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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.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-class-wendy-walsh-continuing-the-journey-with-dantes-purgatorio-via-zoom/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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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
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Free,Virtual
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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:Adam O. Davis & Emma Hine - Index of Haunted Houses & Stay Safe
DESCRIPTION:Join Book Passage in welcoming Adam O. Davis (author of Index of Haunted Houses) and Emma Hine (author of Stay Safe) for a reading and discussion celebrating their debut poetry collections\, both of which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and were recently published by Sarabande Books. \n \nIndex of Haunted Houses is a book of ghost stories\, and for the most part\, ghosts are jealous monsters\, intent upon our destruction. They never appear overtly here\, yet we gradually become aware of the spirits in haunted houses in the way they tread over creaky floors\, slam doors\, and issue sudden gusts of wind. These poems are Koan-like—the fewer the words\, the more charged they are. The engine driving the sense of haunting and loss is money\, which Davis describes as “federal bone” boiling around us. Bison in Nebraska are reduced to bones\, “seven/standing men/tall” fodder for the fertilizer used by farmers in the 1800s. There is\, too\, an equality to the hauntings—every instance has its moment\, and persists\, despite being in the past\, present\, or future. Index of Haunted Houses is spooky and sad—a stunning debut\, one that will surprise\, convince\, and most of all\, delight. \n“From ‘the body of New Jersey’ to ‘the desert/like a house of belief\,’ the poems of Index of Haunted Houses traverse the entirety of time and space that we call American. In this book\, Adam O. Davis means for language as precise as ‘ledgers lavish with loss\,’ to lead us to the place within us where history meets landscape. This is a brilliant debut.”\n—Jericho Brown \n \nAt the center of Emma Hine’s stellar collection are three sisters and their imaginative fear of grief. Their great-uncle was bitten by a shark\, their mother has a brain tumor\, their neighbor hangs himself from a tree—and to cope with these very real terrors\, the oldest sister creates an intimate fantasy world. We hear stories of a mountain lion that slaughters a deer\, a transparent body washed up on a beach\, a selkie who ventures to shore and becomes their mother: “On land her pelt was heavy / like stewed velvet\, so she taught herself / to take it off.” The sisters’ environment of ocean and sand\, forests and farmhouses\, forms a lush backdrop to many of these poems. But later\, as the speaker ages\, we find ourselves in the mountains\, in an art museum\, in a spacecraft where a recorded voice “has the soft accent of someone only a generation or two removed from Earth.” The voice in these poems is the perfect mix of grief and imagination\, quiet and explosion. Stay Safe is delicate and extraordinary\, a powerful debut. \n“Simply said: this is the renewable energy we’ve been waiting for. So attuned are these poems to their introspective nature and terrors of the self\, their wild narratives\, and linguistic spells\, this book begins to feel like its own solar farm: each page\, a panel of skyshine and wonderments.”\n—Major Jackson \n  \nAdam O. Davis is the author of Index of Haunted Houses\, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize\, which was published by Sarabande Books in September 2020. The recipient of the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the Poetry Society of America\, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Believer\, The Best American Poetry 2021\, The Paris Review\, and ZYZZYVA. He lives in San Diego\, California\, where he teaches English literature at The Bishop’s School. \nEmma Hine is the author of Stay Safe\, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was published by Sarabande Books in January. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel\, Gulf Coast\, The Offing\, The Paris Review\, and The Southern Review\, among others\, and she currently works at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/adam-o-davis-emma-hine-index-of-haunted-houses-stay-safe/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:LILY KING
DESCRIPTION:LILY KING\nThursday\, February 18\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\n\nTICKETS \n\n\n“Lily King writes with a great generosity of spirit.” – Ann Patchett \nLily King is the award-winning author of five novels. Her 2014 novel\, Euphoria\, received with widespread critical acclaim\, was inspired by the life of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead. King now returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman. Written with her trademark humor\, heart\, and intelligence\, Writers & Lovers explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another. \n  \nPhoto credit: Winky Lewis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lily-king/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:This is Now: David Bradford and Carole Robin
