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SUMMARY:Smut: An Unseemly Story (The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson)
DESCRIPTION:One of England’s finest and most loved writers\, Alan Bennett\, explores the uncomfortable and tragicomic gap between people’s public appearance and their private desires in this tender and surprising story. In The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson\, a recently bereaved widow finds interesting ways to supplement her income by performing as a patient for medical students\, and renting out her spare room. Quiet\, middle-class\, and middle-aged\, Mrs. Donaldson will soon discover that she rather enjoys role-play at the hospital\, and the irregular and startling entertainment provided by her tenants.A master storyteller dissects a very English form of secrecy with this story of the unexpected in otherwise apparently ordinary lives.  Directed by Amy Kossow.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/smut-an-unseemly-story-the-greening-of-mrs-donaldson/
LOCATION:Z Space\, 450 Florida Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:JUNE 1\, 2017 – JUNE 4\, 2017 \n2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival \nCastro Theatre | San Francisco\, CA \nJoin the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 San Francisco Silent Film Festival! Each year the Center sponsors new translations of silent film intertitles. Stay tuned for more information. \nSFSFF recently announced the rediscovery of a lost Cecil B. DeMille production—Silence—which is being restored by the Cinémathèque Française and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival as we speak. Silence will have its world premiere at SFSFF 2017. \nAlso\, the cat is out of the bag: Alloy Orchestra will premiere its new score for one of the most intriguing films of the silent era\, Teinosuke Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness\, in a new restoration. \nThe complete schedule will be revealed in late March 2017. \n\nCONTACT: \n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter \nlwoofter@catranslation.org \n(415) 512-8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-san-francisco-silent-film-festival/
LOCATION:Castro Theater\, 429 Castro Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:*RADAR SuperStars
DESCRIPTION:Join RADAR for its annual birthday and SuperStar Pride Program. On stage tonight are Ana María Montenegro\, Clement Goldberg and MariNaomi. Hosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera and sponsored by the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center of San Francisco Public Library. \nSee Queerest.Library.Ever. sfpl.org/hormelat20 for related online exhibits\, archives\, and resources.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstars/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
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SUMMARY:Radar Superstar: A Queer AF Variety Show
DESCRIPTION:Join Radar Productions for our annual celebration showcase. We choose 4 incredible queer artists and welcome you to the gorgeous Koret Auditorium for a free show! \nThursday\, June 1\nShow begins at 6pm\nSan Francisco Main Library\n100 Larkin Street\nKoret Auditorium (lower level)\nHosted by Juliana Delgado Lopera \nFEATURING…\nClement Hil Goldberg\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nAna María Montenegro Jaramillo\nMari Naomi\nLydia Greer + Shauna Fallihee \nClement Hil Goldberg is a multidisciplinary artist primarily working in film\, sculpture\, and animation to create a fabulous extinction aesthetic. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative feature film Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling in 2013. In 2016 Clement received their MFA in Art Practice and New Media certificate from UC Berkeley. Their current project Our Future Ends was awarded a 2016 visual arts Creative Work Fund grant in collaboration with CounterPulse. Goldberg’s work has been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery; Yerba Buena Center For The Arts\, SOMArts\, Luggage Store Gallery\, Artists Television Access\, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline\, Outfest\, MIX NYC\, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. \nVanessa Lewis\, formerly known as Jezebel Delilah X\, is a queer\, lush-bodied\, Black\, femme performance artist\, writer\, actress\, filmmaker\, educator\, facilitator\, orator and Faerie Queen Mermaid Gangsta for The Revolution. She loves to flirt\, laugh\, perform\, crack corny jokes\, and insert Octavia Butler references into every conversation. She is a Co-Managing Editor for Everyday Feminism and Director of queer\, Black\, multi-disciplinary performance troupe\, Congregation of Liberation. She has performed in a wide variety of Queer theatre projects and cabarets\, and has been a featured reader at literary events all over the Bay Area. She uses a combination of memoir\, poetry\, theatre\, and feminist storytelling to advance her politix of radical love\, socioeconomic justice\, anti-racism\, community accountability\, critical reflection\, love\, healing\, and liberation. She loves romantic songs\, romantic films\, romantic books\, romantic conversations\, romantic friendships\, and writing long\, vulnerable\, passionate facebook statuses about romance. \nAna María Montenegro (1986) is a Colombian artist based in San Francisco\, CA. Her work is a series of conceptual experiments that deal with the structural rules that govern image composition\, the protocols of narrative genres and the cultural codes that affect them. She uses media that allows her to play with time\, text\, movement and randomness. \nMariNaomi is the award-winning author and illustrator of Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume\, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial\, 2011)\, Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books\, 2014)\, Turning Japanese (2dcloud\, 2016)\, and I Thought YOU Hated ME (Retrofit Comics\, 2016). Her work has appeared in over sixty print publications and has been featured on numerous websites\, such as The Rumpus\, LA Review of Books\, Midnight Breakfast and BuzzFeed. MariNaomi’s comics and paintings have been featured by such institutions as the Smithsonian\, the De Young Museum\, the Cartoon Art Museum\, the Asian Art Museum\, and the Japanese American Museum. In 2011\, Mari toured with the literary roadshow Sister Spit. She is the creator and curator of the Cartoonists of Color Database and the Queer Cartoonists Database. She has taught classes for the California College of the Arts Comics MFA program\, and is currently a guest editor at PEN America. \nLydia Greer is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work includes sculptural and video installation\, single channel video\, puppet theatre\, hand-made animation and works on paper. She works with themes of allegory and euphemism in narrative structures exploring the languages of psychology and theatre. Lydia is interested in the most elaborate forms of storytelling and time based art such as opera\, film and puppet theatre as well as the narrative charge of everyday objects and how communication ceremonies play out in the personal\, spiritual and historical/political arenas. Each narrative she works with is a misremembered\, taboo or unreliable story inviting audience engagement in narrative construction and play. From 2003-2007 she directed the LET’S DANCE SHADOW THEATRE\, a handmade\, ragtag puppet company in Portland\, OR. Since then her mixed media work has been shown at the Exploratorium Museum\, Artists’ Television Access\, Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum\, Santa Clara University\, Portland Experimental Film Festival\, Berkeley Center for New Media\, Adobe Back Room Gallery\, Royal None Such Gallery and SomArts among other venues. She has also worked as a puppeteer and designer with ShadowLight Productions in San Francisco. Lydia is currently the Artistic Director of Facing West Shadow Opera: a collective of predominantly queer artists\, filmmakers\, and musicians hybridizing art forms including live opera\, animation\, shadow theatre and found film to create unique performances\, each akin to a live graphic novel with euphoria-inducing live chamber music. \nSoprano Shauna Fallihee has been featured with numerous Bay Area ensembles including San Francisco Choral Society\, Masterworks Chorale\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Open Opera\, West Bay Opera and the Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Noontime Concert Series. Deeply dedicated to the performance of new music\, Shauna has performed world premieres and contemporary works with Facing West Shadow Theater\, NothingSet Ensemble\, San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra\, Opus Project\, Wild Rumpus\, Ensemble Mik Nawooj and enjoyed a decade with new music chamber choir Volti. An active educator\, Shauna is on the voice faculty at Holy Names University\, Chabot College\, City College San Francisco\, Acalanes High School and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. She is also a Master Teacher Trainer for The Dailey Method\, an alignment-based Barre and Cycle fitness program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/radar-superstar-a-queer-af-variety-show/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library\, 100 Larkin St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Scaachi Koul + Doree Shafrir
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Saachi Koul and Doree Shafrir. \nA debut collection of fierce and funny essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants\, addressing sexism\, cultural stereotypes and the universal miseries of life by rising star Scaachi Koul. \nIn One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter\, Koul deploys her razor sharp humor to share all the fears\, outrages\, and mortifying moments of her life. She learned from an early age what made her miserable\, and for Scaachi anything can be cause for despair. Whether it’s a shopping trip gone awry; enduring awkward conversations with her bikini waxer; overcoming her fear of flying while vacationing halfway around the world; dealing with internet trolls\, or navigating the fears and anxieties of her parents. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of color\, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique\, derision\, or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures\, leaving little room for a woman not solely focused on marriage and children to have a career (and a life) for herself. \nWith a sharp eye and biting wit\, Koul offers a hilarious\, scathing\, and honest look at modern life. \nScaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta\, and is a culture writer for BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker\, The Hairpin\, The Globe and Mail\, and Jezebel. She lives in Toronto. \n  \nMack McAllister has a $600 million dollar idea. His mindfulness app\, TakeOff\, is already the hottest thing in tech and he’s about to launch a new and improved version that promises to bring investors running and may turn his brainchild into a $1 billion dollar business–in startup parlance\, an elusive unicorn. \nKatya Pasternack is hungry for a scoop that will drive traffic. An ambitious young journalist at a gossipy tech blog\, Katya knows that she needs more than another PR friendly puff piece to make her the go-to byline for industry news.