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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:reading from her new short story collection \nThe Tower of the Antilles \nfrom Akashic Books \nThe Cubans in Achy Obejas’s story collection The Tower of the Antilles are haunted by an island: the island they fled\, the island they’ve created\, the island they were taken to or forced from\, the island they long for\, the island they return to\, and the island that can never be home again. \nIn “Supermán\,” several possible story lines emerge about a 1950s Havana sex-show superstar who disappeared as soon as the Revolution triumphed. “North/South” portrays a migrant family trying to cope with separation\, lives on different hemispheres\, and the eventual disintegration of blood ties. “The Cola of Oblivion” follows the path of a young woman who returns to Cuba\, and who inadvertently uncorks a history of accommodation and betrayal among the family members who stayed behind during the revolution. In the title story\, “The Tower of the Antilles\,” an interrogation reveals a series of fantasies about escape and a history of futility. \nWith language that is both generous and sensual\, Obejas writes about lives beset by events beyond individual control\, and poignantly captures how history and fate intrude on even the most ordinary of lives. \nACHY OBEJAS is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Ruins\, Days of Awe\, and three other books of fiction. She edited and translated (into English) the anthology Havana Noir\, and has since translated Junot Díaz\, Rita Indiana\, Wendy Guerra\, and many others. In 2014\, she was awarded a USA Ford Fellowship for her writing and translation. She currently serves as the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College in Oakland\, California. \n\nPraise for the work of Achy Obejas: \n“Achy Obejas’s new story collection begins and ends with a question: What is your name? The answer is an abounding one. Counterrevolutionaries\, the witnesses to the arrival of Columbus’s caravels\, poets\, Supermán—the characters in these stories\, in all their riveting variety\, name themselves as Cuban\, and are bound in complex ways by the geography of their hearts\, if not the geography beneath their feet. An audacious and remarkable read!”\n—Chantel Acevedo\, author of The Distant Marvels \n“For twenty years I’ve been a fan of the genius Achy Obejas—since I first read Memory Mambo in 1996. Obejas has been the model of a writer for me in every way—a master in her aesthetics\, an inspiration in her politics\, fearless and vital in every page. The Tower of the Antilles is another brilliant collection\, a story of many Cubas\, intensely personal and political\, erotic and cerebral. I found myself holding my breath as I devoured this book\, as I navigated the various avenues of the body\, the blood\, and all those seemingly impossible roads that lead to a place we try to call home.”\n—Porochista Khakpour\, author of The Last Illusion \n“Obejas writes like an angel\, which is to say: gloriously . . . one of Cuba’s most important writers.”\n—Junot Díaz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Paul Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Paul Cohen joins us in the Marina for a reading and discussion of his lyrical debut novel\, The Glamshack. \nReluctant fashion journalist Henry Folsom is in love with Her\, a deer-hued snake-taut beauty whose smile is an Event. The only problem is Her fiancE in New Orleans. And She’s going to see him for twelve days\, while Henry smolders in The Glamshack\, his borrowed Silicon Valley poolhouse and site of their months-long affair. Mesmerized by the American Indian wars\, grasping for the divine as he relives this bloodied love\, Henry must decide what it means to make his Last Stand. \nNominated for a Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award\, The Glamshack is a lyrical\, darkly humorous novel on the nature of love\, divinity\, the Plains Indian Wars\, and the male gaze. A bold\, accomplished work set at millennium’s end\, the book echoes early prose masterpieces of Cormac McCarthy and Martin Amis\, but is entirely Paul Cohen. \nPaul Cohen’s fiction has been published in Tin House\, Five Chapters\, Eleven Eleven\, and he was a top-ten finalist in The Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Village Voice\, Details\, Christian Science Monitor and others. He lives in Boulder.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/paul-cohen/
LOCATION:Books Inc. in The Marina\, 2251 Chestnut St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94123\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Janet Hamill + Camille O'Grady
DESCRIPTION:Mister WA is kickstarting a new series of cultural explorations with pioneer artists Janet Hamill and Camille O’Grady\, presenting a rare blend of poetry\, spoken word\, music\, and performance. \nO’Grady and Hamill have been friends and collaborators since they first met in the creatively rich and vibrant NYC that gave us Robert Mapplethorpe\, Patti Smith\, and the Velvet Underground. Poet Janet Hamill is currently on a West Coast teaching tour and will be joining O’Grady’s return to performance at The Beat Museum for one evening only. \nTurn on & Tune in to Mister WA’s multi-faceted collusion with SF Underground Arts and Performance on his SF Commons bi-monthly Web-TV Show! \nJANET HAMILL\nAuthor of seven books of poetry and short fiction: Troublante\, The Temple\, Nostalgia of the Infinite\, Lost Ceilings\, Body of Water\, Tales from the Eternal Café and Knock\, her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the William Carlos Williams Prize\, and Tales from the Eternal Café was named one of the “Best Books of 2014” by Publishers Weekly. \nHer most recent book\, Knock (Spuyten Duyvil Press\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 2016) is a surreal trip book written in the form of 