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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171116T193000
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SUMMARY:Julia Bouwsma + Tess Taylor
DESCRIPTION:Julia Bouwsma lives off-the-grid in the mountains of western Maine\, where she is a poet\, farmer\, freelance editor\, critic\, and small-town librarian. She is the author of MIDDEN (Fordham University Press\, forthcoming 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017). Her poems and book reviews appear in Bellingham Review\, Colorado Review\, Muzzle\, Salamander\, RHINO\, River Styx\, and other journals. She is the recipient of the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize\, the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award\, and residencies from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center. A former Managing Editor for Alice James Books\, Bouwsma currently serves as Book Review Editor for Connotation Press: An Online Artifact and as Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine.\n\n\n\n\n\nTess Taylor‘s chapbook\, The Misremembered World\, was selected by Eavan Boland for the Poetry Society of America’s inaugural chapbook fellowship. The San Francisco Chronicle called her first book\, The Forage House\, “stunning” and it was a finalist for the Believer Poetry Award. Her second book\, Work & Days\, was called “our moment’s Georgic” by critic Steph Burt and was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Boston Review\, Harvard Review\, The Times Literary Supplement\, and other places. Taylor has received awards and fellowships from MacDowell\, Headlands Center for the Arts\, and The International Center for Jefferson Studies. Taylor currently chairs the poetry committee of the National Book Critics Circle and is the on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered. She was most recently a Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University in Belfast\, Northern Ireland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/julia-bouwsma-tess-taylor/
LOCATION:Falkirk Cultural Center\, 1408 Mission Ave\, San Rafael \, CA\, 94901\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171116T200000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171116T223000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling's Hurts So Good
DESCRIPTION:Doors and Bang-O at 7pm. Stories start at 8pm. Come early and make a few new friends! We recommend you arrive by 7.15pm. \nTickets: $30 reserved premium seating\, $20 advance general admission. \nPERFORMERS \nThis evening features tales of hurting – but in a good way – and is hosted by nationally-known sexual folklorist Dixie De La Tour. Come on out and play some Bang-O before the show for a chance to win prizes just for talking to sexy strangers! The bar will be serving Bawdy-themed cocktails\, so expect some interesting conversation. \nWe’ll be posting more details about the storytellers and musical act soon. \nGot a story about a time when you found out how good hurt can be that you’d like to share at the show? Send a voice mail with your pitch to dixie@bawdystorytelling.com.  If you’re selected\, you get a free coaching session from Dixie for the show\, and your chance to shine on our stage.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytellings-hurts-so-good/
LOCATION:Verdi Club\, 2424 Mariposa St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T180000
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SUMMARY:Black Took Collective
DESCRIPTION:Co-Founded in 1999 by Duriel E. Harris\, Dawn Lundy Martin and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Cave Canem\, a retreat for African American Poets\, Black Took Collective is a group of younger Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms\, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race\, gender\, and sexuality. Their manifesto\, “Call for Dissonance\,” appears in FENCE\, Fall/Winter 2002 and A Best of Fence Anthology: The First Nine Years.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-took-collective/
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:20171117T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
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SUMMARY:THERE 18
DESCRIPTION:featuring a quartet of local authors: Joey Garcia\, fiction writer Elizabeth James\,  essayist Jane Anne Staw\, and Shelley Blanton-Stroud\, plus music TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-18/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171117T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171117T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170929T235703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T024909Z
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SUMMARY:Cristina Rivera Garza w/ Mauro Javier Cardenas
DESCRIPTION:Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza discusses her new novel\, The Iliac Crest\, with Mauro Javier Cardenas. \nPraise for The Iliac Crest \n“An intelligent\, beautiful story about bodies disguised as a story about language disguised as a story about night terrors. Cristina Rivera Garza does not respect what is expected of a writer\, of a novel\, of language. She is an agitator.” —Yuri Herrera\, author of Kingdom Cons \n“Like the ocean itself\, Cristina Rivera Garza writes a world where borders shift and dissolve. In the curves of the fantastic\, the highest realism is born. This world is weird. This world is so deeply true. Reader\, I love this wholly perfect book.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of Mr. Splitfoot \n“Warning: Cristina Rivera Garza is an explosive writer yet to be fully accounted for in English. She is an insubordinate stylist\, a skilled creator of atmospheric and haunting language\, and The Iliac Crest is a willfully queer piece where the workings of her wild imagination destabilize everything.” —Lina Meruane\, author of Seeing Red \nAbout The Iliac Crest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cristina-rivera-garza-with-mauro-javier-cardenas/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171118T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171118T173000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Sin Against the Race\, a novel
