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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
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sharpen-your-pencil-elements-of-a-poem-in-revision/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Virtual
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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:Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poets and scholars\, Nathaniel Mackey and Fred Moten will read from their poetry in the return of the We Are the Voices “Social Listening” series. Their works are profound explorations of the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics and of the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance
URL:https://litseen.com/event/social-listening-4-nathaniel-mackey-fred-moten/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Seismic Salon: Lysley Tenorio\nThu Mar 11th 5:00pm – 6:30pm\nBuy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nLitquake is thrilled to welcome Lysley Tenorio to our Seismic Salon series! Of his recent novel The Son of Good Fortune (paperback due April 13)\, Refinery 29 writes: “Tenorio’s brilliant\, witty novel about the love of a mother and son\, the immigrant experience in America\, and the surreality of our current reality\, is bold\, ambitious\, and unforgettable.” He is also author of the story collection Monstress\, which was named a book of the year by the San Francisco Chronicle and adapted for the stage by The American Conservatory Theater. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship\, a Whiting Award\, a Stegner fellowship\, the Edmund White Award\, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the Bogliasco Foundation. His stories have appeared in The Atlantic\, Zoetrope: All-Story\, and Ploughshares. Born in the Philippines\, he lives in San Francisco\, and is a professor at Saint Mary’s. Prep your favorite cocktail and ask the very entertaining Lysley about how he manages to move between short and long fiction. \nBuy Lysley Tenorio’s books at the Litquake Bookshop. \nSeismic Salons are a series of fundraisers offering conversation time with A-list authors for 10 lucky participants. All proceeds benefit Litquake’s on-going programs.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/seismic-salon-lysley-tenorio/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T193000
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SUMMARY:Elemental: Earth Stories A celebration of the latest installment of the Calico Series from Two Lines Press
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Art of Translation presents Jessica Cohen\, Allison Charette\, and Brian Bergstrom in conversation about the latest installment in the Calico Series\, Elemental: Earth Stories. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Elemental: Earth Stories\nA family’s heirloom stones unearth a story spanning war\, illness\, and radioactivity. A pipeline installed to protect a town from flooding results in a howling that disturbs the town’s inhabitants. A political prisoner embarks on an epic flight toward freedom\, literally blown like a kite in the wind. \nA whirlwind of fantastic new writing from Japan\, Iran\, Norway\, Germany\, Madagascar\, Iraq\, Poland\, and Israel\, this collection of fiction and reportage maps the intimate\, ongoing relationship between human civilization and the natural world. Do we set the limits on our existence? Or is it wind\, water\, fire\, and earth that define–even control–us? Borrowing from eco-literature and mythology\, Elemental unflinchingly takes up the earth. \n“Stone\, earth\, water\, ice\, wind\, and burning heat. The stories here dig deep and unexpectedly into life’s fundamentals—the elements and the passions—bringing into English\, many for the first time\, writers of stature from across the globe. A celebration of both storytelling and translation\, Elemental is essential\, a gift that opens up the pleasures of new worlds.” —Hugh Raffles\, author of The Book of Unconformities \nAbout the Calico Series\nThe Calico Series\, published biannually by Two Lines Press\, captures vanguard works of translated literature in stylish\, collectible editions. Each Calico is a vibrant snapshot that explores one aspect of our present moment\, offering the voices of previously inaccessible\, highly innovative writers from around the world today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elemental-earth-stories-a-celebration-of-the-latest-installment-of-the-calico-series-from-two-lines-press/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents:\nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event\nFloaters \nMARTIN ESPADA\, a poet who stirs our social consciousness\,  has published twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry. \nHis latest book\, Floaters\, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies\, songs of protest and songs of love.  The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers\, rebels\, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria\, Espada invokes ferocious\, incandescent spirits. \nDENNIS BERNSTEIN \, a poet and investigative journalist\, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers\, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath\, to prison\, street life\, poverty\, love and loss\, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness\, vulnerability\, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest\, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry. \nSuggested Donation $1-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada-and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 ken@kpfa.org
