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SUMMARY:Conversations Across the Diaspora | Writer & Model Jess Cole
DESCRIPTION:Introducing a new monthly series with guests from all over the globe — some you may recognize and some you may not\, but all will bring a new perspective to the African Diaspora. \nConversations across the Diaspora \nA new interactive series brings you eclectic conversations from across the African diaspora. Join author and host Sarah Ladipo Manyika for talks with some of the most exciting voices from Berlin to Harare\, from Tamale to London and New York and everywhere in between. We’ll introduce you to all sorts of folks—some you will know\, others you may never have heard of\, but never the usual suspects talking about the usual topics. We’ll be speaking with everyone from actors to poets\, scholars\, athletes\, entrepreneurs\, architects\, artists and many more. Come join us! \nWe launch this month with author and host Sarah Ladipo Manyika in conversation with writer & model Jess Cole. After you register you will receive information to join via zoom on June 12th at 12 noon (Pacific Daylight Time)\, 8pm (UK). \nJess Cole is a journalist and a high fashion model. Jess was one of the original contributors for the UK’s Gal-dem magazine and has also written for The Guardian\, I-D\, Dazed\, Document Journal and Vogue international\, Jess is specifically interested\, via interview based creative essays\, in broadening the narratives of diversity by exploring the rich variety of blackness within the public sphere. Drawing on her experience as a high fashion model\, Jess is also drawn to creating disruptive narratives through an interchange lens of radical feminism and environmental concerns. \nIn 2017\, a chance encounter with an IMG agent led Jess (with a freshly chopped short mullet) into an unexpected path as a high fashion model at the relatively old age of 23. Three months into being signed worldwide with IMG models\, Jess signed an exclusive contract with Burberry. In addition to fronting campaigns for Celine\, Mugler\, Burberry and more\, Jess has modeled for American\, British\, Italian\, Japanese\, Polish\, Portuguese\, Ukrainian\, Korean titles of Vogue. Jess has also walked the runways for luxury brands such as Tom Ford\, Hermes\, Kenzo; her most cherished experience is being a frequent face for the iconic and black focused high-end brand\, Wales Bonner. \nEarlier this year\, Jess co-directed her first play–an adaptation of TS Eliot’s The Family Reunion whose opening night was just days before Corona hit. Now enjoying a hiatus from both journalism and modeling\, Jess has turned her attention to some new creative works including work on a poetry collection entitled Post love in the time of consumption. \nSarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya\, France\, Zimbabwe\, and England. Sarah is a novelist\, short story writer\, and essayist and founding books editor for Ozy.com. Her debut novel\, In Dependence\, is an international bestseller while her second novel\, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun\, has been translated into a number of languages. Her nonfiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris and Pastor Evan Mawarire to Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama. Sarah previously served on MoAD’s board and currently serves as Board Director for the women’s writing residency\, Hedgebrook. \nDONATIONS OF ANY AMOUNT ARE ALWAYS WELCOME\, SO IF YOU ARE ABLE TO\, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO MOAD ONLINE https://www.moadsf.org/support-us/make-a-donation/\, OR DONATING THROUGH GIVE BY CELL BY TEXTING THE WORD: MOADSF TO THE NUMBER: 56512 ON YOUR CELL PHONE\, THEN FOLLOW THE LINK PROVIDED TO MAKE A DONATION. ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING MOAD AND CONTINUING TO BRING YOU ENGAGING PROGRAMMING.
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SUMMARY:Poetry Cocktail Hour: Amber Tamblyn\, Alejandro Murguia\, Steph Burt\, etc.!
