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SUMMARY:Michael Wall in conversation with Jonathon Keats
DESCRIPTION:discussing \nAlien Life\, Antimatter\, and Human Space Travel \nat the fabulous Bar Fluxus\, 18 Harlan Place\, San Francisco\, CA 94108 \ncelebrating the release of \nOut There: A Scientific Guide to Alien Life\, Antimatter\, and Human Space Travel (For the Cosmically Curious) \nby Michael Wall \npublished by Grand Central Publishing \n\nWe’ve all asked ourselves the question. It’s impossible to look up at the stars and NOT think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books\, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In OUT THERE Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning\, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers\, for instance\, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which\, top NASA officials told Wall\, is only drawing closer). What would the first aliens we meet look like? Would they be little green men or mere microbes? Would they be found on a planet in our own solar system or orbiting a star far\, far away? Would they intend to harm us\, and if so\, how might they do it? And might they already have visited? \nOUT THERE is arranged in a simple question-and-answer format. The answers are delivered in Dr. Wall’s informal but informative style\, which mixes in a healthy dose of humor and pop culture to make big ideas easier to swallow. Dr. Wall covers questions far beyond alien life\, venturing into astronomy\, physics\, and the practical realities of what long-term life might be like for we mere humans in outer space\, such as the idea of lunar colonies\, and even economic implications. Dr. Wall also shares the insights of some of the leading lights in space exploration today\, and shows how the next space age might be brighter than ever. \nDr. Michael Wall is a senior writer at Space.com who has written extensively about the search for alien life. His work also has appeared in Scientific American\, NBC News\, Fox News and a number of other outlets. He holds a graduate certificate in science journalism from the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Before becoming a writer\, Dr. Wall worked as a biologist; he earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Sydney in Australia and has 15 peer-reviewed publications. He’s based in San Francisco\, where he also chronicles the space tech revolution in Silicon Valley. \nJonathon Keats is a writer\, critic\, conceptual artist\, and experimental philosopher known for creating large scale thought experiments. He is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine\, and has contributed to Art & Antiques\, Art+ Auction\, Art in America\, ARTnews\, Artweek\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Wired Magazine\, Forbes\, Salon.com\, and The Washington Post. He is the author of numerous books\, the most recent being Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future from Oxford University Press. His conceptual art has been exhibited at many venues including the Berkeley Art Museum\, the Hammer Museum\, and the Wellcome Collection. His most recent show is on exhibit at the MODERNISM Gallery in San Francisco\, titled Intergalactic Omniphonics: Orchestrating Live Music For Life Throughout The Universe. \n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-wall-in-conversation-with-jonathon-keats/
LOCATION:Bar Fluxus\, 18 Harlan Place\, San Francisco\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:MICHELLE OBAMA at SAP Center at San Jose
DESCRIPTION:Books Inc. will be selling copies of Becoming\, the memoir by the former First Lady of the United States\, at her December 14 event with Michelle Norris at SAP Center at San Jose. \nTICKETS \nMichelle Obama’s live U.S. book tour events in support of her highly anticipated memoir\, BECOMING will come to SAP Center at San Jose on December 14\, and will feature intimate and honest conversations between Mrs. Obama and a selection of to-be-announced moderators\, reflective of the extraordinary stories shared in the wide-ranging chapters of her deeply personal book. \nAttendees will hear firsthand Mrs. Obama’s intimate reflections on the experiences and events\, both public and private\, that have shaped her\, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work\, to her years spent at the most famous address in the world. Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America – the first African-American to serve in that role – she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history\, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world. \nBECOMING will be released on November 13 in the U.S. and Canada by the Crown Publishing Group\, a division of Penguin Random House\, as well as in 28 languages around the world. An audio edition of the book\, read by Mrs. Obama\, will be simultaneously issued in digital and physical formats by Penguin Random House Audio. \nMichele Norris will moderate the upcoming San Jose stop on Friday\, December 14th at SAP Center at San Jose. Michele Norris is one of the most trusted voices in American journalism. She is the former host of NPR’s All Things Considered and Founding Director of The Peabody Award-winning Race Card Project. Norris is the author of The Grace of Silence and has worked for ABC News\, The Washington Post\, The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. She is The Executive Director of The Bridge\, the Aspen Institute’s program that uses narrative exchange to create connections among people of different backgrounds and perspectives. \n\nOutlined below are a few “Key Things to Know” about the event and SAP Center at San Jose. If you have any further questions\, please don’t hesitate to call us at 408-287-7070. \n\nEVENT TIMELINE \nPlease keep the following times in mind as you plan your arrival at SAP Center: \nWill Call opens at 6:00 p.m.\nDoors open at 7:00 p.m.\nEvent is scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m.\n*All times are subject to change \n\nSAP CENTER FAQs \nOur entire SAP Center Guest Services team is here to make sure your visit to our venue is an exceptional one! Click here for Frequently Asked Questions. \n\nDIRECTIONS & PARKING \nDriving to SAP Center?\nGet turn by turn directions here. \nParking Options\nUpon arrival at SAP Center at San Jose\, you will have a number of easily accessible on-site parking options for only $25 per car. Additional parking options are available at varied prices and distances from the arena. You can view the full parking map here. \n\nPUBLIC TRANSPORTATION \nWith a heavy volume of traffic expected\, we encourage all attendees to take advantage of the San Jose Diridon station located immediately across the street from SAP Center. \nThis station location allows you to easily travel to and from the event via several public transportation options. For more info\, click here. \n\nSPECIAL ASSISTANCE \nGuests requiring accessible parking and a convenient passenger drop-off area may park in SAP Center’s ABC Parking Lot and enter through the North Entrance. The North Entrance is adjacent to the parking lot. \nA complete list of accessibility services can be found here. \n\nUSING THE UBER ZONE AT SAP CENTER \nUsing Uber to get to the show? All you need to do is: \nDownload the Uber app and enter promo code SAPCENTER2018 or click here to sign up and get your first Uber ride free\, up to $20.\nRequest a ride through the Uber app and set your destination as SAP Center.\nAsk your driver to drop you off in our designated drop off locations on Autumn and Montgomery Streets. After the show\, walk west of the arena and request your ride from the Uber Zone on Stockton Avenue for the smoothest pick-up experience. \nTICKETS \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, December 14\, 2018 – 8:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nSAP Center\n525 W Santa Clara St\n\nSan Jose\, CA\n\n\n\n\nEvent Terms:\n\nPeninsula Events\nSouth Bay
