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SUMMARY:Quiet Lightning / literary mixtape curated by Kevin Dublin & Antony Fangary
DESCRIPTION:Quiet Lightning presents a virtual literary mixtape featuring all forms of writing\, curated through a blind process by Kevin Dublin and Antony Fangary into a one-night only performance featuring: \nSIDE A \nRohan DaCosta \nNaomi Rosenthal \nCarol Dorf \nSiamak Vossoughi \nLauren Ito \nMichael Warr \nDawn Angelicca Barcelona \nEmily Dezurick-Badran \nSIDE B \nCarol Dorf \nSally Love Saunders \nSiok-Hian Tay-Kelley \nCharles Kruger \nAlexander Laurence \nNick Plett \nGenie Cartier \nSara Biel \nPaolo Bicchieri \nSara Biel \nCarolyn Wilsey \nAndrew Paul Nelson \nChun Yu \nLauren Parker \nMary Gayle Thomas \nLeah Mueller \nAll selected authors will be paid and published in sPARKLE + bLINK 110\, featuring cover art by Stuart Robertson! \nPlease note: this show is free and all ages (with mature content)\, but RSVP is required. \nIf you’re in a position to support us by making a donation please consider doing so! 100% of our proceeds go directly to local artists and independent businesses\, and despite losing out on door monies we’ve decided to keep paying everyone! Thanks for doing what you can to invest in an equitable arts ecosystem. There are two easy ways to support Quiet Lightning: \nMake a tax-deductible donation of any amount: \nPaypal or Venmo \nOr consider supporting us on Patreon! \nABOUT THE BOOKS \nIf you’d like to purchase the book you can do that here for $10 + shipping\, or you can donate $15 or more to Quiet Lightning by Paypal or Venmo and we’ll send you sPARKLE & bLINK 109 + a surprise back issue. \nA note about the books: if we don’t sell out before we print our next book\, the price will go down to $5/copy. You can order most of our back issues here. You should also know: we make all of our books available to read and watch for free. For virtual events we are printing 75 books/show. 100% of all proceeds\, donations or not\, go toward local artists and independent businesses. \nABOUT THE CURATORS \nKevin Dublin is a writer of poetry\, prose\, scripts\, and code originally from the small town of Smithfield\, NC. His words have recently appeared in The Racket\, Cincinnati Review\, North Carolina Literary Review\, Sparkle + Blink\, and he is author of the chapbook How to Fall in Love in San Diego (Finishing Line Press\, 2017). Kevin holds an MFA from San Diego State\, leads workshops all over the bay area\, including Litquake’s Elder Writing Project\, and enjoys making video adaptations of poetry and developing web apps for writers. \nAntony Fangary is a Coptic-American Poet\, Educator\, and Artist living in San Francisco. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Oakland Review\, New American Writing\, Interim\, Welter\, and elsewhere. His chapbook\, HARAM\, was published by Etched Press in 2019. Antony was Honorable Mention of the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Prize\, Finalist for the 2019 Wabash Prize\, Runner-up for the 2020 Test Site Poetry Series\, and holds an MFA from San Francisco State University. \nCan’t make it? The show will be archived in video and full text\, like all of our previous readings! Find them\, along with a daily calendar of Bay Area literary events + more\, @ Litseen. \nNot on our mailing list yet? Sign up for email updates of upcoming Quiet Lightning events and calls for submissions.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/quiet-lightning-literary-mixtape-curated-by-kevin-dublin-antony-fangary/
LOCATION:online
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SUMMARY:Allison Cobb discusses her new book\, Plastic: An Autobiography
DESCRIPTION:Allison Cobb in conversation about her book\, Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books). \n“Plastic: an Autobiography is a spinning gyre of history\, biology\, poetry\, and chemistry\, gathering centripetal force through attention to such particulars as a shard of plastic from WWII found lodged in the belly of an albatross sixty years later. This is a fierce and brilliant work that perhaps could only have been written by a poet who grew up in the shadow of Los Alamos\, aware that the most destructive of human inventions can seem salvific until it is almost too late. Let this book be a call to awareness and action.”–Carolyn Forché\, author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance \n  \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nRegistration info coming soon! \nAbout Plastic: An Autobiography\nIn Plastic: An Autobiography\, Cobb’s obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture\, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos\, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste\, climate change\, nuclear technologies\, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet. \nAbout Allison Cobb\nAllison Cobb (pronouns she/her) is the author of After We All Died\, Plastic: an autobiography\, Born2\, and Green-Wood. Cobb’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry\, Denver Quarterly\, Colorado Review\, and many other journals. She was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and National Poetry Series; has been a resident artist at Djerassi and Playa; and received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission\, the Regional Arts and Culture Council\, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Cobb works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where she co-hosts The Switch reading\, art\, and performance series and performs in the collaboration Suspended Moment.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/allison-cobb-discusses-her-new-book-plastic-an-autobiography-facebook-twitter-pinterest/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Mary Beth Meehan with Fred Turner
