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SUMMARY:Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
DESCRIPTION:PENINSULA VIRTUAL BOOKFEST\n2020 SCHEDULE\n\n\nWelcome Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom and local librarians\nhttps://youtu.be/D__YAzFYfV0\n\n\nSeptember 2\, 1pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring NPR’s Malaka Gharib\, Sari-Sari Storybooks’ founder Christina Newhard & NYT bestselling YA author Erin Entrada Kelly. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction\, Middle School/YA)\nhttps://youtu.be/k4U_bDFfrmo\n\n\nSeptember 3\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents “Poetry & Home in Diaspora” featuring Kai Coggin\, Lee Herrick\, Antonio Lopez & Persis Karim. SMCL YouTube (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/rH_thzyluCc\n\n\nSeptember 7\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Irenosen Okojie\, London-based author & winner of the 2020 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing\, Murzban Shroff\, Mumbai-based author & recipient of the John Gilgun Fiction Award\, and Ricco Siasoco\, San Francisco-based author & National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Facebook Watch Party. (Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/8eI1E8NySAg\n\n\nSeptember 10\, 6pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Thea Matthews with MK Chavez\, Natasha Dennerstein & Tongo Eisen-Martin. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/480Primrose/videos/1475338219322119\n\n\nSeptember 16\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Veronica Montes with Alan Chazaro\, Elsa Valmidiano & Ricco Siasoco. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/2661021164214044\n\n\nSeptember 17\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Barbara Jane Reyes with Arlene Biala\, Marianne Chan\, Janice Lobo Sapigao & Jean Vengua. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/754302115300958\n\n\nSeptember 20\n“The Makers’ Call to Action” featuring Kai Coggin\, Samuel Getachew\, Tureeda Mikell\, Dena Rod and Michael Simms.\nhttps://www.instagram.com/tv/CFVnf_YhmoM/\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2:30pm PT\nBurlingame Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Ellen Bass\, Hugh Behm-Steinberg\, Danusha Lameris\, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\nhttps://youtu.be/TLLuK6Jp-_Y\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Johanna Ely\, Joel Katz\, Phyllis Klein\, Ron Riekki\, Jacki Rigoni\, Kim Shuck\, Tanuja Wakefield & July Westhale. Hosted by San Mateo County Inaugural Poet Laureate Caroline Goodwin. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/311565253246052/\n\n\n\nSeptember 22\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Janet Stickmon with Michelle Bautista\, Herna Cruz-Louie & Melinda Luisa de Jesus. Webinar/FB Live. (Nonfiction)\nhttps://www.facebook.com/DalyCityLibrary/videos/681790089360727\n\n\nSeptember 24\, 6pm PT\nDaly City Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring Maw Shein Win with Jennifer Hasegawa\, Jenny Qi & Audrey T. Williams. Webinar/FB Live. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2312434539051532/\n\n\n\nSeptember 30\, 6pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Carole Bumpus\, Joan Gelfand\, Audrey Kalman & Geri Spieler\, with California Writers Club Immediate Past President Lisa Meltzer Penn. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3266256730087640/\n\n\n\nOctober 3\, 1pm PT\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring children’s book authors Christina Newhard\, Gayle Romasanta & Justine Villanueva\, and illustrator Lynnor Bontigao. Webinar/FB Live. (Fiction/Nonfiction)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3407003262725443/\n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Cody Tolmasoff. SMCL YouTube Channel. (Middle School/YA Fiction)\nhttps://youtu.be/A5dmcSeWnPE\n\n\nOctober 13\, 3pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest with devorah major\, Jason Bayani & James Cagney. SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/719854585237673/\n\n\n\nOctober 23 (time TBA)\nSouth San Francisco Public Library presents a virtual bookfest featuring July Westhale\, author of “Occasionally Accurate Science” and Nomadic Press’ J.K. Fowler.\n\n\nOctober 26\, 5pm PT\nSan Mateo County Libraries presents a virtual bookfest featuring Francesca Bell\, Barbara Berman\, Joe Cottonwood\, Peter N. Carroll\, Ken Haas\, Kathleen McClung\, Connie Post\, & Lee Rossi. Hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Lisa Rosenberg. Facebook Watch Party/SMCL Youtube Channel. (Poetry)\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/4134399856630670/\n\n\n\nOctober 29 (details TBA)\n\n\n#virtualbookfest #bookfest #PeninsulaBookfest
URL:https://litseen.com/event/peninsula-virtual-bookfest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Ingrid Rojas Contreras
