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SUMMARY:Rex Renee Leonowitch Book Release/Funeral Party/Fundraiser: Oakland #2
DESCRIPTION:Join Rex Renee Leonowitch and Denise Benavides for a night of poetry\, drag\, music\, art\, feels\, and hype to celebrate the release of Rex’s new book of poetry and illustrations\, When There Is No One And There Is Everyone\, available for preorder here: http://magichelicopterpress.com/wtne.html \nThe event will feature readings and performances and be a funeral party using drag\, music\, poetry\, and visual art/digital media to pay homage to the events\, people\, and sites of protest\, grief\, triumph\, and fabulosity present in the work and life. \nIt’s also a fundraiser for Rex\, who is a poor trans disabled working artist who funded their book tour mostly by themselves and who is continuing their education in performance/theatre in the Fall in NYC and needs financial support for housing\, life expenses\, and tuition costs. \nREX RENEE LEONOWICZ is a multimedia artist\, performer\, writer\, and activist from Queens\, New York. As a poor/working class\, trans/nonbinary femme\, Rex’s art and performance work is grounded in a politics of radical resistance\, healing\, and witness. Rex is a gender-bending\, genre-blending artist whose work critically responds to the relationships people on the margins have with our surroundings and each other.\nhttp://www.rexylafemme.tumblr.com/ \nDENISE BENAVIDES is a performance artist\, poet\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She writes to document\, to archive\, and to hold space for what has been lost—most of all\, she writes for the women in her family. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College and is currently teaching at Skyline College. Her debut collection of poetry\, Split\, was released in the winter of 2016 by Kórima Press. For more information please visit www.denisebenavides.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rex-renee-leonowitch-book-releasefuneral-partyfundraiser-oakland-2/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Melba Joyce Boyd\, M.L. Liebler\, + Brian Jabas Smith
DESCRIPTION:Poet\, editor\, and professor Melba Joyce Boyd’s book\, Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press\, is a tribute to Dudley Randall (1914-2000) with whom she worked as an editor at Broadside Press and whose authorized biographer she became. Randall was poet laureate of Detroit\, a civil rights activist\, and a force in the Black Arts Movement. Two of his poems\, one for the four little girls killed in the Alabama church bombing in Birmingham\, one for the assassination of President Kennedy\, were set to music by folk singer Jerry Moore in 1965. Randall published them as broadsides\, so the press\, publishing chapbooks that opened out the work of African American writers into the canon of American literature\, was born. Boyd’s book\, connecting politics and art with the wider struggles of black America in that era\, is also a dialogue between poets and includes extensive interviews. She\, herself\, has published six books of poetry\, edited an anthology of Detroit poetry\, written scholarly books\, and produced and directed a documentary film on Randall and the press. \nM.L. Liebler is a celebrated poet\, literary arts activist\, and professor. Most recent of his many books of poetry is I Want to Be Once; others include The Moon a Box and Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems\, 1985-2000. He’s edited many books\, ranging across labor politics\, music\, and poetry\, and his brand new one is Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond\, with a wide range of contributors\, including Greil Marcus and Al Young. \nBrian Jabas Smith’s debut book of fiction is Spent Saints & Other Stories. Jim Daniels says\, “In these fine stories\, Brian Smith’s direct\, natural\, story-telling voice rocks with the authority and grit of someone who’s been there and come back to tell the tale.” Smith is an award-winning journalist\, first as a staff writer and columnist for the Phoenix New Times and then as an editor for the Detroit Metro Times. His earlier career was as a songwriter who fronted rock’n’roll bands. He’s written for many performers\, including Alice Cooper.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-melba-joyce-boyd-m-l-liebler-brian-jabas-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Brynn Saito is the author of two books of poetry\, Power Made Us Swoon (2016) and The Palace of Contemplating Departure (2013)\, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award from Red Hen Press and a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Brynn was born and raised in Fresno. Currently\, she teaches and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. \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\, Prairie Schooner\, andA Public Space. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee\, he is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, the Cave Canem Foundation\, the Frost Place\, the Fulbright Program/IIE\, Millay Colony for the Arts\, and Stanford University\, where he is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. \nEmily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Ordinary Misfortunes\, winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize at Tupelo Press. Her poems and translations appear or are forthcoming in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Apogee\, The Literary Review\, and elsewhere. For her poetry\, she has received awards and fellowships from Ploughshares’ Emerging Writer’s Contest\, AWP’s WC&C Scholarship Competition\, The Home School in Miami\, Aspen Words\, New York University\, the University of Chicago\, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She is the Poetry Editor for The Margins\, the literary magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is a PhD student in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago. \nJavier Zamora was born in El Salvador and migrated to the US when he was nine. He is a 2016-2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow and holds fellowships from CantoMundo\, Colgate University\, MacDowell\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, and Yaddo. His first book Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press\, September 2017.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-night/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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