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SUMMARY:You're Going to Die Presents: GRIEF & HEALING w/Writing & Music
DESCRIPTION:a YG2D Workshop \nThis 4-session communal workshop offers a chance to creatively express ourselves & engage with our own [& collective] grief & healing through writing & music. It’s a chance to connect to community\, remember we’re not alone\, and tap into our innate wisdom to creatively face our unique experiences of being mortal. \nFOUR SESSIONS! \nWHEN: Wednesdays\, April 7th-April 28th\nTIME: 7-8:45p\nLOCATION: ZOOM\nPRICE: Sliding Scale $80-250 \nWe offer the workshop on a sliding scale\, but ask about further financial support if you need it to attend!\n***Two (2) full scholarships are available for BIPOC*** \nIn order to preserve the uniquely intimate & personalized nature of this offering\, space for this event will be limited\, & registration is required to attend. \nFOR MORE DETAILS EMAIL: ned@yg2d.com\nEVENT ON FACEBOOK
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Afternoon Literary Seminar: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
DESCRIPTION:THIS SESSION IS ONLINE\nLost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli \nArguably the most important novel of the spring seminar series\, Lost Children Archive is unlike anything Kimberly has read—and that is saying a lot! Luiselli\, who is Mexican and lives in Brooklyn\, writes incredibly beautiful prose as she follows one family’s road trip from New York to Texas\, all while the gravity of the migrant children crisis at the US border becomes more and more acute. \nFew novels of this literary caliber feel so gripping\, while also feeling so important. Named one of the New York Times Best 10 Books of 2019\, Luiselli’s novel is evidence of one of the most talented young writers working today. \nBook will be shipped directly to you so that you may read it prior to the seminar. You may also choose to pick the book up at Kepler’s in Menlo Park as another option.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/afternoon-literary-seminar-lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Ada Limón & Aria Aber
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 21 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nAda Limón is the author of five books of poetry\, including The Carrying\, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and was named one of the top 5 poetry books of the year by the Washington Post. Her fourth book Bright Dead Things was named a finalist for the National Book Award\, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program\, and the online and summer programs for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In Spring 2021\, Limón is serving as Distinguished Visiting Writer in Poetry\, teaching English 342: Poetry Workshop and English 352: Poetry Tutorial for the MFA in Creative Writing program. \nAria Aber was raised in Germany. Her debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and was published in September 2019. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker\, New Republic\, Kenyon Review\, The Yale Review\, Poem-A-Day\, Narrative\, Muzzle Magazine\, Wasafiri and elsewhere. A graduate from the NYU MFA in Creative Writing\, where she was the Writers in Public Schools Fellow\, she holds awards and fellowships from Kundiman\, Dickinson House\, and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing. For Spring 2020\, Aber will be the Li Shen Visiting Writer at Mills College. She is at work on a second book of poems and a novel. Aber is serving as the Visiting Editor in Poetry this semester for MFA in Creative Writing Program.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/ada-limon-aria-aber/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Alex Riley with Steve Silberman / A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to host award-winning science writer Alex Riley for his first book A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It\, a fascinating look at the treatment of depression\, blending journalism\, science\, history\, and memoir. He’ll be in conversation with Neurotribes author Steve Silberman. Please note our early start time of 12pm PT. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order A Cure for Darkness here – we’re currently offering free shipping throughout San Francisco and the East Bay (use code EVENTSHIP when checking out). We are happy to fulfill orders anywhere in the world – international postage will be invoiced separately. If you have any questions at all\, don’t hesitate to contact us at events@booksmith.com. \nAbout the book\nWhat is depression? Is it a persistent low mood or a complex range of symptoms? Is it a single diagnosis or a diversity of mental disorders requiring different treatments? In A Cure for Darkness\, science writer Alex Riley explores these questions\, digging into the long history of depression and chronicling the lives of psychiatrists and scientists who sought cures for their patients. \nSince 2015\, Riley has received both cognitive behavioral therapy and antidepressants for his own depression. Throughout his treatment\, he wondered—are antidepressants effective? Do short-term talking therapies actually work? And what treatments are on the horizon for those who don’t respond to these first-line treatments? Expanding from his own experience\, he tracks treatments through history\, from the “talking cure” to electroconvulsive therapy to magic mushrooms. With depression fast becoming the leading burden of disease around the world\, the future of mental healthcare depends not just on the development of new therapies\, but on increasing access for people who are currently without. Reporting on the field of global mental health from its colonial past to the present day\, Riley highlights a range of scalable therapies\, including how a group of grandmothers stands on the frontline of a mental health revolution. \nWeaving in personal and family history\, A Cure for Darkness is a gripping narrative journey and a surprisingly hopeful work that delves deep into the science of mental health. \nAbout the authors\nAlex Riley is an award-winning science writer and the author of A Cure for Darkness: The Story of Depression and How We Treat It\, his first book. He received