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SUMMARY:Get Lit #61 (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-61-music-by-tba/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Alexandra Petri in conversation with Alexis Coe / Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host Washington Post humor columnist Alexandra Petri for her second book\, Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why: Essays. She’ll be in conversation with Alexis Coe (You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington). Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. \nPlease note: Our start time is 5:30pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: We are pleased to be able to bring you some of our events virtually while our doors are otherwise closed in the interest of public health. If you’d like to support the store\, you can still do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy one of our gift certificates\, which we keep on file and never expire.\n> Make a donation. \nThank you very much for your support – we’re proud to be a legacy business and a mainstay of the Haight-Ashbury since 1976! \n\nIn Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n\nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. Author photo by Lisa M. Allen. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nAlexis Coe is an award-winning historian and author of the narrative history book Alice + Freda Forever (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe is a consulting producer on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s forthcoming George Washington series on the History Channel\, and has frequently appeared on CNN. She’s the cohost of Audible’s “Presidents Are People\, Too!” and the host of “No Man’s Land.” Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, Time\, and many others. She holds a graduate degree in American history\, and was a Research Curator at the New York Public Library. Author photo by Sylvia Rosokoff. \n  \n\nPlease note: \n>  This event is all ages.\n>  Facebook RSVP not required\, but always appreciated.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:John Freeman with DA Powell
DESCRIPTION:John Freeman celebrates his new collection of poetry \nThe Park \npublished by Copper Canyon Press \nhe will be joined by DA Powell reading from his own new work. \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n——— \n(Click Here) to make reservations \nEvent is free\, but reservations are required \n———– \n(Purchase the book here in the near future)\n———– \nIn The Park\, his second book of poetry\, John Freeman uses a park as a petri dish\, turning a deep gaze on all that pass through it. In language both precise and restrained\, Freeman explores the inherent contradictions that arise from a place whose purpose is derived purely from what we bring to it—a park is both natural and constructed\, exclusionary and open\, unfeeling and burdened with sentimentality. Pulling from both history and his own meditations in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris\, the seasons pass through famous parks\, personal parks\, parks beneath parks\, and other spaces with fabricated outer limits. Throughout\, Freeman wonders at how a park\, being both curated and public\, can be a nexus for a manifestation of great wealth inequality. How have we created these false boundaries for ourselves—with regard to physical space\, but also in our minds and societies\, in our personal relationships? Freeman plucks out difference in small daily dramas of people and animals only to dissolve it. Interspersed with meditations on love\, beauty\, and connection\, The Park is a pacific and unflinching mirror cast upon a space defined by its transience. \nJohn Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s\, a literary biannual of new writing\, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing (forthcoming)\, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality\, including Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation\, and Tales of Two Planets (forthcoming)\, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps\, his debut collection of poems\, was published in 2017. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and is a Writer in Residence at New York University. \nD. A. Powell is the author of five collections of poetry\, including Chronic\, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and Repast: Tea\,Lunch\, and Cocktails. Useless Landscape\, or A Guide for Boys received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He lives in San Francisco. \nVisit http://dapowell.blogspot.com/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:A Pretty Little Wilderness: Be About It Press Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:We’re going to gather to celebrate the release of Cassandra Dallett’s new book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness\, out on Be About It Press June 2020! \nJoining us we will have other Be About It Press authors\, Jesse Prado\, Violet Gehringer\, Amy Saul-Zerby\, and more!
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Uche Nduka at City Lights Books
DESCRIPTION:Facing You (City Lights Spotlight Series No. 19 \npublished by City Lights Books \n\nFrom acclaimed Nigeria-born\, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka\, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. \n“The real in Nduka’s work carries the resonance not only of his Nigerian identity and experience of political violence but also the dislocation of the émigré and the frightening power relations of intimacy as mapped onto the lyric.”—Joyelle McSweeney\, Boston Review \nFacing You is a collection of love lyrics\, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and private self\, from acclaimed Nigerian American poet Uche Nduka. Passionate and erotic\, Facing You nonetheless resists being hermetically sealed within the relationship\, and is subject to the intrusions of “the dubious world”: war\, exile\, protest\, and police violence intrude but cannot defeat Nduka’s expressions of desire\, where reality and surreality are one. “These poems were written openly and freely about my vision and experience\,” he writes\, “crossing the wires of sex and prophecy.” \n\nUche Nduka is an itinerant poet and professor living in Brooklyn. He was born in Nigeria\, was raised bilingual in Igbo and English\, and earned his BA from the University of Nigeria. He left Nigeria in 1994 and settled in Germany after winning a fellowship from the Goethe Institute. In 2007\, he immigrated to the United States\, where he would earn his MFA from Long Island University\, Brooklyn. Nduka is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose\, including the U.S.-published books Living in Public (2018)\, Nine East (2013)\, Ijele (2012)\, and eel on reef (2007). His work has been translated into German\, Finnish\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Romanian.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/uche-nduka-at-city-lights-books/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Zach Norris\, We Keep Us Safe
