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SUMMARY:Knots of Wonder: Masatsugu Ono at the Bay Area Book Fest
DESCRIPTION:Masatsugu Ono\, winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize\, will be at the Bay Area Book Festival to discuss his novel\, Lion Cross Point\, coming this spring from Two Lines Press. Get tickets. \n\nKnots of Wonder: Stunning Short Fiction with Gunnhild Oyehaug\, David Hayden\, Masatsugu Ono \nShort stories and novellas are like knots: compact on the surface\, but containing intricately woven ideas that\, when unraveled\, point to something much larger. How do writers do it? These three authors are world-class exemplars of the form: Norwegian short story writer Gunnhild Oyehaug\, who can “produce stabs of emotion\, unexpected ghost notes of feeling\, from pieces so short and offbeat that they seem at first like aborted arias” (in a profile of her by The New Yorker); Irish writer David Hayden\, whose short stories The Guardian calls “brilliantly disturbing and unclassifiable”; and\, coming to us from Japan\, Masatsugu Ono\, whose jewel-like novella mixes the surreal with the profound in a story of a shy\, traumatized boy overcoming the shame\, anger\, and sadness that silence him. \nSponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation\, with additional support from the Norway House Foundation\, NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad\, Culture Ireland\, and Transit Books. \nGet tickets
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LOCATION:Hotel Shattuck Plaza\, 2086 Allston Way\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Betty Reid Soskin: Sign My Name to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Author Betty Reid Soskin shares insights about her memoir\, Sign My Name To Freedom\, as part of Independent Bookstore Day and the Bay Area Book Festival at Pegasus Books Downtown. \nFree to attend. Seating is on a first-come basis. \nBetty Reid Soskin has been a home-front war-years worker\, a singer-songwriter and performer\, a writer\, a legislative aide\, a National Parks ranger\, a national icon\, and an honest and tireless fighter\, both against discrimination of all forms and for the growth and triumph of the human spirit and values that would benefit us all. In her blog\, CBreaux Speaks at cbreaux.blogspot.com\, she writes\, “Life has never been richer\, nor more abundantly lyrical\,” and “I’ve grown into someone I’d like to know—were I not me already!” \nBlending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews\, letters\, and speeches collected throughout her long life\, Sign My Name to Freedom invites readers into an American life through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself\, the nation\, or the world with fresh eyes.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/betty-reid-soskin-sign-my-name-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Book Release: The Edge of Fruitvale by Rohan DaCosta
DESCRIPTION:Join us at our Uptown\, Oakland\, location for the much-anticipated release of Rohan DaCosta’s first full-length photography / poetry collection\, The Edge of Fruitvale! \nIt’s going to be an amazing evening of readings\, live music\, gnosh / refreshments\, and friends of Nomadic Press as we launch this treasure of a book into the universe. \nReadings by Mk Chavez\, Vernon Keeve III\, Nazelah Jamison\, Cyrus Armajani\, pop-up surprise Nomadic Press readers\, and of course\, the star of the evening\, Rohan DaCosta. Books will be available for purchase and there will be a signing following the event ($15 each). Music by TBA!
URL:https://litseen.com/event/book-release-the-edge-of-fruitvale-by-rohan-dacosta/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press\, 2926 Foothill Blvd\, Oakland \, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: Dating
DESCRIPTION:Spring is in the air and other clichés\, and people are swiping right and left like crazy! Whether you’re single or coupled or thrupled up or “it’s complicated” you’ve got a sick or sexy or funny story to tell. And here at SNS\, we want it all! Tell us the truth; lie to us; sing to us; tell us a story; write a poem for us. Give us your DATING inspirations\, real or imagined\, past\, present\, or future. Best and worst. First or last. Hot or horrible. Let’s do this! \nAs always\, we’d love to hear your (three-minute) poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our optional theme (or any topic). \nOur featured readers for April are Don Gonzales Filmmaker & Jan Steckel\n— \nFirst come first served. Sign-up starts at 7pm and closes when it fills up or when the reading starts\, so get there early if you want to read! (Note: Sometimes the list is full by 7:03pm) \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nPLEASE NOTE: We are strict about the 3 minute max. When you reach your time limit at SNS\, we turn on the disco lights! So\, please plan ahead. Practice your piece out loud. Time yourself! \nAfter the reading\, stick around for karaoke starting at 10pm \nSaturday\, April 28\, 2018\n7 – 9:30 pm \nNick’s Lounge (21+)\n3218 Adeline Street\, Berkeley\, CA\n1 block south of Ashby BART\nBetween Fairview St & Martin Luther King Jr Way \nFREE!