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the publication of Sin Against the Race\, a new novel by Oakland-based writer Gar McVey-Russell. \nSin Against the Race follows the coming out journey of Alfonso Rutherford Berry III\, son of a city councilman and grandson of the state’s first African American legislator. During his journey\, Alfonso makes new friends\, finds love\, and discovers his own voice. Written in taut prose steeped in history and current events–and seasoned with the blues–Sin Against the Race follows the coming-of-age journey of a young black gay man as he progresses from an invisible councilman’s son to a formidable presence in his community. \nThe author will read from the book\, take questions\, and sign copies. Come and mingle in a haze of jazz and the delicious wine\, beer\, and food offered by Octopus Literary Salon. \nAbout the author: Gar began writing early in life\, but thought he wanted to be an astronomer. (He also thought he was straight. Go figure.) \nAt UCLA\, he co-created a left-leaning paper called Free Association. He also wrote commentaries for The Daily Bruin and feature articles for the LGBTQ newsmagazine Ten Percent\, for which he received an award. \nHe began fiction writing in the early 90s. His work has appeared in Sojourner: Black Gay Voices in the Age of AIDS (1993)\, and other publications. \nGar is married and lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-launch-sin-against-the-race-a-novel/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
ORGANIZER;CN="gamr books":MAILTO:gamrbooks@thegarspot.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171119T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171119T180000
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SUMMARY:Let's Create The World We Want! The 4th Howard Zinn Book Fair
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\nIt’s been a tough year in the US for anyone who cares about fairness\, justice and equality and a lot of folks may be giving into cynicism and even despair over the apparent destruction of the few vestiges of democracy left in this country. However\, one bright spot is the 4th Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair which focuses on The World We Want!\n\n\n \n\n\nWe gather together authors\, zinesters\, bloggers and publishers for a day of nearly 60 readings\, panel discussions and workshops exploring the value of dissident histories towards building a better future with visions that excite our passions. In the spirit of the late historian Howard Zinn we recognize the stories of the ways that everyday people have risen to propose a world beyond empires big and small. There will also be a big room full of radical book sellers\, publishers and community organizations who all have fresh\, vibrant views on the kind of world we could have and are working hard to make that happen.\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will have over 120 speakers\, including:\n\n\n \n\n\n* Adam Hochschild\, NY Times Best-Selling author of Spain in Our Hearts and King Leopold’s Ghost\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sekou Odinga\, former Black Panther Party member and recently released political prisoner\, author of In the Whirlwind\n\n\n \n\n\n* Rebecca Solnit\, Harper’s contributing editor and author of The Mother of All Questions and Men Explain Things to Me will discuss What’s Next for the Resistance\n\n\n \n\n\n* Punk icon\, Michelle Cruz Gonzales\, author of the Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Punk Band\n\n\n \n\n\n* Sasha Lilly\, local activist\, Pacifica Radio host and author/editor of numerous books including Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult\n\n\n \n\n\nWe will also have a five session track dedicated to exploring what ‘Black Reconstruction In Our Time’ would look like based on the seminal writings of W.E.B. Du Bois.\n\n\n \n\n\nYou can see our full line-up of amazing speakers and exhibitors at: howardzinnbookfair.com\n\n\n \n\n\nThe Howard Zinn Book Fair has become one of the largest gatherings of progressive-thinking people in SF in recent years and is sure to cheer even the most jaded cynic. Please join us Sunday\, Nov. 19 from 10am to 6pm at SF City College’s Mission Campus at 1125 Valencia Street near 22nd and help create the world we really want!\n\n\n \n\n\n\nChild care will be available\, the Mission Campus cafe will be open and\, thanks to a bunch if generous donors\, the whole event is free!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lets-create-the-world-we-want-the-4th-howard-zinn-book-fair/
LOCATION:City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus\, 1125 valencia Street\, San Francisco\,\, 94110
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171120T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170324T014121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170922T061541Z
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SUMMARY:POETS! - featured readers followed by an open mic
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URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-featured-readers-followed-by-an-open-mic-8/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171120T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171120T203000
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SUMMARY:Andy Weir Artemis Launch
DESCRIPTION:The author of the instant classic\, The Martian\, is back with a novel that will have you on the edge of your seat! Celebrate the release of the most-anticipated book of the year. \nAndy Weir presents: Artemis \nArtemis is the first only city on the moon. If you aren’t a tourist or an eccentric billionaire\, life in this fledgling new territory is tough. Providence and imperial dreams have been nickel-and-dimed from those who have called the moon their home. That’s why Jazz doesn’t rely on her day-job. She moonlights\, instead\, as a smuggler\, and gets along okay with small-time contraband that is\, until the chance to commit the perfect crime presents itself. \nJoin Kepler’s Literary Foundation for the literary event of the year! \nAndy Weir built a career as a software engineer until the runaway success of his debut novel\, The Martian\, allowed him to pursue writing full-time. He is a lifelong space nerd and a devoted hobbyist of subjects such as relativistic physics\, orbital mechanics\, and the history of manned spaceflight. He lives in California. \nTicket Information:\n$50.00 — Premier ticket with hardcover copy of “Artemis”\n$25.00 — General seating; does not include book\n$15.00 — Student seating; no book; must show student ID
