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SUMMARY:Virtual Class: Wendy Walsh - Continuing the Journey with Dante's Purgatorio (via Zoom)
DESCRIPTION:Continue the journey with Dante on Zoom! Join Wendy Walsh for the reading and study of Purgatorio\, the second cantica of Dante’s Commedia. \nDante and Virgil begin their climb of the immense Mountain of Purgatory in the middle of the unpopulated waters of the Southern Hemisphere. Before reaching Purgatory proper\, they travel through Ante Purgatory and then up through the seven terraces\, each one reflecting one of the seven deadly sins. Their goal is the Earthly Paradise at the top of the mountain and along the way they will meet the many saved souls who are happily purifying themselves for their ascent to Paradise.  Purgatory is “where the soul of man is cleansed\,/ made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (dove l’umano spirito si purga/e di salire al ciel diventa degno” Canto I\, 5-6.) \nWendy Walsh has a PhD in Italian Literature from UC Berkeley. She has been teaching Italian language and literature since 1979.
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Rise & Shine: Winter 2021 | Series of Odes
DESCRIPTION:Rise & Shine is a generative poetry workshop presented by Surprise the Line\, hosted by Nancy Lynée Woo. Started in April 2020\, Rise & Shine began as a daily writing group in response to the pandemic and NaPoWriMo. Now\, the morning meetings rotate throughout the year with different series. \nAbout This Group:\nThe purpose of this space is to generate new words on the page together. We welcome anyone who would like to start their day with an invigorating poetry writing prompt in a communal setting. Rise & Shine will stay free and donation-based to allow anyone access to this generative writing group. \nThe first hour is spent writing\, and whoever would like to stay and share is welcome to read their draft (not a critique space). Invite surprise onto the page! Discover what wants to be written on that particular day without judgment. Lean into the process. \nOdes:\nThe Winter 2021 series will meet Tuesday mornings at 9 am PST\, starting January 19 and ending March 9 (8 weeks). Our focus will be writing odes! \nAn ode is traditionally a lyric poem written in reverence to a particular object or thing. Modern odes allow a lot of room for exploration. For the purposes of this workshop\, writing an ode simply means “paying particular attention to.” We will practice writing close details of a specific object or thing\, with plenty of room to discover what else there is to see underneath. \n“Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.” Anne Enright \nEach week\, the prompt will include an example ode for inspiration and some starting points\, including a broad topic for focus\, if you choose to take it. Like all Surprise the Line workshops\, you do not need to write to the prompt. Follow your own inspiration wherever it leads. \nFor the comfort of participants\, these sessions will not be recorded.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rise-shine-winter-2021-series-of-odes/
LOCATION:Virtual
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ORGANIZER;CN="Surprise the Line":MAILTO:nancywoowriter@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210120T180000
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SUMMARY:Sharpen Your Pencil: Elements of a Poem in Revision
DESCRIPTION:Do you want your poems to sing more sweetly? Resonate more deeply? Read more beautifully? \nIn this 8-week craft workshop\, you will learn structured techniques for writing and revising poems in a small-group setting. Each week\, we will focus on one specific element in poetry\, and use that topic as a guiding principle for revising our poems. \nOften\, we’re given feedback on our work but might not know exactly what to do next. This class will combine theory with practice. The goal is to equip you with the tools to revise your own poems with grace and ease in order to take your work to the next level. \nWhat You’ll Get Out of This Workshop:\n\n8 lesson packets to help you revise poems\, each focused on a different poetic element\, with example poems and short essays\nMANY prompts for revising poems that you can use any time\nSmall-group witness of your revised poems to encourage positive learning\nA fun\, supportive environment with other awesome poets\nSensitivity and integrity toward your voice and process\nReal-time inspiration and feedback from the group\n\nWhat You’ll Need:\n\nA handful (4-8) of written drafts that you feel have some promise\, but aren’t quite “there” yet\, and you’re not sure what they’re missing or what to do next\nSome time each week to practice a revision technique outside of class (30 minutes minimum)\nAbility to detach from the work so you can revise (and create anew!) with pleasure\nDesire to make your poems the best they can be at this moment in time without judgment\nA beginner’s mindset (no matter how long you’ve been writing)\nA sense of adventure and openness to discovery\nNon-attachment to a specific outcome (this is the magic!)