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-martin-espada-dennis-bernstein-a-zoom-event-floaters-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Arisa White / Who's Your Daddy\, with Dan Alter\, Michael 'MJ' Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are very pleased to host a virtual event with Arisa White for her new book Who’s Your Daddy. She’ll be joined for a group reading by former students (bottom row\, from R-L) Dan Alter\, Michael ‘MJ’ Jones\, Hernan De La Cruz Ramos & A.A. Vincent. \nFree and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order a copy of Who’s Your Daddy here. We’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay. \nAbout the book\nA lyrical\, genre-bending coming-of-age tale featuring a queer\, Black\, Guyanese American woman who\, while seeking to define her own place in the world\, negotiates an estranged relationship with her father. \n“This beautifully\, honestly conceived genius of a book shook me to the core.” – Dara Wier \n“What she gives us are archives\, allegories\, and wholly new songs.” – Terrance Hayes \n“In these crisply narrative poems\, which unreel like heart-wrenching fragments of film\, Arisa White not only names that gaping chasm between father and daughter\, but graces it with its true and terrible face.” – Patricia Smith \n\nAbout the authors\nArisa White is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of You’re the Most Beautiful Thing That Happened\, A Penny Saved\, and Hurrah’s Nest. Her poetry has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award\, NAACP Image Award\, California Book Award\, and Wheatley Book Award. The chapbook “Fish Walking” & Other Bedtime Stories for My Wife won the inaugural Per Diem Poetry Prize. She’s the co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up\, the second book in the Fighting for Justice series for young readers\, which received the Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal for Middle-Grade Nonfiction and the Maine Literary Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Who’s Your Daddy is her poetic memoir debut from Augury Books. Arisa serves on the board of directors for Foglifter and Nomadic Press and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colby College. Author photo by Nye’ Lyn Tho. \nDan Alter’s poems and reviews have been published in journals including Field\, Fourteen Hills\, Pank\, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles will be out in 2021 from Eyewear Press. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley and makes his living as an IBEW electrician. \nMichal ‘MJ’ Jones is a poet and parent in Oakland\, CA. Their work is featured or forthcoming at Anomaly\, Kissing Dynamite\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, and TriQuarterly Review. They are an assistant poetry editor at Foglifter Press\, and have received fellowships from the Hurston/Wright Foundation\, VONA/Voices\, and Kearny Street Workshop. They are currently an MFA graduate fellow at Mills College. \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 \nA.A. Vincent is a disabled poet and essayist\, and is a product of Chicago’s South Side and its suburbs. Her work has appeared in Santa Clara Review\, SF Weekly\, Quiet Lightning\, and Street Sheet SF. She received her MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-arisa-white-whos-your-daddy-with-dan-alter-michael-mj-jones-hernan-de-la-cruz-ramos-a-a-vincent-2/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers
DESCRIPTION:The Mill Valley Public Library & The Marin Poetry Center invite you to a virtual book launch for Heyday Books’ release of Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers.  \nThe evening will celebrate fifty years of poetry written in and inspired by the High Sierra workshop. Pulitzer Prize winners Forrest Gander\, Robert Hass\, Sharon Olds\, and Greg Pardlo will join Brenda Hillman & other notables to read a poem from this unique collection. The evening of poetry and celebration\, including a musical introduction by Cornelius Eady\, is sure to inspire! \nFor more information about the anthology and how to order a copy\, visit MPC’s Bookshop.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/why-to-these-rocks-50-years-of-poems-from-the-community-of-writers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Joe Ide\, Smoke