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michelle-obama-at-sap-center-at-san-jose/
LOCATION:SAP Center\, 525 W Santa Clara St\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:LABORFEST ANTHOLOGY – ‘GIVING VOICE’
DESCRIPTION:LABORFEST ANTHOLOGY – ‘GIVING VOICE’\n\nFRI. DEC. 14TH\, 7PM\nJoin us for a reading celebrating the release of Giving Voice\, a LaborFest anthology spanning 2005-2017. \nReaders: \n\nNellie Wong\nJerry Path\nMargaret Cooley\nKeith Cooley\nAlice Rogoff\nPhyllis Holliday\nAdele Kearney\n\nWe are involved in the struggles to have our voices heard\, our outsider voices. Even though our writing appears in the same anthology\, please recognize that we are all very different. The themes and concerns of our writing are as varied as we are. It contains memoir\, fiction\, poetry. \nlaborfest writers\n\nHaving initiated the workers’ writing workshop that blossomed into the LaborFest Writers Group\, I am in awe of its continuance and growth\, now publishing a brilliant anthology of their work\, giving voice to working class desires\, woes\, courage\, and resistance while trapped in this merciless capitalist reality. \nroxanne dunbar-ortizHistorian\, Author; “Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
URL:https://litseen.com/event/laborfest-anthology-giving-voice/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Story Telling 'HAPPY ENDINGS'
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 13th\, 2018 \nat the Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa Street\, San Francisco CA \nRemember: Bang-O & Games at 7 PM\, Stories at 8 PM \nWant a sample? Listen to our podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis evening of ‘Yeah\, We go there’ stories & songs includes: \n❤ Hosted by Sexual Folklorist & Storyteller Dixie De La Tour \n❤ YOU? I’m reviewing story pitches now! (send your pitch to Dixie@BawdyStorytelling.com) \n❤ Custom Bawdy Songs by Rachel Lark \n❤ Play Bang-O\, Bawdy’s beloved icebreaker \n❤ WIN Prizes\, just for talking to sexy strangers \n❤ Lube Giveaways from UberLube & Good Clean Love \n❤ Condom Giveaways from Lucky Bloke \n❤ Sexy cocktails to help you Libate #SchlongIslandIcedTea \nAbout Bawdy Storytelling: \nBawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors\, Porn Stars\, Sex Educators\, Comics & More\, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure. \nBawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love\, Lust\, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey\, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal! \nA REVIEW of Bawdy Storytelling : “Stories are powerful. No other medium has the ability to move\, inspire\, or change us quite like a well-crafted narrative. Never has this been more true than the world of sex\, where fear\, shame\, and misinformation abound. This is all a high-minded and roundabout way of telling you to check out Thursday’s edition of Bawdy Storytelling\, a rousing and arousing night of true sex stories that promises to make you laugh\, make you think\, and make you hard … pressed to find a more interesting thing to do on a Thursday night.” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed #1 on Marie Claire’s 14 Best Sex Podcasts: \nhttps://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/news/a21284/best-sex-podcasts/ \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nNamed 1 of Uproxx’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts to listen to right now: \nhttps://uproxx.com/life/best-sex-podcasts-right-now/ \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nVoted 1 of Esquire’s 10 Best Sex Podcasts\, no matter your taste: \nhttps://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/sex/a46389/best-sex-podcasts \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nPerformer Bios: \n❤ Dixie De La Tour is a sexual folklorist\, storyteller\, entrepreneur\, podcaster\, teacher\, catalyst\, storytelling coach\, community builder\, facilitator\, & instigator (& that’s just for starters). She is also the founder\, curator & host of the award-winning sex and storytelling series\, Bawdy Storytelling\, that’s now headed into year 12 (“The original sex and storytelling series” – Playgirl\, “The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly) \nCalled “a stiff shot of courage in a push-up bra”\, Dixie is passionate about the art of storytelling and its ability reduce social anxiety and connect strangers. A former dating site community manager\, this story-loving southerner founded Bawdy Storytelling (Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage). Monthly in San Francisco and Seattle and touring nationally\, Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts\, No Nets\, and No Holds Barred – at Bawdy\, folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant\, transformational tales at each and every show. \nDixie has been Sainted by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (“Saint Kiss & Make You Tell”)\, and is also the host and curator of Bona Fide storytelling and BawdySlam story slam. Her true stories can been heard on the Risk! podcast and her own award-winning Bawdy Storytelling podcast (Best Sex Podcast from Marie Claire\, Uproxx and Esquire Magazine\, plus Bustle voted Bawdy a “Sexy Date Idea for a Long Term Relationship”). You can follow Dixie’s antics at @Bawdy\, at facebook.com/DixieDeLaTour & she’s always at www.BawdyStorytelling.com \n❤ Born and raised in the Bay Area\, Charra Steele is feisty\, kinky\, sometimes a bit socially awkward and an all around people pleaser. When she’s not cooking\, spanking asses or reading smut\, you can probably find her crocheting adorable BDSM teddy bears. Getting in front of a crowd is not something that she would usually volunteer to do – unless\, of course\, it’s to spank a juicy booty. \n❤ When singing on his best behavior\, Jefferson Bergey is a sought-after private event vocalist\, M.C.\, and consultant for the award-winning Lucky Devils Band as well as a solo artist for Ivy Hill Entertainment. Alongside his busy performance calendar he maintains a full schedule as a voice coach for beginning singers at the Starland School of Music in Alameda and privately at his studio in North Oakland. \nWhen he isn’t performing in a family-friendly environment\, Bergey takes great delight in participating in shows that could very well be considered family-unfriendly. Bergey writes and performs his own unique genre of (Immature) Adult Contemporary in various comedy shows\, podcasts\, storytelling events\, and house concerts. It’s coffee shop singer-songwriter folk music… if the coffee shop also sold sex toys and sativa gummy bears. Definitely not for the very young or the very old and quite possibly conservative. Most notably he’s become a regular performer in San Francisco’s Bawdy Storytelling for which he writes custom songs for host and creator Dixie De La Tour. He has released an album of live studio takes titled ‘Come For Me’\, inspired by and largely comprised of those sex-centric Bawdy compositions. The title song which features him Tuvan throat-singing\, also appeared on Kevin Allison’s popular RISK! podcast. Follow him at @jeffersonbergey on Twitter and see all his upcoming shows at JeffersonBergey.com \nNo refunds or exchanges. Lineup subject to change. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com \nTwitter: @Bawdy \n& at Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-story-telling-happy-endings/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:City Arts & Lectures JAMES FORMAN\, JR.
