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SUMMARY:THE RACKET! #16 - Grief
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \nSarah Klineman\, Amy Harcourt\, Vincent Chu\, Galadrielle Allman\, Elizabeth Bernstein\, Jacqueline Hampton and Jennifer Lewis \nHosted by Noah B. Sanders \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/165709004068905/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-16-grief/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Nancy Huang / Favorite Daughter
DESCRIPTION:In town from Austin\, TX\, Nancy Huang will be reading from her first book of poems\, Favorite Daughter. Reading with her are Bay Area poets Arati Warrier and Kiana Young—join us! \n  \nFavorite Daughter is a poetry collection trying to uproot America from inside the body\, and find where China is buried underneath. Divided into four parts\, Daughter explores ideas like navigating hybridity\, localism\, and harmony in ways that disturb commonly-held notions about broad terms like “belonging” and “cultural struggle.” A compilation of immigration stories\, Chinese radio segments\, Google translate entries\, and dictionary remixes\, Huang immerses herself in everything she is uncertain of. \n— \nNan Huang (黄洁) is a queer Chinese-American poet. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry contest\, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize\, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry\, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize\, and more. She has received fellowships from VONA and Tin House\, and is a former member of UT Spitshine. She competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago\, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. Her debut poetry collection\, Favorite Daughter\, is out by Write Bloody Publishing. \nArati Warrier is a South Asian American poet from Austin\, TX\, by way of diaspora. She graduated from UT\, Austin in May 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Asian American Studies. She featured on the final stage at Women of the World Poetry Slam 2014\, is a recipient of the Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets prize\, and is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion. Familiar with both the stage and the page\, Arati has been on five slam poetry teams\, was awarded “Best Poem” at the national collegiate poetry slam\, and has been published in Junoesq Literary Magazine and The Aerogram. She has opened for poets like Dominique Christina\, Denice Frohman\, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib\, Sam Sax\, and Sarah Kay. Arati’s other interests include dancing\, reading\, and loving intentionally. She currently works as a part time vegetable enthusiast and a full time high school English teacher. \nKiana Young is an unapologetically queer\, mixed race Chinese-American poet\, educator\, and activist from Southern California. In 2016 and 2017\, they represented CalSLAM at the CUPSI national collegiate poetry slam\, helping their team earn 8th and 13th place\, respectively. Kiana was a member of the 2016 Queer Emerging Artist Residency cohort with Destiny Arts Center in Oakland\, CA. In 2017\, Kiana was a finalist for the Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest\, and was a featured performer and speaker at Syracuse University. She also has three years of experience as a consent and sexual violence prevention educator in the Bay Area. This year\, Kiana will be graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Public Discourse and a minor in LGBT Studies––which means that they are a scholarly gay and you shouldn’t argue with them. Currently\, she works as a speech and debate coach for middle school and high school youth of color in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nancy-huang-favorite-daughter/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Generations #54
DESCRIPTION:*Free on-street parking after 6pm\n* Full bar and refreshments\n* On major transit lines\n6:30 pm –  Writers Mixer at the bar\n7:30 pm  – Show Starts\nSuggested Donation\n$7.00 (admission)\n$10.00 (admission + souvenir chapbook)\nNo one turned away for lack of funds\nGet Tickets! RSVP Today!\nCall for Submissions to Show #54 – Bay Area Generations. \nSee the BAG #54 Show – FaceBook \nBay Area Generations: a literary reading series\nthat features notable authors\, poets\, writers\,\nplaywrights and musicians in a monthly\npaired reading show.\nWeb:  www.bayareagenerations.com\nFB Page:  www.facebook.com/bayareagenerations\nTwitter:  www.twitter.com/bayareagenerati\nBAG Events: www.facebook.com/events\nLiterary and Poetry Submissions: www.bayareagenerations.com/how-to-submit/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-generations-54/
LOCATION:The Bellevue Club\, 525 Bellevue Drive\, Oakland\, CA\, 94610\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180227T190000
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SUMMARY:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vincent Chu / Like a Champion
