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SUMMARY:Alex Dimitrov + Randall Mann
DESCRIPTION:reading from new poetry \nTogether and by Ourselves \nby Alex Dimitrov  \nfrom Copper Canyon Press \n& \nProprietary: Poems \nby Randall Mann \nfrom Persea Press \nAbout Together and by Ourselves: \nTogether and by Ourselves\, Alex Dimitrov’s second book of poems\, takes on broad existential questions and the reality of our current moment: being seemingly connected to one another\, yet emotionally alone. Through a collage aesthetic and a multiplicity of voices\, these poems take us from coast to coast\, New York to LA\, and toward uneasy questions about intimacy\, love\, death\, and the human spirit. Dimitrov critiques America’s long-lasting obsessions with money\, celebrity\, and escapism—whether in our personal\, professional\, or family lives. What defines a life? Is love ever enough? Who are we when together and who are we by ourselves? These questions echo throughout the poems\, which resist easy answers. The voice is both heartfelt and skeptical\, bruised yet playful\, and always deeply introspective. \nAlex Dimitrov is the author of Together and by Ourselves (Copper Canyon Press\, 2017)\, Begging for It (Four Way Books\, 2013)\, and the online chapbook American Boys (Floating Wolf Quarterly\, 2012). He is the recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Prize from the American Poetry Review and a Pushcart Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry\, The Yale Review\, Kenyon Review\, Slate\, Tin House\, Boston Review\, and the American Poetry Review. He is the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets where he edits the popular online series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. He has taught creative writing at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, Marymount Manhattan College\, Bennington College\, and lives in New York City. \nvisit: http://alexdimitrov.tumblr.com/ \nAbout Proprietary: Poems: \nIn Proprietary\, Randall Mann critiques corporate culture\, depicting (and slyly rebuking) the American materialism that erupted in the 1980s and has metastasized ever since. For years\, Randall Mann has been hailed as one of contemporary American poetry’s most daring formalists\, expertly using craft as a way of exploring racy subjects with trenchant wit and aplomb. His new collection\, Proprietary\, depicts with the insights of a longtime insider the culture of corporate America\, in which he’s worked for years\, intertwined with some of his tried-and-true subjects\, including gay life in the wildly disparate worlds of San Francisco and northern Florida. \nRandall Mann is the author of Complaint in the Garden (2004)\, which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry; Breakfast with Thom Gunn (2009)\, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the California Book Award; Straight Razor (2013)\, also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; and Proprietary (2017). He is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems (2007). Mann received the 2013 J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alex-dimitrov-randall-mann/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Fireside Storytelling: Bad Decisions
DESCRIPTION:Nothing makes for a better story than a bad decision. Short of an Act of God\, that’s how the best (as in worst) things tend to come about\, really. So this month\, join us at Fireside as we celebrate six storytellers’ very bad decisions\, with the entertaining— for us\, anyway — tales that they led to. \nReaders:\nEmily Epstein-White\nDoug Cordell\nJake Arky\nMark Steinberg
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fireside-storytelling-bad-decisions/
LOCATION:The Institute of Possibility\, 3359 Cesar Chavez St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Christopher Bernard w/ Keith Ekiss\, Clara Hsu\, + David Wong
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts local poet Christopher Bernard for his new book Chien Lunatique. With Christopher will be poets Keith Ekiss and Clara Hsu\, who will be joined by David Wong on the guqin. Join us for a night of poetry and music! \nLove\, Modernity\, and the Internet. Just who\, or what\, is Le Chien Lunatique? The poet driven out of his mind when faced with the catastrophe of the modern world? The modern world turned into a rabid canine when faced with the hopelessly idealistic poet? Or when it looks in the mirror and sees what it has become? \nThese poems—profound yet accessible\, contemporary yet classical\, eloquent and dynamic even when apparently most despairing—distill one poet’s somewhat jaundiced look at modernity\, from the Renaissance and the philosophical revolutions of the seventeenth century to the nihilism of post-modernism\, from the death of God to the bankruptcy of humanism\, from the midnight of the Enlightenment to the immortalized barbarism of the internet. Yet behind all of these poems\, supporting them like a hand\, lies the passion that drives all of existence\, old or new: the ferocious and uncompromising demands of love. \nA rabid dog eventually bites itself to death. So is there hope pour ce pauvre chien lunatique? Maybe there is. Maybe there isn’t. Only the future knows. It sits at your feet. Growling. \nChristopher Bernard is author of the novels A Spy in the Ruins andVoyage to a Forgotten Planet\, the short-story collections Dangerous Stories for Boys and In the American Night\, and The Rose Shipwreck: Poems and Photographs. He is co-editor of Caveat Lector and a regular contributor to Synchronized Chaos. Bernard writes fiction\, poetry\, essays\, plays\, and criticism. His poetry can be found online at The Bog of St. Philinte. He lives in San Francisco. \nKeith Ekiss is a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. He is the author of Pima Road Notebook(New Issues Poetry & Prose\, 2010) and translator of The Fire’s Journey\, an epic poem by the Costa Rican writer Eunice Odio in four volumes. Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Odio was published in 2016 by The Bitter Oleander Press. \nClara Hsu practices the art of multidimensional being: mother\, piano teacher\, director of Clarion Music Performing Arts Center in San Francisco\, traveler\, translator\, and poet. Henry W Leung wrote in Lantern Review on her work: “Hsu…remains faithful to the sense in Chinese while also refreshing our English idiom.” But Clara likes to experiment and transform her translations into unique poetic expressions\, stunning in sound and form. She is currently finishing her translations of Lao-Tze’s Tao-te Ching\, taking the ancient texts for a wild ride in the twenty-first century. \nHailing from a long line of Chinese scholars\, David Wong has studied guqin (seven string zither)\, guzheng (Chinese table harp)\, pipa (Chinese lute)\, traditional Chinese painting\, and tea culture under masters in the United States and China. As a member of the San Francisco Gu-zheng Music Society’s youth ensemble\, with the support of guzheng virtuoso Liu Weishan\, Wong’s passion for teaching and introducing traditional Chinese culture lead to the establishment of Tranquil Resonance Studio\, which carries on the mission of passing along these ancient traditions to the greater community through lessons\, performances\, workshops and lectures throughout the bay area. In 2004 he received Honor awards and Outstanding Performance awards at the First International Guqin Competition held in Beijing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/christopher-bernard-w-keith-ekiss-clara-hsu-david-wong/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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