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SUMMARY:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology
DESCRIPTION:Cutting Edge Writers Reading for new great weather for MEDIA Anthology \nAlley Cat Books and great weather for MEDIA present a rollicking evening of cutting edge poets and prose writers from across the Bay Area and the U.S. They come together to celebrate the release of great weather’s new anthology\, The Other Side of Violet\, which features work by intense wordsmiths – including those you’ll hear tonight – along with interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and award-winning poet and novelist Tim Z. Hernandez. Come prepared for revelations\, epiphanies\, and a few broad smiles. \nThis evening features writers from across the US and beyond\, including Jessica Barksdale (Oakland)\, Carol Dorf (Berkeley)\, Patrick Cahill (SF)\, Maw Shein Win (Poet Laureate of El Cerrito)\, Julian Mithra (Oakland)\, Jan Steckel (Oakland)\, Richard Loranger (Oakland)\, and great weather editor Jane Ormerod (from NY and UK). There will be a brief open mic to start the evening. \nBased in New York City\, great weather for MEDIA publishes established and emerging writers from across the United States and beyond. \nPlease stop by\, get yourself dangerously verbiaged up\, and pick up a copy of The Other Side of Violet to call your very own. \nRelease party for The Other Side of Violet \na reading by\nJessica Barksdale\nCarol Dorf\nPatrick Cahill\nMaw Shein Win\nJulian Mithra\nJan Steckel\nRichard Loranger\nand Jane Ormerod \nhosted by Jane Ormerod \nFriday\, November 3\n6:45 pm \nfree of charge \nAlley Cat Books\n3036 – 24th Street\nSan Francisco\, CA \nPERFORMER BIOS \nJessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel\, The Burning Hour\, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016. Her short stories\, poems\, and essays have appeared in\, or are forthcoming\, in Waccamaw Journal\, Salt Hill Journal\, Little Patuxent Review\, and So to Speak. She is a Professor of English at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill\, California\, and teaches novel writing online for UCLA Extension. In addition\, Jessica holds an MA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MFA from the Rainier Writers Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.\nPatrick Cahill co-edits Ambush Review\, a San Francisco based literary and arts magazine. He received his Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at UCSC. His poetry twice received the Central Coast Writers Award. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Left Curve\, San Francisco Peace and Hope\, Digging Our Poetic Roots\, Otoliths\, Aji\, Into The Void\, and riverbabble.\nCarol Dorf is the author of the chapbooks Theory Headed Dragon (Finishing Line Press) and Some Years Ask (Locofo Chaps\, Moria Press.) Her poetry appears in Sin Fronteras\, Antiphon\, The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics\, Scientific American\, Maintenant\, and Best of Indie Lit New England. Carol is poetry editor of Talking Writing and teaches mathematics in Berkeley. \nRichard Loranger is a writer\, performer\, visual artist\, and all around squeaky wheel\, currently residing in Oakland\, CA. His recent book of flash prose\, Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press\, 2016)\, has been warmly received. He is also the author of the Poems for Teeth\, The Orange Book\, and nine chapbooks. Other recent work can be found in Oakland Review #4\, Full of Crow (Winter 2017 Fiction Issue)\, and the online anthology HIV Here and Now. You can find more about his work and scandals at www.richardloranger.com. \nJulian Mithra\, primarily a performance artist\, hovers between genre and gender\, border-mongering and mongreling. Resisting essentialisms\, they roll out monologues\, collage black & white zines\, clip poem videos\, and rubber stamp imprints. They hold an MA in Folklore from UC Berkeley. Their work has been featured in Gendertrash Café\, Milvia Street\, Storm Cellar\, Whirlwind\, Sharkpack Review\, and enough/enough. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who left the practice of medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards for LGBT writing. Her award-winning fiction and poetry appear in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland\, California. \nMaw Shein Win is a poet\, editor\, and educator who lives and works in the Bay Area. Her writing has appeared in various journals\, including Cimarron Review\, Fanzine\, Eleven Eleven\, the Fabulist\, and others. Her most recent poetry chapbook is Score and Bone on Nomadic Press\, and her full-length poetry collection will be published by Manic D Press in spring 2018. She is the first poet laureate of El Cerrito. \nJane Ormerod is the author of the full-length poetry collections Welcome to the Museum of Cattle and Recreational Vehicles on Fire (both from Three Rooms Press)\, and the chapbook 11 Films (Modern Metrics/EXOT Books). Her work also appears in publications including Maintenant\, Flapperhouse\, Marsh Hawk Press Review\, Post (BLANK)\, Sensitive Skin\, and Paris Lit Up. Born on the south coast of England\, Jane now lives in New York City and performs extensively across the United States and beyond. She is a founding editor of great weather for MEDIA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cutting-edge-writers-reading-for-new-great-weather-for-media-anthology/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Jean Day + Sophia Dahlin
