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SUMMARY:Mystical Poetry and the Awakened Heart
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Acharya Shunya and Yogacharya Ellen Grace O’Brianfeaturing heartfelt conversations on Bhakti and the Hidden Sweetness\, and poetry reading by Yogacharya from her latest award-winning poetry collection\, “The Moon Reminded Me”. \nPoetry says what the mind can only glimpse but the heart knows full well. It is the ancient language of the soul spoken by all mystic bards of Bhakti\, the yoga of devotion calling us to awaken to divine Love. Through the ages\, poetry persists as the soul insists on revealing itself again and again. Yogacharya Ellen O’Brian’s reading from her collection of poems invites the mind to sink into the heart of divine remembrance. \nCome—listen\, meditate\, remember what matters most\, who you really are. \nApril 20\, 2017 | 6:30 – 8:30 pm\, 8:30 – 9:00 pm – Book signing by Yogacharya\nVedika Global Emeryville\, CA\nThis event is open to the public.
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LOCATION:Vedika Global\, 5950 Doyle St.\, Emeryville\, CA\, 94608\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dana Goia Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join California poet laureate\, Dana Gioia\, El Cerrito poet laureate\, Maw Shein Win\, and Kiara Chatman and Camila Morales-Jimenez\, Poetry Out Loud Student Champions of Contra Costa County for a poetry reading and conversation. The event will take place on Thursday\, April 20th at 6:30pm at the El Cerrito Public Library located at 6510 Stockton Avenue. \nWe look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dana-goia-reading/
LOCATION:El Cerrito Public Library\, 6510 Stockton Ave\, El Cerrito\, CA\, 94530\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Small Press Celebration: Editorial Argonáutica
DESCRIPTION:IESEL\, A Bookstore in Oakland welcomes Mark Haber\, Scott Esposito and Editorial Argonáutica to the store to celebrate their latest bilingual books on Thursday\, April 20th at 7pm. \nArgonáutica is a Mexican press based in Monterrey\, Mexico\, an industrial city torn between the “Texas Way of Life” and one of the richest cultures in the world. Their mission is to bring world literature together\, to reflect on the translation process and to promote authors that would otherwise not cross their borders. In addition to its artistic value\, literature tells the story of culture and its individuals\, as well as the way they interact with each other. Argonáutica’s goal is to help create a dialogue between the voices in each culture. \n[El proyecto editorial de Argonáutica arrancó con el objetivo de acercar las literaturas del mundo\, profundizar en el acto de la traducción y destacar la figura del traductor.  Un aspecto distintivo de la editorial es la intención de publicar ediciones bilingües en las que sea posible cotejar las particularidades\, giros y modos de cada lengua. Este enfoque permite abordar el fenómeno de la traducción como arte y como intercambio cultural. \nEn Argonáutica vemos la literatura como un elemento de contacto entre culturas y\, por lo tanto\, buscamos colaborar con instituciones culturales de diferentes países para establecer alianzas y proyectos editoriales en conjunto. Además de su valor estético\, la literatura da cuenta de la diversidad de individuos y comunidades que interactúan en el contexto global de la contemporaneidad. \nArgonáutica\, además de proyecto editorial\, pretende ser una plataforma para el diálogo intercultural de voces literarias provenientes de distintas latitudes.] \n* * * \nMark Haber‘s Melville´s Beard [Las barbas de Melville] is a collection of nine absurd stories varying in structure and tone. Each examines the human condition and the dilemmas we face in the tempest of our own self-induced problems. These are obscure\, weird and\, in many cases\, disturbing stories. Mark’s stories are ageless because they speak to us\, demanding we question our own natures\, regardless of time and space. \n[Es un libro de nueve relatos absurdos\, con diferentes estructuras y tonos. Mark escribe sobre la condición humana\, sobre los problemas a los que nos enfrentamos y que nosotros mismos creamos. Las suyas son historias oscuras\, extrañas y perturbadoras. Son atemporales porque cuestionan la naturaleza del hombre sin importar tiempo o espacio.] \nMark was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Clearwater\, Florida. He is the store manager of Brazos Bookstore in Houston\, Texas. He has been a juror on the Best Translated Book Award for 2016 and 2017. His criticism has appeared in The Rumpus\, Music & Literature\, LitHub. and The Quarterly Conversation. His debut collection of short stories\, Deathbed Conversions\, was published in 2009. \n* * * \nScott Esposito‘s Latin American Mixtape [Mixtape Latinoamericano] is not just a collection of literary essays on Latin American writers\, it’s also about the insight that comes from a magnificent reader from abroad reading the great writers of a foreign continent. It includes three never-before-published pieces\, exclusive interviews and a sharp point of view on literature. \n[La serie de ensayos «lados b»\, como los llama el autor\, no hablan solo del trabajo de autores latinoamericanos\, sino también de la perspectiva de un extradordinario lector extranjero a partir de la lectura de grandes escritores. Incluye tres textos inéditos\, entrevistas y una agudísima visión de la literatura en general.] \nScott is the author of The Surrender (2016\, Anomalous Press)\, The Doubles (forthcoming\, Civil Coping Mechanisms) and co-author of The End of Oulipo? (written with Lauren Elkin\, Zero Books\, 2013). Some of his texts have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement\, La Tempestad (Mexican magazine)\, Granta en español\, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times\, among others. He is a senior editor of Two Lines Press\, contributing editor of BOMB magazine\, and founder of The Quarterly Conversation. \n  \nBoth books will be available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/small-press-celebration-editorial-argonautica/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:JP Voyer
DESCRIPTION:Join Pro Arts and Little Black Cart on April 20th\, 7:00 – 9:00 at Pro Arts Gallery for a book launch and reception for the English language version of “Inquiry Into the Causes and Nature of the Misery of People” by JP Voyer. \nThis statement from the co-translator of Voyer’s book\, Isaac Cronin\, explains briefly why he believes The Inquiry is the most important work of social criticism written since World War II. \n“In the early 70s as the Situationist International imploded Voyer’s timely call for a detailed critique of Marx and the materialist economists fell on deaf ears in Paris. There was no public response by Debord or anyone else in his camp who had been directly challenged to take up this task. In the following years Voyer proceeded to make a series of bold discoveries. An Inquiry Into The Causes And Nature of The Misery of People takes on\, among other classic economists\, Adam Smith\, whose masterpiece is alluded to in Voyer’s title. For the first time\, and in a systematic fashion\, Voyer shows: 1) that the economy doesn’t exist except as a false idea and practice on the part of our enemies; 2) that in our world communication\, the most human of human acts\, is what commodities\, not people\, do and 3) that there is no such thing as exchange value vs. use value\, that there is only value which is the language of abstraction commodities speak to each other without slaves who transport these commodities participating in the discussion.”
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jp-voyer/
LOCATION:Pro Arts Gallery\, 150 Frank H Ogawa Plaza\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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