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to host the launch for Vincent Chu’s debut story collection\, Like a Champion! Please join us. \nIn eighteen stories that shine a light on people who are far from champions\, Like a Champion is an ode to underdogs and long shots\, sad office parties and one-sided basketball games\, disappointed worker bees and hopeful lovers. \nA lonely businessman on a cruise finds comfort in an unlikely companion. Two high school friends try to survive their last backyard wrestling match only to learn that not all endings can be choreographed. An expat teacher struggles with her new life overseas until a familiar stranger joins the faculty. A young woman fails to make progress in a strip mall boxing gym before discovering strength in her breaking point. \nVincent Chu’s work is funny and big-hearted\, and imbued with a generosity and warmth that reminds us that moments of glory can happen when we least expect it. \n— \n“In Like a Champion\, Vincent Chu decidedly hands us a triumphant collection of surprising\, energetic stories and good\, weird\, sometimes sad people. It is an intimate book that made me laugh out loud more than once. We are safe in Chu’s hands as he tackles the anxious thoughts of people who want to be loved and included\, of characters all-too-painfully human\, and he knows exactly when to close the door on these stories. I read this book thinking\, oh bless their hearts\, bless all of our hearts.” — Leesa Cross-Smith\, author of Every Kiss A War and Whiskey & Ribbons.\n— \nVincent Chu was born in Oakland\, California. His fiction has appeared in PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, Pithead Chapel\, Cooper Street\, Stockholm Review\, Chicago Literati\, WhiskeyPaper and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications Best of the Net. This is his debut collection. He wrote most of the stories in Cologne\, Germany. He can be found online at www.vincentchuwriter.com or @herrchu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vincent-chu-like-a-champion/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Solnit and Joan Halifax
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Solnit is a writer\, historian\, and activist. A long-time resident of San Francisco\, she has written on geography\, community\, the environment\, art\, politics\, hope\, and feminism in her seventeen books including Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas\, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas\, and  2016’s Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas\, River of Shadows\, Men Explain Things to Me\, A Field Guide to Getting Lost\, and Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com\, Solnit is a contributing editor to Harper’s\, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851). \nRoshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher\, Zen priest\, anthropologist\, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. She is Founder\, Abbot\, and Head Teacher of Upaya Institute and Zen Center in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology in 1973 and has lectured on the subject of death and dying at many academic institutions and medical centers around the world. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Visual Anthropology\, was an Honorary Research Fellow in Medical Ethnobotany at Harvard University\, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-solnit-and-joan-halifax/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer-East Bay: Celebrate African-American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Professor of African-American Literature at Mills College Dr. Ajuan Mance discusses nearly-lost works by Black authors in the United States prior to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Come hear voices from the past as we celebrate Black History Month.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-east-bay-celebrate-african-american-literature/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Perfectly Queer East Bay":MAILTO:perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180228T183000
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SUMMARY:Holloway Reading Series: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Ismail Muhammad
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/holloway-reading-series-tongo-eisen-martin-with-ismail-muhammad/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman
DESCRIPTION:Robbin Légère Henderson discusses the incredible life of her grandmother Matilda Rabinowitz\, as told in the illustrated memoir Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman. Featuring a slideshow of Henderson’s accompanying black-and-white scratchboard drawings.\n  \nABOUT THE BOOK \nMatilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl\, Radical Woman\, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence\, equal rights\, equal pay\, and sexual and personal autonomy. \nRabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops\, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote\, “a book could be written about Matilda\,” but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren\, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement\, the journey to America\, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW\, a turbulent romance\, and her struggle to support herself and her child.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:André Aciman / Call Me By Your Name & Enigma Variations
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host André Aciman reading from his sensational novels Call Me By Your Name—now a major motion picture nominated for three Golden Globes—andEnigma Variations. \nPlease note: Due to popular demand\, this event has been moved to Booksmith (1644 Haight St.). The event is free to attend\, but seating is limited.  \nAndré Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction\, when\, during the restless summer weeks\, unrelenting currents of obsession\, fascination\, and desire intensify their passion and test the charged ground between them. Recklessly\, the two verge toward the one thing both fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy. It is an instant classic and one of the great love stories of our time. \nA USA Today bestseller\, Los Angeles Times bestseller\, and New York Times Notable Book of the Year\, Call Me by Your Name was named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post\, Chicago Tribune\, Publishers Weekly\, The Seattle Times\, and New York Magazine\, and the film has been called “far and away the best movie of the year” by rogerebert.com; Esquire says it has “some of the most emotional moments in film history.” \n—Enigma Variations— \nEnigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul\, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy\, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinetmaker\, or a snowbound campus in New England\, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men—whether he’s on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul’s attachments are ungraspable\, transient\, and forever underwritten by raw desire. \nAhead of every step Paul takes\, his hopes\, denials\, fears\, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to other. But sooner or later\, we discover who we’ve always known we were. \n— \n“[Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who’s finally getting his vision down\, and he has to say it\, has to get it out. He’s made a magnificent\, living thing.” —Paul Lisicky\, New York Times Book Review  \n“A breathless\, sketched rendering of one man’s life in love\, Aciman’s novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust\, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure\, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy.” —Publishers Weekly  \n— \nAndré Aciman is the author of Call Me By Your Name\, Out of Egypt\, Eight White Nights\, False Papers\, Alibis\, and Harvard Square\, and the editor of The Proust Project (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan. \nPlease note: \n>>> This event will be at Booksmith at 1644 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n>>> This is a free event\, but seating is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andre-aciman-call-me-by-your-name-enigma-variations/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Rosa Alcalá
DESCRIPTION:Born and raised in Paterson\, NJ\, Rosa Alcalá is the author of three books of poetry\, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. Her poetry also appears in a number of anthologies\, including Stephen Burt’s The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship\, her translations are featured in the forthcoming Cecilia Vicuña: New & Selected Poems. Alcalá teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas-El Paso.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rosa-alcala/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lily Hoang + Jackie Wang
DESCRIPTION:Poets Lily Hoang and Jackie Wang read from their work\, in their first-ever appearances at The Poetry Center. This is the first of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson \n  \nJackie Wang\nWang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series\, is a book of essays that includes her influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is the author of the nonfiction book Carceral Capitalism (Semiotexte/MIT Press)\, a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and a number of punk zines including On Being Hard Femme.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-hoang-and-jackie-wang/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Brittney Cooper: Eloquent Rage
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is thrilled to welcome Brittney Cooper to read from and discuss Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower. She will be in-conversation with Alicia Garza; please join us! \nIn the tradition of bell hooks\, Roxane Gay and Audre Lorde\, America’s leading young black feminist celebrates dissent—both personal and public\, reminding us that anger is a powerful source of energy that can give us the strength to keep on fighting. \n— \n“Cooper personifies what Sonia Sanchez called “homegirl and hand-grenade”—here\, like the homegirl she is\, Cooper gives us the uncensored truth about how America has become what it is today\, and reminds us in no uncertain terms that Black people\, and particularly Black women\, have the brilliance\, foresight\, and vision to bring a different America to fruition\, should we choose to use our powers for good rather than evil.” —Alicia Garza\, Special Projects Director\, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Co-Founder\, Black Lives Matter \n“Cooper may be the boldest young feminist writing today. Her critique is sharp\, her love of Black people and Black culture is deep\, and she will make you laugh out loud even as she kicks the clay feet out from under your cherished idols.” — Michael Eric Dyson \n— \nBrittney Cooper writes a popular monthly column on race\, gender\, and politics for Cosmo. A professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University\, she co-founded the Crunk Feminist Collective\, and her work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Los Angeles Times\, Ebony.com\, and TheRoot.com\, among many others. \nAlicia Garza is an Oakland-based organizer\, writer\, public speaker and freedom dreamer who is currently the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance\, the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. Garza\, along with Opal Tometi and Patrisse Cullors\, also co-founded the Black Lives Matter network\, a globally recognized organizing project that focuses on combatting anti-Black state-sanctioned violence and the oppression of all Black people. Since the rise of the BLM movement\, Garza has become a powerful voice in the media. Her articles and interviews have been featured in Time\, Mic\, The Guardian\, Elle.com\, Essence\, Democracy Now!\, and The New York Times. \nPlease note: this event will be at The Bindery at 1727 Haight. RSVP appreciated but not required. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to request a signed copy of Eloquent Rage\, order here and put your request in the comments field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brittney-cooper-eloquent-rage/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Shipwreck Presents READY PLAYER ONE (w/ Komedio!)
