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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes - Santa Rosa
DESCRIPTION:OUR FIRST You’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes… OPEN MIC @ The Lost Church – Santa Rosa!!!!! WOOOoooOOOOOooooooooooOOOOOOO!!!! \n$10 in advance & at the door.\nTICKETS HERE: https://sforce.co/2udTNcD\nAnd support MORE with ticket tiers. You choose the amount.\nThe tickets tiers are direct ways of offering more support to YG2D\, a 501(c)3 Non-profit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of death & dying\, inspiring life by unabashedly sourcing our shared mortality.\nThank you for any additional help you can offer.\nAnd please contact ned@yg2d.com if you need financial support to be a part of the evening. \nVenue: The Lost Church – Santa Rosa\nThe Lost Church is CASH ONLY at the door (at this time). \nDoors at 7:30pm.\nShow at 8:15pm.\nAll performances end at 10:30pm.\nSeating is first come\, first served. \nWe recommend you buy in advance to ensure being a part of the event (parlor shows often sell out)\, but you can also try purchasing at the door on the night of the show (although\, we do NOT set aside a block of tickets for door purchase) \nAges 10 and over are welcome. (Parental discretion is advised for some events). \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \nYou’re Going to Die: Poetry\, Prose & Everything Goes…\nis an open mic event\, the communal offering for us to explore the conversation of death & dying\, to embrace our losses & mortality\,\nto grieve\, bereave & honor those we’ve lost & love… while all the while making room for simply being ALIVE. \nSome words from Destiny Grace on her musical offering for the evening: “Music has always been a healer in my life. It’s held me when a body couldn’t; it’s given me the power to alchemize my grief into something beautiful and way less scary or intimidating. For me\, creating songs is like choosing specific emotions or memories and building them altars of remembrance that I can return to whenever I need to. Writing & playing music acts as a tool to articulate my sometimes painful emotions into something less abstract and more concrete; something not only I can find catharsis in\, but when shared\, can also build a bridge to others who have shared experiences.” \nSign-ups will be the night of & the list fills up quickly\, so if you want to perform\, you’d better get there early… \nIf you’re going to perform\, keep it under 5 MINUTES. That’s right: 5 MINUTES. WE WILL TIME YOU. And we will hug you when we have to stop you [just to make it easier on you (or harder – depending on your propensity for intimacy)]. \nPoetry\, prose\, music\, dancing\, comedy\, drama\, happy\, sad\, & on & on & on… Remember: EVERYTHING GOES… so do whatever you want. \nYou don’t have to perform anything; the audience is as essential as the performers. \nPlease don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly\, plugging things in is endlessly boring. If you need to borrow an instrument\, figure it out before you’re called to the stage. \nIMPORTANT ::: DON’T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY. Come and have fun. The end. Remember. Someday\, we won’t exist and neither will the English language. If you choose to take yourself seriously\, then take yourself so seriously that it’s stupid. Ridiculousness is encouraged. \nYou’re Going to Die. No. Really. You are.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/youre-going-to-die-poetry-prose-everything-goes-santa-rosa/
LOCATION:The Lost Church – Santa Rosa\, 427 Mendocino Avenue\, Santa Rosa\, CA\, 95401\, United States
CATEGORIES:North Bay
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SUMMARY:We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race\, Resegregation\, and Public Art
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Chang gives a talk related to his latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation. Published in 2016\, it was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book of the Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” \nJeff Chang is vice president for narrative\, arts and culture at Race Forward. His books include Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop\, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America. Cofounder of CultureStr/ke and ColorLines\, Chang was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and the winner of the Asian American Literary Award. He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200.