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SUMMARY:Achy Obejas
DESCRIPTION:The Cubans in Achy Obejas’s new 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. With 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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/achy-obejas-2/
LOCATION:SF Public Library\, 100 Larkin Street\, San Francisco\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Books & Brews: Book Swap
DESCRIPTION:Book Swap! \nat Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House \n2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel \nEvent #6 of Bookshop’s 2017 Books & Brews Passport Series \n\nOur last bookish beer-bash of the season! Have you ever loved a book so much that you wanted to read passages of it to people around you and share it with all your friends? Bookshop’s Books & Brews Book Swap offers passionate readers a chance to promote their favorite books and go home with a new discovery–while also enjoying delicious brews at Beer Thirty. Bring one of your favorite books (that you are willing to give away) and join a small group to talk about your books\, then listen to others sell you theirs–you’ll have 90 seconds\, and we’ll have a timer. Then we swap\, White Elephant-style (except you’ll actually want the gift you get)! \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \nSpecial Offer: Our friends at Beer Thirty will generously offer 20% off all purchases (including retail) to attendees on the date of this event. \n_________________________________________________________________________________________ \n*Remember that you must bring a book to participate in this event.*
URL:https://litseen.com/event/books-brews-book-swap-2/
LOCATION:Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pour House\, 2504 S. Main Street\, Soquel\, CA\, 95073\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Matthew Zapruder w/ Natalie Baszile
DESCRIPTION:Praise for Matthew Zapruder \n“Zapruder’s poems don’t merely attempt beauty; they attain it.”—The Boston Review \n\n“Matthew Zapruder has a razor eye for the remnants and revenants of modern culture.”—The New York Times \n\n“With dynamic\, logically complex sentences\, Zapruder posits a world that is both extraordinary and refreshingly ordinary.”—BOMB \n\nAbout Why Poetry \nAn impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers\, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder \n  \nIn Why Poetry\, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry–and poetry alone–can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively\, lilting prose\, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. \n  \nZapruder explores what poems are\, and how we can read them\, so that we can\, as Whitman wrote\, -possess the origin of all poems\, – without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important\, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. \n  \nAnchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form\, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational\, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement\, metaphor\, and negative capability\, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read\, and enjoyed\, by anyone.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/matthew-zapruder-w-natalie-baszile/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:LUNADA Literary Lounge
DESCRIPTION:Featuring the book release celebration of Unaccompanied by Salvadorean poet Javier Zamora\, and performance by Sophia Mabelitini\, with readings by Leticia Hernandez\, Javier Huerta\, Joseph Rios\, Solmaz Sharif\, Charif Shanahan\, and Monica Sok. \nLunada’s OPEN MIC invites poets\, storytellers\, emcees\, musicians\, laureates and first-timers to shine under the lunar spotlight\, under the backdrop of Galería’s current exhibition Queerly Tèhuäntin | Cuir Us. Sign up at entrance / First 5 spots on the list\, 5 min. ea. \nHosted by Sandra Garcia Rivera\n \nDOORS OPEN AT 7PM.\n$5.00 Admission:\n \nGALERIA DE LA RAZA\n2857 24th Street\, at Bryant\nSF\, CA 94110\nLUNADA is the Bay Area’s only full moon bilingual literary ritual & performance gathering devoted to spoken word\, música\, song\, and story. Located in the heart of the Mission District at Galería de la Raza\, and guest curated by some of the Bay Area’s most dynamic word slingers and artists\, each LUNADA features community poets\, local legends\, visiting mystics\, and other mero meros of the stage. Voted Best Literary Night of 2016 by the SF Bay Guardian. \nABOUT THE ARTISTS \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. The recipient of a 2016 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Fellowship and the 2016 Barnes and Noble Writer for Writer’s Award\, his first poetry collection Unaccompanied is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press September 2017. \nSophia Mabelitini is a queer androgynous photographer\, artist and musician\, born and raised in San Francisco\, CA.  At the age of 14\, Sophia was one of the original cast members of the San Francisco Paul Green School of Rock\, the program that inspired the movie School of Rock with Jack Black. Sophia has toured across the nation as a drummer\, vocalist and keyboard player and has made appearances in Singapore and Thailand. After completing their degree in Fine Art: Photography in Brooklyn\, New York\, Sophia’s love of travel brought them to teaching young students in Thailand on how to utilize technology with the arts. While Sophia is multifaceted in the arts\, music and holistic realms\, their true passion lies with the continual avenues of self-expression. Sophia will be relocating to the Portland Oregon area next month with their partner Marie Shier and dog\, Charlie.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunada-literary-lounge-2/
LOCATION:Galería de la Raza\, 2857 24th Street\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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