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SUMMARY:Shanthi Sekaran
DESCRIPTION:Shanthi Sekaran’s forthcoming novel\, Lucky Boy\, has been praised as “richly layered” and “superbly crafted”. Due for release in January 2017\, the novel tells the story of a young undocumented Mexican woman who finds her fate unexpectedly entwined with that of a Berkeley couple. Her first novel\, The Prayer Room\, came out in 2009. Sekaran now lives in Berkeley and teaches writing at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/shanthi-sekaran-3/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sixteen Rivers Press: Erin Rodoni + Gillian Wegener
DESCRIPTION:A Sixteen Rivers Press Launch Celebration with Poets Erin Rodoni and Gillian Wegener\n\n\n\n\nreading from new collections\, Body\, in Good Light and This Sweet Haphazard\, respectively. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 13\, 2017 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Erin Rodoni’s Body\, in Good Light: \nThroughout this debut collection\, Rodoni distills experience for its essence\, rendered in language that is fierce\, tender\, penetrating in its precision\, and astonishing in its turns of phrase. Whether describing “turncoat cells” of cancer\, the half-smile scar of a  caesarian\, or the alien landscape of childhood seared by wildfire\, Rodoni’s poems remind us how tenuous our lives are\, how each moment arrives as inescapably painful and miraculous as birth. \n“Here is a book that journeys out into the world\, and also inward\, into the mysteries of private life\, of the body\, where ‘bliss\, like a memory\, can be unearthed by scent.’ I love how the wisdom enters the moment of passion in these poems\, where we see ourselves living here\, on this earth\, ‘believing // in these bodies.’ This is a marvelous debut.”—Ilya Kaminsky\, author of Dancing In Odessa \nErin Rodoni’s work has appeared in Colorado Review\, Cimarron Review\, Drunken Boat\, Ninth Letter\, and Vinyl Poetry\, among others. Her poems have also been included in the Best New Poets anthology\, featured on Verse Daily\, and honored with an Intro Journals Award from the Association of Writers and Writing programs. Born and raised in Point Reyes\, Rodoni currently lives in the Bay Area. \nAbout Gillian Wegener’s This Sweet Haphazard: \nThe poems in This Sweet Haphazard are anything but haphazard in their designs or effects\, and while sweetness resides here\, it’s a sweetness hard-won by looking at life unflinchingly. Wegener’s gift is to show us that the ever-changing\, the temporal\, is as close as we’re apt to come to paradise. These are poems that no one will forget\, radiating as they do with Central Valley heat\, with the beauty of the ordinary\, and with the love of a woman for the “sweet haphazard of home\,” from which everything here so accurately and ingeniously arises. \n“Everything is brimming in Gillian Wegener’s fantastic new collection of poems— rivers\, bees\, the Old Mill Café\, forest fires\, churches\, Neville Bros. Service\, the ghosts of Humboldt County…and most importantly\, the unmapped geography of the human heart. Candid and creative\, Wegener charts past and present\, interior and exterior\, in order to create a poetic landscape we never want to leave.”—Dean Rader\, author of Works & Days \nGillian Wegener is the author of two previous books of poetry: a chapbook and a full-length collection\, The Opposite of Clairvoyance. Widely published\, she has won several awards for her work\, including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2006 and 2007 and the Zócalo Public Square Prize for Poetry of Place in 2015. Wegener lives in Modesto where she coordinates and hosts the monthly Second Tuesday Reading Series. She is a cofounder of Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center and has served as the poet laureate for the City of Modesto. \nAbout Sixteen Rivers Press: \nSixteen Rivers Press is poetry collective dedicated to providing an alternative publishing avenue for Bay Area poets. The press is named for the sixteen rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sixteen-rivers-press-erin-rodoni-gillian-wegener/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash: Laura Hinton + Angela Hume
DESCRIPTION:Laura Hinton’s new book of poems is Ubermütter’s Death Dance. Elizabeth Frost asks\, “How do we survive grief—let alone write it? Shattered by the inexplicable death of her only child at 32\, Laura Hinton miraculously gives us this lacerating work of witness\, “am I still a mother?” she asks\, refusing any answer…I feel privileged to read—to be—in these words.” She is a scholar\, editor\, literary critic\, and multi-media poet. Among her many scholarly books is the edited collection Jayne Cortez\, Adrienne Rich\, and the Feminist Superhero: Voice\, Vision\, Politics and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women’s Poetics. Her previous book of poems is Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub). She maintains a blog on hybrid poetics\, “Chant de la Sirene” (www.chantdelasirene.com). Her readings are performances\, often including dance.\nAngela Hume’s new full-length book of poems is Middle Time. Eveyn Reilly says\, “Mid-stream\, mid-era\, mid-construction of the notion of an Anthropocene extending into a multitude of future absences\, Hume is writing poetry that is both symptom and diagnosis. Querying vocabularies of mitigation\, of damage\, of ‘rage’s junk effects\,’ these intelligent\, visually and sonically acute fragments set forth an almost impossible lyric of a ‘possible earth capsizing toward you’ or\, rather\, us.” Widely published in literary journals\, she is also the author of the chapbooks Melos\, The Middle\, and Second Story of Your Body.\nFor more on Poetry Flash events\, see Poetryflash.org.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-laura-hinton-angela-hume/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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