\nFor more information\, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu. \nJeff Chang has written extensively on culture\, politics\, the arts\, and music. \nHis first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, garnered many honors\, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Slate named it one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. He edited the book\, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. \nWho We Be: The Colorization of America (St. Martin’s Press) was released on October 2014\, to critical acclaim. It was published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title\, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America (Picador). The book won the Ray + Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize\, and Books For A Better Life Award. \nHis latest book\, We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation (Picador)\, was published in September 2016 on Picador. It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year\, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” In May 2019\, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. \nHis next project is a biography of Bruce Lee (Little\, Brown). \nJeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World\,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero\, and by the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts to its 2016 YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.” He was recently named to the Frederick Douglass 200\, as one of “200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass.” \nHe has also been a winner of the North Star News Prize\, and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work in Popular Culture and American Culture. With H. Samy Alim\, he received the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University. \nJeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He has written for The Guardian\, Slate\, the New York Times\, The Nation\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Believer\, N+1\, Mother Jones\, Salon\, and Buzzfeed\, among many others. \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Hawai’i\, he is a graduate of ‘Iolani School\, the University of California at Berkeley\, and the University of California at Los Angeles. \nFor the past seven years he was the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He serves as the Vice President for Narrative\, Arts and Culture at Race Forward. \nArts + Design Thursdays @ BAMPFA is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/we-gon-be-alright-notes-on-race-resegregation-and-public-art/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Author Mary Ladd in conversation with Author Leticia Hernandez
DESCRIPTION:Mary Ladd\, author of The Wig Diaries\, will be in conversation with Leticia Hernandez\, author of Mucha Muchacha\, Too Much Girl. \nThe Wig Diaries is Mary Ladd’s debut disrespectful cancer book. Delivered with bold gallows humor\, it intimately address the gravity of cancer and invites the reader to bear witness to both the horror and the joke(s). Armed with creative sensibility\, Ladd robs her diagnosis of its dour weightiness. Refusing to tiptoe around the gnarlier elements of treatment and recovery\, the narrative is powerful in its unvarnished honesty and contagious lust for life exemplified by hilarious anecdotes. \nA uniquely fresh modern and black comedy take on cancer\nCovers and pokes fun at everything from diagnosis to treatment to medical bills\nIllustrated by San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen\, who has cancer for the second time \n“I love this book.”—Mary Roach\, author of the books Grunt\, Stiff\, Spook\, and Bonk \n“This looks like a hoot and a half. I want more.”—Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket)\, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events \n“Clear-eyed\, fun\, and reassuring\, it’s the perfect guide!”—Vanessa Hua\, author of A River of Stars and Deceit and Other Possibilities \nMary Ladd’s writing has appeared in Playboy\, Time Magazine\, the San Francisco Chronicle and in five anthologies. She is a Writers Grotto member who collaborated with Anthony Bourdain on his Bay Area episodes of No Reservations. Illustrator Don Asmussen is the creator of Bad Reporter\, a twice-weekly political comic strip in the San Francisco Chronicle that is syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-mary-ladd-in-conversation-with-author-leticia-hernandez/
LOCATION:Folio Books\, 3957 24th St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94114\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado with Esmé Weijun Wang
DESCRIPTION:in conversation and celebrating the release of \nCarmen Maria Machado’s \nIn The Dream House \npublished by Graywolf Press \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house\, erotica\, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, fairy tales\, Star Trek\, and Disney villains\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be. \nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties\, a finalist for the National Book Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, she is the writer in residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife. Visit: https://carmenmariamachado.com/ \nEsmé Weijun Wang is the author of The Collected Schizophrenias and The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists of 2017. She holds an MFA from the University of Michigan and lives in San Francisco. Visit: https://esmewang.com/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/carmen-maria-machado-with-esme-weijun-wang/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Orin & Manjula Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden
DESCRIPTION:Just in time for pruning season! Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Orin Martin\, long-time manager of the renowned Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz\, and writer/editor Manjula Martin\, Orin’s daughter\, for a discussion and signing of Fruit Trees for Every Garden—their substantial\, authoritative\, and beautiful full-color guide which covers everything you need to know about organically growing healthy\, bountiful fruit trees. \nFor more than forty years\, Orin Martin has taught thousands of apprentices\, students\, and home gardeners the art and craft of growing fruit trees organically. In Fruit Trees for Every Garden\, Orin shares—with hard-won wisdom and plenty of humor—his recommended fruit varieties and techniques for productive trees\, including apple\, pear\, peach\, plum\, apricot\, nectarine\, sweet cherry\, orange\, lemon\, fig\, and more. \nIf you crave crisp apples\, juicy peaches\, or varieties of fruit that can never be found in the store\, they are all within reach in your own backyard. Whether you have one tree or a hundred\, Orin gives you all the tools you need\, from tree selection and planting practices to seasonal feeding guidelines and in-depth pruning tutorials. Along the way\, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the core principles of organic gardening and soil stewardship: compost\, cultivation\, cover crops\, and increasing biodiversity for a healthier garden. This book is more than just a gardening manual; it’s designed to help you understand the why behind the how\, allowing you to apply these techniques to your own slice of paradise and make the best choices for your individual trees. \nFilled with informative illustrations\, full-color photography\, and evocative intaglio etchings by artist Stephanie Martin\, Fruit Trees for Every Garden is a striking and practical guide that will enable you to enjoy the great pleasure and beauty of raising homegrown\, organic fruit for years to come. \nORIN MARTIN is manager of the three-acre Alan Chadwick Garden (home of 600 fruit trees) at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Farming Systems at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and manager of the orchard at UCSC’s Farm & Garden. Since 1977\, he has taught classes\, lectures\, and workshops to thousands of home gardeners\, apprentices\, students\, and budding farmers who have gone on to found and lead organic farms\, teaching gardens\, and food justice projects around the country and the world. MANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \nMANJULA MARTIN\, Orin’s daughter\, is a writer\, managing editor of the literary magazine Zoetrope: All-Story\, and editor of the book Scratch: Writers\, Money\, and the Art of Making a Living. \n“An excellent guide for those of us who are ‘addicted’ to the joys\, pleasures\, and sweat of growing tree fruit—a sweet blend of the skills and art required to grow the perfect peach (or apple\, citrus\, fig …)”\n—David Mas Masumoto\, organic fruit farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach\, Wisdom of the Last Farmer\, and Changing Season \n“Like the best teacher you’ve ever had\, Orin Martin knows how to light the fire. Yes\, this beautifully written and illustrated little book provides clear instructions for planting an orchard. It lovingly introduces you to more than a hundred varieties of fruit. But it is so much more. It’s about the power of observation\, talking to our neighbors\, and investing in our food\, families\, and Mother Earth.”\n—NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) \n“The opportunity to learn from one of the great organic farmers is an opportunity not to be missed! The UCSC Farm & Garden has always been a place of joy\, awe\, and wonder for me; this book captures the thought process and techniques that help us understand the unseen beneath our feet.”\n—Nell Newman\, founder of Newman’s Own Organics \n“Here you have all the practical tools to create your own orchard of any size—information on rootstocks\, pruning\, thinning\, and a thrilling array of varieties—but moreover\, you have Orin’s wise and gently wry voice to guide you through it.”\n—Alice Waters\, chef\, author\, food activist\, and founder of Chez Panisse restaurant \n“In this book\, Orin Martin gives us his true mastery of trees. Here is a man who lived his life working in paradise\, took care of the land\, and planted an orchard. His gifts: the Chadwick Garden\, and this book to be shared by all.”\n—Karen Washington\, co-owner of Rise & Root Farm and cofounder of Black Urban Growers \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. \nIf you have any ADA accommodation requests\, please email them to info@bookshopsantacruz.com by January 28th.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/orin-manjula-martin-fruit-trees-for-every-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy's toast to 2020