\nBut bring CASH if you want to buy drinks (which you sort of have to\, because there’s a 1-drink minimum!) \nHosted by Hollie Hardy \nPlease help out by liking our FB page\, where you can also find more details and photos from past events: \nhttps://www.facebook.com/Saturday-Night-Special-an-East-Bay-open-mic-112174188880786/ \nBIOS \nDonny Gonzalez is the result of what happens when you get fed cocaine while teething. Raised in the inbreeding Capitol of California\, Modesto aka Methdesto. A place where people have more tattoos than teeth\, and the line outside the methadone clinic looks like the line outside Walmart on Black Friday. Donny began writing poems to stay sane & as an alternative to murdering his neighbors. These neighbors would be the focal point of Don’s bizarro poetry. Don left Modesto in 2015 and is now a booth mopper at an all male peepshow in San Francisco. \nJan Steckel is a former pediatrician who stopped practicing medicine because of chronic pain. Her poetry book The Horizontal Poet (Zeitgeist Press\, 2011) won a 2012 Lambda Literary Award. Her fiction chapbook Mixing Tracks (Gertrude Press\, 2009) and poetry chapbook The Underwater Hospital (Zeitgeist Press\, 2006) also won awards. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Scholastic Magazine\, Yale Medicine\, Bellevue Literary Review\, and elsewhere. Her work was nominated three times each for the Pushcart and Sundress Best of the Net anthologies\, won the Goodreads Poetry Contest twice\, and won various other awards. She lives in Oakland\, California.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/saturday-night-special-presents-dating/
LOCATION:Nick’s Lounge\, 3218 Adeline St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94703\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Re-Assembling Hope with Rebecca Solnit\, Dacher Keltner & others
DESCRIPTION:Re-Assembling Hope: Rebecca Solnit in conversation with Dacher Keltner\, Dan Kammen\, Shannon Jackson and Friends of the Bay Area Book Festival\nMonday / 4.30.18 / 6:30 \n*Tickets will be made available 10 days prior to the event. Once all tickets have been claimed\, we will open up a waitlist.\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/general-seating-reassembling-hope-with-rebecca-solnit-dacher-keltner-dan-kammen-shannon-jackson-and-tickets-42259151259 \nPLEASE READ: If you are a ticket holder\, please be aware that if you are not seated in the theater by 6:15pm\, you are relinquishing your reserved seat to those waiting at the door and who have signed up for the waitlist. \n*Pending approval\, this event may be available via livestream.\n—\nDacher Keltner\, Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center\, Professor\, Psychology\, UC Berkeley\nDan Kamman\, Professor of Energy & Chair Energy and Resources Group\nShannon Jackson\, Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts + Design\, UC Berkeley\nRebecca Solnit\, Writer\, Historian\, Activist \nJoin UC Berkeley alum Rebecca Solnit as she brings both the 2018 Bay Area Book Festival and A+D Mondays to a close with a conversation on the idea of Hope. Solnit\, in conversation with a range of Berkeley professors\, authors\, and community activists will discuss our fraught political landscape\, how literature and art help us to navigate through crises\, and how Hope helps us to assemble and re-assemble our communities and our social movements. \n—\nDan Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California\, Berkeley\, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group\, the Goldman School of Public Policy\, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. He was appointed the first Environment and Climate Partnership for the Americas (ECPA) Fellow by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton in April 2010. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL)\, and is a Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He has founded or is on the board of over 10 companies\, and has served the State of California and US federal government in expert and advisory capacities. \nDacher Keltner is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California\, Berkeley\, as well as Co-Director of the Greater Good Science Center. He is the co-author of two textbooks\, as well as the best-selling Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life\, and The Compassionate Instinct. He has published over 190 scientific articles\, received numerous national prizes and grants for his research\, and has written for multiple publications\, including The New York Times\, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition\, he was a scientific consultant on Pixar’s film\, Inside Out. \n———\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is a public lecture series with the theme of Public (Re)Assembly. \nBerkeley Arts + Design features\, fortifies\, and mobilizes existing excellence in the arts and design at Berkeley\, while fostering dynamic collaboration\, innovation\, and public access across all arts and design fields\, on campus and in public life. \nLearn more at: http://artsdesign.berkeley.edu/mondays \n—\nArts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art\, Technology\, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents’ Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English\, all at UC Berkeley. \nThe spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/re-assembling-hope-with-rebecca-solnit-dacher-keltner-others/
