’l. Since its early days\, Chinaka has served in various capacities at Youth​ ​Speaks/The Living Word Project\, the nation’s leading literary arts non­profit. During her tenure there\,​ ​Hodge served as Program Director\, Associate Artistic Director\, and worked directly with Youth Speaks’​ ​core population ­­ as a teaching artist and poet mentor. Her poems\, editorials\, interviews and prose have​ ​been featured in Newsweek\, San Francisco Magazine\, Believer Magazine\, PBS\, NPR\, CNN\, C­Span\,​ ​and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry.\n__________\nZOÉ SAMUDZI is a queer black woman whose work is dedicated to reclaiming and reframing narratives both within the academy and outside of it. Wielding black feminist & womanist epistemologies\, she interrogates structural whiteness and theorizes on decolonizing ways of knowing and truth-telling.\n__________\nThe Kenyan matatu\, the Thai tuk-tuk\, and the Brooklyn dollar van are means of public transport used by people around the world. MATATU replicates these vehicles as a mode of collective and publicly accessible transportation\, rooted in local community and global diasporas\, that shuttles audiences from one arthouse experience to the next. \nMATATU is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts\, and supported by KQED\, East Bay Express\, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Learn more about us at www.matatufestival.org/weare \nThe OAKLAND BOOK FESTIVAL is an annual celebration of ideas\, debate\, and the arts that will take place this year at Oakland City Hall on Sunday\, May 21st. The 2017 festival revolves around the theme of “Equality” and will feature over one hundred artists\, activists\, academics\, and other public intellectuals that are aiming to achieve it in their own way. All events at the OBF are free and open to the public.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ericka-huggins/
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theatre\, 3200 Grand Avenue\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lemony Snicket/Cogswell College Silent Reading Party
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Handler\, AKA Lemony Snicket\, hosts a Silent Reading Party at Cogswell College – cash bar\, no cover charge\, but any donation you opt to give supports a public HS’s library.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lemony-snicketcogswell-college-silent-reading-party/
LOCATION:Cogswell College\, 191 Baypointe Parkway\, San Jose\, CA\, 95134\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Soma Mei Sheng Frazier / Cogswell College":MAILTO:sfrazier@cogswell.edu
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SUMMARY:David Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of his new poetry collection \nIn Memory of an Angel \nfrom City Lights Books \nNamed after Alban Berg’s famed violin concerto\, In Memory of an Angel is the first full-length collection in fifteen years from New York School maestro David Shapiro. Packed with erudition\, pursuing themes of art history\, architecture\, literature\, and Jewish identity\, the poems of In Memory of an Angel achieve a rare combination of lyrical abstraction and postmodern self-referentiality\, rendered with Shapiro’s understated virtuosity. Yet there’s a strong current of love poetry flowing through these avant-garde ruminations\, as well as reminiscences of childhood and reflections on fatherhood. A surrealistic violation of the boundary between the real and the dream pervades In Memory of an Angel. Shapiro’s poems take a bewildering variety of forms\, many of his own invention\, even as he is equally at home in the quotidian and anecdotal. Andy Warhol\, Allen Ginsberg\, Jasper Johns\, Frank O’Hara—these are only some of the characters peopling Shapiro’s New York\, a landscape both sophisticated and haunted by memory. \nThe author of 10 previous books of poems\, as well as monographs on John Ashbery\, Jim Dine\, Jasper Johns\, and Mondrian\, David Shapiro is a member of the second generation of New York School poets. A child prodigy on the violin\, he went on to become a literary and art critic and teaches at Patterson College and Cooper Union. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and has received awards from the Merrill Foundation\, the NEA\, the NEH\, and the Graham Foundation. He lives in Riverdale\, the Bronx\, NYC. \nPraise for David Shapiro: \n“An erudite and relentlessly modernizing mind . . . [Shapiro’s] aleatory\, portent-free sophistication seems confident enough to accommodate primitive\, endearing\, and frankly tender tropes and situations . . . The effect is of unforeseen intimacy at the heart of abstraction.”—The New Yorker \n“David Shapiro has an incredible mastery of the language and an ear sensitive to every nuance of idiom and rhythm.”—Poetry \nPraise for In Memory of an Angel: \n“A Taoist\, a Kabbalist\, and a Dadaist walk into a bar. They discover that the bar is really David Shapiro’s new book of poems\, where they can drink ‘tears from sleeping birds’ and relax ‘in/ the soft hands/ of the gods.’ In Memory of an Angel literally drenches the reader in moments of wonder. Shapiro’s gift is unique. He possesses a childlike\, not innocence\, but sophistication. His playful erudition draws in everyone from Andy Warhol\, to Kenneth Koch\, to John Dewey – and it welcomes you as well\, in its democratic embrace.”––Elaine Equi \n“David Shapiro published his first book\, January: A Book of Poems\, while still a teenager. Since then\, now for over fifty years\, he has remained one of our very finest American poets. His mind is illuminated and his poems luminous. In Memory of an Angel is a strikingly beautiful and invaluable selection of his work!”––Jim Jarmusch \n“It’s always a deep pleasure when David Shapiro has a new book\, he never ceases to astonish\, he has built a singular\, hyper-lyrical\, always brilliant poetry. In Memory of an Angel is filled with spells and charms and spinning language\, elegy\, and wild proclamations; as he writes: “I invented the new movement / without photographs like / the affair of the whole being / as it was said ferocious and / intimate and I invent it / to last.” And so it will.”––Peter Gizzi \n“In Memory of an Angel mesmerizes with virtuosic greatness; a deft masterwork by a poet’s poet whose sui generis genius has for five decades defied and invigorated the New York School label. Shapiro upends language not for less meaning\, but more—and for a multilayered storytelling sufficiently unfettered to get at life’s labyrinthine mix of ‘cardboard and gold’ promise and peril. Pervaded by wide erudition and a skilled violinist’s musical acuity\, these wise\, many-angled poems reward rumination\, with their dream-drenched mystery\, verbal excitement and open-ended\, sometimes near-mystical profundity; always with Shapiro’s pluralistic heart on his metaphysical sleeve.”––Kate Farrell
