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SUMMARY:Literary Partners: Aimee Nezhukumatathil & Dustin Parsons
DESCRIPTION:This reading series\, started during the pandemic and originally featuring poets and writers sheltering in place together\, invites literary partners—a broad term that includes writers who work together\, live together\, or a combination of both—to chat\, read favorites from their own and each others’ work\, and tell us what collaboration offers their creative practice. \n\n\n\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four poetry collections: Oceanic\, Lucky Fish\, At The Drive-In Volcano\, and Miracle Fruit\, and the chapbook Lace & Pyrite\, a collaboration of garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Her most recent book is the award-winning\, illustrated collection of nature essays World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, & Other Astonishments. \n\n\n\nDustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood\, with Diagrams\, and he has previously served as the non-fiction editor of The Mid-American Review. Awards for his writing include an Ohio Arts Grant and a New York Fine Arts grant in creative non-fiction\, the American Literary Review Prize in fiction\, the fiction prize from The Laurel Review and a “notable” in the Best American Essays. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister here.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/literary-partners-aimee-nezhukumatathil-dustin-parsons/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,North Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Seismic Salon: Juan Felipe Herrera
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets \n\n\n\n \nCo-presented with City Lights Booksellers & Publishers \nTo close out National Poetry Month\, Litquake is thrilled to welcome former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to our Seismic Salon\, where he will discuss poetry\, his work\, and career. Herrera also served as California State Poet Laureate from 2012-2014. His many published collections include the recent Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; and Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems\, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007. He is also author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse\, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include: SkateFate\, Calling The Doves\, Jabberwalking\, and Upside Down Boy\, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. \nBuy Juan Felipe Herrera’s books at City Lights. \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-juan-felipe-herrera/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits
DESCRIPTION:City Arts & Lectures presents: Rachel Kushner in conversation with Heidi Julavits\nThursday\, April 29\, 2021\n6:00pm Pacific Time\nTICKETS \nRachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers\, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2013; Telex from Cuba\, a finalist for the National Book Award; and\, most recently\, The Mars Room\, which was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Award\, winner of the Prix Médicis\, selected by the National Book Foundation for its “Literature for Justice” award\, and a winner of the California Book Award. She has received grants and prizes from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, and her fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.  \nHeidi Julavits is the founding editor of Believer magazine\, and the author of four novels\, including The Vanishers and The Uses of Enchantment. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, McSweeney’s\, Zoetrope All-Story and elsewhere. She is a professor of creative writing at Columbia University.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rachel-kushner-in-conversation-with-heidi-julavits-2/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Aviva Chomsky & Mickey Huff: Central America's Forgotten History
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents\nAVIVA CHOMSKY & MICKEY HUFF: A Zoom Event\nCentral America’s Forgotten History: Revolution\, Violence\, and the Roots of Migration \nAviva Chomsky restores the region’s fraught history of repression and resistance to popular consciousness and connects the United States’ interventions and influence to the influx of refugees seeking asylum today. \nAt the center of the current immigration debate are migrants from Central America fleeing poverty\, corruption\, and violence in search of asylum in the United States. In Central America’s Forgotten History\, Aviva Chomsky answers the urgent question “How did we get here?” She outlines how we often fail to remember the circumstances and ongoing effects of Central America’s historical inequality and oppression\, a direct result of colonial and neo-colonial development policies and the cultures of violence and forgetting needed to implement them. \nChomsky expertly recounts Central Americans’ valiant struggles for social and economic justice to restore these vivid and gripping events to popular consciousness. She traces the roots of displacement and migration in Central America to the Spanish conquest and brings us to the present day\, where she concludes that the more immediate roots of migration from the three Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador\, Guatemala\, and Honduras) lie in the wars and in the US interventions of the 1980s and the peace accords of the 1990s. \nChomsky also examines how and why histories and memories are suppressed\, and the impact of losing historical memory. \nAviva Chomsky is the author of several books\, including Undocumented and “They Take Our Jobs!\,”  Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over thirty years. \nMickey Huff is the current Director of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history-tickets-137895929437
URL:https://litseen.com/event/aviva-chomsky-mickey-huff-central-americas-forgotten-history/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Mira Sethi and Shruti Swamy
DESCRIPTION:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE RUBY SF\nJOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 29 AT 6PM PT WHEN MIRA SETHI IS JOINED BY SHRUTI SWAMY TO DISCUSS HER DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION\, ARE YOU ENJOYING?\, ON ZOOM!\nZoom Login Info\nPlease click the link below to join the webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/88167438648\nOr iPhone one-tap :\nUS: +16699009128\,\,88167438648#  or +12532158782\,\,88167438648#\nInternational numbers available: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdghMJMl4C\n \nPraise for Are You Enjoying?\n“Fresh\, intelligent\, and bold: Mira Sethi’s stories open up fascinating slices of contemporary life in Pakistan.”—Mohsin Hamid\, author of Exit West \n“A powerful book with a light touch\, marking the arrival of an assured storyteller…Sethi is operating in a rich tradition of South Asian storytelling\, but also\, with the distinct and vibrant perspective she offers\, making it her own.”—Vogue \n“Biting and incisive stories…especially striking for their portrayal of hidden homosexuality.”—Kirkus Reviews \nAbout Are You Enjoying?\nAn exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative\, funny\, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family\, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. \nFrom the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home—including the bedroom—these wryly observed\, deeply revealing stories look at life in Pakistan with humor\, compassion\, psychological acuity\, and emotional immediacy. Childhood best friends agree to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young woman with an anxiety disorder discovers the numbing pleasures of an illicit love affair. A radicalized student’s preparations for his sister’s wedding involve beating up the groom. An actress is forced to grow up fast on the set of her first major tv show\, where the real intrigue takes place off-screen. Every story bears witness to the all-too-universal desire to be loved\, and what happens when this longing gets pushed to its limits. Are You Enjoying? is a free-spirited\, confident\, indelible introduction to a galvanizing new talent.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-mira-sethi-and-shruti-swamy/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Black Freighter Press\, a celebration: with Mahogany L. Browne\, Christopher Malec\, Josiah Luis Alderete\, Tongo Eisen-Martin\, and readings from the final book by the late Q.R. Hand Jr.
