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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto":MAILTO:acassine@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:13th Annual Life is Living Festival
DESCRIPTION:Life is Living is going virtual! \nMark your calendars to join in the largest celebration of Oakland taking place October 9th-11th\, online. \nLive Music\nTheater Stage\nKids Zone\nGrocery Giveaway\nDance Classes\nWorkshops\nAnd More! \nLife is Living will remain the beloved event you know and love so RSVP to get full access to all of your favorite zones and activations. \nStay tuned for more information about performers\, schedules\, and zones. \nABOUT THE FESTIVAL \nLife is Living is an eco-equity\, interdisciplinary festival that centers historically underserved neighborhoods and communities with programming in public spaces that have been otherwise neglected. For the last 13 years\, the Life is Living Festival has taken place at Little Bobby Hutton Park in West Oakland but due to the impacts of COVID and wildfires\, we must host the festival virtually this year. \nOur cohort consists of 100+ artists and organizations that power the festival as an intergenerational kaleidoscope of Oakland life. We’ve been Keeping Oakland\, Oakland Since 08\, holding sacred space in the vein of resistance\, art\, love\, honoring Black and Brown Lives\, and being a catalyst for larger discussions around environmental racism\, social ecology\, and social responsibility.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Keir Graff Discussing The Tiny Mansion | Virtual Author Chat on Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, October 10\, 2020 at 11 AM PDT for an online discussion with author Keir Graff discussing his new novel\, THE TINY MANSION \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86182840632. \n(Order your copy of THE TINY MANSION at https://bit.ly/ggpTinyMansion\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at https://bit.ly/TinyMansionAB.) \nDescription\n\nIn this pitch-perfect middle grade adventure\, twelve-year-old Dagmar must endure a summer living off-the-grid with her family in a tiny home. \nThe last thing twelve-year-old Dagmar wants is to spend her summer vacation squished into a tiny house with her dad\, her stepmom\, and her annoying five-year-old half brother. But after a sudden financial setback\, her family is evicted from their Oakland apartment\, and that’s just where they end up\, parked among the towering redwoods of Northern California. \nAs Dagmar explores the forest around their new and (hopefully) temporary home\, she discovers they are living next door to an eccentric tech billionaire and his very unusual extended family. There’s his brother\, a woodsman who sets dangerous booby traps all over the place\, and his sister\, a New Age animal lover who meditates to whale songs in an isolation tank. And then there’s the billionaire’s son\, Blake\, who has everything he could ever wish for–except maybe a friend. \nBut when a wildfire engulfs the forest\, everyone–rich and poor\, kid and adult–will have to work together to escape. And with both families at risk of losing everything\, it turns out it’s not the size of the home but the people you share it with that matters. \nAbout the Author\n\nKeir Graff is the author of the middle grade novels The Phantom Tower\, The Matchstick Castle\, and The Other Felix\, and a handful of books for grown-ups. Keir lives in Chicago with his wife\, Marya\, his sons\, Felix and Cosmo\, and two cats\, Toothless and Totoro. Learn more at keirgraff.com and follow him on Twitter @keirgraff. \nPraise For…\n\n“I loved this book! It was a pleasure to follow Dagmar\, a girl who knows how hard life can be\, as she takes on all the challenges that come her way\, with grit\, intelligence and a not insignificant amount of rebelliousness. This hard-to-put-down adventure is fast-paced and will captivate young readers.” –Marianne Malone\, author of The Sixty-Eight Rooms
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keir-graff-discussing-the-tiny-mansion-virtual-author-chat-on-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Building Bridges Book Club
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to announce the Building Bridges Book Club\, a new partnership with the Marin Poetry Center and Mill Valley Library. \nThe Marin Poetry Center Building Bridges Book Club is an opportunity to read and discuss a book of poems with others who appreciate poetry and would like to take a closer look at form\, structure\, and craft. Discussions will be lively and interactive\, and participants will have a chance to share thoughts and ask questions. Come prepared to read favorite poems\, lines\, and passages aloud. \nBook club meetings will take place on Zoom the second Saturday of each month from 1pm to 2:30pm PST. Information on how to RSVP coming soon! \nAt the first meeting\, on October 10\, participants will discuss John Murillo’s Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry (Four Way Books) with moderator Rebecca Foust. \nCopies of the book are available for purchase in-store or online.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/building-bridges-book-club/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T140000