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-shapiro/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Impossible Fairy Tale: Korean Author Han Yujoo in Conversati
DESCRIPTION:Long known as a vital\, innovative author in her native Korea (as well as the publisher of Oulipopress)\, Han Yujoo here presents her first full-length book to be translated into English\, The Impossible Fairy Tale (tr. Janet Hong). Called a “stunning debut” by Kirkus in a starred review\, and praised as “a new kind of literary horror\, as intellectual as it is transfixing” by Sarah Gerard\, The Impossible Fairy Tale is a remarkable book. Come meet this exciting Korean author as she is introduced to the United States in conversation with Two Lines Press Senior Editor Scott Esposito. \nIt all takes place at The Lab\, long known as a home for excellent cultural events in San Francisco. Snacks and alcoholic beverages will be served. \nCopies of The Impossible Fairy Tale will be sold\, and Han will sign books after the event. \nMore information: https://www.catranslation.org/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversation-with-scott-esposito/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-impossible-fairy-tale-korean-author-han-yujoo-in-conversati/
LOCATION:The Lab\, 2948 16th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Cory Doctorow + John Scalzi
DESCRIPTION:CORY DOCTOROW:\nFascinating\, moving\, and darkly humorous\, Walkaway is a multi-generation SF thriller about the wrenching changes of the next hundred years…and the very human people who will live their consequences. From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow\, an epic tale of revolution\, love\, post-scarcity\, and the end of death. \n“Walkaway is now the best contemporary example I know of\, its utopia glimpsed after fascinatingly-extrapolated revolutionary struggle.” ―William Gibson \nJOHN SCALZI:\nOur universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow\, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time\, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow\, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises\, the Interdependency\, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war―and\, for the empire’s rulers\, a system of control. \n“John Scalzi is the most entertaining\, accessible writer working in SF today.” ―Joe Hill\, author of The Fireman
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-john-scalzi/
LOCATION:Borderlands Books\, 866 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran’s has written two novels: the first is The Prayer Room (MacAdam/Cage\, 2009); and the second is Lucky Boy (Penguin Random House\, 2017). Her short prose has appeared in the New York Times\, Canteen magazine\, Mutha magazine\, and New California Writing.\n\nShe’s a member of the SF Writers’ Grotto and the Portuguese Artists Colony.\n\nShe earned her BA from UC Berkeley\, her MFA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University\, and a Creative Writing PhD from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK).\nSekaran joined CCA’s Writing faculty in fall 2010.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-4/
LOCATION:A2 Cafe\, 5212 Broadway St\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Waters
DESCRIPTION:John Waters reads from his new book\, Make Trouble\, and delivers advice for artists\, graduates and anyone trying to make a living as a creative person. \n\nNote: This event will be ticketed. Tickets include a copy of Make Trouble and a beverage. Tickets available here \n\nAbout Make Trouble \n\nWhen John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design\, the speech went viral\, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us\, no matter what eld we choose\, to embrace chaos\, be nosy\, and outrage outdated critics. \nWaters notes with irony that he is eminently qualified to be a commencement speaker because he was suspended from high school\, then kicked out of college—yet he is a success doing what he loves best. Anyone embarking on a creative path\, he tells us\, would do well to realize that pragmatism and discipline are as important as talent\, and that rejection is nothing to fear. Waters advises young people to eavesdrop\, listen to their enemies\, and horrify us with new ideas. In other words\, make trouble. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-waters/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot
DESCRIPTION:Her name was Henrietta Lacks\, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine\, vital for developing the polio vaccine\, cloning\, gene mapping\, in vitro fertilization\, and more. Henrietta’s cells have been bought and sold by the billions\, yet she remains virtually unknown\, and her family cannot afford health insurance. Rebecca Skloot’s best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, soon to be an HBO movie\, tells the riveting story of that collision between ethics\, race\, and medicine in a story inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans and the birth of bioethics.  Skloot specializes in narrative science writing and has explored a wide range of topics\, including tissue ownership rights\, race and medicine\, and food politics in The New York Times Magazine\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, Discover\, and elsewhere.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer East Bay Reading "National Poetry Month"
DESCRIPTION:We’ve asked poet Roberto F. Santiago to be guest curator for National Poetry Month\, and he has selected poets Denise Benavides\, Robert Andrew Perez\, and Shelley Wong to read Wednesday\, April 26\, 7:15pm at Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph\, Oakland. Come celebrate Queer poetry in the East Bay! What you will donation\, free refreshments\, and door prizes for the prompt! \nbiographies:\nGuest curator Roberto F. Santiago received his MFA from Rutgers University\, BA from Sarah Lawrence College and is an MSW Candidate at UC Berkeley. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo\, Squaw Valley Community of Writers\, Sarah Lawrence College\, and Lambda Literary Foundation​. Roberto is​ the recipient of the Alfred C. Carey Poetry Prize and his debut book of poetry\, Angel Park (Tincture\, 2015)\, was a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry. More at https://therfsantiago.com/ \nDenise Benavides is a queer xicana performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the winter of 2016 by Kórima Press. More at http://www.denisebenavides.com/ \nRobert Andrew Perez is the author of the collection the field (Omnidawn). He edits chapbooks for speCt! and the magazine Oar in West Oakland\, where he also teaches and lives with his partner. Recent work can be found in the journals Vinyl\, DIAGRAM\, and Eleven Eleven. He has forthcoming work for Lambda Literary’s Spotlight series and in Fourteen Hills. More at robertandrewperez.com. \nShelley Wong lives in Oakland and is the author of Rare Birds from Diode Editions. Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse\, Fairy Tale Review\, Sixth Finch\, and Vinyl. A Kundiman fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient\, she holds an MFA from Ohio State University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-reading-national-poetry-month/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Andrés Barba