LOCATION:Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive\, 2155 Center St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Holly Brown
DESCRIPTION:For the second year\, AAUW Alameda and Oakmont of Cardinal Point present a spring series of talks featuring authors who live and write in Alameda. In April\, we feature a reading and conversation with Holly Brown on her new book being published in May\, How Far She’s Come. \nIf you would like to have a book signed by the author\, please bring your checkbook to the event to purchase the newest book\, How Far She’s Come. You may also buy any of her previously published books in advance at Books Inc. or your favorite indie bookstore to bring with you for signing. \nLook for the event in the “Living Room” near the front entrance. Free and open to the public; please reserve your spot using the tickets link.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/holly-brown-2/
LOCATION:Oakmont of Cardinal Point\, 2431 Mariner Square Drive\, Alameda\, 94501
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Work & Workers
DESCRIPTION:Featured readers: Terry Lucas\, Jan Steckel\, Dennis Bernstein\, Barbara West. Late Night Open Mic follows the featured readers. Sign-up now for Ist Annual Open Mic Award’s Contest (see below). Book & Broadside Giveaway. Free\, 7-9 pm. The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St.\, Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/work-workers/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Student reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/student-reading-2/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Lunch Poems: Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:One of the year’s liveliest events\, the student reading includes winners of the following prizes: Academy of American Poets\, Cook\, Rosenberg\, and Yang\, as well as students nominated by Berkeley’s creative writing faculty\, Lunch Poems volunteers\, and representatives from student publications. \n\nAll readings from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month\nAdmission free • Morrison Library in Doe Library
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-lunch-poems-student-reading/
LOCATION:Morrison Library\, UC Berkeley\, 2000 Carleston Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:A Night of Readings and A Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 4\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of readings & writings\, words & language\, lit & luminosity in toast to Laura Ritland’s debut poetry collection\, EAST AND WEST (http://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550655032). Books will be sold\, readers will read\, feelings will be felt! \nFeaturing readings by: \nLAURA RITLAND \nJANE HU \nMAX KAISLER \nJARED ROBINSON \nLaura Ritland’s poems have appeared in magazines across Canada\, including The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and CNQ. She is the author of the chapbook Marine Science (Anstruther 2016)\, a graduate of the Masters in Creative Writing Program at the University of Toronto\, and recipient of the 2014 Malahat Far Horizons Award for Poetry. She currently divides her time along the west coast between Vancouver and the California Bay Area\, where she is a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley. East and West is her debut collection. \nJane Hu is a Berkeley English PhD and freelancer who has published in The New Yorker\, Slate\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Review of Books\, and The Awl. \nMax Kaisler is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley\, with an MFA in Poetry from the University of Montana and a BA in English & Classics from Amherst College. She’s worked as an editor and intern at Ploughshares\, The Common\, Bare Journal\, and Cutbank\, her own poetry and nonfiction has been published online and in print\, and she’s received multiple prizes for her original poetry and translations from Latin and Ancient Greek and for her essays on Rilke’s Book of Hours and Book of Images. \nJared Robinson is from Indianapolis\, IN and moved to the Bay to study Literature at Berkeley. He has never published nor left the country.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/a-night-of-readings-and-a-book-launch/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Oakland First Fridays at Nomadic Press!
