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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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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:Writers Who Want to Get Noticed: Online Literary Profiles\, with Lyzette Wanzer (via Zoom)\, Oct. 21
DESCRIPTION:WEDNESDAYS\, OCT. 21 — DEC. 2  | One of the biggest challenges writers face is getting their work the recognition it deserves. You’ve been sending your work out—stories\, articles\, poems\, plays—and you know it’s good work\, but no one’s biting. You’ve applied for grants\, travel scholarships\, and writers’ conference funding\, to no avail. You’d love to be invited to present work at Litquake or another high-profile reading series\, or to read at a conference. You’d like to publish in literary journals that pay writers\, and you’d like to start winning some writing contests. What’s the missing link? It could well be your online literary presence. \n\nDo you have separate social media accounts reserved and used exclusively for your life as a writer?\nDoes your online presence offer evidence that you take your writing seriously\, and view yourself as a literary professional\, whether established or up-and-coming?\nWhen publishers\, funders\, fellowship committees\, and grant panels view your profiles\, will they think your presentation is polished? Will they feel your page shows signs of an upward trajectory in your literary accomplishments?\n\nIn this workshop\, learn why curating your online presence is so crucial\, and get down to the work of fashioning new—or redesigning current—profiles in a supportive hands-on environment. This workshop will focus on LinkedIn\, Twitter\, Facebook\, Shuffle\, and Pinterest. \nThis class will meet on Zoom. Registered students\, please contact the instructor directly for Zoom details. \nLyzette Wanzer’s work appears in over 25 literary journals and books\, and she is a contributor to The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays (Wyatt-MacKenzie)\, The Naked Truth\, Essay Daily\, and San Francisco University High School Journal. A three-time San Francisco Arts Commission and Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient\, Lyzette serves as Judge for the Soul-making Keats Literary Competition’s Intercultural Essay category. She is currently helming an essay anthology entitled Trauma\, Tresses\, & Truth: Untangling Our Hair Through Personal Narrative. \nContact: AuthorLyzetteWanzer@LyzetteWanzerMFA.com \nNumber of sessions: 6 \nDates: Wednesdays\, October 21\, 28; November 4\, 11\, 18 (no class November 25); December 2 \nTime: 5:30 – 8:00pm Pacific Time \nCourse fee: $330
URL:https://litseen.com/event/writers-who-want-to-get-noticed-online-literary-profiles-with-lyzette-wanzer-via-zoom-oct-21/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Yotam Ottolenghi - Ottolenghi Flavor (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times bestselling author of Plenty teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+ innovative\, super-delicious\, plant-based recipes. \nLevel up your vegetables. In this groundbreaking cookbook\, Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage offer a next-level approach to vegetables that breaks down the fundamentals of cooking into three key elements: process\, pairing\, and produce. For process\, Yotam and Ixta show how easy techniques such as charring and infusing can change the way you think about cooking. Discover how to unlock new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness\, fat\, acidity\, or chile heat\, and learn to identify the produce that has the innate ability to make dishes shine. \nWith main courses\, sides\, desserts\, and a whole pantry of “flavor bombs” (homemade condiments)\, there’s something for any meal\, any night of the week\, including surefire hits such as Stuffed Eggplant in Curry and Coconut Dal\, Spicy Mushroom Lasagne\, and Romano Pepper Schnitzels. Chock-full of low-effort\, high-impact dishes that pack a punch and standout meals for the relaxed cook\, Ottolenghi Flavor is a revolutionary approach to vegetable cooking. \nYotam Ottolenghi is a seven-time New York Times best-selling cookbook author who contributes to the New York Times Food section and has a weekly column in The Guardian. His previous book\, Ottolenghi Simple\, was selected as a best book of the year by NPR and the New York Times; Jerusalem\, written with Sami Tamimi\, was awarded Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals and named Best International Cookbook by the James Beard Foundation. He lives in London\, where he co-owns an eponymous group of restaurants and the fine-dining destinations Nopi and Rovi.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/yotam-ottolenghi-ottolenghi-flavor-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Beast Generation Uprising
