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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.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Babylon Salon presents Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and The Bindery are thrilled to partner with Babylon Salon for their Spring event\, featuring readings by Roberto Lovato\, Matt Bell\, Elizabeth Geoghegan & Paulo K Tiról! \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here. \nAbout the authors \nRoberto Lovato is the author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family\, Migration\, Gangs and Revolution in the Americas (Harper Collins)\, a  New York Times “Editor’s Choice” that the paper’s Book Review hailed as a “powerful” nonfiction book and a “groundbreaking memoir.”  Newsweek listed Lovato’s memoir as a “must read” 2020 book and the Los Angeles Times listed it as one of its 20 Best Books of 2020. Lovato is also an educator\, journalist and writer based at The Writers Grotto in San Francisco\, California. As a Co-Founder of #DignidadLiteraria\, he helped build a movement advocating for equity and literary justice for the more than 60 million Latinx persons left off of bookshelves in the United States and out of the national dialogue. A recipient of a reporting grant from the Pulitzer Center\, Lovato has reported on numerous issues—violence\, terrorism\, the drug war and the refugee crisis—from Mexico\, Venezuela\, El Salvador\, Dominican Republic\, Haiti\, France and the United States\, among other countries. Order Unforgetting by Roberto Lovato. \nMatt Bell’s next novel\, Appleseed\, is forthcoming from Custom House in July 2021. His craft book Refuse to Be Done\, a guide to novel writing\, rewriting\, and revision\, will follow in early 2022 from Soho Press. He is also the author of the novels Scrapper and In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods\, as well as the short story collection A Tree or a Person or a Wall\, a non-fiction book about the classic video game Baldur’s Gate II\, and several other titles. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Tin House\, Conjunctions\, Fairy Tale Review\, American Short Fiction\, and many other publications. A native of Michigan\, he teaches creative writing at Arizona State University. His novel In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indies Choice Adult Book of the Year Honor Recipient\, and was selected as the winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award\, among other honors. Both In the House and Scrapper were selected by the Library of Michigan as Michigan Notable Books. Order books by Matt Bell. \nElizabeth Geoghegan was born in New York\, grew up in the Midwest\, and lives in Rome. She is the author of two short story collections eightball and Natural Disasters\, and the bestselling memoir The Marco Chronicles. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Best Travel Writing\, TIME\, El Pais\, Words Without Borders\, BOMB\, and elsewhere. Order books by Elizabeth Geoghegan. \nPaulo K Tiról is a composer\, lyricist and bookwriter of musical theatre from Manila\, Philippines. He was in the 2019-’20 class of Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellows\, and an artist-in-residence at Access Theater with director Noam Shapiro. His projects include music and lyrics for On This Side of the World (NAMT Festival 2020\, Prospect Theater Co.’s IGNITE series\, workshop production at Access Theater\, all dir. Noam Shapiro); book\, music and lyrics for Called (DGF Fellows showcase\, dir. May Adrales); and orchestrations for Ma-Yi Theater Co.’s Felix Starro. His work has been presented at Joe’s Pub\, Barrington Stage\, Prospect Theater Co.’s Musical Theater Lab\, and more. Alongside his work in musical theatre\, Paulo is also a composer of liturgical music\, with work published by Oregon Catholic Press (OCP)\, and church music director working in New York City and Jersey City. Training: Ateneo de Manila University\, Berklee College of Music\, NYU Tisch Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (full tuition scholarship)\, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. He lives in Jersey City\, NJ with his husband Jeremy. More at www.paulophonic.com. \n  \nPlease note: this is a free\, virtual event. Zoom information will soon be announced here.
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SUMMARY:Word Week 2021 "Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan & Michelle Gallen Read Contemporary Irish Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Irish authors Colm Toibin\, Paula Meehan\, and Michelle Gallen read from new work Saturday\, March 13\, 11 a.m. Pacific time via Zoom. Colm gives us a preview of his upcoming 2021 novel THE MAGICIAN\, based on the life of Thomas Mann\, from Los Angeles. Michelle reads from her rollicking debut novel set in Northern Ireland BIG GIRL\, SMALL TOWN from Dublin (7 p.m. Irish time). Paula shares poetry from her just-published retrospective work AS IF BY MAGIC from Greece\, where it will be 9 p.m.\nThis event will be broadcast via Zoom. Get the Zoom link by rsvping Going on this event page or by emailing wordweeknoevalley@gmail.com. In response\, you will receive the Zoom information. Audience limit: 100 people.\n\nBuy books from Folio Books at www.foliosf.com/word-week-2021.