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online event with bestselling author and staff favorite Joe Ide\, who will discuss Smoke\, the newest installment in his IQ series. Isaiah Quintabe—an unlicensed detective for all seasons—and his best friend and masterful sidekick\, Juanell Dodson\, are at a crossroads in this latest installment of the “aggressively entertaining” IQ series (New York Times). This time\, their lives may never be the same. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \nIsaiah Quintabe is no longer IQ\, the genius of East Long Beach; instead\, he’s a man on the road and on the run\, hiding in a small Northern California town when his room is broken into by a desperate young man on the trail of the state’s most prolific serial killer. \nHis old partner\, Juanell Dodson\, must go straight or lose his wife and child. His devil’s bargain? An internship at an LA advertising agency\, where it turns out the rules of the street have simply been dressed in business casual\, but where the aging company’s fortunes may well rest on their ability to attract a younger demographic. Dodson—”the hustler’s hustler”—just may be the right man for the job. \nIde is the crime writer’s crime writer\, and he’s filled his best novel yet with desperate souls\, courageous outcasts\, an ex-stripper who’ll do anything to protect her son\, and wild half-brothers who may be the very incarnation of evil. With deft plotting\, lacerating humor\, and a keen eye for the ways in which characters rise or fall based on their ties to one another\, Smoke is Joe Ide’s crowning achievement. \n“Ide has displayed a rare ability to mix dark comedy and gut-churning drama…mixmaster Ide’s compulsion to blend light and dark (Isaiah’s confrontation with the serial killers\, while gruesome\, takes the form of “a slapstick movie shot in a burning insane asylum”) affects the two plots in surprising ways\, again producing an emotion-rich form of character-driven tragicomedy\, but one in which peril forever loiters in the shallows.” —Booklist \nJoe Ide is of Japanese American descent. Growing up in South Central Los Angeles\, Joe’s favorite books were the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes stories. The idea that a person could face the world and vanquish his enemies with just his intelligence fascinated him. Joe went on to earn a graduate degree and had several careers before writing his debut novel\, IQ\, inspired by his early experiences and his love of Sherlock Holmes. Joe lives in Santa Monica\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-joe-ide-smoke/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T210000
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SUMMARY:Dena Grunt launches Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick's Cove
DESCRIPTION:Dena Grunt joins us to celebrate the release of Table with a View: The History & Recipes of Nick’s Cove (Cameron Books). \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \n  \nAbout Table with a View\nNorthern California’s historic Nick’s Cove restaurant brings you the finest in seasonal farm-to-table and seafood cuisine \nNick’s Cove\, perched alongside beautiful Tomales Bay\, opened its doors in the 1930s and has been a Northern California destination ever since. Table with a View: The History and Recipes of Nick’s Cove celebrates the historic restaurant\, bar\, and inn’s award-winning cuisine\, which features fresh seafood\, locally sourced meats\, and seasonal produce from their on-site farm and garden\, the Croft. Inspired by the area’s serene natural beauty and abundant resources\, the restaurant’s dishes reflect the perfect combination of comfort and refinement\, embracing an elegant approach to hearty farm-to-table cuisine. From new takes on classics such as Oysters Nickerfeller and Crab Benedict to hearty fare like Dungeness Crab Mac and Cheese and Seared Duck with Blackberry Sauce\, Table with a View is much more than a cookbook—it’s a celebration of a cultural heritage in a region shaped largely by its culinary bounty. \nAbout Dena Grunt\nDena Grunt is president of Highway 1 Hospitality and oversees all aspects of operations at the company’s Northern California businesses. She lives in Petaluma\, California\, with her husband and son.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dena-grunt-launches-table-with-a-view-the-history-recipes-of-nicks-cove/
LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of EVERYTHING AFTER with Author Jill Santopolo
