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SUMMARY:Lunch Poems: Robert Hass
DESCRIPTION:Robert Hass’s many awards include the National Book Award\, the Pulitzer Prize\, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Additionally\, he served as U. S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and also founded the long-running Lunch Poems series at University of California\, Berkeley where he is Distinguished Professor in Poetry and Poetics. Among his published books are Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems\, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005 and the forthcoming Summer Snow: New Poems (HarperCollins\, 2020).
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lunch-poems-robert-hass/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lidia Yuknavitch VERGE Book Tour
DESCRIPTION:Lidia Yuknavitch will read from her new book\, VERGE\, on Thursday\, February 6 at 7:00 PM at East Bay Booksellers. A Q&A and Signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. \nNamed one of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year by Vogue\, VERGE is a fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis\, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction. \nLidia Yuknavitch photo by William Anthony
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Arts & Letters presents Shauna Shapiro / Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy with Eve Ekman
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Arts & Letters and The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley co-present an evening with Shauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. for her new book\, Good Morning\, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm\, Clarity\, and Joy. \nIn Good Morning\, I Love You\, Dr. Shauna Shapiro — one of the leading scientists studying the effects of mindfulness on well-being — shows us that acting with compassion toward ourselves is the key. \nIn short\, lively chapters\, Dr. Shapiro explains the basic brain science and offers numerous mindfulness and self-compassion practices. Stories from her life and research demonstrate how this powerhouse combination alleviates anxiety\, boosts creative thinking\, and enlarges our sense of belonging and purpose. \nWe can see it on brain scans. Negative and critical thoughts (and the vast majority of our thoughts are negative) cause the part of the brain responsible for learning to literally shut down. Kind and self-compassionate thoughts\, by contrast\, turn on the parts responsible for growth and change. With practice\, we can literally rewire our brains for greater feelings of calm\, joy\, and possibility. \nTry it and see  even if it makes you squirm. When you wake up tomorrow\, take a deep breath\, hand on heart\, and say\, Good morning\, I love you. Then try it the next day. And the next. See what happens. \n——————-\n​\nShauna Shapiro\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and internationally recognized expert in mindfulness and self-compassion. She is a widely published scholar whose TEDx talk\, The Power of Mindfulness\, has been viewed over one million times. She is a professor at Santa Clara University and a fellow of the Dalai Lamas Mind and Life Institute. Dr. Shapiro lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information\, visit drshaunashapiro.com.    ​ \nEve Ekman\, Ph.D.\, MSW\, is the GGSC’s director of training. Eve is a second-generation emotion researcher who has had meaningful collaborations with her father\, renowned emotion researcher Dr. Paul Ekman\, including on The Atlas of Emotions\, an online visual tool commissioned by the Dalai Lama to teach emotional awareness\, and Cultivating Emotional Balance\, an intensive\, evidence-based training for compassion and mindfulness. \n​\n​Please note: \nDoors at 6pm. Program at 7pm. Duration of event is subject to author’s preference. \nSigning details TBA soon. \nTickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. All ticket sales are final. \nThis event is all ages. Accessibility is important to us! If you have special needs of any kind\, please write events AT booksmith DOT com and we will do our best to accommodate you.
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LOCATION:Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\,  Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Dan Bellm and Alicia Suskin Ostriker
DESCRIPTION:Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of poems is Waiting for the Light. Daisy Fried says\, “Ostriker so loves the world\, its griefs\, traumas\, praises\, mysteries\, and joys\, that she teaches us to love the world with her—sometimes  desperately\, heartbrokenly\, never despairingly. Ostriker is an essential poet\, writing at the height of her powers.” Both poet and critic\, she is the author of many previous collections\, most recently The Old Woman\, the Tulip\, and the Dog\, The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems\, 1979-2011\, and The Book of Seventy\, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Among other honors\, she’s received the Paterson Poetry Prize\, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award\, the William Carlos Williams Award\, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Her forthcoming collection\, The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems\, 2002-2019\, will be published in September. \nDan Bellm is both poet and translator. His recent poetry book is Deep Well. David St. John says of Deep Well\, “These lyrics of memoriam and these deep songs (in Lorca’s sense) of mourning seem almost to etch themselves onto the air. Keep this book at hand; hold its passages close. This is an essential collection of poetry.” Dan Bellm has published three previous books of poems\, One Hand on the Wheel\, Buried Treasure\, winner of both an Alice Fay Di Castangnola Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize\, and Practice\, the 2009 California Book Award-winner. His latest translation is Central American Book of the Dead\, by Mexican poet Balam Rodrigo; others include Speaking in Song\, by Mexican poet Pura López Colomé\, and The Song of the Dead\, by French poet Pierre Reverdy.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-dan-bellm-and-alicia-suskin-ostriker/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, 94704
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Andy Warner presents Spring Rain
DESCRIPTION:Andy Warner presents and signs copies of Spring Rain: A Graphic Memoir of Love\, Madness\, and Revolutions. \nABOUT THE BOOK \nAn intimate graphic memoir by a New York Times–bestselling writer about his semester abroad in Beirut as he grows close to a crowd of mostly LGBTQ students\, and suffers a mental breakdown while the city erupts into revolution. \nIn 2005 Andy Warner travelled to Lebanon to study literature in Beirut\, one of the world’s most cosmopolitan and storied cities. Twenty-one years old and recently broken up from his girlfriend\, Warner feels his life is both intense and directionless. Immersing himself in the vibrant and diverse city\, he quickly befriends a group of LGBT students\, many of whom are ex-pats straddling different cultures and embracing the freedoms of the multicultural city. Warner and his friends party\, do drugs\, and hook up\, even as violence breaks out in the city—the scars of a fifteen-year civil war reopening with a series of political assassinations and bombings. As the city descends into chaos and violence\, Warner feels his grasp on reality slowly begin to slip as he confronts traumas in his past and anxiety over his future. \nIllustrated in beautiful and intricate detail\, Spring Rain is an absorbing and poignant graphic memoir of a young man’s attempt to gain control over his life as well as a portrait of a city and a nation’s violent struggle to define its future. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nAndy Warner is the NY Times Best Selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University and the Animation Workshop in Denmark. \nHis comics have been published by Slate\, Fusion\, American Public Media\, popsci.com\, KQED\, IDEO.org\, The Center for Constitutional Rights\, UNHCR\, UNRWA\, UNICEF\, and Buzzfeed. He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residency. \nHe works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/andy-warner-presents-spring-rain/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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