DESCRIPTION:It’s a tough time for local bookstores\, what with the social distancing and the sheltering in place. So we’re raising funds to help local Bay Area bookstores stay in business\, with a series of fundraisers. This event will feature Amber Tamblyn\, Alejandro Murguia\, Jack Foley\, Stephanie Burt\, Baruch Porras-Hernandez and Jessy Randall reading for University Press Books! \nThe authors \nAmber Tamblyn is an Emmy\, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominated actress\, writer and director\, and the author of 6 books\, including the critically acclaimed best sellers\, Era of Ignition: Coming of Age in a Time of Rage and Revolution\, Dark Sparkler and Any Man. Tamblyn is poet in residence at Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls and reviews books of poetry by womxn for Bust Magazine. She’s a contributing writer for the New York Times and New York Magazine’s The Cut\, and a founding member of the Times Up Organization. \nAlejandro Murguía is the author of Southern Front and This War Called Love (both winners of the American Book Award). His non-fiction book The Medicine of Memory highlights the Mission District in the 1970s during the Nicaraguan Solidarity movement. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center. He was a founder of The Roque Dalton Cultural Brigade\, and co-editor of Volcán: Poetry From Central America. Currently he is a professor in Latina Latino Studies at San Francisco State University. He is the author of the short story “The Other Barrio” which first appeared in the anthology San Francisco Noir and recently filmed in the street of the Mission District. In poetry he has published Spare Poems\, and this year a new collection Native Tongue. He is the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino poet to hold the position. \nStephanie Burt is a poet\, literary critic\, and professor with eight published books\, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press\, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next poetry collection is Advice from the Lights: Poems (Graywolf\, 2017). Her other works include Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books\, 2019); The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard UP\, 2016); Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press\, 2010); Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (University of Virginia Press\, 2009); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry (Columbia University Press\, 2007); Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf\, 2006); Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (University Press\, 2005); Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia University Press\, 2002); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing\, 1999). \nJack Foley has published 15 books of poetry\, 5 books of criticism\, a book of stories\, and a two-volume “chronoencyclopedia\,” Visions & Affiliations: California Poetry 1940-2005. He became well known through his “multivoiced” performances with his late wife\, Adelle\, who was also a poet; many of these can be seen on YouTube. His radio show\, Cover to Cover\, airs every Wednesday on KPFA–FM in California. In 2010\, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Berkeley Poetry Festival. His most recent books are The Tiger & Other Tales\, a book of stories\, sketches\, and two plays; Riverrun\, a book of poetry; and Grief Songs\, a book documenting his grief at the death of his wife\, Adelle. In 2018\, he became the recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. \nBaruch Porras Hernandez is a San Francisco writer\, stand up comedian\, illustrator\, and the author of the small poetry collections “I Miss You\, Delicate” and “Lovers of the Deep Fried Circle” both from Sibling Rivalry Press. His solo show “Love in the Time of Piñatas” got a clapping man from the SF Chronicle and fed the “Baruchador” donut that Dynamo Donuts named after him to sold-out houses at Epic Party Theatre back in December of 2019. He is the creator of Tiny Baruch online comic – and touring show\, follow Tiny Baruch’s adventures on Instagram\, he’s a two-time winner of Literary Death Match\, he has performed poetry and comedy all over North America\, from dive bars to fancy theatres\, sexual health clinics\, a cave once\, and even SF SketchFest. \nJessy Randall’s poems\, comics\, and other things have appeared in Asimov’s\, McSweeney’s\, Poetry\, and The Best American Experimental Writing. Her collection of poems A Day in Boyland (Ghost Road) was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. Her other books include The Wandora Unit (Ghost Road\, a young adult novel about love and friendship in the high school poetry crowd)\, Interruptions\, (Pecan Grove\, collaborative poems with Daniel M. Shapiro)\, Injecting Dreams into Cows (Red Hen\, poems)\, There Was an Old Woman (Unicorn\, prose poems built from nursery rhymes)\, Suicide Hotline Hold Music (Red Hen\, poems and comics)\, and How to Tell If You Are Human (Pleiades\, diagram poems). She is a librarian at Colorado College. \nThe beneficiary \nFrom 1974\, University Press Books has stoked the blaze of well over ten thousand minds on fire\, carrying new scholarship published by the great university presses in the English-speaking world. Since our founding\, we’ve added quality fiction and creative non-fiction to our selection\, without drifting from our mission to showcase top new texts introduced by university presses. \nEvery penny you spend on this event will directly to University Press Books. \nHow does it work? \nWe use the conferencing system Zoom. After you sign up you’ll get an email with the Zoom access code. (Check that Eventbrite is using your current email address.) You don’t have to join with video\, but it’s nice to see faces.
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SUMMARY:Zoom Forward! Dion Lissner O'Reilly & Jory Post
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Join us for a special online event with authors Dion Lissner O’Reilly (Ghost Dogs) and Jory Post (Of Two Minds) to celebrate the publications of their new books.   \nThis event is part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series\, presented by phren-Z\, The Hive Poetry Collective\, and Bookshop Santa Cruz to showcase writers\, keep our cultural spirits high\, and support Bookshop Santa Cruz. \nJoin the Santa Cruz Writes/phren-Z email list by subscribing here. Weekly Zoom links will be emailed to you. Email any questions to jory@cruzio.com or hannah@santacruzwrites.org.