DESCRIPTION:aunch party for the new book \nSeeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America \npublished by University of Chicago Press \n———- \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 coming soon! \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link coming soon! \n———– \nAcclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley culture expert Fred Turner join forces to give us an unseen view of the heart of the tech world. \nIt’s hard to imagine a place more central to American mythology today than Silicon Valley. To outsiders\, the region glitters with the promise of extraordinary wealth and innovation. But behind this image lies another Silicon Valley\, one segregated by race\, class\, and nationality in complex and contradictory ways. Its beautiful landscape lies atop underground streams of pollutants left behind by decades of technological innovation\, and while its billionaires live in compounds\, surrounded by redwood trees and security fences\, its service workers live in their cars. \nWith arresting photography and intimate stories\, Seeing Silicon Valley makes this hidden world visible. Instead of young entrepreneurs striving for efficiency in minimalist corporate campuses\, we see portraits of struggle—families displaced by an impossible real estate market\, workers striving for a living wage\, and communities harmed by environmental degradation. If the fate of Silicon Valley is the fate of America—as so many of its boosters claim—then this book gives us an unvarnished look into the future. \nMary Beth Meehan is a photographer known for her large-scale\, community-based portraiture centered around questions of representation\, visibility\, and social equity in the United States. She lives in New England\, where she has lectured at Brown University\, Rhode Island School of Design\, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. \nFred Turner is Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of the books The Democratic Surround and From Counterculture to Cyberculture both published by the University of Chicago Press. \n  \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Odd Mondays Reading "Arisa White & Friends"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Arisa White’s new poetry collection\, WHO’S YOUR DADDY\, with her friends MK Chavez and Vickie Vértiz at Odd Mondays May 3. MK and Vickie read from their newest collections\, DEAR ANIMAL\, and PALM FROND WITH ITS THROAT CUT\, respectively.\nJoin us from 7pm to 8pm Pacific time on Zoom. Get the link from oddmondaysnoevalley@gmail.com. Buy the books from Folio Books Noe Valley at www.foliosf.com/odd-mondays.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/odd-mondays-reading-arisa-white-friends/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Interior Chinatown\, Tinseltown\, and Other Worlds Imagined: Charles Yu on Showbiz and Storytelling\, with Lodge 49’s Jim Gavin
DESCRIPTION:When Trevor Noah of The Daily Show asked Charles Yu why he wrote his National Book Award-winning novel\, the devastating “parable for outcasts” (Kirkus) Interior Chinatown\, in the form of a screenplay\, Yu deadpanned\, “I work in Hollywood\, so I already had the software.” A veteran of several TV series (including HBO’S Westworld)\, Yu honed his hilarious\, convention-defying masterwork with an insider’s insight and an outlier’s genius. Yu found an oasis in the writer’s room of fellow novelist Jim Gavin’s (Middle Men) AMC cult-favorite series Lodge 49\, an underdog’s hymn that channels Thomas Pynchon\, counts Patton Oswalt and Tom Hanks as diehard fans\, and “makes as good an argument for the existence of a kind of shabby everyday magic as you’ll find anywhere” (NPR). \nBelly up to the bar and raise a drink with these two friends and fellow-travelers as they toast to creating worlds for page and screen\, making the ordinary extraordinary\, and finding strength—and hilarity—in difference and struggle. \nGet your Ticket\n  \n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
URL:https://litseen.com/event/interior-chinatown-tinseltown-and-other-worlds-imagined-charles-yu-on-showbiz-and-storytelling-with-lodge-49s-jim-gavin/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, Goodbye\, Again
DESCRIPTION:FREE VIRTUAL EVENT: Jonny Sun\, the wonderfully original author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, will be in conversation with writer and comedian Demi Adejuyigbe about Goodbye\, Again\, Sun’s new collection of touching and hilarious personal essays\, stories\, poems—accompanied by his trademark illustrations—covering topics such as mental health\, happiness\, and what it means to belong.  \n“This poetic\, humorous\, and heartfelt collection will have readers nodding along\, laughing\, and maybe even crying\, but more than anything they will be engrossed and craving more. Similar to Sun’s previous work\, this is another standout.” —Library Journal\, starred review \nRegister for this free Crowdcast event here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below—we will have signed copies in stock!\nYou can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nJonny Sun is back with a collection of essays and other writings in his unique\, funny\, and heartfelt style. The pieces range from long meditations on topics like loneliness and being an outsider\, to short humor pieces\, conversations\, and memorable one-liners. \nJonny’s honest writings about his struggles with feeling productive\, as well as his difficulties with anxiety and depression will connect deeply with his fans as well as anyone attempting to create in our chaotic world. \nIt also features a recipe for scrambled eggs that might make you cry.\n \nJonathan Sun is the author of Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too\, and the wildly popular twitter account @jonnysun. He’s also an architect\, designer\, engineer\, artist\, playwright\, and comedy writer. His work across multiple disciplines broadly addresses narratives of human experience. As a playwright\, Jonathan’s works have been performed at the Yale School of Drama\, the Hart House Theater in Toronto\, the Toronto Theater Lab’s First Sight festival\, and the University of Toronto Drama Festival (where he received the President’s Awards for Best Production and Outstanding Playwriting). As an artist and illustrator\, his work has been commissioned by the New Haven ArtSpace\, and has been exhibited at Yale University and the University of Toronto. \nDemi Adejuyigbe is a writer and comedian in Los Angeles best known for his work on The Good Place\, The Late Late Show\, and the Amber Ruffin Show.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-jonny-sun-goodbye-again/
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