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SUMMARY:Alexandra Petri: Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why
DESCRIPTION:In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why\, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical\, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. \nIn essays both new and adapted from her viral Post columns\, Petri reports that the Trump administration is as competent as it is uncorrupted\, white supremacy has never been less rampant\, and men have been silenced for too long. Q-Anon makes perfect sense! Perhaps the abyss is staring back at you because your outfit looks extra nice today! At the center of the book is a virtuosic account of the past four years\, a history as surreal and deranged as the Trump administration itself. This Panglossian venture into the swampy present will soothe— and terrify — readers who have died laughing to ClickHole\, the Onion\, Stephen Colbert\, Jon Stewart\, or Veep. \n—– \nAlexandra Petri is an American humorist and newspaper columnist at the Washington Post. She lives in Washington DC. \nPlease note: \n​Doors 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 absolute best to accommodate you.
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LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\, 2286 Cedar St\, Berkeley\, 94709
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents Rebecca Radner
DESCRIPTION:Clearly Meant presents: a poetry reading\, interview\, and discussion\, featuring Rebecca Radner. \nRebecca Radner\, a Berkeley poet\, is the author of What you least expect—selected poems 1980-2011 (Class Action Ink).  Her poems have appeared in Harvard Magazine\, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review\, The Iowa Review\, and The New England Review\, as well as the anthology What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to HipHop. For over twenty years she reviewed books regularly for The San Francisco Chronicle. She has read her poems recently as part of the Bay Area Generations reading series and at the Berkeley Art Center. \nA free chapbook of Rebecca Radner’s poems will be available at all BPL locations starting in January. Please pick one up!
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LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: Synchronicity by Tureeda Mikell
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the long-awaited and much-anticipated release of Tureeda Mikell‘s first full-length collection of poetry\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine. Location to be announced soon. \nPreorders help small presses gauge print runs\, so grab your copy before the event! www.nomadicpress.org/store/synchronicity \nSynchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a poetic-prose journey into the revelation of sun medicine that shows up like a rhyme in time to forewarn and sign the body and the mind. Filled with questions\, answers\, wordplay\, interspecies connection\, religious\, scientific\, and political satire\, and prose about the Black Panthers\, Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine connects readers with the universal ear that takes them on a healing journey into the mysterious interwoven nature of humans\, birds\, stars\, and those from beyond. \nJames Cagney\, author of Black Steel Magnolias in the Hour of Chaos Theory\, winner of the 2019 Josephine Miles PEN Oakland award says: “Be careful casual reader—cold hard truths lie within. These are not poems—they are corrective sermons written to turn you around to look squarely in the face of logic and reason. Synchronicity: The Oracle of Sun Medicine is a double-barreled book blasting holes clean through your assumptions and understanding of nature\, spirit\, history\, and race. It aims to disassemble language down to its barest elements to help readers rebuild common sense from scratch. A veteran teacher and master storyteller\, Tureeda Mikell is a lyrical wonder digging deep into the words and symbols we too often take for granted. There’s a reason events rhyme and repeat\, there’s a grander purpose behind those synchronistic events and occurrences linking like a chain around you. The answers you need are lit and laid open at your feet. The journey is yours to take.” \nAdditional readers and the musician will be announced soon. Gnosh and drinks will be provided. \nDonations will be collected throughout the evening\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-synchronicity-by-tureeda-mikell/
LOCATION:East Side Arts Alliance\, 2277 International Blvd.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94606
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:World-Renowned Poets Ellen Bass\, Jane Hirshfield and Marie Howe to Give Poetry Reading in Support of the Courageous Students of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund for Maasai Girls
DESCRIPTION:On February 15\, 2020\, three renowned poets will join voices to offer and unforgettable evening of poetry in support of the Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund for Maasai Girls. This event will be a rare opportunity to hear three of the greatest voices of modern poetry in one event. Bass\, Hirshfield and Howe are or have been Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Their poems have summoned a generation of poets into a terrain of uncompromising honesty at the interface between the holy and the human. \nOn February 15\, their power will bring people together to change the lives of young women in Kenya through donations to the S.H.E. Fund. \nAbout the Poets \n“Ellen Bass shows us that we are as radiant as we are ephemeral\, that in transience glistens resilient history and the remarkable fluidity of connection. Following her musings on suicide and generosity\, desire and repetitionit becomes lucidly clear that Bass is not only a poet but also a philosopher and a storyteller.” Briana Shemroske\, Booklist \n“Jane Hirshfield\, in poems described by The Washington Post as belonging among the modern masters and by The New York Times as passionate and radiant\, addresses the urgent immediacies of our time. Ranging from the political\, ecological\, and scientific to the metaphysical\, personal\, and passionate\, Hirshfield praises the radiance of particularity and the consequence of the daily. Her poems and essays traverse the crises of the biosphere and social justice\, abiding in the intersections of facts and imagination\, desire and loss\, impermanence and beauty – all the dimensions of our existence within what one poem calls ‘the pure democracy of being.'” The Steven Barclay Agency \n“Marie Howe‘s poetry is luminous\, intense\, and eloquent\, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long\, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit\, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” Stanley Kunitz \nKim Rosen\, Founder and Executive Director of the S.H.E. Fund and poet will also be speaking at the event. \nAbout the S.H.E. Fund \nThe Safe House Education (S.H.E.) Fund provides girls of the V-Day Safe House in Narok\, Kenya with college\, university or trade school education in order to support these young women to become change-makers in their communities and stop the cycles of oppression of women (Female Genital Mutilation\, Early Childhood Marriage and the refusal to educate females) in their culture and on our planet. \nProceeds from the event will support students like Salula\, who was rescued at the age of eight from a forced marriage to a 46 year-old man; Eunice\, who rode on the back of an older boy’s bike through the night to get to the Safe House to avoid being married off; and Agnes and Mercy\, two sisters who fled FGM together\, hid for three days in a police woman’s house\, then were taken to the Safe House. Today these students are going to college and living their dreams. They and other S.H.E. students are the first people in their villages to get a college education. Their example is changing what it means to be a woman in their tribe.
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LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley\, 1 Lawson Rd\, Kensington\, 94707
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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