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SUMMARY:Keep Them Guessing: The Art of Mystery and Thriller Writing with Elaine Beale
DESCRIPTION:Mysteries and thrillers are some of the most popular and diverse genres in fiction today. They sell by the millions\, and hundreds of authors have established long and successful careers in mystery or thriller writing. These stories offer opportunities for the creation of quirky or intriguing protagonists\, unusual settings\, stories with social or political relevance\, and even for books that put new twists on the genres. Nevertheless\, writing a mystery or thriller demands certain key skills and a knowledge of what works in this area of fiction. \nIf you want to try your hand at a mystery or thriller\, or have already started but aren’t sure how to pull it all together\, this online workshop will get you going and give you tips for how to stay on track. \n“We’ll look at the key components that make the mystery or thriller successful\,” says instructor Elaine Beale\, “from developing a compelling protagonist and maintaining page-turning momentum\, to creating a plausible\, keep-them-guessing-to-the-end plot. \n“If you’re new to these genres\, you’ll learn the key tricks and craft of the thriller and mystery writing trade. If you have a story in progress\, this workshop will help you generate fresh ideas and strategies to make your story truly shine. And everyone will walk away with a deeper understanding of how to combine the necessary ingredients to create a standout work that will keep your readers hooked to the very last page.” \nOctober 10th & 17th\, 2-5pm
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-them-guessing-the-art-of-mystery-and-thriller-writing-with-elaine-beale/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading: Barbara Jane Reyes and Friends
DESCRIPTION:In honor of Filipinx American History Month\, Eastwind Books is hosting a poetry reading featuring Barbara Jane Reyes\, Monica Ong\, Marianne Chan\, and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews. Join us for an afternoon of beautiful poetry! \nThe event will be held on Saturday\, October 10 at 3pm PST\, via Zoom. RSVP to receive the Zoom link. https://bjrpoetry.eventbrite.com \nFor more information and to purchase books by the authors\, visit www.asiabookcenter.com\n~\nAbout the poets:\nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2020). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area\, and is the author of five previous collections of poetry\, Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books\, 2003)\, Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press\, 2005)\, which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets\, Diwata (BOA Editions\, Ltd.\, 2010)\, which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry\, To Love as Aswang (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2015)\, and Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers\, 2017). She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband\, educator and poet Oscar Bermeo\, in Oakland. www.barbarajanereyes.com \nMonica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (2015)\, selected by Joy Harjo as winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and MFA graduate in Digital Media at the Rhode Island School of Design\, Ong has been awarded residencies most recently at the Studios at MassMoCA\, Millay Colony\, and Yaddo. You can find her work featured in Petrichor: A Journal of Image+Text\, Redivider\, ctrl+v\, Waxwing Magazine\, and anthologized in Poesia Visual 5. Based in Connecticut\, she currently serves as the User Experience Designer at the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. www.monicaong.com \nMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart\, Germany\, and Lansing\, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens from Sarabande Books (2020). Her poems have appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, West Branch\, The Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas\, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati. www.mariannechan.com \nKimberly Quiogue Andrews is a poet and literary critic. She is also the author of A Brief History of Fruit\, winner of the Akron Prize for Poetry from the University of Akron Press\, and BETWEEN\, winner of the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Prize from Finishing Line Press. She lives in Maryland and teaches at Washington College\, and you can find her on Twitter at @kqandrews.