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! Join us at Nomadic Press as we celebrate Oakland First Fridays! Featuring readings by 4-5 Nomadic Press authors in our intimate space amongst the hustle at 23rd and Telegraph Avenue. Come early and catch our authors reading on a street stage just down the block at 6:30 PM. This month features readings by Rohan DaCosta\, Alexandra Naughton\, and Jesse Prado with music by Harriet Poznansky. Hosted by Zephir O’ Meara. \nTo help pay for our space and our artists and ensure that we can continue our robust programming series\, we are asking for suggested donations of $10-15 at the door\, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). Nomadic Press books\, as always\, will be for sale at the event. \nWine and Red Bay coffee will be available.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/oakland-first-fridays-at-nomadic-press/
LOCATION:Nomadic Press: Uptown\, 2301 Telegraph Ave.\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Tessa Fontaine\, author of The Electric Woman
DESCRIPTION:Tessa Fontaine’s writing has appeared in PANK\, Seneca Review\, The Rumpus\, Sideshow World\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama and is working on a PhD in creative writing at the University of Utah. She also eats fire and charms snakes\, among other sideshow feats. She lives in South Carolina. The Electric Woman is her first book. \nAdvance praise for The Electric Woman \n“With fearless grace and piercing intensity\, Tessa Fontaine juxtaposes the thrill of eating fire with the luminous mystery of her mother’s devastating strokes and harrowing transformations. I have never read a book more tender or more true. We all live in a World of Wonders\, a world of terror. The Electric Woman delivers us to the potent mercy of unmitigated love\, the passion of shared suffering\, the resilience of the spirit\, and the ecstasies of our transfigurations. The heart breaks\, and breaks open—in the divine light of despair\, we discover radiant joy: the hidden holiness of every breath\, every being\, every moment.”\n—Melanie Rae Thon
URL:https://litseen.com/event/tessa-fontaine-author-of-the-electric-woman/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Bay Area Poets Coalition
DESCRIPTION:BAPC OPEN POETRY READING\n\n\n\nUpcoming First Saturday Readings in 2018:\n \nMarch 3\, April 7\, May 5\, June 2\n\n3:00 – 5:00 PM\n\n\n\nSTRAWBERRY 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/bay-area-poets-coalition-3/
LOCATION:Strawberry Creek Lodge\, 1320 Addison Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94702\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Alicia Mountain\, Steffi Drewes\, Tonya M. Foster\, and Mg Roberts
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 5\, 2018\n7:00 PM  9:00 PM\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoems! By four poets! We’re excited to welcome Alicia Mountain’s BRAND NEW book High Ground Coward into the world! With readings from three amazing Bay Area poets\, Steffi Drewes\, Mg Roberts\, and Tonya M. Foster\, as well! \nALICIA MOUNTAIN is the author of High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press\, April 2018) which was awarded the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. Her chapbook\, Thin Fire\, is forthcoming from BOAAT Press. Mountain’s poems can be found in Guernica\, jubilat\, Prairie Schooner\, Pleiades\, Witness\, and elsewhere. She has been a Pushcart Prize nominee\, an Idyllwild Arts Fellow and a resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is a queer poet\, PhD candidate at the University of Denver\, and assistant editor of the Denver Quarterly. Mountain earned her MFA at the University of Montana in Missoula. \n  \nSteffi Drewes is the author of Tell Me Every Anchor Every Arrow (Kelsey Street Press) and four poetry chapbooks\, most recently New Animal from dancing girl press. Her work has been featured in various journals and event series\, including the 2018 Way Bay Poetry Assembly and postcard project at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. She has attended writing and art residencies at Vermont Studio Center\, The Desert House in California\, and the Wassaic Project in New York\, where she debuted an original set of photo-based tarot cards and performed personalized readings. These days she works as a freelance writer and editor. \nTonya M. Foster was raised in New Orleans\, LA. She is the author of the bilingual chapbook La Grammaire des Os and the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court\, which Stephen Burt describes as “the long-delayed American apotheosis of haiku form.” In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones notes that “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” A coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art\, Foster has had work published in Best American Experimental Writing (2016)\, boundary2\, Litscapes: Collected US Writings 2015\, Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere.Foster has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Pan African literary Festival\, and elsewhere. \nMg Roberts is a multimedia artist\, teacher\, publisher and poet. She is the author of the poetry collections Anemal Uter Meck (Black Radish Books\, 2017) and not so\, sea (Durga Press\, 2014). Mg is a Kundiman Fellow\, Kelsey Street Press member\, VONA/Voices Alum and sits on the Board of Small Press Traffic. Her work has appeared in Dusie\, Bombay Gin\, Web Conjunctions\, Elderly and elsewhere. Currently she is co-editing Responses\, New Writing\, Flesh with Ronaldo V.  Wilson; an anthology on the urgency of avant-garde writing written for and by writers of color. She lives in Oakland with three daughters\, array of animals and geologist husband.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alicia-mountain-steffi-drewes-tonya-m-foster-and-mg-roberts/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:An Evening with David Sedaris
