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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:Voz Sin Tinta: Our monthly bilingual poetry series and open mic.
DESCRIPTION:Thu\, April 11\, 6:30pm – 9:00pm\nDescriptionSponsored by Alejandro Murguia\, curated by Marguerite Munoz and Rene Vaz. This month’s readers TBD.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/voz-sin-tinta-our-monthly-bilingual-poetry-series-and-open-mic-29/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Zone Books in conjunction with City Lights present \nan evening of discussion centering around the release of Timonthy Hampton’s new book \nBob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work \nfrom Zone Books \n\n\nBob Dylan’s reception of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature has elevated him beyond the world of popular music\, establishing him as a major modern artist. However\, until now\, no study of his career has focused on the details and nuances of the songs\, showing how they work as artistic statements designed to create meaning and elicit emotion. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is the first comprehensive book on both the poetics and politics of Dylan’s compositions. It studies Dylan\, not as a pop hero\, but as an artist\, as a maker of songs. Focusing on the interplay of music and lyric\, it traces Dylan’s innovative use of musical form\, his complex manipulation of poetic diction\, and his dialogues with other artists\, from Woody Guthrie to Arthur Rimbaud. Moving from Dylan’s earliest experiments with the blues\, through his mastery of rock and country\, up to his densely allusive recent recordings\, Timothy Hampton offers a detailed account of Dylan’s achievement. Locating Dylan in the long history of artistic modernism\, the book studies the relationship between form\, genre\, and the political and social themes that crisscross Dylan’s work. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work offers both a nuanced engagement with the work of a major artist and a meditation on the contribution of song at times of political and social change. \nTimothy Hampton is a writer\, scholar\, teacher\, and translator based in Northern California. Raised in the Rockies\, educated in New Mexico\, Europe\, Canada\, and on the East Coast\, he is primarily a scholar of the Romance Languages\, and of the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His particular research interests include the relationship between literature and politics\, the philosophy of history\, and the transmission of culture. He has written widely on literature in its many forms (epic\, lyric\, dramatic\, novelistic) across several languages and national traditions. Recently\, he has been working on the history of emotion\, on multilingualism\, and on popular music. He is Professor of Comparative Literature and French at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and directs the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. \nwhat has been said about Timothy Hampton’s writing: \n“This is an essential Dylan book and unlike any other. Hampton left me with a deeper appreciation of Dylan’s uniqueness as both songwriter and singer; his methods\,his lyrical and poetic brilliance\, his many voices.” — Dean Wareham\, musician (Galaxie 500\, Luna) and author of Black Postcards \n“This is a truly powerful book written by one of the leading scholars of the history of poetry today. The writing is clear and intellectually most exciting: Dylan’s idiosyncratic genius is explained more compellingly than ever before. Hampton remains relevant\, exciting\, and persuasively accurate as he shows the genesis of the songs as musical and literary forms and assesses their originality. Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work will become a standard account\, destined to appear in class lists under ‘required reading’; it contains the searching close readings of songs that will both enable future study and require contestation for an alternative account: the study sets a gold standard.”–Nigel Smith\, William and Annie S. Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature\, Princeton University \n“From classrooms to the Supreme Court to the street corner\, nobody doesn’t know Dylan songs. Yet there is surprising little writing that addresses exactly how the songs speak to us and weave themselves into the web of American language. Timothy Hampton’s Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work is a rigorous model for how this kind of critical analysis can be done. Hampton’s well-written book is the first one I would recommend to someone fascinated and mystified by Dylan’s half a century of ranging among the things that songs can articulate.”– Charles O. Hartman\, Poet in Residence at Connecticut College
URL:https://litseen.com/event/timothy-hampton/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Patrice Vecchione\, Ink Knows No Borders