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-reading-barbara-jane-reyes-and-friends/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Resistencia Feminista: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Red Poppy and Utah Humanities are excited to host a powerful afternoon featuring five female Mexican poets spanning several generations.\nRegister online now to get the link: https://zoom.us/…/tJIrdeihqTktG9K9LtYMbws5zmAUD_ZLbxhm\n“What does resistance mean to you in your experience of our current moment? What do you see as the role of poetry within Mexico’s current social movements?”\nIn what promises to be a stimulating dialogue\, the poets will respond to these questions while also reading their celebrated verse.\nThis event is part the launch of a groundbreaking new anthology\, Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution\, from Tin House. As Julia Alvarez writes in her poignant introduction\, “To read these poems is to be reminded again and again of our true allegiance to each other.”\nThis extraordinary collection is rooted in a strong tradition of protest poetry and voiced by icons of the movement and some of the most exciting writers today.\nOne of those icons\, Kyra Galvan\, will be with us this afternoon\, virtually from Mexico City. The poets will also be reading the great Rosario Castellanos\, another poet in the anthology\, talking about what her legacy has meant to their development and writing today.\nThe other featured poets include:\nChary Gumeta\,Chiapas\nXel-Ha López Méndez\, Guadalajara\nZel Cabrera\, Mexico City\nFacilitated by Violeta Orozco (Vio Letra) and Crescencio López González.\nBios and pics coming shortly.\nThe event will be in English\, with bilingual readings of the poetry.\nThe anthology will be released on September 15. For more information and to pre-order it now\, please visit www.redpoppy.net\nThe poets of Resistencia explore feminist\, queer\, Indigenous\, and ecological themes alongside historically prominent protests against imperialism\, dictatorships\, and economic inequality. Within this momentous collection\, poets representing every Latin American country grapple with identity\, place\, and belonging\, resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced and complex portrait of language in rebellion.\nIncluded in English translation alongside their original language\, the fifty-four poems in Resistencia are a testament to the art of translation as much as the act of resistance. Urgent\, timely\, and absolutely essential\, these poems inspire us all to embrace our most fearless selves and unite against all forms of tyranny and oppression.\n\nPraise for Resistencia:\n“Resistencia could not be more timely. It is a stunning collection of revelations and witness. . . . Indispensable.”\n-Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The House of Broken Angels\n“A groundbreaking collection of works by over 50 poets\, Resistencia is alive with bravery\, feminism\, strength\, agency\, protest\, power and hope.”\n– Ms. Magazine\n“I read Resistencia n in one sitting\, rather breathlessly… The poems do not soothe but shake us awake\, and they call on us to do what they have done: to witness\, to listen\, to not only speak but sing.”\n– Maggie Smith\, author of Good Bones\n“Even surrounded in death and destruction\, there is a vibrancy in the lines. There is joy. There is living. Beauty’s put forward bravely.”\n– David Thomas Martinez\n“Reading these poems\, I felt as if this brilliant chorus of writers\, living and departed\, was delivering a call to action: ‘We have been here all along\, fighting. Won’t you join us?’”\n– Frances de Pontes Peebles\, author of The Air You Breathe\nPlease support this project\, support these poets\, support your soul by pre-ordering the book today: www.redpoppy.net\, or wherever books are sold. En México\, el libro está actualmente disponible en www.amazon.com.mx\nAnd please join us for this impactful afternoon\, Saturday\, October 10th.\nThis event is made possible with support from Red Poppy\, Artes de Mexico en Utah\, and Utah Humanities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/resistencia-feminista-contemporary-mexican-poetry/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Every Day We Get More Illegal
