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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:Using Invented and Foreign Languages as Tools for World Building: A Fiction Workshop with Rita Bullwinkel
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic Fiction Workshop facilitated by author\, Rita Bullwinkel. This workshop will be held every Saturday 10 AM – 12 PM from Mar 6 – Apr 10.\n\nCLA WRITERS WORKSHOPS are open to individuals of all backgrounds–including those who are exploring creative writing for the first time–as well as aspiring writers who want to prepare their work for publication. Workshops are modeled on graduate-level creative writing courses\, and may include short in-class writing assignments to jumpstart the writing process\, as well as work outside of class that will entail reading the work of select published writers\, critiquing the work of other workshop participants\, and writing a piece to be workshopped by the class. Each participant will receive written comments from the instructor. Workshops are led by accomplished local authors\, including students and alumni of the San Jose State University Creative Writing Program.\nTuition $250 // Eventbrite\n\nCOURSE DESCRIPTION:\nOne of the big things that makes us\, as readers of fiction\, read on into a book is mystery and\, very often\, that mystery comes in the form of a word or idea we don’t yet understand. As a writer\, one way to rope your readers in is to deliberately use words that you know your audience might not understand\, and then\, through context\, teach your readers the meaning of those words. This is a tool used frequently in fantasy as well as literary writing. In this workshop we will explore several examples of this invaluable literary tool and learn how we can best deploy this strategy in our own fiction.\nRita Bullwinkel is the author of the story collection Belly Up\, which won the 2018 Believer Book Award. Bullwinkel’s writing has been published in Tin House\, The White Review\, Conjunctions\, BOMB\, Vice\, NOON\, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony\, Brown University\, Vanderbilt University\, Hawthornden Castle\, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large for McSweeney’s and a Contributing Editor for NOON. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/using-invented-and-foreign-languages-as-tools-for-world-building-a-fiction-workshop-with-rita-bullwinkel/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:James Canton Discusses his new book\, The Oak Papers
DESCRIPTION:James Canton joins us from the UK to discuss his book\, The Oak Papers (HarperOne). \n“A profound meditation on the human need for connection with nature\, as one man seeks solace beneath the bows of an ancient oak tree.”—Peter Wohlleben\, author of The Hidden Life of Trees \nThis event will be streamed on Crowdcast. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout The Oak Papers\nJoining the ranks of The Hidden Life of Trees and H is for Hawk\, an evocative memoir and ode to one of the most majestic living things on earth—the oak tree—probing the mysteries of nature and the healing role it plays in our lives. \nThrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship\, Professor James Canton spent two years meditating [PA1]beneath the welcoming shelter of the massive 800-year-old Honywood Oak tree in North Essex\, England. While considering the direction of his own life\, he began to contemplate the existence of this colossus tree. Standing in England for centuries\, the oak would have been a sapling when the Magna Carta was signed in 1215. \nIn this beautiful\, transportive book\, Canton tells the story of this tree in its ecological\, spiritual\, literary\, and historical contexts\, using it as a prism to see his own life and human history. The Oak Papers is a reflection on change and transformation\, and the role nature has played in sustaining and redeeming us. \nCanton examines our long-standing dependency on the oak\, and how that has developed and morphed into myth and legend. We no longer need these sturdy trees to build our houses and boats\, to fuel our fires\, or to grind their acorns into flour in times of famine. What purpose\, then\, do they serve in our world today? Are these miracles of nature no longer necessary to our lives? What can they offer us? \nTaking inspiration from the literary world—Henry David Thoreau\, Leo Tolstoy\, Katherine Basford’s Green Man\, Thomas Hardy\, William Shakespeare\, and others—Canton ponders the wondrous magic of nature and the threats its faces\, from human development to climate change\, implores us to act as responsible stewards to conserve what is precious\, and reminds us of the lessons we can learn from the world around us\, if only we slow down enough to listen. \nAbout James Canton\nDr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape\, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS\, Caught by the River\, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex\, England.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-canton-discusses-his-new-book-the-oak-papers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:MFA Reading Series: Shapes of Native Nonfiction - Deborah Miranda\, Theresa Warburton\, Elissa Washuta