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz is pleased to host an evening with Patrice Vecchione as she presents her new book\, Ink Knows No Borders\, a poetry collection that brings together some of the most compelling and vibrant voices today reflecting the experiences of teen immigrants and refugees. This event is part of Bookshop’s year-long programming effort\, 2020 Vision. \nWith authenticity\, integrity\, and insight\, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees\, such as cultural and language differences\, homesickness\, social exclusion\, human rights\, racism\, stereotyping\, and questions of identity. Poems by Elizabeth Acevedo\, Erika L. Sánchez\, Samira Ahmed\, Chen Chen\, Ocean Vuong\, Fatimah Asghar\, Carlos Andrés Gómez\, Bao Phi\, Kaveh Akbar\, Hala Alyan\, and Ada Limón\, among others\, encourage readers to honor their roots as well as explore new paths\, offering empathy and hope for those who are struggling to overcome discrimination. Many of the struggles immigrant and refugee teens face head-on are also experienced by young people everywhere as they contend with isolation\, self-doubt\, confusion\, and emotional dislocation. \nInk Knows No Borders is the first book of its kind and features 65 poems and a foreword by poet Javier Zamora\, who crossed the border\, unaccompanied\, at the age of nine\, and an afterword by Emtithal Mahmoud\, World Poetry Slam Champion and Honorary Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR\, the UN Refugee Agency. Brief biographies of the poets are included\, as well. It’s a hopeful\, beautiful\, and meaningful book for any reader. \n\n\n“This collection cuts right to the heart of the matter at a time when it is most relevant. . . . This symphony of poetry is a necessary series of bruises and balms that will comfort those who have endured\, uplift those who continue to struggle\, and educate others.” —Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \n\n\n“I was moved again and again by the poems in this brave\, beautiful and necessary collection. I found echoes of myself in many of the pieces\, and I know so many young immigrants and Americans will find themselves\, too. But it goes beyond that. I wish this book would be taught in homogenous communities\, too\, so readers with little understanding of immigration will have the chance to see its humanity. This is the most important book we will read this year.” —Matt de la Peña\, New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award winning author \n\n\nPoet\, nonfiction writer\, and teacher Patrice Vecchione has edited several highly acclaimed anthologies for young adults including Truth & Lies\, which was named one of the best children’s books by School Library Journal\, Revenge & Forgiveness\, and Faith & Doubt\, named a best book of the year for young adults by the American Library Association. She’s the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life and Step into Nature: Nurturing Imagination and Spirit in Everyday Life\, as well as two collections of poetry. For many years\, Patrice has taught poetry and creative writing to young people (often working with migrant children) through her program\, “The Heart of the Word: Poetry and the Imagination.” She is also a columnist for her local daily paper\, The Monterey Herald\, and has published essays on children and poetry for several outlets including the California Library Association Journal. patricevecchione.com. \nThis free event will take place at Bookshop Santa Cruz. Chairs for open seating are usually set up about an hour before the event begins. If you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email info@bookshopsantacruz.com by April 9th\, 2019.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/patrice-vecchione-ink-knows-no-borders/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Alta Magazine & Books Inc. Present DAVID KUSHNER in conversation with Gary Kremen\, founder of Match.com
DESCRIPTION:Alta Magazine and Books Inc. present Rolling Stone contributing editor David Kushner for a discussion of his brillant new work\, The Players Ball: A Genius\, a Con Man\, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise. David will be in conversation with Gary Kremen\, founder of Match.com. \nA Wild West look at the early days of the internet–the incredible battle between the founder of Match.com and the con man who swindled him out of the online domain name Sex.com in an all-out war for control over the fuel that still powers the online world to this day: love and lust. \nIn 1994\, visionary entrepreneur Gary Kremen used a $2\,500 loan to create the first online dating service\, Match.com. Despite only 5 percent of Americans using the internet at the time\, Kremen insisted his invention would transform our lives. That wasn’t all he was accurately predicted. He also anticipated that internet addresses\, or domain names\, would be the bedrock of the dawning digital frontier\, eventually gathering the same kind of value as real estate properties. So\, while his friends thought he was crazy\, he bought dozens up\, including the domain Sex.com. Love and lust\, he believed\, would fuel this new world to new heights. But in 1995\, as Kremen prepared to launch his next venture\, he was shocked to learn that someone named Stephen Michael Cohen had stolen the rights to the Sex.com name and was making millions that Kremen had never seen. \nIn The Players Ball\, award-winning journalist David Kushner draws from years of research and interviews to vividly recreate the Wild West years online\, when innovators and outlaws battled for power and money. He explores the risks\, rewards\, challenges\, and back alleys of how the world online came to be and provides essential insights about where it’s heading. The Players Ball is the rollicking true story of a decade-long cat-and-mouse game between a genius and a con man that changed the way people connect\, and defined the digital age.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alta-magazine-books-inc-present-david-kushner-in-conversation-with-gary-kremen-founder-of-match-com/