DESCRIPTION:Included in Publishers Weekly‘s Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 & LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of the Year! \nA State of the Union from the nation’s first Latino Poet Laureate. Trenchant\, compassionate\, and filled with hope. \n“Many poets since the 1960s have dreamed of a new hybrid art\, part oral\, part written\, part English\, part something else: an art grounded in ethnic identity\, fueled by collective pride\, yet irreducibly individual too. Many poets have tried to create such an art: Herrera is one of the first to succeed.”— New York Times \n“Herrera has the unusual capacity to write convincing political poems that are as personally felt as poems can be.”—NPR \n“From Basho to Mandela\, Every Day We Get More Illegal takes us on an international tour for a lesson in the history of resistance from a poet who declares\, ‘I had to learn . . . to take care of myself . . . the courage to listen to my self.’ In ways subtle and sometimes proudly loud\, this book makes it clear exactly why Juan Felipe Herrera continues to be recognized and sought after for his work. You hold in your hands evidence of who we really are.”—Jericho Brown\, author of The Tradition \n“Everyday we get more illegal\, the poet says in this book of incantations and days\, of laborers touching the earth and migrants waiting crossing the border. To cross where? To the country that is itself in danger of becoming merely The Wall. Nothing else but The Wall. But Juan Felipe Herrera knows that ‘underneath the crust of The Wall things are always / in motion\,’ he knows that what saves us is tenderness. His father once walked to the ocean with a jar in his hand. The poet comes to his country with a book of songs\, and asks: America\, are you listening? We better listen. There is wisdom in this book\, there is a choral voice that teaches us ‘to gain\, pebble by pebble\, seashell by seashell\, the courage.’ The courage to find more grace\, to find flames.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Deaf Republic \n“Former Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera should also be Laureate of our Millennium—a messenger who nimbly traverses the transcendental liminalities of the United States to then speak from the body politic in confrontation with an enemy system that threatens the networks that make us ethical and humane. Every book he writes becomes his best book and this collection is no exception. He brings unity and vulnerability to this wide-ranging and prophetic volume.”—Carmen Giménez Smith\, author of Be Recorder \n“In Every Day We Get More Illegal Juan Felipe Herrera shows off all of his styles. These poems talk directly to America\, to migrant people\, and to working people. Herrera has created a chorus to remind us we are alive and beautiful and powerful.”—José Olivarez\, author of Citizen Illegal \n“Few poets have more laurels upon which they could rest than Juan Felipe Herrera. As the former Poet Laureate of the United States he’s done more for poetry\, on the page and off\, than most anyone living. But in his new Every Day We Get More Illegal\, Herrera not only stretches\, complicates\, broadens his own oeuvre\, he challenges and expands what might be possible in the space of a poem. Herrera reaches out beyond language—’the fervent bones’—beyond the lyric medium itself\, towards what is too urgently broken for mere words: our moment\, our nation\, our humanity. ‘We brought in a new time\,’ he writes\, ‘this is the new time.'”—Kaveh Akbar\, author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf \n“Juan Felipe Herrera upholds and elevates the great ancestral lineage of our Mexicano/Chicano/World/Word Masters. The Border lives in this man. The Border(s) will never leave him. He is the son of soul anarchy\, the lost stories of my America. He is the trickster magician who lifts the mirror to our faces—and allows us to see truth. When he breaks stride in this great walkabout of his\, he tumbles the false world down while always showing us the Better Way. These are poems fierce and compassionate. His Journey has served him well.”—Denise Chávez\, owner\, Casa Camino Real Bookstore\, Las Cruces NM \n“Juan Felipe Herrera breaks open language to convey unspeakable pain alongside unfathomable strength.”—Emma Ramadan\, co-owner\, Riff Raff Bookstore\, Providence\, RI \nIn this collection of poems\, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, coalesce into an urgent\, trenchant\, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then: a shift of register\, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. \nEvery Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience—filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/every-day-we-get-more-illegal/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Libra Party Online
DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance for this party:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZAodOCprzIjHdbNOehEcyyXZKmLN…\ncome celebrate the Libra season with your favorite Libras who both had books published this year! we’ll have an open mic along with featured readers! please continue to check this space!