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Andrés Barba to the store to discuss and sign\, Such Small Hands\, on Wednesday\, April 26th at 7:00 pm. This is Transit Books inaugural book and we are so pleased to be a part of it! \nLife changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place\, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, alternating between Marina’s perspective and the choral we of the other girls\, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance. \nAndrés Barba is the one the most lauded contemporary Spanish writers. He is the author of twelve books\, including August\, October and Rain Over Madrid. In addition to literary fiction\, he has written essays\, poems\, books of photography\, and translations of De Quincey and Melville. His books have been translated into ten languages. \nTransit Books is a nonprofit publisher of international and American literature\, based in Oakland\, California. Founded in 2015\, Transit Books is committed to the discovery and promotion of enduring works that carry readers across borders and communities. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nWednesday\, April 26\, 2017 – 7:00pm to 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nDIESEL\, A Bookstore\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20170426T200000
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit: Happy Hour
DESCRIPTION:In honor of national poetry month\, Red Light Lit is having a FREE Happy Hour show at PianoFight. \nFeatured readers include: Peter Thomas Bullen\, Allyson Darling\, Fred Dodsworth\, Nick Jaina\, Ari Moskowitz\, Xan Roberti and more. \nRed Light Lit is a collective of writers\, musicians and artists who explore love relationships and sexuality through poetry\, prose\, art and song.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-happy-hour/
LOCATION:PianoFight\, 144 Taylor St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Matthew Isaac Sobin
DESCRIPTION:In The Last Machine in the Solar System\, life on Earth ended billions of years ago\, but the last machine carries on. \nNearly three billion years into the future\, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone\, and the sun is a gray\, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan—the last machine. \nCreated to survive Earth’s destruction by our ever-expanding sun\, Jonathan witnessed the end of life on Earth. This is his story and that of his creator\, Nikolai. It is also the story of the human race\, which failed to disentangle its destiny from the star that gave rise to all life-forms on Earth. \nMatthew Isaac Sobin grew up in Huntington\, New York\, and graduated from Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history\, with studies in astronomy and geology. He currently lives in Hayward\, California\, with his partner\, sculptor Patricia Gonzalez\, and works with the Peter Beren Literary Agency. This is his first published work.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-isaac-sobin/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jacqueline Winspear
DESCRIPTION:Jacqueline Winspear reads from her latest Maisie Dobbs adventure\, In This Grave Hour. \n\n\n\n“A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander.”–Maureen Corrigan\, NPR’s Fresh Air \n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 25\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nSunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany\, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs’ flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy\, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. \nIn a London shadowed by barrage balloons\, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion\, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war\,” a new kind of refugee — an evacuee from London — appears in Maisie’s life. The little girl billeted at Maisie’s home in Kent does not\, or cannot\, speak\, and the authorities do not know who the child belongs to or who might have put her on the “Operation Pied Piper” evacuee train. They know only that her name is Anna. \nAs Maisie’s search for the killer escalates\, the country braces for what is to come. Britain is approaching its gravest hour — and Maisie could be nearing a crossroads of her own. \nJacqueline Winspear is the author of the bestselling Maisie Dobbs series\, which includes Journey to Munich\, A Dangerous Place\, Leaving Everything Most Loved\, Elegy for Eddie\, and eight other novels. Her standalone novel\, The Care and Management of Lies\, was also a bestseller and a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Originally from the United Kingdom\, she now lives in California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jacqueline-winspear/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Anselm Berrigan + Hoa Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is delighted to host local literary nonprofit Small Press Traffic as they present two superb visiting poets\, Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen. Please join us! \nSmall  Press Traffic hosts poets Anselm Berrigan and Hoa Nguyen as part of its longtime reading series. Since 1974 Small Press Traffic (SPT) has been at the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area innovative writing scene\, bringing together authors\, readers\, educators\, small presses\, and community members through talks\, readings\, workshops\, and performances. Its mission is to provide a local and national platform for experimental writing\, foregrounding underserved writers and those who identify as women\, people of color\, and/or from the LGBTQI community. \nHoa Nguyen is the author of eight poetry books and chapbooks. She lives in Toronto\, Ontario where she teaches poetics at Ryerson University and curates a reading series. \nAnselm Berrigan‘s recent books of poetry include Come In Alone (Wave\, 2016) and Primitive State (Edge\, 2015). A chapbook\, Degrets\, is forthcoming from Couch Press. He is the poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail\, and also editor of the just-about-released What Is Poetry? (Just kidding\, I know you know): Selected Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter\, 1983-2009. \nRSVP appreciated but not required. If you cannot attend the event\, but would like to request a signed copy of any of our featured authors’ works\, please order below and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anselm-berrigan-hoa-nguyen/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Andres Barba + Yiyun Li