\nSabrina Choe Blum just wants to stay afloat. The exhausted mother of two and failed creative writer is trying to escape from her credit card debt and an inattentive husband-who also happens to be Katya’s boss-as she rejoins a work force that has gotten younger\, hipper\, and much more computer literate since she’s been away. \nBefore the ink on Mack’s latest round of funding is dry\, an errant text message hints that he may be working a bit too closely for comfort with a young social media manager in his office. When Mack’s bad behavior collides with Katya’s search for a salacious post\, Sabrina gets caught in the middle as TakeOff goes viral for all the wrong reasons. As the fallout from Mack’s scandal engulfs the lower Manhattan office building where all three work\, it’s up to Katya and Sabrina to write the story the men in their lives would prefer remain untold. \nAn assured\, observant debut from the veteran online journalist Doree Shafrir\, Startup is a sharp\, hugely entertaining story of youth\, ambition\, love\, money and technology’s inability to hack human nature. \nDoree Shafrir is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News and has written for New York Magazine\, Slate\, The Awl\, Rolling Stone\, Wired and other publications. A former resident of Brooklyn\, she now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Matt Mira\, a comedy writer and podcaster\, and their dog Beau.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/scaachi-koul-doree-shafrir/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi + Meron Hadero
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Kintu with author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Meron Hadero. The program will include a wine reception and booksigning. Tickets are $10 for non-members\, free for members of MoAD. \nFirst published in Kenya in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim\, Kintu is a modern classic\, a multilayered narrative that reimagines the history of Uganda through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan. Divided into six sections\, the novel begins in 1750\, when Kintu Kidda sets out for the capital to pledge allegiance to the new leader of the kingdom of Buganda. Along the way\, he unleashes a curse that will plague his family for generations. In an ambitious tale of a clan and a nation\, Makumbi weavestogether the stories of Kintu’s descendants as they seek to break from the burden of their shared past and reconcile the inheritance of tradition and the modern world that is their future. \nJennifer Nansubuga Makumbi\, a Ugandan novelist and short story writer\, has a PhD from Lancaster University. Her first novel\, Kintu\, won the Kwani Manuscript Project in 2013 and was longlisted for the Etisalat Prize in 2014. Her story “Let’s Tell This Story Properly” won the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She is currently working on her second novel and a collection of short stories\, Travel is to See\, Return is to Tell. Jennifer lives in Manchester\, UK with her husband\, Damian\, and her son\, Jordan. \nMeron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American whose short stories appear or are forthcoming in Best American Short Stories\, Selected Shorts on NPR/PRI\, The Missouri Review\, Boulevard\, The Normal School Online\, Indiana Review\, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan\, a JD from Yale Law School\, an AB from Princeton in history\, and is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto working on a novel and story collection.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-nansubuga-makumbi-and-meron-hadero/
LOCATION:Museum of the African Diaspora\, 685 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94105\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Weekday DONderlust
DESCRIPTION:Hello Wanderlusters! We hope you are out wandering our wide world but land back in San Francisco on Thursday June 1. It’s our annual DONDERLUST celebration of Don George’s Birthday\, made extra special because we are also feting the new release of THE BEST WOMEN’S TRAVEL WRITING\, edited by our own Lavinia Spalding. Woot! This incredible collection will be hot of the presses and is full of fantastic tales from women writers. We are honored to introduce you to three of them that will take you to the Czech Republic\, France\, and Japan. No passport needed\, just bring your effervescent spirit of community as we welcome Jennifer Kelley\, Colette Hannahan\, and Yukari Iwatani Kane. It’s our last event before our summer hiatus so please come say hello. Bios will be posted on our FB page. Our readings are held at the always hospitible Hotel Rex and start prompty at 7 pm\, but you can find a group of thirsty travelers and writers in the Library Bar at 6 pm. See you there! ~WW
URL:https://litseen.com/event/weekday-donderlust/
LOCATION:Hotel Rex\, 562 Sutter Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T210000
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CREATED:20170522T130224Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Fiction Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Flash Fiction Collective is thrilled to feature Jimin Han\, Julia Halprin Jackson\, and Gary Singh at our June reading! Join us at Alley Cat in the Mission for an evening of great stories and great conversations. \nJimin Han was born in Seoul\, Korea and grew up in New York\, Rhode Island\, and Ohio. Her writing can be found at NPR’s “Weekend America\,” Entropy\, The Rumpus\, HTMLGiant\, Hyphen Magazine\, Kartika Review\, KoreanAmericanStory.com. A Small Revolution (Little A Books) is her first novel. She teaches at the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. \nJulia Halprin Jackson’s work has appeared in West Branch Wired\, Oracle Fine Arts Review\, California Northern\, Fourteen Hills\, and