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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel at Poetry Express
DESCRIPTION:Jan Steckel will read from her new poetry book Like Flesh Covers Bone at Poetry Express\, hosted by Bruce Bagnell\, with open mic.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-at-poetry-express/
LOCATION:Himalayan Flavors\, 1585 University Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:David Marriott
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday February 19\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nDavid Marriott is originally from the UK\, but now lives in Oakland\, California. His most recent book of poetry is Duppies\, a collection that mixes the tonality of lyric poetry with the aggression\, grit\, and speed of grime\, London’s street music. Marriott’s other books of poetry include Hoodoo Voodoo and In Neuter. His book Whither Fanon? Studies in the Blackness of Being is forthcoming from Stanford University in June. A leading theorist of afro-pessimism\, he teaches black critical theory and culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/david-marriott/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Sandy Allen in conversation with Rahawa Haile - - A Kind of Miraculous Paradise
DESCRIPTION:EAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Sandy Allen to discuss A Kind of Miraculous Paradise\, on Tuesday\, February 19th at 7pm. She will joined in conversation by friend of the store Rahawa Haile. \nSandra Allen did not know their uncle Bob very well. As a child\, Sandy had been told Bob was “crazy\,” that he had spent time in mental hospitals while growing up in Berkeley in the 60s and 70s. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than Sandy had been alive\, and what little Sandy knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd\, infrequent phone calls. Then in 2009 Bob mailed Sandy his autobiography. Typewritten in all caps\, a stream of error-riddled sentences more than sixty\, single-spaced pages\, the often-incomprehensible manuscript proclaimed to be a “true story” about being “labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic\,” and arrived with a plea to help him get his story out to the world. \n“Searing” (O\, The Oprah Magazine)\, “enthralling” (Star-Tribune\, Minneapolis)\, and “a marvel” (Esquire)\, A Kind of Mirraculas Paradiseshows how Sandy translated Bob’s autobiography\, artfully creating a gripping coming-of-age story while sticking faithfully to the facts as he shared them. Sandy also shares background information about their family\, the culturally explosive time and place of their uncle’s formative years\, and the vitally important questions surrounding schizophrenia and mental healthcare in America more broadly. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind\, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that\, to most people\, remains unimaginable. \n* * * \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSandy Allen is a writer\, speaker\, editor and teacher. Their essays and features stories have been published by BuzzFeed News\, CNN Opinion\, Bon Appétit’s Healthyish\, and Pop-Up Magazine. Sandy was previously BuzzFeed News’s deputy features editor. They also founded and ran the online-only literary quarterly Wag’s Revue. Sandy’s work focuses on constructs of normalcy\, including psychiatric disability and gender. Sandy is non-binary trans. Originally from Muir Beach\, CA\, they live in the Catskills. A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is their first book. For more\, visit HelloSandyAllen.com \nRahawa Haile is an Eritrean American writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, The Atlantic\, The New Yorker\, Outside\, and Pacific Standard. In Open Country\, her forthcoming memoir about through-hiking the Appalachian Trail\, explores what it means to move through American and the world as a black woman. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/sandy-allen-in-conversation-with-rahawa-haile-a-kind-of-miraculous-paradise/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro
DESCRIPTION:Dani Shapiro returns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to present Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy\, Paternity\, and Love. \n“Identity is frail business\, and in her searing story\, Dani Shapiro makes the most disquieting discovery: that everything\, from her lineage\, to her father\, down to her very own sense of self is an astounding error. How do we live with ourselves after finding we are not who we thought we were? The answer is not disquieting. It is beautiful.”–Andre Aciman\, author of Call Me by Your Name \nTo reserve your seat\, purchase a copy of Inheritance by speaking with a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 19\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat makes us who we are? What combination of memory\, history\, biology\, experience\, and that ineffable thing called the soul defines us?