DESCRIPTION:Beast Generation culture exploded in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 2000s. By 2012\, we\, Beast Generation writers\, lived a never-ending literary feast. We gathered in the Mission\, at the street corners (16th and Mission)\, in a former voodoo and black magic temple Viracocha\, Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland\, in the bars like Amnesia and Make Out Room or Nick’s Lounge in Berkeley. They read poetry and prose\, played music and acted at festivals and happenings like Bay Area Generations\, Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop\, Saturday Night Special\, Quiet Lightning\, Get Lit\, Tourette’s Without Regrets\, Poetry Flash\, Donde Esta Mi Gente\, Perfectly Queer\, The Naked Bulb\, Skinless\, Swill\, Word Performances\, Literary Speakeasy\, LitCrawl\, Literary Death Match\, and organizations like Nomadic Press\, Poetry Flash\, Small Press Distribution\, Oakland Youth Poet Laureate\, Kundiman\, Kearney St Workshop\, Manic D Press\, Be About It Press\, Milvia Street\, Liminal Space\, Foglifter Journal\, the SF Creative Writing Institute\, the East Bay Review\, Full of Crow\, Pandemonium Press. And with many MANY of these writers taking to the road to read with poets in Seattle\, Portland\, Cleveland\, Kansas City\, Pittsburg\, Albuquerque New York\, Paris\, Mexico City\, Rabat and others. It was a loud and fun family\, with a sense of purpose and belonging. \nThe Beast Crawl was born in 2012 in Oakland CA to establish an annual gathering of this tribe in one region at one time in the East Bay (pig latin for “Beast”) to celebrate the merging of homegrown literary talent with the other kindred Beasts across the world. With this event\, the East Bay emerged as a hotbed of raw\, diverse literary talent with venues such as the Awaken Cafe\, Bench & Bar\, Chapter 510\, the Dept. of Make Believe\, the Creative Growth Center\, Classic Cars West\, Era Art Bar\, Econojam Records\, Feelmore 510\, The Legionairre\, Telegraph Beer Garden\, Farley’s East\, EM Wolfman Books\, The Golden Bull\, Laurel Books\, The Layover Lounge\, The New Parkway\, Oaklandish\, Kingston 11\, Spice Monkey\, The Starline Social Club\, Sweet Bar\, The Octopus Literary Salon\, Radio Bar\, and Woods Brewing Company hosting new up and coming authors. \nBy 2020\, with many of the venues closed or out of business\, festivals and readings canceled by the pandemic\, depression\, fires and smoke\, the Beasts might have lost a platform but not their voice. We will join forces again on October 24\, 2020\, and speak up online. Join us for a whole day marathon on a YouTube channel of one of San Francisco’s oldest indie bookstores\, Globus Books. The city will live up to its tradition: LitCrawl and Bay Area Poetry festival will be bringing more voices to you that very day. Let’s read like it is 2012! \nWith a week before the historic election\, our country\, state and city face a political\, economic and environmental crisis. The arts\, literature and poetry are here to do what they always do: offer humanity. Our land is on fire\, the plague is near and tyrants are at large but our spirits soar and are invincible. Long live Poetry! \nThis event will be live streaming on the Globus Books YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/GlobusBooksSF/videos. It is free for all. The recording of this show will be serialized and featured on the same channel later. Join us! \nReading: \nYoussef Alaoui\nLynn Alexander\nKyrsten Bean\nHugh Behm-Steinberg\nSteven Black\nPam Benjamin\nKwan Booth\nMya Byrne\nWolfgang Carstens\nMK Chavez\nMissy Church\nJoe Clifford\nSharon Coleman\nPaul Corman-Roberts\nSean Craven\nCassandra Dallett\nRohan DaCosta\nJenee Darden\nNatasha Derenstein\nFred Dodsworth\nMG Dufresne\nAndy Dugas`\nJoe Donohoe\nTony DuShane\nTongo Eisen-Martin\nLee Foust\nJK Fowler\nBill Gainer\nCassandra Rockwood-Rice Ganem\nCharlie Getter\nSteve Goldberg\nSteven Gray\nDazie Grego-Sykes\nJason Hardung\nHollie Hardy\nNicole Henares\nNazelah Jamison\nMaisha Johnson\nNick Johnson\nJuba Kalamka\nVernon Keeve III\nYume Kim\nAlexandra Kostoulas\nCharles Kruger\nAllsion Landa\nJoel Landmine\nVanessa Rochelle Lewis\nRIchard Loranger\nMichelle Lyn\nBrandon Loberg\nJoe Loya\nSean Manzano\nColleen McKee\nKR Morrison\nAmanda Muniz\nGinger Murray\nAlexandra Naughton\nJason Neese\nZephir O’Meara\nDawn Oberg\nPatty Orozco-Cronin\nSarah Page\nJohn Alfred Panzer\nLauren Dissident Parker\nIndiana Pehlivanova\nRob Pierce\nTom Pitts\nBaruch Porras-Hernandez\nRoger Porter\nHK Rainey\nSimon Rogghe\nKim Shuck\nCybele Zufolo Siegel\nJon Siegel\nTodd Siegel\nRyan Snellman\nJan Steckel\nSB Stokes\nJohn Swain\nWilliam Taylor Jr.\nAndrew Thomas\nLauren Traetto\nKeeley Ann Tulloh\nRene Vaz\nAlia Volz\nSandra Wassile\nJason Whitacre\nArisa White\nMaw Shein Win\nZarina Zabrisky\nJames Zealous \nBios coming.