DESCRIPTION:JAMES FORMAN\, JR.\nIn Conversation with Lara Bazelon\nThursday\, December 13\, 2018\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Nourse Theater\nSeries: Cultural Studies \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\n\nJames Forman\, Jr. has devoted his life to fighting institutionalized racism. After clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor\, Forman joined the Public Defender Service in Washington\, D.C.\, where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults charged with crimes. Frustrated with the lack of education and job training opportunities for his clients\, Forman founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School\, an alternative school for previously arrested youth. Forman is a law professor at Yale University. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book\, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America\, Forman examines the war on crime that began in the 1970s\, why it was supported by many African American leaders\, and how it has contributed to the mass incarceration of people of color. \nLara Bazelon is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law\, where she directs the Criminal & Juvenile Justice and Racial Justice Clinics. Previously\, she worked as a deputy federal public defender and the director of a Los Angeles-based innocence project. She is the author of Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/city-arts-lectures-james-forman-jr/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Sara Mumolo and Caroline O'Connor Thomas
DESCRIPTION:Sara Mumolo and Caroline O’Connor Thomas read from their latest poetry collections\, Day Counter and Unusual Light Source. \n\nSara Mumolo’s previous book is Mortar. Her poems have appeared in 1913: a journal of forms\, Action Yes\, Entropy\, Lana Turner\, PEN Poetry Series\, Typo\, and Volt\, among others. She serves as the associate director for the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n  \nCaroline O’Connor Thomas is a writer currently residing in the Bay Area. Originally from the east coast\, Caroline obtained her BA in English from the University of Southern Maine. In 2012 she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area where she attended St. Mary’s College of California\, receiving her MFA in Poetry in 2014. Following graduation\, she attended the Tin House Summer Workshop as one of their 2014 Poetry Scholars. Caroline’s poetry & other writing has appeared in a number of publications. Her first chapbook Unusual Light Source is forthcoming from White Stag Publishing in Fall 2018.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sara-mumolo-and-caroline-oconnor-thomas/
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:Why There Are Words Presents: Ultimate
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on December 13\, 2018\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito when eight acclaimed authors read from their works to help us close out the year. Our ultimate event of the year will prove to be the ultimate way to spend your evening! \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nRae Gouirand is the author of two collections of poetry\, Open Winter (Bellday Books\, Inc.\, 2011)\, winner of the Bellday Prize; and Glass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press\, 2018); and the chapbook Must Apple (Educe Press\, 2018)\, winner of the Oro Fino Competition. She lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis. \n  \nVanessa Hua’s latest book is the novel A River of Stars (Ballantine Books\, August 2018). She is the author of the story collection\, Deceit and Other Possibilities (Willow Books\, 2016) and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, and The Washington Post. www.vanessahua.com \n  \nSandra Hunter’s latest book is the story collection Trip Wires (Leapfrog Press\, June 2018). The author of two previous books\, her fiction has won the 2017 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest\, the 2016 Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize\, the October 2014 Africa Book Club Award\, and the 2014 H.E. Francis Fiction Award. www.sandrajhunter.com \n  \nCarrie La Seur is the award-winning author of two critically acclaimed novels\, The Home Place (2014) and The Weight of an Infinite Sky (January 2018)\, both from William Morrow. She is also the author of dozens of essays\, book reviews\, poems\, and law review articles that have appeared in Daily Beast\, The Guardian\, Harvard Law and Policy Review\, and others. carrielaseur.com \n  \nMelissa Stein is the author of the poetry collections Terrible Blooms (Copper Canyon Press\, April 2018) and Rough Honey (American Poetry Review\, 2010)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares\, Tin House\, Harvard Review\, Best New Poets\, and others. www.melissastein.com \n  \nNancy Tingley has written literary fiction in the closet for decades and has only just come out with the publication of the Jenna Murphy Mysteries. A Head in Cambodia (Swallow Press\, 2017)\, which was nominated for a Lefty Award for best debut mystery\, is the first in the series\, and A Death in Bali (Swallow Press\, March 2018) is the second. www.nancytingley.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to six additional major cities in the U.S.\, with more planned in the future. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is part of the 501(c)3 non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-ultimate/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. \nThis month’s readers TBD.
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SUMMARY:YOU'RE GOING TO DIE PRESENTS: LOVE\, LOSS & FIRE - A CAMP FIRE FUNDRAISER
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 12\, 2018\n7:00 PM  10:00 PM\nThe San Francisco Columbarium (map)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou’re Going to Die Presents…\nLove\, Loss & Fire – A Camp Fire Fundraiser \nLet’s gather together\, out of the smoke & heartbreak\, to honor & support community affected by the deadliest fire in California history – an open mic offering\, w/special musical guests…\nBobby Jo Valentine\nChelsea Coleman\nScott Ferreter\nMorgan Bolender\n& more… \nDoors at 7pm\nShow at 7:30pm\nEnds at 10pm\n@ The San Francisco Columbarium\n1 Loraine Court\nSan Francisco\, CA 94118 \nTICKETS BY DONATION: https://bpt.me/3909391 \nProceeds go to the North Valley Community Foundation – https://www.nvcf.org \nVENUE: Located off the beaten path\, at the end of a residential cul-de-sac in the Richmond District\, the copper-domed\, Neo-Classical columbarium is a hidden gem & an architectural wonder. The structure features a large rotunda\, mosaic tile floors\, ornate stained-glass windows & a domed skylight. A colossal 45-foot atrium is surrounded by intricate balconies\, with each of the 4 floors providing a glimpse into San Francisco’s history. Big thanks to Bobby Jo Valentine for the idea & to Brian Kestenblatt for the space! \nOPEN MIC: Sign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to share\, arrive early. If you’re going to perform\, please keep it under 5 MINUTES. If you feel compelled to\, share whatever you want\, but you don’t have to perform anything at all – the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPARKING: There is a parking lot\, but space is limited. Public transportation is recommended. \nCOMFORT: The space was built in the late 1800s\, so there is no heat\, but a limited number of blankets will be available for use. Dress warmly! \nThe Camp Fire is the deadliest & most destructive wildfire in California history. It is also the deadliest wildfire in the United States\, as well as the seventh-deadliest U.S. wildfire overall. Named after Camp Creek Road\, its place of origin\, the fire started on November 8\, 2018\, in Butte County\, in Northern California. The fire has caused 77 civilian fatalities\, injured 12 civilians & five firefighters\, covered an area of about 140\,000 acres\, & destroyed 11\,862 structures\, including 9\,700 single-family homes & 118 apartment buildings\, with most of the damage occurring within the first two days. \nThe fire forced the evacuation of Paradise\, Magalia\, Centerville\, Concow\, Pulga\, Butte Creek Canyon\, & Yankee Hill & threatened the communities of Butte Valley\, Chico\, Forest Ranch\, Helltown\, Inskip\, Oroville\, & Stirling City. Within the first day\, the fire essentially destroyed the community of Concow & the town of Paradise\, incinerating homes\, businesses\, churches\, a hospital\, schools\, & a rest home. \nCAMP FIRE STATISTICS: http://www.fire.ca.gov/current_incidents/incidentdetails/Index/2277
