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SUMMARY:MPC: B.H. Fairchild
DESCRIPTION:Marin Poetry Center and North Berkeley Library are proud to co-sponsor a reading by B.H. Fairchild. Come to the North Berkeley Library on Tuesday\, April 18th at 6 p.m. to hear this extraordinary poet read. (1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA)\n\n\nB.H. Fairchild grew up in small towns in Texas and Kansas. The son of a lathe operator\, his poetry explores the empty landscapes of the region of his birth\, and the lives of its working-class residents\, and the search for beauty and meaning in daily life. He is one of the great contemporary narrative poets. According to Paul Mariani\, Fairchild’s poems “insist on the beauty to be found in what seems to be a desolate landscape.” \nFairchild’s books of poetry include The Arrival of the Future (1985; reissued 2000); The Art of the Lathe (1998)\, which received the Beatrice Hawley Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (2004)\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the California Book Award\, and the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; Local Knowledge (2005); and Usher: Poems (2009). Fairchild has also written a critical study on the poetry of William Blake\, Such Holy Song: Music as Idea\, Form\, and Image in the Poetry of William Blake (1980).
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LOCATION:North Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 1170 The Alameda\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94707\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Morgan Parker to the store to discuss and sign There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé on Tuesday\, April 18th at 7:00 pm. \nThere Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé uses political and pop-cultural references as a framework to explore 21st century black American womanhood and its complexities: performance\, depression\, isolation\, exoticism\, racism\, femininity\, and politics. The poems weave between personal narrative and pop-cultural criticism\, examining and confronting modern media\, consumption\, feminism\, and Blackness. This collection explores femininity and race in the contemporary American political climate\, folding in references from jazz standards\, visual art\, personal family history\, and Hip Hop. The voice of this book is a multifarious one: writing and rewriting bodies\, stories\, and histories of the past\, as well as uttering and bearing witness to the truth of the present\, and actively probing toward a new self\, an actualized self. This is a book at the intersections of mythology and sorrow\, of vulnerability and posturing\, of desire and disgust\, of tragedy and excellence. \nMorgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night\, selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and anthologies\, including Why I Am Not A Painter\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop\, and Best American Poetry 2016. Winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize and a Cave Canem graduate fellow\, Morgan lives in Brooklyn\, New York. She works as an editor for Little A and Day One\, moonlights as poetry editor of The Offing\, and co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico. With poet and performer Angel Nafis\, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-2/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Get Lit #23 (Music by Turk and Divis)
DESCRIPTION:An amazing gathering of writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. \nThe emcee for the night will be the one and only Christine No \nFeatured lineup of writers include: K.R. Morrison\, Evan Karp\, Kate Ambash\, Alex Ivey\, Giavanna Ortiz de Candia\, Josey Duncan\, Preeti Vangani\, James Warner\, Garrett Murphy\, Lyndsey Ellis\, Charlie Getter\, Andrew J. Thomas\, Kelechi Marie and more TBA \nMusical Guest: Turk and Divis
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-23-music-by-turk-and-divis/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Edie Meidav w/ Larry Bensky
DESCRIPTION:Edie Meidav in Conversation with Larry Bensky\n\n\n\n\ndiscussing Meidav’s story collection\, Kingdom of the Young. \n“Ambitious\, original\, deliciously philosophical. Kingdom of the Young invites comparison to the cronicas of Clarice Lispector and the fabulas of Italo Calvino.”–Carolyn Cooke\, author of Daughters of the Revolution \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, April 18\, 2017 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nThe dynamic characters in Kingdom of the Young are searching: for adventure\, work\, love\, absolution\, better chances elsewhere. In a symphonic stream of consciousness\, a fanatical child army loses faith in its commander as he ages unforgivably into his thirties. A woman possessed with wanderlust and a small inheritance seeks love among the cave-dwelling Roma in Granada. Traumatized war veterans run local rackets; smarmy bureaucrats rise through the ranks of repressive regimes; civilians attempt to escape the stranglehold of life under dictatorships. From the honeycombed caves outside the Alhambra to the streets of Havana\, from hospital wards to quinceanera parties\, these stories–along with the collection’s illuminating nonfiction coda–testify to Meidav’s vast imaginative range. \nEdie Meidav is the author of three novels–The Far Field\, Crawl Space\, and Lola\, California. Her honors include a Lannan Literary Award\, the Kafka Award for Best Novel by an American Woman\, the Bard Fiction Prize\, a Whiting Award\, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches at the UMass MFA program and lives in Amherst. \nLarry Bensky is a Berkeley journalist\, radio host\, political activist\, educator\, and Proust scholar. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/edie-meidav-w-larry-bensky/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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