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz and the NAACP of Santa Cruz County welcome Zach Norris\, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, for an online event to discuss his new book\, We Keep Us Safe: Building Secure\, Just\, and Inclusive Communities—a groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination\, othering\, and punishment. Norris will appear online with special guest Marlena Henderson\, who is also featured in the book. They will share stories from We Keep Us Safe and discuss a framework to help understand and transform the policies and practices that perpetuate intergenerational trauma and community suffering. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here.\n\nThis is a free event. The book may be purchased below.\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you!\n \nAs the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart\, how do we define safety? In a time when the most powerful institutions in the United States are embracing the repressive and racist systems that keep many communities struggling and in fear\, we need to reimagine what safety means. Community leader and lawyer Zach Norris lays out a radical way to shift the conversation about public safety away from fear and punishment and toward growth and support systems for our families and communities. In order to truly be safe\, we are going to have to dismantle our mentality of Us vs. Them. By bridging the divides and building relationships with one another\, we can dedicate ourselves to strategic\, smart investments—meaning resources directed toward our stability and well-being\, like healthcare and housing\, education and living-wage jobs. This is where real safety begins. \nWe Keep Us Safe is a blueprint of how to hold people accountable while still holding them in community. The result reinstates full humanity and agency for everyone who has been dehumanized and traumatized\, so they can participate fully in life\, in society\, and in the fabric of our democracy. \n“Bright\, talented\, compassionate\, strategic\, and committed . . . Norris’s insights and story will be an enormously important contribution in the effort to advance human rights in this country.” —Bryan Stevenson\, author of Just Mercy \nZach Norris is the executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights\, which creates campaigns related to civic engagement\, violence prevention\, juvenile justice\, and police brutality\, with a goal of shifting economic resources away from prisons and punishment and towards economic opportunity. He is also the cofounder of Restore Oakland and Justice for Families\, both of which focus on the power of community action. He graduated from Harvard and took his law degree from New York University. Connect with him @ZachWNorris. \nMarlena Henderson grew up in Santa Cruz County. Her family is directly and tragically impacted by the criminal justice system. Her parents were beloved contributors to the Santa Cruz community with their involvement in the American Cancer Society\, Cabrillo College\, NAMI\, the Santa Cruz Symphony\, and more. They tried for decades to access resources designed to intervene and rehabilitate their son but those efforts failed and the consequences were tragic. Marlena notes\, “When my brother first became involved in the system\, he was not capable of causing the kind of harm that has led me to fear for my life today. Now he is capable. The costs of that failure are too high for families like mine.” She is now an advocate for Criminal Justice reform and Mental Health reform. As a victim and a survivor of the mass incarceration movement she brings a unique perspective to many of the systems failures and opportunities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zach-norris-we-keep-us-safe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Literary Speakeasy 5-year anniversary celebration
DESCRIPTION:Literary Speakeasy if five years old! So let’s have a virtual celebration and raise money for LYRIC\, a great charity located in the heart of the Castro. This month’s performers include Chelsea Davis\, Dazié Grego-Sykes\, MJ Jones\, Amanda Muñiz\, Dena Rod\, and Preeti Vangani. Your host and curator every month is James J. Siegel. Let’s raise a glass from the comfort of our homes and celebrate Literary Speakeasy\, LYRIC\, and the best Bay Area literary talent! \nLYRIC’s mission is to build community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement\, career trainings\, health promotion\, and leadership development with LGBTQQ youth\, their families\, and allies of all races\, classes\, genders\, and abilities. \nPerformer bios:\nChelsea Davis is a writer from San Francisco. She has published essays in Literary Hub\, Electric Literature\, and The Racket\, and her monthly newsletter\, Shrieks and Howls\, looks at the surprising overlaps between the comedy and horror genres\, two films at a time. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in sPARKLE + bLINK and Vastarien\, and she is currently at work on a poem cycle about classic horror cinema. More of her writing can be found at chelseamdavis.net. \nDazié Grego-Sykes is an Oakland based performance artist and activist. He is a graduate of The Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California and holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Writing from The California Institute of Integral Studies. Currently\, he is touring two solo plays AM I A MAN and NIGGA-ROO while promoting his spoken-word album titled MAKE ME BLACK. This evening Dazié is reading from his collection of poetry and prose BLACK FAGGOTRY which was published by Nomadic Press in early 2020. \nMJ Jones is a poet & parent living in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Rigorous Mag\, & Borderlands Texas Poetry Review. They are an Assistant Poetry Editor at Foglifter Press. MJ has received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, SF Writers Grotto\, VONA\, & Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently the Community Engagement Graduate Fellow in the MFA program at Mills College. \nAmanda Muñiz is a Mexican writer born in Puebla and raised in Oakland\, California. She majored in English Literature from San Francisco State. Her work has been published by Pochino press\, and she has been a featured reader in various shows in the Bay Area including the electrifying ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? the hilarious ¿Donde Esta mi Comedy?\, BEASTCrawl\, Literary Speakeasy\, and LitQuake’s legendary LitCrawl. The immigrant experience has inspired most of her writing\, which she considers a reflection and a testament of her family’s resilience as well as a never-ending letter of love and gratitude to her parents. \nDena Rod is a writer\, editor\, and poet based in the Bay Area. Through creative nonfiction essays and poetry\, Dena works to illuminate their diasporic experiences of Iranian heritage and queer identity\, combating negative stereotypes of their intersecting identities in the mainstream media. You can learn more about their work at https://www.denarod.com \nPreeti Vangani is a poet & personal essayist. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions)\, winner of RL India Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in BOAAT\, Juked\, Gulf Coast\, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the Poetry Editor for Glass Journal and teaches poetry with Youth Speaks in the Bay Area. She holds an MFA in Writing from University of San Francisco. \nJames J. Siegel is the host and curator of Literary Speakeasy at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. He is the author of the poetry collection “How Ghosts Travel” (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and “The God of San Francisco\,” set for release this October from Sibling Rivalry Press.
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