72 pantoums. \nIn addition to writing\, Janet is a strong advocate for the spoken word and has read at Bumbershoot Festival\, The Andy Warhol Museum\, and many other US and international venues. She performs with the band Lost Ceilings\, and together they have released two CD’s of poetry and music: Flying Nowhere and Genie of the Alphabet. She is the founder and co-director of Megaphone\, a monthly literary series. \nShe’s taught at Naropa University and New England College\, where she received her MFA. \nAt present she is a senior artist advisor at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf\, NY where she co-directs Megaphone\, a monthly series of workshops\, readings and presentations focusing on surrealism’s literary origins\, its predecessor and legacy. \nFor more information about Janet\, please visit to janethamill.com. \nCAMILLE O’GRADY\nAt 19\, this artist-poet-rocker-medium was described by a famed reader as ‘an artistic science fiction soap opera’ and decades later\, this manifesto is still obvious! \nO’Grady cut her creative teeth in the center of the NYC avant-garde of visual artists\, writers\, and musicians\, starting with the Chelsea Hotel\, Max’s Kansas City\, and pre-nascent Soho\, and went on to a rock-by-way-of-poetry career starting as an early draw at CBGB and a wide swath of clubs\, galleries\, and reading situations\, including St Mark’s. A lifetime activist\, particularly in the fields of sex and gender politics\, O’Grady created ground-breaking Jack Savage\, a male ‘drag persona’ in the early ’70s. She and her cutting edge band toured with Lou Reed on both coasts before her move to the West Coast in ’79\, when she became instrumental to the burgeoning art and rock scenes in both LA and SF to this day and pioneered the use of digital and analog electronics with her performance. \nO’Grady will be reading and singing her very unique mix of spoken and sung word for the first time after a long hiatus. She is marking her return with a review of her wide world of experience\, including sex\, drugs\, rock’n’ roll \, art\, politics\, people\, humor and a world of visionary experience fed by a rich and unusual life of exceptional psychic events and revelations.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/janet-hamill-camille-ogrady/
LOCATION:The Beat Museum\, 540 Broadway\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:June Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges invites you to a reading featuring 5 East Bay writers on Wednesday 21 June at 7:30pm at Pegasus Bookstore\, 2349 Shattuck Avenue\, downtown Berkeley. \n\nCharif Shanahan \nNancy Patrice Davenport \nAndré Le Mont Wilson \nAndrew J. Thomas \nNick Johnson \n\nCurated by Mk Chavez and Sharon Coleman.   Hosted by Sharon Coleman \n\nFree refreshments and a bookstore cat!!!  Bring a date! \n\nCharif Shanahan is the author of Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing (SIU Press\, 2017)\, winner of the 2015 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous publications\, including Baffler\, Boston Review\, Callaloo\, Literary Hub\, New Republic\, Poetry International\, A Public Space\, and Prairie Schooner\, which awarded him the Edward Stanley Poetry Award. He has received awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and the Starworks Foundation. Currently\, he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. \n  \nNancy Patrice Davenport was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives in Oakland\, California. She has proudly raised a son as a single mother. Nancy has been writing professionally since 2011.  Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies\, [including The Burning Grape\, Mountain Gazette\, The Bicycle Review\, Oakland Review\, Lilliput Review\, Blue Fifth Review\, RED FEZ\, Poetry Quarterly\, Full of Crow\, The Lake\, Yellow Chair Review\, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Blue Mountain Review\, OTATA\, and The Naked Bulb]. Nancy’s chapbook\, LA BRIZNA\, was published in May 2014; this year she had a broadsheet published and available by Country Valley Press. Her poems have been translated into German and Spanish. Nancy had a Best of Net nomination this year for her JUNE 2 RETROGRADE MINDFULNESS poem. \n\nWhenever André Le Mont Wilson is asked for his bio\, he always tells the same story. He was born in Los Angeles to parents who were both poets. When they died in 2012 eleven weeks apart\, he began to write his own poetry. He later branched out into storytelling and has performed at many events throughout the West Coast. Last month\, Haiku Anthology: Observations and Insight published a collection of his haiku. In November\, The New Engagement will publish his free verse. Wilson lives in the East Bay with his partner and their Chihuahua. \n\nAndrew J. Thomas has no classic training in the art of the written word\, other than years of heartbreak and a love of whiskey. He is a founding member of the Beast Crawl Literary Festival and enjoys participating and supporting literary events in the Bay Area. He hopes his poems make you cry. \n\nNick Johnson was born and raised in Baltimore\, Maryland but now calls Oakland home. He received his BA in English from Morgan State University and his MFA in Creative Writing from the California College of the Arts. His work has been featured on KPFA’s Rude Awakening\, and has appeared in The Cincinnati Review\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Brilliant Corners\, Red Light Lit\, Metazen\, Samizdat\, and Conversations at the Wartime Café: A Decade of War. His book music for mussolini was just released by Nomadic Press. He enjoys telling long-winded stories\, Instagraming\, making spicy curries\, and drinking whiskey; typically in that order\, but not always.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/june-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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