DESCRIPTION:Andres Barba discusses his new novel\, Such Small Hands\, with Yiyun Li\, followed by a party sponsored by Transit Books. \n\nPraise for Andres Barba \n\nEvery once in a while a novel does not record reality but creates a whole new reality\, one that casts a light on our darkest feelings. Kafka did that. Bruno Schulz did that. Now the Spanish writer Andrés Barba has done it with the terrifying Such Small Hands.—Edmund White \n\nBarba explores what the dynamics of an orphanage reveal about any insular community and the trials of its inevitable outcast.—Idra Novey\, author of Ways to Disappear \n\nAndrés Barba needs no advice. He has already created a world that is perfectly realized and has a craft that is inappropriate for a writer of his age.—Mario Vargas Llosa \n\nAbout Such Small Hands \n\nShirley Jackson meets The Virgin Suicides\, set at an all-girls orphanage. It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls. . . . Life changes at the orphanage the day Marina shows up. As she tries to find her place\, she creates a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. In hypnotic\, lyrical prose\, Andrés Barba evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance—a masterwork from the Spanish writer at the peak of his powers.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andres-barba-yiyun-li/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Oakland Noir
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Eddie Muller & Jerry Thompson \nwith Kim Addonizio\, Nick Petrulakis\, Jamie DeWolf\, Joe Loya \nA celebration of a new crime fiction anthology from Akashic Books \nOakland Noir \n\n\nCalifornia’s noir quotient continues to rise with Oakland Noir\, which reveals all the dark complexities of this prominent city. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies\, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. \nBrand-new stories by: Nick Petrulakis\, Kim Addonizio\, Keenan Norris\, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder\, Katie Gilmartin\, Dorothy Lazard\, Harry Louis Williams II\, Carolyn Alexander\, Phil Canalin\, Judy Juanita\, Jamie DeWolf\, Nayomi Munaweera\, Mahmud Rahman\, Tom McElravey\, Joe Loya\, and Eddie Muller. \nIn the wake of San Francisco Noir\, Los Angeles Noir\, and Orange County Noir—all popular volumes in the Akashic Noir Series—comes the latest California installment\, Oakland Noir. Masterfully curated by Jerry Thompson and Eddie Muller (the “Czar of Noir”)\, this volume will shock\, titillate\, provoke\, and entertain. The diverse cast of talented contributors will not disappoint. \nJERRY THOMPSON is an accomplished violinist\, playwright\, and poet. He is the coauthor of Black Artists in Oakland\, and owned Black Spring Books\, an independent bookstore. \nEDDIE MULLER\, a.k.a. the “Czar of Noir\,” has been nominated for several Edgar and Anthony awards\, and his novel The Distance won a Shamus Award. He produces the San Francisco Noir City Film Festival\, the largest annual film noir retrospective in the world\, and is a frequent host on Turner Classic Movies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-noir/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Kristen Radtke
DESCRIPTION:Susan Steinberg talks with Kristen Radtke about her debut graphic novel\, Imagine Wanting Only This. \n\nPraise for Kristen Radtke: \n\n“Kristen Radtke’s Imagine Wanting Only This doesn’t tell a single story but a chorus of histories\, personal and familial and historical\, and invents its own marvelous language for their telling—a language forged from interior thought and visual imagination\, bringing together words and illustration in continually surprising and moving ways. The voice in these pages is eloquent in so many ways at once\, like a shape that exists in three dimensions rather than two\, and it’s utterly singular: visually alive\, attentive to details\, self-questioning and tender as it surveys variously haunted terrains of heart and landscape. Radtke’s world is so immersive\, and so sensitively conjured\, that once I entered the sketched chamber of her pages\, I didn’t want to leave again—or even pause for breath—until I reached the end.”\n—Leslie Jamison\, author of The Empathy Exams \n\n“Riveting and glorious. A book of sorrow filtered through intellect. In Kristen Radtke’s hands\, nonfiction becomes poetry. A tremendous achievement.”\n—Tom Hart\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Rosalie Lightning \n\n“Cities\, ambitions\, romances\, and bodies come to ruin before our eyes\, as Kristen Radtke invites us\, in her beautifully understated way\, to be disturbed\, fascinated\, and yes\, even attracted to that ruin. A remarkable bildungsroman!”\n—Eula Biss\, author of On Immunity \n\n“Kristen Radtke leads us through a bleak and beautifully crafted story of heart and heartbreak—creation\, connection\, decay\, and loss. Imagine Wanting Only This is challenging and inspiring.”\n—Ellen Forney\, New York Times bestselling author of Marbles \n\n\nAbout Imagine Wanting Only This: \n\nA gorgeous graphic memoir about loss\, love\, and confronting grief.\nWhen Kristen Radtke was in college\, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places left behind. Over time\, this fascination deepened until it triggered a journey around the world in search of ruined places. Now\, in this genre-smashing graphic memoir\, she leads us through deserted cities in the American Midwest\, an Icelandic town buried in volcanic ash\, islands in the Philippines\, New York City\, and the delicate passageways of the human heart. Along the way\, we learn about her family and a rare genetic heart disease that has been passed down through generations\, and revisit tragic events in America’s past. A narrative that is at once narrative and factual\, historical and personal\, Radtke’s stunning illustrations and piercing text never shy away from the big questions: Why are we here\, and what will we leave behind?