DESCRIPTION:This event is online. \nIn the history of humankind\, connecting to others and building strong relationships has never been more complicated. \nThat was true even before a pandemic and global change shifted social rules as never before. In recent decades a complex digital world\, our busy modern lives\, and competitive professional landscapes left a lot of highly skilled people simply unclear on how to build stronger\, more lasting relationships. Each successive generation reported feeling more disconnected. Enter the famed “Touchy Feely” course at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business\, lead by esteemed professors David Bradford and Carole Robin. Seeing a need\, two professors created a course to help some of the brightest minds in the world build stronger ties. \nFor an exciting\, personal\, instructive This Is Now hour\, Angie Coiro interviews the experts who made history teaching social skills at a competitive and revered institution of higher education. We’re now so excited to hear from Bradford and Robin as they share those insights in Connect\, a guide based on their renowned Interpersonal Dynamics course at Stanford. For thousands of students and leaders\, these two brilliant educators have offered clear guidance on the pursuit of deeper\, more fulfilling relationships with friends\, partners\, colleagues\, and family. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrong relationships are crucial to a fulfilling life. An exceptional relationship—one in which we feel understood and supported for who we are—can seem like magic to each person involved. But how is that bond cultivated? According to Bradford and Robin\, the process of building magic relationships can be very practically described\, learned\, and applied. And they make it fun. \nDon’t miss this dynamic conversation with Drs. David Bradford and Carole Robin for Connect. How are you connecting to your world lately? \n**Get your tickets early\, as webinar space is limited! Bring up to one additional friend on a second screen with our “Bring a Friend” option\, and turn it into a book club event.**
URL:https://litseen.com/event/this-is-now-david-bradford-and-carole-robin/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, February 18th at 6pm PT when Zak Salih discusses his debut novel\, Let’s Get Back to the Party\, with Lydia Kiesling on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593291711\n\nPraise for Let’s Get Back to the Party\n“With an artist’s eye for beauty and an art historian’s for detail\, Zak Salih excavates the lives of his characters and leaves no stone unturned to ask questions about what it means to be a queer individual\, to be a queer community\, to be queer alone and with others. Let’s Get Back to the Party is a book for those of us who simultaneously adore and abhor the pains and ecstasies of social closeness—which is to say it’s a book for us now\, us all.””—Matt Ortile\, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name\n\n“[A] stirring ode to the many faces of queerness. … What unfolds is an intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine: “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021”\n\n“Let’s Get Back to the Party is a gorgeous\, raw\, tender\, trenchant novel about men figuring out how to live. At once gimlet-eyed and generous to his wonderfully drawn characters–fallible\, lovable\, and endlessly real–Salih paints a vivid portrait of the paradoxes of queer life in contemporary America\, his characters navigating love and friendship in communities shaped both by freedom and fear\, and by trauma that is both collective and individual. This is a stellar debut from a huge talent.”—Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State\nAbout Let’s Get Back to the Party\n\nA Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris\nOne of Advocate’s “22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year”\n\nIt is 2015\, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling\, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher\, newly single and desperately lonely\, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame.\n\nWhen he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington\, D.C.\, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five\, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history\, nor in the sense of be­longing Sebastian craves. Instead\, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties\, friends cou­pling off and having babies. For Oscar\, confor­mity isn’t peace\, it’s surrender.\n\nWhile Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world\, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Se­bastian with one of his students\, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again\, both men must reckon not just with one another but with themselves.\n\nProvocative\, moving\, and rich with sharply drawn characters\, Let’s Get Back to the Party in­troduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zak-salih-and-lydia-kiesling-2/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Zak Salih and Lydia Kiesling