DESCRIPTION:David Sedaris returns to Berkeley with his signature sardonic wit and incisive social criticism. A master of satire and one of America’s preeminent humorists\, Sedaris contributes regularly to The New Yorker and BBC Radio 4 and his latest book\, Theft By Finding\, was recently released to widespread critical acclaim. The evening concludes with an audience Q&A and book signing.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/an-evening-with-david-sedaris/
LOCATION:Zellerbach Hall\, UC Berkeley\, 101 Zellerbach Hall #4800\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Firestone and Tonya M. Foster
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Firestone is the author of five books of poetry and four chapbooks\,including Story (Ugly Duckling Presse\, forthcoming)\,Ten\, (BlazeVOX [books]\, forthcoming)\, Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative)\, Swimming Pool(DoubleCross Press)\, Flashes (Shearsman Books)\, Holiday (Shearsman Books)\, Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs)\, from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie Kollektiv). She co-edited (with Dana Teen Lomax) Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics\, Politics and Community (Saturnalia Books) and is collaborating with Marcella Durand on a book about Feminist Avant-garde Poetics. Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems\, Plays\, Songs\, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. She won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize. Firestone is an Assistant Professor of Literary Studies at the New School’s Eugene Lang College and is also the Director of their Academic Fellows pedagogy program. \nTonya M. Foster was born in Bloomington\, Illinois\, and raised in New Orleans. She earned a BA from Newcomb College\, Tulane University\, and an MFA from the University of Houston. Foster is the author of the poetry collection A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna*\, 2015) and co-edited the book Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art (2002). Her work has appeared in Callaloo\, MiPoesias\, Western Humanities Review\, the Hat\, and elsewhere. In a review\, Patricia Spears Jones says\, “Foster’ s imaginative work glories in language’s ambiguities\, discords\, emotions and logic—she allows that imaginative thrall to explore race and gender and political dysfunction.” \nFoster has received fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts\, the Macdowell Colony\, the Ford Foundation\, the Mellon Foundation\, and the Graduate Center\, CUNY\, where she is a PhD candidate. She has taught at Bard College\, Queens College CUNY\, Baruch College CUNY\, and she currently is an assistant professor at California College of the Arts.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/jennifer-firestone-and-tonya-m-foster/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 48 Release Party
DESCRIPTION:Berkeley Poetry Review will be holding a release party for issue 48 of our annual poetry journal. The party will be hosted by E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore @ 410 13th st\, Oakland\, near Broadway\, @ 6pm and will feature readings by a few of the poets to be published in our journal\, Lo Ferris\, Claire Marie Stnacek\, and Daniel Benjamin. Snacks and beverages will be included & we hope to see you there! \nReaders:\nClaire Marie Stancek\nBio: Originally from outside Toronto\, Ontario\, Claire Marie Stancek now lives in Berkeley\, California. She is the author of MOUTHS (Noemi\, 2017)\, and with Lyn Hejinian and Jane Gregory\, she edits Nion Editions. These poems are taken from her second book of poetry\, Oil Spell\, which is forthcoming from Omnidawn in spring 2018. \nLo Ferris\nBio: Lo Ferris is a poet and translator living in the East Bay. Their work can also be found in Fence\, Bombay Gin\, and The Atlas Review. \nDaniel Benjamin\nBio: Daniel Benjamin is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley\, researching minoritarian forms of universality in lyric poetry. With Eric Sneathen\, he is the co-editor of The Bigness of Things: New Narrative and Visual Culture (Wolfman Books\, 2017); with Claire Marie Stancek\, he is the co-editor of Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba / Giramondo\, 2016). \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/2122238844723108/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/berkeley-poetry-review-issue-48-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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SUMMARY:5th Annual Ecopoetry Festival at the John Muir House
DESCRIPTION:The Fifth Annual Ecopoetry Festival will feature two poet laureates of Central Valley\ncities\, along with special guests.  Indigo Moor\, current laureate of Sacramento\, and\nGillian Wegener\, former laureate of Modesto\, will read along with Alhambra students\,\nand other poets who have a long personal association with Martinez.  The theme will be\nthe evolution of ecological stewardship and poetry’s contribution to it. To root that\nevolution\, we will also express the essence of place\, specifically Martinez\, where John\nMuir settled as an adult.\nWHERE:  The John Muir National Historic Site\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\nWHEN:    Saturday\, May 12th\, 5-8 PM\nCOST:      Free\, but reservations required \nContact: Eliot Schain or James McDonald\nPhone: 925-228- 8860\, ext. 6431 (the John Muir House)\nEmail: eschain@martinez.k12.ca.us (Alhambra High School)
URL:https://litseen.com/event/5th-annual-ecopoetry-festival-at-the-john-muir-house/
LOCATION:John Muir House\, 4202 Alhambra Avenue\, Martinez\, CA\, CA\, 94553\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:GET LIT #36 (MUSIC BY MICHAEL ALSO)
