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SUMMARY:Douglas Kearney + Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Kearney has published six books\, most recently Buck Studies (Fence Books\, 2016)\, winner of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Firecracker Award for Poetry and silver medalist for the California Book Award in poetry. BOMB magazine states Kearney “remaps the 20th century in a project that is both lyrical and epic\, personal and historical.” Kearney’s collection of writing on poetics and performativity\, Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press\, 2015)\, was a Small Press Distribution Handpicked Selection that Publishers Weekly called “an extraordinary book.” Raised in Altadena\, he lives with his family in the Santa Clarita Valley and teaches at CalArts. \nTatiana Luboviski-Acosta is an artist\, doula and the author of The Easy Body (Timeless\, Infinite Light\, 2017). Luboviski-Acosta\, Matt Weathers and Carla Orendorff are founding members of strictlyyouth\, a decolonized punk dance collective for people of color. With Elana Chavez\, they are founding curators of the Cantil Reading Series. They have taught movement\, filmmaking and radical play to anarchists and children. Luboviski-Acosta was raised in Los Angeles’ Eastside and now lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-kearney-tatiana-luboviski-acosta/
LOCATION:The Poetry Center\, San Francisco State University\, 1600 Holloway Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94132\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Eleanor Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Booksmith as we welcome Eleanor Henderson for the debut of her forthcoming novel The Twelve-Mile Straight. \nSet in Georgia during the years of the Depression and prohibition\, The Twelve-Mile Straight is an American epic about race\, inequality\, and family that reads like a page-turner and is startlingly timely and relevant. It begins when two babies—one dark-skinned\, the other light—are born to the daughter of a sharecropper who operates an illegal distillery. The twins’ birth raises questions that have violent\, tragic consequences that continue to reverberate many years into the future. \nHenderson’s childhood was brimming with accounts from her grandparents’ and her father of the town where her grandparents were sharecroppers. She heard tales of her grandparents during the Great Depression and stories about the hard times on the farm\, and she also learned about the resilience and the ways in which families persevere together. Henderson was inspired to bring the world of Cotton County\, Georgia during the time of Jim Crow to the page\, and says she wanted “to capture the innocence of those country stories\, and also to fracture it. I knew there was a darker narrative running alongside this one\, like the quiet creek running along the [fictional] Twelve-Mile Straight.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/eleanor-henderson/
LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Vivian Gornick
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Fall 2017 MFA Reading featuring Vivian Gornick. \nVivian Gornick\, a born and bred New Yorker\, is an essayist and memoirist whose latest book\, aptly enough\, is entitled The Odd Woman and The City. Her other books include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative\, and many other works that have garnered nominations for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gornick is a former staff writer for The Village Voice. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nThe MFA Reading Series is co-sponsored by the English department and presents literary readings and discussions that are free and open to the public. For more information on the MFA in Writing program visit: https://www.usfca.edu/arts-sciences/graduate-programs/writing\, or email: mfaw@usfca.edu.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:USF Fromm Hall – FR 125 – Maraschi Room\, 2130 Fulton Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Swallowing Mercury: Wioletta Greg
DESCRIPTION:Polish author Wioletta Greg discusses her new novel from Transit Books\, Swallowing Mercury. \nLonglisted for The Man Booker International Prize\, Swallowing Mercury looks back on youth in a close-knit\, agricultural community in 1980s Poland through the eyes of Wiola. Her memories are precise\, intense\, distinctive\, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women\, rumored visits from the Pope\, and the locked room in the dressmaker’s house\, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch\, Wioletta Greg’s debut animates the strange wonders of growing up. \nWioletta Greg is a Polish writer. She was born in a small village in 1974 in the Jurassic Highland of Poland. In 2006\, she left Poland and moved to the UK. Between 1998–2012 she published six poetry volumes\, as well as a novel\, Swallowing Mercury\, which spans her childhood and her experience of growing up in Communist Poland. Her short stories and poems have been published in Asymptote\, theGuardian\, Litro Magazine\, Poetry Wales\, Wasafiri and The White Review. Her works have been translated into English\, Catalan\, French\, Spanish and Welsh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/swallowing-mercury-wioletta-greg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books on the Park\, 1231 9th Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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