DESCRIPTION:We could not be more excited for this one! One of our favorite east bay poets\, Jean Day\, recently put out another amazing book\, “Daydream” (Litmus Press)\, and is going to be reading with one of our newly re-acquainted east bay favorites\, Sophia Dahlin. Come celebrate Day’s new book and Dahlin’s return home to the bay after years of living\, well\, not here! \nJean Day is a poet\, union activist\, and editor whose Daydream is just out from Litmus Press. Recent poems can also be seen in Chicago Review\, The Delineator\,Across the Margin\, Open House\, Breather\, and Jongler (French)–as well as in herTriumph of Life\, soon to appear from Insurance Editions. Earlier works includeEarly Bird (O’Clock\, 2014) and Enthusiasm (Adventures in Poetry\, 2006)\, among other books\, and her work has also appeared in many anthologies\, including\, most recently\, Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street\, 2015). She lives in Berkeley\, where she works as managing editor of Representations\, an interdisciplinary humanities journal published by UC Press. \nSophia Dahlin is a writer and dilettante who has washed up again on Oakland’s mild sidewalks. Last time she lived here she ran a talk series called Poem Talks//Butterfly Dissection Sessions and went to all of your readings. Her poetry has appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, BOMB\, the Awl\, the Recluse\, and Where Eagles Dare.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jean-day-sophia-dahlin/
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:20171103T220000
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SUMMARY:Fireside: “The Last Hurrah?”
DESCRIPTION:This will be our last monthly Fireside. Yes\, really. So we decided for our Last Hurrah that we should invite some of our favorite storytellers across 8 years of Fireside to come tell our favorite stories again. Believe us\, these are GREAT. After this\, we may go to a quarterly format and ponder some changes to format … or not. Either way\, join us for our last hurrah!!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-the-last-hurrah/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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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-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Launch Party w/ Teri Emory
DESCRIPTION:Join essayist\, editor\, and author Teri Emory for a Launch Party celebration of her much-buzzed debut novel\, Second Acts. \nThe interwoven tales of three women unfold in the voices of Sarah\, Miriam\, and Beth\, whose unshakable friendship takes root in a Buffalo college dorm in the late 1960s. Fueled by the optimism and bravado of that era\, they charge into adulthood with high expectations and lofty ideas. They were\, as Beth would later observe\, -the first generation of women to feel entitled to interesting lives. \nAt times\, they find themselves living long distances from each other as each of them seeks new directions and new locales–midtown Manhattan\, a Florida suburb\, coastal Savannah\, the hills of Rome. Nonetheless\, they remain deeply connected in the decades after college\, sharing their joys and shepherding each other through heartache. With emotional courage and wry humor\, they come to terms with a disconcerting postscript to the Age of Aquarius: Life–inevitably\, unsparingly\, repeatedly–demands compromise. \nIn the year leading up to 9/11\, the three women\, now middle aged\, are tested by unwelcome drama at home\, unforeseen challenges at work\, and unresolved conflicts about decisions made long ago. Sustained by their abiding friendship\, Sarah\, Miriam and Beth confront hard truths about themselves and the choices they have made. They must let go of past regrets and make peace with present circumstances as they begin the second acts of their lives. \nSecond Acts is a story of love\, loss\, and renewal\, and a testament to the enduring power of female friendship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/launch-party-w-teri-emory/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Opera Plaza\, 601 Van Ness\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry as Sanctuary w/ Rebecca Foust + Javier Zamora
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poet Laureate Rebecca Foust and fellow poet Javier Zamora are offering an evening of their poetry reading poems that touch on the theme of Sanctuary. They will also share poems from their most recent books: Foust’s Paradise Drive\, winner of the 2015 Press 53 Poetry Prize for Poetry and Zamora’s\, Unaccompanied\, out in October from Copper Canyon Press. \nREBECCA FOUST  has published five books of poetry\, most recently Paradise Drive (Press 53 2015)\, sonnets featuring a modern-day Pilgrim living in Marin County\, reviewed in the Marin Independent Journal\, San Francisco Chronicle\, and Rumpus in the Bay Area and in national venues including the Harvard review\, Huffington Post\, Philadelphia Inquirer\, and Washington Review of Books. Recent recognitions include the James Hearst Poetry Prize judged by Jane Hirshfield\, the American Literary Review Fiction Award\, and fellowships from the Frost Place\, MacDowell\, Sewanee\, and West Chester Poetry Conference. Foust is the new Marin County Poet Laureate\, the Poetry Editor for Women’s Voices for Change and has been a board member at Marin Poetry Center since 2008. \nFoust’s Marin County Poet Laureate project\, “Poetry as Sanctuary\,” ties in with California’s status as a Sanctuary State\, and of it Foust says “poetry is a sacred space—church\, a hospital\, a hospice bed—offering a safe place for our most private\, urgent\, and otherwise ineffable expressions. Reading and writing it opens an escape from technology\, stress\, life-overload\, grief\, and other emotional pain. Perhaps the most important service poetry can provide now is respite from or way to respond to current political events. Poetry can build community\, and I’d like to use it to raise the awareness and empathy for what is at stake under the new Administration for our undocumented immigrant population here in Marin.” Foust hopes to plan community read-arounds on political themes and readings featuring immigrant poets in the County libraries.” \nJAVIER ZAMORA was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his first poetry collection Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-as-sanctuary-w-rebecca-foust-javier-zamora/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171105T150000