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-presents-love-loss-fire-a-camp-fire-fundraiser/
LOCATION:The San Francisco Columbarium\, 1 Loraine Ct\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Marcia Douglas: Natural Herstory Remix
DESCRIPTION:In 2008\, Douglas began performing Natural Herstory\, a one-woman multimedia performance drawing from her poetry and fiction to explore Jamaican women’s voices. Natural Herstory Remix is a continuation of that project\, with a focus on The Marvellous Equations of the Dread\, examining what a hybrid (fiction/poetry/one-drop beat) novel might become when given voice and stage. It is directed by University of Colorado Theatre professor Cecilia Pang. \ncelebrating the release of \nThe Marvellous Equations of the Dread \npublished by New Directions Books \nAbout The Marvellous Equations of the Dread: \n“Is me—Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man\, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree\, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too\, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire. No one sees that Fall-down is Bob Marley\, no one but his long-ago love\, the deaf woman\, Leenah\, and\, in the way of this otherworldly book\, when Bob steps into the street each day\, five years have passed. Jah ways are mysterious ways\, from Kingston’s ghettoes to London\, from Haile Selassie’s Ethiopian palace and back to Jamaica\, Marcia Douglas’s mythical reworking of three hundred years of violence is a ticket to the deep world of Rasta history. This amazing novel—in bass riddim—carries the reader on a voyage all the way to the gates of Zion. \nMarcia Douglas is the author of novels and poems and performs the one-woman show\, “Natural Herstory.” She teaches creative writing and Caribbean literature at the University of Colorado\, Boulder. Her The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marcia-douglas-natural-herstory-remix/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Emily Yoon\, Sam Sax\, Monica Sok
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nEmily Yoon\, Sam Sax and Monica Sok read their latest poems. \n\nAbout A Cruelty Special To Our Species \n\nA piercing debut collection of poems exploring gender\, race\, and violence from a sensational new talent \n  \nIn her arresting collection\, urgently relevant for our times\, poet Emily Jungmin Yoon confronts the histories of sexual violence against women\, focusing in particular on Korean so-called “comfort women\,” women who were forced into sexual labor in Japanese-occupied territories during World War II. \n  \nIn wrenching language\, A Cruelty Special to Our Species unforgettably describes the brutalities of war and the fear and sorrow of those whose lives and bodies were swept up by a colonizing power\, bringing powerful voice to an oppressed group of people whose histories have often been erased and overlooked. “What is a body in a stolen country\,” Yoon asks. “What is right in war.” \n  \nMoving readers through time\, space\, and different cultures\, and bringing vivid life to the testimonies and confessions of the victims\,Yoon takes possession of a painful and shameful history even while unearthing moments of rare beauty in acts of resistance and resilience\, and in the instinct to survive and bear witness. \n  \nAbout Bury It \n\nsam sax’s bury it\, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets\, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death\, rituals of passage\, translation\, desire\, diaspora\, and personhood. What’s at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says “bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant\, wild\, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously.” In this phenomenal second collection of poems\, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross\, the bridges we burn\, and bridges we must leap from.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/emily-yoon-sam-sax-monica-sok/
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:Cosmopolitan Wanderlust: Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod discuss Oliverio Girondo’s Decals
DESCRIPTION:An important influence on Jorge Luis Borges and others\, Oliverio Girondo was at the center of Argentine poetry in the twentieth century. His first two books demonstrate his cosmopolitan wanderlust and avant-garde aesthetics. Twenty Poems to Be Read on the Streetcar crisscrosses Europe and the Americas on trams\, express trains\, and ocean liners. Decalcomania takes the reader on a tour of Spain that cleverly deflates its romantic appeal\, but reinvigorates it with a glamour found in Girondo’s intensive wordplay and idiosyncratic flare for metaphor. Rachel Galvin and Harris Feinsod join Silvia Oviedo López to discuss their translation of Decals: Complete Early Poems by Oliverio Girondo. \n\n “Girondo’s poetry is a song to the transgressive imagination\, an assault on routine. . . . Unlike other experimental artists\, his gestures usually transcended mere provocation. His work not only paved the way for a rigorous vanguardia\, with a profound theoretical basis\, but it also took up the quotidian as a field of action\, enriching it with an absurd humor that ties it to a Hispanic tradition that stretches from Quevedo and Gracián to Ramón Gómez de la Serna\, Julio Cortázar\, or Augusto Monterroso. Both shores of the language\, with their intense cultural differences\, are present (and both are parodied) in these poems that are something like scenes of self-criticism.” —Andrés Neuman\n\n“Girondo’s effectiveness undeniably frightens me. I came to his work from the suburbs of my own verse\, from that long line of mine where there are sunsets and little lanes and a blurry girl who looks clear next to a sky-blue balustrade. I saw him as so skillful\, so apt at hopping off a streetcar in full stride\, being reborn safe and sound amid the menace of car horns and stepping away from the passing crowd\, that I felt provincial next to him. . . . Girondo is a violent one. He looks on things at length and suddenly gives them a smack.” —Jorge Luis Borges\n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cosmopolitan-wanderlust-rachel-galvin-and-harris-feinsod-discuss-oliverio-girondos-decals/
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Translation office\, 582 Market St #700\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Roman Muradov
DESCRIPTION:presenting a polyphonic play of interconnected stories \nfrom the new book \nVanishing Act \nby Roman Muradov \nfrom Fantagraphics Books \nWritten and drawn in thirteen styles\, from comedy and confession to prophecy and interpretative dance\, Vanishing Act is a polyphonic play of interconnected stories\, synchronized in time and space on one melancholy evening. A paranoid man rehearses the upcoming party. A disheveled actor expounds on the conceptual potential of sitcoms. A beloved dog disappears into the Internet and starts a cult. A couple runs their argument in reverse. A bored seagull excretes the entire known universe. Vanishing Act is governed by one looping constraint that unifies all of the disparate threads: each following story starts in the middle of the previous one\, overlapping until the end of the night\, and back into the beginning of the book. \nRoman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator whose work has appeared in The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, The Paris Review\, Vogue\, and Lucky Peach\, among others. He has also designed books for Penguin Random House\, including the Penguin Classics Centennial Editions of James Joyce’s Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Muradov makes his home in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/roman-muradov-3/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket!
