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SUMMARY:Queeriosity: Writing + Performance Workshop (Youth Centered)
DESCRIPTION:Queeriosity: Writing and Performance workshops celebrates LGBTQQIA+ youth voices in the Bay Area. Taught by Youth Speaks poets including Sarah O’Neal and Janae Johnson. \nEvery Wednesday | March 20th – May 22\n5:00pm – 7:00pm\nat Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin St\, Oakland\, CA 94607 (near 19th Street BART) \nThis LGBTQIA+ centered workshop will explore personal and historical narratives that (re)frame perceptions of language\, sexuality & gender. Participants will be encouraged to write\, learn performance techniques\, and create the dopest space imaginable. \nSign-Up: https://goo.gl/forms/OWMXtikx5RvHzBnB3 \n**First time and/or experienced writers are encouraged to attend. This is intended to be a space where your authentic self is not only welcomed- it’s celebrated.** \nNote: This is a FREE youth-centered (13-19 years old) Workshop\, and anyone can join! 🙂
URL:https://litseen.com/event/queeriosity-writing-performance-workshop-youth-centered/
LOCATION:Qulture Collective\, 1714 Franklin Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Express presents a reading by Zephyr Omeira\, hosted by Gary Turchin\, open mic\, Himalayan Flavors Restaurant\, 1585 University Avenue\, Berkeley\, free\, 7:00-9:00 (poetryexpressberkeley.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-express-presents-a-reading-by-zephyr-omeira-hosted-by-gary-turchin-open-mic/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our March book at the February Book Club meeting (2/27)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on February 28 while supplies last. \nMARCH’S BOOK CLUB PICK:\nBLUETS\nBY MAGGIE NELSON \n  \nLiterary Nonfiction. “Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” A lyrical\, philosophical\, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love\, as refracted through the color blue\, while folding in\, and responding to\, the divergent voices and preoccupations of such generative figures as Wittgenstein\, Sei Shonagon\, William Gass and Joan Mitchell. BLUETS further confirms Maggie Nelson’s place within the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. \nIn 2015\, the editors of Bookforum included BLUETS on their list of 10 of their favorite books over the past two decades. \nMaggie Nelson is a writer\, poet and scholar. Her book The Argonauts (2015) won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Nelson has also been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship\, a Creative Capital Literature Fellowship\, a NEA Fellowship in Poetry\, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction\, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. \n  \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to facilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around literature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nWhen\n\n\nWednesday\, March 27\, 2019 – 6:00pm\n\n\n\n\nWhere\nMain Library\n1st Floor Reading Area \n\n\n\n\n\n125 14th St.\nOakland\, CA 94612 \nPhone: (510) 238-3134
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution-2/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Shiv Kotecha\, Ed Steck\, and Syd Staiti
DESCRIPTION:Poets from all over! Converging in one place! On one night! \nShiv Kotecha is the author of The Switch (Wonder\, 2018) and EXTRIGUE (Make Now\, 2015). Writing can also be found in frieze\, Art in America\, The Brooklyn Rail\, The Believer and elsewhere. \nEd Steck is the author of An Interface for a Fractal Landscape (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (Ugly Duckling Presse)\, The Rose (with Adam Marnie\, Hassla)\, Far Rainbow (Make Now Books)\, The Necro-Luminescence of Pink Mist (Skeleton Man Press)\, and others. His work has been performed and exhibited nationally and internationally\, most recently at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and Chateau Shatto. He lives in Tampa\, FL. \nSyd Staiti is author of The Undying Present (Krupskaya 2015) and chapbooks In the Stitches (Trafficker 2015) and Verse/Switch & Stop Motion (2008). Work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, Tripwire\, Amerarcana\, and The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman 2017). Staiti has been involved with The (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand\, Small Press Traffic\, and is currently a collective member of Light Field.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shiv-kotecha-ed-steck-and-syd-staiti/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Katy Butler\, The Art of Dying Well
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAY\, MARCH 27\, 2019 – 7:00PM\n\n\n\n\n\nThis is an advanced event listing. Please check back for updates\, or sign up for our events emails. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up an hour before the event begins. Please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by March 25th\, 2018 if you have any ADA accommodation requests. \nIn The Art of Dying Well\, Katy Butler seeks to restore an element of the sacred to the process of dying\, and provides the tools to navigate a modern medical system that is inadequately designed to meet the needs of the elderly and patients managing prolonged illnesses. This crucial guide prepares readers for seven phases of late life\, from vigorous old age to the final breath. Filled with life-affirming and relatable anecdotes\, each chapter addresses a specific stage: Resilience\, Slowing Down\, Adaptation\, Awareness of Mortality\, House of Cards\, Preparing for a Good Death\, and Active Dying. \nThe author of the New York Times bestseller Knocking on Heaven’s Door\, Katy Butler’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Best American Science Writing\, and The Best American Essays. A finalist for a National Magazine Award\, she lives in Northern California. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Hospice of Santa Cruz County.