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SUMMARY:Women's National Book Association panel
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a celebrations of 100 years of women in the world of books with writer of the San Francisco Chapter of the WNBA.  Before women had the right to vote\, the Women’s National Book Association was advocating for women writers\, booksellers\, editors and “women in the world of books\,” starting in 1917.  This vital part of the Northern California publishing community includes New York Times bestselling authors\, writing coaches\, award-winning editors\, literary agents\, National Book Critics\, book to film creatives\, librarians\,  and an Indiefab Publisher of the Year\, offering insider secrets to getting your book published   In this Centennial Showcase\, the authors from the WNBA-SF will read from their books and join in a panel discussion of how women’s voices and those of diversity are more important than ever before. Signing and Q&A to follow. \nFeaturing WNBA-SF writers: \n\nPatricia Davis\, Cooking for Ghosts\nJanis Couvreux\, Sail Cowabunga!\nB. Lynn Goodwin\, Talent\nBrenda Knight\, Grateful Table\nMary Rodman\, Bloom Where You’re Planted\nSusan Pace Koch\, The Mermaid & the Moon\nKJ Landis\, Happy Healthy You\nSheri McGuinn\, Alice\nLousie Nayer\, Poised for Retirement\nDr. Jeanne Powell\, Carousel\nBarbara Falconer Newhall\, Wrestling with God\nBev Scott\, Sarah’s Secret\nRichard Robbins\, Overtaken by the Night\nJan Schmuckler\, Role Montage\n\n\n\n\n\nLOCATION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/womens-national-book-association-panel/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:Book Launch + Remembrance for Francesca Rosa
DESCRIPTION:Francesca Rosa’s passing in October 2016 brought to an untimely end the career  of one of the more remarkable and overtly political authors associated with the New Narrative movement in San Francisco. This book presents selections from the three titles published by Ithuriel’s Spear Press from 2005 to 2015 under her pen name\, F.S. Rosa. It begins with an appreciatory essay by Hilton Obenzinger and ends with a lengthy biographical interview conducted by Bay Area literary critic and author Robin Tremblay-McGaw.  F. S. Rosa was co-publisher of Ithuriel’s Spear Press. This book includes selections from Lunchtime at the Muqata’a\, The Divine Comedy of Carlo Tresca\, and from her collection of short stories Post War and Other Stories. Francesca was a rank and file union member and a long time student of labor and history of the Left in America. She lived\, loved and worked in San Francisco. Please join us as we gather to read from her writings and celebrate her life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-remembrance-for-francesca-rosa/
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\, 1680 Market St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Dinika Amaral\, Cate Lycurgus\, Aaron Poochigian\, and Sibongile Sithe\nHosted by Peter Kline \nDinika Amaral was born and raised in Bombay\, India. A former banker with JP Morgan Chase\, she has an M.A. and M.F.A. from New York University. Her work has appeared in Guernica\, the Times of India\, Hayden’s Ferry Review\, Golden Handcuffs Review\, the Denver Quarterly\, the Massachusetts Review\, and in the Iowa Review (winner of the Tim McGinnis award). Presently\, a Steinbeck Fellow\, she lives with her husband in San Jose\, California. \nCate Lycurgus’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review\, Tin House\, Gulf Coast\, and elsewhere. A 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellowship Finalist\, she has also received scholarships from Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. Cate currently lives south of San Francisco where she takes care of her father\, edits interviews for 32 Poems\, and teaches professional writing. \nAaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho\, Stung With Love\, was published by Penguin Classics in 2009\, and his translation of Apollonius’ Jason and the Argonauts was released October 2014. For his work in translation he was awarded a 2010-2011 Grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. His first book of original poetry\, The Cosmic Purr (Able Muse Press)\, was published in 2012 and\, winner of the 2016 Able Muse Poetry Prize\, his second book Manhattanite will be out in the Fall of 2017. His thriller in verse\, Mr. Either/Or\, will be released by Etruscan Press in Fall of 2017. His work has appeared in such journals as The Guardian\, POETRY and The Times Literary Supplement. \nSibongile Sithe was born and raised in Cincinnati\, OH. She received her BA from Yale University where she was awarded the Elmore A. Willets and Wallace Prizes for fiction. She is at work on a first novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-7/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic-7/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171106T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171106T210000
