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SUMMARY:Friday Night Poetry: w/ Carmen Giménez Smith & MK Chavez
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 18\n7:00pm\n \nEast Bay Booksellers is excited to host a fantastic Friday night of contemporary poetry\, featuring Carmen Giménez Smith and MK Chavez\, on May 18th at 7pm. \nCarmen Giménez Smith \n“In the body\, through the lyric\, and twitching with every sense of the word ‘nerve\, ‘ [Cruel Futures] book sings a mongrel nation into and across its cruel futures. Like Neruda in his Plenos Poderes/Full Powers\, Giménez Smith has all the mastery she needs to cast a cold eye on her positioning\, and ours. In this way Cruel Futures is an autobiography that won’t stay in its genre or premise\, caring less to author a self than to follow turns of magic in words that might soothe our ‘collisions with the living.'”–Farid Matuk \nA Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. \nCruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers\, Medusa\, mumblecore\, and mental illness in sharp-witted\, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet\, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces our realities\, the book is a high-energy analysis of popular culture\, as well as an exploration of the many social roles that women occupy as mother\, daughter\, lover\, and the resulting struggle to maintain personhood–all in a late capitalist America. \nCarmen Giménez Smith is the author of four poetry collections\, including Milk and Filth\, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an American Book Award for her memoir Bring Down the Little Birds (2010) and the Juniper Prize for Poetry for Goodbye\, Flicker (2012). She also co-edited Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing (2014)\, an anthology of contemporary Latinx writing. Be Recorderwill be published by Graywolf Press in 2019. She now serves on the planning committee for CantoMundo and on the board of RASA\, which sponsors the Thinking Its Presence conference on race and art. She serves as the publisher of Noemi Press. She is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech and the poetry editor for The Nation. \n* * * \nMK Chavez \n“MK Chavez wields a torrential consciousness that exists both as racing music and a suspended realm of human astronomy. Memorials share food with births.  Freedom fighters and artists must be one. Patriarchy must answer for its brutalization and farce. Sketches of loves expand the boundaries of poetry. Reading her poetry\, I feel invincible. Dear Animal\, is the incantation before justice\, and truly our return.” – Tongo Eisen-Martin\, author ofsomeone’s dead already \nMK Chavez will be reading from their most recent collection\, Dear Animal\, which is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the myriad Animalia that dwell in the margins. \nChavez is co-founder/co-curator of the Berkeley-based monthly reading series Lyrics & Dirges\, and the co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival. She believes in literary confrontation and its capacity to obliterate all forms of oppression. Recent and upcoming work can be found in Story Magazine\, Aspasiology\, and Jam Tarts Literary Magazine. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE
DESCRIPTION:NEXT THERE: THERE 23 – Friday\, May 18\, 2018\, with East Bay novelist Cameron MacKenzie\, award-winning local writer Tamara Schuyler\, local novelist Yang Huang\,and musical guest TBA. \nTHERE (THe Eastbay Reading Extravaganza) is a reading series showcasing emerging and established writers from Oakland and Berkeley\, with the occasional San Franciscan. Doug hosts it on the third Friday of each month at Octopus Literary Salon in Uptown Oakland. It also features a live original musical performance by a local musical artist at “halftime” of each month’s reading\, and Doug’s famous original LitQuiz literary trivia contest. It’s from 7:00-9:00pm. THERE has been putting the there back in Oakland since 2015! \nTHERE will take its annual summer break from June-August and return in September!
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LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Ulrich
DESCRIPTION:David Ulrich\n\n\n\n\npresents Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice of Photography\, an unprecedented photography practice that guides you to the creativity at your our fingertips\, calling for nothing more than your vision and any camera\, even the one embedded in your phone. \n“Zen Camera is to photographers what The Artist’s Way is to writers. This master class in creativity deserves a place in your home.”–Create with Joy \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Zen Camera by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, May 18\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Ulrich draws on the principles of Zen practice as well as forty years of teaching photography to offer six profound lessons for developing your self-expression. Doing for photography what The Artist’s Way and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain did for their respective crafts\, Zen Camera encourages you to build a visual journaling practice called your Daily Record in which photography can become a path of self-discovery. Beautifully illustrated with 83 photographs\, its insights into the nature of seeing\, art\, and personal growth allow you to create photographs that are beautiful\, meaningful\, and uniquely your own. \nYou’ll ultimately learn to change the way you interact with technology–transforming it into a way to uncover your innate power of attention and mindfulness\, to see creatively\, and to live authentically. \n\nDavid Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu\, Hawai’i. He teaches frequent classes and workshops\, and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture\, Manoa\, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness at www.theslenderthread.org\, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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