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Miranda is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013)\, recipient of the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award\, a Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Association\, and short-listed for the William Saroyan Literary Award; and four poetry collections: Altar for Broken Things (2020)\, Raised by Humans (2015)\, The Zen of La Llorona (2005)\, and Indian Cartography (1999). She is co-editor of Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature\, and her work has appeared in When the Light of the World was Subdued\, Our Songs Came Through: An Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (2020). She is the Thomas H. Broadus\, Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University\, where she teaches literature of the margins and creative writing. She is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. \nTheresa Warburton is the author of Other Worlds Here: Honoring Native Women’s Literatures in Contemporary Anarchist Movements (forthcoming\, Northwestern University Press). With Elissa Washuta\, she is co-editor of Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University where she is also affiliate faculty in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies and Canadian-American Studies. She lives on Lummi\, Nooksack\, and Coast Salish Territories in Bellingham\, WA. \nElissa Washuta is the author of the nonfiction collections My Body Is a Book of Rules (2014)\, Starvation Mode (2018)\, and White Magic (forthcoming\, Tin House Books). With Theresa Warburton\, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient\, a Creative Capital awardee\, and an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University. She is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mfa-reading-series-shapes-of-native-nonfiction-deborah-miranda-theresa-warburton-elissa-washuta/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Irvin D. Yalom with Lori Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:This event is online.\nHow can we understand life\, joy and love during the moment when they culminate in death and grief? \nInternationally acclaimed psychiatrist and author Irvin D. Yalom devoted his career to counseling those suffering from loss and anxiety. But never had he faced the need to counsel himself until his wife and lifelong partner\, the late esteemed historian and feminist author Marilyn D. Yalom\, was diagnosed with cancer. Together\, they chose to write about their shared experience during her final months\, creating an unparalleled gift that Kirkus calls “A profound love story with lessons for how to live and how to die.” \n\n\n\n\nTheir memoir A Matter of Death and Life provides insight into grief from a remarkable couple who spent a life of close devotion from their teenage years onward. It catalogues the most intimate and daunting challenges two loved ones can undergo while trying to care for one another: Marilyn\, to die a good death\, and Irv to live on without her. During a year wracked with complex grief\, their shared story is a beautiful work of writing that offers much needed guidance. \nThrough alternating stories of their last months together and Irv’s first months alone\, A Matter of Death and Life rings with a depth of support\, solace\, and meaning around the process of grief… and also offers a warm\, resonant tribute to life well-lived. \nIn an interview with Lori Gottlieb\, Dr. Irvin Yalom visits with Kepler’s Literary Foundation online on March 8th to share A Matter of Death and Life. These two warm\, witty writers will discuss what is a grippingly poignant account of not only grief\, but the experience of love that gives it meaning. \n  \nIRVIN D. YALOM\, emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University\, is the author of internationally bestselling books including Love’s Executioner\, The Gift of Therapy\, Becoming Myself\, and When Nietzsche Wept. His impact in the field of psychiatry is profound\, with one training text alone over 700\,000 copies sold; but it is his lifelong passion for literature and fiction\, paired with the deep human understanding of his psychiatric work\, that makes Yalom’s writing distinctly beloved at Kepler’s. \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLORI GOTTLIEB is psychotherapist and author of the bestselling Kepler’s Favorite Maybe You Should Talk to Someone\, now being adapted for television. In addition to clinical practice\, she writes The Atlantic’s weekly “Dear Therapist” column and is the co-host of the eponymous iHeart Radio podcast produced by Katie Couric. A member of the Advisory Council for Bring Change and one of the most-watched TED presenters of 2020\, Lori’s expertise has made her a sought-after guest on media like The Today Show\, Good Morning America\, CBS This Morning\, CNN\, and NPR’s Fresh Air. \nMARILYN YALOM (1932-2019) wrote many celebrated cultural histories and feminist works\, including Blood Sisters\, History of the Wife\, The Birth of the Chess Queen and (together with her son) The American Resting Place. This year marks the release of her posthumously published Innocent Witness: Childhood Memories of World War II. A professor of French at Stanford University and senior scholar at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research\, she received her PhD in comparative literature from Johns Hopkins and had a profound impact through both her academic contributions and teaching. Marilyn and Irv were married for sixty-five years. \n\n** Please consider joining with a book purchase or donation to support Kepler’s Literary Foundation programs. **
