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SUMMARY:"Say her name!": Writing the poetry of witness
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, poets will study the poetic work of Aracelis Girmay\, Patricia Smith\, and Danez Smith as a way of tracing the trembling thread that these poets leave us through the intense witnessing of pain to human connection\, creative response\, and action. You will also read the news and be guided in the spiritual and humanizing practice necessary to write poetry of witness. At the end of the workshop\, those who are ready\, will be encouraged to record and submit their poems to Black Poets Speak Out or Voluble. This workshop is open to writers of all backgrounds and stripes\, and at any stage of their process. \nAbout the instructor\, poet Raina J. León: \nRaina J. León\, member of the Carolina African American Writers Collective\, Cave Canem\, Macondo\, and CantoMundo\, has been published in numerous journals as a writer of poetry\, fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of three collections of poetry\, Canticle of Idols\, Boogeyman Dawn\, and sombra: (dis)locate(2016) and the chapbook\, profeta without refuge (2016). She has received fellowships and residencies with Montana Artists Refuge\, the Macdowell Colony\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Annamaghkerrig\, Ireland and Ragdale. She also is a founding editor of The Acentos Review\, an online quarterly\, international journal devoted to the promotion and publication of LatinX arts. Raina is an associate professor of education at Saint Mary’s College of California. \nReserving a Space: You may reserve a space by purchasing a ticket on a sliding scale\, $5-10\, first-come-first-serve. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU. There are 15 five dollar tix available\, and 15 ten dollar tix available. The class caps at 30\, so reserve your space now! \nLocation: Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609. TAC studio can be accessed via wide ramps and also features a wide bathroom equipped with multiple handrails.
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LOCATION:Temescal Art Center\, 511 48th Street\, Oakland\, 94609\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Barone + Ingrid Keir
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Barone and Ingrid Keir featuring at Frank Bette\nHosted By: Deborah Ledvick and Jeanne Lupton \nJennifer Barone is an Italian-American poet and artist. She is the author of three books of poetry\, her most recent: “Saporoso – Poems of Italian Food & Love.” She is known to collaborate with artists and musicians as founder and co-host of the WordParty Poetry & Jazz Series and as Creative Director for FeatherPress. She has been a featured poet at the SFJazz Poetry & Jazz Festival\, The SF Public Library\, The Red Poppy Art House\, SF MoMa\, DeYoung\, and The Beat Museum. She was a winner of the 2007 and 2012 SF Public Library’s Poets Eleven contest for North Beach where she resides and has been published in literary journals such as The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, and Quiet Lightning’s sPARKLE & bLINK. She is currently working on a new collection of poetry. Visit thewordparty.com for more. \nIngrid Keir is a poet\, performer and educator. She is co-founder of the WordParty\, a long-running San Francisco poetry and jazz series. She has been a featured reader at diverse venues in the Bay Area including the DeYoung Museum\, The Beat Museum\, City Hall\, Quiet Lightning as well as many others. Ingrid has lectured Creative Writing at San Francisco State University where she taught undergraduate poetry\, fiction and playwriting while simultaneously engaging students with writers of the Bay Area. She also received both her M.F.A and B.A. degrees at San Francisco State University. She has written several chapbooks: The Secrets of Like (2004)\, Toward the Light (2007) and recently released a new book of poetry in September 2016\, The Choreography of Nests\, published by Feather Press. Ingrid has been published in many literary journals including: Two Hawks Quarterly\, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal\, Sparkle and Blink and Out of Our. She was also shortlisted in the 2016 Litquake poetry contest.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-barone-ingrid-keir/
LOCATION:Frank Bette Center for the Arts\, 1601 Paru Street\, Alameda\, 94501\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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