DESCRIPTION:The summer’s over and light is getting dimmer in the evenings. Let’s gather a bunch of writerly souls together to shed a little light on THE DARK. Hosted by Noah B. Sanders
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer: LGBTQ Book Readings presents 'Great Gift Books'
DESCRIPTION:Authors Sumiko Saulson\, Jim Provenzano\, and Colleen McKee present and read from their latest works
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-lgbtq-book-readings-presents-great-gift-books/
LOCATION:Dog Eared Books Castro\, 489 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Odd Salon 'ODDMENTS 2018'
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Dec 11th for our annual celebration of strange stories\, curious happenings\, odd ends\, and unclassified wonders:\nODDMENTS\nFeaturing our favorite stories from this year’s submissions that just wouldn’t fit into any theme\, the official welcoming of our 2018 Fellows of Odd Salon\, plus our once-annual holiday shop full of odd gifts for the curious minded Oddling in your life. \nCurated by Annetta Black \nGET TICKETS
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-salon-oddments-2018/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dana Frank in conversation with John Lindsay-Poland
DESCRIPTION:  \ndiscussing their new books \nThe Long Honduran Night: Resistance \, Terror\, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup \nBy Dana Frank \nfrom Haymarket Books \nand \nPlan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism \nby  John Lindsay-Poland \npublished by Duke University Press \nabout The Long Honduran Night: \n\n\nA story of resistance\, repression\, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup. \n\n\nThis powerful narrative recounts the dramatic years in Honduras following the June 2009 military coup that deposed President Manuel Zelaya\, told in part through first-person experiences\, layered into deeper political analysis. It weaves together two broad pictures: first\, the repressive regime that was launched with the coup\, and the ways in which U.S. policy has continued to support that regime; and second\, the brave and evolving Honduran resistance movement\, with aid from a new solidarity movement in the United States. \nAlthough it is full of terrible things\, this is not a horror story: the book directly counters mainstream media coverage that portrays Honduras as a pit of unrelenting awfulness\, in which powerless people sob in the face of unexplained violence. Rather\, it’s about sobering challenges with roots in political processes\, and the inspiring collective strength with which people face them. \nabout Plan Colombia: \nFor more than fifty years\, the United States supported the Colombian military in a war that cost over 200\,000 lives. During a single period of heightened U.S. assistance known as Plan Colombia\, the Colombian military killed more than 5\,000 civilians. In Plan Colombia John Lindsay-Poland narrates a 2005 massacre in the San José de Apartadó Peace Community and the subsequent investigation\, official cover-up\, and response from the international community. He examines how the multibillion-dollar U.S. military aid and official indifference contributed to the Colombian military’s atrocities. Drawing on his human rights activism and interviews with military officers\, community members\, and human rights defenders\, Lindsay-Poland describes grassroots initiatives in Colombia and the United States that resisted militarized policy and created alternatives to war. Although they had few resources\, these initiatives offered models for constructing just and peaceful relationships between the United States and other nations. Yet\, despite the civilian death toll and documented atrocities\, Washington\, DC\, considered Plan Colombia’s counterinsurgency campaign to be so successful that it became the dominant blueprint for U.S. military intervention around the world. \nDana Frank is Professor of History Emerita at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (2005; repr. Haymarket 2016); Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon\, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing\, Gender\, and the Seattle Labor Movement\, 1919-1929 (Cambridge\, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California’s Kitsch Monuments (City Lights\, 2007); and\, with Howard Zinn and Robin D. G. Kelley\, Three Strikes: Miners\, Musicians\, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century (Beacon\, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted\, with a new introduction\, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big (2012). Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation\, New York Times\, Politico Magazine\, Foreign Affairs.com\, Foreign Policy.com\, Miami Herald\, Los Angeles Times\, The Baffler\, and many other publications\, and she has testified before both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament. \nJohn Lindsay-Poland is Healing Justice Associate at the American Friends Service Committee and author of Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama and Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism published by Duke University Press. \n\n\n\n\nReviews\n\n\n\n“I congratulate and thank Dana Frank for giving us this book and for documenting the role of the United States in the long night of terror that we have lived in Honduras since the 2009 coup d’etat. Her contribution to historic memory stands as our witness.” \n—Bertha Oliva\, general coordinator\, Committee of the Families of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras \n  \n“Dana Frank has written a searing portrait of a nation in crisis\, a book that is startling\, enraging\, and humane all at once. Her most important accomplishment is never losing sight of the hardships and treachery that ordinary Hondurans have had to endure these last several years\, nor the dignity with which they have survived it all.” \n−Daniel Alarcon\, Executive Producer of Radio Ambulante\, author of At Night We Walk in Circles \n  \n“The Long Honduran Night breaks the deafening silence that has followed recent American intervention in Honduras. It graphically documents the awful legacy of this intervention.” \n−Stephen Kinzer\, award-winning author and foreign correspondent \n  \n“If you’ve any interest at all in Honduras\, U.S. foreign policy\, Central America\, why so many Central Americans are migrating north…or in a powerful\, informative\, and extremely good read\, do pick up Dana Frank’s book\, The Long Honduran Night. It’s a surprisingly readable book that tells not only the tragic story of another failed state and the forces that continue to work against establishing real democracies in Central America\, but also inspires in its stories of everyday people— in Honduras and the United States— who work against difficult odds to create change\, often by placing their lives at risk.” \n−María Martin\, independent journalist \n  \n“Free from academic jargon\, conversant with modern Honduran history\, and steeped in passion\, this testimonial book is the best primer\, in English\, about the coup\, and resistance to it\, that destroyed Honduran democracy on June 28\, 2009. Dana Frank not only registers her solidarity movement and legislative initiatives in the U.S. on behalf of the multifaceted resistance to the coup and defense of Human Rights\, her keen outsider’s eye brings the novice gaze of contemporary Honduran political life into the country’s cities and villages\, its valleys and mountains\, as well as into demonstrations and street marches\, conversations in cabs\, radio stations\, and more. Almost ten years after the coup\, Frank’s book transits seamlessly between the social fabric and intimate lives of hundreds of Hondurans she has met personally during her many years in the country. Frank manages this while referencing key historical processes and their current legacies\, an important and necessary feat on its own\, but also valuable because it informs the current plight of Hondurans who flee their country into the U.S. seeking asylum in the aftermath of 2009 coup.” \n−Dario A. Euraque\, Professor of History and International Studies\, Trinity College \n  \n“A historian and activist offers a damning indictment of corruption\, human rights violations\, and failed U.S. policy in Honduras. Frank (Emerita\, History/Univ. of California\, Santa Cruz; Women Strikers Occupy Chain Store\, Win Big: The 1937 Woolworth’s Sit-Down\, 2012\, etc.) offers a heady mix of personal experience\, historical context\, and contemporary condemnation of the chain of events that brought Honduras into a state of chaos. She examines events in Honduras following the coup d’état that ousted President Manuel Zelaya in 2009 and the constitutional crisis and regime that followed. Despite the author’s lobbying of Congress to influence Honduran policy\, the region destabilized and fell into a quagmire of corruption and violence. Also unhelpful were the State Department\, which insultingly viewed Latin America as America’s “backyard\,” and other areas of the U.S. government that consciously chose