a best feature award from the Association of British Science Writers for his reporting on the Friendship Bench\, a project that began in Zimbabwe in 2006 and has since provided mental health care to thousands of people in New York. A former research scientist\, he has co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers while working at the Natural History Museum in London. Since leaving academia in 2015\, he began writing popular science articles for magazines such as New Scientist\, PBS’s NOVA Next\, BBC Future\, Mosaic Science\, Aeon\, and Nautilus Magazine. He lives in Bristol. \nSteve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\, which Oliver Sacks called “a sweeping and penetrating history presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” The book became a widely-praised bestseller in the United States and the United Kingdom. His TED talk\, The Forgotten History of Autism\, has been viewed more than a million times and translated into 35 languages. He lives with his husband Keith in San Francisco. Author photo by Tanya Rosen-Jones. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-alex-riley-with-steve-silberman-a-cure-for-darkness-the-story-of-depression-and-how-we-treat-it/
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jakob Guanzon and Lysley Tenorio
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, April 21 at 6pm PT when Jakob Guanzon discusses his debut novel\, Abundance\, with Lysley Tenorio on Zoom!\n\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84964860993\n\nPraise for Abundance\n“Jakob Guanzon’s excellent debut novel\, Abundance\, is the story of a father and son scraping by in a country that relegates its most vulnerable to day-to-day survival. Despite that struggle\, Guanzon infuses his characters with spirit and fight\, and renders them in prose that is sharp\, blunt\, and lyrical\, all at once. To read Abundance is to understand America in ways both shockingly new and startlingly familiar. Contemporary American fiction is lucky to add this book to its shelves.”—Lysley Tenorio\, author of The Son of Good Fortune\n\n“From the table of contents\, Guanzon had me hooked. This haunting and fiercely passionate story takes America’s capitalist heart to task. Here is an unforgettable accounting of family\, fever\, and the fortunes of our strip mall society.”—Samantha Hunt\, author of The Dark Dark\n\n“A quest\, a page-turner\, and above all a love story\, Abundance lays bare one father’s brutal\, tender hustle to care for his son in a winner-take-all world. Henry’s meticulously plotted journey\, unfolding in heart-stopping prose\, marks Jakob Guanzon as a debut author with compassion and talent to burn.”—Mia Alvar\, author of In the Country\n\nAbout Abundance\nA wrenching debut about the causes and effects of poverty\, as seen by a father and son living in a pickup\n\nEvicted from their trailer on New Year’s Eve\, Henry and his son\, Junior\, have been reduced to living out of a pickup truck. Six months later\, things are even more desperate. Henry\, barely a year out of prison for pushing opioids\, is down to his last pocketful of dollars\, and little remains between him and the street. But hope is on the horizon: Today is Junior’s birthday\, and Henry has a job interview tomorrow.\n\nTo celebrate\, Henry treats Junior to dinner at McDonald’s\, followed by a night in a real bed at a discount motel. For a moment\, as Junior watches TV and Henry practices for his interview in the bathtub\, all seems well. But after Henry has a disastrous altercation in the parking lot and Junior succumbs to a fever\, father and son are sent into the night\, struggling to hold things together and make it through tomorrow.\n\nIn an ingenious structural approach\, Jakob Guanzon organizes Abundance by the amount of cash in Henry’s pocket. A new chapter starts with each debit and credit\, and the novel expands and contracts\, revealing the extent to which the quality of our attention is altered by the abundance—or lack thereof—that surrounds us. Set in an America of big-box stores and fast food\, this incandescent debut novel trawls the fluorescent aisles of Walmart and the booths of Red Lobster to reveal the inequities and anxieties around work\, debt\, addiction\, incarceration\, and health care in America today.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jakob-guanzon-and-lysley-tenorio/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Unity and Struggle: A Collective Address with Tongo Eisen-Martin\, San Francisco's Poet Laureate
DESCRIPTION:Register Here \n\n\n \nCo-presented with San Francisco Public Library \nPlease join Tongo Eisen-Martin\, San Francisco’s 8th Poet Laureate\, and family for an evening of poetry and exposition on the revolutionary potentials of art; as beautifully no incarnation of craft exists outside of the movements\, renaissances; the people who pass us through. FREE \nRegistration required. Event to be held on Zoom. \nFeaturing: \n\nMarc Bamuthi Joseph\nBiko Eisen-Martin\nMahogany Browne\nJive Poetic\nJoyce Lee\n\n  \nEisen-Martin is a poet and the founder of Black Freighter Press. His book Heaven Is All Goodbyes (City Lights\, Pocket Poet series)\, received a 2018 American Book Award\, the 2018 California Book Award for Poetry and was short-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His previous book\, someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press\, 2015)\, was nominated for a California Book Award. His forthcoming book\, A Good Earth: City Lights Pocket Poets Series No 62\, will be published in September 2021. \nEisen-Martin is also an educator and organizer whose work centers on issues of mass incarceration\, extrajudicial killings of Black people and human rights. He has taught at detention centers around the country and at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Columbia University. \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, Eisen-Martin spent time as a child hanging out at the Western Addition Cultural Center\, now the African American Art and Culture Complex\, where he later taught writing workshops. In his vision for Poet Laureate\, he aims to organize poetry circles in underserved neighborhoods throughout the City and recruit and nurture artists from San Francisco’s marginalized communities.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/unity-and-struggle-a-collective-address-with-tongo-eisen-martin-san-franciscos-poet-laureate/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Marie Mutsuki Mockett in conversation with Garnette Cadogan