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SUMMARY:We Are The Voices: Bay Area Bookseller Voices with SPD Presents
DESCRIPTION:We Are The Voices presents: Bay Area Bookseller Voices\nand SPD Presents invite you to a night of readings with: \nJulia Bloch\nAngie Sijun Lou\nMelissa Merin \nTo access the reading please RSVP with a ticket on our eventbrite page here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-the-voices-presents-bay-area-bookseller-voices-with-spd-presents-tickets-106994988892 \nJulia Bloch grew up in Northern California and Sydney\, Australia. She is the author of three books of poetry: Letters to Kelly Clarkson\, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; Valley Fever; and The Sacramento of Desire\, released in 2020 from Sidebrow Books. She is a Pew Fellow in the Arts and lives in Philadelphia. \nAngie Sijun Lou is from Seattle and Shanghai. Her work has appeared\, or is forthcoming\, in the American Poetry Review\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins\, and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow in Fiction\, a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. \nMelissa has been writing since she could hold a crayon. She is established as a parent\, a lover & partner\, a queer\, an anti-authoritarian and a consistently retiring punker. She is too Black to ever be considered a snowflake. Melissa believes in utilizing a diversity of tactics to build the world we need; one of her favorite tactics is writing. Melissa is a long-time educator and agitator and has never been able to get it together to “publish” her poetry\, though\, though many zines and many blogs tell the story of trying. Melissa has the distinction of being one of a few Black cis-women of her generation to not love Beyonce or Oprah. \nWe Are The Voices and SPD Presents have teamed up as apart of We Are The Voices ongoing Bay Area Bookseller Voices series. \nWe Are The Voices is able to support this event through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, this project connects Mills College students with local and national poets\, performers\, writers\, and scholars to collaborate around transformative art and critical scholarship. \nLed by Mills Professor Sheila Lloyd\, We Are the Voices We Have Been Waiting For: Poetry\, Performance\, and Public Humanities is a five-year\, multi-pronged project that brings visiting artists and scholars to campus\, broadening the conversation for Mills students and building connections with our local community. \nIn an increasingly corporatized book industry\, Small Press Distribution (SPD) brings readers independently published literature\, emphasizing small press values–equity\, experimentation\, and access. We connect underrepresented literary communities to the marketplace and to each other via book distribution\, events\, and public advocacy. Prioritizing artistic and activist visions\, SPD’s nearly 400 presses publish a full diversity of writers who rely on us to reach readers nationwide.
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SUMMARY:Nomadic Press' Virtual Open Mic #13
DESCRIPTION:90 minutes\n30 readers\n3 minutes each\nOn Zoom! \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nSign up to read here:\nhttps://forms.gle/1ZNKSnnzRZpXxvUE7 \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \n2) donating via the “ticket” option here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nomadic-press-virtual-open-mic-13-tickets-108505205992; \nOR 3) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nIt feels really important to gather in these times\, and we need to prioritize the health of most vulnerable community members (our elders\, those who work with elders\, and those with suppressed immune systems). So we are hosting another virtual open mic! Feel free to join just to listen\, too! We can hold up to 100 people. \nHosted by Nazelah Jamison (with J. K. on tech). It’s a continuing experiment\, and we hope you can join us! \nOur safe space process still applies to our collective virtual space\, so please read this by visiting https://www.nomadicpress.org/safespaceprocess. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Nomadic Press’ Virtual Open Mic #13\nTime: Jun 12\, 2020 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87057163143 \nMeeting ID: 870 5716 3143\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,87057163143# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,87057163143# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\nMeeting ID: 870 5716 3143\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbrgCerpws
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SUMMARY:*Virtual* Reading feat. Jeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet\, Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, June 12th from 6:30-7:10 pm PDT \nfor a virtual reading featuring \nJeff Alessandrelli and Alix Coupet\, Jr.!  \n  \n***** \nauthor bios & photos below. \n\n \nZoom link to be emailed to participants & posted on social media  \non the day of the event. \n\n \nPlease RSVP for the reading here to have the link emailed to you. \n  \nIf you’re in a position to give\, we will be asking for contributions to Community Ready Corps.#BlackLivesMatter. Dismantle white supremacy! \nor contribute today: http://www.crc4sd.org/contribute  & https://www.getreadystayready.org/ \n  \nwe look forward to sharing this experience with you! \nJeff Alessandrelli is most recently the author of the poetry collection Fur Not Light (Burnside Review Press\, 2019). Forthcoming is a chapbook on the literary work of the deceased writer and environmental activist Mark Baumer and a full-length book centered around masculinity and shyness. In addition to his own writing\, Alessandrelli also runs the literary record label/press Fonograf Editions. He’s at https://jeffalessandrelli.net/. \nAlix Coupet\, Jr. is both poet and educator who teaches writing and tricksterdom to public school youth. His aim is to land the plane somewhere between playful pain and peace. Born in Chicago\, Alix jokes that many people say subjective things about his city\, but that\, objectively\, Chicago is the greatest city in the world. Since the time of this writing\, he has been rejected from six more publications.
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