DESCRIPTION:This March\, we’re partnering with local geniuses Komedio Comedy to imagine a world that revolves around the specific movies and video games that One Dude likes. Let’s ‘wreck Ready Player One before the movie comes out. \n  \nFeatured writers: Marc Abrigo\, Tirumari Jothi\, Stephen Ku\, Kristee Ono\, Thomas Paras\, and Molly Sanchez. \n  \n$12 advance\, $15 at the door\, ticket includes open bar (!) for 21+ and afterparty admission at The Bindery. Tickets on sale now. \n  \n— \n  \nWelcome to San Francisco’s premier literary erotic fanfiction competition. \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.”\n“Shipwreck will bring you to madness\, and you may never return.”\n“…wonderfully\, masterfully\, hilariously disgusting.” \n— \nPLEASE NOTE: No children are ever harmed at Shipwreck\, and consent and inclusion are paramount. \nWere not dicks\, we just like dick jokes. \n— \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable for any reason. Thanks!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shipwreck-presents-ready-player-one-with-komedio/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Will Boast + Molly Antopol
DESCRIPTION:Will Boast discusses his new novel\, Daphne with Molly Antopol. \nPraise for Daphne \n“Will Boast has written a novel that exquisitely marries ancient mythology and au courant medicine to tell our favorite tale\, the love story\, with insights both age-old and brand-spanking new. It’s a fine\, fine ride.”- Antonya Nelson\, author of Bound and Funny Once \n“Richly meditative and quietly suspenseful\, Daphne breathes fresh vigor into timeless questions about love and risk―the unknowable cost of fully opening one’s heart to another. Will Boast writes beautifully about life’s daily moral gambles\, and Daphne is an outright marvelous debut.”- Laura van den Berg\, author of Find Me \n“In his stunning first novel\, Boast turns the myth of Daphne and Apollo into a modern love story about social anxiety and physical debilitation…Sharply observant\, both of the limits of human longing and of the fear of feeling trapped inside one’s body\, Boast’s understated tale is at once tragic and enchanting.”- Booklist\, Starred Review \nAbout Daphne \nElegantly written and profoundly moving\, this spellbinding debut affirms Boast’s reputation as a “new young American voice for the ages” (Tom Franklin). Born with a rare (and real) condition in which she suffers degrees of paralysis when faced with intense emotion\, Daphne has few close friends and even fewer lovers. Like her mythic namesake\, even one touch can freeze her. But when Daphne meets shy\, charming Ollie\, her well-honed defenses falter\, and she’s faced with an impossible choice: cling to her pristine\, manicured isolation or risk the recklessness of real intimacy. Set against the vivid backdrop of a San Francisco flush with money and pulsing with protest\, Daphne is a gripping and tender modern fable that explores both self-determination and the perpetual fight between love and safety.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/will-boast-and-molly-antopol/
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:Ann Raeff w/ Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, March 1\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York. \nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeffe’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ann-raeff-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T210000
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SUMMARY:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
DESCRIPTION:Anne Raeff in Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg about Raeff’s new novel\, Winter Kept Us Warm. \n\n\n\n\n“Raeff writes with vivid assurance about Berlin\, America\, and Morocco\, about men and women\, about love and work. As the boundaries between characters shift\, as past and present converge\, Winter Kept Us Warm casts a dazzling spell. A wonderful novel.”–Margot Livesey\, author of Mercury and Criminals \n\n\n\n\n\nUlli is a young woman squatting in a dismal\, empty Berlin apartment\, one year after the war has ended. She’s scraping together a living as an interpreter between American GIs and the wide-eyed local girls eager to meet them. One night\, Ulli meets two soldiers who will change her life: Leo\, handsome and ambitious and desperate to escape his small-town upbringing; and intellectual\, asthmatic Isaac\, whose refugee parents had fled Russia for New York.\n\n\n\n\n\nWinter Kept Us Warm follows Ulli\, Leo\, and Isaac through the next six decades of their lives–from Berlin to postwar Manhattan\, 1960s Los Angeles\, and contemporary Morocco. A marriage. Two children. And yet only one parent. At the core of this novel is the mystery of how this came to be: a twisting narrative that explores the dark corners and lantern slides of these characters’ lives\, revealing in pieces and fragments what became of their long-ago love triangle set against the brutality of postwar living. \nWinter Kept Us Warm is an evocative story of family\, strained by the cruelty of war and its generational repercussions. A novel of the heart\, filled to the brim with unforgettable characters stitching together the deep threads of love\, friendship\, loyalty\, and\, of course\, loss. \nAnne Raeff’s short story collection\, The Jungle Around Us\, won the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. It was also a finalist for the California Book Award and named one of the 100 Best Books of 2016 by San Francisco Chronicle. Her stories and essays have appeared in New England Review\, ZYZZYVA\, and Guernica\, among other places. She lives in San Francisco. \nSylvia Brownrigg is the author of Pages for You and Pages for Her.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/anne-raeff-in-conversation-with-sylvia-brownrigg/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180301T223000