to look the other way even as it continued to “dance with dictators.” These days\, Honduras has a notorious reputation for violence\, especially in the wake of its refugee crisis\, exemplified by the much-publicized “caravan” of 57\,000 undocumented\, unaccompanied minors that fled Central American countries in 2014. “Those parents had known exactly how brutal the alternatives were at home\,” writes Frank. “Just like the parents who sent their kids north\, they were trying to imagine\, and build\, a future for their loved ones.” As to the cause\, the author boldly calls it as it is: “But let’s be clear: those gangs and drug traffickers took over a broad swath of daily life in Honduras in part because the elites who ran the government permitted and even profited from it. Who was the gang\, in this story?” Readers who aren’t invested in Latin American history or politics may find the political narrative somewhat lackluster\, but the author’s on-the-ground reports are gripping. Frank even finds times for a bit of dark humor: “When\, exactly\, did I start using the term ‘axe murderer’ all the time?”An important\, little-known history that offers much truth and little reconciliation.” \n−Kirkus Reviews \n  \n“I have covered Honduras ever since the 2009 coup. Dana Frank’s insightful and very human portrait of the country’s resistance is required reading for anyone who wants to understand what’s really going on in Honduras and why it matters.” \n−Adam Raney\, journalist\, Al Jazeera English and Univision
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-frank-in-conversation-with-john-lindsay-poland/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:San José Poetry Slam
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, December 9\nhosted by Mighty Mike McGee\, Santa Clara County Poet Laureate\nfeature: tba\nDoors and sign up list opens at 5:00pm\nSign up list closes at 5:29pm\nShow starts at 5:30pm\nFollow the Slam on Facebook! \nat Cafe Stritch\n374 South First Street\nin downtown San José\nAdmission: $5 to $10 sliding scale\n(and yes we do accept credit cards)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-jose-poetry-slam-2/
LOCATION:Cafe Stritch\, 374 S. First Street\, San Jose\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Event: GEARS TURNING w/ Kim Shuck
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of wonderful poetry by SF Bay Area based poets\, artists\, and musicians with your host Kim Shuck. \nTo participate in the open mic sessions\, please arrive by 4 and plan to listen to all of the featured poets. Seating/space is limited.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-event-gears-turning-w-kim-shuck-8/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tongues of Fire Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:TONGUES OF FIRE Reading Series \n8pm \nbound together anarchist collective bookstore\, 1369 Haight St. \nFeaturing Anna Allen\, James Warner\, Phyllis Oscar\, and others!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tongues-of-fire-reading-series/
LOCATION:Bound Together Bookstore\, 1369 Haight St\,\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Michael Lally will read from and sign his new book Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017
DESCRIPTION:From a ’60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump\, Another Way to Play collects more than a half century of engaged\, accessible\, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O’Hara\, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader’s synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets\, from the political arena\, from Hollywood\, from the depths of the underground\, and from everywhere in between.  As Lally himself writes: “I suffered\, I starved\, and so did my kids\, / I did what I did for poetry I thought / and I never sold out\, and even when I did / nobody bought.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lally-will-read-from-and-sign-his-new-book-another-way-to-play-poems-1960-2017/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers with Drinks
DESCRIPTION:Jaymee Goh (The Sea is Ours: Steampunk Tales of Southeast Asia)\nJennifer S. Cheng (Moon: Letters\, Maps\, Poems)\nBryan Thao Worra (On the Other Side of the Eye)\nAlan Chazaro (Ghost Town Literary Review)\nCost: $5 to $20\, no-one turned away\nAll proceeds benefit the Center for Sex and Culture.\nAt The Make Out Room 3225 22nd St.\, San Francisco CA\, from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM\, doors open at 6:30 PM. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-18/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Studio One Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, December 7th\, feat. Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout!\nPlease join us on Friday\, December 7th\, from 7:30-9:30 pm\, \nfor a reading featuring Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout\, \nplus art by Patrick Sumner and Peggy Videtta! \n  \n***** \nauthor & artist bios & photos below. \n\n \nAll of our readings are free & open to the public. \nSnacks\, wine & Lagunitas beer will be served. \n\n \n365 45th Street | Oakland | 94609 \nHere’s a map. \n\n \n+ a huge thank you to our generous sponsors! \n\n \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation  \n***** \nBrenda Hillman is the author of 10 collections from Wesleyan University Press\, most recently Extra Hidden Life\, among the Days (2018)\, Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (2013)\, and Practical Water (2011). Hillman recently co-translated At Your Feet\, the poems of Ana Cristina Cesar (Free Verse Editions\, 2018). She lives in the Bay Area with her husband\, Robert Hass and is Olivia Filippi Professor of Poetry at St. Mary’s College in Moraga\, California. \nRae Armantrout’s most recent books\, Versed\, Money Shot\, Just Saying\, Itself\, Partly: New and Selected Poems\, Entanglements\, (a chapbook selection of poems in conversation with physics)\, and Wobble were published by Wesleyan University Press. Wobble was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Award. In 2010 her book Versed won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals including Poetry\, Lana Turner\, The Nation\, The New Yorker\, Bomb\, Harper’s\,The Paris Review\, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology\, The Open Door: 100 Poems\, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine\, etc.   She is recently retired from UC San Diego where she was professor of poetry and poetics. She lives in the Seattle area. \nPosted by Casey at 11:34 AM No comments:  \nLabels: brenda hillman\, Rae Armantrout \nTHURSDAY\, OCTOBER 18\, 2018\nFriday\, November 2nd\, feat. Raina J. León\, Jacob Kahn\, and Susan Kolodny!\nPlease join us on Friday\, November 2nd at 7:30 pm for a reading featuring Raina J. León\, Jacob Kahn\, \nand Susan Kolodny! \nEvent is FREE. \nLagunitas beer\, wine\, and snacks will be served. \nStudio One Art Center | 365 45th Street | Oakland \nHere’s a map. \nAs always\, a generous thank you to our sponsors: \nLagunitas Brewing Company \nClorox Company Foundation \nOakland Parks and Recreation Foundation \nRaina J. León\, PhD\, CantoMundo graduate fellow\, Cave Canem graduate fellow\, and member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, sombra: (dis)locate (2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Macondo\, Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, and Ragdale\, among others. She is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of Latinx arts. She is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. She is currently a teaching poet-in residence at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco. \nJacob Kahn is a bookseller and editor and organizer and curator and lots of other things at E.M. Wolfman Books in Oakland\, CA. He is a 2018 Frontier Fellow at Epicenter in Green River\, Utah\, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency\, and his writing can be found in ‘A Circuit of Yields’ (Wolfman Books\, 2014) and elsewhere. \nSusan Kolodny is the author of two poetry collections: After the Firestorm (Mayapple Press\, 2011) and Preserve (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Her poems appear in New England Review\, Bellingham Review\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, and in other journals and several anthologies\, and have been featured on American Life in Poetry and Poetry Daily. She is a psychoanalyst in practice in the East Bay\, a faculty member at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis\, and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press\, 2000).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/studio-one-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:OAKLAND FIRST FRIDAYS AT NOMADIC PRESS!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by TBD and music by TBD. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press-6/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181206T210000
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SUMMARY:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?