\n\nIn June 2020\, Cassandra Dallett’s book A Pretty Little Wilderness was published by Be About It Press: https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little…/dp/0998601241\n\nIn January 2020\, Alexandra Naughton’s book a place a feeling something he said to you was published by Spooky Girlfriend Press: https://spookygirlfriendpress.tumblr.com/…/alexandra…\n\nthe event will happen on Zoom and also Facebook Live (for people who don’t want to go on zoom)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/libra-party-online/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Foreman : Georges : Holtland : Mody : Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Drop Leaf Press as we celebrate our first chapbook author’s first full-length collection with our first-ever online reading! Tanya Holtland (Inner River\, Drop Leaf\, 2016)’s Requisite is newly out from Platypus Press. Joining Tanya is Aricka Foreman\, whose first full-length book Salt Body Shimmer just came out with YesYes Books and features cover art by Lorna Simpson\, the same artist who did Requisite’s cover. We’re also thrilled to host Tanya’s fellow Platypus author Richard Georges and Bay Area poet-friends Elizabeth Robinson and Monica Mody! \nPLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE AT THIS LINK: \nhttps://ciis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcemhpz4jGtFiosb6rbc3rS8pKLI1MrZ- \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event. \n* \nARICKA FOREMAN is an American poet and interdisciplinary writer from Detroit\, MI. Author of the chapbook Dream with a Glass Chamber and Salt Body Shimmer (YesYes Books)\, she has received fellowships from Cave Canem\, Callaloo\, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Offing and spends her time in Chicago\, IL engaging poetry with photography & video. \nRICHARD GEORGES is a writer of essays\, fiction\, and three collections of poetry. His most recent book\, Epiphaneia (2019)\, won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature\, and his first book\, Make Us All Islands (2017)\, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book\, Giant (2018)\, was highly commended by the Forward Prizes and longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize. He is a recipient of a Fellowship from the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and has been listed or nominated for several other prizes\, including the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize\, the Wasafiri New Writing Prize\, and a Pushcart Prize. In addition to writing\, Richard works in higher education and lives in the British Virgin Islands. \nTANYA HOLTLAND is the author of Requisite\, a finalist for the Broken River Prize\, out now from Platypus Press\, and the chapbook Inner River from Drop Leaf Press. Her nonfiction and lyric essays appear in The Offing\, The Rupture\, OXALIS\, and elsewhere. A graduate of San Francisco State University’s English and Creative Writing MA program\, she was also an artist-in-residence at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford where she authored the libretto Fated\, a collaboration with composer Daniela Candillari. A Los Angeles native of Dutch-Indonesian descent\, her work surrounds the intersections of memory\, ecology\, borders\, design\, and matriarchy. \nMONICA MODY is the author of Kala Pani (1913 Press) and two cross-genre chapbooks. Her poetry has also appeared in literary journals and anthologies including Poetry International\, Boston Review\, Indian Quarterly\, and Almost Island. Her awards include the Nicholas Sparks Postgraduate Writing Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame\, Naropa University’s Zora Neale Hurston Award\, and the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing. Mody has a PhD in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Notre Dame. She was born in Ranchi\, India and lives on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco). \nELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author\, most recently\, of Rumor\, from Free Verse Editions\, and Vivian Maier: 11 photographs in 20 poems\, a collaboration with Susanne Dyckman published by Dancing Girl Press. With Jennifer Phelps\, Robinson co-edited the critical anthology Quo Anima: innovation and spirituality in contemporary women’s poetry\, published by University of Akron Press. Robinson has new work recently published or forthcoming in Aurochs\, Caliban\, Denver Quarterly\, Fence\, Plume\,The Rumpus\, and Vestiges. Her creative nonfiction has recently been published in Conjunctions and Scoundrel Time. \nDROP LEAF PRESS is run by six women in San Francisco and Oakland\, California. We seek joineries of the unexpected and the overlooked. We believe in flexibility and tactility. With each new voice\, each new book\, we create space: we add a leaf to the table\, room for more.