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-weir-artemis-launch/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171121T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T020655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020655Z
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SUMMARY:Avotcja + David Hathwell
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/avotcja-david-hathwell/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171128T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T020717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T020717Z
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SUMMARY:Gail Mitchell + Michael Koch
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/gail-mitchell-michael-koch/
LOCATION:North Beach\, SF Public Library\, 850 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171128T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170817T045322Z
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SUMMARY:Spring Washam: A Fierce Heart
DESCRIPTION:“Cultivating a fierce heart is about learning to embrace it all\, even the most painful aspects of our life—every experience and all of ourself.”\n– Spring Washam \nIn A Fierce Heart\, Spring Washam shares her contemporary\, unique interpretation of the Buddha’s 2\,500-year-old teachings\, with short chapters that get to the heart of mindfulness\, wisdom\, loving kindness\, and compassion. \nWoven throughout the book are stories from the author’s life\, family\, and ancestors\, along with many soulful\, heartfelt stories from all over the world. Washam’s teachings focus on social action\, multiculturalism\, and youth\, making the Dharma welcoming to as large and wide a community as possible. \nAnyone who has suffered will benefit from the life-saving teachings of this charismatic teacher. Her humor\, enthusiasm\, and energy are a refreshing addition to the pantheon of books on mindfulness. \n—\nSpring Washam is a founding member and core teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center\, and a well-known meditation and dharma teacher based in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/spring-washam-a-fierce-heart/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171129T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171129T210000
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SUMMARY:Helen Benedict w/ Ayelet Waldman
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host Helen Benedict for her new novel Wolf Season. She’ll be in conversation with Ayelet Waldman (A Really Good Day). Join us! \nAfter a hurricane devastates a small town in upstate New York\, the lives of three women and their young children are irrevocably changed. Rin\, an Iraq War veteran\, tries to protect her blind daughter and the three wolves under her care. Naema\, a widowed doctor who fled Iraq with her wounded son\, faces life-threatening injuries and confusion about her feelings for Louis\, a veteran and widower harboring his own secrets and guilt. Beth\, who is raising a troubled son\, waits out her marine husband’s deployment in Afghanistan\, equally afraid of him coming home and of him never returning at all. As they struggle to maintain their humanity and find hope\, their war-torn lives collide in a way that will affect their entire community. \nHelen Benedict\, a professor at Columbia University\, writes frequently about justice\, women\, soldiers\, and war. She is the author of seven novels\, including Wolf Season (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press) and Sand Queen\, a Publishers Weekly “Best Contemporary War Novel.” A recipient of both the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, Benedict is also the author of five works of nonfiction and the play The Lonely Soldier Monologues: Women at War in Iraq. She lives in New York. \nAyelet Waldman is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood\, My Marriage\, and My Life\, the novels Love and Treasure\, Red Hook Road\, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits\, and Daughter’s Keeper\, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes\, Minor Calamities\, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place\, Not of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley\, California\, with her husband\, Michael Chabon\, and their four children.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/helen-benedict-w-ayelet-waldman/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171130T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T010013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T010013Z
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SUMMARY:InsideStorytime LAYERS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings accompanied by the music of Makram Abu-Shakra. The readers will be Zubair Ahmed (City of Rivers)\, Sean Taylor (Your Smallest Bones)\, Ammi Keller\, Nancy Au\, and Teck Sway-Bien.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-layers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170816T001235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T001235Z
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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-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171202T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171202T200000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171122T035846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171122T035846Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon Winter '17 Reading