DTSTAMP:20260425T202055
CREATED:20180219T081159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T081159Z
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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 1\, 2018\n7:30 PM  10:30 PM\nThe Lost Church (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\n$10 online & at the door…\nTICKETSSSSSS: http://ticketf.ly/2C4dYMP \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\,\na communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\,\nto 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-poetry-prose-everything-goes-11/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T202055
CREATED:20180303T064100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T064100Z
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SUMMARY:Get Over It! - An Evening with Iyanla Vanzant
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of her 18th book\, Get Over It! Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff (release date: January 30\, 2018)\, Vanzant will stop in Oakland on her first solo tour in 18 years. \nThis event will bring the beloved thought leader up-close and in-person to her dedicated fans for an evening of healing and restoration. Using the book as a guide\, Vanzant will introduce the spiritual principles behind her revolutionary thought therapy with love\, humor\, and her signature straight-talk. This immersive and provocative experience\, filled with meditative moments\, enlightening truths and self-reflection will enable audience members to remove the habitual negative thought patterns that often block them from living their best lives. \nSelect and willing audience members will be invited to join Iyanla on-stage to identify and address the hidden barriers that often sabotage the expression of their true light. These participants will gain a renewed sense of personal power and come one step closer to fulfilling their life’s destiny.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-over-it-an-evening-with-iyanla-vanzant/
LOCATION:Paramount Theatre of the Arts\, 2025 Broadway\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T170000
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CREATED:20180303T064440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T064440Z
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Skloot and Family of Henrietta Lacks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with both Rebecca Skloot and members of the Lacks family to discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks\, the subject of Skloot’s best-selling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. \nSeating is limited. Tickets will go on sale for Stanford students and the Stanford community Monday\, Jan 29 at 12noon\, and for the general public Wednesday\, Jan 31 at 12noon. Tickets will be available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-rebecca-skloot-and-members-of-the-henrietta-lacks-family-tickets-42139533479 \nThe event is sponsored by the Stanford Storytelling Project\, Stanford Continuing Studies\, the Center for Biomedical Ethics\, and the Medicine & the Muse Program in Medical Humanities & the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-skloot-and-family-of-henrietta-lacks/
LOCATION:Cemex Auditorium\, Zambrano Hall Knight\, 641 Knight Way\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T170000
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CREATED:20180303T064813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180303T064813Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Reich: Fighting for the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Robert Reich\, Chancellor’s Professor and Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy\, UC Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Clinton; Author\, The Common Good \nRobert Reich is one of the most beloved and influential voices in progressive politics today. In his new book\, The Common Good\, the former Secretary of Labor\, and professor of Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley contends that America has trapped itself in a vicious cycle of “whatever it takes” that has left us more divided than ever. As a result\, Americans are experiencing an erosion of trust in our media\, the largest income inequality in modern history\, and the resurgence of nationalist movements and racist rhetoric. \nYet despite this political bickering\, Reich argues this cycle can—and must—be reversed. He believes that Americans should focus on our shared ideals and values\, rather than what divides us. Join us as Robert Reich visits The Commonwealth Club to discuss The Common Good\, and how we can work together to create a stronger future for all. \nReich will discuss his belief that “the political class is beholden to special interests who demand unsustainable spending\, and that the unfunded liability crisis can be solved if we unshackle the engines of economic growth.” \nLocation: 110 The Embarcadero\, Taube Family Auditorium\, San Francisco\nTime: 5:30 p.m. check in\, 6:30 p.m. program\, 7:30 p.m. book signing \nNotes: Each ticket includes a copy of Robert Reich’s new book\, The Common Good. Reich photo by Delaney Inamine \nAll ticket sales are final and nonrefundable.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-reich-fighting-for-the-common-good/