LOCATION:Books Inc. Mountain View\, 301 Castro St\, Mountain View \, CA\, 94041\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Why There Are Words Presents: Familiar
DESCRIPTION:Join Why There Are Words on April 11\, 2019\, at Studio 333 in Sausalito for a familiarly spectacular night of readings as six acclaimed authors read on the theme of “Familiar.” \n  \nDoors open at 7pm; readings begin at 7:15. $10 entry fee at the door. Cash bar. For more details\, including the authors’ full bios\, see the website\, www.whytherearewords.com. For more details about WTAW Press\, of which the reading series is a program\, visit www.wtawpress.org. \n  \nJasmin Darznik is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother’s Hidden Life. Her debut novel Song of a Captive Bird (Ballantine Books\, 2018) is a fictional account of Iran’s trailblazing woman poet\, Forugh Farrokhzad. jasmine-darznik.com \n  \nYalitza Ferreras is a recent Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories 2016\, various journals\, and the anthologies: Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education (University of Nebraska Press\, 2014) and Daring to Write: Contemporary Narratives by Dominican Women (University of Georgia Press\, 2016). www.yalitza.com \n  \nChristina Hoag was a foreign correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade\, writing for Time\, Business Week\, New York Times\, among many others. She is the author of the noir crime novel Skin of Tattoos (Martin Brown Publishing\, 2016) and Girl on the Brink (Fire and Ice YA\, 2016). She also writes nonfiction\, co-authoring Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence (Turner Publishing\, 2014). \n  \nMiah Jeffra is author of the collections The First Church of What’s Happening (Nomadic Press 2017) and The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic! (forthcoming Sibling Rivalry Press 2019). Recent publications include The North American Review\, Fourteen Hills Review\, and The Nervous Breakdown. He is founding editor of queer literary collaborative\, Foglifter Press. miahjeffra.com \n  \nKimberly Kruge is a poet and translator based in central Mexico. She is the author of Ordinary Chaos (Carnegie Mellon University Press\, 2019) and High-Land Sub-Tropic (Center for Book Arts\, 2017; translation: Impronta Press\, 2019). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, The Iowa Review\, The Missouri Review\, and many other publications. She works to bring poetry in English and Spanish to new readers through translation and the organization of collaborative projects between writers from different countries. kimberlykruge.com \n  \nRolf Yngve’s first collection Dog Watches was recently published in December 2018 by Saddle Road Press. He first published short stories in the 1970’s when his work appeared in journals and anthologies including Best American Short Stories. After retiring from thirty-five years in the US Navy\, he returned to the arts with publication in a number of journals including prize stories published in Indiana Review\, Glimmer Train\, Bosque Journal\, and others. www.rolfyngve.com \n  \nWhy There Are Words (WTAW) is an award-winning national reading series founded in Sausalito in 2010 by Peg Alford Pursell\, now expanded to seven additional major cities in the U.S. The series draws a full house of Bay Area residents every second Thursday to Studio 333\, located at 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito\, CA 94965. The series is a program of the 501(c)(3) non-profit WTAW Press. For more information see the website www.whytherearewords.com or email whytherearewords@gmail.com. Phone: Studio 333 at (415) 331-8272.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-there-are-words-presents-familiar/
LOCATION:Studio 333\, 333 Caledonia Street\, Sausalito \, CA\, 94965\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:Dave Barry
DESCRIPTION:After Pulitzer Prize-winner Dave Barry turned 70\, did he look to his friends for support? Did he find solace in the family around him? \nNot a chance. \nIn his new book\, Lessons from Lucy\, the laugh-out-loud columnist that the New York Times once called “the funniest man in America\,” looked to his dog Lucy for companionship and a model for how to grow old with grace. \nFrom his beloved dog\, Dave learns to live in the present\, let go of daily grievances\, and feel good in his own skin. Told with Dave’s signature humor and profound ability to find deep meaning in the everyday\, Lessons from Lucy illuminates the great joys of passing 40 and still feeling great. \nShare an evening with the writer who never fails to leave us looking at the world differently while making us laugh.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dave-barry/
LOCATION:Aragon High School Theater\, 900 Alameda de las Pulgas\, San Mataeo\, CA\, 94402
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich
