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SUMMARY:Inside Weather 2: A Night of Poems\, Stories & Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us from your room on Tuesday April 21st at 5:30 pm\, where we will Zoom-share work that in some way contemplates the rooms and roomlessness of these times. \nThis is the second in a series of three opportunities to create community and correspondence during these weeks of isolation. The events also partially act as launch readings for Mattraw’s We fell into weather (March\, Cultural Society). Mattraw’s second book explores invisible disabilities and their catalysts– environmental toxins\, illness\, and epigenetics\, among others– while considering what’s outside those rooms. \n21 April\, Tuesday\, 5:30 pm PST\nHosted by Evan Karp \nGillian Conoley\nTiff Dressen\nAlexandra Mattraw\nJennifer Soong\nMaw Shein Win \nThe writers will present in a “round” formation instead of through the patterns we find in a traditional reading. Each feature will offer approximately three minutes of work and then “pass the mic” to the next feature in a repeated\, circular pattern. \nThe concluding “Inside Weather” event will be hosted by Norman Fischer on 19 May\, 5:30 pm PST\, and will include \nMary-Kim Arnold\nNorman Fischer\nHeather June Gibbons\nAlexandra Mattraw\nRusty Morrison
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Online with ZOOM: Ellen Bass\, Indigo
DESCRIPTION:THE POWER OF POETRY \nOnline with ZOOM\, Bookshop Santa Cruz presents a poetry event with Ellen Bass. In Indigo Ellen Bass deepens her mastery of the praise poem\, exploring the duality of loss and exquisite tenderness that lives at the heart of almost everything. Bass plumbs the miraculous from the stuff of life—the grit of oysters\, taking an old dog out to pee in the night\, shopping at Ross. In a series of aching love poems\, the mandanity of marriage gives way to vivid sensuality\, even as–under the weight of age and illness—Eros bends its neck to grieve what will be lost. A lifelong advocate for those who might otherwise go without a witness\, Bass shows her compassion in these pages. She offers the ragged\, beautiful world her steady attention\, her devastating precision. Graceful in their melding of the narrative and the lyric\, gorgeous in their complexity\, these are poems to be savored. To RSVP for Ellen’s Reading\, click here. \nThis event with Ellen Bass is part two of The Power of Poetry. To view the event description for Patrice Veccione and her book\, visit the page here.\n\n“‘You may have to break/ your heart\,’ writes Ellen Bass\, ‘but it isn’t nothing / to know even one moment alive.’ That complex tenant of faith underlies every poem in this superb book\, an inquiry into what it is to be present in the physical world\, in time\, a body in the world of bodies. Bass’s poems are surprising\, tender\, hungry\, and wide-awake\, fearless in their attention to every nuance of feeling. I love this book wholeheartedly.” —Mark Doty\n\n“Indigo plants in any reader the need to turn the page\, to know more even if it means more heartbreak. You hold in your hands the work of a sorceress at the height of her powers.” —Jericho Brown\n\n“These poems play like snippets of cinema from every woman’s life story. Indigo is our soundtrack\, finally\, with its addictive and merciless music. This book is merely brilliant.” —Patricia Smith
URL:https://litseen.com/event/online-with-zoom-ellen-bass-indigo/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:For Young Adults! Dallas Woodburn in Conversation with Stephanie Kuehn
DESCRIPTION:Launch and discussion of her new novel\, The Best Week That Never Happened\, “a poignant and gripping heart-tug of a page-turner filled with heart and hope. –Jennifer Niven\, author of All the Bright Places \nTo reserve your seat please purchase a copy of The Best Week That Never Happenedby speaking to a bookseller or clicking on the cover below to order online. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 21\, 2020 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nAfter her parents’ bitter divorce\, family vacations to the Big Island in Hawaii ceased. But across the miles\, eighteen-year-old Tegan Rossi remains connected to local Kai Kapule\, her best friend from childhood. Now\, Tegan finds herself alone and confused about how she got to the Big Island. With no wallet\, no cell phone\, purse\, or plane ticket\, Tegan struggles to piece together what happened. She must have come to surprise-visit Kai. Right? As the teens grow even closer\, Tegan pushes aside her worries and gets swept away in the vacation of her dreams. But each morning\, Tegan startles awake from nightmares that become more difficult to ignore. Something is eerily amiss. Why is there a strange gap in her memory? Why can’t she reach her parents or friends from home? And what’s with the mysterious hourglass tattoo over her heart? Kai promises to help Tegan figure out what is going on. But the answers they find only lead to more questions. As the week unfolds\, Tegan will experience the magic of first love\, the hope of second chances\, and the bittersweet joy and grief of being human. \nDallas Woodburn is a recent John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing at San Jose State University and a four-time Pushcart Prize nominee. She won first place in the international Glass Woman Prize and second place in the American Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals and won the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award. She is also the founder of Write On! Books (www.writeonbooks.org)\, an organization empowering youth through reading and writing endeavors. \nStephanie Kuehn is the author of many books for young adults including Charm & Strange\, Complicit\, and Delicate Monsters.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/55466/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Nina Renata Aron: Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men's Souls