DESCRIPTION:It’s time for the first Literary Speakeasy of 2020! We are celebrating with five amazing writers – Heather Bourbeau\, Vincent Chu\, Kevin Dublin\, Lauren Ito\, and Sarah Kobrinsky. It’s going to be an amazing night of poetry and prose. Come raise a glass to Bay Area authors! \nLiterary Speakeasy is always FREE and there is NO drink minimum. Arrive early for a FREE raffle ticket for your chance to win the evening’s secret Speakeasy prize. \nPerformer bios:\nHeather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review\, Cleaver\, Eleven Eleven\, Francis Ford Coppola Winery’s Chalkboard\, The Stockholm Review of Literature\, and the anthologies Nothing Short Of 100: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story and America\, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press). She has worked with various UN agencies\, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. \nVincent Chu is a Bay Area writer and author of the debut story collection Like a Champion. His fiction has appeared in STILL Magazine\, Fjords Review\, Pithead Chapel\, PANK Magazine\, East Bay Review\, The Collapsar\, Stockholm Review and elsewhere. He is a 2019 Hambidge Center Fellow and member of The Writers Grotto. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from UCLA. Vincent lives in San Francisco and can be found online at @herrchu. He is working on his first novel. \nKevin Dublin is editor of Etched Press and author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, North Carolina Poetry Society\, and more. His words have appeared in North Carolina Literary Review\, Menacing Hedge\, Poetry International\, The Rumpus\, and more. He holds an MFA from San Diego State University and enjoys developing web apps for writers. Kevin also leads workshops as a part of Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, at Syzygy Academy SF\, and all over the Bay Area. Follow him on Twitter @PartEverything. \nLauren Ito is a Seattle-born Gosei (fifth generation Japanese American) poet\, designer\, and community craftswoman committed to advancing equity through art and design. As a poet\, Lauren delves into the tensions inherited within diasporic experiences\, including explorations of American concentration camps\, identity\, and home. Lauren’s art been featured by The Seattle Times\, Japanese American National Museum\, Nomadic Press\, The City is Already Speaking Anthology\, and various performance venues\, such as the Mission Arts Performance Project\, Lit Crawl San Francisco\, and Gears Turning. She is a 2019 Grotto Rooted & Written Fellow\, 2019 Novalia Collective Fellow\, and Asian American Women Arts Association Emerging Curators Fellow. She is currently working on her first manuscript. Lauren lives in San Francisco and can almost always be found by the sea. \nSarah Kobrinsky was the 2013-2015 Poet Laureate of Emeryville\, CA. Nighttime on the Other Side of Everything (New Rivers Press) is her first collection of poetry. Her poems and stories have appeared in Magma Poetry\, Eleven Eleven\, Monkeybicycle\, *82 Review\, 100 Word Story\, Fjords Review\, among many others. She was long-listed for the 2019 University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. She was born in Canada\, raised in North Dakota\, seasoned in England\, and tempered in California. Sarah and her husband have a handmade dinnerware company called Jered’s Pottery.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-speakeasys-toast-to-2020/
LOCATION:Martuni’s\, 4 Valencia St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Racket 38 : Flight
DESCRIPTION:It’s 2020! The future is here! We’ve got flying cars and robot butlers and harmless lasers that come out of our fingers because it’s the future! Oh wait\, no\, no we don’t. We have ignorance and we have\, oh my\, we have a general regression in terms of social views and\, well\, yeah. Doesn’t matter though\, ’cause it’s 2020 and it’s a new year and even if everything feels like a broken septic tank\, come hang out and celebrate the ticking forward of the biggest hand of all. \nFree beer until the free beer has been consumed. \nThe Readers (So Far): \nNick O’Brien\nChelsea Davis\nAnna Allen\nPeter Thomas\nClaire Calderon\nSpencer Tierney\nCandy Shue
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-racket-38-flight/
LOCATION:Alley Cat Books\, 3036 24th St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94110\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:The Map to Wholeness: A Conversation with Suzy Ross