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CREATED:20170929T222257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023950Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning at Peacock Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Thanks to everyone who submitted! \nWe received 96 submissions for this show and will announce the featured authors the week of Oct 23. \nAll authors will be paid and will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \nThe first 100 people @ Peacock Lounge will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. \nCurated by Kate Folk + Evan Karp! \n** This show is 21+ **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-at-peacock-lounge/
LOCATION:Peacock Lounge\, 552 Haight St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171107T203000
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CREATED:20171022T020531Z
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SUMMARY:Lynne Barnes + Jessica Loos
DESCRIPTION:Join us every Tuesday evening in the historic literary epicenter of San Francisco to hear poets from near and far read their work! \nTuesdays at North Beach is a highly-respected weekly poetry series celebrating internationally acclaimed poets and showcasing local talent. Past guests have included Jonathan Richman\, Diane di Prima\, California Poet Laureate Al Young and freshly-discovered poets from our sister program\, Poets 11. \nThe series is presented by Friends and curated by Friends’ Poet-in-Residence\, Jack Hirschman.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lynne-barnes-jessica-loos/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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CREATED:20170721T235014Z
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SUMMARY:Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Jane Reyes celebrates City Lights Spotlight Series No. 16\, Invocation To Daughters. Reading together with David Brazil.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/barbara-jane-reyes/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Tom Gauld w/ Mallory Ortberg
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is pleased to welcome acclaimed Guardian cartoonist Tom Gauld as he presents a best-of collection of literary humour cartoons — Baking with Kafka. With Tom will be Mallory Ortberg—join us! \nIn his inimitable style\, British cartoonist Tom Gauld has opened comics to a crossover audience and challenged perceptions of what the medium can be. Noted as a “book-lover’s cartoonist\,” Gauld’s weekly strips in The Guardian\, Britain’s most well-regarded newspaper\, stitch together the worlds of literary criticism and pop culture to create brilliantly executed\, concise comics. \nFrom sarcastic panels about the health hazards of being a best-selling writer to a list of magical items for fantasy writers (such as the Amulet of Attraction\, which summons mainstream acceptance\, Hollywood money\, and fresh coffee)\, Gauld’s cartoons are timely and droll—his trademark British humour\, impeccable timing\, and distinctive visual style sets him apart from the rest. Lauded both for his frequent contributions to New Scientist\, The Guardian and The New York Times\, and his Eisner-nominated graphic novels\, Tom Gauld is one of the most celebrated cartoonists working today. In Baking with Kafka\, he proves this with one witty\, sly\, ridiculous comic after another. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-gauld-with-mallory-ortberg/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Farid Matuk
DESCRIPTION:Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (2010) and My Daughter La Chola (2013). He serves on the poetry editorial team for Fence magazine and as contributing editor to The Volta. He is an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/farid-matuk-2/
LOCATION:Maude Fife Room\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171108T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171108T203000
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CREATED:20170929T232750Z
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SUMMARY:Maxine Chernoff + Gillian Conoley
DESCRIPTION:Camera is Maxine Chernoff’s 16th book of poems. Her previous book\, Here\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award\, as were 2 of her 6 works of fiction. Her book of stories Signs of Devotion was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. In 2013 she won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and in 2009 the PEN USA Translation Award for a co-translation of the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hoelderlin. She is former editor of New American Writing and professor and former chair of the Dept of Creative Writing at SFSU. She has taught in Exeter\, England\, Prague\, and St Petersburg\, Russia\, and was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2016. \nGillian Conoley was awarded the 2017 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her eighth poetry collection\, Peace\, was named an Academy of American Poets Standout Book for 2014 and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other books include The Plot Genie\, Profane Halo\, Lovers in the Used World\, and Tall Stranger\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Conoley’s work has received the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize\, a National Endowment for the Arts grant\, and a Fund for Poetry Award. Conoley’s translations of Henri Michaux\, Thousand Times Broken\, appeared with City Lights in 2014\, and was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2014 by Publishers Weekly. She co-translated (with Domenic Stansberry) Tristan Tzara’s Dada Manifesto\, On Feeble Love & Bitter Love (Molotov Editions\, 2016). Conoley is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English at Sonoma State University since 1994 and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/maxine-chernoff-and-gillian-conoley/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Live! w/ Dr. Dawn McGuire