\nIn the spring of 2016\, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis\, Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological father. She woke up one morning and her entire history–the life she had lived–crumbled beneath her. \nInheritance is a book about secrets–secrets within families\, kept out of shame or self-protectiveness; secrets we keep from one another in the name of love. It is the story of a woman’s urgent quest to unlock the story of her own identity\, a story that had been scrupulously hidden from her for more than fifty years\, years she had spent writing brilliantly\, and compulsively\, on themes of identity and family history. It is a book about the extraordinary moment we live in–a moment in which science and technology have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover. \nTimely and unforgettable\, Dani Shapiro’s memoir is a gripping\, gut-wrenching exploration of genealogy\, paternity\, and love. \nDani Shapiro is the author of the memoirs Hourglass\, Still Writing\, Devotion\, and Slow Motion and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Also an essayist and a journalist\, Shapiro’s short fiction\, essays\, and journalistic pieces have appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, Tin House\, One Story\, Elle\, Vogue\, O\, The Oprah Magazine\, The New York Times Book Review\, the op-ed pages of the New York Times\, and many other publications. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia\, NYU\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University; she is cofounder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She lives with her family in Litchfield County\, Connecticut.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry at Pegasus: GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott’s book The Lumberjack’s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins) was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series for 2017. She is also the lyricist behind the narrative song collection Modern Ballads\, and is a Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellow. Her work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Massachusetts Review\, The Offing\, and PANK\, has she been a writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare & Company bookstore\, Art Farm Nebraska\, and The Vermont Studio Center\, among others. A born Vermonter\, she tours nationally and internationally composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. \n\nMiriam Bird Greenberg is the author of In the Volcano’s Mouth (University of Pittsburgh\, 2016)\, winner of the 2015 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center\, and the Poetry Foundation\, she’s written about the nomads\, hitchhikers\, and hobos living on America’s margins and crossed the continent as a hitchhiker and aboard freight trains herself. The author of two chapbooks—All night in the new country (Sixteen Rivers\, 2013) and Pact-Blood\, Fevergrass (Ricochet Editions\, 2013)\, Miriam grew up on an organic farm in rural Texas\, the daughter of a New York Jew and a goat-raising anthropologist involved in the back-to-the-land movement. These days she lives in  the San Francisco Bay Area\, where she teaches creative writing and ESL\, helping jewelry students use laser cutters and architecture grad students wrap their heads around building information systems.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-at-pegasus-gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading in February: \nJenny Qi is a writer and scientist. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, BLR\, Atticus Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net\, and her first manuscript was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize. She has a PhD in Cancer Biology and works in science and health communications. She also co-hosts a storytelling podcast called Bone Lab Radio\, now in Season 2. Website: www.jqiwriter.com \nTony Aldarondo Is a Puerto Rican poet who has read his poetry from San Fran to Japan\, and in many venues throughout the bay area. He is an actor and a voiceover artist. And a member of the screen actors Guild\, and has toured the state of California with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He loves writing Poetry\, plays\, and music and is super excited to read at Pegasus Books. \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press) and two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover (Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Best New Poets\, Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco\, CA and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, the Writing Salon\, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth arts education non-profit. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, Sacramento\, Vancouver\, and Mumbai. Nomadic Press will publish his first collection Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory in August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nYaccaira Salvatierra is an educator and art instructor living in San José. Her poems have appeared in Huizache\, Diálogo\, Puerto del Sol\, and Rattle\, among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry\, the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. Although she has lived in over seven cities in California\, San José has been home for the past 17 years where she lives with her two sons. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Meet Author Jasmine Guillory