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday Dec 2\, Babylon Salon welcomes an all-female lineup of award-winning writers: ACHY OBEJAS (Ruins; Days of Awe) Poet ARISA WHITE (Hurrah’s Nest: A Penny Saved); BARBARA JANE REYES (Invocation to Daughters; To Love as Aswang); LAURIE ANN DOYLE (World Gone Missing); and KATE FOLK (2016-18 Affiliate Artist at the the Headlands Center for the Arts) \n@ The Armory Club\, downstairs performance space. 1799 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, 94103. FREE ADMISSION– Cash bar exotica. Doors open at 5:30 PM\, reading at 6:00 PM. www.babylonsalon.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon-winter-17-reading/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171204T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T032204Z
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SUMMARY:Javier Zamora: Unaccompanied
DESCRIPTION:Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4\,000 miles\, across multiple borders\, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics\, race\, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that’s been left behind. \nThrough an unflinching gaze\, plainspoken diction\, and a combination of Spanish and English\, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited\, coyotes lead migrants astray\, and “the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun.” \nFrom “Let Me Try Again”: \nHe knew we weren’t Mexican.\nHe must’ve remembered his family\ncoming over the border\, or the border\ncoming over them\, because he drove us\nto the border and told us next time\, rest\nat least five days\, don’t trust anyone calling\nthemselves coyotes\, bring more tortillas\, sardines\,\nAlhambra. He knew we would try again.\nAnd again–like everyone does. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley\, an MFA at New York University\, and is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/javier-zamora-unaccompanied/
LOCATION:Book Passage Marin\, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. \, Corte Madera\, CA\, 94925\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171204T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171110T073021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T073012Z
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SUMMARY:Jeanne Powell & Avotcja - POETS! - featured readers to be announced followed by an open mic
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jeanne-powell-avotcja-poets-featured-readers-to-be-announced-followed-by-an-open-mic/
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171205T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T024814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024814Z
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SUMMARY:Charif Shanahan + Sam Sax
DESCRIPTION:Charif Shanahan and Sam Sax read from their latest poetry collections. \n\nAbout Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing \nWinner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award \nIn this affecting poetry debut\, Charif Shanahan explores what it means to be fully human in our wounded and divided world. In poised yet unrelenting lyric poems\, Shanahan–queer and mixed-race–confronts the challenges of a complex cultural inheritance\, informed by colonialism and his mother’s immigration to the United States from Morocco\, navigating racial constructs\, sexuality\, family\, and the globe in search of “who we are to each other . . . who we are to ourselves.” \nAbout Madness \nWinner of the 2016 National Poetry Series CompetitionIn \nIn this powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charif-shanahan-sam-sax/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T193000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171020T023621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171020T023621Z
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SUMMARY:Rabih Alameddine
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Main Library as Rabih Alameddine reads from\, and discusses\, his new novel The Angel of History. \nSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic\, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life\, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring\, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour\, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life\, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana’a\, Stockholm\, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound\, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rabih-alameddine/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171206T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170926T014636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171001T002913Z
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SUMMARY:Pandemonium Press: Sugartown Voices
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: TBA. An open mic follows the featured readers. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2021 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/pandemonium-press-sugartown-voices/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170816T002121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T002121Z
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SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T121000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T125000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171208T023948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023948Z
UID:29436-1512648600-1512651000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Rita Dove
DESCRIPTION:Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Thomas and Beulah. The author of numerous poetry books\, most recently Collected Poems 1974-2004 (2016) and Sonata Mulattica(2009)\, she also published a collection of short stories\, a novel\, a play and\, as editor\, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011). Among her many awards are the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama and the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton. Rita Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rita-dove-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T203000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171208T023108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023108Z