LOCATION:Commonwealth Club of California\, 110 The Embarcadero\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T202055
CREATED:20180219T014916Z
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SUMMARY:Cantíl: Lily Hoang\, Kevin Lo\, Andrea Marina
DESCRIPTION:Lily Hoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (PEN USA Award finalist and winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest) and Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award). She teaches in the MFA program at UC San Diego. \nKevin Lo is a composer\, choreographer and writer based in Oakland (previously Australia\, born New Zealand). He works with spatiality\, machinic processes\, and has a background in the biological sciences. \nAndrea Marina is an indigenous writer originally from Miami\, whose topics mainly center on trauma\, killing men\, and her deep and abiding love for Florida swamps. She co-hosts Words of Resistance with Andrea Abi-Karam\, a monthly queer reading series focused on giving non-cis male identifying writers a platform to showcase their work. Her first chapbook “my dirty southern heart” was released through Mess Editions\, a local press. \n***\nCANTÍL is a venomous snake // a reading series that exclusively features poets of color. Read more about the series here: http://tinyurl.com/z4buglh + http://tinyurl.com/hdmtz4e
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cantil-lily-hoang-kevin-lo-andrea-marina/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
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CREATED:20180219T025936Z
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SUMMARY:Caroline Goodwin / The Paper Tree
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts an evening of poetry and conversation with Caroline Goodwin (The Paper Tree) and Linda Norton (The Public Gardens). Please join us for this special Friday evening event! \n  \nThe poems in The Paper Tree are redolent in sound and rich in the details of place. Caroline Goodwin deeply knows these landscapes of which she writes\, goat hair and fireweed and cedar. She spins words with such velocity and cunning that the poems weave a spell. One arrives out the other side wild with rainwater and moss\, mussel shells and lupine. This is not a collection to read once\, but to savor and return to again and again. \n– Erin Coughlin Hollowell\, author of Pause\, Traveler \n  \nThe Paper Tree is a brave\, luminous\, and beautifully wrought book “where the need to name the shape / does not even exist / and nothing can be pinned / down or held as evidence.” It begins with stems and stones\, death and beads. Then Goodwin takes us deep into a teeming world characterized by perhaps\, where tiny gold frogs hop away and leave a cool sheen on the arms (“A kind of sleeve”) and medicine grows in the rushes. Ultimately\, the edges of that mythic landscape blur into the relentlessly technological\, political\, and embattled present. But when we finally enter the familiar world (of radiation\, mass-incarceration\, and friend requests)\, we do so with a broadened sense of these key particulars: mother\, father\, daughter\, sister\, ghost.” \n– Chiyuma Elliott\, author of California Winter League and Vigil \n  \n— \n  \nCaroline Goodwin was born and raised in Alaska and moved to California in 1999 to attend Stanford as a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry. She is also the author of Kodiak Herbal (MaCaHu Press\, 2008)\, Text Me\, Ishmael (Literary Pocket Book Series #2\, 2012)\, Trapline(JackLeg Press\, 2013) and Peregrine (Finishing Line Press\, 2015). She lives in the Bay Area and teaches at California College of the Arts and the Stanford Writer’s Studio. From 2014 – 2016 she served as the first Poet Laureate of San Mateo County\, CA. \n  \nLinda Norton is the author of a chapbook\, Hesitation Kit (EtherDome)\, and a book\, The Public Gardens: Poems and History (Pressed Wafer; introduction by Fanny Howe)\, a finalist for an LA Times Book Prize in 2012. Her second book\, Wite-Out\, is scheduled for publication this year. She is also a visual artist. Her collages have appeared on the covers of books by Claudia Rankine\, Julie Carr\, and others\, and were exhibited in Ireland in 2014 at the Dock Arts Centre\, courtesy of a grant from the U. S. Embassy in Dublin. In 2017 Linda became a citizen of Ireland/EU. You can find collages\, reviews\, interviews\, and excerpts from her books at thepublicgardens.blogspot.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/caroline-goodwin-the-paper-tree/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180302T210000
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CREATED:20180219T082122Z