URL:https://litseen.com/event/irvin-d-yalom-with-lori-gottlieb/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Reuben Jonathan Miller in conversation with Terah Lawyer\nCo-presented with Impact Justice \nMonday\, March 8\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nKQED Broadcast: 03/21/2021\, 03/23/2021\, 03/24/2021\nTICKETS \n  \n\n\nThis event is a presented in partnership with Impact Justice \nReuben Jonathan Miller is a sociologist\, criminologist and a social worker who teaches at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration where he studies and writes about race\, democracy\, and the social life of the city. His book\, Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\, shows that the American justice system was not created to rehabilitate\, and how parole is structured to keep classes of Americans impoverished\, unstable\, and disenfranchised long after they’ve paid their debt to society. Miller has been a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey\, a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation\, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin and Dartmouth College. A native son of Chicago\, he lives with his wife and children on the city’s Southside. \nTerah Lawyer has been an advocate for incarcerated people for more than a decade as a peer health educator\, a certified drug and alcohol counselor\, a youth diversion specialist\, and now as program manager for the Homecoming Project\, an innovative re-entry housing program at Impact Justice. Ms. Lawyer is herself a formerly incarcerated person\, and that experience informs her commitment to improving the justice system. \nImpact Justice is a national innovation and research center advancing new ideas and solutions for justice reform. Impact Justice was founded in 2015 on an idea: to create an organization that would imagine\, innovate\, and accept absolutely nothing about the status quo of our current justice system. We know the problems: too many people locked up\, including far too many people of color; families broken up and broken by our justice system; and a culture that too often treats people based on fear\, oppression\, and bias. For us to build the future we need\, we must build the world we want today. Info at https://impactjustice.org/ \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/reuben-jonathan-miller-in-conversation-with-terah-lawyer/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:CLA Presents: Laila Lalami
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book\, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen\, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights\, liberties\, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history\, politics\, and literature\, she elucidates how accidents of birth—such as national origin\, race\, and gender—that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today.\n\nLalami poignantly illustrates how white supremacy survives through adaptation and legislation\, with the result that a caste system is maintained that keeps the modern equivalent of white male landowners at the top of the social hierarchy. Conditional citizens\, she argues\, are all the people with whom America embraces with one arm and pushes away with the other.\n\nBrilliantly argued and deeply personal\, Conditional Citizens weaves together Lalami’s own experiences with explorations of the place of nonwhites in the broader American culture.\nLaila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco\, Great Britain\, and the United States. She the author of four novels\, including ‘The Moor’s Account’\, which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize\, and ‘The Other Americans’\, which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation\, Harper’s\, the Washington Post\, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/cla-presents-laila-lalami/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Public Library Presents: Know Your Name with Tahtahme Xero\, Poet and Healer
DESCRIPTION:Tahtahme Xero will talk about her book Apricity (Nomadic Press\, 2020)\, and discuss her work as a healer\, poet and author. \nApricity follows the journey of a teenage transracial adoptee as she navigates addressing years of sexual abuse from her adoptive father\, her family’s recovery and falling in love for the first time. \nXero says this of Apricity\, “I hope the book I needed is a book found by people who need it as well. I hope you will pass it on to whoever else needs it. I hope it inspires you even just a little and in this way we can try to support each other\, heal\, teach the true tragedy of childhood sexual abuse and help stop it from continuing.” \nTahtahme Xero is a Sacred Woman\, Womb Worker and Rootworker. She and her husband have been together for over 13 years\, and have twin toddlers together. They all live in the Bay Area.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/san-francisco-public-library-presents-know-your-name-with-tahtahme-xero-poet-and-healer/
LOCATION:online
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