\nRespect\, integrity and playfulness with your peers (we are all learning\, writing and practicing together!)\n\n8-Week Schedule\nWorkshop A will be offered on Wednesday evenings from 6-9pm PST starting January 20 and ending March 10. Workshop B will be offered Thursday mornings from 10am-1pm PST starting January 21 and ending March 11. Please see the calendar for full dates. \n\nWeek 1: From First Draft to Finished – How to approach revision\, editing\, and the creative flow.\nWeek 2: Lines Lines Lines (& Stanzas) – Line breaks\, line lengths\, units of meaning on the page.\nWeek 3: Exploding the Image – Sinking deeper into metaphor & meaning.\nWeek 4: Word Choice & Diction – Words are pretty important to poems.\nWeek 5: Repetition & Patterns – Let’s investigate how refrains can change the game.\nWeek 6: Sound & Rhythm – Poems are music! Can you make them siiiing?\nWeek 7: Titles & Endings – Let’s not overlook these important bookends!\nWeek 8: Final Workshop – Recap and Review\n\nWorkshop Structure:\nWe’ll spend some time in the first meeting talking about what revision is\, how to do it\, and what our blocks/goals are. You’ll be invited to bring a working poem in to share with the group to introduce your work and receive productive feedback. Then\, at the end of the first class\, you’ll receive the prompt for the week to try out some revision techniques for that poem. When you return next week\, bring both the earlier draft and the revised version to share! \nBecause the focus is on revising our work\, each week you will be given the opportunity to revise a piece\, and then share both versions. The purpose of this is to get feedback from the group about how the poem has evolved to reinforce what you are learning. If the poem feels “done\,” great! If not\, we celebrate a step in its development. \nBONUS: For anyone writing toward a manuscript right now\, this class provides a great opportunity to revise your 8 poems toward a specific theme\, topic\, narrative or question\, if you choose to\, with a bonus prompt for guidance. \nCritique Style as Witness:\nIn this style of workshop\, we practice “witness” as our mode of giving comments on each other’s work rather than “criticism.” This means that we speak from our personal viewpoint (own your “I”)\, make observations rather than criticisms (what we notice rather than what’s “wrong”)\, ask productive questions\, and give all feedback with the intent of helping the writer learn more about their own process of writing that poem. \nWriting poetry is an act of discovery\, and it is a privilege to be able to take part in each other’s discovery process. In this way\, we cultivate an atmosphere of trust\, respect and integrity. We never tell another writer the “correct answer” to their poem; rather\, we act as believing mirrors for each other’s work and help each other recognize nuggets of beauty to be explored. \nMotivating Philosophy:\nStructure allows room for experimentation. Add elements of craft to your unique aesthetic\, stir\, and see what happens. Taking our work seriously doesn’t mean taking ourselves too seriously! Invite surprise onto the page. Have fun! Poetry is discovery. What else is there to do but create? \nLimit 6 per group
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SUMMARY:Jen Sincero - Badass Habits (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Jen Sincero gets to the core of transformation: habits—breaking\, making\, understanding\, and sticking with them like you’ve never stuck before. \nBadass Habits is a eureka-sparking\, easy-to-digest look at how our habits make us who we are\, from the measly moments that happen in private to the resolutions we loudly broadcast (and\, erm\, often don’t keep) on social media. Habit busting and building goes way beyond becoming a dedicated flosser or never showing up late again—our habits reveal our unmet desires\, the gaps in our boundaries\, our level of self-awareness\, and our unconscious beliefs and fears. Badass Habits features Jen’s trademark hilarious voice and offers a much-needed fresh take on the conventional wisdom and science that shape the optimism (or pessimism?) around the age-old topic of habits. The book includes enlightening interviews with people who’ve successfully strengthened their discipline backbones\, new perspective on how to train our brains to become our best selves\, and offers a simple\, 21 day\, step-by-step guide for ditching habits that don’t serve us and developing the habits we deem most important. Habits shouldn’t be impossible to reset—and with healthy boundaries\, knowledge of—and permission to go after—our desires\, and an easy to implement plan of action\, we can make any new goal a joyful habit. \nJen Sincero is a bestselling author\, success coach\, and motivational speaker who spent more than a decade traveling the world helping people transform their lives and their bank accounts via her public appearances\, coaching products\, and books\, including the #1 New York Times bestseller You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jen-sincero-badass-habits-virtual-event/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Ed Lin Discusses new book\, ‘David Tung Can't Have A Girlfriend Until He Gets Into An Ivy League College