DESCRIPTION:Meet Jasmine Guillory\, a writer\, lawyer and Oaklander who has earned enthusiastic praise for her recent novels The Wedding Date and The Proposal. \nNew York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay called The Wedding Date “a charming\, warm\, sexy gem of a novel.” \nEntertainment Weekly gushed “Guillory writes with the fizzy effervescence of a glass of champagne\, and the entire book goes down just as easily (and quickly). The Wedding Date starts out as a fling\, but it makes us want a more long-term relationship with Guillory and her irresistible writing style.” \nKirkus Reviews called The Proposal “A charming book for the modern romance lover.” \nYou can find her online at @thebestjasmine on Twitter\, or at jasmineguillory.com. \nBooks will be available for sale and signing following the main event\, courtesy of East Bay Booksellers. \nWhen:\nThursday\, February 21\, 2019 – 6:30pm \nWhere:\nOakland Public Library: Main Library\nBradley Walters Community Room\n125 14th Street\nOakland\, CA 94612\nPhone: (510) 238-3134\nSee map: Google Maps
URL:https://litseen.com/event/meet-author-jasmine-guillory/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Fourth Friday Formal: George Higgins and Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:Oakland poet and actor\, George Higgins\, is a Cave Canem Fellow whose poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, and others. About his collection There\, There\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “…this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “…these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull.”  Charlotte Innes has had poems appear in The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Rattle\, Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond\, and others. About her collection Descanso Drive\, Sarah Maclay wrote\, “Urgent\, muscular\, rapt\, distilled—at times like a melding of Plath and Boland—and as unnervingly prescient as it is attentive to and haunted by both the historical and personal past…” and Rick Mullin wrote\, “…finely-crafted poems\, beautifully voiced\, that carry us from her native England to her new home in California.” A limited open reading and a brief interview with the featured poets will be included.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/fourth-friday-formal-george-higgins-and-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:George Higgins & Charlotte Innes
DESCRIPTION:George Higgins is an Oakland poet and actor. About his first book There\, There (White Violet Press\, 2013)\, Joan Aleshire wrote\, “this book deepens our knowledge of how to live in the world\,” and Dan Tobin wrote\, “these are poems of ‘perfect contact’ in which the soul inevitably ascends\, even if it’s through a kill hole in the skull. There\, There is an auspicious debut.”  His poems have appeared in Best American Poetry (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa)\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, Poetry Flash\, Salamander\, and Fugue\, among others. He has an MFA from Warren Wilson College where he was a Holden Fellow. He is also a Cave Canem Fellow. He performs completely improvised one act plays with the improv troupe the (i)ncidentalists. \n(Photo: Jon Rou)\nCharlotte Innes is the author of Descanso Drive(Kelsay Books\, 2017)\, a first book of poems\, and two chapbooks\, Licking the Serpent (2011) and Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles (2009)\, both with Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in many publications including The Hudson Review\, The Sewanee Review\, Tampa Review and Rattle. They have also been anthologized in Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books\, 2015) and The Best American Spiritual Writing for 2006 (Houghton Mifflin\, 2006)\, amongst others. A former newspaper reporter\, she has also written on literary topics for the Los Angeles Times\, The Nation and other publications. Although she is originally from England\, she has lived for almost 30 years in Los Angeles where she has taught journalism at the University of Southern California\, as well as English\, journalism\, and creative writing at high schools throughout the Los Angeles area. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/george-higgins-charlotte-innes/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:THERE 28
DESCRIPTION:THERE 28  will be Friday\, February 22\, 2019\, featuring brilliant Oakland memoirist Faith Adiele\, equally amazing memoirist Reyna Grande\, and poet MK Chavez\, also of Oakland. Musical guests TBA. \nTHERE was featured prominently in the San Francisco Chronicle! \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 (usually) 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!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/there-28/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Clearly Meant presents James Cagney
DESCRIPTION:James Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has performed in venues and museums throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. His first book\, Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory\, is available from Oakland’s own Nomadic Press. James will read his poems\, then sit for an interview; audience discussion will follow the interview. A month before the reading a free chapbook of James Cagney’s poems will be available at all BPL branches
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clearly-meant-presents-james-cagney/
LOCATION:Claremont Branch\, Berkeley Public Library\, 2940 Benvenue Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Gomez Farrell at Alameda Authors Series 3
