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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.
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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:Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow on Instagram IGTV
DESCRIPTION:reading Your Name is a Song.  \n“This lovely celebration of African American culture\, featuring a Muslim family\, offers a fresh way to look at the tradition of creating new names…delightful.”–Kirkus Reviews\, starred review \nJoin us on Instagram IGTV. Follow along @MRSDALLOWAYS. Videos disappear after 24 hours so be sure to watch! \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, February 27\, 2021 – 11:00am\n\n\n\n\n\nFrustrated by a day full of teachers and classmates mispronouncing her beautiful name\, a little girl tells her mother she never wants to come back to school. In response\, the girl’s mother teaches her about the musicality of African\, Asian\, Black-American\, Latinx\, and Middle Eastern names on their lyrical walk home through the city. Empowered by this newfound understanding\, the young girl is ready to return the next day to share her knowledge with her class. Your Name is a Song is a celebration to remind all of us about the beauty\, history\, and magic behind names. \nYour Name is a Song includes back matter perfect for parents\, educators\, caregivers\, and young readers who want to learn more about the names featured in the story. The “Glossary of Names” lists each name’s meaning\, origin\, and pronunciation. Additionally\, readers can use a listed link to access an online video of the author pronouncing all the names in the book. \nJamilah Thompkins-Bigelow is an educator and writer who centers Black and Muslim children in her work. She is also the author of Mommy’s Khimar. She provides free and fun community writing programs for local youth in Philadelphia where she lives with her family.
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SUMMARY:Eastwind Book Club: The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind Book Club this February as we read Gina Apostol’s novel\, The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. \nAbout this Event\nEastwind Book Club is a community of readers connected by Asian and Asian American literature. Members gather once a month through a virtual meeting to discuss the month’s book selection. February’s book club pick is The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata by Gina Apostol. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday\, February 27 at 2pm PST. Register to receive the meeting link. \nBook Club members can use coupon code EWBOOKCLUB21 for a 10% discount. \nCopies of The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata are available for order at www.asiabookcenter.com. Choose to ship your orders to your home or select in-store pick up at Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, 2066 University Ave.\, Berkeley\, CA 94704. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook* group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nSAVE THE DATE:\nConversation with author Gina Apostol\nSaturday\, March 20 at 1pm PST \nABOUT THE BOOK\nGina Apostol’s riotous second novel takes the form of a memoir by one Raymundo Mata\, a half-blind bookworm and revolutionary\, tracing his childhood\, his education in Manila\, his love affairs\, and his discovery of writer and fellow revolutionary\, Jose Rizal. Mata’s 19th-century story is complicated by present-day foreword(s)\, afterword(s)\, and footnotes from three fiercely quarrelsome and comic voices: a nationalist editor\, a neo-Freudian psychoanalyst critic\, and a translator\, Mimi C. Magsalin. \nIn telling the contested and fragmentary story of Mata\, Apostol finds new ways to depict the violence of the Spanish colonial era\, and to reimagine the nation’s great writer\, Jose Rizal\, who was executed by the Spanish for his revolutionary activities\, and is considered by many to be the father of Philippine independence. \nThe Revolution According to Raymundo Mata offers an intoxicating blend of fact and fiction\, uncovering lost histories while building dazzling\, anarchic modes of narrative. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nGina Apostol is the PEN Open Book Award-winning author of Gun Dealers’ Daughter\, as well as a two-time winner of the National Book Award in the Philippines for her novelsBibliolepsy and The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and journals including The Gettysburg Review and the Penguin anthology of Asian American fiction\, Charlie Chan Is Dead\, Volume 2. \nEastwind Book Club is co-sponsored by OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD) and AsAmNews (www.asamnews.com).
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SUMMARY:Drop Leaf Press (Virtually) Presents: Diana Fisher & Asako Shimazaki’s ALL OF IT\, TINGED
DESCRIPTION:Drop Leaf Press invites you to celebrate the release of ALL OF IT\, TINGED\, a curated juxtaposition of the photography of Asako Shimazaki and the writing of Diana Fisher. Shimazaki’s quietly charged images from her solo wanderings across Northern Japan reflect and inflect Fisher’s diligent poetic narrative about a novitiate and her convent absorbing the results of a catastrophic national election. This event will also feature Jennifer S. Cheng and friends. \nFollowing the reading\, we invite you to join us for a forty-five minute Post-Inauguration Talking Circle. In the vein of ALL OF IT\, TINGED\, this will be a facilitated safe space for anyone who wants to share how they are processing the impact of the new presidency. All feelings welcome! <3 \nREGISTER FOR FREE AT:\nhttps://tinyurl.com/y3ueju22\nAfter registering\, you’ll receive a confirmation email with info about joining the event.