DESCRIPTION:Neurologist and poet Dawn McGuire will be in conversation with Tom Donahoe and read selections from her latest poetry collection “American Dream With Exit Wound\,” which is inspired by her work with post 9/11 veterans. Produced by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation\, Live! from the Library is free and open to the public.   RSVPs are encouraged and can be made online at www.wclibrary.org/live or by phone at 925.935.5395. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/live-w-dr-dawn-mcguire/
LOCATION:Walnut Creek Library\, 1644 North Broadway\, Walnut Creek\, CA\, 94596\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Hodgman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith can’t wait to host writer\, comedian and actor John Hodgman for his new book Vacationland! \nAlthough his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts\, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. \nDisarmed of falsehood\, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair\, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. \nVacationland collects these real life wanderings\, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams\, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache\, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. \nThough wildly\, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual\, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties\, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser\, weird dads that they are. \nJoin us! Click here for tickets. \n  \n  \nJohn Hodgman is a writer\, comedian\, and actor. He is the author of three New York Timesbestselling books: The Areas of My Expertise\, More Information Than You Require\, and That Is All. After an appearance to promote his books on The Daily Show\, he was invited to return as a contributor\, serving as the show’s “Resident Expert” and “Deranged Millionaire.” This led to an unexpected and\, frankly\, implausible career in front of the camera. He has performed comedy for the president of the United States\, at a TED conference\, and in a crypt in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn\, New York. He is the host of the popular Judge John Hodgmanpodcast\, in which he settles serious disputes between real people\, such as “Is a hot dog a sandwich?” He also contributes a weekly column under the same name for The New York Times Magazine. \n  \nSigning and other details coming soon.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-hodgman/
LOCATION:Public Works\, 161 Erie Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-8/
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words: Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words – Sausalito on November 9\, 2017\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito (333 Caledonia Street) for readings on the theme of “Adventures” with the following acclaimed authors. Doors open at 7; readings begin at 7:15. $10 at the door. Cash bar. \nErin Byrne is the author of Wings: Gifts of Art\, Life\, and Travel in France\, winner of the Paris Book Festival Award\, editor of Vignettes & Postcards from Paris and Vignettes & Postcards from Morocco\, and writer of The Storykeeper film. Her travel essays\, poetry\, fiction\, and screenplays have won numerous awards\, including three Grand Prize Solas Awards for Travel Story of the Year\, the Reader’s Favorite Award\, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Finalist\, and an Accolade Award for film. She is occasional guest instructor at Shakespeare and Company Bookstore in Paris and teaches on Deep Travel trips. Her screenplay\, Siesta\, is in pre-production in Spain\, and she is working on a novel set in the Paris Ritz during the occupation\, Illuminations. \nMarcia DeSanctis is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go(Travelers’ Tales\, 2014). She is a former television news producer who has worked for Barbara Walters\, ABC\, CBS\, and NBC News. Her work has appeared in Vogue\, Marie Claire\, Town & Country\, O the Oprah Magazine\, National Geographic Traveler\, More\, Tin House\, and The New York Times\, and other publications. She is the recipient of four Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism\, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year for her essays from Rwanda\, Haiti\, France\, and Russia. \nIris Jamahl Dunkle is the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County\, CA. Her debut poetry collection\, Gold Passage\, was selected by Ross Gay to win the 2012 Trio Award and was published by Trio House Press in 2013. Her second collection\, There’s a Ghost in this Machine of Air\, was published in 2015. Her chapbooks Inheritance and The Flying Trolley were published by Finishing Line Press in 2010 and 2013. Her poetry\, essays\, and creative non-fiction have been published widely in numerous publications including Fence\, Calyx\, Catamaran\, Poet’s Market 2013\, JMWW\, and Chicago Quarterly Review. She is currently writing a new biography of Jack London’s wife\, Charmian Kittredge London. Dunkle teaches writing and literature at Napa Valley College and is on the staff of the Napa Valley Writers conference. \nJeff Greenwald is the author of six books\, including The Size of the World(for which he created the first internet travel blog)\, Scratching the Surface and Snake Lake\, a memoir set in Nepal during the 1990 democracy revolution. The 25th anniversary edition of his Shopping for Buddhas was released in 2014. He also serves as Executive Director of EthicalTraveler.org\, a global alliance of travelers dedicated to human rights and environmental protection. \nDaniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight\, Watch Your Mouth\, Adverbs\, Why We Broke Up\, We Are Pirates and All The Dirty Parts. As Lemony Snicket\, he is the author of far too many books for children\, including