DESCRIPTION:Ingrid Rojas Contreras was born and raised in Bogotá\, Colombia. Her first novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree won the Silver Medal in First Fiction from the California Book Awards. Fruit of the Drunken Tree was an Indie Next selection\, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection\, and a New York Times editor’s choice. her writing as appear in the New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Buzzfeed\, The Believer\, Nylon\, Guernica\, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference\, the Camargo Foundation\, and the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. She is working on a family memoir about her grandfather\, a curandero from Colombia who it was said had the power to move clouds.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ingrid-rojas-contreras-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Saint Mary's MFA in Creative Writing":MAILTO:writers@stmarys-ca.edu
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Sy Montgomery\, Becoming a Good Creature
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the Crowdcast platform for an event with National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery (Soul of an Octopus) for her new book\, Becoming a Good Creature. Based on the New York Times best-selling adult memoir\, Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s beautiful\, friendly guide is for readers young and old who wish to be better creatures in the world. Go ahead\, pass it on. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \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! \nSchool is not the only place to find a teacher. In this picture book adaptation of Sy Montgomery and Rebecca Green’s New York Times best-selling How to Be a Good Creature\, learn the many surprising lessons animals have to teach us about friendship\, compassion\, and how to be a better creature in the world. \nSy Montgomery has had many teachers in her life: some with two legs\, others with four\, or even eight! Some have had fur\, feathers\, or hooves. But they’ve all had one thing in common: a lesson to share. \nThe animals Sy has met on her many world travels have taught her how to seek understanding in the most surprising ways\, from being patient to finding forgiveness and respecting others. Gorillas\, dogs\, octopuses\, tigers\, and more all have shown Sy that there are no limits to the empathy and joy we can find in each other if only we take the time to connect. \nSY MONTGOMERY In addition to researching films\, articles\, and over twenty books\, National Book Award finalist Sy Montgomery has been honored with a Sibert Medal\, two Science Book and Film Prizes from the National Association for the Advancement of Science\, three honorary degrees\, and many other awards. She lives in Hancock\, New Hampshire\, with her husband\, Howard Mansfield\, and their border collie\, Thurber.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-sy-montgomery-becoming-a-good-creature-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T163000
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SUMMARY:Rachel Hollis with Brit Barron - Didn't See That Coming (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:I want you to know that what’s been good will always be good: the smell of coconut sunblock\, a five year old showing you the spot where his front tooth used to be\, a home-cooked meal\, when your love kisses that exact spot on your neck\, a grandmother’s handwriting\, a job well done\, the kindness of strangers\, the human spirit\, an Appaloosa horse\, the ritual of your faith\, laughing until you pee your pants a little\, holiday dessert tables\, first birthday parties\, a perfect cup of coffee. What’s good will always be good\, and one of the most awful\, beautiful things about the hard seasons is that unless we experience hardship\, we’ll never truly appreciate the goodness. \nFear. Grief. Loss. Betrayal. Rachel Hollis has felt all those things. Now\, she takes you to the other side. Rachel Hollis sees you. As the millions who read her #1 ​New York Times bestsellers ​Girl\, Wash Your​ ​Face​ and ​Girl\, Stop Apologizing​\, attend her RISE conferences\, and follow her on social media know\, she also wants to see you transform. When it comes to the “hard seasons” of life—the death of a loved one\,  divorce\, loss of a job—transformation seems impossible when grief and uncertainty dominate your days. Especially when\, as ​Didn’t See That Coming​ reveals\, no one asks to have their future completely rearranged for them. \nBut\, as Rachel writes\, it is up to you how you come through your pain—you can come through changed for the better\, having learned and grown\, or stuck in place where your identity becomes rooted in what hurt you.  