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/foreman-georges-holtland-mody-robinson/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Tania Romanov in conversation with Don George - One Hundred Years of Exile (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:In One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search of Her Father’s Russia San Francisco author Tania Romanov tells the story of her journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. \nTania and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. The family’s immigration to San Francisco heralded a promising new future—but while Tania just wanted to be an American\, her father could not trust that this was his final asylum. His fears and his resistance to assimilation leave Tania with deep resentment. Decades later\, his unexpected death exposes Tania’s open wounds and a host of unanswered questions about her father’s story and her Russian heritage. \nA serendipitous meeting with a last surviving member of the Russian royal family\, followed by a baffling error that miraculously connects her with unknown relatives\, catapults Tania on a quest for answers in her father’s homeland. Tania’s story proves inseparable from Russia’s\, featuring Cossacks who fled revolution\, a family who survived Stalin\, and a family of royal exiles\, culminating in a meeting between princess and peasant. One Hundred Years of Exile is a moving story of how revisiting the past can bring not only forgiveness and redemption\, but something far more powerful as well. \nTania Romanov is an award-winning travel photographer and the author of three books: Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women; Never a Stranger\, a travel story collection; and One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia (2021). A Solas Award winner\, Tania’s work has also been featured in multiple travel anthologies and translated into Serbo-Croatian and Russian. Born in the former Yugoslavia\, Tania fled the country and spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Trieste\, Italy\, before emigrating to the United States. She went through San Francisco’s public schools\, U.C. Berkeley\, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business\, eventually serving as CEO of three technology companies. When not on the road\, Tania splits her time between San Francisco and Sonoma County. \nDon George is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of Lonely Planet’s Guide to Travel Writing and the editor of ten anthologies\, including A Moveable Feast\, The Kindness of Strangers\, Better Than Fiction\, and An Innocent Abroad. George is Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler\, where he writes feature articles and the monthly Trip Lit column. He is also Editor of BBC Travel‘s literary travel column\, Chance Encounters. \nAvailable in hardcover and paperback.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tania-romanov-in-conversation-with-don-george-one-hundred-years-of-exile-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201010T213000
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SUMMARY:Bawdy Storytelling: Choose Your Own Adventure
DESCRIPTION:Tickets at https://bawdylivestream_cyoa.eventbrite.com \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at \nhttp://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best Erotic Podcast for 2020” – Oprah Magazine \nhttps://bit.ly/BawdyOprahBestOf2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis Kinktacular Evening of Stories\, Songs & B*ttplugs features: \n❤  Hosted by Award-winning Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Best sex\, erotica\, dating\, & relationship podcast” – Mashable \nhttp://bit.ly/BawdyMashable2020 \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThis month\, Bawdy Storytelling – the water-based lube for the silicone toy that is your mind –  celebrates our annual High Holiday\, The Folsom Street Fair! Featuring true stories from Human Ponies\, Leather Daddys\, Sex-Positive Icons and more. \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nThe Original Sex + Storytelling series\, featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits\, Live Onstage \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nAnd we know you’re on FetLife\, ya pervert: \nhttps://fetlife.com/events/791886 \n••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n • No Refunds or Exchanges \n• Lineup Subject to Change \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWinner of SFist’s Best Storytelling Show\, the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event) \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \n“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous\, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly \n•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• \nWant more Bawdy? \nwww.BawdyStorytelling.com� \nListen to the Bawdy Storytelling podcast at  http://bit.ly/bawdypodcast \nOn Twitter: @Bawdy \nOn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bawdystorytelling/ \nOn Facebook at  www.Facebook.com/BawdyStorytelling \nSupport us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Bawdy \nSubscribe to our YouTube Channel at http://bit.ly/BawdyTV
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bawdy-storytelling-choose-your-own-adventure/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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