DESCRIPTION:?      ?        ? The seemingly random events that comprise our lives can be understood as serving a higher purpose when examined through the proper lens; they are in fact the critical steps that comprise our hero’s journey. Those who choose to travel this path will emerge completely transformed—healthier\, happier\, and in touch with their life’s purpose. \nAuthor and professor Dr. Suzy Ross draws on her extensive research to create a map for those ready to embark on their most important adventure. By understanding the larger meaning of our circumstances from a bird’s eye perspective\, we learn to rest in faith and confidence\, freed from crippling judgment and self-blame. We will live more deliberately\, consciously\, and joyfully\, while simultaneously heightening our experiences of change. In her first book\,    \, Dr. Ross identifies the thirteen phases of personal transformation and illuminates the personal journeys of three ordinary individuals who have descended into the darkness of their psyches\, integrating a personal life-changing event\, and emerging transformed. \nJoin Dr. Ross for a conversation about how to identify our unique location on the journey\, deepen our experiences\, and avoid the common pitfalls that block progress. \nCopies of Dr. Ross’ book\,    : –   \, \,  —    13    will be available for sale at this event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-map-to-wholeness-a-conversation-with-suzy-ross/
LOCATION:CIIS Public Programs\, 1453 Mission St.\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94103\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Poets Michael Gottlieb\, Brian Ang\, Sara Larsen\, and James Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Michael Gottlieb is the author of twenty books\, most recently Mostly Clearing\, from Roof Books\, published in November 2019. Other recent titles include What We Do: Essays for Poets\, I Had Every Intention\, Dear All\, and Memoir and Essay\, an account of NYC in the 70s and the early days of the Language school. To mark its publication\, selections from Mostly Clearing were staged at the Poetry Project at St. Marks in New York in November. Other work of his which has been adapted for the stage include We Will Never Speak of This Again and The Dust\, his 9/11 poem\, which was also produced at the Poetry Project\, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He works in tech and divides his time between New York and Connecticut. \nBrian Ang’s current poetic project is The Totality Cantos\, for Atelos. Editor: ARMED CELL (2011-17). Radio: A Thousand Records on KALX. \nSara Larsen is a poet and writer living in Oakland\, CA. Her newest book is a polyvocal exploration of punk and poetics\, The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof\, 2019). Previous books include Merry Hell (Atelos\, 2016)\, and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press\, 2014). She is also the author of several chapbooks including Our Ladies\, Riot Cops En Route To Troy\, The Hallucinated\, among others. \nJames Sherry is the author of 13 books of poetry and prose\, most recently The Oligarch (London: Palgrave MacMillan\, 2017) and the poetry book Entangled Bank (Victoria\, TX: Chax Press\, 2016). Since 1976\, he has edited Roof Books and Roof Magazine\, publishing more than 150 titles of seminal works of language writing\, flarf\, conceptual poetry\, new narrative\, and environmental poetry. He started The Segue Foundation\, Inc. in 1977\, producing over 10\,000 events of poetry and other arts in New York City. Tonight\, he’ll read from his new manuscript\, Selfie: Ecology & Individuals\, forthcoming from Palgrave this year.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-michael-gottlieb-brian-ang-sara-larsen-and-james-sherry/
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:InsideStorytime: Convergence
DESCRIPTION:InsideStorytime CONVERGENCE\, featuring Mimi Lok (Last of Her Name)\, Nancy Au (Spider Love Song And Other Stories)\, Jeffrey Kingman (On A Road)\, Ari Moskowitz\, and Munashe Kaseke\, will take place at Laundry Gallery\, 3359 26th Street San Francisco\, in the downstairs room at the back with the Soviet piano\, on Thursday January 30th 2000 7-9 pm.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-convergence/
LOCATION:THE LAUNDRY\, 3359 26th Street\, San Francisco\, 94110
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro & Abraham Verghese
DESCRIPTION:What makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us? In 2016\, celebrated writer and memoirist Dani Shapiro took a genetic test on a whim\, believing that she knew her history well – the daughter of Orthodox Ashkenazi Jews\, raised on her father’s stories of their family and ancestors. But her DNA revealed that the man she’d known as her father for her whole life was not biologically related to her. With this news\, her history – and the entire life she had lived – suddenly crumbled beneath her. \nShapiro’s instant New York Times bestselling memoir\, Inheritance\, published to wide acclaim earlier this year\, is about secrets – secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. Hear how Dani Shapiro lost and found herself via DNA testing\, and how her life has changed since publishing Inheritance. \nShe is joined by Dr. Abraham Verghese\, Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine\, for this fascinating exploration of genealogy\, paternity and love.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-abraham-verghese-2/
LOCATION:JCCSF\, 3200 California St \, San Francisco\, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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