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SUMMARY:The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Register \n\n\n\n \nLitquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nJoin Litquake for the exclusive Bay Area launch of the new anthology The End of the Golden Gate: Writers on Loving (and Sometimes Leaving) San Francisco (Chronicle Prism)\, featuring stories from 25 acclaimed writers about living in one of the most turbulent cultural epicenters in the U.S. Join us for a rollicking evening of stories and conversation\, with The End of the Golden Gate contributors Gary Kamiya\, John Law\, Kimberly Reyes\, and Alia Volz. Moderated by Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Audience Q&A to follow. \nFREE\, $10-15 suggested donation\nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nA percentage of this book’s proceeds will be given to charities that help those in the bay experiencing homelessness. Every copy purchased offers a small way to help those in need. \nOver the last few decades\, San Francisco has experienced radical changes with the influence of Silicon Valley\, tech companies\, and more. Countless articles\, blogs\, and even movies have tried to capture the complex nature of what San Francisco has become\, a place millions of people have loved to call home\, and yet are compelled to consider leaving. In this beautifully written collection\, writers take on this Bay Area-dweller’s eternal conflict: Should I stay or should I go? \nIncluding an introduction written by Gary Kamiya and essays from Margaret Cho\, W. Kamau Bell\, Michelle Tea\, Beth Lisick\, Daniel Handler\, Bonnie Tsui\, Stuart Schuffman\, Alysia Abbott\, Peter Coyote\, Alia Volz\, Duffy Jennings\, John Law\, and many more\, The End of the Golden Gate is a penetrating journey that illuminates both what makes San Francisco so magnetizing and how it has changed vastly over time\, shapeshifting to become something new for each generation of city dwellers. \nWith essays chronicling the impact of the tech-industry invasion and the evolution\, gentrification\, and radical cost of living that has transformed San Francisco’s most beloved neighborhoods\, these prescient essayists capture the lasting imprint of the 1960s counterculture movement\, as well as the fight to preserve the art\, music\, and other creative movements that make this forever the city of love. \nGary Kamiya is an author\, journalist and historian of San Francisco. His latest book\, with artist Paul Madonna\, is Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages Through the Unknown City. He is also author of Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco. His award-winning history column “Portals of the Past” appears every other Saturday in the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in San Francisco. \nJohn Law has been involved in creating underground culture in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond for 40 years. He was an original member of the legendary San Francisco urban adventure and pranks group The Suicide Club\, was integral to the creation of The Cacophony Society\, and is co-founder of the Burning Man Festival. Law is still involved in the worldwide urban exploration underground\, and collaborates with a number of artists and businesses on various projects. He is co-author of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society (Last Gasp)\, and lives in San Francisco. \nKimberly Reyes is a poet and essayist\, and has received fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, the Academy of American Poets\, CantoMundo\, Callaloo\, the Department of Culture\, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in Ireland\, the Munster Literature Centre\, the Prague Summer Program for Writers\, and many other places. She’s written nonfiction for The Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The Associated Press\, Entertainment Weekly\, Alternative Press\, ESPN the Magazine\, and poetry for journals including American Poets Magazine\, The Feminist Wire\, Columbia Journal\, and The Stinging Fly. She is author of the poetry collections Running to Stand Still (Omnidawn) and Warning Coloration (dancing girl press)\, and her nonfiction book of essays Life During Wartime (Fourteen Hills) won the 2018 Michael Rubin Book Award. \nAlia Volz is the author of Home Baked: My Mom\, Marijuana\, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\, winner of the 2020 Golden Poppy Award for nonfiction from the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays\, The New York Times\, Bon Appetit\, Guernica\, The Best Women’s Travel Writing\, and many other publications. She’s received fellowships from MacDowell and Ucross. Her family story has been featured on Snap Judgment\, Criminal and NPR’s Fresh Air. She lives in San Francisco.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education)
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith is thrilled to present an evening of readings and conversation with Cal Calamia (San Franshitshow) and Caroline M. Mar (Special Education). Join us! \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. Event link will be sent to everyone who registers. \nYou can order the authors books below: \n\nSpecial Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSan Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\n\nWe 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 San Franshitshow by Cal Calamia\nSan Franshitshow is an emotional reckoning with self\, love\, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss and of coming to terms with yourself in a world that would prefer you did not: how this struggle impacts every area of your life. It expresses the power of self-acceptance with grace and humor. Calamia’s debut is a unifying force of a memoir—a poignant\, tender collection of poetry that will open your heart—every poem as raw as a tear-stained diary page. \nCal Calamia is a bilingual queer trans educator\, activist\, and poet from Chicago. His performative work has been featured at many spoken word series across The Bay\, and his first book San Franshitshow was just published by Nomadic Press. Notable accomplishments include impressing a teacher in kindergarten when he correctly spelled vacation\, attending two classes of an MFA program\, and often being told his class is a student’s favorite. Find out more about Cal at calcalamia.com. Author photo by Ariel Robbins. \nAbout Special Education by Caroline M. Mar\nSpecial Education is a powerful collection of poems confronting American identity in the 21st century. In large part\, it traces a new teacher’s poetic journey to understanding her work and herself. Mar’s poems\, which move between free verse and received forms\, between the “I” of her speaker-narrator and the voices of colleagues\, students\, and the world around all of them\, investigate a variety of topics—how love is expressed by doing something one hates for a partner who loves it\, what a charging bear on a camping trip can reveal about gender\, the failures of an