DESCRIPTION:IT’S OUR 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY! \nCome celebrate 36 continuous months of Nomadic Press‘ Get Lit show! Started by J. K. Fowler and Annelyse Gelman three years ago\, we have been graced with the brand-new words of over 450 writers\, the tunes of over 30 different musicians\, and some phenomenal hosts\, including Annelyse Gelman\, Joshua Merchant\, Claudette Dráca-Luna Davis\, Wonder Dave\, Isobel O’Hare\, Christine No\, Abe Becker\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, and Zephir O’Meara. \nDoors open at 7:00 PM; show starts at 7:30 PM SHARP! An amazing gathering of 12-15 writers will read NEVER-BEFORE-READ material (rough drafts / debuts) within a three-minute time limit. Hosted by Abe Becker with music by Michael Also. \nFeatured lineup of writers so far includes: Soma Mei Sheng Frazier\, Audrey T. Williams\, Zach Goldberg\, Zack Hanson\, Paul Corman-Roberts\, Gwen Schulte\, Chris “L7” Cuadrado\, Marguerite Munoz\, Fred Dodsworth\, Andrew Heald\, Danee Black-Queen D\, and others TBA. \nSuggested donations of $10-25 will be kindly requested at the door\, though no one will be turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF). \nBeer made by Ale Industries on site and wonderful food by Guadalajara Restaurant & Tequila Bar just down the block. All ages are welcome\, though profanity will be present. \nGet beer. Get lit. Then Get Tacos.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/get-lit-36-music-by-michael-also-2/
LOCATION:Ale Industries\, 3096 E 10th Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94601\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Mark Greenside
DESCRIPTION:Mark Greenside\n\n\n\n\nReads from (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living\, a sequel of sorts to I’ll Never Be French (no matter what I do)\, about which the San Francisco Chronicle wrote: “Imagine Larry David . . . spending a summer in a French village–against his will\, of course–and you get some sense of what Mark Greenside goes through.” \nTo reserve a seat\, purchase a copy of (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living by speaking to a bookseller or ordering from our website. \n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, May 15\, 2018 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nEvery year upon arriving in Plobien\, the small Breton town where he spends his summers\, Mark Greenside picks back up where he left off with his faux-pas-filled Francophile life. Mellowed and humbled\, but not daunted (OK\, slightly daunted)\, he faces imminent concerns: What does he cook for a French person? Who has the right-of-way when entering or exiting a roundabout? Where does he pay for a parking ticket? And most dauntingly of all\, when can he touch the tomatoes? \nDespite the two decades that have passed since Greenside’s snap decision to buy a house in Brittany and begin a bi-continental life\, the quirks of French living still manage to confound him. Continuing the journey begun in his 2009 memoir about beginning life in France\, (not quite) Mastering the Art of French Living details Greenside’s daily adventures in his adopted French home\, where the simplest tasks are never straightforward but always end in a great story. Through some hits and lots of misses\, he learns the rules of engagement\, how he gets what he needs–which is not necessarily what he thinks he wants–and how to be grateful and thankful when (especially when) he fails\, which is more often than he can believe. \nMark Greenside has been a civil rights activist\, Vietnam War protestor\, anti-draft counselor\, Vista Volunteer\, union leader\, and college professor. His short stories have appeared in numerous journals and he is the author of a collection\, I Saw a Man Hit His Wife. Greenside resides in Alameda and Brittany.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mark-greenside/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Keep Begin Detach: Yoko Ono
DESCRIPTION:Keep Begin Detach: Multimedia Essays \nCome to EM Wolfman for an exploration of text and image\, music and silence\, meditation and performance. Inspired by Yoko Ono\, Katarina Countiss and friends will bring engaging elements to classics and original work. \nThere’s time for you to read or perform something if you want to (read: open mic) \nHope to see you there and tune in to the event streaming on fb! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSource:: https://www.facebook.com/events/1699189570134160/
URL:https://litseen.com/event/keep-begin-detach-yoko-ono/
LOCATION:E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore\, 410 13th Street\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poets giovanni singleton and Carmen Gimenez Smith
DESCRIPTION:Born in New York\, poet Carmen Giménez Smith earned a BA in English from San Jose State University and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa. She writes lyric essays as well as poetry\, and is the author of the poetry chapbook Casanova Variations (2009); the memoir Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering\, Art\, Work\, and Everything Else (2010); and the full-length collections Odalisque in Pieces (2009)\, Milk and Filth (2013)\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cruel Futures: City Lights Spotlight No. 17 (City Lights Publishers\, 2018). \nGiménez Smith’s work explores issues affecting the lives of females\, including Latina identity\, and frequently references myth and memory. With the publication of Odalisque in Pieces\, Giménez Smith was featured as a New American Poet on the Poetry Society of America’s website. Her poems have been included in the anthologies Floricanto Si! U.S. Latina Poets(1998) and Contextos: Poemas (1994). \nGiménez Smith is the editor-in-chief of Puerto del Sol and publisher of Noemi Press. She was appointed as poetry co-editor (along with Steph Burt) at The Nation in 2017 and teaches at Virginia Tech University. \ngiovanni singleton’s debut collection Ascension\, informed by the music and life of Alice Coltrane\, received the California Book Award Gold Medal. Her writing has also been exhibited in the Smithsonian Institute’s American Jazz Museum\, San Francisco’s first Visual Poetry and Performance Festival\, and on the building of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts\, a journal dedicated to experimental work of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Canarium Books recently published a collection of her visual work entitled AMERICAN LETTERS: works on paper. She was the 2017-18 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at University of California-Berkeley.