All The Wrong Questions and A Series of Unfortunate Events\, which has been adapted for film and television. He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown\, to whom he is married\, and their kid. \nKimberley Lovato is a freelance writer and Francophile with articles and essays published in magazines\, newspapers\, websites\, and anthologies\, including National Geographic Traveler\, Virtuoso Life\, American Way\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, BBC.com\, travelandleisure.com\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, Vignettes and Postcards from Morocco\, and many more. She is the author of Walnut Wine & Truffle Groves\, the Society of American Travel Writers’ Gold Medal book in 2012\, and her latest edible read is called Unique Eats & Eateries: San Francisco (Reedy Press\, 2017). \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Night Language (Rare Bird Books\, November 2017) and The Luminist (US/Hawthorne; Italy/Neri Pozza; Israel/Kinneret)\, and is the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb. Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-adventure/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Jeffrey Eugenides
DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Eugenides bestselling novels\, including Middlesex\, The Marriage Plot\, and The Virgin Suicides\, show him to be an astute observer of the crisis of adolescence\, sexual identity\, self-discovery\, and what it means to be an American in our times.  His new short story collection Fresh Complaint continues that tradition. Ranging from the reproductive antics of “Baster” to the wry\, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail” (selected by Annie Proulx for The Best American Short Stories 1997)\, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who\, envious of other people’s wealth during the real-estate bubble\, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and\, in “Bronze\,” a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future. Narratively compelling\, beautifully written\, and packed with a density of ideas that belie their fluid grace\, Fresh Complaint proves Eugenides to be a master of the short form as well as the long.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeffrey-eugenides/
LOCATION:Nourse Theatre\, 275 Hayes Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Susan Kolodny + Carolyne Wright
DESCRIPTION:Susan Kolodny’s new book of poems is Preserve. Robert Thomas says\, “Susan Kolodny’s moving new collection begins with her arrival in Botswana and tells the story of a journey that transforms her understanding of herself and her own culture…Kolodny is unsentimental about the challenges that game preserves face…and the book itself becomes a Preserve she creates to save a world whose survival is at risk.” Her first collection is After the Firestorm. She’s also a psychoanalyst and author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and its Inhibition. \nCarolyne Wright’s new book of poems is This Dream the World: New & Selected Poems. David Axelrod says\, “The language of Carolyne Wright’s poems is as rich\, diverse\, and bursting with life as the natural world of the coastal Northwest she calls home; but her home is the world\, much of which she has traveled. Her poems engage that larger world and the lives of its citizens\, their history\, turmoil\, and jeopardy. Hers is a poetry both of celebration and of sober courage.” Author of numerous previous collections\, including A Change of Maps\, she is co-editor of Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace\, a groundbreaking anthology. She is also a translator who has published five books of translation from both Spanish and Bengali. In addition\, she has published a book of essays\, and has received a Fulbright and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She lives in Seattle.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/susan-kolodny-carolyne-wright/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Memorial for Joe Pachinko
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by William Taylor\, Jr. \nJoe Pachinko was born 1960 in Oakland\, California. In 2003\, through his Superstition Street Press\, he republished Beat icon Lenore Kandel’s groundbreaking work The Love Book\, which was banned and suppressed upon its original release in 1966. He is the author of the novel SWAMP!\, and two poetry collections: The Urinals of Hell\, and Stumpfucker Cavalcade. His second novel\, Geek City Apocalypso was published in 2012 by Last Gasp. \nBeloved poet Joe Pachinko has left the building. Join us for a celebration of his life and work. \nPachinko’s work\, and tributes to the late poet will be read by the following: \n\nBrenda Knight\nNicole Henares\nChristopher Robin\nBrian Morrisey
URL:https://litseen.com/event/memorial-for-joe-pachinko/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:David Rocklin: The Night Language