DESCRIPTION:WOULD YOU BE CAUGHT DEAD IN THAT OUTFIT?\nA multimedia event celebrating the aesthetics of ’80s and ’90s underground clubbing by pájaros\, maricones\, mariposas\, mariquitas and those who love them. \nCurated by artists Juliana Delgado Lopera & Rebeka Rodriguez in collaboration with Aunt Lute Books\, this 1980s Latinx fashion extravaganza will include: \n*A runway featuring YOU – fabulous young and elder queers! \n*A kiki panel on the resiliency of people living and performing on 16th street in the 80s and 90s [FULL LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED] \n*A cute and cuir photo booth \n*DRAG! \nAnd more! Bring your best looks for a chance to win some fabulous prizes (glamorous books)! \nThis event is FREE! Ages 21 and up. The Stud is ADA accessible. \n  \n  \nWhen:  December 6\, 2018 @ 7pm\nWhere: The Stud (399 9th St\, San Francisco\, CA) \n===== \nAbout the curators:\nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer\, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, she’s the author of Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017) and ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017)\, which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. She is currently the Creative Director of RADAR Productions. \nRebeka Rodriguez is an artist\, curator\, and cultural producer working in San Francisco communities. She is currently the Civic Engagement Manager at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the founder of BYOQ\, a daytime music\, art & performance festival. \nAunt Lute Books is a nonprofit women’s publishing press based in San Francisco. For over thirty years\, we have been publishing literature that voices the perspectives of women who have been traditionally under-represented in mainstream and small press publishing.         \n  \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/would-you-be-caught-dead-in-that-outfit/
LOCATION:The Stud Bar\, 399 9th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime LAPSARIANS will occur at Edinburgh Castle\, 950 Geary Street\, San Francisco\, Thursday December 6th\, 7-9 pm\, featuring Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Fruit of the Drunken Tree)\, and others. lapsarians n. (lap-?ser-?-?n) Believers in the Fall. Origin: Latin lapsus\, a fall.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-lapsarians/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Castle Pub\, 950 Geary St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20181029T024249Z
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SUMMARY:Chaya Bhuvaneswar in conversation with Louise Aronson
DESCRIPTION:celebrating Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s new book \nWhite Dancing Elephants \nfrom Dzanc Books \nIn luminous\, vivid\, searingly honest prose\, the stories in White Dancing Elephants center on the experiences of diverse women of color—cunning\, bold\, and resolute—facing sexual harassment and racial violence\, as well as the violence women inflict upon each other. One woman’s miscarriage is juxtaposed against the story of the Buddha’s birth. Another cheats with her best friend’s husband\, only to discover it’s her friend she most yearns for. In three different stories\, three artists struggle to push courageous works into the world\, while a woman with an incurable disease competes with her engineer husband’s beautiful android. \nCombining the speculative elements and wry psychological realism beloved by readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Margaret Atwood\, Danzy Senna and Sandra Cisneros\, this collection introduces Chaya Bhuvaneswar as an original and memorable new voice. White Dancing Elephants is the winner of the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize. \nChaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician and writer whose work has appeared in Narrative Magazine\, Tin House\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Awl\, jellyfish review\, aaduna and elsewhere\, with poetry forthcoming in Natural Bridge\, Quiddity\, apt magazine\, Hobart and more. Her poetry and prose juxtapose Hindu epics\, other myths and histories\, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color. She received the Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize\, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship\, and a Henfield award for her writing. Her work received four Pushcart Prize anthology nominations in 2017. Follow her on Twitter at @chayab77 including for upcoming readings and events. \nLouise Aronson is a geriatrician\, writer\, educator\, and professor of medicine at the University of California\, San Francisco (UCSF) where she directs UCSF Medical Humanities. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Warren Wilson Program for Writers\, Dr. Aronson has received the Gold Professorship in Humanism in Medicine\, the California Homecare Physician of the Year award\, and the American Geriatrics Society Clinician-Teacher of the Year award\, as well as numerous awards for her teaching\, educational research and writing. She is the author of the PEN America debut fiction award finalist\, A History of the Present Illness\, and the forthcoming non-fiction Elderhood: Redefining Medicine\, Life\, and Old Age in America. Her articles\, essays and stories appear regularly in literary and medical journals\, newspapers and blogs\, including the New York Times\, New England Journal of Medicine\, JAMA\, Narrative Magazine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and the Lancet. \nPRAISE FOR WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: \n“A magnificent collection of stories that defy conventions\, stereotypes\, and reveal the universal complexity we all share as humans—gifted and flawed individuals\, who struggle to reconcile the mixed signals of our own hearts.”\n—Jamie Ford\, author of House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold\, smart\, exciting new voice\, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor.”\n—Lauren Groff\, author of Florida \n“Reading Chaya Bhuvaneswar is like receiving Lasik via literature—the world you return to is a little clearer and sharper for the time you’ve spent in her pages. She is a formidable talent\, formally accomplished and intellectually alive.”\n—Anthony Marra\, Whiting-award winning author of The Constellation of Vital Phenomena \n“Bhuvaneswar’s daring mix of ancient\, contemporary\, and dystopic stories carries us to the heart of rarely exposed longing\, loss\, and the politics of violence and endurance in remarkable\, elegant\, heart-stopping prose.”\n—Jimin Han\, author of A Small Revolution \n“From the first page\, I was swept away by the riveting undertow of Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s inventive and spellbinding stories\, each moment cast in powerfully intelligent prose. White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable debut; we are so lucky to hold this book in our hands.”\n—Laura van den Berg\, author of The Third Hotel \n“White Dancing Elephants is a searing and complex collection\, wholly realized\, each piece curled around its own beating heart. Tender and incisive\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a surgeon on the page; unflinching in her aim\, unwavering in her gaze\, and absolutely devastating in her prose. This is an astonishing debut.”\n—Amelia Gray\, author of Isadora \n“A bold\, honest\, often provocative first collection from a fresh new voice.”\n—Jeff VanderMeer\, author of Annihilation \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a master of literary stealth. Seduced by her luminous\, intimate voice\, I was unprepared for the shattering force of her honesty and insight. Authentic\, fearless and wholly original\, White Dancing Elephants is a knockout collection.”\n—Jillian Medoff\, author of This Could Hurt \n“Filled with dark music\, nuance\, and intelligence\, White Dancing Elephants takes readers on a thrilling journey. In sharp takes\, Chaya Bhuvaneswar unfolds the complexities of race and gender\, tragedy and eros. This unforgettable collection will hold its readers captive to the very last page.”