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series: Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli\, and Catherine Theis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, March 2nd for a reading featuring Arisa White\, Aja Couchois Duncan\, Adam Giannelli & Catherine Theis! \nEvent is FREE. \nLaguintas beer\, wine and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center \n365 45th Street | Oakland\, CA\, 94609 \nHere’s a map. \nSpecial thanks to our generous sponsors! \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nLaguintas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation  \nauthor bios and photos follow. \nCave Canem graduate fellow Arisa White received her MFA from UMass\, Amherst\, and is the author of Black Pearl\, Post Pardon\, Hurrah’s Nest\, and A Penny Saved. Her recent collection You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened was a nominee for the 29th Lambda Literary Award and the chapbook “Fishing Walking” and Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won Daniel Handler’s inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project\, Arisa curates cultural events and artistic collaborations that center narratives of queer and trans people of color. She serves on the board of directors for Nomadic Press and is a faculty advisor at Goddard College. Arisawhite.com \nAja Couchois Duncan is a Bay Area capacity builder and writer of Ojibwe\, French and Scottish descent. Her debut collection\, Restless Continent (Litmus Press) was selected by Entropy Magazine as one of the best poetry collections of 2016 and won the California Book Award in 2017. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and a variety of other degrees and credentials to certify her as human; Great Spirit knew it all along.\n\n \nAdam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press\, 2017)\, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize\, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio\, Diadem (BOA Editions\, 2012). His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Ploughshares\, Yale Review\, FIELD\, and elsewhere. He lives in Salt Lake City\, where he is a doctoral candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Utah. \nCatherine Theis’ latest book\, MEDEA (Plays Inverse\, 2017) is an adaptation of the Euripides story. Her first book of poems is The Fraud of Good Sleep (Salt Modern Poets\, 2011)\, followed by her chapbook\, The June Cuckold\, a tragedy in verse (Convulsive\, 2012). Theis has received various fellowships and awards\, most notably from the Illinois Arts Council and the Del Amo Foundation. She is a Provost’s Fellow and PhD Candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California\, where she also translates contemporary Italian poetry into English. Theis’ scholarly interests primarily focus on the intersection between translation\, poetics\, and performance studies.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-arisa-white-aja-couchois-duncan-adam-giannelli-and-catherine-theis/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T160000
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CREATED:20180206T045752Z
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SUMMARY:Stages of Her: OSA Literary Arts/Production Design Collab
DESCRIPTION:Seven Literary Arts students at Oakland School for the Arts will read their original work within sculptural environments created by Production Design students. Both the Lit Arts work and their mini-sets will largely explore progressions from girlhood to womanhood in a messed up world.\n\nPerformances of Stages of Her are Saturday March 3 at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM in OSA’s Black Box. It runs 45 minutes and admission is $15. (Advanced purchase highly recommended.)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/stages-of-her-osa-literary-artsproduction-design-collab/
LOCATION:Oakland School for the Arts’ Black Box Theater\, 530 19th St\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T202055
CREATED:20180128T223754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051142Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC First Saturday Reading
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/bapc-first-saturday-reading-5/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T170000
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CREATED:20180219T070608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180219T070608Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n \n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\n \n \nSTRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison 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)\n\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bay-area-poets-coalition/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180303T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20180303T193000
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CREATED:20180128T231808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180206T051238Z
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SUMMARY:Writers and Wine: 16th Annual MFA Scholarship Fund Benefit
DESCRIPTION:A tasting of wines paired with writers\, Karen Joy Fowler\, Chang-Rae Lee\, Forrest Gander and more TBA. Emceed by Lysley Tenorio\, MFA Director and Tara McDonald\, Wine Director\, Prospect SF. \n  \nEvening Timeline: \n5:30pm: Champagne reception with music by Alex Kelly \n6:00pm: Wine tasting and readings \n6:30pm: Raffle tickets available to purchase and break \n6:45pm: Wine tasting and readings \n7:15pm: Raffle \n7:30pm: Evening concludes \n  \nChang-rae Lee is the author of five novels: Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered\, which was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and On Such a Full Sea (2014) which was a Finalist for the NBCC and won the Heartland Fiction Prize. His novels have won numerous awards and citations\, including the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award\, the American Book Award\, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award\, ALA Notable Book of the Year Award\, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award\, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award\, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Time (Asia)\, Granta\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Food & Wine\, and many other publications. \n  \nKaren Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections including We are all completely beside ourselves. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times Notable Book. Fowler’s previous novel\, Sister Noon\, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. Her debut novel\, Sarah Canary\, was a New York Times Notable Book\, as was her second novel\, The Sweetheart Season. In addition\, Sarah Canary won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian\, and was listed for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize as well as the Bay Area Book Reviewers Prize. Fowler lives in Santa Cruz\, California. \n  \nForrest Gander\, a writer and translator with degrees in geology and literature\, was born in the Mojave Desert and lives in Petaluma\, CA. Gander’s book Core Samples from the World\, a meditation on the ways we are revised and translated in encounters with the foreign\, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his recent titles are the novel The Trace\, and two translations: Then Come Back: the Lost Neruda Poems and Alice\, Iris\, Red Horse: Selected Poems of Gozo Yoshimasu. Be With\, his first book of poems since 2011\, is forthcoming in 2018 from New Directions. \n  \nLysley Tenorio’s stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, Ploughshares\, Manoa\, and The Best New American Voices and Pushcart Prize anthologies. A Whiting Writer’s Award winner and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, he has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin\, Phillips Exeter Academy\, Yaddo\, The MacDowell Colony\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in the Philippines\, Lysley currently lives in San Francisco\, and is an associate professor at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n  \nWines from Caymus Vineyards\, Ordinaire Wine Shop. Beer from Lagunitas Brewery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-and-wine-16th-annual-mfa-scholarship-fund-benefit/
LOCATION:Dolby Chadwick Gallery\, 210 Post Street\, Suite 205\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Spring Reading
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author\nJulie Lythcott-Haims \n(How to Raise an Adult; Real American) \nLambda Award-winner\nK.M. Soehnlein \n(The World of Normal Boys; Robin and Ruby) \nWhy There Are Words founder & fiction writer\nPeg Alford Pursell \n(Show Her a Flower\, a Bird\, a Shadow) \nNovelist & Missouri Review prize-winner\nIngrid Rojas Contreras \n(Fruit from the Drunken Tree\, forthcoming)\nBlack Lawrence Press Award-winner\nJacqueline Doyle\n(The Missing Girl) \n& \nupcoming poet and journalist \nRoxanne Hernandez \n____________________ \nFree Admission \nCash Bar Exotica \nDoors at 5.30\, \nReading at 6.00 \n@ the Armory Club\, \n1799 Mission St.\, San Francisco\nacross from the San Francisco Armory
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-spring-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jackie Wang w/ Lily Hoang
DESCRIPTION:The Poetry Center and The Green Arcade present a reading and book party celebrating Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism\, the newest volume in Semiotext(e)’s Interventions Series. Wang will be joined by acclaimed essayist and prolific fiction writer Lily Hoang. This is second of two Poetry Center events held in conjunction with the nationwide Poetry Coalition series on The Body. Supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Academy of American Poets on behalf of the Poetry Coalition. Free.\n\n\n\n\nJackie Wang\nCarceral Capitalism is a book of essays that includes Wang’s influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics\, “Against Innocence\,” besides essays on RoboCop\, techno-policing and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later\, and how new carceral modes emerging since the 1990s have blurred the distinction between the inside and the outside of prison. \nWang is a student of the dream state\, a black studies scholar\, prison abolitionist\, poet\, performer\, library rat\, trauma monster and Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. She is also the author of a collection of dream poems titled Tiny Spelunker of the Oneiro-Womb (Capricious) and punk zines including On Being Hard Femme. \nLily Hoang\nHoang is the author of five books\, including A Bestiary (winner of the inaugural Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Nonfiction Contest)\, Changing (recipient of a PEN Open Books Award) and The Evolutionary Revolution (Les Figues). She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at University of California\, San Diego\, and serves as editor at Jaded Ibis Press. Previously\, she was executive editor for HTML Giant. \n“Rarely have I come across tenderness\, venom\, and fire held so intimately\, so exquisitely\, as in Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary. … Hoang writes like she has nothing to lose and everything at stake.” — Maggie Nelson
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jackie-wang-lily-hoang-book-party/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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