DESCRIPTION:For the third year\, AAUW Alameda presents a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda and nearby\, now co-sponsored by the Friends of the Alameda Free Library. Our February author Rebecca Gomez Farrell will discuss her novel Wings Unseen and her current writing projects. \nBiography \nRebecca Gomez Farrell writes all the speculative fiction genres she can conjure up. Her first fantasy novel\, Wings Unseen\, debuted in August 2017 from Meerkat Press. You can find her short stories in over 20 anthologies\, magazines\, and websites including Dark Luminous Wings\, Beneath Ceaseless Skies\, and Fright into Flight. Becca co-leads the 400-member strong East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup group and organizes a chapter of the national Women Who Submit writing organization\, which encourages female writers to send their work out for publication. She also co-moderates Facebook resource groups for female-identifying writers and is a regular participant in the Bay Area literary reading scene. Becca’s food\, drink\, and travel blog\, theGourmez.com\, has garnered multiple accolades and influences every tasty bite of her fictional worldbuilding. Fiction Website: RebeccaGomezFarrell.com. Social Media: @theGourmez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/rebecca-gomez-farrell-at-alameda-authors-series-3/
LOCATION:Alameda Free Library\, Stafford Room\, 1550 Oak Street\, Alameda\, ca\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Mikhail Iossel w/ Matthew Zapruder - - Notes from Cyberground
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 26\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Mikhail Iossel to discuss his new new book Notes From Cyberground: Trumpland and My Old Soviet Feeling\, on Tuesday\, February 26th at 7pm. He will be in conversation with Matthew Zapruder. \nAmerica under Donald Trump. Russia under Vladimir Putin. Many have ridiculed them. None have done so with such scathing wit as Mikhail Iossel. From a youth spent in the USSR to a life remade in the USA\, Iossel shares the brunt of this experience on Facebook\, where thousands follow his blistering posts on Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia\, and his lyrical\, eerily timely reflections on life under totalitarianism. Notes from Cyberground brings together a choice selection of Iossel’s aphorisms\, ranging from a few words to a few hundred words. Each chapter covers a month from Election Day 2016 to October 2018. Even when comical\, this gem of a book is dead serious. It will bring solace to anyone who feels distressed by today’s surreal politics \n  \n* * * \n  \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMikhail Iossel\, the Leningrad-born author of the story collection Every Hunter Wants to Know (W. W. Norton) and coeditor of the anthologies Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Dalkey Archive\, 2004) and Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (Tin House\, 2010)\, is a professor of English/Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal and the founding director of the Summer Literary Seminars international program. Back in the Soviet Union\, he worked as an electromagnetic engineer/submarine demagnetizer and as roller-coaster security guard\, and belonged to the organization of samizdat writers\, Club-81. He came to the US in 1986\, at the age of thirty\, a whole and complete life behind him\, and started writing in English in 1988. Among his awards are Guggenheim\, NEA\, and Stegner Fellowships. His stories and other prose\, in English and in translation to several languages\, have appeared in NewYorker.com\, Guernica\, Literarian\, AGNI\, North American Review\, Threepenny Review\, Interia\, Boulevard\, Best American Short Stories\, and elsewhere. \nMATTHEW ZAPRUDER is the author of four collections of poetry. His poetry\, essays\, and translations have appeared in publications including The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, and The Believer. An associate professor in the Saint Mary’s College of California MFA program and English department\, he is also editor at large at Wave Books and\, from 2016 to 2017\, was the editor of the poetry page of the New York Times Magazine. He lives in Oakland\, California\, with his wife and son.\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nTuesday\, February 26\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mikhail-iossel-w-matthew-zapruder-notes-from-cyberground/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Folkland Book Club featuring books from Small Press Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a monthly book club featuring titles from Small Press Distribution. Pick up a free copy of our February book at the January Book Club meeting (1/30)\, or at the Main Library Reference desk starting on January 31 while supplies last. \nFEBRUARY’S BOOK CLUB PICK: PRIMITIVITY: STORIES BY AMY SAYRE BAPTISTA \nThe landscape of Amy Sayre Baptista’s PRIMITIVITY is mapped by cracked asphalt and dark woods\, by broken bridges spanning greedy rivers\, sunbaked dirt and ghost roads\, séances held in gun repair shops\, and retribution exacted in long grasses and hog pits and Segway tracks. These nine stories weave together a community borrowed from history and spanning centuries in a re-imagined Pike County\, a geographical conundrum found in three different states yet joined by the same hungry river. From strangers to spiritualists to families bound by love and blood\, the characters who populate Sayre Baptista’s stories