\n—Diana Abu-Jaber\, author of Life Without a Recipe \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s stories reveal a rare sensitivity to the strange and complicated acrobatics of the human heart. These are astonishing\, urgent portraits of people trying to see the world for what it is and what it might be.”\n—Emily Geminder\, author of Dead Girls and Other Stories \n“White Dancing Elephants dazzles from the start.  There are so many wonderful stories in this collection that center on female characters of color in all sorts of situations.  Readers are treated to deep characters\, mesmerizing language\, and a story that propels forward across a city and the landscape of a mind effortlessly.  This is a new gifted voice in contemporary literature and we are so lucky to have it!”\n—Victoria Chang\, American Book Award-winning author of Barbie Chang \n“The stories in White Dancing Elephants show impressive dexterity and range. The prose can be rich and intricate one moment\, then shifts registers into sharp humor; the characterization is many-dimensional; Bhuvaneswar’s ability to take on larger topics\, such as Bhopal\, and to locate and intensify their complexity within individuals is amazingly fine.”\n—Peter Rock\, Alex-award winning author of My Abandonment \n“Bhuvaneswar’s stories are as insightful as they are ineffable and as devastating as they are delightful. As I read these important and hilarious tales about the lives of queer people of color\, I kept asking myself\, ‘You can do this in writing?’”\n—Emma Eisenberg\, GLAAD-nominated journalist and author of The Third Rainbow Girl \n“Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s deft and poignant stories bring the whole damned world into clearer focus. A pure pleasure to read\, White Dancing Elephants is a remarkable book that will stay with me for a long time.”\n—Skip Horack\, author of The Other Josep \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/chaya-bhuvaneswar-in-conversation-with-louise-aronson/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Noir: Nighthawks
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Jon Sindell\, Sara McAulay\, Robert Pesich\, Susan Cohen. Open Mic Night follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/noir-nighthawks/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\, reading their work
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center is thrilled to launch our new In Common Writers Series. We’ll present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. Both events are free and open to the public. Note: Marcus Books Oakland event\, 6:30 pm door; readings at 7pm sharp! \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, and coming to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. After reading\, then joining Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017\, and has recently taught writing at Mills College and the St. Mary’s College in the Bay Area. Heaven Is All Goodbyes was recognized with a California Book Award\, an American Book Award\, and was short-listed for Canada’s prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize for 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon\nreading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin\nThursday OCT 25\n*1:00pm @ The Poetry Center\nHUM 512\, SFSU\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nFEATURE: Rules Are Meant to Be Broken\, an interview with Tongo Eisen Martin\, by Erica Lewis\nVIDEO: Mazza Writer in Residence\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, in performance and in conversation\nVIDEO: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Marshall Trammell\, in performance \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center and Marcus Books Oakland
URL:https://litseen.com/event/new-date-in-common-writers-series-kiese-laymon-and-tongo-eisen-martin-reading-their-work/
LOCATION:Marcus Books\, 3900 Martin Luther King Jr Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:NEW DATE! In Common Writers Series: Kiese Laymon\, reading and in conversation with Tongo Eisen-Martin
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to a generous grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund\, The Poetry Center In Common Writers Series will present six double-programs (twelve events in all) during 2018–19\, featuring a series of remarkable writers from across the US\, paired in conversation and performance with (for the most part) local area writers with whom they share strong affinities. Each featured guest writer appears at The Poetry Center—we’re doing outreach in particular to students and faculty in SF State’s College of Ethnic Studies—reading here and in conversation with their paired writer\, and then off-campus with both writers reading their work at one of the Bay Area’s local bookstores. We want to recognize our local bookstores as crucial cultural centers and\, paradoxically maybe\, among the most long-lived and durable cultural sites in this violently gentrified greater community. For our second program in the series\, renowned novelist and essayist Kiese Laymon is joined by San Francisco poet Tongo Eisen-Martin. Free and open to the public. \nKiese Laymon will be presenting his powerful new book Heavy: An American Memoir (Scribner\, 2018)\, traveling to San Francisco from his hometown of Jackson\, Mississippi. He’ll read and join Tongo Eisen-Martin in conversation at The Poetry Center during the afternoon\, Thursday December 6\, then the two of them will each present their own work that same evening at Oakland’s landmark Marcus Books\, “the oldest African American-themed bookstore in the country.” \n“Oh my god. I just finished Heavy by Kiese Laymon. It is. Astonishing. Difficult. Intense. Layered…. Wow. Just wow.” —Roxane Gay \nKiese Laymon is a black southern writer\, born and raised in Jackson\, Mississippi. Laymon attended Millsaps College and Jackson State University before graduating from Oberlin College. He earned an MFA in Fiction from Indiana University. Laymon is currently a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of the award-winning novel\, Long Division\, a collection of essays\, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America\, and Heavy: An American Memoir\, brand new from Scribner in October 2018. Laymon has written for numerous publications including New York Times\, NPR\, Los Angeles Times\, Esquire\, The Guardian\, McSweeneys\, Colorlines\, The Best American Series\, Ebony and many others. He is a contributing editor of Oxford American. \nBorn in San Francisco\, Tongo Eisen-Martin is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015) and Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights Books\, Pocket Poets Series\, 2017). He is a movement worker\, educator\, and poet who has organized against mass incarceration and extra-judicial killing of Black people throughout the United States. Subscribing to the Freirian model of education\, he designed curricula for oppressed people’s education projects from San Francisco to South Africa. His latest curriculum on extrajudicial killing of Black people\, We Charge Genocide Again\, has been used as an educational and organizing tool throughout the country. He uses his craft to create liberated territory wherever he performs and teaches. He recently lived and organized around issues of human rights and self-determination in Jackson\, MS. Eisen-Martin was The Poetry Center’s premier Mazza Writer in Residence in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRelated event: \nIn Common Writers Series\nKiese Laymon and Tongo Eisen-Martin\nreading from their works\nThursday DEC 6\n*6:30 door; readings 7:00pm sharp @ Marcus Books\n3900 Martin Luther King Jr. Way (one block west of MacArthur BART)\, Oakland\, free and open to the public\nsupported by the Walter & Elise Haas Fund \nFEATURE: Kiese Laymon\, What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying\nVIDEO: Kiese Laymon with Mark Anthony Neal\, on Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent phone:\n\n415-338-2227\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center
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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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