UID:29431-1512671400-1512678600@litseen.com
SUMMARY:InsideStorytime ATTRACTORS
DESCRIPTION:Will feature readings from: Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun)\,\nRaina Leon (Profeta Without Refuge)\,\nJanine Kovac (Spinning)\,\nAndrew J. Thomas (Strangeland)\,\nand Sam Gong.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-attractors/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170721T233843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T233843Z
UID:28058-1512673200-1512680400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Sam Sax + D.A. Powell
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the release of Sam Sax’s new poetry collection \nMADNESS \npublished by Penguin Books \nAn “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition \nIn this ­­­powerful debut collection\, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire\, addiction\, and the history of mental health. These brave\, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately\, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity\, heterosexuality\, masculinity\, normality\, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it. \nsam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, Lambda Literary\, The MacDowell Colony\, the Blue Mountain Center\, and the Michener Center for Writers. He’s the winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award and his poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Gulf Coast\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and other journals. \n\nD. A. Powell is the author of four previous collections of poetry\, the trilogy of Tea\, Lunch\, and Cocktails\, and Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His last two books have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches in the English department at University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sam-sax-d-a-powell/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171207T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171207T210000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171208T030733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T030733Z
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SUMMARY:Collectivity\, Intersectionality & Possibility: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Nomadic Press for a night of poetry\, book readings and conversation on the themes of collectivity\, intersectionality and possibility. We will be considering the role and experience of the individual in the collective; what intersectionality can mean for us today; and where we can possibly go from here. \nHow is the inflection of gender\, race\, class\, sexuality and religion relevant to our feminisms and resistance efforts? \nWhat does it mean to represent? Can anyone? Should anyone? Who never gets a chance? \nThere will be readings from an unpublished anthology of essays by women of color including Odelia Younge and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan\, as well as poetry\, prose and conversation with Amber Butts. \nBring energy\, critique\, questions and good vibes. Its sure to be an enriching night. \nInformation about the performers: \nDelia Younge is a San Francisco-based educator\, writer\, researcher\, spiritualist\, and builder residing in San Francisco. Her research focuses on black male youth identity\, transgressions\, and resistance\, within spatial theory\, critical youth studies\, and radical black feminist theory. Her previous work has focused on black women collectives and historical memory. She believes that knowing is about forgetting what you have been taught to be true\, and building anew. She is driven by the principle of doing well by those she loves and for who her research speaks to and helps provide a platform for. Delia is an editor at Blaqueerflow and many of her writings can be found on her personal blog on journeys\, love and the durability of faith at www.footprintsinair.wordpress.com. \nSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a Muslim writer and spoken-word poet from Britain. She is interested in race\, gender\, Islamophobia\, the construction of Muslims in Britain\, intersectional feminism and knowledge production. She writes on these topics at her popular blog: www.thebrownhijabi.comand in her poetry which can be found on YouTube. \nAmber Butts is a writer\, educator and tenants rights organizer from Oakland\, CA. Her work has appeared in Blaqueerflow\, KPFA’s Women’s Magazine Radio and 6×8 Press. She is currently at work on an afro-futurist novel focused on themes of intergenerational trauma\, imagination\, Black survival and environmental racism. Amber’s writing challenges multiple systems of oppression through the use of queer and womanist frameworks. She works to amplify the stories of poor Black folks\, with an emphasis on mamas\, children and elders. She believes in asking big and small questions that lead to tangible expressions of freedom and liberation. \nProverbs\, a New York City native\, is a preacher\, poet\, educator\, and Emmy-award-winning media producer. She is passionate about ending male sexual violence against women and children\, the arts\, and being Black af. Proverbs lives and loves in Oakland with her hubby\, Brandon\, and can be found on the media of social: Lyvonne Proverbs Picou
URL:https://litseen.com/event/collectivity-intersectionality-possibility-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T190000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171119T030932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171119T030932Z
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SUMMARY:The Nocturnists Holiday Party Fundraiser