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, Tonya M. Foster \nSupported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImages: Mahogany L. Browne and Q.R. Hand Jr.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/black-freighter-press-a-celebration-with-mahogany-l-browne-christopher-malec-josiah-luis-alderete-tongo-eisen-martin-and-readings-from-the-final-book-by-the-late-q-r-hand-jr/
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SUMMARY:Imani Cezanne reading and in conversation with Tshaka Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for Literary Arts of San José \nonline on Zoom Join here at the time of the event! \nor join be phone +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)\nMeeting ID: 831 7139 8605 Passcode: 674247 \nImani Cezanne is a Black writer\, performer and tamale connoisseur living in Oakland\, CA. In March she became the 2020 Woman of the World Poetry Slam Champion for the second time and in July of the same year she was named a 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship finalist. As a two time Pushcart Prize Nominee\, Imani has forthcoming work in Nimrod\, Fugue\, Red Wheelbarrow\, Crab Creek Review\, and POETRY magazine. While all are welcome to enjoy her work\, Imani writes for Black people\, Black readers and is committed to the liberation of all oppressed people. \nImani is a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission’s 2020 Writer’s Corp Teaching Artist in Residence Grant\, a $40\,000 award granted every year for three years to create spoken word poetry programming for the youth of San Francisco. Throughout her teaching career\, Imani has taught Creative Writing and Spoken Word in over 40 middle and high schools across the country\, using both a short and long-term residency models. Each lesson is designed to fit the needs of the students\, the length of the residency and meet intended learning outcomes. Imani has also coached poetry slam teams at San Francisco State University\, Mills College\, American University and Georgetown University. She is currently a Teaching Artist with YouthSpeaks\, SFJAZZ\, The Museum of African Diaspora and Performing Arts Workshop. This event will be moderated by Tshaka Campbell. \nTshaka Campbell is a husband and father as well as accomplished artist and performer. His appears in print and national commercials and he conducts lectures and facilitates workshops in creative writing and poetry. He was voted one of the 25 people to know in San Francisco\, holds two Grand Slam titles and was a finalist for the 2020 Santa Clara Poet Laureate honor. Tshaka is an author of “STUFF – I will write more “\, “MUTED WHISPERS” and “TUNNEL VISION as well as collaborated on a number of musical projects in the House\, Jazz and Blues genres. His literary work has appeared in journals and reviews such as 2 Bridges Review\, Tribe Magazine and others. He currently resides in San Jose and continues to ask the world to “Listen Different.” \n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/imani-cezanne-reading-and-in-conversation-with-tshaka-campbell/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay,Virtual
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver\, Growing Weed in the Garden
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanna Silver will discuss her book Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis. Silver will be in conversation with Darryl Wong\, Farm Site and Research Lands Manager at the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS).  \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here! \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. \nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nFrom peonies to pot—Johanna Silver\, former Sunset garden editor\, will share her journey into cannabis. Spoiler—she’s not a stoner. The presentation will include a brief history of the plant\, one of (if not THE) oldest plants under human cultivation\, including how regional climates impacted the plant’s evolution. She’ll paint a picture of the current state of genetics of the plant—unrivaled in anything else in horticulture\, as it’s not yet gone through modern breeding practices. Myths and misinformation when it comes to cultivation\, coming from 100-ish years of prohibition\, will be discussed and corrected. It should be noted that Johanna’s approach is outdoor-only and garden-scale. She grows for a love of the plant\, not with a goal of maximizing yield. The techniques she most adheres to are those that are easiest\, simplest\, and most tried-and-true in the garden. \nJohanna Silver is a James Beard Award-winning author who writes mostly about plants and people. Her two books\, The Bold Dry Garden: Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden (Timber Press\, 2017) and Growing Weed in the Garden: A No-Fuss\, Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation (Abrams\, 2020) are available everywhere books are sold. Johanna is a contributing editor at Better Homes & Gardens\, and her work has been featured in Martha Stewart Living\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, and Eating Well. Previously\, Johanna spent ten years at Sunset Magazine\, beginning with a shovel in her hands and culminating as head of the garden department. She lives and gardens in Berkeley\, CA\, where she grows fruits\, veggies\, and entirely too many cut flowers.
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