tell tall tales of survivorship in the American south. To enter PRIMITIVITY’s pages is to arrive in a harsh yet beguiling topography of ghosts\, thieves\, and a hangman’s lament. \nAmy Sayre Baptista’s writing has appeared in The Best Small Fictions (2017)\, Corium\, SmokeLong Quarterly\, Ninth Letter\, The Butter\, Alaska Quarterly Review\, and other journals. She was a SAFTA fellow (2015)\, a CantoMundo Poetry fellow (2013)\, and a scholarship recipient to the Disquiet Literary Festival in Lisbon\, Portugal (2011). She performs with Kale Soup for the Soul\, a Portuguese-American artist’s collective\, and Poetry While You Wait (Chicago). She is a co-founder of Plates&Poetry\, a community arts program focused on food and writing. She has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, and teaches Humanities at Western Gov-ernors University. She lives in Illinois. \nOur Book Club moderator\, Nirvana Shahriar is a senior undergraduate student at the University of California\, Berkeley. A lover of language and literature\, she studies English and Linguistics. Her love for language\, and interest in both the written and spoken word has led her to fa-cilitate classes at UC Berkeley that are structured around liter-ature\, like book clubs. Experienced in facilitating and leading discussion\, Nirvana is looking forward to more literary reads with new folks and faces.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/folkland-book-club-featuring-books-from-small-press-distribution/
LOCATION:Oakland Public Library – Main Branch\, 125 - 14th Street\, Oakland\, 94612
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Jan Steckel and Tom Odegard at #we
DESCRIPTION:#we presents Tom Odegard speaking on “Being Intersex” and reading poetry on the subject\, and Jan Steckel speaking on “Bi Babes in the Woods” and reading bi poems from her new book Like Flesh Covers Bone. A Q&A will follow. Hosted by Richard Loranger.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jan-steckel-and-tom-odegard-at-we/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Richard Loranger":MAILTO:mythkiller@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190228T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190228T210000
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SUMMARY:James Weeks: Meditations Across the Kings River
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nTens of thousands of spiritual seekers around the world have been touched by James Weeks’s online essays and affirmations. Now in book form for the first time\, Meditations Across The King’s River is inspired by James’s travels throughout the Caribbean and West Africa as an Ifa priest. Here\, readers will find hope\, encouragement\, and wisdom to sustain them on their soul’s journey. \nAbout the Author \nJames Weeks is the producer of the upcoming documentary film\, Across The King’s River. He is also a babalawo\, or priest in the Ifa spiritual tradition\, an award-winning photographer\, and a journalist who has published in Parenting magazine\, the S.F. Weekly\, Reggae Beat\, The Virgin Islands Daily News and the St. Croix Avis. James is a native of St. Croix\, U.S. Virgin Islands and currently lives in Oakland with his wife and youngest son. To learn more\, visit his website www.acrossthekingsriver.com.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/james-weeks-meditations-across-the-kings-river/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190301T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T190000
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SUMMARY:Children's Storyteller Series
DESCRIPTION:CHILDREN’S STORYTELLER SERIES (6-7pm) \nCome enjoy a night with Adonal Foyle (Former Golden State Warriors NBA Player) reading from his children’s book series “Too-Tall Foyle“. \nAdonal Foyle – is a retired NBA player\, a published author\, national speaker\, and consultant. Adonal currently serves as the Community Ambassador for the World Champion Golden State Warriors. \nBring your young ones out for an early evening of storytelling\, book signing with Adonal\, hands on arts activities\, tiny bookmaking projects\, food\, music and more! \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/childrens-storyteller-series/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T210000
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SUMMARY:What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV Book Release Party
DESCRIPTION:***Friday\, March 1st\, Wolfman Books\, Downtown Oakland\, 7:00pm*** The “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” Book Release Party Featuring Readings By \nAlec West\nPhilip Staley\nLena Nicodemus\nJoseph Kim \nAlec West is a 26 year old East Bay native. He has worked with incarcerated youth as a mentor and writing instructor. He graduated from the Evergreen State College in Olympia\, Washington with a degree in activism\, organic agriculture and creative writing. When he’s not writing you can find him at music events and poetry slams\, hiking in the woods\, or splitting lanes down Martin Luther King or San Pablo on his bike. He is working on a Master’s in Education as an education specialist and hopes to become a special education teacher. “What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is his first book. \n“What Happened When I Stopped Watching TV” is a collection of prose poetry based on the author’s experiences growing up in the Bay Area. The