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kristen-radtke/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #44
DESCRIPTION:READERS \nA curated selection of San Francisco Bay Area poets\, writers and storytellers. and musical guest. Including: \nTerrilynn Cantlon + Aqueila Lewis\nRaluca Ioanid + Kathleen Wallace\nLiz Green + Reed Walker\nNatriece Spicer + Kwesi Wilkerson “the Dreamer”\nDavid Brehmer + Daniel Ari\nTasha Mini + Teri Lee Kline\nMk Chavez + Norma Smith \nSpecial Music Guest: Azuah! \nCURATORS\nKelechi Ubozo (Guest) + Sandra Wassilie + Amos White (Board) \n\nSuggested donation $7.00 (admission)\, $10.00 with a souvenir chapbook \nDirections  The bellevue Club is located in Oakland\, CA at 525 Bellevue Dr. on Lake Merritt and walkable from 19th Street BART. The Bellevue Club offers a full service hotel with a full bar and stunning views of the jewel of Oakland\, Lake Merritt. Map\, Event Page. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-44/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Donna Seaman
DESCRIPTION:An award-winning writer rescues seven first-rate twentieth-century women artists from oblivion—their lives fascinating\, their artwork a revelation. \nWho hasn’t wondered where—aside from Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo—all the women artists are? In many art books\, they’ve been marginalized with cold efficiency\, summarily dismissed in the captions of group photographs with the phrase “identity unknown” while each male is named. \nDonna Seaman brings to dazzling life seven of these forgotten artists\, among the best of their day: Gertrude Abercrombie\, with her dark\, surreal paintings and friendships with Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins; Bay Area self-portraitist Joan Brown; Ree Morton\, with her witty\, oddly beautiful constructions; Lois Mailou Jones of the Harlem Renaissance; Lenore Tawney\, who combined weaving and sculpture when art and craft were considered mutually exclusive; Christina Ramberg\, whose unsettling works drew on pop culture and advertising; and Louise Nevelson\, an art-world superstar in her heyday but omitted from most recent surveys of her era. \nThese women fought to be treated the same as male artists\, to be judged by their work\, not their gender or appearance. In brilliant\, compassionate prose\, Seaman reveals what drove them\, how they worked\, and how they were perceived by others in a world where women were subjects—not makers—of art. Featuring stunning examples of the artists’ work\, Identity Unknown speaks to all women about their neglected place in history and the challenges they face to be taken as seriously as men no matter what their chosen field. \nDonna Seaman has degrees in the fine arts and English. An editor at Booklist\, she reviews books for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. She has written bio-critical essays for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and American Writers\, and has published in TriQuarterly and Creative Nonfiction. Seaman created\, hosted\, and produced Open Books\, a radio program about outstanding books and writers and the art of reading. She lives in Chicago.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/donna-seaman-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:The Racket #6: Drugz
DESCRIPTION:The Racket #6: DRUGZ is coming to Adobe Books\, on Monday\, April 24th at 7:00PM. \nWe’re gathering some fantastic writers to share their thoughts on\, well\, drugs. Be it psychedelic horseback riding or deep dives into the world of illicit pharmies\, we’re going to hear it. \nOur readers: \nPhilip Harris\nKar A. Johnson\nJoe Wadlington\nMatt Carney\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \nAnd more to come. \nJust write\, “Drugz” on your oversized wall-calendar for the 24th of April. \nWe’ll see you there.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-6-drugz/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170423T180000
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CREATED:20170422T010544Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: White\, Davis\, Ellis\, + McZeal
DESCRIPTION:The CJC is proud to present four local poets\, George Davis\, Amos White\, Amber McZeal\, and James Ellis for our final day of Poetry Weekend. George Davis will be hosting the event\, showcasing individual sets by each poet. \nGeorge W. Davis\nBorn on a ranch in Arizona\, raised on a farm in Indiana\, schooled in Indiana\, Virginia\, New York\, and Vermont. Professional work as teacher\, manager of Racesales\, cattleman\, consultant\, librarian\, merchant of books and records for Jazzschool\, poet\, speaker\, ranter and activist has led him to fishing\, tutoring in public schools\, and the joy and privilege of husbandhood and grandfatherdom. \nAmos White\nAmos White is an awarded haiku poet and author\, producer/director and activist recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos was a finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and published in several national reviews and anthologies. He serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards\, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show; and produces the Oakland Haiku and Poetry Festival. \nJames Ellis\nJames Ellis is a San Francisco Bay Area performance poet.  His work has appeared in numerous publications\, such as poetry magazines Out of Our and The 16th and Mission Review.  His poems\, at City Lights Books SF and University Press Books in Berkeley\, are sold inexpensively; through YouTube\, given freely; and archived at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. A Poets and Writers Foundation grant recipient\, his work with interpretive jazz band\, Nova Jazz\, is on display every third Tuesday at SF’s Piano Fight’s Word Party.  He knows life is good because he’s alive to see it. \nAmber McZeal\nAmber McZeal is an artistic scholar steeped in the improvisational traditions of New Orleans. Her current body of work\, Mudzimu\, is a combination of original music compositions and afro-futurist mythos explores the transgenerational inheritance of separation from land\, home and personhood\, and the subsequent psychic limbo that it conjures\, as well as the generative abyss that it promises. Through sound and word\, her sci-fi journey shifts the perception of this limbo from exile to chrysalis. \nShe relocated to the Bay Area in 2006 to complete her B.A. in Sound Therapy\, Trauma Studies\, and Sacred Intellectualism. Amber is currently a doctoral student of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Community Psychology\, Liberation Psychology\, and Ecological Psychology specialization.