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SUMMARY:Spring Readings: Ismail Muhammad
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 5\, 2021\, 2:00pm via Zoom \nIsmail Muhammad is the reviews editor for The Believer\, a staff writer at the Millions\, a contributing editor at ZYZZYVA\, and a board member at the National Books Critics Circle. He’s been a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship\, and a Simpson Family Literary Fellow. His work\, which focuses on literature\, art\, identity\, and black popular and visual culture\, has appeared in publications like The New York Times\, Slate\, New Republic\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Real Life\, and Catapult. \nIn Spring 2021\, Muhammad is teaching English 361: Contemporary Nonfiction
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LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Voice Series\, featuring Dan Lau\, with others tba
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending\, will be announced here \nWith emcee\, Carlos Quinteros III \nThe Poetry Center is delighted to announce the New Voice series\, initiated in Spring 2021 as an annual reading series that will pair a poet alum of SF State\, a current SF State graduate student poet in Creative Writing\, and a current undergraduate student poet at SF State (any major)\, to each read their work and engage in conversation. For the premier event\, poet Dan Lau has been invited to appear along with student poets on Wednesday May 5\, 4:00 pm Pacific Time. \nDetails tba \n\n\n\n  \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\, New Voice Series
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Thalia Field and Anakana Schofield
DESCRIPTION:Anakana Schofield joins Thalia Field for a conversation about her latest experimental work on animal rights\, Personhood (New Directions). \nThis event is presented in conjunction with Community Bookstore in Park Slope. \nThis will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Personhood\nA remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers \nWhether investigating refugee parrots\, indentured elephants\, the pathetic fallacy\, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the “invasive species crisis\,” Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection\, Bird Lovers\, Backyard\, Thalia Field’s essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous\, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals\, and other historical actors\, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status. \nAbout the writers\nThalia Field is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is Experimental Animals (A Reality Fiction) from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are Point and Line (2000)\, Incarnate: Story Material (2004)\, and Bird Lovers\, Backyard (2010). \nAnakana Schofield is an award-winning Irish-Canadian writer of fiction\, essays\, and literary criticism. Her previous novels are Malarky (2012) and Martin John (2015). The UK edition of Bina was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. Schofield lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.
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CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Imagine Us\, the Swarm Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday May 5 | 6-7:30pm PST\nvia Zoom\nno fee \nKSW is partnering with the San Francisco Public Library for the launch of Muriel Leung’s Imagine Us\, The Swarm (Nightboat Books). In this collection of essays in verse\, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American\, queer and gendered experiences. Following the death of the poet’s father\, Imagine Us\, The Swarm contemplates vengeance\, eschews forgiveness and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. Moving between the past and the present\, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future. \nThis launch party will feature a reading from Leung’s new book in addition to readings by Truong Tran\, Hari Alluri\, Janice Lobo Sapigao\, Angie Sijun Lou and Addie Tsai. There will also be a raffle\, giveaways\, and trivia games woven into the night. \nMuriel Leung\n\nMuriel Leung is the author of Imagine Us\, The Swarm from Nightboat Books in 2021\, and Bone Confetti\, winner of the 2015 Noemi Press Book Award. A Pushcart Prize nominated writer\, her writing can be found in The Baffler\, Cream City Review\, Gulf Coast\, The Collagist\, Fairy Tale Review and others. She is a recipient of fellowships to Kundiman\, VONA/Voices Workshop and the Community of Writers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Gold Line Press and the Poetry Co-Editor of Apogee Journal. Leung co-hosts The Blood-Jet Writing Hour Podcast with Rachelle Cruz and MT Vallarta. She is a member of Miresa Collective\, a feminist speakers bureau. Currently\, Leung is an Andrew W. Mellon Humanities in a Digital World fellow at the University of Southern California where she is completing her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature. \n\n\nHari Alluri\n\nHari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade\, Jr. Fellowship for Poets of Color and recipient of grants from the Canada Council of the Arts\, his work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies\, as well as Apogee\, Solstice\, Tinderbox\, Witness and elsewhere. Alluri’s collaborations lately are through BIPOC Writing Community\, Community Building Art Works\, The Cultch\, The Digital Sala\, Massy Books and Soft Cedar. \n\n\nJanice Sapigao\n\nJanice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a poet from San José\, CA. She is the author of two books of poetry\, microchips for millions (Philippine American Writers and Artists\, Inc.