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery is happy to welcome David Rocklin for The Night Language. Please join us! \nThe Night Language tells the story of a young man\, Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia)\, who is taken from his home and the Abyssinian war to the court of Queen Victoria—a world he knows nothing about. With him is Philip Layard\, a young apprentice to one of the doctors on the battlefield in Abyssinia\, who becomes Alamayou’s guardian\, only friend\, and eventually\, the love of his life. When Parliament accuses Alamayou of murder\, the young prince is sentenced to return to Abyssinia\, where he will be executed. \nHis only hope comes from the very thing that cannot be uttered: the unexpected and forbidden love between Alamayou and Philip. \nInspired by true events\, The Night Language is a unique novel of love\, loss\, and the consequences of repressive societies. \n— \n“Not since Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient have I read a novel in which a character—the story and skinsong of Alamayou–has haunted language\, history\, and heart so intensely. If you read one novel this year\, let it be The Night Language. It is still possible for a reader’s heart to be broken back open.” —Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of The Small Backs of Children and The Chronology of Water \n— \nDavid Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and the founder/curator of Roar Shack\, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife\, daughters\, and a 150 lb Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel\, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger. \n— \nIf you cannot attend the event\, but would like a signed copy of The NIght Language\, please follow this link and place your order\, filling out the special request field: http://www.booksmith.com/book/9781945572487
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-rocklin-the-night-language/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Lucha Libro: The Bay Area's First Literary Wrestling Competition
DESCRIPTION:RADAR Productions presents Lucha Libro\, the Bay Area’s first-ever literary wrestling competition\, taking place at The Park Gym on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017. Lucha Libro will feature five emerging queer and trans writers of color facing off in a live writing challenge in front of screaming fans.  The winner will have a chapbook published by Foglifter in Summer 2018. \n  \nPresented in collaboration with Foglifter\, The Booksmith\, Quiet Lightning\, and Dog Eared Books\, Lucha Libro happens on Saturday\, November 11th\, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. in the ring at Park Gym in the legendary Castro District\, at 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, California 94103. Tickets are $10 at the door. Writers must submit work by October 1st\, and the five final contestants will be announced on November 1st. \n  \nInspired by Peru’s own literary wrestling competitions\, intended to break down barriers to publication and challenge elitism in the literary world\, RADAR Productions’ Lucha Libro provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for emerging queer and trans writers of color to share their work in front of a live audience. \nRADAR Productions is a San Francisco-based queer literary arts non-profit organization. RADAR Productions serves queer audiences and artists in San Francisco through free and affordable literary arts programs that authentically reflect Queer communities’ experiences. RADAR creates a platform for emerging queer artists\, commissions the creation of new work\, and gives voice to innovative Queer writers and artists.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lucha-libro-the-bay-areas-first-literary-wrestling-competition/
LOCATION:The Park Gym\, 1960 Harrison St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:THIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS: BOOK LAUNCH
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch for This is for the mostless by Jason Magabo Perez. Special guests: Aimee Suzara\, Janice Lobo Sapigao and Jason Bayani. \nTHIS IS FOR THE MOSTLESS (WordTech Editions\, 2017)\, writer and performer Jason Magabo Perez’s debut book\, is a lyrical collection of autobiographical poems\, essays\, fictions\, and oral histories. Moving against discipline and genre\, from city to city\, barrio to barrio\, these stories and sympathies are filled with familia and trauma\, and cast with wildly divergent figures as iconic as Don Cheadle and Mandy Moore\, and as obscure as Cobra Commander and Perez’s own mother\, a Filipina migrant nurse who in 1976 was framed by the FBI for murder. Ultimately\, Perez celebrates and mourns the multiple migrations and afterlives of grandmothers\, gangsters\, girlfriends\, superheroes\, and poets. This book is about and most definitely for all of the mostless. \n“Jason Magabo Perez pulls me into his stories like the ink of a comic book or opening hook. He drops 1972\, Redlands\, Manila\, the smell of eucalyptus\, Raid and fried fish\, and ain’t no ipis will interrupt this flow. All the aunties\, cousins and homies are here\, and there’s an earnest\, tender urgency in these verses and jagged lines and tangles that refuse to forget. He makes me want to listen.” – JAI ARUN RAVINE\, AUTHOR OF THE ROMANCE OF SIAM \n“When the poet you are reading raises pen to sky and cuts its belly open\, revealing river of ancestor hair\, uncut\, uncombed\, rife with angels and stories\, and holds it aloft\, unsorted\, to show you you–historical\, non-fictional\, truthfully and wholeheartedly loved\, shivering silver sardine in the oily tin of our im/migrant story…then the poet you are reading is Jason Magabo Perez\, and you are blessed. Read this book like postdated scripture\, and be loved.” – DENIZEN KANE\, POET/EMCEE\, TYPICAL CATS \n“These poems mark the time of millennial southern California\, the time of brown boyhood\, the time after death and before birth. ‘A time when we’re beginning to notice that we are so death & so penniless. / So penny-skinned.’ Perez asks how to live in the wake of violence and disconnection and a girl asks the alphabet. A balm of persistence\, commemoration becomes a promise of a time beyond time: ‘Today\, we’re coloring the king.'” – KIMBERLY ALIDIO\, AUTHOR OF AFTER THE PROJECTS THE RESOUND \n“This is for the mostless is a smartly forged momentum and memento\, a forward-thinking look back. From one line to the next\, Jason Magabo Perez can compel a tear or noisy nostalgia; mostly\, we are asked-with the urgency of justice and artful storying-to take all things that happen in our suburbs\, cities\, and histories deeply and consciously personal.” – VEJEA JENNINGS\, AUTHOR OF FREE LUNCH
