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SUMMARY:West Marin Review VII Reading
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes contributors of the West Marin Review VII\, to the store on Sunday\, April 23rd at 3:00 pm. The reading participants include\, Claire Blotter\, Elaine Elinson\, Kathleen Goodwin\, Anuja Mendiratta\, Larry Ruth\, Vicki DeArmon\, and Gabriel Schillinger-Hyman. \n The West Marin Review is an award-winning literary and art journal published by Point Reyes Books and friends in the rural enclave of West Marin\, CA. It offers an intriguing variety of art\, poetry and prose from new\, as well as\, established contributors. The journal provides a blend of fiction and essays\, humor\, nature\, memoir\, poetry\, art\, and often\, music. Contributors hail from places near and far- from rural California to Paris and everywhere in between. This volume features prose by\, among others\, Rick Bass\, Stephanie E. Dickinson\, Elaine Elinson\, Blair Fuller and David Miller; poetry by Jody Farrell\, Roy Mash\, and others; and art by Mark Ropers\, Wendy Schwartz\, and others. This event will focus on local writers and artists with a list of participants to be named shortly. \nClaire Blotter teaches poetry writing to elementary and high school students as a Poet in the Schools. She has published three chapbooks and lives near Deer Island Preserve in Novato\, California. \nSan Francisco writer Elaine Elinson is coauthor of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves\, Suffragists\, Immigrants\, Strikers and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California\, which won a Gold Medal in the California Book Awards in 2010. \nKathleen Goodwin is a painter\, photographer\, and publisher of fine art books. Born in South Africa\, she has lived in Inverness for twenty-five years drawn to the area’s open expanses and wildlife. \nAnuja Mendiratta is a poet\, a daughter of Indian immigrants\, an independent consultant\, and a walker of this beautiful earth. She resides in Berkeley\, California and loves being outdoors. \nAt fourteen\, Larry Ruth and a friend set out for Yosemite and hiked the John Muir Trail. They spent the last night on Mount Whitney in a snowstorm in July. \nVicki DeArmon is the Marketing & Events Director at Copperfield’s Books. She’s also the former publisher of Foghorn Press and a fiction writer. \nGabriel Schillinger-Hyman\, age seventeen\, attends Lick-Wilmerding High School in San Francisco. A classical and jazz pianist\, he also enjoys the visual arts\, including cartooning and landscape painting. He spends his free time in Point Reyes.
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LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Be About It Presents: Julie Mannell + Friends
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun afternoon in Oakland! After the reading\, we will meet at the Fairlyland sign at Lake Merritt for open mic readings and a low-rent afterparty. BYOB. \nJulie Mannell is a writer of poetry\, fiction and essays\, and an editor at Matrix Magazine. She is the recipient of the HarperCollins/Constance Rooke Scholarship\, the Mona Adilman Poetry Prize\, the Lionel Shapiro Award for Excellency in Creative Writing\, and The Vagenius Award (presented by Roseanne Barr). Her work has been featured in the National Post\, Toronto Star and Huffington Post\, among others. At the moment\, Mannell is an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in English Literature and Philosophy. Originally from Fonthill\, Ontario\, she currently splits her time between Montreal and Toronto. She was recently named one of the Top 30 Poets Under 30. Twitter/insta/snap: @juliemannell. \nhttp://www.juliemannell.com/ \nKenta Maniwa is from Oakland\, California. His writing can be found in Hobart\, Metatron\, Spy Kids Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Bottlecap Press\, and Be About It Press. His new chapbook\, Japanese Tim Duncan\, will be published this year. \nJesse Prado lives in Hayward and blogs at thegreatcratsby.tumblr.com and tweets from @prado_jesse \nMark Cronin recently requested all of his work be deleted from various websites such as Atticus Review and Volume 1 Brooklyn. All of his previous books are out of print. His first novel was going to be published in May of 2017 by a major publisher but it is not anymore. He holds no degrees and has never won an award. His favorite word is “erasure”. \nThe Open Minds are a rock n’ roll sister duo based out of the Bay Area. They have created a distinguished and distinctive sound that is both reminiscent and all their own. Their performances are high-drive\, electric and spontaneous\, creating a unique experience every time that will leave you wanting more. \nJoined by: Jesse Prado\, Ken Ta\, Mark Cronin\, and The Open Minds
URL:https://litseen.com/event/be-about-it-presents-julie-mannell-friends-at-wolfman-books/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Weekend: White\, Davis\, Ellis\, + McZeal
DESCRIPTION:The CJC is proud to present four local poets\, George Davis\, Amos White\, Amber McZeal\, and James Ellis for our final day of Poetry Weekend. George Davis will be hosting the event\, showcasing individual sets by each poet. \nGeorge W. Davis\nBorn on a ranch in Arizona\, raised on a farm in Indiana\, schooled in Indiana\, Virginia\, New York\, and Vermont. Professional work as teacher\, manager of Racesales\, cattleman\, consultant\, librarian\, merchant of books and records for Jazzschool\, poet\, speaker\, ranter and activist has led him to fishing\, tutoring in public schools\, and the joy and privilege of husbandhood and grandfatherdom. \nAmos White\nAmos White is an awarded haiku poet and author\, producer/director and activist recognized for his vivid literary imagery and breathless poetic interpretations. Amos was a finalist in the NPR National Cherry Blossom Haiku Contest 2013 and published in several national reviews and anthologies. He serves on several literary and arts nonprofit boards\, is Founder and Host of the Heart of the Muse creative’s salon\, Executive Producer and Host of Beyond Words: Jazz+Poetry show; and produces the Oakland Haiku and Poetry Festival. \nJames Ellis\nJames Ellis is a San Francisco Bay Area performance poet.  His work has appeared in numerous publications\, such as poetry magazines Out of Our and The 16th and Mission Review.  His poems\, at City Lights Books SF and University Press Books in Berkeley\, are sold inexpensively; through YouTube\, given freely; and archived at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. A Poets and Writers Foundation grant recipient\, his work with interpretive jazz band\, Nova Jazz\, is on display every third Tuesday at SF’s Piano Fight’s Word Party.  He knows life is good because he’s alive to see it. \nAmber McZeal\nAmber McZeal is an artistic scholar steeped in the improvisational traditions of New Orleans. Her current body of work\, Mudzimu\, is a combination of original music compositions and afro-futurist mythos explores the transgenerational inheritance of separation from land\, home and personhood\, and the subsequent psychic limbo that it conjures\, as well as the generative abyss that it promises. Through sound and word\, her sci-fi journey shifts the perception of this limbo from exile to chrysalis. \nShe relocated to the Bay Area in 2006 to complete her B.A. in Sound Therapy\, Trauma Studies\, and Sacred Intellectualism. Amber is currently a doctoral student of depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Community Psychology\, Liberation Psychology\, and Ecological Psychology specialization.
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LOCATION:California Jazz Conservatory\, 2087 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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