work focuses on themes of addiction\, rebellion and hope as characters struggle against a world that would grind them up. Through disaster\, the book brings the reader into the highs and lows of living life with eyes open\, leaping and landing heart-first. Survival comes at a cost\, but the lessons learned can bring healing across generations. \nPhilip Staley is a psychiatric nurse in the Bay Area and a contributor to the Green Windows Writing Anthology. \nWith over a decade of occult research and perfecting the art of the mental health report\, Philip’s writing focuses on the underworld components of emotional landscapes. He manages to weave tension\, humor\, and a melancholy sovereignty into relatable fiction narratives. \nPhilip has been a near lifelong writer\, cultivating plots and storylines for numerous roleplaying groups. His professional duties have taken him through the most desperate locales of several cities\, and these experiences have shaped his writing and polished the neo-noir lens\, through which he evaluates the world. \nAs a Bay Area writer\, Philip Staley enjoys field trips to unconventional locations with a laptop\, some headphones\, and a daring sense of curiosity. \nLena Nicodemus is a writer/therapist/human originally from Baltimore\, Maryland and now settled in Oakland. By day she works with children with autism and their families and by night she writes sometimes biting\, sometimes gentle works ranging in topics from explorations of the fear about not having enough time to survival humor about rape culture. \nLena’s work has appeared in local publications and performances such as Quiet Lightning\, Bay Area Generations\, and the Green Windows anthology. \n“Lena Nicodemus’ writing expands our own world. She moves through her life with her heart open\, curious\, and demanding then gifts her listeners by recreating in rich detail on paper the people and places she knows: from unanswered telephones to the variety of expressions possible on a child’s face; handmade bowls to grumpy voices. Her writing can bounce off the walls with anger or deepen a silence with intense love and compassion or demand answers to questions we didn’t realize we had. Her writing is always authentic and always relevant\, even to those with a different experience.”\n-Peggy Simmons\, founder of Green Windows
URL:https://litseen.com/event/what-happened-when-i-stopped-watching-tv-book-release-party/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190301T210000
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SUMMARY:Teen Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Bring your poems\, verses\, spoken word pieces and prose to share at our Teen Open Mic\, hosted by Vice Youth Poet Laureate – Oakland Samuel Getachew! \nSpecial Guest Performance By: \nIsha Clarke of Destiny Arts- born\, raised\, and educated in Oakland\, Isha grew up surrounded by the art and culture that permeates this amazing city. Inspired by her surroundings\, Isha is a poet who love dance and other art forms. She hopes that her writing inspires and energizes listeners. \nOpen mic sign up begins at 7pm (must be 19 or under to sign up). First seven poets who sign up are guaranteed a spot in the open mic. Open mic begins at 7:30pm. \nIN THE SPACE ALL NIGHT \nMusic spun by DJ XCAIROCITOSX \nTiny bookmaking activities for all!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/teen-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chapter 510 & the Dept. of Make Believe\, 2301 Telegraph Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190302T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190302T170000
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CREATED:20190112T042350Z
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SUMMARY:BAPC Open Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:STRAWBERRY CREEK LODGE\n1320 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\n \nAddison is one block south of and parallel to University Ave.\nbetween Acton & Bonar St.\nParking on the street (NOT in the S.C.L. parking lot)\nCheck in at the front desk and you will be directed to the meeting location\n(usually Movie Room\, or backyard garden)\n \nAll Ages Welcome\n\nCome and enjoy a friendly and informal read-around —\n3-5 minutes per poet/reader\, or “just listening” is fine too 🙂\n \n \n\n\n\n\nAfter the reading\, join us for dinner if you’d like at a nearby restaurant
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bapc-open-poetry-reading-4/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190303T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190303T170000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Flash presents a reading by Keith Emmons\, Moondrifter Reverie\, and Lisa Rosenberg\, A Different Physics\, East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, wheelchair accessible\, 3:00 (510/653-9965\, ebbooksellers.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-a-reading-by-keith-emmons-moondrifter-reverie-and-lisa-rosenberg-a-different-physics/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190305T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190305T193000