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS is excited to welcome Nina Renata Aronto read from her new book\, Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls on Tuesday\, April 21st at 7pm. \n“The disease he has is addiction\,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend\, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic\, urgent\, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long\, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together\, K starts using again\, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens\, she stays\, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction\, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K\, has she failed him? \nWriting in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic\, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction\, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. She shifts between visceral\, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions\, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency\, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Good Morning\, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing\, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity\, enabling\, and love. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n  \nNina Renata Aron is a writer and editor living in Oakland\, California. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, and elsewhere..
URL:https://litseen.com/event/nina-renata-aron-good-morning-destroyer-of-mens-souls/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Frank Wilderson III
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nAfropessimism \npublished by Liveright Books / W.W. Norton \n\n\n\n\n\nIn the tradition of Edward Said’s Orientalism and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin\, White Masks\, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. \nA seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir\, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than interpreting slavery through a Marxist framework of class oppression\, Frank B. Wilderson III\, “a truly indispensable thinker” (Fred Moten)\, demonstrates that the social construct of slavery\, as seen through pervasive\, anti-black subjugation and violence\, is hardly a relic of the past but an almost necessary force in our civilization that flourishes today\, and that Black struggles cannot be conflated with the experiences of any other oppressed group. In mellifluous prose\, Wilderson juxtaposes his seemingly idyllic upbringing in halcyon midcentury Minneapolis with the harshness that he would later encounter\, whether in radicalized\, late-1960s Berkeley or in the slums of Soweto. Following in the rich literary tradition of works by DuBois\, Malcolm X and Baldwin\, Afropessimism reverberates with wisdom and painful clarity in the fractured world we inhabit. \nProfessor and chair of African American studies at the University of California\, Irvine\, and author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid\, Frank B. Wilderson III has received an NEA Literature Fellowship and a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award for Creative Nonfiction\, among other awards. \nWhat has been said about the work of Frank Wilderson III: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrank Wilderson slings piercing stories and scalding analyses with literary fire and intellectual rigor. His tales juke genre and high-step over high-theory mumbo jumbo\, and float Franz Fanon some new wings. Like Ralph Ellison’s bluesman\, he peers unflinching into the abyss\, testifies to its brutal histories and hopeless predicaments\, ‘to finger its jagged grain\, and to transcend it\, not through the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic\, near-comic lyricism.’ He ghostwrites our brutal pasts into present and still hopeless predicaments\, yet divines deep love and blues humor. Even if our own hopes may live elsewhere\, we cannot dismiss Afropessimism’s unnerving and undeniable truths\, nor the timeless art of its author.  \n-Timothy B. Tyson\, author of The Blood of Emmett Till \nA writer of hard\, searing lyricism…. [Wilderson] is\, to my mind\, an indispensible thinker. \n-Fred Moten\, author of The Undercommons
URL:https://litseen.com/event/frank-wilderson-iii/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #59 (Music by: TBA)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM sharp! Suggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Donate ahead of time via the Eventbrite ticket link on this event! \nGet beer. Get tacos. Get lit. \nThis month’s performers: TBA \nMusic by: TBA \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-59-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Virtual Get Lit #59 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)