DESCRIPTION:discussing her new book \nAmerican Harvest: God\, Country\, and Farming in the Heartland \npublished by Graywolf Press \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. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted soon. \n———– \nFor over one hundred years\, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska\, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett\, who grew up in bohemian Carmel\, California\, with her father and her Japanese mother\, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. \nIn American Harvest\, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth\, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho\, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide\,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields\, attends church\, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life\, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white\,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. \nAmerican Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs\, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity\, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story. \nMarie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of a novel\, Picking Bones from Ash\, and a memoir\, Where the Dead Pause\, and the Japanese Say Goodbye\, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. She has written for the New York Times\, Salon\, National Geographic\, Glamour\, Ploughshares\, and other publications and has been a guest on The World\, Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered on NPR. She is a core faculty member of the Rainier Writing Workshop and a Visiting Writer in the MFA program Saint Mary’s College in Moraga\, California. She lives in San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\nGarnette Cadogan is the Porter Distinguished Visiting Professor for the 2020-2021 academic year. Born and raised in Jamaica\, Garnette Cadogan is an essayist\, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia\, and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/marie-mutsuki-mockett/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bonnie Tsui\, Why We Swim
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Award-winning Bay Area author Bonnie Tsui will join us to discuss Why We Swim (in paperback April 13th)—her immersive\, unforgettable\, and eye-opening perspective on swimming and human behavior. Tsui will be in conversation with Boston Marathon champion and two-time Olympian Des Linden.  \nRebecca Skloot\, bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\, says\, “I was enchanted by this book: it’s a beautifully written love poem to water that takes us inside the incredible human need to be at one with it\, the amazing ways we succeed\, and the tremendous price that comes when we feel. It’s a deeply reported and fascinating story that takes us from the first record of swimming (which lies in the middle of a desert) to tales of vanishing aquatic societies\, sea nomads\, and so much more. This is a book Bonnie Tsui was born to write.” \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event by clicking here! \n\nThis is a free event. The featured book may be preordered below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nWe swim in freezing Arctic waters and piranha-infested rivers to test our limits. We swim for pleasure\, for exercise\, for healing. But humans\, unlike other animals that are drawn to water\, are not natural-born swimmers. We must be taught. Our evolutionary ancestors learned for survival; now\, in the twenty-first century\, swimming is one of the most popular activities in the world. \nWhy We Swim is propelled by stories of Olympic champions\, a Baghdad swim club that meets in Saddam Hussein’s palace pool\, modern-day Japanese samurai swimmers\, and even an Icelandic fisherman who improbably survives a wintry six-hour swim after a shipwreck. New York Times contributor Bonnie Tsui\, a swimmer herself\, dives into the deep\, from the San Francisco Bay to the South China Sea\, investigating what it is about water that seduces us\, despite its dangers\, and why we come back to it again and again. \n“The only thing better than reading Bonnie Tsui’s writing about swimming is swimming itself—and both are sublime. Why We Swim is an aquatic tour de force\, a captivating story filled with adventure\, meditation\, and celebration. This book is a joy to dive into.” — Susan Casey\, bestselling author of The Wave and Voices in the Ocean \nBonnie Tsui lives\, swims\, and surfs in the Bay Area. A longtime contributor to the New York Times and California Sunday Magazine\, she has been the recipient of the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award from Harvard University\, the Lowell Thomas Gold Award\, and a National Press Foundation Fellowship. Her last book\, American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods\, won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and Best of 2009 Notable Bay Area Books selection. Her website is bonnietsui.com. \nDes Linden is the 2018 Boston Marathon champion and a two-time U.S. Olympian. In April 2018\, Linden braved headwinds and torrential rain to become the first American women’s champion at the Boston Marathon since 1985. Her win was one for the record books as she bested the field in the worst conditions in race history. She finished 7th in the women’s marathon at the Rio Olympic Games. Linden attended Arizona State University where she was an All-American in both cross country and track. After graduation\, she moved to Rochester\, Michigan to join the Hansons Brooks Distance Project. She currently trains in Northern Michigan and continues representing Brooks. A self-proclaimed bacon aficionado\, her hobbies include reading\, writing\, and collecting assorted whiskeys.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bonnie-tsui-why-we-swim/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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