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-white-davis-ellis-mczeal/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Be About It Presents: Julie Mannell + Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon in Oakland! After the reading\, we will meet at the Fairlyland sign at Lake Merritt for open mic readings and a low-rent afterparty. BYOB. \nJulie Mannell is a writer of poetry\, fiction and essays\, and an editor at Matrix Magazine. She is the recipient of the HarperCollins/Constance Rooke Scholarship\, the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize\, the Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellency in Creative Writing\, and The Vagenius Award (presented by Roseanne Barr). Her work has been featured in the National Post\, Toronto Star and Huffington Post\, among others. At the moment\, Mannell is an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in English Literature and Philosophy. Originally from Fonthill\, Ontario\, she currently splits her time between Montreal and Toronto. She was recently named one of the Top 30 Poets Under 30. Twitter/insta/snap: @juliemannell. \nhttp://www.juliemannell.com/ \nKenta Maniwa is from Oakland\, California. His writing can be found in Hobart\, Metatron\, Spy Kids Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Bottlecap Press\, and Be About It Press. His new chapbook\, Japanese Tim Duncan\, will be published this year. \nJesse Prado lives in Hayward and blogs at thegreatcratsby.tumblr.com and tweets from @prado_jesse \nMark Cronin recently requested all of his work be deleted from various websites such as Atticus Review and Volume 1 Brooklyn. All of his previous books are out of print. His first novel was going to be published in May of 2017 by a major publisher but it is not anymore. He holds no degrees and has never won an award. His favorite word is “erasure”. \nThe Open Minds are a rock n’ roll sister duo based out of the Bay Area. They have created a distinguished and distinctive sound that is both reminiscent and all their own. Their performances are high-drive\, electric and spontaneous\, creating a unique experience every time that will leave you wanting more. \nJoined by: Jesse Prado\, Ken Ta\, Mark Cronin\, and The Open Minds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-presents-julie-mannell-friends-at-wolfman-books/
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:West Marin Review VII Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes contributors of the West Marin Review VII\, to the store on Sunday\, April 23rd at 3:00 pm. The reading participants include\, Claire Blotter\, Elaine Elinson\, Kathleen Goodwin\, Anuja Mendiratta\, Larry Ruth\, Vicki DeArmon\, and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman. \n The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and art journal published by Point Reyes Books and friends in the rural enclave of West Marin\, CA. It offers an intriguing variety of art\, poetry and prose from new\, as well as\, established contributors. The journal provides a blend of fiction and essays\, humor\, nature\, memoir\, poetry\, art\, and often\, music. Contributors hail from places near and far- from rural California to Paris and everywhere in between. This volume features prose by\, among others\, Rick Bass\, Stephanie E. Dickinson\, Elaine Elinson\, Blair Fuller and David Miller; poetry by Jody Farrell\, Roy Mash\, and others; and art by Mark Ropers\, Wendy Schwartz\, and others. This event will focus on local writers and artists with a list of participants to be named shortly. \nClaire Blotter teaches poetry writing to elementary and high school students as a Poet in the Schools. She has published three chapbooks and lives near Deer Island Preserve in Novato\, California. \nSan Francisco writer Elaine Elinson is coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California\, which won a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards in 2010. \nKathleen Goodwin is a painter\, photographer\, and publisher of fine art books. Born in South Africa\, she has lived in Inverness for twenty-five years drawn to the area’s open expanses and wildlife. \nAnuja Mendiratta is a poet\, a daughter of Indian immigrants\, an independent consultant\, and a walker of this beautiful earth. She resides in Berkeley\, California and loves being outdoors. \nAt fourteen\, Larry Ruth and a friend set out for Yosemite and hiked the John Muir Trail. They spent the last night on Mount Whitney in a snowstorm in July. \nVicki DeArmon is the Marketing & Events Director at Copperfield’s Books. She’s also the former publisher of Foghorn Press and a fiction writer. \nGabriel Schillinger-Hyman\, age seventeen\, attends Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. A classical and jazz pianist\, he also enjoys the visual arts\, including cartooning and landscape painting. He spends his free time in Point Reyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/west-marin-review-vii-reading/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: Al Young + Dan Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Author of more than 22 books of poetry\, fiction and essays\, Al Young’s many honors include Stegner\, Guggenheim\, Fulbright\, and NEA Fellowships. Active on writing and music scenes since his Detroit teens\, he has sung and played folk and blues guitar with rock legend Felix Pappalardi\, performed with Frank Zappa saxophonist Ian Underwood\, the avant-garde singer Jeanne Lee and pianist Ran Blake\, Tuck & Patti\, drummer Omar Clay\, Italian trumpet star Paolo Fresu in Milano\, French singing idol Joe Dassin\, pianist Kenny Cox\, bassist Marian Hayden\, and with David Murray at Yoshi’s. A two-time Grammy nominee for album liner notes\, his credits include George Benson’s Breezin’ album\, and all of Verve’s Jazz for Lovers series. As California poet laureate (2005-2008)\, Young tours the Golden State with gifted\, soulful bassist-guitarist Dan Robbins; their collaboration and friendship deepens. AlYoung.org \nDan Robbins has played and recorded in settings ranging from solo\, duo\, trio\, etc. to big band and orchestra\, and is known for driving\, creative\, harmonically and melodically rich background and lead parts on bass. He doubles on both acoustic bass\, and four\, five\, six\, and seven-string electric bass\, in styles ranging from solo jazz chord-melody arrangements\, to hard-swinging jazz double bass accompaniment\, acoustic and electric funk\, Brazilian\, Afro-Cuban\, Carribean\, rock\, R&B\, blues\, tango\, Indian\, and fusion styles\, as well as arco (played with the bow) classical and comtemporary interpretations of composed music. He is also known to employ looping and effects to create the impression of a “one man band”. \nHe brings a fiery improvisational spirit and energy to all the projects he is involved with.  