elsewhere. She is the publicity director for Play On Words\, a literary series in San Jose. She has an MA in creative writing from UC Davis and currently contributes to Washington Square\, San Jose State University’s alumni magazine. \nGary Singh is currently a Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. As a scribe\, he’s published over 1000 works including travel essays\, art and music criticism\, profiles\, business journalism\, lifestyle articles\, poetry and short fiction. For 600 straight weeks\, his newspaper columns have appeared in Metro\, the alternative weekly paper of San Jose and Silicon Valley. As a poet\, his works has appeared in The Pedestal Magazine\, Maudlin House and several more. He is the author of The San Jose Earthquakes: A Seismic Soccer Legacy (2015\, The History Press). http://www.garysingh.info/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/flash-fiction-collective/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170601T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T213000
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SUMMARY:Robert Hass + David Koehn
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, June 1st for a reading and conversation with Robert Hass & David Koehn to benefit Omnidawn.\n\nRobert Hass​’s​ books of poetry include Time and Materials\, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and the National Book Award in 2008; Sun Under Wood\, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1996; Human Wishes; Praise\, for which he received the William Carlos Williams Award in 1979; and Field Guide\, which was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Hass also worked with Czeslaw Milosz to translate a dozen volumes of Milosz’s poetry\, including the book-length Treatise on Poetry and\, most recently\, A Second Space. His translations of the Japanese haiku masters have been collected in The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho\, Buson\, and Issa. His books of essays include Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry\, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1984\, and Now and Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns\, 1997-2000. From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He lives in northern California with his wife\, the poet Brenda Hillman\, and teaches English at the University of California at Berkeley.\n\nDavid Koehn’s first full length manuscript\, Twine\, now available from Bauhan Publishing\, won the 2013 May Sarton Poetry Prize. David’s poetry and translations were previously collected in two chapbooks\, Tunic\, (speCt! books 2013) a small collection of some translations of Catullus\, and Coil (University of Alaska\, 1998)\, winner of the Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. Omnidawn just released Compendium\, a collection of Donald Justice’s take on prosody. David’s second full-length collection\, Scatterplot\, is due out from Omnidawn in 2020. David’s writing has appeared in a wide range of literary magazines including Kenyon Review\, New England Review\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, Rhino\, Volt\, Carolina Quarterly\, New York Quarterly\, Diagram\, McSweeney’s\, The Greensboro Review\, and many others.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/robert-hass-and-david-koehn/
LOCATION:Studio One Arts Center\, 365 45th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mark Lukach + Sachi Cunningham
DESCRIPTION:Join Mark Lukach and Sachi Cunningham in conversation about mental health\, family\, and creativity as Mark releases his new book\, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward. \nAbout My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward \nA heart-wrenching\, yet hopeful\, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. \nMark and Giulia’s life together began as a storybook romance. They fell in love at eighteen\, married at twenty-four\, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven\, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal\, convinced that her loved ones were not safe. \nEventually\, Giulia fully recovered\, and the couple had a son. But\, soon after Jonas was born\, Giulia had another breakdown\, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss\, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. \nA story of the fragility of the mind\, and the tenacity of the human spirit\, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is\, above all\, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? Breathtaking in its candor\, radiant with compassion\, and written with dazzling lyricism\, Lukach’s is an intensely personal odyssey through the harrowing years of his wife’s mental illness\, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers’ faith in the power of love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-lukach-and-sachi-cunningham/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170601T220000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
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SUMMARY:YOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm\nShow at 8pm\nTickets: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1478069\n$10 in advance [plus online fees] or $10 at the door.\nIf cost is a concern\, please contact ned@yg2d.com. \nYOU’RE GOING TO DIE: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes\nis a total open mic event\, with no set or featured performers\,\nbut only the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love…\nwhile all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-7/
LOCATION:The Lost Church\, 65 Capp Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T130000
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CREATED:20170513T010116Z