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poets-giovanni-singleton-and-carmen-gimenez-smith/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:May Day\, May Day--Lyrics & Dirges
DESCRIPTION:Jump from spring to summer with a literary reading that will leave you giddy and bubbly with. . . \nDeMareon Gipson\nLiz Green\nBarbara Jane Reyes\nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee\nAnne F. Walker \nhosted by Sharon Coleman \nFree with free refreshments and bookstore cats–thank you Pegasus!!!!\n\nDeMareon Gipson is a polymathic wordsmith from Vallejo\, California\, whose penned the book Looking Forward and composed a short film\, The Plan\, ” which was selected by East Bay Express as a Pick of The Week. The Plan combines visual art with Gipson’s poetry to broaden the definition of institutional violence imposed upon Black people. His poetry won the acclaim of the Academy of American Poets. In 2017\, he was awarded with the Piri Thomas Poetry Prize. A political and cultural activist\, Demareon created Heartspace\, an open mic for poets\, musicians and dancers that also provided local small businesses with vending and networking opportunities. In 2015\, Gipson the founded the annual event “With Love\,” which is a safe space for Black people to talk about love that is led by poetry. He recently started a small business\, the Forward Publishing House. \nLiz Green is a writer\, performer\, and educator based in Oakland\, California. She was on two national slam teams. As a playwright and writer/performer\, she has had her work produced at multiple local and national theater festivals. She received her BA from Vassar and her MFA from Mills in Creative Writing. She was a 2010 Lambda Literary Foundation Emerging Voices Fellow in Fiction. She attended the Tin House Writers’ Workshop in 2012 and was a Catwalk Artist in Residence in 2013. She is waitlisted at the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in 2018. She has been published in several journals and anthologies\, including Sinister Wisdom\, Foglifter\, Sparkle and Blink\, and The Body is Not an Apology. She is in conversation with North Atlantic Books about publishing an anthology she is co-editing with Kelechi Ubozoh. She is Assistant Professor of English at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg\, California. \nGreer Nakadegawa-Lee is 14 years old and attends Claremont Middle School. She was a featured reader at the Berkeley Poetry Festival\, and has performed at Bay Area Generations and the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. Besides writing\, she likes to draw in her spare time. If you asked her what she explores in her poetry\, she might not be able to tell you exactly\, but she tries to write every day. She hopes to publish a collection of her own work someday. \nBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Publishers). She was born in Manila\, Philippines\, raised in the SF Bay Area\, and is the author of four previous poetry collections\, Gravities of Center\, Poeta en San Francisco\, Diwata\, and To Love as Aswang. http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/ \nAnne F. Walker’s poetry has won Eisner Prizes at UC Berkeley and Canada Council Arts Grants among other honors. Her full-length published poetry books include Six Months’ Rent\, Pregnant Poems\, Into the Peculiar Dark\, and The Exit Show. Her recent poetry chapbook is when the light of any action ceases. She completed doctoral work at UC Berkeley and is an Assistant Professor at Holy Names University in Oakland\, California. Recently she has been working on 100-word prose poems concentrate attention on precision of image\, narrative\, and language. They are part of a collection\, Ink and Ink and Flesh and Length\, that reflect on landscapes\, bodies and rooted memories.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/may-day-may-day-lyrics-dirges/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:InsideStoryTime: Persist
DESCRIPTION:Coming up: InsideStorytime SWAY at Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St\, Oakland\, on Thursday May 17th\, 7-9 pm\, will feature\, Kaitlin Solimine (Empire of Glass)\, Townsend Walker (3 Women 4 Towns 5 Bodies)\, Colette Phair (In Your Shadow)\, and Juba Kalamka.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/insidestorytime-sway/
LOCATION:The Octopus Literary Salon\, 2101 Webster St #170\, Oakland \, CA\, 94612\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Todd Robert Petersen presents IT NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE WE TRIED