Currently co-leading the funk trio Wasabi\, he also has an ongoing duo project with distinguished California Poet Laureate Al Young\, and plays bass for the Hristo Vitchev Quartet\, Idiot Fish 3\, Joe DeRose & Amici\, Primary Colors\, Vandivier\, and also does solo concerts.  He also teaches privately\, and for the Monterey Jazz Festival and San Jose Jazz Society.  His career has taken him to Europe and Asia\, and he also freelances in studios and venues in the Bay Area and beyond.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-al-young-dan-robbins/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Kanishk Tharoor w/ Aaron Bady)
DESCRIPTION:Kanishk Tharoor discusses his new story collection\, Swimmer Among the Stars\, with Aaron Bady. \nPraise for Swimmer Among the Stars \n“Like the storytellers of old\, as well as the art’s 20th century masters\, Kanishk Tharoor brings together times past and our present day in his dazzling fables where the exotic and the mundane\, the lost and the hoped for\, are woven into images that remind the reader that it is through sharing stories\, and maybe stories alone\, that civilizations and their subjects come together in surviving whatever tasks history sets for them.” —Sjón \n“These stories gleam with the light of an authentic and wholly original imagination\, beautifully crafted and in possession of an untamed\, almost feral sense of creativity. With Borgesian intelligence and great tenderness of heart\, Tharoor reminds us how vital it is to tell stories\, and how urgently we need to consume them.” —Alexandra Kleeman\, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine \n“It’s been years since I’ve encountered a collection as beguiling as Swimmer Among the Stars. Kanishk Tharoor seems to have sprung onto the scene fully formed\, possessed of his own mischievous and erudite voice\, already at the full height of his powers. Literary debuts are often described as ‘promising’; here are stories that read like promises fulfilled.” —John Wray\, author of The Lost Time Accidents \nAbout Swimmer Among the Stars \nIn one of the singularly imaginative stories from Kanishk Tharoor’s Swimmer Among the Stars\, despondent diplomats entertain themselves by playing table tennis in zero gravity—for after rising seas destroy Manhattan\, the United Nations moves to an orbiting space hotel. In other tales\, a team of anthropologists treks to a remote village to record a language’s last surviving speaker intoning her native tongue; an elephant and his driver cross the ocean to meet the whims of a Moroccan princess; and Genghis Khan’s marauding army steadily approaches an unnamed city’s walls. \nWith exuberant originality and startling vision\, Tharoor cuts against the grain of literary convention\, drawing equally from ancient history and current events. His world-spanning stories speak to contemporary challenges of environmental collapse and cultural appropriation\, but also to the workings of legend and their timeless human truths. Whether refashioning the romances of Alexander the Great or confronting the plight of today’s refugees\, Tharoor writes with distinctive insight and remarkable assurance. Swimmer Among the Stars announces the arrival of a vital\, enchanting talent. \nMore info on our site: http://www.greenapplebooks.com/event/9th-ave-kanishk-tharoor-and-aaron-bady
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kanishk-tharoor-swimmer-among-the-stars-waaron-bady/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Amy S. Peele
DESCRIPTION:In Cut\, a well-respected transplant nurse and her best friend meet the corrupt world of organ transplants in a wild roller coaster ride through lifestyles of the rich and famous. \nWhile the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution\, a female tech CEO flies across the country to get a liver transplant. Soon\, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend\, Jackie\, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list? Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami\, San Francisco\, and Chicago—a sometimes fun\, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives. \nAmy S. Peele was born and raised in the Chicago area\, where she graduated from South Chicago School of Nursing. She discovered her passion for organ donation and transplantation when she started as a transplant coordinator at University of Chicago\, and has since enjoyed a thirty-five-year career in transplantation in both Illinois and California. Peele has lived and worked in the San Francisco area since 1985 and has been writing creatively for over fifteen years. In addition to killing people in her murder mysteries\, she enjoys meditating\, yoga\, swimming\, and pursuing her spirituality by studying the teachings of Deepak Chopra.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/amy-s-peele/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Gala celebrating 35 years of SF Shakespeare Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Crystal Ballroom of the Marines’ Memorial Club on April 22 to celebrate 35 years of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Festivities inlcude passed hors d’oeuvres\, Freemark Abbey wine tasting\, 3-course dinner\, live and silent auction and more. Black tie optional\, dramatic accessories encouraged. \nEvery dollar raised will support San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of ‘Hamlet’ and its vital arts-education programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gala-celebrating-35-years-of-sf-shakespeare-festival/
