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SUMMARY:Eastridge Open Mic w/ Lorenz Demuk
DESCRIPTION:Nearest cross streets are Tully and E. Capitol Expressway\nFree and open to the public \nKazumi Chin is the author of Having a Coke With Godzilla. He works to build loving communities with marginalized people\, to put language to the mechanisms of structures and identities\, and to create spaces and tools that allow others to do the same. He is interested in scholarship at the intersection of art-making and critical theory\, and has a profound love for maps\, spreadsheets\, algorithms\, taxonomies\, simulations\, and also poetry & the mythical power of true friendship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eastridge-open-mic-w-lorenz-demuk/
LOCATION:Barnes & Noble at Eastridge Mall\, 2200 Eastridge Loop\, Suite #140\, San Jose\, CA\, 95122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Tom Centolella\, Kathy Evans + Molly Giles - A Literary Evening
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Centolella’s new poems register attraction\, delight\, expectations fulfilled and foiled\, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities\, many of the first-person protagonists are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic\, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between\, neither here nor there\, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. Almost Human documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species—our own—and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human\, recalling the idea\, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin\, that we aren’t human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience. \nThomas Centolella is the author of four books of poetry. His awards include the American Book Award\, the California Book Award\, the Northern California Book Award\, the Lannan Literary Award\, and publication in the National Poetry Series. He is also a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His poems have appeared widely in magazines\, anthologies\, and on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He has been a visiting writer at many colleges\, universities and literary centers and has taught creative writing in the Bay Area for 30 years\, notably at College of Marin and in private Marin workshops. \nAbout Hunger And Sorrow F. D. Reeve\, poet critic\, said: \n“The attitude in Hunger and Sorrow is impassioned; the voice is sophisticated; the author’s intelligence distances the introversion . . with a tone whose sweet patience endures.” \nKathy Evans\, from Sausalito\, California\, is the author of three books of poetry. She has been published in journals and West Coast reviews\, including the Alaska Review\, the Atlantic Review\, California Quarterly\, Black Bear Review\, Runes\, Oberon\, and most recently the Tupelo Quarterly. She teaches Creative Writing at Juvenile Hall in Marin County\, the University of San Francisco\, and The College of Marin. She is a poet teacher with The California Poets-in- the-Schools and is currently at UCSF as a poet- in-residence at Benioff Children’s Hospital. Her three collections of poetry include: Imagination Comes To Breakfast\, As The Heart Is Held\, and Hunger and Sorrow\, which was a winner for the Small Press Poetry Prize. \nWinner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction\, All the Wrong Places feature nineteen strange and tightly woven tales which merge the mythic and the modern with dark humor and deep humanity. Many of the stories contain contemporary versions of ancient guides: a ghost dog seen by a young drifter in love with a much older guru; a wild goat on a cliff forever standing beside her dead ram glimpsed by a woman whose husband battles cancer; a volcano goddess with a small dog appearing to a woman whose boyfriend is flirting with her teenage daughter. The vacationland settings\, Hawaii\, Ireland\, Baja and California among them\, accentuate the characters’ sense of displacement. \nMolly Giles is the author of three award-winning story collections\, Rough Translations\, Creek Walk\, and Bothered\, and a novel\, Iron Shoes. Previous awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, the Small Press Short Fiction Award\, the Boston Globe Award\, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award\, two Pushcart Prizes\, and an NEA grant.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tom-centolella-kathy-evans-molly-giles-a-literary-evening/
LOCATION:Book Passage By-the-Bay\, 100 Bay Street\, Sausalito\, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay
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SUMMARY:John Burroughs
DESCRIPTION:John Burroughs a.k.a. Jesus Crisis is a dynamic performer whose poetry books include Water Works\, Electric Company\, Beat Attitude\, It Takes More Than Chance to Make Changeand The Eater of the Absurd. He co-founded the annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest and hosts sundry events around Cleveland. Since 2008\, he has served as founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press\, publishing superb writers from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burroughs/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:John Burroughs aka Jesus Crisis
DESCRIPTION:John Burroughs a.k.a. Jesus Crisis is a dynamic performer whose poetry books include Water Works\, Electric Company\, Beat Attitude\, It Takes More Than Chance to Make Changeand The Eater of the Absurd. He co-founded the annual Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest and hosts sundry events around Cleveland. Since 2008\, he has served as founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press\, publishing superb writers from around the world.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/john-burroughs-aka-jesus-crisis/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Snap Salon
DESCRIPTION:Snap Judgment and Awaken Cafe presents… \nDoors at 7pm :: Show at 8pm\nFREE with RSVP: https://snapsalon.eventbrite.com/ \nJoin us for an intimate evening of storytelling with Snap Judgment Superstars James Judd\, Josh Healey\, and special guests Julia Jackson and Bridget Schwartz at Awaken Cafe. Enjoy a glass of wine and listen to seasoned storytellers share their craft. Free to RSVP\, so reserve your spot now! \nFeaturing… \nJosh Healey is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and creative activist. \nJames Judd’s Funny Stories is an American humorist and monologist. \nJulia Jackson \nBridget Schwartz
URL:https://litseen.com/event/snap-salon/
LOCATION:Awaken Cafe\, 1429 Broadway\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:July Lyrics & Dirges: Duende!
DESCRIPTION:A sizzling summer reading with Lorca’s Duende as the theme. Come hear Youssef Alaoui\, Vida Felsenfeld\, Florencia Milito\, Norma Liliana Valdez\, Joshua Adam Anderson!!! \nFree refreshements and bookstore cats!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/july-lyrics-dirges-duende/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Yanara Friedland + Claire Marie Stancek
DESCRIPTION:Yanara Friedland and Claire Marie Stancek discuss their new books from Noemi Press\, Uncountry: A Mythology and Mouths. \n\nPraise for Uncountry \n “Deep in the ethical vision of these prose pieces (each so dreamlike it seems the dream itself is dreaming) arrives the suggestion that the events of history—the heart-nulling wars\, the Holocaust\, the refugees broken by their own resistance; but also the personal fact\, the harm of being anyone—reach back into the ancient tales and refuse them their pre-ordained eternity.” Dan Beachy Quick \n\n“As a descendent of Chantal Akerman and Unica Zürn—among others—Friedland reimagines the origin myth. Friedland’s permeable pages allow the reader entryway into a “mirror [that] becomes an open door\,” a door through which we hear the echo of Ana Mendieta telling us “There is no original past to redeem: there is the void.” Uncountry is an invitation to that void\, and Friedland serves as dream guide through this blend of the personal\, political\, and stunningly poetic.” Lily Hoang \n  \nAbout Uncountry \nWinner of the 2015 Noemi Press Fiction Award. UNCOUNTRY: A MYTHOLOGY is a collection of narratives that aim to expand creative pathways into historical space\, particularly histories of migration and displacement. It is divided into four Histories: Ash\, Breath\, Hunger and Blood. The four Histories explore the gaps between “remembered” official history and the more unreliable spaces of private memory and unspoken unofficial history. The storylines re–contextualize and re–imagine content from mythic spaces\, such as German folktales and Eastern European Jewish lore\, historical narratives as well as anecdotes from oral family memory. UNCOUNTRY furthermore explores the notion of invisible landscapes; an accumulation of stories\, memories\, dreams and desires\, over–layering the visible place: a record of the human\, animal and geographical history that we move through.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yanara-friedland-claire-marie-stancek/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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