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 18 AT 6PM PT WHEN ZAK SALIH DISCUSSES HIS DEBUT NOVEL\, LET’S GET BACK TO THE PARTY\, WITH LYDIA KIESLING ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81593291711\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,81593291711#  or +13462487799\,\,81593291711#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kihUOUm66 \nPraise for Let’s Get Back to the Party \n“With an artist’s eye for beauty and an art historian’s for detail\, Zak Salih excavates the lives of his characters and leaves no stone unturned to ask questions about what it means to be a queer individual\, to be a queer community\, to be queer alone and with others. Let’s Get Back to the Party is a book for those of us who simultaneously adore and abhor the pains and ecstasies of social closeness—which is to say it’s a book for us now\, us all.””—Matt Ortile\, author of The Groom Will Keep His Name \n“[A] stirring ode to the many faces of queerness. … What unfolds is an intimate saga that brims with necessary conversations about cultural identity.”—O\, The Oprah Magazine: “32 LGBTQ Books That Will Change the Literary Landscape in 2021” \n“Let’s Get Back to the Party is a gorgeous\, raw\, tender\, trenchant novel about men figuring out how to live. At once gimlet-eyed and generous to his wonderfully drawn characters–fallible\, lovable\, and endlessly real–Salih paints a vivid portrait of the paradoxes of queer life in contemporary America\, his characters navigating love and friendship in communities shaped both by freedom and fear\, and by trauma that is both collective and individual. This is a stellar debut from a huge talent.”—Lydia Kiesling\, author of The Golden State \nAbout Let’s Get Back to the Party \nA Most-Anticipated Book of 2021: BuzzFeed * The Millions * Cosmopolitan * Electric Literature * LGBTQ Reads * Paperback Paris\nOne of Advocate‘s “22 LGBTQ+ Books You Absolutely Need to Read This Year” \nIt is 2015\, weeks after the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling\, and all Sebastian Mote wants is to settle down. A high school art history teacher\, newly single and desperately lonely\, he envies his queer students their freedom to live openly the youth he lost to fear and shame. \nWhen he runs into his childhood friend Oscar Burnham at a wedding in Washington\, D.C.\, he can’t help but see it as a second chance. Now thirty-five\, the men haven’t seen each other in more than a decade. But Oscar has no interest in their shared history\, nor in the sense of be­longing Sebastian craves. Instead\, he’s outraged by what he sees as the death of gay culture: bars overrun with bachelorette parties\, friends cou­pling off and having babies. For Oscar\, confor­mity isn’t peace\, it’s surrender. \nWhile Oscar and Sebastian struggle to find their place in a rapidly changing world\, each is drawn into a cross-generational friendship that treads the line between envy and obsession: Se­bastian with one of his students\, Oscar with an older icon of the AIDS era. And as they collide again and again\, both men must reckon not just with one another but with themselves. \nProvocative\, moving\, and rich with sharply drawn characters\, Let’s Get Back to the Party in­troduces an exciting and contemporary new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-zak-salih-and-lydia-kiesling/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Daniel Nayeri Discusses Everything Sad Is Untrue (a true story)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 18\, 2021 at 7 PM PST as we welcome author Daniel Nayeri to discuss his new novel\, EVERYTHING SAD IS UNTRUE (a true story). \nThis book is a favorite of GGP’s staff. Donna describes it as “magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once.” \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89898033801 \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/ggpEverythingSadIsUntrue or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/EverythingSadAB. \nStaff Reviews\n\n  \nA true refugee story told in a Scheherazade-like format. It’s the most engrossing book I’ve read this year: it’s magical\, haunting\, uplifting\, funny\, and sad all at once. I love this boy and I loved learning about his Iranian childhood and one-of-a-kind immigrant experience in Oklahoma. A MUST READ! \n— Donna \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: a rich history of a young Iranian refugee making a life in Oklahoma\, his relationship with his parents\, and finding an identity. \n— Amy \n  \n  \nOne of my Top 3 Books of 2020: This beautiful book made me laugh and cry. I listened to the audiobook\, and the narrator’s voice is everything. He uses humor and myths to tell the tale of his Iranian family settling in Oklahoma and though it was written for kids\, it is great for all ages. \n— Sarah \n  \nDescription\n\nAt the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma\, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls “Daniel”) stands\, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned\, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. \nBut Khosrou’s stories\, stretching back years\, and decades\, and centuries\, are beautiful\, and terrifying\, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them\, back to the sad\, cement refugee camps of Italy.and further back to the fields near the river Aras\, where rain-soaked flowers bled red like the yolk of sunset burst over everything\, and further back still to the Jasmine-scented city of Isfahan. \nWe bounce between a school bus of kids armed with paper clip missiles and spitballs to the heroines and heroes of Khosrou’s family’s past\, who ate pastries that made people weep and cry “Akh\, Tamar!” and touched carpets woven with precious gems. \nLike Scheherazade in a hostile classroom\, Daniel weaves a tale to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story). \nIt is Daniel’s. \nAbout the Author\n\nDaniel Nayeri was born in Iran and spent a couple of years as a refugee before immigrating to Oklahoma at age eight with his family. He is the publisher of Odd Dot\, an imprint of Macmillan\, making him one of the youngest publishers in the industry. He has served on the CBC diversity committee and the CBC panel committee.
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