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SUMMARY:Have a Poet for Lunch w/ Juliana Delgado Lopera
DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a lunchtime poetic performance in the gallery with Juliana Delgado Lopera in conjunction with Pride Month and the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. \n  \nJuliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer/educator/oral-historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award\, and a finalist of the Clark-Gross Novel award\, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latin@ immigrants awarded the Regen Ginaa Grant from Galería de la Raza and a 2014 National Queer Arts Festival Grant from the Queer Cultural Center. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in Four Way Review\, Eleven Eleven\, Foglifter\, The Bold Italic\, Weird Sister\, Black Girl Dangerous\, and SF Weekly\, among others. Lopera has performed in countless venues around the West Coast and lectured at San Francisco State University\, Wayward Writers and 826 Valencia. She’s the executive director of RADAR Productions\, a queer literary non-profit in San Francisco.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/have-a-poet-for-lunch-w-juliana-delgado-lopera/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T200000
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SUMMARY:Charmaine Craig
DESCRIPTION:National-bestselling author Charmaine Craig shares her masterful new novel\, Miss Burma. Based on Charmaine’s mother and grandparents\, Miss Burmais a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/charmaine-craig/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Burlingame\, 1375 Burlingame Ave\, Burlingame\, CA\, 94010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170502T004123Z
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SUMMARY:Play: Exhibit + Reading
DESCRIPTION:The AfroSurreal Writers and the Kiss My Black Arts Collective will open Let’s Play: Intuition\, Imagination\, and Black Creativity on Fri.\, June 2 at Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank Ogawa Plaza). \n\n\n\nThis exhibit features more than a dozen Black writers and artists\, with digital and audio projections of their work\, and follows a year of readings/workshops\, cleanings and plantings along Oakland’s San Pablo Avenue. The exhibit will be a celebration of Black neighborhoods and creativity. \nReaders include women from  Serenity House and the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop’s reading series on Intuition and Creativity\, as well as writers/artists Jacqueline Bishop\, Renee Alexander Craft\, Rachel Eliza Griffiths\, Jewelle Gomez\, Victor LaValle\, James Lee\, Kyla Marshell\, Sharan Strange\,  Sheree Renée Thomas\, and Dawnie Walton\, and artwork from the Members of the Kiss My Black Arts Collective\, who will create a mural inside the gallery based on their outdoor mural at San Pablo and Market.  \n  \n\nAbout the Kiss My Black Arts Collective: The Kiss My Black Arts Collective exists to help artists take your creativity to the next level Economically. Together\, they create social economics through Mural projects\, workshops and art exhibitions\, while encouraging participation and collaboration amongst their members\, local artists\, and community leaders through democratic controlled enterprises.  About the AfroSurreal Writers Workshop: The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop amplifies the voices of emerging and established writers and artists of color who create surreal\, futurist\, speculative fiction\, fantasy\, science fiction\, horror\, dystopian\, apocalyptic\, weird\, or absurdist literature and art\, centered in perspectives of people of color. About Serenity House: Serenity House was originally established as a recovery program for women suffering from addiction. Today\, we provide services for women who have been raped or molested as children\, suffer from addiction\, homelessness\, mental health\, and/or emotional issues caused by trauma.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/play-exhibit-reading/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170505T004322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170505T004322Z
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Grotto Writers: 3 Minute Reads
DESCRIPTION:3 Minute Reads from San Francisco Grotto Writers • 50+ Writers\, 3 Minutes Each! \nJoin us for a fast-paced and irreverent evening\, showcasing new work from the students of the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto writing classes. On this Friday evening\, both fiction and nonfiction writers will read their work — but only for 3 minutes each! Their instructors (Grotto authors) will enforce the time limit. Join us for wine\, fun\, and fresh new writing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-grotto-writers-3-minute-reads-2/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170503T232455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T232455Z
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SUMMARY:Brian Hassett's Beat Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac and keynote essayist in The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats\, Brian Hassett performs a comical collage of original and Beat works including a nobody’s-ever-done-it-before chapter from Kerouac’s final novel Pic. \nLongtime friend of Edie Kerouac-Parker\, Carolyn Cassady\, Henri Cru\, and numerous other Beat and Prankster luminaries\, Hassett is a natural and funny storyteller\, and has preformed Kerouac & the Beats on stage in Amsterdam\, London\, Toronto\, New York\, L.A. & at The Beat Museum’s own Beatnik Shindig in 2015. \nThis appearance is celebrating a new special “Summer of Love Edition” of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac with additional photos\, bringing the total in the book to 70! \nThis will be his first Bay Area performance in two years and the only one this Summer of Love. \nSpecial guests are likely. \nLively guests are a certainty. \nCharming event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/brian-hassetts-beat-cafe/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170504T004252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T004252Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday: Naked Truth real.stories.live
