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SUMMARY:Rise: An Anthology of Power and Unity
DESCRIPTION:VAGABOND is very happy to announce the launch of our new publication\,\nRise (an anthology of Power and Unity) \nFeatured readers include: \n\nJack Hirschman\nDorothy “Dottie” Payne\nNina Serrano\nMahnaz Badihian\nKaren Melander-Magoon\nFred Dodsworth\nDee Allen\nTim Kahl\nIsaac J Torres\n\nHosts: Mark Lipman and Antonieta Villamil. \n 
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LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christine No + Jenee Darden
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an Uptown Fridays reading you won’t forget\, featuring readings by Christine No and Jenee Darden\, with music by Nkechi. \nSuggested donations of $5-25 collected at the door\, but no one turned away for lack of funds. \nRed wine and Red Bay coffee will be available. \nInformation about performers: \nChristine No is a writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared at the Sundance Film Festival\, in sPARKLE+bLINK\, Columbia Journal\, Story Magazine\, APOGEE\, Atlas and Alice; and is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, Nomadic Journal and the anthology “If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration” by Sibling Rivalry Press. She is a VONA Alum\, a Pushcart Prize Nominee and the First Place Poetry Winner the 2016 Litquake Writing Contest. She lives in Oakland with her talking dog\, Brandy. \nJeneé Darden is an award-winning journalist\, public speaker and proud East Oakland native. She has reported for NPR\, Time\, Ebony\, The LA Times and other outlets. Visit her website CocoaFly.com to read her research series Under the Covers: The Popularity and Debate Over Black Erotic Literature. Jeneé is a former National Book Foundation summer fellow. She has a master’s in journalism from the University of Southern California and a BA in ethnic studies from UC San Diego. \nAs a singer-songwriter Nkechi’s voice and music explore a range of music territory\, from acoustic soul to folk rock and pop in a signature inspirational and lyrical sound. Nkechi’s rich vocal textures and knack for improvisation make her live performances a dynamic one-of-a-kind experience. She writes conscious messages delivered through verse\, rhyme\, and melody. Nkechi’s EP Soul Rock Butterfly is available on the Music page. \nOur musical guest Nkechi believes her Creator designed her to utilize an integration of her left and right brains which requires a daily practice of staying out of her own way and not taking herself too seriously. Nkechi’s passion is exploring Christ’s love\, the source of her joy\, gratitude and talent\, through the creative and entertainment arts. The website for Nkechi’s creative happenings is www.nkechi.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christine-no-jenee-darden/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Deb Olin Unferth
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Wait Till You See Me Dance \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart\, fast\, full of heart\, and distinctive in voice—each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What anmportant and exciting talent.”—George Saunders \n“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are wild\, funny\, and wonderful.”—Geoff Dyer \n“This book is an astonishment—strange\, brainy\, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows\, with brilliant force\, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”—Ben Marcus \n\nAbout Wait Till You See Me Dance \nWait Till You See Me Dance consists of several extraordinary longer stories as well as a selection of intoxicating very short stories. In the chilling The First Full Thought of Her Life\, a shooter gets in position while a young girl climbs a sand dune. In Voltaire Night\, students compete to tell a story about the worst thing that ever happened to them. In Stay Where You Are\, two oblivious travelers in Central America are kidnapped by a gunman they assume to be an insurgent but the gunman has his own problems. \nAn Unferth story lures you in with a voice that seems amiable and lighthearted\, but it swerves in sudden and surprising ways that reveal\, in terrifying clarity\, the rage\, despair\, and profound mournfulness that have taken up residence at the heart of the American dream. These stories often take place in an exaggerated or heightened reality\, a quality that is reminiscent of the work of Donald Barthelme\, Lorrie Moore\, and George Saunders\, but in Unferth’s unforgettable collection she carves out territory that is entirely her own.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/deb-olin-unferth/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: Ishmael Reed + Tennessee Reed
DESCRIPTION:Tennessee Reed is the author of seven poetry collections\, a memoir and a novel. Tennessee has read her work throughout the Continental United States\, Alaska\, Hawaii\, England\, the Netherlands\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Israel and Japan. She is the secretary of PEN Oakland and the managing editor of Konch Magazine. \nIshmael Reed is author of thirty books to date\, including his eleventh non-fiction work\, The Complete Muhammad Ali (Baraka Books\, July\, 2015); his tenth novel\, Juice! (2011); and New and Collected Poems\, 1964-2007 (2007). His seventh play\, The Final Version\, premiered at New York’s Nuyorican Poets Café in December 2013; his other six plays are collected in Ishmael Reed\, THE PLAYS (2009). In addition he has edited numerous magazines and fourteen anthologies\, of which the most recent is Black Hollywood Unchained (2015). He is also a publisher\, songwriter\, public media commentator\, lecturer\, and founder of the Before Columbus Foundation and PEN Oakland\, non-profit organizations run by writers for writers. After teaching at the University of California\, Berkeley for over thirty years\, he retired in 2005 and now teaches at California College of the Arts. He is a MacArthur Fellow\, with other honors including the University of Buffalo’s 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award\, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize nominations\, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award\, and San Francisco LitQuake’s 2011 Barbary Coast Award. Awarded the 2008 Blues Songwriter of the Year from the West Coast Blues Hall of Fame\, his collaborations with jazz musicians for the past forty years were also recognized by SFJazz Center with his appointment\, from 2012-2016\, as San Francisco’s first Jazz Poet Laureate and in Venice\, Italy\, where he became the first Alberto Dubito International awardee \, May\, 2016\, honored as “a special artistic individual who has distinguished himself through the most innovative creativity in the musical and linguistic languages.” His online international literary magazine\, Konch\, can be found at ishmaelreedpub.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-weekend-ishmael-reed-and-tennessee-reed/
LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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