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SUMMARY:Sesshu Foster with Arturo Ernesto Romo
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the book launch of \nELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines \npublished by City Lights Books \n———- \nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights 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 book. \n———– \nA breathtaking free fall into the long-buried (and fictional) history of a utopian era in American lighter-than-air travel\, as told by its death-defying\, aero-acrobatic heroes. \n“Foster and Romo’s ‘real fake dream’ of the future-past history of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is a superb and loving phantasmagoria that gobbles up real histories for breakfast and spits out the seeds. It has everything you could wish for\, academic satire\, crazy sculpture in the desert\, sex\, violence\, falafel\, graffiti\, and zeppelin chase scenes.” – Jonathan Lethem\, author of Motherless Brooklyn \nIn the early years of the twentieth-century\, the use of airships known as dirigibles—some as large as one thousand feet long—was being promulgated in Southern California by a semi-clandestine lighter-than-air movement. Groups like the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club were hard at work to revolutionize travel\, with an aim to literally lift oppressed people out of racism and poverty. \nELADATL tells the story of this little-known period of American air travel in a series of overlapping narratives told by key figures\, accompanied by a number of historic photographs and recently discovered artifacts\, with appendices provided to fill in the missing links. The story of the rise and fall of this ill-fated airship movement investigates its long-buried history\, replete with heroes\, villains\, and moments of astonishing derring-do and terrifying disaster. \nWritten and presented as an “actual history of a fictional company\,” this surrealist\, experimental novel is a tour de force of politicized fantastic fiction\, a work of hybrid art-making distilled into a truly original literary form. Developed over a ten-year period of collaborations\, community interventions\, and staged performances\, ELADATL is a hilarious send-up of academic histories\, mainstream narratives\, and any traditional notions of the time-space continuum. \n\nSesshu Foster taught composition and literature in East L.A. for over 20 years\, and at the University of Iowa\, the California Institute for the Arts\, and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work is published in The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry\, Language for a New Century: Poetry from the Middle East\, Asia and Beyond\, and State of the Union: 50 Political Poems. His most recent books are City of the Future\, poetry; World Ball Notebook\, poetry; and Atomik Aztex\, a novel. \nA celebrated writer\, his literary awards are numerous: Sesshu was awarded the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry for World Ball Notebook; the Believer Book Award for Atomik Aztex; an American Book Award for Invocation LA: Urban Multicultural Poetry; and finalist for the PEN Center West Poetry Prize\, as well as the Paterson Poetry Prize\, for City Terrace Field Manual.  Sesshu is based in Alhambra\, CA. \n\natomikaztex.wordpress.com\nArturo Ernesto Romo was born in Los Angeles\, California in 1980. His artwork\, mostly collaborative mixed media works but also drawing\, has been circulated internationally. Fluency\, agency and folly are central themes in his practice; he sees his artwork as a companion multiplier\, folding folds\, netting nets. His art-making is pushed through explorations on the streets of East and North East Los Angeles\, which feed into an ongoing series of collaborations with writer Sesshu Foster. He is based in Alhambra\, CA. \nPraise for ELADATL \n“ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is one of the wildest\, most creative and deeply-cutting novels I’ve read in years\, a genuine piece of newness in both content and form. Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo have managed\, from the mind-bending perch of alternate time and space\, to construct a perfect lookout from which to view the deranged spectacle of late-capitalism America. To wade through this surreal narrative archeology—composed of everything from oral histories to inspirational posters to lunch menus—is to experience\, in the finest sense\, literature as fever dream.”—Omar El Akkad\, author of American War: A Novel \n“Visionary\, hilarious\, anarchic\, this assemblage of breakneck dialog\, blisteringly brilliant film criticism\, bureaucratic documents\, revolutionary chatter\, mass transit\, and fake dreams of the secret police\, is the counterfactual novel to beat all counterfactual novels . . . Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo float high above the the landlubbing bulk of American fiction.”—Mark Doten\, author of Trump Sky Alpha \n“Forget the zombie apocalypse\, forget priapic gun-crazy Hollywood dystopias—all these troubled times require is an economy ticket on the East L.A. Dirigible Air Transport Lines. Enter the isotherm with Foster and Romo and cruise high over the trashed and blasted landscapes of imperial decay. ELADATL is more than a novel—it’s the secret history of the secret history\, the map they always kept hidden\, a dream inside a dream of a dream. Hilarious and prophetic and profound\, truer than truth\, and realer than all realities currently available for purchase\, ELADATL is strong medicine against the erasures of history\, a mega-vitamin for struggles yet to come. This book combats despair.”