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Eastwind Book Club. Live discussion with author Ed Lin.\nAbout the book: David Tung is a Chinese American high-school student in an upscale\, Asian-majority\, New Jersey suburb who works every day at his family’s restaurant. He strategizes every homeroom about how to improve his class rank so he can get into an Ivy League college. His only release? Hanging with his “real” friends once a week at Chinese school in NYC’s working-class Chinatown. \nEd Lin’s YA-novel debut takes on coming-of-age in the Asian diaspora with a heartwarming and humorous exploration of race\, class\, young love\, and the contradictory expectations of immigrant parents. \nLin is of Taiwanese and Chinese descent. He is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards and is an all-around standup kinda guy.His books include Waylaid\, and a mystery trilogy set in New York’s Chinatown in the ‘70s: This Is a Bust\, Snakes Can’t Run and One Red Bastard. Ghost Month\, published by Soho Crime\, is a Taipei-based mystery\, and Incensed and 99 Ways to Die continue that series. David Tung Can’t Have a Girlfriend Until He Gets Into an Ivy League College\, his first YA novel\, is published by Kaya Press in October 2020.Lin lives in Brooklyn with his wife\, actress Cindy Cheung\, and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/author-ed-lin-discusses-new-book-david-tung-cant-have-a-girlfriend-until-he-gets-into-an-ivy-league-college/
LOCATION:CA
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eastwind Books":MAILTO:eastwindbooks@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:At The Door - The Preface (inaugural event)
DESCRIPTION:At The Door is a monthly reading series featuring and uplifting Black\, Indigenous\, and people of color voices. Started in collaboration by Danielle\, Ariel\, Randy\, and Kevin – check us out checkitatd.org\n\nJoin us for our inaugural reading event: “Preface”\nFeatured Readers:\nPreeti Vangani\nHernan de la Cruz Ramos\nGeorgina Marie\nJulayne Lee\nJames Cagney\n\nPreeti Vangani is an Indian poet & essayist. She is the author of Mother Tongue Apologize (RLFPA Editions)\, her first book of poems ( winner of RL India Poetry Prize.)\nHer work has been published in BOAAT\, Gulf Coast\, Threepenny Review among other journals. She is the Poetry Editor for Glass\, a Poet Mentor at Youth Speaks and holds an MFA (Writing) from University of San Francisco.\n\nHernan De La Cruz Ramos is a poet from northern NJ and he currently resides in Oakland\, CA. He has been published in The Night Heron Barks and can be found on social media @penpalsocks\n\nGeorgina Marie is a poet from Lakeport\, Northern California. She is the current Lake County Poet Laureate for 2020-2022\, the first Mexican-American and youngest to serve in this role for Lake County\, and is the new Literary and Poetry Out Loud Coordinator for the Lake County Arts Council. She has served as co-editor for the Middletown Art Center’s RESILIENCE and RESTORE collections of written word and visual arts\, and is an assistant poetry editor for Rivet Journal\, an online literary journal from Red Bridge Press. In 2020 she was an Anne G. Locasio scholar for the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference’s Poetry Workshop. As part of the Broken Nose Collective\, an annual chapbook exchange\, she created her first poetry chapbook Finding the Roots of Water (2018) and her second chapbook Tree Speak (2019). She is currently working on her full-length poetry manuscript and a series of personal essays.\n\nJulayne Lee is a poet\, essayist\, artivist\, art curator and producer. Her debut collection of poems Not My White Savior was on Bitch Media’s Bitchreads: 15 Books Feminists Should Read in March and Entropy’s Best of 2018: Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections. Not My White Savior has been taught globally in Freshman Lit\, Race & Ethnicity\, Asian/Pacific Islander American Women and US and Asia: Empire and Racial Liberalism university courses. A Las Dos BrujasVONA and Rooted & Written alum\, Julayne has read and spoken on adoption at universities and symposiums throughout the U.S. & Korea. You can follow her on social media @julayneelle www.julaynelee.com\n\nOakland native James Cagney is the author of Black Steel Magnolias In\nThe Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the PEN Oakland 2019 Josephine\nMiles award. His poems have appeared in Alta\, Poetry Daily\, Colossus:\nHome\, The Maynard\, and Civil Liberties United\, among others. Visit\nNomadicpress.org for his book\, and more writing at TheDirtyRat.blog\n\nZoom Invite:\n\nHi there\,\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting.\nWhen: Jan 23\, 2021 06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)\nRegister in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://smashprogram-org.zoom.us/…/tJMuduqhrTwrG9WmfngP…\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/at-the-door-the-preface-inaugural-event/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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