DESCRIPTION:12–15 writers reading new work + live music + beer made on site + tacos just down the street: pure magical Get Litness. \nWe’re headed into our 5th consecutive year at Ale Industries as we celebrate writers taking risks and reading never-before-read work (rough drafts/debuts) within a 3-minute time limit + live music. All ages are welcome. Emceed by Abe Becker. \nFree and welcome to all. For those that can\, please show your monetary support so that we can continue our work. You can do so via Cash App at $NomadicPress or https://cash.app/$NomadicPress. You can also “purchase” a ticket through this Facebook event to donate any amount that is feasible for you in this moment. \nThis month’s performers: Kara Vernor\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Alan Chazaro\, Norman Antonio Zelaya\, Florencia Milito\, Keith Donnell Jr.\, Liz Cahill\, Nancy James\, Jonas Cabrera\, Dior J. Stephens\, CE Shue\, Lorenz Dumuk\, Ashia Ajani\, Judy Juanita\, Norma Smith\, Julius Rea \nMusic by: Kiva Uhuru \nZoom Joining Information \nTopic: Virtual Get Lit #59 (Music by: Kiva Uhuru)\nTime: Apr 21\, 2020 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/95574318035 \nMeeting ID: 955 7431 8035\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,95574318035# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,95574318035# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 301 715 8592 US\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 253 215 8782 US\nMeeting ID: 955 7431 8035\nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/aeh5cBayx5 \nNomadic Press Safe Space Statement \nWhite supremacy and white supremacist-capitalist values permeate this country\, including every state\, county\, city\, and political persuasion. This includes the Bay Area. Illustrations of this range from the more obvious neo-nazi hate groups to all-white reading lineups\, white terrorist shootings to labeling racial equity work in the literary community as censorship\, mass incarceration to the voices most often published. Nomadic Press unequivocally stands against all iterations of white supremacy. \nWe are works in progress\, continually doing the work of internally dismantling white supremacist values that have been inherited by virtue of being in the US. Simultaneous with this internal work\, Nomadic Press utilizes a racial equity lense (as proposed by Race Forward) to dismantle white supremacy within publishing and the literary communities in which we work. We are not perfect\, and we are always trying to be better. \nNomadic Press events are active\, real-time safe spaces for those who have been intentionally silenced and marginalized\, and we will work to ensure that the marginalized continue to take their rightful place in our communities. \nDirect and timely non-violent communication and de-escalation techniques will be utilized to privately call in instances of racism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, ableism\, or misogyny whether in the content of one’s reading or in one’s interactions with members of the community. If\, after being called in privately for a mediation\, a community member is unwilling to acknowledge and address the harm they have caused\, we will protect the safety of this space by revoking a reader’s access to the microphone. We encourage community members to come to us if someone has violated these guidelines away from the microphone. If the situation warrants (i. e.\, instances of sexual predation\, violence\, or threats of violence)\, we will make the information public to inform our communities of the present danger. \nWe are communities in progress. We must be better\, always\, and we ask that we work together to ensure that the safety of our most vulnerable members is prioritized above all else. \nRead more about our safe space process here: www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess \nPoster by: Jevohn Tyler Newsome
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-get-lit-59-music-by-kiva-uhuru/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Veronica Roth with Charlie Jane Anders
DESCRIPTION:Maybe you’re already familiar with Veronica Roth because you or someone you know reads her wildly popular YA\, including the #1 New York Times best-selling Divergent series. The talented and internationally known bestseller whose books have graced the silver screen visits in April with one of our favorite locals\, fantasy icon Charlie Jane Anders\, for something completely different. \nWhether you’re already a fan or a first-timer\, you’re going to love this. \nRoth visits to share a new fast-paced fantasy novel for adults that turns her razor-sharp wit on a strange trope in the genre: the fact that so many grown adults in fantasy stories rely on literal kids to save the world. Luke Skywalker\, Buffy Summers\, Greta Thunberg… no pressure\, kiddo! \nWhat happens to those kids? Chosen Ones follows the story of fated young heroes after they’re done saving the world\, and have to deal with the