DESCRIPTION:Registration highly recommended. Registration will open Friday May 19th. \nFor Adults and High School Students only. \nSit back\, enjoy a glass of wine and watch as the Library is transformed into a venue for real people telling real-life stories\, raw and without notes.\nIt’s the 50th anniversary of the summer of love\, when tens of thousands of young people\, in search of something different\, came to San Francisco to find it. In honor of this very special moment in time\, our line-up of talented storytellers will share their own present-day stories of peace\, love\, and liberation. \nJosh Healey is back to emcee with storytellers Emily Epstein White\, Phil Surkis\, and others. \nIf you have a story to tell from the summer of love\, we want to hear it. Throw your name in the hat to tell a one minute story in our optional audience lightening round.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/first-friday-naked-truth-real-stories-live/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, Mill Valley Public Library\, 375 Throckmorton Ave\, Mill Valley \, CA\, 94941\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
ORGANIZER;CN="Mill Valley Public Library":MAILTO:abrenner@cityofmillvalley.org
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170515T234728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170515T234728Z
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SUMMARY:RHINO Poetry Magazine's 40th Anniversary Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Adobe Bookstore welcomes RHINO Poetry magazine and hosting a the reading as part of their 40 Readings in 40 Cities tour! A great series of readings to celebrate RHINO Poetry magazine’s 40th anniversary. \nSpecial guests: \nPeter Kline\, Brittany Perham\, Roy Mash and Cintia Santana. \nhttp://rhinopoetry.org/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rhino-poetry-magazines-40th-anniversary-reading-series/
LOCATION:Adobe Books\, 3130 24th St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170602T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170602T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170527T005609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T005609Z
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SUMMARY:Poets of Color Podcast
DESCRIPTION:Fundraiser: Poets of Color Podcast\nFriday\, June 2\, 2017 | 7:00 pm \nFundraiser and Showcase for the upcoming Poets of Color Podcast. \nThe Poets of Color Podcast is dropping June 2017 and your host’s Asha Sudra & Chris “L7” Cuadrado need your help to make it happen! \nCome enjoy some poetry from local bay area poets of color\, find out what we have planned for the show\, and meet other folks in the community invested in PoC words and narratives. \nFeaturing: \nAsha Sudra \nChris “L7” Cuadrado \nFlavia Mora \nSharif Zakout \nHablo Rw \n\n& More TBA! \n$5 – $10 (NOTAFLOF)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-of-color-podcast/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T000000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T000000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170425T012450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170425T012450Z
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SUMMARY:2017 Bay Area Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear. \nAs a festival sponsor\, the Center will be participating in panels and events\, and you’ll have the opportunity to meet Center staff and purchase Two Lines Press publications at our booth. \nStay tuned for more information.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/2017-bay-area-book-festival/
LOCATION:Downtown Berkeley
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170527T015247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T015247Z
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR – EUREKA VALLEY LIBRARY\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJune 3 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm\nSan Francisco Public Library – Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch   •\n\n\n\n\nSaturday June 3\n12pm\nEureka Valley Library\nSan Francisco\nFREE\nFeaturing Panda Dulce\n \nABOUT DRAG QUEEN STORY HOUR\nCreated by Michelle Tea and RADAR Productions in San Francisco\, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is just what it sounds like—drag queens reading stories to children in libraries\, schools\, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous\, positive\, and unabashedly queer role models. In spaces like this\, kids are able to see people who defy rigid gender restrictions and imagine a world where people can present as they wish\, where dress up is real. \nABOUT PANDA\nPanda Dulce is a drag queen who was born and raised in San Francisco. Sometimes Panda dresses like a girl\, and sometimes Panda dresses as a boy. (But she feels most special when you call her a girl). Panda believes that whatever makes you different\, is beautiful and powerful. Remember to be proud of yourself\, always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/drag-queen-story-hour/
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:20170603T123000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170518T113754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170525T001305Z