\, 2016) and like a solid to a shadow (Nightboat Books\, 2017). She is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate. \n\n\nAddie Tsai\n\nAddie Tsai (she/they) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color\, and teaches courses in literature\, creative writing\, dance and humanities at Houston Community College. She also teaches in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Regis University’s Mile High MFA in Creative Writing. They collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel\, among others. Addie holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in Dance from Texas Woman’s University. She is the author of the queer Asian young adult novel Dear Twin\, which made the 2021 Rainbow Book List\, and received press in Autostraddle\, Bustle\, Lambda Literary Review and others. Addie’s writing has been published in Foglifter\, VIDA Lit\, the Texas Review and elsewhere. They are the Fiction Co-Editor at Anomaly\, Staff Writer at Spectrum South and Founding Editor & Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy. \n\n\nTruong Tran\n\nTruong Tran is a poet ad visual artist. His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at California Institute of Integral Studies\, The Telegraph Hill Gallery\, SOMArts\, Mina Dresden Gallery\, and The Peninsula Museum of Art. His books include\, Placing The Accents\, The Book of Perceptions\, Dust and Conscience\, Within The Margin\, Four Letter Words\, 100 Words and the much anticipated Book of the Other (October 2021). He is currently The Adjunct Professor of Poetry at Mills College where he teaches graduate courses about poetics and the crossing of writing and visual art. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAngie Sijun Lou\n\nAngie Sijun Lou is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review\, Poetry Northwest\, FENCE\, Black Warrior Review\, the Adroit Journal\, the Asian American Literary Review\, Hyphen\, the Margins and others. She is a Kundiman Fellow\, a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and a calculus instructor at San Quentin State Prison. She has received fellowships and support from the Vermont Studio Center\, Millay Colony and the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Renée Watson\, Ways to Grow Love
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop is thrilled to welcome award-winning author Renée Watson for an online event celebrating Ways to Grow Love\, the newest title in her Ramona-esque series for young readers\, starring Ryan Hart and her loveable family. \nRegister for this free event by clicking here!This is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nRyan Hart and her family are back in another installment of stories about a Black girl finding her way and her voice as she grows through change and challenges. In this book\, Ryan finds herself wishing for lots of things—like for her new sister to be born healthy\, for her new recipes to turn out right\, for that camping trip to go better than she fears! And of course Ryan is facing these new challenges and new experiences in her classic style—with a bright outlook and plenty of spirit! \nInspired to write her own version of Ramona\, Newbery Honor- and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson continues her delightful series. \nRenée Watson is a New York Times bestselling author. Her novel\, Piecing Me Together\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award. Her books include Ways to Make Sunshine\, Some Places More Than Others\, This Side of Home\, What Momma Left Me\, Betty Before X\, co-written with Ilyasah Shabazz\, and Watch Us Rise\, co-written with Ellen Hagan\, as well as two acclaimed picture books: A Place Where Hurricanes Happen and Harlem’s Little Blackbird\, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Renée lives in New York City. www.reneewatson.net; @harlemportland (Instagram); @reneewauthor (Twitter)
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LOCATION:CA
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SUMMARY:Green Rabbits Glowing at the End of the World: Annalee Newitz and Nathaniel Rich on What Happens When Civilizations Fail
DESCRIPTION:Annalee Newitz\, Nathaniel Rich\, Bonnie Tsui \nMore than 150 years ago\, long before intimations of a warming planet had begun\, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a prescient statement: “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” While some of us might not consider our current culture to be terribly civilized\, one thing is clear: we’ve been propelling our own species\, along with millions of other life forms\, toward extinction as a result of human-generated climate change. \nTo probe our own “end times\,” we’ve brought together two highly respected journalists who also happen to be speculative fiction writers. Annalee Newitz is an award-winning novelist (The Future of Another Timeline) and a science\, technology and culture writer whose fascinating new book\, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age\, explores the rise and fall of four urban-centered civilizations\, from medieval Angkor in Cambodia to the indigenous metropolis Cahokia in present-day Missouri. \nFast forward from ancient times to 2018\, when the New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to journalist Nathaniel Rich’s chronicle of the world’s failures to listen to scientists who began seriously sounding the alarm about climate change in 1979. That article became the book Losing Earth\, which Rich has now followed up with the deeply reported\, riveting Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Where do we go from here? Scientists are no longer asking how we can return to the world we’ve lost—we’ve irrevocably changed every inch of our planet—but what we can create in its place in order to survive. Their answers rival the wildest science fiction. \nAlbert Camus (The Plague) wrote\, “the purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Moderated by Bonnie Tsui\, author of Why We Swim\, this conversation with two leading writers will give you a blast from the (long lost) past along with a staggering vision of the future. \nGet your Ticket
URL:https://litseen.com/event/green-rabbits-glowing-at-the-end-of-the-world-annalee-newitz-and-nathaniel-rich-on-what-happens-when-civilizations-fail/
LOCATION:online\, CA\, United States
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