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday March 5\, 2019 | 5:30 pm | Mills Hall Living Room\n\nMorgan Parker’s latest poetry collection Magical Negro delves into issues of ancestral trauma\, loneliness\, sexuality\, racism\, and objectification. Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé and Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Tin House\, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop\, Best American Poetry\, the New York Times\, the Nation\, and more. She is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and the recipient of a 2017 NEA in Literature Fellowship.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/morgan-parker-4/
LOCATION:Mills Hall Living Room\, Mills College\, 5000 MacArthur Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94613\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mills College":MAILTO:syoung@mills.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190306T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190306T210000
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CREATED:20190228T091732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T091747Z
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SUMMARY:On the Road Again: Rich With Possibilities
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Bruce Bagnell\, Jan Steckel\, Andrew O. Dugas\, Kathleen McClung. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now. Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland. \n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/on-the-road-again-rich-with-possibilities/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190306T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190306T213000
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CREATED:20190131T102759Z
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SUMMARY:Elinor Lipman
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Lipman\n\n\n\n\nreturns to Mrs. Dalloway’s to celebrate the publication of her latest novel\, Good Riddance\, in which one woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure\, with deliriously entertaining results. A pitch-perfect\, whip-smart new novel from an “enchanting\, infinitely witty yet serious\, exceptionally intelligent\, wholly original\, and Austen-like stylist” (Washington Post). \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 6\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this delightful new romantic comedy\, Daphne Maritch doesn’t quite know what to make of the heavily annotated high school yearbook she inherits from her mother\, who held this relic dear. Too dear.The late June Winter Maritch was the teacher to whom the class of ’69 had dedicated its yearbook\, and in turn she went on to attend every reunion\, scribbling notes and observations after each one–not always charitably–and noting who overstepped boundaries of many kinds. In a fit of decluttering (the yearbook did not\, Daphne concluded\, “spark joy”)\, she discards it when she moves to a small New York City apartment. But when it’s found in the recycling bin by a busybody neighbor/documentary filmmaker\, the yearbook’s mysteries–not to mention her own family’s–take on a whole new urgency\, and Daphne finds herself entangled in a series of events both poignant and absurd. \nElinor Lipman is the award-winning author of eleven novels\, including The View from Penthouse B and The Inn at Lake Devine; one essay collection\, I Can’t Complain; and Tweet Land of Liberty: Irreverent Rhymes from the Political Circus. She lives in New York City. \n  \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elinor-lipman-2/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190307T125000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180818T213031Z
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SUMMARY:Tarfia Faizullah
DESCRIPTION:Tarfia Faizullah is the author of REGISTERS OF ILLUMINATED VILLAGES (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, and SEAM (Southern Illinois University Press\, 2014)\, winner of a VIDA Award\, a GLCA New Writers’ Award\, a Milton Kessler First Book Award\, Drake University Emerging Writer Award\, and other honors. Her poems are published widely in periodicals and anthologies both in the United States and abroad\, including Poetry Magazine\, Guernica\, Tin House\, and The Nation\, are translated into Persian\, Chinese\, Bengali\, Tamil\, and Spanish\, and have been featured at the Smithsonian\, the Rubin Museum of Art\, and elsewhere. In 2016 she was recognized by Harvard Law School as one of 50 Women Inspiring Change. In Fall 2018\, she will join the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a Visiting Writer in Residence.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tarfia-faizullah/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190310T153000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190310T170000
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CREATED:20190131T112649Z
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-presents-a-reading-by-meryl-natchez-francesca-bell-and-william-brewer-curated-by-barb-reynolds/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Poetry series
DESCRIPTION:Second Sunday Poetry series presents a reading by Meryl Natchez\, Francesca Bell\, and William Brewer\, curated by Barb Reynolds\, Britt-Marie’s Restaurant\, 1369 Solano Avenue\, Albany\, free\, 3:30-5:00 (510/527-1314\, brittmariesolano.com)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/second-sunday-poetry-series-2/
LOCATION:Brit-Marie’s Restaraunt\, 1369 Solano Avenu\, Albany\, CA
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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