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SUMMARY:Youth Poetry Workshop w/ Kim Shuck + Dan Vera
DESCRIPTION:Poets Kim Shuck of San Francisco and Dan Vera of Washington\, DC will host a poetry workshop for young adults\, by drawing on the poetry anthology\, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books\, 2016). Students will have a chance to explore new voices and styles of poetry–concentrating on the work of Gloria Anzaldúa–and will write and share their own poetry over the course of the workshop. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but young\, aspiring Latino/a poets are especially encouraged to participate. This workshop will be held in Studio D\, in the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. \nHosted by Aunt Lute Books\, and underwritten by the NEA and CAC. \nSnacks will be provided.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youth-poetry-workshop-with-kim-shuck-and-dan-vera/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20161223T023058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161223T023058Z
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition First Saturday
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/bay-area-poets-coalition-first-saturday-13/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170417T112741Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170502T010606Z
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SUMMARY:Babylon Salon
DESCRIPTION:  \nSaturday\, June 3 \nfeaturing\n\n\nBrenda Hillman\n\nMeron Hadero\n\nErin Byrne\n\nand many more…\n\n\n\nat our exciting new venue\nThe Armory Club \nin the \ndownstairs performance space\n1799 Mission St \n(across from the Armory Building)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/babylon-salon/
LOCATION:The Armory Club\, 1799 Mission St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T203000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170518T113912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015704Z
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SUMMARY:Imaniman: A Night of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join contributors from Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands for an evening of poetry and reflections on fronteras\, identity\, and art. \nFeatured poets: Dan Vera\, Kim Shuck\, Tomas Moniz\, Suzy de Jesus Huerta \nAppetizers and drinks will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. Imaniman will be available for purchase at this event. We take both cash and credit card. Imaniman: A Night of Poetry is a MAPP event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imaniman-a-night-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts\, 2868 Mission Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170603T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170603T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170527T011653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170527T011653Z
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SUMMARY:Tea with Mr. E
DESCRIPTION:Tea with Mr. E:\nA one-day class on T.S. Eliot with Nils Peterson\nSaturday\, June 3\, 2017\, 7:00pm\nNils Peterson will offer a class on T.S. Eliot discussing “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\,” “The Wasteland” and one of the Quartets. If there is time\, there will be a writing exercise.\n$25 PCSJ Members\, $35 general\, $15 Students\nVery limited space\, reserve now! \n \nEdwin Markham House in History Park\n1650 Senter Road\, San José\, CA 95112 \nNils Peterson is Professor Emeritus in English at San José State University. In 2009 he was chosen the first Poet Laureate of Santa Clara County. He has published poetry\, science fiction\, and articles on subjects as varied as golf and Shakespeare. Nils has been singing in chorales for more than 60 years. His chapbooks include: Here Is No Ordinary Rejoicing\, Driving a Herd of Moose to Durango\, For This Day\, The Revenge of the Socks\, and For This Day II. A collection of poems\, The Comedy of Desire\, edited and introduced by Robert Bly\, was published by The Blue Sofa Press. His newest collection\, A Walk to the Center of Things\, was published by Poetry Center San Jose. An e-chapbook\, Talk In The Reading Room\, was published by Wordrunner Press early in 2014. Bring: Writing equipment; Sack Lunch and beverage. Parking and entrance to the campus is on Phelan Avenue.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tea-with-mr-e/
LOCATION:Edwin Markham House in History Park\, 1650 Senter Road\, San Jose\, 95112\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T033000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170519T025053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015740Z
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SUMMARY:3 Blues-y Ladies
DESCRIPTION:Intimate wordy emotive acoustic singer-songwriter and poet bookstore show! Starring: \nBanty Hen (Ester Kang) — Ukulele and voice. Clarion\, drowning\, knock-you-out-and-leave-you-for-dead beautiful. Like driving down the 1 in the fog. You’ve never heard a voice or songwriting quite like this. \nAndrea Passwater — Poet from Alabama\, by way of Taiwan\, will do a short reading that might make you cry. Like reading your great aunt’s teenage diary. Her poems are better than most blues singers at singing the blues. \nRosie Cima — Guitar and voice. Singer songwriter no.2\, with more gravel\, has lots of new stuff for this show\, not all of it sad. Been meditating a lot lately\, and listening to a lot of Nina Simone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/3-blues-y-ladies/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T160000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170504T235728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170504T235728Z
