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SUMMARY:Learn Deep Revision Techniques
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Laurel Yourke will speak on the heart of revision-it’s not just polishing or substituting one word for another. Instead\, look at revision as viewing at your own words in a completely new way: re-envisioning them. One might divide this approach into five steps: \nWhat is the essence of your story\, poem\, or book? \nWhat is deep structure\, and how can you use it to diagnose? \nWhat issues do you want to tackle\, and how will you approach this process? \nWhat’s the relationship between author\, narrator\, characters\, and reader? \nWhat’s needed for that final polish? \nView revision through the lens of exploration\, and it becomes an exciting challenge to transform your project into everything you hoped it would be. \nDr. Laurel Yourke\, who has received two teaching awards\, recently published Beyond the First Draft: Deep Novel Revision. Earlier publications include Take Your Characters to Dinner (on the craft of fiction) and Waiting for Beethoven (a poetry collection). During her career at UW-Madison Continuing Studies\, she taught students from eight to eighty\, presenting at Writer’s Institute\, Write by the Lake\, School of the Arts\, among others. Her speaking engagements across Wisconsin ranged from writing and revising fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry. \nBuy your ticket now! \nhttps://www.ticketsource.us/california-writers-club-berkeley-branch/cwc-speaker-series-dr-laurel-yourke-deep-revision-techniques/2021-01-17/13:00/t-lggxgp \n  \nUpcoming Speaker Series Events \nFebruary 21st: Sage Cohen \nApril 18th: Emily Cotler \nMarch 21st: TBA \nMay 16th: Author Panel \nJune 20th: Member Book Launch (Authors Published in 2020 – 2021) \n  \nThe California Writers Club (CWC) formed in 1909. Today the nonprofit CWC has a statewide membership of nearly 1\,800 members and 22 branches. CWC member-volunteers serve aspiring writers\, published writers\, and supporters by providing  writing conferences\, contests\, critique and support groups\, workshops\, and publishing opportunities. \n$10 For Non-Members; $5 For Members. \nhttps://cwc-berkeley.org berkeley.cwc@gmail.com 510-629-1909
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SUMMARY:Poets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event: Floaters
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nPoets Martin Espada & Dennis Bernstein: A Zoom Event\nFloaters \nMARTIN ESPADA\, a poet who stirs our social consciousness\, has published twenty books as a poet\, editor\, essayist and translator\, including Vivas To Those Who Have Failed and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Republic of Poetry. \nHis latest book\, Floaters\, offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies\, songs of protest and songs of love.  The title is a term used by some Border Patrol agents to describe migrants who drown trying to cross over the border.  Espada bears eloquent witness to  confrontations with anti-immigrant bigotry. He also knows that times of hate call for poems of love. Whether celebrating the visionaries – the fallen dreamers\, rebels\, and poets – or condemning the outrageous governmental neglect of his father’s Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria\, Espada invokes ferocious\, incandescent spirits. \nDENNIS BERNSTEIN \, a poet and investigative journalist\, is the producer of Flashpoints (heard weekdays at 5pm on KPFA Radio 94.1 FM. His political essays have appeared in numerous newspapers\, magazines and websites. His latest book of poems is Five Oceans in a Teaspoon\, with typographic visualizations by Warren Lehrer. The poems in it reflect the struggle of everyday people trying to survive in the face of adversity. It spans a single lifetime: from growing up confused by dyslexia to becoming a frontline witness to war and its aftermath\, to prison\, street life\, poverty\, love and loss\, to open heart surgery. Five Oceans in a Teaspoon speaks to the madness\, vulnerability\, aspiration and language of our time. The raw emotion of the writing has a freshness rarely encountered.  The book was a winner for Poetry in the 2020 Best Book Awards/American Book Fest\, and a finalist in the International Book award for Poetry. \nSuggested Donation $1-$20. \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-espada-and-dennis-bernstein-floaters-tickets-130079233489 ken@kpfa.org
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SUMMARY:Claire Wasserman & Her Father\, Steve Wasserman: 'Ladies Get Paid'
DESCRIPTION:KPFA  Radio 94.1 FM presents a Zoom Event: \nClaire Wasserman & Her Father\, Steve Wasserman\n“Ladies Get Paid” \nClaire Wasserman is an author\, public speaker\, podcaster and founder of Ladies Get Paid\, a global organization that champions the professional and financial advancement of women. She is also the producer and host of John Hancock’s podcast\, “Friends Who Talk About Money.”  Claire has traveled the United States teaching thousands of women how to negotiate raises\, start businesses\, and advocate for themselves. She was named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s 100 Most Powerful Women and is a highly-sought-after expert for Fortune 500 companies working to improve diversity\, equity\, and inclusion within their organizations. \nClaire Wasserman has one crucial goal for women: rise up and get paid. She has worked her entire adult life to promote gender equality in the workplace. If you’re looking to get a promotion or break the glass ceiling\, Ladies Get Paid is your essential toolbox for achieving success.  Filled with straightforward advice and inspiring stories\, the book encourages self-advocacy and activism as a way to advance your career and earn more money. Covering topics as crucial and varied as how to find the perfect mentor\, how to negotiate a raise\, and how to become a leader\, Ladies Get Paid is a reminder that you are valuable-both as an individual woman and as part of the female community. And ultimately\, it’s about more than your wallet-it’s about your worth. \nIn conversation with Claire will be her proud father\, Steve Wasserman\, a prestigious cultural figure on his own. Heyday Books’ publisher and executive director was formerly editor-at-large for Yale University Press and editorial director of Times Books/Random House\, among other achievements in publishing. \nAttendees of those KPFA author events hosted by Steve Wasserman will know that this Zoom conversation with his daughter Claire is certain to be charming and enlightening. \nSuggested Donation $5-$20.
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SUMMARY:Jerald Walker & Kevin Cartwright: Zoom Event: How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents: \nJerald Walker and Kevin Cartwright: A Zoom Event\nHow to Make a Slave\nFinalist\, 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction \nEventbrite Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jerald-walker-how-to-make-a-slave-and-other-essays-tickets-130211779939 \nFor the Black community\, Jerald Walker asserts in How To Make a Slave\,” anger is often a prelude to a joke\, as there is broad understanding that the triumph over this destructive emotion is in finding its punchline.” It is on the knife’s edge between fury and farce that the essays in this exquisite collection balance. Whether confronting the medical profession’s racial biases\, considering the complicated legacy of Michael Jackson\, paying homage to his writing mentor\, or attempting to break free of personal and societal stereotypes\, Walker elegantly blends intimate revelation and cultural critique. The result is a bracing\, often humorous examination by one of America’s most acclaimed essayists of what it is to grow\, parent\, write\, and simply exist at this time as a Black American male. \n“These powerful essays offer an incisive glimpse into life as a Black man in America…crafted with honesty and a wry comedic flair\, these essays are both engaging and enraging.” -Kirkus Review \nJerald Walker is the author of The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult and Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race\, Rebellion\, and Redemption (winner of the 2011 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction). His work has been widely anthologized\, including five times in The Best American Essays. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College. \nKevin Cartwright\, a former Program Director with KPFA Radio\, has also produced and contributed to a number of local and national public affairs programs\, including Democracy Now\, Living Room\, The Morning Show\, Education Today\, 1440\, and various short run documentaries.
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