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Globus Books":MAILTO:info@globusbooks.com
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SUMMARY:Sherri Duskey Rinker & AG Ford\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition!
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Sherri Duskey Rinker and AG Ford as they share their newest adventure\, Construction Site Mission: Demolition! Everyone’s favorite construction crew is back in this brand-new addition to the Goodnight\, Goodnight series. Kids will be delighted to hear the author reader here story and to meet the illustrator of this awesome book\, where the crew CRASH-BANG-BOOMS through the demolition process. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sherri-duskey-rinker-ag-ford-construction-site-mission-demolition/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
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SUMMARY:SFPL Virtual Library: Celia Stahr\, Frida In America The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
DESCRIPTION:The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today. \nMexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November\, 1930\, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco\, Detroit and New York. Still\, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental. \nOnly twenty-three and newly married to the already world-famous forty-three-year-old Diego Rivera\, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place\, one filled with magnificent beauty\, horrific poverty\, racial tension\, anti-Semitism\, ethnic diversity\, bland Midwestern food and a thriving music scene\, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear\, cracks in her marriage widened and tragedy struck\, twice while she was living in Detroit. \nFrida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia\, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail\, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo. \nCelia Stahr is a professor at the University of San Francisco\, where she specializes in modern American and contemporary art with an emphasis on feminist art and gender studies\, as well as African and multicultural art. She holds a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Iowa and lives in the Bay Area. \nConnect with Celia Stahr – Website | Instagram | Blog \nZoom Registration \nSFPL YouTube Live \n—
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sfpl-virtual-library-celia-stahr-frida-in-america-the-creative-awakening-of-a-great-artist/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Third Man Books Night @ City Lights
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating three awesome new books! \n     \nThird Man Books (the publishing imprint of Jack White’s Third Man Records) returns to City Lights to launch three excellent new titles: IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS by Robert Gordon\, CAR MA by Alison Mosshart\, and Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas. \nThird Man Books and Records: Where your turntable’s not dead\, and your page still turns! \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights and Third Man 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———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required. \n(Click Here) to register \n———– \n(Click Here) to purchase books (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nabout It Came From Memphis \nVienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history\, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies\, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs\, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis\, Aretha\, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton\, Jim Dickinson\, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos\, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm\, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right\, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller\, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat\, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world\, this book might change you. The paragraph that begins updated and revised should be all bold. \nRobert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker\, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book\, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies\, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal\, William Buckley\, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer\, he’s not author of Deep Blues\, and he’s not the university in Scotland. He lives in Memphis. \nVisit: TheRobertGordon.com \n  \nabout CAR MA \nCAR MA is artist and musician Alison Mosshart’s first printed collection of paintings\, photographs\, short stories\, and poetry. It is a book about cars\, rock n’ roll\, and love. It’s a book about America\, performance\, and life on the road. It’s a book about fender bender portraiture\, story tellin’ tire tracks\, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood. Mosshart imagines the auto body shop like some other Coney Island. And America’s highways- the last great roller coasters. Shows us that the engine on fire is connected to the guitar feeding back since birth. And the sensation of walking on stage and facing an audience is like the laugh before the scream in a car without brakes. Mosshart ruminates that automobiles- with their doors and mirrors and windows\, engines and wheels and radios- portray us. Mirror our need to be in or to exit\, our inward reflections and outward visions\, our lifetimes of tinkering with the mysterious heart. That which runs until it doesn’t. Throughout history the car has been a symbol of freedom and hopeful adventure. It stands to reason it is also a symbol of our subsequent spinning out … over things we never thought could happen during a song that fucking good and with the volume up that fucking loud. \nAlison Mosshart is best known for her work in her musical duo The Kills\, as well as fronting the Grammy nominated rock n’ roll band\, The Dead Weather. Mosshart is also a visual artist\, working