With her signature humor\, heartfelt honesty and true-life stories\, Rachel shares how to embrace the difficult moments in life for the learning experiences they are\, and that a life well-lived is one of purpose and focused on the essentials. This is a small book about big feelings\, inspirational\, aspirational\, and an anchor that shows that darkness can co-exist with the beautiful. \nRachel Hollis laid the foundation for her lifestyle brand and media company with the same unfiltered honesty and staunch inclusivity that made her a two-time #1 New York Times bestselling author. Hollis connects with a highly engaged and growing global audience of women who treasure her transparency and optimism. She is one of the most sought-after motivational speakers\, plays host to one of today’s top business podcasts\, and is a proud mama of four who uses her platform to empower and embolden women around the world. Rachel calls Texas home; more specifically the Hill Country just outside of Austin.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-hollis-with-brit-barron-didnt-see-that-coming-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200930T180000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052 \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris-2/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: francine j. harris
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wenesday\, September 30 at 6pm PDT when francine j. harris joins us to read from her new collection\, Here is the Sweet Hand on Zoom! \nZoom Login Info \nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83537126052\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,83537126052#  or +12532158782\,\,83537126052#\nOr Telephone:\nDial(for higher quality\, dial a number based on your current location):\nUS: +1 669 900 9128  or +1 253 215 8782  or +1 346 248 7799  or +1 301 715 8592  or +1 312 626 6799  or +1 646 558 8656\nWebinar ID: 835 3712 6052\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kWpuBjfHD \nPraise for Here is the Sweet Hand \n“Entering mid-career with her extraordinary third book\, harris . . . fully emerges as one of the best and most relevant contemporary poets. She writes with a historical and linguistic reach . . . She is also in league with some of the great practitioners of poetry that makes no distinction between the personal and the political\, such as Gwendolyn Brooks\, Robert Hayden\, and Adrienne Rich. Yes\, I believe she’s that good\, writing with a timeless rhetorical force and a finely tuned ear for contemporary speech\, about race\, queerness\, love\, and grief.” —Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR \n“harris reveals one of the roles of the contemporary poet: to expose unpleasant truths of the past and present\, to call out the aspects of our worst selves . . . harris is an expert practitioner and guide; we are always in her orbit\, captivated as she manipulates language\, un-doing worn traditions\, engaging the reader intimately\, and unforgettably.” —Mandana Chaffa\, Chicago Review of Books \n“This is a book full of ‘heat\,’ of being beneath and being above\, of desire\, neighbors\, the news\, the horrors of systemic racism played out in a 19th-century orphanage and a shooting on a train — all presented without the censoring influence of traditional continuity . . . there is no point in questioning Here Is the Sweet Hand. It is better to let her voice be the center and take pleasure in change.” —Lynn McGee\, Lambda Literary \nAbout the Here is the Sweet Hand \nThe poems in Here is the Sweet Hand explore solitude as a way of seeing. In particular\, the speakers in francine j. harris’ third collection explore the mystique\, and myth\, of female loneliness as it relates to blackness\, aging\, landscape and artistic tradition. \nThe speakers in these poems are often protagonists. Against the backdrop of numerous American cities and towns\, and in a time of political uncertainty\, they are heroines in their quest to find logic through their own sense of the world. \nThe poems here are interested in the power of observation. But if there is authority in the individual versus the collective\, Here is the Sweet Hand also poses questions about the source of that power\, or where it may lead. \nAs in her acclaimed previous collections\, harris’ skillful use of imagery and experimentation with the boundaries of language set the stage for unorthodox election commemoration\, subway panic\, zoomorphism\, and linguistic battlefields. From poems in dialogue with the artistry of Toni Morrison and Charles Burnett to poems that wrestle with the moods of Frank Stanford and Ty Dolla $ign\, the speakers in this book signal a turn at once inward and opening.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-francine-j-harris/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:SFPL Live - Benjamin Bac Sierra in convo with Luis Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with iVIVA!: Latino Heritage Month SFPL is honored to host Benjamin Bac Sierra as our On the Same Page author. We will celebrate this local author\, educator\, poet\, activist and Mission District native. Bac Sierra’s new book Pura Neta\, the long awaited sequel to Barrio Bushido is due out in mid September Pochino Press. Benjamin Bac Sierra will be interviewed by  Luis Rodriguez\, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca and most recently From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer. \nSet in the San Francisco Mission varrio from 2012 to 2014\, Pura Neta explores the creative struggle of Homeboys and Homegirls fighting against gentrification\, police brutality\, racism and economic and educational injustice.  \nBenjamin Bac Sierra  was raised by a widowed mother and the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District. After serving as a grunt in the Marine Corps\, where he participated in front-line combat during the first Gulf War\, Ben completed his B.A. in English at U.C. Berkeley\, earned a teaching credential and a Master’s in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and merited a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law. Currently\, he is a professor at City College of San Francisco and a community innovator and keynote speaker throughout the Bay Area. Ben’s essays and stories have been published in newspapers and literary magazines His first novel Barrio Bushido was presented a Best of the Bay Award and an International Latino Book Award.  \nLuis Rodriguez is a former Los Angeles Poet Laureate. He has 16 books\, is founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder Tia Chucha’s Cultural Center & Bookstore. Rodriguez has two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction\, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love\, Addiction\, Revolutions\, and Healing (Touchstone\, 2012)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\, and a mandatory read\,  Always Running: La Vida Loca\, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books\, 1993)\, winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library. His latest book\, From Our Land to Our Land Essays\, Journeys\, and Imaginings From A Native Xicanx Writer\, explores race\, culture\, identity and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.  \nConnect with Ben Bac Sierra: Website \nConnect with Luis Rodrigues: Website | Twitter \nReservation: https://bit.ly/PuraNeta9-30-20 \nSFPL YouTube Live:  https://youtu.be/gzha5aCxQhY \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-live-benjamin-bac-sierra-in-convo-with-luis-rodriguez/
LOCATION:San Francisco Public Library – Virtual Library
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Caitlin Doughty / Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery host a virtual event with Caitlin Doughty for the paperback release of her New York Times bestseller Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?! More information to come\, but please save the date and join us! \nPlease note: this is a ticketed event\, with each ticket including a signed copy of the book. Tickets can be purchased in advance here. Advance tickets are highly recommended\, as tickets are not guaranteed to be available at the door. \n\nEvery day\, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. The best questions come from kids. What would happen to an astronaut’s body if it were pushed out of a space shuttle? Do people poop when they die? Can Grandma have a Viking funeral? \nIn Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?\, Doughty blends her mortician’s knowledge of the body and the intriguing history behind common misconceptions about corpses to offer factual\, hilarious\, and candid answers to thirty-five distinctive questions posed by her youngest fans. In her inimitable voice\, Doughty details lore and science of what happens to\, and inside\, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn colors during decomposition? And why do hair and nails appear longer after death? Readers will learn the best soil for mummifying your body\, whether you can preserve your best friend’s skull as a keepsake\, and what happens when you die on a plane. \nBeautifully illustrated by Dianné Ruz\, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? shows us that death is science and art\, and only by asking questions can we begin to embrace it. \n\nCaitlin Doughty is a mortician and the New York Times best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and From Here to Eternity. She is the creator of the web series Ask a Mortician. She lives in Los Angeles\, California\, where she owns and runs a funeral home. \n\n** Please note ** \n>  This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes a signed copy of the paperback edition of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? – no exceptions. If you already have a copy\, remember that books make great gifts! If you’ve alredy gifted this title to all of your friends\, please write events@booksmith.com and we’ll work things out. \n>  This is an all-ages event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-caitlin-doughty-will-my-cat-eat-my-eyeballs/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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