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, March 11\, 2021 at 7 PM PST for an online discussion of one of Kathleen’s recent favorites\, EVERYTHING AFTER\, with author Jill Santopolo. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88322734719. \n(Order your copy of  EVERYTHING AFTER at https://bit.ly/ggpEverythingAfter\, or in audiobook at http://bit.ly/EverythingAfterAB. \nDescription\n\nThe Light We Lost mixes with a touch of Daisy Jones and the Six in this novel of first love\, passion\, and the power of choice–and how we cannot escape the people we are meant to be. \nTwo loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. \nEmily has come a long way since she lost her two passions fifteen years ago: music\, and Rob. She’s a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband\, Ezra\, she has a beautiful life. They’re happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily’s present too closely echoes her past\, and parts of her story that she’d hoped never to share come to light\, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily’s past passions come roaring back into her life\, she’ll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love? \nAbout the Author\n\nJill Santopolo is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Light We Lost and More Than Words. Her work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. She received a BA from Columbia University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is also the author of three successful children’s and young-adult series and works as the associate publisher of Philomel Books. Santopolo travels the world to speak about writing and storytelling. A New Yorker at heart\, Jill is currently living in Washington\, D.C.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Alan Chazaro\, Raina J. León\, Tongo Eisen Martin\, and Barbara Jane Reyes
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON THURSDAY\, MARCH 11 AT 7PM PT\, FOR AN EVENING CELEBRATING BAY AREA POETRY AND ALAN CHAZARO’S LATEST COLLECTION PIÑATA THEORY\, ON ZOOM!\nFEATURED READERS INCLUDE:\nALAN CHAZARO\, RAINA J. LEÓN\, TONGO EISEN MARTIN\, AND BARBARA JANE REYES\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84144654181\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,84144654181#  or +13462487799\,\,84144654181#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kfZgMQqEA\n \nPraise for Piñata Theory \nCante Jundo\, or “Deep Song\,” is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves of a continent\, its people\, its waters\, its history. In Alan Chazaro’s Piñata Theory\, those resonances echo across the field “between the countries of your body\,” the shared stories of cousin-cultures stretching across manmade boundaries. “I’ve become a borderland of tongues\,” writes Chazaro\, “a mezcla of eyes.” Here is the piñata\, unbroken\, containing\, holding together all the promise of youth and imagination. When it spills\, it spills lavishly and generously its treasures.—D.A. Powell \nThe great American philosopher Jay Z once said\, “You can’t heal/what you don’t reveal.” Such is the ethos of this debut collection. Pugilistic\, unflinchingly honest\, and damn right gorgeous\, Piñata Theory no se raja in decirnos how broken we are\, how broken we’ve been. Alan takes the hyphen in Mexican-American\, this unruly papier-mache we’ve inherited\, and clothes the hollow of us. So before leafing this book\, dear reader\, take a breath—for your sake\, for those who still can’t breathe. Stomach his hard-hitting truth\, because “We were made for beatdowns.” This some strong shit\, as blunt as a spliffed Swisher\, as the dusty 2×4’s we’d wield at dangling dulce. Whenever you ready\, step inside this circle of homies. We’re cheering on our Yay Area champ as he plants both feet in this poetry world. It’s his turn. And as he swings for our freedom\, sing like we did as kids\, “Dale dale dale\, no pierdas el tino.”—Antonio López \nWe don’t get to witness a root as it reaches out and absorbs from all around itself. But Piñata Theory by Alan Chazaro is evidence of this Mexican-American navigation—it is the bud and the strange blossom that doesn’t resist itself like Xicanos sometimes do. And in this way\, it is like the serious ache a family joke leaves. It’s the men watching other men cry\, lost gold teeth and the person that misses it\, the thoughts loose like dogs on the street and how in their wildness\, we must honor them. These poems reverb under the skin but not necessarily in the colonized body. The speaker in this collection knows better than to make their body fully responsible for the world. And yet\, they know where they participate. They don’t “live with dust in [their] eyes\,” or with unaccounted admiration for life. Piñata Theory is a record of layer\, and speaks of us in a humor that is pure pocho-dimensional. Its truth is a deep wound and the “fuck it” that follows. And still\, each poem seems to be written in a special wonder that gathers itself from many places inside the speaker’s one body\, one root.—Sara Borjas \nAbout Alan Chazaro \nAlan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley\, a former Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco\, and co-founding editor of HeadFake\, an online NBA zine. He chirps about Mexican memes\, the Golden State Warriors\, and Bay Area rap on Twitter @alan_chazaro
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LOCATION:CA
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