DESCRIPTION:The Nocturnists is a night of physicians telling stories about their most memorable\, moving\, humorous\, absurd\, and trying experiences. For more information\, read about us here. \nWe have great plans for 2018\, but in order to make them a reality\, we need your continued support! So please join us for a festive holiday party on the evening of Friday\, December 8th at The Bindery\, an intimate literary enclave in The Haight. We’ll have drinks\, finger food\, music\, a live Q&A with emergency medicine physician and writer Ben Lerman\, PLUS you’ll get an exclusive first listen to our upcoming podcast. \nRSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-nocturnists-holiday-party-fundraiser/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="The Nocturnists":MAILTO:emily@thenocturnists.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171208T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171208T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171022T024954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171022T024954Z
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SUMMARY:Karen + Jim Shepard
DESCRIPTION:Karen and Jim Shepard discuss their new books from Tin House\, The Tunnel at the End of the Light and Kiss Me Someone. \nAbout Kiss Me Someone \nBold and unapologetic\, Karen Shepard’s Kiss Me Someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood\, stability and uncertainty\, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class\, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex\, but for all of their rationality they’re drawn to self-destructive behavior. Shepard’s stories explore what we do to lessen our burdens of sadness and isolation; her characters\, fiercely true to themselves\, are caught between their desire to move beyond their isolation and a fear that it’s exactly where they belong. \nAbout The Tunnel at the End of the Light \nGiven that most Americans proudly consider themselves non-political\, where do our notions of collective responsibility come from? Which self-deceptions\, when considering ourselves as actors on the world stage\, do we cling to most tenaciously? Why do we so stubbornly believe\, for example\, that our country always means well when intervening abroad? The Tunnel at the End of the Light argues that some of our most persistent and destructive assumptions\, in that regard\, might come from the movies. In these ten essays Jim Shepard weaves close readings of film with cultural criticism to explore the ways in which movies work so ubiquitously to reflect how Americans think and act. Whether assessing the “high-spirited glee of American ruthlessness” captured in GoodFellas\, or finding in Lawrence of Arabia a “portrait of the lunatic serenity of our leaders’ conviction in the face of all evidence and their own lack of knowledge\,” he explores how we enter into conversations with specific genres and films–Chinatown\, The Third Man\, and Badlands among others–in order to construct and refine our most cherished illusions about ourselves.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/karen-jim-shepard/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171209T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T180000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20171208T023646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171208T023646Z
UID:29433-1512817200-1512842400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Paseo Artístico - How Do You Carry Home With You?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE neighborhood celebration that will bring an eclectic mix of music\, entertainment and art activities at venues along the 24th Street corridor. \n— DECEMBER 9 EVENT SCHEDULE — \nPrecita Eyes Muralists | 2981 24th Street\n11 AM to 12:30 PM\nBILINGUAL GUIDED MURAL TOUR\n– Trace decades of visual storytelling on our bilingual guided mural tour through the 24th Street Corridor. \nColibri | 2919 24th St\n1 PM to 4 PM\nBROWN SANTA CLAUS\n-With your family or friends\, take a picture with Brown Santa! \nAlley Cat Books | 3036 24th Street\n1 PM to 3 PM\nLIVE SCREEN PRINTING\n– A live screen printing workshop and demonstration lead by renowned Mission printmaker Calixto Robles. \nBook Mobile\n1 PM to 4 PM\nFREE BOOKS\n– The San Francisco Public Libraries Book Mobile will be accessible to the neighborhood and will be providing free books. \nGalería de la Raza |2857 24th St\n3 PM to 5 PM\nSCREEN PRINTING & POETRY READINGS\n-Suavecita Press\n– QR Hand\n– Thea Matthews\n– Rene Vaz\n– Joyce Lee \nBrava for Women in the Arts | 2781 24th Street\n2 PM to 4 PM\nLATINX POETRY READINGS\n– Juliana Lopera\n– Cathie Arrellano\n– Maya Chincilla\n– Denise Benevides \nDance Brigade’s Dance Mission | 3316 24th Street\n4:30 PM to 6 PM\nCENTRAL AMERICAN FOLKLÓRICO DANCE CLASS\n– Chavalos de Aquí y Alla’s folklórico dance group\, Danzas por Nicaragua and dance director\, Diana Aburto will be teaching the basics of folkloric dance\, a preview of the main regional dances from Nicaragua and dances from the pacific and Atlantic coast. Folkloric dance skirts will be provided to participants. \nMission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 2868 Mission Street\n12 PM to 3 PM\nART EXHIBIT & STENCIL MURAL WORKSHOP\n– EXHIBIT: Xanath Mirell\n– Otomí Stencil mural workshop\n– Screening of: Boy and The World \nAcción Latina | 2958 24th St\n1 PM to 3 PM\n– Free public reading and presentation by author Adriana Camarena of the first two issues of “Unsettled in the Mission.”\n4 PM\n-Screening of: Your Name \nArtillery AG | 2751 Mission Street\n1PM to 5PM\nMURAL WORKSHOP & LIVE MUSIC\n-1PM-3PM Mural Workshop\n-3PM Dj Leydis de Cuba\n-3:30PM Chhoti Maa from Mexico\n– 4PM Bocafloja from Mexico \n—\nTHANK YOU TO OUR 24TH STREET / MISSION DISTRICT PARTNERS\, SPONSORS\, MERCHANTS\, AND SUPPORTERS!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paseo-artistico-how-do-you-carry-home-with-you/
LOCATION:Latino Cultural District\, 24th Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171209T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20171209T213000
DTSTAMP:20260420T231303
CREATED:20170816T010909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170816T010909Z
UID:28379-1512847800-1512855000@litseen.com
SUMMARY:Writers With Drinks December
DESCRIPTION:Becky Chambers (A Closed and Common Orbit)\nDean Rader (Self Portrait as Wikipedia Entry)\nDavid D. Levine (Arabella and the Battle of Venus)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-with-drinks-december/
LOCATION:Make-Out Room\, 3225 22nd St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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