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 17\n7pm\n \nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Todd Robert Petersen to discuss his novel\, It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, on Tuesday\, May 17th at 7pm. \n“Todd Robert Petersen is crazy-talented\, and the wild\, weird\, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre\, frightening times.” — Richard Russo\, author of Trajectory \nEveryone has a dream\, an idea\, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted\, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried\, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others\, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. \nA fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister-in-law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second-rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not-quite-legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. \nOn their way across the country\, these star-crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man\, and the Rube-Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out\, and they are driving home\, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned a month before. \nAbout the Author \nTodd Robert Petersen’s work has appeared in Mid-American Review\, Hobart\, and the Wisconsin Review\, and he has published two books with a small regional press. He is currently writing a dark comedy about Native American antiquities theft set in the desert Southwest. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, May 17\, 2018 – 7:00pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/todd-robert-petersen-presents-it-needs-to-look-like-we-tried/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay Book Reading "Queer Fiction Authors"
DESCRIPTION:Visiting author James Han Mattson (The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves) reads with local authors Wayne Goodman\, Lori Ostlund\, and Barbara Ridley at a Perfectly Queer Plus East Bay book reading\, Thursday\, May 17\, 7:30pm to 8:30pm at Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave.\, Berkeley. An author signing follows the readings. Free admission\, free refreshments. Door prizes at 7:30! \nABOUT THE AUTHORS:\nJames Han Mattson was born in Seoul\, Korea and raised in North Dakota. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has taught at the University of Iowa\, the University of Cape Town\, the University of Maryland\, the George Washington University\, and the University of California – Berkeley. His first novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves was an Amazon Literature and Fiction Pick\, an Amazon Best Book of the Month\, a Publishers Lunch Bookseller Pick\, a Kindle First Pick\, a New York Post Required Reading\, and was featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon. He currently lives in Maryland. \nWayne Goodman has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life (with too many cats). He and his fiancé Rick May host Perfectly Queer\, a reading series which holds monthly events in San Francisco and Oakland. Goodman also hosts Queer Words\, a quarterly in-conversation series. His books include Better Angels\, Britain’s Glory\, Fortune’s Lot\, The Last Great Hope\, The Seed of Immortality\, and Vanya Says Go! When not writing\, he enjoys playing Gilded Age parlor music on the piano\, with an emphasis on women\, Gay\, and Black composers. \nLori Ostlund’s story collection The Bigness of the World won the Flannery O’Connor Award\, the California Book Award for First Fiction\, the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award\, and was a Lambda Finalist. Stories from it appeared in the Best American Short Stories and the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories. Her second book\, After the Parade (Scribner\, 2015)\, was a Barnes & Noble Discover pick and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Ferro-Grumley Award. She is a teacher and lives in San Francisco with her wife and cats\, though she spent her formative years in Minnesota\, cat-less. \nBarbara Ridley was born in England but has lived in California for over 35 years. After a successful career as a nurse practitioner\, she is now focused on creative writing. Her work has appeared in journals such as Writers Workshop Review\, Ars Medica\, The Copperfield Review\, Blood and Thunder\, and Stoneboat. Her debut novel When It’s Over (She Writes Press\, 2017) is set in Europe during World War Two and is based on her mother’s story as a Holocaust refugee. Barbara can be followed at www.barbararidley.com
URL:https://litseen.com/event/perfectly-queer-plus-east-bay-book-reading-queer-fiction-authors/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flash presents Melissa Stein and C. Dale Young
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Stein’s new book of poems is Terrible Blooms. The New York Times says\, “Ms. Stein reminds us that there is no honey—rough\, or otherwise—without the sting.” Her first book of poems\, Rough Honey\, won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She’s received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She’s a freelance editor in San Francisco. \nC. Dale Young’s new novel-in-stories\, The Affliction\, is his first collection of fiction. Charles Baxter says\, “The linked stories in C. Dale Young’s The Affliction send us off to a magical location\, where the fantastical can seem both miraculous and ordinary. These tales treat life-and-death matters with a beautifully eloquent fervor\, and\, like the stories of Julio Cortázar\, they remind us off how varied and unpredictable short stories\, like the world itself\, can be.” He’s published four collections of poetry\, most recently The Halo\, and his poetry has been anthologized several times in Best American Poetry. He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He practices full-time as a medical doctor.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/poetry-flash-presents-melissa-stein-and-c-dale-young/
LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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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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