LOCATION:Marines’ Memorial Club\, 609 Sutter St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Sixteen Rivers Press poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener for an evening of reading and discussion. \nThe first section of Body\, in Good Light opens with the words\, “Between any two points\, there is a love story”: points on a compass\, points in time\, between lovers and strangers\, mother and child. Throughout this debut collection\, Erin Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \nErin Rodoni was born and raised in the small coastal community of Point Reyes\, California. Her work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Rodoni holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from San Diego State. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two young daughters. \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Gillian Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. The second poem in the book\, “Chorus\,” establishes the multiple tensions that exist between person and place\, tensions that come under the scrutiny of a shrewd\, wry\, endlessly inventive eye. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook\, Lifting One Foot\, Lifting the Other (In the Grove Press\, 2001)\, and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance (Sixteen Rivers Press\, 2008). Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007\, and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener\, a junior high teacher\, lives with her husband and daughter in Modesto\, where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of the Modesto- Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the city of Modesto.
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LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Ellen Sussman: Creativity + Writing
DESCRIPTION:You’ve stalled out on your writing. Or perhaps everything you’ve written feels like a retelling of the same story. Maybe you’re tired of your literary voice. How do you find the kind of creative energy that will take your writing in a new direction? Guided by New York Times bestselling novelist Ellen Sussman (French Lessons)\, in this three-hour seminar the focus will be on pushing your writing in new directions. A stronger voice? Braver characters? More exciting drama? It may be time to break the rules in your writing. We’ll grapple with structure\, character\, style\, and plot. We’ll blast through the boundaries of how we usually do things and explore new paths.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ellen-sussman-creativity-and-writing/
LOCATION:San Francisco Mechanics’ Institute\, 57 Post Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Karen Kao: The Dancing Girl & The Turtle
DESCRIPTION:A rape. A war. A society where women are bought and sold but no one can speak of shame. Shanghai 1937. Violence throbs at the heart of this powerful new novel. \nThis elegant novel breaks barriers with its brutally honest account of the courtesan culture in 1930s Shanghai. In a searing portrayal of women as commodities\, Song Anyi\, a rebellious young woman\, is thwarted by her conventional family\, the social mores of the day and the war with the Japanese that is about to engulf China. \nThe Dancing Girl and the Turtle is one of four interlocking novels set in Shanghai from 1929 to 1954\, collectively entitled The Shanghai Quartet. \n*Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event \nWHAT: Book Talk and Signing with Author Karen Kao on The Dancing Girl & the Turtle\nWHEN: Saturday\, April 22\, 2017 from 1:00pm-2:30pm\nWHERE: The Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\n*Light Refreshments will be provided. \nRSVP: On Eventbrite– tickets purchased for the event also include admission to the museum exhibit: Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion \n*$3 parking is available at the Golden Gateway Parking Garage (250 Clay Street) from 9am-10pm on weekends with validation stamp provided at the front desk of CHSA \nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nKaren Kao was born in Los Angeles\, California\, USA on 21 September 1959 to Chinese immigrants who settled in the United States in the 1950s. She attended Catholic primary school in Montebello and an all-girls secondary school\, Ramona Convent.\nKaren obtained her undergraduate degree in English from the University of California Irvine in 1981\, graduating with honors. This was the phase in her life when Karen crossed paths with Charles Wright (U.S. Poet Laureate 2014-2015)\, her teacher\, and Yusef Komunyakaa (Pulitzer Prize winning poet)\, her friend. \nRather than pursue her dream of writing\, Karen followed her father’s advice and enrolled at Georgetown University Law Center. She graduated in 1984\, again with honors\, and immediately began practicing law in the Washington\, DC office of a Boston-based law firm. She fell in love with a Dutchman and abandoned her career as a fledging US lawyer to move with him to Amsterdam in 1989.\nUnfazed by the new language\, culture and legal system\, Karen launched a second career. She returned to school to obtain her Dutch law degree from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden\, while training on the job at a firm in Utrecht. Karen eventually became a partner and head of the corporate law department at an Amsterdam-based law firm. Her métier was cross-border mergers and acquisitions\, a field of law that requires hard-nosed negotiating skills and an ability to survive on very little sleep. \nIn 2011\, she abandoned the law\, embarking on a third career: a return to her love of writing and the stories she heard as a child of Old Shanghai. She has since taken fiction workshops from Lan Samantha Chang at the Paris Writers Workshop (2014) and Yiyun Li at the Napa Valley Writers Conference (2016).\nKaren holds dual citizenship in the United States and the Netherlands. She is married with two children and lives in Amsterdam.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-kao-the-dancing-girl-the-turtle/
LOCATION:Chinese Historical Society of America\, 965 Clay St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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