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SUMMARY:Courtney Maum
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Courtney Maum to the store to discuss and sign her new novel\, Touch\, on Sunday\, June 4th at 3:00 pm. \nSloane Jacobsen is one of the world’s most powerful trend forecasters (she was the foreseer of “the swipe”)\, and global fashion\, lifestyle\, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated\, and with unemployment\, college costs\, and food prices all on the rise\, having children is an extravagant indulgence.\nSo it’s no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference\, celebrating the voluntarily childless. Not far into her contract\, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion\, empathy\, and “in-personism” again. She’s struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employer’s mission and that her closest personal relationship is with her self-driving car when her partner\, the French “neo-sensualist” Roman Bellard\, reveals that he is about to publish an op-ed on the death of penetrative sex–a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral. Despite the risks to her professional reputation\, Sloane is nevertheless convinced that her instincts are the right ones\, and goes on a quest to defend real life human interaction\, while finally allowing in the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.\nA poignant and amusing call to arms that showcases her signature biting wit and keen eye\, celebrated novelist Courtney Maum’s new book is a moving investigation into what it means to be an individual in a globalized world. \nCourtney Maum is the author of the novel I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You and the chapbook Notes from Mexico. Her short fiction\, book reviews\, and essays on the writing life have been widely published in outlets such as The New York Times\, Tin House\, Electric Literature\, and Buzzfeed\, and she has co-written films that have debuted at Sundance and won awards at Cannes. At various points in her life\, she has been a trend forecaster\, a fashion publicist\, and a party promoter for Corona Extra. She currently works as a product namer for M-A-C cosmetics from her home in Litchfield County\, CT.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/courtney-maum/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170604T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170604T200000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170519T101358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170523T015841Z
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SUMMARY:Bazaar Writers Salon Reading
DESCRIPTION:Readings by Aamina Ahmad\, Peg Alford Pursell\, Michael Shewmaker\, and Shelley Wong\nHosted by Peter Kline \nAamina Ahmad grew up in London. She completed her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her full length play\, The Dishonored\, toured the UK in 2016. Her short fiction has appeared in The Normal School\, The Missouri Review\, Ecotone and the anthology\, And the World Changed. \n\nPeg Alford Pursell is the author of Show Her a Flower\, A Bird\, A Shadow (ELJ Editions\, March 2017)\, a collection of hybrid prose and micro-fictions with praise from Peter Orner\, Joan Silber\, Antonya Nelson and others. Her stories and poems have appeared in Permafrost\, the Los Angeles Review\, Forklift Ohio\, Joyland Magazine\, RHINO\, VOLT\, and many other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and founder and director of WTAW Press. Visit her at www.pegalfordpursell.com \nMichael Shewmaker is the winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize and author of Penumbra (Ohio UP\, 2017). Born in Texarkana\, Texas\, he earned an MFA from McNeese State University and a PhD in creative writing from Texas Tech University. His poems have recently appeared in Yale Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Sewanee Review\, Poetry Daily\, Parnassus\, Oxford American\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow\, he is a Jones Lecturer in poetry at Stanford University. \nShelley Wong is the author of RARE BIRDS\, a winner of the 2016 Diode Editions chapbook award. Her poems have recently appeared in Crazyhorse\, The Volta\, Sixth Finch\, and Southern Humanities Review. A Kundiman fellow and a Pushcart Prize recipient\, she holds an MFA from Ohio State University and lives in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bazaar-writers-salon-reading/
LOCATION:Bazaar Cafe\, 5927 California St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170605T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170605T210000
DTSTAMP:20260419T023750
CREATED:20170514T020827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170514T020827Z
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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning
DESCRIPTION:Now accepting submissions: 6/5 @ Clarion Music Performing Arts Center \nAll forms of writing are accepted. This will be a free show\, and the first 100 people will receive a book featuring all of the selected writing and cover art by a local artist. Thanks to a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission all authors will be paid\, and will read/perform as a literary mixtape\, with no introductions or banter. \nThe deadline is End of Day 5/17. SUBMIT NOW!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-2/
LOCATION:Clarion Music Performing Arts Center\, 816 Sacramento St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94108\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Lightning":MAILTO:evan AT quietlightning DOT org
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