education system as depicted through colors and images on a slideshow presentation. \nThe collection closes on a speaker both more and less certain about her place in the world. Her hometown\, as she gazes across it in “Views\,” is changing dramatically as she asks\, “Why nostalgia / for a place that is still my place?” By the poem’s end\, having covered everything from the places where her grandparents died to the effects of the next big earthquake to luxury cars\, the speaker has revealed herself to both be inside of and resistant to the machinations of systems that seem prepared to crush her students: education\, racism\, gentrification\, ableism. What does life look like on an everyday scale against the churning of the world? In Special Education\, Mar embraces this truth and\, in poems that show us what we have yet to learn\, employs both her systemic mind and poetic voice to confront the “ugly little loves” that the world makes of us all. \nCaroline Mei-Lin Mar is the author of Special Education (Texas Review Press\, 2020). A high school health educator in San Francisco\, she is doing her best to keep her gentrifying hometown queer and creative. Carrie is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College\, an alumna of VONA\, a member of Rabble Collective\, and a board member of Friends of Writers. He work has recently appeared in Nimrod\, Storyscape\, Pinwheel\, and Anomaly\, among others\, and she has been granted residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Ragdale. You can write to Carrie at P.O. Box 460491\, San Francisco\, CA 94114 – she’ll (eventually) write you back. Author photo by Jessica Tong-Ahn. \nThis event is free and all ages\, but RSVP is required. \n 
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SUMMARY:Nathaniel Mackey
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of his new poetry collection \nDOUBLE TRIO \npublished by New Directions \n     \nThree new books in a spectacular limited edition box carry the tradition of the long poem far into the 21st century with a “low-lit\, slow-drag ebullience” \n———- \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. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. (link to be posted soon!) \n———– \nFor thirty-five years the poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive-making like no other: two elegiac\, intertwined serial poems—”Song of the Andoumboulou” and “Mu“—that follow a mysterious\, migrant “we” through the rhythms and currents of the world with lyrical virtuosity and impassioned expectancy. In a note to this astonishing box set of new work\, Mackey writes: \n“I turned sixty-five within a couple of months of beginning to write Double Trio and I was within a couple of months of turning seventy-one when I finished it.… It was a period of distress and precarity inside and outside both. During this time\, a certain disposition or dispensation came upon me that I would characterize or sum up with the words all day music. It was a time in which I wanted never not to be thinking between poetry and music\, poetry and the daily or the everyday\, the everyday and the alter-everyday. Philosophically and technically\, the work meant to be always pertaining to the relation of parts to one another and of parts to an evolving whole.” \nStructured in part after the last three movements of John Coltrane’s Meditations—”Love\,” “Consequence\,” and “Serenity”—Double Trio stretches Mackey’s explorations and improvisations of free jazz into unprecedented poetic territory. \nNathaniel Mackey was born in Miami\, Florida\, in 1947. He is the author of several books of fiction of “exquisite rhythmic lyricism” (Bookforum)\, poetry\, and criticism and has received many awards for his work\, including the National Book Award in poetry for Splay Anthem\, the Stephen Henderson Award from the African American Literature and Culture Society\, the Bollingen Prize\, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Mackey is the Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University. \nWhat has been said about the work of Nathaniel Mackey: \n\nStill sourcing and exploring two massive\, braided streams of retrospective invention—’Mu’ and Song of the Andoumboulou—Mackey’s liturgy falls and sprays and pools in Double Trio. Bottomless\, modal\, modular as McCoy Tyner’s matched\, augmented threes\, surfaces bloomed with turbulent\, recombinant bottom like Bill Dixon’s double-bassed ensembles\, Double Trio doesn’t culminate: it promises. \n—Fred Moten \n\nFor decades\, National Book Award-winner Mackey has devoted himself to creating a long poem that covers ambitious territory — and he begins this installment by recalling how early free jazz musicians re-invented the multi-disc record collection because they needed several albums to record their fertile improvisations; you might say that Double Trio is Mackey’s multi-disc box set. Double Trio is a libretto of metaphysical music and probably the most important poetry collection to come out this year. \n—Ken Chen\, NPR \n\n\nMackey’s own rare combinations create an astonishing and resounding effect: his words go where music goes: a brilliant and major accomplishment. \n—Don Share\, The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize Citation \n\nBecause of their crablike logic Mackey’s lines feel simultaneously abraded and buffed\, their meanings fugitive\, tremulous\, mercurial. He is a lyric poet whose probing of wounds and the whir of words reaches into epic dimensions. \n—John Palettella\, The Nation \n\n\nMackey is doing what might be the most technically virtuosic rhythmo- syntactic work in the English language. No one comes close. I hope these two long poems never end. \n—Mike Lala\, Brooklyn Rail \n\n\nNathaniel Mackey is a poet of ongoingness involved in a kind of spiritualist or cosmic pursuit. \n—Edward Hirsch\, The Washington Post \n\n\nMackey’s major prose project is an experiment in serial fiction called From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate. It feels\, sentence to sentence and page to page\, like a work in the act of being created. It is not simply writing about jazz\, but writing as jazz… There is a cliché about music writing\, sometimes attributed to Thelonious Monk\, among others: ‘ Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.’ If so\, Nathaniel Mackey is compelled\, rather than deterred\, by the multiform madness of the enterprise. he is the Balanchine of the architecture dance. \n—David Hajdu\, The New York Times \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Bookshop Happy Hour\, Summer Reading Edition
DESCRIPTION:Grab a beverage and join us from the comfort of home as we share with you our picks for great summer reading. Bookshop’s owner\, Casey; head book buyer\, Melinda; and Bookshop staff members will share some of their favorite new reads. \nRegister for this free Crowdcast by clicking here! \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/virtual-event-bookshop-happy-hour-summer-reading-edition/
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