aftermath. Edgy\, riveting\, fun\, and a little dark… did you think the Harry Potter epilogue fell flat? This is the book you need. \nPart thriller\, fantasy and sci-fi\, Roth’s novel is the perfect read for people who know the fantasy genre “chosen ones” trope by heart\, and has already earned the glowing praise of readers like Blake Crouch and Diana Gabaldon. Meet the author and read it before everyone else on April 21st at Kepler’s. \n “This dark\, complex novel rocked my heart and left me with a renewed sense that saving the world is a job that never ends… You’ll never look at fantasy heroes the same way again.” —Charlie Jane Anders\, Hugo & Nebula Award winning author of The City in the Middle of the Night. \nIf you are a guest attending this event and require disability or comfort accommodations\, please contact events@keplers.org at your earliest possible convenience\, with at least two weeks’ notice for CART or ASL translation services. Please include the name and ticket type through which your seats were reserved\, the number of guests attending\, and complete information about the accommodations needed\, along with a contact number at which you can be reached. \nPhoto of Veronica Roth by Nelson Fitch. Photo of Charlie Jane Anders by Sarah Deragon\, Portraits to the People
URL:https://litseen.com/event/veronica-roth-with-charlie-jane-anders/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:9th Avenue: John Kaag at Green Apple Books
DESCRIPTION:ohn Kaag discusses his new book\, Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life. \nPraise for Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \n“Kaag’s reading of James is as elucidating as readers have come to expect from him. Once again\, he writes in a clear\, focused\, and winningly self-aware style that makes friends of James and himself for anyone who wonders if life is worth living. A book in which Kaag further carves out his niche in philosophy: personal\, practical\, and crucial.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Not since Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance have I read such a mesmerizing confluence of personal experience and formal thought as John Kaag’s American Philosophy: A Love Story. That combination is on display again in his Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds—a brief and powerful book about one of America’s most profound minds\, William James\, and what he can teach us about what makes life worth living.”―Robert D. Richardson\, author of William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism \n“In this beautifully written book\, which is filled with bracing insights\, John Kaag shows why William James has had a deep\, life-altering\, therapeutic effect on his readers over the past century—and can continue to have the same effect on new readers today.”—Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen\, author of American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas \nAbout Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds \nIn 1895\, William James\, the father of American philosophy\, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James\, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed\, as John Kaag writes\, “James’s entire philosophy\, from beginning to end\, was geared to save a life\, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours\, too. Sick Souls\, Healthy Minds is a compelling introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology—and an inspiration for Alcoholics Anonymous—can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living. \nKaag tells how James’s experiences as one of what he called the “sick-souled\,” those who think that life might be meaningless\, drove him to articulate an ideal of “healthy-mindedness”—an attitude toward life that is open\, active\, and hopeful\, but also realistic about its risks. In fact\, all of James’s pragmatism\, resting on the idea that truth should be judged by its practical consequences for our lives\, is a response to\, and possible antidote for\, crises of meaning that threaten to undo many of us at one time or another. Along the way\, Kaag also movingly describes how his own life has been endlessly enriched by James.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/9th-avenue-john-kaag-at-green-apple-books/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books 9th Avenue\, 1231 9th Avenue\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94122\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Red Light Lit Virtual Reading Series 04/20-04/24
DESCRIPTION:We are so excited to announce that Red Light Lit is hosting our first ever virtual reading series! That’s right babes\, starting Monday (4/20) at 8 PM PST and every night through Friday we have an amazing line up of some of our favorite artists set to read on our LIVE Insta feed. So make sure you have those @redlightlit notifications turned on and tune in Monday- Friday nights for some heated words🔥🔥🔥 Monday: Loria Mendoza\, Tuesday: Kar Johnson\, Wednesday: Devin Copeland\, Thursday: Thea Matthews\, Friday: Allyson Darling. It’s about to get LIT
URL:https://litseen.com/event/red-light-lit-virtual-reading-series-04-20-04-24/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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