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-for-the-mostless-book-launch/
LOCATION:Arkipelago Books\, 1010 MISSION ST\, SAN FRANCISCO\, 94103
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks November
DESCRIPTION:Ben Loory (Tales of Falling and Flying)\nStephen Elliott (The Adderall Diaries)\nAnnalee Newitz (Autonomous)\nMaggie Shen King (An Excess Male)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-november/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:A Poetic Exploratory w/ Dick Brown
DESCRIPTION:What is a poem?\nOur time together will be an exploratory of the poem: its origins and evolution\, its purposes\, its forms and surprises\, and\, above all\, its great powers and pleasures. \nWe will explore how a poem is constructed to gain its specific reason for being. \nSince poems are often questions more than answers\, open discussion will be highly valued. \n(Handouts will be made available) \nBring a favorite poem to share. \nDick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights\, NY\, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. \nDick attended the Squaw Valley Writers’ Conference and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference several times.  He a founder of the Marin Poet Laureate Program and the monthly poetry reading for the Marin Board of Supervisors. \nHe is the organizer of the biannual Real Men Write Poetry event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-poetic-exploratory-w-dick-brown/
LOCATION:O’Hanlon Center for the Arts\, 616 Throckmorton Avenue\, Mill Valley\, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Elevate Reading w/ Park\, Stein\, Chavez\, + Orth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this special event at Artist Television Access with four of the latest ELEVATE residents! ELEVATE is a collaboration between Real Time and Space and Small Press Traffic to provide studio space and performance opportunities to experimental writers.\n_________________\nNOVEMBER 12\, 2017\na reading & performance with\nthe four recent ELEVATE residents: Steve Orth\, MK Chavez\, Suzanne Stein and Julian Francis Park \nat ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS\, 992 Valencia Street\, San Francisco\, 94107 \nevent admission suggested donation of $6-12 \nJULIAN FRANCIS PARK has poems in Blind Field (forthcoming)\, Entropy\, HOLD (forthcoming)\, Horny Poetry Review (forthcoming)\, and Writing w/o Walls\, narrative excerpted in Queen Mob’s Tea House\, reviews in Jacket2 and Tripwire\, and a chapter\, “On the Historical Conditions of Accumulation\,” in Rosa Luxemburg: A Permanent Challenge for Political Economy. Julian does intake for Causa Justa/Just Cause’s Tenants’ Rights Clinic\, and facilitates a free\, weekly writing workshop with the Bay Area Public School at the Omni Commons. Julian also works on Omni’s newsletter\, The Commoner. Tweets @jfpark3 \nSUZANNE STEIN’s publications include The Kim Game\, TOUT VA BIEN\, and Hole in Space. With Steve Benson\, she is the author of Do Your Own Damn Laundry\, which documents the 36 improvisational dialogues they performed together between 2011-2012. She is the founding editor of SFMOMA’s Open Space. \nOakland-based writer\, MK CHAVEZ is the author of several chapbooks including Mothermorphosis (2016\, Nomadic Press) a full-collection of her work\, Dear Animal\, was released in October 2016 by Nomadic Press. Chavez is co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, curator of Uptown Friday Readings in Oakland\, and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Chavez’s work has been published widely in print and online. Her poem The New Whitehouse\, Finding Myself In The Ruins\, was selected by Eileen Myles for the 2017 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Award. \nSTEVE ORTH is from Kansas City\, MO and has lived in the Bay Area since 2000. With Lindsey Boldt\, he began publishing small books\, under the moniker Summer BF Press\, which published many classics such as Typing Wild Speech by Dana Ward\, The Truth About Ted by Bruce Boone\, and many others. Steve also edited Where Eagles Dare Magazine and curated Hybrid Moments Reading Series. He was a founding member of the short lived\, but memorable\, La Commune Books & Café\, a collectively owned bookstore in Oakland\, CA. Steve is also a writer\, and his latest\, Cyborg Legs (OMG! Press\, 2015) is a fable involving grocery stores.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elevate-reading-w-park-stein-chavez-orth/
LOCATION:Small Press Traffic\, 1111 8th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94107\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:An Evening w/ David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with David Sedaris\, author of previous bestsellers Naked  and Me Talk Pretty One Day and regular National Public Radio contributor\, at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts for One Night Only on November 12 at 7:00pm.  This is a unique opportunity to see the best-selling humorist in an intimate setting.  As always\, Sedaris will be offering a selection of all-new readings and recollections\, as well as a Q&A session and post-show books signing.  This event follows the release of his newest book\, Theft By Finding Diaries (1977 – 2002)\, which comes out on May 30\, 2017. Get your tickets today at DavidSedarisOnTour.com!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-w-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Center for the Performing Arts\, 255\, Almaden Blvd\, CA\, 95113\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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