in paints\, multi-media and photography. She studied art for two years at the University of Florida\, following a brief unrecorded spell at the University of Honolulu learning print making in the middle of the night. She is for the most part self taught. She has had 5 major solo exhibitions: “Fire Power” at the Joseph Gross Gallery in NYC\, 2015\, “Fire Power Los Angeles” at Maxfield in Los Angeles\, 2017\, “Tonight Only” in Muscle Shoals\, Alabama\, 2016\, “Side Effects” at Panteon in Mexico City\, 2018\, and “Los Trachas” at FF-1051 Gallery in Los Angeles\, 2018. \nVisit: Alison Mosshart on Facebook \n  \nabout Nine Bar Blues \nSheree Renée Thomas is a two-headed woman\, one crown\, earthbound\, rooted in the Mississippi Delta and the New Weird South\, the other spinning far off into space. And if music is the embedded memory of a culture\, then her remarkable fiction collection is its excavated soul. Individually\, these tales explore nearly every genre of music that has formed the heart of American culture\, but their shared song is the story of the blues. Thomas’s writing haunts and mesmerizes you. Her imagination takes you down through it like the best traditional blues song\, then opens you up again\, delivering you into that mysterious\, transcendental space that is the ninth bar. \nHaunting and evocative\, Nine Bar Blues carries the soul’s songbook\, from the dark laughter of strange sisters forced to make a perilous journey into a land their mothers have never known\, to the fortified funk of extraterrestrial mixtapes. \nSheree Renée Thomas imagines stories that are sonic rituals\, works that cultivate and affirm the magical and the mystical in everyday living. Nine Bar Blues explores the multitudinous forms of music and the people who make it and appreciate it—the body’s music\, the spirit’s music\, and what moves a soul forward in the crossroads journey of life. Her stories travel from haunted West African and Middle Eastern forests to the mysterious back roads in the Mississippi Delta\, from the ancestral realms of the afterlife to the alien sounds beyond. And throughout the journey\, Nine Bar Blues heralds the arrival of a unique writer whose voice carries the hope and the past-future-present of a people. \nVisit: Sheree Renée Thomas’ Website
URL:https://litseen.com/event/third-man-books-night-city-lights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201021T200000
DTSTAMP:20260413T083559
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LAST-MODIFIED:20200922T173440Z
UID:59740-1603303200-1603310400@litseen.com
SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Lunch Poems: San Francisco and Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present Mike Puican (L) and Michael Warr (R) reading from their poetry to celebrate the publication of Puican’s new collection\, Central Air. Join us! \nThis is a free event\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here. \n\nMike Puican and Michael Warr will share poems centered on cities they’ve called home. The poets met in Chicago\, a place that served as a living incubator for their writing over a period of 20 years. Puican has a new book of poems\, Central Air\, that focuses on the spiritual as well as the corporal intensities of Chicago. Warr grew up in San Francisco and spent his twenties in Chicago and Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia. \nThese gifted artists will present poems of place that contrast and compare life in these two great cities. \n\nAbout Central Air \nSet in the urban Chicago landscape\, Central Air explores the human challenge of living with strong desires\, limited knowledge\, and no saving direction. The voices in this mix of elegies and soft litanies negotiate lives within the strangeness and unpredictability of each moment. In every case\, language is a swift prayer\, ode\, and lyric. Chicago is an intensely experienced\, blue-collar homeplace where injustice is a given. The poems are stern\, compressed\, and unsentimental. But they are also empathic to human shortcomings and doubts\, scored in unobtrusive consistency in both voice and language. \nPuican’s focus on the city\, its people and underbellied spaces\, pays homage in the tradition of the great Chicago masters: Carl Sandburg\, Gwendolyn Brooks\, and Campbell McGrath. This contemporary Chicago son finds his own place with lyrical integrity. \n\nMike Puican has published poems in Poetry\, Bloomsbury Review\, Crab Orchard Review\, and New England Review\, among others. His work has also been featured on WBEZ\, Chicago’s NPR affiliate. Puican was a member of the 1996 Chicago Slam Team and holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Warren Wilson College. As a longtime board member of the Guild Literary Complex in Chicago\, he has been deeply involved in supporting and promoting other Chicago writers. He also leads poetry workshops at St. Leonard’s House for formerly incarcerated men and at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. \nMichael Warr‘s books include Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmet Till to Trayvon Martin\, (W.W. Norton)\, and from Tia Chucha Press The Armageddon of Funk\, and We Are All The Black Boy. He is the recipient of the 2020 Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award and is a San Francisco Library Laureate. Other honors include a Creative Work Fund Award\, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature\, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award\, Gwendolyn Brooks Significant Illinois Poets Award\, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Michael is the former Deputy Director of the Museum of the African Diaspora and is a board member of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Follow his creative work at https://michaelwarr-creativework.tumblr.com/. \n\nThis event is free and open to all ages\, but RSVP is required. RSVP here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-lunch-poems-san-francisco-and-chicago/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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