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SUMMARY:Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series: Momtaza Mehri and Zoé Samudzi\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public \nREGISTER TO ATTEND\n—or—\nWatch this program at YouTube \nWith emcee\, alex cruse \nThis remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time\, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event\, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu \nPlease note early start-time\, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK\, and elsewhere. \nFor our third program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\, we are delighted to welcome two of the more outstanding young Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK. Momtaza Mehri\, in London\, and Zoé Samudzi\, here in the Bay Area\, will each read from their work\, engage in conversation with one another and with emcee alex cruse\, and respond to questions from the audience. We welcome this rare opportunity to bring these two Afro-diasporan writers and thinkers together across continents. \n\n“…A poet is drenched in a singularity\, sodden with its viscous specificity. A poem speaks for itself exactly when it declares it speaks for others. The Black poet is an isotope of both hope & despair. The Black poet is both a reluctant & enthusiastic interlocutor of what is known as the Black condition\, which conditions & structures the World that invented it. The Black poem asks you where it hurts & demands no particular answer. The Black poet knows this is a question one can spend a life trying to answer….”\n—Momtaza Mehri\, “Harlem Is Hijaz Is Havana Is Harar\, Or: The Whole Point of the Black Arts Movement Is That They Were Moving”\n“We [Afro-]diasporans joke often about the genre of poetry and prose born out of a longing for a motherland animated only by hungry verses. There’s a cowardice to this: nostalgic memory\, a narrativized nostalgia for memories and experiences and beauty that never belonged to you\, is easy. But situating oneself in the wake and afterlife of those traumas and beautiful/beautified struggles is far harder still.”\n—Zoé Samudzi on Momtaza Mehri\, The Poetry Project Newsletter\, Summer 2020\n\nMomtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta\, Artforum\, The Guardian\, BOMB\, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People’s Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet\, Doing the Most with the Least\, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press. More here. \n\n“As Black as Resistance [by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson] is an urgently needed book…a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state\, levels of inequality\, environmental degradation\, and resurgent fascism\, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and mus and do make.”\n—Christina Sharpe\, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being\n\nZoé Samudzi is a writer\, photographer\, and a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California\, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry\, Warscapes\, Truthout\, ROAR Magazine\, Teen Vogue\, BGD\, Bitch Media\, Open Space\, and Verso\, among others. With William C. Anderson\, Samudzi is coauthor of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (foreword by Mariame Kaba\, AK Press\, 2018). More here. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeatured: \nMomtaza Mehri\, Granta Podcast\, Ep. 94\, October 7\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri\, “Poets Should Ride the Bus: On Diane di Prima (1934–2020)\,” at Verso Books\, November 3\, 2020 \nMomtaza Mehri at Open Space\, 2018 \n“Blackness As a State of Matter: A Conversation with Zoé Samudzi\,” by Will Furtado\, at Contemporary And\, C&’s Top Articles of 2019 \nZoé Samudzi at Open Space\, 2018–2019 \nVideo: \nView earlier events in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu\n\n\n\nEvent sponsor:\n\nThe Poetry Center\, Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series\n\n\n\nRegister to Attend:\n\n\nhttps://sfsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3fVkVa5mS2iU5P5jmed6TQ
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SUMMARY:Joanell Serra - (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:(Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Pandemic draws together the stories of fifty-two women across the U.S. during the Covid-19 pandemic. The collection encompasses the perspectives of women who are: front-line responders and recovering patients; going out to work\, staying home to work\, and losing their jobs; living with multiple generations and living in isolation; women grieving loved ones and celebrating new love; women preparing to give birth and supporting the dying. Although differing based on location\, age\, race\, and health\, they share the unique capacity of women to bring their strength\, ingenuity and love—for others and for self—to an uncertain time. The anthology is inspired by both the risks of the pandemic inherent to women and their tremendous role in the country’s response. \nJoanell Serra lives with her human and canine family in Sonoma\, California. Her debut novel\, The Vines We Planted\, was inspired by the complex community and gorgeous scenery in the California Winery. Joanell also writes poetry\, creative non-fiction\,  and plays. Her short plays have been produced and her work has been published  in numerous literary magazines. The other hats she wears include licensed Marriage and Family Therapist\, Impact Coach\, retreat leader and non-profit consultant.  She conducts workshops on writing and personal transformation around the country and abroad.  More information and recent publications can be found at joanellserraauthor.com. \n“I’m a proponent of sharing our truth. These womens’ stories are raw and real. They make me want to cry\, or laugh\, or call them up and say this sh** happened to me too! We’ve got this. These women really are the heroines of the pandemic: nurses\, doctors\, teachers\, badass moms\, women having a mental health crisis\, healers\, grandmas… I love this.”\n—Jennifer Pastiloff\, best-selling author of On Being Human \n“The homefront has always been inhabited by women\, including anyone who identifies with and enters the space of “woman” – caretakers and home keepers and compassionate community builders. This collection reminds us how the heart warriors never give up or in\, which is the only reason we have a chance. Where are the purple heart medals for these legions of women. Secular Blessings on every one of their stories\, every single body.”\n—Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge: Stories
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