—Ben Ehrenreich\, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \n“Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo’s ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is a portfolio in prose and pictures that’s 100% made up but that I nonetheless believe to be 100% true. It reads like a cross between Yamashita’s I Hotel and Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49\, although saying so does ELADATL a disservice—it stands proudly on its own\, a smile on its face and middle finger raised. If I don’t see a young bookseller sporting an ELADATL tattoo within the next couple years\, I’ll be shocked.”—James Crossley\, Madison Books\, Seattle\, WA \n“Hold this infra-surreal\, no-surreal\, under-realm account (in gyroscopic fashion and thru various sightings re-dacted and questionable dialogues\, voice pepperings) of our fast approaching Kaliyuga. Multiple reincarnated figures appear (Lee Harvey Oswald\, Tina Lerma\, and Elmer Fudd\, CIA Agent). Not to mention truish photos of things. Live things! Be mindful of the encyclopedic plethoras aimed at your pineal glands. Woe are those that are not privy to the East LA Dirigible Air Transport Lines (buzzing over you at this very critical moment in our wild lives)—here is the evidence in your febrile hands. Power\, Culture\, Text\, Bhaktin\, are in a clash Hip-Hop—in a Marvin Gaye ‘What’s going on?’ As stated in these investigations: ‘The Poet of the Universe will stand on her or his balcony as night falls and consider her or his options.’ Mind-crushing consciousness blasting artefactos of our dissolving propellers. Viva Sesshu Foster! I bow to you!”—Juan Felipe Herrera\, Poet Laureate of the USA\, 2015-2017 \n“Plunge upward into ELADATL’s phantasmagoric skies\, where Los Angeles outsiders fly pirate dirigibles to legendary cities built of trash. This hip\, avant\, alternate history wriggles into and out of all ordinariness\, transforming oppression into adventure and you\, oh fortunate reader\, into a witness of the glorious exploits of Swirling Alhambra and his rebel cohort. Get ready to leave the status quo behind and soar beyond the probable to the possible\, your brain buoyed by this book’s heady mix of fear and joy and outraged delight.”—Nisi Shawl\, author of Everfair: A Novel \n“Sesshu Foster’s second novel ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines is not some preciously honed theoretical tale scripted as an abstracted warriors’ syllabus\, but instead\, it gives a powerful account of a curious quotidian revolt that accompanied the East LA Balloon Club and the Bessie Coleman Aero Club rife with the contradiction that singed their arcane thriving. This novel not only explores the actual quest for physical elevation\, but\, more significantly\, with the complication of inner elevation\, attempting to rise above a circumstance studded with racism and looming financial debacle. Mr. Foster’s novel magically inscribes the trenchant character of an opaque and transitional zeitgeist.”—Will Alexander\, author of Kaleidoscope Omniscience \n“Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo co-pilot the ELADATL phantasmagoric journey across historic/imagined skies with magnificent views of a post-industrial East Los Angeles wasteland that is dotted with cinematic/cultural phantoms: Raquel Welch\, Oscar Zeta Acosta\, Anthony Quinn\, and Brown Berets who invoke the mantra\, ‘Don’t believe the fake dreams of the secret police.’ Human skin\, dirigible skin\, chorizo skins\, are simultaneously celebrated as art while being attacked by Zeppelin gunships. ELADATL lifts the reader into a free intellectual airspace where airships of new thinking reign.”—Harry Gamboa Jr.\, author of Urban Exile: Collected Writings of Harry Gamboa Jr. \n“‘The strange future of war over Los Angeles\, zeppelins versus dirigibles . . . ‘ Sesshu Foster and Arturo Ernesto Romo capture the uncapturable. ‘Experience levitation and death\,’ ‘attune your cellular vibrations to the frequency of Star Beings\,’ ‘the merciless winds of the human heart\,’ ‘the Atmospheric Trash Vortex.’ Who is the I here? ‘The welcoming hosts at the front door\, you want to look inside?’ The nightmare does not erase the comedy. ‘The CIA behind the million faces\, hair and fingernails still growing.’ ‘Sign your sorrow over . . . they’re taking everything; let’s give it to them\, the sober whisky of Love.’ Unforgetable read. ‘Isn’t someone in charge?'”—Sharon Doubiago\, author of My Beard: Memoir Stories \n“A fierce\, bittersweet\, and hilarious antidote to our increasingly deracinated personhoods and neighborhoods\, ELADATL: A History of the East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines inspires us to hold our ground in a here and now that includes futures and pasts we both know and can barely imagine. Set against the absence of Hollywood—that perfect hierarchical structure that occludes most of the actual labor that goes into making the finished product—Sesshu Foster and Arturo Romo take us through the hood and under the hood while celebrating and mourning the intimacy of social life in all its vicissitudes. Along the way\, our fearless guides introduce us to the living politics of a particular place whose accumulated experience reverberates throughout the cosmos.”—Ammiel Alcalay\, Founder and General Editor of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sesshu-foster-with-arturo-ernesto-romo/
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