DESCRIPTION:Translating Contemporary Russian Literature: Marian Schwartz on Olga Slavnikova and Leonid Yuzefovich\n\nGreen Apple Books on the Park | 1231 9th Avenue | San Francisco\, CA \n\n\nRSVP\n\nMarian Schwartz joins Sabrina Jaszi to talk about translating contemporary Russian literature and her latest translations of Leonid Yuzefovich’s Horsemen of the Sands and Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die. \nHorsemen of the Sands (Archipelago Books) contains two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: The Storm\, which takes place in a Soviet elementary school\, and Horsemen of the Sands\, a mystical tale about the real-life warlord R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, who fought both the Chinese and the Bolsheviks for control of Mongolia during the Russian Civil War\, which lasted six years after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. \nIn The Storm\, a bombastic teacher lectures his young students on traffic accidents and family separation\, unwittingly stirring an emotional crisis. A lost wallet\, an office fling\, an upset stomach—the minutiae of life unveil the private tragedies at the heart of a school community. \nHorsemen of the Sands takes place a world away. An old herdsman entrances a young tank commander with the legend of Baron Ungern\, the real-life White Russian officer who conquered Mongolia. A foggy epic unfolds\, a tale of faith and revenge centering on a mysterious amulet\, said to make the wearer invincible. From the dim of the classroom to the vast Mongolian steppe\, Leonid Yuzefovich’s masterful novellas The Storm and Horsemen of the Sands drill straight to the core of human emotion. These Russian parables illuminate the fears\, passions\, and ambitions beneath the grandest acts and the tiniest gestures. \nOlga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die (Columbia University Press) tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life—and the means and meaning of their own lives—by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.In the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him—and his pension—alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. \nAfter her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well—to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \n\n\nCONTACT:\n\nLeslie-Ann Woofter\nlwoofter@catranslation.org\n415.512.8812
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translating-contemporary-russian-literature-marian-schwartz-on-olga-slavnikova-and-leonid-yuzefovich/
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:Translator Marian Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:  \nMarian Schwartz discusses her latest translations from Russian\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die: The Tale of an Authentic Human Being and Horsemen of the Sands. \n\nAbout The Man Who Couldn’t Die \nIn the chaos of early-1990s Russia\, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him–and his pension–alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life–and the means and meaning of their own lives–by creating a world that doesn’t change\, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather’s stroke\, Marina hangs Brezhnev’s portrait on the wall\, edits the Pravda articles read to him\, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile\, her mother\, Nina Alexandrovna\, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside\, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand\, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well–to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz\, The Man Who Couldn’t Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia’s modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions. \nAbout Horsemen of the Sands \nHorsemen of the Sands gathers two novellas by Leonid Yuzefovich: “Horsemen of the Sands” and “The Storm.” The former tells the true story of R.F. Ungern-Shternberg\, also known as the “Mad Baltic Baron\,” a military adventurer whose intense fascination with the East drove him to seize control of Mongolia during the chaos of the Russian Civil War. “The Storm” centers on an unexpected emotional crisis that grips a Russian elementary school on an otherwise regular day\, unveiling the vexed emotional bonds and shared history that knit together its community of students\, teachers\, parents\, and staff. \nAbout Marian Schwartz \nMarian Schwartz has translated over sixty volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction\, history\, biography\, criticism\, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated the New York Times’ bestseller The Last Tsar\, by Edvard Radzinsky\, as well as classics by Mikhail Bulgakov\, Ivan Goncharov\, Yuri Olesha\, and Mikhail Lermontov\, and Leo Tolstoy. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowships and the 2014 Read Russia Prize for Best Translation of Contemporary Russian Literature and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/translator-marian-schwartz/
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:MICHAEL LEWIS
DESCRIPTION:MICHAEL LEWIS\nAgainst The Rules\nIn Conversation with Jacob Weisberg\nThursday\, April 11\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Special Events \n Buy Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nJournalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis (Moneyball\, The Big Short\, Flashboys) talks to Jacob Weisberg about his new podcast\, AGAINST THE RULES\, where he explores the corrosion of fairness in courts of law\, Wall Street\, sports\, and the art world—to understand what it has done to our society\, mostly without our noticing. The seven-episode season takes listeners from student-loan call centers to the courts of Uzbekistan to the new trading hubs of Wall Street (they’re in New Jersey). He speaks with a US Senator and the coach of the Golden State Warriors; the architect of the 9/11 settlement fund and a man who got rich off the 2008 financial crisis.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/michael-lewis/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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