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/katy-butler-the-art-of-dying-well/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir\, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. \n\nPraise for What You Have Heard Is True \n“In this searing\, vital memoir\, Carolyn Forché at last reveals the dark stories behind her famous early poems: she brings alive the brutality\, complexity and idealism of El Salvador in the late 1970s\, a time of revolution that echoes all too painfully in the present. What You Have Heard Is True\, a riveting and essential account of a young woman’s political and human awakening\, is as beautiful as it is painful to read.” —Claire Messud\, author of The Burning Girl \n“Carolyn Forché asks us not only to hear\, but to see\, the scale of human and moral devastation in El Salvador. For those of us who are citizens and residents of the United States\, Forché’s powerful\, moving\, and disturbing memoir also demands that we recognize our country’s responsibility for the atrocities committed by the El Salvadoran military. As is the case with her poetry\, Forché’s nonfiction asserts the need for truth—in our politics\, in our writing\, in our witnessing.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen\, author of The Sympathizer \n“What You Have Heard Is True is as much an enthralling account of a life marked by an encounter as it is a document of a time and place. Carolyn Forche’s urgent and compelling memoir narrates her role as witness in an especially explosive and precarious period in El Salvador’s history. This incredible book shapes chaos into accountability. It marries the attentive sensibility of a master poet with the unflinching eyes of a human rights activist.” —Claudia Rankine\, author of Citizen \n\nAbout What You Have Heard Is True \nThe powerful story of a young poet who becomes an activist through a trial by fire \nWhat You Have Heard is True is a devastating\, lyrical\, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation\, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy\, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life. \nCarolyn Forché is twenty-seven when the mysterious stranger appears on her doorstep. The relative of a friend\, he is a charming polymath with a mind as seemingly disordered as it is brilliant. She’s heard rumors from her friend about who he might be: a lone wolf\, a communist\, a CIA operative\, a sharpshooter\, a revolutionary\, a small coffee farmer\, but according to her\, no one seemed to know for certain. He has driven from El Salvador to invite Forché to visit and learn about his country. Captivated for reasons she doesn’t fully understand\, she accepts and becomes enmeshed in something beyond her comprehension. \nTogether they meet with high-ranking military officers\, impoverished farm workers\, and clergy desperately trying to assist the poor and keep the peace. These encounters are a part of his plan to educate her\, but also to learn for himself just how close the country is to war. As priests and farm-workers are murdered and protest marches attacked\, he is determined to save his country\, and Forché is swept up in his work and in the lives of his friends. Pursued by death squads and sheltering in safe houses\, the two forge a rich friendship\, as she attempts to make sense of what she’s experiencing and establish a moral foothold amidst profound suffering. This is the powerful story of a poet’s experience in a country on the verge of war\, and a journey toward social conscience in a perilous time.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carolyn-forche/
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:BERKELEY ARTS & LETTERS: Siri Hustvedt / Memories of the Future
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents international bestselling author of The Blazing World Siri Hustvedt for Memories of the Future\, a provocative\, exuberant novel about time\, memory\, desire\, and the imagination that tells the story of a young Midwestern woman;s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor\, Lucy Brite. \n  \nPlease note: This event is ticketed\, and will take place at Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St.\, Berkeley. Tickets\, including discounted book bundles\, are available in advance here. Unless otherwise noted here\, general admission tickets will be available at the door. \n  \nAs she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building\, S.H.\, aka Minnesota\, transcribes her neighbors bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook\, along with sundry other adventures\, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. \n  \nForty years later\, S.H.\, now a veteran author\, discovers her old notebook\, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts\, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. \n  \nElaborately structured\, intellectually rigorous\, urgently paced\, poignant\, and often wildly funny\, “Memories of the Future” brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought\, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex\, love\, hunger\, and rage. \n  \n\n  \n“Among the many riches of Siri Hustvedt’s portrait of a young woman finding her way as an artist are her reflections on how acts of remembering\, if they reach deep enough\, can heal the broken present\, as well as on the inherent uncanniness of feeling oneself brought into being by the writing hand.” – J.M.Coetzee \n  \n“Like all the best postmodern novels\, this metafictional investigation of time\, memory\, and the mutating self is as playful as it is serious.” – Kirkus Reviews \n  \n\n  \nSiri Hustvedt is the internationally acclaimed author of a book of poems\, six novels\, four collections of essays\, and a work of nonfiction. In 2012 she was awarded the International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. Her novel “The Blazing World” was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Lost Angeles Book Prize for Fiction. She has also published numerous papers in scholarly and scientific journals. She has a PhD in English literature from Columbia University and is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n– Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \n– Signing and additional details coming soon. \n– This event is all ages. RSVP is appreciated but not necessary. \n– Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-arts-letters-siri-hustvedt-memories-of-the-future/
LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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